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Chapter 9: Hidden Passion
In the air, Sesshomaru slowed down. Rin and Ah-Un reached him and flew beside him.
A weed stem from the garden still dangled on her hair, so Sesshomaru reached out and pulled it off. An amused gleam spread over his eyes.
He sped up and moved on ahead. Ah-Uh roared and accelerated after him. Rin held onto the rein and giggled.
Midway on their flight, the scent of Totosai came into Sesshomaru's senses from below. He descended to meet the old man who was traveling with Mo-Mo on a dirt path through a village.
Rin followed.
"Sesshomaru. Just who I need to see," Totosai said.
Rin arrived at Totosai's side. "Good evening, Totosai-sama."
"Rin. How you have grown."
She grinned.
"And your intent to see me?" asked Sesshomaru.
"I see that you have obtained a new power for your sword."
"Hmph."
"Sesshomaru, I guess you'd figured as much that the Baksaiga is like the Tetsaiga. They can absorb power when they defeat their enemies."
"So, you came to stop me from cutting down the Tetsaiga to obtain its power."
"Hum?!" Totosai scratched his head. "Was that my intention?"
"Ridiculous!"
Sesshomaru took off.
Rin playfully said, "Totosai-sama, he won't do that. He loves Inuyasha-sama and us all very much."
"Hah?!"
She giggled and took off, "Goodbye, Totosai-sama."
"Goodbye, Rin." Totosai continued on his path. " I hope you're right."
Sesshomaru glanced back at Rin with a proud expression. She had said he was kind a few times before, and whenever she said it, her happiness seemed to increase with that assessment of him. So, he continued to do things that she approved of just to keep her happy.
And if not cutting down the Tetsaiga would make Rin happy, then Totosai didn't have to worry about it any longer because Sesshomaru would make sure Rin was right.
They landed at the foot of a mountain not too far from Kaede's village.
A dome shape barrier appeared. He sent a stream of miasma, creating ripples through the barrier, dissolving it.
In front of them appeared a pristine lake of teal color water, fed by a gentle waterfall flowing down a stairs of bedrock descending from the mountain.
Two perpendicular rock walls bordered the lake, and a sakura forest surrounded the remaining sides. Their branches formed a canopy above. Soft moss lined the ground. Random boulders scattered about, with clusters of colorful orchids growing on them.
The sakura trees were in full bloom, painting the place a light shade of pink, and their breathtaking scent saturated the scenery.
Sesshomaru stepped onto a small rock bridge leading to a low lying bedrock in the middle of the lake. Rin followed and stood beside him. She closed her eyes and grinned.
"This place! This place smells just like you, Sesshomaru-sama."
He turned and gazed at her.
She sat down, feeling the water with her feet then slowly submerged to the water level past her chest. The lake was shallow enough, allowing her to stand on the floor instead of having to swim to stay afloat. She then took off her clothes and spread them on the bedrock next to where she had placed her clean kimono.
He sat down next to her clothes, resting his feet unevenly against the side of the bedrock and his arms on his bent knees. He dissolved his armor with his power for more comfort. He watched her briefly then looked away when she started to take her clothes off, allowing her some privacy.
He asked, "You can sense my scent?"
"Of course. Everyone has a scent. Some are pleasant, some less, some not at all. If I stand close, I can smell it."
"Is the scent of this place pleasant?"
"This place?! It is heaven, and its scent is divine, just like you, Sesshomaru-sama."
'Her thought of me!'
He glanced at her.
She spun around and played with the water with her slender arms open wide, creating waves on the lake surface.
She started singing the songs that she used to sing while traveling with him, and the lyrics had his and her name in them. Her voice had become more womanly and softer, and her singing was much more mellifluous than how it used to be.
He was wrapped by her enchanting melody and by her thought of him.
The waves rolled up and down, intermittently revealing the cleavage of her matured bosoms.
Rin bathing in front of him was nothing new since she always did that in the evenings during their travel. He used to be amused by her playfulness with the water, but no special feeling came of it.
But it had been 8 years since.
At the moment, the discreet display of her physical maturity sent a rush of excitement through him. The hairs on his body stiffened and his muscles tightened. The feeling was unfamiliar. It was a strange physical reaction, all involuntarily. He looked away, but the image of her charm lingered and nagged his mind, telling him to glance back at her direction.
How many more strange feelings would Rin make him feel. it was starting to seem endless.
She walked up and folded her arms in a circle on the bedrock. She looked up at him, her eyes sparkled by the the reflection of the starlight.
"Say, Sesshomaru-sama, what is my scent like?"
He gazed at her. The waves were still rising and falling at the level of her chest. Being that close didn't help him to shake off the excitement that was growing even stronger.
Should he tell her he was addicted to her scent. Should he tell her that he was becoming addicted to the image of her cleavage being intermittently revealed by the rising and falling of the waves.
Should he just reach out his hand, cup her cheek and just gaze at her with no answer. He had done that many times before when he couldn't answer her questions.
Or should he just pick her up and hold her like what his body was telling him to do at the moment. Would she still think of him the same if he did that. Would she smile at him like how she smiled in Kohaku's arms earlier in the evening? Or would she frown?
Why was Kohaku even in his thought? Why should everything have to be so carefully considered with him?
Why was it so damn hard for him to just tell her all the things he had wanted to tell her. Why was it so damn hard to just do whatever he wanted with her. She was his!
So why did anything matter?
It mattered. It mattered much what Rin wanted. After all, she had been a bit timid around him lately except for her embrace earlier in the evening. Maybe being with humans for that long, Rin had slowly moved away from his demon world, perhaps even thought that demons were not as gentle as humans.
She should be allowed to make that choice free from his suggestive actions or words. If he reached down and cupped Rin's cheek, if he told her her scent was addictive, if he took her into his arms at that moment, Rin might find him repulsive. So he just waited patiently.
He stood up abruptly and turned away from Rin. It didn't help. Her smile, her scent, and her was still playing with his mind. And his physical reaction just intensified.
"Ooh! Ooh!" Rin said with a tone a little louder than her usual.
He glanced back, almost not daring to glance.
A few fireflies flew by, teasing her with their flashing lights.
She left the bedrock and went chasing after them.
He turned away again. It was just fireflies.
"ARGGG!"
A splashing sound of water ensued.
Sesshomaru quickly turned back. Rin was not there. He immediately jumped toward the spot where the water looked disturbed. He dove down, wrapped around her waist, sprinted up and landed on the bedrock.
He scanned her body to make sure she wasn't hurt anywhere. His eyes widened. The image of her bare skin hit him like a tsunami, flushing energetically through every cell in his body.
Rin blushed a dark shade of red. She flopped into him, shielding her bosoms with the wall of her arms from his body, and hid her face deep into his chest.
And shortly after that, it seemed as if Rin was bewitched. She closed her eyes and moved her lips toward the curve of his neck. She moaned softly as her lips touched his skin.
His body tightened. He folded his arms around her and pulled her closer. He threaded his fingers through her hair to tilt her head back slightly. And by some instinctive instruction, he lowered his lips toward hers.
Suddenly, she lowered her lips away from his kiss and pushed her face deep into his chest.
She whispered, "Sesshomaru-sama, something's wrong with me. What's wrong with me?"
At the moment, her scent was more than addictive. it was seductively addictive to him.
"I - I don't know," he whispered with a weak broken tone.
He was answering her, and also answering to his own confusion as he felt himself transforming into his true form but unable to control it.
It was slowly overtaking him against his will.
His claws were flexing out, threatening to rip into her skin. His fangs grew, telling him to throw her on the bedrock and bore into the back of her neck. His blood raged with intense energy flowing to the more intimate part of his body. And it was rising to a magnitude that might be unmanageable by a human.
He widened his eyes that had already turned red.
'Why am I unable to control my transformation? What is the meaning of this? NOOOO!'
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Note to the wonderful reviewers.
Mia Montes: Gracias Mia. I put your review in google translate and I think I understood it correctly. Thank you so much for your review and support. It is very motivating to me.
Skylark: Thank you so much for your review. It is very motivating to me. And You made me aware of how Rin is not showing any romantic feeling yet. I have no idea why, but I always assume that Rin is in love with Seshomaru naturally. So, I am picking up the pace in this chapter. I planned on it being a bit slower, but well, heck why not sooner. And I think the same way with you regarding this pair. I think they are selfless too. I think their love is unconditional. And I watched this anime a while back and still in love with Rin and Sesshomaru. I am very glad there are still people like you who remember them and read about them. And I wish more people write stories about them. I am so childish in the way that I want my favorite pair to have the most stories written for them. Thank you so much.
SorrellKaren: Thank you so much for your generous reviews, which are extremely motivating to me. I was trying to revise my previous chapters because having read a few tips on writing, I realized the previous chapters were so unnecessarily wordy, so I was trying to shorten them before I post new ones. But after your generous reviews, I felt energized, and so I am revising and posting new ones too.
And I thank you so much about the comment about Rin's scent. I think it is her sweetness that draws him to her, and it has to be expressed through her scent.
And Rin does not fall for Kohaku. Like you, I don't like Rin/Kohaku pairing, and I don't like Rin/AnyoneElseBesidesSesshomaru pairing. I think only Sesshomaru is good enough for Rin.
And I'm sorry that this chapter might not be satisfying in terms of love confession. Something goes terribly wrong for Sesshomaru. I hope you forgive me or this.
And I understand what you mean by the story being ridiculous. I try not to be, but there are some ideas that have to little bit wild to make our favorite characters be end up where we want them, because I feel so dissatisfied with how the series ends regarding Sesshomaru and Rin. I mean at least, they could make a scene where Sesshomaru and Rin stand in field of flowers with him just staring at her, that would be more satisfying than how they ended it. So, I might have to get a little wild to make my own ending possible. But since it's a fantasy, I hope I don't get too unrealistically wild. If so, please let me know. We can tweak it a little.
And thank you for the advice on names. I did a search for Japanese names and I am using them. I would love to be able to come up with names like Sesshomaru, but it seems too difficult. So, we will make do.