Several years had gone by with not much disruption. Rin had grown up to be a fine, young, promising lady. Sesshomaru sat nonchalantly by a willow tree and watched her as she waded in the calm river. Jacken stood by his master and was discussing some ideas with him.

"You know, Lord Sesshomaru, Rin is of age of marriage. Don't you think you should marry her off to some poor fool and let him have her," Jaken asked his master.

Sesshomaru glared down at his imp. "What would make you think I should give her away to some low life human? She deserves much more, Jaken, and you and I both know it."

"Ye-Yes Master, but…." Jaken hesitated for a moment, "don't you think she should—"

"No Jaken! She does not need to find any one as of yet. She is still young and naïve and the hell would I let her be with anything below her, especially a mangy human," Sesshomaru said harshly.

Jaken just nodded his head meekly and the two watched Rin as she waited in the river. Sesshomaru especially watched her every move, and the surroundings around her. The feudal era of Japan was still dangerous for the humans. The Shikon Jewl was finally pieced together and Naraku and his evil minions were wiped out, but the wars among the humans were still in force. Stupid humans, Sesshomaru thought. They would kill themselves if they kept at this rate. Oh well, they won't hassle me anymore if they do.

Sesshomaru noticed that Rin had had grown up quite a bit. She was much taller now and curvy. She was definitely a young woman now. She kept her raven black hair in a half pony tail, and let her hair flow down her back. Instead of porting an orange kimono, she chose a peacock blue, with white flowers. It suited her, and brought out her chestnut brown eyes.

She stood silently in the water, letting the fish nibble on her toes and the wind blew gently through her hair. She seemed peaceful in her thoughts. Sesshomaru smiled to himself. He was proud of how she turned out. He remembered the first time he met her, and thought her to be a nuisance. Not anymore. She was of great help to her Sesshomaru, who became very much like a father figure in her life. He actually admitted to himself that he actually loved her. She was the first human to ever have true feelings for. He didn't even like the mortal mother to his brother Inuyasha.

As Rin was looking out into the distance, across the river in the trees, she saw a shadow; a faint glimpse of someone watcher her. She then squinted her eyes to see if they were deceiving her, but the figure was gone. She lifted her hand up above her eyes to shield the sun's light shining down on her to see well. Again, nothing was there.

Weird, she thought to herself. I was sure something was over there. Rin shrugged her shoulders and walked out of the river to Jaken and Sesshomaru, who were sitting under a nearby tree. She shook her head clear of the image and then smiled at her two companions. It was just imagining. I doubt anything was really there.

She stood in front of Sesshomaru and then bowed. She then knelt down and looked at her "father," "Are we going to go now? I have rested enough and we need to keep moving on."

Sesshomaru stood up and took Rin's hand and pulled her onto her feet, "Yes, we should continue and get back to our home land. It is getting late and we want to make close the gab in distance to home."

Rin smiled, and hugged Sesshomaru, "I love you, father."

A tear came to his eye, and he held her in his arm, "I love you too, Rin."