InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ To Wish Upon A Star ❯ Can They Stay? ( Chapter 2 )

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FL: Fluffy’s Lady

Sess: Sesshomaru

FL: “Oh look, Fluffy! Our guests are back! Have ya’ll come to hear more of my story?” audience nods yes. “Oh well thank you! That is so sweet! Say ‘thank you’, Fluffy!”

Sess: growls low. “I told you not to call me that in public!”

FL: “Really? When? Because I don’t remember you ever telling me to do anything. Now there was that one time when you asked me to not call you that but I only said ‘maybe’, not a specific yes or no. Now quit being a grouch and say thank you to our audience.”

Sess: mumbles under breath. Thank you for coming. I’m sure Lady is very happy.

FL: “Now was that so hard to do?”

Sess: “Yes.”

FL: “Well here’s the second chapter of my new story To Wish Upon a Star. Hope you like! And by-the-by, I don’t own Inuyasha or any of its characters, I just own to ones I make up. Like Dilynn, Kari, Casey, etc. See ya!”

At the stranger’s voice, Rin poked her head around the girls.

“Lord Sesshomaru!” she cried in obvious delight. “Oh, My Lord, you came for me!” At the completion of her statement, Rin ran towards Sesshomaru.

The girls stared in shock at the man the child called her lord. He was tall, well over six feet tall. He had some strange makings on his face and what looked like...eyeliner!

“Kari,” Casey whispered in English.

“Yeah?” Kari replied.

“Is that guy wearing...makeup?”

“I don’t know. It kind of looks like he’s wearing eyeliner,” Kari began to snicker. Casey started snorting, desperately trying to hold back the laugh that was building up in her throat.

Dilynn heard what the girls were laughing about and sighed. Why did they always have to pick on people’s style choices? Honestly, it was really immature.

For Sesshomaru’s part, he wasn’t quite sure what the the brunnette and redhead were tittering about, he couldn’t understand what they were saying, but he had a feeling it had something to do with him. He let a low growl emit from his throat.

Kari and Casey let out a small squeak of fear and hid behind Dilynn.

Dilynn sighed heavily. Really, those two could be so brainless sometimes.

“Are you the child’s father?” Dilynn asked in Japanese.

Sesshomaru’s eyes cut to Dilynn, back to Rin, and back to Dilynn again.

“I am her lord and protector,” he replied unemotionally.

Uh-huh, I see. He’s one of those“tough guys don’t cry.” Ok then this will be more difficult than I originally thought.

“Aren’t you going to say ‘thank you’?” Dilynn asked.

“How dare you speak to Lord Sesshomaru like that!” Jaken hollered. “Do you even know who you’re dealing with? He’s the most power-“

”Hey froggy! I wasn’t talking to you! I was talking to Tough Guy over there. Well are you going to thank me or not?” Dilynn demanded.

“Why you, impertinent little-”

“Be quiet, Jaken,” Sesshomaru commanded.

Jaken gulped, nodding.

“Why should I? What have you done to deserve my gratitued?” Sesshomaru demanded in a low voice.

Dilynn sucked in her breath at the curt question. The dogs heard and lowered their heads further, growling now.

Dilynn didn’t want to get off on the wrong foot with this guy and things were rocky enough already without the dogs making it worse. To top it all off, this guy–Sesshomaru–didn’t seem to have very much patience.

“Annnie, Valentine, come!” she commanded.

The dogs stopped growling and looked at her inquisitively as if to say “Are you sure?” before obeying her command.

Sesshomaru was slightly impressed, although he didn’t let it show, at her control over the dogs.

“You ask why I deserve your gratitude? Because I saved Rin’s life. Some sort of giant...thing was chasing her. She cried out for you but you didn’t come so I killed it before it could kill her. That’s why I deserve your gratitude,” Dilynn answered bluntly.

Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow at the young women before turning to Jaken. “Is this true Jaken? Did you fail in something as simple as looking after Rin?”

“Jaken gulped and tried to explain, “B-b-but, Milord, the child was fine so I turned back to check our path and when I turned back around she was gone!”

“Hmph,” was all Sesshomaru had to say.

“It’s ture, My Lord!” Rin said. Jaken lit up at the child’s statement. She was finally taking the blame for her stupidity! His hopes were quickly dashed though when Rin finished what she was saying. “Honest, My Lord! I was being chased by an ogre when Duhlin appeared out of nowhere and brought it down with her weapon!”

This got Sesshomaru’s attention. How could a mortal woman take down an ogre? It was impossible!

He doesn’t believe Rin! Casey and Kari realized at the same time.

He doesn’t believe her! Well, Dilynn thought. I’ll show you! Dilynn didn’t stop to question her feeling the need to prove herself to him.

“Hey!” she called, startling everyone out of their thoughts. “You don’t believe me do you?” Sesshomaru merely raised an eyebrow. Once again this human woman impressed him, this time by reading his thoughts. “Alright then,” Dilynn told him, “pick a target within 200 yards and I’ll hit it in the dead center.”

Sesshomaru looked around the clearing before spying a young tree. He gestured toward it. He was curious about this woman.

Kari and Casey backed away from Dilynn. Raising her gun, the young woman aimed and fired. The reverb of the gun, followed by a loud crack resounded through the woods.

Sesshomaru flinched as the noises assaulted his keen youkai hearing. Annie and Valentine, on the other hand, perked their ears up at the noise. They were used to it.

“Yes! Dead on!” Dilynn cried before catching herself. “I mean, go have a look for yourself.”

“Jaken,” Sesshomaru said.

“Yes, Milord?” Jaken queried. Sesshomaru didn’t bother to acknowledge him further. “Oh! Right away, Milord!” He scrambled over to the tree. “Amazing!” he said aloud. “She hit it dead in the center, Milord! It went straight through!”

So Rin was teliing the truth. Still, there is something odd about these girls. They’re similar to my brother’s wench, that miko. Yet somehow, they’re different. Sesshomaru thought. “Where are you from?” he said aloud.

“Hm?” the girls said at once before realizing what he asked. “Oh, we’re from Texas,” Kari replied.

Sesshomaru gave them a blank look.

“Um, ya know, in America? The United States of America? The country that kicked Japan’s but in World War II?” Casey asked, trying to clarify it for him.

“You fools! How dare you insult Lord Sesshomaru’s intelligence. He knows every country there is and has never heard of the Amrica!” Jaken squaked.

“Shut-up, froggy-boy!” Dilynn bit out. “The name’s America, A-mer-i-ca, not Amrica. Get it right or don’t say it at all! And yes, it is a real country. In fact it’s the strongest country in the world right now. So don’t squawk at me for his and yours stupidity!”

Rin and Jaken gasped at the name she called him–froggy-boy? He wasn’t a frog, he was an imp. And how dare she call Lord Sesshomaru stupid!

Sesshomaru was quite upset and feeling the strong desire to kill something. He took a step towards the girls but stopped when he felt something tug on his hakama. He looked down.

“Please, Lord Sesshomaru, please don’t hurt them! Please! They saved my life! Please don’t be mad!” Rin pleaded with her puppy-eyed pouty-face.

Sesshomaru sighed reluctantly and nodded the slightest of nods. After all, the girls weren’t paying attention to him, they were arguing with Jaken about name-calling, and it’s no fun to kill something that wasn’t even paying attention.

Rin smiled with delight, “Thank you, Lord Sesshomaru! Lord Sesshomaru, you really should meet Dilynn’s dogs, they’re really sweet! My Lord, can you talk with them? The dogs I mean, after all you are the Lord of the Western Lands, the Greatest Dog Youkai in the country.” (A/N I couldn't resist!)

At the words “dog youkai” Kari, Casey, and Dilynn turned their attention back to Sesshomaru and Rin. “Dog Youkai?” they said in unison.

“Wait a minute, where exactly are we and what year is it?” asked Casey.

“Fool. It’s the human year 1420,” Jaken crowed. “And you’re in Japan. Where else would you be?”

The three girls mouths fell open simultaneously. Were they really in Fuedal Japan? But that was impossible, wasn’t it?

“Dilynn, is it even possible to travel through time and space?” Kari asked her in English.

“Don’t look at me! I only took one year of physics and we never even touched worm holes or the like! How should I know?” Dilynn exclaimed.

“I think it’s possible,” the others turned to look at Casey. “Well why not? What do physicists have on God? I mean with Him anything is possible, and He has a reason for doing everything He does. So that would mean we have a purpose in this place.”

“Well, I guess so,” admitted Dilynn. “Still it’s really hard to wrap your mind around.”

“My thoughts exactly!” piped Kari. They all laughed at the lame pun.

Sesshomaru heard the females talking but couldn’t understand what they were saying. But since, as far as he could tell, they weren’t talking about him, it didn’t really matter.

Then he remembered Rin’s ordeal. He looked the child over to make sure she wasn’t hurt. She didn’t seem to be in any pain, so he guessed she was alright.

“Lord Sesshomaru?” Rin asked tentatively.

“What is it?” he replied.

“Lord Sesshomaru, can Dilynn, Kari, and Casey travel with us? I mean they’re a lot of fun and you saw how good Dilynn is with her...weapon. So please?” Rin begged with her puppy-eyed pouty-lip face.

Sesshomaru thought this over. If they were here, Rin would stop asking me so many questions. And Jaken isn’t always that useful when protecting Rin. If those other two are anything like the other then they would do a lot better than he does. Rin is growing up. She needs a woman to teach her some manners. He came to a decision.

“Woman,” he said. Dilynn didn’t hear him. “Woman,” this time much louder.

The girls jumped at the sound of his voice.

“Yes?” she queried.

“You will travel with me and care for Rin.” With that he turned on his heel and headed into the forest.