Sesshomaru was right outside his castle. He stepped inside and his first sight was Winda. Winda turned to him and smiled slightly. He just stood there emotionless with prefect prosper. Soon Winda got tried of the silence so she spoke. She cleared her throat. "So M'Lord um… how was you're trip to the Eastern Lands?" He just looked at her with a cold expression on his face and said nothing. She sighed. "I assume it didn't go very well." She said as she turn and was about to walk away.

"Where's Rin." He asked her emotionless.

"Why won't you go and look for her yourself instead of us having to go through this everyday." She said as she turned around to see Sesshomaru right in front of Winda. She looked right into his golden eyes.

"Winda." He said. She sighed and looked away from him.

"She's in her bath chamber." She said as she walked away from him into another room. He stared at her until she was out of sight then he walked upstairs to find Rin.

All the other servants and maids know that Winda mouths off to Sesshomaru A LOT but the strange thing is, is that he doesn't do anything about it. No one knows how Winda ended up a maid of Sesshomaru's because everyone knows how strong she is. But then again everyone knows how strong Sesshomaru is too. And whenever Rin wants to know how Winda got here she'd always change the subject. Winda knew that Sesshomaru more then likely had feelings for Rin. She sighed at the thought.

Rin was in the hot springs still thinking about what Jaken had said to her earlier. A tear escaped her eye. She looked down at her hands and feet and her whole body "What is wrong with me? Why am I such a pest to him?" she asked herself searching for any faults on her body but then she saw her refection in the water she was bathing in. She looked at her face. She stared at it. "It's because I'm human." She said as she let two more tears fall down her face. "I'm merely dirt to him…" she said looking at her face. The longer she looked at her face, the angrier she got. She started hating and cursing herself for being human. "Why couldn't I be born a demon?" She said as she splashed the water so her refection was no longer there. "Lord Sesshomaru will never even consider me as a bride nor even a friend." She said as two more tears fell don't her face and into her bath water. Just then she heard the door open. "Winda?" she assumed. The figure did not say anything. "Winda you don't have to be quiet we're both girls but may I ask you a favor? Will you please scrub my back?" she asked polity. The figure in the fog still didn't say anything but slowly walked towards her but she still couldn't see it but she thought it was Winda. She handed the figure in the fog a cloth to wash her back with. The figure in the fog slowly started scrub her back up and down but it was so gentle more gentle then usual. "Wow Winda, that feels pretty good, usually you're kinda rough." Rin said in delight. The figure touch her bare back rubbing its hands up and down her spine. Rin smiled at the soft touch wishing it were of Sesshomaru's hands instead of hers. She slowly felt the slowed touch leaving and then she heard the figure walk out of the room and shut the door. She sighed wondering if her Lord was back from the Eastern Lands so she could give him the flowers she had picked for him.

Sesshomaru had just left shut the door. Why do I carry feelings for… a mortal? I must be talking to the ignorant half-breed too much. Sesshomaru thought to himself in disgust. But… her skin was so soft… like silk. He quickly caught him and pushed the thought aside. He walked along the halls. When he found his most annoying servant Jaken.

"My Lord!" Jaken cried out. He said as he ran towards Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru just looked down at him coldly but with no emotionless on his face. "That maid of yours that… wrench of a wolf… is a disgrace!" Jaken yelled. Sesshomaru gave him a cold, hard glare that looked like he was going to kill him for saying that. "It's true M'Lord! She stepped on me and she said that she didn't care if I told you!" Jaken said. Sesshomaru wasn't even going to put up with this. "And she…"

"Jaken." Sesshomaru said in a cold voice.

"Y…Yes M'Lord?" Jaken stampeded

"Stay silent." Sesshomaru commanded sharply. "I don't feel like hearing your mouth for the rest of the day." He said as he walked passed the terrified Jaken.

Winda was walking in the garden behind the castle, just thinking when suddenly a dark figure caught her eye.

"Winda, I pity you. After all that Sesshomaru did to you, you're still by his side as a maid." She heard a deep solid voice say to her.

"Kumara. What on earth do you want now?" Winda said turning to the figure, the figure slowly stepped out of the darkness and exposed himself. He had jet-black hair down to his waist, dark gray he was about 6'0; he was also a wolf demon and he was very attractive.

"Winda, its been so long, but I've never forgotten your beauty." He said as he looked into her eyes.

"Kumara, must I repeat myself? What do you want? You know very good and well you're not suppose to be here." She told him bitterly.

"I'm here to see you, of course. Its been so long, and you don't look a day older." He said to her with a smirk. She ignored his compliment. He sighed and then spoke again. "I want you to stop living like this." He said as he walked closer to her. "You don't owe him shit, if anything he would owe you for all the suffering you went through." He said. She swallowed hard not wanting to remember it, she didn't want to remember the pain that she had gone through.

"I don't want to talk about it," she said, as she was about to walk away. He then grabbed her hand.

"Come with me, and you'll find happiness." He said as gently pulled her body toward him. "You won't be hurt anymore, I promise." He whispered. Winda hesitated but struggled to get out of his grasp.

"That was such a long time ago…"

"What he did was still wrong and you know it more then I do." He interrupted. She paused for a second, thinking about the whole event. "You should be hating him, not being his maid."

"But I do hate him…"

"Why are you still by his side then." He asked.

"Because, I choose to. Rin. She needs me I am like a sister to her, that is truly the reason why I'm here, nothing more then that, and I'm not leaving this place, at least not until Rin does." She said as she got out of his gasp. He frowned in disappointment.

"You mean that human girl? Winda, you've grown much too soft."

"Well maybe I have and maybe I haven't be either way I'm not leaving her here alone." "Winda, I'll get you out of this place. I'll be back, very soon." He said as he disappeared into the shadows. She sighed knowing that his words were right; he was going to be back.