AN: I'm so glad you are enjoying it so far I thank each one of you for all your comments I appreciate them all so thank you!

It took me a while to upload this one because school has kept me busy so sorry about that, but here is ch4 so I hope you all enjoy. Please R&R

Disclaimer: I own none of the Inuyasha characters

"What is he doing?" Rin thought as she noticed his face was so close to hers she could feel his uneven breath on her lips.

"M-my lord what are you doing?" He didn't answer, but the hand that was on her hip dragged up her back almost painfully till he wrapped his arm around her shoulders as to keep her from getting further away. The rough hand on her chin forced her head to tilt to the side.

"L-L-Lord Sessho...," Rin winced as she could almost feel his claws digging into her skin. His eyed were not warm the way they usually were when he looked at her. They looked heated and angry; it was as though the animal inside of him was taking over.

"Waitwaitwaitwaitwait," Rin spat out as she waved her hands in front of her in in a fast panicing motion, and in the process she found herself pushing him back. She saw him look to her with a face full of shock and rejection.

"Did you not want me to be happy?" he whispered in such a quiet tune Rin didn't even know his deep voice could ever get so low. Rin's face went from confused to surprised that he even listened in on to what she was saying before. "Y-you heard that?" He nodded before he began to walk over to her again like an animal ready to eat his prey.

Rin backed away from the predatorial look his eyes gave her, and her back met the hard surface of the screen door. She found him only a few inches away from her body again, and his hand went up to touch her cheek.

"If you wanted me to be gentle," he whispered with that low voice that fell from his devilish smirking lips. "You only needed to say so."

Rin's whole body no longer felt warm, but a shiver ran up her spine instead. His hands were not warm nor where they smooth as she remembered them as. They were cold and clamy, and it left her trembling instead of smiling at the feeling that should of been bubbling up inside of her. She could tell her cheeks were still flushed, but it did not leave a warm feeling inside of her nor bring a smile to her face.

"I-I did say that," she mumbled as his lips were getting closer to hers again. "But I'm not sure that..." His hand on her cheek moved to silence her lips, and he pinned her hands behind her back to make sure there was no re-run of what happened a few moments ago.

His lips came closer and closer, and Rin knew what he was doing now. The most painful part was that he was forcing her into it, and what hurt just as much was he wasn't even being gentle. Yet he had never forced her into anything, and every touch he ever made was innocent and warm. This was not...

This was not the calm collective Sesshomaru she knew. He would never show his aggressive side to her without reason. This was not the demon who brought warmth to her heart or a blush to her cheeks everytime he looked at her with those golden sunset orbs of his. Those same orbs that she wished to see instead of what she saw as some strangers dirty yellow eyes.

"No!" she thought, "This is not him!"

"I didn't realize he had a tail!" came a sudden childish voice as Rin and the one who was trying to kiss her looked down. There stood Tora as she examined the the long nappy length of fur sticking out of the imposters backside. "A tail?" Rin questioned as she looked to the impersonator who gave off a look of panic. Rin never remembered her lord having a tail, and she never remembered his fur to be attached to his behind. He wore his armor so how could there even be one showing.

A strange wide-eyed face of fear showed on the demon's face; a look she knew Sesshomaru would never show.

"Tora what are you doing here?" Rin asked as she eyed the little girl who eyed the demon's behind. "You took too long so I came to get you," she said as the tail she was staring at called out to her. "What a strange looking tail," Tora stated as she then began to pull on the fuzzy object to see if it really was attached.

A large yelp was soon heard from the so called Sesshomaru, and a purple cloud suddenly appeared to reveal a skinny middle aged weasel demon. "Huh!" Rin mumbled for she was expecting a little more aggressive looking demon. Instead she gets an ugly old weasel with messy fur and a size that barely reached Rin's knees.

"Y-your friend is really a weasel!" Tora's eyes widened as she pointed to the creepy little thing who tried escaping the scene of getting caught until he felt the fur on his neck being grabbed roughly.

"So," Rin said as her sweet brown eyes became dark and vicious as she shot lightning daggers to her foe. "You enjoy playing with woman's emotions do you?"

The weasel squealed in terror as the sweet delectable girl from before turned into some angry warrior now. "Let me go let me go!" he shouted as he tried to escape her grasp.

"No chance!" she shouted back. "Now what is going on here, and why did you disguise yourself as Lord Sesshomaru?" The weasel huffed in response as he rolled his eyes, and as far as Rin was concerned he was acting exactly how Jaken would act when Rin would asked him a ridiculous question. Well if they were going to do a little character change Rin decided she would participate as well.

SMACK!

The weasel's swirly eyes adjusted to the idea that the sweet innocent woman just smacked him on the head leaving a terrible red bruise. "Now answer me!" she said with a commanding voice as she tried not to let out the pain her red fist was bringing her. And her lord made hitting another such as Jaken look so easy when in all reality it really hurt.

"Well it is not my fault you look so attractive girl!" the weasel confessed. "And your the one confessing all your feelings for that dog demon downstairs I figured I may as well have some fun and..."

"What!" Rin brought his speech to a qucik hault.

"Well don't go getting yourself worked up it was just going to be a kiss!" the weasel spat. Suddenly he felt his body jiggling everywhere as Rin shook her victim violently. "No, not that the part about the dog demon downstairs!"

"He...," the weasel brought his paw to his mouth afraid that he might spill his lunch everywhere. "I saw him downstairs, but don't press your luck on seeing him wench."

"What do you mean?"

The weasel winked at her with a smirk forming on his lips. "My pals are down there taking care of him as we speak."

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SMACK SMACK SMACK SMACK SMACK!

A group of random animal like demons lay motionless on the floor with a continuous amount of harsh bumps and bruises all over their bodies. Sesshomaru stood beside their unconcious bodies as he cracked his knuckles from the amount of work he just put his fists through.

Sesshomaru made his way over to his pray and noticed pieces of paper each sticking on top of their foreheards. He could sense no spiritual powers from them, but he did not have to pick them up to know what the paper was used for.

Well that explains why he could not pick up the pest's scent. The paper messed with his ability to smell, and it was a rather good trick if it had not of been for their stupidity in thinking they could even hope to put up a fight with him. Or to even hope to trick him with the Rin illusion they tried to pull off.

He could of always whipped them out completely by his claws, but to have their blood spilled all over the floor will only dull his sense of smell even more when it came to tracking Rin, and to loss her scent would not of made things any easier. Now he had to wonder how many more intruders layed about this place, and how many had made their way to Rin.

"She's still upstairs," he stated as he began to move at a quick pace through the large castle.

"Oh, wait for me Lord Sessho...waaa!" Jaken shrieked as he noticed all the beat up bodies on the ground with familiar purple bruises sprouting on their heads. "You pathetic low life demons have my sympathy," he said as the imp kneeled on his knees in front of the beat up demons in such a dramatic way that the only thing left missing was the rose petals flowing through the air.

"I too have suffered the hand of my lord, and I know the pain as well as...Wait, Lord Sesshomaru don't leave me behind!"

Sesshomaru made his way up the long staircase that led to the second room, and with one leap he made it ot the top instead of wasting his time with one step at a time.

Yet once his feet hit the ground his ears automatically picked up the sounds of muffled shouts and screams. He looked to a screen door a few doors down, and quickly made his way into that door.

No sign or scent of Rin, but with the tricksters prodding around this place he couldn't let his guard down too easily. The room was dark aside from the streaks of light shining in from the wooden window. His ears picked up the muffled sounds again; sounding as though rags had been stuffed in someones mouth.

He looked around the room, but with no hidden chest or closets not to mention no other sliding door where else could the noises be coming from? He never doubted his hearing ability, and as a dog demon his ears were as sharp as his nose. So it made no sense that he could hear noises yet not know where they came from.

Could they perhaps be spirits that he was hearing? Sesshomaru looked down to the tenseiga. Not a pulse or a sound has yet to be heard from the heavenly sword, and it usually lets its master know if the situation involved spirits not of this world. So it wasn't spirits.

"Above?" he wondered as he looked to the cieling of the room. If he remembered correctly there were only two stories to the Inn so going up would of meant meeting the night sky. The chances of anyone who was so weak as to of been bound and gagged in the first place to be stong enough to support themselfs on a vary low angled roof was very slim. They would of fallen ages ago so he concluded it couldn't be above.

There was no other explanation. "Below?" he pondered as he looked down while adjusting his hearing as to hear the vibrations coming from below his feet.

It was very low, far too low for a mere human to hear. Probably too low for a simple demon to hear which only boosted his already ginormous ego even more. He smirked for realizing the puzzle, but he did look back to the door he came from.

Rin was still on the second floor by what his nose could tell him. So if she was there then what point was there to see what was below. Although, by what his senses could also tell him Rin did not seem to be in harms way for he could smell no trace of her blood or hear her scream. Yet with the little trouble makers downstairs how could she along with those other humans not of been their target by now.

What if it was all a trap! What if they were using something of Rin's to make it seem like her scent was upstairs when it was truely down below him this whole time. Then again what if that was not the case, but it was too late for it was as though the great Sesshomaru could already see the young woman calling out for him.

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"Oh, Lord Sesshomaru," Jaken whined as his tired eyes looked around the large empty room with clean wooden floors and red pillar posts standing from every corner. "Where have you gone to?" he wondered as his wobbly legs began to give out on him. The place was very big, and with so much ground to cover all in a matter of minutes the poor imp couldn't take it any longer.

He finally sat down and enjoyed the small amount of rest.

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"Huh," Sesshomaru huffed with his usual arrogant prideful tone. "To think they even had the thought to fool me." And with that being said a venomous poison glowed from his toxic claws as he cracked his knuckles to strike the wooden floors. After an easy blow a good portion was busted through, and piles of wood came tumbling down along with a large sum of noises all caused by the plankboards and the harsh contact.

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"Where did you run off to Lord Sesshomaru?" Jaken wondered to himself as he layed on his back to look up at the cieling. He took a long sigh before closing his eyes until a large crash exploded just over his head.

The first thing the imp remembered was having dozens of boards sock him right on his green noggin while the rest of the crumbled wood came crashing down on him.

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"Did you hear that?" Rin asked as she looked over her shoulder to the loud noise that rumbled the whole Inn. "Sounds like something big," said Tora as she held on tight to Rin's kimono. Rin knew that something very strange was going on, and now all that mattered was getting everyone out alive as well as finding Sesshomaru.

"Alright, listen up squirrel," Rin said as her tone of voice became slightly more aggressive as she yet again shot daggers at her prey still clutched in her hands. "I'm a weasel you stupid wench!" the weasel stated as he then met Rin's still angry eyes from toying with her emotions earlier. His head became sweaty.

"B-b-but weasels look very s-similar to squirrels..."

"What is going on here?" she asked. The weasel huffed and turned his head in a very Inuyasha like fashion, and Rin then brought her already bruised fist above his head stating what she would do if he didn't answer her. It seemed to do the stick for the little devil's eyes went wide again, and sweat covered his brow.

"Alright alright look girl this was not my idea," he said with a stubborn tone. "It was the boss's idea. He's the one who wanted all you humans as a live sacrifice."

"Sacrifice!"both Rin and Tora said. "Where is your boss?"

"As if I would know so don't go pointing that fist at me."

SMACK!

"What did you do that for?" he whined as he held his new bruise with tears in his eyes. "That was for earlier," Rin said as she looked away with her eyes closed, her eyebrowns arched down, and her cheeks tinted pink.

"Ooo seems someone is flustered at the thought of smooching with her beloved."

SMACK SMACK SMACK!

The demon lay motionless in Rin's grasp with lows groans coming from his mouth as well as his eyes going all white. Tora too had her eyes widen in shock at the thought of her sweet friend being so rough. Of course with the amount of crimson red color covering Rin's whole face who could blame her.

"I probably shouldn't of done that," Rin thought. "Now how am I going to get some answers..."

Suddenly another crash was heard and Rin and Tora looked to the ground to feel the whole Inn shacking. "What's going on!" Tora panicked. "I don't know, but we better find the rest of the villagers so let's go."

Rin held the little girl's hand as they left the balcony then made their way to the room and out into the long candle lite hallway. The weasel was still in Rin's grasp, but he was still knocked out and Rin's heart was just too gentle to leave him to die. "Guess he's coming with us," she stated as she ran down the hallway with Tora's hand in hers.

Lord Sesshomaru where are you?

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He made it to main floor of the Inn, but the sounds were still coming from below. "So there's a lower level," he thought. Sesshomaru's knuckles cracked and his claws sharpened as he leaped into the air only to strike the ground once more leaving the whole Inn rumbling.

A large crumbled hole was revealed for the dog prince to fall through as well as a unconcious Jaken who even in his unconcious state was able to sense his master and grip tightly to the fur that floated passed him. Sesshomaru ignored the imp who mumbled his name and how he found him, and instead he kept his eyes on the ground his feet soon made contact with.

So there was a lower level to the Inn, and if it wasn't for his sharp golden eyes the pitch black scene would of rendered him without sight. It was very dark, but he was able to see the brick walls as well as the stone floor. There were chains hanging out of the walls, and bonding restains along with metal cuffs layed carelessly along the floor.

"A dungeon?" Jaken wondered as he finally regained his senses. "How strange for a dungeon to be at a Inn," he stated as he kicked a metal cuff. "Must of been made long before this place was even considered what it is."

Sesshomaru walked around some to get used to his surroundings. He walked a good distance from where he stood and what his eyes picked up surprised him some.

A large amount of stone coffins was presented to the dog lord's ember gaze. So many open stone coffine, and each just as alike as the next.

"W-what in hell's name is this?" Jaken wondered as his large yellow eyes became larger at the sight of a burial ground for corpses. Sesshomaru studied the dark room and noticed the amount of fresh footprints made in the dirt. "It seems someone has been here recently," he stated.

He took one step closer to the rows of burial coffins until...that sound again! His ears picked up the sound coming form a certain coffin shrouded in darkness at the far corner of the room.

Sesshomaru could sense that whatever was in it was the source of the sound. He made his way over without a single look of distress on his face. His fearless stature as powerful and intimidating as always.

His clawed hand found the top of the chest, and with one flex of his muscles he slide the lid off to the side to reveal whoever it was that lay in the chest.

His eyes blinked in puzzlement.

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"We have to find the rest of the villagers," Rin stated as she kept running down the hallway. "This place is big, but it doesn't go on forever."

Tora followed with her lungs going dry leaving her to stop so she may catch her breath. "Then why does it feel like it does," she panted. As ridiculous as it sounded Rin couldn't help but agree that the hallway did seem to go on forever. They had been running for such a long period of time it was strange that they had yet to find any other hallway or dead end. This place was not that big...was it?

"I wonder," said Rin as she untied the yellow hair ribbon keeping up her side ponytail. "This is no time to fix your hair," Tora whined until she saw Rin drop the long piece of silk to the floor. "What are you doing?"

"You'll see now come on." Rin grabbed the kids hand once again and started running down the hallway. The weasel still held tight in her grasp had finally regained conciousness only to find himself being held on to by the fur on his neck.

"Hey, wench put me down!"

"Oh, your awake," Rin said as she eyed the skinny furry creature. "Show some gratitude Rin could of just thrown you over the balcony to fall to your death!" Tora whined until the child bumped into Rin's back.

"Hey, what is it? Why did you stop?"

Rin kneeled down to the ground and picked up the object that caught her attention. There and behold to Tora's gaze was the exact same yellow hair ribbon that Rin dropped only moments ago.

"What?...But that's...and you dropped it...but it was way back," Tora had no idea what to say until the reality of the situation came spilling form her lips.

"Do you mean we have been going in circles?"

"I'm afraid so," Rin aswered as calmy as she could. "It must be an illusion a demon created, and we fell in it." Rin shot daggers at her rodent hostage, "Such illusions are mostly created by tricksters such as foxes, badgers, or weasels..."

"Don't look at me I was knocked out this whole time thanks to your flustered anger."

Rin blushed a little but kept her mind on the matter at hand. "Then which one of your buddies are doing this?"

"As if I would know," he spat. "If this was the doing of one of my kind they certainly wouldn't allow a lowely human like you to take me hostage like this!"

"Well if your not responsible then we have no choice but to somehow get rid of this illusion."

"How are we going to do that?" Tora asked. "Well, I've never faced this problem before, but if I am correct if we can strike our surroundings it should dissapate the illusion." Rin only hoped she remembered Sango's advice well when it came to demon illusions, and now she only wished she had asked Shippo more about demon magic.

"Well do you have any weapons?" Tora asked and by the look on Rin's face it was pretty obvious that was a no. "I had some, but they fell when I went to go rescue you and your friend earlier," Rin said with a nervous smile. "Although,..." Rin drew her eyes to the weasel still in her grasp. If she didn't have a weapon maybe...

The furry little thing picked his nose as though he could care less that they all fell into a trap and could possible be killed. "You," Rin brought the weasel to her face to look at him eye to eye.

"I still don't like you, but since there is no other choice I need you to transform," she said, and the demon's face lite up with his eyes shining brightly. Rin knew that if he could only transform into a weapon then they had a chance to make it out alive. Now to see if the weasel was as good with transformations as good as he was being perverted.

"Oh, I see," he said with a wink. "Since your about to die in this place you have become quite dessperate haven't you?" he mocked. Rin felt a vain pop in her head at his arrogant tone, but if she didn't cooroperate she may never survive or see Sesshomaru again.

Calling his name for help will only add on to her feelings of perhaps being a burden to him. She had to try on her own first, and it that didn't work then she would call out to him.

I need to be strong for him.

"Yes, I really need this so please," she whispered as to not remind her who she was talking to. The demon that played with her emotions as well as her heart.

"Glad to hear," he said with a victorious smile. "I'll do it."

"You will?"

"Yes, but before I transform I must ask if you have had any experience?"

"Experience?" Rin questioned. She had trained for a few years in weapon training so she was sure that whatever weapon the weasel threw at her she could handle. Unless of course he transformed into some strange weapon she'd never seen before.

"Well, yes I am familiar with what we are about to do, but I have never done it with a demon before."

"Well then we will just have to work through it," he said as he readied himself to transform.

Rin was actualy quite surprised at his sudden act of assisting her. He even made it sound like he was more than willing to help. "Maybe he isn't so bad after all," she thought as she smiled when he transformed to reveal purple clouds of smoke.

Rin expected to see some sort of sword or staff, or perhaps some daggers or anything with a blade.

Instead she felt a large hand grab her chin as well as an arm slither its way around her waist and bring her close to an armor clad chest.

Tora shrieked and looked away at what she only saw as a grown up scene.

"You know you little vixen," the weasel said as Rin met the figure of the weasel's Sesshomaru-like transformation, "if all you wanted was to share a kiss with your romance then I would of transformed a long time ago."

"THIS IS NOT WHAT I MEANT!"

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The great Western Lord was needless to say very pissed off. Not only was the person in the chest not Rin, he now felt as though what he had thought was completely wrong which...was true.

Sesshomaru looked to the old human struggling in his bindings, and the dog demon was tempted to rip apart the roped and silk covering the old man's mouth and eyes.

"My lord havn't we seen him before?" Jaken questioned. Sesshomaru too had that same thought, and he was more than certain the old man was apart of the villagers. He wasnt one to help, but the whining the human was making caused him to swip his nails swiftly across the ropes and blindfold as to cease the annoying cries.

The headman of the village opened his eyes and took in a deep breath of fresh air. His eyes opened to see nothing but darkness, but once Sesshomaru's dark devilish figure came into view the headman screamed with a few of his loose teeth popping out of his wrinkly old mouth.

Sesshomaru watched in slight amusement as the old man fainted in front of his eyes. "Well atleast he's quiet," Jaken stated.

Sesshomaru simply stared at the passed out human until a loud noise swimmed through his sensitive ears.

Rin's shout echoed its way throughout the whole castle as well as making it to the elf shaped ear of the dog lord. Sesshomaru automatically recognized the voice from the shout, and he quickly tilted his head to look up with one name running through is mind.

Rin!

AN: Yes I wanted to have a little of the Halloween feel which is why I added tricksters and haunted castles. Although in the end it will all be about the lantern ceremony and how it brings Sess and Rin closer together. Of course I did want to add a little fun so I hoped you enjoyed this chapter and stay alert for the next one to see what become of the Rin and the villagers as well as the mystery to the whole Inn.

Any comments made will be greatly appreciated!