" A New Life "
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this story.
. Well, where are now into the second installment to this story. Yeah! Anyway, this is always mainly about Sesshomaru and Rin, so sorry folks. If that is a fault you should stop reading. Now, for all of the other people like myself, enjoy. .
She woke up in his bed a few weeks later. She had grown accustomed to it and it began to feel like her old quarters. Except, it was nor masculine than hers had been, obviously. When her eyes opened to the sweeping rays of the morning sun, which could be seen through the tiny slot allotted to the sliding door leading outside had a small crack. It took her eyes a while to adjust, but before even taking her first breath of the day her stomach felt as if it were being twisted inside of her. She jolted out of bed and ignored her crude dress and slid back the sliding door with a loud slam. She ran outside and hit the ground with a powerful force that directed it's path through her knees and up her spine and as her hands hit the ground to keep her from hitting the ground. The contents of her stomach shook her. Her hair hung over her shoulders as her stomach lurched inside her throat once more. But this time nothing came up. She hadn't eaten that much and maybe this was just a passing cold or greater. She could not tell her lord, for it would only clutter is busy schedule more than it had already been. She rose off of the ground and dusted of her kimono. Luckily nothing had gotten in her hair or on her clothes. She still decided that waiting until noon to take a bath wouldn't due, so she painfully walked back into the room. Her stomach still hurt and now, so did her legs. Her head was pounding and when she got dressed she again went through spells of thinking her stomach would betray her again. She eventually had gotten dressed and walked down towards the main hall. She decided that eating wasn't all that wise, so she opted for a glass of water. She drank the contents and began her way to the double doors for training and she had almost reached salvation, then a huge tray was heard smashing in the kitchen on the floor. The noise rang through her head like lightening. She touched her forehead in pain and tried to hold back the noise, but it rang true. After it was over she quickly walked outside to take a quick dip to cleanse herself. Surprisingly no one asked her questions and she was thankful because she felt terrible this morning. She finally reached the river and quickly stripped down to get into the hot water. She made sure that no one was there and climbed in. The water quickly soothed her aches and now her stomach pains weren't that bad, just bearable. She laid her head against a rock and closed her eyes. There were no sounds to be heard and she was so far away from the battlegrounds no strikes of steel against steel could be heard. While she laid in the water floods of memories came into her mind. She started to remember the day that her lord had saved her from death and all of the times he had come to her rescue.
All of these memories of such a cold person being kind to her made tears come to her eyes. She quickly wiped them away and captured a shuttering breath and smiled to herself. She loved him and had confessed her feelings, so why or even if couldn't he say the same thing? She shook her head to dismiss the idea and recovered quickly from her protest. Of course he didn't love her, he loved nothing, but why had he chosen to bed her instead of another? She relished the idea of him ever saying he loved her and wanted it to be true, but even if he didn't tell her those words, she liked to think that one day he would give her some sort of sign to show her how he felt. She could only pray.
A few minutes later she slowly rose out of the water and when she began to dress she noticed that her pains were gone, which made her feel more than pleasant. She dressed in her armor and walked back into the battle fields to see to her left mock battles going on, but Sesshomaru was no where to be found. She decided to give up on the idea and then went to gather her two recruits. As she rounded a small curve of thick trees she saw them. They were alone and standing side by side. Awaiting her they were also holding hands. She smiled at there action of affection and also longed for it. She wondered to herself what it would be like to feel her lord's fingers intertwined with hers. As soon as she came into focus they both dropped their hands to their sides and bowed to her. She watched as their cheeks blushed and now they stood stiff. She knew that they had been seen by her, but she bowed to them and watched as they glanced away from her.
" Why do you feel like I will judge you?"
They gave her no answer and then she looked deeply at them.
" I will not tell anyone if that is what you choose. It is none of my business, but you two look lovely together."
They then smiled at her and she received their assurance. Then the male soldier spoke first.
" We thank you for your compliment miss, but we would prefer that you not say anything, for it might jeopardize or chances in rank."
She gently nodded her head towards them.
" As you wish."
They both gave their thanks to her.
" Shall we begin then?"
They both looked at her in trusting that she wouldn't tell a soul. But, she knew that she would have to betray that stance, for her lord needed to know of this. Only being the reason that if someone were to hold her captive he would have to know who cared for her the most and of whom to give her body too. It was sad to think of, but if the choice came down to it her lord would have one life taken in the place for hundreds, so she had to say something to him. He would hardly care, but he still had to know.
" Now then, you will both fight me today."
They looked at her amazed. How could one woman take on two people? They felt that they had the advantage in numbers, but they knew nothing of her skills as a worrier, or her place with Sesshomaru, so she let the ignorance slide. She watched as booth of them came at her and she easily hit the young man in the lower stomach to knock the air out of him and hit the girl in the shin with her foot to trip her. As they booth hit the ground a huge pain came to her abdomen. She stood there for a while and then it went away. She dismissed the pain from being of her hitting the young girl to hard. This went on for a while and Rin ended up cutting practice short due to the fact that she did not feel well enough to continue.
" You may leave now. Go and get some rest. Tomorrow we start your real training. "
She tilted her head to each one of them as she spoke.
" One against the other."
They looked at her amazed and then finally accepted her order and bowed to her. She bowed to both of them and they gave leave. She then quickly dropped to the ground on her knees and took deep breaths. She then quickly felt better. She took of her armor and all of her clothing for battle except for her kimono that lightly covered her ivory skin. She bent her head toward the ground and watched as a huge dark mass lay upon the ground. She knew it to be a shadow of the man she had come to love, her lord. She lifted her head as he spoke.
" What are you doing down there Rin?"
She looked up at him with her big brown eyes that always drew him in to whatever conversation she was having with him or even another.
" I had to cut practice short because.."
She couldn't tell him that she wasn't feeling well, so she quickly substituted an explanation.
" Because, they are still not known to all of their magic, so I told them to try out all of the moves and techniques that I had thought them so far. They will battle one another tomorrow. "
She hoped he would buy it. He didn't buy it at all. That's what she summarized as she looked into his eyes. She knew most of his expressions and this was one she knew well. She had seen it so many times before, when she was a little girl and went off without his permission and came back he would ask her where she had gone. Of course being a child she would lie. He gave her that expression every time. She knew him to be right. He however, did not ask her what the problem really was. She smiled up at him to complete her lie. He held out his hand to her and she quickly grasped it. She felt the warmth of his skin on hers and smiled at him. She wanted this moment to last forever and to her it only last like a second. She got onto her knees and let go of his hand. She dusted of her knees and looked into his eyes. They held one another gave for a few minutes and then quickly broke it. Then came the moment she didn't want to hear.
" Rin, you will tell me why you have the need to lie to me. Why have you cut practice short?"
" I have told you the real reason my lord. That is the truth."
He saw the waft look of question in her eyes and smirked at her.
" Why do you still lie to me?"
" It is not a lie!"
She took out her sword and before she reached his mid section his sword stopped her.
" I had not intended this to be a battle of strength Rin, only a simple conversation, but if you wish."
She looked silently into his eyes and watched as his sword raised away from her and came back down above her head. She blocked it just barely and went on to break away from it. She stepped back quickly and charged at him with the hilt of her sword. Once again he blocked her and she smiled at him. He quickly struck at her and she was narrowly missed by the edge of his sword as she back flipped away from him. He watched the stealth of her moves and as her kimono came close to exposing her sacred areas in mid air it quickly stopped high on her thigh. She looked at him and slid back her kimono to take out her leather sheathe dagger. It was tied to her thigh with another piece of leather and she always had it with her. He had made it for her when she was little in case something attacked her and now that it was small enough to be concealed she kept it that way. He had found out where she kept it the night he mated with her. As he ran his hands up her thighs covered in smooth skin her ran into it. She had forgotten to take it off, but then again, she said that she always wore it.
He watched as she took it out and watched the material cover her again. They had drawn quite a crowd of on lookers mostly soldiers and some servants. As it went on like this for a few more minutes as both of them worked hard to knock the other to the ground. They heard all of the noises from the crowd as they finally came together again and she pinned him down with her sword. The crowd was amazed as it looked that she had upped the man who seemed not able to be beaten, then he spun around and caught her neck and held it to her throat. She had almost captured a win from her lord and the crowd was pleased with her effort. He gently let her go and she returned everything to it's position. Her dagger went back into her leather sheath and strap and her sword and armor she carried up to the palace. She returns her armor and clothes to her new room and passes Sesshomaru as she walks back outside.
" Where are you going Rin?"
" To take another bath."
" Why? Haven't you taken one for today already?"
" Yes, but I want to take another to soothe the aches of today. That part of the river is quite warm near the winter months."
" You know that I do not like you out in the dark by yourself."
" I will be fine. "
She bowed to him and walked on. She began to speak to herself forgetting that he could hear every word she had to say.
" I am not a child and therefor should not be treated like one. Sometimes I swear he acts like I'm still ten years old. I do love him though, but I can only put up with it for so long, one day I'm going to snap."
He began to smile and then it receded as a servant came up to him. He didn't like leaving her alone at night and wanted someone to watch her. He must have had a mad exertion for when the servant came up to him she looked terrified.
" My lord, the cook would like to know what is to be fixed for tonight's meal."
" Nothing."
"Nothing?"
" Yes, neither Rin nor I will be eating tonight. She doesn't feel well."
" Very well."
He knew that she hadn't felt well. When he came up to her earlier that day she had put her hand on her stomach and made a painful expression, though he thought that she hadn't noticed what she had done. She wasn't telling him for some reason and he didn't like it. He was going to get an answer out of her whether she liked it of not. He walked back to the familiar path he had taken last time he watched her bathe. She was again resting her head on the rock when she heard the rustle of leaves and bushes a few yards away. She quickly exited the river and bent down to get her dagger. She had returned her sword to her room and now wished that she had it with her. It would surely do more damage than this dagger. With no need to head logistics she didn't try to grab her clothes. Then she stepped back a few inches and went plummeting back into the water as the black figure came quickly into view. Se didn't see it for the water skewed her vision and her lungs quickly filled with water, as she was about to scream for help before she fell backwards into the river. She began to sink to the bottom when out of the now murky water dropped two arms. She slashed at them with her dagger and blood poured out. As they grabbed her she soon felt numb and her eyes closed to the sight above.
She woke up to see her friend Yuko peering over her and looking ill begotten. She raised her head up and looked at the opposite wall of her old bedroom. Why was she placed in here?
" Are you feeling better Lady Rin?"
When she looked around no one else was there except for the other young man that Yuko had fallen for; Takeshi. He got out of the chair adjacent from the bed she was in and came over to her.
" We were worried that you might not make it. Our lord stayed with you in the nights after you fell ill."
" Nights?"
" Yes Lady Rin, you have been asleep for quite some time. Almost six days."
" Six days!"
She looked at him surprised.
" Do not worry, we have been trained by our lord in the days you have been absent."
She watched as the young man recounted everything that they had gone over in training.
" Then my lord must be better at it than I."
The young girl spoke up before Takeshi could give his answer.
" No, he is mean and orders us around. Not like you my lady."
" Please, call me Rin."
" I cannot do that. It is not proper."
" How about when we are alone?"
" If you wish my lady."
" Thank you."
She looked over at the girl and smiled as she smiled back.
" We had found out that you were ill, but now know the answer why."
" I was ill, and I still feel a little bit unkempt."
" It's to be expected, for someone of your condition."
" My condition?"
She looked at them puzzled in expression.
" Yes, lady. But why didn't you tell our lord your situation?"
" What situation.?"
" Of your pregnancy."
What? She couldn't be pregnant she was just ill, except for the one time. Then scenes from that night flooded her head and remembering all she had learned from her old maid. She then realized that those were often symptoms of a pregnancy. She grabbed her friend and began to weep into her chest. Yuko made Takeshi leave saying that it was a woman's moment and so he closed the door behind him on his way out.
" The lord will not like this!"
" Everyone in the palace knows that he is the father and they are glad he has taken a wife. I am too."
" I am not his wife Yuko! He doesn't like humans, and he would not want a half-breed child in his presence! You said that he knows."
" No, he does not. We have all thought that it would be best for you to tell him the news."
" How did everyone find out?"
" When you were unconscious we also told the healer your symptoms of illness and he told us that it was a pregnancy. You thought we wouldn't notice the way you held your stomach and the morning sickness you have been having. You do know the symptoms don't you?"
" Yes, I was taught about it when I was younger, I just thought that I was ill for a while. "
" Our lord does not know and if you feel up to it, you need to tell him as soon as possible."
" Maybe he won't notice?"
" He will. He's a demon full with powers."
She lifted her head from her friend's chest and wiped the tears away from her eyes and smiled.
" I should."
" There's the attitude I want to hear."
" What if he doesn't want this baby or me around?"
" I have a feeling that it won't happen. Your the only one he talks to for such long periods of time."
She hugged her new friend and as she walked out of the chamber she looked back and smiled.
" Yuko, wait."
" Yes?"
" Thank you for being a friend."
" Your welcome my lady. You are a good friend too."
She walked out and closed the door behind her. Rin looked across the room and smiled. She opened her sliding door to see the grassy plains wafting in the gentle breezes that passed by her face. She inhaled the flowers that perfumed the breeze and smiled. She closed it and with a renewed faith in herself and her lord she walked out of her bedroom after checking her reflection. She dressed in a purple kimono and walked into the main hallway back in front of the double doors. She then tried to push the doors open and to no avail. She looked around to find someone to help her. She didn't like being waited on, she never would, so she gave up on the door and walked back to Sesshomaru's bedroom and slid back the door. She walked out into the cool night air and looked out at the bright moon that lit a path. She silently closed it behind her and was thankful that he wasn't inside the house when he yelled at her. She jumped down lightly off of the outcropping of wood that made a small patio and onto the frigid ground. It was colder than usual but she didn't mind. She walked out into the open and around the other side of the palace. She walks into the garden that is lighted by the moon and sees a dark figure and as she gets closer she notices that it is Sesshomaru and hides behind a pillar of small pink flowers. He sniffs the air and notices the certain flower smell she imanates and notices that she is hiding behind flowers a few yards away.
" Come out Rin."
She blushes and it quickly subsides as he turns his back towards her and looks out at the dark horizon. She walks up behind him and he turns around to face her. She inhales a deep breath and speaks to herself.
" It's now or never Rin."
He looks down at her and with no expression given as to a sign of what mood he is in she prepares herself for the worst.
" I have something to tell you Sesshomaru."
The words cut her tongue and she grimaced at what was to come next.
" I'm..."
She looks down at the ground and feels a hand touch the side of her face and forces her to look straight into his eyes.
" I know Rin."
. So, please review. I know this chapter was kind of short for me, but I didn't want to give away his reaction just yet. Creating suspense. I know I hate it when people cut things off just when it gets good, so I thought I would do it anyway. See you in the next chapter! .