Chapter 4

She opened her eyes to voices talking, which seemed like Naraku's and Kagura's. Rin rubbed her eyes, and tried to remember what happened to her 'Oh yea, I remember now. We were at the castle, but Kagura came and kidnapped me. When we were flying, she knocked me out… Or I fainted… My head hurts.' She looked around; it was a dark room, with violet drapes covering the windows. There was a dresser at one end, and two doors at the other end. Rin looked down at what she lying on; it was an average size coffee-colored futon. 'So much dark colors… Well, it is Naraku's place, no surprise.' She heard footsteps coming down the hall, 'I have to keep calm… Naraku might just want me to lure Lord Sesshomaru to the castle or something. Keep calm Rin… Keep calm.' Rin sat on the futon, waiting for the door to open. Finally it did and Naraku came in, smirking a little.

"Sleep well? I hope my creation didn't do anything too drastic…" Naraku said, walking towards Rin in his dark kimono. He sat on the little end table next to the futon.

"Creation…?" Rin wondered out loud.

Naraku smirked again, "Oh, Kagura, if you didn't know. You seem quite calm for someone who was kidnapped." Rin looked at him, his clothes were all dark, except for one time, she saw Sesshomaru fighting Naraku, and he was wearing some kind of armor thingy like her lord. Except with much larger spikes and a giant eye in the middle of his clothing. Right now, he was a wearing several layers of dark kimono, and the outside layer kimono had yellow designs on it. 'He seems a bit nicer when he isn't fighting' Rin thought.

"Why did… Uh… Kagura take me here?" Rin asked, curious of why Naraku was acting so… Strange.

Naraku laughed a little and said, "You will find out soon, but right now, don't worry. I'm not going to kill you, unless you want me to… Anyway, you cannot leave this castle, so don't even try. You can wander anywhere in this castle though… Just don't get too carried away." He got up, and walked to the door. Naraku turned back and looked at the confused Rin and smiled a little, but mostly smirked.

After he left, Rin fell back down on her futon, 'What does he want with me? Why is he acting so… Weird…? Ahhh!!! So many strange things are happening; I wonder when lord Sesshomaru will come for me? Come soon please…' After thinking all those unanswerable questions, Rin turned around on her futon, and fell almost immediately to sleep.

Dream/Flashback

Sesshomaru, Rin, Jaken and Ah-Un were in a small cave, settling down for one night. The fire was flickering and Jaken was out finding everyone something to eat. Sesshomaru was staring out into the distance, thinking about something.

"Eeekkk! Lord Sesshomaru, help me!" Young Rin screamed from where she was sitting. Sesshomaru immediately snapped out of his daze and rushed over to Rin.

"What happ-' He stopped him self when he saw a tarantula crawling up Rin's leg. She, herself had covered her head, closed her eyes and was shivering. Sesshomaru smirked to himself a little, and then picked up the crawler with his clawed hand.

"Rin, open your eyes." He commanded as Rin slowly uncurled herself from her ball. "This is a tarantula, or a kind of spider; it won't hurt you."

Rin then pointed a little finger at it, "B-b-but, it looks so scary! And it's so dark and spiky." She complained.

"All spiders are dark, and it is not spiky, it's just hairy. Touch it, it won't bite you." He surprised himself by comforting this little soul, but it did feel soothing in a way. Rin stretched out a finger to pet the tarantula.

Rin then withdrew her finger, "It's soft… But I still don't like it…" Sesshomaru then got up, and let the furry crawler go outside the cave.

He then turned to her, "It won't bother you anymore, Rin. Relax." She nodded then went to sit by the fire. That was the first time she had been scared since Koga's wolves had chased her. It was one of the few moments that Sesshomaru had truly showed that he cared for her.

End Dream/Flashback

Sesshomaru's group had made camp nearby the castle. He himself was wondering the path along the castle, 'Why do I feel so… Awkward? He said Rin will not get hurt, so why am I worrying? Why did he kidnap her? He told me in that letter that I was allowed to go into the castle in two days, so Rin's kidnapping was obviously not to lure me in.' Sesshomaru released his poison whip at several trees, slashing them to pieces. 'Dammit…'

"I wonder how Rin is doing?" Kohaku asked back at the camp.

"Why do care about her? You only knew her for a few days, so what's the big deal?" Jaken asked, annoyed by the fact that Kohaku was worried about Rin. He himself didn't like Rin that much because she had stole his lord from him. After all these centuries of serving Lord Sesshomaru, he had favored Rin to him…

Kohaku looked at the green toad, 'I can't even stand this guy for five minutes, so just how can Rin stand him her whole life?' "Well, she did get kidnapped by a half-demon whose name means hell, and pretty unusual looking, so you give me a reason why I shouldn't worry about her." Kohaku replied. After that, there was a very long silence between the two, until Sesshomaru came on the scene. He ignored both of them, and walked to a tree and sat down.

Jaken swallowed, and asked nervously, "Lord Sesshomaru is everything okay?" Sesshomaru just glared at him, then closed his eyes.

The next day, Rin jerked up from her sleep by a very disturbing dream. She looked around the room, 'Nope, this isn't a dream. I'm still in Naraku's lair. Rin lazily stood up, and walked to the door. The castle was very dark and foggy, even in the day. Rin accidentally walked into Kanna when rounding one of the corners.

"Naraku has been waiting for you… Follow me…" Kanna whispered in her aloof voice. So both of them walked for about five minutes until they reached what Kanna called it, the living room. There were large, double wooden doors, and when Kanna said a magical incantation, the massive doors opened to reveal Naraku, sitting in a chair. To the eye, he blended in with the dark colors of the room.

"Come Rin, have a seat," he said in an archly voice. Rin looked skeptical, but since she had no other choice, she went in and sat in the chair across from him. Kanna had invisibly left the scene after she said the incantation, so it was just the two of them. "I suppose you want to know why I brought you here…"

A/n: Heheh! Cliffhanger time! Well, review and maybe I'll free y'all of all your suspense sooner.