(Edited Version)
Jaken spent the night and the whole of the next day walking towards Inuyasha's home. When night came, his steps became clumsy. He tripped over rocks and twigs, stumbling in the dark until he passed out next to a cedar tree. His mind tormented him while he slept. How could that girl be so rude to Sesshomaru-sama? Why does Sesshomaru torment me? Without Aun it would take him two days to get to that house and bring the Hanyou and then he didn't know how long to get back on foot. Some of us can't fly! He fumed. His eyes closed to slits.
Sesshomaru glared at the sun as he followed Rin from a distance. He would not allow her to face this danger alone. Who was this Bear Yokai? Where was Inuyasha? As much as he detested his younger brother, a bear demon should not have overwhelmed him. He could only conclude that the Yokai had waited for Inuyasha to not be there. Considering the damage to Rin's stomach, it was likely that the Monk and the Slayer were also absent when it happened. None of them seemed to have a clue that something more was happening to Rin than her simply leaving the village. Sesshomaru knew that Kohaku could protect Rin, he had in the past even under Naraku's spell, but why would the demon take the boy? What possible value could he have? Not that Kohaku was still a boy, he was twenty years old. And why would Rin not ask for help?
His mind flashed back to the day he caught her falling into a precipice. Her little voice had reached him from a distance, "Sesshomaru-sama, I'm scared," his heart had plummeted twice that day. He feared nothing and no one. Yet fear entered his heart when he heard Rin scream as a hand of Saimyosho attacked her, he became even more scared when he found Aun fighting a hoard of Yokai and Rin falling from a cliff. The little girl that used to faint, now feared nothing and no one, not even him.
She was headed towards a large mountain in the distance. She flew low, keeping Aun from going higher than the tree tops. Curious, he thought to himself observing her. He also kept low and to the side, his bottom half was nearly see through like a cloud. He flexed his fingers around Bakusaiga, he broke his promise not to follow her until the evening, but he didn't care.
A sensation touched his lips, it was not a real one but the memory of her lips on his, and the longing he heard in her voice. He felt his own longing, from the day he left her with Kaede. He knew it was for the best. He left her to keep her safe and he would only admit to himself that it was because Inuyasha was there to protect her. His group had proved formidable. But now, he was not sure what was happening. She told him, and others did that she grew up, that she would one day stop being the little girl that clung to his every word. She was happy to defy him, to refuse his help and take danger on her own. She had changed, whether he wanted to admit it or not. Those other people, the people he had left her with influenced her their own way. They made her strong and her strength made him weak.
"That's far enough Aun land," Rin stopped several miles from the base of the mountain. She hopped off Aun's back and pat his heads, "thank you," she kissed one head and then the other. It felt like good bye. "Remind me to give you a treat if I make it out of this alive," she feathered her fingers through their manes. The nuzzled her hand nearly knocking her down. She touched her stomach again, it worked. At least now I don't have to fight with an injured stomach. "Stay here, if I don't come back, go find Sesshomaru-sama." She started jogging towards the mountain.
"Do not tell Sesshomaru," the thing had told her that day after it mauled her stomach. Rin shook her head. She wanted to forget that day. She had never been so scared, not since the day she was running from the wolves trying to get to Sesshomaru-sama. She and Kohaku were in the forest fighting, arguing. "If it wasn't what I saw then what was it?" Kohaku yelled at Rin.
"I don't know," she rubbed her elbow. "You're being stupid, why can't we talk about it?"
"Because of what I saw you two doing!" Kohaku fumed at her. He stormed deeper into the forest.
"Kohaku wait!" She called to him, "wait, please!"
"You can't explain, like you don't know what you were doing. I thought we were together Rin! I was going to ask you to marry me!" He kept his back to her.
"You were?" Rin stopped.
Then came the pounding. The earth shook beneath them. A loud roar filled the air. "We'll finish this argument later," Kohaku drew his large sickle that Totosai made him.
Trees were knocked down as the bear battered its way through the forest. Rin's eyes expanded, she leapt out of the way of the stampeding bear. Kohaku jumped into one of the trees. She threw her knife made from snake demons at the Bear's head and missed. "Rin the neck!" Kohaku called from the tree. She grabbed her sword and slid beneath the Bear, the sword bounced of the Bear's skin. She rolled out from under its feet.
The worst happened when the bear opened its mouth, much like Rayokan, live bears came pouring out. Jeninji came running from his gardens. His eyes lit up bright blue. Rin went after the demon knowing if she ended his life, the bears would die too. "Rin look out!" Kohaku called. He threw his sickle at the Bear just when it began charging at Rin. The sickle hit the Bear in the shoulder, he yanked it out. Blood flowed down the brown shoulder, dripping onto the ground. The bear howled at Kohaku, opened its' mouth wide and blew an army of bears at Kohaku. "Rin!" He called but not in time.
The Bear came charging at Rin, claws extended, she didn't move fast enough. It sliced into her skin, cutting the skin of her stomach open. She hissed in pain, flopping on the ground. She forced herself to stand and attacked again. She leapt into the air attempting to slam her sword into the Bear's side. She missed, it was faster than it seemed. Kohaku took after the bears pouring from the main demon's mouth, while Rin tried to back the demon into the forest. She was neither strong enough or fast enough. Before she knew it, she saw what the demon had been after. He grabbed Kohaku in his mouth, and turned to Rin, "come to me on the fifth day, if you fail, if you alert your Lord, he will die. If you tell the hanyou mutt, he will die. By the blue and green mountain. Do not be late and tell no one."
"Kirara!" Kohaku yelled. She came flying, feet afire, only to be grabbed around the waist and taken.
"No!" Rin screamed, when the Bear ran through the forest back to where it had come from. Her stomach burned, she felt light headed from blood loss. "Jinenji-san, help me, you must stop the smell! Inuyasha will know if he is nearby, do something…" The world went dark, she lost consciousness.
When she woke, Jinenji-san had made the scent stopping powder and wrapped her stomach in bandages. Moving was painful. She could barely sit up. She forced herself to move anyway. She told Sango and Miroku that Kohaku went to slay a demon in a nearing village. She said he took Kohaku with her. She prayed that Inuyasha wouldn't figure out she was lying. Two days later, she left knowing she had only a few days to get to the mountain to save Kohaku.
Jaken made it as quickly as he could to the village where Kagome lived. When he arrived, everyone was huddled in Kaede's hut. They were eating dinner, the humans had multiplied. There were children that belonged to the human couple running around the hut refusing to sit. Jaken snarled at the dirty hanyou's children. He could tell they belonged to Inuyasha by the color of their hair, or the claws that protruded from their hands and feet. "The great Sesshomaru-sama has requested that Jinenji come to him."
Jinenji quivered in the back of the hut. His head brushed the straw roof.
Inuyasha picked up on his fear and muttered, "tell my ass of a brother to go demanding elsewhere."
Jaken waived his hands in the air profusely screaming, "how dare you talk about the great Sesshomaru-sama like that! Rin has been injured badly and you sit here believing the letter she sent!" Jaken's rebuke was fierce, he loved Rin deeply and the wound he had seen was bleeding badly. "Now where is Jinenji-san!"
Jinenji with his scarred arms was cowering in the back of the hut. "Is Rin-chan okay? Did the wound in her stomach re-open? Did she use the green powder on Sesshomaru-sama?" His voice quavered, he covered his hands with his face when Inuyasha's eyes widened. All eyes were now focused on Jinenji, who was trying to hide in a corner.
"I should have known better. I smelled her blood for a brief moment a few days ago, I thought it was her time," Inuyasha snarled, "oi Jinenji, you've been hiding something from us." He walked towards the giant horse-hanyou.
"I can't tell you, I can't tell. Rin-chan told me not to tell, Kohaku-san could die," he shook. He covered his eyes.
"Kohaku!?" Sango stood up, "Jinenji-san tell us what happened?"
"Please Jinenji," Kagome encouraged him, "Rin-chan needs us, what happened?"
"Rin does not need the likes of a weak human like you, when she has Sesshomaru-sama by her side," Jaken interrupted holding Nintojo and boasting with his eyes bordering on bulging out of his head.
Inuyasha grabbed Jaken by the arm and punched his head, "who needs you toad. Oi Jinenji, spill it! That powder you made last week, you used it on me and Shippo you made it for Sesshomaru?"
"What powder?" Kagome and Sango asked together. "Jinenji-san please?"
Jinenji put his hands over his eyes and began to cry. In between sobs he told the who tale, how they were all gone fighting the hoard of demons and how he was alone with Rin and Kohaku. He cried when the Bear Demon came and although he tried to fight it, he was overwhelmed by all the smaller ones nipping at his ankles. He told of how Rin begged him to make something to staunch the smell of her injured abdomen so that Inuyasha wouldn't smell it. She begged him to make something that would blight even Sesshomaru-sama. "I'm sorry Inuyasha-sama," his eyes begged forgiveness, "to know if it would work on your brother we tested it on you and made it seem like an accident, the same with Shippo and then we made the antidote and poured it into the incense while you slept, hoping you wouldn't notice."
"You knew she was leaving?" Kaede stared at him in disbelief, he had ever been an honest hanyou.
"Hai," he muttered sadly. He took the pouch from inside his shirt and gave it to Jaken, "if Rin hasn't already, this will heal Sesshomaru-sama."
Jaken at first refused it boasting, "the great Sesshomaru-sama would never fall for something so weak, his body is too strong, he has the strength of thousands of men…" his voice trailed off in disbelief as he recalled Rin's words, smell, days… His hand wrapped around it. He made his way towards the door, "you will pay with your life Inuyasha, yours and your children's for allowing such danger to befall Rin."
"Oi udasai-neh," Inuyasha snarled and defensively as he clung to Tetsusiaga, "I'll come with you."
"Yes, us too," Miroku, Sango and Kagome said together.
"You will not Kagome, you must watch the children," Inuyasha countered.
"Baka!" Kagome screamed at him, "Kaede-Sama can watch them, this is Sango's brother and Rin. And Jaken is right, Sesshomaru will be after vengeance better for him to see we helped her than to leave her to her fate."
"She is in no danger," Jaken countered, "she is with the-!"
"The great ass, we know," Inuyasha griped at Jaken, "let's get our things and go quickly."
"Without Kirara, how will we get there quickly?" Miroku asked.
"I can carry Kagome," Inuyasha said. "I can't smell Rin, her scent is already washing away but I can smell Sesshomaru, the air wreaks with his anger. Shut up," Inuyasha booted Jaken before he had chance to protest.
"We'll take horses," Sango said, "I hope Kirara is okay." They made their preparations and left within an hour to find Rin and Sesshomaru.