Chapter 14

I don't own Inuyasha

"Wind scar!" Inuyasha waited for his attack to hit Rashigi but he was too fast and was easily able to dodge Inuyasha's attack. 'Man, he's fast!'

Rashigi only smirked and said, "That's not good enough, half demon. You're not as quick as your father or your brother."

"I'll show you what I can do!" Inuyasha charged him and tried to slash him many times with the Tetsusaiga. Rashigi however was too fast and was dodging Inuyasha every time.

Ziah stroked her whip forward to Rin, but Rin jumped out of the way, but barely. Rin was still too much of herself to actually fight and survive against Ziah. It worried her. "Master Jaken, would you be so kind as to help me?" Jaken began to fire the staff of two heads, but he missed Ziah every time. Even Ah-Un began to fight, but he too couldn't hit the fast Ziah.

Kagome noticed her struggle. "What on earth?" 'I thought she could fight better than that. She's never in control each time she's fought Inuyasha. She's aware of what she's doing right now. She won't be able to win.' "Miroku," Kagome yelled, "you've got to help Rin!"

"Indeed," Miroku was about to take the sacred beads off of his cursed hand, but he was distracted once Ziah jumped closer to Rin and prepared to strike her with her light whips. "I can't if Rin is in the way. I could possible suck her up."

"Rin," Kagome yelled, "you've got to get out of the way!"

"I'm trying!" Rin tried to get out of the way and was succeeding, but she wasn't doing a very good job. "Stop this!" Rin yelled. "I'm his ward! He would want to see me! He doesn't want me dead!"

"Stop lying!" Ziah said. "Lord Sesshoumaru wouldn't associate himself with a disgusting half breed demon such as you. I'm not going to be convinced by childish nonsense."

Sango prepared to throw her weapon, but a toxic and demonic gas began to leak through the open gates. Sango had to put her mask on. "Kagome, Miroku, get away from the gas." Sango backed away from the gas. Her mask might not have protected her from all of it, only some.

"Can't take it" Ziah asked. "You pathetic humans are unable to withstand our environment. Why you dared to try to come to this place is beyond me. Even if you humans got inside, you'd be dead in a few moments. Your journey here was absolutely futile."

"Kagome!" Inuyasha jumped away from Rashigi and to Kagome. "Kagome, we've got to get out of here!"

"We can't leave yet," Kagome began to ready her bow and arrow. "Just trust me, Inuyasha!" Kagome fired her bow into the open gate and the demonic gases coming out began to dissipate. "See, Inuyasha, you just needed to trust me." Kagome smiled confidently. "That's all you had to do!"

Rashigi became angry with Kagome's recklessness. "You disgusting human!" He ran to Kagome to claw her, but Inuyasha picked her up and got out of the way in time. Inuyasha kept dodging Rashigi with Kagome in his arms. "How dare you!" He decided to stop chasing after them. "You're a normal half demon, Inuyasha. The girl though, this other half demon girl is a very unusual half demon." He smirked. "I think we should transform for them."

"Transform?" Shippo asked worriedly.

Ziah stopped struggling to attack Rin and her light whips disappeared. "You would like to transform for them? Sure. Let's show them what it's like to fight a real full fledged demon."

"Transform?" Kagome asked. "Oh, this isn't good. Sesshoumaru was huge transformed. I don't want to deal with two of them at once. We weren't even up to his knees."

Rashigi's smirk only widened. "Sesshoumaru's not yet full grown, but I am. Would you like to see my full demon form?" His eyes began to glow with a destructive red passion. The size of his fangs increased greatly, as well as his claws. "Just wait. I'll be careful and try not to step on you," he said sarcastically.

"Stand down," said a voice from within the walls.

Rin heard and smiled brightly as her eyes filled with undeniable hope. "Lord Sesshoumaru! Lord Sesshoumaru!" Rin ran as fast as she could to the gates, but was stopped when Ziah jumped in front of her and punched her in the face, knocking her down.

"What did I tell you? Lord Sesshoumaru doesn't know you."

"You want us to stand down?" Rashigi returned to normal as Sesshoumaru stepped through the gates. "But why Lord Sesshoumaru?"

"Lord Sesshoumaru!" Rin stood up and ran up to him as fast as he could, but the closer she got, she noticed the anger in his eyes, and she started to slow down with each step. "Lord Sesshoumaru…" Her excitement faded away. "Lord Sesshoumaru, I wanted to find you. You had been gone for a while so I…" Her eyes lost the happiness and hope that they had possessed and grew fragile. "I uh…I missed you."

Ziah grunted and ran to Sesshoumaru. "This girl claims that she knows you, but I know good and well that you don't associate yourself with worthless half breeds."

Sesshoumaru didn't say anything for a long time. He was furious with Rin, but he didn't lose his calm. It was best to keep his anger under control. Anger was pointless in situations such as this. That was one reason why he and Inuyasha were two different fighters and why Sesshoumaru was superior. Inuyasha fought with anger and aggression, while Sesshoumaru fought calmly with grace. He kept himself under control, even though the fact that she had disobeyed orders had irritated him. "I told you to stay." That was all he said to Rin. He didn't say another word to her after that. He turned his sights toward the surprised Ziah who didn't believe that he actually knew her. "Stand down." He was still angry with Rin and Jaken. Jaken shouldn't have let her go.

"Lord Sesshoumaru!" Jaken ran to Sesshoumaru but backed away once he saw the look in his eyes. "Uh…Lord Sesshoumaru?"

Sesshoumaru looked ahead to Inuyasha, someone who shouldn't ever be in the Western Lands. He had no right to be there in a place where full fledge demons resided. He didn't deserve to be there. "Inuyasha," he drew out Tokijin. "You have no place here."

"I didn't even want to," he yelled. "It was that darn girl who wanted us to find you, but if it's a fight you want, it's a fight you'll get."

"Sit boy!"

"Ahhhhh!"

Kagome rolled her eyes. "Can't you stay in control for just one minute, Inuyasha?" Kagome realized how upset Rin had become. "Uh…she missed you…" Kagome tried to laugh to break the silence, but everyone, especially the two dog demons were still in bewilderment while Sesshoumaru was still crossed. "Sorry about the sacred arrow in your…home." She blushed. "Didn't really think about it…ha…ha…" She frowned. "Hey, well, maybe we should go." She stepped back. The demonic gases began to leak through the doors again. "Uh…we should leave now, I think."

Inuyasha stood up angrily. "And why'd you do that Kagome?"

"I'm trying to stop you two from fighting!"

"What should we do?" asked Rashigi. "Should we let them go, even Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha's presence at his home brought utter and sheer disgust to his face. He especially shouldn't have brought a priestess, a monk, and a demon slayer there. They were all enemies to demons. Rin and Jaken shouldn't have been there either. Who did they think they were, disobeying orders? Now two half breeds had set foot on his home when there never should have been even one of their kind. Rin wasn't even supposed to be a half demon. She's supposed to be a human girl, which only further complicated things. Sesshoumaru was determined not to let humans so close, not when they destroyed the lives of demons every time they were allowed to get close, like his father, or even Inuyasha, who was sealed away for 50 years. His thoughts were usually clear, but now his thoughts were clouded. He wanted to destroy Inuyasha for bringing such shame, but there were more important matters at hand and he didn't want to cause a commotion among his people. They had a war to win and didn't exactly have time to deal with Inuyasha and his pest behavior. The war beginning was his most important priority. Unnecessary conflicts should be avoided. Sesshoumaru turned around and started walking back inside. "Stand down. If they enter, kill them."

Ziah saw the look in Rin's eyes and even though Ziah was a demon, she was still a woman and could see the how much passion and desire resided within Rin's eyes. 'Don't tell me that this girl is actually in love with…' Her jealousy began to rise within her. "You heard him. If you enter, you'll be killed." She started walking back inside. 'Why does she know Lord Sesshoumaru anyway?'

Rashigi went back inside the walls as well, and the gates were closed. Rin ran to the doors and began to feel on them, hoping that they would once again open up, but they didn't. "Lord Sesshoumaru?" Rin said sadly. 'But why wouldn't you let me be by your side?'

"Keh, it figures." He grunted. "Come on Rin, it's obvious that he's ashamed of you and-"

"Sit!" Inuyasha was slammed into the ground before he could continue on talking. Kagome placed her hand on Rin's shoulder. "Hey, it's alright. He's probably got a lot on his mind as of right now. There's a reason why he didn't let you go inside."

"You have embarrassed him!" Jaken pointed out. "That is why we have been banished from his home." He practically started crying. "Now I am not able to see the magnificent home where Lord Sesshoumaru grew up!"

"Stop being so hard on her!" Kagome yelled.

"And why not? He was displeased with her! She disobeyed orders that he directly gave and she then followed him here. I would be angry as well if I were Lord Sesshoumaru. Rin's appearance is also disgraceful. It's bad enough that he has to associate himself with her, but to actually have the gull to come to his home and reveal herself to his fellow dog demons is distasteful. How could she be so foolish?"

"Shut up!" Shippo yelled.

"Don't treat her like that," Miroku instructed. "Yes Sesshoumaru is angry with her, but you don't have to take it out on her. He was also upset with you, Jaken."

"Leave her alone," Sango instructed.

"No," Rin said as she dropped to her knees and began to mope. "He's right. I shouldn't have come. I might have been worried, but he gave me and order. By being worried, I only doubted his abilities and because I did that, he is most upset with me. I had no right to doubt my Lord. I shouldn't have worried myself so much." She only began to sob more.

Inuyasha got up from his crader. "Look, demons will always despise you for who you are. It's the price for being a half demon. You didn't take this life on by choice, but you had better get used to it."

"Shut up, Inuyasha!" Shippo yelled.

"But he's right," Rin said. "Not only that, but I came because I was scared…for myself. I didn't want to be alone. I've been so scared ever since I've been a demon. Ever since Naraku attacked me-"

"-Naraku attacked you?" Inuyasha was suddenly interested. Before he had just a yelling tone, upset that he had to state the obvious. Now he was anxious to learn more information, perhaps on the whereabouts of Naraku. "Well, tell me!"

"Well, he attacked me a while ago. I used up a lot of my power and became a human again. I don't know where he is. All I know is that Lord Sesshoumaru saved me." A sudden burst of determination came over her. "And I'm not leaving this spot until I get to see him again! You can all leave if you want, but I'm staying!"

"Fine then," Inuyasha said. "Stay if you want to."

"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled. "We should stay."

"No," Jaken yelled. "You should go. Lord Sesshoumaru was also crossed about you all being here as well. None of you belong here and I suggest you all leave immediately." Jaken took a seat next to Rin.

"We'll be fine," Rin said with a smile. "I promise that I'll be alright. Don't worry about me."

"But I-" Kagome's speech was interrupted once Miroku placed his hand on her shoulder. "It's best if we leave. We can't stay here. It will only provoke Sesshoumaru into conflict. She's not in any real danger." He smiled. "He might claim to hate half breeds, but if he would let Rin die, then she wouldn't have been traveling with him for all this time, Kagome."

Kagome nodded. "Okay. You just remember to be brave Rin and don't lose control."

"I promise I'll try, Kagome." As they left and went back into the forest, Ah-Un, Rin, and Jaken sat by the gates and waited for Lord Sesshoumaru to come through. Jaken had a feeling that things wouldn't be that simple though and Rin had a feeling that she would see Lord Sesshoumaru a whole lot faster than what she originally thought. 'Oh Lord Sesshoumaru.'

As Sesshoumaru was walking with his comrades, he was still upset, but he was glad to see that she wasn't hurt, even if he wouldn't admit it to himself. 'Rin.'

TO BE CONTINUED…