Don't tell me, I know, I'm unforgivable for not have respected my time in new updates…there are many reasons to explain this, believe me. But at last, here's chapter 7. Happy reading! ^_^

My Human Pet

Chapter 7

It was impossible. Not her. She was only fourteen, she didn't deserve this.

Several times Jade pinched her arm, again and again,  damping her cries of pain, in a vain desire to believe that the three walls of steel  which surrounded her, that this latticed and electrified door, that this exiguous and cold place which was hardly large enough for a child weren't reality. That she dreamed, that all this was only an horrible nightmare, a dirty trick…

She felt tears go up to her eyes and drove them out in a raging move, while forcing herself to breathe slowly and deeply. On the left, just there, there was a camera, with its large glassy eye which fixed her all the time. She would not give it the pleasure of seeing her crying.

Jade collected her knees under her chin. Luckily, she was enough small to be able to move with enough ease in this tiny cage. The nose hidden in her torn trousers, she tried to make the vacuum in her spirit. To think of happy things, like…like Michael, her secret love, with his smile able to dissolve the rocks. Like her friends, Daemon, Phoenix, Rai. Like her mother, her big panda plushie, her room. In fact everything except the last days.

Just not remember when he entered the shop, the eye more sharpened that one of a vulture, passing an unhealthy glance over all of them.

Just not remember the other girls quivering of fear and flattening themselves on the bottom of the cage in a desesperate attempt to disappear and escape him.

Just not remember hearing his pace stop in front of her box, his eyes fixing her with instance while madness was taking over her sanity.

Just not remember that she had been bought by Shinjo, that she was going to be tortured during three months and never go out of here alive.

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Shippo was fixing his eyes on the ceiling, unable to sleep. Still and still, he tried to find a meaning to the last events. To gather the little he knew about Inuyasha and to make of it a coherent puzzle.

He massed his temples and started again. Firt of all, Inuyasha when he first met him, when he was sixteen years old, what he had learned while observing and by listening to the rumours, what he had noted with his own eyes, what he had understood while becoming his friend.

Inuyasha lived in dream house. Not enough sumptuous to make of him a rich person, but enough smart to classify him in the high society. Nobody never saw nor known who was his father, but this one sent to him each month an important cheque with the conditions to fill to continue to receive this money.

It was always odd conditions, with the eternal one of living surrounded by humans, of having always at least one close to him. Inuyasha had always made the minimum to meet this condition, to Shippo's knowledge he only kept one or two of them at the same time.

And for his mother, Inuyasha claimed that he didn't remembered her.

Shippo concentrated on the first times where he had met Inuyasha, when this one was sixteen years old. At that time he was even more lout that today and had an enormous misery to accept his new human pet, Miroku. However Miroku was of an exemplary affability and kindness and got on perfectly with Kaede, the other human pet of Inuyasha. After a few months Inuyasha adjusted himself, but for a long time Shippo wondered where was the problem.

Intrigued, he had finally asked the neighbors who had  contemptuously answered something about a priestess and the love Inuyasha had for her. He had not been able to know some more, the majority of people considering the story commonplace and were not very inclined to discuss of it with him.

Decided to discover the bottom of the story, Shippo had gone to the public library and had peeled each newspaper page by page. His patience had borne fruit, for he had been able to rebuild mainly what had arrived, and had supplemented the whole a few years later a day when Inuyasha confided to him.

For a long time, the only slave of Inuyasha had been Kaedé. At 10 years old, he had received a note of his anonymous father intimating him to buy a new slave, male or female, preferably young. At the petshop, Inuyasha immediately fell for Kikyô, a beautiful fifteen year old priestess.

"You should have seen her, Shippo. She was so beautiful and serene…at her sides I felt so well!! She was an angel…" Inuyasha had told him while giving him a picture of Kikyo.

Obviously, Inuyasha had grown, and his natural affection for his pretty human had slowly moulted in a teenager love. So well that at fifteen years old, it wasn't a secret for anybody that Inuyasha was madly in love with his human pet.The whole had made scandal, and had caused violent debates on the effects to let live human pet  of opposed sex with younger youkai for such a long time.

"But I wasn't giving a damn about it, Shippo, not a damn at all!! I loved her so much that I would have done everything for her…everything."

The scandal had been cut short. An evening, Kikyô flew after having stolen Inuyasha, and in front of her refusal to surrender, the police force had been obliged to kill her. Inuyasha couldn't have done anything. Sifted of balls, Kikyô would had die on these last words: "freedom to humans!!".

"I was screaming to them to put down their guns, Shippo, they weren't listening, I had two youkais who were preventing me to run to her…Kikyo, a theft? Kikyo, a rebel? I don't believe a word of it. Kikyo was pacific and soft…Kikyo was…"

The voice of Inuyasha had broken. Little after he received a letter telling him to buy another human, this time of the same age of him and obligatory male.

"If you have known, Shippo, how much I wanted to throw this letter in the garbage!..But I needed the money, and so I bought Miroku. But I hated him even so, for each time I was seeing him I remebered that it was because Kikyo was dead that he was here…eventually with time it was okay, though. Miroku is really nice, I won't exchange him for anything else in the world."

The conversation ended there. Shippo closed his eyes, and asked again for the hundredth time why the cruel destiny sent a double of his late beloved to Inuyasha. He did not need for that.

Shippo sighed. Was this really the destiny? Without knowing why, Shippo had the dark impression that someone  held the future's wires in his hands, and that very soon all would become chaos.

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 Sat on the edge of her bed, Sesshoumaru was contemplating Rin. Her light and trustful features were gently moving in her sleep and he wasn't able to prevent himself from being disturbed. Humans, he had seen full of them; in his books, in his school's courses, in the streets, at the people's houses he was obligated to visit. Beautiful, ugly, small, large, stupid and intelligent ones. He had seen cruel, attentive, satisfied, demanding and negligent Masters. Humans who were half dead, others breathing the life; some resigned to their fate, others fully satisfied, but never, never a human like Rin.

Rin was fragile. Rin was pure. There was no way she could survive in this crazy world. This he he had knew at the first sight. She needed somebody to protect her from everything.

And he found this role of protector a little bit too attractive for his own taste.

Maybe it was like Shinjo had said? A simple effect from the fact that she was his first human pet? That he never get his hands dirty killing one? After having left Shinjo, he had pondered longly. He had questionned himself.

His unreadable face in the mirror had only revealed one thing: it wasn't only that. There was something else to explain his new weakness. What? He didn't know exactly yet, but now he had two choices: either trying to counter this new protective urge, either letting it grow.

Counter wouldn't do any effect, that he knew. He was already affected, anyway. But letting it grow?...The thought frightened him. Who knows where this could lead him? The worse would be if she become essential to his happiness and that he wouldn't be able to get rid of her in the end. What a shame…

Giving up a little more, Sesshoumaru lied down next to her and touched with the ends of his claws her baby skin, taking care not to wake her up. During long minutes he just stayed like this, not knowing what to do.

Then, without warning, Rin rolled to him and huddled against his chest, a small sight of contentment coming from her lips. Sesshoumaru was stunned. A part of him wanted to push her back while the other wanted to huddle her too.

Exhausted, he fell asleep.

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When Rin opened her eyes, she found herself nose to nose with Sesshoumaru which was sleeping. She tried to move but the right arm of Sesshoumaru blocked her. When she tested once again, he growled in his sleep and attracted her closer to him.

Rin smiled and that was at this moment that Sesshoumaru's eyes opened. He seemed confused for a moment, lifted up his right arm and looked at it like he didn't want to believe it. Then he sighed and looked at her in an unreadable way.

"Ohayo, Sesshoumaru-sama. Did you sleep well?" she whispered, the smile still going ear to ear.

He was shaked by a little "hmmpf", shared between laugh and resignation.

"Ohayo, Rin. No, not very well."

"Me, yes."

"Really?"

"Yes. You were there."

Sesshoumaru frowned an instant, then his lips curved in a tiny smile. He opened his mouth to talk,  hesitated, took a deep breath to give him courage then finally said:

"Rin, we're going to play a game".

Rin nodded, happy. She liked to play.

"When I'm not going to be alone with you, I will act diffrently. I will be more cold, I'll look like I didn't care about you, but it wouldn't be true, ok?"

Rin looked at him, puzzled. What a strange game. But the almost anguished face in front of her convinced her to nod.

"Ok. And when we're going to be alone?"

"I will not be like that."

Rin's smile was so sincere after that sentence that Sesshoumaru felt sick.

"But there's one thing: you must not tell anybody about this, ok? Really nobody."

Rin nodded vigorously and Sesshoumaru felt an enormous height leave his shoulders.

After all, if nobody was aware of this, it shouldn't be that bad…

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End of chapter 7. It was worth the wait, don't you think so? I find that we advance greatly in the story…and the chapter is long too!! (laughs). The end of if reflect well my current opinion on how Sess interact with Rin: after all why couldn't he act softly when they're alone? It's one of my ideas, I think it works well…Jade too had an enormous role…poor her it would't be easy. You can already seen the huge difference in the way she's treated compared to Rin…

Thanks to: Silent Sage, porifra, Liz Q, Cookie 6, Cattico, MintlovesSR, Kagome, John Surber, Mage, anhimals, dawsama, New Fan, A.Cronin and evil squeegee.

Most of you liked Shinjo and Sess conversation and the fluffyness between Sess and Rin (laugh at the idea of how you all are going to react at this chapter…yea fluffy fluffy!!! A note on this. Fluffy means for me "nice cute moments", nothing else). Alliance will show up near the 15 chapter if all goes well.

All of you, thank you and see you all next chapter! Ja!