InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Love Me For Who I Am ❯ Moonlight Flowers ( Chapter 6 )

***** Hello there again people, well sorry for the long wait…. I'm so sorry, I really did not have time last week to up date ok…

But if you guys checked I did posted my second story… it's call "I'll Be Waiting"… well here is chapter 6 to Love Me For Who I Am ok….

Oh and guys, I think this chappie here is going to be quite short ok…. So sorry if it is… I made it short because I'm so busy now…

Gosh I hate this time of the year, get so busy with my dancers and the up coming pageant that I'll have to work with the girls… gosh, well..

Well here are some answers to some of the question I got from reviewers…

Q: What's up with Rin being the wind and all?

A: Well first of all, Rin is train as a wind goddess, you can't see the wind right??? And obviously you cannot ever watch her when she is in naked form… not unless you have claim her as a mate, which I will explain in later chapters… and Rin is Rin, not Kagura… that's why she wanted poke out Sesshoumaru's eyes so badly because he saw her in her form… and as you see it, she did not even let Sakura or Hanna help her dress…. Even if they are woman like her….

Q: Is that Teiji guy really Rin's brother?

A: The question is NO!! he is not her brother… he looks very much like him but their attitudes are different and plus Teiji, Rin's brother, die when she was little. But I can tell you guys this, Teiji will built feelings towards Rin later on… in fact it's in this chapter…hehehhe… gosh thinking that you're brother has a crush on you… (Shrieks, ~_~)…

Well those are the questions that I've been asked, so there you go… well anyways onto the story… chapter 6...

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Ch. 6 - Moonlight Flowers

It was about dawn until Shinji finally returned from the market. The village scent is now filled with cooking, boiling, and a little bit of dust from dawn.

The men who were in the house was now quite from exhaustsation of drinking. Some of the men spent the night in the house with Sakura's family, and most of them went to a nearby inn.

Shinji had to bring in the girls food; she bring in soup and tea for Rin and regular dishes for the two younger girls.

They had to stay in their room due to their maidenhood and may not be seen by men much if a family member is of recognition.

Hanna and Sakura's brother is highly respected from the village and from the officers their selves. Teiji is a noble samurai and has been ranked into higher class, due to his ability of fighting and skills that not many samurai would be able to maintain.

He now works for the governors as a protector and a warrior, that's why his hair was not shaven as samurai tradition.

His family was summon to be moved to the city, but Goro did not want to leave his village and his long time friends and so, remained in the old village where he was born.

The girls had finish their meal but Shinji did not come in yet to claim the eating wares…

"I think you should go and help you mother Sakura" Rin said to her.

"But why me? Why can't Hanna go?" the girl questioned Rin.

"Your sister is much older than you and due to tradition, she will remain hidden, but you little one, must go out there and help you mother because no men such as they will look at you yet". Rin tease Sakura.

"oh, alright…" Sakura wined…

Sakura collected the bowls and tea cups and left the room. Leaving Rin with Hanna.

"Hanna?" Rin asked.

"Hmm?" Hanna looked at Rin with her eyebrows raise.

"Umm… Hanna? How old is your brother Teiji?"

"My brother Teiji?"

Rin nodded to Hanna.

"Well… humm… lets see, I'm now seventeen and he's five years older than me… that'll make him….. twenty-two." Hanna said counting her fingers.

"Oh, I see"…

"Why what's wrong?" Hanna ask Rin.

"Nothing" Rin said, looking a bit sad at the ground.

"Something tells me that you want to say something…. What you told me a Sakura earlier, was not the whole fact of your life, is it Rin-chan?"

Rin looked up at Hanna with one tear drop falling from her chocolate brown eyes. She got up from where she was sitting and walked a few steps away from Hanna. Hanna got up slowly and follow Rins steps.

"Rin… I… ahnou…" at this, Hanna really didn't know what to say. Rin turned back around slowly setting her gaze at the ground and looked up to meat Hanna's eyes…

Another tear trailed down her check… then another; Rin was now crying. She was so beautiful, even when she cries, her beauty remain eternal.

"Rin… I'm so sorry,… if I…" Hanna was cut off.

"Aren't you going to ask how old I am? Or even guess?" Rin said.

There was a long silence between the two, for Rin, she was waiting for an answer, and Hanna didn't know what to say, or how to say it to stop Rin from her sobs.

Rin turn her gaze away from Hanna and walk to where the samurai sword was sitting. Hanna had her back to Rin as she walks away. Rin place a hand on top of the counter and rubbed the top slowly.

"I'm nineteen" Rin broke the silence with her lips parted.

"You're so lucky to have a brother like Teiji".

At this Hanna turn back to face Rin, but she still had her back to Hanna and was still gazing at the sword that was sitting on top of the counter.

"I once had a brother like Teiji. When I first saw him, your brother, I knew that he looked, somehow,…. Very familiar to me." Rin took a deep breath and spoke again.

"My past, every memory came back to me when your mother said his name. Every picture that I had as a child, that I now bury it deep inside of me, came back. When your mother said his name."

"Rin…." Hanna tried to stop her before she goes deeper into the story, but Rin ignored it and kept on going with the story that she had to tell…

"I was an orphan; before that I once had a family like you did. I had a older sister, an older brother, a mother and a father like you.

It was a full moon one night, the night when moonlight flowers bloom. It was a very beautiful night to me, and I went out to pick the flowers.

I was on my way back when I heard my sister scream from inside the house… I ran to my house and open the door quickly, only to find that my sister dead and my mother being raped from the corner with cloth in her mouth and two men holding her down while another riding upon her.

I screamed at the sight, my father tried to cover my mouth from screaming but received a cut on his back by one of the bandits.

My brother, Teiji, tried to pull me away from my sister and cover me with his arms, but he was stab once in the back. He coughed out blood on me.

The bandit tried to kill me too, but my brother protected me with his last breath with his arms and received so many cuts from it. They kicked him in the side and dragged him away from me by his broken legs that they caused.

He held out his hands, his hands were all bloody from the cuts and he told me to run away. I escaped out the door but was pulled back from one of the bandits that was guarding the door.

My father's legs were all broken and his lips were bleeding from the beat. But he manage to beg the bandit who had me by the collar to let me go…

My father could barely speak. His eyes were full of hatred and tears were trailing down his face. His hands shaking violently begging the bandit to let me go, he begged for my life.

The man took me into the forest and place a cut on my neck and told me to run away, and that my fathers wishes were granted.

I ran through the forest and fell upon the moonlight flowers. I woke up the next day and thought that it was only a dream.

But you wouldn't have cuts on your ankle from running and a child young as myself wouldn't be sleeping out here with moonlight flowers beneath me.

I became a mute for a while until I met Xhing-Yi, my master. She looked so much like my mother if it weren't for her youkai resembling, I'd say that it was.

When I first found her in the forest, she looked like the day that my mother was raped and killed. I called her mom for the next seven years and lived with her.

She trained me to become one of the wind goddess that she once was. And so she succeeded in doing so… but without her pure powers with her though, it will be very difficult to find the Three Phoenix Seed and to get pure water from the sacred mountains of the South Lands due to all the danger that you'll have to go through."

Rin finally stop and close her eyes, letting the tears in her eyes run down her checks freely.

"Why do you need to find the Phoenix Seeds and get pure water from the sacred mountains of the South Lands?" Hanna questioned.

"It is for the Sacred Tree of the West of China". Rin say to Hanna.

"Sacred Tree of the West of China?" Hanna asked.

"Yes, my master is one of the wind goddess's of the west. The tree is their lifeline, and without it, the pure wind goddess's will die if the tree is destroyed".

"Then why has it taken you so long to do so? And why is your master the only one who is after these substances?"

"the Sacred Tree', leaves off a sign of dying every one thousand years. We have but twenty years to find the three substances to heal the tree. For you to be able to touch the substances, you must be trained from the master herself for you to do so…"

"So does that mean that you'll become the next Wind Master?"

"Yes. I only have one more year before the tree dies."

"how many have you've gotten so far?"

"All I need now is the sword Tenseiga, that is why I've been seeking it for the past four years."

"wait a minute, so that means….. 1,2, 3,4.… you started your journey when you were sixteen?" Hanna said counting her fingers.

Rin nodded.

"Wow, and all this time, I thought that you looked much younger than that."

Rin gave a sad grin.

"How old did you thought I was?" Rin said.

"I… well, I thought that you were only about my age or so…" Hanna said to Rin.

There was a long silence between the two. Hanna didn't know what to think, or what to say to Rin… her life was full of tragedy and probably more than what Rin had said…

Her family was killed when she was little and that was only when she was six years old… who knows what else happened when she was growing up.

"Rin…. I uh,.. I'm so sorry for having you to tell me about your past. But please, I don't want to see a sister of mine cry like that."

At this Rin looked Hanna's way with a tear rolling down her check, her lips parted and her chocolate brown eyes wide in shock at Hanna's words… she bow deeply to Hanna.

"Arigatou" Rin said still bowing with her eyes closed. Hanna rushed over and held her by the shoulders and embrace her.

Hanna was crying with Rin, having to hear Rin's story, Hanna wonder what she would have done if she was in Rin's position.

*I would have died a long time ago if I was Rin* Hanna thought still embracing her friend, now as a sister.

"Rin-san, my family owns you a lot for bringing back Sakura-san, if you don't mind, I believe that my family will be more than glad to' to take you in."

"No, Hanna-san… my life is to live with journey and traveling. That is my destiny. Arigatou, for excepting me as a sister, but I cannot live here long. Until I have my strength back, I must continue on with my journey."

"But, you will have to go through so many danger with your journey."

"I know"… Rin finish…

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Teiji has been listening outside of the bedroom walls throughout the whole story. He has not seen any woman who would travel alone like Rin and would be willing to step away from a family of her own.

Rin was very beautiful, but with her letter age, she was to be known as an old maid. She can even lie that she's only fifth teen if she wanted to, and if she did wanted to, he would ask her hand in marriage.

But a woman like Rin, it will be very difficult for her to open her heart to any man and to court her. From what Teiji had understand of Rin saying that there were many "danger" along her journey, it means that she has killed many youkai's who stands in her way.

And by the fact that she had saved Sakura, and by Sakura's story of being save by this samurai woman, she did killed some firefly demons and a snake youkai.

Rin had killed the bandits who were trying to seduce Sakura which were about ten-fifth teen of them. And on top of that, she wore a snake youkai's skin home when she was coming back for her "refreshment".

Rin is a very dangerous woman, if it was to be said in court, and would be put on list under rewards if she was found.

But for she who only kills the bad to save the good, then she can avoid trails if it was to be posted upon her.

Teiji has lived in the city for a long time and has seen many beautiful woman, but no one had the appealing nature that Rin has and for a man who likes challenges such as Teiji himself, is very picky about woman and wanted someone who can battle Teiji's words in debate or in courting ship.

Most of the woman from the past that Teiji had courted, would neither laugh or giggle at Teiji and blush like most girls would do.

But for Rin, she seems like she can answer every riddle that Teiji has and give statements that Teiji himself cannot answer.

Yes, Teiji liked that, and the thought of wooing Rin into falling in love with him excited him and wonder how hard this particular woman can be.

*Rin is not properly train as a maiden in music or in poetry, but who can take no' for an answer when it's Rin* Teiji thought to himself, and then smile at the thought of how he will court Rin before she continues on her journey again.

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Sesshoumaru looked up at the dark night and thought about the human wench who was at the pond earlier that day.

*I will kill her the next time I see her, I promise.* He thought.

Sesshoumaru fisted his hand at the thought of the girl. The girl reminded him of Inuyasha's mother, and how much he hated humans.

His father had shame their family name enough, and now his half brother, is now mated to a human himself. Sesshoumaru is not going to follow his fathers footsteps into human mating' trap.

He will find a suitable mate that is but only a youkai, and make him more powerful by the chitchat of people, of how wonderful he is unlike his father and half brother.

*My mate will be a youkai and not some slut who wants pleasure from me* Sesshoumaru promised, clenching his eyebrows at remembering how many female youkai who had been killed and dragged out of his quarters by him before they can even undo a sash.

*I promise you father, that I will not shame the family name like you did* Sesshoumaru thought to himself again as he walked out of his chambers and escape the palace walls out to the opposite side where he had hiked and met the wench.

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*****ok people, well here it is, chapter 6, will I hope you guys all liked this chapter… I think it's kinda short though, don't you think….

Well I hope to make the next chapter longer ok… and well, anyways, this chapter focused more on a "BIT" of Rin's past. There are more to Rin's past and will be explained in later chapters ok…

Well I'm tire, so please review to me… and thanks a whole bunch to Mangaofdarkness for telling me how to use "san" and "chan" I just hope that I used it right in this chapter… @___@

Well ja ne ok…. Oh and PLEASE review people…. ^__^