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My Lord Sesshomaru	By : LittleToxic Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Sessh?maru/Rin > Sessh?maru/Rin Views: 6821 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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This part is dedicated to you reader! Thank you for taking the time to read my writing. <3  I know as an amateur writer I still have a long way to go, and I thank you! I am happy to share this story (that keeps whirling in my head @_@) with you.
Lord Sesshomaru laid against the tree. The fire had been put out, just dim oil lamps flared in the area where Jaken slept. A-Un rested his two heads down on the grass, his eyes closed in peaceful slumber. Their journey would still last a while. Would his desire for her become harder to control? Of all the things he perceived could go wrong, desiring his mortal ward, never occurred to him. If killing demons would control his urges he would bask in the bloodlust, no doubt about that. He closed his eyes erasing the tedious thoughts. His long lashes resting over his white cheeks giving his masculine features a softness.
His resting was fleeting though as he alertly opened his eyes and watched Rin approach. Her demon slayer outfit on her body sticking to all her natural curves, her hair long and thick that curled at the ends flying beautifully behind her. Her weapon tight in hand.
“Rin...” he began but before the words escaped his lips, or before the thought registered in his mind that something was odd, he dodged the heavy, shiny blades that headed straight towards his neck. He hovered up in the air glaring down Rin. Her scent was the same, that same irksome scent, but that wasn’t her. Something was controlling her. He knew that much. Her bright brown eyes had been dulled by an unknown power.
Jaken woke up with a yelp as the sound of falling tree startled him awake. A-Un bellowed in panic. Rin glowered at their direction and threw her weapon again, this time aiming towards were Jaken and A-Un laid. Promptly, A-Un grabbed Jaken from his hakama sidestepping away from the blow that crashed the tree in two.
“Rin! What the hell are you doing?!” Jaken yelled at her, his eyes huge with fear.
“That is not, Rin!” Lord Sesshomaru snarled. Looking directly at the imposter that grabbed Rin’s mighty weapon with ease.
A cunning smile decorated her face, “I must say Lord Sesshomaru I never took you as the type that enjoyed human girls”
She passed her hands seductively over her borrowed breasts, cupping them and giving them a squeeze. Her voice echoed with contempt lacing Rin’s soft candid voice. Lord Sesshomaru said nothing. If he was worried, his features never showed it. Not even a scowl was present in his face when he swiftly teleported in front of her, his face just inches from hers. He scrutinized her. The fraud’s face contorted in shock as those golden eyes penetrated her as if trying to see who was behind Rin’s eyes. Damnation! He is quick!
“Who are you?” he demanded, grabbing her from the neck and hovering her in the air along with him. He squeezed so hard that the weapon in her frail hand fell to the floor.
With a gust of wind that seemed to emit from her body, a dark, foul mist whooshed over Sesshomaru’s form, and overcame the entire campground. He let her go as a loud slithering rustled in the trees around them. Spiders! Spiders that Jaken and A-Un had seen too well, threw themselves at them with rabid screeching. The spiders began tackling them as a possessed Rin jumped in the air and threw her weapon at Lord Sesshomaru which he dodged effortlessly. He flew towards her when a barricade of giant spiders came between them. He ripped through the spider wall with his claws but he couldn’t reach her. Rin and the spider sorceress that was possessing her, vanished in a cloud of smoke, a malevolent voice telling him before it disappeared,
“I am the Spider Sorceress, Sarnas. If you want your human alive. You will come to my castle and let me lop your precious head…”
He allowed the spiders to cover his body. Their bites nibbling against his skin. No pain. And then with a blast of his demonic power their bodies exploded. With his acid whip he twirled gracefully until the sound of twitching legs, and hissing was no more, possessed again with the dead silence of the forest. Every single one of them was destroyed. Stepping over the bodies of dead spiders that crunched under his boots, he found Jaken hiding behind a tree. He shook like a leaf.
“You have deceived me, Jaken!” he roared. His eyes blazed in firing fury.
Jaken stumbled forward from his hiding place and dropped to his knees, bowing his entire body to the ground back and forth. Pleading for mercy, “Please, my Lord! Please let me explain to you!”
He shrieked when he was kicked back and his neck was pressed down with the toe of his boot. His unforgiving eyes were enough to kill, if the constricting of air didn’t kill him first, “You will tell me everything that happened. While I was gone!”
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Lord Sesshomaru flew up in the air to rescue Rin. He had been right. Rin was a troublesome girl. He shouldn’t have left her unguarded. Now he needed to find the castle the demon spoke of.
A castle? He didn’t have a clue where to search. He had not seen or smelled any form of living arrangements in this forest. Not even human villages. A-Un with a beat up Jaken with multiple lumps on his head, flew behind the lord holding their distance afraid that the fuming Lord would split them too pieces like he had done with those spiders. Lord Sesshomaru’s eyes narrowed when the stench of death, and miasma hit his nose.
“This must be it” he told himself as he saw the dark purple barrier that covered an old feudal castle. All the trees inside it were dead as well as all around it. The demonic miasma reeked and penetrated from the barrier in a purple smoke haze. This castle was definitely not here before. It was an illusion made by the sorceress. Her plan was to isolate him. To try to weaken his powers. Such a fool! His teeth gnashed. Like if the great demon lord would ever succumb to such weak demonic power. She had the upper hand against him, that was for sure, but not for long. Not for very long. Once he liberated Rin, he was going to slice her. He was going to enjoy destroying her. Disgusting insect.
            Rin, the real Rin, wallowed in a darkness she couldn’t describe. She was paralyzed, trapped in her own body. She had seen the way she had attacked the Lord. The way she had attacked Master Jaken and sweet A-Un. She tried to speak out, she tried to tell them to run away, she tried to break the possession. It was hopeless, proving again what Lord Sesshomaru had told her in the beginning: she wasn’t built for battle. Her body had been hijacked by a power hungry spider demon and she had been powerless to stop her.
‘You will never get away with this!’
She heard an assured laughter, “We will see about that! When I slice that beautiful head of that Lord of yours with your very hand.”
Those words echoed in the obscurity around her, taunting her. Could she be right? Would she kill Lord Sesshomaru?
Sarnas’ stood up in her hostage body with a determined look in her face. He had entered her barrier. How quickly he had found her! He wanted to save his pathetic human wench. She grinned. She was going to enjoy this fight. She was going to enjoy cutting through that beautiful manly lump in his neck.
Leaving the empty room in the castle tower in which she waited, she burst through the walls and landed in front of the Lord. He stood in the middle of the castle after entering the gatehouse of the fortress. She was immediately possessed with seething anger. Seeing how he stood confidently, with no weapon unsheathed in front of him.
“Don’t underestimate me, you dog!!!!!!!”
She rushed at him with her blades at arm’s length in front of her. He dodged them, but not as quickly as when he had confronted her. She was fast in here, which meant that her original body could be somewhere in this forsaken castle. He eyed A-Un and Jaken with the corner of his eye as they landed wearily on the roof. They were both weakened by the miasma, but he had given them a task he needed them to accomplish. They needed to look around the massive castle to find the sorceress surge of power to break the possession. If indeed, he was right…
“Don’t…look… so …distracted!” she screamed as she slashed at him but made no contact with his skin. Not even a scratch! She was infuriated by his supreme strength and agility that was common in only a great demon lord. He wasn’t weakened by the miasma at all!! She began to doubt herself. He could see it!
Forgive me, Rin. He thought as he kicked her, the flat of his boot made contact with her stomach sending Rin’s fragile body flying across the castle. The ground under her splintered as Sarnas’ dark mist tried to cover the fall. He was going to buy time as much as it took. Counting on the fact that Sarnas needed Rin’s body to attack him.
Jaken stumbled inside one of the halls of the castle, from a hole A-Un had made at the rooftop. He looked around the torn walls, his eyes blurry and his body woozy from the miasma and Sesshomaru’s beating. If Rin didn’t survive he could kiss his life goodbye. That was an undeniable fact.
You do not serve, Rin!!! He had roared as he punched him senseless, when Jaken confessed he had hidden the events because Rin had asked. Bad mistake! Bad, bad mistake! They continued walking in the quaky wooden floors of the old feudal castle. There were crowded silver spider webs everywhere with remnants of human bones. This illusion of this castle was her domain, it was where she hid, where she feasted.
Sesshomaru observed as Rin’s body come towards him again, this time gradually. Her hostage body recovering from the blow. Her demon scythes blended together and evolved into one giant deadly scythe. Rin’s demon blades were under the sorceress possession as well, unleashing power that not even Rin had uncovered yet. Demonic power. What kind of weapon had Totosai given her? She darted towards him with a wrathful scream. The long scythe whistled in front of his face. Its sharpness cutting one of his wondering white hairs and reflecting his face on the shiny blades. Sesshomaru grabbed her from the neck firmly, taking a small slash on his arm and threw her to the other side of the castle. She slid back with amazing force taking the ground with her still managing to grip the scythe. He leaped on top of the thatched roofing watching her struggle to get up. She flew towards him impulsively, the scythe burying in the roofing and taking everything with it. The wild craze look no longer resembled Rin’s innocent features. He continued dodging from roof to roof as the aggravated scream of Sarnas’ continued,
“I will destroy you, Demon Lord. You won’t be able to evade me forever! You arrogant bastard!”
Jaken’s eyes widened when he found a giant orb of web glistening from the second floor of the castle. Giant black widow spiders guarded each side.
“This must be it!” he yelled.
Their black bulbous eyes met with them, as their fangs protruded from their mouth rushing at them with a hiss. A-Un charged at them, lightning building in his mouth. As Jaken ran and threw the windows open. He waved his tiny hands at the lord that fended off Rin’s scythe with Bakusaiga now.
“Milord, we have found something! Attack here my lord!”
Both Sarnas’ and Sesshomaru looked at his direction. Her eye twitched when she heard him. She jumped from the rooftop towards Jaken. Sesshomaru much faster than her, managed to grab her from the nape of her neck and threw her back. Her mist emanating from her body ripping through the roof, falling down inside it with a loud crash. Lord Sesshomaru reached the second floor on the opposite side from where he stood. He stepped through the window when a low grunt escaped his lips. One of the chain scythes struck his back armor, it lodged for a second, not cutting through and returned to Sarnas’. It wasn’t enough to stop him! With no time to waste, he jumped in, killing the spiders with his claws that were now green with poison.
He saw the orb. It almost seemed to throb. He ordered Jaken and A-Un to flee as the demons quickly obeyed. He destroyed the giant web and the castle began fluttering around him. Turning into ashes in the wind. Proof that it never existed. In a matter of instants, the castle had vanished along with its rancid miasma. Rin sat with her heels tucked under her in the middle of the remains. She gripped the hilts of her scythes, her chest heaving with emotion. In tears.
“Please forgive me my lord. I have failed you…!” She wept.
He crouched in front of her. All that surrounded them was a dead forest, dead grass. Contrasting heavily with the greenery around that. He raised her chin with the claw of his index finger, as her bright, tearstained brown eyes greeted him and then as swiftly as he had stared into those enormous auburn orbs, Sarnas’ returned. Taking away her innocent features once more. This time the scythe blade was against Lord Sesshomaru’s neck. It hadn’t worked. He had been wrong. The globe of web only controlled the illusion of the castle. Which meant the sorceress was inside of Rin! It was a realization that had come too late.
“Any last words?” She cooed, smiling broadly.
The blade broke the top layer of skin, his blood oozing obediently over the scythe. He witnessed as she licked her lips hungrily at the look of his blood. Jaken’s terrified intake of breath sounded audibly.
It couldn’t be! His Lord would not be destroyed!
Sesshomaru only smirked. There was a reason why he didn’t budge. A pathetic move like that wouldn’t be enough to defeat him. The smirk on his features infuriated her even more! She trembled in anger as the blade began quivering in her hand as she attempted to cut through, her hand was immobile now.
“Fight her, Rin.” He ordered
And just as Sarnas snarled and tried to use the other blade, her other arm froze.
I won’t let you kill him! I won’t let you have your way!
  Her tremulous hands began failing her. An inhuman growl escaped from her throat. Sarnas last attempt to gain control was a blast of demonic power that managed to throw Sesshomaru a few feet away. A-Un and Jaken continued to stare horrified.
I rather die than to ever let you slay my friends!
The black fog receded as the chains of Rin’s scythes twirled in her fingers smoothly and the blades imbedded into the middle of her back, a silent scream formed a big O on her lips. Her back arched thrashing her forward. With a screech Sarnas exploded from Rin’s skin and clothes in a bloody splatter. Rin’s body slumped forward into to the ground as Jaken ran to her. The spider turned into her giant humanoid form. Her red and black eyes glowing in loathing. Black blood dripped and puddled in the debris from where the scythes entered her. She salivated like rabid animal and her legs ran towards Sesshomaru who darted towards her as well,
“It ends here!” He made known as Sesshomaru drew his sword and split her in half. With a shrill, agonizing scream Sarnas body was no more.
“Rin!!!” Jaken cried as he saw the puddle of blood gushing from Rin’s back. Lord Sesshomaru landed towards them, and moved him aside. He knelt in front of her. She was losing large quantities of blood. Stupid girl!
This time his concern did show. His dread. He pulled her hair away noticing all the skin from the middle of her shoulder blades towards her lower back was missing. A deep cut from her weapon, and the exploded gashes from where the demon exited her. He growled in helplessness. He wasn’t going to lose her! Not now!
He placed her body face down over his lap. His eyes turned red, the demon inside him palpitated…there was one way he could stop the bleeding. He had no time to waste!
His dokkaso, his toxins, gathered in his tongue. His jaw widened, his jaws became sharper. In the verge of a complete demon transformation, he lowered his face down to her wounds and began licking them. His long tongue began producing a thick acidic saliva that covered her wounds and stopped the bleeding. He didn’t stop until his tongue swept all around her injuries. Her warm blood entering his system, warming him, intoxicating him. He stared at her face as it began stirring. He only relaxed when the bleeding had stopped. He turned her face up and brushed the hair from her face. She opened her eyes feebly.
“Lord…Sesshomaru…” She mumbled reaching up to touch his face, her fingers against his magenta markings on his cheek that were now jagged. His eyes were still red with that black vertical pupil, his jaw covered in her blood. Yet, Rin, still smiled up at him,
“Did I do well?” Tears rolled down the sides from her eyes.
“Yes, Rin.” He said. He looked down at her pale face, all the color, all the life from her skin was gone. She was the color of paper. She tried to say something else but he stopped her.
“Enough” he ordered quietly and stood up with her in his arms. He needed to find a human village as soon as possible. Or Rin would be dead by tomorrow. Flying up in the air, Jaken and A-Un followed behind him with concern in their face.
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                    “This human girl requires assistance.” Lord Sesshomaru said to the gathering of villagers at the entrance of a town. This was the first village he had encountered after he diverted from his original path. A village with plenty of resources, and rice fields aplenty. The villagers in their peasant kimonos were already pointing their bows, and swords at them ready to attack. Their eyes searing with distrust and fear. He tried to bury the unbearable urge to kill every single one of them
“Please!” Jaken supplicated from atop of A-Un, “If you don’t help her she is going to die!”
“We don’t help demons! Or their sympathizers” One of them spat staring over at the injured girl.
Rin’s body was wrapped in his Mokomoko. He carried her effortlessly with one hand. His eyes narrowed at them with contempt as he reached into the sleeves of his kimono and threw a cloth bag at their feet. They let out a startled yelp and took a step back, but then noticed the bag was filled with gold coins that glistened under the light of the sunset. Their eyes widened in amazement as they stared at it. Some had never seen that many golden coins.
“Now, now people! There is no need to be so hasty with our guests. Put your weapons down!” an old voice said from the back as he walked through the crowd. He lowered their weapons with his speckled hands as he passed through them. A frail old man appeared before them with a smile on his face that didn’t present any particular emotion, it just seemed to be embedded on him as a normal part of his aging features. He was balding, but the hair that was left on his head was in a ponytail, thin and white. He reached down to grab the cloth bag and placed it in the lapels of his light blue kimono as the villagers murmured amongst each other viewing how the hefty bag disappeared in his clothes. The old man told Lord Sesshomaru,
“Bring her. I am the town doctor here.”
They passed the crowd and walked a distance towards a dwelling. Jaken rode A-Un and gulped, as the villagers moved aside for them with their unfriendly gazes stabbing them. The shack appeared to be some type of hospital for the injured with futons on yellow-brown tatami mats, and different types of herbs in decanters and scattered bandages. The hut reeked of dried blood and herbs, but Sesshomaru endured it.
“Set her down there.” He pointed at an empty futon, next to many others that were positioned into the perimeter of the area. “You are lucky we aren’t in war. My hut is usually filled with injured. I will get to work on her.”
Sesshomaru placed Rin’s body belly down as the old man washed his hands in a bucket and put some type of antibacterial liquid in his shaky old hands.
He walked over to her and knelt, “A demon slayer and demons traveling together. Oh! The irony!”
He began to examine the extensiveness of her wounds. Her demon slayer outfit was peeled all the way down to her hips showing the start of the cleft of her behind. The old man frowned as he kneaded the sticky green slime that covered her back between his index and thumb. But quickly that permanent smile returned.
“Whatever this salve is, stopped her from bleeding out.”
“Can you save her?” Lord Sesshomaru asked. If his actions didn’t speak towards the endearment of the girl. The old man would think he could care less if she lived or died by that emotionless tone.
“I believe so” the old man said walking over to a handmade shelf to retrieve some items from it. He turned to him, “If she makes it tonight, then she has a very good chance of survival.”
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It was midnight when the old man entered the medical hut again to find Sesshomaru sitting against the wall close to Rin’s futon, with his eyes closed. One leg up, the other one stretched in front him.
“My daughter has placed your companions in a small abandoned shack just minutes from our village. We would love to accommodate you here, but you see…my people are still nervous about having you around.”
“I’ll remain here.” he said opening his eyes, his golden eyes daring him to throw him out.
But the old man simply scratched his head. He shrugged. Not taking to heart Sesshomaru’s deadly stare, “Suit yourself. All we can do now is wait.”
He looked over at Rin who breathed heavily, a cold rag wrapped around her forehead. She had big green leaves stuck to her injuries. They spread like open palms all around her. The old man exited the hut, the curtain that served as a door flying behind him.
            Hours passed when Sesshomaru’s eyes flew open when he heard Rin’s whimpering. He kneeled next to her. She was trembling.
“My Lord.” She whispered still sleeping.
Lord Sesshomaru felt anger consume him. He should have never left her defenseless. Never! Curse his instincts! He placed the back of his fingers against her cheek. She was burning up. Her body began shaking violently in coldness and her chin began to quiver. He picked her up ever so gently. He placed his Mokomoko over his legs and placed her on his lap. The material would be soft enough against her skin and warm enough for her. He wrapped what was left of it around her body and embraced her against him. He felt her instantly calm down as her head pressed just below his pectorals, against his hard armor. Her breathing becoming even once more. She half-opened her eyes, staring into Lord Sesshomaru’s golden ones. She smiled at him and nuzzled against him.
“Do you forgive my betrayal, my lord?” Her voice was a hardly audible whisper laced with weakness. He stroked her cheek with the back of his fingers.
“You did not betray me, Rin” he assured her looking down at her pale face
She smiled feebly and closed her eyes as she mumbled, ‘I am glad…” and in Sesshomaru’s arms, she slept. Reminding him of the times when Rin was just a small child…
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          Three long days had passed when the village doctor decided that moving Rin to the ex-abandoned hut would be best. He had assured them that Rin would survive, but that she was going to require a lot of rest. If Lord Sesshomaru could have his way he would have taken her away from this pesky human village, but he didn’t, and would have to wait until Rin could walk on her own. The village doctor came in and changed her leaves every two hours.
He examined her skin, his wrinkled face very close to it, “Rin’s skin is healing remarkably. It must be that special salve she had on.” His head popped up to look over at Sesshomaru, “You must tell me where I can get some, demon!”
Sesshomaru’s jaw ticked but said nothing.
The old man looked back at sleeping Rin, “The wound will be ready for bandaging. I think I will let it air out today, but I am afraid that I have run out of poppy leaves. It is not their season, you see” The old man scratched his head, “I will see what I can find and bring it right over!”
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            The old man left promising to bring other pain relievers to them, but now night had arrived and there was no scent of him anywhere. The inside fire pit flamed gently as Jaken slept and A-Un slept just out of the hut. But Sesshomaru could not sleep. He remained still. Watching over Rin, waiting for the last effects of poppy to subside. She stirred with grunts of pain. That useless old man! All that gold for such inferior work!
His true form began pulsing inside him, his claws extended, his eyes reddened, and his teeth became serrated and he felt his dokkaso gathering in his tongue. He gently hovered over her, his lips close to her tender flesh and he began licking her. Long wet strokes over her flesh that tasted like blood, and herbs. Rin let out a soft moan as his tongue gently touched her uninjured shoulder blades. That touch, that moan made his teeth clench. He hadn’t noticed that the old man walked up the small hill where the shack stood and stared in shock through the cracks of the wooden door at the way this demon licked the wounds of the young human girl under him. He looked massive, his body caving over her. He clutched a small vial of blue lotus he had found for her pain. Now, he wasn’t sure if to interrupt or to scream. Rin let out a soft relieved sigh, the pain in her body retreating. Sesshomaru gave an animalistic growl staring out of the hut as the old doctor ran down the hill back to his village as fast as he could in his wooden sandals.
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                      I had been almost over two weeks when Rin opened her eyes. Her eyelids felt heavy. Her vision blurry at first, it then accommodated over Jaken’s, scaly, worried features. She sat up little by little. Her upper body was bandaged and her lower half was covered by a red hakama.
“Rin! I am glad you are awake!” Jaken hopped from one foot to the next animatedly. She gave him a toothy grin and stretched her arms up in the air gently.
“I am! I feel much better!” She looked around to see the shack stacked, and stacked with silk kimonos of all colors. Her Kusarigama against the wall, her stock pot dented, it had barely survived. Jaken stared over at what she looked at and said,
“They are gifts from Lord Sesshomaru.” He said about the kimonos. He scratched his head and shook his head disapprovingly, “I swear, if I didn’t know my Lord better I would say he was acting like some love sick puppy.”
He immediately regretted that sentence when he heard a low, deep growl. Lord Sesshomaru entered the shack with a large wooden cup. He already knew that she would wake up. Rin’s face twisted in disgust as she smelled whatever was in his hand, all the way from where she sat. Lord Sesshomaru handed it to her. She reached her hand up to him and grabbed the concoction with both hands staring down at the thick, dark red liquid.
“Drink” Sesshomaru ordered
Jaken sat in the back with his kimono sleeve over his nose. He knew exactly what it was. It was an iron filled gory concoction for blood loss. She looked from her cup to Lord Sesshomaru and crinkled her nose.
His eyes narrowed at her menacingly
“Do I really have to?” she complained as his eyes narrowed to slits this time.
Sighing helplessly. She put on a brave face and downed the liquid. She almost gagged feeling the gelatinous liquid go down her throat.
“All of it, Rin” he maintained.
Just as she thought the thick concoction wouldn’t end. She finished it. A warm feeling rushing over at her at Lord Sesshomaru’s attentions.
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            Later that day Rin walked down the knoll to the path that lead to the village. She could see the farmers working on the rice fields from here, and right next to it materials of houses that needed to be built. It reminded her about Edo and all her friends. How she missed them. Her peachy skin tone had finally returned to normal. She wore a light pink silk kimono Lord Sesshomaru had gifted her. This time it did fit her. It had swirls of white randomly over it. With a beautiful white obi. As she made her way to the bustling village she suddenly felt like she was the center of attention, and not in a good way.
“There she is” she managed to hear, “The demons lover!”
She reddened and stopped on her tracks. WHAT!!??? Where did they get that idea?! She continued moving, shaking that idea out of her mind. She stopped. Staring around the houses, and stores, trying to see if she could find the medical hut that had taken her in. Her thoughts were interrupted when a soft tug to her kimono sleeve shook her. She looked down to see an adorable little girl, she had her brown hair cut to her ears, her eyes big and brown. She had a small wooden doll in her hands. Her tiny friends waited behind her.
“Miss, is it true that those demons bewitched you, and that is why you travel with them?”
Rin frowned at her and then smiled warmly crouching at her eye level, she couldn’t be more than four years old, “No. Of course not. Those demons are my friends.”
“But demons and humans cannot be friends, my papa says.” She placed her wooden doll against her chest, her adorable face contorted in confusion and shyness.
She grinned, “Of course they can! Have you ever tried saying hi to one?”
The little girl gulped and gripped her wooden doll nervously, “no.”
            After playing a bit with the children, and distancing herself away from the gaping villagers. Thanks to the adorable little girl, Keiko, she found the medical hut as soon as the old doctor entered it. Putting the curtain aside she followed behind him. The old man gave her a toothless smile, a real smile this time, “Oh my! Aren’t you looking much better missy! The color has returned to your skin.”
She nodded, “I wanted to thank you. You saved my life. Is there anything I can do to repay your kindness?”
The old man scratched his head and then rubbed his chin taking her offer into consideration, “Well that big demon of yours can probably be more useful than you”
Rin tried not to be offended by that as she said, “I can ask…”
The old man scratched his head again, “Alright! It would be great if he could build the houses next to rice fields, then the farmers won’t have to walk up all the way to town every day.”
She bit her lower lip unsure, but then she said with a grin, “I’ll do my best!” and headed out the door.
His question stopped her. The curtain door rested over her shoulder, “Can I ask what happened in your life to surround yourself with demons?”
She turned to him. His voice wasn’t judgmental. It was curious, seeking. She smiled. She didn’t know why she felt compelled to tell this stranger anything, but she spoke from the heart anyway, “When I was younger my parents and my brothers, were killed by human bandits” It was the expression in the word human that caught his attention, “They killed everyone in my village. They did horrible things to my mother and to the other women there…. I wondered around the world afraid and alone until I found Lord Sesshomaru.”
A sad smile appeared on her face, “It has actually been quite a while since I have thought about my family. I miss them every day, but if it hadn’t been for Lord Sesshomaru’s kindness. I would’ve been dead a thousand times over.”
That scary demon can show kindness?? Memory of Sesshomaru’s deadly stares plagued his mind. But he could tell the fondness in her words when she mentioned him. The memories of the way he had licked her that night. The old man’s face brightened then as if he was putting two and two together. He put his fist into his palm enthusiastically, “I knew it! I knew you were his lover!”
She almost fall over at his words. Her entire face burned a bright shade of red. Now I know who started those ludicrous rumors!
“He is not my lover!” she snapped as the old man chuckled and just scratched his head unaware of what he had said to make the young girl angry.
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            Rin arrived back at the shack. She couldn’t get those words out of her head the entire way. Lord Sesshomaru, her lover? Her heart somersaulted in her chest. A-Un bellowed from the tree he stood, grazing on the grass. She went up to him and rubbed both his heads.
“Rin!” she heard Jaken yell excitedly with Lord Sesshomaru walking beside him. They arrived from the road opposite of the shack and the village. Jaken carried a small cloth bag over his shoulder.
“Rin, shouldn’t you be resting?” Lord Sesshomaru asked as they reached the entrance of the shack.
She smiled unable to meet his gaze, “Yes my lord. I was planning on laying down soon”
Lord Sesshomaru nodded, a small tilt of the head. He was about to enter the rickety wooden adobe when she stopped him, “My lord. I wanted to tell you something.”
He turned to her, “What is it?”
“I...I might have promised the villagers we might---um—you, would, um, help them in building...”
The more she continued the less confident she felt in finishing the sentence as Sesshomaru’s eyes began narrowing in impatience, “their huts!” She blurted out finally.
“You did what?”
She chuckled nervously getting closer to A-Un.
“You believe those humans took you under their care because of the kindness of their heart, you foolish girl.” He said harshly
“They only helped you because of the gold milord threw at them!” Jaken asserted her shaking his staff in emphasis.
She gripped A-Un’s reigns instantly feeling stupid. She looked at the grass. She jumped slightly when she heard his deep voice again.
“Never speak on my behalf again, Rin” He cautioned her “Is that understood?”
“Yes, my lord.” She answered, “I just wanted to thank them, that’s all.”
That night Rin couldn’t help but stare up at the ceiling. His words echoed in her head, you believe those humans took you under their care because of the kindness of their heart… No. She didn’t believe that at all. She knew that not everyone did things out of kindness. She had witnessed so many evil things in her life that she didn’t doubt the dark nature in the human heart. She felt a rush of emotions strain her heart. What happened in your life to surround yourself with demons? She began remembering her mother and father. How her mother tried to hide her and her brothers when those bandits ravished their small village. Then she remembered how Kouga’s wolves devoured her. What would be of her life if she had never met Lord Sesshomaru? With a silent tear escaping her eyes, she finally turned over in the futon as much as the pain would allow and closed her eyes, unaware that Lord Sesshomaru’s golden gaze had been fixed on her.
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            Rin woke up to the sound of screaming, but it didn’t sound like the helpless sound of someone in danger. It sounded different, excited even. Either way, she stood up wincing in dense pain. She patted down her coarse bed hair and ran out of the shack in her pink silk kimono. A-Un, nor Jaken, nor Lord Sesshomaru were anywhere to be found. She finally made it past the village to the rice fields where she saw a group of villagers huddled together whispering to each other. She squeezed by them to see the unthinkable! Lord Sesshomaru was building their homes! A-Un carried wood on his back, and Lord Sesshomaru’s long white hair was wrapped in a high pony tail, his face focused. Ignoring the gawking human faces. He looked as elegant and stoic as always. Her heart fluttered as she saw him. He slammed the nail inside the wood with the palm of his hand. He was working on the last house! He was probably hoping he could build them before people noticed him. She couldn’t believe he had actually done it!
“He is so fast!”
“He is so strong!”
“He is so mighty!”
She heard the villagers murmur energetically. Rin looked up at him in awe and amazement. Then his eyes settled on her for an instant. His beautiful golden eyes in acknowledgement and then he frowned. It took Rin a second to realize that, that frown wasn’t directed at her.
“Hiiii!!!” A small little girl waved coming to the front of the group of villagers. It was little Keiko, “Thank youuuu!!!” Her little voice continued with a bright toothy smile that had a couple of teeth missing. The admiration was obvious in her big brown eyes and blushing face. He is so beautiful!! Her thoughts echoed in her childish mind. Keiko continued waving at him, even after he had turned away, with her wooden doll up in the air.
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My Lord Sesshomaru