Koi Otome
(Love of a Young Lady)
Chapter 9 – A Day Full Of Surprises

Delicate amber eyes were looking at the castle in formation. It will be as huge as his own castle, Sesshoumaru thought. There will be at least twenty rooms for their guests, a huge principal chamber for Inuyasha and his mate and the smallest rooms around it will be for their future children. The workers were already building the walls of each room. Sesshoumaru began to calculate how many people that were working there. He saw at least one hundred humans with some demons supervising the construction. He had never thought that it would take so many workers for a simple castle. And the most interesting was that both species were working together.

Rin looked at Sesshoumaru watching his reaction toward the castle; she could see that he was really astonished. She smiled and looked at the castle too. Rin had participated in the design of the castle. It will be a white building with red windows and roof. All around the castle there will be and array of exotic colourful flowers each one a unique in its beauty. The majority of the flowers will come from of Sesshoumaru's garden, another thing that Rin had not said to her lord. She had personally asked for doing the garden decoration. She will be dirty but she adored gardening.

Sesshoumaru walked slowly around the castle taking in every corner and crack in the immense structure. He once again took Rin in his arm savouring her intoxicating smell. Inuyasha saw them and decided to talk with his brother he always seemed more calm with Rin around. His family followed close at his heels.

"You will have a great castle, Inuyasha. You will have to act like a lord now." Sesshoumaru said.

"Don't be silly, I will never be a lord like you are." Inuyasha responded with a mocking smile.

Sesshoumaru raised his eyebrow and smiled a little before looking at Rin once more. She smiled for him. Since she decided to bring my brother here, he will have to act like a civilise lord, Sesshoumaru thought.

"Yes, you will be one Inuyasha, you will be staying on the Western lands now and you will be a lord. If anything happen to me, you will be the heir remember." Sesshoumaru seriously said.

"The great Sesshoumaru giving a title to a poor hanyou, what a surprise!" Inuyasha said laughing.

"You should thank Rin for this brother. Without her, you are nothing remember that too." Sesshoumaru responded icily.

Inuyasha stopped laughing and replaced it with a disgruntled frown. Sesshoumaru always spoke seriously. Kagome bowed in front of Sesshoumaru and Rin with InuHayai beside her and they thanked them for giving so much honour to their family. Inuyasha only nodded in pleasure to accept his new title. After so many years he will finally be considered on his father's lands.

"Can we return to our home my pretty lady?" Sesshoumaru asked looking at Rin.

"As you wish my handsome lord." She responded gracefully .

A little cloud appeared under Sesshoumaru's feet and they began to flow into the air like a majestic eagle swaying before its hunt but something grabbed Sesshoumaru's collar. He tried to look at the thing behind him but saw nothing. Finally he heard Ring and a little girl laughing.

"It looks like we have company Rin" Sesshoumaru said with a smile.

"If only it would have been our child." Rin whispered to herself.

Sesshoumaru heard it even if she had spoken to herself. He smiled happily. Maybe after all, there will be his own heirs to rule the Western lands, even if they will be hanyou, Sesshoumaru will be more than satisfied. His child, how will they look like? Sesshoumaru was lost in his thoughts.

Rin heard Ah Un growled but when Sesshoumaru looked to them Ah Un nodded. The two head-dragons will stay with Inuyasha and his family. They will have to come back from the construction site in one day. Rin smiled, everything in her life was going right.

Inuyasha was looking at them flowing in the air with a little bit of fear. Kagome took his hand and put her head on Inuyasha's shoulder to reassure him. She knew that Inuyasha did not like to let one person of his family go away.

"He's her uncle; no harm will be done to her Inuyasha." Kagome said looking at them disappearing in the blue sky.

"I know, it's just…" Inuyasha tried to say.

"Let's help the workers; it will reassure your mind." Kagome said.

Kagome took Inuyasha hand and they walked into their future castle. They will work like the others because they are simple mortals too and they are simple people like them.

Meanwhile, Sesshoumaru and his mate arrived with InuHayai on his shoulders to the Western lord's castle. Jaken was there waiting for them he was more than happy to see them safe and back early. He approached them with curiosity in his eyes. After all, it was not every day that he could see Sesshoumaru smiling and being so joyful. Since Jaken was with Sesshoumaru, he had rarely seen him so happy. He enjoyed that his lord was happy.

"Welcome back my lord and lady." Jaken said happily.

"Hello master Jaken." Rin responded with her delightful smile.

For the first time of the day, Rin tried to get away from Sesshoumaru arms. Sesshoumaru growled a little, of displeasure. Rin immediately stopped moving and looked at her love. That was the first time she ever heard him protest against her. He had always been patient and respectful to her wishes, but for the first time, he showed his disagreement. She saw in his amber eyes that he really wanted to keep her in his arms.

InuHayai left Sesshoumaru's collar and fell to the ground with grace placing herself in front of her uncle. She looked at Sesshoumaru with her admirable puppy eyes clearing her throat to have eye contact with her uncle. Sesshoumaru finally left Rin's beautiful hazelnut eyes and looked to the puppy in front of him.

"Yes young lady?" Sesshoumaru said.

"Can you let Rin come with me?" InuHayai said.

"Where?" Rin asked.

"I've heard that you like to pick up flowers in wild field, and well… I really like flowers… please lady Rin… can we go?" Inuyasha's girl timidly asked but with a huge interest to go there.

Rin looked at Sesshoumaru and waited for his answer. She surely wanted to go there, but her lord had already protested to let her go away. Will he want her to go grab some flowers? Rin thought. Sesshoumaru finally nodded positively after a long moment of silence. InuHayai clapped her hands together to express her happiness.

Sesshoumaru asked the little pup to grab his neck and they flew again in the sky, letting Jaken alone again.

"I would have liked to go there too." The green toad sadly said, viewing them disappear into the sky.

They finally arrived to the nearest wild field. Sesshoumaru got down to the ground and InuHayai quickly jumped on the earth and was already lost in the flowers. A chance that the flowers were not at their full height or Sesshoumaru will have lost the young dog demon. Inuyasha will have certainly been really angry after him but it had not appeared.

Rin looked at Sesshoumaru and she met his lovely eyes.

"Can I go running with her in the field? It has been a long time already." Rin said gently to her love caressing Sesshoumaru's cheek.

"You may go." Sesshoumaru said before kissing her forehead in approbation.

He carefully deposed Rin's feet on the ground and watched her run to Inuyasha's child.

"Like old time." He murmured to himself.

The words disappeared in the wind. Another beautiful day Sesshoumaru thought looking at the two girls in front of him. Rin was acting like the loveliest mother in the world. She showed every flower that she knew and said their names to the child, like Sesshoumaru already had done with her. She remembered everything Sesshoumaru had said, after all, she had admired him since she had met him many years ago.

Suddenly, the wind changed direction and Sesshoumaru lost his smile and all his senses were alert. He smelled nothing, maybe the wind was on the enemy's side. He looked everywhere and he could not see anything. He put one of his hands on Tokijin. He would prepare for battle just in case.

Sesshoumaru will protect with his life the two creatures near him and the enemy that stand on his way will die in pain if something happens to his love. InuHayai stopped to hold the small bouquet of flowers in her hands. They softly fell to the ground and Rin looked instantly to InuHayai and saw that the little girl was alerted by something.

Instinctually, Rin looked at Sesshoumaru who was looking for something.

"My lord? What is it?" Rin said to Sesshoumaru.

"Do not move Rin." Sesshoumaru ordered but it was already too late.

"No!" Sesshoumaru shouted.

Rin had move to reach him but something hit her in her left just under the ribs. She instantly stopped moving and stopped to breathe when she felt cold metal pierce her flesh. She finally fell to the ground when another arrow hit entering her left thigh.

Blood, Rin's blood that was the only thing that Sesshoumaru was able to smell he tried to sense their enemy but was to distracted by his mate's blood his instinct to protect her while searching for their enemy. He ran to her so rapidly that InuHayai was surprise to see him next to her so fast.

"Rin are you okay?" Sesshoumaru asked to her.

"Do not care for me, find the enemy." She said softly to his love.

"But Rin, I can't…"

"THERE!" InuHayai yelled.

Sesshoumaru looked at what InuHayai she was pointing he saw many demons in the branches of the trees that were in the border of the field. He looked more carefully he saw that they were Naraku's old demon servitors. What are they doing here, are they not suppose to be dead with Naraku, Sesshoumaru asked to himself.

He unsheathed Tensaiga and gave it to InuHayai. The little girl took it in her hands with admiration. She was receiving the fabulous sword of Life.

"It will protect you and Rin." Sesshoumaru said before rising to his feet to fight their enemy.

"Yes uncle." The young girl responded.

Sesshoumaru unsheathed Tokijin and was already advancing on his opponents he would not show any mercy for them. They will be killed all of them, for they have hit his wonderful love, so they do not deserve to life on these lands. He swung his demonic sword beginning to slaughter the demons along with the poor trees that were hiding them.

His eyes had turned red and his youkai only claimed for revenge. In a short time he had almost killed them all. He finally pinned the only demon remaining on the ground and kept him alive much longer than the others to interrogate him.

"Who sent you? Answer now pitiful demon and your pain will end sooner." Sesshoumaru said angrily.

The medium demon laughed in Sesshoumaru's face and it only made him angrier. He put his claws in the neck of his opponent and was going to crush his neck when he heard him speak.

"Onijuujitsushita is awakening now; he will not be so easily defeated this time. Your injured woman is a proof…" The demon said before Sesshoumaru quelled him.

Sesshoumaru stood up from the bloody scene and smelled the air.

"So Onigumo and Naraku are alive… never peaceful..." Sesshoumaru said having a flash back.

-Flashback-

Sesshoumaru was looking at Hatsuyuki with a black rose in her hands, suddenly the black rose turn red and every petal fell to the ground.

"You will fight in a battle to regain your love, but you will die on the battlefield. Your fate is not to be happy Sesshoumaru but to fight all the time in your life to protect others." Hatsuyuki said before dropping the stem.

Sesshoumaru had looked at her with an indifferent look like he always did and left her.

"Remember this Sesshoumaru, love fully your lover. That's the only joy permitted in your life." She added but Sesshoumaru was already far from her, but he had heard her.

-End of the flashback-

He looked at Rin from where he was and tears came to his eyes. Hatsuyuki had known everything since they had met. The wind had disappeared and it was already the sunset.