InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ From Ice to SunShine ❯ Dampened Spirits ( Chapter 8 )

Disclaimer: I own none of the Inuyasha characters. Ha I wish, I think we all do.

(A/N: Ok here goes you guys might need a tissue or two. I almost cried while writing this chapter.)

Title: From Ice to Sunshine

Chapter 8: Dampened Spirits

By Tainted InuShemeeko

Rin pulled in a shaking breath as she tried to sit up in her hospital bed. She was now two months along and at first she couldn't have been happier. That is until this morning, a shearing pain had ripped through her abdomen causing her to call Sesshomaru's mother. She had been so afraid; she had been home alone this morning. Sesshomaru had gone to work early this morning with his father. Mrs. Tenseiga had been the very first person she had thought of, however with her so close to giving birth Rin had felt bad about it.

She rather felt ashamed of herself this had been the third time she had been taken to the hospital. Sesshomaru had been the one to take her the second time when Rin had told him that she was bleeding more then she thought she should be. Once at the hospital they had been able to stop the bleeding. Now however Rin wasn't sure there was anything thing they could do.

Rin smiled lightly as the door to her room opened revealing a very stoic looking Sesshomaru dressed in a light blue, red pinstriped dress-shirt, tan dress pants and dress shoes. However it was the gleam in his honey brown orbs that told her that he was worried.

"Rin. Are you and the baby well? I was unable to find someone who could give me answers, and it would seem that my little sister will be coming sooner the expected."

Hearing Sesshomaru talk of his soon to be born sister, caused tears to fill her cinnamon eyes. Rin bit her lip as the tears threatened to fall, She had promised herself she wouldn't cry in front of him.

"S-Sess…homaru, I'm well, but the baby isn't it's…it's dying Sesshomaru."

Sesshomaru's honey brown eyes widened as he stared at her. His eyes then drifted to the small machine that continued to give off the slow and steady heart beat of their child.

"Rin what do you mean it is dying?"

Rin could no longer hold back her tears as they cascaded down her cheeks.

"Dr. Rose said that the placenta didn't connect correctly to the uterus. So the more the baby tries to grow the less nutrition it needs to grow properly. It would also seem that it is slowly tearing away from the uterine wall."

By now Rin was sobbing against Sesshomaru's shoulder. Her tears soaking into his shirt, it seemed to Sesshomaru that Fate had once again decided to be cruel to them. There was to be happiness today, for his half sister would be brought into this world. Yet he could not help but flinch at the dark clouds that seemed to be building around them. He then remembered a saying he had read in a book once.

`To give new life was to take from another.'

Sesshomaru then wiped away the tears from Rin's tear streaked face. What could he say to her to stop her pain? It will be all right in a few years we can have another child, no he couldn't say that to her.

"What has Dr. Rose ordered you to do Rin?"

Rin sniffed back a few more tears, as she prepared to tell Sesshomaru what her doctors had told her.

"I'm to stay here in bed and see wether my condition becomes better or worse."

Sesshomaru's expression remained cold and held no trace of emotion, as he looked at his young wife and the spoke to her.

"I see. So the only thing we can do is wait for our child to die and free itself from your body."

The sheets on the bed shifted as Sesshomaru stood up and leaned over Rin to kiss her on her forehead.

"Get some rest Rin. I have matters to attend too."

With that said he turned and walked out of the room. Tears flowed freely from Rin's eyes as she watched Sesshomaru leave. She knew that Sesshomaru was hurting just as much as she was. He however refused to show her that he had a weakness.

Rin placed her hand over her womb, her chin trembled and more tears escaped from her eyes as she thought about the tiny little life that was slipping through her fingers.

`We were just getting use to the thought of being parents and now this happens. Sesshomaru will you ever love me again?'

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Sesshomaru's eyes darkened as he spotted his half brother up ahead, along with his friend Kagome. It looked like the girl's mother was there as well. He continued his walk to the hospital doors.

"Hey, Sesshomaru our baby sister's here. She's really cute, want to see her?"

As Sesshomaru turned to look at Inuyasha, Inuyasha flinched at the coldness that reflected back at him. He had never seen his brother's eyes look so cold.

"What do I care about her for? I have my own problems to deal with little brother."

It was then that Inuyasha remembered that Rin was in the hospital as well.

"Oh hey how's Rin?"

Sesshomaru however never answered him as he walked through the doors. Inuyasha looked dumb founded as he watched the doors slide close behind his brother.

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Rin blinked a few times as she focused on the bright colors in her room. There were flowers someone had sent her twenty-four peach and yellow roses.

`Sesshomaru.'

Her thoughts were broken when an all to familiar rough and soft voice spoke to her.

"I hope you like them. It's been so long since I bought you flowers I wasn't sure if you still liked roses. When I heard you were in the hospital again I just have to come and check on you again."

The air froze in her lungs she didn't think she could scream even if she wanted too.

`Oh my god it's Bradley, but why now he had all that time in school that he could have confronted me why didn't he?'

Bradley walked out of the shadows, his had been soft and caring his ice colored eyes told a whole other story. She then looked at the uniform he had on.

"Bradley you startled me. I didn't know you worked here."

"Yep been working here as a candy striper for the last month. I was a bit surprised to find out that you and your fiancé were going to have a baby. I would have thought I would have been one of the first you told. Not that it matters to me any I'm going to get to have my own kid too."

Rin's eyes widened in horror as she watched the smug look appear across his face.

"I couldn't have you, so I settled for the closest thing I could get. Kari was very willing after awhile. She even agreed to marry me."

Rin paled as she took in every word he had said.

`Oh god no. He raped Kari. Why didn't she say anything to me.'

Bradley smirked at Rin as he walked around her room. He then spoke almost as if he could read her mind.

"Come on Rin do you really think she'd tell anyone. She lacks the courage that you have. Maybe that's what that rich boy likes about you. Are you that good in the sack? Have to tell you Kari's not that bad, she knows how to please. Besides it doesn't matter how much she hates me she loves that life inside of her and she'd do anything to kept it safe."

At Bradley's last comment Rin thought she was going to be sick. Why had she ever thought she needed him?

"You bastard! You raped her."

Bradley shrugged his shoulders, as he continued to watch her with his eyes. His icy orbs would flick back and froth between Rin and the machine monitoring her and the baby's heart rate.

"Raped, seduced, drugged whatever. No big deal to me, just as long as I can ruin your life. See while Kari gets to have hers I get to watch you and yours die. Think your stoic little rich man will like that?"

Bradley then pulled out a syringe that held some kind of drug in it. Rin was sure it was meant to end her life. She spat out three last words as she pressed down on the nurse's button that was hidden under her sheet.

"You're sick Bradley."

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Sesshomaru walked around the hospital grounds for a while; he had been trying to clear his head for the last ten minutes. No matter how much he thought he just couldn't come up with an answer to the question plaguing his thoughts. Why was this horrible thing happening? What had that tiny being growing inside of Rin done to not deserve the change to live, and see the vast world around them?

"I am unsure when it will happen Rin, but I shall find a way so you do not have to go through this kind of pain."

Sesshomaru then started to make his way back to the front of the hospital. He needed to apologize to Rin for not acting like he gave a damn.

`You are my muse Rin. For you have the power to make me feel and do many things. Things that I would not normally do or feel, you have captured my soul within yours. I am certain that I shall love you for eternality.'

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Inuyasha blinked his eyes as he caught sight of a flashing red light over at the nurse's station. No one seemed to be at the desk, he then tapped Kagome on the shoulder.

"Hey Kagome I think that light's coming from Rin's room I'm going to go check on her."

Kagome nodded as Inuyasha head toward Rin's room. Right before a hand rubbed the top of his head.

"Why if it's isn't Sesshomaru's little half brother Inuyasha."

Inuyasha growled at the young man as he knocked his hand off his head.

"Knock it off Hiten I'm not little any more."

Hiten laughed as Inuyasha continued up the hallway.

"Yeah I guess you're not a little Inu tot anymore."

Inuyasha sighed as he slowly pulled the door to Rin's room open. His eyes widened as he looked at a man going up to Rin with a needle in his hand.

"Hey who the hell are you? Get the hell away from my sister-in-law!"

Inuyasha ran toward the guys and kicked him in the shin. Rin gasped as Bradley punched the fifteen-year-old Inuyasha in the face. Once he knocked Inuyasha to the ground he continued on what he had planned to do. However, Bradley caught movement in the corner of his just as Inuyasha slammed into him. The needle slammed into the muscle right below his collarbone, causing Rin to scream. Inuyasha on the other hand smirked as his fist smacked into the guys jaw. Bradley's eyes widened as he looked at the empty syringe. He had no idea what it would do to a young man, seeing how it was a drug that was used in abortions. Fear ripping through his heart he ran from the room.

"Going some where Bradley?"

Hiten's fist had surly broken his nose as his head flung backwards and blood began to run from his nose. After pulling himself off of the floor, Bradley headed for the stairs with Hiten and hospital guards behind him.

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At the sound of Rin's scream Sesshomaru had took to the stairs. The elevators had been jammed with people. Fear gripped his heart once more as he passed a bloodied faced Bradley with Hiten close behind him. Seeing Bradley only made Sesshomaru quicken his pace.

`Rin, be safe please be safe.'

Sesshomaru froze in the doorway to Rin hospital room. He could believe the scene that was playing before him. Rin now sat on the floor of her room with his little brother's head in her lap. His left cheek was sport a purple bruise while the left corner of his lip was bleeding.

His name was but a mere whisper on his lips as he looked at the beads of sweat pearling across his forehead, and his pale complexion.

"Inu…Yasha."

To Be Continued.

(A/N: I know I'm evil but hey it's payback time. For one of my favorite author who posted a new chapter to on of their stories either on May 19 or May 20 and left it as a cliffhanger. So I figured I'd have some fun of my own as well.

Thanks to the many people who are reading this story. I hope no one had any questions, cause I can't remember if any one did or not. Oh hey if you haven't all ready check out my other Sesshomaru / Rin story Cry of the Heart. I would love to hear from you.

Ja ne!

Tainted InuShemeeko)

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