InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ To see your smile ❯ Birthday ( Chapter 3 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

(A/N: Here comes part 3 hope you like it)
 
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Part III: Birthday
 
 
 
Disclaimer: If I owned Inuyasha, Kagura would have been revived and be Sesshy's mate!
 
 
 
In the few months I spent here, I had never seen the castle in such excitement. Everyone from the guards to the maids was working full time. And the reason behind all this agitation was Rin's seventh birthday.
 
Of course my job as Rin's care taker forced me to assist in the preparation of the festivities. Yesterday I had to help audition the many music players who presented themselves hoping to be employed by the wealthy Lord of the Western Lands, after hearing about the party.
 
From dawn until dusk I had to listen to different kinds of music, and by the end of the day I was nursing the biggest headache I ever had in my life. It's not that their music was not enjoyable, it's just that anything in excess is harmful, as my mother used to say.
 
It sure promised to be one hell of a party. Invitations were sent to every young member of the nobility in the country.
 
The birthday girl in question did not seem as excited as I figured she would be. If I did not know any better, I would even say she was pretty depressed. My little Rin as I like to call her was once again sitting in her garden. The garden with the fountain where I saw her for the first time, that was built just for her.
 
For once I did not find her picking up flowers but staring down at her reflection in the fountain's clear water.
 
“Are you okay my little Rin”
 
She did not even smile back at me or take her yes of her reflection. For a second I thought that she did not even hear me. But after a while she finally spoke:
 
“He says I look just like her” Rin had on her face the saddest expression I ever saw painted on it.
 
“Every time I ask him what she was like, he says she was pretty. Does that mean I'm pretty too?”
 
“Of course you are” I answered not quite sure who she was talking about. I then took her in my arms, like I usually do when she has a nightmare and kissed her fore head. I don't know exactly what the matter is with her but I remember that when I was pretty down my mother would kiss my forehead and everything would feel so much better.
 
“You want to tell me what's wrong Rin?” I finally ask. Her answer was soaking the front of my kimono with her hot tears. I gently held her and rocked her against my chest trying to whisper comforting words to her.
 
“You know you can tell me anything right Rin?” I finally ask, as she stopped sobbing.
 
“I hate this day!” she exclaimed. I wondered if she was talking about her birthday. But that would be ridiculous, why would she hate her own birthday?
 
“Are you talking about your birthday?” She only nodded and the tears started falling feely again.
 
“Can I ask you why?” I ask her after she stopped crying.
 
“It's the same day she died. It was all my fault”
 
“I don't understand. Who are you talking about?” I finally asked her as I held her chin to force her to look at me.
 
“My mother, she died when I was born. I killed her.” I was shocked no one ever told me that the late Lady of the Western Lands died in childbirth. I guess it explains a lot about our Sesshomarou.
 
“Don't you ever say that, you did not kill her. Those kind of things happen, it's fate. I bet your father would never forgive you for saying or even thinking such a thing”. I told her trying to comfort her as much as I could.
 
“It is because of me that father is always so sad. I always laugh and smile, I try to make him laugh and smile but it does not work. Every year around my birthday he stops talking to me, he stays in his study all day long, I think I remind him too much of her”.
 
I was stunned to hear that, but I had to admit that during the past week or so I haven't seen much of Sesshomarou. He did not even come to Rin's garden after lunch. Hell he did not even eat with her anymore. I may not have noticed these changes, but I am sure that Rin did, and it must be why she had been so down lately.
 
“Rin the reason why your father is in his study is that he's working very hard. One of the guards told me that there are tensions between the Western and Eastern Lands. Lord Sesshomarou is just trying to avoid a war.
 
“Really?” she asked me wiping her tears, a small smile on her lips.
 
“Of course, and if he sees how sad you are he will be worried. So why don't you get happy and start working on your party. Come on let's go in the kitchen and sample some dishes” I told her tugging on her arm as to get her to come along with me.
 
“Jaken won't like that I went to the kitchen” Rin said sniffling loudly.
 
I smiled and said “All the more reasons to go ahead”. My teasing was rewarded by Rin's laughter ringing in my ears as we raced to the kitchen.
 
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I was sure it was a bad idea, but I had to do it. He needed to know about his daughter's suffering. Wasn't it part of my job description to take care of her mental well being as well?
 
If only I could find Sesshomarou's room, things would get a hell of a lot easier. I had been running in circles in the whole castle for a good hour, when I decided to give up. I found it pretty weird that despite the fact that I have been living in the castle for several months. I had no idea where Lord Sesshomarou's bedroom was located.
 
As I was retreating to my bedroom, I found a staircase that I had never noticed before. I focused and used my demon sense of smell as best as I could. Unfortunately unlike the lord's family I am not a dog demon so my senses are not that great, but then again they are not as dull as a human senses'.
 
I would have recognized this scent anywhere it was Sesshomarou. His scent was a wonderful mix of pine and fresh water. He always smelt so clean and fresh, and his scent was so addictive. Just like a cold river in the middle of a hot summer afternoon. After you put your hand in it, you just want one thing, and one thing only to jump in the water and immerse yourself it its coolness. It was the same for me and Sesshomarou, after I got to spend a little time with him I only wanted more.
 
Anyway, so I went up the hidden stair case and down a long dark corridor that ended in a large and imposing door. I stood there for a while afraid of knocking. What if Sesshomarou was in a bad mood and decided to cut me down to pieces, before I even started talking?
 
I was about to turn around when the door opened and Sesshomarou came out. I am sure I became beet red when I noticed he was only wearing his hakama. It took all of my will power to avert my eyes from his bare chest and look into his eyes. For the first time I saw a look of surprise playing in the usually cold golden eyes.
 
“What are you doing here Kagura?” his words snapped me out of my daze and after exhaling a shaky breath I finally said “I wish to talk to you”.
 
For the longest time he did not move, but just stared at me, which caused shivers to run down spine and my knees to feel weak. Then he suddenly turned around and entered his room. I thought he did not want to talk to me, but then I heard him say “why are you still out there, come in”.
 
His bedroom was the most beautiful and richly decorated room in the castle. Sesshomarou was sitting on his futon and looking at me, waiting for me to finally give the reason I came to his room in the middle of the night. Any other man could have had the wrong idea and infer I wanted to sleep with him. But of course not Sesshomarou and I would not expect any less from him.
 
But as I saw him get up and get dangerously close from me I wondered if I was wrong about him. He stopped in front of me and looked straight in front of my eyes as he asked “what have you come here for wind witch?”
 
He was so close to me I could feel the heat radiating from his gorgeous body. I was about to answer him, when he bent towards my face and I could feel his hot breath on my cheek, and my voice left me.
 
Sesshomarou than raised his hand and…
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
To be continued!!!
 
 
 
 
 
(A/N: Please forgive me, I know most of you are pissed for the way I ended part 3. Part 4 will soon be here so don't hit me (unless it is with a review LOL!) Part 4 will be named Fever.)