What's mine is yours, But what's mine is mine

Chapter 21: Princess who?

Tonight too she went out to the palace grounds and into the southern gates. She'd wait hours until she was summoned for dinner or to Sesshomaru's quarters.

They made love each night like how any newly weds would since they came home from the northern border. She had still been very giving and open. And every time they made love, it just gets better.

But the past two nights he'd notice she'd start crying when they'd come together, calling out his name in whisper and in small sobs.

Last night she tried talking him into agreeing to let her go home to her village.

Tonight she did again.

Until he got the answer he wanted, she will have to stay at the palace. He will have to keep saying 'NO' to her pleas.

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She couldn't come to hate him. Even if she tried. Sesshomaru asked her the reason behind her requests. And she refused to answer. Rin couldn't blame him for saying no, twice now. She's been hiding things from him. And that was more than enough to make her guilty.

She tried wooing him into agreement whenever they made love. But he's just too sharp to fool.

When she received that message from Kohaku to meet up, she suddenly reverted back to the old Rin. To her old self. The villager in her.

She replied to meet with Kohaku that day, but he didn't show. She hoped and prayed that he didn't get into trouble or anything like that. She sent another letter to him when she and Sesshomaru got back to the palace. She used one of the messenger birds at the palace for that purpose.

She stood there again tonight, like the previous ones before. Feeling the cold chill of the night air. The night is long, she could wait for five more minutes, but then Sesshomaru would be looking for her by now.

She was about to leave her spot when a familiar voice called out to her.

"Rin." And there stood her childhood friend. Kohaku.

She ran to him. Gave him a tight hug. Hugged him like they haven't seen each other for ages. Hugged him as if trying to make up for years of not seeing each other. It's only been weeks, but it felt so long.

Kohaku cringed at the bone breaking hug. He still has yet to fully recover. His wounds still fresh. That wound at his forearm in particular.

Rin noticed his bandages and bruises. "What happened to you? The village? Is everyone okay?"

"Slow down, kiddo. One at a time." He smiled at her. She may be the lady of the west now but she still is the worry wort rin he knew. "Your husband is quite the protective one...no, possessive even." Kohaku started to fill her in.

She was at a lost for words. She apologized in behalf of Sesshomaru countless times as Kohaku went over explaining what had transpired between them.

You see, the reason behind why Kohaku didn't want to cross paths with Sesshomaru is that he acknowledges him as Rin's husband. Their village, their tribe, he, honors marriages. No mather what or to who it was. They have that strong belief that 'fate', the 'gods' and the alignment of the stars had something to do with two people brought together in the union of marriage.

He also filled her in on the recent attack at the village by the wolf tribe.

It was rather curious that two competing tribes, the wolf clan and the spider clan had gathered up their men together, ransacking and destroying the neighboring villages on whim. They had been aiming for the village heads. They had been aiming for Rin.

Upon hearing the current situation, Rin insisted on going home with Kohaku. She'll have to ask Sesshomaru later. Force him if he didn't agree. Or better yet, leave without his permission. He would be raving mad, but she's left by then. She'll deal with his anger when she gets back.

But Kohaku dismissed her.

Despite himself, he is an honorable man. It wasn't his duty anymore to protect her. Though he wished otherwise, Sesshomaru had already beaten him to it.

He looked at her seriously now. From the childhood friend that he is, he shifted to 'Head to Royal Guards' mode.

"You mustn't Şahzadə. You are much safer here."

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Sesshomaru stood atop the rooftop, leaning over one of the pinnacles. Hidden in the shadows. His golden pools, focused in on one particular spot at the palace grounds. The spot where Rin and the man who attacked him beforehand stood.

The man, the clothes he wore, and that tattoo he had on his arm. Sesshomaru recognized that as one distinguishing a certain tribe from a small village at the southern border of the western kingdom.

Recognizing the man talking and now hugging his wife should have thrown him off the bus. Angered him. Riled him. But it didn't. He felt jealousy alright. He didn't want any other man touching Rin. He wanted to snatch her away then and there. But the emotion was over-ruled by what he just heard. What caught his attention is what the man had just called her.

Did he just call Rin, princess?

Well, she is now a princess. Given that she is married to him now. But the villager didn't call her 'lady' as to her title, but he called her Şahzadə.

He's got good hearing and has no problems whatsoever. He could hear even down to 20 to 30 decibels. The average for soft whispers.

Şahzadə means princess in the dialect used by one of the villages at the southern border. Rin's village.

So she, was after all, that village's princess. That princess. The one told from tales of old.

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**Şahzadə is theAzerbaijanian way of saying Princess. I didn't just want to make up a random word, so I went on looking for other terms used to refer to 'princess'. ^_^

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