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AN: I've decided against the regular updates as I have found it impossible due to a recent knee surgery. Hope it doesn't bother you guys too much.

Little Red Riding Rin

Chapter Nine

Unexpected Arrivals

- Last Time –

"How could I have done this to her…the one person I've ever loved…how will I redeem myself. Before I feel the reckonings of what I've done to her come upon me?"


Smiling darkly he (Naraku ) sat up and stepped outside of his tent. Walking forward to the end of a low cliff he was able to overlook the camp of his warriors. There in front of him was a seemingly endless sea of human faces, all with glazed over eyes.

"WE ATTACK...TONIGHT!"

- Now -

It was unusual enough for the son of the Taiyoukai of the Western Lands to allow himself the "weakness" of sleep. It was even more unusual for him to have trouble doing so. Of course no one was going to bring it up even as the weary Sesshoumaru wandered the halls of his fortress in the middle of the night. However, this was not the start of the unusual events that would take place that night, it wasn't even the beginning.

"My liege, shouldn't you try and rest?"

"Quiet Jaken, I'm thinking."

"Surely if you sent for your father, the Great Lord of the…"

"Jaken?"

"Yes my liege?"

"Shut up."

"Bu-But young master Sesshoumaru!"

"Sesshoumaru…?"

Glancing up from where he had intended to strike Jaken on the head Sesshoumaru looked up to see Rin.

"Rin…Yes?"

"Can I talk to you?"

"Of course…Jaken please lea…"

Before he could complete his sentence however, another servant ran in on the three. Speaking in a half-panting voice he delivered his news.

"Young Lord Sesshoumaru…the youkai Naraku has invaded the Western Forests…he will be arriving at the walls of the fortress shortly!"

Nodding Sesshoumaru turned to Rin, and gave a slight nod.

"I'm sorry Rin; it shall have to wait until the current situation is dealt with."

Rushing off Sesshoumaru left Rin to her thoughts.

Oh Sesshoumaru…

Don't You See?

We have a situation of our own…

Sighing softly Rin pressed her hands to her abdomen, and walked back into "their room"


Truth be told Sesshoumaru was nervous, more nervous then he had ever been in his whole life. His pride however would not allow him to submit to the emotion, it would not let him call for his father's assistance, no matter how much it would really help the state of affairs. Anyway, what would he say?

"Father I require your assistance"

"In what matter is it that you need of me?"

"I broke my own rules and fell in love with a human maiden, whose parents I coincidentally murdered. Now her village is being controlled by a rogue demon and they are headed to destroy our lands but I am too chicken-shit to kill them because I am afraid it might hurt the maiden's feelings…"

Slapping a frustrated hand to his forehead Sesshoumaru continued out when he realized that the floor was trembling, ever so slightly.

"We suspect, Young Master Sesshoumaru, that Naraku plans to attack soon…We don't know whe-"

"Quiet."

Indeed. The tapestries that adorned the corridor's walls were shaking, barely noticeably. Glancing out of a nearby window Sesshoumaru peered out narrowly into the night-time fog.

"Naraku, it would seem, has made an unexpected arrival…"