Protect

Chapter 2: The Warning

Lord Tarakun, you are aware of your brother O-Kaitsu's death, am I to be correct?" said Tarakun's advisor.

"Yes Hashi, I am aware of his death." Answered Tarakun

"Are you also aware of his death as murder, by a certain Lord Sesshomaru?" He asked again.

Tarakun cringed for a mere second at Sesshomaru's name before speaking. "Yes." He answered. "Dear little brother, it seems that you have failed your vengeful plot." Tarakun said to himself.

"Do you plan for revenge my lord?" Hashi asked.

"Of coarse I do. Why would I stand by and watch as those pitiful little canines polish away my family?" He smirked, keeping a calm, straight face.

"I will see to it that the race of dog demon is swept off this Earth. The little half-mutt in the dog family will face certain pain as well. They will ALL pay."

"What do you intend to do?"

Tarakun chuckled. "By black magic of coarse. For you see Hashi, there is a certain spell that can control the minds of others, but sadly it will only work on one person only once, but I intend to use it as a little warning for the two dog brothers. A warning of my presence. But first, lets have a little fun with Sesshomaru. His beautiful young ward 'Rin', she was kidnapped by my brother, which led to his downfall, correct?"

"Yes, that is correct my lord." Hashi said.

Tarakun chuckled more. "It appears that Sesshomaru wanted to save this 'Rin' from such horrible things as 'rape' and 'death'." His chuckle became a bit louder and deeper; "Let's see what happens when Sesshomaru can't save her from himself!"

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Rin awoke with the bright sun shining down upon her from the balcony doors. Her eyes fluttered open. She sat up and rubbed her eyes, rubbing the sleep away. She looked around and saw that she was in an unfamiliar bed, and then suddenly realized.

'Wait...this is Sesshomaru's bed! Now I remember, he let me sleep in his bed when I was too scared to sleep in my own. It felt so good to sleep in his arms, I wished I could do that every night.' Rin thought. Then, she quickly realized that Sesshomaru wasn't in the bed or in the room. Rin sat up and began to walk to the door and into the hall toward her room.

She found Jaken walking in the hall as well. "Good morning Master Jaken!" she said cheerfully.

"Humph , more like good afternoon." Jaken huffed.

"What!? Good afternoon? You mean I slept all morning long?"

"Rin, Lord Sesshomaru allowed you to sleep late due to last nights events, and also had instructed or more like threatened us to not wake you up. And calm down Rin, it's only noon, you didn't sleep the whole day away." He explained.

Rin: "Master Jaken, where did Sesshomaru go to anyway?"

"Well, he..."- Jaken stopped immediately when he noticed that Rin addressed Sesshomaru without 'lord' or 'sama'.

"Rin! Keep that tongue of yours aware of what you say! You must address Lord Sesshomaru properly and respectfully!" He scolded.

"It's alright, he said he wanted me to call him just Sesshomaru and nothing more." She told the little toad.

Jaken was too shocked to say anything else, so Rin waved goodbye and left to her room. 'He's already beginning to show very strong feelings for her.' Jaken chuckled at his thoughts, 'although Lord Sesshomaru is powerful in everything else, he sure does lack patience.'

Rin walked into her chambers, a little surprised to see her doors in pieces. She changed into a blue kimono with green and white flowers at the sleeves and collars. Her most favorite one that Sesshomaru had given her for her 17th birthday that was just a few months ago. Rin was about to leave her room when something caught her attention. The blue and white flower in the vase. She walked up to the vase and gazed at the flower. It had such a healthy glow, it even appeared to have grown a little. 'Amazing little flower, so strong, so beautiful, just like Sesshomaru.'