I'm a monster. She's a human. Monster…Human…Monster…H—"
Sesshomaru's thoughts ended when he heard a sound he's heard for years; Rin was screaming. Thinking it was another demon Sesshomaru slowly gathered his thoughts and stood. With a purposeful, "Wait here" to Jaken he left in search of Rin.
It wasn't too hard to see in the forest in the wee hours of the morning, dodging trees and jumping over fallen logs. His nose detected her scent. Her emotions were frightened and panicked. Another cry rattled his ear drums. Sesshomaru pushed forward, following his nose. But another smell came into her scent.
Blood filled Sesshomaru's nostrils and another more fear-filled scream broke out through the trees. Instead of half assing it to Rin, Sesshomaru pushed his demon's abilities into high gear and arrived at the river within two seconds. The scene he saw was nothing he thought he would.
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Rin looked up from rubbing at the blood on the inside of her legs. She was standing in the middle of the river with the water just above her breasts. Her eyes held unshed tears. Her wet hair plastered against her cheeks and forehead.
Her cheeks flared a bright pink when Sesshomaru approached the scene. After a quick glance into his eyes, Rin bowed her head and knew this would have happened. Of course Lord Sesshomaru heard her screams. She should have known better than shout out. Now he'll be furious that there was nothing there to protect her from.
A tear escaped her left eye. It fell into the river. No other tears followed suit; they just rested at the brim of her eyes.
"Rin," Sesshomaru said.
"Yes, my lord?" she answered with a soft voice.
"Look at me, Rin."
She made no move to follow the order. Sesshomaru was about to say it again, but was cut off from a noise in the distance.
"Blood. I smell it. I need it. Blood. Blood!" The voice was raspy and chilling to the bone.
It repeated over and over the one word that it smelled…
…Rin's blood.
Sesshomaru calmly said, "Rin, stay where you are."
With that he turned back around to face the monster coming toward them. A dark shadow emerged from the trees. His eye shined a bright purple. His body shaped like a snake only with seven legs on either side of its scaly body. Its head was the head of a man and when it shot out its green tongue, Rin shivered. She had encountered plenty of demons, but the blood it talked about was hers and that's what shook her endlessly.
The demon had no lips, nor a regular human nose. Only slits for its nostrils and black holes for its eyes. The demon looked directly at Rin's clothes, where blood was puddle by the rocks. Sesshomaru calmly watched as the demon sniffed and licked the blood. Its eyes rolled to the back of its head and its body shivered.
"Mmm. Good blood. I need more! More blood!"
At this time the demon stuck out its tongue in lightning fast movements. "Where is the blood? Where is it!?"
Sesshomaru silently approached the blood crazed demon. But before he could make his move, the demon lunged at Rin, still standing in the river.
Rin screamed and shut her eyes. She knew her lord would save her, but she had a habit of always closing her eyes so she couldn't see how he killed the demons.
She heard the crack of a whip and a large splash a few feet away from where she stood. She opened one eye and saw Lord Sesshomaru with his green whip and the demon's snake body laying half in the river and half on shore.
Rin quickly got her senses back and made her way toward shore where Sesshomaru stood facing the trees, his back toward her. At least he had sense to give her some privacy. She gathered her clothes and began to wrap her body in the kimono. As an afterthought she wrapped her under layer around her legs and waist to stop the bleeding from between her thighs.
Once done, she approached Sesshomaru, who remained focused on the trees. She cocked her head and touched him on the shoulder.
"My lord?"
"Shhh, Rin. There are more," was his answer.
Rin looked at the trees. She didn't see anything that indicated more demons were approaching…
…that was before she saw the blood red (no pun intended) eyes glowing at her. She yelped and jumped behind Sesshomaru, who drew out tokijin and took a stance of defense.
"Rin, stay here." With that, Sesshomaru moved toward the glowing eyes. The eyes disappeared as Lord Sesshomaru walked through the wall of trees. Rin stood where she was told, shivering from the cold breeze that bit her wet cheek and arms.
It was long before a large crack! was heard and Sesshomaru appeared from the forest once again.
Rin smiled, relieved. But it only lasted a second before she screamed, "Sesshomaru!"
Her lord was already airborne before a gigantic fist slammed the ground. Sesshomaru landed a few yards away from Rin, his face stoic and his body tense for action. Rin hoped that her lord wouldn't get hurt. She didn't think of herself, she didn't worry about the demon, of course; only Sesshomaru.
The demon gave a mean chuckled and three itself out from the trees coverage. It was a giant with three arms protruding from it stomach, along with the normal two at its shoulder. It was ugly and seemed to be blind from the way its nose sniffed furiously and its ear twitched at the slightest sound.
Rin nearly screamed again, when a look from her lord told her to remain quiet. So, instead, she silently retreated to a boulder a few feet away and waited anxiously for the fighting to begin.
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Sesshomaru and the giant demon began to circle each other, not saying a word. The giant lunged after a few seconds. Sesshomaru stepped sideway and neatly sliced off its head.
Pathetic, he thought. And here I thought I'd have a challenge.
He turned to catch Rin's eye. His sharp ears picked up a sound from the distance. When Rin began to come toward him, he shook his head. She understood and shied back into the rock's coverage.
A few moments later, a large hawk-like figure swooped down and tried to get at Rin…but Sesshomaru stopped the demon before its claws could grip her. Rin cried out once and clutched her arm. A thin line of blood dripped over her kimono.
Damn, he thought. They are coming for blood. Rin's blood. More will come.
Quickly, Sesshomaru gathered Rin in his muscular arms and pulled his demon powers together in order to get her where he intended to go; back to Jaken, Kohaku and Ah-Un.
Once he arrived, Jaken began to ask many questions, causing Kohaku to stir and open his eyes. ("What happened? Is Rin feeling well? My lord! She's bleeding!") All of which were silenced by a glare from Lord Sesshomaru. Kohaku looked upon the scene, with panic in his eyes.
"We head west, Jaken."
"What's west, my lord?" Jaken asked softly.
Sesshomaru, for an unknown reason, hesitated before he replied, "My castle."
Sesshomaru held the sleeping Rin against his chest and he growled when Jaken suggested that Ah-Un should carry her. Kohaku climbed onto Ah-Un and glanced every few seconds over at the dog demon carrying Rin. When Rin murmured against the fur sash, mokomoko, Sesshomaru strained his ears to hear what she had to say.
"Thank you, m-my lord."
"Shhh, Rin. Return to sleep," he said quietly in her ear.
"My a-arm. It h-hurts," she gasped.
Suddenly, her body jolted, causing Sesshomaru's eyes to widen. He stopped and so did the rest of his party. Jaken thought to answer questions, but decided against it when he saw the look upon his master's face. Kohaku jumped off Ah-Un and rushed to Sesshomaru's side.
Her body jolted again. Sesshomaru laid her on the ground and pushed away Kohaku's worried hands, along with his entire body, shoving him a few feet away. Automatically, Rin's left hand flew to her right arm where the cut burned her skin. Sesshomaru instinctively knelt down to sniff the wound…and nearly gagged.
Poison. He quickly threw away her clutching hand and grasped her injured arm none too gently. Rin cried out.
"I am sorry, Rin. This will hurt."
He brought his fangs to her wound and bit into the flesh. Rin cried out and so did Kohaku, but the boy didn't come closer to the pair. Sesshomaru never sucked out poison before, so he did best as he could coaxing out her tainted blood. Rin's cries where quieting and her body stopped bucking. When he removed his teeth, he saw that her eyes were closed and she was breathing deeply. Where he bit her, he saw four medium sized crescent shapes; outlining of his teeth.
"Continue west, Jaken." With that, Sesshomaru picked up Rin and went airborne, flying west to where his castle lay, hidden from the human eye.
"I hoped to never bring you here, Rin," he thought aloud, thinking she was asleep. "But I have no choice if I want to keep you alive. I want you to live, Rin. Not only because I know you don't want to die, but because I believe a part of me will die if you do. Live, Rin. I need you to live."
"Yes, Lord Sesshomaru."
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A/N: Man oh man! I was trying to rush to get to the end of this chapter. I don't know the difference between citrus, lemon, or lime, but I do know smut! Haha. That will be appearing in the next few chapters! Please be patient! I will update as soon as I possibly can! I promise!
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