Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, or Rin.

Summary: They were neighbors for 15 years and talked little to each other. Into high school they were inseparable, but into college they were dangerously close.

( )-just me putting something in.


Love Affair

By: Palelight

Chapter One

Rin was sitting in her school's music room. It was sound proof, but everyone left the windows open as if inviting others to hear their sorrows, tunes, and drunken playing. The school called it the sex room because students speculated that would be the one room where lovers would run off to because the constricting school rules. The student council had prohibited the room to only music students with keys to the door to keep out perverts.

She had no key, but had known the music teachers there. She helped them after school to gain access to the room. She was addicted to that piano and sanitized it everyday before going home.

She twitted her fingers against the keys trying to go 160 bpm during her lunch break. Occasionally her fingers would lock in and she would have to start all over again. She stopped and rolled her fingers back and forth on three natural keys and then switching to the sharps and drizzled back to soft natural white keys. She hummed a bit then her fingers moved to a lower range and she burst out singing about whales. She laughed at her own bored words within her mind's range in the tone deaf walls.

She heard the bell ring from the music room windows and left towards class. Usually she left the damn things shut from prying eyes and ears, but this time she didn't want be late. This time she didn't consciously know why, but she knew she couldn't be late.

She entered the classroom slowly and two girls hastily pushed her in. She was only a first year in secondary school, but she knew the curriculum like the back of her hand. She sat in the back right next to the second to last window. The plum tree blocked her view of the field and she preferred it that way. She loved the smell of it during the spring with its purple leaves and matching fruits. She didn't steal its fruit, leaves protected the unripe ones. She just waited beneath its branches holding out her school long skirt, so fruit would naturally fall to her. Life was simple and natural to her like the plum trees that lined her school's walls.

The school hour was over and she had to go to work today after school. She was a French café waitress with a normal pay. Her co-workers didn't talk much to her unless it was about work. She wore a folded apron over a black vest and that was just another uniform she was use to. She walked around the café picking up orders and serving the petite servings.

"Hello… What would you like to enjoy today?" She asked while jotting down the table number. She glimpsed up at the silver haired customer who was talking to a "loose" classmate. She only needed to see his hair color and automatically she knew who it was.

"Hi, don't you go to my school?" asked the girl. She stared at the girl knowing that the girl probably never saw her in class, no one did.

"No." She didn't want to know the girl or tell her she was in the same class as the girl.

"Oh Okay. I would like a 'Ma Cherie'. Thanks a lot!" She silently snorted at the girl's horrible French. He heard her snort and looked up at her.

" I'll take a piece of bread with humus." He stated while looking back at the girl who twirled her finger in his hair. Rin walked off to the counter to fetch them their treats.

He was, Sesshomaru, Rin's next door neighbor for 15 years.(they're 17) They never talked to each other, but they saw each other on the way to school. That was enough for Rin to remember his face when she saw it. She shrugged off his existence through the years and only spoke to his step-mother, Izayoi.

Another waiter served Sesshomaru and his date their things. Rin was at another table taking orders when she heard a squeak. The 'date' got made when she fund out 'Ma Cherie' didn't stand for cherry desert in English. The couple left after a while which made Rin a little more at ease. When ever she moved a muscle, she could feel his eyes on her. She knew deep inside that she would see him later on tonight whether she liked it or not.

She got off work after washing the dishes in the back kitchens. She liked to work in the back because the customers were outrageous in many ways and she didn't like handling them for long periods of time. She walked out of the café at 7pm and it was already dark. She shuffled her feet towards her house while looking for her house key through her school bag.

"Shit!" she blurted out. She really had forgotten her key, but deeply hoped her mother or father would be home. She walked up to her door and rung it for 16 minutes straight. She sat down on her porch and contemplated for a place where a spare could be. Hell, she never forgot her key and neither did her parents. They never had spare keys and never needed one until now.

She heard a door shut and looked over to next door neighbor's door. Crazy was creeping on her like a black spinning vortex dream. Then the door opened up after 5 minutes of hallucinating.

"Rin, what are you doing out here? Come over here, you are always welcome in!" Izayoi said while strolling to her fence then opening the gate to get Rin off her porch. "Sesshomaru said you were out here and mentioned your parents' car being out."

Rin walked over in her school uniform to Izayoi. "Welcome to the Taishou household."


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