Small snowflakes had begun to fall from a clouded sky; the cool and refreshing stream had now glassed over with ice. Though fear and anticipation should have been felt by Rin, the air was only filled with a sense of ominous serenity.
"How did you make it snow Lady Akumu?" Rin turned her gazed from the snow filled air to the haunting beauty that now sat upon the snow.
Akumu's black dress pooled and flowed around her, like listless black night; her hair hanging limp against her shoulders and back. "I prefer the darkness and cold. Please, come sit next to me and talk".
Rin walked through the snow as if in a trance, she felt as if she were in a dream. Once Rin sat next to her mysterious company, she found herself being held by cold porcelain arms, and being swallowed up by the blackness of Akumu's dress.
"Rin, tell me, what is it that you wish for? What is your most secret dream?" Akumu's black eyes were now peering into the innocent hazel eyes of Rin's, as if they were searching her soul.
"Um, I don't want to tell..." Rin was unable to fully tear her eyes away from the invading stare now ensnaring her.
"Small child, I am a creature of the soul's deepest secrets. I live among the darkness of your dreams, you cannot lie to me." Akumu's eyes were all that comprised Rin's world now.
"I wish to be with Lord Sesshomaru forever."
"How do you think that will happen? You are human and he a great demon."
"I don't know", Rin's heart was filling with sadness and pain at the thought of not being able to be with her Lord, and Akumu could feel the despair beginning to creep around the young girl's heart.
"Would you like to stay with your lord?" The wicked smile that had first greeted Rin was now slowly emerging on the woman's face yet again.
"Of course, I…I love my lord. I would do anything for him." Akumu's ominous smile was now distorting her face, her eyes now full and filled with swirling black.
A great roar shattered the icy air. Ah-Un was standing atop the small hill that sheltered the stream below, and next to the dragon, stood Sesshomaru.
"Release the girl." Sesshomaru's voice was colder than the ice that was now building up the stream bank.
Akumu's body remained still and continued to hold Rin. Slowly, Akumu's head turned around past her back, and faced the demon lord. The beauty that had masked her face was shattered. Her eyes were now enlarged and filled with black nothing, her porcelain skin cracking at the sides of her face like breaking ice. The smooth black hair that seemed to glide like air was now a heavy tangled mess that violently swirled behind her figure. And the smile, the smile that reappeared and began to grow as the woman fed off Rin's doubt and anxiety, had now reached from ear to ear, as if splitting her face in two.
"Sesshomaru, how delighted I am to finally meet you."
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