After this chapter, you will have to wait until my crazy mood let me write the next chapter. I DON'T KNOW WHEN. It could be days, weeks or even months.

For some reason I keep have this feeling that this chapter could have been better but I have no clue what to do with it. Also I found it kind of cheesy and I hate cheesy. Enjoyed. And review please "Puppy eyes" :D

In his hand was another bundle of kimono. A pale orange kimono embroiled with green leaves and birds pattern for Rin because her old one should be all messy by now. It could still be used after washed, but he preferred giving her a new one.

He was thinking about giving her a demon-made kimono which would be much like his own that would clean and fix itself, but he didn't like that idea. He enjoyed seeing her happy expression when she received the gift. His gifts.

If she received the demon-made kind, it would take his chance of pampering her away. After all, it had been nearly thirteen years since he had last showered her with gifts.

He gratefully followed her scent and walked among the trees.

His face might appear calm and indifferent, but something bothered him. Something was off tonight.

His strides may appear graceful and even, but he was walking faster than he normally would.

He tracked her scent, following her trails, and ended up at the bottom of a big tall tree. Its numerous rich autumn leaves made a good place to hide and disguise from predators' sight. Which seemed to be Rin's opinion as well.

But Rin never hide from him before.

He could hear her heartbeats quickening as he approached and came to a halt before the tree; her salty sweats assaulted his keen nose. He could tell that she was controlling her breathing to not give per position away.

Abruptly, a figure jumped from the tree and at him, knife in hand, aiming for his throat, but he effortlessly avoided it. Her movement was as good and sharp as when she was in her demon form, only slower.

But why would she attack him when she was clearly human?

The knife that she had always carried with her, but never once touched it when she was a demon because she preferred using her claws so she could feel the victims' fresh, was now aiming at the demon lord.

He smoothly dodged each attacks. He took noticed of the fear in her eyes as well as the trembling of her small body. Everything about her screamed "I'm Scared!"

But why would she fear him? Why now?

He bended backward out of the knife's reached, it cut through air. It barely missed his throat. She quickly twisted her body and blew him a kick, but he shifted to the side dodging it.

He could not make out what was happing.

She was clearly human!

But in her eyes, tonight she saw him as enemy.

What went wrong?

What was different tonight from any other full moon nights?

He had to find out.

In a flash, he grasped her right risk, twisted it with just enough force to made her dropped the knife. His leg slide in between hers, bended one of her knees forcing her to fall.

He pinned her feminine form to the ground, took note of how fragile human fresh could be as he used his weight to keep her in place. Her hands were firmly held to each side next to her head.

"Why did you attack me?" he calmly asked. But her only reply to him was an angry hiss and a fit of struggled.

She tried everything she knew to get herself free, struggling, kicking, twisting her risks, anything she knew, but he did not budged. He sat on top her like a rock.

"Fear me not." His calm deep voice filled the dark forest. The wind could be heard traveling the night as they touched the trees leaving waves of rustling leaves behind.

His golden eyes searched her brown ones, trying to calm her down.

"I will not harm you." he stated to the struggling girl. She tried to bite his shoulder, but he easily moved out of her way, his hands still held hers in place. She let out a frustrate grunt.

After long moment of struggled to break free, which clearly she would not, they both fell into silent until Sesshomaru spoke again. The girl had now lain still, painting, but her wild angry eyes never left his. "I will now let you go." He told her calmly in his monotone voice; made sure she got his message and intention.

Rin only stared at him blankly.

He gradually freed her hands and lifted his body off hers. As soon as she could move, she dashed toward her knife and pointed it at him, taking a defensive stand in case he attacked her again.

This isn't right! This wasn't how he dreamt of spending the night with Rin! His Rin

He could hear his organ that pump bloods, known as heart, cracked and his stomach created a black hole sucking all his inside and left it empty. Such strange feelings. He hated it.

He had never been looked at by Rin with fear! Never!

Her cold eyes that stared at him when she was a demon did not count because she didn't have any other senses, but killing instinct.

But in her human form, she always smiled at him. Even when she did not know him. Even when she was extremely angry at him. But now she looked at him with fear, and it tore his inside.

She feared him!

After a long silent he turned around and started to walk away. He would leave her. He no longer welcomed in her present.

All he could do was gave her enough space and looked after her from afar without her knowledge, made sure that she was alright. He wanted to comfort her, but he couldn't. He wanted to chuckle at such alien thought. He never comforted any beings. He never needed to.

Now he was the force of her fear; being near her tonight was prohibited.

The strangest thing was, once he started walking, so did she. Curious he paused, but did not around; he could hear that her light footsteps had come to a halt as well. He smirked inwardly at this strange behavior of hers. His mood lightened up slightly. He started walking again and she followed in a far distance, but kept him in sight.

She was afraid of being left alone, he noted.

He led her for a long good while until they reached an opening space. The sky was clear and the moon was bright.

"Wait here," he stated, startled the girl. Before she could protest or made a reply, he was gone.

The human girl was now panicked, eyeing every corner of the forest with fear. The whole forest suddenly became too quiet for her liking. She felt as if eyes were watching her from every direction, awaited the right moment to attack her. Her senses were at full alert. Her hand tightened around her knife. Something could come at her any moment. She became jumpy at the smallest of noise.

A sound emerged from her left, she point the knife its way, letting out the breath she did not know she held once she saw the white figure before her.

In his right hand were two rabbits and on his other hand carrying dry woods. He dropped them a few feet from her and started towards another tall tree and made himself comfortable letting the doubtful girl to her business. Just then her stomach growled. He smirked inwardly. He knew that her first priority after returned to her human form was to eat.

She was inching closer towards the rabbits; her eyes never left the demon, her stomach was begging to be filled. She gasped the rabbit and made a dash away from the demon. She started working on them. She didn't trust the demon yet, and didn't know what his intention was, but if he really did want her dead, she would have been long gone judging from how fast his speed was. How fast he hunted and how easy he pinned her down. But she would not let her guard down. Not around demons.

Quickly and with skills, not too long she was eating roast meat. Sesshomaru was sitting still and not move an inch. He knew she was still varying of him and any movements from him would give her frights. He decided to close his eyes, listing to her instead of looking. She would be more comfortable and at east that way. She was almost her usual self now; relaxed and enjoyed her meal. Though he wonder if he would ever find out why she was so frightened tonight.

Time passed by in peaceful silence. She didn't feel like talking. Not to a demon.

The demon who had been siting against the tree staring at the moon now had his eyes closed. Her fear toward the being had decreased. To be honest, she felt kind of safe with him around, seeing how terrifying the world suddenly became once he left her sight.

The demon seemed to be sleeping. She hungrily wolfed all the food and felt her energy being recharged.

Another hour of peacefulness had gone by. Only the wind was gently kissed her skin, sending shills down her back. It was autumn after all seeing all these colorful leaves, and the wind was cold.

The demon lord's eyes were tightly shut. He was so still that he could be passed for a statue.

Curiosity suddenly got the better of the girl no matter how much her instinct told her to keep a safe distance, she inched toward the being.

Sesshomaru had had his eyes closed to make Rin felt comfortable but he could hear her every moves. The way she slowly turned her roast rabbits, the way she ran her hand and smoothed her hairs behind her ear.

He cold felt her body relaxed after an hour had passed. Somewhere along the way he had almost been completely forgotten, but he knew if he shifted even a finger, she would be at his throat. So he sat.

He waited.

He listened to her.

Her scent that carried to him by the cold breeze gave him comfort. He was a bit disappointed that he would not hear her sweet voice tonight. But he was more worry over her fear. Why was she so frightened tonight?

And sadly, she had forgotten him.

It was around midnight when he heard her body shifted, stood up and as quietly as possible, sneaked his way.

What is she up to?

He could hear her light feet came to pause before him, kneeling down. She was holding her breath. Her personal sweet scent touched his nose, her body heat waved his way as her heartbeats jumped crazily insider her ribcage.

He felt her slim fingers gently pat over his Mokomoko.

Why was he not surprised?

He smirked inwardly. It was just like those years in the past when the little Rin thought he was asleep and would come to steal a touch at his Mokomoko. But she never dared more than touched the edge of his soft fur.

The adult Rin gently ran her fingers through the soft fur and smiled for the first time that night. But something else caught her eyes afterward. His long silver hairs. They were sooo smooth, begging to be touch. And touched she did. They felt like cool silk running through her fingers.

His face too. The purple strips on his cheeks too, she wondered what it felt like. Very gently, a finger lightly smoothed the mark, very softly so the dog demon would not wake. He remained still so she continued.

Hm… now his face, Sesshomaru thought. That was new. She was never bold enough to touch his face, though he knew how much she had wished to.

She raised another hand to remove the bangs out of his face. She noticed just how handsome the demon before her was. His smooth perfect skin, his fine jaw lines, his beautiful cheeks bones and his thick long eyelashes. She was exploding him like a new toy.

She was so fascinated by the creature before her and lost in her own little world. His lips were very pretty as well. Made him so handsome. Before she knew it, she found her mouth pressed against his. Both her eyes closed.

The demon's body went stiff!

A kiss!

That was certainly new. Something Sesshomaru never thought she would do to him. What would he do in such situation? He never expected her to kiss him.

She felt the demon's body tensed, but she did not moved. Could not move. Rin was too surprised at her own action, she was frozen rigid.

What the hell are you doing? She scorned herself but still too shock to get away.

She grimaced, sneaked an eye to peek at the breathtaking demon and found the golden orbs staring into hers brown one.

She squawked. The next moment she found herself on her bottom after pushing away from the handsome demon who was stared at her blankly. Curios.

"Yo-You!" she pointed a finger at him in panicked.

But his thought was focused on the memory of how soft her lips were, and he... missed the warmth and softness of her lips. Never had he knew such thing as kissing could be so… endearing.

"What have you done to me?" She accused loudly.

He raised an eyebrow, noting that she was speaking for the first time tonight.

"You put a spell on me didn't you?" she accused some more. The demon lord only stared at her calmly. "Why-why else would I want to kiss you?" She exclaimed sheepishly, her cheeks started to felt hot and turned the color of tomato.

She wanted to kiss me? The demon mused.

She had always been mystery to him. Her actions always surprised him. The first time they met, not only had she not afraid of him, but dumped water all over his head. After that he revived her from the dead and she followed him, trusted him since. When she became a demon, she tried to kill him, something he never expected from her. She never dared to even raise her voice to him left alone try to kill him. She then asked him to bath with her which nearly threw his stone heart out of his chest, and now she kissed him. Indeed, she was a mystery.

To be honest, he wanted to try more of this… kissing thing. He never wanted to be touch by another, but he found it quite…pleasant… being kissed by her. He didn't mind if it were her.

And instead of being angry that such child wanted to kiss him, he rather… happy about it.

But his honor was at state and he had to defense himself.

"I do no such thing."

"It has to be. Why else I would want to kiss you!" she finally picked herself up and ran yards away from the demon before her. The spell seemed to still lingered on her because the demon looked so tempting. Alluring. She did not trust herself that she would not jump him again.

Sesshomaru raised a brow; a very tiny smirked on his lips and his cold eyes were dancing with amusement. It made Rin wanted to punch that smirk off his face.

"If I knew a spell, do you think you would stop only at kissing me?"

The woman turned even redder as the meaning sank in.

"I would not dishonor myself to such low degree. And again, I do not know such spell." He stood aloft, proud. Almost as if saying, I'm too handsome to use such spell.

She still eyed him suspiciously. But the demon before her carry too much pride to stoop so low as to use black magic. For some reason she believed him. Which mean she wanted to kiss him on her own account, but she quickly ignored that fact.

"You swear?" just to make sure, she asked.

"In the honor of this Sesshomaru's name."

And with that they both settled down and let only the wind spoke for the night.

"You know," Rin broke the silence after a long while, her voice was far and distance yet soft and kind. Just the way he remembered. "I have been fighting with demons. For how long I don't know. Or where." She seemed to speak more to herself than to him.

"It was so dark and I was in an endless space. Demons kept coming no matter how much I killed. I was so tired. I was so scared," the girl hugged her bending legs, chin rested on her knees. Sadness and exhaustion emitted from her body. The salty tears from her eyes carried by the wind touched his keen nose. Yet all he could do was listening to her.

It broke his icy heart to see her cried. She never cried. Not even when she was hurt. Not when she was in danger or being captured. It must have been very terrible for such a strong girl to shed tears.

"I don't even know why I was fighting anymore. Only that I have to fight or else I will perish. Because I have something I need to protect and I cannot let the demons won. It was so dark and exhausted, but I could not rest. Because the demons did not rest either.

"And then I found myself here. In the open field. I see the world for the first time in such a long time. It feels like a life time since the last time I saw anything, but darkness. And then I saw you. A demon. But it seems like you are not my enemy." She looked at him. For the first time on her beautifully sad face was a small smile.

The demon's heart skipped a beat, having the strange urge of wanting to touch her. To even… embrace… that delicate body and shield her from anything that would hurt her.

"I would never harm you." He promised. He also promised himself that he would save her from that darkness knowing that what she had described was her inner battle against the demons inside her over the body.

"I trusted you." the girl gave him a soft smiled. And then she yawned and gently laid on the floor, letting sleep took over her for the first time after becoming a demoness. The first time she felt safe and protected enough to allow herself sleep.

Sesshomaru gently lifted her body to rest her on his lap. One of his hands caressed her faced sleepy face. What caused him to do such thing he knew not, but he felt the need to do so. To hold her.

His treasure.

He held her closed as if he could shield her from the world, willing his strength to reach her and let her be strong enough until he could get the white jewel to free her. That night she slept in his embrace until the sun rise.

Thank you so much for reviewing, reading, following, and favorite this story. I also want to thank the many guess reviews on one shots and those that I cannot sent PM to thank you. I have read them and appreciated them all. :D

Krikanolo: thank you :D

Taraah36: Lol, that would be hot and steamy :P

Darkmyr-InuYashaFan: I'm glad you're happy. :D But I don't know about the next chapter. Apology ahead.

Pollzy Claire: Thank you :D

Icegirljenni: lol, they sure are quite carefree in that one :D I think even after she return to herself, such fun event would still happen :D

Lp: Yeah, it's sure is depressing with her mood swings. But at least she's alive and the chance she would return to herself is high. (She has to return to herself or Sesshy my kill me, lol)

KewlFoxyKatt: Thank you :D

MorgyWorgy: Thank you, I will try and update, but I don't know when.

Epatterson89: thanks. I don't know when the next update will be because even though I wanted to write, I can't when I can't. :C

Silver eyed lass: this one is up, but I don't know about the next one. I hope it will be soon too.

Squirtlepokemon215: Lol, he sure is. He's just too prideful to admit it :D And no matter what, Rin always loves him :D

Hmurray: lol. But no, she did not make a wish to become a demon. All she wanted was to see Sesshy again one more before she died. However, for her to see him again, she has to live and to live meant she would have to become a demon. Does that explain it? So no, she did not want to become a demon.

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Tuesday August 20, 2013