InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Sympathy for the Devil ❯ Chapter 9 ( Chapter 9 )

Sympathy for the Devil

Chapter Nine

By Devon Masterson-Bond

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AN: It has been brought to my attention the misspelling of Sesshomaru's name in previous chapters. I apologize and I will fix this!!

 

Sango slammed Rin against the wall. “What the hell are you doing here?” she growled. “Are you after Kenji?”

 

“Get off of me,” Rin commanded. She grabbed Sango's hand pressing her thumb in the pressure point, in between Sango's forefinger and thumb, and then twisted it clockwise. A painful shocked expression formed on Sango's face as she found body pressed up against the wall face first. She expected no less from the youngest commander of the demon hunter, only a few hops and a skip from being considered an elder. “Kenji's a friend and we were having lunch together,” she replied through gritted teeth.

 

“A friend?” Sango gasped then frowned as she struggled. “I have never known you to be a liar, O-Rin. Not even to be so low as to even associate with demons much less be friends with one.”

 

Rin paused slightly. The words flowed from her before she even had the chance to think. She mentally cursed herself. She never did lie, but she was an excellent practitioner of deceit if it called for it. “I am not a liar.”

 

“Then you don't anything about the coup that happened amongst the upper ranks of the Demon Hunter elders?”

 

Rin released her grip on Sango and turned her around. She searched the older girl's eyes looking for traces of trickery and saw none. “What…is Pater okay?”

 

Dark eyes softened. “You really don't know?” Sango sighed rubbing her wrist. “Pater is the one who launched the coup and killed half of the elders.”

 

“That's impossible,” Rin shook her head. “He would not kill our clan unless they betrayed us….”

 

“Or unless they disagreed with him,” Sango commented. “This is why the demon exterminators had little to do with the demon hunters in the first place. There were too many like Pater that wanted continuous confrontation.”

 

“You make Pater seem like the traitor,” Rin accused. Her eyes flashed an angrily. She would not tolerate such talk.

 

Sango met Rin's intensity. “You just don't get it do you? Pater is a power hungry bigot who is bent on taking over everything." Rin shook her head in protest as her anger started to take hold. “Then why did you leave?”

 

Rin turned away. There was no way she could answer that question without jeopardizing the mission. On top of that, she had her own questions, about Pater staging coups and killing fellow hunters. Why didn't he tell her about it? He must have suspected something might come about, but why not tell her? “I'm going for a walk. Tell Kenji I went home and next time lunch is on me… well I'll pay for it anyway.”

 

Sango smiled slightly at Rin's correction. Yes, there was clearly something different. The woman that stood in front of her had some warmth and did not seem like the killing machine that she had the displeasure of meeting years back. She nodded then grabbed Rin by the wrist. “I know there's more than you're telling, but if you so much as harm Kenji or the others without reason, I'll kill you.”

 

“And if it comes to that then I look forward to seeing you try.” Rin wrenched her arm away and left.

 

“Arrogant bitch,” Sango sighed. Her mind was working a mile a minute. Rin's appearance seemed to be too coincidental. The first thing that came to her mind was an undercover mission, but Rin was not the type to send on a mission of that nature. The dark haired hunter was too much of a kill first and ask no questions type. She was emotionally scarred and took out any demon without a second thought. No, there had to be something more going on here. It was one thing, to be around demons another to actually socialize and Rin looked as though she had been enjoying herself until she laid eyes on her past. Sango balled her fist in frustration. “What would have happened for her to turn to her so called enemy?”

 

“I can't believe this is happening,” Rin muttered while she walked into the maze. She needed to clear her head and what better place than nature. She was already there anyway. Being amongst the few things in life that made her happy would allow her to form a game plan.

 

The garden maze was your standard square one. Make all right turns, or left ones, and one could almost always find their way out. This was a comforting thought in the back of her mind while walking. Lush Kelly green surrounded her with splashes of color here and there once she reached a corner pocket. She would have loved to sit on of the benches and inspect it further.

 

“You're finally alone,” Kagura sneered.

 

Rin spun around on her heel and reached for her non-existent sword. “Shit.” Her eyes narrowed. She was in the middle of a garden maze defenseless with a demon bitch that believed that her intended had been stolen from her. This was just perfect, taken out by the very vermin she tried to stamp out existence. Live by the sword and die by the sword, or fan in this case. This was turning out not to be a pulchritudinous day.

 

`This is a picture; the defenseless peasant bitch about to beg for mercy.”

 

Rin looked around trying to assess her options. “Oh, I can assure you that will be the last thing to happen.”

 

Kagura smiled. Her prey was already desperate. She would enjoy this. “Are you ready for me to send you to hell?”

 

“Only if you're going first,” Rin replied keeping her distance. It seemed the only plan would have to be dodging for cover and hope to lose her.

 

“I don't know what he sees in you,” Kagura snapped opening her fan violently. “But then I guess a whore like you…” Her sentence trailed as round stone ornament from a piece of furniture came hurtling towards her. She angrily side stepped when another came and hit her on the shoulder.

 

“You want to talk. I want to fight,” Rin growled. She was defenseless, virtually, not deaf and she was not going to stand there and be insulted.

 

Kagura raised her fan to strike when she engulfed by flames and knocked to the ground. “You are trespassing in my lands,” Kenji snarled showing his fangs. He was crouched over her glaring at her intensely. “You will not hurt this woman. She is under the protection of Sesshomaru and I. Today, I will spare your life out of a debt that I owed your father, which we are now even. Get out of my sight.”

 

Kagura narrowed her eyes. That was twice the human escaped her and it would be the last time. She crawled out from under Kenji and slunked away in defeat before riding out on a breeze with her feather.

 

Rin blinked in shock as she watched the demon in front of he go from predatory to protector. “Are you okay?” he asked once he was by her side. He walked around her checking for injuries.

 

“I'm fine,” she answered looking into teal eyes. There was concern…honest concern. She was confused. “You saved me?”

 

“Of course,” he replied still checking her until he was satisfied. He suddenly pulled her into his embrace. “You know hitting her with a rock was not the smartest thing to do in your situation, but it was humorous.”

 

Rin did not say anything. It was weird being comforted and held by a demon. She was even more confused. For the first time in years she was caught unaware and weak then a demon saves her and holds her as though she was something precious. It went against everything she knew and was taught. She pulled away. “Now don't fall in love.”

 

Kenji chuckled. “Ah, so you do have a sense of humor.”

 

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“The woman is infernal,” Sesshomaru growled as he paced. “She is constantly defying me and Kenji encourages her.”

 

Kaede raised an eyebrow. “Oh and how does he do that?”

 

Sesshomaru glared at Kaede. She knew perfectly well what kind of mischief the Kitsune Lord of the East was up to. “Are you being facetious?”

 

Kaede shook her head. “I was just curious. Usually when Kenji is involved it is up a practical joke nature or a sexual nature and everything that you have told me about this woman had lead to me to believe you fancy her and do not know how to deal with it.”

 

A silver eyebrow arched at the miko's audacity. “Woman, have you lost your mind?”

 

The old miko stood to her feet. “I have known you for quite some time and you have never doubted my advice before when you disagreed. The fact that you vehemently deny your feelings at this time, let's me know that this is more than just a fancy…”

 

“The subject is closed,” He interrupted.

 

“Mmhmm.” Kaede smiled. She would not argue with him today. His pride had been bruised enough at it was. He was just going to have to get over it. Kaede had grown quite fond of the emotionally challenged demon and it was high time someone ruffled his fur. The fact that he even tolerated this Rin to the point of annoyance spoke volumes in itself. Then of course it was also amusing to see Sesshomaru riled up over a female. “By the gods, the fox is rubbing off on me as well,” she mused as she fingered her rosary. A hint of sadness passed over features, before she pushed it into the back of her mind. “The subject is closed.”

 

Sesshomaru looked at Kaede suspiciously but said nothing as he turned to leave. He had enough to think about it was. The insinuations that she put forth to him made sense to the logical part of his mind, but the other part refused to entertain such an idea. A human, a frail human female bothering him, the very thought was laughable. It was not for the fact that he never laughed aloud he would have when Kaede suggested it. In love with Rin….preposterous. Rin was his manager nothing more than that, who she spent her time with was none of his business as long as it did not interfere with work. Kenji had a habit of being distracting; he distracted Inu Yasha on a daily basis with his shenanigans. He expected one hundred percent from his people and that's all there was to it. Feeling confident Sesshomaru got into his car and turned the key in the ignition. “I will speak to Rin tomorrow.”

 

 

 

To be continued…

 

 

 

 

© 2005 Devon Masterson-Bond

I think we know who belongs to whom in this fan fiction. The characters of Inu Yasha belong to their creator, Rumiko Takahashi and everyone she leased them out to, me not being one of them.