InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Western Family of the Moon ❯ Rin's mother ( Chapter 1 )

It’s hard to remember
A summer or winter
When she hasn’t been there for me

Rin sat in her and Sesshomaru’s private gardens one afternoon. She was pondering over what her life used to be like when her real mother was alive. She could hardly remember her 5th summer or her 4th winter. Her parents died just two short years ago and she couldn’t even remember her mother’s face.

A friend and companion
I can always depend on
My mother
That’s who I mean

She remembered all the times when she and her mother would make corn husk dolls and talk about various things. Her mother….her best friend.

I’ve taken for granted
seeds that she planted
She’s always behind every thing

Rin remembered the last time she had talked to her mother. She had yelled at her mother because she wanted to go look for berries in the woods. But her mother said that bandits or demons could be in the forest. How right she was. That night her village had been raided and the bandits killed off her two brothers and father….along with her mother who still had her baby sister in her tummy.

A teacher a seeker
A both arms outreacher
My mother
That’s who I mean

She remembered the times her mother taught her things about animals, how to watch out for demons and hugged her close at night. Her mother couldn’t do that now.

Wish I could slow down
The hands of time
keep things the way they are
If she said so
I would give her the world
If I could… I would

Oh how she wished that she could just go back to that moment and tell the village that the bandits were coming. Oh how she wished that she could see her mother’s face again. But….if she did stop the bandits then she never would have met Lord Sesshomaru.

My love and my laughter
From here ever after
Is all that she says that she needs

She recalled when her mother had broken her ankle and Rin had cried herself to the brink of death that day. Her mother told her “Don’t cry now cherry blossom your laughter and love will make me feel better and heal faster”. That is just what Rin did.

A friend and companion
I can always depend on
My mother
That’s who I mean
My mother
That’s who I mean

But there is one person that is as close to a mother as she can get. Her name was Rayne. Sesshomaru’s new wife. She was from a place called India. Rayne’s skin was as tan as the bark on a tree, her eyes were as green as the grass. But there was one problem…..Rayne was blind so she couldn’t see what Rin looked like or what Sesshomaru looked like. “Rini-chan where are you my little apple blossom” Rayne called to her. “I’m over here Ray-chan” said Rin back to her. She stood and walked over to Rayne and took her hand. Rayne turned her head down and put her hand on Rin’s head, feeling her hair. “You were thinking about your mother again weren’t you?” she asked. She felt the child nod. “I can’t even imagine her face anymore!” cried Rin as she dug her face in Rayne’s kimono. The woman knelt down and said “Look Rini I know I’m not your mother and I’ll never be but if it makes you feel better I have never seen my mother’s face and I will be your mother from now on ok?” Rin cried and wrapped her arms around her new mother and hugged her tight. She now had a whole family again. Sesshomaru her father, Rayne her mother, and as she looked at Rayne’s swollen tummy, a new baby sister.

… that’s who I mean