A Love Across Time

Chapter Three

Sesshomaru expected the request from InuYasha, so it didn’t really surprise him all that much when he decided to accept. Plus, InuYasha was determined to get Kagome back with or without his help.
As the silence stretched between InuYasha and him, InuYasha was slowly turning red with frustration and anger. Finally after 7 minutes, InuYasha exploded.
“If you don’t want to help me just say so, and I’ll leave you to your peace. I should of known that coming to you was a mistake; I don’t need you anyways.”
InuYasha turns to leave, but Sesshomaru’s, “Stop,” brings him back around.
Sesshomaru studied him for a moment making sure that what he saw a few minutes ago was what he thought it was. When he was satisfied, he said, “I’ll help you.”
As simple as that, Sesshomaru watches the emotions of anger to a soft questioning play across his face. He knows that InuYasha can’t believe that he would help him, but what was more was that he couldn’t believe it himself.
“You do understand that I will be the one to kill Naraku, right?” InuYasha reassured.
“Yes, but I will be there if you need any assistance.”
“Ha. Like I would need your help to defeat that bastard,” InuYasha says. “But thank you… Brother.”
As the two inu brothers were settling things between them, Rin was out searching for Jaken like she was told even though she was grumbling a bit.
“ ‘Look for Jaken, Rin,’” she says mocking Sesshomaru’s voice like any teenager would their parents. “ Yeah, I’ll find him.”
It took Rin longer than expected since she couldn’t remember where Jaken liked to spend his free time. First, she searched Lord Sesshomaru’s study only to find nothing. Than she searched the vast gardens behind the castle only to find nothing there also. Now she’s in a part of the forest near the castle where she vaguely remembered Jaken bringing her when Sesshomaru had a special guest over.
Suddenly, she remembered Jaken telling her how much he liked it out here and the exact spot he said it. She runs as fast as she can but when she nears the spot, she hears voices. Thinking that Jaken is talking to himself again, Rin forages on. But when she gets a little more closer, she can tell the differences in the pitch: one real high and squeaky, which she knows is Jaken, and the other more like a woman. Rin tries to scoot al little closer to the conversation, so she can hear.
“This is not very good news, Kagura,” she hears Jaken say with disappointment in his high tone.
“I know. I tried as much as I could to help InuYasha with my winds, but if I did anymore, Naraku would have known, and it would have been my life,” Kagura says with a twist on her mouth like the idea of becoming a corpse wasn’t a very thrilling prospect to her. “Naraku managed to capture Kagome along with the Sacred Jewel and injure the monk and demon slayer woman. I don’t know where InuYasha hasn’t taken to hiding.”
Jaken takes a moment to let the news of InuYasha’s numerous failures to defeat Naraku sink in before saying, “InuYasha has been here convalescing from many injuries and has asked for my master’s assistance in rescuing Kagome and getting the Jewel back.”
Kagura didn’t know what astonished her more. The fact that InuYasha’s seeking help from his older half brother or the fact that Sesshomaru didn’t kill him on sight for trespassing. But this could turn out to be the break she was waiting for.
After a while, Rin retreats from behind the bush she was eavesdropping from, but a twig snaps underfoot just as she was about to escape from the scene.
When Kagura hears the snapping of a twig, she sends out her dances of blades towards the direction she heard it from. The strike narrowly misses Rin and imbeds itself in the tree behind her.
“Stop,” she hears Jaken say. “It could be Rin.”
Rin, deciding that it would be better to reveal herself instead of getting killed, stepped out into the open. The worried look on Rin’s face told Jaken that she heard what was said. Rin confirms his suspicion by saying, “Are you going to tell Lord Sesshomaru, Master Jaken?”
Kagura takes the feather from her hair and throws it into the wind while jumping onto it realizing that she was no longer need here anymore.
After Kagura takes her leave, Jaken looks to Rin and asks, “ What were you doing behind those bushes, Rin?”
Rin turns from watching Kagura disappearing in the distance to look back at Jaken. She smiles and says, “ Master Sesshomaru sent me to fetch you.”