Rin's Protector

Chapter 2: Sesshomaru gets the bunny

Carnivals are always loud and noisy places filled with gooey kids, icky children, love-struck teens and adorable couples. A place of candy, rides and various prizes. All the colors and sounds could put a smile on anyone's face...

That is, of course, as long as your name wasn't Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru was not enjoying himself. All these annoying kids gave him a headache. He'd forgotten how much he hated carnivals when he had taken the tickets from his Mother. He'd been too preoccupied with Rin...

Rin walked beside him and he suddenly wished that he hadn't taken the tickets. It had been stupid to want to be with her because clearly, she didn't want to be with him. She hadn't said two words to him! Not counting, 

"Hello, Sesshomaru-sama!" And that was just two words!

Suddenly Rin stopped and stared at one of the stands.

Sesshomaru followed her gaze and saw that it was one of those prize-winning games where you had to throw the ball and try to hit one of the blue bunnies that could duck at any second. The stand was decorated with a ton of fluffy toys for the winners, and by the looks of it not many had been able to win.

Sesshomaru gave off a deep sighed, his eyes in disgust. The sweet blue bunnies needed their heads ripped off.

"Let's go there!" Rin said, gesturing at the bunny stand with a big smile.

And before Sesshomaru could vehemently protest, she grabbed his hand and pulled him to the stand.

They got there just as another couple, having been unable to win, walked away dejectedly. Sesshomaru stared, appalled, at the bunnies, with their big baby blue eyes, and realized that they were even more disgusting up close. And those one-tooth smiles... They could give anyone nightmares.

"Sesshomaru-sama," Rin was saying and he realized that he hadn't been paying any attention to the exchange between Rin and the stall owner.

"You ready, Sesshomaru-sama?"

"Ready for what?" Sesshomaru said with a sinking feeling in his stomach.

"We have to play doubles to win a prize!" Rin said happily.

"Twenty bucks for a double play, man." The stand owner said casually taking a puff of his tobacco.

Suppressing a resigned sigh, Sesshomaru gave the man a piercingly disapproving stare and paid him the money. The guy then (after quailing under Sesshomaru's stare) handed them each five round, red balls.

"You each have five throws," The man said as he nonchalantly moved out of the way. "Miss one and it's game over. No prize." Then he smiled; after all he had nothing to worry about. The bunnies had built in radar detectors that enabled the bunny to move withing a split second of detection. They couldn't win.

Sesshomaru took the red ball, then glanced at Rin to see her reaction to the game.

At first he stared. Then he turned back to the bunnies and grinned. Suddenly the game seemed like a ton of fun.

Sesshomaru's grin had widened, while Rin was repeatedly throwing the ball into the air and trying to catch it. She stared at the bunnies as though enjoying the idea of throwing the ball through their heads- but not hitting anything.

Rin suddenly remembered how awesome Sesshomaru was. Sesshomaru noticed how cute Rin was.

Almost too fast for Rin to see, Sesshomaru pulled his hand back then snapped it forward. The poor bunny didn't stand a chance. The bunny shattered to pieces as the ball hit it. The ball then went straight through the wooden canvas behind it. Rin almost felt sorry for the bunny. Almost.

Sesshomaru snickered and flung the ball at another bunny. The effect was similar except this time it was tinged with green light claw and hit one of the stalls support beams. Rin laughed, murdering another bunny and smashing the counter to pieces.

The stall owner watched, with his jaw on the floor and his eyes as big as saucers, as his stall was wrecked by dog bunny mutilator. Each of his throws killed a bunny before it even had the chance to duck. Soon the walls and roof of the stall were cracked and teetering dangerously. Sesshomaru threw the last ball at the final bunny. The bunny splintered into a thousand pieces and the stall's final support column snapped and folded in half, allowing the stall to finally collapse with a loud crash!, burying its owner in a pile of rubble.

Sesshomaru smirked and Rin laughed out loud and bumped fists, both thoroughly satisfied with the extinction of the bright blue bunnies.

The stall owner groaned and they heard his muffled voice, "You win~" He moaned. "Take any prize you want~"

"Yay!" Rin cheered back to her old self. "I want that one, Sesshomaru-sama!"

Sesshomaru followed her pointing finger and found, hidden between a fluffy pink puppy and a pair of soft angel wings, a black bunny with 9-inch long fangs and green eyes, It had bat-like wings and claws as long as its fangs. Chuckling at her taste, Sesshomaru reached up, took the bunny and handed it to Rin.

"Oo~ it's adorable!" Rin cooed hugging it tightly to her chest. "It's beautiful. Don't you think so, Sesshomaru-sama?"

Sesshomaru chuckled again and replied as they walked away from the annihilated stall. "I have my own definition of beautiful."

"Like what?" Rin asked innocently, still smiling.

"Like you."