InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The step daughter ❯ The last run ( Chapter 4 )

Part 4: The last run

 

A/N: Merry Christmas to all. I hope Santa will bring you everything you want. Here is the last part of your holiday mini story. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I had fun writing it. One more time I would like to thank my great reviewers:

 

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“Talking”

`Thoughts'

 

 

 

“How are you feeling?” Sesshoumaru asked his girlfriend. The two were lying in bed in the cabin they had rented. Since Rin was grounded, they decided to spend their first evening away alone together.

 

“That's not a question you're supposed to ask a woman who has just been so thoroughly loved. Though if you must know, I am deeply satisfied and greatly exhausted.” She chuckled as she pressed her naked body closer to her boyfriend's. The dog demon only chuckled as he reached over to gently caress the perspiration slick soft skin of her back.

 

“You are so pensive Sesshy. What's wrong?” Kagura asked with a frown as she reached over to press a kiss to the stripes adorning his cheek.

 

“You know me too well. I can never keep anything from you…” He sighed just as he untangled his body from hers and sat up in their bed.

 

“Well I am the love of your life.” She remarked with a smile hoping to bring a smile back to his lips. “Besides I can tell that you're upset because of Rin, and I can't really blame you for that. “

 

'Since when am I this transparent?' Sesshoumaru asked himself. He leaned against the headboard of their bed, sighing heavily.

 

Feeling slightly responsible for the turmoil he found himself in, Kagura decided to try to help comfort her lover.

 

“Why don't you go check on her? She may have locked herself in her room, but I can assure you she'd love to see you get all worried about her. I know that when I was her age I would have loved to know that Naraku cared at least a tiny bit about me.” The wind sorceress said after she too sat up. In a tender gesture she pushed some of Sesshoumaru's long silver hair out of his handsome face.

 

The dog demon looked at Kagura in surprise; she almost never spoke of her youth and of her father. “Thank you.” He simply breathed out. He was grateful for both her opening up to him, and for her words of advice.

 

After pressing one last kiss to his girlfriend's lips, he took to his feet, slipped into his pajamas, and exited their shared bedroom. Not even a minute afterwards he came back running.

 

“What's wrong?” Kagura asked shocked by the look of astonishment on Sesshoumaru's face.

 

“She is gone.”

 

“What do you mean?” She asked wrapping the sheet of the bed around her naked form before crawling on the bed to come closer to her lover.

 

“Rin is not in her room…” When he spoke the words, the gravity of the situation settled in his mind, and a sick feeling rose inside his stomach.

 

 

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Rin took another left turn, letting a sigh escaping her throat. She was cold, tired, hungry and felt as if she had been walking for hours and hours.

 

`Damn it this map is all wrong, and this forest is too dense! I've just been walking around in circles for hours!' She thought angrily to herself just before she threw away the map guide she had been attempting to read. Strengthening her hold on her small torch, which was her only source of light she kept marching forward.

 

“Maybe I should have stayed at the cabin, at least there I was warm…” She said just before jolting at hearing a sound. `Damn it! I am a Tashio, and my father's daughter. I can use my senses to find my way back to the cabin. Maybe daddy didn't even notice I'm gone, and I'll be able to slip back in bed before he notices.'

 

With a strengthened resolve, Rin turned around and tried retracing her steps to the cabin.

 

 

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“Where in the hell could she be? What was she thinking?” Sesshoumaru asked as he put on his coat. After a quick inspection of Rin's room, the two adult demons had noticed her missing things, understanding that she had run away.

 

“It is so dark, and yesterday's snow is so slippery… Rin could so easily get lost, hurt, or abducted or…”

 

“Don't!” Kagura cut him, feeling chills of fright run through her. “Don't do this. She is going to be fine. We'll find her, and she'll be fine. For all we know she could be hiding in a tree right behind the cabin.” The wind sorceress tried to reassure him, even if her own thoughts could not help but run along his.

 

“You are right. We will find her.” He nodded as he let Kagura envelop him in a firm hug. “I'll leave now.”

 

“Yes you can go on ahead while I call the rangers then I'll go look for Rin too.”

 

“Be careful out there as well Kagura. If something happens to you too…” He trailed off, not even wishing to end his sentence, he had enough to worry about with Rin being somewhere in the wild.

 

“I'll take a flash light, and I'll be sure to cover myself well against the cold.” She smiled up at her lover before pressing a quick kiss to his lips, and sending him on his way.

 

“Rin you better be okay.” Kagura said with a sigh as she reached for her phone to ask the rangers for their help in locating the teenager.

 

 

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With a defeated sigh, Rin sank on the damp ground. She could barely see anything, and her feet were cold and aching.

 

“What am I going to do?” She asked herself. Fear gripping her chest. Until now she was sure she would be able to find her way back to her father's cabin, but now she had doubts, serious doubts. Despair washing over her, she finally let go and let tears flow out. `I never should have left the cabin!'

 

“Rin?!”

 

The teenager wiped her tears and sat up. She could not shake the feeling that out there in the darkness someone had just called her name.

 

“I'm here!” She yelled hoping whoever was there could hear her.

 

“Rin? Oh my god here you are.” None other than Kagura sighed happily as the beam of her flashlight rested on Rin's form.

 

“Ugh it's you!” The half dog demoness sighed as she headed in Kagura's direction, and walked past her.

 

“What the hell do you think you're doing? Everyone is so worried about you! Your father is going crazy.” The wind sorceress informed the young demoness as she took a hold of her arm.

 

“I don't care. Leave me alone. You're the reason I left.”

 

“Why? What do you mean?” Kagura questioned in shock.

 

“I know everything!” Rin snapped as she shrugged off the hold Kagura had on her. Her previous anger suddenly came back to her. “Even if you try, you'll never be able to replace me.” On this note she ran away as quickly as her legs could carry her, ignoring the tree branches scratching her on her way, and disregarding the darkness surrounding her.

 

“Rin don't run away again. Come back here. You… ha!” Kagura's words were followed by a loud shuffling sound.

 

With surprise Rin stopped her progression, and turned around. She moved the beam of her flashlight trying to see where Kagura was, but to her surprise saw nothing. The teenager quickly moved back to where she had last seen the wind sorceress, and looked around for her.

 

“Kagura?” Rin asked trying to locate her.

 

“I fell down in a damn ditch. Be careful it's very slippery over there.” Kagura groaned out. She suddenly gasped in pain as she tried to get to her feet to look for the lamp torch she had let slip away during her fall.

 

“Are you hurt?” The half panther demoness remembered Kagura's earlier warning and carefully and slowly let herself slide down to reach the wind sorceress's immobile form.

 

“My leg hurts like hell! I think it might be broken or something.” She breathed through her teeth despite the pain. Rin averted the ray of light coming from her flashlight to Kagura's leg, and gasped in horror and slight disgust when she noticed the awkward and unnatural angle in which her limb was arched.

 

The wind sorceress once more tried moving her leg, but only felt a sharp pain in answer. As the feeling receded, she became aware of other parts of her body that were hurting. She could feel that her left side was bruised, and that she had scratches on her face and arms, but the pain in her belly was the worse. What had started as a dull throb was now becoming more and more painful, and the warm liquid she felt seeping into her pullover worried her. Kagura moved her fingers under the hem of her white top, and was shocked when her questing fingers came in contact with a warm substance on the skin of her abdomen. She brought her fingers closer to her face for inspection, and almost cried out when she saw that the pale skin of her fingers was smeared in blood.

 

“Oh my god you're bleeding so much!” Rin cried out as she watched in horror the growing red stain on Kagura's white pullover. “You hurt your stomach.” `Oh no the baby!' Just as the thought occurred to her, the teenager turned white. `Did Kagura lose her baby because of me?' She could not help but wonder as tears gathered into her amber eyes.

 

“Now's not the time to start crying Rin. I need you to go get your dad. I met with him a minute before running into you, so he shouldn't be far. I can't walk, so I'll need his help to get out from this damn ditch…” Kagura breathed deeply, trying to will her body to hurt less, but to no avail.

 

“I'm so sorry…” The teenager started, but Kagura quickly interrupted her. “Rin. I need your help right now. I know you don't like me very much, but if you don't get your dad right now, I might die.”

 

“No don't say that I…” `I never wanted you to get hurt.” Rin added in her mind. “I'll go. I'll go get daddy. He'll come get you. Just don't move.”

 

“I don't think I could even if I wanted to.” Kagura's chuckle turned into a pain filled groan.

 

Without another word Rin hurried to climb up the side of the small hill. Adrenaline pumping through her veins she quickly ran towards the direction Kagura had said her father was.

 

“Daddy! Where are you? Daddy!” She screamed frantically looking for him.

 

To her surprise Rin suddenly felt someone grab her by behind, powerful arms surrounding her waist. To her relief she quickly saw that it was her father.

 

“Rin? Are you okay? What were you thinking? I was deathly afraid.” Sesshoumaru breathed a sigh of relief as he increased his hold on his daughter.

 

“We don't have time for this. Daddy you have to come, Kagura's hurt.”

 

“Hurt? What happened?” The dog demon asked. His relief at finding Rin unhurt was replaced by more worry.

 

“She was trying to get to Rin, but she fell down a small hill into a ditch. She's very hurt, and she's bleeding a lot.” Rin said as she started walking towards where she had left the wind sorceress.

 

Apprehension growing within him at what might be waiting for him, seeing how pale and shaken his daughter looked, he really was afraid for Kagura. After a short walk, he quickly slid down to join his girlfriend.

 

“Kagura? Can you hear me?” He asked as he rested a comforting hand to the cold cheek of his beloved. He frowned when she did not answer him, or even stirred. He was reassured when he saw her breasts rise slightly, a sure sign she was at least still breathing. Not bothering to try to awake her he took off his coat and pressed it to Kagura's belly, in case she was still bleeding, and to protect her from the biting cold.

 

“Let's go. We need to take her to the hospital right now! And you better not try to run away again; I do not have time to worry about you right now.” Sesshoumaru sent his daughter a chilling glare, one she had never been at the receiving end of, as he walked towards their cabin. Rin silently walked after her father, not daring to trail behind, or utter a word of protest.

 

 

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“Is Kagura going to be okay?” Rin asked her father trying to reassure herself. The two of them were standing outside Kagura's hospital room while her doctor attended to her injuries.

 

“I do not know. Rin. What you did was stupid.” Her father said. Ever since they had left the woods surrounding the cabin, he had not spoken a word to his daughter. Even when they had driven to the nearest hospital to have Kagura checked in. This was the first time he had opened his mouth other than to address the doctors.

 

“I know… Rin… I am sorry” She said feeling truly miserable. All she had wanted to do was have her father worry about her, and create discord between him and Kagura thus breaking them apart. Never had she wanted for the wind sorceress to get hurt in any way.

 

“It was reckless.” He added on a cold detached tone.

 

“I know.” The teenager agreed. Instead of his seemingly unemotional voice, Rin would have preferred it if her father had screamed at her, just like her mother usually did. It made the lecture hit her less. `Though any word of reproach from father would affect me.'

 

“Why?” He asked closing his golden eyes. A part of him knew that while waiting for the doctor's words on Kagura's condition was probably not the best time to give Rin a lecture, but he needed to distract himself from thinking about his girlfriend. He was aware that the sight of a bloodied and hurt Kagura lying in a ditch would be imprinted in his mind forever. He would never forget her white pasty skin, or the cold feel of it.

 

“I wanted you and Kagura to break up.”

 

“Why?” He asked again, this time dismay clear in his voice. “I was aware that you were not the most welcoming to my previous girlfriends, but I allowed and overlooked it since they were not that important to me. However I had stressed the importance Kagura has for me. Why could you not simply accept her? I thought the two of you were getting along…” The dog demon massaged his forehead.

 

“The truth is that I was jealous. I have always been jealous of your girlfriends. I was afraid you'd forget me. You only see me every two weeks.” Finally letting out her accumulated anger over the years, felt extremely good.

 

“Have I ever given you any indication that you were not my priority? I know that your mother and I separated when you were very young, but I have tried my best to always be there for you. Have I failed you?” Only the thought of it made him ache inside.

 

“No of course not! I only wanted to protect you. All these women they were not good enough. Even Kagura she admitted it, she lives off your money!” The teenager explained her point of view.

 

“That is wrong. She has her own money inherited from her demented father, and has no need of me. Not to mention that she earns a lot through her artistic career. ” Sesshoumaru explained. “All that you just said does not explain why you suddenly ran away tonight.”

 

“I found Kagura's vitamins, I know she is pregnant… and I guess I just sort of panicked… I was afraid her baby was going to replace me. I know you never loved mom the way you love Kagura and having a baby from her…” Rin started, tears pouring down her cheeks.

 

“Do not be ridiculous Rin. My relationship with your mother has nothing to do with how I feel about you.” He stated just as he took his daughter in his arms. “Even if I had a hundred more children, you would still be my Rin. Besides you had no reason to worry, Kagura is not pregnant.”

 

“What? Are you sure?” Rin separated from her dad's arms momentarily to ask her question.

 

“Quite.” The dog demon sighed remembering how three weeks ago he had been forced to go to the super market in the middle of the night to buy his girlfriend tampons. `And since we have not made love until tonight, a pregnancy would be quite impossible.'

 

“But… but you talked about her condition, and Kagura had nausea in the morning… and she was bleeding from the stomach” Rin said looking up at her father in shock.

 

“Had you asked instead of drawing conclusions, you would have been told that just two weeks ago Kagura had an appendicectomy. There were some complications with her surgery since the inflammation of her appendix was greater than her doctor first expected. She had to be briefly hospitalized, and now has to take antibiotics. Her body is not very tolerant of them, and she tends to have allergic reactions, like nausea and sensitivity to light. I think that her stitches might have popped opened, resulting in the bleeding on her abdomen.” Sesshoumaru explained.

 

“I can't believe it.” Rin mumbled suddenly feeling really dumb. “I… I don't know what to say…”

 

“Sorry would be a start.” He remarked.

 

“I'm really sorry daddy. I never wanted things to go this badly.” Rin sniffed as she wiped fresh tears from her cheeks.

 

“You should apologize to Kagura, not to me.” He told her before pressing a kiss to his daughter's forehead. “She was just as worried as I was when we saw you were gone, and she got hurt while looking for you.”

 

“I don't believe that. She doesn't really like me… wouldn't be a surprise considering all I told her.” The teenager sighed feeling slightly remorseful.

 

“Nonsense. Kagura really likes you…” Sesshoumaru's words were interrupted by the appearance of Kagura's doctor.

 

“You can go in and see Miss Kaze. She is awake.” The old man smiled at the father daughter duo.

 

 

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“Well daddy sure is taking long.” Rin remarked as she sat at the end of Kagura's bed. She did pay attention not to come in contact with the wind sorceress's raised injured leg. The two of them were now alone in Kagura's hospital room waiting for Sesshoumaru's return. After talking to both the doctors and his girlfriend, he had left to go fill in some paper work.

 

“I am surprised you came looking for me.” The teenager remarked as her golden eyes reposed on the cast on Kagura's foot.

 

“Is that the way a spoiled brat says thanks? You're welcome then.” The other demoness chuckled. “So did you talk with your dad? Got everything out of the way?”

 

“Why do you ask when he has already told you?” The teen rolled her eyes in annoyance. “I know that he explained everything during the long conversation you had with him while I was waiting outside. You must be so glad now. You did it. You won.”

 

“Won?” Kagura echoed in surprise.

 

“Yep no matter how hard I tried, daddy wouldn't get rid of you.”

 

“That wasn't even a contest. Your dad loves you, you know. I'd never be able to compete with that… not that there's a reason to. Despite how much he'd like to deny it, he has a big enough heart to love both of us.” The wind sorceress stated as she tried propping herself against the heavy pillows of her bed. Pain ran through her body as her body protested against her moving.

 

“Strangely the two of you speak the same words… not that I care. It doesn't matter now” Rin shrugged as she took to her feet, and stood in front of the window.

 

“Oh does that mean you'll stop being a really annoying brat? And that you'll leave me alone from now on?” Kagura asked dark eyebrows raised in surprise.

 

“Whatever.” Rin scoffed, feeling a red tinge sip in her cheeks.

 

Just as Rin spoke, none other than her father walked into the room. His golden eyes travelled around the room, then went from Rin to Kagura. His girlfriend sent him a smile of reassurance and a nod. To his relief he then knew that she had forgiven Rin, and that the two girls had come to an understanding.

 

“I was on the phone with your mother. She and Menomarou had another argument, and are coming home early from Switzerland.” Sesshoumaru told his daughter. He repressed an urge to sigh heavily. The antics and tumultuous relationship between her ex wife and her boyfriend were really grating on his nerves.

 

“Well I sure am going to miss you Rin.” Kagura smiled at the teenager.

 

“Huh?” Rin asked in surprise.

 

“You'll be leaving us for your mom's, right?” The wind sorceress questioned.

 

“Oh well actually I intended to wait until the end of my stay, but I might as well do it now.” Rin turned around to face her step mother before continuing “I talked with mom, and we agreed that maybe it would be in my best interest to come live with daddy. They do have a better school district here, and the college I want to go to is close from here. That is of course if daddy accepts…” She trailed off hopefully.

 

“This is the first I hear from it.” He said arching an eyebrow in surprise. “We should discuss it before making a decision.”

 

“But you're not against Rin living with you… are you?” She asked suddenly referring to herself in the third person. “Kagura told me you were buying a new, bigger house.”

 

“Yes. We need a bigger space for Kagura's studio.” He nodded his eyes straying to the stunned wind sorceress.

 

“And a new bedroom for Rin maybe??” The teenager added, her golden eyes smiling brilliantly.

 

“I guess I better call your mom back to discuss this.” Sesshoumaru said, trying and failing to mask his excitement at the prospect of having his daughter living with him. He then went over to press a kiss to Kagura's forehead before exiting the hospital room.

 

“How come you only talked about that now?”

 

“Oh well a good player only reveals her top cards at the end of the game.” Rin chuckled.

 

“Ugh you and your competitions…” The other demoness muttered angrily. `That little brat! She is too much! How could I think she had changed?'

 

“You may be the least worst of all of daddy's girlfriends, but I intend to keep a close eye on you. What better way to do it then by being close to you?” Rin asked innocently. The irritation clear on Kagura's face only amused her.

 

“Aw If I didn't know better it sounded almost as if you actually liked me.” The wind sorceress grinned, her crimson eyes glinting in amusement.

 

“There is one hell of a difference between tolerating someone, and actually liking the person.” Rin retorted a hot flush on her cheeks. Even though had she been honest with herself she would admit that she had taken a liking to Kagura. Especially since the wind witch had helped find her, and got seriously hurt in the process.

 

“So you say… In any case, if we do live together, we might actually get to like each other at some point.” Kagura remarked, hoping her words would prove true.

 

“I wouldn't count on it. Now get better soon so we can finally go home. Rin is already getting tired of this place” Without another word, the teenage girl left the hospital room.

 

“I guess that was her version of `get well soon.' What a brat! Ugh guess life is going to get much more interesting with her around.” Kagura sighed as she used her bruised arm to trail a finger around the fresh new stitches on her belly. “Congratulations Kagura, seems like you are officially a step mother.” She chuckled to herself. Moving slightly she tried to make herself comfortable, but only hurt herself in the process. “And it might prove to be more painful than I could have ever thought…”

 

The frown on her face was replaced by a bright smile when Sesshoumaru walked back into her room to sit down next to her. `I guess that for him I could bear with that brat of Rin. Then again she's not that bad. She does have some good sides...'

 

“I hope you won't mind a new addition to our household.” Sesshoumaru asked her, trying and failing to mask his pleasure.

 

“Of course not.” Kagura smiled up at him. Then as Rin walked back in her hospital room, a bright victorious grin on her lips the wind sorceress added in her head `At least I hope I won't have to regret my decision...'

 

 

THE END

 

 

A/N: And there you have it dear readers. This is the end of your little holiday fic. Have tons of fun and rest my dears. See you in two weeks for the next chapter of Special Delivery.

 

 

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