InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ RavynSkyes's Drabbles ❯ Return ( Chapter 36 )

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Title: Return

Author:Plumespixie

Words: 515

Genre: Post canon Hurt/Comfort (Family?)

Summary: It was time for her to go home

A/N: Alternate to the prompt of 'home' for Iyhed, but this wasn't smutty and they only do smutty there.

'Home' was a scary place… a place where strange men breached the doorway late at night demanding money and food and ended up taking lives.

'Home' was a lonely place… a place where she shivered in the dark after nursing the most recent wounds, inflicted by angry men with strong hands and cold hearts.

'Home' was where she grudgingly returned each night simply because there was no where else to go…

Was it any wonder she has never seen value in having a 'home'? But he showed her differently. Home was not a place, home was a feeling, and he was her home now.

'Home' was something new to her now… Home was crouching behind a puffy shashanuki hakama pant leg, feeling long hair brush against her own as she stared down at black boots and waited for danger to pass.

'Home' was sleeping curled up in his lap, resting her head on a muscular thigh as claws swiped her hair and occasionally the hard cold panel of a section of a lotus petal armored skirt pressed into her back.

'Home' was running in circles, picking flowers, and singing songs of his triumphant return.

Home could have never been the village…

Years of tears at night, screaming fits, nightmares left un-chased away...

When Kouga came to visit, bringing his wolf pack with him, she nearly came undone.

Running through the forest, panic coursing through her veins, twigs whipping her, causing slight stinging sensations, snagging the silk of her kimono… the one from home. Her obi snagged, and finally tore off, her kimono hanging loosely around her now, but the ties of her clothing keeping it from falling off.

Crouching in the cave behind the waterfall, adrenaline receding, the tears finally came.

She sobbed and shook, reverted to the speech patterns of her childhood, though she was no longer a girl,

"Rin wants to go home…" she whimpered, before drifting off to sleep, despite the cold of the cave and the roar of the waterfall.

"Your brat ran off, we can't find her anywhere."

"Ran off?"

"Yeah, RAN OFF, and you say I'm rude… she just took off when we were trying to introduce her to Kouga."

Narrowed eyes.

"Kouga… the wolf prince?"

"Yeah, that's him… you know the guy?"

A ball of light whipped through the forest near edo.

She was difficult to find, the waterfall creating a scent barrier that even his nose had trouble penetrating.

When he found her curled up in a ball in a tattered silk kimono with small abrasions to her flesh, left from twigs whipping by as she ran, terrified, he knew this was no place for her.

He'd tried. He'd given her the chance at a 'normal' life and Rin just wasn't… 'normal'.

Rin was special and… Rin was his.

He called to her then,

"Rin."

The girl whimpered slightly and he crept nearer, touching her shoulder lightly as she started from sleep.

"Sesshomaru-sama…"

"Come Rin. It is time you return home."

One look in his golden gaze told her he did not mean the village.