Sesshography: EelKat's Sessho Maru Lensography

After Naraku, Lord Sesshomaru can be considered the evilest most cruel and cold hearted demon in the InuYasha series. His goal is to obtain the Tessaiga and kill everyone that gets between him and his goal, no matter who they are. This has resulted in the ruthless slaughter of hundreds of demons and thousands of innocent humans, including entire armies and villages with a single swipe. White Dog Demons avoid friendships with humans for a very simple reason: they eat humans and it doesn't do to make friends with your food supply.

In InuYasha chapters 129 - 131 (and TV episodes 34 - 35):

After one bloody battle, Sesshomaru's injuries caused him to retreat into the forest, where he remained until he had had time to heal. During this time a young girl, named Rin, was wandering in the forest, fell upon the sleeping, injured demon, and took care of him. Sesshomaru's hatred for humans made him cruel to the girl, but his injuries, left him with little choice but to accept her help.



Shortly after this incident, Lord Sesshomaru's bloody reign of terror took an interesting turn, as one day he came upon a village, already destroyed by a pack of wolf demons, it's inhabitance slaughtered in the raid. Passing through the remains, Sesshomaru realized this to be the village of the little girl who had earlier helped him, upon finding her body in the ruble. For some unknown reason, Lord Sesshomaru was unable to leave the dead girl behind, and took her body with him, using his powers over life and death to bring her back to life.



From that day forth, and as a shock to all those who knew of his hatred for humans, Rin became Lord Sesshomaru's constant companion. For the entire rest of the series, there is no time that you see Lord Sesshomaru without his beloved Rin. When you don't see Rin in the picture, it's because Sesshomaru has sensed danger nearby and hidden her, while he goes to kill whatever the threat was. As the story goes on, we see a change in Sesshomaru, as he goes from the fierce demon who kills everything in sight to get a sacred sword, to becoming the fierce demon who kills everything in sight to protect a human child, who is progressively becoming the most important thing in his life.

Unfortunately, Lord sesshomaru can only raise the dead once, if they die again he can not bring them back again, and now having already brought her back once, he fiercely protects Rin from anything he perceives as a threat to her.

Now skipping ahead, by about 50 volumes (yes, long running series!) to chapters 466 - 471:

As the InuYasha series draws to it's end, we see it's many characters dropping like flies, in a very Harry Potter 7 fashion, as Lord Sesshomaru and InuYasha join forces against their common enemy, Naraku. The battle against Naraku has threatens the lives of everyone, and all demons try in vain to defeat him. But only the power of the twin swords can defeat Naraku, the Tensiega and the Tessaiga.

Rin follows Lord Sesshomaru right into the heart of the battle. Unfortunately for both of them, his desire for the Tessaiga is too strong, and to get it, he tries making his own Tensiega stronger, by going to hell, but this costs him the life of his little girl Rin. Upon finding Rin dead, Lord Sesshomaru tries desperatly to bring her back once again, but is unable to. Cursing it, he tosses the Tensiega aside, saying it was not worth it's price for he had to lose the only thing he loved to get it. If you've read the book than you already know how this all turns out, if not, well, I'm not going to tell you how it ends, you will have to read the book to find out, anyways...

Yes Sesshomaru does very much love Rin, and yes we do get to see him admit that he loves her... but he does not do so until after she dies. (She was murdered by his mother.)

Sesshomaru is devastated when his mother sends a Hell Hound to kill Rin. At first he thinks he can bring her back to life cause he did before, but than he finds out he can only bring a person back to life once, and he throws his sword away and leaves in despair proclaiming th that the sword is worth nothing to him, because he lost the only thing he loved.

Sesshomaru's mother, btw is never in the tv show, she is only in the book, and she never given a name, she is the gate keeper to hell and she's pure evil. Sesshy-Mom hates Rin, because she says that dog demons eat humans and tells Sesshomaru he should have eaten Rin, he refuses to kill Rin, so Sesshy-Mom sends the Hell Hound to kill Rin instead. The Hell Hound takes Rin to Hell, Sesshy-Mom laughs cause there is no way for Sesshomaru to reach Rin, than enraged at his mother Sesshomaru uses his sword to rip open the gates of hell and go to hell to bring Rin back. When he finds her, she is already dead, which at first doesn't bother him, until he tries to revive her and can't.

On the next page we see Sesshomaru throw the sword, cursing it, saying that it was worthless, that nothing mattered to him now that Rin was gone. The picture shows him cradling Rin, with his face down, he is obviously crying in this picture. It's the only time we ever see Sesshomaru cry.

Sesshy-mom has watch the whole thing from her thrown over hell, and is shocked to see Sesshomaru break down like this. When she had Rin murdered, his mother didn't take into account how much Sesshomaru loved Rin. After Rin's death Sesshy-mom, felt guilty and couldn't bear to see her son so heartbroken, so she brought Rin back to life and gave her back to him, but when she did this she also told Sesshomaru that he had become just like his father.

You really should read the book, it is so much better than the show, covers much more detail; plus the tv show ended about 1/4 way through the book, they didn't even get to the half-way point, so there is a lot more that happens that never made it into the show.

The book was written by Rumiko Takahashi in 1997, it has 53 volumes in the series, with the final volume released on June 16, 2008.

When we first see Rin, she is a ragged orphan who has been living in a tumble down shanty hut on the outskirts of a fish farm. The villagers hate and despise her and she is often beaten by them as she has to steal food from their farms because there is no one in the village kind hearted enough to take her in and feed her. She wears a ragged kimono which she apparently has worn since the death of her family several years earlier, thus is is badly worn and much to small for her. The Rin we see here, is a timid frightened girl who has not spoken a word since the death of her parents and siblings. She trusts no one and runs skittishly away when approached. She was most likely running away from the mean hearted villagers, the day she came across the wounded demon in the forest. Remembering the brutality in which her own family was murdered, she is quick to come to the aid of this strange man who appears to have been badly beaten. Though it never says, we are given the impression that 2 or 3 weeks pass before the demon recovers his wounds and leaves the forest. Upon leaving the forest and later finding the girl who helped him, now herself murdered, he revives her and takes her with him.

After Rin joins Sesshomaru on his travels we do not see either one of them in the series (either book or show) again for quite some time. When we do see them again, we see a dramatic change has taken place in Rin. Clearly Sesshomaru has been taking good care of her, as she is no longer the scraggly haggard looking girl she was when we first saw her.

The Rin we now see is a very happy, very talkative, and very active girl with bright shining eyes and a laughing smile. She is now quick to run up to every stranger and great them with her bubbling happiness. We also see that Sesshomaru has given her a pet dragon; Ah-Un, his once fierce stead, is now her devoted playmate. Besides the disappearance of her ill health, fears, and muteness, she also now wears much more regal attire, befitting one who now lives in the presence of a demon prince.