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Chapter 31: For the love of her

"Don't touch it!" He growled at her.

He was scary.

But that won't stop her.

"Eh? Rin?" Jaken came running as fast as he could when he heard his lord's deadly voice call out his name.

Ah! This troublesome girl. He swear, this girl will have him killed.

"Get away from Lord Sesshomaru."

Jaken tried pulling Rin away from his master but she won't budge.

"Leave!"

Sesshomaru's restrained and resounding growl echoed up the dungeon's tower. Even the dead would wake hearing that. Surely the whole palace is now.

The moon is nigh. His lord had difficulty containing himself even only during the first quarter.

Jaken looked up the ceiling. The giant hole barred with the strongest iron forged in all the land. Clearly, to keep out what's inside. And he saw the sky cleared up, as if on cue the clouds parted and revealed the moon. Waxing Crescent. At this rate…

"He won't be able to hold back—"

Jaken was already backed up against the wall before he could finish his warning. He may as well have broken a rib or two with the force of the impact he received. He was brutally whacked by the giant white furry tail now sticking out his master's back. The said tail is now harshly wagging about the place.

Rin couldn't spare Jaken time to check on his condition.

By the next nanosecond, Seshomaru had her on his tight grip.

Choking her.

He's slowly transforming. The violet and magenta strip marks grew larger, stretching as his body did. After all he had dog demon's blood in him. Those white gigantic demon hounds. His ears were now dog-like, white and furry. His hair grew longer and with his mokomoko slowly forging with the rest of his body. Eyes sharper. The gold gone. Replaced by demonic scarlet. They were scary red.

But despite himself, she knew he was holding back. Trying his damnedest not to hurt her. She held his face. Her hand stung from the contact.

The strip marks burned like acid. The black smoke coming from his body reek of smell too.

She now realized all the pain he had to endure just to protect her. Yet she, all those times, she was nothing but selfish. Sulking and running away from him.

"I don't want you to hold back."

His unfocused ruby eyes stared at her for what seemed to be eternity.

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Jaken too stared in disbelief. Does she even realize the weight of her stupid request? He could kill her. This idiot! She's flinching in pain yet she could still say something like that.

He had to do something. He knew his lord would not be able to live with it if she died. Jaken stood and almost fainted after as the seething pain ruled his senses.

He glanced back at the couple as he fell on his knees yet again. On second thought, I guess there is no need for me to interfere. Jaken let out a year's worth of sigh of relief.

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His grip on her loosened. He relaxed and stilled for seconds.

He leaned down to kiss her. And as their lips meet, something inside Sesshomaru stirred.

Yes, she was scared. But the love she has is greater than the fear she felt. She was able to reach his soul. Reach him. Somewhere in his subconscious...

"Rin, if I'm a demon and not human anymore. Is this what you want?"

"Sesshomaru, you're you. And it's you I wanna be with. I don't know anyone who's as human as you are."

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The crescent moon on his forehead glowed. With the last of his energy, he suppressed his demon blood. He cannot afford hurting her any further. He'd never forgive himself if she was hurt beyond this. Because this Sesshomaru, loved this tiny, persistent woman.

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"You stubborn woman."

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And he collapsed in her arms.