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Warning: This FanFiction may not be suitable to all audiences. Offensive language and suggestive themes. Not recommended for anyone under 13. You have been warned. If you are beyond 17 years, read 'The Beautiful Willowed Rose' first.

Fatherly Instincts:

Sesshoumaru sauntered onward as usual. The odd time he would let his lip cork into a smile as he saw his favourite Rin and Jaken tackling each other. Most of the time he paid no attention. He was embarrassed of his action. How could he pick up a human? But then his mind would always take him back to that day when she stayed by his side... even when he tried threatening her with his demon.

Just like InuYasha's mother. She was not nasty to him. If anything she treated him with more respect than his father did... he only saw through her weaknesses. The first, she was human, the second... she was weak. Not much of an excuse but Sesshoumaru deemed it to be worth hating for.

Before Rin, he had not much to live for. Of coarse he was Prince of the Western Lands and guarded his territory but it became repetitive to the point Sesshoumaru would just kill the damn trespassers for amusement. For demons, killing was the ultimate entertainment. InuYasha had let it been known to Sesshoumaru that his acts were cowardish and Sesshoumaru walked away winning the battle, but lost the war with a broken ego. He remembered the one time he had encountered Rin sitting beside him when he was weak and healing himself. He took one look at her, and for the first time felt a deep sadness crawl into his stomach. The bruises... all those bruises. As if she had been thrown to the ground and kicked by the villagers.

Sesshoumaru remembered why his disgust for human kind was so. They destroy the world around them as well as the lives around them for no reason. It made him sick to think any man would call himself strong when he bitch slapped a child. Sesshoumaru laughed at the thought of man kind. It was ironic, and dramatising. Once Sesshoumaru and all demons were gone, the world be full of men, and so many would have to live the life Rin once did. He would protect her for as long as he could... but he knew that one day soon... she would be developing and asking questions. The villagers would once again be after her... but in a different manner. He could not stand the image in his mind of anyone on top of Rin. He would kill any boy that came within a mile radius of them.

His affections for her were becoming clear as Sesshoumaru's flashbacks were pouring out into his head. The time Kagura kidnapped her and left her in Naraku's care... Sango's brother nearly chopped her head off. If the boy was not in Naraku's care he would have snapped his spine in two. Even when the band of seven got a hold of Rin. He thought it would be the last time... if it wasn't for his fast thinking she surely would have already been dead.

'Lord Sesshoumaru... would you come with Rin to play?' He felt a small hand tugging at his pant leg. He looked down. Her face was so innocent. Nothing on her face read anything about the real world. Or the cruelty of man. Everyone who had done her wrong, her logic would probably tell her to go hug them. He loved her. Not in a sick way that even reaches Sesshoumaru's ears of the horror stories that goes on in the villages. But he loved her in a way that no other being could. He would fly off of the mountain to catch her if she fell. He would risk his life when her safety was at risk.

The words haunted him by his father. The conversation was clear in his memory. "I do not need to be loved by anyone! I am alone and will always stay alone. I risk my life for no one." "One day, Sesshoumaru... you will understand."

Sesshoumaru raised his head to the sky. "Yes Rin, Lord Sesshoumaru will accompany you." He took in a deep breath. A cloud drifted slowly across the Eastern Plains. Sesshoumaru kept his eye on it. The shape looked to be the great InuTaisho. Sesshoumaru looked down to Rin and smiled.

Sesshoumaru had developed fatherly instincts for Rin. Together as they would go on adventures, one thing be known... this is their story.

New Chapter coming soon. Please R&R