At A Beginning...

I Do Not Own Inuyasha

Fate: Force predetermined events; the force or principle believed to predetermine events

Chapter 8

273 Years Into the Past...

Gasping for air Rin focused on keeping Bakusaigha on her captor's gut. But the claws gripping her neck were killing her as she dangled against the tree.

"Do you think that blade can hurt me? Human." He asked coldly, his amber eyes pierced her. So this was where her lord's gaze had come from, Rin gasped for air then smirked.

"It can….it will…defend me," Rin spat out as she gasped for breath. She watched as InuTaisho's conviction wavered for a moment. His eyes now assessed Bakusaiga as it was, a new threat and one his son had taught her to wield well. Her lips curved into a smirk before he dropped her, she collapsed to the ground as she coughed for air and her fingers rubbed her throat.

"You dare to come into my forest?" InuTaisho growled out as he grabbed her chin. "You trespass and then you threaten me? You are a strange human indeed."

Rin gnashed her teeth at his fingers as she yanked herself from his grasp. InuTaisho smirked the as she glared up at him, he was worse than Takemaru. But she would not breath a word of what was to come, if she did then life as she knew it could be altered. And she could not risk not being with her lord.

"You are a feisty human," InuTaisho mused darkly as he stood over her.

"My lord would tolerate nothing less," Rin spat out as she shakily got to her feet her hand still gripping Bakusaiga. Her eye caught sight of that sword, there was a shiver of fear glancing through her but she hid it within herself then. It was not necessary to be fearful of the sword, so long as she was not fighting it. If she had to defend herself against Sō'unga then she'd have to die because InuTaisho must never know what was to come, neither could Sesshomaru.

"And who is this lord of yours', human?" InuTaisho asked with great interest. Rin smothered her smile then, so this was where her lord's curiosity came from. Not surprising to her, though her lord was not as expressive as InuTaisho was. Sesshomaru hid his emotions, InuTaisho was not hiding his emotions but he still struck her as dangerous.

"He is my lord," Rin replied tartly. InuTaisho's lips curled up into a feral smile as she assessed him. He was handsome, but she'd expect nothing less for if his sons were to be used as examples of splendor then their father would have to be just as handsome. Still she was partial to Sesshomaru, after all she was Sesshomaru's Rin and though InuTaisho was handsome he was slightly roguish in her opinion.

"You are an interesting human," InuTaisho said, Rin did not sheath Bakusaiga then as she held it. InuTaisho eyed her lord's fang then with interest.

"That is a beautiful piece of work," he reached to touch it when Bakusaiga's barrier reacted to InuTaisho almost electrocuting him.

"Master!" she heard the high pitched voice coming towards them. Sheathing Bakusaiga she ran into the forest in the direction of the Bone Eater's Well. Her feet silently carried her through the forest as she hunted up a place to hide from InuTaisho, he must not find out what she knew about what was to be. People who knew their fates tried their hardest to fight them and Kami knew certain things had to happen for her life to be as it was because that's what was destined.

Quickly she fell down to her knees as she slid down the hill in the mud, she rolled to her feet, glared up the ridge at where she had come from before disappearing into the brush, it was truly for the best that the silk kimono Lady Izayoi had given her was now ruined with plant stains and mud. Rin knew both would hide her physical form and scent as she raced into the forest searching for the well. She needed to find it, she needed to go home.

Silver caught her eye, her heart raced in thrill as she smiled and disappeared again.

Sesshomaru smiled to himself as he watched the girl run into the brush, but she couldn't escape. He never lost his prey and this girl would be no different! Lunging after her he transformed into his true form as he tore after her into the forest. She had dared to hurt his father so she would suffer the punishment but for now…

He'd have some fun and chase the girl.

Her scent was translucent but he liked it as he inhaled with delight while chasing her. There was something calling him to her for some reason, he couldn't stay away as he chased after her. This was fun!

He didn't know why it was fun though as he heard the girl giggle lightly, he growled as he continued the chase.

InuTaisho got to his feet then snarled in fury as he tore after the human again. The bitch had hurt him! No one had hurt him! No one could hurt him! But when he had reached for that mysterious white katana it had just about doubled him over in pain as fury, possessiveness, and protective instincts coursed through him. No doubt that blade of hers' was an inuyōkai fang, and she was obviously the mate of a powerful daiyōkai if the fang could hurt him. But who!?

There weren't many with the audacity to mate a human when he, himself, had declared that an abomination. But still there was something powerful about that human! And he wanted to capture her, he had to know who was more powerful than he for that fang to be able to hurt him. When he caught her he'd get the answers he'd want, and he'd find her mark. The seal would tell him who's mate she was, he knew all the eligible daiyōkai seals so he'd know who this girl belonged to. But first he'd have to find her. InuTaisho heard his son's growls through the forest and followed them, he'd captured this human and he'd thwart her mate to take that fang for himself.

Izayoi worried as she stared out at the mountains when she heard thunderous howling.

Rin.

She hoped the odd girl was alright, Rin seemed to be such a willow creature. There was a deep saddness at her core but there was a strength and happiness Izayoi wished she had in herself.

"What has the yōkai stirred up?" a maid asked, Izayoi didn't voice that it was probably Rin who was riling them up at this moment.

"Some poor human they'll devour no doubt," her fiancé supplied. Izayoi frowned before walking into her garden to get away from Takemaru, though she had grown up with him she had never loved him the way a woman loved a man. But she knew he loved her the way a man loved a woman, she could see it in his eyes. The look of lust.

Izayoi began fretting over Rin then, just what was Rin doing now?

"Catch me if you can, my lord," Rin whispered softly as she stood across from Sesshomaru in the meadow with the Bone Eater's Well between them. Her lord's lips pulled back to reveal his sharp fangs dripping with poison, she smiled then as well as she made the first move and ran for the well.

He came barreling at her with his jaws open, she leapt, he lunged at her.

There was a blinding light before there was nothing.