"Rin, stay down." Sesshomaru calmly demanded. All the while, he never took his glaring eyes off of the dark dog demon, Arashi. Sesshomaru was infuriated; yes because this bastard had hurt his love, but also because this same bastard was preventing him from holding his new child in his arms.

"There is a way to save your child," Arashi smoothly said. "Hand over Rin. Let her love me, and I will love her in return. Only then will I let you and your baby live."

Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes. Who did this fool take him for? A mere General was threatening his Lord's life, and not just his Lord, but the Lord's family? Sesshomaru promised himself that Arashi would never see the light of day again.

"Impudent fool," Sesshomaru muttered, and in one quick movement of his arm, he had sliced Arashi's arm, causing him to fall back with such great force.

-To the End of Sorrow-

In that moment of silence, Sesshomaru whistled for his faithful two headed dragon, AhUn. It flew into the building and roared. Rin, barely able to move, yet slowly feeling stronger from the immortality the birth had promised her, weakly looked up at her husband. She handed the baby over to him as he took it as if it were the most fragile existence on the Earth. "It's a girl, Sesshomaru," Rin quietly said as Sesshomaru looked into the eyes of his new daughter.

She was such a sight to behold. Her hair appeared to be silver on the outside, black on the inside, and just like Inuyasha, she had two small puppy ears that twitched with every cry. Her hears were white and speckled with black and when she opened her eyes for the first time to see her father, she almost smiled. She had her mother's eyes, with Sesshomaru's demonic eye color. No markings were present on her smooth slate like face and two baby fangs appeared from inside her gummy mouth. But the one thing that caught Sesshomaru's attention and heart, were the crescent shapes of her eyes when she blinked. They were just as beautiful as the moon outside that night…

Arashi was slowly starting to rise from the burning rubble in the corner he had fallen in.

Sesshomaru handed his wife the child and lifted her onto AhUn. "She's beautiful…" he cooed in a dreamy state, despite the chaos surrounding them. "Her name will be Mitsuki. Rin, listen to me, AhUn will take you and Mitsuki somewhere safe." (a/n: Mitsuki means 'Beautiful Moon' in Japanese)

"No, Sesshomaru, wait. What about you?" Tears started to form at the corner of her tired eyes. A burning pillar fell from the roof.

"Do not waste your time worrying about me. I'll kill this bastard and return to you shortly." And with that, AhUn took off, leaving Sesshomaru to bask in the glory of being a proud father.

-Dilemma-

"Arashi, stand up." He demanded as the dark demon wiped his mouth and stood, ignoring the wound that Sesshomaru had inflicted.

"I see you let her and the child escape," he laughed. "No matter, once I cut your head off, I'll be with Rin shortly, as the new father of… Mitsuki did you say?" he laughed even more, and coldly this time.

Sesshomaru looked around him. The building was going to fall apart and he could start to feel the pain from his burns. "Unlike father…" he growled, "I will not let some fool destroy me, or the woman I love."

With great speed, Sesshomaru tackled Arashi, causing the building to collapse.

-Fate and Love-

Rin squirmed, trying to avoid the light that was penetrating through her thin eyelids. Slowly, she opened her eyes to see that the sun was shining too brightly overhead.

"What on earth… where am I now?" She looked around and stared into space, scared, because she realized that Mitsuki was not there.

Quickly, she shuffled through her blankets to try and find her daughter. Wait… blankets? Blankets, a pillow and a cold wash cloth on her forehead? Now she was dreadfully confused. Had Sesshomaru taken them back already? No… it couldn't be, she wasn't at his castle anymore. "That's right!" she gasped. Running out of the hut, she protected her eyes from the blinding sun and called for the dragon, AhUn.

She heard the dragon's heavy breathing beside her and turned around, startled. There he was, scaly glory and all, but with a rider?

The rider's face was blurred by the brightness of the day as she squinted to see who it was.

"Auntie? It's me…" the boy said nervously.

Auntie? What on earth was he talking about? She walked over to where the sun didn't threaten to burn her corneas off and opened her mouth in amazement.

"Kiyoto?"

The boy nodded and scratched his cheek, embarrassed. He jumped down from the dragon and patted its two heads. Facing his aunt, he blushed again and bowed. "Auntie Rin? You must be startled… your daughter is with father and mother. They asked me to come see if you were awake yet. I hope that's not a problem…"

Rin couldn't help but to burst out into tears. The innocence of this young man made her suddenly remember all the events that had just happened to her not too long ago. Hugging him, she sobbed until she could breathe again and slowly came off of his now-wet blue kimono.

"I'm sorry dear," she sniffed. "Let's go, shall we?" And together, they flew off.

He had grown so much since the last time she saw him! But then she remembered that some half demons age differently than others. Kiyoto, in this case, seemed to grow by dog/human years. Last year, he had been 3, an equivalent to 9 dog years, and now he was 4, equivalent to 12 dog years. He was handsome, considering he had Kagome's cute face. His eyes were golden though, like Inuyasha's, and his hair was jet black and shaggy. Rin also noticed his fangs had started to grow and his claws, sharpened.