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Drabble 4

Memories flooded her brain and she shuddered at the thought of the things the had survived. How had she menaged to survive? It was pure luck!

Inuyasha wasn't coming to save her anymore. She couldn't go home. She was lost in a time, not her own, and the reality that she msde the wrong decision in returning the prior year was finally setting in.

"I'm tired of always being the damsel in distress. It's ridiculous! For the last five years, I've been kidnapped dozens of times, made into a sacrifice, almost been melted down for hair tonic, had half my soul ripped out... I don't want to be saved anymore. No one's coming for me, so either I learn to defend myself or I die. And I refuse to die."

She trailed off as mortification flooded her body. She had just ranted to the Lord of the West!

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Drabble 1

The summer had been brutal, and the crisp autumn air was a welcome reprieve. Silently, the Lord of the West traveled east toward Edo. He was heading to collect his ward Rin from the miko Kagome.

Her presence in his life had not been in her best interest this year due to an influx in mindless, wild yokai terrorizing various villages throughout his lands.

It seemed that ... while the fall of Naraku was a necessary victory, the loss of the unknown hold the spider had on lesser yokai was a reprocussion he hadnt forseen.

Sesshomaru had no idea of the sheer magnitude of unintelligent & bloodthirsty yokai packs he had running wild in his lands.

That he had been so preoccupied that it was even an issue was... concerning. But the fact remained that he was caught unaware. And that was unacceptable.

So he had sent Rin away. Instead of doting on the young human girl, he spent the last twelve moon cycles ridding his lands of the vermin Naraku left behind.

Luckily, or unluckily, depending on how you looked at it, the miko Kagome had graciously invited Rin to stay with her while Sesshomaru was away. His ward seemed excited enough to spend the foreseeable future with her best friend, the fox kit Shippo, and her idol the miko.

The only downside was the miko had been courting his useless half-brother Inuyasha, and he worried how exposure to the hanyu would affect his young ward long term.

A lot could change in a year, and as the village came closer, he found himself feeling apprehensive about his unannounced reunion.

But he couldn't put it off because of something as ridiculous as apprehension. So, with the sun peeking over the horizon in full glory behind him, he made the trip down the hill, silencing his thoughts, putting his mind at ease.

Once he arrived, he could spot his ward easily. Rin was sitting outside with a scroll in her hands, reading. 'she couldn't read when this one left her in the mikos care'.