I really, really, really hate becoming human.

Wait, sorry— let me rephrase:

I fervently despise becoming human.

And tonight was the one night that happened once every lunar month: the night when I turn human.

Even if it's only till dawn, it still sucks being nearly blind and deaf...

Ugh, enough of my whining. Despite having the sight of a bat and the hearing of an armadillo, I still discovered a young man backed into an alley by a group of shadowy figures.

I watched as they slowly crept closer to the boy and realized that I'd probably have to be the one to save him. Sighing to myself, I drew my tetsusaiga and remembered that it only transformed out of its useless-hunk-of-metal state when I was a demon.

I growled and lunged at the mob anyway— the sword actually made a nice blunt instrument.

Even without using a single wind scar, the scuffle was over almost instantly.

'Tch, wannabes,' I thought to myself before I turned to the boy who was practically trying to meld himself into the wall behind him.

"Hey, kid," I called.

He jumped a bit before he slowly began to open his eyes. He then did a double-take so hard, I thought I'd have to rush him to the hospital for whiplash.

After a while, I frowned and said, "Hasn't your Mother taught you not to stare?"

He blinked, then glared. "Never knew her," he snapped.

'Ouch, at least I can remember mine'

I cleared my throat and held out my hand for him to shake. "M'Inuyasha"

He took my offered hand with a bit of blatantly noticeable hesitancy.

"Rin. Okumura." He dropped my hand like a saimyōshō. "What're you doing around here?"

'No small talk with this one... Not much gratitude either,' I noted.

"I could ask the same of you," I shot back.

His eyes flashed with what looked like anger, and I could hear a faint growl emanating from him.

"My.. Brother-"

I snorted. "And that's all I needed to hear..," I thought of my own detestable sibling, Sesshomaru. "Younger or older?" I asked.

"Technically; we're twins, but I'm the older one."

'Oh. Twins, huh? It's still a lot better than having your older brother constantly trying to murder you in your slee-'

"And he's a professor at the college I graduate from this year."

I'm sure my face showed my horrified shock, but Rin seemed overly bored with my reaction.

My mind whirled at the speed if light with different questions along the lines of 'What's his class about?' 'Why are you both at the same college?' or even 'What are you studying?'

But no, what came out of my incredibly intelligent mouth was none of these.

My oh-so brilliant query was:

"You're out of high school?"

The emotions that flitted across his face both terrified and intrigued me: firstly, confusion— next, surprise before realization. There goes anger and something I couldn't quite catch.

"Why? Is it that much of a shock? Or do I just look too child-like and ignorant?" He snapped. "First Yukio, then you.I'm not a nitwit that can't tie my own damn shoes!"

'Shit, he's pissed. Wait... Is he turning blue?'

As Rin continued to rant about the injustice of the people in his life, there was a distinct fiery blue outline to his person.

"Oi, k- kid, are you alright?" Even I know that when someone starts sprouting fire, something's bound to go horribly wrong— I needed to calm him down.

Fast.

"Why the fuck do you care? I'm only a high school brat who needs someone to tie my bib on and hold my spoon for me!" He spat sarcastically.

I don't know why this set me off, but it did. Another great aspect of mine is my 'stellar' ability to control my anger and hold my tongue.

"Because children like you need a constant eye on them, or they'll cause armageddon," I shot back, none too kindly. "If you so desperately want people to stop viewing you as insignificant or useless, you've gotta use these special things called actions. They're particularly magical when they're used to prove a point."

When I paused for a breath, I noticed that he wasn't trying to stab me to death with his eyes; but he was frowning as if he was deep in thought.

While he was silent, I sheathed tetsusaiga and waited for Rin to come to his conclusion.

"... It sounds like you're speaking from experience," was the quiet reply a few moments later. "You used to be treated like shit too, right?"

I glanced at him quickly, surprised. "Y- yeah, I guess you could say that..." I studied him for a short while before I continued. "I'm a hanyou— a half demon— we aren't welcomed too warmly back where I'm from. However, I have an older brother named Sesshomaru. He's a full demon, and fully favoured by anyone who's not against demon blood of any kind. Except my father; but he died protecting my mom from a crazy ex. A few years later, Mother died too. She was the only human who didn't cross themselves at the sight of me."

Rin's eyes softened, the expected reaction to my life story.

What I didn't expect, however, was his reply.

~AN~

Cliffhanger, sorry! °∆°

Ijustwantedtogetitpublished, Ipromisenoneofmyworksareonhiatusasofnow ^-^