This chapter is shorter than I would have liked. What I have planned could have been worked into this chapter, but I thought it would be best if I broke it into two separate chapters. Still, I hope that you enjoy it and please remember to get those reviews in. I check constantly and smile at every single one of them. They really do help me through my day.

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He didn't know what came over him. He never opened up to anyone and ignored all human emotions. They made a demon weak. His father fell in love with Inuyasha's human mother and it got him killed. Only, when it came to loving his human wife, Inuyasha seemed to grow in strength. Overcoming most obstacles placed in his way, even saving Kagome from the Jewel Shard before it consumed her. In this instance though, falling for the girl in his arms now, would very likely be his downfall. She'd been brought here for the sole purpose of weakening him. If what the puppet had told him was true, then he would wait until Sesshomaru had fallen too far, and would make his move. Taking the one thing in this world that mattered to him. Like his father before him, a human would be his undoing.

Was that something he wanted to risk? No, it wasn't.

Except, he couldn't seem to fight whatever this was. He couldn't describe the way he felt in this moment, having never dealt with anything like this in all his years of living. There was a strong urge to protect this female, to claim her as his own and make certain that no other dared to take her from him. The thought alone made him see red.

"S-Sesshomaru?" Her soft voice pulled him from the red haze, having a calming effect on him.

Coming back to his senses, Sesshomaru looked into her brown eyes. He didn't realize he had been holding her so close, or that he'd tilted his head down towards hers. Had he been about to kiss her? He should let her go. Judging by the way she was looking back at him, she thought he would, in fact, kiss her.

Letting her go and taking a step back, was one of the hardest things he's done. Every instinct he had screamed at him to take her, make her his, put her scent all over her body. But he wouldn't. Barely knowing this woman, he refused to do something as significant as mate with a human. Turning his back on her, he pushes aside those unwanted thoughts. "Go back, Rin." He commands, his voice once more void of emotions, cold as usual.

Rin stared at his back, her face hot and her heart pounding hard enough to be heard in her ears. Being held in his arms like that, should have been inappropriate, and she should have demanded he let her go, but instead she found herself wanting his arms around her body, holding her like she meant the entire world to him. As she looked up into his eyes, she saw so many emotions hiding there. When he tilted his head down, as if to kiss her, she couldn't deny the fact that she wanted him to do it. Not because of the resurfaced memories, but because she wanted it. Would his kiss be soft? Or would he kiss her with the same fierce attitude she knew he possessed? Only, when he pulled away from her, she suddenly felt completely alone and worse, rejected.

He wanted her, didn't he? Wasn't that what she saw in his eyes? So why did he let her go? "W-why.." Her voice skips and she was surprised to hear the sob in her words. Wait... was she crying too? A century of emotions welled up inside of her, emotions that were hers, but weren't at the same time. She loved him, but she hated him too. The girl she had been loved him and everything that he was, but woman she was now, hated how he could so easily cast her aside, despite his own feelings. "I don't want your help..." Rin fights back the sobs, though it was impossible to fight back the tears spilling down her cheeks.

When he turned around to face her, to tell her she didn't have a choice in the matter, Sesshomaru was taken aback by the sight before him. Rin stood there with her hands clenched tightly at her sides. Her eyes reflected the deep pain she felt and tears streamed down her cheeks, glistening in the moonlight. He'd seen her cry before, but not like this and it made his very heart hurt.

"I don't want your help, I don't want anything from you." She shakes her head when he was about to say something. "No Sesshomaru, I don't care what you have to say. I don't care if you command me, I won't listen. That may have worked in the past, but not anymore. I'm not that little girl, even though I share her memories." With tears trailing down her face, she definitely lifts her chin. "I'm going back to Inuyasha and Kagome. I'll ask them for their help. I won't do this, I won't follow you blindly like I once did. I won't be that pathetic child chasing after something that will never happen. I won't be waiting for you to come back this time..."

He could hear the truth in every word she said. In the past, Rin waited hopefully for him to come back for her, but he didn't and in the end he failed her. The woman before him now, the one born several centuries in the future, won't make the same mistake. She wouldn't hopelessly wait for him to come for her, when she knew he wouldn't.

"Rin, you're not safe there." He said it matter-of-fact. Without showing any of the inner turmoil he currently felt, Sesshomaru thought to sway her decision.

"I don't care. Anything is better than staying here with you." Pulling her gaze away from his, Rin starts to turn around. "Forget I ever came back. Go back to whatever journey you were on. Pretend I'm still dead." She may not have meant to say her next words out loud, but he'd have heard even the softest whisper. "Kohaku was right all along, I should have listened to him..."

His eyes go wide at her silent confession and before he even realizes what he was doing, Sesshomaru reaches out and grabs her wrist in a tight, yet gentle hold; forcing her to stop. He watches as she glances down at his hand around her wrist and then turned those chestnut gaze up to his. "Let me go, Sesshomaru." The hold he had on her wouldn't hurt her, but it was firm enough to keep her from pulling free.

Jealousy fueled his actions now. Rational thought abandoning him.

Stalking towards her, his golden gaze blazed down at her, his height towering over hers. As he came closer and closer, Rin was forced to step back or be stepped on. Her back soon hit something solid and she was unable to continue her retreat. Looking up at him, she could sense something had changed. Was it because she mentioned Kohaku? Did he see the boy as a challenge in some way? Opening her mouth, she started to tell him off, but her mouth was completely dry, her voice no more than a squeak.

"Quiet." His own voice was low and fierce, demanding complete obedience. She didn't realize he had taken a hold of her other wrist until she felt her arms being lifted above her head and pinned there, only needing one hand to hold both of hers in place. "Mention that boy again and I will make certain his life will no longer be preserved." His larger body pressed against her smaller one and she could feel every one of his hard muscles. Her heart races inside her chest, her throat dry.

"You're mine, Rin." He leans his head forward, pressing his nose to the side of neck, breathing in deeply; taking in the scent of jasmine and lilies, this scent that drove him crazy. "No one will ever take you from me again." He felt her shiver and it brought a devilish smirk to his lips, liking the way she shudders in his arms. Wanting to feel her do it again.

"W-what are you talking about, Sesshomaru?" Rin asks breathlessly. Her body was suddenly hot, her clothes feeling too tight and uncomfortable. Pressed against her like he was, made her feel something she's never felt with anyone else. When he breathed in her scent again, she just barely suppressed a whimper of desire. He wasn't thinking clearly, he couldn't be, because he'd never do something like this if he were. "S-Sesshomaru.." She whimpers his name, no longer able to hold it back.

Beside her ear, she heard him chuckle. "Say it, Rin." It was a command, but one that made her knees go weak. "Say you're mine." He growls into her ear, forcing another whimper to emerge from her throat.

Rin didn't know how they got to this moment in time. She didn't even know if this was something he truly wanted, or if he was too consumed by his own jealousy. The demon she remembered would never show emotions like he was now. Never in all the time she traveled at his side, did she see him take a female. Then again, there had been times when he left her with Jaken.

As she overthought the situation, Sesshomaru became impatient when she didn't answer him. Pulling his face away from her throat, he takes her chin in his hand, forcing her to look at him. "Say it, Rin." He repeats his earlier command. "Say you're mine."

He watched as her eyes searched for something in his face and when she bit down on her bottom lip, it was almost his undoing. Rational thinking completely gone, he was now acting solely on instinct. He would have her, but only if she gave herself to him. She hesitated only a moment longer, before giving him the answer he sought. "I...I'm yours, Sesshomaru."

Wow...

Remember when I asked about whether you all wanted a lemon scene or not, well the next chapter will feature the long awaited lemon. It will be a chapter of it's own, so if you do not wish to read, please skip it and go right to the following chapter once it's released. I really hope you all enjoy this chapter. I've debated with myself on how ooc to make Sesshomaru and I hope this isn't too much. I'm always worried he'll be too ooc and I'd hate for that to happen. Though, I promise, he won't become a sappy hopeless romantic.

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