InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Finding My Heart ❯ "A Castle is Not a Living Quarter." ( Chapter 9 )

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Japanese vocabulary: (for the words used in the chapter that some might not know what they mean)

 

Tenshu- The main keep or tower of a castle, the most important part of the castle, also signifies the owner of the castle's strength and power.

 

Ishigaki- The foundation of the castle, made of stone.

 

Yagura- Usually built atop stone walls, they are ideally used as watchtowers and are usually constructed at the important corners of the castle.

 

Sumi- Yagura- Tower shaped.

 

Ote Mon- Has a symbolic role of the owner's influence and wealth meant to intimidate invaders. The ote mon is also the main gate.

 

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Chapter 9- “A Castle is Not a Living Quarter.”

“Charge!” The humans' voices ring out as they began to run towards Sesshoumaru from all around, holding their weapons high in the air.

 

“Run Kagome!” Sesshoumaru yelled, seeing that the humans began to circle around her and Rin.

 

Kagome held Rin's head against her shoulder and turned quickly to break through the barrier of humans in her way. “Ahh!” She screamed as one of the humans' weapons sliced her arm just as she got away. A tear slid down her face as she continued running with Rin tight against her and the first aid kit in the other hand. She took one glance back to find that the humans weren't following her, giving her hope that her and Rin could get to a safe spot and hide. All that mattered now was keeping Rin safe.

 

“Wind Scar!” Sesshoumaru yelled and sent a deadly blast into the ground towards a group of the humans.

 

Kagome heard Sesshoumaru using Tetsusaiga's wind scar and shortly after an ear full of men's cries as the blast slaughtered them.

 

Sesshoumaru looked behind him. There were way too many all around him for the Tetsusaiga's wind scar to kill them all.

 

“You will die demon!” One of the men hollered and pointed his spear towards Sesshoumaru. The humans all watched, as Sesshoumaru seemed to stand there and glare at them.

 

“What I don't get, is why you would attack a helpless human girl!” Sesshoumaru ended with a yell and began to spin with his acid whip swung out and slicing the humans all around him. When he stopped there was only a dozen men left standing.

 

“Please don't hurt us.” The few men said and dropped their weapons as they turned the opposite direction and ran for their lives.

 

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“Here this might hurt a little.” Kagome said as she brought the needle down towards the girl's leg.

 

“No.” Rin said and pulled her leg away. The thought of the needle going into her skin terrified her.

 

“Rin if I don't stitch this wound up then you could die. You must let me.” Kagome pleaded.

 

Rin sniffed and wiped her nose with a slight nod of her head to say that Kagome could do it.

“I already put some numbing medication on it so it won't hurt too bad.” Kagome tried to reassure her. She brought the needle down to her skin and began to stitch up the wound. Kagome hated doing this but knew it had to be done or Rin could die.

 

“Ouch!” Rin said as she cringed and shut her eyes with every puncture of the needle. “Sesshoumaru-sama!” She yelled in delight as Kagome tied the knot off and cut the string. Rin began to get up to go see Sesshoumaru.

 

“No Rin, I have to bandage it before you start walking.” Kagome said and grabbed hold of the girl before she ran off. Kagome winced at the pain that shot up her arm when she held Rin in front of her.

 

“Sesshoumaru, are you alright?” Kagome asked, seeing the spots of blood on his white kimono.

 

“I'm fine. Is Rin going to be alright?” He asked, bending down to examine her leg.

 

“She will be alright now. I stitched up her wound and now have to put a bandage on it.” Kagome said, looking into the distressed youkai's eyes.

 

With no sweat at all Sesshoumaru ripped off a piece of Rin's kimono and tightly wrapped her wounded leg up.

 

“O-okay.” Kagome said. She was going to wrap her leg up but Sesshoumaru did it for her. Kagome watched the expressions on the youkai's face. She could see anger, and fear. `Fear? Sesshoumaru never fears anything, what could've caused this fear?' She wondered. Maybe his fear was for Rin. `Maybe he feared that Rin might not survive, or that she would be seriously hurt?' She thought and realized she was staring again.

 

“What is it?” Sesshoumaru asked.

 

“Sesshoumaru. You were scared you'd lose Rin, weren't you?” Kagome asked, peering up into his golden eyes, which sometimes seemed to take her breath away. For a moment she saw his eyes soften and look at her deeply. But within a second the softness in his eyes mostly disappeared and he stood up.

 

`How did she know?' Sesshoumaru asked himself as he stared down at the young girl he cared for so much, and the miko that he felt growing feelings for. “Thank you. Kagome.” Sesshoumaru said, grateful that she was there to help save Rin.

 

Kagome couldn't believe it. The Lord Sesshoumaru was saying thank you to her. `Sesshoumaru isn't heartless like InuYasha says. He has a lot more heart than people think.' Kagome thought and stood up.

 

Rin sat on the ground in between the human and the demon, confused at the emotions she was sensing from them.

 

“Your welcome. I would never let a girl die if I could help her.” Kagome said with a slight smile on her face. Her cheeks began to blush, noticing that the youkai was staring at her intently. “Sesshoumaru...why..” Kagome felt a spell of dizziness come over her and then the last she remembered was two strong arms wrap around her before all she could see was darkness.

 

“Rin when did this happen?” Sesshoumaru asked, examining Kagome's bleeding arm as he held her up from falling to the ground.

 

“I think it was when she was running away from the humans. Rin heard her scream.” The girl answered and looked up at her father figure.

 

“Rin, why did the humans attack you?” Sesshoumaru asked with great concern.

 

“Rin doesn't know, I just heard them yelling, “demon child, demon child!” Rin answered and tried to impersonate the men.

 

`They must've seen her with me before. They must've thought Rin was my daughter and wanted to kill her while she was still small.' Sesshoumaru thought, a deep hatred growing for the humans, not that he didn't hate them enough already. But they always seemed to do something more to make his hatred grow.

 

“Will Kagome be alright? She saved Rin!” Rin said.

 

Sesshoumaru could smell the salty tears developing in her eyes and looked back at Kagome. “She will be fine Rin.” He answered in reassurance for the girl. He gently laid the unconscious form on the ground below him and began to root through her first aid kit. “What is all this?” He wondered as he looked and smelled the foreign objects that he held and then tossed them since he didn't know what they were. Finally he recognized something. It was something that looked like a bandage and he put it beside him knowing he could use it.

 

“Sesshoumaru-sama, what is all this?” Rin asked as she picked up every item that Sesshoumaru tossed back.

 

“Rin don't touch them.” Sesshoumaru said and picked up the last thing that lay in the first aid kit. “Poo—lly—spoooren.” Sesshoumaru tried to pronounce the word. `This looks like it would work.' He thought as he read the label and saw that it was good for cuts and wounds. `Rub it on over the cut?' He thought as he read the instructions and looked at Kagome's wound. `Alright.' He thought and opened the cap of the Polysporen to dab some on his hand.

 

“What are you doing?” Rin asked as she climbed over his leg and watched.

 

“Rin I have to put this on her wound.” Sesshoumaru said and rubbed the Polysporen on her large cut. Then he grabbed the bandage and wrapped it around Kagome's arm. It came with two metal clips but since Sesshoumaru never seen them before, he tied the bandage off. “Rin, where's Ah-Un?” He asked, looking into her innocent eyes.

 

“I'm not sure. Rin thought Jaken took Ah-Un.” She said and looked at him confused.

 

“Rin, let's go.” Sesshoumaru said and stood up with Kagome in one arm.

“Just a second.” Rin said in a hurry. She ran around behind the youkai making sure to pick up every last item that Sesshoumaru had tossed aside.

 

“What are you doing?” Sesshoumaru asked, getting impatient.

 

“These are Kagome's things, we can't just leave them behind Sesshoumaru-sama.” Rin replied and put all the medical products back in the first aid kit. “There, now we can go.” She said and gave Sesshoumaru a big smile.

 

Sesshoumaru suppressed a smile and grabbed Rin in his other arm.

 

“Sesshoumaru-sama, where are we going?” Rin asked.

 

“We're going back home, but first we have to find Jaken and Ah-Un.” Sesshoumaru answered and took off the ground in a blurring speed.

 

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“Ahhh!” Kagome screamed as she woke up looking down at the land that seemed hundreds of feet away. She looked up to see Sesshoumaru looking into her eyes, almost reassuring her that she was alright. Ahead of her flew Ah-Un with Rin in front of Jaken. `Where are we? Where are we going?' Kagome wondered. She looked at her arm that was bandaged up with what looked like the bandage from her first aid kit. `Wait, where's my kimono?' She looked at herself and realized she was in her normal clothes that she wore beneath the kimono.

 

“Kagome!! You're awake!” Rin called out in excited delight from behind the inu-youkai.

 

Kagome looked behind her and gave Rin a smile in response. `I'm so glad she is okay now.' Kagome thought. `Who knows what could've happened to her if we never found her.' Which led to the question, “Sesshoumaru, why did those humans attack Rin?”

 

“She said she heard them yelling `demon child.' I believe they attacked her because they thought she was my daughter.” He replied seriously.

 

“That's so cruel, they would attack a little girl just because they think she is a demon?” She asked more to herself than Sesshoumaru. She couldn't believe anyone could be so heartless.

 

“That's what humans are like, they will kill any demon that they dislike or they think is weak enough to kill.” Sesshoumaru said like it was a fact.

 

“I think you better reword that! Not all humans are like that! I happen to know a lot of humans who would never hurt a demon! What do you think of me then? Do you think I would do that?!” Kagome yelled up at him. It had been awhile since she yelled at him, but she felt that was uncalled for.

“When you grow up with humans constantly trying to kill you and your family, you tend to think of them in such a way.” Sesshoumaru said, remembering his past and how his father died.

 

`I suppose you would think that.' Kagome thought, understanding where he was coming from. In the instant that he had said that she didn't think of what his past was like, only that it was an insult to her.

 

“I'm sorry.” Sesshoumaru said.

 

“Eh?” `Did I actually just hear him apologize for me?'

 

“I'm sorry. If I offended you.” Sesshoumaru said again, this time looking down at her.

 

“It's okay.” Kagome said and smiled up at him. They both gazed into each other's eyes for what seemed like an hour, but were only for a moment. Sesshoumaru was the first to break contact, and looked ahead.

 

“Sesshoumaru? Where are we going?” Kagome asked, looking ahead into the blue sky and green forest far below her.

 

“We're headed back to my castle, in the Western Lands.” He answered with pride in his words.

 

“I never knew you had a castle. Well...I mean I figured you must have one since you're a Lord but I never knew if you had one or not.” Kagome said, excited to see what Sesshoumaru's castle looked like.

 

Sesshoumaru smirked and seemed to pick up his pace and went even faster.

 

Within less than an hour Kagome looked ahead and could see a massive structure coming closer from below.

 

“Yay!! Home!” Rin said with a big smile on her face.

 

`That's it? It's huge!' Kagome thought as they got closer.

 

Sesshoumaru felt a feeling of peace come over him and at the same time an excited happiness that he was finally home. He hadn't seen his home since it were destroyed. `Destroyed. That means it will be destroyed again. The war has yet to come.' He thought but quickly shook it off as he gently landed in front of the castle.

 

Kagome tore herself out of his grasp and marveled at the beautiful castle that stood before her. Never in her life had she seen such a big, beautiful castle. The castle was built on a great ishigaki made of the finest stone, and a tenshu so tall and large that it almost seemed to loom over them. The sumi-yagura seemed to be at least three stories high at the corners of the castle and the yagura mon stood two stories high. The ote mon stood, symbolizing the castle owner's great wealth and looked like it would easily scare some enemies away.

 

“You like it then.” Sesshoumaru stated more than asked.

 

“Yes, it's the most beautiful castle I've ever seen.” Kagome answered, still admiring the magnificence of it all.

 

Sesshoumaru began to walk ahead of them and opened the gate. He looked back at Kagome which usually to her meant that she could follow.

 

Kagome began to walk towards the gate and glanced at Sesshoumaru when she passed him.

 

“Lord Sesshoumaru, are you actually going to let this human wench inside your castle?!” Jaken blurted out.

 

Once again Jaken shouldn't have said that. Kagome marched right up to him and gave him a good punch on the head.

 

Jaken lay on the ground with a red bump on his head. “Oww.”

 

“Jaken, Rin is a human and she has always been allowed in.” Sesshoumaru said and let Kagome enter again.

 

“Yes my Lord but you have never let any other human in.” Jaken said, tugging at Sesshoumaru's nerves.

 

Sesshoumaru followed behind Kagome and Rin and entered his castle ignoring the kappa-demon that followed behind him.

 

“Wow it's so full of empty space.” Kagome said when she got in and didn't find what she was expecting. She was expecting there to be tapestries and pictures and rooms with beautiful velvet curtains. `This doesn't look like a place you would live at all.' She thought. Looking around there was many windows and everything was made of the finest quality wood.

 

“If you knew anything about the castles in this age or anything about castles at all miko, then you would know that castles are used for military, and protection, not for living in.” Jaken merely spat out.

 

“Oh.” Kagome said, not realizing. She didn't really know much about castles, especially castles of the feudal era. “When Rin had been calling `home!' I figured the castle was the home that she meant.” Kagome said, still looking all around at the massive structure.

 

“Home is just behind the castle. Did you notice the palace sitting not too far behind the castle?” Sesshoumaru asked as he walked towards another gate at the end of the room.

 

“No I didn't. I was too busy looking at the huge castle.” Kagome replied.

 

“Come on Kagome, you must come see my room!” Rin said, grabbing her hand and pulling her forward.

 

“Alright alright!” Kagome said and smiled back at the little girl. Rin's excitement was starting to rub off on her as she became excited and smiled up at Sesshoumaru.

 

“Look Kagome! There it is!” Rin said, delighted, and pointed in the direction of the gate that Sesshoumaru pushed open.

 

AN: Oooooo cliffy! Well sort of a cliffy, yet not. Lol the update for the next one should be up soon! Once again thanks to the reviewers!