Chapter 1

Decisions

This is my first SesshXRin Fic! This is the first chapter, please let me know what you think! :) hope you all enjoy :) :)

It took him less time than he had anticipated reaching the village he had left 6 years ago. She would be turning 17 this year, and he promised her on the departing night that he would come back for her when the time was right so that she can choose. During those years he never let her feel neither abandoned nor unwanted. He tried his best to visit but never overstayed. He knew Rin was attached to him, and even though he never voiced it, he was attached to her. His mind meandered to the memory of the night he left her at the old miko's village...

"Sesshomaru-sama! What do you mean I am to stay here in this village? Have I offended you? Rin is sorry!"
She desperately said but she never inched closer to him for comfort. She would be determined to not let the tears that threatened to spill, flow out of their confinement. She was determined to be strong, just like he was.

He did not say it then, but he was forced to admit it to himself: he admired her strength and her courage. He knew that leaving her would be hard for him, but he would always want her to have a choice. He knew it would be a cruel choice between him and humans, but it was a decision he had to make. His stoic mask in place he only replied with few words: "You have not Rin, you must get accustomed to your own kind."

With that he turned to leave not allowing her to see the pain that cracked through his seamless mask of coldness. She did not realize how much she had changed him, nor would he let her see that side of him at this moment. Keeping his back towards her, he took a few steps, ignoring the pain that threatened to squeeze the very breath out of him. He moved to take another step when something grabbed hold of his calf.

Rin.

She was a tiny thing, a bundle of happiness that had come into his life and taught him what it meant to feel.

He looked down at her, his chest constricting at the heart shredding image of her pleading eyes. He saw the tears welling up, and her determination to not let them fall.

"Promise me Sesshomaru-sama, that you would visit…I know that you would be busy, but please…."

"Hnnh"

Realising that she gotten confirmation that he would visit, as he had hoped she gifted him one of the most precious thing that was truly hers to give, a brilliant smile that paled the moon's glow and warmed the youkai's heart.

A pungent odor brought him out of his meandering thoughts of that night. The sun was at its peak and the wind was blowing from the direction of her village. His speed increased tenfold as he sped to where she would be. A hint of blood tinged the wind allowing the worry to erupt in his mind. It was hers. Someone had spilt her blood.

His eyes already glowed red in anticipation of the vengeance that would be exacted on the foul creature that would touch her. It would pay dearly.

Suddenly he stopped. He had reached the clearing where he had left her on his last visit. Hysterical giggles and laughter rang in the air. Male voices were making conversation as a female voice chirped in. He recognized the males' scents and he did not like it one bit: desire. He focused on the voice he never could forget. She was alive! Rushing to the laughter's source, the scene before him shocked him to his very core as amazement and fear punched his heart, speeding its rhythm.

There, standing happily atop a giant mass of green scales was a girl, 17 years at most, with long flowing black hair that gleamed in the sunlight, a scythe in her right hand while the left rested on her hip. Decked in ebony colored pants, an armor that protected her upper torso and thighs shone silver in the sun, the girl laughed as she joked about the dead demon she stood on. She was a wondrous creature to behold; the joy in her face highlighted the beauty that she grew into. He stared at her in awe as he etched the scene in his memory but he sniffed the air realising that he still smelt her blood. Tracing his eyes over her, he saw a slight would on her neck that leaked blood and had dried on her shoulder. Staining the already red shirt she had worn below her armor.

Within a second he was at her side, taking her in his arms, he brought her closer bending so that his face was a few millimeters away from the wound. Knowing that his saliva had healing properties he covered the injury with it, moving his tongue over it until it was coated. He immediately felt her stiffen at the contact and her scent changed at that instant. Knowing what it meant he moved back to look at her directly in her chocolate eyes.

"Rin."

"Sesshomaru-sama! You came back!"

"Yes. Have you forgotten, today is the day you give me your choice."

Beaming at his words, she opened her mouth to reply, however she was cut across by one of the little human males.

"Rin isn't going anywhere with you demon! She is to be married and live her life here!"

Horror etched its way into her delicate features, as she continued to stare at the audacity of the boy to answer her Lord in such a manner. Taking the silence as a cue for him to continue, he took a deep breath and said in a steady voice:

"If you want her, you have to fight us for her. She will never go with you!"

Rin looked from the foolish boy to her Lord, waiting for his response. His cold mask never slipped as he replied in his monotone deadly voice, while a hint of a smile played on his lips.

"So be it, human."

Sorry for the cliff hanger but the story would continue :D I know it started off as a serious chapter, but I promise it would be lots of fun! I promise!