InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Getting to know you ❯ Chapter Ten ( Chapter 11 )

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Getting to know you


By Miztikal-Dragon


Chapter Ten


The sun was beginning to set and Rin sat patiently on the steps of the castle entrance. Souta, Shippo, and Koji had taken her to the village earlier that day and she had been lucky enough to meet a traveling monk and his student. So many things, so many sights, most of which Rin had never seen before then. The time she had spent exploring with Koji was amazing and she never wanted it to end.


It had been perfect and there was no way she could allow herself to forget, it had been the most fun she’d ever experienced. When she was with Koji, it was heaven and she was genuinely happy. Sure there was still a little emptiness hidden at the back of her heart, a place that she now considered a graveyard. That place in her heart had been where her love for Sesshomaru lived, the love that screamed to die, yet was still there and had turned into the emptiness.


A piece of her still yearned for the moment when Sesshomaru would look at her without his cold frown, seeing it made her heart ache even after his actions. He was something that was like an incurable disease, once you have it you can’t get rid of it. On the nights where her soul wasn’t strong enough, she would cry, cry because all Rin really wanted was to be loved. It was something that seemed almost impossible, but she prayed almost every night for the day when someone she cared for said those three little words and meant them.


Whether or not it would happen, Rin left it up to fate, but she really hoped that her ‘prince charming’ was him. Now who ‘he’ really was is Mr. Right, two candidates, one position, only one likely person and she was happy with that. Glancing up into the sunset, her chin resting in her palms, Rin smiled; she figured out that she was falling in love with her mysterious forest boy, he was everything she could ever ask for, yet for some reason something told her that he wasn’t enough. Rin wanted more, but of what?


A loud whistle captured Rin’s attention and when her eyes found his form coming in from the distance, she was immediately on her feet. Rin wasted no time running to the group of three, her arms spread wide and her giggles echoing as Koji lifted her into the air and spun her. When greetings had been said, Souta kindly smiled before heading towards the village, he never was the social kind with Rin.


Bells soon chimed with the time and she sighed heavily, Sesshomaru had locked himself away again and it was an order that she be in her room at the bells seventh ring. She was about to turn away and head inside when Koji pulled her into his arms and pressed his lips against hers. Electricity ran through her body and her fingers clutched his shirt as she melted into him. She was giving him her first real kiss and something snapped into place, this kiss was a symbol of how she felt.


Koji’s mouth parted hers and shyly she followed her instincts as one of his hands pressed the back of her neck and the other resting on her hip. Embarrassed after a loud clearing of someone’s throat, Rin pulled away her face beet red and her lips kiss-bruised. Shippo had a smug grin on his face and Rin said a quick goodnight before running to the castle. Sesshomaru would be sending Myoga to check on her and she wasn’t in the mood for another one of the flea demon’s hour or so long lectures, not when she felt so good at the moment.


The whole time she was going to her room, Rin could feel the eyes on her back and on a few occasions she sheepishly glanced over her shoulder but saw nothing. Once the door was closed, Rin leaned against it, her nerves were calming and she felt the heat that Koji shared with her leave her body cold as ice. She rubbed her arms trying to regain the lost warmth, but it wasn’t the same. Giving up, Rin placed the sutra she had bought from the monk on all entrances and exits from the room and sat down on her bed. She had gone against Sesshomaru’s orders of keeping her room accessible, but she didn’t trust someone of the demons in the castle, how could she when all they gave her was contempt.


Laying back, Rin drew invisible patterns on the quilt comforter, it would be along night, she could already feel it. Despite what she had felt a few minutes before, as she lay against the soft quilt her eyes drooped and she fought against sleep. She wasn’t ready to go yet, it was too early. Silence surrounded her for what seemed like hours, her body growing numb and the candles flickering, she was tired, so tired but she wasn’t ready for sleep.


The sound of something rustling was left almost unnoticed and Rin groaned as the mattress around her dipped with something’s weight. Her mind was near being brain dead, but the softest touch jolted her senses and she was suddenly wide awake. Her body jerked and her eyes shot open, the candles had gone out but she stared into sparkling blue eyes, they were unavoidable.


“K-Koji?” Rin whispered. “What are you doing here? H-how did you get in my room?”


Light poured into the room as the boy moved to her side, and Rin sat up seeing Shippo sitting patiently at her mirror, his green eyes glowing with mirth. Something in the pit of her stomach told her that they shouldn’t be there, but she only ignored the stabbing feeling. All that mattered was that Koji was there with her and Shippo - he was always a funny character, even if he usually never left the exiled Prince Souta’s side. A little weird yes, but who cared, in these times a person had to be able to trust someone.


“Rin I-” His face had turned serious and Rin wanted to frown. “I wanted to ask you how you feel about me?”


“Why? What’s going on?”


Koji’s hand touched Rin’s cheek, the pad of his thumb caressing her skink. “Nothing’s wrong, I just hate coming to this castle only to see you frown. I know you’re not happy here and I want to take you away from this place. Please Rin, tell me how you feel. I wanna be the one that sets you free.”


Set her free? How she felt? These were simple questions but Rin didn’t know how to answer them. Her heart raced thinking about finally being freed from her sorrows, from all the pain that the Western Lands kingdom had bestowed on her, yet she still was attached to her home of ‘misery’.


“I don’t know what to say,” she said breaking her gaze from his eyes and climbing off the bed.


“Say yes,” Shippo looked bored and Koji almost desperate as he followed Rin, grabbing her hand and pulling her close. “Tell me that you love me like I do you and I’ll take you away. Back to the Eastern Lands where we can be together.”


“Koji - I love you, I think I do, but I-” his lips against hers cut off the rest of what she was going to say and as well as stole away any resolve that she may have had about telling him no.


She wanted to go with Koji, to start a new life with someone she knew would always love her, however at the same time she couldn’t leave the castle. Sesshomaru’s father and step-mother Izayoui had done a huge favor for Rin’s parents and they even took care of her after her parents murder. She couldn’t leave without a trace, not considering paying back all what the Western Lands had done for her, what Sesshomaru had done for her. The Inu-Youkai had always been there for her, caring for her and it was then that realization hit her. Rin still loved Sesshomaru.


Opening her eyes and pulling away from him, Rin fought back the urge to cry. She loved them both, but Sesshomaru, he would always be the one who would never leave her, whether he felt the same or not. “Koji, I-”


Rin’s bedroom door shook before it burst into chunks of wood and came flying at them. Everyone was frozen in place and when the dust settled, Rin’s heart skipped a beat. Sesshomaru stood there, Tenseiga in his hand and his once amber eyes glowing red. Shippo rushed to his feet, but the enraged Inu-Youkai merely threw the blade at the kitsune and pinned him to the wall with it. Koji had Rin behind himself, an angry glare glued to his face. Sesshomaru walked into the room, his long silver hair fluttering violently behind him, and his claws glowing malevolently. The Inu-Youkai was out for blood.


“Sesshomaru please-”


His growl was loud and deafening and all she felt was fear. Something had made the cold and never faltering youkai snap and she knew that it was almost impossible to calm him down. The young boy stood tall, he may have been afraid, but he couldn’t back down, Koji wasn’t going to let this monster in front of him get near what was his. Sesshomaru was towering over Koji with looks that would kill, yet neither of them moved, they were sizing each other.


“Move human,” his voice made Rin shudder and no mater how much she wanted to, she couldn’t look away.


“I won’t!” Koji was just was cold as the Inu-Youkai in front of him. “She loves me not you! Me! And I won’t let you cage her like this! I will take her away from you! I won’t let you keep her from me! I love her!”


Sesshomaru roared in anger and his fist collided with the human boy and sent Koji flying onto the floor a few feet away after breaking the chair Shippo had sat merely minutes before. Rin could have sworn that Sesshomaru had said something but she couldn’t tell. He was upon her, his long sharp claws glowing green and Rin’s eyes widened in horror, he was going to kill her.


Taking her chances, Rin darted, she needed to get away from him when he was like this, she didn’t want to risk it; however, she didn’t make it even a few inches. Rin screamed as Sesshomaru’s clawed hand grabbed the back of her clothing, his claws piercing flesh and cutting open her skin as he flung her to the floor. Burning pain soared throughout her body as she lay sprawled on the cold floor, long ebony hair was everywhere and Rin looked like a broken limp doll with her eyes wide open and glassy.


She didn’t move, she couldn’t because Sesshomaru’s body pinned her to the floor, her back facing him and his claws still embedded into her flesh. Even though her heart was pounding and the only thing she could see was her hair, Rin couldn’t put her thoughts together, her mind was nothing but an empty blank.


Sesshomaru’s chest was heaving and his breath came out in heavy pants. He had been headed to Rin’s room to talk with her about the blacksmith Kaijinbou and the arrival of the Inu-Youkai’s blade when the smell of the forest boy, the kitsune, and spiritual sutras swarmed his nostrils and he knew that they were inside Rin’s room. It made him angry and he tried to open the bedroom door only to be shocked by purifying energy, they were trying to keep Rin from him!


His sensitive ears picked up the conversation and soon enough his blood began to boil past the limit. The human boy was cunning and the vulnerable mind of a young girl was easy to manipulate. However when she said she loved the forest hoodlum, something inside of the Inu-Youkai snapped. She wasn’t allowed to love anyone, he forbade it and now Sesshomaru would have to punish her for her weak emotions. His sight bled red and everything became noting but one giant blur, Koji - the forest boy was trying to take Rin from him! Trying to take what he believed belonged to him, pathetic humans, he wouldn’t give up Rin to anyone. She was HIS and HIS alone!


The next thing he knew he was on top of Rin, his claws soaked with her blood and he suddenly felt sick to his stomach staring down at her, her dress ripped from her torso exposing her back and the deep claw marks that marred the once flawless skin. Looking away from her, Sesshomaru saw the mess he had created and immediately cursed himself mentally. How could he have allowed his inner demon break loose? He could have done so much worse and deep down inside it scared him.


He could smell the maids and other servants and Sesshomaru closed his amber eyes briefly, he hadn’t meant for it to turn out this way. Slowly climbing to his feet, Sesshomaru took a deep breath and gagged, the smell of Rin’s blood made him queasy and he knew that he could never be allowed to forget that his hands were stained red. Stained with her blood. Not saying a word, the Inu-Youkai left the room and walked away.


How did he lose control so easily? Why couldn’t he be as strong as he knew that he was? Great demon rulers weren’t supposed to be manipulated by their emotions, but why was he? His father and mother would be shamed if they could see his behavior, they wouldn’t have accepted it as the behavior of a king, or future king and neither would he. Sesshomaru had shamed his father’s name by letting such a small fragile human girl get to him so easily, he had allowed her to make him weak.


Never before had he ever expected to act the way he was, and yet he still did. It didn’t make sense to him, he was strong, he was ruthless, he was a powerful ruler, and an Inu-Youkai, but he was like a frail human. To himself he had become a stranger and he hated himself for it, he loathed that everyone in the castle knew that he was weak. That he couldn’t control one simple little human girl for the life of him. For him love was a weakness that he couldn’t afford to have, he wouldn’t make the same mistake twice.


E/N: Hey I know that this chapter may have seemed a little OOC, but trust me I don't think that it was at all. We all know that deep down inside Sesshomaru is one mad puppy who needs to be loved! Thanks to everyone who leaves me reviews and SORRY for such the long wait, work has been a bitch and I've had so much stuff going on with school that I've had no free time to write!


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