Author's Notes:

For my Twilight's Embrace followers, I'm still working on the Epilogue plus reediting some chapters and adding the lemons (taking longer than I expected!). I will let you know when it is up and available though! Meanwhile feel free to enjoy this short story…

Broken Pieces

"Oh God please LET ME GO!" Rin screamed, thrashing on the back of her captor as he held her over his shoulder. She couldn't believe it… they killed her whole family and now this man had taken her by force. Chichiue…Hahaue…Aniki! Her chest was in pain and she was bruised all over. Blood dripped on the floor from a huge cut on her right leg.

"Shut the fuck up you stupid cunt!" The man swung her hard, intentionally hitting her head on the wall. There was a moment of blinding pain, then the girl lost her consciousness.

Chapter 1 In the darkness

The burly man who carried Rin reached a huge iron door. He punched in a bunch of numbers from the keypad and when the door opened, he threw the girl unceremoniously on the floor. "Dinner is served, dog. Can't afford you dying yet." He laughed maliciously then shut the door, leaving Rin and a starved demon inside.

o-o-o

Rin was in the middle of a beautiful, flourishing greenhouse behind her family's mansion. It was a birthday present from her parents. She loved botany, and it was the perfect gift! She tended to each of her growing plants, and she specially loved the blooming flowers from the nursery. It was time to move them to a pot of their own…

Just then, she thought she heard a strange melody that reminded her of a lullaby. The scene changed and she was no longer in the garden, but inside the mansion. Blood were splattered on the wall and floor. Her parents and sister lay lifeless in the middle… dead. Masked men were advancing towards her, weapon raised.

Rin woke up with a terrible scream, her heart pounding. It was pitch black and she couldn't see a thing. Her whole body was in pain. Where the hell was she?! While she frantically looked around, she spotted two glowing… red eyes? With this she screamed once again throwing her hurting body away from it.

"Will you refrain from screaming unnecessarily? My ears cannot take much more, human." A soft, velvety yet haggard voice said.

The red orbs vanished. A demon. Definitely a demon! She was thrown in this pitch dark jail with a FREAKING DEMON! "Please don't eat me!" She managed to choke out. Oh God this was the worst way to die…

"I don't eat humans." He was starving, but he would never lower himself as to devour a human. In the darkness, he could see her fairly fine, but he knew that she couldn't see a thing. Human eyes were weak. He saw the injury on her leg and the bruises all over. She was also drenched in blood.

"I'm going to die, aren't I?" She sobbed, and in the darkness she clutched herself while leaning against the wall.

"Yes, they threw you in here to die by my hands, obviously." He grimaced. Like hell he's going to play along with their disgusting games.

"Are you… going to?" She swallowed nervously.

He stared at her impassively. Her pupils were dilated, trying to see in the dark. "I'm not going to lay a hand on you, but you will die anyway. With your injury, in addition to starvation, you will not last a week in this place." His face scrunched up in silent disgust. When this human die, her body will rot and the stench of death will definitely be agony in his sensitive nose.

"Haven't you thought of escaping?!" There must be a way to get out of here.

"I've tried. There is no way." He whispered but enough for her to hear.

Rin's hope to escape was crushed. She thought that a demon might be able to help her break out of this prison, but he was a prisoner just like her. But IF she could escape, she had nothing to return to. Her family… was gone. Killed. "They… killed them." She began to cry.

"Who are you?" He asked, not wanting to hear her annoying sniffle and tears. Why do humans let emotions control them?

She sniffed loudly. "My name is Rin. Yamanaka Rin."

He wasn't surprised. "And your father runs Yamanaka Corporation, does he not?"

"I- Yes." The thriving company was well known.

In the darkness, he closed his eyes. Well, that explained why this girl was here to die. It was one of Naraku's endless schemes and games of taking over wealth of numerous families. Hot anger rolled off of him at the reminder of Naraku and how he outsmarted him… which led to his current predicament of being held a prisoner in this dingy place. That cheating, worthless son of a -

"And you are?" She asked.

He took a deep breath to calm himself. "Sesshomaru."

"How long have you been here?"

Sesshomaru wasn't the type to talk too much, but strangely, he wanted to speak. Must be because he had been in this prison in solitude for three months. "Three months."

She gasped. "And you haven't eaten but you're still alive?!"

He chuckled darkly. "I'm a demon. With my will I can survive longer. They didn't need to procure me dinner out of fear for my death, much less a human."

She shivered lightly, but the slight movement made her bruised body hurt. She groaned and decided to lay on the cold floor, just staring at the darkness. "Thanks…"

He raised an eyebrow. "For what?"

"Not eating me."

The corner of his mouth twitched. "Don't thank me when I did nothing to save your life." It was just a matter of time until he was alone again with a rotting corpse…

"Still…" Her eyes closed and she sought the comfort of her dreams, where it was better than her grave reality.

Sesshomaru stared at her prone form, wondering how long her pathetic life will last…

Next Chapter 2: "Hopelessness"

-Rin asked Sesshomaru to kill her before her illness does, to ease her suffering. But will he oblige?