So this is my first fanfiction and I love Sesshomaru and Rin parings. Since there's not too many of them being written anymore I thought I'd try my hand at it. I would appreciate any helpful suggestions to any problems you see with the story.

Please read and review

I don't own Inuyasha and im only ganna claim the idea for the story if its good. Lol

Rin sat on the bed curled into herself, trembling in fear. The storm outside was relentlessly beating against the window that sat opposite to her bed. She didn't have to listen hard to hear them arguing. The yells, screams, pleas for it all to stop were echoed in her head as her voice silently joined along. It was clockwork by now.

School would let out at 4:00 and she would have about 20 minutes to walk straight home or else her mother would yap at her. Though she never came home after 4:20. She knew what would happen if she did and hated putting her mom in that position. Hotaru, her adoptive father, wouldn't try to hit Rin unless he was extremely intoxicated or high. Aio, her adoptive mother always came to her rescue.

The sky raged war against anything that stood in its path. The streetlights suffocating under the heavy down pour. Unable to breath in any of the precious air that flowed around.

Hotaru hadn't always been like this. When Hotaru and Aio Sunada had first adopted Rin when she was 5, they had been a loving and carefree couple. The couple had waited for Hotaru to be done with his military career before they had any kids. When the time came for them to start trying, they were not able to have children themselves. They soon tried their hand in the adoption process and not long after they found an adorable brown haired browned eyed little girl in need of a home

"All you fucking care about is that little bitch upstairs!" Thunder exploded with an unforgiving voice to all that was around.

Rin heard a loud thud and rushed downstairs. Next to what once was a wall, which held pictures of a younger Rin and other family member, lay her mother facing opposite direction. Snakingly, she slowly lifted her gaze from her mother's limp form to her father's large dilated midnight black eyes.

"She did it herself. I didn't even push her that hard. You know how she overreacts", he said as he slowly started towards her.

Without any hesitation Rin took off towards the front door.

Her heart beat pumped violently in her ears as she ran towards her salvation.

-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-

Time slowed as Rin's feet slammed against heavily carpeted floor.

-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-

One foot after the other. The 20 paces it took to travel from the ruined living room wall to the front door stretched further and further away as Hotaru's increasing footsteps became closer.

Rin's finger tips barely grazed the handle to freedom before Hotaru reached out and grabbed a handful of her hair and roughly yanked her head towards his face.

"Where are you going?! You think I did this? That it's my fault!" A storm of insults flew from his mouth. The words not even registering in her mind. Only one thing in her mind as he violently shuck her. Get outside. Get away. Find a way. He won't stop until he has you on the ground like mom too!

A painful fist bought her back to the present, "Look at me when I speak to you, you ungrateful little winch!" Another windstorm of fist touched every inch of her insight.

A weak gasp was the only sound that escaped her lips. Though her body was limp against the downpour of fist and feet that bruised and smashed against her. Rin's mind stubbornly searched for a way out.

Hotaru was unforgiving in his rage as he picked her small body up and tossed her against the glass table.

Pain surged through Rin's body, but she was a survivor would fight with everything she had to get away. The blood pumped even louder in her ears. If she wasn't already in so much pain the loud booming sound in her body probably would have giving her the mother of all migraines. As she quickly scrambled backwards only to have Hotaru's booted foot slam into her chest and force her against the bottom part of the sofa, now covered in jagged sharp glass.

The house was deadly silent as he slowly began his approach. The only sound besides his heavy unsteady breaths was the loud raging weather that relentlessly trudged on through the night.

Find something, anything that I could use to distract long enough to get away! If I don't do something quick I'll die!

Rin's hand grazed over the metal leg of what use to hold up the glass table. As quick as her damaged arm could manage. She swung and made contact with Hotaru's unguarded side. The surprise attack allowing her the precious few seconds she needed to run outside into the frenzied storm that beat against the outside world.

Dog tired, Rin ran further and further into the night. Not knowing caring where she ran, only that it was away from her childhood home. Red and blue light diligently fought back against the terrors of the night as loud sirens made their way closer towards her. Rain poured down on her. Bashing against her already withered limbs. A trail of blood and tears followed behind her drenched figure.

A hand reached out and sized her arm as Rin let out a blood curling scream.

"shhh shh its okay we're here to help", Recognizing the familiar black uniform, Rin allowed her body to succumb to the weariness that plagued her injured body and let the known world slip away as she entered a unconscious state.