Disclaimer: You should have got it by now...no? Well, I don't own Inuyasha.

My friend Katie and me (waves) had a good conversation about this Fanfiction. She likes it -. So, I thought I might as well just hurry it all up a bit. However, this chapter's going to be a bit shorter, you'll see.

ThisRin


Chapter Seven: Guilty

Naraku sat in his chair; his nails digging into the arm rests. He was angry, once again his plans had failed.

"I have forgiven you before, Kagura" he hissed

"I know" Kagura snapped "And need no reminder"

"Do not talk that way to me, Kagura!" he snapped, losing his cool. His sister flinched and clenched her fists at her sides.

"Is she that important?" Kagura yelled, "It is-"

"Kagura" Naraku said coldly "You know why I called you here now, do you not?"

"I understand now" Kagura said, her mouth a grim slash and her eyes cold and empty. "And I will not obey you, Naraku"

"You will" Naraku said, standing "You have no choice in the matter. Something gets in my way, I annihilate it. Do not get in my way, Kagura. Do you doubt me?"

Kagura faced her brother with an expression of betrayal, she stood there for a while, glaring at Naraku with eyes full of tears. She ran out, slamming the door.

"Good girl, Kagura. It is now in motion," Naraku said, leaning back in his chair, relaxed at last. He pulled a picture out of the drawer in the desk in front of him. There, under a tree of cherry blossoms, was a little girl with lively brown eyes and a little boy with black hair and red eyes. Naraku smiled at the picture

"You will understand, Rin"

---

Rin jerked from her peaceful sleep, woken in a cold sweat, she ran to the window and pushed it open, or where she thought the window was.

"Ah! Are you trying to kill me?!" Sesshoumaru snapped.

'Oh, yes I forgot. Sesshoumaru always sits there' Rin thought, pulling him off of the windowsill, she stuck her head out of the window into the cold night air. She breathed in heavily through her nose she panted into the air fir a while. The light flicked on, revealing a very pissed off Sesshoumaru.

'It was a nightmare' Rin explained

'Really? To me it looked like a murder attempt' He signed, he was doing that less and less but still seemed to be not used to talking.

'I wasn't trying to push you out of the window' she objected 'I forgot you were there.'

He didn't look convinced.

---

Kagura ran out into the cold night, wind whipping her hair but she didn't care, she enjoyed the cold and the wind, lived for it. She ran as fast as she could, her feet seemed to be burning and blood pounded in her ears but still she struggled on. Her breath became wheezy and she had to stop she put her hands on her knees and began to pant, she felt something cold and heavy against her knee, she then realised she was still holding the gun.

The gun Naraku had given her.

The gun she was going to use.

She felt no remorse for her victim, it was her or them, Kagura would give her life for no one. Naraku had made it clear she had to do it, her life was on the line here. She looked up at the large building in front of her.

The Tessiaga estate.

---Flashback – Rin's nightmare ---

She was sitting under the cherry blossom tree as usual, waiting for Naraku. She sat on the swing that hung from one of the branches and swung sadly.

"Rin-chan?"

"Naraku-kun!" she jumped up and hugged the little boy (AN: All readers gag)

Naraku looked grave and pulled her away from him.

"What's the matter, Naraku-kun?"

"Rin-chan, our parents are fighting again"

"About Kohaku?" Rin asked, her eyes brimming with tears.

"Yeah" Naraku said, sighing and looking over at Rin's house "It's different this time, my Daddy hit your Mother"

"Hit Mama?" Rin gasped, "We have to go look!"

Before Naraku could stop her she sped into her house, Mr. Onigumo was indeed there, fighting with Rin's father. Rin screamed and the two men faced her, Mr. Onigumo had a look of sinister glee at the site of the child. Before any of them could move, he pulled out a gun.

"Papa! Rin cried in horror, Naraku standing behind her stiffly.

Rin's mother ran into the room, a purple bruise on her face and tried to pry the men apart, Mr. Onigumo turned and put the gun to her temple.

She was dead before she hit the floor.

"MAMA, NO!" Rin screamed, blood, so much blood. The liquid pouring from her mother. Naraku said or did nothing; he just stood and watched.

Mr. Koji grabbed a knife and cut Onigumo's hand. Onigumo screamed and dropped the gun.

Onigumo then tried strangling her father, Rin, unaware of what to do ran to the gun and picked it up, pointing it at Onigumo.

"Rin, don't you dare!" Naraku came up behind her and grabbed her neck. Rin's father went loose in Onigumo's grip.

Rin closed her eyes and squeezed the trigger.

---Flashback end---

Rin's eyes were like a waterfall.

"I..." she struggled "I killed him!" she pushed out the words forcefully.

She hid her face in her arms and wept some more. She coughed violently through her tears and breathed in roughly. Sesshoumaru, who had been watching and listening intently, was now extremely unsure of what to do. So he placed his hand on her shoulder, but she needed no encouragement, and leapt into his arms, crying into his shirt.

Sesshoumaru tensed, then slowly put his arms round her.

"It's okay, Rin"

---

Kagura watched the scene from the roof; it made her sick, thinking of that girl touching her Sesshoumaru. She loaded the gun, the foolish girl had left the window open, and she was a sitting duck for Kagura now.

"Tough luck, kid" Kagura whispered and shot through the open window.

---

Sesshoumaru's eyes caught a flash of something in the moonlight; his golden eyes widened A GUN. A hand which red acrylic tipped claws was loading it, he knew that hand. His legs were frozen as it was aimed and as it pulled down on the trigger. There was only a split second to spare, he looked down at the girl in his arms for a moment then realised what he had to do.

He squeezed his eyes closed and threw the girl to the ground just before the bullet pierced his skin. His world faded to blackness. He didn't even feel his body slipping to the ground.


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