Welcome back to the story! Now a quick note from me.

Thanks to: meggie-moo s, spirit1s, Rin7, animefan0000012345, Atlanta Georgia, kella lea, and impi for reviewing, favoriting, and reading all the chapters so far! And Thank you everyone stopping by!

There are a few characters who have shown up and they are not characters from the anime or manga. They are here for writting purposes and will not play huge roles or anything of that sort, they are strictly to help move the story along. Please do not reuse the names for the same positions in other fanfictions. Thanks.

Since Sesshomaru's mother's name has not been relased in the anime or manga, I will be giving her a name. Sorry if some don't like it, but I honestly looked hard for it, I only got unconfirmed names, and i wouldn't use an unauthentic and mistaken name in my story. I'll be giving her the name Asami, meaning beautiful linen. Mostly she'll be reffered to as Ma'am, mother, Madame, and Her Grace. !HIS MOTHER IS NOT IN THIS CHAPTER, THIS IS JUST A FOREWARNING!


Summary: The Horai Island from the 4th movie has reappeared suddenly, without warning. Rin has been drawn to it and is hurt. Will this incedent reval the true feelings of Sesshomaru and Rin? Or will all be lost? .


Rin grimaced, she didn't care for meeting new people. She could blame Sesshomaru for that. They never socialized when she traveled with him and Jaken. Rin looked around herself and realized that all of the clothes she had in her room were far to small for her and she wouldn't wear Kagome's kimono for fear it would get ruined by food.

"Akane!" Rin called from her doorway.

Instantly Akane appeared in a puff of green smoke. "Yes?" She asked scrutinizing Rin's tiny robe.

"I need a kimono for dinner." Rin said shyly.

Akane grabbed her by the hand and tugged her down the hall and into a small room lined with fabrics, clothes, sewing supplies, spindles, yarns, beads, silks, cotton, woven blankets and much, much more. The stout woman pushed Rin into the middle of the room and began gathering things from the walls and floor.

"Hold out your arms." Akane said and measured Rin's waist and hips.

The maid began to wrap Rin in white cotton fabric. She added a lavender cotton next, then a pink, and another lavender. A sash of purple was pulled tightly around Rin's waist and another layer of pink cotton was draped on her waist but not her top. Akane put a long pink silk sash around her breasts and mid waist and wrapped it around three times before tying it off at the back. Finally the actual robe came into play. It was bright pink with small white petals on it. Akane slid it over Rin's arms and tied it closed with a thin white silk sash. Another sash of white silk but by far grander in size was pulled around Rin's front and tied into an elegant bow on the back. The final sash started at the underside of her breasts and stopped at the bottom of her butt.

"This is huge." Rin cried as Akane uncovered a mirror for Rin to see herself.

"But it's beautiful." Akane gasped and draped a small string of itty bitty pearls over Rin's neck and tied her hair into a tight bun with two faux sakura flowers on the top. "You're ready."

Rin thought she looked beautiful, but this was far to elegant for her tastes. But before she could detest all of the layers of clothing she was rushed to the dining hall. "Go!" Akane whispered shoving Rin to the doors.

Rin pushed open the massive oaken doors and stood on a stretched out carpet before a large banquet of guests, all of which were male. Rin's voice caught in her throat as she looked at all of the men at the dining table. "Hello." she whispered.

"It's about time…," Sesshomaru looked up from his glass of sake to see the beautiful sight of his ward standing distraught in the entrance to the hall. "…Rin."

A servant ushered Rin up to Sesshomaru and sat her down beside him. Rin sat quietly and waited for her introduction.

"Rin, these men have come at my request. They wish to seek your hand in marriage." Sesshomaru said dully into his glass.

Rin looked up at her lord in terror. Surely he was jesting, but no, Sesshomaru was never one to jest. His word was of the utmost serious kind. He wanted to get rid of her?

"I will have you meet each one separately and over the course of the next few weeks y-…"

"Why!" Rin screamed. She quickly covered her mouth with her hands and looked around at the guests. They all stared at her in disbelief.

"Why? Because you should have been married long ago and I wish not to be a hindrance to you anymore." Sesshomaru said curtly.

Rin stood up and knocked her dining set off the table with the sweep of her arm. "I will not get married! That's not your choice Sesshomaru!"

The guests gasped and talked amongst themselves.

"She addressed him so informally."

"How rude."

"I'm having second thoughts…"

The kimono clad brunette turned sharply to the guests and glared them down. "Think your second thoughts! I'll never take any of your hands in marriage! I will not get married to any old man for the sake of it! I'll marry the man I love!" Rin screamed.

A bold guest spoke up, a man dressed in a yellow robe looked directly at Rin and said, "Just who is it that you love?"

"I don't feel the need to tell the likes of YOU my private thoughts!" Rin yelled and took the edge of the table cloth and ripped it out from under the dishes on the table. The glassware went flying and shattered about the room.

"How dare you speak to me in such fashion! Do you know who I am?" The yellow robed man yelled standing up in his seat.

Rin stomped from the room in her fit of rage. "No I don't! Nor do I care!" She screamed in response from the hallway and made her way to her bedroom. She sat on her small bed and held her head in her hands. She wasn't sure why she had lashed out, she had never done such a thing. Rin deduced it down to the fact that it must have been pent up frustration and her feelings for Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru sat at the head of the table with his glass of sake in hand. A sly smile graced his features as the guests turned to him. Each one got up from the table and ran from the castle a quick as they could. Sesshomaru began to laugh deeply and to himself. He never expected Rin, his little, innocent Rin, to lash out in such a manner as to damper his reputation.

"Akane." the western lord purred.

Akane appeared by his side in a green puff of smoke. "Yes Mi'lord?" She looked around the room in dismay. Something deep down told her that it was Rin whom had left the room in such a state.

"The servants may have the dinner that was prepared." Sesshomaru said setting his glass down with an audible click.

"Yes. Anything else Mi'lord?" Akane asked bowing her head.

Sesshomaru was quiet for several minutes before he acknowledged the maid beside him. "Yes," he said slowly. "what is Rin's living quarters like right now?"

"Very small Mi'lord."

Sesshomaru nodded to himself. "I want you to put the best linens on my bed tonight. Is Jaken home yet?"

Akane was quiet as she tried to remember if the little green demon had arrived.

"Akane."

"Y-yes Mi'lord, b-best linens. Jaken has a-arrived as well." Akane stuttered, Sesshomaru had gotten impatient during her thinking.

Sesshomaru stood up and left the room. From the hall he called, "Have him make his jasmine candles, a dozen."

Akane ran to the doorway and yelled, "When do you want them!"

"Tonight."


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