InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ RavynSkyes's Drabbles ❯ The Answer ( Chapter 58 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Disclaimer: I don't own Sess or Rin or even the incomparable Inu no Taisho... *sob*
White Prompt at Iyissekiwa
Title: The Answer
Author: Plumespixie
Words: 250 on the dot
Charcters: Sess/Rin (She's an adult here, no worries XD)
Summary: In a moment of clarity, he understood.
A/N: Uchikake = traditional wedding kimono. They are pure white and really pretty, with lots of layers and fancy stuff ^-^
I should have named this 'Plumespixie says 'SQUISH!'...
Rin stood in the pure white uchikake he'd gifted to her, pensively waiting...
Only his answer stood between them now.
"Sesshomaru-sama wishes to marry Rin, but… Does Sesshomaru-sama love Rin?"
Since the day his father died, he'd sought answers to the questions the old war dog had posed to him on an annoyingly frequent basis…
Even moments before his imminent death he had posed one of his obnoxious inquires. Sesshomaru had always thought that his Lord father was the one supposed to be teaching him… Not be the one who asked questions, but 'he who provided answers'.
He hadn't understood.
What was true power?
What was true strength?
What was love?
Did he have someone to protect?
His was power was undeniable, his strength immeasurable; but… His love?
It was… invisible, did not exist.
He, Sesshomaru had nothing to protect!
When she staggered forth with offerings he did not request, sustenance he did not need and something else intangible that he did not desire
When she touched him softly, in ways he did not understand, requested reciprocation he was not prepared to give, and silently demanded things he could not deny…
When he sought the answers within himself, when he gave that which he did not know he'd possessed, and when he demonstrated that which he could not name…
He understood.
Like the wind that carried her scent… It was invisible, but that did not mean it did not exist.
Sesshomaru nodded and his bride-to-be smiled.
It was love.