[AN]Hi-loooo alllll! *dancedance* Mage is here with another chapter! Mwaha!

Ashura, Trowa: *unenthusiastically* Yay...

Mage: Why are all my muses such bakas? --;;;

Trowa: *raises hand* Technically I'm not a muse. ///.^

Mage: I should get Ai to kick all your asses ;;; (Ai= My YuGiOh OC, a scareh Fillia-lookalike with a HUGE spiked mace o.o; She mauls girlscouts... Kinda ironic her name means 'love' ne?)

Ashura, Trowa: *cower at the mentioning of Ai's name Oo*

Ai: *randomly appears with her mace* Review responses. Now.

Mage: O.O Yes Ai-sama!

~~Review Responses~~

Aamalie: I do that? Oo; Hn... Never noticed... Heh ^^ Um... I dont exactly know how they got Kaiba's number Oo; blame... um... Ashura! XD (Ashura: )

Liz.Q: Hehehehehe... Cliffies bad... I didnt realize i put one up XD and yes, Kaiba's very fun to torture! XD

SuperBuu: ^^; Ya, I kinda like action figures too... The YuGiOh ones are neato! ^__^ *huggles Celtic Guardian figure* And my brother has a whole box full of DBZ figures... I am? really? ^^ yay!

Shinnyu Kudzu: Agreed! Cross-dressing Naraku is scareh o.o; heh, amanda show? I dont think I've seen that... I got the idea of making Jakotsu crank call someone from Crank Yankers XD Only I made it a clean call... XD XD Hehe... Vocabulary is pretty much the only good thing that comes from english... (Ashura: ^___^ *kisses back and wavewaves* Luv ya too Akarou!) Oo;;; boy-muses... go figure... {Kakeru: *storms in* Were you kissing another guy Ashura-sama?!} (Ashura: Um... no? ^^) {Kakeru: okay! ^__^} *snickers* Good thing Kakeru's dumb, huh? XD

Naoko2: inu-gollum XD hehe... (Ashura: And its wiser not to ask where she comes up with this stuff...) And yep, Mage will write other stories! Mage has a really neato one in mind that Mage will work on after Of Love and Rock! ^__^

Ilona: Now do you really think I'd be that cruel? (Ashura, Trowa, Ai: ...yes.) ;~; I'm offended! How could I kill Rin-chan?

Cricket-chan: I'm with you I.G O___o;;;;

Smiley-chan: Heh Oo; And I'm posting the one shot this Friday, Oct. 10... I need some time to proofread and junk...

SaiyanPrincess33: Yay! Kouga! XD Nu, I dont watch wrestling Oo; really... da carotherses must diieeeee... ;;; *puts on an army helmet and plots* heh... yay for Leggy!

Sakie: Heh, I thought it would have been obvious... ^^; Oh well... heh... XD I do that to my Sesshy plushie sometimes... its my own, meh precioussssnessss... Heh...

LewsTherinInsanity: ^^;;; Yay... Oohhh ramen... I'm hungry now ;;;

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Rin yawned and stretched, feeling a bit too warm. She looked over at her boyfriend's sleeping face and rolled out of the armchair they had been sleeping in. Glancing up at the clock, she saw it was almost 3 AM.

She licked her dry lips and looked towards the kitchen. A cold glass of water would be good right about now.

Rin walked quietly through the house and into the kitchen. The tile was cold against her bare feet. She took a glass from the cabinet and pressed it against the ice dispenser thingy on the fridge. She then filled the glass with water from the other thing, half-asleep. She didnt notice the figure creeping in from the other side.

~*~

He grinned as he leapt off the roof. How convenient... The stupid girl was right where he wanted her. Now she would pay for her foolish mistake. A bottle and a rag were withdrew from his pockets. It was time.

~*~

Rin's eyes snapped open. She could have SWORN she heard someone's footsteps, just behind her. She relaxed though. 'I probably just woke up Sess... He's going to try to scare me, I know it...' She took a sip of her water and set the glass down on the counter.

Arms snaked around her waist and she smiled without turning around. "Sess, I know its you..."

He didnt answer. His arms moved higher, around her shoulders.

"Sess, you can say something now... Joke's over, ha ha, very funny!" Rin frowned. What was he trying to pull?

The arms pulled her against a firm, bare chest. His hand moved over her mouth, covering it with a rag and pulling her head back roughly against her shoulder. Wide brown eyes met narrow crimson and she gasped.

"You arent--uughhh..." She fainted against the man. He had drugged her; chloroform.

"You're damn right I aint your precious Sesshy." The man said sinisterly, lips twisting into an evil smirk. He hoisted the girl's small body over his shoulder and carried her limp form out to a waiting black van. Climbing inside, he nodded to the driver and the vehicle sped off down the street.

~*~

"Rin!" Sesshoumaru called out happily. There she was, in a flowing white dress, standing amidst a field of flowers. She was smiling at him, motioning for him to come to her.

So he ran. He ran as quickly as he could, but she never got any closer. "RIN!" Her form slowly drifted back, away from him... The field of beautiful flowers faded into a black oblivion. There was nothing above him, nothing below him, just blackness. Everywhere, blackness.

She slowly began to fade away, til she was nothing but a transparent vision. Sesshoumaru heard evil, echoing laughter, saw a pair of giant crimson eyes on the horizon...

Rin completely vanished then, brown eyes wide with terror, silently screaming for help...

"RIN!!!" Sesshoumaru shot up in a cold sweat, golden eyes wide. It was... just a nightmare, yes, just a nightmare. "What the...?" He stared in confusion at the empty spot beside him. Where was Rin?

He looked around the room. There were Inuyasha, curled up like a cat on the sofa with Kagome; Bankotsu and Jakotsu sprawled on the carpet in a tangle of limbs; Miroku groping Sango in his sleep, and Sango smacking Miroku in her sleep... No Rin in sight...

'Maybe she just... went to the bathroom, or to get a drink... She'll be back any minute now... I shouldnt worry so much...' He leaned back against the chair back and sighed.

Tonight had been the first time since he was a child that he had had a nightmare. That was strange...

He sighed again, watching both entrances to the living room sleepily. Rin should be back any minute now, then he could reassure himself that nothing was wrong with her and they could just go to sleep.

~*~

Sesshoumaru waited for 10 minutes. By now he was pacing the living room, stepping over a sleeping body every now and then. He had a really bad feeling about all this, deep down... He just KNEW something was wrong.

'Okay, I'm going to go check on her...' He dashed down the hall to the bathroom and knocked on the closed door. "Rin?"

No answer.

He knocked a bit harder. "Rin, you there?" STILL no answer. So he opened the door... No Rin.

He went to the kitchen next. Empty.

So Sesshoumaru did something he never usually would do. He panicked. Dashing to the keypad located just by the door in the entrance way, his eyes darted over it. The alarm system had been shut down. Someone had broken in. And that same someone... had taken Rin.

~*~

When Rin finally came to, she had no clue where she was. There was duct tape over her mouth; when she tried to remove it, she found her arms and legs were tied to a chair.

Glancing around, she determined that she was in a warehouse of some sort. The floors were hard, cold, dirty under her still-bare feet; boxes and crates were stacked along the walls, the whole place smelled a bit like oil.

"I see you're awake." A cold, calm voice stated from somewhere above her, to her left. Turning her head, she could barely make out the outline of a man with long, wavy black hair. He wore no shirt, just dark pants.

Rin's eyes widened. Was it...? Could it really be him?... Honey brown orbs filled with fear as they met with crimson. She tried to speak, but the duct tape wouldnt allow it.

"Yuki, take the tape off our... guest..." The man said coolly. Rin shivered at the way he said 'guest'.

"HAIIII MONKEY-MAN! ^__^" A hyper-active younger girl in a black leather jacket and tough-girl, biker outfit skipped out from behind some boxes. "Lalalalala! Taking the tape off the pritty girl! Yayayayaya!" She sang happily, ripping the silvery duct tape from Rin's mouth. Rin winced.

"OW! DAMN!"

The girl known as Yuki giggled. "Bad bad Rin-chan! Watch your mouth young lady!" Still giggling, she skipped back to where she came from. The man rolled his eyes.

"Good help is SO hard to find these days... And Yuki?"

"Haihai Monkey-man-sama?"

"DONT CALL ME MONKEY-MAN!"

"Who the hell are you?" Rin's veins coursed with anger. If this was who she thought he was...

"Have you forgotten me already? Ah yes, its been over two years since I was dating your late cousin Kikyo... My name is Naraku, Naraku Miyazaki." He leapt down gracefully from the boxes and stood in her line of sight.

"M-Miyazaki?..." Wasnt that Kagura's last name? Were these two related?

"Yes. A murderer. Wanted for the deaths of my two younger brothers Goshinki and Muso, and your cousin and my ex-girlfriend Kikyo." He studied his nails, almost boredly.

"Why did you kill her? WHY DID YOU KILL KIKYO?!" Rin yelled, voice full of fury.

"She was a pest. She wouldnt stop calling me after I dumped her. So I put her out of the picture." He smirked cruelly, studying his fingernails.

"YOU BASTARD!!"

"I know, I know." He sounded extremely bored.

"What do you want with me?..."

"I heard you had been giving my sister Kagura a bit of a hard time at school, so during your date at the movies, I tried to kill you. Of course, Sesshoumaru just HAD to interfere. So now I have to kill you once and for all, because... for the victims of Naraku Miyazaki, death is inevitable. Plus it wouldnt look good on my record if you got away, now would it?"

Rin was afraid now. He was going to kill her, right here. She couldnt get her mind off Sesshoumaru, and the life they should have had together; the wedding they should have had, the family they should have had...

None of that would ever be...

~*~

"GET UP!!" Sesshoumaru yelled, standing in the middle of the living room. No response, other than a few sleepy groans. He growled. Those idiots! Rin had been kidnapped and they were just SLEEPING?!

He went into the kitchen, grabbed a pot and metal spoon and began banging on it. "I SAID WAKE UP DAMN IT!"

Jakotsu shot up, eyes wide. "WHERES THE FIRE?!"

Bankotsu rolled over and muttered. "There is no fire dumbass..."

"What the fuck is going on Sess?" Sango sat up, rubbing her eyes. Sesshoumaru glared.

"Someone just broke in and now Rin's gone, thats whats going on!"

"NANI?!" Kagome shot up and in a flash, was at Sesshoumaru's throat, trying to strangle him. "YOU JUST LET MY SISTER BE KIDNAPPED?!" He shoved her off angrily.

"I didnt LET her be kidnapped stupid! Inuyasha, call the police. I'm going to go find her." He grabbed his jacket and put it on over his sleeping clothes, an old t-shirt and sweatpants, then slipped on his shoes.

"I'm going with you." Bankotsu stated firmly, following.

"Fine. Everyone else, stay here, near the phone. I've got my cell and I'll call you when I find where she is." Sess quickly took control of the situation, then headed out to his car. He and Bankotsu got into the jeep and pulled out, speeding down the road.

~*~

Naraku paced back and forth in front of the chair Rin was tied to, a thoughtful look on his face. "Hmm... Should I kill you quickly, or slowly, and torture you? Tough choice..."

"I say you kill her slowly." A male voice came from a stack of crates shadowed in the corner. A man stepped out, one in all black with long grey hair.

"But then the question is how to torture her?" Naraku looked at his bodyguard/henchman, awaiting an answer. "Any ideas Hitokiri?"

"I can think of a few..." Hitokiri smirked, cold yellow-green eyes looking Rin up and down.

"Do tell, do tell..."

Rin was near shaking with fear. 'I dont wanna die, I dont wanna die! I'm too young to die! I havent lived a full life yet! Please dont let me dieeee! Sess... Please notice I'm gone soon... Til then... I'll have to stall for time... But how? Damn it! Think Rin, think!'

~*~

Sesshoumaru sped blindly down the road. He didnt know where he was going, but he had a feeling she was this way. He had decided to go with his gut instinct.

"Where the hell are you going?!" Bankotsu shouted in confusion.

"I dont know! Just trust me!" He shouted back.

"Fine, whatever... If we get lost, its YOUR fault though."

Sesshoumaru turned left, sharply. He had a vauge idea of where he was heading now, the old warehouses just outside of town. He had no idea how he knew she would be here; it was like... something was pulling him towards Rin... 'Hold on...' He thought. 'Rin, I'm coming!'

~*~

Naraku and Hitokiri sat on a crate, staring at Rin and discussing how they were going to kill her.

"We could always hang her..." The silver-haired bodyguard stated.

"Nah, a hanging is too... boring... I want something with blood..."

"We could tie her to the wall and shoot her." Hitokiri shrugged.

"Hm... That's original..." Naraku smirked a bit, a malicious fire dancing in his crimson eyes. "We should look at all our options first though."

"Agreed."

Rin listened in fear. There wasnt much else she COULD do at this point in time. The two sadistic murderers' discussion was seriously scaring her. She just wanted to break down and cry, but she wouldnt. 'I have to be strong... What would Sess do in a situation like this? Think Rin... Thinking will most likely end up saving your life...'

"Maybe we should boil her alive." Naraku suggested.

"In acid." Hitokiri added.

"I like that..."

"Yes..."

Rin whimpered softly, almost inaudibly. 'No! Bad Rin! No panic! Panic bad!'

"Hey, um... Since I'm gonna die anyway, I at least wanna die an interesting death... So.. maybe you should... um... watch some horror movies for ideas?" She asked meekly. If they went for her idea, it would at least buy her a couple hours time...

"I like this girl..." Naraku snickered. "Too bad she has to die... Hitokiri, go get a tv, vcr, and lots of horror movies!"

"Sure Naraku-sama. Any you particularly wanna see?" The other man stood, dusting off his black pants.

"Yeah... Jeepers Creepers, and um... Final Destination, both of em, and all 7 Puppetmaster movies, and Death Factory."

"Okay." He turned to leave, pulling on his coat.

"And ah... Hitokiri?"

"Yes?"

"Get the newest Chobits tape while youre out too..." He said softly, with shifty eyes. Hitokiri sweatdropped.

"Sure thing boss." With a sweep of his cloak-like coat, the bodyguard left.

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[AN]I cant write totally serious baddies... I just cant... Look how Ashura turned out o.o;;; *points*

Ashura: --; whats wrong with me?

Mage: My first description of you said you were pure freakin evil and killed for the love of killing!!! x____x You're far from that description Ashy-chan...

Ashura: *sigh*

Mage: Anyway, shameless advertising x___x If you want to, please R&R my newest one-shot, Love and Revenge? Its about Sesshoumaru's parents and how I think his mom died... I'm kinda proud of it... Its angsty...

Oh, and a disclaimer thingy: I dont own Yuki, she's (c)Cloey Valentine (penname: cloeyvalentine). Hitokiri is (c)Daemon (his stories are on Forbidden Memories Group, and one on my account). Both are used with permission. So yeah...