Changing Seas

A/N: Sorry it took so long for me to update, but my internet has been down. A virus somehow wormed it's way into my hardware and it took three professional computer tech-heads to get it fixed. Well, I worked hard to get this chapter done, hope you like it. Please R&R. EK!

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha.

Previously

"Come. I have many tasks." Sesshomaru motioned for her to move with him. She did and this time when she was near he held her to him, close enough to let everyone know she was his, but far enough to protect his heart.

Chapter Thirteen

Kagome had been lying in her cabin for over a week. Aside from nightly visits to the galley, she'd kept to her room. Rin had come to pay friendly visits once a day, escorted by Sesshomaru, of course. InuYasha had attempted to see her several times, but was continually rebuffed.

Rolling onto her side, Kagome threw open the curtain to the large captains window and beheld the rising sun. It was hard to be without InuYasha for so long, but how was she supposed to just accept his recklessness, his thoughtlessness.

As she began to sit up a sharp pain ran through her. A piercing scream left her and the next moment InuYasha had burst through the door.

"What's wrong? Kagome?" Kagome withered as she was laid back on the bed. The pain ebbed away slowly, but ten minutes later another hit, worse than the first. Her water broke and her hands fisted in InuYasha's haori.

"I'm...I'm having the baby." Kagome gasped a long breath as the third contraction receded. InuYasha's eyes became the size of saucers. Instinctually, he clutched her hand a little tighter. Kagome told him to call for Rin and on his own accord, hollered for rags and blankets and water.

Ten minutes quickly passed in frantic commands and Kagome yelling not so flattering things at InuYasha. Rin swept into the room followed by members of InuYasha's crew, who placed several water basins around the room and a stack of clean rags, along with a merchandise crate, which held had woven blankets.

"Kagome how are you? When did this start?" Kagome huffed and let out a horrifying shriek. InuYasha sat hopelessly worried on the edge of the bed. Rin shooed him to a chair in the corner and placed herself in position to help with the birthing.

"IT HURTS!" Rin made some soothing sounds and began pushing pressure points on Kagome's back. Rin hit a particularly calming nerve and Kagome practically wept with relief.

"Kagome I need to know when this started." Rin started to wipe Kagome's brow and set out rags.

"Sunrise." It was a meek whisper. Rin worked to prepare the baby's delivery. After many laborious hours, Kagome gave birth to two baby boys. Both looked exactly like InuYasha, except for mouths and ears, both were small and adorable. Their luminous golden eyes shined back at their mother, who sat weeping, a water smile appeared on her face and InuYasha seemed about to explode with rapture. He rained kisses on Kagome and the twins, all problems seemed forgotten.

"So what are their names?" Rin's gaiety shone brightly from her smile and she leaned into Sesshomaru, who had come in after an important task.

"Mizu and Kaji." Kagome was nodding off, but she managed to get that out. InuYasha pulled Kagome up into his arms and laid his head on top of his mates.

Rin whispered something quietly to Sesshomaru, trying not to wake Kagome and the newborns, who were placed in large blanketed bread basket. InuYasha paid them no mind as he clung to his exhausted sleeping wife.

Sesshomaru opened the cheery wood door and awaited Rin's departure before following suit. The pair made their way to the deck and out onto the dock. The air was fragranted with a mixed smell of salt, fish, sweat, and the odd ball of the concoction, wildflowers from the local florist.

A content sigh escaped Rin and she closed her eyes, absorbing the beauty of the now dying day. "I feel as if life has been breathed into me. To help bring a new life into the world was...But to bring two into being. Kagome was so strong, despite her pain and wariness, she birthed two beautiful babies. Someday when this is over, I hope to have many." Another content feeling filled sigh left her lips and she leaned into the wall, that was Sesshomaru's chest. Arms came to cocoon her and warmth surrounded her.

Rin's heart was light and her heart was fluttering frantically in her chest. In a time of such desolution something miraculously good could still happen, and this fact allotted her hope. Though it was not a time to feel safe, a security and serenity washed unrelentingly over her and she leaned deeper into Sesshomaru's arms.

A shift in the air, a subtle change, and the intimacy of the situation seemed to intensify. Rin turned to face Sesshomaru and gazed deeply into his eyes. Those eyes that were so deep, yet fathomless. Rin reached out her delicate hand and softly brushed his cheek, a swirl of foreign emotions welled inside her. Sesshomaru turned his face downward and his eyes mirrored her feelings. As Sesshomaru bent his head, Rin leaned upward to receive his kiss and the first star came into view as their lips met and their arms captured one another in an amorous hold.

Rin's arms clasped around Sesshomaru's neck and her long, smooth fingers boldly caressed his back, the muscles of which tautened at her touch. An unfamiliar heat flared in her, and Rin strained into the kiss, which had turned indecently intimate. Rin's tongue ventured innocently into his mouth, something she had seen sailor's whores do when they shared kisses with a man.

Sesshomaru was shocked at his lose of self-control, but couldn't bring himself to pull away. What further surprised him was the vixen in his arms boldly, daringly deepening the already inappropriate exchange. His lust, that he had been beating back from the moment he'd captured her, enflamed him and he allowed himself to relish the kiss, but it only whetted his appetite. The noise of a cart crashing and carriages rolling by is what awakened him to his whereabouts and he, regretfully released Rin.

"Sesshomaru I-" He held up a hand and Rin quieted. Thoroughly frustrated at being, yet again put off and left on fire and not understanding how Sesshomaru could run so hot and cold. Turning on her heel Rin made to stomp off, but was spun around and caught up.

"Rin, I can not allow this to happen. It is for your best interest to avoid any entanglements of this sort." His usual facade was slightly cracked and Rin glimpsed that underlying meaning in his words. He couldn't allow himself to open to that pain and he didn't want to subject her to it either. Rin felt like stomping her foot. He can't be allowed to make her decisions for her!

"Who gave you the right to make my choices for me?!" Outrage filled her voice and she could careless that at the moment she was making a spectacle of herself among the dock mongers. Her face was contorted in fury and indignation. "I'm a grown woman. Though I begin to realize you may not be able to see me as such, but trust me I am!"

Sesshomaru bit down on his tongue to stop a sharp retort, but stared amazed at Rin. No one had ever spoken to him in such an insolent manner, but then again no one had ever rattled him the way she had. He felt like he'd been set on his ear ever time Rin entered his company. "You have no experience in these matters. Therefore, I must lead you through them. I may be a pirate, but I am not lacking in common propriety, at least where naive young woman, like yourself, are concerned."

Rin felt as if she would explode with the effort not to have a swing at him. "Naive! I may be naive in many things, sir! But at least I know enough to understand, you are afraid to actually feel something, for anyone. I may have lived a sheltered childhood, but you sir, are the one lacking of wit in this particular area. Let us not discuss this further. It is obvious you need to educate yourself on these matters before we could ever understand one another. Kindly move aside." Rin's arguments grew in there explosive righteousness and by the end she was breathing heavily with the exertion of it all. She swept past him in a flurry of muslin skirts and her perfectly coiffure braid was in swishing disarray.

Sesshomaru stood in silence, acutely aware of the stares and unabashed men with their mouths gaping open in incredulity. How had she made him sound like an overpresumptious fop? Her tongue had gone from endearingly sweet, with fanciful thoughts, to cutting and to that of a scolding schoolmarm. Him naive? A throatily laugh from the deck of his brothers ship brought his attention back to the present. Sesshomaru glanced at his brothers ship to find it's owner practically rolling around on the wooden boards.

Once he'd caught his breath, InuYasha wasted little time to harp on his brother, "It seems you finally found someone to put you in your rightful place." He barked out another laugh. "I may get in trouble often enough with Kagome, but I definitely know better than to tell her what she knows and feels." InuYasha relapsed into another fit of hilarity, while a very agitated Sesshomaru made his way down the dock following the same path Rin took.

When he'd made his way to the ship he recognized Rin's petite form in the crow's nest, but said nothing, despite his urge to tell her to get down before she fell. Fool though he may be, he knew better than to challenge her again. He made a queue to his cabin and once seated in his chair, Sesshomaru rang for Jaken. Moments later the imp tumbled into the room, righting himself to a bowing position in front of the large desk.

"Bring me a bottle of rum." Jaken stared at him for a moment, his usual was a shot of rum.
"The entire bottle, milord?" Jaken's questioning eyes winced when Sesshomaru produced his whip and swept it at a nearby bookshelf. "Yes, milord. Right away." The imp bowed out of the room and appeared a short time later, a prodigious brown bottle of rum and stein in hand. "Here you are milord. Is there any other needs for my service?" Sesshomaru simply began to pour the rum for himself and waved a hand at the door. The demon wasted no time disappearing out the door.

There would be no sleep for him that night. Rin had given him something to think about, something he had reframed from thinking. It was true that he had never been in love and that any tryst that he had was short-lived and only to alleviate himself. Rin was different and he had thought he knew what was best for her, but she was right, he was fearful of getting close to her, and as much as he blamed it on his fear for her well-being, it was not.

Sighing Sesshomaru downed half the bottle and began to ponder what it would be like to love Rin. He'd fall asleep with her in his arms every night, wake up to find her there in the mornings, kiss her openly, talk to her about things he'd never dared speak about with anyone else, and she would bare his children. That thought filled him with a sense of contentment he hadn't known he could feel.

The next few hours Sesshomaru dedicated to drinking all the rum and thinking, until his head ached. He stumbled topside and relieved his men of their duties for some privacy in the fresh air. Sesshomaru peered up at the crow's nest where hours before Rin had sat stewing in her anger. He took a seat at the bottom of the pole leading up to the nest. Yawning his head drifted back and he found the sleep that had eluded him for so long. Dreams of his angel floating to the surface.

Rin lay awake below deck, in her cabin. She repeatedly brushed a comb through her locks and pulled on her flimsy white night gown. She was restless and unsettled, the worst part was she could not find a way to stop her anxiety. Somewhere along the time of midnight she gave up any pretense of sleeping and fumbled her way up to deck, the darkness not making it easy to see. The beautiful moonlight bathed the ship and Rin's eyes became accustomed to the darkness. She had moved to climb the crow's nest, finding it odd that no one was on deck, as per usual.

Upon mounting the ropes to ascend, Rin caught sight of someone sleeping at the foot of the pole. Settling back on deck, she leaned over and pulled back her hair from her eyes, and the second she realized it was Sesshomaru fast asleep her equilibrium threw her to the wooden floor. Pulling herself together she crawled over to the captain and looked at him again. The aroma of Rum leaked from him and Rin tried to shake him awake. At first he hadn't responded, but then she found herself pinned to the deck, staring wide-eyed up at a drowsy Sesshomaru.

"What are you doing?" Rin's heart was leaping against her rib cage and her breathing had become short. Instead of answering her, Sesshomaru bent his head, clearly thinking he was still dreaming, and kissed her, deeply. At first she had struggled, pushing and trying to move, but she easily melted into the kiss and before she knew it Rin was being lifted off the deck and carried down below deck.

Once they'd reached his cabin Sesshomaru had gained drunken-awareness of the goings on, but muddled forward his decisions clouded by his inebriation. He caressed her curves and began to unlace her backing. the matronly nightgown's neck fell lower and with each exposed inch of skin Sesshomaru smothered her with sloppy passionate open-mouthed kisses. The last resistance of the gowns difficultly laced stays gave way and Sesshomaru pulled it downward exposing well-formed round pert breast. Rin's nipples were puckered and rosy. Sesshomaru kissed the valley between her breasts and then made a trail of kisses from one breast to the other, swirling his tongue and tugging lightly with his teeth.

Rin was incensed and she tore at his clothing. He helped her by pulling off his overcoat and she began to unbutton the miniscule silver objects, which proved so difficult she pulled at either side of the shirt and all the buttons popped in a sprinkle of pelting solid objects. Sesshomaru progressed by getting her night dress off and quickly undid her undergarments, while Rin struggled to undo his fawn britches. They eventually became completely undressed and Rin was lost in a sea of instincts.

Sesshomaru slid a his hand the length of her body and stopped at her swollen lips, checking for moisture as he worshiped her breasts. He rubbed himself against her intimate opening until it was slick and she was pulsing with readiness. Slowly he positioned himself, pushing the head of his sex into her warmth and covered her mouth as she cried out at the first signs of pain. He kissed away her tears and hoping to get the pain over with as quickly as possible thrust in a smooth glide, only feeling her slight resistance.

Rin felt the sting of tears in her eyes as her body tried to accommodate the foreign hardness intruding on her body. The pain slowly ebbed and as her muscles unclenched a little, Sesshomaru began a slow steady rocking pace. Rin felt robbed of breath as the pain was replaced with an aching pleasure. She became frustrated as Sesshomaru continued at a slow rhythm. She begged and pleaded until he finally picked up the pace a little and thrust slightly harder. Rin was meeting him thrust for thrust and her nails were biting into his upper arms and then Sesshomaru rubbed the sensitive pulsing nub that took her over the edge.

As Rin climaxed, her inner muscles clutching at him, Sesshomaru found a soul-shattering release and shouted Rin's name at the top of his lungs. He rolled onto his back so as not to fall on top of her and she laid onto of his chest, both breathing heavily. Sesshomaru was breathing harder because as he climaxed he had to fight the urge to mark her, his mind was not so fogged as to knock that much from him.

Rin laid her head on his sweaty chest and kissed his jaw. After a few minutes he pulled out, causing them both to moan. Exhaustion took Sesshomaru almost immediately, but as he drifted off he heard her say, "I love you", then passed out.

A/N: So does that make up for not updating. I know some may not have put a lemon in until the end, but I'm not some people. I hope you enjoyed the chapter. It took a lot to get it written out and with my computer being down I had to do all over, having lost it the first time. Please R&R. I'd really like to know your input. Until next time.....Egyptian Kiss!