Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.
A/N: I am a great fan of Sessh/Rin but is my first fanfic on them! I've been toying with this idea for a long time but really got busy with exams, the other Inu/Kag fic and one shot bug that has bitten me quite hard! So finally, here is a one shot for Sessh and Rin, which is actually a prequel to a full fledged fic I will be writing. If you like this, then sure add this to your alert list so you can read it once I post my first chapter.
His black heart
Kagura sighed in pleasure as she braced her hands against Sesshoumaru's naked chest, her head cushioned by them. She was reveling after that climax; in fact series of climax, of careful loving Sesshoumaru had shown her. He was gentle to her nowadays.
"Are you happy?" She asked, ever so lightly rubbing against him. She felt a deep rumble in his chest and she looked at him, smile in her eyes yet her lips, a definite line. She saw a slight crinkle in his eyes and knew there was slight amusement in his eyes.
His hands drifted to her belly and he spread his fingers, his palm feeling the life growing inside her. No, he didn't feel happy. Those were human emotions and it was beneath him. What he felt was a grim satisfaction of being one step ahead of his great father.
He was son of InuTaisho, the big business magnate, a well established and powerful dog demon. He would have had all the glory if only he hadn't made the mistake of taking a human for a wife after Sesshoumaru's mother's death. Even if it was a good five years later!
But Sesshoumaru was careful not to make that mistake. He steered away from humans; they were so weak and fragile, greedy and grabbing. And selfish too. He had yet to meet a so called 'human' among them. They considered themselves God's greatest creations. His lips twisted in derision.
Not that he ever showed his intimate feelings. Their exact hypocritical nature had made them the dominant species of the earth. He was careful to school his feelings and the fact there were hanyous and humans in his company proved that fact. He had adapted to the times but the aversion toward humans was still there, deep inside him.
He had Kagura, the perfect woman, a wind demon, pure blooded demon! She was from a very influential family and he would make her his wife soon, now that she was pregnant with his pup. An heir to the West Empire. His son.
Sesshoumaru closed his eyes. He felt Kagura's expectant gaze on him and grunted a non-committal response.
Kagura frowned. In all the time she'd known him, he spoke little, when necessary. Of course, sex was explosive; it went with taiyoukai's image. He was a magnificent creature, tall, dangerously handsome and a lean, well toned body. He never showed any emotion but if you cared enough to look into his eyes, really knew him, which consisted a very few you could count; it might just show what he felt.
It was the controlled power, leashed sexual magnetism that attracted many women, demons and humans alike, toward him. That earned an awed respect from men.
And as for Kagura, she called it sheer A.M. Animal Magnetism. He was wild beneath that cold, disciplined exterior.
But before she could voice her feelings, Sesshoumaru started to speak!
"It makes this Sesshoumaru proud, Kagura, for you will give me a son. Heir to everything I own. This Sesshoumaru shall make you very happy indeed." He said, in the same cold voice, devoid of emotions and Kagura frowned even more.
"What if it is going to be a daughter?" She asked, forcing cheerful tone.
Sesshoumaru looked at her and the look chilled her to the bone.
"It will be a son." He declared and Kagura had to smile, her eyes downcast.
She didn't want this. She wanted more from him. Love and affection. What was she to him? The sex was great and but she couldn't help feeling that she was a blue blooded demon, just a perfect womb to create a perfect son.
Suddenly, his cell phone buzzed and he got up to reach it. Kagura plopped down on the bed, her face buried in the pillow.
Okay, she really wished it was a girl! Just to spite him!
Someday, someone should teach him a lesson; she mused and clenched her fists. She thought she would be the one, what with being a wind demon and daughter of the big, dark and dangerous Naraku, but no! It had right back at her face; she was the one who fell even faster than a pack of cards for him, loving him in her own way!
"Connect me to her, right now!" Sesshoumaru said and Kagura looked up. His voice had grown colder. Was it a 'her' he wanted to speak to?
Sesshoumaru looked at his side and that was a sign he'd be gone. Kagura but her lips and she wanted to shout at him. He couldn't even look at her and say he'd be gone for a while! But she noticed a sense of tension, anger even in his slightly taut frame.
She acted as if she were fixing a drink and tried to listen.
"This is Sesshoumaru West. Higurashi?" He asked in a cold authoritative voice.
On the other end, a boy spoke.
"Yes. Higurashi residence. Whom do you want to speak to?" The boy asked and Sesshoumaru was irritated. Was there another Higurashi, beside the slut that had ensnared his hanyou brother, further polluting the blood line! Her name was Kagome and there was another, R.Higurashi, who was helping the 'much in love couple', whom he had to show his place! Another grabbing human, no doubt!
"R. Higurashi." He replied in the same emotionless tone, although he was a little pissed at answering questions. People answered him not he unless it was a press conference or a board meeting!
"R.Higurashi? Sorry, not available. If you leave your number..." The boy was rambling when Sesshoumaru got another message from his P.A. Which used to Kagome Higurashi. Ever since her engagement had been announced, she'd stopped working for Sesshoumaru, of course, he'd fired her.
He had pulled many strings to stop this ridiculous charade but Inuyasha and Kagome stayed together, thanks to this mysterious R.Higurashi.
Now, he was putting up with the seventh temp in three months since Kagome had walked out of his room, with her tear filled eyes. She had been one of the best workers he'd had, he admitted grudgingly. But of course, even if she didn't know herself, he knew she was not ordinary and so did Inuyasha. She was a miko with her powers still dormant. By the way she was, he also knew she didn't even know of her powers!
"Yes?" He asked and the news that she gave him made him jump out of his sitting posture and start wearing clothes.
"Where are you going?" Kagura asked, she was herself dressed in a leggings and a loose shirt. Classy, yet comfortable.
"To meet the elusive Higurashi." He said as he walked past her to the door.
Kagura's brows rose as she assessed this answer. Higurashi?
The beast, Sesshoumaru, had slandered poor Kagome yesterday. She remembered it. Inuyasha had had a business call suddenly and had to leave to attend to it. Kagura knew it was all Sesshoumaru's game. And then, he'd wounded the cheery little scrap of a woman and shred her.
All with his cold words and emotionless face. Kagome had tried to bear it all but she put up a brave facade before trying to give him back as good as she got. But against Sesshoumaru...it was hopeless. Kagura had seriously started to reconsider her relation with Sesshoumaru yesterday. If only he hadn't made love to her that night. It had been...assertive! That she belonged to him along with the life that was growing inside her.
And now, the other Higurashi was here. Kagura almost ran after Sesshoumaru despite her clothing!
Sesshoumaru went down and found the cafe where he was supposed to meet this R.Higurashi.
He swept his eyes all over the café and his mouth tightened. And as if drawn to a magnet like an iron filing, his eyes went back and rested on a girl, no more than twenty sipping coffee, her hair so short that you would mistake her for a boy if it weren't for the wisps that fell on her cheeks that made that style...somehow feminine. She had a determined look on her face and she had a bag near her that had logo of some University. She was dressed in casual jean and her top was white with flowery patterns and it had a transparent neckline. To his dismay, he found his eyes lingering on her face and looking once over, briefly resting on the area below her neckline that promised to show but actually didn't.
Then her eyes swung to him and he saw her take a sharp breath. Her eyes widened and some sort of recognition dawned. There was no mistaking the teenage fascination but it was gone after a few seconds that made the sparking interest a shadow of doubt. He didn't even want to analyze his feelings. She got up and walked toward him purposefully.
"Mr. West. I am Rin Higurashi, soon to be sister-in-law of Inuyasha." She said and suddenly her face broke into a dazzling smile that outshone the sun!
Rin looked at this demon and couldn't help the twist in her stomach. No, scrap that. There were several knots by now. She knew someone was watching her but she was not prepared to see him, his eyes so intent on her. And so intimidating. He was undoubtedly, the most beautiful man he'd ever seen. 'Beautiful' being the keyword here. She came nowhere near him in the looks department, she was sure. She was just over rawed by his sheer sex appeal, even if he seemed to be a perfect example of iceberg in any of the arctic circles!
He was standing there like a beast who was keeping everything under brutal control, hidden under the decorum of fine clothes and class his personality so nicely exuded! And one look at his deep amber eyes, his ling silver mane, his demon marks, she knew this was the man she wanted.
And that had wiped that awed look in her eyes.
She recalled how Kagome had cried, silently though, and she'd worked hard to get it out of her. Then she'd rung Inuyasha and demanded an explanation and fired him anyway because he'd left his fiancée to the...'beast' of a brother! Alone!
There was always a call waiting for her when she used to attend her lectures and it was from the West Company and she'd call back Inuyasha only to find out it wasn't him. And now she knew who wanted to speak to her.
If he was surprised, he didn't show.
Without any preamble, he said, "Stay away from Inuyasha. You and your grabbing sister."
Rin almost choked at those words. It had been silent, distant, yet menacing and had a threatening undertone. No wonder Kagome had been a mess when she'd come home. Kagome and Souta meant a lot to her, they were her world. She was adopted as a child and since Souta was almost her age, he'd been her best friend and after their mother's death, Kagome had completely replaced their mother with quite an ease. Kagome was more of a mother to both her and Souta.
And then Inuyasha had come, although it was an awkward start, he had finally warmed to the two kids and he doted on them. And to an impressionable nineteen year old like her and Souta, he was easily placed on the 'male figure' aka father pedestal easily.
And she found it funny when he referred to her as 'pup' but now it warmed her all the way to her toes!
It was only yesterday that she'd shouted at him even when Souta had been mad at her for that.
"Well, I am elder to you by two weeks and don't forget that!" She'd screamed at him too.
All because of this taiyoukai in front of her.
The emotions he brought out from her even if he hadn't been there, overwhelmed her.
"Maybe we could sit and have a decent discussion or argument?" She snapped, her lips frozen in a fixed smile, her voice sugary.
Suddenly, she noticed a very beautiful woman who seemed reluctant but looking at both of them with an unreadable expression on her face.
"That is out of question. This is all I wanted to say. It is beneath me to threaten but I really want your influences removed from my brother's life." He said again, his eyes boring into hers.
"Ha! First of all my sister is not grabbing and selfish, Mr. West. And if you so want us away from your brother, why don't you try keeping him from us?" she shot back, her voice a harsh whisper since they were drawing interested and curious glances their way. The dark haired, scarlet eyed beauty was slowly making toward them. She recognized her alright! Kagura Onigumo, the famous model, Sesshoumaru West's current muse!
"I don't have any say in that half breed's affairs. Although when it concerns my father's legacy and his properties, I have..." He was cut short.
"Half breed? No wonder he has never spoken about you. You just call him your brother when you don't really give a damn about him, do you? Just because he fell in love with an ordinary P.A, not to mention human, you are all worked up, because he seems to be threatening your inetrests! Have you really taken a look at him? He has grown in public eye all of his life and I have seen the indifferent Inuyasha. Now? Do you see how he looks? He is alive for the first time and you are talking about...about money?" She finally raised her voice and Kagura was standing next to him with her eyes shocked to see her.
"Useless human sentiments. There is nothing called love, it is just a sexual itch, hormones and chemicals, really, purely physical. It never is pleasant and it never works between demons and humans." Sesshoumaru said, as if delivering a report on a mundane subject!
She chanced a look at Kagura and felt pity as she saw the pained look on the beautiful face.
"What you mean to say is Kagome is not suitable wife material...no...mother material when it comes to the West family?" She asked and Sesshoumaru's eyes chilled even more.
This scrap of a girl was getting under his nerves like no other ever had!
"Precisely. You seem smarter than your elder sister, girl. So you will see sense and take whatever you want to get out of his life. What is the price for your sister and...if I may ask, yours too?" Sesshoumaru cut in smoothly, his voice ever so steady and deep as he reached for the cheque-book inside his coat.
Even if he was demon with lightning reflexes, he hadn't anticipated that from a human!
It stung slightly and Kagura gasped beside him as the girl in front of him nursed her hand with which she'd slapped him! Her chocolate brown eyes were brimming with unshed tears and they were spitting fire.
His eyes turned red for a split second and his fingers glowed green with the poison whip when he felt Kagura's restraining hands on his back. It was a reflex action.
"Do you think we are so cheap that you could buy us? Let me tell you, you couldn't afford it! And tell you what? I will dance with you, the best man, as the bridesmaid in their wedding three weeks from now. There is just no way, anything or anyone can stop this wedding from taking place. Not you, not your filthy, stinking money or damned racist thoughts!" She said as she staggered back a little, at her own outburst.
Then she looked at Kagura and managed a brave, wavering smile.
"I pity you, Ma'am! You deserve someone better than Mr. West." She rasped as tears now fell freely and she ran back to the seat, dumping random bills on the table and grabbing her bag. Without another look at Sesshoumaru who was still standing there, she ran from the hotel.
As soon as Rin was out the hotel, she walked very fast, not knowing where to go!
She found an empty bench in the bus stop and fell over it, badly needing to sit down.
He was such a egotistical man, so arrogant, so...damned prejudiced and infuriating! Did he ever have any feeling? His voice had pretty much remained the same during their exchange.
Price for Kagome's love?
My foot!
This was a marriage made in heaven and Rin would see to it that Kagome had Inuyasha's ring on her finger and his mark on her!
And as for Sesshoumaru...something in her heart ached and she squashed that feeling down. No, she despised him, hated him! She was so terribly afraid after hitting him and she knew she must have stunk of fear! The demons had a way of smelling emotions and she knew he'd smelt it, his veiled anger was so frightening than any other's she'd ever seen. His eyes had been red for a split second, his claws green...she thought she was going to die.
Now she knew how Kagome must have felt and she'd endured it for couple of hours! She'd lasted a mere couple of minutes! She was trembling and she hugged herself and rocked back and forth, uncaring of the undue attention she was getting form the onlookers.
Her palm was still sizzling from that brief contact. His jaw was strong and she'd felt the rough stub against her skin that had almost burnt her!
A meeting with that man was so much of a strain on anyone's mental and emotional equilibrium. Okay, physical too. No wonder, Inuyasha ever talked about him. And Kagura...well, that was none of her business at all!
But she couldn't easily dismiss the intense rage that had consumed her yesterday night when Kagome had broken down telling everything and Rin had felt pure rage at this ex-boss of her sister. She'd seen his face a couple of times in the newspaper and T.V and always thought that Inuyasha and he looked alike.
But she knew Inuyasha was nothing like the cold bastard she'd met just now.
Rin gasped!
Goodness! She never used expletives and she scolded herself. Even Souta had been stunned at her outburst when she'd called up Inuyasha and riddled him with her words. This was a side that they'd never seen.
And she was too much strained to even think about the intense awareness she sensed the moment his eyes were on her. Some sort of tension.
This was something she'd never encountered!
Even to Rin, it was shocking. And all because of that demon! Yes, if there were demons like him, humans were better off without them! It was ages after Rin finally, seemed to calm down and make it to home.
Inuyasha was waiting for her and held her hands as she sat on the sofa.
"Are you okay now, Rin? Sure you won't kill me?" He asked in his usual high pitched, haughty tone and Rin laughed.
"No. I can't ever stay angry with you, Inu-kun!" she said and he smirked.
"Sesshoumaru agreed to be the best man, the wedding's on!" He said softly, with his typical smirk that made his eyes glint naughtily.
Inuyasha had been always alienated by his half brother. But according to his mother's last wish, Inuyasha had made it a point to include his half brother in critical happening of his life. Although his father and mother had died in an accident when Inuyasha was a mere seven year old, Sesshoumaru had not altogether abandoned him. Simply tossed him into a boarding school, not bothering to attend the annual school meetings or his graduation after that.
Kagome had then come into his life, changed Inuyasha's cynical view. Because it was because of Sesshoumaru that he'd met Kagome. Kagome had made him understand what Sesshoumaru had was plain resentment toward him, and he'd gotten used to it. And it would take a long time to even accept him as a kin by heart! Inuyasha had scoffed at the fact that Sesshoumaru even had a heart. If he had one, it would be black.
Now, Inuyasha's face was a little apprehensive, his smile was fixed and his smirk was drooping.
Rin looked at him and laughed her tension forgotten. Then she hugged him and didn't know why, she started to cry.
Inuyasha was surprised to find that and she clung to him desperately. Kagome came running from the kitchen and looked at Inuyasha, who shrugged helplessly yet held Rin tightly.
"It's okay, Rin...shh..." Inuyasha soothed, feeling awkward as he'd never been in this situation before. Not even with Kagome.
Kagome rubbed Rin's back soothingly wondering what had affected Rin so much.
Kagura hadn't seen Sesshoumaru at all after that day and she wondered who it could be at this time of the night. She was admiring her dress she would wear to Inuyasha's wedding tomorrow when the bell rang.
She opened the door and gasped with happiness as she found Sesshoumaru standing there.
"Sesshou..."She hadn't been able to complete her greeting when he forced himself on her, his lips crashing down on her cruelly.
He closed the door with a flick of his leg and clawed at her minimal night robe.
As she protested, his kisses became even more violent and she panicked, trying to fight him as he led her to the bedroom. It filled her with dread and his kisses went down her throat.
"Kagura..." He rasped out and she stilled at the shrillness in the voice.
What came after that was painful, his kisses bruising her lips, his caresses drawing blood, his thrusts painful that she cried out, more in agony for fear that he might tear her.
But that didn't stop him, neither did it stop her body from responding to him, trying in vain to accommodate him.
Sesshoumaru just couldn't help himself. After Rin's meeting, he was so furious that he'd wanted to kill someone! So he threw himself at work and boy! Did he work a lot! He couldn't face Kagura after that dirty incident. If she were not there, Rin wouldn't have been alive, he was sure of that. He had agreed to the wedding, accepted the best man's proposal, he just had to carry the damned ring and deliver a short speech and stand by, which he could do. Besides, he knew Inuyasha deserved that much, despite everything.
And by that time, the fury was forgotten and he fell back into the normal routine.
But just the day before the wedding, he'd lost it.
And he couldn't even remember what had happened at Kagura's place except when he'd gotten up, he felt disgusted to let a human influence his emotions. He couldn't face her, so he left as soon as he regained his normal composure.
Kagura woke up to an empty bed and she tried to get up. It was an awful pain in between her legs and she winced, tears threatening to spill. Fear gripped her as she realized that it was because of that human girl who stood against him. She shivered at Sesshoumaru's brutality, because it hadn't been really her last night for him, it was Rin!
She looked at the blood stained sheets and her wounds that were closing up. Then she noticed her dress on the couch and a note on it. She concentrated on the words. It was Sesshoumaru's!
Meet you there at ten. Last night was uncalled for.
Let's set a wedding date. Soon.
She closed her eyes and let out a determined breath.
No...she couldn't marry him. He would completely destroy her!
But as she got up from the bed, she felt a piercing pain in her belly and her eyes widened. Blood was oozing, even if it were little from where it shouldn't come from!
She dashed out in haste and into her car. She had to hurry, if she had to save her baby!
Rin was back to her bouncy, cheerful and bubbly self as she smiled broadly at friends and relatives as she walked the aisle. She smiled at Inuyasha who winked at her and she blushed with a happy pleasure. She was wearing lavender, halter dress in silky satin that had a corset body and it flowed till her ankles. She looked beautiful, for once, as Souta had commented.
Then her eyes went inevitably to clash with fierce cold ones and her smile wavered.
Sesshoumaru was looking at her and it somehow made her lose it again!
The dance with him was a pain actually. She could sense the revolt in his frame as he held her but not that it matched hers! He seemed to burn her through and through and at that moment, it was…sexual. She had been kissed by immature guys on her dates but that was as far it went. With Sesshoumaru, even if he held her with a cold distance and disgust, she felt sex. Like he was doing it to her, right there! The tension was so thick that it could have been cut by knife! But soon, Souta came to the rescue and she danced away happily with him, her body still humming with the sudden flood in her hormone river!
She needed to be alone. For sometime. She could always come back just before the toasts began. She sat down and took deep breaths.
Later when she held her wrist up, there was a thin, fine cut and her eyes widened. It must have happened when Sesshoumaru gave her away to Souta! The cut was so thin that it had taken a lot of time to bleed! But it would leave a mark as Rin gasped at the sudden pain and gushing blood.
Sesshoumaru was about to make the speech when there was a call and a message.
He froze for a second as he read the message and he looked at Inuyasha, handing the phone to him and made it out of the hall.
Then he caught the scent of Rin and literally flew to her. She was bent, scrutinizing her hand and he noticed that fine line of mark that would stay forever! He didn't know why, but that seemed to give him some sadistic satisfaction but was shocked. He never went to extremes. But yesterday was the first.
Rin felt a shiver down her back and sensed the air crackle with…something. And she knew who it was behind her. Only one person had that 'mind-blowing' effect on her!
She looked at him and her face became defensive.
"I don't think we have anything else to say to each other." She bit out, her voice a croak and his eyes grew colder.
"No, human, but I do. From now on, I don't want you to be in my way anyhow. Better stay out or I will destroy your life and your loved ones. The next time I see you, you will be dead. I won't hesitate to kill you." He said, his voice dangerously low and Rin shivered the emotion that swelled up inside her.
Why was it that this demon to could evoke such strong emotions in her? And then she realized what it was between them.
And it rocked her as she felt the heat of his gaze on her.
She blinked and he was gone! Just gone!
"Rin!!" Souta's voice held urgency and she somehow collected herself.
"Are you okay?" He asked looking at the shattered expression on her face.
"Sesshoumaru?" Rin asked lamely and Souta hung his head.
"Bad news. The party has been cancelled." Souta said and she looked at him with question in her eyes.
"Sesshoumaru's girlfriend, Kagura died in car accident. She was pregnant! So...technically, two of them are dead!" Souta said.
Rin couldn't stop the loud noise that increased and she closed her ears to stop it.
She now realized what Sesshoumaru had said. And she wished she'd never seen him and prayed that she would never again see him.
But eventually, she fainted.
After that, Rin and Souta went to London to complete their bachelor's degree. Of course, Inuyasha's influence had helped them. Even Inuyasha and Kagome joined them there, Inuyasha's share of company was given to him, which he refused and he'd branched out to England. In fact, he was totally cut off from Japan and his half-brother who never bothered him anymore. He didn't stake his claim on his father's assets but became a self-made person.
Inuyasha enjoyed a normal life which he'd built it on his own with his mate and his two 'pups'!
But after five years, twist of fate was going to bring Rin and Sesshoumaru together. For her family was dead, and she was all alone, pregnant with Inuyasha's child! She has nowhere to go with people behind her to kill, not her, but the child she was carrying. And she has no other choice than to ask for help from the last person she'd ever wanted to meet. The only man who'd made an everlasting impression, whom she dreaded, hated even!
Sesshoumaru West!
A/N: Okay, hey! Don't jump to conclusions about Rin! I will explain it all when the actual story starts, eh? But then, you all are smart enough to put two and two together.
So? Is Sessh in character? I know Kagura is OOC but I wanted a character like that and didn't want to create altogether a new character so used her anyway!
Interpretation of Rin as a spirited girl who defends her loved ones…is not OOC I think. She is that way about Sessh and Jaken originally. Don't worry; she will become our good old Rin later in the story guys, so stick around.
Reviews please, how else will I know that you liked it and want the story to continue? Should I write a full blown story or you want me to leave it alone??
Review….onegai??
Ja ne!
