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Have You Someone to Protect?
When the bodies were moved from the hut and the blood and guts were cleaned up off the floor, Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha, and Miroku walked out to find the others. They were huddled by the tree that Inuyasha used to sleep so much in.
Inuyasha neared Kagome and dropped to his knees, almost in pure shock at what happened. He brushed his hand lightly against Izayoi's small head and kissed Kagome gently on the lips.
Shippou had to be a smart alec and say "You are the only couple that can kiss so peacefully after he just slaughtered a rack of jerks, you know that?"
Inuyasha glared at him and brushed Kagome's hair back. She looked up, shaken still, "I…was so scared." before she brought him into her arms, them both being careful not to squash Izayoi.
Kagome almost wept into Inuyasha's fire rat as she felt him, alive and fleshy against her. This was a blessing and she'd never take for granted anything he ever does for the ones he loves. She knew before, but it was even more terrifying to visually acknowledge that he'd give his life for her.
Miroku looked to Sango and smirked proudly. "What's that for?" she pointed to the camcorder.
He held it up and hit the play button, replaying some of the fight, "Memories my dear beauty." he smiled as she started laughing, feeling a bit more relieved that the stress fled their merry little tribe.
Sesshoumaru looked around and only saw Jakken frantically looking around and then looked to him, "Rin…"
Sesshoumaru tensed again and walked around, "Where did she go?" No one knew. She was becoming more of a magical disappearing act than ever!
He stormed past them, just in case. He passed a tree out of visions from the others and smelt her. Looking up, she was on a branch, sitting and looking out into the night, unaware he ventured to find her…and did.
He was frozen, looking at her with lust, pride and pure awe. He never knew he could feel these things. He hopped on the branch beside her and she screeched some, losing balance and falling backwards. He grabbed her by the waist and pulled her back on the branch.
"Lord Sesshoumaru, you frightened me!" she huffed and held her chest and looked at him with wide eyes.
"My apologies." He muttered and looked out into the night sky she had been viewing a few moments ago. "Rin…"
"Lord Sesshoumaru. Why would you even think to do that!" she started getting ruffled again, he knew it. Smelt it. Hell, he saw it in her eyes and inwardly cringed at her glare. "How could you die for me? Why would you even think that! How could you stoop so low? What were you thinking!"
He put his hand over her mouth and looked at her softly and she hushed a bit. "Rin, one. Do not call me Lord Sesshoumaru. Two, I did it…well I don't know why. But I wasn't thinking." her shoulders drooped and she tensed when he smirked, "I was feeling."
She took his hand away from her mouth and set it on the bark beside him and looked up at him again. "Lord-…er, Sesshoumaru, that is the scariest thing you have ever said."
She slid down the tree with ease and walked towards the river, the water shimmering and she looked back to him. "But…thank you. For everything." then she walked over to the water and he tensed, knowing it was deeper than she must have known. She stepped off the ledge and he bolted after her. She dropped into the water and popped up almost instantly and waded waist deep in the water, her hair soaked from the underwater experience she had purposely gone under for.
He halted at the shore and watched her. She seemed to shimmer with the water as well.
She looked to him and smiled, "Sesshoumaru, perhaps, you need to just let the river take over…" she relaxed and floated on her back downstream.
Sesshoumaru tensed as he recalled the rapids. 'Rin. Come back. Now."
Rin rolled her eyes, "Make me." as she challenged, the rapids gently tossed her but he knew they got worse. His eye twitched, "This is not the time to taunt."
"There is never a time for anything." she grabbed a rock and looked at him, her head resting on her hands as she held on, "If you will risk your life for me, why not have fun with me?"
He halted on his thoughts and neared her slowly on the shore and looked at the water. "I suppose…" he was a bit nervous to just "let go."
He took off his chest plate and armor. She looked at him strangely. "Why are you taking all that off?"
He looked at her as if she lost her mind, "I'd sink and wouldn't be able to just "have fun.""
She nodded as he took off his shoes, "Lord Sesshoumaru…"
He looked at her and took off his upper clothing and she blanched, "What are you looking at?" he was bewildered about her glances back and forth, blushing and she was bewildered at why he would even get that undressed unless bathing!
He smirked, "I left the swords at the hut, I don't have to worry though. I can still transform if I need to."
She swallowed hard as he lowered himself into the water and neared her slowly. She didn't see his missing arm as an imperfection, just a way to show of what he's been through. She admired it actually.
She thought to herself that he didn't need to transform, he was already big and brawny enough for her as it was…but he didn't mean it that way.
Actually, in his mind, he smiled some. He was doing this…uncontrollably but he felt the urge to. His gut told him to make her understand what he saw in her, who he was when she was near him. And tonight, he had come to the decision, she was the woman that held that place in his heart he denied to the Sirens…she was who he wanted to protect…he needed to. Because, if he didn't protect her, he wouldn't protect himself…as odd as that sounds, he understood.
Inuyasha and Kagome curled in their bed with Izayoi between them, holding each other's hands as they slept. Miroku stayed up with Sango, Kohaku and Shippou for a little while longer.
Jakken looked to them, "Do you think something is keeping them?"
Miroku smiled, "Something is brewing between them two."
Jakken scoffed, "Lord Sesshoumaru would not stoop to a human mate."
Sango rolled her eyes, "No? Perhaps you do not remember what happened just earlier tonight. He gave his life for her."
Jakken paused and began to think it over.
Kohaku smiled, "I hope they do get together. They'd make a funny couple…she appears so comforting and him so rough."
Sango laughed, "True, but opposites attract and complete each other." she looked to Inuyasha and his two main ladies in his life, "Those two over there will always be together, whether or not they were ever mated. They are bound by fate. No matter what…"
Shippou smirked, "Maybe it's the ramen."
Miroku smiled some, "I don't think so…the way to a man's heart is not by his stomach…it's his heart. But Inuyasha won't admit it…he just showed it just like Sesshoumaru."
"Let's head to bed…the others have as well." Sango indicated Kagome's grandfather and Kaede, Souta and her mother and their comrades in love. The few awake and still stirring agreed and they all crept into bed and fell into slumber.
Rin splashed water at Sesshoumaru as he neared her, trying to relieve the tension, "Lord Sesshoumaru, what are you doing?"
Sesshoumaru smirked some and stepped up to about two inches from her. She gazed up at him in the moonlight, "That Lord thing needs to stop." he lowered his head and she froze up.
"Well…" she broke his trance as he looked to her, "I'm not drowning, you don't need to give me breath, I'm sure I'm breathing fine."
Sesshoumaru nodded, "That you are, Rin. But your breathing is unregulated, your heart is pulsing wildly. I wonder why…" he knew.
She swallowed hard and looked away from his glowing orbs. "Just the joy that I have actually led you to let go a bit."
He cupped her head in his hand and looked at her, turning her head to look back up at him. "Rin, you've led me to a lot of things." his head lowered and his lips hovered over him, "You've made me feel much of what I cannot understand." he touched his lips to hers and she went tenser as he pulled her into his grasp, his arm around her as he brought her closer to him, the current strengthening from his energy waves, he refused to let go of her as he deepened the kiss.
Her arms uncontrollably reached around his neck as she stood on tip toes, pulling herself up more to him. Her fingers felt his stranded of silver hair, not graying she was sure. He had too much life in him for any such thing.
She loved him.
He loved her.
But neither knew the other did. They just knew they did.
She broke the kiss and looked up at him, "Lor…Sesshoumaru?"
He looked down at her, his eyes shining more than she ever seen. "Rin."
She looked down, "Why? Why would you toy with me like this?" he was taken aback. Toying with her! The ludicrous thought! "You can have any female in your arms and you choose one who has already died."
He let go of her and tilted her head up with his fingers and smirked, "Rin, I don't want any female. I don't want to have a girl that has not already died." she looked at him strangely, "You know how to live like you were dying, every moment. And I can't stand the thought of you in someone else's arms."
Her heart, rejuvenated by his words, "But…"
"Rin, I will not have anyone harm you." he paused and kissed her forehead as she smiled some, "I will not have anyone ever take you away unless you wish it to be."
Rin looked up quickly, "I…no. I don't want that. Ever since I was a little girl when I met you, I didn't want to leave your side."
His heart warmed up, strange as it was to feel, he felt wonderful about it. This was so unlike him! He was a demon lord, he was a fierce enemy to anyone who trifled him.
But, when he looked at Rin, he could either be your worst nightmare for harming her…or he could be a puppy and curl right up in her arms as she slept. He couldn't think of anything more comforting.
Sesshoumaru smiled, "That boy, Iyuti, he made me realize that a Lord needs a Lady…"
Rin looked away, "And I am human."
He heard the shame and hurt in her voice, "Rin…for decades I have not figured out why my father loved Inuyasha's mother." she looked up at him strangely.
"It was just love, Sesshoumaru, you can't control it." Rin pointed out.
He shook his head, "No…but I can describe it to an extent that you might understand. He was a…how did you call me, valiant demon?" she smiled some, "He would fall to no one but he died for her, after being told not to." she tensed that he knew of this and was sharing it with her. "He asked me years ago if I had someone to protect…and I said I would not be as weak as him and that I didn't have anyone to protect."
She tensed, "But…"
"Rin." he quieted her with his eyes looking into hers sincerely, "I was wrong and I understand it. When you told the children today that if you had a heart you could be stronger if they threatened whatever occupied it, I began to realize that was what happened to my father. He couldn't imagine Izayoi ever dying. He couldn't see that happen to the woman he loved and the son she bore from their love. He knew there would be many questions left unanswered but as long as they lived, he was sure they wouldn't need to be. And I know I will never be able to answer everything you ask, and I don't plan to but at least you ask and are not afraid to."
She looked at him strangely, "I do not fear you, Sesshoumaru."
He smiled and pulled her close to him again, her soaked kimino against him. He closed his eyes and inhaled her scent, "I cannot bear to lose you, Rin." knowing that only she heard his words and the trees and river surrounding them, not smelling anything else.
She wrapped her arms around his waist and pulled him a bit tighter, "I don't want to ever think of it…but I'm still human."
"And I am a demon."
She looked up to him again, "But Sesshoumaru, if anything…happened, you will look down upon our children as half demon half human."
Her words brutally hit him. He cringed inwardly but didn't show, "Kohaku covered that."
She looked at him strangely, "Kohaku? Sango and Miroku's boy?"
"Yes." he paused and smirked, his teeth seeming to glow in the moonlight. "He said that we are brothers, blood. Nothing can change it and I've come to accept Inuyasha as an equal because he gave his life for the same reason I did, in the same way, without fear showing because he felt he was doing the right thing."
She smiled, "I'm glad you don't see humans are weaker and less loyal than demons."
He shook his head, "No Rin, humans are probably more loyal than us demons, you've never strayed that. As far as physically weaker, perhaps…but emotionally, you surpass us in every way."
Rin almost laughed, "No, you just have a different way of showing it."
She began to shiver and he pulled her to the shore and lifted her up and onto the land as he jumped out of the water effortlessly and landed beside her and held out his hand, "Come Rin, you are cold, we shall rest now."
She took his hand and they grabbed his clothes and armor and found a tree to lay under as it was a bit far to walk back to the hut. Sides, they needed alone time.
The next Morning…
Sesshoumaru and Rin laid, beside each other. His arm draped over her protectively and her curled against him. They were covered in his puff. He even made a vow in his sleep…never to let harm fall upon her innocence.
Nothing had happened, just love blossomed last night. Emotionally, but they both knew more would happen. And they also knew…that if the others found out, Sesshoumaru wouldn't hear the end of it from Inuyasha.
But…on the brighter side, they found out that they were secured in each other's hearts. And that's all they ever wanted.
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