I'm baaack! Cool, I'm on a roll with these chapters ^-^ (man I use this symbol a lot!). I think I've done...*counts on fingers for hours* three in a day (I'm up late doing this, trying to convince m' bros. to watch InuYasha with me). Oh well, I'm gonna make some coffee-I don't like coffee-scratch that, I'm gonna make some tea and stay up. Peace!

Chapter 3: Tasogare no Hana ( Flower of Midnight)

Rin curled into a fetal position on the hard rock of the cave those villains had taken her too. She sniffed and tried her hardest to hold back tears but she eventually let them flow." Why do they want me? I'm just a servant for Sesshomaru-sama. Why me...I wish you were here...Sesshomaru..." She cried silently; moaning so softly that it could only be heard spiritually by a demon, many miles away...

Sesshomaru flinched slightly when he first picked up Rin's crying. He heard her ask for his help, cry out his name; he could feel and taste every tear. He glared at the army of demons at his disposal, waiting in the garden, under his balcony for his instructions." You wraiths, head to the north. Mu'onna (nothing women) to the south. The oni shall search my land and Jaken, alert InuYasha and his friends." He gave them another fierce stared before barking "What are you waiting for?!". The mu'onna trudged away with a disdainful grace, the wraiths screeched and swirled into the sky, the oni stomped off into his forest and the G.I.B.T hopped away behind the oni. Sesshomaru frowned and walked back into his lair. He stared long and hard at the single red rose on his night stand; the rose Rin had given him as an anniversary gift since she had met him. Since then it had not wilted, but then she had came to his room every night to tend to it and sing her lullaby.

He felt a great emotion well up inside and he was forced to look away from the rose. He looked out at the setting sun and hoped for something impossible, something he might have scoffed at twenty years ago when he was still having that childish fight with his younger brother over a certain sword...

Rin wiped her tear-stained face with her sleeve and stood up straight. 'There's no way Sesshomaru-sama would cry at a time like this so I shouldn't either!' She thought 'Okay, keep calm...Sesshomaru-sama will be here soon to rescue you. He wouldn't abandon you, not after all these years...' She reminisced with her memories for a few minutes, remembering that when she was a child she thought as him as a father, as a teenager an older brother, and now...Rin blushed at the thought and chanted a calming mantra Sango-kun had taught her." Sesshomaru-sama will be here to get me...I'm sure of it and when he does, their evil asses will be kicked. Oh..."

She thought back of the rose she had picked for Sesshomaru and finally broke down. She let go of all mental and physical barriers that prevented her from crying and wailing." SESSHOMARU!!!"