I Do Not Own Inuyasha

Chapter 1

The ten year old was not the most hospitable of children or even the kindest of children, in fact he hated all around him. He hated his younger half-brother Inuyasha, he hated the pup's friends, he hated his mother InuKimi, he hated his father InuTaisho and he even hated his stepmother Izayoi. So as Sesshomaru enjoyed a quiet thunderstorm night in the library where he often was he hadn't expected to meet someone he'd like.

Inuyasha was over at a friend's house for a slumber party or something, the pup was five but he had parties to attend. InuTaisho was out with Izayoi for their 'date' which Sesshomaru knew was code for sex night since his stepmother always returned from these dates reeking of his father. InuKimi had left for some fashion show or other, leaving him with InuTaisho; not that he cared. And the servants for the most part had the night off, the live in maid was out and the butler Jaken was gone for the night. Young Sesshomaru had the mansion all to himself, and this wonderful storm was relaxing him as he sat in the light of his lamp with his book in his chair with no one telling him to go to bed. His head snapped up though when the door cracked.

His sharp eyes snapped onto a small shadow as it crept through the shadows, he'd have thought it Jaken but Jaken's scent reeked. This scent was something of rain, curious the boy silently shut his book and slipped out of his chair to investigate. He came upon a little girl as she skillfully slipped through the shadows towards the books. The girl was the maid's daughter, Rei or Rin or Ren or something like that, she was about two or three to his knowledge and the few times he had seen the girl she was painfully shy by hiding from everyone. Including the loved Inuyasha who could make a friend out of a shark. Sesshomaru was relatively certain he had never heard the girl speak three words to anyone, he didn't think she knew how to speak or read for she was a stupid human pups. But here she was creeping up to the child's part of his library. She climbed a ladder, he watched her silently.

"These books are not for servants," Sesshomaru announced coldly.

"Ah!" the girl shrieked, he watched the toddler lose her balance on the ladder, he instinctively ran to the falling form. Both he and the girl came crashing onto the floor. Sesshomaru groaned as the girl scrambled out of his grasp kicking his stomach and his chin. Sitting up he swore he'd never save another creature again, it wasn't worth this pain, his head was singing. Thunder boomed over the mansion.

"EEK!" the girl screamed as she crashed back into him knocking the wind out of him.

Now what!? His mind demanded as he tossed the girl off of him and got to his feet, thunder shook the mansion then. The girl was clinging to him, trembling so badly he thought his own fangs would shake out of his skull with her shaking.

"Stop it! It's just thunder!" Sesshomaru snapped at the girl as he stalked back to his chair, the girl followed him. He crawled up in his chair to continue reading his book, the girl followed him, he growled but she just blinked at him with large brown eyes. Giving in he let the girl curl up on his mokomoko as he read, she wasn't annoying or in the way or even a threat to him as he read and he found himself wanting her around despite his standard policy of hate everyone equally but hate a few exclusively. The toddler though was different, for some reason even he recognized that this toddler was different to him as she curled up on his mokomoko sound asleep while he read. Her body still jumped at the shaking of the thunder, she whimpered when the wind howled to loudly but she relaxed as he curled his tail around her. Drousiness over took him and he fell asleep with the toddler in his chair that night as the storm raged on.

A Year Later...

Rin was waiting patiently for Sesshomaru-sama to come home, since the stormy night she and her stuffed dog (which Sesshomaru-sama had given her for her third birthday!) named Maru for Sesshomaru-sama. Rin grinned as she hurried out of the house, past the mean brother and leapt straight to Sesshomaru-sama who caught her effortlessly before she got to ride on mokomoko with Maru held firmly against her.

"Sesshomaru-sama!" Rin giggled out.

"Rin," he greeted coldly and she giggled some more as he carried her back into the house. She stuck her tongue out at Kagome's glare, and saw Inuyasha drag his friend Kagome off with him. Rin smiled at Sesshomaru-sama when he shot her a warning look. It wasn't lost on her three year old mind that she was the only one permitted near Sesshomaru-sama and the only one able to touch, jump on, climb, and hug Sesshomaru-sama, she had seen him snarl at others for merely walking too close to him. Rin figured she was special! She liked being special! She liked being Sesshomaru-sama's only friend!

The eleven year old had adapted to a year of being tackled, jumped on, climbed on, and talked to rather well in his mind. Never had it crossed his mind to skewer the three year old with his claws, though there were times when he had thought to do so to his seven year old brother and brother's friends. Rin smiled at him as she told him all about her and Maru's day, though why she had named the stupid stuffed dog was beyond him! But he endured all of this because Rin was fun to listen to, for a three year old she was…entertaining to say the least, and she also stood up for him against Inuyasha's pack of friends who often times irritated the hell out of him.

So he sat under his and Rin's tree, he doing his homework while Rin colored with Maru.

The eyes watching him weren't lost on him but they were ignored. No one could understand why he liked the toddler when he himself couldn't even explain why he liked the toddler. Rin just hummed away then she smiled at him as she handed him a crayon. Sesshomaru lifted his brow at her when she handed him her picture.

"You, me, and Maru!" she declared, he labeled the figures according to Rin's claim.

"Best friends forever!" she declared, he wrote that down too.

"For you!" Rin said as she smiled at him, he blinked but then slid the messy drawing into a protective sleeve as he continued his homework and Rin her drawing.

A drop of rain fell on him then.

So I've had this for a while, I just wasn't certain if I wanted to share this story with all of you. Originally this was never going to be shared or anything, I've played with this story in my head for sometime now but since I can't give you all what I've been meaning too because of a few personal issues which have come up I decided I could post this. I have the first five chapters written up already so I don't exactly have to work on writing it and so while I deal with my stuff I'll post what I have of this story. Sorry but it's all I've got at the moment and I have personal problems in need of my attention at the moment!

But updates will be happening once this matter is settled!

That's all for now folks!

Enjoy Rain for Tears! =)