Chapter 44

Sesshomaru's POV

Rin had been feeling ill for the past week, and I was beginning to get worried about her.  Including the fact that her scent has changed slightly, I don't know why, but I have my suspicions, and I just want to be correct, although if I am, I am not sure how she will take the news. I'm not sure of myself at this point.

Today she is supposed to go see the medics, although to do that she would have to wake up first.  That woman can sleep like the dead, although that is not at all funny to me in anyway, but to her it is hilarious.  She could sleep through almost anything, which I think is a bit dangerous, although if she is danger she seems to sense it, I am guessing her powers alert her.  She has many tricks up her sleeves that I am still learning.  Women are confusing, I now understand what Inuyasha meant when he would tell that to me once he married Kagome so many years ago.  I sighed as I continued to do paper work.  After a while I decided to go check in on how my soldiers were doing in their raining.  I walked to the training hall, maids and other servants bowing in respect and some trembling in fear as they did so.  I made my way to the training hall, I looked out at all of the men fighting with another, some two against one, to test their abilities more.  Then I sensed it, something wasn't right.  I sniffed the air, someone is on my land and in my castle.  I focused.  Rin!

I ran to our room only to find her gone.  There was a scent here, one that I did not know.  I could see that there was a slight struggle, and I could smell some sort of chemical, or gas.  I growled out, as I roared orders to guards, the ones that were not passed out or dead.  I raced after the scent of my mate mixed with another being with her, or carrying her.  I will not lose her, not again, not ever.  She is mine!  I growled as I changed into my true form.  I ran faced and hard, willing myself to go faster than I have gone before.  Something didn't feel right in the air as I neared her.  Her scent was getting stronger so I knew that I was closing in on her, and her abductor.  My head felt strange, and my vision was becoming blurry, all fuzzy like.  I growled as I shook my head, trying to keep focused. My mate is in trouble, I must reach her.  Something hit my nose, causing me to stop.  I searched the area around me and saw nothing.  My senses are failing.  I began to see dots in my vision, I heard a chuckle as I fell. 

I awoke to see Rin chained to a stone table.  A man stood over her with a knife in hand.  I began to growl at him as he began to speak.  He will not harm my mate, although everytime I tried to get free I could feel my energy and power being drained.  I made eye contact and I could see fear in her eyes.  I feared for her life more over my own.  Only her life mattered, my life meant nothing, it was nothing without her.  She must live, she must never be harmed. When the stupid human said that she was no longer needed, I knew that he was going to kill her.  I fought against my chains harder, as he neared her with the knife. 

Then she spoke to me.  I froze at her voice, and at her words.  I knew what she was thinking, because I was thinking it as well.  We will both die, here together, like this.  I could not accept this, I knew that there was no way out.  I know now that she will die, I will die, we will both die.  The two of us down in some sort of cellar together.  I love her, oh how I loved her so.  I could see terror in her eyes, so kept eye contact with her, to try and calm her.  To let her know that I loved her, that I wasn't going to leave her, that I would follow her forever.

Rin's POV

   I was chained to something hard and cold, a table, no it doesn't feel like a table exactly.  A stone table maybe.  The air smelled foul, I wanted to throw up.  This smell was horrible. My body hurt, and ached.  My eyes, open, please open.  My head was pounding and I didn't know what to do, finally my eyes fluttered open.  I was right, it is a stone table.  I tried to move, but I couldn't, the chains, right.  I looked around me to see.  It was almost like an underground cave or something.  Lanterns were on the walls, casting some light to see, but not much.  It held a creepy vibe, and something had me worried.  I continued to look around me, and then I saw.  Noooo!  Sesshomaru, he was chained to the wall.  I tried to use a spell that would take off these chains, but it only made my body ache more.

What is going on?  Where are we?  What happened?  Why can't I use my magic?  Why is Sesshomaru chained too?  Why is he not awake?  I was afraid, and more afraid than usual and I don't know why. Then a man walked in, with a knife, and a bag.  I know what's in the bag.  Torture devices.  What does he want?

I heard Sesshomaru wake, he too had no luck of getting out of the chains.  He then made eye contact with me.  He too seem afraid, afraid for me.  I couldn't even speak to him.  My mouth felt dry, but I managed a whisper "Sesshomaru."

I looked back to the guy that came in.  "You will never guess what I have discovered, and there seems to be a change of plans."

"Change of plans?"  I asked, my voice hoarse sounding.  I tried to swallow, but there was nothing to swallow.  My mouth felt so dry, and my throat itched.

"Well something has come up.  My master wishes for something else now."

"What is that?  Who is it do you work for?"  My voice becoming slightly stronger, going back to normal. 

"Well you see my dear, he no longer has a need for you."

I heard chains moving from the direction of where Sesshomaru is, along with growling.  I have heard him growl, and this one is different.  Stronger than the others that I have heard from him before. I looked over to him, his eyes slightly becoming pink, but never a full red.  He seemed to get tired easily.  Then I knew.

"Sesshomaru stop!"  He looked to me.  "They are poisoned, the more you move the more that they will drain you, the more power that you use, the faster you will die."  We will both die here.  I realize that now, I locked eyes with him, and he seemed to come to the same conclusion.  We held each other's gaze, and it seemed as if his soul was reaching out to mine.  He was trying to help keep me calm.  He knows that I am actually afraid to die, again.  I don't want to.  I want to live, I want to live with him, always and forever.  I was finally completely happy with him, and now it is going to be taken from me, from us.

 I was about to say something when the man spoke first.  As he began to cut me with the knife he held.  I screamed causing it so that I couldn't understand what he was saying, and everything became blurry.  My vision was failing, sounds were becoming mixed together.  I heard chains move again, and I lost consciousness.   

Sesshomaru's POV

The man began to cut my mate with the knife.  I fought against the chains and froze for a moment at his next words. 

"We only need that child inside of you."  I growled and fought more than I ever have before.  My rage was my strength and I let it take over.  My true demon, not just in form, but in spirit, in every possible way one may think of.  I lost control, I willed myself to.  He will not have my child, no one will.  Rin will live to see our child grow old, she will grow old, she live with me, with our child, our family.  Rin was pregnant with our first child, I didn't care if it would be a half-breed, it would be our child.  Our love in a form.  I will not lose either of them.  I refuse to.  If I die here today to save them, then so be it.  I know understood father more than ever, and it was not how I imagined it all those years ago. 

I broke free of my chains, and attacked the being to the ground.  No one, harms my mate, and no one harms my mate and unborn child.  I growled as my venom flowed through my entire being.  I ripped this worthless life form into shreds as others came into the room.  I took them down as if they were flies.  They were nothing to me.  Nothing at all.  I killed them all.  Heads rolling on the floor, body parts flying in different direction.  Blood splattering in every direction. 

I finished them all, not one was breathing, not one had a heartbeat.  I then came back to my senses as I turned to look at my beautiful angel of a mate on the stone table.  Her stomach bleeding, the knife still in her.  I pulled it out, and then began to try heal her.  I looked down at her, and decided what needs to be done.  I brought my wrist to my mouth and bit down, drawing blood.  I held my wrist over her wound, as I watched it fall onto her, into her wound.  I lifted her into my arms, as I took off the top of my kimono, and wrapped it around her.  I lifted her off of the stone table and raced her to Inuyasha and Kagomes.  Kagome would know what to do, I honestly don't, know, and though I am afraid to seek help from others, I will not lose my mate and child for something so selfish of me.  If it was pride and Rins life on the line, I chose to lose my pride, my honor, my power, if it meant that I could keep Rin in my life. 

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