··8/17/07

Disclaimer: Do you see all the ice cream stores in the world named Brijustme or xXFRESH PRiNCESSXx? When you do, this means that I've captured Rumiko Takahashi against her will! While I think of an underground plan so she can't have me arrested, as well as discuss the get away car with my band of ninjas, Inuyasha still belongs to her...

Summary: Sesshomaru's hurt, Rin's at fault, and Jaken's asleep. What more could you ask for, rather than a twenty year-old beauty, and a demon that's finding her strangely attractive...

The Anger Within Her Erupts

by Brijustme

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Rin stared at the back of Sesshomaru's head, while trying to fight the blush that was dying to cross her. 'Please hurry and get back to camp!' she pleaded, as she put a hand on her cheek. She could have sworn that it felt like it was on fire. 'I can't take this!' She let a small smile grace her face. She watched as her lord's hair swung from side to side as he walked. He had still yet to tie his haori, but she didn't mind, for she liked to see his glowing chest, though she would never admit it...

"But," he said while looking up, a smile on his face, "some things are worth it."

'What things are worth it?' she said to herself. '...Me?' She finally gave up and let a blush come over her. Sighing, she gasped when Sesshomaru turned towards her direction with a raised eyebrow. Shaking her head, she playfully pushed him in the back. "Go on. It's dark already, and I told Jaken I'd be back at sunset."

Sesshomaru looked over her tiny body. She was acting like she was when she was thirteen. She was timid around him constantly, and he felt like it was his fault. Moving aside, he let her walk in front of him. The mind of a woman was something he would never understand... but it was worth a shot. He attempted to tap her on the shoulder, but he instantly knew she was sensing his movements when her legs walked faster.

Stopping, he rubbed his chin and waited for her to notice he wasn't following her.

"I'm not coming back for you!"

He let his eyes focus, and came to see that she was almost thirty feet ahead of him. Sighing, he was standing next to her in the blink of an eye. "Someone's persistent," he said under his breath, and shook off the chocolate colored eyes that were glaring at the side of his head. He slightly winced at the punch he got in the arm. If he were fully healed it would be nothing, but he guessed that his strength was of a human's right then. He hated showing weakness, and tried looking away from her apologetic eyes, but found that he couldn't.

Rin patted her lord's sore spot, and pushed him again to get him going. "No," she said while looking down. She knew that her cheeks were cherry red. "I like to think of myself as..." She put on a thinking look, and snapped her fingers. "Perplexing."

Perplexing, huh? Smart girl.

Sesshomaru hid the fascination in his eyes, and continued walking. "You do a fabulous job at that," he said with a small smile, and once again got a punch in the arm. This "smiling" thing caused him nothing but pain, and his face hurt from it.

"Hey!" the woman scowled, as she slightly smiled as well. Letting this quickly turn to a full smile, she glanced at him. "It's nice to know that you notice me," she commented, as she felt his eyes scan her again. She balled her hands into fists, ready to smack him at where he was looking, but soon came to find that he wasn't staring at her midsection, but the two things that were hanging around her waist. "Sorry!" she apologized, as she took them off and handed them to him. "I forgot," she said sheepishly, as he took the two swords.

Lifting her head when he didn't reply, she gasped when his eyes were directed to the right. She heard the quick rustle of leaves before a demon that she wasn't sure of flew into the air. She grabbed his arm when he was about to charge after it. "No," she said with a pointed finger, as if she were telling a child to not play with its favorite doll because they were on punishment. This would work with him. "You're not healthy." Her grip only got stronger when she felt him tense, as well as a vein in his arm bulge from pressuring himself, and she smiled when he nodded rather pathetically. "Good!" she said with glee, as she walked in front of him. "Don't fall behind."

Rolling his eyes, he continued following the woman. She was so... odd. If she weren't there with him, he would have surely taken off after the demon and killed it for stalking him. Not that he cared, for it was a worthless thing, but Rin was right; he wasn't healthy. The snake youkai's venom was still in his body, for he had passed out from the impact of having so much of it injected in him. If it weren't that bad, he could have slit himself with one of his swords to get it out before it spread, but it was too late.

He was physically useless for about two days.

He flinched. If anything were to happen to Rin...

He didn't have a grudge against anyone except for his brother (and Naraku), but they were starting to "converse" more. It all started when Kagome demanded that Inuyasha let him meet their first child, Inuyaku. They had talked a lot, and he came to see that his younger brother wasn't that bad. After his two nieces were born, he had completely given up on killing the half demon for their sakes, as well as his own.

Rin had taken a liking to them, as well as he. The middle child, Yuri, was a reincarnation of their father, not that Inuyasha would know this. They had the same everything, except for the fact that Yuri was female. She looked completely full demon, and he was fascinated by this. Even her scent gave off the smell of a full demon.

His eyes narrowed, letting them take over his body, and he became stiff. Lifting his head, he scanned the sky, and let a low growl escape him when the demon was still there. In a flash it was gone, and he felt his heart skip a beat. Directing his eyes to find Rin, he was glad to see that she had made it to camp, and was crouched in front of the fire while trying to block Jaken's screaming worries and rants as to where she had been.

Shaking his head, he figured he might as well get it over with and be hugged to death by the toad.

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"Kagura," a low voice called from the corner of a hut. His eyes narrowed when he got no answer, and he called out her name again. He patiently waited, and when he still didn't get any acknowledgment as to where she was, he held his hand out, and instantly something red and bulging appeared in it. Clutching the thing with a pulse, he heard a yelp from a distance. It wasn't long before a woman in a white kimono with green and red designs was standing in front of him.

"Y-yes... Master?" Kagura choked out, as she held her right hand over where her heart should be. "H-how... can I assist you tonight?" she asked with closed eyes. The pain was all too familiar, even if this was used to get her to obey his orders countless of times... over and over. She coughed in an attempt to catch her breath when he released her heart. Falling to her hands and knees, she regained her ability of herself.

Naraku smiled warmly, unaware of the way he always treated his extra body part. "Nice to see you here," he said while looking strait at her. His entire body was hidden in the shadows of the dark hut. "I have business to solve."

Kagura lifted her head and looked to find her master. "Such as?" she asked, as she found two red slits staring at her, knowing right away that they belonged to Naraku. "Am I the only one involved?"

Naraku snickered. "Yes, as it seems... you are." Rubbing his chin, he shook his head. "No! In fact... take Kanna with you. She'll be of assistance in this," he said with a small smile, as he laughed to himself. "How are the youkai brothers and the wolf? I haven't heard of them much since they started chatting, and Koga's been working on his pack, no?"

The woman nodded understandingly, while trying to hide her slight blush. "I haven't bothered to look for Inuyasha to steal his shards. He's become overprotective of the wench and everyone around him since he started reproducing." She knew that he had at least two children, and knowing humans, they had heirs almost as much as rabbits. "Koga's popped out a few children as well with a red headed demon." She looked away when Naraku nodded at her to continue. "As for Sesshomaru..." She hoped her face wasn't that red. "...I have no information on him," she lied, and hoped that Naraku wasn't reading her mind right then.

"Enough catching up," Naraku snapped. "I happen to know that Inuyasha's youngest holds three of Kagome's shards, while Sesshomaru entrusted the human he travels with, Rin, with the two he has from slaying demons, and Koga has two as well." Reaching into the sleeve of his kimono, he pulled out the Shikon no Tama that was tainted black completely. It had been twelve years... twelve years. A person could become extremely determined if given the time.

"Yeah, what about them?" Kagura asked, as she got on her feet. "Inuyasha's youngest was given the shards as a present from Kagome, while Rin was given hers from Sesshomaru, for he can't keep them himself, and Koga's still got his in his arm and leg." She flinched when her master laughed deeply in his throat. With the raise of a hand, her older sister was standing at her side, as little and puny as she had always been. She saw the Shikon no Tama in her mirror, as well as the chunk of it that was missing. Both nodded and awaited their orders. It had been far too long since they had gotten reacquainted with their enemies.

"I want them; the shards. I've waited long enough."

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Rin's eyes glanced to the left from the fire; she smiled. There was her lord, sleeping as usual, with his ever so unreadable look on his face. She didn't know whether it was filled with kindness, hatred or any of the above. He was so confusing, and she was almost positive that Jaken had put him in a bad mood with his rambling. She was in a bad mood as well, and she was sure that Jaken knew this.

As for Ah-Un, the demon had remained as quiet as can be, and was currently eating grass.

She, on the other hand, was anything but quiet... in her mind. She knew better than to talk to Jaken in a way to show that she was mad, for he would talk... and talk... and talk, until his words would spin in her mind for the rest of her life. His 'lizards aren't friends' speech he gave her when she was twelve was still in effect. It was only a bite on the finger...

Sighing, she lifted her head only a mere inch, and tuned into what Jaken was yelling at her about. After hearing less than five words, she tuned out. 'Is he... punishing me?' she said to herself with a raised an eyebrow. 'He can't do that... can he?' She desperately looked at her lord, and sighed again when he was still sleeping.

She was a woman now, a twenty year-old woman... and she wanted to be treated like one. She was still known as a girl around her male family, including Sesshomaru.

"Why is that?" she asked no one in particular in a whisper, as she brought her legs up to her chest. She had started talking to Sesshomaru more, and this amazed her, for he wasn't pushing her away like she thought he would. Instead, it seemed like he was bringing her in. A small smile came over her, as she traced his semi-innocent looking face. 'He looks so young... I wonder how old he is.'

He would always be a father figure in her eyes, but she wanted more... so much more. She didn't know if it was a phase, but he was her first crush; he was the first boy she had fantasized about that wasn't from her immediate family; he was... the first boy she had imagined kissing; he was...

'My love,' she said to herself with a blush, as she let her index finger trace her lips. She had always had a thing for her lord, but she assumed that it would pass the minute another tall boy with amber eyes and white hair would pass by. The only other person she'd seen with this description was Inuyasha, but she had no feelings for him. "Why is that?" she said again, and got a raised eyebrow from Jaken.

"Rin!" the toad said with a scowl. "Have you forgotten about our sleeping lord?! Keep your voice down before he awakens!" Giving up on the girl when she looked at him like he had just slapped her, he leaned into the sleeping Ah-Un behind him. He stared at the flames two feet away from him. 'Thank goodness that Lord Sesshomaru is going to be healed tomorrow.' He looked to the sky. 'I don't know how much more of this I can take. Rin's a big responsibility.' He sighed when she looked at him, tracing his face as if she were expecting him to answer. "Why is that... what?"

Rin was quick to shake her head, and she quietly bid her master goodnight.

Jaken leaned into Ah-Un and looked to his lord. "Alright," he said, as he let his eyes fixate on the woman before him. She really was a blossom. Her long brownish-black hair went down to her waist, and was always left down. She was indeed tall, and had everything that a regular woman should. "Just don't go pulling stunts. Goodnight." Letting his eyes close, his dreams took over his mind faster than Rin could run.

Rin shook slightly, and looked to the stars. There were so many... all in different shapes and sizes. 'Is it true that there's one for every person?' she said to herself as she pictured all the men in the land. There were a lot of stars. 'There can't be that many,' she thought with a grin.

She gasped when a shooting star passed by, and she quickly made a wish. Not wanting to tell anyone what it was, she bit her bottom lip. "I hope it comes true." Making her way to her feet, she dusted off the invisible dirt from her kimono, and crossed her arms over her chest. 'Lord Sesshomaru is sleeping.' She glanced at her master and semi-pet. 'They're sleeping as well.' She knew it would be rude to wake any of them and ask if she could go for a walk, but she had to clear her mind.

Staring out into the path where she and her lord had returned from, she noticed that there was a field with nothing but grass to the side. 'I won't go far.' Bidding her male family a silent goodbye, she was on her way.

It was a beautiful night. The moon was directly in the sky, and the stars seemed to reflect on it. Looking down, she noticed that the grass was blue and not green. "It's all so wonderful," she said with a smile. If she were happy, sad, depressed or any of those other feelings, she still always smiled. "For Lord Sesshomaru." Not smiling around him was just as bad as being angry.

They didn't fit well with her personality.

Giggling slightly so she wouldn't stir her knocked out companions, she smiled. "He says I'm too happy to be mad at anything." Was this true? The first time she had showed anger around Sesshomaru was when she was eleven.

"Master Jaken! Leave me alone!" she shouted at the top of her lungs. Her tiny hands were rested on her hips, and her face was red. "I do not! I do not! I do not! Stop saying that!"

The toad skipped down the trail in the middle of a field. "Oh yes you do! The boy in the village was staring at you alright! You like him!" he teased with a pointed finger, as well as adding a laugh to his statement. "We should have left you there with him! I'd like to see what kind of children come out of you if you marry a man of his looks!"

Rin blushed. "It's not nice to make fun of others," she reminded in a whisper, as something soft touched the top of her head. Looking up, she smiled. She reached just above Sesshomaru's knees, which meant that his hair would occasionally get in her face if she were to get close enough to him.

The boy who stared at her while they were passing a village was indeed "cute", but that was all she felt for him. He was tall, which made her guess that he was no more than a few years older than her. He had dark brown hair, almost white skin, and a mixture of brown and green eyes that were amazing.

Holding in the anger that was building up in the pit of her stomach from Jaken, she sighed slightly. She made sure to keep a smile on her face when her lord looked down at her with a raised eyebrow. His face was the same as ever, but she knew almost everything about him from Jaken. Every expression was the same: the look of the one who doesn't care. Though... his eyes seemed to have gotten softer since she began traveling with him. She didn't know if this was true, but she had heard Jaken talking about it while kicking a tree, his own way of getting over the grievance of having to look after her.

"Yes?" she asked, once realizing that her lord was staring at her. Her eyes widened when he came down to her level, and she looked him strait in the face. She felt her cheeks tingle when he grabbed her right hand and formed it into a fist. He held it tight until it started to turn red, then released it.

She stared at it as if it were going to save her life. "Wha-"

"Use it."

She knew not to doubt him, and nodded. "What for?" she asked, as she looked at her hand with circumspection. She didn't know why, but she liked the feeling. Her hand hurt from the pressure she was putting on it, and now that she was staring at it, it looked familiar. "You use this a lot," she said in shock. The redder it got, the more she wanted to hit something.

Sesshomaru nodded, and pointed a finger at Jaken who was still skipping without a care. "Hold it tight no matter what, and make sure you always hit him in the head." He looked to the side. "It's his weak spot." He would kill the toad himself, but he was too tired. He had been awake thinking that night, and it was one of his sleeping nights, for he only slept once every two weeks.

She nodded with a smile and thanked him. She gasped when he grabbed her arm, and she looked at him with a raised eyebrow. His face was the same as ever, and this made her happy. He had taught her something! 'What's the matter with him?'

"Here," the demon said, as he pressed between her eyebrows with a finger. In an instant, she had three lines in her forehead, making her look extremely mad. "Now go."

Rin looked down at her hand. It had formed into a fist on its own account. 'Lord Sesshomaru... you taught me how to be angry.' She gave her attention to the moon. Squinting her eyes, she sighed. "You and the moon have so much in common," she came to find. "You're both hard, unique looking when you want to be, and bright."

Her eyes were fully closed by then, and she swiped a finger under her eye. She felt water, and flinched when a tear trailed down her cheek. "You both... don't have room for others, nor the time." She was being such a fool. She knew very well that her guardian hated everyone, even more, humans. She thought that she could change him, but she guessed she was wrong. He had stopped the random killings that he would do when he was without her; Jaken had filled her in on this. He would only slay something when it was necessary. She knew that this was because of her. He didn't wish for her to see him tear something apart, for him to demolish anything, for her poor human mind wouldn't be able to take it.

Now that she thought of it, the moon and Sesshomaru had nothing in common.

"The moon brings peace, and you still have the nerve to kill things," she concluded, as she punched the spot next to her. "The moon doesn't have a choice whether it wants to hate, and you... you hate everything—and you always have." Punching the grass again, she felt a chill go through her body, and she gasped when there was a drop of blood going down her knuckle. She quickly sucked on it, hoping that a demon wouldn't come after her, or even worse, Sesshomaru.

"Rin."

Her eyes were the size of an owl's, and she knew she was blushing. "Yes?" she asked through a mouthful of flesh, which came out as anything but what she had just said. Realizing this, she took her hand out of her mouth and wiped the saliva on the grass. "Um... yes?" she asked again, and got a look of acknowledgment from her lord. 'Wait a go...'

Without knowing with he was doing, he sat down next to her. He tried looking away from her mouth that was oozing saliva like a newborn, but found that he couldn't. She had been sucking on her hand, which gave her lips a rosy red shade. Shaking his head, he gave his attention to a small spot near her knuckle that was slowly turning red again. She blushed and hid it behind her back.

"It's nothing," Rin instantly responded, as she relaxed in her lord's presence. She could feel Sesshomaru's eyes piercing through her everything, searching for anymore injuries, but she didn't really care at the moment. She was fine, for now that was, and didn't feel that he should have the responsibility of her like this. 'Because you have the power to kill me.'

Sesshomaru felt his icy exterior melt away. His face was full of concern for the girl sitting next to him. Naturally, he would careless about the wound, for it wasn't even the size of a bug bite. Her... attitude. Something was wrong, but he didn't know how to approach her about it. He had noticed that Rin had been confiding, as well as talking to him, ever since he got hurt. Was she... worried? Shaking his head from the thought, he looked away when her eyes narrowed.

Rin leaned into him, not once letting her gaze fixate on anything else. She was shocked, but didn't show it when he started to lean as well, as if he were trying to avoid her. Sticking her tongue out at him, she made her way to her feet. "You should be used to more blood being shed. In case you forgot from when you hit your head when the snake demon attacked, you kill for a living." Without a wave or even a smile, she made her way back to camp. She felt light headed—not really—but more like she was going to die if she looked at Sesshomaru ever again. 'He doesn't get shocked, does he?' she said to herself as she felt something grip her right wrist tightly.

She gasped when she was forcefully spun around, and slammed into a warm chest. She felt him vibrate from the impact, and she pushed him away, not caring that she had caused him pain. "What?" she said while looking down. She didn't look innocent, happy, cheerful, or any of those other emotions that were displayed on her face normally. Her face was filled with nothing but anger for her lord. "If you're not going to say anything because I'm not, I'd like to go to bed now."

She tried swatting his hand away, and felt the air get knocked out of her when she was slammed against a nearby tree. She could feel him leaning in, and he was staring at her like he did when he was about to hurt something. "...You know I hate it when you kill, let alone blood."

The demon stared down at her, and almost made their stomachs touch. He could smell her natural honey scent like wild, but this didn't stop him from getting something strait in her human mind. Though, now that he was looking at her innocent body, didn't think it was wise to say them. While easily getting her other wrist acquainted with the one he had when she tried to slap him, he really wished he had his left arm back. His strength had been brought back to him, but he was still in his human phase. He needed about half of the next day, and then he'd be declared fine. For some reason... Tensaiga was rejecting him.

Did it know that he was in bad condition?

"Rin, keep this in mind," he said coldly while looking into her eyes. She didn't look fearful at all, and this made him wonder just what kind of woman he had raised. Either way, his grip on her wrists tightened when he felt her try to get away from him; no way would he let this happen. She was partially his creation, for he had to admit that he was considered her father in this situation. "One of the reasons I kill is to keep you alive."

Rin hissed in anger and glared at him. No matter how angry and upset he was at her backstabbing, she knew deep down that he had the role of her father, and he would never hurt her. "Yes, one of the reasons you kill is to keep me alive," she said with a snarl. "And what's the other reason?" she dared to ask. She wasn't at all affected when he got closer to her. She could see his eyes getting colder. "Is it because you can't let your emotions out, or is it because you enjoy the sight of blood?! I hate it!"

She wished that she could take back the shooting star. Wishing for a fight with Sesshomaru wasn't supposed to turn out like this.

She was proving that she was perplexing, and he fought the urge to raise an eyebrow at her behavior. She was so... confusing. Did she feel like this all along? Why did she hate it when he killed things?

He snapped back to reality when he felt her slip away from him. She pushed him in the chest in anger, and stormed back to camp. He watched as her plump body crashed onto the ground and didn't bother moving. This reminded him greatly of how she would act when she was upset with Jaken—not him.

Now that he thought of it, she had never had this much of an impact on him. He could feel the red marks that were her hands when they slapped against his chest.

What the... hell?

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Bri Note- I'm so sorry for all the confusion, and all those other things! Sesshomaru's not meant to be stiff and mean like you're used to reading! I thought I'd give it a shot, but to my dismay, it's confusing some of you. Bad Blood is based on Rin growing up, as well as his bubbling feelings!

Much Love,

Brijustme