Title The Future Belongs To Me

Author landofthekwt

Rating K

Prompt The future belongs to those who prepare for it Malcolm X (unsung Heroes)

POV Shiori/Rin

Word Count 797

Warning none

Summary Rin explains her relationship with Lord Sesshoumaru to Shiori

Shiori watched Rin modeling her latest kimono from Lord Sesshoumaru. Rin said very little when Lord Sesshoumaru brought her a new kimono to her. She was very respectful to him and thanked him quietly with low bows.

They did not touch the entire time that he was there for visits. When they went for walks, Rin would always walk behind him. She never failed to gather flowers for him. He never refused them and returned from each walk bedecked with a wreath of flowers. When he took tea, Rin would always serve him. She would always stand alertly awaiting his needs.

The visits always proceeded in the same manner. It was almost if they watching the same play over and over again. Each seemed to be playing a part which was memorized and repeated ad infinitum. Shiori was puzzled. She had seen Rin emotional about Lord Sesshoumaru when he was not around. Yet when he arrived she retreated into a ritual with which both of them were comfortable.

After Lord Sesshoumaru's latest visit, she decided to find out from Rin herself what was going on since it made no sense to her. She found Rin lying in a field of flowers dressed in the Juni-Hitoe staring at the clouds. It seemed such an odd sight that Shiori could not control herself. She simply had to laugh.

Rin sat up with a start, but when she saw it was Shiori she smiled and motioned for her to lie down beside her. Shiori waited for the right time to broach her an hour went by without either speaking, she decided to barrel ahead headless of the consequneces.

"What is going on with you and Lord Sesshoumaru?"

Rin looked up surprise "What do you mean?"

"I have watched the two of you every time he visits. The two of you do exactly the same thing every time he is here. It is as if you and Sesshoumaru are actors in a play which I have seen a million times. I have to say I don't get it. Please let me know what is going between the two of you.:"

Rin started to giggle then soon she broke into a gale of laughter. She hugged Shiori and said whispered " Don't worry about Lord Sesshoumaru and me."

Shiori shurgged her off and persisted " I can't help it. I know how much you love Lord Sesshoumaru. I just don't understand what is going on."

Rin bit her lip " When you came here, you were pursuing Inuyasha. Why?"

Shiori replies quickly "Because I fell in love with him the first time I saw him. I thought that he would be the perfect mate. He kept me going for ten long years."

"Yet you gave up your dream of mating him when you discovered he was married" asked Rin

When Shiori did not reply Rin continued. " From the first moment I saw Lord Sesshoumaru I knew that I loved him even though I had never loved anyone before or since. Even though he was barely alive after being hit with Inuyasha's Wind Scar, I could not have imagined a beautiful creature. Something drew me to him that day. Since that day I knew that I always wanted to be by his side. I have died twice and he has brought me back both times. He risked his life in hell to bring me back. His own mother scorned him because he cared more about me than his sword. He left me when he thought it was dangerous, but he always came back. Some people think that he has left me behind, but we know better. The gifts he brings me are courting gifts. They are there to remind me that he has chosen me. Not that I could ever forget."

"That still does not explain the little play the two of you perform every time he comes here."

Rin pursed her lips. "Stability is important to Lord Sesshoumaru. He wants me to always be there for him. The way he remembers me. The person I am now. The person he wants with him in the future. In the past I was the little girl who followed him and put flowers in his hair. In the present I am the woman who waits patiently for him. Accepting what he gives me because of his promise of a future future is being played out before you now. I am dressed as he wants, I behave as he expects me to behave. I am what he wants me to be."

Shiori was still frustrated "I don't understand. What do you get from this relationship?"

Rin smiled and whispered in Shiori's ear "Lord Sesshoumaru"