a/n: okay here's chapter five. First though I want to thank choco-coco, Ryngrl5, animegirl007, and my other loyal readers and reviewers. I couldn't have done it with out you!

Ch.5 Tears

Sessshomaru sat at the meeting looking as stoic as ever. In truth he was bored out of his mind. I wonder if Rin is doing well. I hope she is staying inside the castle grounds. If Jaken lets her get hurt I will flay him, He thought. His mind continued to wander as the meeting progressed, I wonder what she's doing right now? It's late so she's probably reading in the library. He was lucky his blank face didn't clue the other demons into the way his mind was tending towards undemonly thoughts. He missed Rin, he had when she was living with her family and though he had seen her only that morning he missed her now. He hoped she was safe as he no longer had the Tenseiga it having been broken I his battle with a demon from the south and he had not yet fond the means to repair it. He nearly sighed, catching himself at the last second he scolded himself mentally, look at yourself sighing like some love-struck farm girl! You're a demon, get control of yourself! Just because you have feelings for Rin doesn't mean you should start acting all cute and cuddly.

"Lord Sesshomaru?"

He looked up realizing a demon was speaking to him. "Yes?" he asked coldly to cover up the fact he had not been paying attention.

"Um," the lesser demon gulped. "What is your opinion on the situation in the east?"

"What it has always been," he said unhelpfully.

Rin awoke with a splitting head ache and blurred vision. She could just barely make out the insubstantial form of her Muse hovering, concerned, at her side. "What happened?" she asked groggily, trying to rub her head and discovering her wrists were bound.

[You were attacked by you uncle and brought here.] Her Muse replied.

"Where's here exactly? Oh why didn't I listen to Sesshomaru?"

For once her Muse didn't reply with an annoying retort, she simply shook her shadowy head. [I'm not sure, a cave some where.] Rin heard the sounds of footsteps approaching. Two blurry figures came into her view. One she knew to be her uncle and the other a figure in a black hooded robe.

"I see you're awake." The hooded figure spoke in a vaguely familiar woman's voice. "Good, now listen carefully girl. You have something I want and unfortunately I can't get it unless you're dead."

"Auntie?" Rin asked confused "what are you talking about? What do I have?"

Rin's aunt cackled evilly. "Why my revenge, darling niece. Why else would I posses your aunt and go through all the trouble of prying you away from that Lord Sesshomaru?" the woman who was and was not Rin's aunt.

"What revenge? What did I do to you?"

"Nothing. It was your Muse, Keita. She sent me to hell a hundred years ago and now I'm gonna return the favor."

"Keita? Is she telling the truth?" Rin had known her Muse had been a powerful sorceress in her life time but she had not known of her banishing any demons to hell.

[Yes, it is. Eressa, leave Rin out of this your hatred is toward me not her.]

"True, but I can't drag you to hell with your host alive and well. Girl I suggest you right you precious demon a farewell letter, you won't ever see him again. Your eighteenth birthday is two days away and it is the only time I can do this spell." And with that she turned on heel and left, Rin's uncle by her side. Rin saw an ink pot with some paper and with legs and wrists still bound began writing her fare well to Sesshomaru, tears streaming down her face all the while.

Sesshomaru could tell something was not right. The first day of the meeting he had shrugged it off as paranoia, by the second, he was sure. He raced back to his castle, hoping against hope he was wrong, which was something he did not do very often as he did not like to be wrong. He arrived home to find a frantic Jake clutching a tear splotched letter in his hands. "It's R- R-Rin," Jaken stuttered. He jerked the letter from the toad's hands and began to read.

Dear Sesshomaru,

I'm writing this because it is my only chance to tell you what needs to be said before I die. My uncle is in league with an evil sorceress who has possessed my aunt. The sorceress wants revenge in my Muse who in her life time was a sorceress herself. First and for most I want to thank you for everything you have done for me and to tell you sorry for not listening to you and staying in the castle though I don't think it would have mattered , I only made it easier for them. And secondly I want to say I love you and I wish I could have spent the rest of my life with you. I realize you could never love me as more than a daughter but I wanted to tell you before I die . live well and do not morn my death. Go with my love my Sesshomaru.

Rin

He would kill Jaken later; right now he had to save Rin. He found the place where she was attacked and located her sent. With Toukijin in hand he raced off to save the only person he had ever loved.

The day came, her eighteenth birthday, and the last day of Rin's life. Her uncle pulled her to her feet and dragged her out side. Holding her still as the sorceress approached with a small bottle in hand.

"this poison will kill you off fast enough so you wont suffer to much but it will take long enough for me to complete the spell that will bind your Muse to your soul even in death. Then I will send you both to hell." She said this as if it was something she did every day, like plowing a field. She uncorked the bottle and grabbed Rin's head, pinching her nose while her uncle held her still. She poured the poison down her throat Rin coughed and spluttered trying not to swallow the poison but to no avail. Then suddenly she saw a silver blur out of the corner of her eye. The blur struck down the sorceress and her uncle in quick succession before she recognized it as Sesshomaru. Rin's legs had buckled and she watched from the ground as he pulled his sword from her uncle's body. He immediately re-sheathed his sword and rushed to her side. He pulled her into his lap

"Rin, are you okay?" he asked, his normally blank face etched in worry.

"You came." She reached her hand up to touch his face. "I swallowed the poison," she said sadly as her vision began to close in on her.

"No! Rin you can not die, I love you," he whispered brokenly.

"It's too late." She coughed, blood trickling from the corners of her mouth. Her eyes slid closed. Two tears leaked from Sesshomaru's golden eyes as he pleaded with her to stay, the first tears he had ever shed.

a/n: it's awfully sad. Should I end it here? I could if you want, if not I'll keep going? Please review.