Her Face

DG32173

Okay, I'm on a roll. Here's chapter 3! And I've wrote them all in one night! Well, make that morning, cause I started around midnight and it's now about 7:30 in the morning as I start this chapter … I guess I didn't get any sleep last night. (shrugs) I can do without sleep for one night I guess. Oh, and the chant by the cat-witch is mine, so no stealing!

Miroku: Sarah-chan doesn't own any of the Inuyasha cast. (grabs her butt)

Sarah: (smacks Miroku's head, hard) perverted monk …

NOTE

(Authors note)

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Scene change

POV change

Memory

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Here are some specific answers:

yes, hard to imagine Sesshomaru being locked up and soon to be executed! I have no idea for what it is that he did, but I guess I'll come up with it when I get there. And as for him using Tensaiga rather than Tokujin? Heh, I kinda forgot what the second blade is called, so I decided to use the one I did remember. As to what Rin will look like when she changes back? Read and find out!

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Chapter 3

Rin's a Vixen!

Sesshomaru can only watch as Rin tries to pull her arm from the cat. He can't seem to get close, cause this cat demoness is also a witch, apparently. She had made it so that he can't get near them by putting up some form of invisible barrier. Then the cat-witch starts a chant. He realizes that it's a spell as a silvery light surrounds Rin.

"Restore the body from the mind

Turn forward the clock

Turn forward the time

Restore the truth to a true love's eyes

Forward the body

Forward the age

Return the body that is true

Truth behold

Lessons learned

Lesson's through."

Rin screams in pain as the silver light swirls around and surrounds her, lifting her into the air. "What are you doing to her!" Sesshomaru demands of the cat-witch.

"Returning her true body," she says simply.

"True body?" he asks, confused.

"Watch," she says, pointing at Rin, who is still screaming from sheer pain.

She doesn't hear any of this though; the pain is so immense, it blocks out every other sense. She feels her silver tail sprout and her body lengthening and elongating, curving to form her true body. Her ears turn pointed and move to the top of her head. They quickly cover with silver fur. Her nails sharpen and elongate to become deadly fox claws. She knows that her hair has gone from brown to silver.

The light finally draws into her and she falls to the ground, landing on her hands and knees. She blinks her soft brown eyes open and sits back on her heels. She stares at her hands, which now have claws. She can't believe it. She's … she's a vixen again? But … but what about the curse? She looks at her tail swishing behind her, and then turns her eyes to look at Sesshomaru. The second their eyes meet, she realizes she has a lot of explaining to do.

The cat-witch smirks at the stunned demons. "You have your body back, thief. Don't let me catch you stealing from me again," she purrs. Then she vanishes. She doesn't move or anything, just … vanishes.

And what of Jaken, you ask? Well, Jaken is just staring at Rin like he's seen a ghost. Then he faints. Fox demons do have a tendency to have a craving for toad demons, after all.

Three hours later

Rin, Sesshomaru, and Jaken had gotten out of Naraku's fortress without running into Naraku himself, and, after putting several miles between them and the fortress, Sesshomaru had forced Rin to explain everything to him. Now he's leaning against a tree looking at the sky while Rin is staring into a small lake a few yards from him. She still can't believe that she has her true body back. She glances over at Sesshomaru and Jaken. She notes that Sesshomaru is asleep while Jaken is watching her guardedly.

She stands from her kneeling position by the pond and turns to leave. "Hey, where do you think you are going?" Jaken says, suddenly in front of her.

"I'm leaving," she says softly. "I cannot stay, Jaken-sama. If I do, I will surely be found by enemies I haven't dealt with in many years. Then you and Lord Sesshomaru will be in peril. I will not have either of you in danger because of me."

Jaken's eyes had widened immensely when she had added "-sama" to his name. Then they widen even more as she reveals these facts. As he stands there, stunned, she jumps in a tree over his head. "Tell Lord Sesshomaru not to worry," she says, looking down at him. Then, she's gone. Or, at least it looked that way to the toad demon. She had actually moved quite fast for her tall form and is leaping from tree to tree in the forest that surrounds the meadow they had rested in.

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Alright, that's it for chapter 3. I hope you enjoyed it. There's still more to come! And for those who are reading this who also enjoy Yu Yu Hakusho, there's gonna be a surprise guest coming in for the next few chapters and perhaps the remainder of the fic! You'll have to wait and see who it is though! I gave the only hint I'm gonna!