Chapter 9: Love and Loss.
Sesshomaru kept a sharp ear out on alert, they were coming, he didn't know how many, but they were coming.
Even if he was supposed to walk out of the cave and keep gaurd, he didn't.
He stayed, leaning against the wall with Rin resting against his body, his arm around her.
She was sleeping peacefully.
Sesshomaru had marked her that night for the sign that she was his mate.
A light red mark remained on her neck, and she seemed to be unaffected by it.
He knew it hurt her, whether she admitted it or not.
At least he would only have to mark her once.
When he had bitten her, he could taste her blood, her skin was punctured by his sharp fangs, and blood dripped welcomly in his mouth.
Never had he tasted something so good, but he knew he had to release her or he might kill her.
Sesshomaru had removed his fangs and replaced it by his warm tongue to close the wound.
That moment, Rin probably felt pleasure and desire rather than pain and fear.
That was all he was going to do for that night.
He wanted to take it further, but she was hurting already, and now wasn't the best time.
The sun began rising, the brightness entering the cave, Rin's face glew like a perfect angel.
Her eyes slowly opened, and she stared up at him.
" Rin, how did you sleep." Sesshomaru asked.
" Good, thank you." Rin said.
A loud sound of rustling leaves rushed in Sesshomaru's ears.
Rin also seemed to have heard it, because she stood up at the same time Sesshomaru did.
" He's found us." Rin said sounding scared.
They exited the cave, and out from the bushes, came three boys, Tod, Steve, and Logan.
" Hello Rin, Long time no see?" Logan said smiling.
Rin stood behind Sesshomaru, there was something about him that had totally changed his personality.
" So you ARE under the spell of the demon." Logan said. " see boys, I told you."
" Logan, are you sure we have to kill her?" Tod asked in a whisper, but whisper or not, Sesshomaru heard.
He dashed foward, grabbing Logan by the throat.
Tod and Steve jumped ahead, and prepared to stab Sesshomaru with their weapons.
Sesshomaru leapt in the air, leaving Logan to dodge the attacks.
Tod and Steve went over to him.
Sesshomaru flew off, planning to lead them away.
" Logan, why are you doing this? You're not who I once knew." Rin said.
Logan walked up to her.
" You always knew me Rin, I told you myself, I am a demon slayer, that thing is a demon, and you need to wake up and..." Logan stopped dead in his tracks when his eyes spotted her neck.
He tilted her chin up to reveal the left side of her neck.
" He marked you?" Logan asked upset.
" Yes." Rin said jerking her chin away from his hand.
" Well then you don't deserve to live either!" Logan said, lifting a short bladed knife.
He began to drop it down to her chest.
" Logan STOP!" A voice shouted, and appeared in front of Rin.
Shasta.
" Rin is a human, we can't kill humans!" Shasta said angrilly.
" Oh really? Watch me." Logan smiled, and aimed his knife again, this time at Shasta, he stood afraid, but wasn't going to let Rin die.
Suddenly, Logan was pulled back, and thrown in the air, landing heavily on the ground.
" Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin shouted coming out from behind Shasta.
Sesshomaru heard Logan getting up, even though he was trying to be quiet.
He turned around to Logan, and turned out, he was closer to him than he thought, and soon, something was plunged into Sesshomaru's body.
It was that long spear that was in the dream.
It went straight through Sesshomaru's body.
He looked down at it shocked.
" NO!" Rin screamed.
She was about to run for Logan, but Shasta did first.
Logan pulled out a small knife and was preparing to stake Sesshomaru again, but Shasta had reached him, and held his arms in the air, stopping the knife from coming down.
Shasta had a tight grip on Logan's arms, but one of his arms slipped, the arm that was holding the knife up, and Logan got out of his grasp, and turned Shasta around, and staked him right in the chest.
Shasta gasped for breath.
" I told Steve what would happen if one of you decided to help these fools." Logan whispered in Shasta's ear, then let the 14 year old young boy fall to the ground, meeting his death.
Rin couldn't stand what she was seeing, Sesshomaru was down on the ground, he had pulled out the spear partially, but not all the way yet.
She went to Shasta's side, hoping he had a weapon.
Logan let her. He was more focused on the Demon.
Rin knelt before Shasta.
" Rin, I... I am so sorr-ry." Shasta shook out in a light whisper.
" I am sorry too Shasta." Rin cried.
Shasta was waay to young to die.
" Well, now I will die happily, knowing... That I did... The right... Thing." Shasta whispered and his eyes closed, and his body went stiff.
Rin looked down at the side of his waist where a long sword nested perfectly in the sheath.
She looked back at Logan, he quickly jerked out the spear out of Sesshomaru's chest, which he squinted in pain, his wounds were immense.
" Now, to finish you off." Logan said, lifting the spear high above his head, the shadow of it reflecting right on Sesshomaru's heart.
Sesshomaru looked up at Logan full of hate, he wanted to get up.
Suddenly, a blade appeared outside of Logan's stomache, and Logan had his eyes open widely, as he whimpered his breathing.
Rin was standing behind Logan, with her hands on the handle of the sword, pressing the blade as far as it would go.
Sesshomaru leapt up in inhuman speed, he grabbed Logan's spear, and all too soon had it planted in Logan's chest, right where his heart was.
Logan was trying to breathe, but no air was entering.
He kept trying to gasp for air as he fell to the ground, dying more quickly than Shasta had.
Rin's hands were shaking as she released the handle to let him fall.
Tears were streaming down her face.
Never, in her life, had she actually had the courage. ' to kill a human '
After all that she had been through, she was weak, tired, and...
She let herself fall to the ground, knowing that she'd land safely in the arms of Sesshomaru.
He did catch her, but also had to fall to his knees.
His blood was pounding out of his chest where the spear had been staked, and now that it was no longer in him to stop the blood, it was flowing freely.
He... wasn't... Going... To... Die... Just... Yet...
He still had to make sure Rin would wake up ok, he still wanted to have a life with her, he still wanted to...
His vision blurred.
And for the first time... Sesshomaru landed the rest of his body on the ground, lying on his back, just... A... Little... Rest...
Sesshomaru thougt.
His eyes dropped.
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Night had fallen.
Rin's eyes slowly opened.
A gust of wind blew against her body.
It felt cool, and comforting.
She slowly sat up.
When she looked around, her eyes widened, everything coming back to her.
Shasta laid in the far distance with a knife in his chest, Logan... Laid on his side, with a spear and sword in his body.
And...
Rin jumped up quickly.
She dropped down to the ground, next to the love of her life.
" Sesshomaru! Sesshomaru!" Rin screamed.
His eyes were closed, he looked like he was sleeping, but... She didn't know.
Her hand was on his chest, and when she looked at her hand, there was blood all over it.
She then noticed that he was still bleeding!
" No. Hold on!" Rin screamed.
How long had he been like this? How long had she been out? How long can a demon bleed, before bleeding to death?
The blood was coming out in a small pounding pace, so she could tell his heart was beating.
She scrambled to her feet, and ran into the trees.
She was breathing heavily, concerned about Lord Sesshomaru.
A roar sounded behind her, and she looked up.
" Ah-Un!" She shouted.
They landed on the ground heavily before her, and the little green demon hopped off of them.
" Rin, what have you been doing? Where Is Lord Sesshomaru? Where is..."
" Master Jaken you have to help me! Lord Sesshomaru is severely injured, do you know where some herbs are?" Rin shook the little green toad.
" Lord Sesshomaru? Injured? Oh my gosh!" Jaken panicked being not being the least bit helpful.
Ah-Un would listen to her, they always listened.
" Ah-un, I want you to fly ahead and see if you can find some herbs." Rin said to them.
As if they already knew where to go, one of them dropped their heads, slid Rin on their back and dove in the air.
They flew at an incredible speed.
Rin was proud of them, but was so worried about Sesshomaru.
" hold on Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin said.
The dragons soon dove back down to the ground.
Landing right in front of the healing herbs.
" Thank you!" Rin said happily, and she got off of them, to grab a handful.
She held on to them tightly, then got back on Ah-Uh, and they flew off.
They arrived back in no time.
Jaken had found him already, and was panicking like crazy.
" Jaken, calm down, Lord Sesshomaru is going to be ok!" Rin said, mainly just trying to soothe herself.
" I NEVER SAID HE WASN'T GOING TO BE OK!" Jaken said.
Rin ignored him, and knelt next to Sesshomaru.
She dug in her pocket, and luckily, thanks to the nice parents, they had given her gauzes.
Rin mixed up the herbs, and somehow made it some kind of cream, and put it all over his chest. ( Yes, she had to take his robe/shirt off)
Then she pressed the gauze pieces into his wound, and one by one, she stopped the bleeding.
Luckily she was on the last one before he had finally stoped bleeding, so she put the final gauze on his chest, and wrapped it up.
Then she covered his chest back up with the robe.
She sighed nervously, he still wasn't waking up!
" Since when does Lord Sesshomaru allow you to touch him?" Jaken asks.
" If you haven't noticed, he is unconcious, so he probably doesn't know it." Rin said.
The older she had gotten, the more sarcastic and rude Jaken became.
But somehow... She put up with him.
" We need to get him in that cave over there." Rin pointed over to the cave they had rested in the night before.
It took a lot of effort, ( Rin doing most of the work )
But they finally got him in.
After that, they sat around nervously, waiting, hoping, praying.
Crickets chirped, and chirped, and the two remained quiet.
Jaken falling asleep, Idiot.
Rin had her eyes wide open, directly on Sesshomaru, waiting for him to move, open his eyes, or even do the slightest shake or shiver.
' Don't Leave me Lord Sesshomaru, I still want to be with you, I still want to have a life with you I still want to...'
Her eyes brightened up when Sesshomaru's closed eyes twitched, as if to open.
She gasped lightly, waiting for him to awake.
" Lord... Sesshomaru? Are you.. Ok?" Rin asked sadly.
" Rin." He whispered her name.
" Lord Sesshomaru." Rin said happily moving over to him.
His beautiful golden eyes opened, slowly, so very slowly.
" Rin, I am sorry." Sesshomaru whispered looking up at her.
" For what?" Rin asked.
Sesshomaru suddenly sat up, Rin panicking almost, grabbing onto him.
" Wait! You are wounded!" Rin said.
Sesshomaru stood up, he wanted to talk to Rin... Alone.
Rin held on to him waiting for him to fall, but surprizingly, he was up and walking like a normal person.
" Are you... Ok?" Rin asked again.
" Rin, let us go for a walk, I wish to speak with you alone." Sesshomaru said, looking over at the sleeping Jaken.
They swore, that little demon could sleep through an apocolipse.
" Are you sure you are able to walk?" Rin asked.
" yes, come." Sesshomaru said walking out of the cave, Rin followed him obediently.
She didn't want to bug him anymore about his wounds, or otherwise he would say something that they both might regret.
They headed out in the darkness, and peaceful night, in mere silence.
OK! This was probably my longest chapter, I just couldn't stop it!
Finally I found an 'OK' Stopping place, I might make another chapter tonight.
Can you guess what Sesshomaru wants to talk about?
REVIEWS :D Please.
~ Wolflover 235
