A/N: I am soooooooo sorry for how long it has been since I updated! I am very angry at myself for letting my self wait this long to update and I refuse to dally anymore, sooo, on with the story!
Hearing that voice filled with such ice, and feeling all the hostility coming from that room made Kuro shudder and wish she had gone with Rin to put dry clothes on. After taking a deep breath to steady herself and willing herself to stop shivering, she heaved open the large doors.
The room behind the doors seemed to be a study of sorts. Piles of papers were strewn all about the room as if someone had been looking for something, and in their haste to find it, had not bothered to clean up after themselves. On the wall opposite the door, there was a floor to ceiling window that had a beautiful view of the ocean that was on the west side of the palace. The window had a door leading out to a balcony where you just sit back, relax, and enjoy the beauty of the outdoors. The other two walls held built in bookcases that reached all the way to the ceiling. The cases were so full of books; some of them were overflowing onto the floor and stacked on top of each other. In the center of this large, busy workspace sat a very large desk so covered in paperwork that one could not tell what it was made of. At this desk sat a rather angry taiyoukai.
When Kuro entered the room, Sesshomaru's head snapped up, and after taking a quick whiff of the air and looking around her, his eyes starting flashing between a beautiful golden that rivaled the sun, and a murderous crimson that resembled freshly spilt blood. "Where is Rin?" the enraged demon lord growled out.
"Umm… Well, she is in her room changing into dry clothes," Kuro started, "but she should be here shortly."
"And why, per say, were her clothes wet to begin with?" He said, somewhat calmly.
"You see, what had happened was.." then she took one large breath and started speaking so fast one could barely understand, "We were in the garden picking flowers, playing tag, and all that jazz, and we got hot so we decide to take a swim in that pretty little stream, but what we didn't expect was the stream to have a mind of its own and basically kidnap us without our knowledge, and then we got out and Nagasaki found us and told us that it was a magic stream, and-"
"Silence!" Sesshomaru interrupted, "enough with your incessant babbling! You were not to be late to dinner, and what did you two do? Not even show up! Rin is just a child so I understand that she lost track of time, but you are an adult, and as such you need to have the responsibility to know when you need to be somewhere. Or did your human mother never think to teach you about punctuality? No matter the reason-"
"Now wait just a minute, you rude, ignorant, ass! You do not even know my mother, so how dare you try to insinuate that she was a simpleton and didn't teach me anything! For your information, my mother was the most re-- never mind about her! Also, I was uninformed that the stream held special powers and that it was able to tap into a persons' powers and produce a barrier! Who has a stream like that out in the open anyways?! Especially with a child running around! She could go in there one day for a relaxing swim, get tired and drown from not being able to get out of the stream because of some secrets she wants to keep! What would you do then Mr. High-and-Mighty?!" Kuro screamed all of this at the top of her lungs in about three breaths, so that by the end of her little tirade, she was panting heavily.
By this time, Sesshomaru's eyes had stopped flashing between two colors and had settled on one; the murderous crimson that promised death. "Are you quite finished, pup?" at Kuro's silence, he continued, "Good. You know, most people that speak out against me are annihilated before they can even finish the sentence; however, what you had to say mildly interested me, so I listened. Now that you are done; I shall not regret killing you for your disrespect."
As he was speaking, Sesshomaru stalked closer to Kuro until she was backed up into a wall. After he had finished speaking, he grabbed the miko-hanyou by the throat and began to cut off the supply of oxygen to the lungs of the young woman. Just as the taiyoukai was about to plunge his poison covered claws into her abdomen, a little, black blur ran into the room and grabbed onto Sesshomaru's leg. "Please, please don't hurt her, she is nice to Rin and picks flowers with her!"
The enraged demon lord decided to ignore the little girl and proceed to strangle to woman in his hold. Rin started to cry and pulled on Sesshomaru harder, trying to get his attention, "Please, don't kill Rin's momma!"
At this, his eyes flashed back to their normal color and Sesshomaru released Kuro, letting her fall to the ground in a wet, sobbing heap.