Kagome woke up beneath the heavy cover of blankets on the floor of a room in the dojo. She sat up slowly and glanced out the window. It was still night and the moon hung low in the sky. She looked around. Shippou lay curled on her pillow and Sango lay on the pallet next to her. Kagome slipped out from under the blanket and stood careful not to wake either Sango or Shippou and instead made for the door.

The night air met her, raising goose bumps on her bare arms. She shivered and crossed her arms over her stomach and turned to go back inside when soft pounding met her ear. She turned. The sound came from the village storehouse. The scratching and pounding went on and Kagome hesitated a moment before picking up her bow and arrow. She docked and arrow then walked towards the storehouse slowly. The scratching and banging went on and after a few seconds of hesitation she reached out and opened the door and aimed her arrow right at the thing inside.

A small girl child lay curled inside it, her black hair dirty, dark eyes filled with fear and worry as they fell on Kagome's bow. Kagome gasps and lowered the weapon slightly. The girl blinked at her slowly and the fear drained from the child's face till she wore a neutral expression.

Kagome stepped forward. "Who are you?"

"Rin. You're not Lord Sesshomaru." She said almost tragically, tone a mingle of sadness and surprise.

"Sesshomaru...but your not..." The girl wasn't a demon, Kagome was sure of that at least. But then how did you know Sesshomaru? Something clicked. 'Bring her' "He meant you." Kagome gasped in surprise. "He was coming to save you."

The little girl's face lit up with so much joy Kagome though her heart would break. "Lord Sesshomaru came for Rin?"

"Yes but he...had a bit of trouble. Why are you in here?"

"They put Rin here." The girl nodding towards the village. "The took me from Lord Jaken while Lord Sesshomaru wasn't around. Rin does not know why. Then they locked Rin in here and gave Rin things to make her sleep." The villagers kidnapped and innocent young child and locked her in a storeroom? Kagome shivered then looked at Rin who watched her. "Has Sesshomaru abandoned Rin?"

Had he? But Sesshomaru hated humans? Why would he have one with him let alone try to save one. Kagome shook her head slowly. "I don't know Rin. Well my name is Kagome and I'll take care of you alright?"

Kagome offered her hand to the child but by now the girl's attention had focused on something over Kagome's shoulder, the look of rhapsody on her face again. Kagome froze and felt the hair on the back of her neck rise and she turned slowly as her heart sped up to meet the golden gaze of Sesshomaru. The demon's song rose in her heart again and her breathing staggered as she watched him look down at her and arch and eyebrow elegantly. Her face heated, a blush spreading across her cheeks and she cursed herself silently. The child's cry broke the staring contest between the demon and the priestess.

"Lord Sesshomaru!" the girl cried joyfully as she ran around Kagome to the demon lord. "Lord Sesshomaru did not forget about Rin!"

Sesshomaru looked down at the girl and inclined his head regally. "No Rin, I did not forget." He said emotionlessly.

The girl smiled undaunted and threw her arms around the demon lord in a hug. "Rin knew her lord would come for her!" She declared.

Sesshomaru made no reply to this but laid a clawed hand fondly on the girl's head. "Jaken is waiting for you in the forest Rin. Go and watch him."

The child saluted. "Yes my lord!" She remembered Kagome then and smiled at her. "Oh. Thank you Miss Kagome." Before running of into the trees to find the warted demon Jaken.

Kagome felt a shiver go up her spine as the demon lord turned eyes to her again. She should run or scream or raise the bow to shoot him. But at the thought her legs froze and became rooted to the ground and her mouth shut firmly, tongue to heavy to move and her fingers went numb so the bow slipped to the ground with a clatter. Sesshomaru extended the hand he had rested on the child's head and looked at her patiently.

"Come."
The girl again. That's damn girl. What did she think she was doing? His brother's wench and he had watched her try to stop his brother's attack as well as save Rin and offer to protect her. Human sentiments and compassion. But still...even after she found out that Rin belonged to him she still offered help and protection. Her eyes were dreamy and they met his unflinchingly and red rose up in her face. Dear god was she blushing? What for?

He stepped forward slightly and watched in surprise as the girl dropped her weapon. Surprise. That was the second time she had surprised him that day and he wasn't enjoying it. She watched him with a mixture of fear and.... something else he couldn't place. All the same she was his brother's wench and Sesshomaru was growing tired of these games between him and his brother. And the girl would be a tool to end it.

He extended a hand for her to take. "Come." The word a command the only one he would give her. He expected her to run or scream or defy him but what she did shocked him. She lifted her hand without a word and placed it in his. Heat rushed from his fingers up his arm and her bit back a snarl. She must have seen something in his face for she caught herself, gasped and jerked her whole body back and screamed at the top of her lungs.

Everything happened at once. His brother, the monk, and the exterminator burst from the nearby house. Inuyasha snapped a glare at him and snarled. "Sesshomaru."

Sesshomaru sighed regretfully and moved with shocking speed and curled an arm around the girl's waist and jerked her against him then jumped up into the top branched on a near tree. "If you want to see your wench again brother. Find me."

Then moved of into the forest. He heard his brother's shouts of anger and heard him try to follow but Sesshomaru was to fast and he lost Inuyasha easily. The girl was limp against him and he looked down at her and frowned. She has fainted, her head tipped back baring her pale neck, dark locks of black hair slipping across her milk skin. Sesshomaru growled again. What was his attraction to this girl? She was human and if that should not disgust him enough she was Inuyasha's. But she shifted and murmured and heat shot through his body again.

The girl was going to be trouble.