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JUST A HEADS UP, THERE IS SEX IN THIS SCENE (BUT NOT BETWEEN RIN/SESSH) X: DON'T BE MAD! IT ALL TIES INTO THE STORY. I MEAN, HOW CAN SOMEONE BE 'RELUCTANTLY' MATED WITHOUT AN ACTUAL REASON, HMMMM? BESIIIIIIDES, ITS NOT LIKE THEY'RE TOGETHER YET ANYWAY.

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Rin woke up the next morning, body tucked under a deliciously warm amount of blankets. The room was cold, which was a bit odd for early August, but with the large window open across from her bed, it was easy to imagine where the chill was originating.

Stretching leisurely, Rin got out of bed after a few minutes of internal debating. On the one hand, she could stay tucked under the covers all day and she wouldn't have to deal with any irritating dog demons. On the other hand, if she didn't get up now, she would risk missing her driver and being stuck in the mansion all day long, possibly not even returning back to her home until well into the night. If she got up, she could be out of there as soon as possible and be on her way.

No dog demon to torment her at all if she wasn't in the same zip code!

Rin looked back at the unmade bed, remembering the strand of hair from the night before. While Rin was quite sure the psycho had crept into her bedroom last night to tuck her in, she didn't want to assume anything. The hair had been long, like hers, and while she was still in her early 20s, it wasn't like she was a stranger to a random silver lock every now and then. Also, considering how she had found herself pressed up to the demon rather intimately the night before, it wasn't a stretch of the imagination to realize how easily a rogue hair of Sesshomaru's could have ended up on her person and therefore in her bed.

She had fallen asleep wearing the clothes she had been around him in.

See? A logical explanation. Nothing kind of sweet/creepy to think about at all.

And with that, Rin found herself walking quickly to the bathroom to get ready for the day. Once she was finished with all of the necessary grooming, Rin came back out into the room in a pair of dark wash skinny jeans, flower print ballet flats and a light knit sweater.

Hearing a crack of thunder, Rin looked up and to the window, face falling when she noticed how hard the rain seemed to be coming down just outside her balcony.

"Kami, the whole garden is going to flood!" She rushed over to the terrace without actually stepping outside, looking down as far as she could to confirm her suspicions. The entire garden was already flooded, leaving little doubt in Rin's mind that the first floor was most likely in a similar situation. Oh dear, how awful. All of the hardwood floors and the beautiful carpentry could have very well been ruined if the storm had been persisting over the past several hours and no one was aware of it.

As another fork of lightning lit up across the sky,she hoped the weather would let up soon and not delay her or Kagome's departure from out in the middle of nowhere.

Glancing at her watch and noting the earliness of the day, Rin decided to head downstairs and see if she could find her cousin. Maybe she had already left for the airport?


"It looks like none of us are leaving anytime soon," Kagome said in apology to Rin, wincing in sympathy as the other woman huffed out a frustrated breath. Rin ran a hand through her long hair, not caring if it was causing the waves to mess up in the process. She had luckily only bumped into Kagome and Inuyasha since she had found her way downstairs, but she knew luck wouldn't be on her side forever.

Sesshomaru, the overbearing baka, was bound to show up. Wasn't it always how that happened? It was always the devastatingly handsome ones that turned out to be complete stalkers.

He wasn't in your room last night, she reminded herself. Now lighten up.

Rin had been right about the first floor being damaged; at least a large section of it. The front entrance had remained fine due to the way the house was set up. Having the giant staircase outside leading to the main entrance had really saved the day. Unfortunately the same could not be said for the back section of the house, which was perfectly level with the back gardens, aka flood city.

"Are you sure that there isn't a truck or something that could take us back toward the city?" Rin wrapped her arms around her middle, wondering if someone was planning to turn on the heat at any point in time. Did demons feel the cold and the heat like humans did?

"Feh. Fat chance. When some of the drivers attempted to come back this morning, most of the cars got stuck along the road about a mile out. We're probably going to be here for a few days." Inuyasha tossed his leather duffel bag onto the entry table before grabbing Kagome's and doing the same. "At least I know how to pass the time with you, wife." Scooping up the laughing woman, Inuyasha nodded his head at Rin before dashing up the stairs, nuzzling Kagome's neck as he did so. "See ya later, kid!"

"Kid?!" She was 25! Hardly a child, especially to Inuyasha. He didn't look a day over 20, which baffled Rin that Kagome would rob the cradle, so to speak. The other woman was even older than Rin was.

Sighing again, Rin decided she would go explore the large home, at least whatever was open to the general public. She didn't want to stumble into anyone's private rooms and cause a commotion.

You just want to wander around until you bump into a certain someone, her self conscious piped up. Rolling her eyes at herself, Rin went back to the ballroom the party had been held in the night before, all the while ignoring herself.

So what if she was exploring? It wasn't because she wanted to see Sesshomaru. She couldn't stand him! It was to save herself a bit of boredom. That was all. If she was going to be cooped up in the house for the next day or so, she wanted to be familiar with the place. Who knew? She might even find a nice, hidden room to do some writing in.

A nice quiet room to do something much more passionate in, you mean.

Definitely not.

Oh come on. How long has it been since you've found yourself constantly thinking about a man who wasn't a figment of your imagination? Even the men you bring to life in your books don't hold a candle to someone like him and you know it.

Was she out of her mind? The demon had pretty much proclaimed her as property, which was super weird. He forbade her from socializing with out males and then he could have possibly crept into her bedroom like a thief in the night and spied on her.

Where's your sense of adventure?

Her sense of adventure?! It was hidden behind her sense of self preservation.

Deciding she didn't need to take any self abuse, Rin pulled out a set of earphones and plugged them into her iPhone to play some music to drown out the voice of insanity that had seemed to plant itself inside of her brain. Selecting her 'workout' playlist, Rin meandered from the ballroom, through a set of double doors. She weaved her way in and out of so many different rooms, most of them clearly for storage or servants entrances that she finally became totally lost after nearly 30 minutes of wandering. The crazy part was that after 30 minutes of being nosy, she still hadn't even come across the same room twice.

The place was giant!

Going against her better judgment, Rin ascended a staircase when she found it, moving from the second floor to the third with much more ease than she should have been comfortable with, given that she wasn't in her own home.

She whistled lowly in tune to The Beastie Boy's song, 'Sabotage', rocking her head with the beat and rapping along with the song. After a few seconds she actually stopped her wild thrashing to actually appreciate the music she was listening to, completely unaware that she was about to stumble upon a scene she would have much rather done without.


Sesshomaru's POV

He thrust once more into the willing Youkai beneath him, hand cupping the back of her head to hold her down into the mattress while he finished into yet another condom.

The first time they had fucked, the Youkai bitch whose name he couldn't remember had tried kissing him, wrapping her thin, almost spider like arms around his body. Not one to tolerate any sort of affection, while fucking or otherwise, Sesshomaru had promptly flipped the bitch onto her stomach and used her to sate the strangely harsh desire that had been tearing at him for the past day.

Except it was not working. As soon as he finished inside of her, his erection came back to life, balls screaming at him to find release.

The Youkai laying on the bed moaned when he withdrew from her, only to switch out the used condom for a new one. Grabbing her legs, Sesshomaru dragged the demon whore down the bed until her legs were planted on the ground and her ass was in the air. Wasting no time, he entered her harshly, enjoying the gasp that escaped her when he filled her to the hilt, the head of his cock slamming against the back of her pussy.

He kept up a grueling pace, staring down at the luscious black hair of his companion. When she moaned again and began touching herself, his mind conjured up the human from the night before. His balls clenched at the thought of the human, Rin, being beneath him and moaning out her pleasure as he took her from behind. The demon moaned out again. "Oh Sesshomaru. Harder!" He heard Rin calling out his name in breathless anticipation and he grunted in response, shutting his eyes to capture the image more fully in his mind.

He would reprimand himself later for the lack of regard he had for his own station, to be picturing a human commoner to sate his appetites. Now, however, his dick pulsed from the pleasure of Rin splayed out for him and only him, touching herself and crying out as she climaxed onto him, her body shaking from the force of her arousal.

He gripped the demon's hips, poisoned claws digging deep into her hips as he thrust harder, uncaring that whoever was under him would have scars from the tips of his claws. Demon's usually healed fine, however, poison tended to leave behind scars. Not that he cared. She was merely a vessel as he intended to deny himself who he truly wanted.

In fact, he was so pathetic that he had hidden away his lust on the top floor of the family estate, not wanting her to find out what he was up to, which was odd. He didn't want to dwell on that.

Losing focus, Sesshomaru's own orgasm dwindled, his own release sinking further and further away from him.

His ears twitched as he heard the sound of some type of obnoxious music coming closer to his whereabouts. Probably a servant to do housework. He grunted, closing his eyes again and picturing the human splayed out before him like a feast. Her arms wrapping around his shoulders, legs wrapped around his waist as she rode him. Her eyes would be like melted chocolate in her arousal as she sucked his lip into her mouth before biting down on it, spilling some of his blood into her mouth and moaning again.

The door in front of him was opened wantonly and his eyes snapped open only to lock onto a pair of shocked chocolate covered eyes. It was the sight of her intoxicating face that pushed Sesshomaru over the edge, the face he had been fantasizing about come to life. He growled deep in his throat as he thrust again, the sound of flesh slapping together as he came harshly into the demon laying beneath him.

"Oh God!" Rin exclaimed, throwing her hands above her eyes. The situation probably would have been comical had Sesshomaru not immediately felt like the scum of the earth, even too low for the humans to be bothered with him.

"Get out, human bitch!" The demon hollered. Rin slammed the door shut. Sesshomaru could hear her steps as she raced down the hallway and away from him.

He wasted no time in wrapping the long black hair in front of him around his hand, yanking the demon's head back roughly and growling into her ear as he pulled out, the wet suckling noise from her greedy cunt only making him want to vomit from his transgressions. It wasn't until he had seen Rin's shocked face that he truly understood why he had been reacting so oddly in the past 24 hours.

Had he truly been so foolish to not understand the possessiveness he had felt towards the human? How jealous he had felt when she had interacted with a few men throughout the evening? How he had nearly taken her the night before when they were alone in a service corridor? She had been so full of life, so feisty and he had eaten it up. Relished in it, even when she had struck him. It only caused him to feel more alive. More alive than he had in at least three centuries.

Then, seeing her as he fucked another woman... He felt unclean. Unworthy. Wrong. What had he done?

Had he truly thought this cold bitch's hair was anything like Rin's? It was dull in comparison, dirty and more brown than the midnight black of the human he had just shocked. "Get the fuck out." He let her go and stepped away, buttoning up his slacks and smoothing his shirt to become presentable yet again.

Barely giving her another glance, as she was truly nothing compared to Rin, Sesshomaru stepped from the room, intent on finding the young human and... He wasn't quite sure what.


Holy crap. Holy crap. HOLY CRAP.

Rin sprinted down the hallway, still unsure of where the hell she was going, only that she needed to get the hell out of the house. Like, as soon as possible.

She had walked in on Sesshomaru having sex with someone! She was mortified and for some reason humiliated and hurt, which she was trying extremely hard not to focus on.

He's a big creep, remember? She chastised herself over and over again as she finally found a set of stairs and descended them two at a time, hoping like hell she didn't trip and crack her damn head open if she fell.

The music in her ears all but forgotten, Rin was startled when she realized the song playing was about heartbreak, which for some dumb reason made her eyes tear up as she kept picturing Sesshomaru going to town with someone else.

What was wrong with her? Literally five minutes before Rin had sworn to herself that there was absolutely no way she could be interested in someone so arrogant and rude, and yet... Catching him in the throes of orgasm had really opened Rin's eyes to the fact that she had been blatantly lying to herself. She had been interested, foolishly enough.

She obviously wasn't Sesshomaru's type though, which was fine. Really, it was. She had known before meeting his family that they weren't big on humans and yet for some reason she felt like she stood a chance at who knew what. She surely didn't know what she had been searching for, only that she felt as if she had found it. Not that Rin was feeling that way anymore.

Ripping the earphones out, Rin stepped onto the second floor, wishing like hell there was some sort of master staircase that connected all three floors instead of her traipsing around the place trying to get away.

And get away from what, exactly? It wasn't like Sesshomaru was going to be finishing up with his girlfriend anytime soon.

Rin came across a familiar hallway, realizing that she was on the opposite end of the hallway from her room. She could go in there, scrub her eyeballs with soap and watch the rain pour down from the safety of her terrace. Maybe wallow in a bit of self pity while she thought up other ways to dislike the baka.

Halfway down the hall, Rin shrieked when a hand gripped her right shoulder, pulling her to a stop and turning her to face the demon connected to said hand.

Rin gulped audibly, which was almost as embarrassing as catching him boinking someone. She looked up at his face for less than a second before staring down at the floor and then the wall and back to the floor again. Looking at anything was better than staring at him.

"Rin."

Oh God. Why did he have to say her name? She felt her eyes prick with the sting of tears. Why was she so upset? She didn't even know him!

"Look at me."

"I think I've done enough looking for one day, if it's all the same to you Sesshomaru." She muttered out, fully aware that he could hear her.

"Rin," Sesshomaru said again before reaching for her arm. Rin jerked back, more surprised at her own movement than he was, which was saying something if the widening of his eyes was any indication.

"You were seriously just having sex less than 2 minutes ago with someone else and you want to put your hands on me? I might not have superior senses, but it's incredibly insulting to try and touch me when another woman's stench is all over you." Her words came out bitter and harsh, which wasn't what she intended. Not only that, her words seemed to have some sort of impact on him and he took a full step back from her, as if she had physically struck him. Feeling ashamed of herself, Rin stepped forward to apologize. "I'm sorry, I don't know why I feel upset. I just... I don't know, okay!"

Sesshomaru nodded his head once, his eyes both cold and warm. "I am sorry to have caused you pain." The words were practically ripped from his body as if he were the one in pain from having to say them. He probably didn't apologize often, if ever.

"No, please don't apologize. I'm acting crazy, really." And she was. What the heck was wrong with her, anyway? It wasn't like they were dating or even considering it. This morning she didn't even want to bump into him. Okay, she did, but she didn't.

"It is understandable." Rin moved to wave him off as he walked her down the hallway, cautious to keep his hands to himself as he did so. Stopping in front of her bedroom door, Rin turned back to him with a small look of confusion.

"Why is it understandable?"

"It is the way of mates." He deadpanned, staring down at her from his advantageous height as he delivered his news to her. Rin backed into the door, using it as a crutch to keep herself grounded as she thought his outrageous words through. Her hand clutched the doorknob, twisting and untwisting it as the words sank in.

Rin stared at him for a full minute, just trying to process what had just been said to her.

"The way of mates." She repeated. Sesshomaru nodded his head, woman stank still clinging to his body from his bout of sex only ten minutes before.

"And you think that I am your mate?" She continued in a calm tone of voice. Sesshomaru nodded again, no doubt wondering why she was so daft as to need a repeat of everything being said. "Does that explain your odd behavior last night?" Another discernible head nod. "Huh. So were you just planning on ignoring this mate thing between us?"

"I admit that-"

"Oh wait!" Rin interrupted him, ignoring the way his eyes narrowed at the action. No one interrupted him. Rin smacked her palm to her forehead in a dramatic fashion, smiling at how 'silly' she was being. "I just remembered that I found you upstairs, banging some woman into oblivion, all the while thinking I was your mate! Not only that, but you actually hurt my feelings! I can't believe I actually kind of cared even a tiny bit for you at all, you big jerk! So how about you take your little theory of being mates and stick it up your ass, because there is no way in hell I would ever be with someone like you!"

And with that Rin slammed her door in his face and locked it.