Well, I see a good response for this fiction and decide to give it an extra chapter. I din't tell you guys about Sesshoumaru after he left Inuyasha right?
Than, this is it!
"He still keeps it, huh, that Inuyasha?" Sesshoumaru muttered as he flew above the forest. "I thought he would have thrown it away for sure".
Sesshoumaru blinked his eyes. He remembered that day very well, it was the first time he showed affections to Inuyasha, the first time he forgot his hatred for hanyou. He took something out of his clothes, a dried-flower. It was the flower Inuyasha once gave him. Inuyasha's kindness still lingered within him until now.
'Why does a thing like this bring me such a warm feeling? So human, but I'm not even a human', Sesshoumaru thought.
Sesshoumaru returned to his room without excusing himself. His mother was used to it and let him go. After he was gone, his mother put the flowers which her stepson gave to her earlier in a very beautiful vase. She smiled at her own choice of vase and left the room, readied herself to sleep.
Sesshoumaru went inside his own room. He looked at the flowers and felt a surge of happiness in his heart, but he didn't really understand that it was the thing humans called happiness. He told himself that he just liked that flowers and luckily, Inuyasha got them for him, so he didn't need to pick it himself.
'I like the flowers?' he questioned himself right after that.
After those inner battles of keeping the flowers or throwing it away, Sesshoumaru decided to dried them, so he could take them anywhere and well, it made him smells good. Sesshoumaru smiled -of course, he felt weird and awkward after he realized what he had just done. He rarely smiled that it could be counted with fingers how many time he did that.
He was feared because he never smiled, if he smiled, no one would fear him and no one would respect him. He was going to be a ruler, if he smiled, he would look weak and no one would obey him. Sesshoumaru stopped his smiling. Then, he was back to the expressionless Sesshoumaru. How he envied Inuyasha to be so carefree. He could do that if he had no desire to be a ruler, but no. He desired power to control, he always did.
That night, Sesshoumaru hardly fell asleep. That was, too, his first time of feeling uneasy.
"Jaken-sama! Sesshoumaru-sama is back!" Rin told Jaken cheerfully, she went to Sesshoumaru, enfolding her arms to his leg. Sesshoumaru lowered himself to see Rin.
"Rin", he called her while she was brushing her face against Sesshoumaru. "You do not wipe your sweats with my clothes".
"I'm not wiping my sweats, Sesshoumaru-sama. It's spring and it's cool, there's no sweats on me", she said. And she showed him her face and hands. "See?"
"Rin!" Jaken scolded her. "That's not how you greet Sesshoumaru-sama! What is it with you? Suddenly snuggling against him like a pup". Realized that his master was once a pup, Jaken turned to him and said, "I didn't mean you or your clan, of course Sesshoumaru-sama. I mean stray dogs, yes, stray dogs!"
Sesshoumaru-sama only threw a glare at Jaken and then turned to Rin. "Come", he said softly. Rin took Sesshoumaru's hand and smiled at him.
"Jaken", he called his loyal servants. Jaken quickly followed.
Sesshoumaru took out the a dried-flower and gave it Rin. "It's a gift", he said calmly.
"It smelled so good!" she remarked.
"I dried it more than a hundred years ago", he said. "And it hasn't lost its scent".
"It means an unbroken feeling, Sesshoumaru-sama", Rin told him. "It's filled with good intentions and love".
The girl giggled and took the dried-flower from her master. Then she kept it inside her clothes. "Smells like, Sesshoumaru-sama!"
Sesshoumaru didn't say anything. Jaken only looked at his master in surprise, his master never gave anything to him and he gave Rin, who had just stayed with him for a while, a gift.
"Jaken", Sesshoumaru felt Jaken's glance at him. "What's wrong?"
From seeing his narrowed eyes, Jaken knew that Sesshoumaru didn't want to hear comments. "No, no... Really there's nothing, Sesshoumaru-sama!"
"Hn", Sesshoumaru turned away and began his journey.
'Maybe, it's not wrong to share this feeling which is called happiness", he thought.
He reached his chest where he had put the remains of the dried-flowers Inuyasha once gave him.
"They still have their scents", he muttered.
Extra Chapter End
That's it. Okay, I know Sesshoumaru is a bit out of character. Well, I tried to make him realized happiness, love, etc, from Rin's presence. That's why you will find Sesshoumaru a bit too soft in this extra chapter. The part when Rin snuggled at him is a reminder of the event he went through with Inuyasha. And don't think that the relationship between Rin and Sesshoumaru here is love relationship. No, it's a father-daughter one.
Okay then, I finished my job in this story. I really hope you like it, of course, not just this, but the whole story... :P
Well, thanks for reading and if you give me reviews, I'll definitely appreciate them!
~Pheria~