Okays! This one is romantic! I wrote it because I was bored so... it'll probably suck. Heh... Just read and review please!

Title: And She Knew


Rin was crying. The smell of her tears wrapped about his senses, the growing need to comfort her clawing at his insides. But he would not comfort her, because that was simply not a Sesshoumaru-thing to do. instead he waited, impatient to find the reason for her tears, and flexed his claws at his sides. Where was that toad when you needed him?

He waited.

She wept.

The wind swept gray clouds across the sky, and battered the trees. Finally, when he could bear it no longer, "Rin."

"H-hai, S-Sesshoumaru-sama?" Her voice was meek. Her body shook.

"Tell me what is wrong."

No answer.

The daiyoukai grew impatient.

And then, she lifted her head and wiped her eyes. "Do you think I am weak?" Her voice wavered, a whisper on the wind.

Sesshoumaru blinked. Not a quick blink, but slow. The kind of blink that said, 'what kind of stupid question is that?' Rin was not weak.

But she was human.

Did that matter?

Yes.

Why?

Because that is what she is.

Sesshoumaru frowned.

But Rin is different.

Yes.

She is not greedy, or foul.

True.

She did not cower in fear of him, as she ought to.

Was Rin weak? "No."

She smiled, but it did not reach her eyes. "I am sorry Sesshoumaru-sama."

And he failed to contain the simple, "Why." Not a question, a command.

"I am your weakness."

Rin was his weakness.

His only weakness.

She is weakness.

Rin tilted her head upwards, and looked at him.She searched his eyes. The dual burnished suns that carried none of the warmth from that heavenly body. But they softened when they saw her, and she knew it. And it frightened her. Sesshoumaru was youkai.

He had revived her, retrieved her soul from hell. He watched over her, and seemed always so distant and so ethereal sometimes it hurt to look upon him. And her unquestionable adoration and worship had slowly morphed into somethingdifferent. Something so much... more.

And she knew she loved him.

Sesshoumaru stared at her, lost in himself. "You are my weakness." He confirmed.

And nothing he had said ever made her hurt so much...

Rin turned away, fighting theneed to run. To escape his gaze.

"And I would do anything for you."

The winds carried his voice to her.

And she knew.