InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ I Will Follow You Forever ❯ Trust ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, the well, the swords, or the tree. Hell, I don't even own my cat; she owns me. Inuyasha & co. belong to the illustrious Rumiko Takahashi

 

TRUST

A tall, slender, muscular figure stood in a pool of crimson blood. Her dark skin stained and her hair soaked in a mixture sweat and blood. The room smelt like death and fire. The woman was beautiful even in her current state, her long black hair framed her thin face and her deep sienna eyes held his own and pulled them in. “LORD SESSHOMARU!” the woman screamed as a sword was thrust through her torso spilling her blood to the floor in a crimson wave. He tried to help her, he tried to reach her before she died, but there was noting he could do but watch as the woman fall lifelessly to the floor. He heard a small voice echo from behind him, “Lord Sesshomaru, when I die will you remember me?” the familiar voice said to him pulling his soul into pieces. Suddenly the room changed and he was in a temple where an old woman walked toward him. She was old and frail, her hair was gray and her life-force was slowly leaving her. But her eyes, her beautiful sienna eyes, they pulled him in and held him there. The woman collapsed at his feet and slowly decomposed being reduced to a skeleton; still looking up at him. He heard a small voice from behind him once again, “Lord Sesshomaru, when I die will you remember me?”

 

The demon lord woke suddenly not sure what it was that he had just witnessed. Was it a dream? Or a premonition? He looked over at Rin asleep on the ground across the fire from him. He walked over to her and took her small body in his arm. He held her for a moment, listening to her heart beat and feeling her blood flow. When he was certain that she was still alive and safe he laid her back down. He found no sleep that night as he pondered the meaning of his nightmare.

 

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InuYasha sat atop a small watch post that surrounded the village that he protected. There had been no attacks on the village for about a week so he looked at his turn guarding as more of a brake than a job. He began to let his eyes rest when he caught a familiar scent; it was Sesshomaru. He jumped from his post and followed the scent to its source. Sesshomaru stood in the woods alone as if he had known InuYasha would be able to detect his presence. InuYasha approached him cautiously as always, but Sesshomaru looked peaceful as he approached. He was no threat. “Why are you here?” InuYasha spoke first.

 

“InuYasha I need to ask you a … favor. The child who travels with me… Rin, she is 10 now and needs to begin to learn about being… human… I have asked your mate to take her in and teach her to heal and use herbs. She agreed. I need you to continue her training and teach her to protect herself. InuYasha; can you do me this favor?”

 

InuYasha was surprised by the sincerity in his half-brothers tone. He was normally very hostile and aggravated, but today he seemed to be bothered and spoke very solemnly.

After a moment of thinking he responded with a very sincere head nod.

 

Sesshomaru, content with the reply he received, turned to walk away. Before he walked far he turned back to Inuyasha and informed him that if he did not protect the girl with his life he would tear InuYasha into a hundred pieces with his bare hands.

That was the Sesshomaru he knew.

 

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Sesshomaru instructed Rin that she was to stay there with InuYasha and his mate and he would return for her soon. With that he walked away leaving her behind. A few hours later Jaken finally dared to ask “Are we leaving her for good my Lord?” Are we? He thought to himself. He told Jaken nothing, he didn't have an answer.

 

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Rin was happy with Kagome. She was kind to her and treated her like she was her own child. The small village where they lived had many children her own age to play with; many of them half-demons. She learned that Master InuYasha and Lady Kagome had saved the children from an island years before, and now they lived in a village secluded from the world. Kagome was very smart and was a very powerful priestess; she taught Rin many things about her spirit and the powers it held.

 

Master InuYasha taught her how to defend herself; she had begun her training with Lord Sesshomaru, and was continuing with InuYasha and the fox-demon Shippo's help. Sango the demon slayer had taught her many things too but she was too large with the child inside of her to be much help. Once the child was born, though, Rin found much pleasure watching her mother her offspring. She missed her mother dearly, and began to think of Kagome as a mother.

 

It had been along time since Lord Sesshomaru had left her there in the village but she waited for him, she knew he would come back. She was never disobedient to her hosts because as a guest, that would be rude; and she knew all she was there was a guest. She knew her Lord would come and collect her once he heard she had learned all she could and was ready to join him once again.

 

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“InuYasha?” Kagome began, “it's been a year since your brother left Rin here, I don't think he is coming back for her.”

 

“He said he was coming back didn't he,”

 

“Well yes but, have you seen her? Since the day he left her here she spends every night looking out her window watching for him. Every morning when she wakes she sits at the window waiting for him. I think she will be crushed if she continues thinking he is coming back and doesn't.”

 

“Kagome, I'm sure he will come back for her.” InuYasha said in the most comforting tone he could find. He knew his brother would not leave the girl here.

 

“I hate to say this but …. .what if he is dead?” Kagome replied in a somber tone.

 

InuYasha didn't have an answer to this, he had wondered about that himself from time to time.

 

Kagome got up and gently opened the door into Rin's room where she sat staring out of the window into the night.

 

“Rin” she called the child's attention.

 

“Oh, Yes Lady Kagome” she answered in a surprisingly optimistic tone.

 

“Rin, do you want to stay here and live with us forever, I will raise you as my own and love you.” Kagome struggled to ask looking into the girl's innocently optimistic eyes.

 

“Id love to stay here with you and Master InuYasha! But…. Lord Sesshomaru is coming back for me and when he does I am going to go with him, so I'm sorry.” She said in her little soft tone.

 

“Rin please I don't mean to worry or upset you” Kagome said as she sat next to the girl wrapping her arms around her and picking her onto her lap. She continued, “Sesshomaru lives a complicated and violent life, you have witnessed this, what if he hasn't returned because something has happened to him?”

 

It took a moment for Rin to gather her thoughts in order to reply in a way that would sufficiently convey her feelings on the subject. She looked at the ground for a moment and then looked into Kagome's eyes connecting deeply with her.

 

“Lord Sesshomaru is not dead Lady Kagome. I know he is not dead. And I know he is coming back for me soon.” Her voice was very confident, not that of a typical child. Her eyes were full of hope and certainty.

 

This comforted Kagome. She had entered the room to comfort the child and had been comforted herself. She stood up and kissed Rin on the head before she bid her goodnight and sweet dreams.

 

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The next morning as the small makeshift family ate breakfast, Rin very suddenly perked up and ran to her room. Before InuYasha and Kagome could even make their way to her door she was dressed and out the door she ran. A few moments later InuYasha smelled his brother's familiar scent and Kagome sensed his aura. They ran after Rin following her to the forest's edge where Sesshomaru stood with Rin embracing his legs and smiling more contently then any of them had ever seen a child smile.

 

They walked into the forest together Rin waving and yelling her goodbyes to her gracious hosts. Sesshomaru turned and thanked the pair as he took Rin's hand and walked out of sight.

 

 

BTW this is my first fan fic please r&r