Rin held tightly to the hand that once gave her so much comfort and love. She gazed through tear-filled eyes at the woman whose beauty would stop any man. The face her father, who she never knew, fell in love with and helped her to conceive a child.

Rin could hear the demons coming closer. She could hear the screams of the villagers becoming louder and more torturous. She broke her gaze with her mother and looked around. People were running this way and that, not knowing what to do. When Rin looked back at her mother, she could see in her mother's eyes that she was too far gone to be saved. Her mother smiled slightly, barely hanging on. She was dying and Rin had to go.

Without another word, Rin kissed her mother's hand…and let it drop heavily to the dirt. Rin then turned away and began to run, all the while trying not to scream, not to cry, not to turn back and hold her mother's dying body. She only knew her mother for nearly five years and already she wouldn't see her again. A tear fell down her cheek.

Then, the scream came. A scream she knew. She turned around without hesitation and ran back to the village, screaming and yelling without a care. What she saw when she arrived was smoke and rivers of blood. Bodies upon bodies were lying scattered on the ground, including the bodies of children. Rin found her mother where she left her; sprawled in the dirt, the only thing different was that her kimono was torn aside between her legs.

Rin fell to her knees and cried over her mother's dead body. She cried until her heart was torn from her body. She cried until she felt she couldn't speak for fear something bad might happen again. She cried until…

Rin sat up quickly, gasping and shaking her head.

"No, no, no!" she yelled, pounding her fist into the bed. After a few moments, Rin quieted down. She might have been 14 years old, but she was still thought of as a child.

Not anymore. Rin suddenly remembered. Now, she will bleed once every month. A few tears escaped her nearly dried eyes and landed on the soft silk.

Bed? Silk? Rin rubbed her eyes and checked her surroundings. She had to double check to make sure it was real. She was in a room filled with white and blue. The sheets she cried on were white silk, but the quilt lying at the end of the bed was a dark shade of blue. The walls were an off white and the rugs—that were overlapping each other to the point where you couldn't see the floor—were a midnight blue. To her right were a vanity desk and a dresser. To her left were a desk and, in the corner, a pile of pillows she couldn't wait to sink into with a good book on a rainy day.

It's fit for a princess, she thought. She looked back in front of her and found herself staring at a window filled with black of night. She shrank back into the pillows, not because of the dark window, but because of who was sitting on the window seat staring up at the moon in the star studded sky…

He turned to look at her. He didn't say anything—which Rin was used to after seven years with the silent demon. Abruptly, Sesshomaru stood, gracefully strode to the bed, and sat at the edge, far enough to keep Rin sane but still close enough to make Rin's heart beat a little faster.

Sesshomaru reached out, slowly so that if Rin wanted to pull away, she could—and she did. That little movement caused her to lean of her right arm. She yelped and pulled her arm close to her chest. It didn't hurt as it had before, but it stung slightly with quick movements, like the one she mistakenly did just a second ago.

Lord Sesshomaru snatched her arm from her chest and, before Rin could protest, began to unravel the cloth that kept it from getting infected. Rin's breathing hitched as the last round peeled off her skin. What she saw was, shockingly and gratefully, not what she expected. Her wound was a few inches from her elbow crease all the way around to the back of her hand, making the cut look like a stretched out 'S'. The depth of the wound was unknown to Rin, but the width was, at most, half an inch.

Without much hesitation, Lord Sesshomaru brought her arm to his lips and he poked his tongue into her wound. Rin gave a small gasp and tried to free her arm, but only succeeded in letting Sesshomaru pull her closer to him to the point where she was pulled onto his lap and closer to his face. He locked eyes with her and poked at it again. This only made Rin loose her cool once more.

She lashed out and punched the right side of his chest with her unhurt hand. He glared at her. She gave him a look right back. Sesshomaru threw her arm away, making it sting. She frowned even deeper and slapped him across his cheek. His face threw slightly to the side from the blow, but Rin knew it didn't hurt him. When he turned his head to look at her, his eyes were red. His demon wanted to play.

He reached up and slapped her, lightly but still with a sting, across her cheek. Her mouth tightened into a thin line and she pushed him backward onto the bed. She straddled his waist and began to pound against his chest, hurting herself more than him. He didn't stop her.

"Stupid……beast!" she grunted.

Without warning, Sesshomaru grasped her shoulders and rolled her over so she was underneath his body. She continued to hit his chest until, finally, she began to tire and slowly stopped. She panted hard and wiped her bangs from her face. She could already tell her hands were growing black and blue.

"You……bastard," Rin gasped out

She could have sworn she heard a chuckle, but when she looked at the demon, his face showed nothing but seriousness. She huffed and pushed at his chest to release herself from getting over excited at the fact that his body was pressed against hers in a way that she thought to be a little too intimate.

Sesshomaru wouldn't budge no matter how hard, or how many times, Rin tried. She gave up once again and just let Sesshomaru gaze over her with that same seriousness of his face, but with hunger in his demonic eyes. Rin felt her eyes go heavy and saw total blackness.

Then, without warning, Sesshomaru leaned forward and pressed his lips, lightly, against Rin's.

Rin flew her eyes open, but all she saw were her lord's closed eyes. Without even noticing, Rin leaned into the kiss as Sesshomaru pulled away. A soft purr sounded in the back of the demon's throat and suddenly the kiss deepened, causing Rin to return it with passion on her lips. Sesshomaru expertly ran his tongue over her bottom lip, making a small gasp escape Rin.

Rin, feeling slightly angry, tried to get back at Sesshomaru for making her feel like…this. This meaning how her stomach did flips back to back, how her heart threatened to burst out of her throat. This meaning the pleasure she felt when his lips pressed hers. The feeling she had as he deepened the kiss every few moments, then ease up only to repeat the process again and again. She wanted to be in control of her feelings, but she didn't want to let this feeling go. So, she wrapped her legs around his torso, making sure her lips stayed locked to his incredibly soft lips. With all the strength she had, she rolled the dog demon over so she straddled his hips once again.

Not even a second went by when Sesshomaru rolled Rin back to where she started—underneath him. He broke the kiss before Rin could try again.

He leaned his head against Rin's. He growled, "I advise you not to do that again, Rin."

Rin smiled to herself. "Do what, Lord Sesshomaru?"

Her lord lifted his head a fraction to glare at her, his golden eyes returning slowly. He didn't answer her; he just stared.

"Oh. Did you mean this?" Rin teased. She tightened her legs around him and rolled him onto his back. Once again, Sesshomaru took control and returned them to the previous position.

"I'm warning you, Rin. Don't. Test. Me." He sounded like he meant it, but Rin could see his eyes go red once more.

Rin slid her uninjured arm his neck and pulled her head up to kiss his neck right under his ear. With her other hand, she let it slide down his chest, wrapping it around his torso and pulled herself closer so her well enough developed chest pressed against him, receiving a microscopic shiver from the all-mighty demon. She smiled.

"And what if I do?" she whispered into his ear.

He pushed her down against the bed and held her down by her shoulders, making her unable to move much else besides her head, which she turn to the side to bare her neck. The move was instinctive. She didn't know she did it until she felt the warmth of the demon's nose in the crook of her neck. She tried to turn to look at him but a growl warned her not to move.

The lord licked her neck, as if tasting her, and, before she could say anything, Sesshomaru bit her. Rin gasped but didn't move. For some odd reason, she felt comfortable with letting him give small nips on her neck and shoulder. The feeling ended when he stood abruptly. Rin sat up slowly, eyes to the ground, thinking of something to say to him.

But before she could say one word, Lord Sesshomaru leaned forward and kissed her lightly on her forehead. He paused like that for a moment and Rin closed her eyes, breathing him in. She suddenly felt aware of him in a way she hadn't thought much of before. He began to pull away, but Rin stopped him by holding on to his robe.

"You can't just do that to me and then leave," she said, standing and pulling her body closer to his.

"Rin…" he began, but was unable to finish.

She went onto her tip-toes and kissed his neck again. The shiver that came from him was slightly bigger than the one she got before. She let her short nose slide along his jaw line, ending at his lips. She kissed him lightly. She pulled back—but still touching his lips—enough to speak.

"Why so many restraints, my lord? Stop holding yourself back. Let it go. Just let yourself—"

Before she could finish, Sesshomaru grasped her face in his hands and pulled her lips fiercely to his.

We he pulled away, they were both gasping. Rin smiled. "You listened to me."

Those four words snapped the dog demon from his trance and he pushed Rin onto the bed. She sat there dumbfounded. Lord Sesshomaru's eyes glared a dangerous red. The demon closed his eyes and breathed deeply.

"Don't you ever do that again, Rin," he said, eyes still closed.

Rin cringed, returning to her shy, childlike behavior. "And yet you are the one who came to me wanting…" she looked up at him, "…something."

His eyes shot open and he gave her a dangerous look. "You will do well to forget this night."

The look he gave her warned her not to test him again. "Yes, Sesshomaru-sama" was all she could say, due to the fact that her heart was breaking.

He nodded sharply and left her alone in her dark room. Rin returned, slowly, to her pillows.

The bastard, she thought. How dare he come to my room treat me like that and then just ask me to forget about it. I'll show him that he can't do that to me.

And that was the moment when Rin decided that since she was now a woman, she had to start acting like one.

And tomorrow was when she would begin. . . .

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A/N: Yeah, I hate ending a chapter, too. But, don't worry! More to come! Haha. I know I said smut, and this is a little more like fluff, but I'll try next time. I just thought it was too soon. Well, I hope you liked it‼ Reviews would help a lot to keep me going! I promise to try and update A.S.A.P!

-Willow

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