ShadowSage: I'm afraid that this story isn't about Sesshomaru. I'm sorry if I misled you into

believing it was with my summary. I put that as a summary not because it summarized the story

but because that is how the story begins. It is meant to set the situation for later in the story. I do

plan on making him a more important character later in the story line but not in this particular

story.

Disclaimer: I do not lay claim to the characters from the Inuyash series or anything that lies

therein.

Chapter 3

The argument had gone on late into the night until Rin had tired. Sesshomaru picked her

up in his arms and kissed her forehead before carrying her to their chambers to sleep. Sometime

in the night she woke up to feel his naked flesh against hers and his arms around her waist, she

inhaled his scent and felt comforted. Oh how she loved this man lying next to her on their bed,

how she wanted to snuggle into his warmth. Oh how she wished she could just submit to his

dominance on this situation.

'No,' she thought to herself, 'not for this, he can't be aloud to go through with this. Not

on his brother, he could do this to anyone else but his brother.' Sesshomaru shifted and

unconsciously pulled her closer to him. Ah her mate, how she loved him. That's why she could

not let him do this. She did not know what type of man he'd become if she let him do these

things to his brother, her brother. She stopped to think about that for a moment. Yes it was true,

she had come to think of Inuyasha as her brother over the past months. She thought he was just

to cute when he pretended to be tough, and she couldn't get enough of that pout he made when

she teased him.

She felt a wave of dreariness wash over her. She twisted in her mates arms so she was

facing him and snuggled into his chest, inhaled his scent one more time and went to sleep.

She had to be well rested for the morning.

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"Man this collar itches",he complained as he rubbed underneath the band of metal around

his neck. He hated this, he hated the collar, he hated the uniform, he hated the small room he

was given to sleep in. He hated being a slave.

"You Fucking bastard Sesshomaru!' he screamed in his mind, "I'll kill you one day for

this!' He had woken up to find himself out of the cell he fell asleep in and in what looked like a

servants chamber. It was small with a window facing the forest, there was a small bed in one of

the corners that was to small for him and a hook on the wall were a uniform hung. When he

woke he noticed that he was wearing different than when he fell asleep. They had striped him in

his sleep and put on serf's uniform. They had also put a steel collar around his neck but the odd

thing was it did not have a hinge or a latch on it and for the life of him he couldn't figure out how

they got it on.

He had tried to remove it from his neck but as soon as he tried to pull it apart a wave of

intense pain hit him like a ton of something pointy. His body went limp and he fell to the floor

feeling like he was being pressed in from all directions while nails were being driven into him.

He lay there for twenty minutes twitching at spikes in the pain as it slowly subsided. Shakily

getting up he decided to sit on the bed until he regained his composure.

He decided that they were not foolish enough to make it possible for him to escape and

that he might as well get some rest seeing as there was nothing else to do.

He was woken by a sharp kick in the head.

"Up."

He looked up at the guard in front of him and had the urge to rip him apart, when a small

wave of pain hit, leaving his body numb.

"I said get up!"

Another sharp kick in the head. He didn't know why the guard thought kicking him

would only make him get up faster, it only made him slightly disoriented.

"Follow."

Inuyasha was still a bit disoriented and had trouble getting through the door. Annoyed,

the guard pulled out a small metal bracelet that looked like a smaller version of the band of metal

around Inuyasha's neck. The guard put it around his and Inuyasha got the odd feeling that his

mind had been incased.

"Follow."

Inuyasha's body seemed to move by itself and follow the guard and it felt like something

was probing different parts of his mind. He was a bit scared, he couldn't even move his eyes. All

the guards they past spat at him and threw insults at him.

None of them would have been that bold if his father was still alive. He could remember

even as a child the glares they gave him but they had always been cautious not to attract the

attention of his father's wrath. He had had his fun though, of setting up a few guards in

particular who he had not liked. There had been those who thought that his father would have

him sent off to the quarries or kill him when he was born and maybe his father had planed on it.

But when he had looked into his new born son's eyes, Inuyasha could remember his mother

saying, his face lit up and his eyes filled with happiness of an intensity rarely seen. Inuyasha

could remember his mother laughing at the memory of his father showing him of to all the guards

and knights in the castle, hardly waiting for the cord to be cut off. It had been one of his father's

two happiest days. The other having been the day of Sesshomaru's birth.

Inuyasha was brought out of his thoughts when he realized he was standing in front of the

large doors that led into the throne room wear he knew his brother was waiting.

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She had done all she could for Inuyasha, now it all depended on how he behaved in front

her mate. Rin took a glance at Sesshomaru, his face was set in its usual unemotional coldness

and his vision never once wavered from the throne room doors. Even though, she knew he saw

her. They had had a long argument that mourning about Inuyasha and she barely won him a

chance to not be sent to the cruel fate that all others like him endured. And she wouldn't let her

little step-brother go through that.

She heard one of the large throne doors open and looked up to see Inuyasha follow a

guard into the throne room.

"Its time", she thought.

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