"speaking"

thoughts

Sesshomaru was in your bed when you woke up this morning?" Izyoi as she chopped some vegetables. She and Inuyasha were having a hard time digesting what she had stated in her earlier question.

"Yes." Rin said not getting why either of them cared so much.

"What was he doing in your bed?" Inuyasha asked.
"Well, I don't know why he was there, but he was just sleeping." Rin replied. "I'm glad he was. He's been having problems sleeping lately."

Izyoi nodded. She had noticed that Sesshomaru was tired a lot and a bit slow to respond. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Inuyasha smirking. He knows something I don't. She automatically concluded.

Sesshomaru didn't go home directly after leaving his father's office, he decided to drive around to clear his head.

He had...a few things to come to terms with.

He wasn't sure how Rin would react to the news, or how he was even supposed to explain it to her. How had his life gone from simple and annoying, to complicated and annoying?

You're going to have to go home soon, its almost time for dinner.

"I am aware..."

The sooner you get this over with, the sooner life will be much less complicated...till she gets older anyway.

"Fine, I'll go home now then." Sesshomaru snapped.

Everyone was sitting down about to have dinner when Sesshomaru returned home. Izyoi was in a really good mood, Rin looked confused, and Inuyasha was smug. And his father looked normal.

"Sesshomaru! You made it home before dinner started!" Izyoi said cheerfully.

"Okay..." he said confused. Sesshomaru glanced at his father as he took his seat at the table, he wanted answers.

"Don't look at me," Inutashio said, "they were like this when I got here."

Sesshomaru then leveled a glare at his brother. "Don't be mad." Inuyasha said quickly, "Rin brought up what happened this morning and mom...mom broke me."

Sesshomaru didn't say anything, or mock his brother in anyway. When that woman wanted to know something she got her answers. "It must have been a horrible experience for you."

"I don't want to talk about it." Inuyasha said looking down at his empty plate in shame.

"All she did was look at you with her arms crossed for fifteen minutes." Rin said.
"I made pork roast!" Izyoi announced serving the meal.

Rin was reading more of the book she'd chosen to interpret for art class. Sesshomaru and their father apparently had something that they wanted to discus with her, but they had been sitting in the study for twenty minutes and neither male had spoken...other than to ask about school, or if she was enjoying her book.

After thirty minutes Inutashio's sigh broke the silence. "Okay this is getting us nowhere." The elder demon said, "Rin how much do you know about demons?"

"You're going to have to be more specific." She said not even glancing up from her book for a brief second.
"Do you know about sex?" Inutashio asked.

"I know how it works and where babies come from."

"Good, what do you know about demon mating?" Inutashio asked relieved he wouldn't need to have that particular talk with her.

"Not much. Just that it has a lot to do with smell, its based on the human principle of soul mates, and that males become violently possessive of their mates."

"You are my mate." Sesshomaru said interrupting whatever his father had been about to say. It was obvious to him that she knew enough to get the gist of the situation, so there was no point in making this conversation any longer than it needed to be.

"Do you understand what we've just gone over?" Inutashio asked.

"I'm Sesshomaru's mate, I should keep a respectable distance from other boys, and he's going to be annoyingly affectionate at times."

"Yes," Inutashio said thanking the Kami that Rin turned out to be such a smart and understanding child.

"Can I go to bed now?" She asked.

"Yes." Sesshomaru said.

Rin held her composure until she made it to her own room and had the door shut behind her. She didn't understand how she was supposed to feel. Mentally she was processing everything just fine. It was her emotions that were having trouble.

She knew she was happy, this meant that there was in fact someone special for her. But she was a bit upset that the choice had been taken away from her.

I'm probably thinking about it too much. It may not bother me so much when I'm actually old enough for my love life to be a concern.