Chapter 1
NO. Jaken must be wrong, he said to himself.
"AAHHHH!" he heard his mate screaming.
NO! This cannot be happening. I cannot lose her. I won't be able to save her this time, he thought to himself.
Jaken ran into the room and barrelled into Sesshomaru's legs. Sesshomaru looked up from his hands resting on his knees and growled, "What do you want, runt?". He briefly hoped the toad would be unable to tell he had been crying, but decided he didn't give a damn.
"Um...m-my lord, I-I-I am deeply afraid she" gulp, "is not long for this world. Yo-you might want to-to go make your, um, peace..." Jaken finally stopped his stuttering and trailed off. Sesshomaru abruptly stood and stormed out of the room.
Sesshomaru entered his wife's room and averted his eyes, trying not to look at her blood-soaked form. I, Sesshomaru, Lord of the Western Lands, am afraid. He sneered at his own cowardice and forced himself to make eye contact with his beloved.
"Lo-Lord Sesshomaru?" she whispered to her mate.
"Rin, my love, how many times have I told you to call me anything but that? Sesshomaru, Sesshy, mutt-face, anything. Just stay with me and I'll change my name to dog-breath." He attempted to make a joke but instead succeeded in only causing his voice to break.
Rin looked up to him and, with tears pouring down her face, said her final words: "I'm sorry." Then, the light went out of her eyes and her jaw relaxed.
Sesshomaru howled in pain and misery. He walked over to his mate, brushed a kiss over her forehead, and, with a final glance at her as he tried to take a mental picture that would last him the rest of his life, turned and jumped out of the four-story window. As he was hurtling towards the earth, the inu yaikou turned into his true self, the giant dog demon.
He bounded through the woods for hours, occassionally stopping to howl at the full moon in an attempt to release some of his deep sorrow. As the sun rose, signaling dawn, Sesshomaru stopped to rest and drink from a stream.
While he was sating his thirst, he heard a rustling of leaves behind him. The dog demon whirled around, actually execited for the chance to fight. He let out a deep growl. After a moment, he saw a figure walking out of the brush. Surprised at who it was, he shifted back to his human-like form to greet her.
Confused, Sesshomaru asked her, "What are you doing here, Mother?"
A/N: What is she doing there? Hmmm? I didn't wanna end it with Sesshomaru being all emo from Rin dying or when Rin uttered her last words, because that is just too dark for me. And if anyone asks, I don't know what made Rin die. I haven't decided. Maybe it's just because she lived in a sucky time period, when there was only rudimentary medicine.
I'm not super into SessxRin. I just felt that this suited them better than KagxInu for both this plot and and my other story, Rin's Past, Present, & Present. Besides, the hanyou (half-demon, is what it means, from what I gather) and the miko (person with spiritual powers) will 'maybe' appear later...
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