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Little Peeping Rin

"I will never be unfaithful to you." After moments of silence Sango stated what she thought he needed to hear. From the sounds of it Miroku was going to remain near her for the rest of her life and she could only assume that fact hadn't gone unnoticed by the demon lord either.

"Your fidelity was never in question. I would have killed you otherwise."

Eyes going wide Sango didn't question that statement, knowing in her bones that he was perfectly serious. He really would kill her. She'd imagine most people would be running away right about now but she found it comforting in a strange way. Besides, wouldn't she do the exact same to her own husband if the roles were reversed? Hell yes. Not that she needed to worry about Sesshoumaru there. There were hundreds of things a person could find wrong about the demon but there was no question that he considered marriage sacred, or whatever the taking of a mate was called. "You know..the more I'm around you the more it becomes clear why I chose you."

Now it was his turn to be surprised as her quiet statement had him raising a questioning eyebrow as he looked down on her. "Oh?"

"Yeah." Taking the two steps necessary Sango stepped forward and wrapping her arms around his startled waist, laying her cheek against his chest as she closed her eyes, breathing in his familiar scent as she pressed her body against his. This was what she needed, Sango thought silently, her form relaxing as it absorb Sesshoumaru's body warmth and presence. She'd needed him.

Unused to being hugged, especially since Rin was still too short to do it properly, Sesshoumaru didn't quite know what to do as he stared down at her. Everyone seemed to want to heap affection on him lately and it was really starting to bother him, especially since they all seemed to have the ridiculous idea that he needed them to do it. But she wasn't hugging him now for his sake but for her own. She needed comfort now. Hesitantly his arms slowly moved from his side to lay awkwardly at her waist, not really holding her but there none the less. It was the best he could do.

After a few minutes had passed Sesshoumaru relaxed against her as well, no longer feeling awkward about the whole thing though it certainly wasn't going to become a habit. It was..distracting to hold her like this and comforting her was leading his mind down avenues it was best he stayed off of. Especially when Satsuki could be lurking nearby without his knowledge, Sesshoumaru thought wearily, trying to pay attention to every sound and scent that reached him. Not that his self control would slip that much because of Sango but still, the only time he had women in his arms it was for one purpose and one purpose only. Wrapping his mind around the idea of doing it for platonic reasons was taking more work then he could have anticipated. "You didn't answer my question, slayer." He finally said, hoping that she would let him go as he let her go, his arms returning to his sides.

Missing his arms around her Sango was only surprised he'd lasted that long. He just wasn't the physically affectionate sort. Rin was probably the only person besides her that Sesshoumaru had ever let hug him. "What question?" She asked, keeping her head right where it was and her arms still around his waist. She knew perfectly well what he was referring to and was simply stalling for a few more moments of closeness before he moved away from her grasp.

"Coyness doesn't suit you."

"Says who?" Sango wanted to know, moving her head as she tipped it back to meet his golden ones, her lips moving in a rather adorable pout. After all, coyness was supposed to be a female trait and even though she'd never really had to use it she preferred to believe she could if needed.

Lifting out a hand Sesshoumaru's thumb brushed against the pouting bottom lip, the caress slow and as light as a summer breeze. "Says me." She had a very appealingly shaped mouth, almost as appealing as the taste of that mouth under his own. He hadn't kissed her since that night they'd gone star gazing, suddenly that seemed like an incredibly long time to wait for another taste.

"And you know everything of course." Was her somewhat breathless reply, her breathing shallow and somewhat choppy as she made herself not look away.

Too busy concentrating on the fact that her erratic breathing was causing her breasts to heave against his own chest Sesshoumaru nodded rather than actually saying anything. He didn't have to.

Well aware of where his eyes had gone Sango wondered if he realized that his free hand, the one not cupping her cheek, was currently resting on Miroku's favorite spot to grope the female body. Her butt. His hand simply rested there, holding her closer to him as his warming gaze moved from their joined chests to her eyes once more, the feel of them, rather than the look, causing her to swallow hard. "Then if you know everything...what am I thinking about right now?"

"This." His hand sliding from her cheek to the back of her head he was changing the angle even as his own head lowered, their lips brushing one, twice, three times before their lips met and held, her grip around his waist tightening as she stood up on her tip toes to fit their bodies together so that they were hip to hip, his hand on her rear supporting her against him while his other hand slide into her hair as their lips devoured each others. Standing in the hallway's darkening shadows the only sounds were the rustling of clothing as it brushed against cloth and skin, heavy breathing and the occasional gasp of pleasure. Then a giggle.

His sense of hearing acute the faint sound registered in Sesshomaru's ears as being out of place. Even though a giggle was the last sound Satsuki or any form of real danger would make he forced himself to raise his head, panting slightly as his eyes turned towards the source of the sound. The quick sliding of a door closed and the sound of small, bare feet on hardwood floors made it abruptly clear just who had made the sound. "Rin."

Slumped against him, his arms having automatically moved around her waist to support her Sango felt decidedly drunk and light headed as she turned her head in the direction he'd been looking. "Rin?" She repeated, her tone questioning as she tried to focus on something other than the muscles that had bunched under her fingers when he'd pulled his head away from hers. His kissing abilities came second only to the delicious feel of all those rippling biceps under her searching hands, Sango thought dreamily, her mind losing focus again. Who could blame her?

"Rin was watching."

It took a moment for that to process but when it did Sango's already flushed face went scarlet with embarrassment, her face turning so that she could bury her face against his chest. "Oh MY GOD!" She groaned, using one of Kagome's sayings for moments when the situation was just too embarrassing to put into words.

More than a little put out as well Sesshoumaru was very, very glad that she hadn't dulled his senses to the point where that giggle would have passed by his ears unnoticed. Who knew what Rin would have seen if he hadn't. Looking down at the slayer who'd buried her face in his robes he had to grin somewhat, thinking it rather amusing given the inhibition she'd shown moments before. Yes, his woman was going to be quite the little distraction once he finally had her right where he wanted her. And he had just thought of her as his woman. Torn between the fact that he had and knowing how much he was looking forward to making her his in the most basic of ways Sesshoumaru was suddenly feeling as shook up and embarrassed as Sango.

Watching from the shadows Satsuki's hands fisted and unfisted as she watched the pair. She'd been there since that lecherous monk had left and now that she'd confirmed her earlier suspicions she was just waiting for Sesshoumaru to leave so that she could have a little chat with the one they called Sango. So this was why she'd never been able to hold his attentions, Satsuki seethed, her eyes practically glowing with hatred as she watched the two speak to each other in low voices, her hearing not up to catching any of it from where she stood at the end of the hallway. Her blood pressure rising to new and fascinating heights when she watched HER man lean over and kiss the forehead of the human female Satsuki literally felt something snap inside her as she started forward with some insane idea of tearing the two apart. She was stopped though, as two hands came out of nowhere to cup either side of her face.

"You will not interrupt." The calm, soothing voice told her, his voice seeming to hold her in her place rather than the hands that lay so gently against her temples. "You will forget everything you saw here and return to your room to get a good night's sleep so you'll look your best tomorrow. You don't want any of those other women to outshine you, now do you?"

Shaking her head Satsuki's eyes were suspiciously blank as the hands slid away. Without a sound the demoness walked around the now silent figure and headed back to her rooms to get some sleep so that she would look her very best for Sesshoumaru tomorrow. Not that she needed to worry, there was no one in that group he could possibly be interested in after all.

"Land demons have such weak minds." Watching her go Triton was amused to see that even in her trance like state she was still sauntering as she moved, as if showing off her body for the shadows and walls around her. "Such a silly woman."

"What did you do?" Sesshoumaru asked as he came up to stand beside Triton after seeing Sango to her door. He'd smelled the water demon's scent and had arrived soon enough to see Satsuki leaving without protest.

"Made her forget everything she saw. I thought it best seeing as we require her father's help tomorrow."

"You can do that?"

"I can. Good night." Nodding his head Triton walked off without another word, leaving Sesshoumaru behind to wonder just what he'd gotten himself into getting involved with not only Sango but a water demon who could apparently manipulate the minds of others. His life had been so nice and ordinary before, he thought with a faint sigh, turning to head back to his own rooms. Those days were long over it seemed.

Not used to staying inside buildings and finding the place oppressive Ren had left the room he was supposed to be sharing with the annoying Kyou and had opted instead to head outside and take advantage of one of the trees in the courtyard. The sounds of the night were all around him and they soothed him, reminding him of home as he leaned back against the tree's trunk. So far it had been the trip from hell and he wished for the millionth time that he'd stayed home instead. They needed him there after all and his father had practically been on the verge of disowning him for wanting to come here in the first place. The only reason he'd been allowed to come was because his father had liked the idea of his son being the one to kill Ferio right under the noses of Sesshoumaru and Inu yasha's brats. Of course being around them was one of the reasons why this whole thing was quickly becoming his own personal nightmare. He didn't even know why he hated them so much. He'd tried to figure it out over the years but he'd never been quite able to put his finger on the reason why the very sight of them put his back out. It took a lot to hate someone like Hotaru after all, he thought with a faint smirk, bringing an image of the little goody goody to mind. She was the sort of idiot that would have ended up dead by now if it weren't for the rest of her family. She was just too nice and naive. Yet, he disliked her, got uncomfortable just by being near her and she'd never been anything short of nice to him. She was nothing like Mika and they didn't even look alike so it could be that either. So why, what was it about those two families that pissed him off so much?

"My dad likes to sleep in trees too."

Looking down Ren snarled when he saw the familiar form of his annoying roommate at the bottom of the tree looking up at him. "What the hell do you want?"

"I promised Aunt Mina that I'd keep an eye on you and make sure nothing happened to you. Anything you could throw out at me is nothing compared to what she'd do to me so don't even bother with the threatening of physical harm if I don't leave you alone."

"Or I could just kill you and burn your body so that there would be nothing for Sesshoumaru to revive."

"Okay...I'm big enough to admit you could kick my very nice ass but I would at least last long enough to alert others to my present predicament before you killed me off. Then you'd be the one dead since being in a sulky mood isn't an excuse for trying to off me."

"I'm not sulking."

"You are too sulking." Kyou argued, speaking before he thought through what he was saying like always. "But then again, I'd be sulking too I suppose."

"Care to elaborate on that?" Eyes narrowing Ren watched the quarter demon carefully, knowing that the younger demon really was stupid enough to try and take him on or more likely, say something so stupid and insulting death was the only possible outcome.

"Well you're here by yourself and Hermione and Mina are the only ones that would really put themselves out for you in any way. Well Mika might too but that would really only be because she has this whole thing about being the only one allowed to kill you complex. What I mean is, you're surrounded by people you really don't like and who don't like you. That's got to suck. I know that it would drive me nuts."

"Are you trying to get me to kill you?"

"NO!" Shaking his head rapidly Kyou wasn't so stupid that he couldn't see how his words could be taking the wrong way which they obviously had been. "What I meant to say was that I understand why you are the way you are and that I'm sorry we're all making things that much worse for you. We can't help it because we've got a lifetime of animosity between out families and neither of us can really give an inch because you won't change your mind on the importance of bloodlines and we won't change our minds in thinking that your father is a spawn of Satan and better off dead than alive. And that last part probably just made things worse..didn't it?"

"What did you mean..when you said you understood why I am the way I am?" Curious Ren opted to let the rest go for the time being since he could always kill the annoying pest after his curiosity had been appeased. If nothing else, Inu yasha's youngest did tend to be amusing in his stupidity.

"Well...uhm...what the hell, you're probably going to try and kill me no matter what I say anyway." With a sigh Kyou figured he might as well play Doctor Phil for a moment than hope to hell someone heard the battle going on and came out and saved his ass. Running like a coward was out of the question but it would be damn tempting, he thought with another sigh. "What I meant was that you can be a really nice guy apparently but you're only nice to people you're supposed to be nice to. You're trying to be your father and not yourself which is why you're angry all the time and constantly made to feel like a failure. You aren't Manta and deep inside you know you don't want to be but you tell yourself it is because your father's love and approval means more to you than your own wants and needs. It's a lot like how Uncle Sesshoumaru used to be before Rin and Aunt Sango got ahold of him only in his case he was trying to resolve his father issues while you just ignore them. Than again, he had a couple centuries on you too."

Blinking down at Kyou Ren didn't know quite what to say. He'd just been compared to the Lord of the West, something that could be consider the highest compliment or the lowest insult depending on who you were talking to. He did want to be like his father..and yet how often did he disagree with his father's ideas and actions? And what the hell was he doing, listening to Inu yasha's idiot son. As if anything remotely intelligent had ever come out of that moron's big mouth.

"You're shaking you head so I guess you think everything I just said was bull." Kyou guessed, not really surprised that his psycho analysis had gone over the wolf demon's head. After all, wolf demons were notoriously dumb, especially the ones related to Manta. "Ah well, I tried. I just figured I'd help you out by explaining why you dislike us so much, mixed blood or not."

"You didn't just explain that, you moron!"

"Sure I did. The reason you hate us is because our parents love us just the way we are. You can see we aren't perfect, that we don't fit into the ideals most demons hold for their children like being war minded and all powerful. We don't have to earn our parents love and approval, we have it regardless of our strengths or weaknesses. You hate that because you don't have parents like that. You have all these strengths and good points but they don't matter because your best is never good enough. You're made to feel like you aren't good enough even though you are. And here we are, people you view as weaker and less than you getting exactly what you want for nothing. You want the sort of love and approval we have but you can't because it just isn't in Manta to give it. That's why you hate us so much and that's why you shouldn't want to be like your father. After all...do you really want your pups to be in your place years from now? Full of hate and self loathing because they can't meet the high standards you set and yourself failed to live up to. It's a brutal cycle, but it can be broken you know. Just ask my Uncle."

When no words or vicious attacks came from the top of the tree Kyou figured he'd said enough and had better beat a hasty retreat before Ren decided to shut him up permanently. He'd given wolf boy plenty to think about after all and given how much difficulty wolves had with thinking he doubted Ren would be getting into any trouble any time soon. "And Mika said watching Doctor Phil was going to rot my brain." He whispered in amusement, wondering what his older sister would say when she found out he'd gone out of his way to play shrink for her idiot wolf. She'd probably agree that it was wasted on the idiot but oh well, at least now he didn't owe the wolf for helping save Mika's life when she'd been poisoned. That was something at least.

Note: For all those who've been requesting some steamy moments between Sess/Sango, here's your chance. In the next chap Sess is going to be put under a spell which will put him in a dream like state where he will see the answer to the thing most prevalent on his mind. Send in votes as to what you'd like that to be whether it's a romantic moment like Sess's proposal or steamy like just how good he and Sango really are together. Note that due to the Teen rating there will be no lemon, only lime. You could also vote for glimpses into his childhood, the childhood of his kids, etc. Whatever you'd most like to see, vote it in!