Rin and Sesshomaru decided after that night that it would be best if they were to no longer see each other, or at least when they had to see each other not to be alone together. It wasn't something that came easily to either of them, but if they were not allowed to be happy together it was best to remain separate as it made reality easier to stand.
A couple of weeks after their night together Rin noticed that her period was rather late. Another week went by and she assumed it was probably from the stress of their separation and said not a word of it to anyone. Then she started noticing other things that were not quite normal, and it did not take her long to realize that she was pregnant. Not knowing what to do, she started wearing baggier clothing in hopes of hiding the bump that was starting to appear.
Two months into the pregnancy she finally decided that it was time to visit the midwife. When she got there she saw Kagome was getting ready to leave. Neither had seen much of each other in the past couple of months, so Kagome made sure to embrace her and then ask what she was doing there. By the looks of it, Kagome was now pregnant again, but there was no logical reason in the miko's mind as to why Rin would be there. "I don't want to talk about it," Rin mumbled looking away from her friend.
"Rin," Kagome asked, concern laced in her voice. "Is there something I don't know about?"
Rin thought she was going to be saved by the midwife's entrance but was sorely disappointed when the midwife offered Kagome the chance to stay and be by Rin's side if Rin consented. Not wanting to appear rude, Rin agreed to it even though her head told her better than to allow it to happen.
The midwife prepared the sonogram machine, which had been smuggled out of Japan some years before, in preparations of seeing the half-demon growing within Rin. "I didn't know you were pregnant!" Kagome said excitedly. "Wait! Does HE know?" she asked insinuating to Sesshomaru.
"No, and he won't," Rin told her friend sternly. Turning to the midwife she asked, "Is there anyway to abort the baby?"
The look of horror on both Kagome's and the midwife's faces was quite scary. "Of course not." The midwife scolded her thoroughly, "This is a child, a helpless being, and I would never consent to killing a child. You should feel blessed to have this child growing inside of you."
"But the father will not have me or the child," she protested. "If he finds out his future mate will kill me and the child."
"Maybe not," Kagome suggested. "Maybe he'll mate with you now that you are carrying his child."
"He already loves me and can't mate with me," Rin in turn protested. "He has put his responsibilities over me, and my carrying his child, his half-demon child, is going to change his mind."
"You don't know that." Kagome smiled at Rin, but her heart was so full of turmoil that even a simple smile could not make her happy. "I will go with you right now to tell him." She stood up and helped Rin to get cleaned up and off the table.
As they were heading to Sesshomaru's mansion Rin decided to go alone. "Kagome, thank you for the offer, but I think this is something I should do alone."
"Are you sure?" Kagome asked her stopping in the middle of the street. "I can go with you."
Rin continued on not realizing that Kagome had stopped, so Kagome had to hurry up to hear her say, "I think I will be fine on my own." Kagome stopped her and gave her a hug drawing the attention of many other immortals walking down the sidewalk. "Thanks." With that she continued on down the street.
At the mansion she found Akura sitting behind Sesshomaru's desk. "I've been expecting you," Akura said with a sinister scowl. "The midwife told me you would be coming, but I was expecting my sister-in-law to be with you."
"She's not your sister-in-law," Rin mumbled.
"What did you say?" Akura asked slamming her fists on the desk.
Rin gathered what little courage she had and said in a louder tone, "She's not your sister-in-law because you are not mated with Sesshomaru yet. He's made you a promise and nothing more."
"That's still more than you have," Akura responded snidely. "But then again, you are now carrying something that you think will get you more." Rin backed away as Akura approached her stealthily. "Of course, I could end that thing's life if that's what you really want."
Rin put her hands on her abdomen in a protective manner. "If anyone will end my child's life, it won't be you."
"Don't be so sure of that," she said finally grabbing Rin by the throat and picking her up so that Rin's feet were no longer touching the ground. "If you hope to spare your life and the life of that abomination you are carrying, then you will do as I say." Rin's vision was starting to fade but she could hear Akura's words clearly. "When Sesshomaru gets back here, you will beg him to let you go on the supply restocking trip to Hong Kong. Once you get there you will give your companions the slip and stay there in Hong Kong. You can look for Boksano while you're there."
With that she dropped Rin on the floor as Rin slipped into unconsciousness. When Rin did wake up she found Sesshomaru standing over her as she lay there on the couch. "I don't know what caused her to black out," Akura was innocently telling him. "She was talking about wanting to go on the trip to Hong Kong, and then the next thing I knew she had passed out.
Rin awoke in her own home alone. It was now dark, so there was no reason for her to return to the office. When she got downstairs she found a note on the front table from Sesshomaru giving her permission to leave on the re-supply trip leaving the next morning at 7 A.M.
Right now she was horribly confused as to what to do. She didn't want the child, but when her child was threatened she would rather give up any happiness with Sesshomaru to save it. Then again, she wasn't entirely sure how Sesshomaru would react since he had made a promise out of responsibility to Akura and was reluctant to break it.
But what would happen to her out in the human world when her half-demon child was born? Before she passed out she remembered hearing Akura mention the name Boksano. She remembered an elder dog demon that had tutored her in the Feudal Era by that name, but she and Sesshomaru had both said there were no dog demons left on earth, hence the reason they felt the need to produce heirs together.
Figuring it was best to at least look for this Boksano out of sheer curiosity as to why Akura would mention this person she was eagerly waiting for everyone to show up the next morning for the trip. The trip took less time than the trip from Japan, but it was still nearly a full day of sailing and with all men nonetheless.
Once they got onto dry land Rin helped them with picking out the right supplies they needed, but when it came time to pack everything onto the boat she excused herself and went off on her own in search of Boksano. However, her lack of knowledge about the city would end up getting her into more trouble as she all too quickly wandered into the poverty section of town.
As she asked around the many people hanging out on the streets she felt the presence of someone following her. The feeling didn't leave her as she crossed over into a better part of town, and she decided to run in hopes of getting away from the person. The person caught up with her, however, in a very short amount of time and she was not able to see their face before a bag was thrown over her head.
Her screams attracted the attentions of an older gentleman who had left his windows open in his house that day and he sent for his sons to help him save the young woman outside needing help. Their demon strength and speed quickly did away with the human man who was now trying to carry Rin's limp body away.
The bag was taken off of her head and she looked weakly at the demon men in disguise who had rescued her before fainting. The elder demon recognized her immediately and told his sons, "We need to take her into the house immediately."
"She smells like demons," his eldest son, Isamu, informed him. "How can we trust her?"
The youngest man of the three picked her up and carried her bridal style to their house as his father explained to them, "She is a reincarnation of a young human woman I tutored in the Feudal Era. It is likely that she escaped Japan with them and may be able to give us information."
"How could you have tutored a human, Father?" his youngest son, Amon, asked him. "I thought you only tutored demons of rank."
"I did," he answered him as he climbed the stairs trying to look more elderly than he felt. "Except I also tutored the young ward of Lord Sesshomaru. Upon her death he locked himself into her room for a couple of days only to emerge later to bury her and commission a statute of her to be built over her grave. He later paid to have a shrine built around her grave also. They say that she is his soul mate, but if she has been around him she has not become his mate."
Daiske laid her down on the bed in the guest room as Isamu called for their sister, who lived next door. Ai was over in a couple of minutes and the males cleared out the room so Ai could get a chance to look over Rin for any physical problems. Thankfully the man had done little physical damage and had mainly just scared the wits out of her. What didn't escape the dog demon's vision was the now starting to protrude belly of the pregnant human.
Ai changed Rin into a pair of pajamas she brought with her and closed the door behind her as she entered the hallway. The men were in the kitchen discussing what to do with her. "She's fine," Ai interrupted them. "But I did notice that she's pregnant. I don't know how far along she is because I'm not sure if she's pregnant with a human or a half-demon, but she's probably just into her 2nd trimester."
"We can't keep her around if she's pregnant with a half-demon," Isamu protested to his father.
"We will if she is," Boksano asserted. "She has not mated with his demon, and it seems that she was running away. I am guessing that the father does not know if the child's existence and she is trying to keep it that way." With that said he went to the guest room and sat at a chair at the bedside and read a book waiting for his young pupil to awaken.
Rin slept for a good hour before waking up to the feeling of warm sheets around her. Not knowing where she sat up immediately in the bed and looked around to see the demon sitting next to her out of disguise. She blinked a couple of times as realization of who was now sitting next to the bed hit her. "Sensei?" she asked him.
"Yes?"
So this was the Boksano that Akura had been talking about! But this meant that there were more dog demons still left in this world! "I didn't know you were still alive. Akura and Sesshomaru thought they were the only dog demons left in the world."
"We are not. Most of us dog demons are residing in this part of Hong Kong," he explained to her. In a grave voice he also said, "And Akura and Lord Sesshomaru are well aware of our existence. Akura helped us pack up our things 50 years ago, and she was to stay and let Lord Sesshomaru know. We received a message from them a month later insulting us for leaving Japan."
"That can't be true," she protested. "He believes that he and Akura are the last demons left."
He left the room for several minutes without saying a word and returned a few minutes left with a folded up piece of paper in hand. She timidly took the piece of paper from him and unfolded it. Inside was the strong confident handwriting of Sesshomaru. The words that flowed from the pen were quite stinging to anyone's pride, and what he said about Akura made her stomach want to lurch. The thought had never occurred to her that he was lying to her about his intentions towards Akura, especially after that night they spent together, but the proof on paper was too hard to ignore.
She folded it back up and handed it to him. "I didn't know," she explained to him. Her words were slow in coming as she thought carefully over what she would say next. "I had been told that all of the dog demons were gone besides the two of them, and because they were the only ones left they felt a responsibility to mate together. That was his excuse for why he couldn't make me his mate."
"Is he the father of your child?" Boksano asked her tenderly.
"He is, but he doesn't know I'm pregnant. Akura knows though." She frowned further at the thought of the horrible demon woman lying with her soul mate, but she mentally slapped herself realizing that her soul mate wasn't the person she thought he was. "She threatened to kill my baby if I didn't go on the supply trip here and stay here. I had heard her mention your name, so I thought I would look for you. It seems that you found me first."
"We did. But next time you need to be careful of where you are going." He stood up and moved towards the door but turned around to say, "You can stay with us. Once the baby is born you'll need to go looking for a job so you can get a place of your own down the street. It's more important than ever in your life to be a demon community." He left the room and closed the door behind him.
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The ship returned hours later than normal, which worried Sesshomaru. He didn't know why Rin wanted to go on the trip. He kept telling himself that she wanted to help and a change of scenery, but deep down he knew something else probably prompted this sudden decision. It was more a sneaking suspicion since it was Akura who had mentioned it to him, but when Rin did go he wasn't as dead set on believing Akura had anything to do as he originally had been.
Through the darkness the ship could be seen approaching slowly. The demons standing on the bough were stern looking. As soon as the boat docked the captain immediately sought out Sesshomaru to talk to him privately. "I'm sorry to bring you this news, but when while we were loading up the ship Rin excused herself stating that she wanted to take a walk. When she didn't return hours later we went looking for her, but we were unable to locate her. She had been acting suspicious all day, so most of the men decided that it was best for us to leave for home assuming that she had always intended to never return with us."
The captain cringed after his statement, which had not escaped Sesshomaru's notice. So this was the reason for Rin's request, he reasoned. Not sure if she had been forced into it or she had decided for herself, he immediately sought out Kagome. Unfortunately he found that Akura had gotten there before he had, and Inuyasha and Akura were fighting. The rage that filled Inuyasha was obvious to Sesshomaru long before he even got to the house.
Sesshomaru looked around wondering where Kagome was since she was always very involved in her mate's fights, but he was unable to see her. A tap on his arm by his 15 year-old niece alerted him to her presence. She looked as if she had been sobbing. "What happened?" he asked sternly. He had not meant to sound so harsh but he was having trouble controlling his emotions at this moment.
"Akura killed my mother," she sobbed out. "Please stop them before Father dies also," she requested of him.
His eyes turned red and he could feel himself transforming into his true form. The pair fighting were so involved in their struggle they were unaware of Sesshomaru until he destroyed Akura in one swipe of his paw. Inuyasha, still enraged by his sorrow, said sarcastically, "I didn't need your help!"
Sesshomaru transformed himself into a ball of energy and left for another part of the island to be alone.
