InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Stronger ❯ The Plot ( Chapter 6 )
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By: Fairia13 
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Drama / Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 11.17.2004 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.3K | Visits: 642 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Drama / Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 11.17.2004 | Pages: 2 | Words: 2.3K | Visits: 642 | Status: Work In Progress
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Chap ter Six - The Plot
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Alina smiled at the sound of Rin's retreating footsteps. Stepping out of "Sesshomaru's" arms, she smiled at her companion. "Beautifully done."
With a sigh, Kenji dropped the illusion he had been holding. Long silvery hair disappeared to reveal his own short, pale blue spikes and gold eyes faded and became his own icy blue eyes. His form shrank, becoming shorter and stockier, the muscles bulkier and the chest broader.
Absently, Lady Alina reached up to touch the point of one of the spikes that stood randomly out from his head. "I don't know why you do that to your hair," She murmured.
Kenji smiled in response. His hair was as much hair as any of the long, silky strands that graces her own hair, he just kept his very short and preferred to use an herbal "grease" to put them up into spikes. He wasn't sure why, but he was amused by the concept of his hair always standing straight up...it just suited him.
"I like it." He replied neutrally. "Just watch, it'll be all the rave in five hundred years."
"Maybe for the males," Alina snorted, "but I can't see any female with an ounce of femininity submitting to your brand of 'style.'"
Rolling his head and shoulders, Kenji looked down at Alina, who was staring in the direction Rin had gone. He knew she wanted Sesshomaru and as her general, he was under her command. He chuckled bitterly to himself. It didn't help anything that he had been in love with her for several years - and that she been after Sesshomaru for nearly as long.
He would do anything for her, but still.... His conscious gnawed at him. He hated hurting Lady Rin - she wasn't the average human, she was sweet and kind, unfailingly polite and she smelled good, even in heat. 'Especially in heat.' However, he didn't have the power to override Lady Alina and she refused to listen to advice from a friend.
'This is not a good idea...' Kenji thought mournfully. He just wished she would see it as well.
Sesshomaru eyed Rin warily. Ever since returning from her walk this afternoon, she had become unnaturally quiet - eyes down a frown marring her brow, her steps were heavy and her smile fake. 'Well,' Sesshomaru amended, 'it fools some people.' Jiro was, as usual, talking animatedly to Rin about something-or-other, and Raidon seemed to sense nothing amiss. Kouga was too busy sniping at Lady Alina to notice anything and his mate Lady Ayame was preoccupied with her food, having long ago tired of her husband's inane squabbles. Atoki however, sent Sesshomaru a questioning glance, to which Sesshomaru had no reply.
Rin ate her food mechanically, not really tasting it. She was still on shock as to what she had seen in the garden. Alina had been dropping broad hints for the past few days that there was something developing between her and Sesshomaru, but Rin hadn't really believed it. Sure, she had seen them walking and talking. Once she had seen them holding hands, or standing close together. She had even chanced upon them hugging one night in a hallway. But through it all she had been able to convince herself that she was the only on he had kissed - until today.
It had hurt. It had been unbelievably painful to watch them like that. The image seemed to have seared itself to the back of her eyelids and wouldn't be removed no matter how much she willed it to leave her in peace.
Next to her, Jiro babbled on about his horse and how fast it ran, blissfully unaware of her inner turmoil.
'Enough!' Rin decided, shaking herself out of her daze. Her behavior was unsatisfactory and reflected poorly on Sesshomaru's household. There would be plenty of time for melancholy thoughts later.
But it still hurt...like a knife through her heart...
'I won't think of it any more!'
Smiling brightly, she turned to Jiro.
Sesshomaru, still watching her out of the corner of his eye mentally sighed in relief when Rin seemed to shake herself out of her stupor and began conversing in earnest with Jiro, comparing Lord Sesshomaru's horses and dragon-mounts to Lord Raidon's. Jiro, of course, maintained the Lord Raidon's mounts were superior and Rin, acknowledging that she had not seen Lord Raidon's mounts in several years had no comparison but Ah-Un was the best... Sesshomaru turned away, uninterested. Her face may be happy, but he wasn't fooled. Something was still wrong, and he wanted to know what. She had managed to slip by him this afternoon but he wasn't letting her by after dinner.
Undoubtedly, she would head for the library. Next to the dojo, it was the place she found most peaceful - though how she found the dojo, with its constant noise and activity "peaceful" was beyond him. However, she would head to the library - Sesshomaru knew for a fact that she would wan to write out her notes again to make them as presentable as possible for his records. He would corner her there, and get this mess straightened out.
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Alina peeked around the corner as Sesshomaru headed down the hall towards his study. Seeing Rin nowhere in sight or scent, Alina decided that this was indeed the perfect time to launch the second part of her plan. Striding with practice ease around the corner, she quickly caught up to Sesshomaru.
"Lord Sesshomaru?" She asked, putting her very best "concerned" face on. He barely spared her a glance as he continued down the hall. He did, however, slow his pace which Alina took as an indication of his willingness to talk.
"Yes Lady Alina?"
"Is something wrong Lord Sesshomaru? You seemed disturbed during dinner tonight."
Sesshomaru paused. His strides never faltered, but a brief hesitation that he couldn't hide glanced over his features.
"Lady Rin..." He considered his next words carefully, then, seeing no reason not to give her an honest answer, continued. "has been upset as of late. It is not like her."
'Bingo!' Alina mentally rejoiced. He could not have provided a better opening than if she had prepared his lines for him.
"Oh, I wouldn't worry too much about it Lord Sesshomaru." She said airily, "She probably just had a tiff with her lover. That would put any woman out-of-sorts."
Sesshomaru blinked. 'Lov....?'
"Lover?" He asked, the word he couldn't finish in his head making it past his lips.
"You didn't know?" Alina asked, feigning mild distress. "Oh. Maybe I shouldn't have said anything then."
"What would make you think Rin has a lover?" Sesshomaru asked, curiosity getting the better of his good sense. He would have been the first to know if Rin had taken a man to her bed. 'Maybe she hasn't taken that step yet,' he chided himself, trying to calm the demon that, previously dormant, was now raging. 'After all I, who knows her scent better than any other, would have smelled the change.'
"Just gossip about Rin kissing a man, and speculation on their relationship." Alina said, skirting around where she had gotten her information. Despite the fact that, besides General Uuchia, those three children where the ones she spent the most time with, she didn't know how reliable he would consider her source.
"Ahh," Sesshomaru said, trying to find a proper response. "Well, I suppose that would make her act unusual." Thankfully, they reached his study door. Trying not to seem overly-anxious to quit her presence, he turned towards Lady Alina. "I bid you goon evening, Lady." He said formally.
"And you Lord Sesshomaru." She replied, bowing shallowly and turning to leave.
Luckily, he didn't see the smirk that twitched her lips into a smile
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Rin stared down at the parchment in front of her. Licking her lips and glancing at another parchment of to the side, she bent her head to her task. 'Item three: Proposed alliances' She echoed silently in her head as she neatly respelled the kanji onto the sheet of paper. Sighing, she moved to continue her copying when a slight creaking interrupted her thoughts.
Sesshomaru, having made am attempt to compose himself, walked into the room only to pull up short when he spotted Rin bent over her work. Light from the nearby fireplace danced over her features, softening them and bringing out the highlights that played in her hair, turning the normally deep brown tresses a softer shade with warm golds and reds dancing throughout. She glanced up and a small smile of welcome played across her lips, lighting her cinnamon-hued eyes as shadows dipped into the corners of her cheeks, bringing her lone dimple into play. Those self-same shadows swirled over her neck and throat, licking lovingly at the hollows, caressing her skin. He scent, ripe in her heat, called, beckoned to him, surrounding him in the scent of flowers and sunlight and the something that was essentially, indefinably Rin.
All brain functions stopped as lust and a sort of blissful awe swamped his senses. 'I never want another man to see her like this...' Unwillingly, he whined low in his throat as Lady Alina's words came unbidden to him. ' "She probably just had a tiff with her lover."'
Abruptly, without warning the Inu slammed upwards in his psyche, growling its unspoken demand.
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Rin glanced up as Sesshomaru entered the room, smiling in welcome as he spotted her. Her welcome changed to concern when she caught the expression on his face and the swell of his jaki.
"Sesshomaru-sama?" She queried nervously as he advanced towards her, the red seeping into his eyes and marring the pure golden color.
He stopped before her and when he spoke, his voice was a low growl, almost a purr. "Tell me Rin; why is it with you the demon is always so close?"
Rin swallowed convulsively as her mouth dried.
"You're a human." he continued, no longer talking to her, merely mulling over his thoughts aloud. "Mortal. Every year you grown older, every day brings you an inch closer to death."
"Hey!" Rin said, eyes sparking in mild annoyance. "The same could be said for you!"
"And yet..." His gaze turned back to her as he leaned over the desk. "You smell like haven." He murmured, burying his face in the juncture of her throat and shoulder. "And your taste..." he murmured, lightly nibbling, "is divine. Like nothing else."
pulled back slightly and straightening, caught her gaze once more. "So tell me, little human, why have you haunted me so?"
"I wouldn't know." Rin replied, trying to steady her heartbeat and control the warmth pulsing through her. "I'm only human; I should be of no interest to the Taiyoukai of the West."
"Rin," Sesshomaru said, stepping around the desk and standing next to her, "you were never 'only' human." He chuckled mirthlessly. "You were never 'only' anything. Do you really think that someone who was 'only human' could be at such ease around demons, so completely fearless? Do you think that somebody who is 'only human' could catch the eye of a demon Lord as well as several other demons? That a mere human could readily accept demon children as her constant companions, become the Lady of my household?" Gently he grasped her chin and forced her gaze up from the floor to meet his. Pulling firmly, he forced her to rise, releasing her when she stood fully before him. Taking her hand as the red bled through his gaze, he forced her hand to feel the bulge in his pants. "Do you think that someone who is 'only human' could do this to me?"
Rin snatched her hand away as if burned, a blush rising fast and furious to her cheeks. She opened her mouth, only to close it again as words refused to leave her lips. Instead, she concentrated on quelling the rush of heat she felt sliding throughout her body. She knew, knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he could smell her arousal. Sure enough, when she looked up his red-tinged eyes were narrowed on her, pupils dilated to the fullest extent as he studied her intently.
Sesshomaru eyed his charge - now his prey - intently.
'Good.' He thought to himself. 'She's not afraid of me..' Her scent, infused with the heady aroma of her arousal, hit his sense like a wave, crashing over him, swamping him, filling him, overwhelming him to the point where he actually had the wild impression that he was drowning in her scent. He had let her hand go when she tugged, but her touch had scalded him like a branding iron, causing him to become more aroused than he had thought possible. If asked, he couldn't fully explain why he was doing this, only to say that she was his, and had been since her first breath, if not longer. She was his and he was tired of resisting her, his feelings for her and his bond to her.
Slowly, trying not to alarm her, he leaned down to her. Tilting his head he murmured, just before his lips met hers, "Mine."
Chap ter Six - The Plot
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Alina smiled at the sound of Rin's retreating footsteps. Stepping out of "Sesshomaru's" arms, she smiled at her companion. "Beautifully done."
With a sigh, Kenji dropped the illusion he had been holding. Long silvery hair disappeared to reveal his own short, pale blue spikes and gold eyes faded and became his own icy blue eyes. His form shrank, becoming shorter and stockier, the muscles bulkier and the chest broader.
Absently, Lady Alina reached up to touch the point of one of the spikes that stood randomly out from his head. "I don't know why you do that to your hair," She murmured.
Kenji smiled in response. His hair was as much hair as any of the long, silky strands that graces her own hair, he just kept his very short and preferred to use an herbal "grease" to put them up into spikes. He wasn't sure why, but he was amused by the concept of his hair always standing straight up...it just suited him.
"I like it." He replied neutrally. "Just watch, it'll be all the rave in five hundred years."
"Maybe for the males," Alina snorted, "but I can't see any female with an ounce of femininity submitting to your brand of 'style.'"
Rolling his head and shoulders, Kenji looked down at Alina, who was staring in the direction Rin had gone. He knew she wanted Sesshomaru and as her general, he was under her command. He chuckled bitterly to himself. It didn't help anything that he had been in love with her for several years - and that she been after Sesshomaru for nearly as long.
He would do anything for her, but still.... His conscious gnawed at him. He hated hurting Lady Rin - she wasn't the average human, she was sweet and kind, unfailingly polite and she smelled good, even in heat. 'Especially in heat.' However, he didn't have the power to override Lady Alina and she refused to listen to advice from a friend.
'This is not a good idea...' Kenji thought mournfully. He just wished she would see it as well.
Sesshomaru eyed Rin warily. Ever since returning from her walk this afternoon, she had become unnaturally quiet - eyes down a frown marring her brow, her steps were heavy and her smile fake. 'Well,' Sesshomaru amended, 'it fools some people.' Jiro was, as usual, talking animatedly to Rin about something-or-other, and Raidon seemed to sense nothing amiss. Kouga was too busy sniping at Lady Alina to notice anything and his mate Lady Ayame was preoccupied with her food, having long ago tired of her husband's inane squabbles. Atoki however, sent Sesshomaru a questioning glance, to which Sesshomaru had no reply.
Rin ate her food mechanically, not really tasting it. She was still on shock as to what she had seen in the garden. Alina had been dropping broad hints for the past few days that there was something developing between her and Sesshomaru, but Rin hadn't really believed it. Sure, she had seen them walking and talking. Once she had seen them holding hands, or standing close together. She had even chanced upon them hugging one night in a hallway. But through it all she had been able to convince herself that she was the only on he had kissed - until today.
It had hurt. It had been unbelievably painful to watch them like that. The image seemed to have seared itself to the back of her eyelids and wouldn't be removed no matter how much she willed it to leave her in peace.
Next to her, Jiro babbled on about his horse and how fast it ran, blissfully unaware of her inner turmoil.
'Enough!' Rin decided, shaking herself out of her daze. Her behavior was unsatisfactory and reflected poorly on Sesshomaru's household. There would be plenty of time for melancholy thoughts later.
But it still hurt...like a knife through her heart...
'I won't think of it any more!'
Smiling brightly, she turned to Jiro.
Sesshomaru, still watching her out of the corner of his eye mentally sighed in relief when Rin seemed to shake herself out of her stupor and began conversing in earnest with Jiro, comparing Lord Sesshomaru's horses and dragon-mounts to Lord Raidon's. Jiro, of course, maintained the Lord Raidon's mounts were superior and Rin, acknowledging that she had not seen Lord Raidon's mounts in several years had no comparison but Ah-Un was the best... Sesshomaru turned away, uninterested. Her face may be happy, but he wasn't fooled. Something was still wrong, and he wanted to know what. She had managed to slip by him this afternoon but he wasn't letting her by after dinner.
Undoubtedly, she would head for the library. Next to the dojo, it was the place she found most peaceful - though how she found the dojo, with its constant noise and activity "peaceful" was beyond him. However, she would head to the library - Sesshomaru knew for a fact that she would wan to write out her notes again to make them as presentable as possible for his records. He would corner her there, and get this mess straightened out.
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Alina peeked around the corner as Sesshomaru headed down the hall towards his study. Seeing Rin nowhere in sight or scent, Alina decided that this was indeed the perfect time to launch the second part of her plan. Striding with practice ease around the corner, she quickly caught up to Sesshomaru.
"Lord Sesshomaru?" She asked, putting her very best "concerned" face on. He barely spared her a glance as he continued down the hall. He did, however, slow his pace which Alina took as an indication of his willingness to talk.
"Yes Lady Alina?"
"Is something wrong Lord Sesshomaru? You seemed disturbed during dinner tonight."
Sesshomaru paused. His strides never faltered, but a brief hesitation that he couldn't hide glanced over his features.
"Lady Rin..." He considered his next words carefully, then, seeing no reason not to give her an honest answer, continued. "has been upset as of late. It is not like her."
'Bingo!' Alina mentally rejoiced. He could not have provided a better opening than if she had prepared his lines for him.
"Oh, I wouldn't worry too much about it Lord Sesshomaru." She said airily, "She probably just had a tiff with her lover. That would put any woman out-of-sorts."
Sesshomaru blinked. 'Lov....?'
"Lover?" He asked, the word he couldn't finish in his head making it past his lips.
"You didn't know?" Alina asked, feigning mild distress. "Oh. Maybe I shouldn't have said anything then."
"What would make you think Rin has a lover?" Sesshomaru asked, curiosity getting the better of his good sense. He would have been the first to know if Rin had taken a man to her bed. 'Maybe she hasn't taken that step yet,' he chided himself, trying to calm the demon that, previously dormant, was now raging. 'After all I, who knows her scent better than any other, would have smelled the change.'
"Just gossip about Rin kissing a man, and speculation on their relationship." Alina said, skirting around where she had gotten her information. Despite the fact that, besides General Uuchia, those three children where the ones she spent the most time with, she didn't know how reliable he would consider her source.
"Ahh," Sesshomaru said, trying to find a proper response. "Well, I suppose that would make her act unusual." Thankfully, they reached his study door. Trying not to seem overly-anxious to quit her presence, he turned towards Lady Alina. "I bid you goon evening, Lady." He said formally.
"And you Lord Sesshomaru." She replied, bowing shallowly and turning to leave.
Luckily, he didn't see the smirk that twitched her lips into a smile
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Rin stared down at the parchment in front of her. Licking her lips and glancing at another parchment of to the side, she bent her head to her task. 'Item three: Proposed alliances' She echoed silently in her head as she neatly respelled the kanji onto the sheet of paper. Sighing, she moved to continue her copying when a slight creaking interrupted her thoughts.
Sesshomaru, having made am attempt to compose himself, walked into the room only to pull up short when he spotted Rin bent over her work. Light from the nearby fireplace danced over her features, softening them and bringing out the highlights that played in her hair, turning the normally deep brown tresses a softer shade with warm golds and reds dancing throughout. She glanced up and a small smile of welcome played across her lips, lighting her cinnamon-hued eyes as shadows dipped into the corners of her cheeks, bringing her lone dimple into play. Those self-same shadows swirled over her neck and throat, licking lovingly at the hollows, caressing her skin. He scent, ripe in her heat, called, beckoned to him, surrounding him in the scent of flowers and sunlight and the something that was essentially, indefinably Rin.
All brain functions stopped as lust and a sort of blissful awe swamped his senses. 'I never want another man to see her like this...' Unwillingly, he whined low in his throat as Lady Alina's words came unbidden to him. ' "She probably just had a tiff with her lover."'
Abruptly, without warning the Inu slammed upwards in his psyche, growling its unspoken demand.
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Rin glanced up as Sesshomaru entered the room, smiling in welcome as he spotted her. Her welcome changed to concern when she caught the expression on his face and the swell of his jaki.
"Sesshomaru-sama?" She queried nervously as he advanced towards her, the red seeping into his eyes and marring the pure golden color.
He stopped before her and when he spoke, his voice was a low growl, almost a purr. "Tell me Rin; why is it with you the demon is always so close?"
Rin swallowed convulsively as her mouth dried.
"You're a human." he continued, no longer talking to her, merely mulling over his thoughts aloud. "Mortal. Every year you grown older, every day brings you an inch closer to death."
"Hey!" Rin said, eyes sparking in mild annoyance. "The same could be said for you!"
"And yet..." His gaze turned back to her as he leaned over the desk. "You smell like haven." He murmured, burying his face in the juncture of her throat and shoulder. "And your taste..." he murmured, lightly nibbling, "is divine. Like nothing else."
pulled back slightly and straightening, caught her gaze once more. "So tell me, little human, why have you haunted me so?"
"I wouldn't know." Rin replied, trying to steady her heartbeat and control the warmth pulsing through her. "I'm only human; I should be of no interest to the Taiyoukai of the West."
"Rin," Sesshomaru said, stepping around the desk and standing next to her, "you were never 'only' human." He chuckled mirthlessly. "You were never 'only' anything. Do you really think that someone who was 'only human' could be at such ease around demons, so completely fearless? Do you think that somebody who is 'only human' could catch the eye of a demon Lord as well as several other demons? That a mere human could readily accept demon children as her constant companions, become the Lady of my household?" Gently he grasped her chin and forced her gaze up from the floor to meet his. Pulling firmly, he forced her to rise, releasing her when she stood fully before him. Taking her hand as the red bled through his gaze, he forced her hand to feel the bulge in his pants. "Do you think that someone who is 'only human' could do this to me?"
Rin snatched her hand away as if burned, a blush rising fast and furious to her cheeks. She opened her mouth, only to close it again as words refused to leave her lips. Instead, she concentrated on quelling the rush of heat she felt sliding throughout her body. She knew, knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he could smell her arousal. Sure enough, when she looked up his red-tinged eyes were narrowed on her, pupils dilated to the fullest extent as he studied her intently.
Sesshomaru eyed his charge - now his prey - intently.
'Good.' He thought to himself. 'She's not afraid of me..' Her scent, infused with the heady aroma of her arousal, hit his sense like a wave, crashing over him, swamping him, filling him, overwhelming him to the point where he actually had the wild impression that he was drowning in her scent. He had let her hand go when she tugged, but her touch had scalded him like a branding iron, causing him to become more aroused than he had thought possible. If asked, he couldn't fully explain why he was doing this, only to say that she was his, and had been since her first breath, if not longer. She was his and he was tired of resisting her, his feelings for her and his bond to her.
Slowly, trying not to alarm her, he leaned down to her. Tilting his head he murmured, just before his lips met hers, "Mine."