"I understand with love comes pain, but why did I have to love so much?"

"LET ME GO!"

Rin thrashed about trying to break free of the grasp the demon had on her hair. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she clawed at the hand that held her tight.

"Look," the man said, "if you don't cut that out now, I'll kill you before we even get to our destination."

"Let me go!" Rin shouted again. "HELP!"

The demon snarled then slammed her body down on the mud covered ground releasing her hair. Rin yelped as the pain ran up and down her entire body while she twisted in the mud, her hair filling with blood and the sticky brown ooze, her blood began leaking from her legs where they scrapped across the jagged rocks under her. Her clothes were torn and her back stung.

"Ow," Rin whimpered as she was pulled up again by her hair.

The demon snarled then slapped her across her face, his claws leaving scratches across her face. As Rin slipped into unconsciousness, the last thing she saw was the demon in front of her.

Mind numbing pain.

That was the first thing Rin felt when she woke. Holding her hand to her head, Rin slowly sat up and allowed her eyes to adjust to the dimly lit room. Looking around, she noticed a tall lean figure standing in the shadows. With hope glistening in her eyes, Rin smiled.

"Sesshomaru," Rin thought but her smile quickly fell when she saw the figure move from the shadows and stand in front of her. "That's not Sesshomaru."

The figure standing in front of her stared down at her as if she were something to eat. Rin backed away from his hand as he reached out to touch her. The demon in front of her smiled then a chuckle sounded from the other side of the room. Another person walked out of the shadows. He and the other guy looked identical like they were twins.

"Well done Juuroumaru," the other man said.

"Thank you, Kageroumaru," Juuroumaru, the one who captured Rin, said.

"Now young miss," Kageroumaru said turning to look at Rin, "do you know why you're here?"

"No but I'm sure you're going to tell me," Rin retorted.

"This one has a mouth on her," Kageroumaru snickered. "Yes I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell you everything. And once I have told you and the boss gives the word, I'm going to kill you, slowly, and painfully. When I get started you'd wish I sped up the process."

"That won't happen," Rin said taking a step back from the advancing demon.

"Oh yes, it will," Kageroumaru cackled.

Rin gasped as she backed into the wall trying to avoid being touched by Kageroumaru.

Kageroumaru laughed at the fear Rin was exerting then said, "You see, we did our homework. For years we studied Sesshomaru before making a move to kill his father and that ningen. We also noticed one little onna that seemed to have caught his eye. Rin Takahama, you. You see he was gonna make his move and ask you out but we struck first. We killed Touga and Izayoi right in front of those two dogs. And we had planned to kill InuYasha too unless Sesshomaru decided to work for us. Originally we thought that Sesshomaru would just let us kill the hanyou but to our surprise, he chose to protect the boy. So we let him work for us and over the last seven years we searched for you."

"We finally found you about a week ago," Juuroumaru said. "Assigning you to Sesshomaru was a test. If he killed you, we would let him go, but he didn't."

"That was the biggest mistake he could ever make," Kageroumaru said. "And now he's going to pay for it with your life, his life, and his brother's life as well as some of your friend's lives too."

"You won't get away with this," Rin said, her voice cracking due to fear.

"Oh," Kageroumaru said quirking an eyebrow, "and who is going to stop us? It certainly won't be Sesshomaru I assure you."

"And what makes you so sure of that?" Rin hissed, anger hinting in her voice.

"Because Sesshomaru is on his way to an ambush." Juuroumaru said laughing at her.

Rin's heart sank as she stared up at the twins in disbelief. Sesshomaru was headed to an ambush and she had no way to warn him. Sinking to the floor, she curled up into a ball, hugging her knees to her chest.

"Oh look," Kageroumaru taunted, "the little ningen is going to cry because she found out that her boyfriend is going to die."

"I wonder how she feels about that," Juuroumaru said clutching his sides due to the pain shooting up and down them from laughter.

Tears slowly ran down Rin's cheeks.

"All because of me," Rin thought slightly rocking herself back and forth, "he's going to die."

A choked sob escaped her lips as she continued to dwell on that thought. It wasn't fair. It just wasn't fair at all.

"Let's leave her alone for a while," Kageroumaru said turning to leave the room. "She may want to cope with her soon to be loss so let's let her do that."

The two demon brothers left leaving Rin alone in the cold dark room with nothing but a small candle and her thoughts.

"What the hell do you mean Rin's been captured," Sango, Kirara, and Miroku yelled in unison at them when they finished their story.

"Exactly what we said," InuYasha huffed folding his arms over his chest. "She's been captured by a band of assassins. Right now my brother is going after her. We all have to stay here until he calls me then we'll go to the center of town. There we'll meet up with him and Rin."

"Do you really expect me to just sit here and do NOTHING when my best friend might be getting beaten within an inch of her life right now," Kirara fumed, inching dangerously closer and closer to InuYasha, her claws raised, ready to attack.

"Look," InuYasha said, "my brother is a skilled assassin. Nothing is going to happen to Rin."

"Tsk," Kirara said, "if you say so."

"C'mon Kirara don't be like that." Kagome said stepping forward.

"No Kagome," Kirara snapped, "I'm going to be like this because you knew and you didn't say a damn word to any of us until this happened."

"I was going to tell you when I got the whole story," Kagome whined.

"Bullshit Kagome," Sango said stepping forward. "You could have told us last night when he gave you the damn letter!"

"The girls are right Kagome," Miroku said folding his arms over his chest. "What were you thinking not telling us right away? We're Rin's friends too and we could have done something to at least help but now we're rendered helpless since this situation arose."

"Hey don't jump down her throat damn you," InuYasha stepped in. "She was doing what she was told. Rin specifically told her that she was not to say a word to you all until today. It just so happened that she was captured before we got to you. So calm down."

"Who do you think you are?" Kirara said stepping closer to him again.

"I'm InuYasha, that's who I am," InuYasha said. "We're doing this to help you all. Since you're all in connection with Rin, you'd all be killed to so shut up, sit down, and wait! Sesshomaru will call me when the time is right dammit."

Everyone stood with their mouths agape. They were in danger too? Unknowingly they all agreed, it was going to be a long night.

Rin woke what felt like hours later. The pain in her entire being pulsed back to life with the slightest of movement. Glancing around, she noticed that she was still in the same room the two demons had left her in earlier. Using the little bit of light she had remaining, she looked around the room for some kind of exit. But instead of finding an exit, she found the next best thing. In the corner of the room was a silver glint shinning as the flames licked it. Slowly standing, Rin made her way over to the unknown object and picked it up. Running her fingers over it, she realized that it was a knife!

"Perfect," Rin thought hiding the knife behind her back and making her way to the place she was sitting before, "I'll be able to at least wound them for a time with this and make an escape. That way I can get to a pay phone and call Kagome."

Her thoughts were interrupted by the door opening and the demon brothers walking in. Leaning back on the knife so that it was pressed against the wall, she watched as they came to a stop in front of her.

"Oh look whose awake," Kageroumaru said, a smirk spreading across his face. "Did you sleep well onna?"

Rin scuffed, turning her nose up in the air and closing her eyes.

"Oh look," Juuroumaru said, amusement playing in his voice, "the onna wants to be indifferent. How cute is that?"

"You would be wise to hold your tongue," Rin seethed, her grip on the knife handle tightening behind her back.

"Oh and if we don't?" Juuroumaru taunted.

"What exactly would you do?" Kageroumaru said.

"This," Rin said jumping up with the knife in sight lunging at Kageroumaru.

A quick stab to the chest slowed him down, then she went for his neck. Cutting the delicate skin with the knife, she dropped it then made a break for the door. Kageroumaru staggered holding his neck as purple coloured blood dripped onto the floor. Finally losing consciousness, Kageroumaru fell to the ground, dead surrounded by his own blood.

"Kageroumaru!" Juuroumaru roared then turned his blazing gaze to Rin's retreating form.

Pulling the pistol from the holster on his hip, he cocked it back and shot hitting Rin in her shoulder. She staggered but kept her balance and continued to run. Juuroumaru stood over his brother's dead body. A roar mixed with emotions of hurt, aggravation, and revenge escaped him as his once violet eyes turned red as blood. The thing he was after, Rin.

Rin continued to run through the building she was in, holding her bleeding shoulder, not daring to take a look back. Running with blurred vision, she ran into someone clad in all black. Glancing up, that same silver mask from her dreams filled her vision and she realized who it was once she found his golden eyes. A small smile tugged across her features as she launched herself into Sesshomaru's arms.

"Rin," Sesshomaru said, confused by the girls actions.

"I was scared," she said into his shoulder, tears streaming down her face.

Sesshomaru could feel the warm liquid seeping through his shirt as he stroked her hair trying to sooth her. Breathing in, he caught the scent of something he wished he hadn't...her blood. Giving her a once over, he noticed that her clothing was torn to shreds barely covering her body. Her hair was mated, filled with blood and dirt like she had been thrown. Her shoulder bleed badly, blood rushing down her arm. On her face were 3 little cuts, like she had been hit with a demons claws. Sesshomaru felt the anger building up inside of himself as he continued to assess her for more damage. He couldn't smell their scents inside of her so it was safe to assume that she hadn't been raped. That was a good thing. Breathing out again, he pulled back from Rin and looked her in the eye.

"Are you hurting anywhere?" Sesshomaru asked, his voice filled with concern.

"My entire body is in pain," Rin said. "It didn't help that I was running. My head is pounding and my arms and legs burn."

"Come," Sesshomaru said taking her into his arms. "I'm going to get you out of here, trust me."

"I trust you." Rin said curling up in his arms, resting her head in the crease of his arm.

She trusted him. Those three little words had such an impact on his heart. In a way he was glad because that's all he wanted from her. But on the other hand it was because she trusted him that she was in this situation. It was his fault.

Turning he sprinted off the way that he had came. Slowly he felt Rin fall unconscious in his arms, her soft breaths filling his sensitive ears. He looked down at her peaceful face. Then something hit him like a bag of bricks. Something he had not realized at first.

"Rin," Sesshomaru thought looking down at the sleeping girl, "is the same onna I had fallen for in high school."

Suddenly something snagged him by the neck pulling him out of his thoughts. Rin's still unconscious form flew out of his arms to the side of him and he fell face forward onto the hard cement ground drawing blood. Lying still for a few seconds, he finally decided to look up. When he did, he stared into the face of his boss.

"Ah Sesshomaru," his boss said, "how good to see you again."

A/N: And the boss makes his appearance! I hope this chapter cleared everything up a little more. Now I want you to take some guesses on who the boss is. I'll give you a hint, it's NOT Naraku.