InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Love Me For Who I Am ❯ Youkai Scent ( Chapter 9 )

Hey there people, (sigh) FINIALLY!!! The long long wait… well I'm so sorry to have you guys wait like that… I was so busy, you know, with all the Christmas shopping, dance competition at the new years, and of course, I was in the Internationals Beauty Pageant ^__^. I was 4th runner up… not bad… I think, I knew I could have done better. But I guess I didn't really wanted to win… believe me, I didn't…

There was so many problems backstage, I did not want to win anymore, and plus, writing stories is my happiness ^__^. Not some SHIT on pageants where people cheats and all… well if you guys want me to TELL you the details about what happen at the Internationals Pageants, email me and I'll be happy to tell… gosh, they sure made history. T__T

Ok so here are a couple of notes regarding the story… I know I have lots, of errors and grammars and all… I'll try to change it when I can, or have time to do so ok… cuz rite now, I'm still tired from the winter break and I'm trying to find new songs to make up dance routines for my dancers. So give me a break…

This is my senior year, and I'm trying my best to do real good in school too… and plus, I'm taking a collage class and also taking Drivers Aid to try to get my drivers license. Plus, I'm applying for a job at Gottschalks. I'm an ROP student there so I think it's easier to apply. In other words, you have a better chance to get hire.

Well back to the story about the notes, hummm… so did any of you guessed the riddle yet??? It's quite hard huh??? I read it over and I didn't quite get it, I didn't know what the hell I was writing about at the moment. Well see the riddle started out like this…

*** "Water runs down and deep, but the river itself flows in reverse. Here, under the roof of a seashell is where the sun will set, but there, where the rook is form is where the sun will raise. 1 mile away, will you not trip, not fall, slip on slime? Will you see gold bounding upon your eyes on time? Will the calm dragon shine and show you the way?" ***

Ok, so lets start with the first sentence, I'm just going to give it to you guys so that you guys won't get confuse. I know that later on, at some point, you guys will so…. Here it is…

*water runs down and deep, but the river itself flows in reverse.*

Ok, so it means that Rin will have to follow the river up to where it's coming from… you following me??? GOOD…

*Here, under the roof of a seashell is where the sun will set, but there, where the rock is form is where the sun will raise.*

OK, so when Shinji is saying this, she's referring to her house as the seashell. On the side of where she lives, is where the sun is going to set. Get it???

And then it goes to, *But there, where the rock is form is where the sun will raise.*

Ok, so this part means that the "Great Big Rock", which is the palace of the Black Dog, the sun raises there. You know, where the sun comes up and all???

*1 mile away, will you not trip, not fall slip on slim?*

Alright, so back then, when the elders say something about "1 mile" or "1 day" it usually means that it's going to be longer than that. I don't know about Japanese but that's what it means with my culture. So, when Shinji says this verse, it means that 1 mile or 2 or 3, (meaning days!!!) whenever she comes to a stop, there will be trouble along the way. So for her to be able to get to her destiny, she must be very careful due to all the troubles that's ahead of her.

*Will you see gold bounding upon your eyes on time?*

Now, this part means that she must be early to see the sun raise. "Gold bounding upon your eyes on time?" You know, gold as in the sun? and on time as in get up early and watch the sun raise??? Ok, now to the last part…. (sigh)*_*

*Will the clam dragon shine and show you the way?*

Ok, so this last part talks about a dragon, and big, fat, chunky dragon that will raise from the water and scream at her face where the Black Dogs nest is…. Ha ha… just kidding… no, there is no dragon. The only dragon is Jaken… haha got chu again… no not Jaken. When we talk about a dragon, it refers to a rainbow. So, for Rin to be able to see the dragon (rainbow), she must first come to a fall… a waterfall that stops her from following the river. And she must be there early to see the sun come up, and when the sun is up, the dragon (rainbow) will raise from the water and show her the way….

Alright people, I'm being too nice now… well I guess you guys all probably know where the palace is already huh??? Well you guys can guess on your own now…. I just gave the riddle away… I hope you guys all get it… if you don't then email me and I'll try to explain it to you ok…

Ok so now onto the story…. Or chapter…… whatever… gosh I'm tired…. *SIGH*……..

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Maybe next time… let this be an author's note ok… ^________^

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JUST KIDDING… ok, so now, onto the story… ^______^

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Ch. 9 - Youkai Scent

Later that night, Rin went into Hanna and Sakura's chambers and kneel down before her purple sack. She undo the knot of the sack and took out her youkai clothing and put them on. After she had finish putting on the outfit, she slip on her bracelets and anklets; topping it off with her peasant earrings which hung freely from her earlobe with its tip brushing her shoulders.

Rin took out the chopstick from her hair, letting her long hair tumble down to her back. Grabbing a comb from Sakura's counter, Rin comb her hair slowly strand by strand. The screen slid open and enter Sakura holding a wooden plate with a teapot and a cup sitting on top of it.

"What are you doing?" Sakura asks Rin.

"The moon is out tonight." she responded still combing her hair.

"You're dressing up for the full moon tonight?"

Rin put down the comb and stood up. Sakura stared at Rin with wide eyes observing her strange clothing from head to toe.

"Why are you wearing that?" Sakura ask Rin again. She then walked up to Rin in a fast paste, and stick her face right in front of Rin's. Rin flinch and Sakura narrow her eyebrows.

"Your eyes…. It's almost… orange" Sakura said still looking straight at Rin's eyes. Rin moved away from the curious girl and picked up her purple shawl.

"You look weird. No, not weird, strange and different. What kind of outfit is it." the girl asked once again.

"This outfit is made from fox skin. It hides my identity so demons won't be able to detect my true self."

"Oh, that's strange, I've never seen anything like it…"

"The outfit is a fashion of the Huns from the mountains of the west of China."

"Then what's with the anklets and the bracelets? And… and feather earrings? And why is there a bell on your right side of the foot but not the other?" Sakura said to Rin narrowing her brows again.

"The bell sends out signals of a youkai's pace. Human and youkai's have different sound making when they walk. If I don't wear the bell, then any youkai nearby will get curious at the steps and there will be trouble." Rin explained to the girl.

"Then why are you wearing only one bell? shouldn't you be wearing two? If you wear one, then you will be a hanyou, you should wear two so you can have the scent of a full youkai." Sakura said with a smile. Rin laugh at Sakura's silly thoughts.

"You're such a silly little girl. I'm already wearing youkai clothing, they can't detect that. And the bell is just to fool them so they won't know it's human steps I'm taking." Rin said to the girl still chucking a bit.

"oh, then I suppose the bracelets are to hide your human fighting skills and fooling the youkai's too right?" Rin nodded with a smile and Sakura smiled back.

"One more question…"

"What is it?"

"What about the earrings? You don't do anything with your head… or is it for youkai talks?" Sakura gave Rin a big cheesy smile which made Rin laugh even more.

"well I guess you can say that. I don't do anything with my head. But the truth is that, when a male youkai approaches me, the air around me will startle him, telling him to back off."

"Really?"

"No, just kidding… it just goes with the outfit, that's all…" Rin finish off.

"Oh, I see… well here's your medication which my mother mix with some tea." Sakura said, holding up the wooden plate to Rin.

"Thank you, but I don't want any tea for right now. I must go out tonight to find some moonlight flowers for my condition."

"Moonlight flowers?" Sakura said, Rin nodded and left the chambers.

"What are my earrings for?" Rin ask herself walking out of the room.

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Sesshoumaru walked in the woods alone in the dark. The business with his uncle wasn't very important to him at all. He wanted to leave. All the talking that has taken place and the interruptions of his thoughts from the servants made him miss Jaken… without that green blabbing toad, life in the Northlands was actually boring.

At first, he wanted to run and get away from the green imp, but now that he tells the servants to shut up, they shut up. No options or opinions, no one for him to throw a rock at or throw them into a tree. And all his uncle's important business was about finding him a mate.

He looked up to the full moon and put his right hand onto his white boa. Sometimes, he actually wonders what his half-breed brother was doing. But tonight, he thought about the human who fought with him. The human who can wield Tokijin, and who can fight better than the wench that is now with the perverted monk Miroku name Sango.

*Humph* he smirk to himself. "why am I thinking about that human now?" he scold himself.

Sesshoumaru came to a road and walk down to where the cliff of the moonlight flowers was blooming tonight. When he got to the cliff, he observed the full moon. The moonlight flowers were now blooming, and when each of them open to the light of the moon, a shimmer came from the petals giving them a glorious and magical scene.

Sesshoumaru walked up to a tree and sat down underneath it. He closed his eyes but then opened them again. He can sense other youkais nearby, but with his scent, they shouldn't bother him. Sesshoumaru observed the moon and the flowers that was blooming to the light. The beautiful scenery made him feel lonely and only made him wonder more with all the "what if" questions.

His thoughts were put aside when he heard footsteps walking his way. It was a female fox youkai, mixed in with a tiger scent. The female youkai must have been a breed of a fox and a tiger. "what a disgrace" Sesshoumaru thought to himself.

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Rin was barefooted and each step she took with her right foot, came a "clinging" sound from the silver bell. Rin was holding a basket to her left side to pick the flowers in. She also had Sakura to come along because Shinji wanted to make sure that nothing happens to Rin during their hike.

"When are we going to get there? It seems like hours since we left my house…" Sakura complained.

"I already told you, the flowers only grow on open areas where they can receive light from the moon. There are too many trees in your village, there won't be any growing there. And I told you not to come." Rin said to the girl.

"Gomen Rin-chan. I didn't thought that it'll be this hard to find the flowers."

"We haven't come a long way, it only seemed to be long because it's up hill. We must hurry." with that said, Rin pace herself and Sakura sigh from the walking.

"Wait for me Rin-chan!" Sakura called from behind. Rin turn back around to Sakura and covered her mouth.

"Shhhh…. Don't yell, there are many youkais nearby and they'll hear you. You don't want us to get caught by them do you?…" Rin said to the girl.

"Gomen."

Rin let go of the girl and started walking again with Sakura next to her. Rin observe the moon as it came into full view when they walked pass the trees. The moon was big and round with darker spots on it.

"Whoaaaaaa… I've never seen the moon so big Rin-chan." Sakura said in a very childish tone with wide eyes and her mouth half open. Rin stop to look at the moon and then turn to see the moonlight flowers blooming on verdant grasses close to a cliff.

"The flowers, it's blooming…" Rin said as she walks to the spot. Rin picked one and held it up to her nose and took in the smell closing her eyes.

"They're beautiful!" exclaimed Sakura.

"Yes, they are indeed."

"What are you planning to do with it?"

"It's great uses for medication." Rin stated.

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Sesshoumaru observed the two as they picked the flowers and then thought to himself: "why does she have a human girl with her? Surely she isn't a hanyou…" just then, spider scents were now everywhere nearby. There was a least ten or fifth teen of them. "Humph, lets see how this fox youkai can protect that human girl." Sesshoumaru smirk to himself, knowing that the spider demons were going to attack the fox youkai and the human girl.

"Is this enough?" Sakura ask Rin.

"Yes, I think this will be enough." Rin responded.

Just as the two stood up to leave, spider web came from behind Rin and knocked her over the cliff.

"RIN-CHAN!!!!!" Sakura yelled after her. Another one was shot out towards Sakura's back and this time, it swings her into the air dropping her to the ground.

Youkai spiders crawled out from the trees laughing at the game they were playing. They had a small egg like body with eight long legs, and their heads were of human. Each of their fangs possess a black spot which shoots out poison.

"ohhhh… you sure look tasty!" said one of them as it built it own web. "Your mine!!!!!" it said to Sakura as it shot out another string of web towards the girl. Just as the web was about the hit her, Rin came back from the falling cliff and grabbed the girl out the way.

"what's this?" the spider called out. "But… you fell off the cliff…"

"Not exactly…" Rin said coldly at the spiders before her.

"Rin-chan your not dead!!!" Sakura said happily

"We'll make sure you die this time!" one of the spiders call out to them.

Rin swings her shawl wrapping the spider's head and ripping it off in youkai motion. She fought her way through the spiders with her shawl swinging behind her back, griping onto it from left to right, from top to bottom. Slashing the spiders with her shawl and ripping the heads off from the body.

Rin fought the youkais sending out demon signals from the bell on her right foot. There was demon blood oh trees and pools of blood where the lifeless demon corpse lay. There was now only three youkais remaining and Rin can sense their fear.

The three youkais were much younger, coming out tonight to observed the elder youkai's attack. They scooted back as Rin turn around to face them when she finished off her last opponent.

"I'm going to give you to the count of three to get out of my sight!" Rin called out the three younger youkai.

"1...2...3!!!!" after the counts, she swings her purple shawl one last time towards the three youkais. They send out their spider webs and left the two girls.

"Rin-chan, are you alright?" Sakura asks Rin walking up the her.

"I'll be fine." Rin told the girl, and then she walks up to the flower of basket and picked it up. She turn around telling the girl to follow. Sakura runs up to Rin and took quick glances of the dead spiders. Rin observe the moon and the flowers one last time and then turn back to the young girl.

"Let's go Sakura" Rin said to the girl. The two of them started their path down to where they came with Rin's bell jingling from the steps of her right foot.

"Now wasn't that a wonderful scene, watching me fight the spider demons with it's youkai blood and youkai scent interrupting your view of the moon my lord?" Rin called out to Sesshoumaru; and then stops and turns back to where he might be.

Rin remember seeing someone in white sitting underneath a tree while she fought the demons. If she was correct, it was the same youkai who was watching her bathe down by the stream. She meant the question to be rude as a payback when he stalked her a few days earlier.

"Huh?" Sakura wonder who Rin was talking to. And then she sees a demon in white stood up from behind the trees. Sakura scooted behind Rin with her head peeking out from Rin's left shoulder.

Sesshoumaru stood up from his sitting spot and stare at the two. "should I fight with this youkai wench?" he ask himself. "no".

"This Lord shall remember your scent and shall not forget your rudeness. Let this be a lesson to me. You're wasting my time." With that said, the Lord left the two and walked deep into the woods.

"Pervert…." Rin mumbled. Sesshoumaru's eyes popped back to the Fox youkai but kept walking until he was out of the two girl's view.

"who was that?" Sakura ask Rin as she watches the Lord disappears into the woods.

"He's just some perverted youkai." Rin said as she started down the path once again along with Sakura.

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Ok…. There you have it… chapter 9... Hehhehehhe sorry for all the jokes… hope you guys will like this chapter… I was going to update it yesterday, but my brother rented some movies and so, I stood up to watch it…

Yeah, and I know… I'm such a pain… Sesshoumaru don't do much since he first came into the story…. But he will… I can promise you that he will… you guys know what, I think Sessy gets very interested in things… I mean if it interests him, he will watch and listen…

You know, like that time with Naraku and that other episode where Kagome took the sword from the stone… I think he's a pretty curious guy…. Hehhehehe and with Rin where they first met… I thought that was pretty cute…

The reason why I think he asks Rin where she got all the burses in that one episode is because he was beat up too ^__^ (Sorry I don't know what episode it is, I just what the show….) Hehhehehhahehaehhahehaheh ^_______^…. And if you watch him pretty close, he don't know much either… to me honestly, I think he's like one of the most curious characters in the show, almost as curious as a kid…. Well that's what makes him cute!!!

Well just read and review to me ok…. ^___^