Sesshomaru breathed in deeply, once again the scent of Rin around him, mingled in with the smells of the hospital room but it didn't matter, he had Rin. Her warm skin brushed against his cheek as he nuzzled further into her neck and kissed her there, not bothering to open his eyes.

"Um, Sesshomaru..." Rin said slowly.

Someone in the room cleared their throat.

Sesshomaru opened one eye to glare at Taishou before getting off the bed and sitting back in his chair next to it, 'what the hell time is it?'

"I'm only telling you these things because I would expect my son to treat a woman more respectfully Sesshomaru." Taishou said in a chiding tone, but he didn't seem angry at least.

Rin got up, she was wearing some of the cloths that her Aunt had brought her yesterday but the iv was still in her arm ever reminding Sesshomaru that the other day had happened. A gnawing feeling in the pit of his stomach lingered whenever he looked at her stitches and the iv in her arm.

Someone had touched Rin, made her bleed, made her need to go to the hospital and he hadn't been around to protect her. Rin saw him staring at the bandages and smiled.

"Don't freak out while I'm in the bathroom okay Sesshomaru," she said teasingly.

"I don't 'freak out' but whatever you say." Sesshomaru rolled his eyes.

"That's not what I remember you saying when she needed to go into the ER and you couldn't be in the room when they were testing her," Taishou's tone was serious. "I'd say you 'freaked out' pretty bad. Almost thought they were going to send someone to tranquilize you."

Rin nodded and went into the bathroom, a few minutes later she came out with her hair brushed and looking more herself, much to Sesshomaru's relief.

"Did you need something father?" Sesshomaru asked in Japanese.

"Your mom and I came by in the morning and I saw you sleeping there so I thought I'd wait for you to wake up so I could give you a hard time," Taisho replied in Japanese, smirking and messing up Sesshomaru's hair.

"You always give me a hard time," Sesshomaru mumbled, fixing his hair back behind him and folding his arms.

"Yeah, but who else is going to teach you better," he said seriously again before going towards the door and turning to Rin to speak in English. "I'll come by again with Izayoi, she worries a lot yyou know. It's in her nature."

"I see," Rin said, bobbing her head in a short bow as Taishou left the room.

"Why do you do that?" Sesshomaru wondered, he'd been curious before why she bows like a traditional Japanese or Chinese woman in respect, not even like the more modern girls who live out there now who will keep their head up and smile as they bow.

"Why do I do what?" Rin asked, sitting on the couch and picking up a book from the box of things her Aunt had brought.

"Bow like that," Sesshomaru continued, raising an eyebrow at her.

"Oh, ha, I saw this girl from my elementary doing it all the time and I thought it was pretty and respectful the way she acted so I asked her to teach me, now I just kinda do it without thinking." She shrugged. "I know that's dumb huh?"

"No it's pretty cool it's traditional in Japan to bow like that in certain situations which you do for some reason, I was just curious as to why." Sesshomaru got up and sat down next to her on the little couch next to the window. "You'd probably get along pretty well over there, or at least it wouldn't surprise me."

"Over where, Japan?" Rin giggled, "yeah sure."