A/N: OK, so in the previous chapter, the part where Rina was giving birth to Rin, it was a silent one, right? It's because she can tolerate pain… but; took all her powers giving birth to Rin… why it took her life you will know in this chapter! ^^v
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Miko- Priestess
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Chapter 8- The Priestess and the Demon
Rin's POV
"Where am I? Sesshomaru?" I said as I awoke to nothing… It was very dark… am I dead?
"Rin…" An unfamiliar female called out to me…
"I-It's me!" I said as I was taken aback by the woman standing before me… Same eyes, same hair, the same everything, just… older…
She even giggles like me…
"No, my Rin… It is I, your mother, Rina, Midoriko's twin… I am everything Midoriko is except that we don't look alike…" she said in a warm voice she possesses… Midoriko? Rina? My mother?
"You look cute when you're confused, Rin… Just like me" And she laughs just like me! Only, hers is a lot matured than mine…
"O-Okaa-san?" I managed to say… she stopped laughing and embraced me…
"My Rin… I'm so sorry… you had to meet me this way… and I'm sorry Sesshomaru thought he lost you forever…" She said while I gasped…
"Sesshomaru? He thinks I'm dead?" I broke the warm embrace… She only nodded and proceeded…
"But, you're actually maturing into a powerful Miko…" She giggled again…
"Those girls actually just helped make it faster…" She added… I'm really, really confused now…
"U-Uhmm… so am I dead?" I asked again
"No…" She softly replied and smiled… I am a priestess?! Then that means-
"What about our children-to-be?! Their father, he's a demon, while… I- I'm a priestess… Wouldn't my powers kill them accidentally?" I am now so worried… I felt like I was about to cry…
"No… don't worry, my dear child… they won't… just like their mother… they're pure, like their father, they will be strong… just as I have bore you…" She smiled sadly…
"Your father was… a demon… a loving, fierce, Tiger-demon Lord… He was the Lord of the East… Yes, I was only a mistress… because he had a mate, a fearsome Tigress-demon… but, the downfall was, she can't bore him any child… and he discovered that she had a lover before him, a human…" She added… Wait…
"Umi, she is now the lady of the East! So that means-"
"Yes, she is your sister, but… you're a priestess, she, a demon… I adopted her because I felt her fears as a child left all alone by her mother… her mother found her a disgrace… And that's how you two are connected… you were heir to the Eastern throne; but gave the crown to Umi; for they know not of your existence… you have demon-blood running through your veins, a wild-care-free and a nature's gift… You are not a demon, but a human Priestess, the only demon-part in you is in your blood; your pups will survive because of your demon-blood… I used up all my powers to stop you from becoming a half-breed, and that's how I died painfully, but satisfied that you will live a normal life…" She sighed and her smile faded…
"Unfortunately, fate had been unkind to you… Umi was taken away… The only person kind to you was killed and you were left to fend for yourself… but you remained pure… you always find the goodness in every living thing… you harnessed a cold demon's goodness in him; you made him realize that he can feel…" I'm really crying now…
"K-Kaa-san… I'm sorry… because of me… you died… but I am truly grateful for your sacrifice… Even if I thought I had no mother… I loved her from the start… I loved you from the start…" I managed to say with tears of longing and happiness…
"And I you, my child… You don't know how the happiness took over the pain the second I bore you… And I wish you forever happy with Lord Sesshomaru and my grand-children-to-be…" Mother said…
A light from above us shined… "This is my cue on leaving, then…" I said and bid farewell, she embraced me and kissed me on my forehead her last, tender kiss…
"Farewell, Rin…" were her last words…
I woke up finding my beloved lord; nuzzling my neck… crying to let the pain a little bit bearable…
Sesshomaru's POV
'Rin'… 'Rin…' RIN! RIN! Still holding her petite body; I noticed her body getting warmer and warmer… it's an illusion… an illusion… a figment of my imagination…
"Sessohmaru…" her soft voice calling out to me… is an illusion…
Her gentle touch against my skin is also… my imagination…
"Rin… I'm so sorry I didn't have the chance to say this to you… but I love you, Rin… I will follow your fate… for without you, without my love… I am nothing…" I said… as I was pulling Bakusaiga out… a hand stopped me…
"My love… don't…" Rin?
"My beloved Sesshomaru-sama, I am here… in your arms… always… by your side… until the ends of time… I am yours and yours alone… I will depart this world with you… but until that time comes… don't leave me… I am here, my love…" It is her! I opened my eyes; my heartbeat getting faster and faster by each moment passing… I… I can hear her heartbeat! She's alive!
"Rin…" I was lost for words… Her color is coming back… her eyes so alive… her smile; her wonderful smile…
"Sess-" I shut her off with a tender, loving kiss… I missed her… I don't want to say it in words… I was afraid… I deepened the kiss… she let me be and spoiled me to my demon's content… I didn't want to kill her by stopping her breathing… I broke the kiss and we both panted for air… she smiled… and cupped my face… I held her hand tightly… I missed her touch… I missed her presence… I missed Rin…
"And I you, my darling…" She said… heh. I forgot… she could read my mind… do you know what I want to do, Koi?
"Yes… but, I want you to know… I-I am… a Miko…" she stood up and put a barrier around herself…
"Attack me, Koi…" She commanded so abruptly… I stared at her flatly…
"I won't be hurt… I promise…" She firmly said…'No, you won't be hurt… you'll die'
"I'm not weak!" She cried… and the barrier's aura became stronger, Hn… this will be interesting… I took out Bakusaiga… and let my aura flow through it… My koi wants the castle to be badly damaged; so be it… I smirked…
I slashed the sword at her and flashed a blue wave of light after hitting her barrier… what amazed me was she held my attack; and purified it! Heh. What would I expect? My koi is a powerful miko… No matter what you are, Koi… I will love you…
She giggled… How I love this woman…
Umi's POV
O-Okaa-san?! I- I saw Rina! I saw Rina smiled at me when I arrived from where Rin and Sesshomaru are…
"Arigatou…" was all she said and smiled sweetly at me… until the light disappeared and I saw Sesshomaru crying… F-First time… IT'S HIS FIRST TIME! Oh RIn! You are really our mother's daughter!
Sesshomaru, in his despaired state, didn't notice me… He just cuddled the now-alive Rin in his arms… I smiled at the sight… and I turned away…
'I miss you, Koichi…'
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