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Sesshomaru-past

He feels her pain, then an intrusion. He speeds his coming. It is a race to see who will get there first. First he lands in front of the back door, the private entrance to his home, then in front of his mother. He throws the door open and rushes down the hall to his bedroom. He finds her with Taiyomaru leaning over her and light radiating from the hands of his youngest son. "What are you doing?" He stops short of ripping the boy's appendages off. There is an instinctual need to protect the spiritual bond from any intrusion no matter how small. He forces the feeling down, taking in Rin's form. A bloody bandage is wrapped around her shoulder. She smells of herbs and is covered in sweat.

"She hurts," Taiyomaru says simply. He is five, and every bit of a curious child, "Chichiue's light is inside her. It makes her feel better." His son's face is straining to maintain the connection to Sesshomaru's bond.

There are questions he still has about this child. He will easily overpower his brother and sister. He will not need to fear if Tsukimaru ever decides to take his life. He doesn't know what power the child contains, yet he now knows the boy will be stronger than the average hanyou. Taiyomaru can invade his connection to Rin. "You were taking her pain?" He takes his son by his shoulders.

"She's still bleeding," the little one says. He's all arms and legs, gangly with a thick head of hair and funny toothy grin. "I was too tired to make it stop." He holds his head and nearly collapses.

"You can touch her bond?" he asks, shocked.

"You told me to make her feel better until you came home," he sits down next to his mother exhausted.

He said no such thing, but there isn't time to ask more questions or understand how Taiyomaru was able to manipulate their bond. Taiyomaru lays down next to his mother holding her hand, eyes closing from the work it took to take her pain.

"Hisato, you look like a pin cushion!" Gobodo-sama yells from the room across the hall. "How did this happen?"

"What happened?" Sesshomaru unwraps the bandages revealing the angry wound to her left shoulder. He curses dipping his lips down to the wound. Touch-he still needs touch at times to heal her. He allows his yoki to manipulate their bond and rush to her shoulder. It seems no matter what he does for this shoulder, it remains injured. He healed it completely when she nearly died from Touma's blade. She writhed in pain when the bones rebuilt themselves, but she was on death's door anyway.

She groans in pain. He absorbs it, soothing it as he focuses on forcing the wound to close and rebuilding the broken bones and tissue.

A powerful swirl of yoki so strong it makes Sesshomaru choke rises from the other room, then another and another. He counts thirteen altogether, shaking his head. They will pay for this. He will destroy them.

For now, his focus is on Rin and fixing her shoulder.

Jaken comes in holding his staff nervously. "Sesshomaru-sama, please forgive this Jaken!"

Again with the groveling. In a century that is one thing that has not changed. "What happened?"

"We don't know yet. Yuki left the barrier, Rin and Hisato went after her. I tried to stop Rin, but she wouldn't listen!" Jaken cries out, and Sesshomaru knows it's more from fear.

He holds his lover's wrist in his hand half wanting to laugh. She has been rebellious since she was a teenager and if Yuki was in danger, even he couldn't force her to stay behind.

"It was monks and a priestess," Gobodo-sama walks into the room throwing the many arrows that pierced her lover onto the ground. "He was protecting her."

The words hit his gut like a knife. It isn't that he didn't believe the rumors, but they are easy to ignore when they aren't on your own doorstep.

Rin coughs. Her eyes open weakly, she caresses his cheeks. He kisses her palm. "My love," she whispers in greeting.

"My heart," he brings his lips down to hers. "What happened?"

"It's my fault," Yuki walks into the room with tears in her eyes. Her head is bowed and she averts her eyes, trembling from head to toe. "It's all my fault," she covers her eyes.

Sesshomaru sits down scooping Rin off the floor, holding her to his chest. "Yuki?" This child will be the death of him.

"I left the barrier alone…then they came…they were going to kill me." Her shoulders shake again and his anger flares. They could have easily purified her but it wouldn't destroy the yoki completely. Why would they kill a child? His chest tightens.

"I told you," Gobodo-sama says from the hallway. "Hisato will need to rest. Tell one of your other sentinels to guard your human. He took thirteen arrows and was still moving."

"What happened to him? He transformed," Rin's eyes open all the way.

"It was a half transformation, he needed enough yoki to offset what they were trying to do. He can't transform the way we can, but when he is like that," she exhales bitterly. "We need to leave Sesshomaru."

He grits his teeth knowing he can't stay because another threat awaits them in the skies, but he doesn't want to leave Rin or his children now. "Will you be okay?"

"I'm sorry!" Yuki sobs behind him and it's enough to remind him that her actions nearly cost her mother her life. An angry back hand rises and slaps Yuki across the face. Her body flies backwards, slamming into the floor. "Stupid child," he fumes at Yuki

She cries in pain, landing on her side. He stands meaning to hit her again when Rin bolts upright and grabs his wrist trying to stop him. "Sesshomaru!"

He pushes Rin out the way, eyes set on his daughter as she wipes a bloody lip. Rin struggles off the floor and throws herself in between them again. "No!" she yells at him.

"She nearly got you killed." His jaw tenses with the temptation of shoving her out of the way again.

"That doesn't mean you need to beat her!"

"She does this because you coddle her!" Rin backs into the corner where Yuki is cringing.

"I won't let you."

"You won't let me?" He closes his eyes, snickering at her. He towers over both of them as he leans against the wall with the two of them.

"Sesshomaru, please," her voice breaks begging him and he curses.

"This is not finished. Yuki, you will not leave the barrier again! No one does," he knows his eyes are too hard as he pivots from Rin. His blood is boiling, he needs to taste battle, to free himself. "Yuki, if you leave the barrier again, you will get more than a slap."

"I'm sorry," the girl sobs trying holding her mother around the waist. "I didn't mean to."

"And yet you did," he stands up. He has their scent from the arrows. They won't escape his wrath.

"What is wrong with you?" There are tears in Rin's eyes. She pulls their daughter to her chest. Taiyomaru cringes behind his mother. Harutoga is nowhere to be seen.

He doesn't care, he can't answer. Yuki is thirteen and knows better than to leave the barrier. She may be in the body of a seven year old, but she disregards most if not all of what he says. A human thirteen year old wouldn't be so flagrantly stupid as to endanger the others around her. He tilts his head to his mother to follow him, "Feel like hunting?"

"Very much so," she trails behind him.

"You're leaving?" Rin runs behind him holding onto his wrist. Her touch does nothing but bring him anger.

He says nothing and continues for the door.

"Sesshomaru, stop," she tugs on his hand and he relents. "I…" but she stops short as he lifts her hand to his heart, sharing his emotions. He is furious with the monks, furious with Yuki and even more, angered and upset with her for stepping between them, for undermining him.

He pushes her away from him and leaves their home, soaring into the sky next to his mother. Retribution will be swift. "Thirteen arrows," she shakes her head, "no wonder they need so many."

"Weaklings," Sesshomaru snarls.

"Is that how she treats you?" Gobodo-sama asks him. "Even I would have given Yuki a sound beating."

"She will get one, when I return."

"And if your human protests?"

And his stomach clenches, understanding the disrespect that Rin showed him. The question doesn't require an answer.

As they land in the clearing where Rin was injured, Gobodo-sama twirls around, eyes blazing. "What magic is this?"

"I can't smell anything either." There are arrows, there is the blood of Hisato and Rin, but all traces of the monks have been erased. "They don't want us to know who they are. What is going on?"

"I tried to tell you, Sesshomaru…they are attacking in force. They are picking off whatever they can find. Not even our children are safe. Just bed Natsuki and get it over with." She flies into the air.

"No," he says, following behind her. "We will find another way to maintain this truce."

"We can't afford a battle right now."

"I will not lose my bond to Rin again."

Please review! Oooh what happened between Sesshomaru and Rin?

Coming next: Yuki-past Thursday, February 6th.

Story Plug: I'm still working on Lucky Seven. The username changed to Silver Sin of the Cosmos. Also Lye Tea wrote a crackfic of Sesshomaru and Kagome's mom.

Harukasempai14: I try to update on Tuesdays/Thursdays, because these chapters are soo short! Occasionally school gets in the way and I might need to back off but we shall see. Yuki is a spoiled brat. When I wrote her I kept thinking, what would a child of Sesshomaru be like? With the way he behaved, perhaps not the best behaved. And you are right about Tsukimaru he is being very cold and callous but maybe he has a reason we don't know about yet...thank you again, your reviews brighten my day!

Guesswho: Maybe I should write a last time: when I switch story lines, because honestly most of these are cliffhangers. I don't know why that's just how they ended up being written. Thank you for the well wishes! Yes Rin is one tough cookie, she has to be to live in that time period in Japan.

Mechine: Thank you for voting! Yes we are going to see the death of the demons in this story. The answer to the question about modern Sesshomaru will be answered in approximately 9 chapters. I know it's a conundrum because yes if you read InuKag drabbles, Natsuki has been fueling his life. So now would not be a good time for their bond to break. A human can't do what she can. AHHH so much suspense!

Luin-Fanel: For future switches in the timelines, I'll write a last time on...and summarize where we were LOL, because it's going to keep going back and forth until we make it all the way through the 10 year disease period. Yep him and his momma tried...damn looks like the monks got the upper hand.

Guest#1: ouch...

Guest#2: 1. Future Sess told her not to say anything, groomed her to secrecy and he never told her when it would occur either. He was very secretive and she forgot the cure.

2. This is actually incorrect. Women were killed for infidelity. The law wasn't redacted until 1908. If a man in Japan caught his wife with another, male or female he had the right to kill her.

3. This is an emotional statement not a logical one. Had Kagome ever said anything she could have changed the fabric of time which is why Future Sess withheld often. Sesshomaru said it before, he is not a god, he wouldn't change time. He never told her about the healer, or when the miscarriage would happen.

4. Inuyasha could wield Tenseiga because all it takes is a compassionate heart, there are no other requirements. Sesshomaru could have wielded Tetsusaiga freely had it not ben for the barrier that his father placed on it against fullblooded demons being able to touch it. The sword bond has nothing to do with it. That's probably just a fan-made theory that's run wild. I've deviated a bit but I try to use canon matieral. VIA canon, Sesshomaru did wield Tetsusaiga, the only thing that stopped him was the barrier. Tenseiga it's said just needs a compassionate heart, nothing else. Thank you for your review!

PS these stories are not sexist, they reflect the times. This is Feudal Japan not the 21st century. If you try to apply 21st century logic to this story you are going to make yourself crazy.

Gogo: Yes you are right. Sesshomaru can wield Tetsusaiga with a human arm, it's just the barrier stopping him.

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