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A/N: So here is the seventh chapter. For ya' ll out there, this story is up for some more turns...that will give ya heart attacks and feel like strangling me and 'kissing' me at the same time...winks!
Chapter seven
Sesshoumaru could not bear the searing pain that was growing within him, in his chest. It was as if it would burst anytime. He howled his agony, his loss into the night. Beside him Inuyasha, Kouga, Ayame and Shippou voiced their feelings. The whole area was filled with howls that could tear apart anybody's heart if they felt the heavyhearted tone in it.
Rin's 'body' lay limp on Sesshoumaru's lap, her eyes showing pain and trained fast on Sesshoumaru. Her right hand was lying on her belly. Her left went around Sesshoumaru's waist clutching it. She was gone. She had taken the baby with her. Away from Sesshoumaru and the others. Leaving them alone to drown in their sadness. Especially Sesshoumaru.
It was maddening. All the blood was pouring into Sesshoumaru's brain and it was weakening his control over himself. He was reacting violently to this loss. He had lost his father, his mother and his 'sanctity', but nothing had an effect like this. He hadmaintained his cold, unemotional stature to those losses. This was totally different. Just like the way he felt when he saw Rin for the first time. Something in him had stirred. It was different. Every time sensing her, when he was those rich class 'sluts', had 'rocked' him. Being around her was different. Living with her presence the past one-month had been different. Then the sudden urge to make to love to her was different. The way he floated when he was within her was different. He had felt as if he had finally reached where he wanted to. He felt like returning home. To her. She had become his home. He had become complete with her. And the way his pup soothed him was different. She had showed him a different world. She had become his world. Unknowing, without his knowledge, without his permission, without a warning. She was just there suddenly. And she was gone suddenly. She had given so much to him all of a sudden. She took away everything before he could wink. His sanity, his control, his heir, his mate...his world. She had rocked his world with her entry and now she turned it upside down by leaving.
A flash of Rin's smiling face with the kindergarten kids went through his mind. He jerked making Rin fall on the floor.
"Sesshoumaru-sama..."Miroku managed noticing this. Kagome was too shocked to acknowledge anything.
'Pain...hurt...mate...pup...DEAD...' was all Sesshoumaru's demon could think. His claws grew and he curled his fingers hardly making blood ooze.
He stretched back, his howling taking a dangerous tone. His claws dug his own flesh making a pool of blood around him. The pain shot through him but he felt it was nothing compared to what was inside him.
Inuyasha's howling stopped along with the others following suit. They were looking at Sesshoumaru with astonishment. Even Inutaisho had not reacted like this. This was scaring everybody. If this continued, Sesshoumaru would annihilate everything surrounding him along with himself.
Kagome came back from her trance, alarm running in her mind. Sesshoumaru had to be taken care of first.
"Kouga...!" Inuyasha signaled as he sprang from his position and held Sesshoumaru's hands. Kouga joined him trying to restrain him.
"Women, get out!" Kouga ground out.
Sango was the one to recover completely and pulled Ayame and Kagome with her. Shippou was already in his bed under the covers, shivering with fright or sadness, he did not know.
Miroku touched Sesshoumaru's writhing form by his holy staff and tried to soothe him. The combined power of all the three, a demon, a hanyou and a monk seemed to be working on the mentally strained dog demon.
'Seemed to be working'.
Suddenly Sesshoumaru's eyes opened startling everybody. It was not only blood red but it was glowing. His hair started growing alarmingly covering his chest. He was transforming into his demon form. Inuyasha and Kouga applied more energy and Miroku tried subduing spell on him. With one jerk he sent all of them flying across the room.
Kirara caught Miroku but he fell unconscious.
Sesshoumaru transformed taking the ceiling and the wall and flying outside. He growled ferociously once in the air stopping the nobles' howling abruptly. They were stricken. Both by fear and shock.
His growl again turned into howl.
Kagome rushed inside along with Sango and Ayame. She could not bear what she was witnessing.
"Oh kami...why us? Why always us...please help Sesshoumaru-sama..." Kagome muttered helplessly.
Sango at once ran to Miroku and signaled Ayame to keep an eye on Kagome. She took him inside to attend to him.
"Inuyasha...!" Ayame found Inuyasha crumbled under the bits and pieces of broken bricks.
"Huh?" Kagome turned only to find Kouga rising from broken mass transforming.
"Kouga...what?" Kagome managed and tried to grab Ayame to warn her.
She found Ayame gaping at something before her.
Inuyasha's eyes were red and his claws were growing despite tetsusaiga.
"Kami sama...what is happening?" Ayame breathed, fear gripping her.
"He toldya all to get the hell inside!"Inuyasha bellowed.
Kagome grabbed Ayame nodding and hiding for cover. She had a slight idea what was going to happen. She prayed fiercely.
Inuyasha leapt toward Sesshoumaru hitting him in the process. It threw the howling Sesshoumaru aback. Kouga backed Inuyasha (!) striking Sesshoumaru making him hit the ground. They both plummeted down to keep Sesshoumaru in place. They both fell on him locking him the process but that did not last long. Sesshoumaru threw them off him easily.
He got on all fours and looked at their fallen forms ferociously.
'Hmmm... interesting...' A veiled form thought as he watched the three demons fighting. It took off silently covering its scent in the direction its minions had taken.
Inuyasha got up crouching on all fours and looked at Kouga who was growling in his chest. They both nodded in agreement and leapt at Sesshoumaru again.
But a growl from him stopped them from hitting him and they landed on either side.
Kouga looked back at Sesshoumaru on his fours.
Sesshoumaru growled at them again.
Ayame and Kagome looked up all of a sudden when they heard the growling and barks.
"What are they speaking? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?" Kagome asked jerking Ayame. Ayame shirked off Kagome and leapt out of the room to join the dogs.
Kagome concentrated her miko powers on the four demons. Sesshoumaru still had blood red in his eyes and he was still in his all glorious dog demonic form while all the other demon pack members were crouched in front of him. Ayame was also transforming.
Kagome's eyes widened.
They were taking orders from the alpha male. It was no longer Sesshoumaru and they were no longer themselves. He was giving orders and they were to follow. They were a pack.
'Help... find... KILL...' These words flowed in Kagome's mind corresponding to Sesshoumaru's barks.
Then something from his mind that coursed into her mind made the bile to rise to her throat.
'Help me get revenge for my mate and my son...I want blood...blood...' None of thepack members would try to stop him. In fact they'd assist him in his work. She had an idea how much the canines were protective of their pack, especially their mate. Inu youkais were very aggressive in this matter. It didn't matter if the mate was a human and the demon hated his human mate. Mates were mates.
She tried stopping them putting up a barrier around them, confining them.
It was Inuyasha who broke the barrier.
"No Kagome. We have to do this. You don't understand." Inuyasha said red returning to his eyes.
Sesshoumaru howled again and Kagome closed her ears forcing more tears to fall from her already reddened eyes.
"Oh kami...please stop the blood bath from happening..."Kagome cried nobody to comfort her. They would not only annihilate the person responsible for this, but annihilate the other innocents and themselves in particular. If they were blood thirsty even the bat demons would lose before them.
It was all coming back to him. Again. With his pack agreeing, his demon started to mourn, yet again for its lost mate.
His pack too started. The nobles had already left the palace area, to ensure their life.
Again. The pain...the loss...the insanity...the voices...her smile...her scent...her touch...it was happening again.
He was going back into self-destruction mode when he stopped suddenly.
He looked to see Rin's body.
Kagome had stopped crying and she was staring at Rin's body.
Rin's naked body crumbled and turned into ashes.
The wind swept her body away.
The blood on Sesshoumaru's white coat also turned into ashes and flew along with the wind.
The all stared at the empty space.
"It was just an empty shell..." Kagome breathed, relief slowly creeping into her tensed features.
All the four demons jumped up to the room.
"What does this mean miko?" Sesshoumaru asked Kagome.
Kagome kept staring at the space, a slow smile creeping into her face.
"What does it mean, wench? Speak up!" Inuyasha cried desperately.
"Ha...ha...it means...Rin and the baby...are still alive..." Kagome managed drying her face and cupping her face.
Everybody turned to see Sesshoumaru.
He was in his humanoid form, his form relaxing.
The tensed waves from Sesshoumaru that were disturbing Kagome a lot subsided.
"Naraku...we have to get that bloody bastard." Sesshoumaru said in a monotone. It was alarmingly calm and the coldness and naked hatred in its undertone shook everybody.
Inuyasha, Kouga and Ayame grunted their response.
Rin shook terribly and opened her eyes. The world was spinning fast and she had to hold her head in order to stop it. She shook and felt the searing pain within her. Her hand went instinctively to feel her belly. It was intact. No blood. She was not harmed at all. She was unusually draped in bed covers and she pulled it closer, Sesshoumaru's musky smell calming her. The pain was subsiding. Her burrows fused. What was that feeling?
'Sesshoumaru's pain.' She thought as she noticed for the first time the cold wind slapping face. She looked up to notice her surrounding.
She was in the air and the black sky was lit with stars. She felt the 'feather' she was flying on. She looked down and realized she was dangerously high. It made her stomach churn. She clamped her mouth to avoid puking. She felt like she was missing something. Sesshoumaru. She needed him. She needed him to hold her in her arms. She wanted him so bad.
Then she felt it. She turned around to see a woman with midnight black hair and startling red eyes.
The woman scrunched her nose and looked at her totally disgusted.
She had seen her before with Sesshoumaru.
"Sesshoumaru' bitch..." The woman, Kagura, spat venomously before slapping her hard that sent Rin's head spinning all over again.
There in the palace, Sesshoumaru felt Rin's slap and his head spun.
A/N: Seriously you all did not think that Rin or the baby was dead, did you? Heehee...stay tuned for next chapters as Kaeda along with Kikyo ( Yippee...!) make their important (I really mean it when I say important) appearances. Ja!