Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha and gang. Rumiko does.

A/N: Hai!! Third chapter is here...and thank you Silent killer, fluffyrinlover, bert8813 for the reviews. I was almost dejected there. So sorry for the chapter being long. It will get longer since am telling two parallel stories, one of the past and the other in present. But got something cool this time...

Chapter three: Vision of the princess

Past

Sesshoumaru was standing near the window looking at the dark clouds. It would rain soon.

He was thinking heavily.

He was not supposed to lift Rin, not supposed to kiss her. Not supposed to disrobe her, not supposed to...do things he did yesterday.

'Hell, I was not supposed to touch her!' He cursed himself.

Right after the ceremony when she was led to the room, he was busy attending to some important paper work. The moment she came, she came upto him with her sunshine-would-cringe smile and bowed. She should have stopped there but she touched his amrs trying to force him to look at the moon.

'Moon...of all the things...' She had began when her touch evoked an unknown emotion in him.

A human had touched him, his sanctity questioned, his principles turned to dust. He wanted to annihilate her and his fingers began to glow with green light-the poison whip.

She had gasped at this and looked at it with a fancy look on her face.

He wanted to see her suffer and something twisted crossed his mind.

'Why not...??'

He caught hold of her suddenly, her frame small compared to his, she was afterall only fifteen, and lifted her.

The demon in him ebbed with a mixture of hatred and lust...

He looked behind him and noticed Kagura stirring.

"Don't you ever sleep?" Kagura asked pulling the blankets close to her.

He again looked at the clouds, "Get out." He said.

Kagura got a cold expression in her face but she quickly got dressed, anyway.

'I'd come for a good fuck, I got it, didn't I?' Kagura asked herself and a satisfied yet iniquitous smile widened her lips.

The events of the night played in her mind as she summoned her feather and got into it.

Well, the look on the poor girl was the cherry on top. Her one night stands with the Lord of the West was always satisfying. She could go on lusting for him her entire damned lifespan...this was one task she would gladly do.

Sesshoumaru kept up with Kagura's movements and turned around to find Jaken. He had called to Jaken when he'd done with Kagura and ordered to take Rin away and to clean the mess.He looked at the blood stained sheets...Rin's blood. Kagura's excitement went overboard yesterday as Rin's blood really elated her. Last night surely was one of the best rutting he'd ever had.

Looking at the bed now, a knot formed in his chest. He was curious to know what happened to her.

"JAKEN!!"

Rin had woken up with the female servants of the castle surrounding her.

"Ahh...you are finally up, Rin-san. You healed pretty quickly for a human." One of the maids, obviously a demoness, said. All were demons in the castle except for her.

"Mmm..." She tried to get up and they helped her. Well, all weren't heartless like their Master.

"I have prepared some tea. With the herbs that your sister gave." Another one said.

Pity...she could see it in their eyes. Tears ebbed in her eyes.

She about to protest when a loud voice rang in her ears.

"Drink it, baka girl!!" It was Jaken.

Jaken looked at her and the looks the other girls were giving and immediately resented his tone.

One look and his heart went out to her, the high spirited girl was now completely broken. He always knew his Master was very powerful and witnessed his destruction, but this one...

She drank her tea and thanked Kikyou for that medicine. She knew she healed because of that.

Everything was broken inside her, she wanted her sister back. She wanted Inu-kun back. She wanted to see Miroku-sama getting slapped by Sango-san. She wanted to see Kohaku-kun and Shippou-kun having a blush-contest when she spoke to both of them. Her chest became heavy...but she saw a light in the darkness.

She would stay here. She remembered Kohaku's words.

'He'd never take you for his mate...probably waste you away. A doll he'd own but never use. Rin...gomen...'

But she'd taken it slightly. People change, don't they?

But yesterday's events shook her.

He loathed humans...but this was necessary. It could have been any other girl but they'd question Kikyou's part. They would have blamed her. It had to be Rin, her own sister and it was her fate.

Rin shut her eyes...she'd stay with him. Stay here and save her family from disgrace. No matter what.

"Where am I?" She asked, finding her voice.

The maids fidgeted. They looked at each other and were hesitant to answer.

"In servant quarters, you lowly human." Jaken ground out.

Rin looked at him and giggled.This surprided everyone.The giggle turned into an uncontrollable laughter.

Sesshoumaru was sitting in his study going through some treaties but he was not able to concentrate.

The study was dark. Suddenly light poured in and so did Rin's scent.

She was pulling the drapes open.

She looked at him and smiled brightly but it didn't reach her eyes.

"You sent for me, Sesshoumaru-sama." She bowed.

Sesshoumaru considered her, at the same time desperately smelt her and strained a little to hear her heart beat.

She was perfect. He was surprised but he remembered whose sister she was.

He was confused a little about the need for him to check her so desperately.

The wounds were almost healed but sure, they'd leave marks.

"Hn.." He replied.

But her attitude disturbed him. The demon in him wanted to wipe that sparkle off her face.

A well dressed demon entered and she quickly placed him. He was an advisor of the Lord.

"Sesshoumaru sama." He said and bowed.

"That is the girl." Sesshoumaru said and the demon glanced at her. She was shocked to see way he saw her. It was of a butcher's. Sesshoumaru left the room as Jaken appeared. Obviously some matter of importance. He nodded to the other demon looking at Rin before leaving.

"Yes, my Lord." He said and went upto her.

"Let's go." He said.

"I don't understand...where?" Rin asked.

No sooner she uttered those words than a hard slap made her fall on the ground.

Blood started trickling from the corner of her mouth. She had to get used to this.

"No questions...that is your first lesson, slut! You are just supposed to obey, not talk." The demon said and pulled her hair and considered her closely.

She twisted her face mainly of pain but now it showed protest.

"Hmm...tough are we? Breaking you will be fun..." He said. He smiled at her and she shut her eyes.

'No...not again...'She tried to push him away.

"Human girls are weak and ugly...not my type but...you are something." He pulled her to stand up and continued," You are quite a beauty. More money huh? My customers prefer demons but you'd be an exception." He said as his hands wandered freely on her body.

It was painful. She could very well cry for her sister, she'd come. But it would come with a price. A war. She was not worth it.

She did not scream yet but the minute his hands scaled her thighs, touching her womanhood, she screamed.

The name of the most unlikely person...the one who was responsible for her plight.

"Sesshoumaru-sama...!!! Jaken-sama...!!!" She screamed but was slapped another time.

The demon raised his hand to strike her with his elongated claws, when he was thrown across the room.

Rin who'd braced herself for the blow looked up stricken.

Sesshoumaru had indeed come.

"You were supposed to just train her to be a courtesan...not manhandle wife of this Sesshoumaru!" He said in a cold yet calm voice. It sent shivers down Rin's spine. She knew that voice. She actually could have had her hopes lifted up for he'd referred her to his wife but she was not his mate. But she dreaded the gore that was to happen any time now. She inched back and Jaken caught shoulder roughly.

"Sorry, my Lord. I thought...she is just an ordinary hum..." He was not allowed at complete the sentence. He was not given the chance to defend himself.

The poison whip slashed across his face and chest.

After what seemed like a blur of movement, Sesshoumaru was back standing where he'd threatened him.

Then the demon's body gave away splurting blood all aorund.

A good amount splattered on Rin's face and her face contorted. She was going to throw up.

Jaken shook her and gave her a look that said, 'Not here, not now.'

She gulped and tried to supress the bile that was rising and tears that were thratening to spill.

Sesshoumaru looked at both of them.

"Jaken, get her cleaned. She will not go anywhere, she is supposed stay in her own room. She will be treated well, get her finest of clothes and jewellery. Remember, never to come out of her quarters, treated like a Lady." Sesshoumaru said and walked away.

"H-hai Sesshoumaru-sama...hai!" Jaken bowed as Sesshoumaru disappeared.

Jaken pulled a crying Rin out of the room to wash room where she threw up. Blood along with the breakfast she'd had that morning. She was shaking very badly and crying. She wiped her tears.

"I will not cry...not cry..." She said as hug herself there, rocking back and forth.

"Come on...don't...oh my god! You are running a fever Rin!" Jaken said touching her forehead.

And she hardly had completed a day.

"Come on silly girl." Jaken said softly and Rin hugged him out of a sudden urge.

Jaken squeaked and started shaking his hands and legs but eventually calmed down as the maids came for attending to her.

Rin was lying on her bed. It was raining and the night was even darker. Dark as Rin's life.

First she'd been used, abused, shattered to peices but many things happen between a husband and his wife. It stayed within four walls.

But...but...to send her off for flesh trade was simply stamping her whole existence. Sesshoumaru didn't see her as a being at all, he looked at her like she was this human scum that needed to be get ridden off. But his male chauvenism surfaced when she was ill-treated by another male lower than him, even though he'd been a demon.

As a lone tear slipped out, she was determined to stay here...slowly realizing that she would never be the same anymore. She had finally grown up and her husband deserved the credit.

That night, the Western lands were attacked by strange demons destroying villages...

Rin was sleeping when she felt something wet on her chest and neck. She snapped her eyes open and gasped.

"Sesshouamru-sama?"

Sesshoumaru looked down at her.

Sesshoumaru pulled the girl in front of him.

"What are you doing here at this hour?" Sesshoumaru asked.

Rin smiled," Am I not supposed to touch my husband?" She smiled as she daringly touched him, pulling him closer.

"You did yesterday, my turn now!" Rin said kissing his throat.

Pain was what she felt as she was lifted in the air. It was not Sesshoumaru...it was someone else...

Sesshoumaru growled low as blood trickled down where Rin had touched him on his chest.

He looked up and she smiled brightly.

"Two can play this blood game you know..." Rin said laughter evident in her voice.

"Let us see what your husband does now Rin. Now you just sleep, child." The voice said huskily in her ears and the last thing she remembered were long veins, wet sensation on her cheeks as if she'd been licked and...spider.

"You...worthless human..." Sesshoumaru said as he reached for her.

But she caught his hands and pulled him by the neck. She floated up taking him by the neck.

She had a twisted smile on the face.

"Lord Sesshoumaru...of the West. Let us see what happens to your peace pact if your bride coughs up ashes." She said dropping him down.

"You are not Rin." Sesshaomaru said, his voice cracking on her name as blood gushed out of his mouth.

"No. I am not. Your Rin is here..." She said her form forming something shapeless and Rin's body floated inside it. She was sleeping or unconcious, he couldn't tell. But she was naked with some silver strands covering her here and there.

"Now I will see the great dog demon Inutaisho's sons killing each other. Goodnight Sesshoumaru." The figureless mass said before forming a purple cloud and disappearing.

The vein that had peirced Sesshoumaru in the gut disappeared and Sesshoumaru followed the cloud till the window but stopped as he saw his lands. The black of the night was nothing compared to red that was being painted newly on the lands...his lands...

Demons were wreaking havoc and hell had broken loose. And Rin was gone.

The last thing on his mind was Inuyasha and what he could do with his tetsusaiga if Rin was really dead. He already had Rin's blood in his hands...

But more than that his demon was taking over him. To kill the bastard that had taken what was his. Yes, Rin was his possession whether he liked her or not. She belonged to him and so did his lands. And someone had just struck on both the things...

Red was all Sesshoumaru could see...

Present Day:

Kouga and Inuyasha were drinking beer in the kitchen looking at the bubbly excitement that charged the living room.

"She is normal." Kouga said sipping his beer.

"Uh-huh...she doesn't remember anything of yesterday's. Fuck! I still don't get it. Her body was badly burned and she sure smelt of death. I was sure...she was dead Kouga..." Inuyasha said looking at Rin who was busy opening her gift with a big smile that lit her eyes up. Kagome's head was resting on Kohaku's shoulder comfortably and both were watching Rin with amusement in their eyes and Sango was helping Rin open her gift. Souta was betting on what it would be.

Inuyasha turned to look at Kouga who gave him a stupefied look.

"Aww crap! Stop that." Inuyasha hissed.

"Sorry, lookin' at ya so worried always gets the worst outta me..." Kouga said smiling.

"It is good that she doesn't remember, wasn't worth remembering. As a doc, I'd say your Rinnie is fine." Kouga said. Although he himself had his doubts.

"Hmm..."Inuyasha said with his brows creased. For split second his eyes went blind and he saw Rin dressed in Japanese obi like a princess with her belly grown in size as if she was pregnant. She looked at him and the sorrow in her eyes shook him to the hilt.

"Inu-kun!! Stop staring, its rude you know." Rin waved her hands.

"Come on dog-breath! Snap out of it!" Kouga slapped his back little too hard.

"Yeah...must be the beer." Inuyasha emptied the contents into the sink. Then as if struck turned back, "What the hell did you just say Wolf?" Inuyasha started.

Rin just rolled her eyes and hollered," Kagome, Sango! The guys are at it again."

"When will they ever learn?" Sango said shaking her head.

"D-o-g b-r-e-a-t-h. Dog breath. Anything wrong? The last time I checked, you are still a dog demon even if you are half bre..." Sango shut his mouth and shook him, "Kouga-kun!" She said accusingly.

"See...and ya'll say he is such a gentleman. Nothing but a pig! Mangy wolf and nothing more." Inuyasha said bristling. Kagome tried to restrain him.

All of the time, Rin and the two boys were having a good laugh.

The two adult demons stopped their altercations to look at the three of them.

The teenagers sweat dropped and smiled sheepishly.

"Go get packing!!" Inuyasha ordered. And the three of them rushed upstairs.

It was not that Inuyasha and Kouga had always been like this. They'd been introduced when sango was studying medicine. They were civil to each other but before long they'd become accostomed to these exchange of words. Sometimes they'd even spar. They'd found something, something that seemed to take them long back. But they enjoyed great rapport. They were friends in this foriegn land and were always there for each other. Kouga did have some feeling for Kagome but he was getting over her now that she was married and mated to Inuyasha. Actually there was a certain female from the taijiya clan who interested him. Infact, Inuyasha had been trying to hook both Kouga and Sango up. They had become each other's family. And life was beautiful with its own little downs.

But none of them would have ever anticipated the test they'd go through once they were in Japan. One trip that would forever change their relations...

A/N: So? It is not entirely fluffy fic but dark, but relation of Rin with others is fluffy sort of but, with Sessh its...well, black and red. Sorry...reveiws please. Do tell me if it has to be better than this.