After a lavish feast Rin, Seshoumaru, and Jakken were lead to their quarters.

"Lord Seshoumaru and Jakken this is your room." Ryuuki pointed down the hall. "And for the Lordess she shall sleep in here." Ryuuki pushed open the double doors. Sweet jasmine wafted through the lit corridors.

"Rin gets to sleep outside? Weee!" Rin flapping her arms and squealing around the room. She chased a firefly that had landed on a dandelion.

"Well actually Lordess this room shifts to your whims. Banana's!"

"Banana's?" One disjointed thought and wham! Her room was full of banana shaped furniture.

"Oohhh." Rin was pleased.

"Jakken. Come!" Sesshoumaru ordered. They both walked away.

"Lord Seshoumaru?" Rin asked peeking up from her now banana kimono.

"Rin stay here."

"Alright." Rin said with a smile.

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Shippo sighed in the dark. Everyone else was sleeping comfortably. Sango and Kagome in one room and him, Inuyasha, and Miroku in another. Shippo couldn't sleep, seeing Rin grow silver hair just got him thinking. He thought she was beautiful and amazing. He was in love. Once in a while he would feel like a man and be suave and debonair around girls. But this time Rin was different. The fact that she could easily kick his butt didn't really make it any easier.

"I wonder what Rin's doing now."

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"Where are we going Lord Seshoumaru?" Normally Jakken didn't mind being dragged around but at this time there really wasn't anything pressing in his mind.

"Jakken do you remember the stories of Sarutane?"

The name sent shivers up his spine. It was a vile name.

"I remember it well, many years ago your father weakened him and banished him. If I remember he had tried to engulf your father and take his powers."

"He's near by."

"WHAT!?!?!?" Jakken started running around frantically waving his staff in a threatening fashion.

"I sensed it before. He's been waiting for tonight. He will try to kill Rin and take the power with him."

"But Lord Seshoumaru if he's trying to kill Rin why aren't we inside trying to protect her?"

"She will kill Sarutane."

"Excuse me, Rin will what?!?!?"

"I will train her."

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After a few hours a constantly changing room gets boring. She made monkeys and mushrooms, but she was still all alone.

"I wonder. Who was that fox boy that dog man had with him."

Instantaneously Shippo popped out of thin air. Well actually he fell through the air with a long "Aaaaaaahhh" He landed on a soft fluffy cushion.

"Hi I'm Rin." She got up and shook his hand. "You're a fox demon aren't you?"

"Umm yah."

"Wow. I guess I'm a dog demon like Lord Seshoumaru."

That name always had the knack of making Shippo edgy recollecting the many times he'd almost killed Inuyasha made him nervous. "Wait where's Lord."

"Do you like to watch the stars?" The room shifted again. The floor seemed to have dropped entirely out leaving them hanging above a star lit abyss. "Look there's a fox just like you." Rin said pointing at a group of random stars.

"It looks kinda like a spoon."

"Oh well I'll fix it." With a wave of her hand the stars aligned themselves and became a cute fox.

"So who are you?"

"I'm Shippo."

"Hmm Shippo. I like it." Shippo blushed. "Would you like to pick flowers with me Shippo, Lord Sesshoumaru never picks them with me?" Once again dandelions and cherry blossoms sprouted out of the floor.

" I can bring some back for Kagome."

"Oh is that the girl in the funny clothes?"

"Yup that's her."

"I think that she and Seshoumaru would be pretty together."

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"Tomorrow Jakken we shall."

"Lord Sesshomaru! Lord Sesshomaru!"

"We shall begin tomorrow." A funny stirring boiled up inside of him. Images of the wench that his weakling brother kept around constantly flashed before his eyes.

"Lord Sesshomaru we should go back."

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"Rin?" Shippo had so many questions for her.

"Why are you with.? Where are your.?

"I lived in a peaceful village by a river. I used to help my mom cook and fish with my dad. But the wolves came." What used be an object of amusement, the room became a projection of every recollection in Rin's head. "The wolves had a leader." Shippo recognized the gruff face standing in the middle of the village. It was Kouga. Shippo wanted to go and beat him up, for doing this to someone so pure and gentle.

"They came in and attacked the house." Two gray wolves jumped through the tiny shacks walls and bounded after Rin. Shippo and Rin watched as the wolves started to catch up. Shippo could hear Rin run out of breath and bruise herself against the brush. Then she collapsed as her lupine pursuers attacked.

Then the room stopped, like someone had blown out a candle. "It was dark for a while. But I woke up and saw Lord Sesshoumaru. He helped me, he saved me. "

"Sesshoumaru saved you? I thought he hated humans." Those thoughts made Shippo's head spin.

"I'm glad I met you shippo." He blushed again. "You should go back I think your friends might worry about you. Good night."

For a split second the room whirled and Shippo was back on his futon. Rolling over with a smile he whispered "good night."