InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Finding True Love ❯ Chapter Ten ( Chapter 10 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

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Finding True Love

By Miztikal_Dragon


Chapter Ten


Many days passed by until Rin woke. She could clearly remember how she had been taken away from Sesshomaru, but how she was in a small room bandaged was something she couldn’t figure out for the life of her. Her head ached badly enough that tears came to her eyes, she felt as though she was hit by a tree or something remotely similar in size. Slowly and unsteadily Rin got to her feet, she had to find out where she was and a way to get back to Sesshomaru, he would be made if she wasn’t back soon. She must have made a lot of commotion because a young woman came into the small room with a concerned look on her tanned face.


“You mustn’t be up miss,” her voice was soothing but Rin had no time to waste.


“N-no!” Rin said shrilly as the woman grasped her wrist. “I can’t be here! I’ve got to go back! You don’t understand! Let go of me!”


Rin was too weak to really put up a proper fight but none the less moer people entered the room to help the strange woman. Rin screamed as she swung violently at the unknown people surrounding her, she just wanted to leave and return to Sesshomaru, he had to return to him. Two men grabbed her arms and it made her even more frightened than she had been. Memories of the years she’d spent with the bandits who killed her family flooded her mind and it made her frantic, almost uncontrollable.


“What’s going on in here?” A familiar voice ran through her ears and as her eyes gazed upon the concerned monk, she lost all feeling in her body.


She couldn’t believe that he was standing there in his dark robes, it was like she was reliving a horrifying nightmare. Sure he did look a little older, but his blue eyes and his rattail hair were exactly the same. The strangers around him spoke, but Rin couldn’t understand what they were saying, her ears refused to work. She tried to speak, but her mouth only opened and closed like a drowning fish. The monk came closer to her and his cool hand touched her face so gently that she flushed, not used to such closeness. Swallowing the lump in her throat, she glanced behind him and sure enough there stood the demon exterminator Sango that had been in his group when they came to her village.


“Miroku?” Rin’s voice was so soft that it came out as a hesitant whisper.


“Do I know you miss?” A frown came to his face as he stepped back.


Her heart was pounding wildly in her chest and she could barely breathe. Everything was so confusing and the only thing she could think of was Kohaku. She wanted to cry because it was like a dream come true, but how it happened made her angry. She hadn’t wanted to leave her Sesshomaru’s side. Thoughts ran chaotically in her mind and she could feel the men loosen their grasp on her. Using it to her advantage, she let her arms slip before she clenched her fists and swung, hitting her targets precisely where she intended. The men weren’t prepared and fell to their knees in pain. Her eyes flashed angrily at the monk and she was barely able to allude them when Sango grabbed Rin. She was too irrational to think about what she was doing as she rammed the demon exterminator into a nearby wall. All she knew was that she had to escape and quickly.


She was up on her feet and running down the hall with a room of injured people behind her. The pain in her ribs was sharp, but she wouldn’t allow herself to stop, she had to get back to the comforts of Sesshomaru, she had to see him and tell the Inu-Youkai that she was alright. Pushing the screen out of her way, Rin tried her best to flee, but the village was filled with onlookers, weapons were everywhere and she didn’t know which way to go. The laughter of children was all around her and darting off Rin hoped that she was going in the right direction. Seeing the open gate made a load lift off her chest and her only goal was to make it through them.


Her luck was short lived as a golden small cat blocked her path and at first Rin didn’t think anything of it until the cat burst into a ball of flames and emerged as a large cat demon with fangs the size of her own arms. A scream of panic erupted from her lips as she tried to stop. Rin thought she would die until a pair of strong arms wrapped around her, pulling her trembling body into a strong and firm chest. Her hands grabbed onto the man as the tears flew down her cheeks, the pain in her head and chest now too great to be ignored. Glancing up as black dots danced across her line of vision, she saw the face of a boy she used to know, but who now was no longer a boy but a man.


“Ko-Kohaku--” and she felt herself fading from consciousness.


~~oOo~~


Things did eventually get better after the not so pleasant wakening of Rin. Wounds healed and so did the pain in her heart. It was a lot sooner than later did Rin finally come around and not try to attack anyone who tried helping her. Sango suffered from a bruised ego, but she too forgave the teenaged girl for her actions, though it didn’t help that the demon exterminator was suspicious. After a while when Rin was able to keep her temper under control she explained to Miroku everything that had happened, and even though she refused to tell some things of importance, never once did he condemn her.


Kohaku however was a different story. The young man was too persistent for his own good and that usually lead to screaming arguments with the recuperating Rin. He was angry because she refused to tell him the name of her “Lord” and she was furious because he wouldn’t leave the topic alone. It was as if he was paranoid that she had fallen to the “dark side” and would kill him at any moment. Sure he still was the suffocating sweet boy that she remembered, but the over protectiveness reminded her of what she was missing, of who she was missing.


Sesshomaru, it was a name that she feared to mutter around anyone else, a name that made her want to cry and scream in frustration. Rin remembered all too clearly just how Kohaku reacted to when he had caught her with the Inu-Youkai when she was twelve and she didn’t want to see the look in his face again so she refused to say his name. She refused to describe who it was that Kohaku was hounding her for, Rin just couldn’t surrender the information that could damn everything that she’d wanted. Selfish as it was, it was what sometimes made her so angry that she’d attack Kohaku, though never being able to actually strike the nineteen year old. She wasn’t fast enough for that.


It seemed impossible for Rin to actually relax while inside the demon exterminator’s village, it may have been the title that they carried around, but she was uncomfortable all the same knowing that the people around her excelled in killing demons, they loved it. When she looked at it, the villagers were rather nice to her, very accepting, but no matter how hard she tried to get her nerves to calm nothing would work, she was too uptight about staying in a place that loved to kill demons that Rin was rather fond of.


Rin spent most of her time alone just sitting by a field of flowers thinking about how she could have done things differently, how she could have stayed safe, but every time she thought about it, she would glance back and see Kohaku standing there with his disapproving dark eyes and Rin would fall farther into the depression that was threatening to consume her. Some days she’d fight back her urges to break down and cry, but some how she’d find the courage just to suck it up, she knew that one day he’d find her no matter what. And she would be sure to wait for him if she couldn’t go out on her own and look for him.


Sure it wasn’t always the most depressing place to be, but then again Rin didn’t always sit on her butt daydreaming. There were times that Kohaku took the stand and tried to get her to be more interactive. For example, about a month after she came he took her for a ride on Kirara. Mind you that she was iffy when it came to riding the enormous beast, but it had been an experience she was glad happened. The whole ride may have consisted of looking down at the scenery hoping to catch a glance of the possibility of seeing Sesshomaru, but it was a disappointment that she would later take to heart. It was as if she had been abandoned and Rin didn’t know if she could handle it if that was the case.


~~oOo~~


E/N: Well I must officially say that I am finished with this story! Now that doesn't mean that I'm abandoning it, because that's not the case! Reviews have been lacking and since I've recieved a rather rude comment I'm going to decide whether or not to put this story on Hiatus while I focus my attention on Editing my other stories.


There is only 6 more chapters, and the Epilogue left and the recieved reviews will now account for how quickly I update. I am hoping that in three days a new chapter will be posted, but if there are few reviews than it can be anywhere from a week to a month.


I know that I sound like a total bitch, but life isn't all peaches and creme. I have full intention to being evil because as an Authoress I can do that ^_^ I hope that you as a reader and probably fellow writer will understand and if not I'll give you some advice, suck it up and deal with it....


SO, until next time, Krystal.