InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Into The Darkness ❯ Chapter One ( Chapter 2 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
Disclaimer: Nope, don't own anyone from the cast of InuYasha... because if I did this would be one angsty little world.


Into The Darkness


By Miztikal-Dragon


Chapter One


November 16th, 1966


Rin twirled in circles laughter filling the room she was in as her peasant skirt fluttered around her, lifting as she spun and showing off the alabaster skin of her legs. For her it was a happy day, hell it was a happy week and she could feel the happiness overflowing in her stomach. High school was finally over and after four long years of tests and endless amounts of homework, she was done with it all.


Never again would she be forced to open an old textbook and read chapter after chapter of boring, not to mention useless text if she didn’t desire it. The feel of sudden independence was like a burst of fresh air and she couldn’t wait to get started on the adult life and responsibilities. She was excited about the prospect of change and challenge.


Settling herself down a little, she straightened out her spaghetti strap shirt and slipped on a pair of sandals her aunt had bought her during a trip to the grand canyon the previous year. Heading towards the door, Rin jotted down a quick note to her parents and grabbed her tie dye tote off a chair before walking outside. There were many things that she still had left to do, simple things, but they put a bright smile on her face. Her day just couldn’t get any better than was it already was.


She was supposed to meet Kohaku later at the library so they could spend some quality time together and the thought of seeing him had butterflies flapping in her stomach before she could bat an eye lash. Rin hummed along to songs as she all but skipped down the road, some days she could barely contain her excitement, it was like telling a child that they would be celebrating Christmas and Halloween everyday.


The library was an enormous brick building that was said to have been built during the civil war, but something in Rin’s mind scoffed at the thought. Neighbors and their tall-tale stories were always fun to listen to on a warm summer day, but as she knew none of it was supposed to be taken to heart. People just like telling a good story and Rin knew that from personal experience. Walking up the stairs she laughed as neighborhood children ran around pretending they were a part of the wild west, chasing the natives around. It may not have been too politically correct as they fought each other almost savagely, then again what was to be expected from little boys? It definitely couldn’t have been miniature stock brokers or senates could it?


The smell of old books and dust filled her nose and she breathed the scent deeply. Books were always a form of comfort for her, getting lost in a tale of make believe, of castles and magicians, and princesses, and their knights in shinning armor. They were her secret place away from reality, a little slice of heaven that allowed her imagination to run wilder than any mustang could ever dream of being. She felt at home standing in front of enormous towers of excitement, mystery, drama, and romance; not to mention all of the many other different genres she couldn’t remember to name.


It took her less than twenty minutes to look through the endless shelves to find a book of choice and when she finally found the thick hard cover book of her desires, Rin pulled it away from the others and tucked herself into a chair by the nearest table. She would have bought it long ago, but she could never find the courage to bring it home. She was almost certain that her parents wouldn’t understand her choice of reading material and that was okay. They didn’t need to understand, they didn’t need to worry about her because Rin had everything under control.


Fingering the spine, Rin found herself smiling. This book was like an old lover to her and never would she ever grow tired of revisiting it, not as long as she lived. Pages turned on their own as her eyes ran over every word, the descriptions floating in front of her mind and taking forms of the characters and Rin was immediately entranced unaware of how much time was beginning to pass.


Kohaku had been running a little later and he cursed himself mentally as he ran down the street, his work apron clenched tightly in his fisted hand. He was supposed to have been at the library two hours ago and if he could have gotten off work on time he wouldn’t be late. His chest heaved as he passed by other pedestrians, barely avoiding a few cars as he darted across the crosswalks.


It would be their four year anniversary on the nineteenth and he had been picking up extra shifts at the diner and his sister’s car shop to buy Rin something nice and he hoped that she liked it. The light weight of the small box made his blood race and his adrenaline sky rocket, it would be only a few more days and he couldn’t wait.


He ran quickly up the library stairs, sweat tickling his neck and his hair falling out of its pony tail. The thought of cutting it temporarily crossed his mind until the cool air inside of the building hit his face. Wiping his forehead with the back of his arm, Kohaku entered the library, his brown eyes darting around almost suspiciously. There was something about the building that gave him the chills and knowing that there were no such thing as evil demons he tried pushing away the fear in his stomach.


At least he knew he wasn’t the only one who felt uncomfortable in such places, his older sister Sango felt the same way despite her husband’s reassurance. The ex-monk did after all have some kind of knowledge about spirits and such nonsense. Turning down the poorly lit walkway, all thoughts few out the window when he spotted Rin. She was sitting at an empty table, her legs somehow folded underneath her, the skirt she wore making her look like a legless ghost.


Long ebony hair fell around her like a curtain of night, curving around her face and hiding her ocean blue eyes that Kohaku drown in so many times. Her arms were curled around the book she read, her fingertips playing with the edges of the pages and he suddenly found his mouth as dry as a desert. Rin looked so beautiful so hypnotic he found himself not wanting to intrude on the breath taking scene. Kohaku moved slowly closer, creeping up on the seventeen year old girl trying his hardest not to make a sound to disturb her.


It was probable that she had come a few hours earlier than necessary just so she could read the same book he saw her with the first time they met and it brought a smile to his face. She never changed and she looked so at peace with her surroundings that it made Kohaku fall deeper in love with her than he thought was possible. Slipping undetected behind her, Kohaku kneeled, his eyes staring at the exposed flesh of her neck. He knew it was a gamble, getting the both of them thrown of out the library again if she screamed like she had the last time, but he couldn’t help it. It was just so tempting not to.


Long slender arms reached out, wrapping around Rin’s shoulders, one hand brushing back the h air from her neck only to be met by a pair of hot lips. Rin’s body stiffened and a squeak of surprise and protest escaped her mouth, the arms around her tightening as a reaction to her pulse pounding in her chest. Soft chuckling vibrated against her flesh before the foreign lips left the juncture of her neck, hot air blowing against her skin leaving gooseflesh in their wake.


“I vant to suck your blood, bleh!” Kohaku’s voice was teasing with laughter.


“Kohaku you ass!” She hissed spinning in her seat to face him. “You scared the bejesus outta me! You could have gotten us kicked out of the library again!”


Kohaku laughed softly at the expression on Rin’s face, somewhere between an angry glare, blushing excitement, innocent happiness and the makings of a childish pout. Rin could always display so many emotions on her face at one time and he often wondered what it would be like to see only one dominate it. What would she look like if she was able to show nothing but anger, happiness, sadness? Well the last one he never wanted to see, but it was only an innocent thought any how.


Easily pulling her back into his arms, Kohaku placed a chaste kiss on her lips. It didn’t matter who was there watching them because the feeling of Rin melting into him blocked out anything else; he wanted to only see her, drown in her and never break free. Hearing the inaudible moan from her against his lips sent shivers down his spine and Kohaku knew that this was the woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with.


Rin was the first to pull away, her small tongue darting out between her swollen lips to moisten them, kissing Kohaku was always like sneaking the last piece of cheese cake onto her plate before her father could get it and it always left her wanting more. She smiled like an idiot, her hands playing with the fabric of Kohaku’s shirt as she looked up at him. Freckles sprinkled across his sun-kissed face and she found it ridiculously adorable the way he looked at her, his chocolate eyes trying to see into her and smother her with his very being.


“I’m sorry I’m late, boss man wouldn’t let me leave,” if he wasn’t older than her Rin would have thought him to be merely twelve the way he acted sometimes, yet it was his personality that had first drawn her to him.


He had a childish innocence to him, always wanting to protect her or hold her in his arms when they were alone together and it warmed her heart. She had never felt this way about any other boy, she never felt so cherished and loved the way she did when she was with Kohaku and she wished it would never end.


“No worries,” she told him climbing out of the chair and pushing it back in. “I was so caught up in the book I didn’t realize what time it was.”


“Too bad I don’t have teeth like Dracula does,” Kohaku teased picking up Rin’s tote bag and handing it to her. “Cause then you’d be madly in love with me like you are that book.”


The remark earned him an elbow in the gut however, he just laughed it off as Rin’s hand slipped into his and they deposited the forgotten book back on its shelf before heading out of the now closing building. It was getting late and the night life would emerge once the sun’s light disappeared. With not much left to do until Rin’s curfew, the two of them slowly walked to the nearest food joint and grabbed dinner in a bag.


It wasn’t much, but it was enough for them as they walked hand in hand down the street, drinks and food in opposite hands as they headed towards the park. For them it was filled with so many fond memories and a life so far well spent. Forgotten games of tag or soft kisses stolen under and sometimes in trees, it was like a magical place where nothing ever seemed to go wrong.


They ate quietly on the park benches, feet folded under them listening to the sounds all around them. Oddly there were still children playing on the jungle gyms, their parents talking off to the side as if there wasn’t a care in the world. It made Rin think of wanting to start a family of her own, a small blush rising to her cheeks imagining Kohaku as a father.


“Hey Kohaku,” she began hesitantly, pushing her food away nervously.


“Yeah?”


“Do you want to have kids when you’re older?” It was a question she had been thinking about a lot more lately as their relationship began growing deeper in both emotional and physical aspects.


He was silent for a moment, his eyes glazing over as they met hers. Rin wasn’t sure if she had said the wrong thing and she could feel the fear bubbling up in her chest. She shouldn’t have asked. “I-Uh, I’m sorry never mind. Forget I even asked.”


She tored her eyes away from his to her fiddling hands, feeling stupid for asking and she could feel the tears burning the backs of her eyes. Sometimes she was so stupid blurting out the first things that came to mind and now she was regretting even opening her big mouth.


Way to go Rin, she mentally yelled. You know exactly how to ruin a good time don’t you?


Strong fingers curled under her chin and forced her watery gaze back up and she felt the lump growing in her throat expand tenfold. The expression on Kohaku’s face was unreadable and she wished that the ground would open up and swallow her whole. Closing her eyes, Rin fought down the urge to cry until lips covered her own and stealing the breath from her lungs.


“One day I hope I will,” his tone had gone a few octaves lower and it made Rin’s eyes snap back open. “Maybe if you let me we can have a few of our own.”


Was this his way of asking? She wondered to herself as she watched Kohaku get up and head towards the small group of boys on the jungle gym, a teasing smile plastered onto his face. Her heart was going a mile a minute, her hand fluttering over her chest as Kohaku kneeled and the boys gathered around him like vultures. It made her laugh as they broke apart cheering, the smiling toothy grins as they grabbed their deserted sticks.


Kohaku turned to face her, his eyes sparkling as he beckoned her with one hand, three of the boys standing at his side like little body guards. Laughing to herself, Rin slipped off her sandals, sand squishing under her bare feet, the three boys rushing to her with excited looks on their faces.


“We have to take you back to the castle!” One shouted enthusiastically grabbing her hand and pulling her towards the jungle gyms.


“Yeah!” Another said grabbing her other hand, “we have to protect you!”


Allowing herself to giggle at their antics she climbed up the latter pretending to be confused and simple minded.. “Protect me from what?”


“The terrible Vampire Haku of course,” the last one chimmed in, eyes rolling at her obvious lack of knowledge of the situation. “Who else?”


“Oh no not vampires!” She gasped horrified, “Well I’m glad my noble knights are here to protect me.”


“We’re not knights we’re zombie princes.”


It wasn’t long until the eight of them were so enthralled by their little make believe world; her zombie princes fighting against Vampire Haku and his legion of politicians that time passed by so quickly. Sword fights and kung-fu martial arts had her nearly on her knees laughing, even when someone would switch sides or pretend to be dead. Or the best part when two of the ten year olds switched and all six boys ganged up on Kohaku declaring him dead. The childish arguments of ‘you’re dead we killed you’ and Kohaku’s ‘you can’t kill me like that I’m immortal’ having parents cracking with silent laughter as Kohaku was tackled to the ground and dog piled on.


After the savage fight with the wicked vampire, her brave zombies all received kisses on the forehead for so bravely fighting for her before it was time for them to go home. Rin didn’t think she would ever stop smiling after today, it had been so perfect and fun that it was almost sad for it to end.


“That was so much fun!” Rin gushed pulling Kohaku into her arms, her head laying on his shoulder. “Thank you so much for today Vampire Haku.”


His arms tightened around her as he chuckled into her ear; she was right of course, it had been a lot of fun to play games with the neighborhood boys, especially when Rin’s eyes lit up and she laugh at their antics. It brought his mind back to the tiny box in his pocket and the itching in his fingers to pull it out and give it to her earlier almost overwhelming him. He ignored it though, because he was saving it for the weekend when they would take their first trip to his brother in law’s cabin up in the mountains. It would be the perfect place to propose to Rin, completely surrounded by snow and not chaperoned, yes that was the perfect time.


“I love you Rin,” he whispered kissing the girl in his arms gently.


“I heart you too!” she laughed against his lips.


Pulling away before it became too heated, Kohaku held her hand as she slipped on her sandals and grabbed her tote bag. “Come on, lets get home before your dad calls in the cavalry like last time.”



E/N: Well this chapter came out faster than I thought it would, though it was hard to write because I was so tempted to start writing where the big time action comes in... I don't think I've ever written something filled with Waff that I'm kinda hoping that I've potrayed how much Rin/Kohaku are in love. The next chapter I hope will be out as soon as this one was, because I honestly can't wait till the action comes in, I'm squirming in my seat to see what you reviewers will have to say.


Hope you have enjoyed this little tid bit. And always feel free to leave a review, I like to gobble them up and put out more faster with positive construction.


Krystal.