InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Portrait ❯ The Vow ( Chapter 7 )

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

******STANDARD DISCLAIMER HERE***** I DON'T OWN INUYASHA IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM*******

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Author Notes: Some people have written to me, saying that they don't understand the time different between my two realities. I for one don't believe that if there was a parallel universe that their time would necessarily coincides with ours. I think that one would be faster and the other slower. That's way in my story, minutes can equal hours, hours can equal months, and so on. And, after all… its just fiction. Does fiction always have to make that much sense?

And now, on with the story,

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Rin slowly lifted her dazed head up to the mysterious voice, and then her copper eyes grew wide when she realized who it was.

"Kagura, what are you doing to me?" she furiously shouted.

"You're going to die today, and by my very own hands again." she answered cold-bloodedly as her wicked eyes glared at the young woman.

Rin's body shook, as those words "You're going to die." shattered the stubborn barrier of her last memory, she remembered. She remembered every sickening detail of her death.

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They had finally arrived at Angels' Valley by midday. Sesshomaru sensed his fellow colleague's as they came up on the hill that lead to the valley floor.

"Rin, I want you to stay here." he said in his usual tone as he scanned the area for any other demons.

"But Sesshomaru-sama, why can't I go down in the valley with you to meet your friends? She asked, biting her bottom lip not wanting to get off Ah-Un.

"Rin, they are not this Sesshomaru friends, they are my allies. I want you to stay by this tree, until I return for you….obey my wish."

"Yes milord, I will wait here for your return." she grabbed her bundle off the dragon's back, and slowly walked toward the tree.

For some reason, she felt uncomfortable about being in the valley by herself. She thought of telling him her feelings, but changed her mind. She knew Sesshomaru would never leave her anywhere if he thought it would be dangerous.

As he and Ah-Un disappeared into the valley floor, Rin sat at the foot of the tree. She pulled out her comb and mirror from the sack; and started to braid her hair. Holding the mirror up to view her new style, she caught a glimpse of something white rustling in the bushes behind her.

'It must be a rabbit' she thought. Suddenly a gust of wind blew her against the tree. She dropped her mirror and grabbed on to the tree for leverage. Dirt, pebbles and twigs pelted her face and body as the wind blew harder. But, she lost her grip when a large stone crashed against her fingers, then she was sent screaming into the air.

The air current carried her deep into the forest, until her body finally smack against the side of mountain near a cave entrance. She was bleeding, scared, nausea, and confused about her current predicament. Her right leg was broken due to her rough impact with the mountain, so she was unable to stand up.

"Sesshomaru-sama…help…me" She moan, as her shivering hands struggled to wipe away the flood of tears from her eyes. She knew he would sense that she was in pain and come to rescue her.

A few minutes passed, until she saw a glimpse of something white coming through the trees.

'He's here, my lord is here' she started to smile, and then automatically frowned as Kagura stepped out from behind a tree.

"Rin, what a surprise to find you here" she said coyly as she slowly approached her.

"Kagura, please I need your help." she said feebly, the pain from her leg was becoming unbearable. Rin knew Kagura did not like her for some reason, but until Sesshomaru appeared, she would take anyone's help.

"I was waiting for Sesshomaru-sama by a tree when a strong wind carried me to this place. I'm unable to move my leg or tend to my other injuries, so please help me until he arrives. I would be very indebted to you." she did her best to smile cheerfully at her.

Kagura stood looking down at the helpless girl with a cruel grin and narrow eyes. Then she crouched down beside her, placed one of her fan under Rin's chin, and said, "Why should I dirty my hands to help a grubby human bitch like you." Then she slapped her across the face with the fan.

Rin's eyes grew twice their normal size, her dry mouth dropped open, and her heart that was already beating fast was now bursting through her chest. "Why did you do that? What had I ever done to you?" she pleaded frantically while trying to scoot her body away from the wind witch.

Kagura smirked at Rin's feeble attempt to get away from her. Suddenly, a noise came from inside the cave, Rin froze when several misshapen demons slithered out of the cave, and stood behind Kagura. The creatures crimson eyes fixated on their wounded prey, as drool poured out over their gleaming white fangs.

"You better not touch me. I am the ward of the Lord Sesshomaru, Ruler of the Western Lands. He will kill you, if you harm me!" Rin yelled to the youakis.

Kagura laughed callously, "You fool, these demons are under my control. I learned a few useful tricks from that devil Naraku before he died." She then spat at the ground after she said his name. "Also, you should stop wishing for your precious Sesshomaru to show up; there is a barrier all around us, and I made sure that your scent was still by the tree where he left you."

She then turned to the demons, "Now grab her and strap her to those trees over there!"

"Please no, stay away for me!" Rin screamed. As one demon grabbed her by the hair and roughly dragged her to the trees Kagara pointed out.

"SESSHOMARU-SAMA!!!!…SESSHOMARU!!!" Rin cried out, until she was hoarse. Her arms and legs were stretched and bonded to the trees. Her body felt weak, her breathing became erratic, and her head wouldn't stop bobbing. But, her eyes remain focus on Kagura as she approached her.

"Why?" she whispered.

"You really don't know… do you?" Kagura shook her head and leaned in close to Rin's face.

"Since the moment I first saw Sesshomaru I wanted him. A few years ago, I came across him in the forest and told him that I wanted him to be my mate; he looked at me as if I was dirt. He said that, he would never take me as a mate. I followed him to see why he refused to have me and then I saw you. You had grown into quite a beautiful creature over the years, and I saw the way he looked at you. He's in love with you… a human! You stole away from me the most powerful Taiyoukai in all of Japan! YOU…BITCH!"

Rin's battered mind pondered Kagura's statement. She never imagined that her Lord was in love with her. She was snapped back to reality when she felt a sharp smack across her cheek from Kagura's fan.

"You're going to die as slowly, and as painfully as possible." She said maliciously. She turn to the demons, "Eat greedily on her flesh, but do not kill her. I want to see her suffer."

The ravenous youkais started to paw and rip away sections of skin from Rin's body. Her once full breasts were now shredded bits of pink meat showing blood vessels and white fluffy glands. Her voluptuous toned body now revealed deep scratches, teeth marks, and dangling bits of fleshy tissue. Her flawless pure complexion was now blood red as the life giving fluid seeped out her body. And her bright copper colored eyes were dark, dull and almost lifeless.

She roared out in agony as they violated her body, but her eyes stay mesmerize on Kagura.

"That's enough… now leave. I want to watch her die now." Kagura commanded and the demons vanished through the barrier.

Rin coughed up blood and spoke weakly, "Sesshomaru will kill you, once he revives me and I tell him."

"Oh, I don't think so… I'm going to make sure he can't bring you back." She said as she crept closer to her body.

With her last bit of strength, Rin narrowed her eyes, and her voice chilled, "Kagura, I swear someday I'll…kill…you." she exhaled deeply, her eyes slowly closing and then… oblivion.

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Rin struggled to stand against the tree, with a murderous glare she yelled out at Kagura.

"You psychotic bitch ! How the fuck did you stop him from bringing me back that day?"

"It was very simple. I cut your head off and kept it as a memento" She viciously smiled and raised her fan sending another gust of wind toward the weaken girl.

"Ah-Un come!" Rin called, as the invisible force pushed her back to the ground. The two headed dragon rush to her side. She needed to get to Sesshomaru as fast as possible. As the wind slowed down from Kagura attack, Rin jumped on Ah-Un's back and yelled, "Home." they gracefully flew over Kagura's head and headed for the castle.

"You can't leave yet" Kagura muttered, as she sent her "Dance of the Blades" attack toward the flying figures. The blades sliced Ah-Un in half and they fell to the valley floor.

Rin rolled off the fallen dragons back covered in his blood. "Ah-Un, NO!" she whispered as more tears ran down her cheeks, and she fell to her knees and hugged the heads of the dead dragon.

"I told you, we have to finish our fun together" Kagura smirked smugly, as she flew down on her feather toward the girl.

At that moment, something snapped inside of her. Rin gently placed Ah-Un's heads down and slowly started to stand with the aide of a sword that was nearby on the ground. Her scared facial expression was gone; she adorned an expression similar to Sesshomaru's when he prepared for battle.

"Yes, let's continue Kagura. I swore one day I would kill you and today is your lucky day." She snarled.

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Sesshomaru looked out of his study window. One hour remained before sun down, and Rin promised him that she would be home around that time.

He thought of all the preparations that he made for tonight, telling Jaken to fix her favorite meal, having the servants gather an assortment of flowers for his bedchamber and making her a special kimono for tonight. His demon blood simmered slightly in the anticipation of seeing Rin's nude form before him. He inhaled deeply to find out how close she was to the castle, when he identified something wrong in the air.

" Blood… I know this blood, its Ah-Un's… RIN!!!" He hurriedly gazed the horizon trying to pin point the direction of the blood. His eyes narrowed, and he growled out, "Angels' Valley." he then transformed into a bright ball of white light and spirited away toward his destination.

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Kagura used her "Dance of the Dead" attack on the corpses on the battlefield. The mutilated and decaying bodies began to rise up with weapons in hand marching toward Rin. She held the sword up prepared to protect herself as the first of the undead soliders approached her.

She easily fought back six members of Kagura's undead army, but she was having trouble breathing, her legs wobbled like jelly, and the sword grew cumbersome. She had pressed her body to its limit, it was worn out due to the earlier battle at the castle that morning, and her bruised ribs from the tree. She collapsed to her knees as the warriors surrounded her.

"Wait...hold her," Kagura commanded, as she passed through the group of corpses. They lifted Rin to her feet, then Kagura pulled a dagger from inside her kimono sleeves and brought it mere inches from Rin's face.

"I'm going to kill you every time you come back"

Rin spat in her face, and smiled "And I'll keep backing back, until I kill you."

Kagura's face showed pure hatred for the woman, she lifted the dagger up to pierce Rin's heart. Suddenly, the ground shook with a loud boom, as dirt and smoke filled the air.

"DO NOT TOUCH HER!!" The thunderous voice ordered, as the dust started too settle to reveal Sesshomaru's glorious figure.

Kagura dropped her knife as she whirled around to face him. His golden amber eyes calmly eyed the wind witch and her hoard of corpses as he walked out of the crater that he made. His anger escalated seeing decomposing hands all over Rin's exhausted body that was cover in blood.

"Why have you harmed Rin?"

"She is not worthy of your time, so I'm going to kill her again." She said bringing a fan to her face to hide her seductive smile.

'Kill her again?' he then realized, that before him was the person who robbed him of four years with his beloved Rin, the person who left a her beheaded half-eaten body for him to find, the person who dared to presume to know what is right for him Sesshomaru.

"No, you are not going to kill her, it is I, Sesshomaru who will be killing you!" he said ruthlessly as his hand turned luminescent green.

She quickly swiped her fan and all the corpses started to attack Sesshomaru. He gracefully dodged all the weapons that they hurled at him, then him used his whip of light to annihilate all his zombie attackers.

Kagura quickly sent wave after wave of heavy winds and corpses against him looking for her chance to escape. She was so focused on Sesshomaru that she did not notice Rin moving around on the ground.

Rin grabbed the dragger that Kagura dropped, struggled to get on her feet, and stabbed the wind sorceress in the neck twice before falling back on the ground.

Kagura screamed and dropped her fans as she pulled out the weapon. Bleeding heavily from her neck, she leaned down to kill Rin, but the last word she heard was, "DIE!"

Sesshomaru's acid claw dissolved the witch within seconds, all that was left of her was a bubbling pile of red liquid ooze.

Sesshomaru knelt down beside Rin's weary body, and brought her to her feet. Then he carried her up the hill to the tree where she sat earlier. Holding her in his lap, he gently stroked her long hair and then his hand firmly grasped her chin so she could look at him.

"Why did you disobey me and come here?" He asked softly

"I felt tormented by not knowing about my death. I think if I didn't find out about it soon, I would had kill myself. It was more important than …you." She whispered.

He considered her words, and then said, "Perhaps this Sesshomaru's judgment on this matter was not as perfect as it should have been. My only wish was to keep you safe."

She slowly lifted her hand to his face, and started to stroke his stripes along his cheek. He let out a low purr against her caressing hand. She then said, "I have always felt safe around you Sesshomaru-sama. I love you too much to ever be afraid when you are near."

Her crescent shape jewel began to pulse and glow.

'She loves me' he reflected, his golden amber stared deeply into her bright copper . He saw

how deeply she was in love him, and she saw how much he cared her.

The gem started to beat faster and faster, and shown more brightly.

His lips were inches away from hers, when suddenly she her head started to throb, her eyelids grew heavy, and everything started to spin around her. She cried aloud as an eerie feeling rush over her body, she remembered feeling this very way once before. She looked down at her pulsing shining jewel.

"No, not now…Sesshomaru-sama hold on me please….HOLD ME!!" she begged as she grabbed on to his haori.

He did not understand, but complied with her wish, and then he noticed her burning gem.

"Rin, what is happening to you? I cannot feel you! " her body was slowly fading, as he desperately tried to hold her, his hand merely slipped though her.

"Sesshomaru-sama …please don't leave me." she pleaded, but he simply vanished as her eyes closed tight.

The last thing she heard before losing consciousness was, "Rin, I will find you, I swear it. I…"