Till The End Of Time [Inuyasha Fanfiction ]
Chapter 36's

The girl of about thirteen years old was standing with a beautiful smile on her face in a cluster of marple red leaves. Wearing a deep red kimono, her bare white feet stepped on the dried leaves below. As hypnotizing as the eye can see, only the color red is there. The red leaves of autumn marple.

"Rin!" yelled Jaken, the frog youkai suddenly resuscitated the girl. "Until when will you stand there pecking little girl! C'mon fast! Me and Sesshoumaru-sama will not wait for you!"

"Yes! Wait for Rin, Jaken-sama!" turning around, Rin soon sees the figure of Jaken and Ah-Un, the two-headed dragon youkai, his traveling companion.

Jaken's face clearly looked displeased, Ah-Un just curled up slowly as if laughing. However, Rin did not care about it all, her two big brown eyes just stared straight at the emotionless-faced inuyoukai beside Jaken and Ah-Un—Sesshoumaru.

A wide smile was flashed on Rin's beautiful face as her eyes met those golden eyes of inuyoukai. "Wait Rin! Wait for Rin, Sesshoumaru-sama!" he ran towards Sesshoumaru with open arms.

Sesshoumaru did not say anything, however, he could not allow the slightest hint of his gaze from the human girl who ran over and tightly hugged her waist.

Raising his face, Rin then chuckled as he looked at the inuyoukai face in front of him "It's so beautiful, huh, Sesshoumaru-sama? Rin had not seen the scenery outside the Western Land Palace for a long time? For our trip this time, let Sesshoumaru-sama and Rin, together enjoy autumn outside the palace. Sesshoumaru-sama won't mind, right?"

Although addressed with endless questions, Sesshoumaru remained silent watching the little girl in front of him. The girl has grown up again. Now, the little girl's head had passed through her waist. Only his attitude never changes, remains childish, full of curiosity, likes nature, kind, generous, and most importantly, always laughs and smiles.

"What are you doing, Rin!" jaken shouted frantically as he saw Rin hugging Sesshomaru. "Let go! Quickly release your hands from Sesshoumaru-sama!"

Getting his head fixed on Jaken, Rin immediately stuck out a tongue mocking the frog youkai and tightened his arms around Sesshoumaru's waist. "No want! Rin likes to hug Sesshoumaru-sama. Therefore, Rin will not let go of this embrace!"

"You!" jaken shouted again full of anger. "Cyc-coc girl"

"You're just jealous, aren't you, Jaken-sama? Because Jaken-sama can never hug Sesshoumaru-sama like Rin hugging Sesshoumaru-sama!" cut Rin quickly while smiling at Jaken's teasing grin.

"Little girl! You!" jaken's green face immediately turned red, holding back anger and embarrassment, because what Rin said was true. Ah-Un who was at the side again curled up softly, laughing at Jaken.

"That's it, Jaken-sama," cut off Rin again. His head was raised again staring at the inuyoukai still in his embrace and smiling widely. "We must continue our journey, reaching our destination village as soon as possible. Right, right, Sesshoumaru-sama?"

Sesshoumaru returned Rin's gaze. There was still not a single word that slid out from his mouth, nor did his facial expression; calm and flat. However, not even answered, only through the golden eyes in front of her, the human girl, had already gotten an answer from her question. The ability to understand inuyoukai the ruler of the western lands, that was his pride. In this world, he was the only being who could understand those inuyoukai just by looking into those golden eyes.

Releasing his arms, Rin then ran a small forward, past Sesshoumaru. Reversing, he laughed again staring at the inuyoukai again. "The spirit we are going to take is western, right, Sesshoumaru-sama? Let Rin lead our group, huh? Rin won't get us all lost!"

Sesshoumaru closed his eyes for a moment, and by remaining silent he then stepped foot following the human girl in front of him quietly. Ah-Un quickly follows his master, as well as Jaken, though his mouth continues to grumble with Rin's attitude slowly.

Calm, cold, wordless and never minding anything, that was his trademark attitude, Sesshoumaru himself knew of it. However, for the trip this time, the first trip since Rin returned to his uncle and settled in the Palace of the Western Land, he realized, there was something different. Although he seemed to care nothing, his current self, could not leave the figure of Rin in front of him. Unbeknownst to him, every moment, every minute, every second, his golden eyes would continue to follow the small steps that the human girl had taken. He did not want the girl kidnapped youkai that they might meet, did not want the girl to fall for her own carelessness— did not want the girl to disappear from him.

Observing Rin again, Sesshoumaru looked at the figure of the girl. Rin is no longer a little girl, the girl, now in her teens, is entering puberty. The inuyoukai still remembered clearly - no. Perhaps all the residents of the West Land Palace still clearly remember the events of summer this year.

"Yahoo! Sesshoumaru-sama!"

Rin's terrified shout managed to break the serenity of the quiet and peaceful Western Land Palace's summer morning. Sesshoumaru who heard Rin's screaming voice, without thinking anything immediately ran to the human girl's room with Tensaiga and Bakusaiga in hand, as well as Kiri, Kira and all the palace dwellers.

What Sesshoumaru's sharp nose smelled when he opened Rin's room door was the smell of Rin's blood filling the entire room. However, once smelled it, the inuyoukai also instantly knew, there was something different about the smell of that blood. The blood smelled so sweet and tempting. Instantly, the Inuyoukai instantly knew, Rin had her first period.

"S-Sesshoumaru-sama," Rin immediately ran up to Sesshoumaru and hugged him with a pale face teary-eyed. His body trembled violently, not caring in the slightest some of the futon and white yukata he wore had turned red. "S-Sesshomaru-sama, Rin is bleeding. R-Rin doesn't know why.. B-but, Rin's blood.."

Menstruation is a process that every woman in the world will experience. A process that signifies the maturity of a woman's body to conceive a child. And seeing little Rin menstruating for the first time, for the first time too, the inuyoukai realized, Rin is indeed not a little girl anymore.

Rin, who lived and grew up among youkai, never understood the workings of her own body. The girl probably knows all the ins and outs of a youkai, because her teachers always explain it. However, to himself, a human being, he was blind to all of that.

Menstruation, when his body is ripe, Rin hates those times, because from that very day, a few days, every month when Rin has her menstrual period, The East Pavilion of the Western Land Palace became a forbidden area for anyone of the male sex. During this time, Rin would settle in the pavilion and was forbidden to approach or approach men, including Sesshoumaru himself. Rin never knew why she was treated that way, and no one ever answered her question when she asked, because they did not know what to answer to a human girl who was so innocent and did not know anything.

For the youkai inhabitants of the western land palace, most of the men were inuyoukai. They are categorized as inuyoukai not actually without, because, they have some traits similar to dogs. Just like dogs in general, the smell of menstrual blood they smell they will make them hooked and sometimes lose control to claim, fertilize it, or even kill it, producing their descendants—dan Sesshoumaru as well as all those in the Palace of the western lands would not be possible to let that happen.

"Sesshoumaru-sama." call Rin suddenly, awakening the Sesshoumaru from his daydream. Staring at Rin again, at that very second, his footsteps stopped, for the first time, it was like his heart had stopped beating for a while.

In front of him, in a cluster of red marpel leaves, Rin turned her back to look at him. His long black hair flew in the wind-play hairs that Sesshoumaru knew were definitely softer than silk. White skin like snow, a pair of big brown clear eyes that sparkled full of innocence and warmth, cheeks like spring roses and blood-red stumpy lips, then most of all, the most important, the smile full of happiness on his face—for the first time Sesshoumaru realized, how beautiful the human girl who was in front of him.

Seeing no reaction from the inuyoukai in front of him, Rin again called out to Sesshoumaru. "Sesshoumaru-san..."

Not replying, Sesshoumaru kept staring at Rin until finally the little girl walked over to him. Raising her two small hands, Rin touched the inuyoukai cheek gently. "Sesshoumaru-sama, what is it?"

The warmth of Rin's hand that touched her cheek, quickly as usual immediately spread filled Sesshoumaru's entire heart and body. The foreign warmth, by the inuyoukai it knows, only the human girl alone can do it. Closing his golden eyes, Sesshoumaru raised his right hand, wanting to emphasize the pair of smaller hands stronger on his cheek, to feel the foreign warmth he liked stronger.

"Hey! What are you doing, Rin?!" yelled Jaken suddenly.

Jaken's voice immediately made Sesshoumaru open his eyes, his hand that wanted to touch the girl's hand immediately stopped, while Rin who was also surprised by Jaken's voice immediately lowered his hand and looked at the frog youkai. "It's okay, Jaken-sama."

"What's okay?!" yell at Jaken again. "It's not polite! How dare you who is a human touch Sesshoumaru-sama like that!"

A grinning smile flashed across Rin's face, chuckling she bent her body until her face was as tall as Jaken's. "Jaken-sama," he called. "Jaken-sama is jealous, huh? Because Jaken can't touch Sesshoumaru-sama like Rin."

"Rin! How dare you!?" jaken shouted loudly full of anger. Her temptation of the human girl was again just right, however, the frog youkai was unlikely to admit it. Lifting the stick-headed grandfather and the human woman in his hand, he swung it at the girl, though certainly not strong, because he knew the consequences he would face if he dared to injure the human girl in front of him.

Rin laughed off seeing Jaken's attitude, not wasting any chance, he immediately stepped foot avoiding the stick and ran away. Jaken did not let him, running with his short legs, he immediately chased after the human girl. "Stop, you, little girl!"

Ah-un who saw all that, again curled up softly full of excitement, not wanting to miss, the two-headed dragon immediately ran after the human girl and the frog youkai in front of her.

Sesshoumaru remained standing in his place. Watching the events before him now, inevitably, he recalled back to when Rin was a child, when they were all still on their way to herd in the vast western lands. Seeing Rin's joy now, it seems like this journey is not a meaningless journey. In his heart, the ruler of the western lands began to consider, perhaps in the seasons ahead, they would travel like this so that Rin would be happy. However, his thoughts were all stalled when Rin who was running in front suddenly turned her face to look at him.

"Sesshoumaru-sama.."

The clear and melodious voice was like the clanking of bells, brown eyes full of innocence, red blushing cheeks like roses, and the beautiful smile on those stumpy lips, again he felt his heart as if it had stopped beating.

"Sesshoumaru-san..."

The voice that kept calling out to him, now again made foreign warmth fill Seshoumaru's heart and body.

Closing his eyes for a moment, the inuyoukai stepped foot and walked forward. He understood what the human girl wanted to say. If Rin is the one who understands her best, she is also the one who understands her best. The girl called out her name continuously as she wished herself to follow him who was in front. She was a daiyoukai Lord of the Western Lands, she would not be able to be ruled or follow someone's invitation, and Rin knew, therefore the human girl would never say to her, 'Come, come on, hurry Sesshoumaru-sama'. The human girl had always respected him, understood him, always put him above herself - something that made the warmth in her heart stronger.

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"I hope you'll be able to hold back your emotions, Inuyasha. Remember what your goal was this time." said a man in his early twenties dressed in monk clothes as he stared at a silver-haired, red-limbed and dog-eared man.

"Keh," sneered, Inuyasha the silver-haired man folded both his hands on his chest and closed his eyes. "I know, Miroku. No need to remind me."

"Good then." smile Miroku, the monk's flap man. Looking beside him again, he looked at his sister-in-law, a young man of about eighteen years old in the clothes of a taijiya. "And you're Kohaku, you've told all the villagers, right?"

"It." Kohaku replied quickly while nodding his head.

"Yes, then we just have to pray everything will go smoothly without any problems." Miroku smiled again while looking forward, towards the forest beside the village they live in.

Inuyasha's covered golden eyes suddenly opened, putting on a serious facial expression, he stared at the forest ahead. "He's come."

"Hahahaha," Miroku laughed softly full of nervousness. A cold sweat flowed down his forehead. "Not you tell me, we know Inuyasha too. Only a fool can't sense how terrifying the aura of youki is that leads to our place."

"It's not wrong, this is the aura of youki Sesshoumaru-sama" Kohaku said softly as he gulped, he could feel all the fur of his romance standing up now.

The bushes in front of them suddenly moved, and with the sound of bell-like laughter, Rin suddenly ran out while looking back. "Rin won Jaken-sama! Rin is first! Jaken-sama lost!"

Inuyasha, Miroku and Kohaku are very surprised to see Rin's figure who is still not aware of their existence. Their eyes closely watched the little girl who always followed Sesshoumaru it—no! Not a child anymore, the human girl in front of them now was definitely no longer a little girl, she had already started to climb her feet to become a teenage girl. However, what made them all lose their voice the most was that they could not deny how beautiful the girl was. They had traveled all over this land of Japan, but, neither humans nor youkai they had ever encountered had such a beauty as the girl in front of them.

Rin's laughter stopped immediately as she turned her face forward, as well as her footsteps. His brown eyes immediately widened upon finding Inuyasha, Miroku and Kohaku who were staring at him.

"Wait for you, Rin!" jaken shouted suddenly while running out of the bushes where Rin appeared, and similarly to Rin he immediately fell silent at the spot when he saw Inuyasha, Miroku and Kohaku.

"I-Inuyasha-sama, Miroku-sama, Kohaku, good afternoon." Greetings Rin quickly and bow the body giving respect, make Inuyasha, Miroku and Kohaku were stunned by the girl's attitude which was so formal and respectful.

"You don't have to salute them, Rin." Sesshomaru's emotionless heavy voice suddenly sounded.

Directing their gaze, the eyes of all those who were there saw the figure of Sesshoumaru who walked out of the forest slowly. His handsome face remained as usual; flat, cold with no expression.

"Shoumaru..." Call Inuyasha slowly, without taking the slightest face away from his stepbrother, as well as Miroku, while Kohaku immediately bowed his body giving a respectful greeting to the inuyoukai

"Sesshoumaru-sama." call Rin slowly, not caring about Inuyasha, Miroku and Kohaku, he immediately ran a small approach to the inuyoukai.

"You don't need to give a respectful greeting to lowly beings like them, Rin." said Sesshoumaru, not caring about those in front of him.

"What! Hey tarik—" protest Inuyasha. However, Miroku quickly closed his mouth. "Don't look for trouble, Inuyasha!" whispered fast. Staring for a moment at the inuyoukai in front of him, he again laughed nervously. "Pardon me, there's nothing, Sesshoumaru-san."

Seshoumaru did not reply to anything, he still kept silent a thousand languages, and it all made Miroku think that the inuyoukai in front of him had indeed never changed in the slightest. Sighing deeply, he could only curse himself as to why he was the one chosen to carry out this task. Mediating in the relationship of Sesshoumaru and Inuysha is the same as walking on a winter lake with a thin layer of ice that will break at any time.

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"Sesshoumaru-san has arrived," said a woman in her early twenties slowly. Beside her a pair of twin little girls as well as a little boy immediately embraced the woman while soaking their faces in fear.

"Yes. You're right, Sango," replied a woman sitting on a futon with a big belly while smiling. His face was extremely pale, fatigue was clearly visible in his brown eyes. "Indeed, only one's older brother has this kind of youki aura."

"It seems like she's only gotten stronger and stronger over the past three years." there was an old woman dressed as Miko who was also beside Sango. "What a horrible aura."

"You're right, Kaede-san. It was fortunate that he was not our enemy," agreed Sango, but a moment later his forehead shriveled. "Although, yes, neither can our friend say. Right, Kagome?" ask again while looking at the woman sitting on the futon.

Kagome simply replied to Sango's question with a small nod.

"Sesshuomaru-san is indeed unpredictable. He is very different from Inu no Taisho, his birth father and Inukimi-sama his birth mother." said a small flea youkai while jumping on Kagome's shoulder."

"Grandfather Myoga." call Kagome slowly.

"Do you not know" continued Myoga again. "Since Sesshoumaru served as ruler, the western lands became increasingly vast and vast. His desire to surpass his father has now been achieved."

"Yes, and it would only make a human more quickly meet extinction if he decided to eliminate it," Kaede cut suddenly and made everything there stare at him. "It's not strange, is it? We all know how much he hates humans."

No one said a word, they all fell silent, because they knew what the old Miko said was true. For the arrival of the inuyoukai to this village, the villagers happily agreed not to appear in front of him. Dodging and not approaching him, trying not to provoke his anger towards the creature he dislikes the most.

"I don't think you hate humans as much as we all think" Kagome said suddenly, shaking her head. "Rin. That little girl is human, isn't she? But, he allowed her to be by the side until now."

"The little girl is special, Kagome," cut Kaede again. "Even as a human being, Rin b-b"

Kaede's speech immediately came to a halt as she could clearly feel the terrifying aura had now moved closer to the room they were in. The atmosphere became silent, cold sweat flowing down the forehead. Their eyes were all fixed on the door of the room, anticipating the appearance of the inuyoukai that would pass through the door.

The sound of someone's running steps suddenly sounded and without warning, the door of the room immediately opened firmly revealing the figure of Rin who was smiling widely. "Granny Kaede! Kagome-sama! Sango-sama!"

The eyes of everyone were wide-eyed when they saw the figure of Rin suddenly appearing at the door. Rin who was unconcerned about their reactions immediately walked in, and upon seeing Kagome's large belly, the smile on her face was immediately replaced with an expression full of admiration.

"R-Rin.." call Kagome slowly hardly trust the figure of the little girl who has now been a teenager in front of her. Three years without seeing her, the girl has now really grown into a very beautiful girl.

"Yes, Kagome-sama. What's up?" ask Rin again and walk up to Kagome.

"Hanyou," said someone suddenly and managed to grab the attention of all there was. Staring at the source of the voice, they saw Sesshoumaru standing in front of the door with Inuyasha, Miroku, Jaken and Kohaku beside him. His golden eyes stared at Kagome's huge belly. "One hanyou." repeated Sesshoumaru again quietly without emotion.

"What's wrong with hanyou!? You mind!?" inuyasha shouted with anger.

Sesshoumaru did not reply to Inuyasha's words, his eyes still staring straight at Kagome's stomach. Inuyoukai seems to have the ability to smell a very sensitive smell. From the smell alone, he already knew, the child who was in Kagome's womb was a hanyou. The smell of Kagome's body now, is different from the smell of a pregnant female human. The smell, he only ever kissed her once in his life, ie when Izaoi pregnant Inuyasha first. The smell is very sweet and mixed with the smell of the moon, a sign that the child in the womb is an inuhanyou of the same bloodline as him.

"Hanyou?" rin said suddenly while smilingly looking at Sesshoumaru. "Hanyou's? Meaning, the baby that will be born later will definitely have the same ears as Inuyasha-sama, right?"

The sudden question Rin returned made everyone stare at him. However, the concerned, as usual, was unconscious, he was still staring at Sesshoumaru with an innocent smile on his face. "Sesshoumaru-sama, can we stay a few days in the village until Kagome-sama gives birth? Rin is eager to see Inuyasha-sama and Kagome-sama's son. Rin wants to see the face of Sesshoumaru-sama's nephew."

What Rin said made everyone there surprised, their eyes wide open looking at the girl. Niece? Was the girl not afraid to die? Linking hanyou in Kagome's womb as Sesshoumaru's niece. However, the most surprising thing is, Sesshoumaru was not angry or even dismissed Rin's words, the inuyoukai only returned the girl's gaze. Staying silent, the inuyoukai then turned around and walked away.

The smile on Rin's face only widened when he saw Sesshoumaru's reaction. There was indeed no answer, but from that inuyoukai eyes gaze just now, he knew what answer he was given. Quickly, he immediately bowed his body. "Thank you, Sesshoumaru-sama! Thank you!"

Jaken who saw Sesshoumaru walking away immediately ran after him. "Sesshoumaru-sama, wait for ham-"

"Jaken. Stay and take care of Rin." Sesshoumaru orders absolute and makes Jaken sculpt.

Inuyahsa, Kagome and the others only saw everything that happened with a look of disbelief. However, shaking his head, Inuyasha immediately ran after Sesshoumaru. He asked Sesshoumaru here not to show Kagome, something more important to him, so he threw away his pride and wrote a letter asking for help.

"Brava!" call Miroku and Kohaku together. The two of them intended to catch up, however, Inuyasha quickly stopped them both. "Miroku, Kohaku, you guys stay here! It's my problem, I'll solve it!"

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"Shoumaru!" call Inuyasha as hard as you can while running after Sesshoumaru who has stepped foot out of his house. "Wait!"

Although unwilling, Sesshoumaru finally stopped and turned his head to look at Inuyasha with a flat facial expression. "Is that what you're asking me to come here for? The reason why you wrote me a letter and begged me to set foot in this human village?"

Inuyasha's footsteps came to a halt upon hearing Sesshoumaru's question. Nibbling his lower lip, he lowered his head down with an expression that could no longer be explained; fear, sadness, panic and despair were mixed in one. "Yes" he replied slowly. "You've seen, haven't you? And you must also be able to feel it, Kagome.." gulped it down, desperately looking for the strength to finish the sentence. "He's getting weaker by the day..."

Seshoumaru said nothing, silently letting Inuyasha explain what really happened.

"Our son is hanyou, I know that." continued Inuyasha again. "Seven months, that's the gestational age of a hanyou. Our son will be born soon. However, Kagome's body was unable to cope with her pregnancy. There was something wrong, me and everyone didn't know what it was, but, there really was something wrong. Something I was afraid would take them both away from me at once.."

"You think I have the answer?"

"Yes," Inuyasha replied quickly. "I-I, I am hanyou. Inuhanyou is the only one in the world after my son. You know my mom, you know what's really going on and how-"

"You asked the wrong person," Sesshoumaru cut off while turning his back to Inuyasha. "I never paid any attention or concern to Izayoi, your mother, when I was pregnant with you. And also, do you think I'd tell you if I knew?"

Inuyasha's eyes widened in surprise. Not caring about it, Seshoumaru again stepped foot away leaving Inuyasha unmoving in the slightest.

Not having the answer. Hope's the only. An overwhelming fear soon filled Inuyasha's heart. Kagome's smiling face was reflected in her head. She never had a perfect family, in her life, other than the mother who died when she was a child, she never felt what family really was. Only when she was with Kagome and the others, and when she found out that Kagome was pregnant with her child, did she really feel that she had something she had never had; family. However, now, Kagome and their son's lives were in uncertainty. Every day, hour, minute even second, they would most likely be snatched from him, and he was unable to do anything. Therefore, Inuyasha was really, really amazingly frightened right now. What's he supposed to do? What would happen if he really lost such a hard-earned family he finally got? He knew he was going crazy.

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