InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ RavynSkyes's Drabbles ❯ Princess ( Chapter 29 )

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By: Ravyn Skye
Title: Princess
Author: Plumespixie
Rating: pg
Genre: I don't really know... general

Warnings: none
AU/Canon: Post Canon

Word Count: 587 (I went over... I suck)

Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Fanfiction Sequel | Uploaded On: 08.27.2010 | Pages: 1 | Words: 1.4K | Visits: 522 | Status: Completed

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA
ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR: MF_SANCTUARY PROMPT: WILD CHILD WORD LIMIT 500
Title: Princess
Author: Plumespixie
Rating: pg
Genre: I don't really know... general
Warnings: none
AU/Canon: Post Canon
Word Count: 587 (I went over... I suck)
She'd been a wild little thing, so free…
So course.
So unrefined.
She'd lacked manners and discipline, and he had not the patients to train her properly.
Even the miko couldn't.
It wasn't until…her.
The human woman in her forties, who had been a high ranking concubine to the human lord of the east, before the wars tore his shiro asunder and she had barely escaped with her life, only to settle in Edo.
For the first time, Rin had taken notice of what it was to be a lady. Not just a village girl, but a woman of class.
It had taken all of her savings and one of her silk kimonos from her lord, but she had convinced this woman to train her.
When she'd shown the woman the trunk full of 'trinkets' her lord had brought for her, when last he'd visited, saying he would return in five years time.
She'd smiled.
"You have all you need, child. It is a wonder you do not use these things."
It had been far harder than she'd known. Learning to walk in the heavy silk robes, the shamisen lessons, the fan dancing… oh yes, that was her specialty.
She'd finally learned to move with the grace she'd seen on another woman with a fan, long ago.
Then there were the lessons in how to handle men. To bat your eyes, and blush on command, to avert your gaze and gentle your touch. Rin wasn't so good at those things at first, but now she could stop a man dead in his tracks with nothing more than a glance.
Her debut was nearly here. The festival was coming and she was slated to perform. She woke early and went to prepare.
The woman prepared her as if she were going to a formal function in a palace. Her hair was twisted and bound, her obi tied tightly, but loosely enough for her to move with fluid grace. Her make-up was applied, and she was ready. The wild child finally tamed.
When Rin took to the stage and her trainer played the shamisen, she moved like liquid. Over under, snapping the fan open and closed, hiding her face, dipping weaving and lifting her arm, allowing her long sleeve to fall back, exposing the skin of her arm in a provocative display.
Her back was to the audience as she finished. She was breathing hard, but did not let her exertion show.
She turned to bow and that's when she saw him. Standing well back from the crowd, gold eyes glinting and long hair swaying.
She made her way through the crowd, approaching him. Her instinct was to run and jump into his arms, but her training taught her differently. She bowed respectfully, and let a faint blush steal across her cheeks.
"My Lord."
"Rin, come." She gathered her things and left with him. She did not see him steal into the night, did not see him visit a hut in edo.
The gold coins fell in her delicate hand.
"Per our agreement." He intoned.
The woman bowed, accepting the coins.
"She was a pleasure, I assure you." She said respectfully.
"Hn. She was near to feral. Completely wild, and nothing but child."
He stalked back through the night, pleased he could now present her before court as his intended with far less shame. She was not Izayoi, not a princess. She was a no one, an orphan… but now, she was finally ready to be his princess.