While cleaning the tables, Rin remembered the first day her Hogwarts' letter came.

It was a shiny day, one of those days that seems like everything is coated in a glorious and warm glow; the flowers were dressed in radiant attires, the grass was a vibrant green, almost as vibrant as Rin's orange summer dress.

She was lying in the middle of the backyard, enjoying the sunshine, a basset hound was snoring loudly next to her face, the wind through her hair send her a tingly and pleasant sensation from the top of his head to the tip of his toe. She started thinking of all the things that she would do once she come back to school; a smile as beautiful as the sunrise appeared on her tiny mouth, it was one of those perfect childhood moments that you just want to enjoy forever.

The dog sat abruptly, its body tensed and the tail rigid; an enormous tabby toad was sitting calmly in front of them as if the presence of the fat dog wasn't an inconvenience.

"Hey pretty froggy" crooned Rin "You are such a pretty froggy" she sat up and reached her hand out, as an invitation for the toad to come closer. The toad didn't move though, but stared at her; the dog started to growl softly.

"John Watson" the kid patted its head "behave John Watson" just as she was starting to think of a way of avoiding a conflict between the toad and the dog, the amphibious transformed into a man.

At the beginning Rin froze on her place, her mind trying to understand what just happened. Then, she opened her mouth and screamed.

"Calm down, child" even if his voice was of a strange adult, it was soft and gentle. Seeing how the girl was about to flee, Neville decided to take his wand out "I'm not here to hurt you".

With a wrist turn, flowers started to appear from the tip of his wand, they were rainbow colored and smelled like homemade cupcakes. Rin stared at them, her mouth half open, still not believing what just happened. John Watson started licking the flowers, not minding the stranger pressence.

"What- Who are you?" She didn't intended to be rude, it simple was too much information to process; her childish mind didn't understand how her life had just turned; she could only think of how her parents always told her to not to speak with strangers, and yet one appeared in her backyard.

"I, my child, I'm Neville Longbottom; professor of Hogwarts, School of Magic and Wizardry"

"Are you… a magician?" chirped the girl, she stood up of the floor.

"I'm indeed a wizard"

"Rin!" A husky voice coming from inside the house called her "What's the matter honey?" The backyard door opened with a creak and let out a tall man in his thirties "Bloody heaven! Who are you and how do you came inside my house?!" In two strides the man stood between his daughter and the weird dressed man.

Neville sighed, it was going to be more difficult than he thought.

The coffee shop's doorbell rang; without raising her head, Rin continued tiding the place, she recognized the deep sound of the bell as the melody that announces that is a wizard and not a muggle the one that comes into the shop, so she just kipped cleaning the tables with her wand.

"I'm sorry, but we are about to close" Her wide smile vanished as she stared at the man in front of her.

Far taller than her, his golden eyes penetrated into her auburn ones; his long, silver hair was braided in his back; his navy, tailored wardrobes were the one of a high ranked Ministry of Magic worker. Rin tried to avert his penetrating gaze, but failed, as her eyes seemed trapped in the burning suns of his irises.

"Sesshomaru" the word died in a whisper as soon as it left her lips.

The man say no word immediately, then he smirked.

"You had been practicing your occlumency" the words were sharp as a knife, yet his voice soaked through her heart, as she hasn't heard it in a while. She could not form a coherent phrase, she knew that if she tried to speak her voice will come out weak and shaky. It had been so much time since the last time they met … and yet she only could think of shutting her mind close to his legilimency.

It seems like eons have passed when Rin decided to speak.

"What do you want Sesshomaru?" His nails were deep into the palm that hold her wand, a stinging sensation itched in her fingertips as she fight against the urge of setting his head on fire.

"I came to take you with me".