Three months later+
There was warmth on her cold pallet, the chill of the autumn temperature fading from her petite body. Sesshoumaru-sama said that they would be moving back to the castle soon. Because it was getting so cold, and because…
He was changed now…
She rolled over finding her pallet too small, she felt cramped that heat burning into her body. Rin had stopped Jaken from using that aphrodisiac just yet… When they returned to the palace then…
"Rin"
Burrowing deeper she ignored the quiet whisper, thinking that it was all part of her fanciful world between sleep and wake. Her acute hearing picking up the gentle thud of a heartbeat; the Shikon jewel had granted her more then just long life but preternatural hearing, heightened instincts and a sharp noise. Now at least she was a little more like her beloved Sesshoumaru…
Her eyes opened, she had tried to ignore him but it was too late.
"Yes?" she sat up her stare blank, looking dispassionately into cool golden colored eyes.
"I'm sending you to Kyoto"
"What!" her eyes widened
He did not answer.
"But why?" she cried fighting back the urge to cry, she wouldn't cry in front of him not after what he had told her…
"You now belong to Naraku, with that wretched jewel in your heart. You no longer belong in my care, you belong with Kagura… So that she can take care of you until the time."
"I cannot go!" she stated, planting her body firmly in her pallet. He didn't know about the condition of the bet, and frankly she didn't have the guts to tell him.
There was a soft rustle of fabric and Sesshoumaru snaked his arm around her waist pulling her close, his amber eyes glowing in the faint gibbous moon. He growled with impatience as he gazed into Rin's dark colored eyes, so deeply entranced he felt like he could fall forever…
"I know what you and Jaken are planning to feed me, my immortal darling" he crooned playing with the sash around her hips. He felt her body stiffen, Rin was so predictable, all humans were whether immortal or not…
"We plan nothing" she replied defiantly hating the fact that he was drawing closer to her and she was enjoying it. Rin loved the way he smelled, and the intense color of his long lashed eyes.
With such rosy colored lips…
Instead of turning swirly eyed, she felt her walls crumbling just by his simple presence. The gentle touch of Sesshoumaru-sama's clawed hand, resting on the small of her back…
"You are lying to me"
Rin was silent as he continued to lean in closer.
"Why do I harbor such an attraction for you?" he asked again his lips brushing her ear.
"It is merely lust and nothing more" Rin snapped, Sesshoumaru chuckled.
"Ah you could be right" his lips brushed her neck; at once Rin knew that he was playing with her mind. Testing her after the bitter words spoken, he wanted her to reveal Jaken's plan.
Or maybe the conditions of the bet…
He wasn't going to drag it out of her…
Sesshoumaru was trying to be gentle with her, since they had been apart for three months now. Rin had gone off every morning before dawn to spend time in the countryside, he had followed her only a few times. Her actions were anguished and she cried a great deal, lately she had gone to the edge of Haru lake, gazing into the water. As if to jump…
But that wouldn't kill her, even though she couldn't swim…
He had caused her great sorrow, but she had made him so very angry…
Sesshoumaru wondered now what he should do, even as he teased her. Feeling her icy exterior melt. Rin was no longer mortal… But he wondered now if he could love her as he did for so many years.
He too was distraught over her choice to take the Shikon jewel and remain by his side. Someone long ago had claimed to love him like this… and now he questioned if he could open his heart up again.
Slowly he kissed her tears way, tasting salt water.
"All the fuss just for salt water" he muttered before kissing her lips. It was a deep kiss, a slow deliberate one. That denied Rin the pleasure he had been holding back for so long, he would only steal her innocence on their wedding night…
Sesshoumaru felt hasty fingers clawing at the fabric of his clothes, begging for them to open to her touch. He deepened the kiss, the taste of Rin filling his mouth feeling those little fingers weaken and slip away.
Rin was now weak, he supported her light weight with his one arm. She dared not kiss him back when their lips parted, she just gazed up at him, her lashes wet with tears. Lips swollen her breathing heavy,
"Let me sleep Sesshoumaru" she whined
He grinned "Why? You seem to be enjoying this"
Inwardly he laughed when he saw Rin's eyes suddenly spark with anger, she opened her mouth to speak and nothing came out…
Rin realized that she had been groping Sesshoumaru's firm behind and removed her hand as if it was on fire. Wriggling from his grasp, she went to the edge of her pallet. Sesshoumaru lay down across it, grinning evilly.
At once she realized what he had done
"You neko youkai! Do not lay on my pallet I won't have any place to sleep!" she wailed from her pathetic corner. Sesshoumaru just sighed and closed his eyes.
Sesshoumaru wanted to laugh, calling him a cat demon was new. She crawled up to him and beat his chest with her fists.
"You are the most intolerable, insufferable demon I have ever met! You are more irritating then Inuyasha, at least he knows that he loves Kagome!"
Sesshoumaru laughed "That's not going to move me dear" he settled further into the rabbit fur and closed his eyes.
Rin sighed and rested her head on his chest "I dislike you intensely sometimes Sesshoumaru-sama" she cried.
"I know that" he replied patting her head, running his fingers through her hair. A moment later she was fast asleep and with a sniff he too drifted off into dreams…