InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Liasion ❯ THE LIASION ( Chapter 2 )

THE LIASION.

 

By I am Foxglove.

 

 

Disclaimer: What? No, I actually don't own Inuyasha.

 

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She couldn't move.

 

She couldn't think.

 

He smiled at her again.

 

Who . . .

 

Her breath hitched when the pad of a clawed thumb gently grazed her cheek.

 

`Oya . . .' he rumbled. `We have been in the wars, haven't we?'

 

He held out that same large, clawed hand between them - and Rin saw the blood smeared on his thumb. Her breath caught again and she mouthed mutely in horror, her trembling hands drifting fearfully to her face.

 

She immediately began to shake ten times worse than before.

 

`Rin.'

 

Her overlarge eyes darted helplessly to the patient golden ones above.

 

`Peace.' The stranger reached a clawed hand to gently pet her unruly hair again. `You are safe,' he asserted calmly, steadily holding her gaze.

 

There was a silence, and Rin blinked up at him, swallowing - and, despite herself, feeling soothed by those three simple words.

 

Considering her with a slight smile, which she found to be oddly familiar, he lifted arched eyebrows in enquiry.

 

For a moment the girl blinked up at him again, before nodding quietly.

 

Resting his forearm on his upturned knee, he gave her an encouraging fanged grin which, if she had been older, she would have described as almost roguish - but at that moment in time, she only found herself reminded somehow of her Lord's half-breed brother.

 

His free hand he used to gather the ends of his long, white and lavender printed sleeve. Rin stared up at him while he carefully wiped the blood from her face, her mouth slightly ajar as she took in his features - the golden, thickly-lashed eyes; the indigo stripes; the narrow, tapered ears; the snowy hair securely bound at the back of his head in one long, silken, cascading piece; and the unmistakeable sickle-moon marking his brow.

 

He seemed gently amused by her expression.

 

`Perhaps you would have done well to heed the order of that self-righteous whelp of mine, hmmm?' he hummed in that powerful baritone, his molten eyes smiling at her.

 

He gave her no indication to halt her action as Rin raised slightly trembling fingertips to touch the downward-angling indigo stripes across his cheekbones, and so she didn't desist.

 

`T-Then . . . Y-You are the Inu . . . no Taisho-Sama . . .?' she spoke in a small, slightly wavering voice as she traced the thin indigo streaks.

 

His patient smiled curled further at the edges.

 

`I am,' he said evenly.

 

Rin stared widely up at him.

 

`You - - You are Sesshomaru-Sama's - - Sesshomaru-Sama's Father?' she murmured breathlessly.

 

`Speaking,' he replied with a smirk uncannily similar to that of his eldest son.

 

`And - - And Inuyasha-Sama's . . .?'

 

`Hai,' he answered, his smirk unfurling into that extremely familiar grin, as though he knew exactly what she was thinking.

 

Rin gaped up at him in awe. The Taiyoukai regarded her with equal interest.

 

The girl's brows knitted themselves together as she suddenly remembered what he had said.

 

“Perhaps you would have done well to heed the order of that self-righteous whelp of mine . . .”

 

And then she recalled His words.

 

“Rin - do NOT leave this hut. Stay with the Kitsune - this is an order. Am I understood?”

 

“H-Hai . . . Sesshomaru-Sama . . .”

 

She swallowed. The Inu no Taisho was looking at her as though he could see exactly what she was thinking.

 

She suddenly found she was shaking again as she lowered her small, bloodstained hands.

 

`Rin couldn't - - I couldn't . . .' she stammered around the lump in her throat. Sesshomaru-Sama was strong. But so was Naraku. What if he got hurt? What if he -? What if he left her . . . like her mama and papa? What if he had died - and she had lived.

 

No . . .

 

`No.' The Dog General inclined his silvery head. `You couldn't.'

 

It was a statement. And a fact.

 

Rin had to swallow down that rather troublesome lump in her throat again. The Lord's expression softened.

 

`I had wanted to speak with you,' he commented conversationally.

 

Rin blinked widely up at him.

 

`You - - You did . . .?' She was too overwhelmed to employ formality. He didn't seem to mind.

 

`Well - I had wanted to thank you,' he corrected easily.

 

This time the girl couldn't even stammer out a response.

 

He smiled again at the expression on her face.

 

`In regards to my son,' he continued. ` . . . No doubt you understand which one I speak of?' he added with mock formality.

 

All Rin could do was nod mutely.

 

The Dog General's expression warmed considerably, and she saw the gold of his eyes deepen - so much like the way Sesshomaru-Sama's would change sometimes that she had to blink. The Taiyoukai tilted her chin up gently with his thumb and forefinger.

 

`You have my utmost gratitude, little one . . .'

 

Rin stared uncomprehendingly up at him, her mouth forming a small `o'.

 

`Wh - What . . . for . . .?' she quavered.

 

The Inu no Taisho's smile was both deeply sombre and utterly joyful.

 

` . . . For doing what I could not.'

 

She said nothing.

 

She didn't have to say anything.

 

His smile became brilliant.

 

`Take heart, Rin. You have changed everything.'

 

Somehow, she knew exactly what he meant. Though she could not have put it into words.

 

Rin gave him a small, genuine smile.

 

Her Lord's Father returned it.

 

He rose to his feet then, his demeanour turning serious. `Now. Come.'

 

Her heart faltered. Rin turned her head to see that now, she could make out the other side of the bridge.

 

There was a torii gateway there. And behind it, the biggest, brightest light she had ever seen.

 

And she was afraid again.

 

Reeling, the girl turned desperate eyes up to the Inu no Taisho.

 

His smile was very kind.

 

`No, little one. It is not time to go.' His expression became thoughtful. `But I had thought that . . . you might like to pay them a visit.'

 

Blinking, she followed his gaze.

 

It was then that she made out, standing silhouetted beneath the torii gateway, a man and a woman who were so very familiar.

 

For a moment, she was frozen.

 

She was unaware of the tears falling down her smiling face. Scrambling to her feet, Rin ran toward the light.

 

Smiling, the Inu no Taisho followed.

 

O O O O O

 

 

`Miroku!!' Shippo suddenly yelped, his voice breaking.

 

The Monk started, and tore his eyes away from the Taijiya upon her Neko Youkai to glance down at the Kitsune clinging onto his right shoulder. A split-second later, however, he felt something that jolted him to his very sole.

 

His gaze flew to the bloodstained girl cradled against him with his left arm, and for the second time, he felt her warm breath against his neck.

 

How could this . . . be . . .?

 

His eyes flew to the centre of the melee.

 

`SESSHOMARU!!'

 

There was a note in the Houshi's voice that made him spare a glance in the Monk's direction despite himself.

 

`She's alive!!'

 

Sesshomaru froze, his crimson eyes fading to gold.

 

“What -?”

 

O O O O O

 

 

Rin awoke two days later in the hut of the old Miko.

 

 

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Translations:

 

“Oya . . .” = Oh my/ Goodness me . . .

 

Torii = The large gateways usually placed before a shrine or other places of worship - think of the entranceway to Kagome's shrine.

 

Inu no Taisho = The Big Dog himself - Inu and Sessho-kun's papa - The Dog General.

 

Taiyoukai = Great/Mighty/High Demon

 

Kitsune = Generally translated as “Mischievous Fox” - The Youkai species Shippo belongs to.

 

Houshi = Buddhist Monk

 

Taijiya = Demon Exterminator/Slayer - Sango, for short.

 

Neko Youkai = Cat Demon - also known at the AWESOME Kirara

 

“Hai” = Yes.

 

 

Later!