InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ To Walk On Tombstones ❯ Death, Life, & the Unexpected ( Chapter 4 )

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

Megumi descended the stairs towards the awaiting group of people with her shoulders dropped.

“Rin is gone,” she announced.

“What?” Frey and Kiyo said in unison.

“Rin has fled the castle,” Megumi said coldly as she glanced at her Lord.

“Rin would never disobey me,” Sesshomaru growled.

“I’m afraid it’s true, Sir. She’s gone,” Megumi repeated.

Sesshomaru calmly climbed the stairs to investigate the matter and burst into Rin’s room. Her scent in the room was over powering and it somehow intrigued him. He scanned the room and no sign of Rin was to be seen; however, a piece of paper lay by itself on one of the nightstands.

Angrily he grasped the letter and began to read,

Lord Sesshomaru,
If you’re reading this then you already know that I’ve run away. I’ve done as you’ve wished and left the castle. However, I must admit that I’ve lied to you, my Lord. I do not wish to have either of those men be my mate. I’d die before I’d let that happen. Please forgive, my Lord. Farewell.
Love,
Rin.


He crumbled the piece of paper in his fist and strode out of the room.

“Jaken!”

“Ye-yes, my Lord?” Jaken said frightened.

“Gather Uh-Un. I’ll teach that little wench what happens when she defies me.”

“Yes, my Lord.”

“Lord Sesshomaru, you aren’t really going to punish her, are you?” Megumi fretted.

“Of coarse,” he said calmly.

“But, my Lord she has done as you’ve asked and left the castle,” Megumi pleaded.

“I wished no such thing,” he said coldly.

“But,” Megumi stuttered confusedly.

“I want those two disgusting males to leave immediately.”

“Yes, my Lord.” Megumi bowed.

He stalked outside the castle grounds and followed her scent into a near by village.

‘How dare she,’ he thought.

He walked gracefully ahead of Jaken and Uh-Un into the small place with his head held high.

He picked up the scent of a horse mixed with Rin’s and came to the conclusion that she was attempting to make fast get away.

“Jaken, return to the castle and instruct Megumi to move the rest of Rin’s things into my quarters. I will have found Rin by nightfall,” Sesshomaru declared before running off.

Jaken stared off in bewilderment at his lord’s assertion, but did as he requested.

Rin came across another village after she managed to pick up a horse and stopped at a small tavern to obtain sustenance. However, once she had exited, a group of men began to follow her.

Rin was quick to mount her horse and race away from the bandits. It was nearly dark out when she finally reached a clearing; assuming that the group of assholes was no longer following her she stopped to rest.

Rin became very drowsy as she stared into the fire she had started and slowly drifted off to sleep, unaware of the sets of eyes around her.

The bandits moved forward and prepared for the kidnapping when suddenly Rin stood and drew her sword.

“Did you really think I was foolish enough to fall asleep in the woods?” She asked with a smirk.

A fat man with a lot of armor grinned evilly and motioned for two men to grab her. Rin was quick to act and kicked one man while swiping her blade over the others stomach. She backed away from the remaining characters and took a defensive stance.

“What do you want?” She spat.

The fat man laughed drunkenly and slurred, “Oh, we only wanta have a lettle fun is oll.”

Rin glared at the intoxicated man and continued her defense when the man sent two more
men at her. She deflected their blades, but wasn’t so lucky when a fist came into contact with her stomach.

Rin fell to the ground in a coughing fit as the men backed off and their boss, the fat man, approached her.

“Hello, gurly. I ope your redy to die,” he said unclearly.

“Not by the likes of you. If anyone was to kill me, it would be Lord Sesshomaru,” Rin growled.

The man smiled and seemed to sober up a bit.

“You’re that human wench he’s had at that castle then?” He smiled.

“Fortunately,” Rin replied.

“Well then, killing you will be more enjoyable. To take that wretched demon’s beloved wench away from him would be such a pleasure,” he laughed maniacally.

Anger sparked in Rin’s eyes like a fire at the lack of respect this man had for her lord.

“Don’t speak of him like that. He protects you fools and this is how you treat him,” she said as she stood. “No wonder he hates our kind,” she exclaimed, positioning her sword.

“Little girl, you couldn’t even begin to know about your lord. He’s weaker than you think,” the fat man informed.

Rin had enough and charged at the man with all of her might and lashed out at him with her blade. She pierced his heart within seconds, but not before his henchmen shot her in the back with arrows.

She fell forward on the hilt of her sword and pushed it further into the man’s heart.

Blood seeped from the corner of her mouth and she coughed momentarily. After spiting out the blood she shoved the man off of her blade and watched as his body crashed to the ground in a motionless heap.

The arrows in her back sank further into her skin as she turned her bloody weapon to the remaining three men. Taking a few more arrows to the chest, she killed her attackers and stumbled away from the bloody clearing.

A hot spring came into view and she continued to stagger forward. She leaned against a rock to rest for a while, and reached into the warm water. It was scalding to her skin and she retracted her hand as fast as possible in her state and rested it against the tail of an arrow protruding out of her.

With little energy she tried to remove the objects but failed.

‘So much for leaving the castle,’ she thought. ‘If I had just… No I wanted to leave because of him. Now I’m going to die,’ she grimaced.

Blood ran down her arm that rested along the rock, and she watched as the droplets fell into the water.

“Farewell, Lord Sesshomaru,” she whispered as she slipped away.

Sesshomaru followed Rin’s scent for some time before it became mixed with a group of human males and alcohol. When he finally reached the source he was presented the gift of dead bodies and the intoxicating scent of human blood, including Rin’s.

His eyes turned red for only an instant as he searched for her body amongst the mess. He didn’t find her, but picked up on her scent again as he moved around and followed it quickly.

He stopped dead in his tracks at the new site before him; it was beautifully agonizing.
The moon poured light over her body like spotlight to a geisha and he took a hesitant step forward.

“Rin,” he called.

He took another step forward and gazed at her tattered body. Snapping himself out of the state of mind he had entered, he approached her quickly and pulled the arrows from her immediately.

Cradled in his arms he noticed that blood had trailed down the sides of her mouth and was still slowly pouring from the gaping wounds where the arrows once resided.

“Rin,” he called again. He started shaking her gently when she didn’t respond.

He brushed a few strands of hair away from her face before looking at her and then at the moon.

He didn’t understand why it mattered so much. It was going to happen sooner or later, right? But she was only eighteen and it was her birthday. And he hadn’t told her how he…

“You will not die like this,” He declared and set her body down again.

Blood covered his kimono when he stood, but he didn’t care. It was her blood and his fault it was shed.

He pulled tensaiga from his side and quickly brought it down on the dead girl. The ugly little demons that began to bind her body with chains disappeared, but Rin did not stir.

Sesshomaru knelt beside her and picked up what was left of the girl and headed back towards the castle.

A few hours later he arrived at his castle and barged through the gates. When he entered the front doors Megumi and Saito met him there.

“Lord Sesshomaru, what have you done?” Megumi asked exasperated.

Sesshomaru glared at her. “Male humans did this to her,” he said venomously.

“Is she,” Megumi.

“Yes,” Sesshomaru replied coldly and glared at both of them. “We will hold a ceremony for her. Prepare,” he informed before ascending the stairs towards his room.

Megumi shook her head before latching onto Saito for comfort. The pained demon wrapped his arms around her and attempted to comfort her as best he could.

Sesshomaru set Rin’s cold body down on his bed and removed tensaiga from its sheath again. He examined the weapon angrily and sliced at Rin once again. He waited a few minutes and still nothing happened. Furiously he tossed the sword next to Rin’s body and left the room.

It wasn’t working and he didn’t know why. He fled to his study and rummaged through the books for information on the useless inheritance. Finding his fathers journal he skimmed through the pages till he came to what he was looking for.

He slammed the book shut and tossed it onto the mantle where he remembered Rin once gazing at the portraits of him from when he was little. ‘That’s foolish,’ he thought before leaving.

He returned to his room, picked up his sword again, and replaced it at his side. He glanced at Rin one more time before looking out a window up and up at the moon.

“Father, the one I want to protect is gone, and she doesn’t want to return,” he paused. “But I want her to return,” he said coldly before leaving through the window.

Megumi watched her lord jump onto the roof to sit in peace as she informed the staff outside about the death of Lady Rin. Once she was finished she entered the castle and Lord Sesshomaru’s room. She knew it was forbidden, but she wanted to see Rin’s condition once again.

She knelt next to the bed and smoothed out the comforter in a motherly fashion before grasping Rin’s hand. She expected it to be freezing, and yet, it wasn’t. It was cold, but not entirely.

“Don’t kid yourself, she’s dead,” she said to herself.

She released Rin’s hand and stood to examine her. She looked like she had been through hell to put bluntly, and Megumi almost couldn’t stomach the sight of her. Her eyes landed on Rin’s face, which was the only part noticeable that wasn’t harmed, aside from the blood.

A tear slid down Megumi’s face and she turned to leave when she heard Rin gasp for air.

“Lady Rin!” She exclaimed happily.

Rin lay there gasping for breath as she was once again brought back to the living world.
Her lungs were filled with blood and she coughed harshly to remove it.

Megumi rushed to the window that Sesshomaru had exited from and shouted out, “Lord
Sesshomaru! It’s Rin! Come quickly!”

After calling for her lord she raced to Rin’s side in an instant to supply some sort of assistance.

“Lady Rin, can I get you anything?” she asked.

Rin said nothing and continued to cough up blood.

By this time Sesshomaru had burst into the room and moved Megumi out of the way.

“Rin,” he said calmly.

Again, Rin said nothing, but ceased her coughing fit before falling into unconsciousness.

“Rin,” he said again and took a wrist in his hand. “Megumi, bring hot water and a cloth.

Her pulse is faint but still existent.”

“Yes, Lord Sesshomaru,” she said quickly and left to retrieve the items.

Sesshomaru let a small smile grace his features as he looked out at the moon and then back at Rin.

“Thank you,” He whispered right as Megumi rushed back into the room, completely oblivious.

“Tend to her. I have matters to sort,” he stated and left.

Megumi did as she was told and placed a warm cloth over Rin’s forehead.

“Oh, Lady Rin,” she sighed in relief.

When Sesshomaru returned to his room Megumi was still replacing the warm rags frequently and had ordered her to leave. She complied and departed at once, closing the door as she did so.

Sesshomaru examined her body more thoroughly and noticed that her wounds had healed. He assumed it had been from the tensaiga’s power and continued to watch over her. His cold expression was still plastered on his face like always when Megumi disturbed him to refill the hot water. He sat at the end of his bed with his back against the post and watched the woman change the water and replace the damp rag yet another time before she bowed and left.

From his position he watched as Rin awoke and touched the cloth with her delicate fingers.

She sat up slowly and held the material in her hands before glancing at him.

“You saved me, again,” she muttered.

He didn’t move from his spot, but stared at her intensely.

“You’re angry,” Rin added.

Sesshomaru glared at her now.

“Why did you flea?” He asked unemotionally.

Rin bowed her head and her bloody hair covered her face.

“You wanted me to leave,” she whispered sadly.

Anger stricken, Sesshomaru stood and appeared next to her; although she didn’t flinch she could feel his cold eyes on her.

“You said that I had to leave and needed to find someone to leave with, but you didn’t say I had to leave with that person in particularly. I’ll be gone by morning,” she announced.

Unable to tolerate her babbling any further he placed a clawed finger under her chin and forced her to look up at him.

“Do you think that after saving you I’d just let you leave?” He seethed.

Rin didn’t know what to say. She was just so confused.

“I don’t understand, my Lord. If you didn’t want me to leave than why?”

“I asked you if you had a mate in mind. You didn’t and you agreed to the terms I set. I never said I wanted you to leave.”

She stared up at him pathetically. “But I thought that that’s why you wanted me to choose, because you wanted to…” she trailed off and looked away from him.

“Why did you choose to come back to the living world, Rin?”

Rin peered out the window at the moon as a dead memory passed through her mind.

“I didn’t want to, but a man very similar looking to yourself had told me that I needed to save someone from something. I assumed he was talking about you, and I laughed at him,” she cried sarcastically.

“I told him that you didn’t need anyone for anything, let alone to save you. But then, I heard this voice tell the man that the one he wanted to protect was gone, that she didn’t want to return to him and he wanted her to return,” she paused.

“I didn’t want to return, Lord Sesshomaru, but it was your voice that I heard, and something inside of me broke and I latched onto my life again. Did you want me to return to lecture me?” She asked through tears.

“Or did you want me to return to punish me?”

Sesshomaru said nothing but sat on the edge of the bed next to her knees.

“Why, Lord Sesshomaru?” She pleaded.

“Rin, I’m sorry,” was all he could muster.

Rin gasped in surprise, “Lord Sesshomaru?”

“I could have lost you that time,” he admitted as he peered into her eyes.

“You did for a while there,” Rin smiled.

Sesshomaru could have been frowning for all she knew, but in case he was Rin leaned forward and wrapped her arms around him in a hug. His eyes opened wide and his body froze as he looked down at the girl.

“What are you doing?” he asked harshly.

Rin ignored the tone of his voice and replied, “Lord Sesshomaru, if it’ll allow me to no longer be a burden, then I want you to know that…I love you.”

He glanced down at her head again and searched for words.

“Rin. Are you sure that’s how you feel?” He finally asked.
He felt her head nod up and down against his chest before she said anything.

“And now that I’ve disgraced you enough, I’ll take my leave,” she said pulling away.

When his arms were free he pushed her onto her back without hurting her and straddled her hips firmly. He glanced back at the door and used his venomous whip to lock it before turning back to her.

“What are you doing?” She asked in a small voice.

“You’re wrong, Rin,” he replied huskily as he started down at her.

“I don’t understand. What are you talking about?” She inquired almost fearfully.

Sesshomaru leaned forward and his hair fell around them like a curtain as he licked the blood off of her face.

“Those human fools were just a ploy to lure you away from the truth. I never told you that you could choose me because you’re the only human I’ve ever cared about, and I wanted you to be happy.”

Rin frowned up at him. “You didn’t think I’d be happy with you?”

“No,” he growled as he moved to the other side of her face.

“But you never asked me how I felt about you,” she declared.

“I was afraid of the answer,” he paused. “Your blood tastes sweet.”

Rin blushed and turned away from his menstruations, which caused him to growl.

“Does this mean…?” She wondered aloud.

“Yes,” he said kissing her neck. “I want you to live with me for the rest of my life and be my mate. Do you agree to these terms?” He grinned.

“I’m human though, I’ll die way before you,” she reminded.

“Do you agree to these terms?” He repeated more harshly.

Rin smiled up at him and ran a hand down the side of his face before replying, “Yes, Lord Sesshomaru. I agree.”

He growled softly. “Glad you’re catching on, now say my name again.”

“Lord Sesshomaru,” she breathed.

“No. Drop the title,” he said seductively as he tore her kimono with a clawed finger.

“Sesshomaru?” Rin asked innocently with a gasp.

“Yes, Rin?” He asked while running a finger past her left breast and down to rest on her hip.

“Are you sure about this?” She asked with uncertainty.

Sesshomaru grasped her hip firmly and leaned forward to capture her lips.

“Yes, now shut up," he whisped brusquely, claiming her lips now.

Rin melted into his kiss as he moved his thumb in a circular motion over her abdomen.

“Sesshomaru,” she purred.

He shrugged out of his clothes and practically threw them to the floor. Rin shrieked in fear at the mere sight of him.

“Sesshomaru.”

“Don’t be frightened,” he cooed gruffly, giving her a thin smile.

“It only hurts momentarily, right?” She asked.

“Yes. Are you ready?”

Rin nodded and Sesshomaru nudged her legs apart with his elbow before positioning himself at her entrance.

“Rin.”

“I’m fine.” She bit her lip and pulled on his hips with her small hands.

He pierced through her innocence slowly and she instantly moved her hands to the bed sheets. Sesshomaru hovered above her as she clenched the material between her fingers and waited for her to adjust.

He was surprised when she rotated her hips and refused to shed any of the tears that swelled up in her eyes.

“Rin?” He question.

“I know you hate that smell. I’m sorry,” she apologized.

He leaned forward just as a tear seeped from her eye and kissed it away.

“Not this time.”

He pulled out of her once and slowly pushed back in.

“Sesshoma…” She moaned as he quickened his pace.

Arching her back she panted heavily as Sesshomaru continued to thrust at an agonizing speed.

“Faster,” she breathed.

Sesshomaru grinned against her neck and quicken his thrusts to a speed she could match.
Then, he ran his tongue along the pulse of Rin’s neck as he plunged into her again and again.

Continuing his menstruations he said huskily, “You’re mine now,” and bit into her neck.

Rin gasped in both pleasure and pain as they reached their climaxes. After spilling himself into her, Sesshomaru pulled out and straddled her hips as he sucked on her neck attentively.

“Sesshomaru?” Rin asked breathlessly.

“Your blood tastes so sweet,” he said, running his hand across her abdomen and up between her breasts to cup her face.

Rin giggled and recoiled playfully from his touch.

“Sesshomaru.”

“Rin. I must tell you,” he stated while staring down at her.

“What?” Rin asked confusedly.

“For one, with this mark your life span shall be well matched with mine,” he said.

“And?” She smiled brilliantly.

“And,” he grinned while setting his hand on her stomach. “I want you to carry our pups
with pride.”

Surprise graced her facial features and she gazed up at him. Amusement danced in his eyes and he smiled down at her.

“Does that make you happy?” He asked.

Rin laughed whole-heartedly and looked down at the hand he had rested on her midsection.

“I couldn’t be happier.”