Rated M for a sex scene and drug use. I wanted to avoid it, but it's pretty important for the plotline! Sorry guys! (Also please forgive me, I haven't quite "done the do" so I had to just...wing it...yeah…) Also, please note that Mei is taller and skinner, but Rin is shorter and bottom heavy.
Off topic, I just realized that my previous chapters' dividers were all gone, so just bear with me now that I've changed the symbol for it to hopefully show on
Also: Here Rin speaks Portuguese again, so here's a translation. Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners at the hour of our death! Forgive me, dear mother, and give me strength! Send divine help and call upon your heavenly angels in the hour of my weakness. = Maria, mãe de Deus, rogai por nós pecadores na hora da nossa morte! Perdoe-me, querida mãe, e me dê força! Envie ajuda divina e invoque seus anjos celestiais na hora da minha fraqueza!
"Deus me salvou! Tem piedade de mim!" = God Save me, have mercy upon me!
Rin clicked on the video chat icon, completely forgoing the conversation from earlier. With watering eyes, she'd pray he'd pick up.
She squinted her eyes and noticed he had a new icon image! But, that was secondary. Right now she needed someone to talk to.
Sesshomaru inspected the incoming video call and heavily debated against picking up.
But, something nagged and told him it was important. Impulsively, he clicked accept and watched a blur of pixels finally buffered themselves to show a breathtaking woman on the screen.
And Kami, was she a beauty!
He wasn't one to comment on such trivial things, but the girl reminded him so much of Rin it reopened an ache he thought long forgotten.
"Rin?"
"Hi, Shigeto, I'm really sorry for the intrusion. Something-something happened."
Rin's end was still blurry from her poor internet connection.
Trying to maintain his composure, Shigeto feigned disinterest.
"And what may that be?"
"I..I.." Rin suddenly found herself unable to speak, and a lump formed in her throat. Instead of rambling like she'd expected she'd do, she found herself mute all over again.
Whatever it was, it wasn't good.
"You don't have to speak about it, and whatever it is."
It was the least he could do, considering the patronage she held in his heart
"Were you gravely injured?"
This time, it wasn't her asking about his well being, but the opposite. Atleast, he could repay her in some way.
Rin shook her head again, and began quickly typing in chat.
She paused, as her screen finally cleared up and touched the screen gently. Despite all of the bad things that transpired that night, she wasn't blind. Her eyeballs, luckily, hadn't been plucked out and sold on the black market.
He was handsome, even though she currently only saw his profile as he seemed engrossed by something on the opposite side of his desk. His silken dark hair all rested on one shoulder, and his dark eyes were so clear, focused and sharp. She couldn't what color they were, seeing as the green background of hangouts reflected on his face. She couldn't help but felt like she knew him, but couldn't place her finger on it. She noted the beautiful office behind him, and the engraved bookshelf overflowing with books for both personal reading and manuals. The heavy curtains on the windows were tied back with silk tie-backs and wrapped around an engraved wooden hooks that seemed like dogs with yellow citrine eyes. The rods seemed specialty made too as well, mimicking the dogs on the hooks. A silk waterfall valance hung above the curtains, seeming to be the same color as the silk.
Torn from her reverie when he looked directly at her, Rin continued typing furiously. She relayed each and every detail of what happened. Starting from Tadano's initial mistreatment and sudden disappearances, to the reason as to why she hadn't moved apartments.
She then described the evening, and the entirety of the of the abuses she'd endured.
While reading her messages, Sesshomaru researched 'Tadano, Mei' on his phone. He quickly found her page, and saw that the elder girl truly had the disposition of a w...he'd prefer not to continue that train of thought. He scrolled further and found her most recent previous lover's profile, and searched that as well.
The girl he'd been having an affair with held a slight resemblance to Rin.
That's why she'd gone out of her way to terrorize her.
Sesshomaru's fingers clenched into his hand until it drew blood, and fought the urge to transform then and there.
While Rin continued typing, he searched flight availability and was upset to see that most current one was four days away due to the pending snow storm bound to hit New York.
It took everything not to throw caution to the wind and simply fly there.
"What is your account information?"
Rin's face contorted in confusion, and she responded with "?"
"I need your account information to wire some money, the earliest flight available is four days out. You need to stay at an inn, or hotel until then."
Rin typed again, "Shigeto, I wasn't asking for your money!"
"You asked my help, but help requires resources. Does it not?"
Rin sighed, and reluctantly gave her account information.
She was desperate; and just prayed he wasn't a scam artist or something.
Doubts are kicking in now! I don't know him! Who exactly is he! What if, I end up in worse of a situation than with Tadano? Maybe I should listen to my gut this time...
Rin googled Shigeto Taishou and was shocked to find many tech articles praising his work, showing off his office. Several interviews with both him and his employees. There were some reviews about him being rude and arrogant, but they also stated that despite his demeanor he knew his job well. One of the articles, went in depth into his car collection.
Why didn't I do this earlier?
Rin felt slightly better at the revelation, but horrified that she'd just barely spoken to him three days ago and was suddenly getting ready to hitch a flight and take his money!
I'm no better than Mei, Rin thought acridly.
"I am so sorry" Rin stated hoarsely.
"Silence!" He retorted back brassily. Well, at least the reviews were true. He was scathing.
"Look, I do not mean to be rude. But none of this was your fault." Shigeto softened the blow somewhat.
In the V.I.P room Mei swirled her tongue around Takashi's flaccid member. She looked up into his eyes, and swallowed him wholly. When she had elicited a groan from his throat, she grinned, obviously pleased with her capabilities. She continued to bob her head against him, hoping to garner more of a response from him. Unfortunately, he wasn't as vocal as he usually was, and instead opted to remain silent. Feeling as though she had done enough, Mei released Takashi from her oral imprisonment with a resounding 'pop.'
She grabbed his member with intention to take it a step further, but gasped in disappointment upon seeing how flaccid he remained in her grip.
"Takashi?" she asked, genuinely taken-aback by his demeanor.
"Takashi, this is so unlike you? What's wrong my love?"
He remained silent, motionless, instead tuning her out with gently closed eyes.
After sliding off her thong, she placed her legs on either side of his hips on the low modern white couch. Smirking this time with hooded lids, firm in her belief that her idea would rile him up, she dangled the black g-string across his face before pushing the said fabric into his mouth. She nibbled on his ear before whispering some erotic fantasies. She unbuttoned his shirt slowly, while stroking him between her legs with drying saliva and precum.
Instead of being met with usual excitement, she was met with indifference.
After some time, he became semi-aroused, and she lowered herself onto him while kissing his cheek. Takashi spat out the thong and pushed Mei off of him. She fell sideways onto the couch, before sliding onto the ground. Takashi stood and tucked his wilted member back into his pants before dusting himself off. Mei sprang up from the marbled floor and threw his drink in his face.
"What the fuck is wrong with you!"
Takashi pinched his nose bridge, forcibly calming himself from overreacting to Mei's rage.
Still half naked with her dress rolled up her stomach, she pushed Takashi so hard he fell back onto the couch. Standing over him, Mei screamed a string of profanities at the top of her lungs.
"You fucker! So what, you've got another bitch to fuck now? What can she do that I can't?"
"Back the fuck up, Mei. I didn't do anything! The first thing you think is 'cause I can't get hard it's some other woman. Who the fuck are you anyways? You're not my woman, you're sure as hell not exclusive, and you don't have a ring on your finger."
Mei slapped him, hard enough to throw his neck out of alignment from his body.
He slammed her down onto the glass table and began choking her.
He caught himself, and loosened his grip from her neck.
Mei sobbed, "So fucking different than the sweet tune you were singing earlier."
"Babe, look, I'm sorry. You just push me to the e-"
"Shut up! You meant every word of that, and you know it. Fuck you!"
Takashi stood over her and offered his hand, Mei refused to take it, and instead studied his face.
Mei began to laugh bitterly, fueled by the alcohol and drugs in her system. Takashi deadpanned.
"You were thinking about her...weren't you?" She asked, almost gently.
Takashi didn't answer.
"YOU WERE THINKING ABOUT THAT BITCH!"
Takashi clenched his fists.
Still laying on the table, Mei kicked him in his crotch. He doubled over back into the couch and groaned. While he remained immobile and panting, she shoved her hand into his blazer's pocket. Feeling her prized possession, she snatched the altoids tin in his pocket and his keys. She grabbed the purse to her chest, and held the keys and altoid tin clenched in the other. Leaving her shoes, she ran out the secret exit to his car.
Turning on the Mercedes Benz AMG G63 with the car remote, the parking lamps came to life. She hopped barefooted into the driver's seat and threw her purse, keys, and the altoids tin into the passenger seat. She drove erratically away from the club, after swerving between traffic, busting several red lights, and nearly mowing down some passengers she pulled into a park. After pressing the engine button, the headlights died down and the car's reading light died down.
After watching the scenery of the park for some time, she decided no one was in the park to bother her. And, if they were, she was more than prepared and riled up enough to handle them.
Stewing on the subject too long, Mei grew heated and erratically pulled the glove box opened. She grabbed the Smith and Wesson semi-automatic black glock. She waved it around the car while laughing maniacally. Although, shooting a security guard would relieve some stress. She had other plans in mind.
She opened her evening bag and pulled out the wad of cash, after peeling off an American Benjamin from the wad she rolled it neatly into a small straw.
She opened the Altoids tin and with glazed eyes she studied the powdery substance. After filling her eyes, she neatly took two long snorts in each nostril of the high-quality cocaine.
After some time, she felt re-energized and filled with hatred.
She closed the altoids tin and threw it into the glovebox, and angrily threw the money into the backseat of the car. Money fluttered everywhere and she began to chuckle to herself. Reopening her purse, she delicately turned the blade, causing it to glint against the streetlight. Enjoying the glint, she fantasized about splicing Rin's jugular with the weapon.
When I'm done, no one will be able to recognize the bitch's mangled body. Not that anyone wants her anyways, or will want to once they know Who. I. Am.
After the fluttering stopped, she revved up the engine and returned onto the roads.
She cut through some backstreets, and after knocking over some trash cans and traffic cones, Mei jumped the sidewalk with the truck and parked crookedly halfway into the street. Not even bothering to cut the engine, or lock the doors, she hopped out, giving some druggies a flash of her behind. Some of them cooed at her, but she ignored them as she walked with her gun in hand, and switch in her cowl necked dress' folds.
She shoved a neighbor sitting on the building entrance's stairwell, they yelled and she kicked the man. After entering the first door to the building, pushed the keys into the security slam lock door. Silently, she jogged up the stairs.
Rin jumped without hearing anything in particular, but sighed with relief upon realizing the deadbolt lock and door chain were secured.
Almost immediately, Shigeto asked looked immediately at her "What was that?"
"You heard that? I thought I was imagining things," Rin stated blandly.
"Rin, Go!"
Scared, Rin continued, "I don't want to get off the phone. I don't know where-"
Just then, a bang shook the entire apartment as the door got kicked in."
"OPEN THE DOOR UP YOU MOTHERFUCKING BITCH!" Mei hollered as she kicked the door again, rattling the entire apartment and pushing the door in from its frame.
Sesshomaru jumped up from his end, and immediately took to his humanoid form. Rin, who hadn't been looking missed the bright lavender orb of light that dissipated from the room.
It must've been her roommate, Mei.
Rin jumped up, unsure of where to even turn.
Mei kicked the door in again, and it bent further with a large dent in the middle, but it wasn't enough.
Mei backed up to the railing and fingered the trigger of the gun before aiming it at the door.
She pulled the trigger with slight pressure, and 6 gunshots rang out piercing the door.
Rin screamed and ducked her head as two of the bullets flew over her head and a few others broke the ceiling lamp, bursted out the windows, and pierced the rice cooker.
Now, Rin was in complete darkness, saved for her computer's glow reflecting off of her face.
Another round of gunshots fired, and Rin heard screaming in the building. People stood outside on the sidewalk screaming and running, while others crowded under her window.
Would the police even respond in this area?
Rin slipped some flats on to walk over the glass, measuring how to jump out of the window.
She hoped that maybe, someone would catch her as she positioned her hands on the ledge.
Mei's bloodthirst wasn't sated as she walked to the door and shot twice at the lock, the deadbolt lock broke off with a clank, and fell onto the genkan. Through the hanging door, she pushed her hand into the apartment and slid the chain from it's holder.
Light from the hallway flooded into the apartment, and Rin screamed as she propelled her body forward out the window.
With inhuman strength, Mei snatched Rin's head back so hard her neck cricked as she fell backwards into the apartment. Mei wrapped Rin's hair around her wrist as she dragged Rin on her back over the glass. Shards lodged themselves into Rin's body, as adrenaline ran through her body. Rin reached up and grabbed the base of her hair as she kicked forward. Mei, albeit skinner than Rin had the upper hand by yanking her hair.
Mei used Rin's hair to flip her body onto her stomach, and Rin continued to hold her hair to alleviate the pain in her scalp.
Mei let go of Rin's hair, allowing her to fall onto her face. The Mei eyed Rin hatefully as she stood over her back. Taking a moment to relish in her position, Mei enjoyed the feel of having her two feet beside Rin's head.
Rin quickly pushed herself back up, but Mei kicked her head back down while panting.
"Stupid bitch!"
Mei then used one hand to pull Rin's head up by her hair, and the other to snatch her jaw. Rin sputtered, and coughed.
Mei let go of Rin's hair, and pulled the sheathed switch from between her breast. She cackled then, and unsheath the blade, causing Rin to flinch.
"Should I gouge your eyes out, little bitch? Or, should I spare your sight and mar that pretty little face of yours, hmm?"
Rin remained motionless, and true to form, mute as once before. Her hands clenched against the dirty linoleum of the hallway. The overhead light flicked again, and Mei pushed the blade closer to her.
Rin shot her hand up, and out, knocking the blade from Mei's hold. The blade fell over the banister, and clanked against the hollow metal stairwell. Rin side-eyed the gun by the entrance of their apartment and hefted herself from between Mei's feet to grab it. Mei punched Rin in the head, and threw herself on top of Rin to wrangle the gun from between her hands.
Rin screamed as she refused to let go, and Mei wrapped both hands around Rin's grip, Tadano slithered her body further and bit Rin's hand until she bled, the the adrenalin in her system did not allow her to let go. Mustering strength, Rin tore her hands from between Tadano's grip, and threw the gun down the stairwell. The magazine and the gun itself clanked separately as the magazine dislodged itself.
Tadano bellowed from the bottom of her stomach, and Rin quickly tossed and bucked her off of her back. Pulling herself out, she reclined back onto her elbows.
"Rin, take your last breath, because I will kill you!"
Tadano lunged and began choking Rin, and Rin shot her hands up and began to press her thumbnails into Mei's eyes. She tried to fight defensively, she tried to avoid actually hurting her, but Tadano really had the intention of killing her, even if it meant killing herself.
Tadano screamed and knelt back while clutching her watering eyes, which burned from thumbnails and running eyeliner in her eyes.
Rin jumped up onto her feet and Mei bounced back, the cocaine fueling her along with adrenalin.
Rin lunged forward, and crouched while lunging herself, effectively using her larger frame to throw Mei onto the ground. Mei screamed and held onto the banister, but yet Rin couldn't find herself to hit Mei. She didn't feel the urge to fight, but instead just run away. Mei angrily tried to take the opportunity to hit Rin, and lunged herself up using the bars between the metal railings as she hung over the banister. In that moment, the railing broke and putting all judgement aside, Rin still lunged to save her.
Mei swatted her hand before realizing the true gravity of the situation, and she fell down straight between the railings onto the first floor.
A resounding splat bounced throughout the building
Rin screamed at the bloody scene under her, and ran downstairs to flag down some help. A shadow towered over her and she screamed as she saw a greasy, unbathed, skinny man drag her backwards. Rin lunged herself forward and stooped repetitively to break grasp, but the man's forearms under her armpits stopped her from breaking it. He dragged her up from her squatted position on the stairwell, and Rin kicked her legs up and out while flailing her arms .
Rin took another glance over the now broken stairwell, and realized it was the neighbor from apartment 207, the left apartment next to her.
The man's frail frame betrayed his strength, and Rin found herself thrown onto a plush carpet in the next door apartment.
She couldn't adjust to the darkness so quickly, but scrambled around and knocked down things in the apartment.
She knew he didn't have plans to help her, but instead seized an opportune moment to kidnap her.
Rin wailed at the top of her lungs and began to beat the window of the small apartment. A dim light clicked on to reveal a large shrine dedicated to her.
Photos, upon photos of herself lay scattered in the apartment. Rin gasped at missing articles of her clothing lining walls. A sex doll, in her likeness was propped up against a low computer table. Photos of her, in the train station, at the supermarket, and even at her job were pinned all over the walls.
Her missing ID, nail clippings, and her misplaced virgin mary red candle sat burning on the low shrine.
Rin screamed harder and sidestepped her abductor, fighting to grasp the locks, he cooed, "My wife, don't be like that! I saved your life!"
"YOU'RE DERANGED"
Rin screamed harder as he pinned her down. Her senses became overwhelmed with bodily odour, and his greasy, overgrown hair cut brushed her face. His beady eyes focused on her, and the bags under them became more apparent. She smelled armpits, dirty laundry, general mustiness, with a touch of spoiled food wafting through her nose. She resisted the urge to vomit and reached behind herself to grab the hot candle.
"!Maria, mãe de Deus, rogai por nós pecadores na hora da nossa morte! Perdoe-me, querida mãe, e me dê força! Envie ajuda divina e invoque seus anjos celestiais na hora da minha fraqueza!"
Rin screamed as she struggled under him, and splashed the hot wax in his face.
He grunted, and squealed then, like a pig.
Blindly, he snatched at her, but she jumped and opened the 6 locks. But, the seventh lock was a combination that she couldn't solve.
The ungodly squealing continued, and Rin began to jump up and down to hopefully break the combination lock.
"Deus me salvou! Tem piedade de mim!"
At that moment, the lock fell into into her hands, opening the door, she turned to run but was met with a hard, solid frame.
"I am sorry, I have failed you. I came too late, and it was unacceptable." Sesshomaru didn't miss the girl's body downstairs struggling for life, or the squealing, unstable, 6th of a pig demon squealing in the apartment.
"Shi-Shigeto?"
He snatched her hand, and as she turned he placed the unstable 1/6th demon out of its misery in the apartment. The head fell lifelessly from its body, and evaporated into a fine mist. Sesshomaru burned the photos, and all possessions in the apartment without revealing his true humanoid form.
Opting to stay in his human form, he all but dragged the bloody, swelling, tattered girl, and they ran into a neighbor's unlocked apartment at the end of the hall.
Police sirens blared, and Sesshomaru pulled the girl with him into the neighbor's dark and dank cellar.
Rin was panting and struggling for breath as her adrenaline faded into nothingness. Sesshomaru, seeing clearly in the darkness realized that Rin was losing too much blood. It seemed that during the attack, her wrist was spliced.
He applied more intense pressure to the wound by holding her small wrist tightly. Her blood ran through his fingers as Rin began to lose consciousness. Her stance leaning against him began to falter, and she swooned painfully. Sesshomaru wrapped his other arm around her midsection, and debated whether or not he should sedate her.
Albeit still in using his youki to maintain his human form, he unsheathed a claw and stabbed Rin's wrist briefly. It closed up the wound immediately, but released enough poison to sedate her. Her body, being in survival mode, would mistake the poison as medication, allowing her to survive the temporary trip. The girl fell completely limp against him, and he took the moment to breathe and release his youki into his humanoid form.
Glimmering silver hair rested upon his back, and the rightful moon sat nestled between his forehead. His stripes were jagged against his cheek and wrist as he, himself was dancing between the fine line of his rationality, and primitive instincts. His eyes bled red and his irises shifted from gold to blue as they dilated.
A purple orb of light enveloped them both,
And they misted away from the cellar to the night sky.
Below, an ambulance ushered Mei away,
And an unstable pig hanyou finally found rest.
An empty Maria de Aparecida candle rolled in the hallway.
Sometimes, even God will appoint those least expected
To send help in our time of need.
Funny, how a demon was sent to save a young girl.
Maybe, Rin should've been more specific in the celestial being she asked for.
But, no matter, as the deed was completed, and she was saved.
Fin: salvação (salvation)