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Chapter 8 No More Formalities

Upon landing, at the bottom of the well, in her home time, Rin immediately felt an arm rap around her waist and she was quickly carried to the top and put on her feet. Looking up she found herself starring into the flickering red eyes of Lord Sesshomaru, he was furious, and most surprisingly he was furious with her.

"Where have you been?" He demanded.

She looked down, his anger was so different then the last time she saw him in the woods near Genkai's shrine, she didn't know how to respond. Sesshomaru lifted her chin with one clawed hand, forcing her to look at him.

"Speak!" There was still anger in his voice but no red in his eyes.

She told him, starting when she and InuYasha's kids fell down the well. However, when it came time to tell him about the spirit world detectives and going to look for him she stopped, not because she had been told not to but because she couldn't, she couldn't say the words, that he had clamed her.

"What else?" His anger was gone now but he could tell she was still holding something back, and he didn't like that.

Knowing what she had to do, Rin stepped forward and stood on her toes, she turned her face inviting him to smell her cheek. He did, and he's eyes widened.

Placing his hand on her waist to keep her close, Sesshomaru focused on the scents the clung to Rin. Aside from the scents of InuYasha's pups and mate, only one had touched her recently. Sesshomaru growled with his nose to her arm where Kurama had touched her sleeve only minutes before.

"That would be Kurama." Rin said. He looked at her and his eyes narrowed. "He took me back to the shrine after..." she trailed off once again not being able to say it.

"I see," Sesshomaru straightened and stepped back, "you now have a choice Rin, come with me now or I will wait for you to return to me in the future."

Rin thought about it, the Lord Sesshomaru that she had always know and admired, stoic in the face of all but full battle; or the Lord Sesshomaru from the future that was so happy to see her. If she went with him now she could travel with him as she had as a child, until she either died or he chose a mate for her, but she would soon be gone and he would live hundreds of years waiting for the time she would return so he could hold and smell her scent one last time before she went back to live her life that he had already watched come and go. She realized that there was nothing in what he had said to hint at the choice she would make; it would be entirely hers, with no influence of his foreknowledge. So it came down to where she wanted to live the rest of her life, in this time, or in the future.

"I want to keep going back and forth for awhile, and then I will remain there, so, I will see you in the future." She looked in to his eyes as she gave her answer.

Stoic face unchanging, Sesshomaru simply nodded saying, "Very well. Do not let the male touch you again or I will kill him."

Rin nodded, "I will be more careful Lord Sesshomaru."

"No, Rin, just Sesshomaru from now on," He said, stroking her hair, "no more formalities."

Rin couldn't imagine saying his name without the title, it just didn't feel right, but she nodded. "Yes, Lor...I mean...Sesshomaru."

"It is late, go and rest." Sesshomaru said and Rin looked up to see the moon and stars shining.

"Ok, I'm going to go back through the will and stay with Aunty Kagome's family, Shin and Yukina are still there anyway."

Sesshomaru watch as Rin sat on the edge of the well and prepared to jump. "Farwell, little one, until we meet again." Rin turned on hearing the whispered goodbye, to see Sesshomaru walking away, and then she slipped into the well.

The next morning...

Rin woke abruptly when Shin landed on her.

"Time for breakfast!" He shouted. Rin grabbed the little boy and started tickling him. When he started howling she had to stop to cover his mouth.

"Ok let me get dressed and I'll be right down." Rin pushed Shin toward the door and he ran out. A few minutes later she joined the group downstairs.

"I'm sorry I wasn't able to take Kagome the things you got for her last night, Aunty." Rin said, she had completely forgotten about Kagome's list.

"That's alright; there were a few things I wanted to add to it any way." Kagome's mom smiled and started handing out plates and bowls.

After breakfast Rin helped with the shrine's morning chores.

While sweeping, she looked up at the sudden feeling of being surrounded by a familiar demon energy, and there was Sesshomaru standing under the sacred tree watching her.

"Good morning...Sesshomaru." Rin hesitated before saying his name without his title, but walked over to him.

Sesshomaru pulled the tie from the end of the braid her hair was, once again, in. Rin shook her hair loose.

"Why do you always do that?" Rin had never really wondered before, but things had changed, and she had become very curious about the reasons he did things.

"Your scent will carry better and I can more easily find you." Sesshomaru began examining her scent as he spoke. No scent but the boy and the woman clung to her. Satisfied that no one inappropriate had touched her, he took each of Rin's hands in turn and licked the inside of each wrist, then bent to lick her neck just under her right ear.

Rin knew that she would now smell heavily of Sesshomaru, his demon energy was infused in the saliva that now marked her and would never wash off.

"So I will be able to keep going back and forth, wont I? At least for a while?" Rin really hope he would say yes, she didn't want to say good bye to the past yet.

"For a time, you may, but I must know when you go and when you are coming back. You cannot be left unguarded, this time and its dangers are very different. The demons that were once in power have fallen or returned to there home land in the other world. The women are not protected as they once were, they are expected to take care of themselves, and if they cannot, they are often left to survive as they may without pack or mate."

Rin was astonished, it was true she knew very little of this time but she had not seen the things he had said. However thinking back to the few people she knew in this time she wondered. The Higurashi family had only and elder male unable to do much, other then pass down knowledge, and a young male no older then she was herself. The only other person she really knew much about in this time was Kurama who was there to protect his mother, but he was a demon not human.

"I understand, I will be very careful and stay close to you. Will you be staying here, at the shrine?" Rin asked hopefully.

"No, there are too many humans here. We will return to the wilderness by the sea. I will bring you back when you wish to go through the well." Sesshomaru said and held out a hand to her. "Come."

"May I take InuYasha's kids back first?"

"Yes," Sesshomaru said dropping his hand, "be quick, I will be waiting."

Rin ran to the house. Bursting through the front door, she startled Mrs. Higurashi.

"Sorry Aunty, but I need to take the kids back, and the stuff you have for Aunty Kagome." Rin started packing a large bag with the things they had collected.

"Did something happen, dear?" Mrs. Higurashi said worriedly.

"Sesshomaru is here and wants me to go with him. I don't know when I'll be back so I need to take the kids now." Rin turned to look at the woman, "I will come back. I don't know when but you will see them again, and maybe they will be able to come through on their own. I'll let them try going back by themselves if they want. Then you and Aunty can work out time for you to see them. Shin! Yukina! Come here please!" Rin turned back to the bag and finished packing.

Yukina and Shin had no problems going through the well without Rin, they held each others hand and jumped, landing gently at the bottom in the past. Rin shortly followed, and leaving the bag of things for Kagome at the bottom for InuYasha to get later, helped the kids climb out of the well.

InuYasha soon arrived having smelled his pups, he was quickly followed by Kagome who had sensed the energy from the well.

"Uncle, there is a bag at the bottom for you and Aunty."

InuYasha jumped down and was soon back with the bag of stuff from Kagome's mom.

"I can't stay long; Sesshomaru is waiting for me. He wants me with him, so I'll be staying over there. The kids can go through on there own or when I come back." Rin rushed through her words hoping to be able to get back without to many questions.

"Hold up, Rin, did you say Sesshomaru is there?" Kagome cut in.

"Yeah, he's still alive and wants me to go back with him." Rin tried to edge closer to the well, but it was too late.

InuYasha was sniffing the air. "I see, so he decided that you were finally of age. Only took him five hundred years."

"What?" Kagome asked.

"He marked her as an adult member of his pack. And being unmated and without parents she must stay near him." InuYasha explained, picking up Shin.

"Oh," Kagome looked worriedly at Rin, "ok but make sure to check in with my mom from time to time and make sure to come visit."

"I will!" She gave them all quick hugs, and jumped back down the well.

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