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Chapter 7
In the West…
Sesshomaru had been busy with meetings all day, since the revolt Sesshomaru had taken great measures to restore peace within his lands. He had created a council that was made up of one representative from each village in his kingdom and once a month he held a meeting with the council in order to discuss problems and progress. Albeit the meeting took place once a month it was a dawn till dusk event because of the amount of villages and problems, he was beginning to think he needed to simplify this somehow because the workload was colossal. Sesshomaru did not know who had betrayed him in his council of nobles at the time so he had slaughtered all of them and given shape to a new council format, his advisors had told him many times that he needed to elect someone else to handle this council, so he could focus on more important matters. However, Sesshomaru could not trust anyone with this task, because people who had access to his council had access to his people and could do more harm then good if they were incompetent. Being Sesshomaru he had started patrolling his lands again as well, the duty, which was left to his general, and his elite guard had fallen to him since he found that they were incompetent. His general was a good friend of his but he could not afford any more mistakes, he told his advisors that this arrangement was temporary but it had been two years since this temporary arrangement had begun. Sesshomaru would go on by instinct not keeping a timetable so that he would not become predictable to his enemies. The villages that had been destroyed had been restored since and to his surprise his mother had been a great help supervising the repairs in his absence. He knew his mother's kindness was much like his stoic exterior, just for show, she did this to show a united House of the West. She had not stopped trying to play matchmaker he had until now met Ladies from the West, the South and the North, but to his mother's surprise he had rejected all of them. His mother had then tried to get his advisors to pressure him to take a mate and he had relayed to them that he had in fact chosen a Lady from the East. Since that revelation his mother had made her distaste known to him and had tried to find out which Lady from the East he had chosen. Few in his lands would object to him taking a mate from the East, since the ruling house was family to him and the East had stood by them in all their hardships. His mother on the other hands was part of the few who would rather have her son marry a Lady from any of the lands other than the East; off course it was not her place to make that decision for him. Yes, she was his mother and he should marry the Lady she chose but since he was a Lord his first priority were his people and their welfare. Marrying a Lady of the East would further strengthen the bond between the two lands and his council, as well as his people more then agreed with his decision. His mother was not happy when she was wrong and had grilled all his servants to know whom he had chosen but the only two people who knew were out of her reach. Auria would never confess to his mother about such a matter and as far as she knew Yukiatsu was dead, so she had no choice but to wait like everyone else until he himself revealed whom the chosen Lady was. His mother was an intelligent being but he knew she had no idea that he had chosen Rin, he knew she thought that since Rin had been a human once, he would not taken her as a mate. He wondered how big a shock it would be for her when she found out that he had chosen Rin, or in fact Auria had betrothed him to Rin, a task that should have been his mother's. He remembered a time when he was a pup and his mother wasn't so cold towards him, she would hold him close when he was afraid and praise him when he did well. However, as Sesshomaru grew his mother retracted her affection and the worst part was that though he blamed Inuyasha for the loss of his father for many years he could not blame him for the lack of affection from his mother. The truth was Inukimi might have been good to him when he was a pup but she treated his father in the same business, calculated manner she had in many ways passed onto him. Whereas his father was a passionate being much like Inuyasha, he would show emotion, anger, love, hurt but Inukimi would just walk away. He could not remember a single moment when his sire and mother had been happy in each others company, when he was young he blamed Inuyasha's mother for the demise of their relationship, but as time went on he understood that it wasn't Inuyasha's mother it was his own mother's cold exterior that pushed his father away. His parents lack of a relationship was the main reason he had not chosen a mate all these years because it would be pointless, no demoness could offer him the passionate love he desired. Yes, he was stoic to the world but he wanted his other half to warm him up and waken his passion. He was not just his mother's son, he possessed the blood of his sire and that meant he had the same passion that Inuyasha did and that's what he wanted in his relationship. This passion, this completing of two souls he had seen in his aunt and her mate, he had decided then that if he could not achieve that than he would not take a mate for life. Auria had asked him to take Rin and he had seen Rin, a passionate being full of emotions, she was a befitting Lady of the East because, much like her adopted mother she was a ball of emotion and warmth. He hoped that Rin would see past his cold exterior and he would help her, he wasn't a fool, this wasn't a joke. If he was going to tie his life to someone than he would make the effort, put aside his pride and make the relationship work especially for Rin, that girl had been through so much and he was well aware of that. He had tried many times in the past year to speak to Rin or be close to her but since they were not mates yet he could not risk it. He could not risk other people finding out, then her life would be in danger, especially if his mother worked it out. Auria already had enough enemies without him adding to her problems, he had refrained from having any special contact with her, but he hoped his past rapport with Rin would help her warm up to him. The time for them to mate was nearly here and Auria had told him early in the day through their connection that she would be telling Rin about the arrangement. He didn't know why it mattered to him so much but it did and it was frustrating that suddenly he wanted her approval; he wanted Rin to like him. He told himself it was because he wanted the mating to be a success but he was as nervous as a pup trying to prove himself to his sire. Oh he remembered the first time his father took him on sentry with him and how nervous he had been; in fact, he had been ill all week leading up to the day. Today all day he could not think of anything else, to say he was distracted was an understatement, he had been sweating bullocks all day.
The last time he had seen Rin she was sitting beside her mother in the council hall listening in on the meeting of the Lords and Ladies of the four Lands, he had been mesmerised by her poise. He had known that as a child Rin had admired him and though he was flattered to be so revered by the young girl, it was still wrong for him to show any recuperation of that sentiment. Now that Rin was a young demoness and his betrothed things were very different, what troubled him now was Rin's reaction to his presence. Where when Rin was human he would pick up her rapidly beating heart in his presence now it seemed as though he did not even exist, other then exchanging pleasantries Rin did not even look at him, let alone speak to him. He wondered what her reaction would be when Auria told her about the arrangement, he did not think she would be ecstatic because of her behaviour towards him, he hoped though that it gave her some joy. He did not know how to feel about this, he was Sesshomaru the never feeling, never reacting ice Prince, and no one expected him to be sentimental in any form or way. He didn't know why he was even thinking about it, honestly all that young girl did was ensue feelings and thoughts in him that he could not even understand. When he thought about her he lost track of time, of what he was doing and he became a slave to worry. He worried that she no longer felt anything for him, his true reason for agreeing to the mating was in fact that he knew Rin liked him, if they both even slightly liked each other it meant that the mating could work. Since saying yes to Auria he had racked his brain for reasons as to why he had agreed and that was the only logical explanation he had come up with. Over the years he had assisted Auria from the sidelines in Rin's education, training and political development. Currently he should be resting it was the middle of the night and all he could do was think about Rin. He assured himself that she would be honoured to be his mate, he was the finest bachelor in the four lands but somehow Rin's recent reactions to his presence would not allow him to rest with his own assurances. He did not want to discuss this topic with Auria, because she would no doubt never let him live this down.
When he thought of Auria he automatically thought about Yuki, they would have been perfect together had they not been separated. He admired Yuki for allowing his soul to remain so that he could care for Auria, it was the greatest sign of care from a demon he had seen but again it was sad that no one else would ever know. Yuki was still in the East and only made an appearance when Auria and he were the only ones present. His mind shifted back to Rin making him wonder if he could ever come to care for her as much as Yuki did for Auria. He was a demon and demons were not known for their grand expressions of romance as humans put it. He would however make it clear to Rin once she became his mate that she was the most important and esteemed person in his eyes as his mate.
In his pondering he failed to notice the light of the rising son filling his room, he had paced the night away in his worry over Rin's reaction.
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