InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Sympathy for the Devil ❯ Chapter 13 ( Chapter 13 )

Sympathy for the Devil

Chapter Thirteen

By Devon Masterson-Bond

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An: I got my very first flame for this story, two actually from the same person. I shall be warm all winter now. The best part is unwittingly proved to me that most of my characterizations of Rin were coming across ^_^ But oh well, flames keep you grounded. I had 28 of them one time before one particular hateful person got the story kicked off FF.net. If I can live through that and a few other things they did in reference to that story, I can do anything. So keep the comments flowing, I can always improve.

 

“Oh god, I love you…” Rin's eyes shot open and she sat tried to sit up, but the weight of the arm of reality was just too much. A flush crossed her features at the admission. Love… was that really how she felt about Sesshomaru? “This is insane.” She tried to wriggle out of his embrace, but only succeeded in making him pull her closer to him. The gentle breath of sleeping tickled her neck a little through her hair. Any other time (if she had been into the whole relationship scene) or any other male, she would have been good. Sesshomaru…her arch enemy, the one she lived to do battle with ever since she laid eyes on him. The very same individual she had been sent to kill, one of them anyway… she spooning with him in his bed. Sadly enough in her heart of hearts, there was no remorse or guilt only fear. Her lapse in judgment severely complicated things. Traitor! That was her now.

 

Sesshomaru shifted slightly once again and moved his hand to cup her chest in his sleep. In her mind's eye, she could see the possible grin of satisfaction that he could be wearing. “Perv.” She slid his hand to her waist only for him to move it back and nuzzle the back of her neck. “What did I do to deserve this,” she wondered. She chuckled lightly at her predicament. Here she was sleeping with her enemy trying her damndest not to feel content and he was copping a feel. Irony was heavy in the air.

 

“What is so amusing at this hour?” he asked grumpily.

 

This caused Rin to laugh harder. She always figured him to be a morning person. Actually she thought he never slept. Too many times she saw him working when he should have been sleeping or he was leaving her memos while she was sleeping. It was interesting. “It doesn't matter.” She pulled away from him and sat up.

 

“Has your sight fully returned?”

 

Rin squinted her eyes to focus. It was not all back, but it was enough to get around without help. “I'm okay.”

 

There was silence. Sesshomaru stared at her back. For the first time in centuries, he was embarrassed. The situation spun out of his control as he thought about Kenji's words last night. He has underestimated both of their desires and now… things were complicated. Amber eyes wandered to the well healed bite mark on her collar. How would he approach it? He could point out that the fact that she initiated everything when she bit him first then there was the other thing that she was sure to notice in a couple of weeks.

 

What was she going to say about everything? It was too late for rejection now. Of course there was also her admission before they succumbed to sleep. He never expected her to disclose her feelings to him and what were his feelings? All he knew was that he wanted her to be his, but there were too many questions in his mind and they were sucking his confidence dry. “Rin….”

 

“It's not like you to make excuses, Sesshomaru.” She kept her back to him and slid on his pants and her top. “So let's just end it here before we piss each other off.” She left the room.

 

A low growl formed in his throat. His baser instincts screamed at him to keep his mate by his side and ravish her again. The other side suggested that he needed to formulate a plan and soon before she found out from someone else what passed between them. He would go after her. “Wait.”

 

Rin paused in her movement but kept her back to him. Her eyes closed as she thought of something to say. Why did she think it was going to be that easy? Just walk out of his life without any opposition. “What do you want, Sesshomaru?” she asked trying her best not to sound distraught.

 

Her tone did not go unnoticed and a smirk danced across his face. She was just as unsure as he was. That was good to know. Confidence slowly came back to him. This was his mate and she was stuck with him, strangely enough he was happy. Of course she was going to threaten his health once she found out what her love bite on his collar initiated between them. Yes, she would be pissed. Why did that enthrall him for some reason? He would be around to annoy her forever. “Turn around and face me.”

 

“No.”

 

“Are you afraid to face your consequences like an adult?”

 

Rin spun around on her heel. Damn it, he did it to her again. “Is this better for you?” She kept her focus away from his eyes. A small sigh escaped her when she realized that he at least put on a pair of sweat pants, but he was bare chested. Who knew when he had time to do all of this?

 

Sesshomaru titled her chin so that they could see eye to eye. “Yes.”

 

“Are you happy now?”

 

“Not yet,” he replied before kissing her lightly. He smiled as she yielded to him. For once she was working with him. A low growl escaped him as her fingers gently touched the mark she gave him. The both of them shivered him more so than her.

 

Yet again, Rin found herself pinned up against the wall by Sesshomaru. It was clear she could not trust herself. This would make the third time she disgraced herself. She was a hypocrite. “Sess…I can't,” she moaned into his mouth. He kissed the side of her neck “Please…”

 

Sesshomaru sighed inwardly. He was supposed to be explaining his customs to her not rutting her into non-existence. Rin was always tempting him and now it seemed he lacked self-control. Had years of a disciplined life really broke him down to the point that when he finally decided on a mate, he could think of nothing but how to please her body? Any time, any place. His brain hurt. It was much easier when he was merely curious and not obsessive, but he would not change a thing.

 

“Rin…” He was gathering restraint. Her legs slid from his waist, but his head remained buried in the side of her neck.

 

Taking slow easy breaths to calm herself she answered, “Yes.”

 

“Never touch my mark unless you intend to finish it.” He pulled away just before taking in her scent. A prideful smirk formed on his face at the commingling of scents coming from her. No matter how much Rin denied him (and she would at first he knew her entirely too well not to expect it) she accepted him, even if it was on an unconscious level.

 

Brown eyes narrowed at his air of superiority. So what if they did the deed… twice and nearly a third time? She would not give him the satisfaction of gloating any further. This was not going to happen again. Yeah she had love for him, love for him to take a long walk off a short pier. He was such a bastard seducing her when she could not see well enough to escape. There were crimes against things of that nature. “Keep your distance then.”

 

“As long as you refrain from attacking me and taking what you want.”

 

An angry, embarrassed flush blazed across her face. He would have to bring up that one lapse in judgment. “You….” Her sentence trailed when the door bell rang. “Saved by the bell, Sesshomaru,” she thought moving towards the door. She would battle him later wearing her own clothes.

 

Brown eyes widened. “Kagome…what are you doing here?”

 

Kagome smiled slyly as she shifted Ryoko in her arms. “I could ask you the same thing,” she replied. Observant eyes soaked in the entire situation; the disheveled, half dressed look of Sesshomaru, Rin wearing Sesshomaru's pants, the look of surprise on Rin, the marks on their necks. Curiosity was feasting on her. “I thought Ryoko would like to spend some time with her uncle.”

 

“Now is not the time.” Sesshomaru noticed the way Kagome eyed the two of them and the pleased look on her face. That damned woman was more like her mother than she cared to admit right down to the `I am innocently visiting with my baby role.'

 

Rin shook her head. “This is the perfect time. I was just leaving.”

 

“I would prefer it if you remained. I have a few matters that I need to discuss with you,” Sesshomaru replied.

 

“It can wait until later. You need to spend time with your niece.” Rin shot him a look. There was no way she was going continue to hang around. Everything was becoming too complicated.

 

“No.”

 

Kagome watched the exchange in interest then made a decision. “Ryoko, show Uncle Sesshomaru, what Daddy taught you.”

 

Ryoko growled slowly and leaped out her mother's arms to pounce Sesshomaru. She yipped excitedly when Sesshomaru caught her effortlessly. “Maru,” she sighed snuggling against him.

 

Sesshomaru's eyes narrowed at Kagome. She was doing it to him now. Before he knew it, he had a diaper bag on his shoulder and Rin had been whisked away. “She's craftier than the vixen,” he barked.

 

Once in Kagome's car, Rin sighed. She was riding with Kagome which infinitely safer than being alone with Sesshomaru. She did not trust herself around him anymore. “So what do I owe for getting me out of there?” Rin asked shrewdly

 

A mischievous grin spread across her face. “Information,” she answered simply. “I just have to know, what was it like to bang Sesshomaru?”

 

“What?” Rin choked blushing. She did not expect Kagome to be so crude about the situation. Of course look at who her husband was, it was bound to rub off on her some how. Corruption at its finest.

 

“Don't pretend nothing happened, I saw the mark on his neck,” she laughed. “You'll never get rid of him now, but then you two always made a cute couple.”

 

“Have you lost your mind?” Rin shrieked then collected herself. She folded her arms across her chest. It was obvious that she was busted. “It was a one time thing and the experience was…decent.”

 

Kagome was highly amused by Rin's behavior. The woman was so transparent. “You know it will be difficult say no to him now that he is your mate…”

 

Rin's eyes narrowed. “He's my what?”

 

“Your mate.” Kagome looked at her friend strangely then turned the car towards a new destination. This was bad. “You marked him and he marked you. Sesshomaru didn't explain?”

 

A strange sensation overwhelmed Rin; it was something she had not felt in quite some time, dread. She would kill him. Her head started to throb and she turned green. “Take me home.”

 

“Not until you calm down.”

 

“I AM CALM,” she snapped.

 

“Don't yell at me,” Kagome said coolly. She was worried about Rin. She did not expect her to react the way she did. It was a good thing that she decided to take Rin away when she did or Ryoko might be short an Uncle. It was hard to believe that Sesshomaru could be so irresponsible, perhaps she had underestimated the attraction they held for each other. “I am taking you to the shrine to relax.”

 

 

 

 

 

To be continued…

 

© 2005 Devon Masterson-Bond

I think we know who belongs to whom in this fan fiction. The characters of Inu Yasha belong to their creator, Rumiko Takahashi and everyone she leased them out to, me not being one of them.