Me: Hi, everyone! I'm back!

Inuyasha: Oh, no….Here we go again…

Me: Gee, that isn't very nice…

Inuyasha: What are going to do to Kagome this time? Demon? Poison? Kill her?

Me: Oh, silly! I'd never kill her! I think….And this story isn't about Kagome anyway…

Inuyasha and Kagome: *sighs in relief*

Kagome: Wait. If this story isn't about me, then who is it about?

Me: The only other human female out there that has a very trying relationship with a demon!

Kagome *getting the hint* Oh. Good for her then! I think. I hope…

Inuyasha: Who is it?

Me: *ignoring Inuyasha* Will someone please do the honors?

Kagome: *pulling Inuyasha off by the ear* She owns nothing!

Inuyasha: Ow, ow, Ooooooowwww!

Me: By the way, for a warning, this is mature themed for a reason. If you are against, stay away. On with the story!

The sun was beginning to set on an unnaturally cool summer day. An orange hue cascaded down into the green grass, making it turn a reddish color. As the day turned in to night, the crisp sounds of creatures settling in to bed were interrupted by a girl's laughter.

She was picking flowers of blue, yellow, and gold and giggling to herself. Finally finding herself with enough flowers, she ran to where a green imp was standing, impatiently mumbling to himself.

"Look, master Jaken! Look at all the pretty flowers! Do you think Lord Sesshomaru will like them?" At this the little imp turned red and hopped up and down. "Lord Sesshomaru is a great demon lord! Of course he doesn't want your flowers! What are you thinking, girl? What I ought to-"

"Jaken." Jaken froze in mid hop. He wasn't even able to turn around as Lord Sesshomaru pounded his head before he could even move. "Forgive me, me lord," he said with a twitch.

Lord Sesshomaru walked up to Rin who was on the verge of tears. "Rin, stop crying." Rin blinked her eyes a couple times to suck back in the unshed tears and nodded. "Yes, milord." She smiled up at him with a big smile, though not quite meeting her eyes this time, and Sesshomaru knew that what Jaken had said would truly weigh on her mind if he did not accept her gift.

Sighing inwardly, Lord Sesshomaru looked down at the girl before him. "Rin, I hear you have a gift for me?" Rin hesitantly nodded and shakily handed him the flowers she had picked, only giving him the best ones. Sesshomaru looked at the flowers in his hand. He knew he had to say something or risk hurting her feelings again.

Thinking back, Lord Sesshomaru never thought he would never see the day that he himself would care about a human's feelings. But times have changed. He had already accepted that he cared for the girl. He had rescued her before, many times. He had brought her back to life. The only question was why. Why did he care for the girl? It didn't make any sense to him that he would care for a human child. He protected her more than he protected Jaken. Sure, she was more fragile than Jaken was. But there was something different about here that he couldn't seem to leave behind in a human village. Even after he left her with Kaede, when she had grown enough, he had asked her to make the choice and she chose him. And he had not been frustrated about having to protect her all over again. He had been….relieved?

"Lord Sesshomaru?" The white-haired demon looked down at the young girl. Oh right, she was waiting for a response to whether or not he liked the gift. "Very nice, Rin," Sesshomaru said before tucking the flowers in to his kimono and turning around, walking in the opposite direction. Rin smiled and laughed enthusiastically, following him. Jaken got up shortly after. "W-wait for me, my lord!" He scuttled after the two in his haste, forgetting about the nasty lump on his head.

It was nearly pitch dark when Sesshomaru stopped and turned to Jaken. "Stay here with Rin." "But my lord-" He caught an icy stare from his lord and shut up immediately, sitting down next to Rin and A-Un.

Sesshomaru walked in to the trees, leaving them behind. The forest was quiet and the trees swayed about peacefully. The light of the waxing moon was their only light as the stars had not yet made their presence known.

"I'm hungry," Rin said with a sigh. "Stay here," Jaken ordered. "It is too dark to be hunting for food." "Well, if lord Sesshomaru was here, he would tell you to get me some food." Jaken was taken aback. He turned dangerously red. "T-that only happened once and it was because we were in a place where you could not hunt for your own food." "And what does this look like, master Jaken? You say I cannot hunt for my own food in the dark. So you have no choice but to get it for me." "You impudent girl. I am a demon! I would never hunt for a human girl unless lord Sesshomaru personally asked me!"

Jaken turned around in a huff. There was silence. When he looked back, the girl was gone. Jaken let at a small shriek. "Oh, no! Lord Sesshomaru will kill me if I let anything happen to Rin!" He got up and took off, leaving A-Un to snore peacefully away.

Rin walked through the forest, searching for mushrooms and calmly singing to herself. Who cares what Jaken thought? She was hungry and if he didn't feed her, she would feed herself. Being with lord Sesshomaru for so long, she didn't like relying on others to feed her in the first place. She liked finding her own food. It was like a small adventure just for her!

She saw a little streak of red out of the corner of her eye. "Ah! My favorite kind of mushroom!" She didn't see the figure behind her until it was too late.

Jaken walked through the wilderness with worry. If he didn't find Rin soon, she would likely be eaten by a monster! He shuddered at the thought of telling Sesshomaru that Rin was no longer alive and it was his fault.

A scream broke the silence and pierced the air. Jaken ran towards it in fear. It was Rin's scream! He ran as fast as he could, hoping he was going in the right direction. It seemed to come from everywhere and the echoes in the forest were certainly not helping any. How he wished he had his lord's hearing at a time like this!

Rin was forced up against a large tree, the man's hand on her throat. "Why, aren't you a pretty little thing? Are you lost?" Rin struggled to answer. "No. I was picking mushrooms for my supper. I was waiting for my lord to return."

The man smirked and let her fall to the ground. "Your lord, huh? I'm more man than he'll ever be, letting a pretty girl you wander off by herself. There are dangerous creatures out here. You're lucky I got here before they did."

He caressed her face and went down to cup her left breast. "Yeah…I bet you're just gorgeous underneath these clothes." Rin looked him the eyes, no fear in them. "Lord Sesshomaru will save me."

"Hah, him and what army?" Rin glowered at him but said nothing, biding her time. This was the first time she was able to get a look at the men. He was a large man with large biceps and wash-board abs and tan skin. His face had a gruff appearance, light markings of a beard trailing his skin. He had a scar over each eye and his short brown hair was pulled back in to a pony tail. His smirk was a look of pure desire and evil, all in one, and Rin's stomach fought with disgust at the idea of him touching her.

"Hah, I knew it. He's too weak to defeat me!" The man took her silence and a sign of defeat and forced his lips on to hers. Rin fought to push him away, but he pushed harder up against her, squeezing her left breast to the point of pain. "Ooooomffff! Ooooooooomfffff!" She tried to call out but couldn't and he took this opportunity to force his tongue in to her mouth.

She bit down as hard as she could until she tasted blood in her mouth. "Lord Sesshomaru!" she yelled at the top of her lungs, before being slapped to the ground, hard enough to knock the breath out of her.

Somewhere, miles away, Sesshomaru dispatched a demon with one final swipe of his blade. A flash went through his mind and he suddenly felt Rin call out his name. He was much too far away to hear her, so he took it as his imagination. But his instincts told him that something was off and should return as quickly as possible.

Rin fell down hard. And that's when the beating started. She was kicked and punched over and over again. She tried to cover herself for the most part, but he would just move her hands and hit her harder. He hit her in the head, in the eyes, in the nose, in the mouth, in the throat, in the chest, in the stomach, in her most private areas, all over really.

When he was done he spit on her. "That's what you get for biting me, bitch." With that, he ripped of her clothing, shredding it and leaving her stark naked. Through the pain, she covered herself the best she could, rolling in to a ball. "That ain't gonna work, bitch," he said as he stretched her out and tied her arms to a nearby tree, leaving her dangling helplessly. "Lord Sesshomaru…." She whispered his name helplessly as the man began to roughly kiss her neck.

When Sesshomaru got back camp, all he found was A-Un. He picked up the trace of Rin and Jaken quite easily and followed them, noticing they went separate directions. He picked up his pace and ended up running in to a bumbling Jaken. "My lord!" "Jaken, where is Rin? Why is she not with you?" Jaken shrank back. "My lord! Rin went off on her own to search for food! I tried to tell here to stay her but-" Jaken stopped midsentence. His lord was gone and he was left all alone again.

Sesshomaru picked up the pace. His instincts had told him Rin was in danger yet he had ignored them. Sniffing her scent he knew he was getting closer.

Rin struggled against her binds, wanting to be free of them. "You bitch, stay still." The gruff man hit her once over the side of her head and it was lights out as she fell unconscious. The man chuckled. "At least you won't be struggling against me, now will you?" He positioned himself at her entrance.

Just as he was about to plunge himself inside her, a flash of light whipped between he and the girl. He watched in slow motion as the whip returned to its owner and his penis was seared right off. "Aaaaah!" the man screamed, falling to the ground.

The owner in question was a tall white-haired man garbed in white with two swords at his hip. "Die," said Sesshomaru before ripping the man to pieces with his poison whip.

Sesshomaru walked over to a naked Rin. Ignoring her naked body, he looked at the bruising on her stomach and all around her face and truly felt sorry for her. He felt sorry that he had not arrived in time to prevent it from happening. He was sorry that she would have to face the sure-to-be nightmares of almost being raped. For the first time in his life, Sesshomaru was truly sorry. He took off his kimono and rapped in around the naked girl. When she was to awaken, he wanted her to awaken with dignity.

He took her in to his arms and touched her face gently, careful of the swelling already present. He knew he had to take her to a healer but he wasn't that fond of human villagers. It was then that Sesshomaru remembered that they weren't that far from Inuyasha's village. He lived now with his wife, Kagome. And Kagome was a healer. He didn't care to say he trusted anyone. But she was one of the closest people he could come to trusting when it comes to healing. Kaede also lived there as well, but she was getting old in years and passed the torch down to her young apprentice.

He took off in a fly, caring Rin in his arms. Rin was injured on the outside but he had to make sure she wasn't injured on the inside.

Kagome was picking herbs in the field like usual when a gust overcame her. As it settled, she looked up and saw none other than a half-naked Sesshomaru, carrying his kimono, in front of her. Inuyasha was at her side at an instant. "What the hell are you doing here?" Sesshomaru inwardly sighed. He had to be straight to the point. Rin's life could be at stake. "Little brother. Rin is hurt. I came to see if your….mate will help." Kagome pushed past Inuyasha. "Of course I will. Where is she?"

This is when Sesshomaru uncovered the kimono from Rin's face that was shielding out the night air and Kagome gasped. She only saw her face, but it was swollen and bruises were starting to show. "Who-?" Kagome started to ask but cut herself off. "No, more important is to get her inside. Follow me." Kagome ran off towards her house where treatments at the village were done now. She knew he could track her sent if they got separated, knowing he wouldn't as he quickly kept pace with her, seemingly walking at the same pace as she was running. Inuyasha quietly followed, mumbling about demons getting in his house and messing up the scent.

Once inside, Kagome carefully took Rin from Sesshomaru and placed her on a futon she had reserved for visitors that needed healing. By then, Inuyasha had arrived. Kagome evaluated her face but quickly realized if her face was this extreme, her body would have even more distress and she had to look for signs of internal bleeding. The young priestess looked up at the two brothers. "Would you two mind waiting outside? I have to take the kimono off of Rin to assess her situation. Sesshomaru gave her a hardened stare and walked outside. Inuyasha groaned slightly, kissed Kagome on the cheek, and hopped out the door with his brother. "Try not to kill each other!" Kagome shouted after them.

Kagome went right to work, gently taking off the kimono she was wrapped up in and laying it beside her. Kagome gasped. There was bruising everywhere. Even her private areas were swollen. Kagome gulped down a thought. Was she raped? She went to work, pressing on the swollen areas and moving them apart to make sure there was no internal bleeding. Finding none as of yet, she went to work blending herbs for the swelling and bruising.

Inuyasha stood rigidly outside with Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru was being his quiet self, looking at the sky. But his eyes betrayed him every now and then. Inuyasha couldn't tell what he saw in Sesshomaru's eyes every time the emotion flashed by, but he could sense it was about Rin.

Sesshomaru was the one to break the silence. "Little brother. What makes you love humans? Why would you shame our line by sticking by a human?" Inuyasha was shocked when he heard what Sesshomaru asked and was about to retort when he caught Sesshomaru's gaze. It wasn't of malice or hatred of…a need. Like the answer was important to him somehow.

"I don't love all humans. I've only ever loved three. The first was my mother. She always loved me for who I was and I loved her just the same. Then there was Kikyo. She loved me and I loved her. But she didn't accept all of me. She only wanted me if I was human. Since she didn't trust me and I didn't trust her to the full extent that we should have, we ended up falling victim to Naraku's trap. Then there's Kagome. Kagome accepted me for who I was no matter if I was human, demon, or half-demon. Unlike my mother, she fought for me and trampled over those who did not believe in me. Unlike Kikyo, she wanted all of me. I can be truly happy with her. I can be myself with her. I don't care what my line of blood says because she's the only family I need. If you say you are not my brother because of her, who needs you? That doesn't matter, though, seeing as how you've rejected me already for being a half-breed." Inuyasha laughed wryly. "Those who want me, want me and those who don't, don't. If they don't accept that I'm in love with a human, who cares? She's my mate. I love her."

Sesshomaru looked off in to the distance, away from his brother. This was some of what he felt too. Had he fallen in love with a human girl as well? No, it was impossible! He, lord Sesshomaru, did not fall in love so easily! And yet when he thought back at all the happiness she had given him, he felt a sorrow in his heart. He wanted to return the happiness so bad he ached.

Kagome appeared from the doorway. "I've patched up Rin the best I could. She should stay here for a couple more days so that I can keep an eye on her. You can come see her now if you want." Sesshomaru nodded and went inside, Kagome opting to stay outside.

He went to the fragile girl's side and knelt by her. She was wrapped in a blanket and bandaged up quite nicely. He swore to himself. He had to stop leaving her alone with Jaken. The imp did not watch her enough to be responsible for her.

"L-Lord Ses-sesshomaru?" Sesshomaru's eyes darted to the girl and saw that her eyes were open. She smiled weakly and tried to sit up but he pushed her back down gently. "Rest," he said. She hesitantly nodded and sighed, laying back down. Her back hurt laying down again and she let out a moan. Suddenly, the events of what had happened last night were upon her.

She cried out and Sesshomaru was instantly beside her, holding her. She was by then curled in a tight ball and trembling. Inuyasha and Kagome ran inside when she screamed. Seeing the situation, Kagome almost got up the courage to speak when Inuyasha spoke first.

"Sesshomaru. Was she raped? I can smell another man's stench all over her." Inuyasha growled slightly and looked at Rin, who had grown quiet, looking for answers too.

"No," he said. "The bastard who tried is dead." Kagome moved her hands to her mouth and Inuyasha let out a low growl in response. "I hope you made him suffer." Sesshomaru let out a rare smile. "I did."

With that, Inuyasha walked back out, seeing no threat. Kagome hung back, not sure what to do, but decided to give them some privacy on a hunch. Once they were out the door, Rin started trembling again. Sesshomaru held her tighter in his arms and cautiously rested his chin on her head. Rin had on a simple white kimono now and she looked like a small snowball and she curled up on Sesshomaru's lap. "My lord, I was so scared. I screamed for you, but you wouldn't come. Lord Jaken didn't come either."

Tears were streaming down her eyes now and he wasn't sure what to do. He didn't want to tell her to stop crying. That somehow…seemed wrong. But what to do. She suddenly looked up at him with tear filled eyes. "I'm so glad you came to save me milord. I'm glad my virtue was not stolen." She smiled up and him and shivered again as he ran his hand down her back in an up and down motion. He felt his heart stutter has she looked up at him and smiled, even in how much pain she was in. He would do anything to make it better. He looked down at her and it was like gravity was pulling him closer to her face.

He got closer and closer and suddenly his lips were pressing against hers. She froze for a moment and then started kissing him back. He cupped her bruised face gently and pushed himself in to the kiss. She ran her fingers through his hair and moaned in to his mouth. He broke the kiss with a sigh.

Rin looked up at her lord with a look of love in her eyes. Before she could say anything, he pressed his finger to her lips. "It is time for you to get some rest."

Rin groaned and scooted out of his lap to the futon. Sesshomaru stood up and looked down at her, holding her hand limply. "It seems…I have developed one of father's more unusual traits."

Rin smiled. It was all she needed to here.

Me: And then they all died! Muahaha!

Inuyasha and Kagome: ….

Me: I'm just kidding! So what'd you think?

Sesshomaru: *Deadly stare*

Me: Well, Sesshomaru didn't like it. Didn't think he would.

Rin: I liked it!

Me: Of course you did Rin! That's why I love you! *gives Rin a cookie*

Shippo: Review!