Chapter 1

He watched her go. Her long raven hair blowing behind her as she ran to the village. She turned and waved smileing. Her kimono was the same as it had been that day when he had found her. Her missing tooth had grown in long ago. Her hair was now worn down and it had remained it's black raven colour.

"Good-bye Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin called. "I'll miss you."

"Good-bye Rin." Sesshomaru sighed. And turned around his silver hair blowing in his face. Jaken followed him silently.

Rin had grown into a very pretty woman and Shesshomaru knew he could not have feelings for her. But as much as he tried to remind him self that she was a human he couldn't help it. 'You're weak' he scolded himself as though it would help. 'She's a human, you're a demon, you should have killed her.' He looked up as the sent of a demon grew stronger.

A small bird demon emerged from the bushes. The Dog drew his sword and swung at the other demon destroying it within seconds. 'No, I'm not weak. I'm in love.'

(In the village.)

Rin sighed and looked around the village. All of them were humans, over the past 11 years she was the only human in the group which she traveled with. She smiled at the memory of the time she spent with Shesshomaru. She loved him, but how could someone like him ever have feelings for someone like her? Besides, He didn't like humans. Why he had revived her she didn't know. He was to pure for a human, he hated his brother who was only half human. A tear fell onto her knee and she wiped the rest of them away. 'No need to cry over him' she thought to her self. But the tears came anyway. She went into her cabin and lay on the straw bed, pulling the animal skin up to her chin. She missed his scarf, she missed sleeping knowing he was there to keep her safe, she missed him.

The next morning Rin awoke to the sound of a woman screaming. She got up and ran outside to see Lord Shesshomaru standing over the rice merchant with his eyes blazing. The villagers around them recoiled into a circle.

"Lord Shesshomaru?" Rin called to the demon making his eyes loose the red tint and his attention to turn away from the woman to her.

"Rin! I need your help." The dog demon said grabbing her arm and leading her into the forest away from the village.

"What's wrong?" The girl said after a few minutes of walking.

"Um—" He started trying to think of a good reason for dragging her away from the village. "It's Jaken…he's sick."

Rin was confused, Shesshomaru had a sword that could heal anything. Then they rounded a corner and saw that Jaken was cooking on a fire and the two headed demon was sleeping nearby under a tree.

"Oh my Lord! You found her, I was getting tired of your insistent whining every night!" Jaken stood up and walked over holding his staff.

Rin was totally confused at this point. Why would Shesshomaru be whining about her?

"Rin what Jaken means is that I was worried that the village we dropped you off in would be unsafe and so I wanted to train you to use a sword or bow and arrow. Or something… like that…" He trailed off leaving Rin smiling.

"Oh Lord Shesshomaru…Thank you!" She said throwing her arms around his neck.

The man blushed, setting a bright pink tint against his white skin.

They pulled away and turned away from each other. Rin smiled, it was good to be back.

"We start tomorrow at dawn, get some rest." Shesshomaru said handing her his scarf.

Rin grinned and took the fur. Laying down beside the two headed demon she fell asleep smiling.