Sorry this chapter was posted wrong for I guess a long time and some one finally told me I will put on the next chapter I post about the correction but here it is :D

Chapter 15 Flowers and an Announcement

Rin remained in bed for the next three days; it was the healers orders and they were readily enforced by Sesshomaru, who was always in the room when Rin woke up from her most resent dose of sleeping drops. Each time she woke she was aloud to stay awake longer but if she showed any sign of being tired she was quickly given another cup of water and sleeping drops.

"But I don't want to sleep Sesshomaru," Rin said on the morning of the fourth day sense she first woke and learned that she had pushed herself to far. "I'm board! I want to do something!"

"You are still healing," Sesshomaru said not quite forcefully. "and if you sleep you will not be 'board'"

"Yes I will be board. Those sleeping drops don't even let me dream so all I do is sit here, fall asleep wake up, fall asleep wake up, for days! I want to go somewhere or do something, can't you take me to the library or better yet the gardens?" Rin looked up at him pleadingly as she gripped the locket he had given her, which lay in her lap at the end of its long chain.

Sesshomaru eyed her considering.

"You know, Aunty Kagome said fresh air is important for people to recover from injuries, and the sooner I get better the sooner you can stop scaring all the castle servants." She smiled up at him and he gave a small sigh.

"Very well."

Rin clapped her hands and bounced in her seat in pure excitement, but was stopped from getting out of bed by Sesshomaru standing to close to the bed for her to put her feet down.

"However, you will not be walking." He stated as he easily scooped her up into his arms along with the blanket that was still across her lap.

Rin huffed but didn't complain he was after all letting her out of bed and out if her room; and truth be told her limbs did still feel heavier then they should after so many days of rest. She laid her head against Sesshomaru's tail and fingered the tips of the fur, she noticed him looking down at her and let go of the soft hairs but didn't move her head; it was too soft and warm for her to let go of the luxury without him actually telling her too.

Sesshomaru and Rin soon exited the castle and entered the gardens not that they were all that big, but they had flower beds and a few different flowering trees. Not everything was in bloom but there were certainly enough to give them color which had always been Rin's favorite thing about flowers. Sesshomaru gently set her down near a large section of different flowers in the shade of one of the garden walls, settling himself to the side and behind her so that she could lean against him as she started braiding the flowers into a crown, as he had seen her do so often as a child.

As Rin worked she enjoyed the feel of Sesshomaru's warm tail at her back, and when she finished her first crown of flowers she turned and offered it to him. Sesshomaru simply eyed her and shook his head; he had never taken them in the past and wasn't going to now. Rin just smiled and put it on her own hair and started another.

As Rin worked Raizen and Yusuke come out and sat with them.

"How are you feeling Rin?" Raizen asked.

"Much better, thanks," Rin smiled at him.

"How did you manage to get out of your cell?" Was Yusuke's question.

Sesshomaru let out a low growl and glared at Yusuke.

"Begging." Rin giggled as she finished her second crown of flowers. She offered it to Yusuke who shock his head horrified at the thought of wearing flowers in his hair. Rin shrugged, "Would you like to wear it, Raizen?"

"I would be honored, Rin." Raizen said as he bowed his head so she could settle the flowers into place. When he looked up he saw the matching looks of disbelief from his father and his son. With a wide grin Raizen answered their unspoken question. "Don't blame me for the pride that's stopping you from receiving the lady's token."

Yusuke muttered something about senile old men and Sesshomaru just looked the other way ignoring his son's foolishness.

Rin settled back into Sesshomaru's side and started fiddling with her locket again.

"Hey, Rin what is that you have in your hand?" Yusuke asked leaning forward a bit to get a closer look.

Rin smiled shyly a slight blush to her cheeks, "A courting gift." She kept her eyes down not able to look at them as she answered.

"WHAT?" Yusuke and Raizen said at once.

"Father you've chosen a mate for Rin? Why didn't you tell me?" Raizen said.

"Seriously? Who's it from?" Yusuke asked at the same time.

Rin couldn't stop her self from glancing at Sesshomaru and blushing a deeper shade of red, before returning her eyes to her lap.

Raizen started laughing, and Yusuke looked stunned.

"Isn't that kind of awkward? I mean isn't he like your dad?" Yusuke was trying to get his head around the idea.

Sesshomaru glared and growled at Yusuke again, as he rapped his tail around Rin's legs and across her lap as well as putting his arm around her waist and pulling her closer to him.

"Not really, he's was my guardian and protector from when I was very young but I always saw him as my lord, not a parent." Rin explained but Yusuke wasn't listening to her anymore but was looking at Sesshomaru's tail as it moved around her.

"What is that thing?"

Rin signed as Sesshomaru's growl deepened. Yusuke was proving to be as distractible as ever. "It's his tail, Yusuke."

"Ok, but I thought he was a dog demon why does his tail move more like a cat's tail then a dog's?"

Sesshomaru snarled and only Rin's hand on his chest stopped him from jumping at Yusuke.

Raizen quickly stood, having finally stopped laughing, and grabbed Yusuke's arm and started dragging him towards the gardens exit. "Ok Yusuke I think that is enough family time for one day, back to training, before you get an opponent you do not want."

Sesshomaru loosened his grip on Rin's waist slightly when Yusuke was out of sight. "That boy's mouth will be his death one day." He stated evenly.

Rin smiled up at him, "Probably, but not today, ok?"

Sesshomaru's only response was to nuzzle her temple, his cheek and nose gently rubbing against her skin and hair. Rin closed her eyes and turned slightly raising her knees to curl deeper into his side.

"Are you tired, Dear One?" Sesshomaru whispered.

Rin nodded, and he started to shift to pick her up but was stopped. "Not yet please. I don't want to go back to bed yet." Rin pleaded, she really didn't want to return after finally getting out into the sunshine, such as it was.

Sesshomaru settled back into place, and Rin sighed in relief tucking herself into his side again as he rapped her more fully with his tail. Rin began to stroke the part of his tail that lay across her lap, treading her fingers through the dense fur, and occasionally feeling the thick rope of muscle and bone at its core. He had never let her touch his tail when she was a child and she knew he was only letting her now because they were courting. That thought made her smile, knowing he wouldn't leave her behind again or give her to some one else. She could keep him, but then a thought struck her; what about their children, their 'half-breed' children.

Rin tensed and Sesshomaru felt it, he lifted her chin so he could see her face. "What has frightened you, dear one?" Rin tried to look away but he wouldn't let her. "Tell me." he demanded.

"Our children would be half human."

Understanding softened Sesshomaru's eyes, and releasing her chin he tightened his grip around her, he spoke gently, "InuYasha's mother was a human with no true power, only beauty, but my father's blood and sword gave him power to stand against all but the most powerful of demons." He lifted one hand to stroke her hair. "Our pups will have a powerful mother as well as a powerful father." Sesshomaru looked into her face again, "I will proudly claim any pup you give me, and they will be raised as children of the Western Lords."

Rin throw her arms around him and buried her face in his shoulder as tears filled her eyes.

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