A New Beginning

This oneshot has turned into a longer story. Blame it on my muse. For all of you who've read ch. 1 as soon as it had been sent in, and jumped straight to chappie 2, I suggest that you go back to ch.1. I added on to it the day after I first posted. Just so ya don't get lost. So enjoy...and please don't forget to review. Tell me what you all think.


Sesshomaru had been in bed for about fifteen minutes when he heard a splash coming from outside. Wondering who would have the audacity to use Rin's pool at this late hour, he got up and went to the window overlooking the garden. What he saw astounded him.

"A goddess. She's become a goddess." Shessomaru murmurred, watching as she frolicked from one side of the pool to the other, the rippling waves she made caressing her skin.

He didn't know exactly how long he'd stayed at the window, watching her, before she made the decision to leave, swimming towards the shallower side of her pool.

His eyes never left her as she slowly made her way up the submerged stone steps, her nightshirt clinging to her body like a second skin, leaving nothing to the imagination.

Sesshomaru hissed between his compressed lips, feeling as if the air had been knocked out of him, not believing what his eyes were telling him. He stared as Rin stretched, straining, on her tip-toes, her lithe arms straight above her head, fingers interlocked, her back arched, making her rear stand out. Her high, firm breasts outlined by the wet clothing she wore, as it clung to them. The droplets of water shimmering on her skin, like diamonds, glistening as she turned this way and that in the moon's pale light.

He continued watching, as Rin wrung out her hair, twisting it between her nimble hands, until she could wring no more excess water from it. And then, she did something that... stirred....something else deeply within him. Nothing extraordinary for a normal human, but to a Youkai, it was an act of submission. Rin bent down, picking up her sheath, presenting herself, temptingly, albeit unknowingly, for his eyes to contemplate (and contemplate Lord Sesshomaru did).

"How DARE she!." He growled, low and slightly menacingly.

"Does she not know exactly how provocative a display that was? And...WITHOUT ANY FEMALE FUNDOSHI??? ANYONE...could have seen her bare backside, even at this late hour!"

"She deserves to be punished for her wanton actions...."

"DOES SHE NOT KNOW...THAT...SHE...IS...MINE???" His growling becoming louder.

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Rin stood up, wrapping her sheath around her body. She had definately heard something. A soft, kind of awkward growl. Stiffenning, her senses fully alert, as her Lord had trained her to do as a child when he had been obliged to leave her, she sensed nothing that could mean or do her bodily harm.

Nonchalantly, stealthily, even somewhat hypocritically, she looked around her, wondering where the growling had come from. Then, she felt it. Someone WAS watching her. The tiny hairs on the back of her neck stood on end, she could feel someone's eyes upon her, following her every move.

Suddenly, Rin looked up, gazing towards Sesshomaru's quarters, and let out a sigh in relief. It was her Lord. HE was the one looking upon her.

'He's probably just making sure that no harm befalls me.' Rin thought, ruefully.

'But why the angry glare? I've done nothing wrong. This is my pool, after all.' She thought innocently to herself, as she headed back towards her bedroom.

"There are times that I just cannot comprehend him." Rin mumbled as she entered her room, making a bee-line for her bedside desk. Sitting down in front of the finely polished silver plating, she stared at her reflection, bemused at the sight of her unruly hair. She grabbed her twin-sided, long handled comb that she so dearly loved. On one side, thick, long teeth, made to de-tangle snarles, on the other, a fine toothed comb, made expressively to bring out the shine while grooming. A gift from Lord Sesshomaru from one of his many travels, which she cherished. Sighing, she carefully started to undo the tangles that were still in her hair.

"The next time that I see Kagome-chan, I must remember to ask her for some more of that rinceable miracle cream for hair that she always carries with her. It does WONDERS for my hair." She muttered to herself, sighing, as she slowly worked her comb through her long, beautifully thick tresses.

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Sesshomaru paced back and forth in his living quarters. He had completely forgotten just how tired he really was. Not only was he agitated, he was very, very miffed. A feeling that he was completely unfamiliar with.

He wasn't quite sure as to what made him angrier. Rin noticing him when she had looked up, or he being caught spying on her.


"How could she? Even more...how DARE she?. What if I'd not heard her? What if someone else had? What if another male had tried to lay claim....?"

This time a very loud, uncustomary growl spewed forth from lord Sesshomaru's mouth.

He was even angrier at the thought of another male touching Rin's body. Rage boiled in his blood, making him see red.

'Punish, yes....she must be punished', He couldn't help thinking, once again. But what? He didn't want to hurt her, for he knew that she, in all likelihood, had not done this on purpose, innocent that she was.

"Confinement." his Youkai growled.

"Confine her to her quarters until we return!"

Now THAT was a very interesting thought. Had he not already made the necessary demands concerning her welfare earlier today?

"How much easier it shall be for my most trusted guards to watch over her if she couldn't leave her chambers while in heat? " He mused, before making his way to Rin's apartments, wondering exactly what the final outcome of this night would be.