A sound came from behind the doors. Rin, alarmed, jerked back and looked for her towel.

"Who is it!" Her voice trembled in fear as the shame from nakedness hit her from the first time in her life.

"Rin, it's me." Sousuke appeared, looking apologetically. He tried keeping his head down, though he couldn't stop himself from blushing. The tub water was clear as ever, and her pale yet beautiful body reflected upon it was enough to keep Sousuke aroused.

"Pl..please, go away!" Rin put her arms around herself, feeling exposed.

"I..I brought you some oil. I thought it would make you feel better, you know, I mean, uh, after the tired day of crying. It's pure oil made from rose extract. It'll make you feel relaxed, I promise. I only meant it for your good." He held out a jar, and the scent flowed so strongly--a powerful, mesmerizing scent of crimson rose. Rin didn't know how to react, besides feeling dominated by the seductive elixir. She felt embarrassed for being scared of Sousuke. She realized he was indeed her friend after all, the only person left she knows after Sesshomaru abandoned her. Why, why did he abandon her? Was it that he secretly knew her love for her? Was her love too common and filthy for such a pure, elite demon? Did he hate her? She whimpered as crazy thoughts ran through her head. The rose oil scent was the only thing she relied on to make her stop think.

"Yes, please. I'm sorry for being scared. Would you give me some? It's...it's a beautiful scent." She closed her eyes as she spoke. She couldn't think straight anymore. Everything was going out of order. In midst of chaos, what else was there to rely on but beauty? Sousuke approached her with soft footsteps and grabbed a stool behind her. Rin blushed, knowing this was the first time ever a man had came close to her when she was naked. Yet if she could give Sousuke everything and he would take her, she would be okay. Finding a replacement for Sesshomaru, an unworthy one but one nonetheless, was better than losing the whole world. Maybe she would stay here. Maybe she would live like the humans. What is it to her that Sesshomaru left? The world means absolutely nothing.

Sousuke's touch surprised her. His fingers were soft yet firm on her delicate skin. He began rubbing the rose oil with his palm, gently enough to relax her shoulders. Now she tried to remain calm and breathe.

"Rin, your skin, it's really soft...May I?" Sousuke poured more oil onto his hands. His hands moved in a graceful way and slowly found their position around her thin arms and lean back. He went closer to her, an inch away from her neck as he smelled the scent of rose with her. The sensual mood was added by the night sky and the dim light of the room. Her breasts floated up the water, nipples hardened by arousal. Sousuke gazed at her very round, full breasts and began rubbing it with his hands. Her accentuated the nipples and cupped them with his two hands.

"No, please!"

Rin shuddered as she cried. Sousuke even pushed the breasts harder. Its perfect roundness reminded him of a peach; it tempted him with sweet-tasting, pink luxury.

"Ahh!!" Rin tried to push away from him. Then suddenly, he grabbed her by the throat and pushed her against his skin. He force fed her the rose elixir, which actually was a sleeping poison. Trying to pull away, Rin lost control over her body as she lost herself to a deep sleep.

"Foolish girl, so beautiful. So tender yet so foolish." Now a dark shadow had appeared above Sousuke. Its menacing aura dominated the room with evil and filth. The shadow lacked a definite form but gradually made itself four arms that carried Rin's body and wrapped her inside his dark, black filth.

"The...the..black snake demon god!" Sousuke gagged as the remains of his darkness came out from his throat. He couldn't remember what had just happened. He saw rin at the festival..., then.....?

"You were useful, human. As my gift to you, I will not kill you. In fact, I have no need of killing any villagers. All I did wanted was that beautiful, pure demon god's body, Sesshomaru..." The black shadow disappeared out the window to the black sky. He carried Rin's naked body in half in triumph and half in frenzy.

Meanwhile...

"Se..sehomaru-sama. Jaken will always follow his master's wise decisions, but is it really okay to leave Rin in the village?" He carried his staff nervously as he felt the loss of his companion's presence.

"...." Sesshomaru did not speak another word. Instead, the image of Rin from their departure ran through his head. She looked helpless without any defense. That poor girl, he thought. She had went through unnecessary troubles to be with the demons. She never complained when she had splinters from the woods or even when she was attacked by some reckless demons. She only smiled, chasing after her master, obediently, faithfully in such a loving way that Sesshomaru himself couldn't resist. Her companion to him was the last resort of his purity after showering in the blood of filthy demons. Rin was his temple, his sanctuary, his lover. When she cried after trying to be with them, her tears pierced through his cold, merciless heart. What had she become to him? He would never love her, for it was "unfit" for him to do so. Yet he would love her, because it was decidedly so. The years with her were the warmest time of his heart. There were many times when lust would overcome his body and he would cast a spell on himself to prevent the slightest damage for his young, innocent beauty. His efforts were a success in the beginning. After all those years, she had grown happy, if he may say so, with vitality and innocence fitting to her loveliness. Yet it eventually became a problem that she was too beautiful and finally made all his temperance and self-control meaningless. He had to leave her. That was the only way. Yes, may she never know the filth of his own lust. May she never see him again, for he would be unable to control his feelings, if she were to be here now.

"Sesshomaru-sama, that...that's a copy of the snake demon! He's...he's carrying Rin? Could it be that he is using his illusion to make you come fight him? Sesshomaru-sama!" Jaken shrieked as he was the illusion in the corner of the tree. Sesshomaru looked sharply at his name and saw Rin captured by him. His angers became uncontrollable. As his fury grew, he turned around silently towards the direction of snake-demon's cave, where all the demons of his species will be waiting.