InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Handprint ❯ Chapter 2

Disclaimer: The characters of InuYasha are not mine, they are property of Rumiko Takahashi, Shogakukan, Yomiuri TV, Sunrise, and Viz. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

 

# Handprint part 2 #

 

All that was left of the fire was a thin trail of smoke when Sesshoumaru returned to camp.

He came to a halt, looking down at the curled form of Rin as she slept, the puppy in her arms. He let his eyes roam over her, his mind suspiciously blank as he refused to acknowledge either his recent actions or the motives behind them.

Settling himself beside her, his back against the tree whose roots cradled Rin in her sleep, he let himself ponder why her possessiveness of the toy bothered him.

Perhaps because, before the gift, he'd been the focal point of her every waking hour? Perhaps because, once she'd received the puppy, he'd not once received a gift of flowers from her? Perhaps because, after the presentation of the gift, all he heard was praise for Kagome from Rin's lips?

Of course not. Those were paltry things; unnoticeable to an inu taiyoukai like himself.

Ignoring the weight of his thoughts, he reached out with a tentative finger and hooked it under the lax, curled fingers of one small hand. Lifting it up, he brushed his thumb pad over the tiny knuckles, marveling over the size difference. The sight of dirt under those little fingernails made him smile faintly, remembering all the times Rin brought him flowers—root and all.

With a delicacy and gentleness unlike his usual self, he brushed the back of the first knuckle of his index finger up and down the hollow of her small palm. Caressing Rin's hand as she lay sleeping, he studied it with distracted absorption, a vulnerable light in his amber eyes.

 

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