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An enraged Rin hurled daggers towards a doll placed on her desk that strangely resembled her father. While her old man went on a quest searching for a suitable replacement for his late wife, she was secretly trained in the art of war by one of her father's generals, Bankotsu. The reason she did that was her hope of escaping that drastic marriage with him; but now the hope was gone with the wind. She found out that in order for her father to get those dresses, he had forced his people under the pain of death to create those beautiful dresses and the reed dress. Bankotsu who was charged for overseeing the task, had objected to it and the unholy matrimony very loudly and had lost his life to the guillotine. Bankotsu's replacement was so scared that he immediately oversaw the whole operation, causing many countless and unnecessary deaths.
"Damn it, why can't my father understand that I don't want to marry him?" Rin raged as she finished mutilating the soft toy before her. She could have ruined her room, but it wasn't even worth her time and effort to do that. She had more urgent matters to settle, namely changing her garb to peasant clothes and getting some gold for traveling expenses and such. She hastily changed her garb and packed the filched gold in a small pouch and smeared herself with dirt. Just then, Kaori and a feminine looking man entered her room, carrying a big bag and the reed and rushes dress to look exactly like a peasant woman.
For the past month while the castle was bustling with activity in the preparations for the upcoming nuptials; Rin had managed to get her loyal supporters to refresh her memory on the finer course of housekeeping and cooking. With that in mind, now she made her preparations to flee.
"Rin hime, I have altered the reed and rushes dress with the rushes that I managed to gather from the palace ponds, including smearing chicken's blood on one of your favorite kimonos … Jakotsu decided that he wants to play bride." Kaori informed her as she showed Rin the alterations on the dress that included a hood and long sleeves. Apparently she had a hard time walking to her chambers without gaining people's attention.
"But I can't let Jakotsu san take the rap from me. You know my father; he will kill anyone without a second thought." Rin replied, shuddering at the memory where her own father had practically beat her to almost an inch of her life. She could have defended herself but she was too stunned with the pain and the proposal to even fight back.
"Yosha! Rin chan, don't worry, I'm taking your place so that we can buy some time for you to run far away from here while I mess around with the old fart." Jakotsu replied very cheerfully, which made the princess and her maid wonder about his denseness over the seriousness of the situation.
"Jakotsu, are you sure? You really don't have to do it; I could just slip out of the castle with no one watching." Rin replied very nervously and Kaori nodded in agreement.
"Now, Rin chan, I appreciate your intentions, but I'm doing it for Bankotsu." Jakotsu replied becoming very serious.
Both of them gazed at him with sadness and concern, as he was not the only one feeling that way since the minister who lost his life to the gallows was one of Kaori's older brothers. They knew that both Jakotsu and Bankotsu were like brothers, doing everything together, and his death had hit Jakotsu very badly.
"Jakotsu …" Rin was about to comfort him but was cut off by him.
"Saa, let's get the show running as I need attendants to dress me up." Jakotsu spoke, clapping his hands cheerfully, ushering the two to the dressing rooms so that he could don the wedding kimono with assistance, and at the same time for Rin to don the reed and rushes dress.
A few hours later …
"Good luck, Rin chan and make sure that you get yourself far away from this place while I scare the shit out from your old man." Jakotsu grinned as he placed the wedding veil over his face.
"Sure, thanks a lot for helping me, Jakotsu san, Kaori san. I'm really sorry for causing Bankotsu san and Kaori's brother's death." Rin whispered as she pulled the reed woven hood over her head, low over her brows, covering her face at the same time.
"Just hurry up and run away from this hellhole as fast as you can." Kaori replied as she gently shoved her mistress out of the castle, smiling sadly at the same time.
"Yes and goodbye everyone." With that she quietly slipped out of the castle, carrying the bag that held the gold, the dresses and food supplies.
"So this is it, I hope Rin finds her happiness." Kaori spoke up as they gazed at the retreating shadow.
"Nah, don't worry, she will be alright. So could you lead the way to the chamber where the wedding ceremony will be held?" Jakotsu asked very innocently with a mischievous grin that was betraying his face.
"Sure, let's make it a living nightmare for him." Kaori grinned as she led the way for him.
Meanwhile Rin fled the palace like the wind as she headed in the direction to the western region where a dog demon lord ruled the area. She hoped that would be enough to enable her to lie low and to prevent her father from finding her. As the saying goes: 'the most dangerous place is the safest place to hide in.' As she was running, she came across a stream, where she laid the said kimono into the water, watching it floatby to its intended place, before she headed once more towards the western border.
She continued on, only to stop to rest during the day and travel at night. Even though she was raised in the palace and did not face that many hardships, she had to ration her food supply so that she could avoid the villages unless she needed to go there for restocking her food and other feminine necessities for fear of her father finding her there. After many weeks of wandering towards the west region, she entered a forest, being tired and hungry; she crawled towards a tree and curled up inside the hollow of it and slept like a log. Unknown to her, the forest and the land that she had entered belonged to someone whom she knew.
The next day …
"Oei, Sesshomaru, do we always have to do this?" the silver haired teenager with two dog ears on his head complained as they wandered around the area.
"Baka hanyou! You need to patrol these lands to prevent any enemies from entering; you are practically wasting time while Sesshoumaru sama has better things to do." The little green man chided at the hanyou.
"What do you expect me to do Jaken? All I see are trees!" The hanyou snapped back irritably as he bonked Jaken hard on the head and started a verbal war between them.
Sesshoumaru sighed as he felt an incoming headache upon hearing the bickering between the two and punching that was performed by the former. Somehow he preferred Rin's company to them, as he felt another headache crashing on him again as they used very interesting and creative insults upon each other.
Ever since he left Rin after his wounds were healed, he had reconciled with his hanyou brother, Inuyasha and took him in and had taught him the ropes of ruling the country like his deceased father, Inu no Taishou had wanted. But it had been more of a challenge teaching him the rules and etiquettes as Inuyasha seemed to be practically breaking every rule in the household, causing him to have countless of headaches, even though he was impressed as he was the one who took off his arm and able to survive on his own when Inuyasha's mother passed away when he was a pup. He wanted to return back to the castle where Rin lived, but he had standing issues he had to attend to such as dissolving feudal issues between his vessels and teaching his incompetent stepbrother the tricks of the trade.
The last he heard of her was that she was engaged and married. He felt a tinge of regret that he had not come sooner than he had intended.
The two's persistent bickering wrenched him from his musings and caused his very thin nerves to shatter into pieces. He was about to bonk Inuyasha's head and kick Jaken to who knows where when he smelled something.
'That's weird; not many humans passed this land.' He thought as he headed towards the direction where the smell was, finding it very familiar but couldn't place where, leaving his bickering companions behind. When they noticed his departure, they hurried after him with Jaken calling after him to wait up and blaming Inuyasha at the same time. They followed the scent and found the tree that could only permit only one person in, so Sesshoumaru entered the tree despite Jaken's protest and found the sleeping girl covered with nothing but reeds and rushes. He wanted to have a closer look but her hood obstructed his view of her face. He prodded her to awaken and proceeded to stare at her. Rin woke up feeling groggy as she looked around her surroundings to locate who woke her up.
'Sesshoumaru sama …' she thought as her eyes widened in surprise at seeing who had awakened her, standing right before her...
T.B.C
Pwalefriend: i hope you like this chapter especially jakotsu is screwing the old fart king now. well it's a real fairy tale, you can try reading grimm tales and you can find the story, basically there are many versions to this fairy tale: deerskin. but the theme remains the same where the king, 'father' lusted after the daughter and demanded a hand in marriage with her. That time when i wrote about the king part, i was practically puking away.
Hope you all like this chapter and take some time to review this chapter. See ya all at the next chapter ja ne. Next chapter: unknown for the moment.
