The Importance of Being Kept

Kagura screamed as she cowered against her wall. Jinko grabbed her and held her arms behind her back so she couldn't get away. Galieo stood in front of her. His beautiful black locks had now turned into dark green snakes, each dripping deadly poison from their fangs.

"I swear I didn't do it," Kagura yelled.

"If you continue to lie to us, Kagura. I will make sure you die slowly and painfully," Galieo threatened.

"Do you think I would try to kill Rin after Sesshoumaru warned me not to hurt her? Plus, I live on campus with him, I'm not that stupid!" Kagura whimpered when a green snake hissed at her.

"Then, if it wasn't you, who was it? Who did you get to work for you?" Jinko asked.

"It wasn't me, please believe me. It was Sesshoumaru's mother. Sera. She must have hired an assassin to take Rin out of the picture. She was afraid that Sesshoumaru would mate with Rin and she didn't want their bloodline to be destroyed."

"So you knew about this and didn't bother to warn us? You are still very guilty," Galieo hissed angrily along with his snakes.

"I didn't think she'd go through with it! I wanted nothing to do with it. She wanted me to do it and when I wouldn't, she must have hired someone else."

"Rin is very sick, Kagura. She could be dying even as we speak. If Rin dies, you die." Galieo threatened.

"I think she's telling the truth," Jinko said. "We both know how controlling Sesshoumaru's mother can get. I've never liked the psychotic woman."

They let Kagura go.

Kagura glared at them as she rubbed her arms. "I never meant any harm to come to Rin, seriously. I hate her because Sesshoumaru loves her instead of me, but I wouldn't actually try to kill her! Killing a human over jealousy is an act of desperation for a youkai woman. I would be admitting Rin is better than me. I would never sink to that level."

Jinko raised an eyebrow. "Well you got more sense than I gave you credit for."

"We have to tell Sesshoumaru what we've learned," Galieo said.

"You sure you don't know anything about the assassin?" Jinko asked Kagura.

Kagura shook her head. "Please leave my room," she said quietly. "And tell Sesshoumaru, I'm sorry. "

Jinko looked at her in surprise.

Galieo grabbed him by the collar and pulled him out of the room. "Do not let her get to you. She is still not to be trusted."

Jinko sighed and walked away with him.

Galieo growled. "I kept the darts for Sesshoumaru. He always has a way of finding what he wants, but I cannot sit here and do nothing."

"Let's go bitch slap his mother around," Jinko said grinning darkly.

Galieo looked at him. "I believe we shall leave her for Sesshoumaru."

Sesshoumaru's Apartment

Sesshoumaru opened his eyes. He must have fallen asleep shortly after mating with Rin. He had been so weak, he could barely move. Rin was not laying on his chest. He sat up quickly and looked around the bedroom. Her scent floated towards him. It was different now, a mixture of hers and his own scent blended together. Rin was alive. She was alive and she was now his life mate! He needed to see her. He had to hold her in his arms to reassure himself he was not dreaming.

Sesshoumaru got off the bed, still naked and followed her scent. He found her standing on the balcony with a white sheet wrapped around her body. She must have sensed him watching her because she slowly turned around and smiled. Her long black hair tousled gracefully in the wind whipping around her delicate features. The sheet rustled in the wind as she held it clasped to her front like a dress that was about to fall off. She stretched out her free hand to Sesshoumaru. He ran to her and embraced her tightly.

"Rin, my love, my little one..." he kissed her face all over and whispered sweet nothings in her ear. "I thought I had lost you, forever."

"Sesshoumaru, I would never leave you," Rin whispered softly. She ran her fingers through his long hair and pulled away to look up at him.

Sesshoumaru gasped softly when he noticed her eyes. They were not the lovely brown that seemed to melt his heart every time he stared into them. Now, they were silver. A mysterious haunting, yet beautiful silver color, the same color as his hair. Dark lashes framed them making a stark contrast against the pale color. Rin smiled when she noticed the shock look on his face. She had fangs, two tiny little ones, but fangs nevertheless.

Sesshoumaru pulled away from her to get a good look at her. Her body had changed, her breasts were fuller, her hips rounder. And when she moved to walk around him to stare at her reflection in the mirror, she practically floated across the floor. Her movements were graceful. This was not the child-like Rin he fell in love with, in her place stood a regal, mature and very elegant and seductive woman. Her innocence was gone and in its place was the same appearance Sesshoumaru gave when people met him. Beautiful, yet something about her seemed dangerous.

"You have taken on my qualities," Sesshoumaru said admiring his new Rin and loving her even more.

"So it would seem," Rin said as she stared at herself in the mirror.

She even sounded like him. Sesshoumaru stood behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist. Three streaks of purple and gold marked both her cheeks and forehead. He turned her until she was facing him and traced the markings with his fingers. Rin blushed at the possessiveness she saw sparkling his beautiful golden eyes.

"Mine," he said softly.

"Always," she whispered.

He pulled the sheet away from her exposing her beautiful naked body to his eyes and moaned softly as he felt himself harden. "Rin, you are extremely beautiful. I would not want another man to ever lay eyes on you, you were created for my eyes only."

Rin giggled. "That would be hard to do since I have classes to attend."

"From now on you will stay in my apartment and never leave."

"Okay, now you're scaring me," Rin said although her eyes twinkled with laughter at Sesshoumaru's crazy possessiveness.

Sesshoumaru fell to his knees in front of her, grabbing her around the waist and burying his beautiful face in her stomach. "Tell me this isn't a dream. That this is real and I won't wake up to find you dead in my arms."

Rin's heart went out to him. She had never seen Sesshoumaru this way. Not once had he ever shown her his vulnerable side, she didn't think he had one. The strong, proud youkai had always been stoic and dangerous. Nothing ever seemed to bother him until now. It proved that he truly did love her. "Sesshie, I'm real. This is real. I survived. You saved my life by making me your life mate and now we will always be together." She felt his tongue stroke against her navel. Arousal zapped through her like lightning. Her body was suddenly on fire for him. 'Whoa'...she thought amazed and somewhat frightened by the sudden intense feeling.

Sesshoumaru knew he had to have her once he tasted her. The terror of almost losing her was still fresh in his mind. He needed to prove to himself that she was real and alive and he wanted to take comfort in her and bury himself deep inside of her until there was no doubt that he would ever lose her again. He heard Rin's soft gasp of surprise when he suddenly lifted her in his arms and carried her to his bed.

"Sesshie?" She looked up at him, a little scared at the raw passion she saw in his eyes. His body covered hers completely. There was no escaping him, not that she wanted to. Her own body was reacting to his as if it had a mind of its own. She was already wet and leaking on the sheets and he had barely touched her.

"Do you remember what I told you I would do to you if you survived?" Sesshoumaru asked staring deep into her eyes.

Rin nodded. She remembered and it frightened and excited her at the same time. Those were last words Sesshoumaru had spoken to her, at least in complete sentences.

He made love to her as if his life depended on it. He was demanding, forceful, aggressive, never letting her do anything for him except respond to his needs and she loved every bit of it. He worshipped her body as if she was a goddess. Nothing on her body had escaped his hands and mouth. He teased her breasts and nipples with his hands and mouth until they swelled painfully. He tasted her innocence, a part of her that had never known the touch of a man's mouth or fingers until Sesshoumaru. He did things with his tongue that she thought was impossible to do and made love to her with his mouth until she came in multiple orgasms on his tongue. And then, he dranked from her, to her embarrassment, and held her down when she tried to pull away. He whispered to her how sweet she was, how she tasted like nectar and how addictive he was becoming to her. Then he kissed a burning path straight up her body until his lips found hers and kissed her passionately and deeply. She felt him wrapping her legs around his waist, and his huge shaft slowly pushing into her. Rin wanted to scream at the slow agonizing pace. He felt so wonderfully delicious inside of her. There first joining had hurt dreadfully, but this time all she could feel was enormous pleasure. Sesshoumaru seemed to be savoring the moment, loving the feel of her surrounding him. Rin wanted him to move. She pushed her hips up causing him to sink even further inside of her and smiled when she felt his muscles stiffen and a helpless moan escape him. Gods, he was so big. She felt stretched beyond her limits. She was still a petite woman and Sesshoumaru's shaft was almost as big as her body. She would have laughed at her exaggeration of him if she didn't feel like she was about to burst. Then he began to move and all humor faded as she got caught up in the moment and whisked away on pleasure that was so immense, it made her dizzy.

She held on tight to him as he thrust into her again and again, building with speed and moving into her more deeply than she thought was possible. She felt completely filled with him. Oh gods, I'm going to die," she thought losing herself to the intense sensations that came with every deep thrust he made. He truly was trying to get her pregnant, she thought in disbelief. There was something beautiful and desperate about the way he made love to her. It was as if he was trying to reassure himself she was actually there. He whispered her name and told her how tight and good she felt against him. He held her in a death grip. She couldn't move, she was helpless to do anything, but hold on tight and hope he didn't kill them both with his passionate and demanding strokes. Her orgasm hit her like a full blown hurricane and she screamed from the force of it. "Oh gods, oh gods, oh gods, oh gods," she chanted over and over as it seemed to go on and on. He would not stop even when she begged him to. She came again, hard. Sesshoumaru roared her name loudly and came deep inside of her. She could feel his hot seed hitting her womb. His body shook on top of her shaking the entire bed. He mumbled how much he loved her in her ear, his hot breath causing a tremble down her spine. It was the last words Rin heard before her body sunk into an exhausted deep sleep.

Sesshoumaru held the half unconscious girl, no woman now, in his arms as she fell asleep while he was still buried deep inside of her. 'As it should be every night,' he thought and smiled arrogantly. Perhaps, he had made love to her a little too soon. She had just recovered from the life threatening poison in her system and her body was still adjusting to the mating transformation, but he hadn't been able to keep his hands off her. He suppose he could have been gentle with her also, but still he hadn't been able to control himself. The need to brand her to him by burying himself deep inside of her until he touched her womb had overwhelmed him. This stark possessiveness he had for her was heady and borderline obsession. It was so unlike his calm and casual attitude to life. He had never wanted or needed another living being as much as he wanted and needed Rin. She literally held his life in her tiny delicate hands. It was humbling, yet frightening at the same time. And, he'd never made love like he did tonight to anyone he'd ever slept with. This experience to him was new and raw. He thought he had known everything there was to having sex. Never in his life had he experienced such raw passion, such mind-blowing orgasm. He had always been able to hold a part of himself back, but not with Rin. She had managed to do something no female had ever did. She had managed to make him love unconditionally, she had manage to open him up and lay all his feelings up front for her eyes only to see and she had managed to tame the most dangerous youkai on campus.

Sesshoumaru sighed as he felt himself harden again. He was afraid he'd never get tired of Rin, he would always want her. He had been afraid to make love to her before while she was still human, knowing that he would hurt her if he lost control. It had been a delicate dilemma for him because he wanted her so badly, yet was afraid of how to proceed. Rin thought he didn't wanted her, that he wasn't attracted to her, but the truth was that he had never made love to a human before, especially one as delicate and fragile as Rin. Now that she was part youkai, now that his blood flowed through her veins, he was not afraid to let himself go. But he did make a promise to himself that he would be gentle with her the next time around, now that the urgency to mate with her again to reassure himself she was his, alive, and well and this wasn't just a dream, had passed. He gently pulled away from her, his eyes feasting on her seductive body that seemed to be calling back for him to join her. She was so beautiful, exquisite actually. An angel, without wings. And, she was his. His greatest treasure, his most precious treasure. A treasure that had almost been stolen from him. He covered her naked body with the sheets she had wrapped around her earlier. His golden eyes turning blood red as he stared down at her. There was unfinished business he had to handle.

Sesshoumaru's Mansion

Galieo and Jinko both stared at Sesshoumaru nervously. They could feel the heat coming from him. A silent and deadly fury was raging inside of him and they felt sorry for his mother. They had left a message on Sesshoumaru's cell phone to meet them in a private spot on campus. They had proceeded to tell Sesshoumaru everything they had found out. When Sesshoumaru picked up the darts and sniffed them, he realized that the poison was made from his own blood. His mother had somehow used his own poison against him to kill Rin. It could have been any one of the nights he had spent in the mansion during the summer while he visited her. Had she planned this all along? She had committed the ultimate betrayal against him. If Rin had died with his own poison inside of her, he would have been responsible for her death as well, although indirectly. Knowing that would have killed him. How sick was his mother? And, how many other hideous crimes had she committed without him knowing?

It took him several hours to set up his plan. Afterwards, Sesshoumaru went to his mother's house to confront her. She at first tried to deny any parts of it, until Sesshoumaru confessed that he had succeeded into making Rin his mate despite the poison. It was then Sera went crazy. She screamed at him maniacally and tried to claw his face.

"How dare you! How dare you mix a human with our royal blood. I tried so long to maintain the pureness of our youkai blood and you destroy our only bloodline. After your father slept with that human and had that mixed breed Inuyasha, I vowed I would never let anything happen like that again!"

Sesshoumaru frowned. "Sera, what did you do?" He asked dreading the answer. He held the woman by the shoulders, his claws digging deep into her skin. Blood dripped to the floor, but he didn't care that he was hurting her and she was too far gone to feel the pain.

Sera laughed evilly and smiled up at him. "I set up his murder. It couldn't have went better, everything played out so smoothly. He was so busy trying to save that weak human that he perished in the fire. Did you really think that I would let your father shame me in front of everyone by being with that human? He was mine first and she stole him away from me. Had I known she was pregnant I would have killed her too. Instead, I wanted her to live and suffer his lost, the same way I had when he left me."

"My father never loved you," Sesshoumaru said. "He told me when I was still a child that there was never any love between you."

"Funny, how the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, isn't it? You treated Kagura the same way your father treated me and left her for a human woman. The only difference was that I decided to do something about it, instead of sit around and cry. "

"Then you admit that Kagura was innocent in this?" Jinko asked.

"Stay out of this," Sesshoumaru told him.

"Oh yes, Kagura was too weak to ever be the woman I thought she'd be. She didn't deserve you, Sesshoumaru, since she let you go so easily, but that human didn't deserve you either!"

Sesshoumaru threw his mother on the floor in front of him. He had heard enough. He wanted to kill her. He wanted to ram his hands through her chest and pull out her vile ugly black heart. It had to be black and rotten to beat in the chest of such a sick, twisted woman. He could not believe she was his mother.

"You have killed my father and denied my half brother a chance to get to know our father as I have and now you try to kill my woman! You are a sick twisted woman and I cannot believe I am your son. I will forever bare the shame of being born to someone like you."

"Sesshoumaru, I did it out of love! It was all for you, my son." His mother stared up at him in horror and disbelief at his words.

"Take her," Sesshoumaru said.

She thought he was talking to his friends, Jinko and Galieo, but she realized there was a tiny mike strapped to the opening collar of his shirt. He was wired and he had recorded everything she had said.

"No! Nooo!" She looked around in terror as youkai policemen burst through her living room door and grabbed her.

"You will go to prison mother and I will take over this mansion and everything that my father left for you. You will have no money at all and will spend the rest of your life rotting in a cell." Sesshoumaru said as the policemen began to read her rights.

"Sesshoumaru, please, come back! I love you so much. You are my only son! I did it for you. I did it all for you!" Sera yelled as Sesshoumaru turned his back on her and began to walk away.

"Sesshoumaru, man I'm sorry. I had no idea your mother was that twisted!" Jinko said as they walked out of the mansion.

"To think, for years I tried to find out who was behind the murder of my father and it had been my mother all along. She knew how much my father's death had hurt me and still she pretended to..." Sesshoumaru couldn't speak anymore. The bitch had taken away someone he loved more than anything in the world and she had tried to do it again with Rin. He needed his Rin. She would make it all better for him. "I'm going home," he said, his voice tired and depressed. He'd been through hell in one day.

"If you need anything from us, please let us know," Galieo told him. For once in his life, he felt sympathy to his best friend and mentor.

Sesshoumaru nodded and flew away leaving them to stand there to gaze after him.

"I don't get it, why didn't Sesshoumaru kill her?" Jinko wanted to know.

"Killing is too easy, Sesshoumaru wants her to suffer. His mother has been rich and pampered and adored by high society all her life. Now she has to suffer humiliation of being locked up and accused of murder and attempted murder. She won't have any money or a home to go back to if they ever set her free, which I doubt. Most youkai, men and women, get sentenced for life after committing such crimes. In her case, she may just get the death penalty," Galieo explained. "I am more worried about Sesshoumaru."

"I'm sure, Rin will be there for him," Jinko said. "She's all he's got now."

A/N: Hi everyone, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. There's only one more chapter to go!