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A/N: It is the third chapter. I really had to rack my brains to keep Sessh in his character. So on with the story...

Chapter three

Sun's rays touched her face and she realized she had to get up. But she also was aware of the pounding pain her body and between her legs. The events of the 'damned' night played in her mind. She attempted to get up but took her own time.

'Be calm Rin, there is nothing for you to lose. Be calm.' She reasoned with herself.

She was true. She had lost her mother and Souta, her dearest brother, to an accident when she was only eight. She went to live with her godfather who promptly sent her to the boarding school. There was no love except for her few friends and she had to grow up fast, despite her age. At the age of nineteen, she broke away from her god father and started to teach kindergarten children in an orphanage, who gladly welcomed her with open arms. True, she had nothing to lose, but...

She took a deep breath and realized that her left thumb was wet and...being sucked? She quickly turned to see what it was.

'Ouch! That hurt.'Rin said mentally.

But despite her pain, she forced a smile. It was a little kid about six years and he was sucking her thumb.

'Kawai!'She thought. But she quickly dismissed it when she realized that the kid had fur-ball tail and unusual ears. Her eyes widened and she was about to shriek.

"Rin...you are awake!" The voice boomed near the edge of the bed.

"Yes. I am."Rin looked the new face.

"I am Kagome."Kagome introduced herself to her sister and she felt guilty. Rin merely nodded.

"How come I am not ina hospital? And I am in this..."Rin said, suddenly looking around for the first time. It spun a little while before falling into place. It was...huge. Her apartment would be only one eighth of this room. She quickly saw the bed, how enormous it was and its blankets were very silky and pillows...well no headache, so soft. With the curtains and Persian carpets, she concluded she was not at a hotel but at a mansion.

Kagome was silently watching her, amazed. Any normal girl would have recoiled and started throwing tantrums, not tantrums but you do get the idea, screaming, crying. That was when it hit her, her sister's childhood. Kagome again felt guilt tearing her heart.

"You are in West palace. Well, it is a palace, you see."Kagome said, looking at the expression Rin was giving.

"You still did not answer me, Madam. Why am I here?"Rin's voice rose.

She removed herself from the bed and approached the big window. She couldn't walk properly. She glanced at the big lawn in front of the window, which seemed to stretch forever.

"Nobody would understand."Kagome replied. 'She is tough. She will get the truth.'

Rin looked at her, her face showing confusion. There was a partition in the room with huge curtains seeming to cover a potrait. Rin glanced at Kagome again and looked at her as if to say continue.

"You do remember the person you met yesterday, don't you Rin? How will you tell the cops about this 'demon'? How will you explain your ripped body? Sure, you know what happened yesterday, at the same time, you'd look as if an animal attacked you. No human can harm you that way."Kagome said carefully, chose her words so that she can make Rin understand without her going to a denial mode.

Rin was taking in Kagome's words. She was true. Nobody could have explained, hell, she would not be in a position to explain yesterday's events. Who would believe her, if she tells a full-grown man's eyes glowed red. Nobody.

"So, you'd believe?"Rin asked her. She was getting afraid and her heart began thumping against her chest, giving her a déjà vu.

"Yes. I would believe you. I think Rin, you have fallen into the world that never existed for normal people."Kagome said.

Rin felt at ease in spite of the growing fear, near this person. She seemed to have a calming effect on her.

Rin felt herself going to see the portrait. It was two men, maybe with age difference or two or less. But the younger man awed her. Her eyebrows rose vanished in her bangs. She knew him!

' "Truth or dare, Rin-chan?"Her friend asked her sweetly.

Rin rolled her eyes. "Dare...it is dare this time."Rin said.

"Oooh, giving us surprises huh? Fine." The rest of the three girls huddled together to discuss. Rin allowed her eyes to stray and it settled on a certain gentleman in a gray suit sipping coffee in the opposite restaurant. He had this 'don't-care-a-damn' attitude and was reading the newspaper. He had long flowing sliver hair, which was abnormal. He was unusually tall too. Rin raised her eyebrows; she had seen many handsome guys but never a beautiful guy. He suddenly got up to pay the bill and she was interrupted.

"Oh Rin-chan. Earth to Rin. You there?"Her friend asked.

"Yes. I am here. Tell me what I gotta do."Rin said fear gnawing a little in her stomach. She never dared, only truth. Today out of the blue, she agreed to 'dare'.

The girls pulled her and murmured something into Rin's ear. Rin's eyes bulged out and she was refusing flat to do whatever they said.

"Hmm. I knew this. Rin is a chicken." One of the girls pouted.

Rin looked nervously at the gentleman she was eyeing before. 'What the heck! I can do this.' She got up without warning and started walking behind that 'beautiful gentleman'. He was walking but was a lot faster. She had to run.

She ran up to him and said, "Excuse me, Sir." The man looked at her but chose to ignore her and kept walking. Rin rolled her eyes as she ran again and blocked his way.

"Sir, please. Listen to me, will you?" Rin almost pleaded. The man looked at her as if to say, 'go on'.

'Man with few words, eh? Oh...no words.' Rin thought.

"I have this bad habit of appreciating people. Even if I don't know them. Wait, wait. The way you sat in that coffee shop, the way you were reading the newspaper, the way you walk, is very stylish. It was very...' Rin gulped before continuing,"...sexy?" That was more a question. She looked up to him, he was almost a feet taller than her.

"Thank you for the time. Besides that, you don't have to know me, I don't have to know you."Rin said and ran back to her friends, not looking back even once.

Her friends patted her and cheered her. Rin closed her eyes and drew a deep breath. She peeked through her friends, to see that man, but he was gone. Rin straightened up to get a better view but he was gone.

And that was how they both had met. And, they kept on bumping into each other, after that.'

"What is he doing here?"Rin asked loudly.

"You know him?"Kagome asked, surprised.

"Yes. I know him."Rin said. Then, it hit her. It was him yesterday. That suit, that hair, she should have known. Her eyes grew wide on this new information. He had become the man of her fantasies after their first encounter. Who could forget those amber pools? How she had yearned to know his name, every time they crossed each other. Yearned to know him better.

But she did not expect this. This was not the way she had wanted.

"That is nice then. This could be less awkward, since you both know each other."Kagome breathed sigh of relief.

Rin looked at her, still contemplating the new situation.

"Is he here? I mean, is this his place?"Rin asked doubtfully. Of course she had seen him in expensive cars many times and in jewelery shops buying diamonds to, well, women. Different one each time. But that had not stopped her from dreaming about him. She saw those women with him and she felt like a boy compared to them. Of course, little did she know that they were all demons she saw and well, human women never satisfied him, or so he thought.

"Yes. It is his mansion."Kagome replied. She was beginning to get stressed.

"Then what in god's name is he? And this kid here?"Rin asked desperately pointing to Shippou.

"They are all demons. Yes, Rin. Demons exist and so do mikos and other mythical creatures. It is just that, we are underground. We don't want to cause chaos."Kagome said looking for reactions.

"We? You are one of them?"Rin asked, backing away.

"No. No, I am human too. It is just that I am a miko."Kagome replied, trying to close the distance between them.

" A miko. Ha. They existed what, some three hundred years ago?"Rin said justifying herself. She was simply unable to accept his information.

"Yes. I am a miko, Rin. That is why I stayed away from you, all these years. I am your sister."Kagome said in a flow, but regretted it once it escaped her mouth. Rin looked at her as if Kagome had hit her hard. She looked at Kagome and she was glowing light pink. That was because she was highly stressed and her aura was disturbed.

"My sister...?"Rin breathed. She had a vague memory of her mother conversing about a girl being given away. But she was Kagome? Yes, it was Kagome. She had not given much importance to it. But now...

"Yes, Rin. I am Higurashi Kagome. I was. I was a miko, so had to be given away. But that doesn't mean that I don't love you. Don't give me that look Rin. I have always watched over you. I have always been protecting you. But yesterday...its as if fate itself..."

Rin was thinking furiously. Yes, she had felt Kagome before. All those nights of tears, she felt somehow comforted. It was Kagome. She suddenly felt stung. She did one thing she could think of. She slapped Kagome. After all these years of lonliness, she couldn't bear Kagome had kept herself from her.

"Kagome. It is good to know that I have somebody in this world after all. But...I have to leave. I want to clean myself and then, I will go back to my life. And I will pretend that...none of this happened."Rin said sternly but she quivered when she said that last sentence. How could she forget?

Kagome felt her cheeks burn. 'Whoa! Some slap.' But she had no time to be bitter about this. Rin could never leave this place. She could never be normal. She is after all one of them. She was happy for that, that her sister came to her, but she did not deserve to come like this.

"You can not leave Rin."Kagome said and noticed that Rin had stopped in her tracks.

"Demons world it is now. You cannot just leave. You are mated to Sesshoumaru-sama now. You cannot leave even if you try,"Kagome said. It was true. Rin could not leave Sesshoumaru. She was his mate. It would be disastrous for both of them. Especially Sesshoumaru, being an inu youkai.

Suddenly they heard some commotion from the door. Kagome guessed it was coming from down the hall. She knew who it was, Sesshoumaru. The drug was still active.

"I have to leave you now. You can have your bath. I will come to you shortly."Kagome said and she walked off.

"Remember, both of you are victims here."Kagome whispered so that Rin could not hear her. But she had heard.

Rin rolled her eyes as the door shut. She convulsed and clutched her chest. It was as if she was being ripped apart. She reconsidered Kagome's words. After all the warmth she felt from her was due to the fact that Kagome was her sister. And she was a miko, Rin knew about mikos and demons; her history books were full of them. She decided to listen to her sister now, she world not wish bad for her. She went to the bathroom to clean herself.

"Gah! He's too strong!"Inuyasha cried trying to restrain his transformed brother along with Kouga and Miroku. Miroku had some ofudas on Sesshoumaru, but they were not helping.

Kagome was chanting and trying to give more powers to Miroku's ofudas. It was practically tiring everybody of them. Sesshoumaru was constantly screaming and trying to tell something amidst that ruckus.

'Go away...leave me alone...what's happening...'

Rin's eyes snapped open with the soap still on. She was hearing voices in her head. As the soap burned her eyes, she quickly washed her face. 'I have to get away from here.'

She wrapped a robe around her figure and suddenly stopped in front of the mirror. There were two bright red puncture marks. She remembered seeing them in Kagome's neck too. She almost touched them, but they seemed to be burning. Rin closed her eyes again. She had regarded her wounds while bathing. They were not meant to heal so fast. It was simply puzzling. Suddenly she was getting these voices in her head, as if somebody was talking to her. She shook her head to relieve those thoughts. She came out and eyed the room. She met a pair of big eyes watching her. It was the kitsune. She smiled, she simply had to, and she loved kids.

"Hai! I am Rin. What is your name?"Rin asked.

"Shippou. I am Shippou."He answered. As Rin smiled more, he jumped into her arms. Rin was alarmed at first, but opened her arms to embrace him.

"Hmm...you smell like Sesshoumaru-sama. You are his mate, right?"Shippou asked looking at her innocently.

Rin glanced around the room, unable to answer him. He was a kid right?

"Well, Kagome said it too. But I actually don't understand this concept."Rin whispered to herself. Shippou being a demon picked it up.

"Well, mates are like husband and wife. Although in demons, its a bit more strong, I think."Shippou said. Rin arched her eyebrows. Such a small kid.

"How old are you, Shippou-kun?"She asked.

"Well, six almost but in human years, its almost twelve."Shippou said as a matter of fact.

Rin couldn't help smiling at his innocent answers, but she was amazed by this new world. She still couldn't understand this 'mate' thing though. She knew its literal meaning and it had confused her.

"How strong?"Rin found herself asking.

"Strong as your souls. The bond between you both is of the souls. It connects you to him and him to you. It is more than love can actually bind."

Rin turned in the direction the answer had come from. It was Kagome and she was hurt. Her hair was a mess and she had few streaks of blood oozing from her exposed skin. Another woman accompanied her, it was Sango. She was equally harmed.

"And what happened to you both?"Rin asked concerned.

Kagome had left the door open. So Rin got her answer. It was a desperate cry of agony. She recognized it as Sesshoumaru's.

The second she heard it, the stabbing was back. She felt as if she was being ripped apart from the inside. She found herself walking first and running, later, with still Shippou in her arms. She did not hear her sister's cries that were telling her to do otherwise. She had to be there, it was as if the most urgent thing to do. She neared the door and found a man with a staff that jingled.

"I am afraid, my lady, you can not enter."Miroku said preventing her from going in.

The door opened to reveal a silver haired man, with doggy ears on the top of his head. For a minute, Rin thought it was Sesshoumaru and cringed. She pushed away Miroku's hand and replied, "I can."

She even passed a gaping Inuyasha and went inside. Her mouth formed an 'o'. She let Shippou on the floor.

She saw Sesshoumaru convulsing with pain and his hands were clutching his head. He was in the same plight as yesterday. She felt fear striking her, but today it was different. She saw another pair, a man with an orange haired woman and both were injured the same way. The man saw her and his eyes showed shock.

"What the hell is she doing here?" He shouted.

For a minute, all the chaos seemed to end as Sesshoumaru looked up with his red eyes to look at her.

Rin gulped. She could not tear her eyes away from him. At least he stopped his menace.

Inuyasha silenced Kouga from across the room waving at him. They were staring at the two people now.

Rin was taken aback by the expression of his eyes. It showed pain and regret. It contrasted yesterday's. She inched towards him and he impulsively started convulsing with pain again.

Rin felt the pain again.

'The bond between you both, is of the souls. It connects you to him and him to you.' Kagome's words echoed in her head.

She reached the bed and moved her hands slowly to his enormous form. It was amazing at the same time terrifying.

'Remember, both of you are victims here.'

She embraced him as if it was the right thing to do at that time. He reciprocated, but still was convulsing.

Sesshoumaru closed his eyes and inhaled her scent.

"Mine. Mate." The demon said and Rin's eyes widened in understanding. She was finally getting the concept of 'mate' in bits and pieces, but she was getting it nevertheless.

He lapped at the mark he gave her. Rin stiffened with a jerk. Slowly he made her to see his face. It turned from red to amber, back again. Rin's breath was caught in her throat. She was seeing the man of her dreams but it was a war within her. But she put it to rest. At least for the time being.

"The appreciating girl."Sesshoumaru said, with his cold stare. She thought, whether she could wipe that cold stare from his face.

But more than that, she felt warm that he knew her.

She shook her head.

"Higurashi Rin." She replied.

No change, he was still staring at her. Then it happened.

He collapsed taking her with him. She fell on the bed with him on top.

"Rin..."He said and closed his eyes. Rin blinked and felt his whole body against hers. She let out her breath, finally.

"Umm...help."Rin said meekly.

Silently, Inuyasha was swearing the person who'd harmed both Rin and Sesshoumaru.

'You will pay, bastard. Whoever you are.'

"Now why he didn't harm her?"Shippou asked scratching his head.

"Well, for one, his youki has accepted her as his mate and other, she is the mother of his child."Miroku said eyeing Inuyasha and Kouga who were pushing Sesshomaru away from Rin.

"I am what?"Rin shouted that jolted Jaken who was weeping for his master, away from the mansion, across the lawn.

A/N:So what do u think? Don't think Sessh has warmed upto her,I will keep him the same old wayand yes, Sessh isblackin' outall the time. What can I say? The drug's act it is.

Its quite a loooong chapter. Thnks for reading and reviewing. Like I said, I had already completed the three chapters. I am working on the fifth one. I have to admit, its nerve reckin' to keep fluffy-sama is his character. Just tell me if he goes OOC, Okay? R & R pls...