The Importance of Being Kept

Sesshoumaru picked up Rin and held her close to his chest, his arm wrapped protectively around her as if she was his most precious treasure. Whoever had shot the arrows were after Rin, not him. Whoever they were would die.

Galieo and Jinko who had been watching the two from a distance curious to see what Sesshoumaru would say to Rin, had seen what happened. They ran to Sesshoumaru when they saw Rin pass out.

"What happened!" Jinko asked in alarm staring at Rin's pale face.

Sesshoumaru stared at the darts on the ground. "Find out who did this," he commanded.

"Will she be okay, Sesshoumaru? She looks near death," Galieo said in concern.

Sesshoumaru glanced down at Rin and disappeared with her in his arms.

"Poison!" Jinko said sniffing the darts. "Someone poisoned our Rin?"

"Who would want to kill sweet little Rin? She has never hurt a soul," Galieo said softly, in a deadly voice.

"I think I know who might want her dead..." Jinko growled angrily.

"Kagura," they said at the same time.

"I didn't want to kill such a hot piece of meat, but it's always the high class ones that make the stupidest mistakes."

"Did she really think she could get away with this?" Galieo asked.

"Get away? The dumb broad really thinks she's powerful enough to spite Sesshoumaru. She really doesn't think he'll kill her."

Sesshoumaru gently laid Rin on his bed . Her clothes were already drenched in cold sweat. The poison was working fast, too fast to take her to the emergency clinic. Rin's face was getting paler by the minute. Dark rings began to appear under her eyes. Sesshoumaru placed his hands on her chest and concentrated his healing energy into her body. Her entire body began to glow for a few seconds. The light faded and Rin moaned softly. Sesshoumaru watched her skin grow back to its healthy glow and the dark rings disappear from under her eyes. He stopped himself from sighing in relief.

"Rin, Rin, can you hear me?" He asked. He needed to see those lovely brown eyes he'd grown so fond of staring up at him with love and happiness. Just the thought of not having Rin around to look at him that way made his blood run cold. He'd never ever thought he could lose her. This short scare had been a lesson in reality. "Rin," he urged. "Open your eyes for me."

She did as he commanded and slowly opened her eyes. "Sesshoumaru? What happened, I feel so strange?"

He sat on the end of the bed and pulled her into his lap. "You were sick, someone tried to poison you."

Rin gasped. "I remember, there was a sharp pain in my arm."

"You're better now," Sesshoumaru stared down at her, his golden eyes filled with something Rin wasn't use to seeing directly. She had caught glimpses of that look when he thought she wasn't watching him and she wondered about it. "Rin," he said her name like a gentle caress.

She smiled at him and reached up to run her fingers through his long silver hair. "I love you," she said softly.

Sesshoumaru started to reply. He started to tell her how he felt about her, but she winced and stiffened in his arms. "Rin, what's wrong?"

"Hurts," Rin said breathing hard. Her skin became clammy once more and once again she began to grow pale in front of his eyes.

Sesshoumaru looked at her in shock and shook his head in confusion. No this couldn't be right. He'd just healed her. How could she get sick again? Rin's arm fell limply to her side. "I'm so tired," she mumbled closing her eyes. The dark rings were appearing again.

Sesshoumaru shook her. "Rin! Stay awake for me," he demanded. He continued to hold her in his arms as she struggled to keep her eyes opened. "I'm going to heal you again, keep looking at me," Sesshoumaru said. He couldn't stand it if she closed her eyes.

Rin moaned softly when she felt Sesshoumaru's energy zap through her body again warming her to the bone. It felt so good inside of her and for a moment she felt like stretching. Her body began to feel better, the pain began to disappear. She noticed drops of sweats appearing on Sesshoumaru's forehead and realized he was using a lot of energy to heal her. He'd never had to use so much before, especially so close together.

"I feel much better now," Rin said.

The light surrounding her body faded and Sesshoumaru let out a breath of air. His body was exhausted, but he continued to hold Rin close to him as if she was the precious thing in the world to him. She was. She needed to know that, he realized.

He stared into her beautiful brown eyes and pushed away long locks of dark hair stuck to her damp cheek. "Rin, never doubt how much this Sesshoumaru loves you."

Rin eyes lit up with pure happiness. "You love me?" She asked hoping she wasn't dreaming.

"I've always loved you, Rin. For some reason, I thought you knew, I did not know how much you needed to hear the words. I am not very good at expressing my feelings, for this I am sorry."

Rin wrapped her arms around his neck and straddled his thighs. "You love me! Do you know how long I've waited to hear those wonderful words!" She showered the side of his face with kisses.

Sesshoumaru chuckled and held her close. It had taken a life and death situation to get him to confess his true feelings for her when he should have a long time ago. He felt like an idiot for making her wait for so long. "Inuyasha was right, although I hate to agree with anything that concerns him, but he was right. You are my weakness, Rin. I could not live without you in my life." He whispered in her ear and rubbed his hands up and down her back.

"Sesshie," Rin said pulling back to face him. He would have smiled at her pet name for him, but his body suddenly began to react to the intimate position they were in. Rin's movement had been innocent enough on her part, but now with her body so close to his and those soft luscious lips begging for him to kiss them...Rin gasped out of surprise. Perhaps, she was aware after all...

Rin didn't know what to think when she felt Sesshoumaru growing hard beneath her. She realized she was sitting right on top of his arousal and tried to move away. Sesshoumaru caught her hips with both hands and held her in place. She didn't have time to be embarrassed, Sesshoumaru lips smashed against hers in a passionate kiss. He didn't give her a chance to react. His tongue forced her mouth open and she whimpered helplessly as he invaded her mouth. Divide and conquer was what he seemed to be doing to her. The kiss was hot, passionate, demanding. His tongue was doing things to her mouth she'd never thought was possible. Her body began to melt against him. Pleasure began to flow through her causing her weak body to feel things it shouldn't. Sesshoumaru held her tight as if he was afraid to let her go. He thrust against her pressing his hard arousal against the very core of her causing her to immediately grow wet.

"Sesshoumaru," she whispered when he finally pulled away from her. Her lips felt heavy and swollen from his passionate kiss.

"Rin," Sesshoumaru looked at her in confusion and panic. "You're burning up!" Her skin had turned feverish as he held her. He could feel the heat burning through her clothes. "I don't understand, I've healed you twice, why are you becoming sick again?"

Rin gave him a loopy smile. She didn't care about poison. She just wanted to be in his arms. She wanted him to make love to her. "Oh Sesshie, I love you so much. Make love to me, please. I need you so badly," she began to place hot kisses down his neck.

"Rin, focus! I have to heal you again," Sesshoumaru grabbed her by her shoulders to look into her eyes. Her pupils were dilated.

"If I'm going to die don't you think you should make love to me before I do?" She gave him a weak smile.

Sesshoumaru stared at her. She wasn't seeing him clearly neither was she thinking clearly. She beginning to grow even paler before his eyes. The poison was determined to take her away from him. Whoever had made it, must have known about his healing powers. He closed his eyes concentrating again to fill her body with his energy. Nothing happened. He pulled her closer to him and wrapped his arms around her waist and back drawing her small body tightly against his. He knew he was crushing her but he was desperate to heal her. Nothing, nothing! He had ran out of energy to heal her.

"Can't breathe!" Rin managed to mumble against his chest.

Sesshoumaru pulled her back and stared into her face. Rin's brain was fuzzy and her vision was getting blurry but she could see the terror on Sesshoumaru's face as he stared at her. She frowned. "Sesshie? What's wrong?"

"I can't heal you. I can't make you better...". Sesshoumaru hated the helpless sound in his voice. He hated himself right now for not being able to protect Rin. He had been so arrogant about his ability to keep her safe. Never had the thought of losing her crossed his mind until now. It filled him with terror, ripped him to pieces inside. His heart pounded in panic. He swallowed the lump in his throat as his mind tried to hold on to his sanity and think of what to do. Rin was fading fast. Her life was slipping away minute by minute. Her hair was limp and damp around her cheeks. The dark circles under her eyes were turning into purple bruises, the light in her eyes began to grow dull. He thought about taking her to the emergency room, but knew they wouldn't be able to cure her, not if he couldn't.

"Don't look so sad, Sesshie." Rin tried to comfort him in her feverish state. "If I die today, I will die a very happy girl. I know that you love me, that's all I ever wanted."

"You will not die!" Sesshoumaru snapped at her angrily. "Do you understand, Rin! I will not lose you!" He buried his head into his chest. "I can't lose you!" His voice was weak, it cracked. He hated this weakness in him. He hated the tears beginning to form in his eyes. "Rin, my Rin, my beautiful, fragile angel..."

"Sesshoumaru, make love to me before it's too late. Let me experience what it's like to have you love me. It's something I've always wanted, needed..."

Sesshoumaru suddenly realized what he had to do thanks to Rin's dying wish. He'd been so overwhelmed with the feelings of losing her that he hadn't thought about the one thing that could save her. He pulled back to stare into her eyes, eyes that were now half closed struggling to stay open. Would it be too late? No, it wouldn't. He would make sure it wouldn't.

She was too weak to lay on the bed and wrap her legs around him when he took her. The position they were in,with her in his lap, her legs straddling him ,would do fine. Sesshoumaru eyes lit up with determination as he began to rip her clothes from her skin. He threw the clothes, soaked through from the cold sweat earlier, on the floor and took off his shirt. Finally, she was naked in his arms. Rin's skin burned hotly against his. Sesshoumaru kissed her deeply, passionately, lovingly.

Rin fell against him limply, too weak to hold herself up. Sesshoumaru pulled away, holding her securely in his arms so he could stare into her eyes. "Today, I will make you mine, Rin. We will be forever bounded together. You will become my life mate."

Rin sighed, it was all she could do at the moment. She was too weak to talk. Sesshoumaru laid her head on his shoulder. He could feel her warm breath against the side of his neck. His hands ran over full breasts. The nipples hardened under his fingers. Sesshoumaru moaned, regret sinking deeply into his heart. How he wished he made her love to her sooner. He had wanted their first time to be special, he had wanted to woo and court Rin as never before, to make her fall even more deeply in love with him, before he took her as his. He had thought they had all the time in the world. He realized too late that true love didn't wait. He should have taken her the moment he realized he loved her and couldn't live without her. She would have been able to enjoy their lovemaking, she would have been healthy and writhing underneath him in ecstasy. Instead, she could barely move, she was sick, she was dying. He was a damn idiot to wait with Rin. There was no time for foreplay. He quickly unzipped his pants, lifted Rin's hips with one arm and used his other arm to push down his pants and kick them off. He grabbed her hips with both hands and slowly began to sink into her. She was wet from their earlier lovemaking which he was grateful for, it made it a lot easier for him to enter her without causing her too much pain.

"I swear Rin, when you survive this, and you will survive," he added stubbornly as he whispered in her ear. "I'm going to make love to you so thoroughly you'll be screaming out my name." Rin suddenly became wetter. Sesshoumaru continued, meaning everything he told her. "I'm going to make you mine over and over and over until I plant my seed so deep inside you, you end up having my children." Sesshoumaru could feel her juices now running freely down him, covering him. He sank deeper inside of her, moaning at her tightness. She was so small, so tiny that he could feel himself stretching her to her limits. She let out a soft whimper. Sesshoumaru knew he couldn't stop, that he couldn't take his time with her and do this the right way. They were racing against time for her life. He wrapped his arms around her tightly.

"Forgive me," he whispered in her ear and thrust forcefully inside of her.

Rin screamed from the pain. Her voice was weak and shaky. Sesshoumaru held her in his arms stroking her back gently, soothingly as he sat buried to the hilt deep inside of her. He gritted his teeth. She was so tight around him. She fit him like a glove. He wanted to give her time to adjust to him, but he couldn't. He needed to move. His own passion and the urge to make her his gave him the strength to pull back and thrust deeply inside of her again and again.

Rin's whimpering began to turn into soft moans. Sesshoumaru thought it was impossible, but she tighten her walls around him as if trying to hold him hostage. At this point, he knew he would cum inside of her quick and hard. "Rin, Rin," he called her name in the throes of passion as he began to thrust inside of her harder, faster. "I love you so much. I will never let you go, never. Death would have to fight and kill me to get to you. You are mine, forever and always." A white light began to form around their bodies, binding their souls together.

Rin began to spasm around him. Her body shuddered weakly and her breathing became faster. Her orgasm sent him over the edge. Sesshoumaru yelled out his release hoarsely as he exploded inside of her. Rin's body jumped at the strange feeling of his shaft throbbing crazily inside of her and his hot thick sperm filling her, drowning her insides. She had an orgasm all over again. Sesshoumaru reared his head back and sunk his fangs deep into her skin just as Rin lost consciousness.

Sesshoumaru drunk Rin's blood and fell back against the bed, his body spent and exhausted. Rin laid on top of him, unconscious. He hoped she had survived. He hoped he wasn't too late. The mating ritual was complete and he had bind her to him, but he felt nothing because she was unconscious. He couldn't stand life without his Rin. She was his only happiness. She was his love, his life, and his only weakness.