Rin blinked twice before she answered as she looked at the man outside her door staring at her with as much surprise as she was. Rin thought she would never see the likes of him again, but it seemed she was wrong. "What are you doing here?" Rin finally had the courage to ask.

He cleared his throat "I overexerted my horse and forgot to bring water. I was hoping to get some from whoever lived in this house, which I presume is you," he stated and she looked him up and down.

"It looks like you're the one dying," she looked over his shoulder and saw the poor horse huffing and breathing hard behind him. "But it seems your horse is worse," she stated as she shouldered him out of the way with amazing strength as she made her way towards his horse.

He watched as his horse seemed comfortable around her as she cooed and patted his head and let her fingers glide through his mane. Sesshomaru silently watched thinking how it would feel if she let those fingers string threw his hair but then shook off the notion.

"So will you spare some water?" he asked making his way towards the couple and she nodded "Of course the poor thing might die," then she sent him a glare. "How dare you do this to your horse you could've really harmed it," she practically growled.

"Him," Sesshomaru stated after she was finished and she seemed to cool off after a confused look crossed her face. "He is a him," he replied pointing to the horse. She looked back and nodded again as she grabbed the horse's reigns and made her way towards the barn he was at yesterday.

He remand quiet, not wanting to offend her again or she might throw him and his tired horse out, or just him. Rin then gently took off the reigns as she entered the barn and opened a gigantic stall that he saw was already occupied by the sound of distressed neighing. She cooed again and the neighing stopped as she took a bucket of water and poured it into a gigantic bowl in the stall. His horse drunk greedily and his own throat felt dry at the sound of water. Rin looked back to see the man deathly pale.

Her eyes widened, he may have offended her yesterday but she wouldn't let him die because of it, it would haunt her conscious forever. "C'mon let's get you something to drink," Rin stated softly when she knew the horses were tied and secured. He only nodded and she took his arm, he may faint by the look of his skin. Just as her hand wound around his arm she felt a jolt inside her but she ignored it as she was more worried about the man.

Once they entered her house she hurried and made a carton of lemonade. She poured a glass for them both and handed a glass to him. He took it and drank like there was no tomorrow as Rin took slight sips finding this hysterical. She watched as the cold man she remembered slowly melted away as he drank her lemonade, and even asked for seconds.

Sesshomaru set the drink down as he took a breath, the lemonade seemed to taste as if it were from the gods themselves. He then turned to Rin and watched her, waiting for her to finish her glass. Once she was done he waited, just waited, to see what she would do.

"Stay right here, I need to check on something," Rin stated as she got up and made her way towards the door. Sesshomaru got up as well and followed her, once they were walking on the grassy fields she turned to him "Why are you following me?" she asked. "I want to make sure you don't do anything to my horse," he answered his eyes cold. "So you don't trust me?" she asked him. "Do you trust me?" he asked her and she turned away not answering. He made a grunt as they kept walking, once she went into the barn she pulled out his horse and the Russian horse and sent them into the corral.

He watched as the two ran around, both seeming to try and get as far away from each other as possible. Rin sat on the fence looking out at them as he went to her side not wanting to get run over by the horses. She kicked her feet softly as she looked down to the ground "Why do you let them run around?" Sesshomaru asked out of the blue, he had probably just broken his record for the most conversation with anyone. He just seemed to like to ask her questions "Because most of the horses we get are originally from the wild so I let them run around to let them stretch and feel like they are home again." Rin answered.

He only looked back to the horses watching his get into a fight with the Russian as she bared her teeth, "Oh no," Rin silently whispered and Sesshomaru's sensitive ears caught her little cry as he turned back to her. "Where do you think your going?" he asked as she walked towards the fighting horses. "I have to stop them or one of them might get seriously injured," she called back. He looked to the horses to see his slightly tower over the Russian, but barely, and she still had powerful legs that looked like they could break bones.

He hurried after Rin and stopped when the horses reared really getting into battle. He noticed Rin was still jogging to the horses as he saw the danger it could do to her. He only watched as Rin ran in between the two horses, her arm outstretched "Mika! Stop this!" she yelled but her horse was already on her hind legs and couldn't pause the attack as her legs lowered.

Rin felt fear consume her as she watched Mika's legs coming down on her and she quickly guarded her face. Sesshomaru hurried with his demon speed to stand in front of her, she looked up to watch the man get hit in the back by the horse's strength as he fell forward with her under him. She felt a slight pressure on her body as the horse literally ran over them and chased Sesshomaru's horse.

Sesshomaru's eyes opened as he felt his back in immense pain but he noticed the woman under him was safe. He tried to get up but his back only made a cracking noise that sent him down again. His breathing was uneven as he tried to keep his vision from blurring. He looked down to Rin and saw the position they were in that would send any neighbor to the wrong conclusion. He was lying on top of her his face inches from hers while her legs were spread apart as he lay kneeled between them. He mentally shook his head as he fell again giving up trying to stand as his vision finally blurred and his world went black.

Rin opened her chocolate eyes to see the man on top of her. She was ready to scream but then remembered he had saved her life. His breathing was uneven and his eyes were closed and her eyes widened, was he dying? She hoped not as she gently squirmed from under him and placed his head on her shoulder. She stood on shaky legs and wound her arm around his waist and tried walking but her ankle was killing her.

She placed her right fingers in her mouth as she gave out a loud whistle and Mika came to her side and bounced around as if nothing happened. She knew the horse couldn't stop the attack but she could've really killed them. Mika stood as Rin placed Sesshomaru on her back and led her to her white house and then tied Mika to the large oak right next to it. Taking a hold of the man she dragged him towards her house and placed him on her bed as she hurried and put Mika away and the man's horse as well.

She then went back to the man and took a big ice pack and placed it on his back where hoof marks were and she saw him shiver. Good he was alive then, she took a handkerchief and slid it across his forehead as his eyebrows frowned. She pulled his hair from around his back and let it fall to the side of the bed as she stroked it. His eyebrows relaxed and he seemed soothed with her action, she smiled slightly.

She knew he had hurt her yesterday, but this made her forgive him easily. She would have died if he had not been there to protect her like he had. To let him relax more she took the rubber band out of his hair and she noticed his hat had come off. Probably from the hit he endured, she blinked as she took in his features. He was a really beautiful man once you gave him a good look she thought, unlike any man she had ever seen.

In all her twenty-one years she had never had a man save her like that before either, especially a stranger. She then decided it was probably a good time to start dinner and maybe he would be strong enough to eat as well. She set a chicken in the oven and some corn and peas in pots over the stove and soon it started to smell really good in the house.

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Sesshomaru opened his golden eyes as he looked around dizzily and waited until the world stopped spinning before touching his forehead. He had a major headache and he felt like his back was going to split in two. He had never felt this human in his life as he groaned but then his nose picked up the scent of food as he picked up his head and knew it smelled of human food. Was Rin cooking? He was pretty positive she was and soon he got his answer as she entered the room were he was resting. She had a plate resting in her slender fingers and her eyes widened a little but then a smile appeared on her lips "Oh your awake, that's good," she stated softly as if he were a small child. He tried to sit up but then his back made a cracking noise again as he was sent back onto the bed.

He looked up when he heard giggling from the woman in the room that sounded like chime bells. He turned to her to see one hand by her mouth and the other still balancing the food. "Oh you're so silly, you can't expect to be better in an hour do you?" she asked a big grin on her face as he looked away, he was asleep for an hour? She then knelt to his side and placed the fork that was on the plate in one of the chicken strips and placed it by his mouth but he shrugged it away.

Her eyes narrowed slightly "C'mon you need to eat," she stated but he only closed his eyes deciding to make her think he had fallen asleep again. But she only tugged on a strand of his hair to make him look at her, if he was fully revived he could easily kill the stupid woman but he was weaker then any human at that moment so he couldn't shake her off. "If you want to get better you need to eat," she replied and he sighed thinking the only way to get her off his back was to eat so he opened his mouth slightly and she smiled again as she placed chicken in his mouth and he chewed. "You see that wasn't too hard was it?" she asked but he didn't respond.

After about a half hour he had eaten every thing on the plate and she took it away, leaving him in peace at last. He rested his head on the soft pillow as he felt like his eyelids weighed a ton, and he closed them and went into thankful slumber.

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