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A/N: This is my first Fanfic here. Please reveiw and tell me if there's something that I can improve on. If anyone wants to be my beta on this, then just tell me. I think I would love you forever.
Cracked Ice
Prologue
"Sesshoumaru don't!" The taiyoukai frowned at his brother's mate, blood leaking from a slash on her cheek, and quite battered. His eyes slid to the hanyou supporting her. Many had been injured in the final battle with Naraku. Not just her.
He looked down at the broken body of the young woman who he had realized too late he loved. She had leaped in front of him to shield him from the blast that would have surely killed him.
Sesshoumaru slid tensuaiga from its sheath.
"Her mind… her very soul has been raped, Sesshoumaru! Let her die!" The purple-clad monk pleaded, as he held the unconscious demon slayer close.
"She will not be the Rin you knew!"
He bared his teeth at the motley bunch. His eyes returned sadly to the young woman as he watched soul collectors come to collect the shredded soul of love lost.
With a hardening face, he readied the blade.
"Sesshoumaru! So help me, I know what it's like to have a woman with a raped soul after you!" InuYasha yelled at his older brother. "Don't do it!"
But the foolish taiyoukai paid no mind. Not this time, and slashed away the small demons. The girl's body visibly jerked as her raped soul re-entered her body, and she opened sightless eyes burning with pain.
"Rin." He said softly, falling to his knee in the bloody mud beside her. He gently picked up the girl, and she turned her head to him, hair hanging loosely across her face.
"You should have let me die." She said, with a hollow voice from deep in her throat, and she struggled against his strong hold. Shock made her able to slide from his grip. She began to run, with an almost inhuman speed. Sesshoumaru prepared to run after her but was tackled from behind.
He struggled against his younger brother's strength, but then a great Neko youkai settled their weight against him, and a human male joined the 'dog pile' until he could not struggle. He watched her disappear, and he smelled her scent cut off.
"NO!" He growled, beginning to grow into his demonic form, but a sizzling arrow streaked across his back, making him return to human form. "No! RIN!" He screamed into the heavens as the girl disappeared to him.
