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AN: I know it's taken me forever to post this up, eh, no excuses though, I was just plain lazy. If it makes you feel any better this is going to be a double update. Hope you enjoy the two new chapters and as always, Review.

Little Red Riding Rin

Chapter Three

Forbidden

- Last Time –

She nestled against him and he let out an affectionate grunt and numbly stroked her hair. He hardly knew her and already his feelings for her were starting to grow, unfortunately he knew this would be a weakness.

And as Naraku watched the scene between the two…he saw the weakness too.

- Now -

Sesshoumaru was surprised at his disappointment when Rin failed to come to the forest the day after they had last spoken. The two had sat there, with his arm around her, until the sun sank into the horizon and the darkness spread through the forest. Logic would have dictated to him that she wouldn't be back, that no sane human would dare make an acquaintance of a youkai. Still, there was an all too obvious sensation of emptiness when her scent was absent from around him. So as the day progressed he made up his mind, he would go see her.

Rin had spent the most of her night being questioned by furious parents, as to why she had returned to the forest without their permission. Through sheer force of will she had convinced her parents that she had lost something there and was only trying to find it. Too tired to question, they didn't even bother to ask what exactly she had lost. A part of her felt guilty for lying to her parents, but she knew that a friendship with a youkai would not be taken all that well by her small, human, village.

All the children were in bustling preparation for the birthday celebrations. They followed the traditional custom of celebrating all their birthdates on the first day of the New Year, and that would be in little more then two days. Flowers were being brought in by the children who picked them at the edge of the forest, and older women were making sweets and preparing supplies for tea. Rin was noticeably missing from the physical preparations, though she had spent quite some time the hut of an elderly woman known for her vocal skills.

Skipping out to the spring that lay a mile west of her village she was surprised as Sesshoumaru landed quickly in front of her.

"Sesshoumaru-Sama!"

She surprised him and herself by throwing her arms around him and then pulling back, her face a little redder then before.

"…Umm…Hello…Rin"

"I was just getting some water for Kagura-baba. She's helping me practice for the Birthday Festival; I'm going to be singing at the end. It's going to be so much fun, maybe you should come…"

Both seemed suddenly wounded by the realization that he couldn't attend. Finally it was painfully obvious, their friendship…was forbidden.