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Chapter Thirty Eight

Rin was running fast as she could through the dark forest. In her mind, she was shock and hurt to know about the future and everything that was going to happen. What shock her most was finding out about how Tenseiga only can save one person, either Saige or Kiyomi. Knowing Saige, she would choose to save Kiyomi. As much as she care for Kiyomi, she can't help but be upset and sad that Saige won't be save and has to bear with curse that Cobramaru placed on her. After all she is Saige's mother in the future. She can't just stand there and watches Saige suffers with curse and not doing anything about it.

"It's not fair!" She mentally shouted.

Rin was so focus on running out of the forest that she didn't notices a branch on the ground and trips over with her foot. She fell down on the ground, scrapping her hands and knees. She sat up slowly and stares at her bloody hands when a rustles sound startles her. Immediately, she got up and grabs the sword that she was carrying behind her.

"What this," An unknown demon appears out from bushes baring his fangs at her "A human alone at night in the middle of the forest".

Rin tightens her grips and sword, glaring at the demon. "I'm not afraid of you, demon!" she spats back.

"Well, you should be, human," the demon growls. "I will enjoy eating your flesh!"

The unknown demon lunges at Rin who dodges out the way and slashes the demon across the chest.

"Ah!" the demon yelps before growling at Rin "Is that all you got!" He swings his claws at Rin, slashing her in the arm.

Rin clutches her arm and winces in pain as she looked fiercely at the demon.

The demon lunges at Rin again. Rin raises her sword and leaps up into the air and hacks off the demon's head off. Then she landed back on the ground on her feet, breathing heavy as the demon's head hit the ground along with his body.

She was about to walk away when another rustles got her attention. Immediately, she ran toward the rustle sound, swinging her sword when a hand grabs her sword.

"Huh?" She looked and her eyes widen when she saw who emerge out and stand in front of her.

"Lord Sesshomaru?"

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Saige was quiet after she heard what Kenzou said. She had decides to that she would save Kiyomi and nothing would stop her from doing that.

"Saige?" Saige turns to Kenzou. "So, what's your decision?"

"I believe you already know what my decision is already," Saige answered rather than giving the direct answer of who she would save.

Kenzou nodded "I pretty sure I already know who you are going to save even though you didn't say it".

Saige was about to say something when a scents reaches her nose. She swiftly turns to the direction of the scent. Not long enough, the scents also reaches Kenzou's nose and he too turn to direction where Saige was looking at.

His eyes widen for a moment when he recognizes the scents and then return back to normal "We're being watch".

Saige ran fast over along with Kenzou and saw Inuyasha was standing to the side of the trunk of tree, folding his arms. She looked around and senses that her father left to went after her mother.

"Took you long enough to pick up my scent," Inuyasha smirked.

"Let me guess, my father was here too, wasn't he?" Saige stares at Inuyasha emotionless and annoyance on her face.

Inuyasha nodded "He left earlier to chase after Rin."

"Hn," Saige turns and walked away.

"Where are you going?" Inuyasha asked.

"Is it oblivious?" asked Saige who didn't stopped but continue to walk away "I'm heading back to hut".

Inuyasha glances at Kenzou who stares at him. "Are you coming are what?"

Instead of answering, Kenzou walked pass Inuyasha who notices the enchanted beads around Kenzou's neck.

"Enchanted beads?" he smirked.

"Like you don't have one yourself," Kenzou shot back with a smirk on his face. "If I could take it off, I would have it off by now".

"Same here," Inuyasha responds back and follows behind Kenzou. He shakes his head and smile. "Like father like son".

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Sesshomaru was chasing after Rin who he managed to catch up with due to his fast speed. When he arrived there, he saw Rin fell to ground, scraping her hands and knees. He was stepped out when he saw an unknown demon appeared and was planning to devour Rin.

His first instinct were to leaped out and rip that demon up into shred, but then stopped when he notices Rin was fighting the demon with her own sword. So, he lingers and watches Rin fight the demon. His hands were on Baksaiga, preparing to leaps out in case Rin is in trouble. He saw the demon slashed Rin in the arm which made him boil inside and was about to slashed the demon when he was taken by surprised. He saw Rin leaped up into the air and chopped the demon's head, which he was impressive by it and wonders how she learned how to fight like that. Must be the demon slayer woman that traveled with Inuyasha, She must have taught Rin how to defend herself. He notices that Rin was about to leave, so he decides to stepped out when he saw Rin lunges toward him and swinging sword.

Hastily, he grabs the sword with his bare hand before it strikes him. Rin was surprised and shock when she saw him.

"Lord Sesshomaru?" he heard her muttered before she loosen her grip on her sword.

He let go of her sword. "Rin, why did you run off like that?"

Rin turned away, putting her sword back in it sheath that was behind her on her back. "I wanted to be alone".

"You know, it's dangerous for you to be alone".

"I can defend myself as you can see," she turned to him with a hurtful and anger expression. "I'm not that girl who afraid demon or anything".

"Rin".

"No," Rin shakes her head. "Can't I be left alone!" she said in a loud tone.

Instead of answering, Sesshomaru steps forward, hastily grab Rin's arms and pulled her to his chest. Rin was struggling to get free, but he held his grips on her. Before he knew it, she bursts into tears.

"Why is this happening?" she cried. "Can it be stop?"

Sesshomaru wrapped his arms around her as she hugs him back.

"I don't want Saige or Kiyomi to die, there has to be a way to save them".

"I know," was Sesshomaru's respond. "Saige is important to you and me. So is Kiyomi".

She moves out of Sesshomaru's arm to where she can see his face "Is there a way to save them?" she asked.

"There is, but I don't know," he touches her face "But, there is one thing I do know is that we will see Saige again and also Kiyomi".

"Really?"

Instead of answering, Sesshomaru leans down and kisses her on the forehead, which confirms to Rin that what he was saying was true. A small slowly appears on Rin's face as she stares at Sesshomaru.

"I trust you, Lord Sesshomaru". She replied, before she unexpectedly kisses him on the lips.

When she realizes what she did, she quickly pulled away and immediately apologizes.

"I'm so sorry I didn't mean to..." she begins, but was interrupted by Sesshomaru who kissed her on the lips. Her eyes widen for a second before she responds back, wrapping her arms around his neck. At first, she thought he would be angry at her for kissing him, but then she was surprised when he kissed her.

The kiss didn't last long when they pulled away for air. Rin rests her head on Sesshomaru's chest as he embraces her. A smile appears on Rin's face. This was something she would never forget.

A rustle sounds jolt them apart and Sesshomaru instantly got in front her, getting ready to attack whoever was about to emerged. To his surprised, it was Saige along with Inuyasha and Kenzou who looked at him and Rin awkward.

"Did we interrupt something?" Inuyasha asked.

Sesshomaru glares at Inuyasha before turning to walk away with Rin. Saige walked passed by Sesshomaru not before giving him and Rin an odd look.

Inuyasha and Kenzou glance at each other and shrug their shoulders before they follow Saige, Sesshomaru, and Rin.

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At the Castle, Viper walked into Cobramaru's room and notices that Cobramaru wasn't there. "Hm, I wonder where he left to?" he wonders out loud.

He was about to leave when something caught his eyes. Curiosity, he walked over to see what it is. To his shock, there was two broken sliver hair pin near the window counter. He recognizes the two sliver broken hair pin that was covering in blood. One of them belongs to Rin and other was Masami. He gritted his teeth when he realizes something.

~Viper's Flashback~

In the Western Castle, Viper was walking down the hall to Rin's room to see Masami. As he reaches near to door way, he saw Rin gave something to Masami.

"Take it," Rin nodded.

"But..." Masami hesitated and didn't make a move to reach for the sliver hair pin in Rin's hand. "I can't..."

Rin smiles "It's a gift from me to you," She grabs Masami's hand and placed the sliver hair pin in it. "Go ahead and put it on, it looks good on you. Trust me Viper would like it to".

Masami smiles and put the hair pin in her hair. Rin was right; the sliver hair pin does look good on Masami. Viper smiles as he notices how beautiful Masami look with the sliver hair pin her hair.

A throat clears from behind him. He turns around and saw Inuyasha right behind him, staring at him.

"If you want to see Masami, then go instead of standing here and watch her," Inuyasha folded his arms. "It's not like she's going to bite you".

Rin and Masami looked up and saw Viper and Inuyasha by the door.

"Hi Inuyasha, Viper," Rin greeted them.

"Hi Rin," Inuyasha nodded and pulled Viper in front of him "Viper here want to see his beautiful wife, Masami. So, I think you should give them some privacy".

Masami looked down, blushing,

"Okay," Rin got up, placing a hand on her stomach. "Is Sesshomaru still in his meeting?"

"No, you can go see him if you like," Inuyasha answered, "Matter of fact, I'll take you to him, I don't want you to injured yourself because I can't stand to see Sesshomaru frown and annoy face".

Rin laughed and playfully punched Inuyasha in the arm. "C'mon, let's go".

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Viper was standing behind a tree and saw Rin and Sesshomaru were battling with Kelsi and Cobramaru. Kelsi was using a chain rope with spikes and attacked Rin who dodged out the way. Viper knew what Kelsi was actually aimed for Sesshomaru.

"Excellent, maybe she can kill Sesshomaru for me," he thoughts as he watches the battle scene from a far.

"NOW DIE SESSHOMARU!" Kelsi shouted as she tossed the spike chain rope.

"NOOOOOOOO!" Rin screamed and rushed toward Sesshomaru

"LOOK OUT MIL LORD!" Jaken warned his master.

"SESSHOMARU!" Inuyasha yelled

Sango and Saige destroyed the demons and looked over at Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru turns around and the spike chain rope makes an impact. His eyes widen. Everyone gasps including Saige.

"NO!" Saige screamed.

"No way!" Viper mentally shouted as he watched in shock that Rin saved Sesshomaru and took the hit.

The spike chain rope stabbed Rin through back of her stomach sticking out in front of her stomach.

"RIN!" Sesshomaru shouted.

Kelsi pulled spike chain rope out Rin who fall into Sesshomaru's arms. Viper looked and saw Cobramaru and Kelsi smirked. A shining object caught Kelsi's attention. Kelsi bend over and picked it up. To Viper surprise, it was the sliver hair pin, Kelsi and Cobramaru vanished quickly.

"Hang in there, Rin," He heard Kagome's voice said.

He turns and saw everyone was surrounding Sesshomaru who was holding Rin in his arm. Her hands were clutching her stomach that was bleeding a lot. Judging from Saige's face, she knew something that the others doesn't know..

"You need to get Rin out of here to Kaede," Inuyasha told Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru took off fast into the forest.

~ End of Viper's Flashback~

"It can't be!" Viper storms out of the room angrily and head outside the castle toward the forest.

Outside, in the forest, Viper hits his fists on the tree. He can't believe that Cobramaru was actually involved in Masami's death.

Now that he knew that Cobramaru, he decides what his decision going to be, but first he has to deal with something first.

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On the way, back to hut, Rin, Sesshomaru, and Saige stumble across a small village that was selling some stuff. Rin and Sesshomaru were holding hand secretly. Rin glances up at Sesshomaru "May I?" she asked him.

He looked at her and squeezes her hand, letting her know that she can go look around. Then he looked over at Saige who gave him an "I'll go with her" look before she turns and walked toward the small village right behind Rin.

Rin smiles and walked toward the small village with Saige following behind while Sesshomaru waits for them.

Rin and Saige saw many items they were selling like foods, drinks, clothes, jewelry, and weapons. They were about to return back to Sesshomaru when an item caught Rin's attention. She approaches and took a look at it. It was two sliver hair pins with a dark blue pearl in the middle. One of them is moon shape while the other one was a flower. She held it up and looked back and forth at it.

"Would you like to buy it miss?" a friendly woman asked.

"Uh?" Rin looked up at the woman. "I don't know".

"I think you should because it looks on you especially this one," the friendly woman points to sliver hair pin that has a moon pearl in the middle of it. "For the other hair pin, you can give it to your friend that is a girl".

"I'll take it," Rin nodded and pay for the two sliver hair pins.

"Thanks for shopping here," The friendly woman replied.

Then Rin and Saige heads back to Sesshomaru and the others.

TBC: It's getting close, Viper may have realizes the truth and turn his back on Cobramaru. What do you think? The two sliver hair pins might come in handy. Review and tell me what you think?