Sesshomaru carried Rin through the halls, pulling on the string of her bikini top, wanting, needing to touch every part of her. The tie gave way, and his hand cupped her breast as he carried her still kissing her up to his room.
Sesshomaru put his foot on the first step when he heard the front door open.
"Sesshomaru! Inuyasha! Your mother..." Inutaisho's voice faded as he spotted his oldest son with a woman wrapped around his waist. A gasp behind him informed him that his wife had just seen what he had seen, the gasp infront of him informed him that the woman wrapped in Sesshomaru's arms had been just as shocked to see them.
" Inutosai Sesshomaru! Put that girl down and get your ass here now!" Inutaisho growled yelling at his oldest son.
Sesshomaru put Rin down on top of the stair above his own, tied her bikini back in to place and walked to his father and step mother.
"Kato Rin... Is that you honey?" Izayoi asked finally seeing Rin as Sesshomaru walked to them.
" Hello Mrs. Inutosai, Mr. Inutosai." Rin bowed as much as she could on the steps.
" Sesshomaru I think you owe your father and me an explanation! Including why Rin and you are dripping wet and were heading up to your room!" Izayoi said her eye brows scrunched together in fustration.
" I think he owes us more of an explanation as to why and how Rin has a mating mark on her neck..." Inutaisho growled, still not calmed down.
" What do you mean... Mating mark?" Rin asked walking next to Sesshomaru.
" Why indeed..." Izayoi said finally seeing clearly the mark, and the starting of the blue cresant mark on her shoulder.
" Whelp, start explaining now, or I swear I'll take away your birthright right now! I'm sure Inuyasha will be more than happy in taking your spot." Inutaisho growled his voice dripping even more with anger.
" Sess, What are they talking about?" Rin asked her eyes filled with confusion. " What is a mating mark...?" Rin's hand reached for her shoulder, rubbing over the mark her eyes growing larger.
" Rin... let me explain..." Sesshomaru started
" You had better explain Sesshomaru! To mark her with out her permission... without her knowledge what were you thinking?" Izayoi yelled at her step-son.
" Son..." Inutaisho growled.
" If everyone would shut the fuck up maybe I could explain it to her!" Sesshomaru yelled his eyes flashing red.
Inutaisho slammed his son against the book shelf on the far side of the room, holding his throat in his hand, faster than Rin could see. Rin's eyes and mouth wide open with the sight before her. She had never in her life seen Inutaisho angry before much less violent. Rin's world spun.
" You insulent little pup! You have no right to speak to your Alpha male or female like that!" Inutaisho's growl was almost incoherent. " You have disgraced your pack and your title but taking a mate with out her full consent, and now you speak to me like that!"
" Inutaisho, you're frightening the girl..." Izayoi said as she craddled Rin's head to her shoulder.
" He doesn't deserve her!"
" No I don't, but my demon chose her!" Sesshomaru growled out, more growl than word. His eyes flickered to Rin, huddled against the human bride his father had chosen so many years ago. " My demon chose her after the four years you made us part. She still wants me. It wasn't puppy love as you had claimed it was." Sesshomaru squeezed out. Inutaisho's grip lossened.
" Are you saying that, she consented to the mating...?" Inutaisho's eyes looked over to Rin.
" To the mating yes, the demon marked her before I could explain about ... the rest." Sesshomaru looked down in embaresment.
"Rin, is this true?" Inutaisho asked turning his attention fully to the girl, keeping only a light grip on his son's throat.
" I... We both consented to making love..." Rin blushed her head still held against Izayoi's shoulder. Rin looked calmer now that Inutaisho wasn't gripping his son's throat so hard.
Inutaisho's hand fell away from his son, " That still gave you no right to mark her as mate. Sesshomaru... what have you done?"
" I claimed my mate, she wears my mark proudly... even if she doesn't understand fully what it means..." Sesshomaru said still not willing to walk to Rin incase his father got mad at him again.
" Sesshomaru... She doesn't understand that she is now... Inutaisho, hit him on the head for me." Izayoi said realizing that her new daughter in law was now Lady of the West, and she didn't even now.
" Can everyone stop hitting Sesshomaru and explain to me what the hell is going on?" Rin yelled above everyone's chatter. " What does this mark mean? Why did Inutaisho-san react so much to it? How did Inutaisho-san and Sesshomaru get all the way over there in less than a blink of the eye! Izayoi..." Izayoi moved down her collor showing Rin her mark except a flying dog was almost tattooed over the mark. "Why do you have the same mark..."
" Rin it is the mark of marriage, in Sesshomaru and Inutaisho's family. They are not like us." Izayoi said pushing her clollar back up. " Do you remember the story I use to read to you and Sesshomaru before bed... The one about the demon lord?"
"Yes, how could I forget, The main character was named Sesshomaru-sama... It was where i got his nick name. It was a bout the dog demon lord Sesshomaru, and his father Inutaisho, and his half brother Inuyasha... I always thought that you had made it up..."
"She didn't make it up Rin." Inutaisho said trying to regain his usual calm demenor. " We are that family. Everything was true..."
Rin shook her head trying to recall everything about the story.
" No... No! It can't be, that story was taken place over five hundred years in the past! Sesshomaru, Inuyasha we grew up together... I remember you as children with me!"
" You're forgetting about the moral of the story Rin," Sesshomaru said, his eyes becoming glazed over as he remembered the words spoken five-hundred and eighteen years ago. " 'And for your grievencess against nature and man, every fifty years your life will begin again. You will be born again as a child so that your mistakes may not be continued. And you will age once again as a human, and on the three-hundred and sixty-fourth day of the forty-ninth year, if you have not proven yourself and claimed a mate your cycle will repeat.'" Sesshomaru's eyes came to rest upon Rin as he finished.
"It's a true story...? All of it?" Rin asked trying harder to remember the story she hadn't heard in a good seven to ten years. Rin gasped. " So then, you use to kill humans, for no reason...? Isn't that why you were cursed? You killed the miko's sister... and she cursed you..."
" I never killed the miko's sister... She was in love with me..." Sesshomaru said his eyes dropping to the floor. " She was in love and I wasn't. I rejected her love and she cursed me and Inuyasha claiming that if we didn't have a heart to love than we were monsters." Sesshomaru blushed, "Izayoi changed the story, because she didn't want to embarress me in front of you."
"But the rest was right? You killing all those people?"
"Rin, I was a demon lord who was protecting his people, and conquering more territories to widen my and my father's empire. I was a warrior and faught in many wars..." Sesshomaru said proud of his past.
Rin shook her head again looking around the room. This family that she had grown up with, they were completely different. They were either telling the truth, or they were crazy, she didn't know which one scared her more.
" Rin-chan, we are still the same people, we just have a little part of ourselves that you don't know about..." Izayoi shrugged
" How can you say that...? They lied to you too, you lied to me too! You're just as 'human' as I am and yet you play mother to them to these 'demons' who are supose to be five hundred and blah blah years older than you! How can you believe them?" Rin was shouting now She was so angry at them all of them how could they lie to her, how could they try and play these games with her!
" Rin I never said that I lied to you. And I do not play mother to my children. Although Sesshomaru is older than me... Inuyasha is my child, born from my own womb. And I believe them because I was there. This mark that you and I both share... It is infused with their demon powers, it gives us strength, longevity, and well stamina. Do you not feel stronger since he marked you? Are you not more energenic? Rin... The hickeyies upon your thigh are already almost healed..." Izayoi said trying to calm her down.
" Rin-ai, please what will it take to prove that I am not lieing to you?" Sesshomaru asked.
" I don't know..." Rin said about to walk out the front enterance.
Sesshomaru ran to her, grabbing her around the waist and throwing her on to his back. Rin gasped.
" Where would you like to go? Mt. Fuji, I can take you to the top! How about I show you the the Royal palace, you can dress in all the finest silk kimonos they have there..." Sesshomaru was cut off by his father.
" Show her your demon form..." Inutaisho said, after staying quiet for the majority of the conversation. " It's how I proved it to your mother."
Sesshomaru winced.
" Father, my demon has already done so much in this situation... I would not like to release it." Sesshomaru looked down and away from this father.
" If you are supose to be Alpha, than be Alpha!" Inutaisho's eyes blazed a slight red as he issued his demand. " You will prove to your mate what it is that you are... show her the worst and best part of you."
" Yes father..." Sesshomaru let Rin drop back down on to her feet and then pulled her out the door, and in to the front yard. " I will do the smaller form if that's all right with you father..." Sesshomaru said his voice thick with sarcasm.
Sesshomaru turned back to Rin and smiled. " I will prove that this is not just a dream Rin-ai." Sesshoamru dropped to his knees, his body shrinking and growing in different places, his hands shrank along with his feet, his body bowing and stretching. White fur spilled out of every part of his skin. the last thing to fall away was the bord shorts he was wearing in the pool. A pure white puppy lept out of them, and ran to Rin. He put his front paws on top of her knees and tried to pull himself up her. The puppy yelping every time he jumped.
Rin's eyes widened and then she felt her head hit the concret of the front porch. Rin saw nothing except back but oddly enough there was a slight yelping that she could hear in the darkness, then even that too faded.