InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Fenced ❯ Rin Gets an Au Pair ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter Three: Rin Gets an Au Pair

Kagome sighed and wiped a hand over her sweating forehead as she sat on one of the benches in the park and watched her brother and her young cousin Shippo run around the tiny playground like demented puppies. She never knew how they did that. It seemed that children under the age of ten had inexhaustible energy, sometimes when they were this hyper she wished she could just take the batteries out or something.

It was so hot, the storm last week had given way to a mini heat wave and on this lazy Sunday afternoon Kagome was making the most of it. She was wearing a simple white t-shirt with spaghetti straps and a pair of denim shorts that had once been quite long but had frayed with years of wear so that they stopped and clung to her mid thigh. She wasn't wearing any shoes as she couldn't find any when she had left the house and their home was only five minutes walk away from the park in any case. Her toe nails were painted buttercup yellow and her finger nails lime green. Her long her had been braided and twisted atop her head to be held in place with chop sticks and she was wishing for a fan of some kind, hell even a breeze would be nice.

She sighed again and began to wish for her poor lost phone. She wanted to know what the damn time was, she was looking forward to going over to her aunts for dinner but without her phone she had no way of knowing the time. This was around the time her mother would chastise her for not wearing a watch, but Kagome hated watches with a passion, she had never been able to wear them for a long period of time, and they were normally discarded and subsequently lost.

She ran the prayer beads she was wearing through her fingers and decided to do a small exercise with her reiyouku that her teacher Kaede had taught her. She flexed her senses outward and in an instant she knew where everyone was and that there was a small Hanyou child hid in the bush behind the bench behind her perch.

“Why are you hiding?” she asked

The bush shook in shock before answering timidly “Not supposed to talk to strangers” the voice was decidedly female and young, the child also sounded scared.

“I'm not a stranger to those two incredibly noisy boys” Kagome said hoping to calm the child enough to coax her from the bushes, she had no idea why she was in the bushes in the first place and wondered if maybe she had run away or was more likely lost.

“Who are they?”

“My brother Souta and my cousin Shippo” Kagome explained

“Your brother is ningen but your cousin is Yokai” the girl was confused “how?”

“Shippo is my cousin in every way except in blood” said Kagome “his Okasan and my Okasan have known each other since they were Shippo's age”

The bush rustled again and then grew a head as a small ebony haired girl sprung from the top. Kagome bit her lip to stop from laughing at the peculiar sight and then her eyes widened as she took in the two touchable black dog ears perched in her hair. She wanted to squeeze them but they reminded her of Inuyasha.

“I am Kagome, what is your name?” Kagome asked as the young girl shed the bush and sat next to her on the bench swinging her legs. She was dressed rather well, her clothes screamed money, her nails were manicured and her hair looked freshly trimmed

“I am Rin Taisho” she said with a hint of pride to her cute voice, the way she delivered the line was almost as if she had been taught to speak it like that.

“Do you have a brother called Inuyasha?” Kagome asked shrewdly

Rin gave her a look that was slightly distrustful “How do you know that?”

“He goes to the same school as me” Kagome confessed

“To the common school?” she asked innocently and Kagome fought the urge to roll her eyes, she wondered who was to blame for the second nature prejudice.

“It isn't polite to call it that Rin” Kagome scolded gently

Rin bit her lip “but that's what Aniki called it”

“Inuyasha called it common?” Kagome raised a brow; she had always received the impression that Inuyasha preferred the public school to the private one he had been expelled from.

“Not Inuyasha-niichan, Sesshoumaru-niisan” Rin corrected giggling

“You have another brother?” Kagome asked in interest

“Yeah but he's only half, he's a real demon” the way she said the last sounded like she was repeating someone else's words and Kagome suppressed the urge to scoff. Real demons indeed, what did that make Rin, imaginary?

“Why aren't you wearing shoes?” Rin asked looking down at Kagome's bare feet

“I couldn't find any shoes” Kagome confessed

“Does that mean you are poor?” Rin asked wide eyed

“Not poor, just bad at finding things” Kagome corrected as Rin giggled. “Why are you here Rin?” Kagome changed tact

“Inuyasha-niichan told me to get out from under his feet” Rin frowned “he called me a runt”

“Yeah, he's always a little crass” understatement of the century

“Sesshoumaru-niisan tells him off when he's nasty to me” Rin smiled and Kagome grasped that even though she had picked up some derogatory comments from this Sesshoumaru he had never directed them at this child, maybe he had a short temper with Inuyasha like herself. “Inuyasha-niichan and Sesshoumaru-niisan get angry at each other a lot, and then they fight and break the house”

Kagome laughed, she could imagine Inuyasha `breaking the house' as Rin put it.

“Then Okasan yells at them and they ignore her, then dad growls at them and they stop” Rin giggled and Kagome smiled

“Are you allowed here on your own?” Kagome asked the young girl in concern

“Yeah, my house is there” she pointed at the huge manor house that used to belong to the lord of the lands and Kagome rolled her eyes, trust Inuyasha's family to own that.

“Ne, neechan who's that?” Souta asked walking up to them with Shippo sat on his shoulder

“This is Rin” Kagome smiled “Rin this is my brother Souta and my cousin Shippo”

Shippo inhaled deeply and then grinned devilishly and jumped from Souta's taller ten year old shoulder onto her shorter seven year old shoulder. “You have chocolate!” he declared

Rin smiled and her ears twitched as she sensed a game coming on “Yeah and you can't have it!” she shrugged him from her shoulder and raced down into the playground only to be followed by a hyper Kitsune and a laughing ten year old. A game of keep away quickly progressed into them playing like the oldest and closest of friends.

Sesshoumaru was both worried and pissed. He was pissed because his baka of a half brother had managed to upset Rin again with his callous words and demeanour. He would never understand how the baka could treat his little sister like that; the reason for most of Sesshoumaru's disdain with Inuyasha was because he treats Rin like an amoeba unworthy of his interest. He was worried because he couldn't find Rin.

She had listened to the baka when he had told her to get out from under his feet and Sesshoumaru had ascertained that she was no longer inside the manor, which meant she had to be somewhere in the town. He had checked the meadow and the apple orchard and the bakery where she would be fed titbits by the woman who owned it. Now he was tracking her down to one of her favourite playgrounds and he sighed in relief before he even saw her, he could smell her and that was good enough for him.

He rounded into the playground and quirked an eyebrow involuntarily at the scene of a small ten year old ningen lying on his back on the ground whilst being tickled mercilessly by Rin and a young Kitsune cub.

“Rin!” he cried in relief as he effortlessly vaulted the fence of the playground to land on the other side. Her ears twitched upon hearing the sound of his voice and she bounded up from her previous pursuit and tackled him around his waist.

“Aniki!” she yelped

Kagome watched the display with a blank expression whilst her head matched this affectionate worried older brother with the stoic and annoying guy she had caught stalking her in the tree at school. A proverbial light bulb shattered inside her brain and she shook her head to dispel the confusion, this guy had many faces.

“You shouldn't run off like that without telling anyone” he scolded but it was obvious he didn't really mean it.

“En, but I was having fun with Souta-kun, Shippo-chan and Kagome-neesan” Rin said happily gesturing to her new friends.

Sesshoumaru's eyes fell on Kagome then, and she bit the inside of her cheek to stop from laughing at him faintly horrified expression before the emotionless mask fell into place like iron doors sliding shut to keep his emotions imprisoned.

She surveyed him and noted even out of the posh uniform that belonged to the private school he still dressed like he was rolling in money.

“So your name is Sesshoumaru I guess” Kagome noted

“You” he stated

“Who, me?” she sniggered “I can't believe you are actually related to Inuyasha!” she started to cackle, it wasn't really that funny but the look fury on his face was priceless.

“Quit your inane rambling” he ordered brusquely

“Actually, you both annoy me equally” she mused “so I guess you are pretty alike”

Sesshoumaru closed his eyes and tried to remember that the ningen would break if he shook her too hard, didn't mean he couldn't shake her just a little though did it? Just enough to shut her up.

“Please stop thinking of ways to kill me” she said making his eyes snap open “it's creepy”

“No killing, just maiming” he said coolly

“Anymore frost in your voice and I'd have to start calling you Jack” she rolled her eyes at the blank look on his face “you know, Jack Frost, the nursery tale?”

“I remember that” Rin said excitedly and then she paused and looked between the two teenagers “Do you two know each other?”

“No” Sesshoumaru stated

“So cold” Kagome muttered and then turned to Rin “We have met, but I've never had the pleasure of being introduced”

“Rin-chan!” a woman's relieved voice called and the five who had gathered in the small park turned to look at the attractive ebony haired woman who was stepping out of the black indiscreet and expensive car.

“Okasan!” Rin crowed in delight as she ran to greet her mother and bounced into her arms “You came back from Luxembourg!”

“Hai, I did and then your Otosan told me you had vanished” she scolded her child

“But I met Kagome-neesan and we had fun!” Rin enthused calling attention to the young woman stood next to her stepson with a Kitsune cub sat on her shoulder.

“Thank you for looking after my daughter” the woman held out a hand and Kagome took it “My name is Izayoi”

“Pleased to meet you” Kagome smiled

“You seem to have your hands full already” Izayoi commented as Shippo used her as a climbing frame and Souta pick pocketed her for her Ipod.

“I'm used to it” Kagome said blithely as she smacked Souta upside the head and deftly caught Shippo by the tail as he attempted to scurry between her legs. “So Rin wasn't any trouble”

“You look so familiar” Izayoi mused

“Do I look like Kikyo by any chance?” Kagome grinned “Inuyasha certainly seems to call me that enough”

“Oh” Izayoi looked stunned “yes quite. You know my Inuyasha?”

“I go to school with him” Kagome shrugged “he annoys me, I hit him upside the head, we have a love hate relationship, where he hates getting hit but I love hitting him”

Izayoi laughed a decidedly delicate feminine laugh and smiled at Kagome “You remind me very much of my little sister, such a fiery temper”

“We are leaving” Sesshoumaru tugged on Rin's hand desperate to escape the scar female bonding session that seemed to be underway.

“No, I want to stay with Kagome-neesan!” Rin whined her ears flattening onto her head

“You can come and see us whenever you want to” Kagome smiled and rubbed a hand on Rin's head affectionately making Rin giggle.

“Yep” Souta put in grinning

Izayoi had a pondering look on her face “Do you look after Shippo and Souta often?”

“Mostly everyday” Kagome said wondering where this was going

Izayoi smiled down at Rin “She seems attached to you, so I was thinking you could pick her up from her school and look after her like an Au Pair?”

Kagome blinked in shock and Sesshoumaru balked.

“I'd pay you of course” Izayoi said and Kagome mused the inviting prospect of more money before realising some king of answer was expected.

“Huh?” Kagome asked she was having problem with coherency due to impromptu slightly nutty decisions made by a pretty lady.

“I think it would be good for Rin to be with more normal people” said Izayoi as if it were obvious “she doesn't normally warm to people that way”

“Uh, well that's nice and all but I'm not really from the best area of town...”

“It doesn't matter” Izayoi waved away the protest “Sesshoumaru can accompany you”

“What?” Sesshoumaru barked “if I go then there is no reason behind employing her”

“Sesshoumaru, you don't know how to look after children” Izayoi said patiently “you are very good at being protective but lacking in other areas”

“It is stupid for me to go to her home!” he argued

“Fine, then Kagome, Shippo and Souta can come to our home!” she sang in a happy voice

“Um... sure I guess” Kagome said in confusion she had yet to realise this would entail her going into the house where both Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha lived... when she realised she would not be as peaceable. Skulls would roll... “It makes sense because my Okasan works evenings at the hospital” she shrugged and Souta and Shippo nodded in agreement

“And Rin wouldn't run away again if Kagome-neesan was there to look after her” Souta pointed out reasonably

“Here” Izayoi handed Kagome a business card “give this to your mother so I can talk to her about what will be going on!”

“Um... thanks I guess” Kagome said pocketing the card

“Then that's settled” Izayoi clapped her hands together in glee and her daughter mimicked her actions with a giggle

“That is not settled!” Sesshoumaru growled at Izayoi who rolled her eyes and picking up Rin she got back into the car that had been idling by the side of the playground.

“Bye then!” and she drove off without waiting for Sesshoumaru to get in the car or respond

Sesshoumaru and Kagome stood there in shock and watched at the car drove away.

“What just happened?”

“Izayoi is unstoppable” was Sesshoumaru's melancholy reply.

A/N: I do not own Inuyasha and make no profits from this. Thanks go to the people who reviewed on fanfiction dot net; foxgodess07, Moonlight X Luna, Pcebabe and Iamyourmaster evil laughter. Please review and thanks for reading!

Next time you all get to find out Izayoi's other reasons behind employing Kagome! Yay!