I do not own InuYasha (though I certainly wished I did) just the characters and the plot and, of course, the idea. Enjoy! :)

to Pochi-Pu: okay, Kami and Kimi are completely different people. Kimi is Touga's mate (she's a slut and I hate her) while Kami is the Japanese word equivalent to God in English. Saya and Sara are different too though now that I think about it, are only different spelling wise by one letter. Yikes. Anyway, yes, you get a cookie. *rolls eyes* And yes, our beloved Sesshomaru-sama is her sensei. Has been for a while.

You're Romanian?! Man...man...man that's awesome. Isn't that country where vampires originated from? And of course I want to know when your story comes out in English. I'd be glad to read it! ^o^

4fireking: thank you for all the reviews. And sorry I haven't read your fanfic yet. I've been busy writing my own. When my muses demand I put out a chapter, I do it.

Anyway! Onto the chapter! xD

Chapter 13

It was a normal day her and her pups when they were forced out of hiding. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and a soft, cool breeze made Rin smile happily as she breathed in through her nose. It was the smell of spring, her all time favorite season. Shiori, her eldest pup and her only daughter, was planting flowers only thirty feet away in front of her while her two sons, Tsukimaru and Akiko, were sparing with their swords somewhere behind her. The sounds of their grunts and soft cursing made her smile widen as she closed her eyes, leaned her head back, and allowed the sun's rays to warm her face. Her ebony air as pulled back in a light orange headband, her shirt was a v-neck with puffy sleeves and was orange while her white flowy skirt hit her knees.

Shiori was crouched, her sword strapped to her waist, as her moonlight hair danced gently around her face and her onyx eyes sparkled with joy. Like her mother, she loved flowers. The yellow sundress she was wearing made her eyes glow brighter as she wiped her forehead with her clawed hand. The dog ears on the top of her head twitched for sounds at the top of her head as the navy blue crescent moon on her forehead seemed to glow on her porcelain skin. Her namesake were planted at her feet as she straightened her spine and turned to beam at her mother. Her mother opened but before she could call out to her, the sounds of heavy footfalls caught her attention, and she turned toward the surrounding forest.

"Tsukimaru!" she cried out as she drew her sword from her waist and got into a battle stance. "Akiko! We've got company!"

Rin opened her chocolate orbs and watched the forest around their hidden cottage warily as her eldest son came at her back while her youngest went to help his older sister. "Can you tell who or what it is?" she asked Tsukimaru who shook his head and slid gracefully into a stance himself sword already in hand. Rin drew a dagger from her thigh and got into a battle stance as well and waited. She had a bad feeling. Her mother's intuition was screaming at her to take her pups and run but their only exit that didn't involve the forest was blocked by a fallen tree. They were trapped.

Akiko shifted his weight at his sister's side instantly splitting her attention between the intruder and her little brother. "Easy, Akiko," she said not unkindly. "We've been in worse positions before."

He snorted, his chocolate eyes narrowing in amusement, and he gave his sister a sideways glance. "Yeah, like what? I can't remember the last time we fought for our lives."

"Hundred years ago, okaa-san got taken and we had to go get her," Shiori replied and gave her brother a crooked grin. "We kicked some serious ass that day."

Akiko thought for a second before grinning as well. "Oh, yeah! Okaa-san beheaded some youkai with a dulled sword! Otou-san was pissed."

She nodded. "Tsuki too."

They shared a smile before the intruder broke through the trees. Shiori quickly stopped them by sticking out her foot and tripping them. They fell face-first on the ground and slid to a stop three feet behind them. Akiko and Shiori were there in an instant, both of them placing a foot on their back to keep them down. Upon closer inspection, the two siblings realized that it was a ningen woman in her late twenties with ebony hair and tanned skin. She was wearing a long sleeved, knee-length baby blue dress that hit her knees.

"Whom are you?" Akiko demanded the point of his sword at the back of her neck.

"P-please!" she sobbed hysterically. "H-help m-me! H-he's c-coming. H-help me!" They shared a look before letting her up. Both of their swords were still out though it was pointed away from the ningen as Shiori casted out her senses to the forest where the woman came from. Nothing. whoever this man was that was chasing her was gone. Or hiding. The thought unsettled her deeply as she motioned for her mother and other little brother over.

Once the woman was up, she gazed at the two hanyous before her in awe and fright. The female looked only to be twenty-five with moonlight haior cascading to her breasts and onyx eyes while the male looked to be seventeen with ebony hair and chocolate eyes. Both had navy blue crescent moons on their foreheads though the seventeen year old looking one had two magenta stripes on each cheek. His tanned skin contrasted with her porcelain one. She almost felt bad about deceiving them like this but... orders were orders. She had a family to protect and save.

"Gomen" she whispered softly catching Shiori's attention as she drew a knife from her sleeve and stabbed her in the abdomen. Her mouth was opend as if she was to scream or speak but no sound came out as the ningen pulled out the knife and thrusted it into her sternum. Akiko cried out as he caught her when she crumbled to the ground and watched as his older brother cut off the ningen's head with his sword. He ignored the look of guilt and sorrow on her face as he did it.

Shiori gasped for breath as she closed her eyes to the pain. Blood soaked her dress and the ground as her shaking hands grasped the knife embedded in her sternum to pull it out but her mother stopped her.

"We need to get to Miko Academy," she told her two sons as she moved her daughter's silver bangs from her onyx eyes. "Shiori needs a healer."

Tsukimaru nodded, his ebony hair going into his onyx eyes, and took Shiori out of Akiko's arms. "We can't take the car. It won't fit through the foliage and trees of the forest, "he said softly as he gazed at Shiori's face. Rin nodded and picked up her daughter's fallen sword from the blood soaked earth.

"I know," she whispered and met Akiko's tortured gaze. "I know.

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The wet coughs and rattling breaths coming from their sister made made both Tsukimaru and Akiko pick up their speed toward Miko Academy. Rin clung to her youngest pup's back as Tsukimaru held Shiori close to his chest. He shot his Nee-sama a panicked look when her heart stopped beating for a second before starting once more at an irregular rate. She was close to death. Way too close for comfort.

Shiori's onyx eyes were glazed with pain and blood loss, her silver hair was dull and stringy and stuck to her skin and face, and her skin was pale even for a hanyou of her stature. Her arm hung limply and swayed in the winds of Tsukimaru's speed as the blood continued to soak the front of her yellow sundress, turning it red, and dribbled to to the forest floor below her. Tsukimaru held her delicately to his chest careful not to jostle her too much lest she felt anymore unneeded pain. He ignored the drying blood, her blood, on the front of his white shirt and pants.

"Okaa-san, how much farther?" Akiko called to Rin on his back and Rin spared him a single glance before looking forward again.

"Another half mile, at most," she answered and eyed her daughter in her eldest son's arms. If they didn't get to Miko Academy soon, Shiori would die.

Both of her sons nodded and picked up speed once more. The world blurred to green and brown around her as Rin fought back tears. Her baby girl was dying and help may come too late. She burrowed her face in her son's back and sniffled. This was all her fault. She should have listened to her intuition.

Akiko felt his heart break more at the scent of his mother's unshed tears and forced himself to swallow the growing lump in his throat. He would not cry. Not now. He had a sister to save first.

So I wrote this chapter to clarify things on Rin's return. The next chapter will pretty much be the same way. Don't hate me. .