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A/N: Compliant with the original series with some devious deviations.
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Sesshomaru came back from the fight with Rin and landed through the window of his dark apartment.
"Seshomaru-sama!" Jaken called him.
Jaken's voice brought Sesshomaru back to his senses. Still unable to suppress his anger, Sesshomaru must find some peace before he turned into his dog demon form and murdered the whole city including Rin Kaylee and Ryu Toki. Sesshomaru transformed into a small orb of light, shot out from his window, and disappeared into the night sky.
He went to visit her grave, the only woman he had ever loved in his life, Rin Taiso!
Just like how his presence brought comfort to Rin Kaylee, the memory of Rin Taiso always brought him the peaceful calmness he needed. On his travel to her grave, Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes at the thought of Rin Taiso.
- Hm! How odd that they are both named Rin!
He remembered about 500 years ago, when the little cute human girl started to follow him after he revived her, she did not speak. After traveling with him, she found her voice again. The first thing he asked the human girl was, "Girl, what's your name?"
The cute girl looked up at him showing surprise, "Lord Sesshomaru, didn't you call me Rin last night right before I went to sleep?"
"No, I did not call you Rin."
"I heard you! Lord Sesshomaru."
He looked up at the sky thinking that the girl had been dreaming or something because he didn't call her Rin. Something called her Rin, but it wasn't him. But Rin was not a bad name.
"Very well then, I will call you Rin, Rin Taiso."
At the end of that memory, Sesshomaru landed in a forest filled with the beautiful scent of night blooming jasmines. He didn't have much possession, but he had that one piece of land where he had planted thousands of night blooming jasmines because that was the fragrance Rin Taiso favorited most. He had cast a strong demonic spell so that no human ever knew the forest existed there. He didn't want anyone to go poking around at Rin Taiso's resting place.
The moon dimmed enough for just a perfect illusion.
Sesshomaru crouched onto one knee and placed a simple purple orchid in front of her grave. He implanted the Tenseiga down through the dirt ground and rested his arm on it. He lowered his face into the shadow of his arm to hide the secret expression at the memory of Rin Taiso. That expression had never been seen by anyone else, only seen by Rin Taiso in her living days; and even in her death, she was still the only one able to invoke it.
How had he lost her.
After Naraku was defeated 500 years ago, Sesshomaru left Rin in the care of the priestess Kaede. He did that because he didn't want Rin to be exposed to dangers while traveling with him like when she died in the underworld.
But that was a big mistake.
Even with his power sealed, Sesshomaru was a powerful demon. After he got the Bakusaiga, many of his enemies feared that he would destroy them all. They united to conspire against him. They wanted to destroy him before he really learned how to use his Bakusaiga. But they dared not wage open war against him. The enemies focused on Rin Taiso.
Every body knew how much Rin meant to Sesshomaru despite what he claimed or didn't claim.
While Rin stayed with Kaede, Sesshomaru traveled in search for ways to increase the Bakusaiga's power and only came to visit Rin occasionally. When Rin turned 17, he journeyed back to visit her to reveal his wish to take her as his mate.
But he was too late.
He found himself walking into a bloody battlefield.
Scattered around the village were hundreds of demon carcasses. Miroku, Sango, Kaede and Kagome were all badly wounded. Inuyasha was bathed in his own blood, and even with the Tessaiga in his hand, Inuyasha was transformed into his demon form desperately trying to fend off the enemies.
Rin was already in the hand of an ugly ogre demon when Sesshomaru got there.
"Lord Sesshomaru!"
Everybody stopped at that call. Just in time when Inuyasha lost all strength and collapsed. The fight was left to Sesshomaru.
"Release her at once!" Sesshomaru demanded of the pact leader.
"Hm!" Toran ridiculed his order, "Sesshomaru, we have Rin. I don't think you are in a position to make demands."
"Toran, I thought you said you are going back to the North and will not come back to wreak havoc in the West again. Is there no honor in your words?"
"Sesshomaru. There have been a few changes in the plan. It's not the West I come for this time. It's the Bakusaiga. And..." Toran pointed at her demonic army, "besides, there are many demons who want you dead!"
An ugly snake demon came out and said, "Sesshomaru, you humiliated my ancestor when you killed him and stepped on his carcass. I want you to kneel down and beg for my forgiveness."
"Not in your lifetime, VERMIN!" Sesshomaru moved closer to the snake demon with a very angry expression.
"Hey! We've got Rin. If you try anything funny, We'll kill her. NOW KNEEL DOWN AND SURRENDER YOUR BAKUSAIGA!"
As the snake demon screamed out that order, the ogre demon placed a knife next to Rin's neck and made a small cut. Rin whimpered in pain.
"Wait!"
Young Sesshomaru raised a hand telling the ogre to wait. He was about to crouch down onto his knees at the snake demon's order when Rin pushed her neck against the knife that was held next to her neck.
Blood gushed forth from her vein.
"RINNNNNN!" Sesshomaru was... there was no word to describe his emotion. "NOOOO! RINNNN!"
"My human life is short anyway. My Lord, I refuse to see your majesty kneeling down to these vermin for my sake!" Rin looked around at her wounded family, "Besides, they are all wounded because of me. Next time, they might die trying to protect me."
Rin Taiso fell down at the feet of her captor. Sesshomaru rushed to her side but had to fight many ugly demons who blocked his way. When Rin was about to take her last breath, Rin smiled the most wonderful smile at something in front of her.
She said, "Lord Sesshomaru, I have always loved you. I'm happy that I get to die in your arms."
Jaken came just in time to hear Rin's words, he yelled at her, "Rin, what are you talking about? Lord Sesshomaru is not holding you, he is fighting the demons out there."
"No Jaken, you don't know what you're talking about. Lord Sesshomaru is holding Rin right now," Rin Taiso smiled one last time.
Jaken stooped down to hold Rin.
Sesshomaru finally got to where Rin's lifeless body was laying, he was furious. He became even more vicious in his attacks at the demons. A short time afterward, bodies were scattered everywhere. When the enemies were thinning out in number, Sesshomaru finally had a chance to scoop Rin's body into his arms.
Toran saw a chance to attack Sesshomaru while he was distracted with Rin, she flew ferociously at him with her Ice Sword heading directly at his heart. While holding Rin, Sesshomaru stood up. He threw the Bakusaiga at Toran with all of his power behind it.
"You want the Bakusaiga, then take it if you can," Sesshomaru whispered, more like to himself than to Toran.
The Bakusaiga pierced through Toran's heart shattering the cat demon into tiny ice-like particles before she even knew what happened. The only thing she was able to do was to let out one short agonizing scream before she vanished. The Bakusaiga continued to fly straight into a mountain wall somewhere far away and implanted itself there.
Only Shonron of the panther tribe and a few other nameless demons escaped the battle alive.
There was no other way for Sesshomaru to revive Rin Taiso that time. It was her final death. Before he laid her down to her resting place, he looked at her one last time and made a binding promise.
-Rin! You will belong to no other for as long as I shall live. I will look for you!
Shonron had visited the sight where the Bakusaiga was implanted because the panther tribe needed it for a dark purpose, but he never could draw it out despite all the methods he had used. The Bakusaiga stayed in that place untouched. Vines and weeds had been growing and weaving around it and kept it hidden.
It was the cursed Bakusaiga that he had lost Rin, Sesshomaru never cared to retrieve the sword for all those 500 years. And for all those years, he had been searching for Rin Taiso's reincarnation as he had promised. But he had not found her.
It was as if her scent just completely vanished from this world!