Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.

A/N: Compliant with the original series with some devious deviations.

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Dr. Rin Kaylee had paid much attention to try to follow Sesshomaru home, but he always seemed to disappear like right before her eyes. But by some odd fortune, Rin asked a friend to follow him, and the friend was successful in finding out where he lived.

It was a very small apartment in a poor neighborhood that a janitor would be able to afford.

It was a full moon night. She had no idea why it was so important to find out just exactly what Sesshomaru was. But if anyone ever got a chance to see a man who occasionally grew fangs and flew away, that person would be very curious too. So against her better judgment, she swallowed her fear and stalked him for just that one night.

Vampires and werewolves were stuffs of legend. Rin Kaylee was about to spot a living legend.

Rin peeped from outside the window. The apartment was dimly lit by candles of all things. She didn't see Sesshomaru anywhere. But what she saw made her frozen in mid act.

- Oh Kami! Holy Cow! I don't know what Sesshomaru is, but that little green toad-looking thing is no human!

Rin thought about the fangs, the red eyes, the claws, and all strange things about Sesshomaru that she thought she saw. She didn't forget the fact that he seemed to have the ability to fly either. She looked at the little green toad walking in circle mumbling about something. Rin put two and two together and drew a final conclusion.

- They both must be some kind of freaky monsters!

Jaken was home alone.

Sesshomaru had been gone most of the time on his own business, somewhere in the time of the Sengoku period.

He mostly visited Rin Taiso when she was alone. He enjoyed observing how she interacted with nature. She didn't act any differently than when his younger self-the Young Sesshomaru-was there. But it was like Sesshomaru wanted to be with her to relive all the time he had missed spending with her when she was alive.

Besides, he knew Rin felt safe when he was there. He knew she could feel his presence.

What he didn't know was how she could feel him. Dr. Rin Kaylee could feel him, but there was a connection between him and her. There was no supernatural connection between Rin Taiso and him. He loved her, she loved him. But that was an emotion, not a curse that placed a metaphysical connection between the two of them.

He thought about Rin Taiso before she met him. He was curious about how she had lived when she was younger. So, he probed further into the past - to the time before he met Rin Taiso. He had always been curious about how she got the bruises the morning she brought the inedible food to him anyway.

So, Sesshomaru stepped into the time on the night Rin Taiso was beaten by the villagers for stealing fish. The girl just took the beating without even a small hint of fear. That fragile little thing was much braver than he had thought. When the villagers let her go, she walked away into the shadow of the woods.

She passed by him on her track.

And Sesshomaru froze with his eyes widening to the widest circumference that his eyes could get.

- Her scent! She can't be!