Chapter 32

Sesshomaru's P.O.V

He stared down at her struggling to believe it had happened, again. It wasn't supposed to be like that he was just out hunting whoever had targeted her. If they were after him they should've just stopped at one threat, an insult to his pride, but this was far worse. "Rin, wake up!" Persephone shouted tears running from her eyes and the loud shrieking as she shook Rin hurting both of their ears. "Persephone stop the awful shrieking" was all the words he could sum up to say towards the crying girl. It took all of his effort to say such simple words, such things echoing in his head that he would never say out loud. Persephone slowly halted her sobbing as the wind blew her hair around in the night.

His heart felt as it did over several years beyond what he wanted his memory to remember to recollect looking at the girl with a deathly pallor. "I'm going to try something similar to CPR..." Persephone's voice had changed it was more mature, demanding, and leader-like than before. She quickly switched her hands to positions of a hand clock, pressing down on Rin's chest several times. "get me: water, ice packs, and the medicine kit, I don't care where just get them fast!" Persephone stated flashing him extremely angry eyes.

He quickly brought out everything that was needed easily found. "Rin? Come on..." Persephone sighed quickly doing the CPR-type thing she had described previously with it's intricate instructions upon which he wasn't ready to think about. Several minutes later Persephone looked up at him the red fading into yellow from her eyes. "the rest of this is on her own. I can't do anymore" she whispered. "I understand."

"Hey, I don't want to tell Rin but..."

"spit it out"

"Thank you for both of you taking care of me all the time..but I'm going to move to America."

"When?"

"tomorrow."

Rin's P.O.V.

The words felt as if they were fading behind some sort of barrier. As Rin suddenly made a pulsing movement, drawing a sharp breath like she was coming up from swimming. "Rin!" he heard his voice state as Sesshomaru suddenly embraced her in a hug. This time he wasn't going to let her go. Not this time he was going to keep her as close he possible. Somehow he felt what the human Kagome stated as 'happiness'. "how many times will you lose her before you learn your lesson?" his thoughts echoed in his head. "No more." he stated out loud to himself as Persephone was excitedly trying to get Rin's attention.

He slowly and reluctantly let go of Rin who looked around in utter confusion. "What happened?" was the first words off of her lips. Persephone filled her quickly in on everything she needed to know and left. He picked up Rin quickly whom stated she couldn't stand. "attachment...I guess that's what a human would call it...i'm getting myself into something stupid...but you know I probably thought that when I first met her...she's still here...I will not lose her again." His thoughts pounded around in his head as he kept his complete composure.

"Rin, would you like to stay with me for now?" he asked as she looked up towards him eyes wide with shock, hope and a lot of other obvious emotions only replied physically with a nod. "I'll have to get my things first." Rin muttered taking the wet towel off of her forehead. He simply just nodded, keeping her closer than probably necessary under the excuse that the bandits might come back even though he could smell that they had left a long time ago. But the one thing that slipped by him was something he used to be used to having around, Kohaku.

Who none-other than him managed to be standing there looking at him with such hatred. Kohaku withdrew his sword and shiny silver toy: ""It's to protect people like you from people like him!"

"Kohaku, you have it wrong!" Rin shouted as Sesshomaru tightened his grip it was very likely if she tried to get down or made a sudden movement she'd get caught up in the crossfire. "What are you crazy?! I explained it all to you the other day!" Kohaku shouted.

"Not if I didn't understand any of it!" she remarked.

"Fine let me explain it...people like him." Kohaku paused and pointed the gun further towards Sesshomaru "are never good people." he sighed flicking off the sword.

"No! You're wrong he's been nothing but good to me! And oh my gosh is that blood on your sword?!" Rin shouted as everything Kohaku flicked off of his sword landed on the ground making darkening splotches on the ground in front of her door. "Stay on focus! People like him are people who took Melody and why your parents and siblings are dead!" Kohaku was practically screaming he was that angry.

"The KoHaku I remember was always understanding. What happened to you!" Rin suddenly snapped. "Kohaku? Does she know?" Sesshomaru thought to himself glancing at her.

"Haku, I don't understand why are you doing this?" she asked suddenly seeming to not notice what she just said.

"Rin, you've got to listen to me."

"no, no, I don't have to"

"I have enough of your pointless argument, if you have a problem with me take it up directly with me."

Everyone was quiet for a moment as Sesshomaru went to walk into the house Haku suddenly being dumbfounded as he knelt outside the door. "if I could just get rid of him she'd be safe." Haku thought to himself unsure what to do. "So where'd Persephone go?" Rin sighed as he placed her down on the couch and went into her bedroom where she instructed the emergency's bag was. "She left, her eyes were changing...she went to talk to Inuyasha about it." Sesshomaru replied plainly setting the bag down by the couch as he looked for proper bandages.

"will she back?" Rin asked as he stood a crossed from her (- in the living room) in the kitchen looking in the cabinet over the fridge. "no. Not for a long while anyway." Sesshomaru stated it was something that they both had to say out loud even though they could feel it within themselves that she wouldn't be back.

"What do you think about Melody?"

"I've been out looking for her."

"You would've thought since they didn't send a threat letter they wouldn't of wanted us to find her...like they didn't take her on purpose...but she seems to have been targeted the trip to the mall was at random"

"really?" several pots clanked down from unorganized cabinets.

"but if they wanted her on purpose they would've sent us like a hostage letter right?"

"they're trying to get us all psyched up so we give into their demands promptly."

There was some silence as Rin crossed her arms and looked behind her out onto the back porch window. "But for Melody, she's done so much for me...I would...I would give up everything for her...almost everything...there's one thing they can't have from me. And the list is growing by the second." she smiled. Sesshomaru looked up from packing various things for her, curious. "and what would that be?" he stated.

"You. Ever."