A Light to Live For
By ArtOFAnime
Summary: Rin is a girl turned woman. When Naraku kidnaps her, and wants her to be his mate, Rin uncovers a deep secret about him. What about Sesshomaru and Kohaku? A weird love square all revolved around Rin. .S/R.
Rated: T.
Disclaimer: DO-NOT-OWN-NADA…gosh…
A/N: Just telling you guys this, the episode where Rin gets captured by Naraku never happened. Everyone is still hunting down Naraku after all these years and Kohaku is freed from Naraku's control too. Also, I got some of my ideas from Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya.
It has been about thirteen years since Rin found Sesshomaru in the forest. She had loyally traveled by his side with Jaken ever since. Now, in her late teens, Rin was a woman. A very beautiful, active, and determined woman. She was shorter than Sesshomaru by a head, which was pretty average for a girl her age. At the moment, she had on a red and silver kimono, which the sleeves were baggy like Sesshomaru's for air. Jaken was mumbling to himself like usual, and Sesshomaru, in all his glory was walking full of pride in front of them.
"Umm… Sorry, but where are we going? We have been walking; well at least it seems, aimlessly for the past few days." Rin asked Sesshomaru. She had noticed her 'adult' attraction to him now, and wondered how long it would last. When she found him in the forest, she found him very pretty and thought of him as an angel without wings. Now, instead of admiring or idolizing him, like she did before, fawning over him like Jaken did, she felt something different. Yes, she still admired him, but she began to notice his beauty and grace every time he did something. She began to notice that whenever he looked at, her face flushed. So, one time when Sesshomaru went to Inuyasha's gang in the village to do something, she asked Kagome what the feeling was. Kagome had told her that it was something girls feel when they are in love. Girls feel that way because they begin mature, and see things in a different perspective. Well, back to the present, Sesshomaru still hadn't answered Rin. She 'hmphed', but kept on walking.
It was starting to get late, so they set up camp in a small clearing near a river, caught some fish, and found other things to eat. Sesshomaru was currently sitting on top of branch on a tree. He seemed to be deep in though for some reason. Rin thought of offering him food, but thought of all the other times he was offered: "Rin, I do not eat that food." She finished her meal, and went to sleep along with Jaken.
She awoke in the morning to the sound of screaming or arguing.
"Inuyasha! You are such a jerk! Don't make me say it!" That Rin thought, was Kagome's voice. Somewhere else, a slap could be heard.
"You damn pervert!!!" Yup, that was Sango's voice, yelling at that perverted monk. Rin glanced at Sesshomaru, and saw him growling from the disturbance of his sleeping. He jumped down from his branch and glared at the incoming group.
Inuyasha diverted his attention from arguing with Kagome to Sesshomaru, "Sesshomaru! What are you doing here?"
"I should be asking you the same thing," Sesshomaru replied.
"Rin! Hi! I haven't seen you in a while, wow, you look so big now!" Kagome shouted as she waved to Rin.
"Hello!" Rin called back as she scanned the group. Everyone was there, but she noticed a boy that she had never seen before with them.
"Oh, sorry I didn't introduce you earlier. Rin, this is Kohaku, my younger brother." Sango said looking towards Kohaku and Rin. Kohaku looked like an average boy, with his hair tied back. He was taller than her, but still shorter than Sesshomaru. When he waved at Rin, she saw a cute smile, like that of a little boy smiling to his mother.
Getting out of her daze Rin replied, "Nice to meet you". Meanwhile, Sesshomaru and Inuyasha dissed each other while giving glares.
"Feh! This is dumb, c'mon you guys, lets go." So as Inuyasha commanded, the gang followed. Kohaku gave Rin that sweet smile again. And Rin smiled back too. Sesshomaru, however, was looking at them at the corner of his eye. He felt something in his chest, something that never happened to him before; considering he never felt ANYTHING before. Rin then turn her head and smiled her sweet smile at him. Sesshomaru looked back, but quickly looked away. He wondered what was happening to him, ever since Rin had grown up; he had this weird feeling in his chest.
They kept walking for a few days until they heard about an attack by Naraku. They arrive at a village to find it in flames, obviously attacked by Naraku.
"Uh! Naraku, that evil creep. Killing all the innocent people in that village; one day, you're going to pay." Rin said angrily.
"There's nothing left here, let's go," Sesshomaru commanded as the others followed. A few days passed since they saw the village and Inuyasha's gang. With each coming day, the two hearts of Sesshomaru and Rin began to think the same thing. Rin avoided looking at him, as the same with him.
"Why the silence? You two are surely avoiding each other. Mmm… Could it be that you two… 'like' each other? Haha, Sesshomaru, never thought it could be, falling in love with a human? Hahaha. Well I don't blame you, such a pretty girl," Rin's head jerked up at the last statement.
Sesshomaru sniffed the air, "Naraku…"