A/N: Alright, this story is dedicated to icegirljenni for her birthday! Happy Birthday, Jenni! I do not own Inuyasha. :( The disclaimer ruined the birthday mood.

"Lord Sesshomaru?" a young girl's voice rang out in the forest. The Great TaiYoukai, with his exellent sense of hearing, saught out the source of the sound - in under a second. Silence. Rin took the long pause as an invitation to voice out her thoughts. She bent down, hesistating a bit, toying with nearby flowers.

The flowers were beautiful, and varied in many different colours. Pinkish red, blueish-purple, and many more in shades of colours that she had never seen in all her years of travelling with her Lord. She playfully and gently poked the stem of a rose, only to have her index finger pricked. She held in the whimper that she needed to let out, and started sucking her injured finger. Then, a hand much larger than hers pried her mouth open and pulled out her finger. Sesshomaru.

He let the finger into his mouth, making sure to only seperate his lips the least as possible, before licking her tiny wound. These actions alone sent a shiver of nervousness down the young girl's spine. She was as fragile as glass.

"Rin, you may speak," Sesshomaru told her in a monotone, that reminded her of why she was croutching there right next to him. He had already placed her hand back to the side of her waist.

"Hai, Lord Sesshomaru," Rin replied, trying to rephrase the thoughts she had in her head so that she would not make a fool out of herself. Her Lord's recent actions only made it harder for her to speak to him, if at all. "Lord Sesshomaru, when Rin grows up, will you marry me?"

That innocent question had caught Sesshomaru off guard. He almost fell backwards in shock, but didn't. The only signs that told you he was really in shock was : 1, his eyes widened greatly, 2, his lips parted a bit, making him look even more hot than he already was, and 3, he ran his fingers through his long, white hair. More silence.

Rin took the silence as a sign that he did not want her as his future mate. Holding back tears, she turned her head away so that her Lord could not see the hurt in her eyes. But she felt a hand close in on the bottom of her head, and pulled her closer to her Lord. They were now face-to-face.

Sesshomaru could feel her breath on his face. He had sensed the hurt in her, and now he could see it. In an effort to be comforting, he gave her one of those rare smiles, that actually showed happiness instead of sadism. Rin knew that she was one of the very few who had seen this smile, maybe even the only person, demon or mortal, who had ever laid their eyes upon the heavenly sight. A faint trace of pink could be seen on her cheeks.

"I will marry you, Rin," Sesshomaru told her, pleased with her cute reaction. He pulled her into a breath-taking kiss, and as his lips crashed onto hers, she moaned slightly. Eventually, Rin had to pull away for air, but if she were a demon like Sesshomaru, she would have never ended it.

"Lord Sesshomaru, I love you," Rin whispered as she lay her head against his chest, breathing heavily since the kiss took away most of her energy and oxygen.

"Hn," was all that her Lord could say, but she knew that the simple word that he loved to use could have many different meanings. After all, the kiss had proven it.

Sesshomaru wrapped his arm protectively around Rin, and his free hand was used to clutch one of her hands.