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Weird things happened with such regularity over the next month that if a ice breathing slut raced into class bare assed naked, no one would have batted an eyelash. Sesshomaru and Rin spent more time together, Rin eating dinner at the Taisho house almost every night, and her and Sesshomaru spending most of their time at school together.

His presence helped Rin to control her temper when the weird happenings got to public. She still didn't tell Sesshomaru why she had pissed off a god, and when he hinted, she evaded. Zeus, though, was getting mad. Nothing was shaking Rin's calm, nothing making her scared enough to come back, saying that she would leave Sesshomaru alone and pledging she wouldn't go near him or his family again.

He would have to do something drastic. Sitting in his throne on Olympus, he grinned and called Hermes, his son and personal messenger. "Hermes, my son, I need a favor."

Hermes looked narrowly at Zeus. He had a feeling this 'favor' had something to do with the powerful daughter of Hyperion. Her defying him had had Zeus sulking for weeks. Personally, Hermes liked Rin. She was nice and knew how to wield her power with control. She also knew how to have a good time, mischief included.

Looking at his father, he knew he was going to have to take something of hers. Zeus knew better than to send Hermes to kill Rin. Hermes had long ago sworn off killing anyone or thing, monster or mortal.

"You know of the Taisho family, don't you my boy?" Warily he nodded. That had been the bane of Zeus' mood, Rin befriending the most powerful being besides her, who happened to be the eldest son of the Taisho family.

"I need you to take the oldest son, Sesshomaru, and bring him here. Put him in Artemis' gold cage of binding." Hermes bowed and flew away. He knew it, he thought in disgust. He knew it was going to be something distasteful.

He would do it, he had no choice, but there was someone who needed to know about this before he went to earth.


Sesshomaru was missing from school the next day. If it had been anyone else, Rin would have passed it by for the flu that was going around. But this was Sesshomaru and he didn't get sick.

She went through the day, with no sign of him, before she gave into the inevitable. After seventh period, she waited in front of the school as she usually did for Sesshomaru, except there was another demon she needed to talk to.

Inuyasha and his posse, as she thought of it, walked out after most everyone had left. Kagome Hiragashi, Sango Taijin, Miroku Monk, Shippo Kitsue, and Inuyasha Taisho. She personally liked Sango the best out of them all, since the girl knew when to talk and to be quiet, and knew how to handle herself in any situation.

"Inuyasha," she said, shedding her shadow spell. Everyone jumped but Shippo and Inuyasha, who had scented her, and looked at her warily. "Rin. You deigned to talk to me…why?"

His posse was looking at Inuyasha like he was crazy. It was well known in the school that Rin helped Sesshomaru with his studies and was his friend, though no one could ever find her.

She rolled her eyes, "Where's Sesshomaru?" A look came across Inuyasha's face, "I thought you would know. He didn't return after taking you home last night so I thought he was at your place."

Rin's eyes narrowed. She didn't like this, not one bit. "Did he mention going anywhere else? The forest, the beach, a random drive?" Inuyasha shook his head, "nope. You don't know where he is? Damn, father is not going to be happy. Not one bit."

An ugly suspicion wormed its way into Rin's head. He wouldn't dare. Zeus could be stupid, but not that stupid. He wouldn't dare provoking her into that kind of rage. Unless he was aiming for a show of power in order to scare her.

Unbeknownst to her, her eyes started go a little red. "Inuyasha, tell your father I'm going to retrieve him." She started to leave when he called out, "you know where he is?" She didn't answer.

He had better not be where she thought he was, for so help me Hades if he was, she was going to bring Olympus, and every god who resided there, down around her ears.


"You've had some pretty stupid schemes before, Zeus, but this one tops them all in the stupidity category." Zeus sat on his throne, feeling smug. Sesshomaru Tenseiga sat in a golden cage a little ways to his right in front of him. Hermes has successfully captured him and imprisoned him in the cage.

Unfortunately he had told that damn uncle of his, Hyperion, who was now leaning against one of the pillars, scolding him, "she will bow to me or else she will be destroyed. I refused to have the two most powerful beings on earth friends."

Sesshomaru sat in the cage and decided he had finally caught the reason he had been dognapped. The celestial being Rin must have pissed off was obviously Zeus, by befriending him. Rin was obviously more powerful than he had guessed, if Zeus saw them being friends as a threat. He wasn't sure where Hyperion fit into this, but he wasn't stupid enough to say something.

"Let him go now, Zeus, and you'll get off easy. If you make her come up here, all hell's going to break loose." Zeus growled, "no, this will show her that I am infinitely more powerful than her and she will bow to my wishes."

"I don't think so Zeus, all your going to do is make her ma-" he was cut off as a shock wave ripped through the temple, followed by the crash of pillars falling. Hyperion shook his head and went to the side of the cage, "too late." He muttered.

Zeus frowned and jolted when the temple doors were blown off their hinges and disintegrated to nothing. Sesshomaru looked in awe at who came in. It was Rin, but not the Rin he knew.

This Rin wore a black haori with silver on the ends, decorated with purple sakura blooms, marking her as royalty. Two black strips on either side of her face, a purple crescent moon with a silver pentagram on her forehead. A naginata lay across her back. What made her scary, though, were the shadows that flittered around her like bugs. Her eyes were blood red and it was clear she was pissed.

She walked slowly, silently, across the temple stones, her back straight, and her aura black. "You have gone to far Zeus. Let him go before I give you to Hades as an early anniversary gift." Zeus stood, "no. Release him as being your friend and he may go. I want that signed in blood."

If possible, her eyes went redder, "I told you last time NO! He is my friend and I refuse to give him up just because you are insecure. Let him go before I start doing damage." Lightning came to Zeus' hand and he went into a dueling position before Rin, "its time to do what I should have done when you were born you insolent, god-born whelp." Her eyes narrowed and she drew her double bladed naginata. "Just as well, since I should have done this the first time you protested me living with my powers."

They then dueled. Rin's swords were magnificent, staffed in scarred ebony; twin blades of gods know what at the ends that flared with star power. Sesshomaru looked to Hyperion, who was watching the battle with resignation, 'you're her father aren't you?"

Hyperion nodded, "I knew this battle was coming but I had hoped Zeus would learn some sense before then." It seemed Rin and Zeus were equally matched, dueling with precision and speed. But Zeus seemed to be gaining the advantage, pressing Rin back. Sesshomaru heard Hyperion curse, and then laid a hand on his shoulder.

Sesshomaru looked at him quizzically, "if she's doing what I think she's doing, you'll be grateful for this." At that moment it seemed as if the very air around them shivered, then they were in utter darkness. It took Sesshomaru's eyes a moment to adjust before he saw he was in space, with a million stars glinting in the distance.

He now understood Hyperion's hand was to make sure he could still breathe. Zeus looked taken aback for a moment and Rin took advantage. The duel went on for gods know how long before something weird happened.

It seemed that the very darkness gathered around Rin, cloaking her in it. She twirled her naginata and Zeus turned immobile. It was almost as if he were surrounded by space and stars. "This has gone on long enough." Sesshomaru stared at Rin. Her voice was deeper, a steady alto that seemed to echo.

"She isn't god-born for nothing you know." Sesshomaru looked at Hyperion, then back at Rin. "Now release him or I'm going to pin you to the core of the farthest star I can manage for the next hundred thousand yeas. And believe me, my reach is far."

Zeus was trying to struggle out of his bonds, with no avail. Rin tapped a foot on nothing, "my patience is wearing thin, Zeus. You do not want me to release him, since the backlash of your power will render you weak as a kitten for a few years, along with a new residential home in a forgotten galaxy." Zeus struggled for another moment, then gave up.

Sesshomaru heard a clink, then his cage evaporated. Hyperion supported him in the weightlessness as he stood. Then he guided him away, "where are we going?" "To my temple. Its best we are not here for this. Rin will come when she is gone." They disappeared.

Rin made sure they were gone before she turned to look at Zeus. She walked forward slowly, each step menacing and silent, yet echoing to the far distant galaxies. She drew up right in front of him; to the point it made Zeus sweat.

"Listen here and listen good. I don't give a damn what you do to me, how much you try to hurt me, or try to screw with me, but so help me Hades if you mess with Sesshomaru again, in any way shape or form, I will hunt you to the ends of the universe and kill you. I don't give a damn that you're a god and supposedly immortal.

Everything must die and if I have to, I will find a way to make that happen to you. But lets insure the balance of the universe with a pretty oath. I want you to swear on the River Styx that you will not, in any way shape or form, touch or hurt, or order to hurt, Sesshomaru or any of his loved ones again, for the rest of eternity."

Zeus glared at her, refusing to speak. Rin's eyes narrowed and she slowly clenched her hand. The stars and space contracted on Zeus, causing him to squint in pain, "my patience is gone, Zeus. Swear, or your going to the farthest star in the universe."

He saw no way out of it. "Only if you swear to never try to take my throne." Rin gave a fake laugh, "I could have sworn that years ago. Fine, I swear on the River Styx that I, Rin, daughter of Darina and Hyperion, will never try to take Zeus' place in Olympus. Happy? Now make the damn oath or I'm sending you far away."

He made the oath, and Rin released him. "Good, now you can't try something stupid like this again." Weary and fed up with life in general, she shadow walked to her father's temple. Sesshomaru sat in a chair; Hyperion didn't have a throne, only a comfortable temple that resembled a lived in mansion.

They sat on the patio, watching the Elysion fields, since Hyperion spent the majority of his time in Hell, playing poker with Charon and Hades, winning almost every time. He was in retirement, if you haven't noticed. Rin came forward and Hyperion kicked out a chair.

"Sit. You're worn out. Did you make him swear?" Wearily Rin flopped down, mistakenly not in the chair but at Sesshomaru's feet. Sesshomaru had seen her weariness and started to rub her shoulders. "Yea, he swore. He made me swear to never take the throne, which I don't or ever will, want, but hell, it means he leaves me alone."

She yawned and looked at the landscape, "you know, this is the prettiest sight in the Underworld, but I personally prefer the Lake of Wishes. It, at least, shows what life, and death, is really about." Hyperion shook his head, "sometimes I wonder where you got your cynical attitude at. You up to going home? Rin?"

She had fallen asleep, her head in Sesshomaru's lap. Hyperion smiled and looked at Sesshomaru. He was watching her with an unknown tenderness that any doubt Hyperion had had at Rin's love being reciprocated vanished.

He nodded to Sesshomaru, "will you carry her? She sleeps like the dead once she's out." Sesshomaru smiled and picked her up before standing up himself, "I know." Hyperion stood, "stay still and close your eyes. Envision where you want her to sleep for the night and you'll be there."

He nodded to Hyperion, "thanks. For everything." Hyperion waved it away and Sesshomaru closed his eyes. When he opened them, Rin and him were in his room at home, Hyperion nowhere to be found. He laid Rin gently on his bed and he was reminded of when he had brought her here when she had fallen asleep in his car.

He stroked a lock of hair away from her face, studying it closely. What was it about her that had made him fall in love with her? Her looks? Her knowledge? Her power? No, it was something deeper, something innately Rin. Something he couldn't name.

He lowered his head until he was a breath away. A simple kiss was all he gave. She was asleep, but that simple kiss made him burn all the hotter for her. He left her there on the bed and went to tell his family he was home, then take a cold shower. He knew now Rin was his.

All he had to do was convince her of that.

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