InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ To see your smile ❯ New assignment ( Chapter 2 )

(A/N: Here's part 2, hope you will enjoy)

 

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Part II: New assignment

 

 

 

Disclamier: If I owned Inuyasha it would not be a FANfiction!

 

 

 

The next morning, my life resumed its course as if nothing happened. I did not tell any of my comrades about what had happened near the garden, and how the supposed cold, insensitive and fearsome Lord Sesshomarou had rescued me from rape just in the nick of time.

 

That day I was assigned to help in the kitchen. I always enjoyed food, so helping by peeling vegetables and getting to taste the dishes was why the kitchen had always been my favorite of all assignments.

 

My least favorite assignment had always been floor scrubbing. Spending an entire day on all fours always gave me such a horrible back ache. Even if contrary to some of my comrades, I am a demoness and therefore have more endurance, and physical strength, floor scrubbing was and will always be torture.

 

A soon as I entered the kitchen, I noticed that we were under staffed. And once I paid more attention I noticed that most of the women still here were youkai. I did not have time to ponder on the matter, that Kaede the old head of the kitchen gave me my daily assignments, which included cooking the vegetables.

 

Did I mention that I am not a great cook, but I knew that there was no one else to do it, so I'll just have to do my best. Hopefully Lord Sesshomarou would not behead me for over cooked vegetables. According to the different rumors I heard around the castle I would not put it past him.

 

But I have to admit that the Sesshomarou I saw last night was so different from what I heard everyone say about him. Maybe he was just tired, or maybe no one really knows the real Sesshomarou…

 

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Once we finished serving lunch and were busy washing the dishes, a toad like imp came screaming in the kitchen, asking every cook who had been responsible for the vegetables. I felt my blood turn to ice in my veins, for sure Lord Sesshomarou would have me killed. I just hoped I did not poison his precious daughter Rin.

 

Fearing for my own well being, I tried to get out through the back door, maybe I'd have time to make it out of the castle before being caught. But of course I had no such luck, as I heard the old Kaede call my name.

 

I did not even notice that the toad demon was now planted right in front of me, I almost stepped on him, which I have to admit I would have found amusing. Anyway he gestured for me to follow him, which I did.

 

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We walked through several corridors, and ended up in a part of the castle that I had yet to reach. It had a large garden in the middle of which stood a beautiful fountain encircled by multi colored flowers. I was shocked beyond words, to see that none other than Sesshomarou was sitting under the shade of a tree, one of his arms carelessly resting on his raised left knee. I noticed he was watching over a little girl who was picking up flowers, a few feet away from us.

 

“Kagura” Sesshomarou said I winced when I realized he remembered my name. MY name!

 

“Yes Sesshomarou?” I asked as I got closer.

 

“You impetuous wench, how dare you address the lord in such a way? And how dare you stand higher than him?!”

 

I would have retorted something to the imp, something around the lines of `it sure as hell easy for you not to stand higher than him, even when he is sitting on the ground' but Sesshomarou beat me to it and raised two long clawed fingers. And then the annoying toad demon was gone.

 

It was not Sesshomarou who spoke next but the little girl who came skipping towards us, she handed me the flowers she had just picked and said “Father is that her?”

 

“Yes Rin” the lord answered, I noticed he did not even give his daughter a glance as he spoke. Rin really did not look like her father, they did have the same golden eyes, except that hers were filled with joy and warmth the complete opposite of Sesshomarou's cold eyes. Rin had dark brown hair, I guess it must have been the late Lady Sara's hair color.

 

“Why is it that you wanted to see me?” I could not help but ask.

 

“From now on, you shall take care of Rin” Sesshomarou said still staring into space.

 

“I fail to see what the connection is between cooking vegetables and getting a promotion”. I knew that being Rin's care taker was a very coveted position, and since her former babysitter left two weeks ago, all the young servants in the castle only hoped for one thing: get the position. The reason was that Rin's care taker had one of the highest status among the servants. She would get her own room and her only duties are looking after Rin.

 

“Rin never eats her vegetables. But yours were so good, Rin never tasted anything like it. Rin even ate two servings” I don't know if I was more shocked by the fact that she referred to herself at the third person, or by the fact that she actually enjoyed MY cooking.

 

“Thanks, I guess” I whispered.

 

“You start immediately” Sesshomarou said before graciously getting up and walking away. He was so handsome I could not help but stare as he walked away.

 

“Miss Kagura what do you want to play?” the little girl asked me with bubbling eyes snapping me out of my daze. I have to admit it was the first time anyone talked to me with such respect. Maybe taking care of her would not be so bad.

 

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It had been a little over a month since I started taking care of Rin and I have to admit I love this kid. She is so sweet and so bright, and so playful; I never get bored when I'm with her. Okay she can really be a chatter box and sometimes I just want to shut her up. But most of the time she is a real angel.

 

Which begs the question of how she can be Lord Sesshomarou's daughter. Unfortunately, I have not seen much of him during the past month. Sometimes he comes in and sits next to me while I watch Rin collect flowers.

 

Every time he sits next to me I feel a tingling sensation running through my body and I feel unbearably hot. He does not speak a word just stares at Rin with a blank expression on his face, then gets up and leave.

 

Once I tried to start up a conversation:

 

“Rin is lovely”

 

“….” Okay I knew he was not the talkative type. But I am not the type of person to give up easily.

 

“This is a beautiful garden, did you have it build for her?”

 

“Yes” Wow! He just talked to me! Let's see if he can use more than three words.

 

“That was really nice of you”

 

“…” Too bad and I thought we were making progress. Suddenly he turned and looked straight in my eyes, and left me breathless. I did my best not to blink and maintain his gaze.

 

“Kagura, it is time for Rin's lesson” I wished he would have talked to me about something else, but he said a full sentence to me, that's good enough right?

 

I never tried to start a conversation with him again. When he sits next to me, while we watch Rin, at lest I can look at him freely from the corner of my eye. I don't know if he knows I'm staring at him, but even if he did what would or could he do about it? Every time I see him I find him even more handsome and intriguing.

 

Very often Sesshomarou sits in during Rin's lessons, I guess he just wants to assess her progress or something like that. He may not talk to her much, but you can tell he loves his daughter more than anything. He may not be the best father in the world, but he does a hell of a better job than Naraku ever did.

 

Every night, after I put Rin to bed Sesshomarou comes to see her. I often stood outside the doors and sometimes I hear them talk, once I swear I even heard him chuckle, or maybe it was just my imagination.

 

After that night I often found myself wondering why Sesshomarou never laughed or even smiled. Maybe he just needs reason to smile, I hope that one day I will be his reason to smile.

 

 

 

 

 

(A/N: Here's the end of part 2. In the next part it's Rin's birthday. Part three will be called Birthday).