InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Sweeter Than You Think ❯ Mischief ( Chapter 2 )

Sweeter Than You Think

Chapter 2

A/N I haven't updated because I am in school and busy. As a matter of fact I am in school right now. In class. Avoiding the teacher. And my work…Anyway, this is the chapter where…

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It was everywhere. It lay in dark puddles on the floor, glistening wetly in the torchlight. It stained the expensive raw-silk cushions that were once all the colors of the rainbow all the same horrid shade. The stench of it filled his nostrils and made him ill to his stomach, though he would never admit it. It was splattered all up the walls in splash marks that with a little imagination started to resemble flowers. Or maybe the fumes were just getting to his head. The important documents he had left on his desk were soaked right through, and it could be seen that they hopelessly beyond repair, even from where he stood in the doorway. He took a step towards a figure hunched over a piece of paper in the middle of the floor. `So this is the culprit responsible for the desecration of my office. I should have known' His slipper-clad feet stepped carefully around one of the larger pools being soaked up by the carpets. As he neared the center of the room a large dollop fell from the ceiling and onto the silk of his happi, staining it on contact. He made a small sound of displeasure, causing the miscreant to spin around in horror. He turned his golden eyes from the growing mar on his shoulder to bore into the guilty eyes of the figure in the center of the room. Silence stretched between them as he continued to look down unnervingly. He finally broke the silence when the small villain started to fidget nervously with calligraphy brush. "Rin. Do you care to explain what you are doing in my office?" The little girl gulped. `Sesshoumaru-sama must be really mad if he's this quiet!' "Umm…Rin was waiting for Sesshoumaru-sama to get back from his meeting. Rin wanted to show Sesshoumaru-sama the flower she picked for him this morning." Rin paused, pointing to a sodden piece of floral material, lying forlorn it a puddle of it's own next to the massive mahogany desk. Sesshoumaru motioned for her to continue. "And what of all of this…mess?" Rin's eyes lit up. "Flowers! Rin thought Sesshoumaru-sama's office was too plain, so Rin wanted to get more flowers for it, but if Rin left Sesshoumaru-sama's office then Jaken-sama would find Rin and make Rin take a bath. So Rin drew Sesshoumaru-sama some flowers instead. Rin used the ink on you desk." Sesshoumaru looked around the room. "You did all of this" He gestured openly. "With one bottle of ink?" Rin looked down. "Rin ran out of ink, but your flowers weren't done, so Rin looked in your drawers. Rin found an entire one filled with bottles of ink! But when Rin was carrying them over to the flowers Rin tripped on a cushion. Some of it spilled." Another glob of ink fell from the ceiling, landing in Sesshoumaru's hair. Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed. "Rin. You are confined to your room until I say otherwise. Go now. And when you see Jaken, tell him to clean up in here." Sesshoumaru swept out of his office and towards the dojo, where the hot springs were located.

Once in the hot springs he stripped down, tossing the ruined silk in a pile to be cleared away by a servant. He stepped into the steaming water, going up to his waist, just covering the essentials. He sat down on an under water ledge with a sigh. `Rin is getting to be troublesome. Humans usually are, but Rin seems to be worst then most. What can I do about it though?' Sesshoumaru sat for a few more minutes before standing up. Water ran down his chest in rivulets, shimmering in the rays of light coming through the high windows of the hot springs. He noted that the sun was going down. He reached for the vial of soap and proceeded to wash the ink from his body. Rinsing he wadded over to the shallow end and stepped out. A servant came and placed a robe around him. He stalked back to his chambers, still pondering the problem of Rin. Just as he was about to slid his door open a female servant, some kind of mouse demon, scurried up and came screeching to a halt inches from his door. "Sesshoumaru-sama! Sesshoumaru-sama! Have you seen Rin-chan anywhere? She didn't show up for lunch!" She squeaked, panting erratically. Sesshoumaru stared down in disgust. `How dare this lowly servant talk to this Sesshoumaru in such a manner?' He thought, infuriated. He showed none of this on the surface. "Servant. She is in her room, and she is to stay there and take her meals there until I change my mind. Is that understood?" Sesshoumaru didn't wait for the servants stumbled answer as he swept past her into his room. He got into his sleeping yukata and slipped into silk sheets. `I will deal with Rin in the morning.' Sesshoumaru slid into sleep.

Sesshoumaru woke with the sun, like he usually did, and getting dressed he went to the dojo to warm up. He got out tensaiga, going through all the sets and formula's his father's teacher's had shown him. He thought about the solution to containing Rin. `Rin is full of energy, and quite fast for a human. She needs someone stronger and more…willful then that cringing mouse she has now. But the question is, who? All of my servants are selected for their meekness, so it would have to be someone else, not from the castle. A female who can teach her all the things females must know.' Sesshoumaru smiled inwardly. `Yes. Tomorrow I shall go hunting, and I have just the female in mind.'

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A/N: Aaaaaannnddd that's all folks! Sorry it couldn't be longer, but hey! Class it about to end! Not much I can do about it! I would write at home, but my program is all screwed up, and when I save the file it goes into computer language. Not all that reader-friendly!

Thanks for reading what I DO have, and please leave a review!

Sincerely, Saerin of the Night