Chapter 1
A/N: English is not my first language so there might be misspelling.
Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Inuyasha.
It was one of the best moment Rin loves so much just to enjoy the waves of water and relax in a relaxing, quiet hot spring. She was on a 3 days trip with her friends who has been begging her that she 'needs time out' to enjoy herself since she's 'always busy' with her work.
She was relaxing, leaning her back to the rock, closing her eyes to enjoy the feeling of having nothing to worry about at the moment. Glad that she was the only one left, and having no one to disturb her moment of freedom. She should really thanked Kagome for the trip and for worrying about her. It was not 10 minutes later that she decided to get out because the heat from the bath is affecting her.
After dressing herself in a nice, comfortable yukata, she got out of their room and search for her friends. Upon entering the entertainment room, she founds a crowds of people cheering and shouting, circling a table, which she noticed Kagome is playing pinball with a guy who seem to be in the leading way. Quickly making her ways to her friends, she spotted Songo cheering for Kagome but then lost interest and slapped away a coming hand that was coming closer to her butt. 'What a pervert.' Rin thought to herself, making note to ask Songo later.
Songo, feeling someone poked at her shoulder, turns around and saw Rin there. "Hey. Glad you could come join us." She said, "Kagome has gone super happy that no one has used this table yet and was planning on playing until they appear." She jerked her head to the man who was playing with Kagome. Rin could see that the man was good at this kind of sport. He handle himself well, not like Kagome. Well, knowing how bad Kagome is, she was not surprised.
"How was the score so far?" Rin asked, focusing on the table where the pairs were going like crazy until her eyes fell upon a pair of deep amber eyes that was completely focusing on her. She froze on her spot, staring back at that pair of eyes. He was leaning against the wall, far from the right side of her, wearing a simple yukata, yet he wear it so elegant. 'Why is he staring at me so intensely?' She couldn't bring herself to look away. Not until someone keeps on calling her name and the tugging at her arm did she blinked and broke the contact with the stranger to look at her friend who has a worry look on her face. "What is it Songo?" Songo was about to speak when the sound of clapping hands and cheering beat her to it.
"What are you staring at that you are completely ignore me? Did you even hear what I just say? Well, seem like Kagome loses." She said, smiling at Kagome when she appear at their side looking disappointed. "Oh, Kagome, you did great! Beating him! One point, that is!"
"Dammit! Now we don't have a table to enjoy ourselves. What's with that guy, coming suddenly and claim the table as his." Kagome keeps on blurting with her face red with madness. "All the tables are claimed and the only way to have it back is by beating them." Kagome then suddenly turn quiet and seem to be thinking of ideas of how to get back at the jerk, who she heard his name is Inuyasha from what his friends called him. Until her eyes fell on Rin.
"What? Don't give me that look, Kagome." Rin says, getting uneasy when Kagome has that determines look on her eyes.
"Rin, I know how good you are with pinball so help me get our table back." She plead, giving Rin the puppy eyes which Rin finds annoying right now.
"No." Is all she said. She did not want to be in the center of a completely stranger and his friends. Not to mention, she was not that good.
"Please, Rin! Just this once. I promise I will do everything you want."
Rin, looking at Kagome for a moment and then sigh in defeat. "Just this once, Kagome. And you better remember your promise."
"Okay, you got it. Now go beat that jerk out." With a little push to Rin's back, she ushered her friend to the prey.
"Ah, not giving up are we?" Said the guy who Rin learned his name is Inuyasha. "That's fine. Let's make this more interesting shall we? Oi, Sesshoumaru!"
"No way. Not Sesshoumaru. I feel bad for her." Said a voice.
"What are you saying Koga? This is getting interesting. I want to see Sesshoumaru play. Not a lot of chances you get to see someone as good as him play." Said another voice, "beside, she's a beauty."
As they look at Sesshoumaru, they're can see the death glare he is giving to Inuyasha as he push himself off the wall and begin to walk over there.
"No need to shout, Inuyasha. I can hear you perfectly fine."
Rin looked shock as Sesshoumaru came over to stand beside Inuyasha and looked at her with an intense stare that it's making a blush coming to her face. He looks even more handsome in front of her but then she shake it off remembering why she was there.
"Keh..Whatever." Inuyasha then turns to Rin and give her a smirk. "How about you and Sesshoumaru play this match? If you win against him," Inuyasha said gesturing his hand to Sesshoumaru, "then we'll give this table to you and your friends over there," he now looking at Kagome direction.
"Fine. It's not like I have a choice anyway." Rin sighed.
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"Is it over yet?" Kagome yawned for the hundreds times.
She did not remember just how many times she had falling asleep just to wake up again. Appealingly there's not much people inside the entertainment room now that she looked over it. The only one left are her and her friends, and Inuyasha and his friends.
"Not yet. Look at how fast they move." Sango replied. "I never knew Rin can still go on at this rate. It's been like what? Four hours since they started and neither of them had given up yet."
"I knew that Rin's good at any kind of sport but I never thought she's this good. And on top of that, seem like she had found her match." Kagome smirked.
"Seem like it." Sango agreed. "Well, I don't know about you but I'm going to sleep. It's 3:25 A.M now. I need my beauty sleep."
"Well-"
"Ah, dammit!" A female voice yelled cutting Kagome off. "It was so close."
As Kagome looked at the pairs, she could see Rin is panting hard. However, as she looked to the man along side Rin, she could see that he appeared as if nothing affects him in the slightest. His face is as emotionless as ever and his breathing is normal.
Rin looked up at the man whom just beats her in a game and smile, giving one of her hands for a handshake.
"You're Sesshoumaru, right? You're the first to beat me."
However, Sesshoumaru being Sesshoumaru just stood still with his emotionless face not bothering to take the hand extended to him.
"You're not a talker, huh. Well at least you're better than that g-"
"You talk too much, woman."
Rin, shocked as she was cut off and because someone she just met was saying that she 'talk too much' what a jerk.
"How rude. Don't you know how to treat people with kindness. And beside my name is not 'woman'." She brought up her fingers as to quote it, "It's Rin. Masamune Rin. Got it you jer- Hey where are you going?! Don't just ignored people who's still talking to you!" She shouted at him.
"Be quiet unless you want to disturb people's sleep." Sesshoumaru said without pausing his pace as he reached the door and slide open it. "It's late. I'm going to sleep." With that, he step out of the room leaving a very shocked group of people inside."
Rin could not believed that someone could be so rude as him.
'He's handsome but a completely jerk.' Rin thought to herself. 'Well, at least I won't be seeing him after this. Let's hope I will never see him again.' As that, Rin steps out of the room completely forgotten her friends.
"What just happened?" A confused Kagome voice out. She had never seen this side of Rin before. Sure she had seen when Rin's mad when people did not do as told but this side? Not once.
"I have never seen Sesshoumaru talk this much to a girl before." Inuyasha said.
"Well, I'm getting out of here." Koga said.
"Let's all leave. I believe the ladies are quite tire." Miroku smiled to Sango as he made his way out. With that, they each went out of the room one by one.
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"I know I know. I'll be there in 10 minutes. Yes, you don't have to worry I can take care of it. You're worrying too much. Okay I'll call you back. Bye." The owner ended the call.
'Taishou Corporations, huh. Why did father decided to merge with them?' Rin thought. And she has to represent her father because he just sprained his ankle. 'What a great day it is to sprained your ankle.'
Taishou Corporations and Masamune Corporations are the two most powerful and richest families in Japan. While Taishou Corp. tends more to the public, Masamune Corp. is a rather private group. Not once has the paparazzi had caught any face of the Masamune family outside of business. Many of the Japanese people has try to get their hands of a picture from the Masamune family from the internet but that didn't seem to help. There's a rumored that the heiress of Masamune is a beauty. However, that just a rumor because people has never seen the face of that goddess.
"Miss Masamune, we're here." Her driver said.
"Thank you, Nomura."
Stepping out of the car, Rin turns to see the huge skyscraper of Taishou Corp.
'Let's get this done with.'
With a deep breath she steps toward the glass doors of Taishou Corp. Just as she begins to open it, the door opened which caused her to lost her balance and fall into a wall, or rather a chest.
"Watch where you're going, woman." Came a manly husky voice that sent shivers down her spine.
'That voice!' She quickly turned her head to meet the owner and she found herself staring at a pairs of golden amber eyes.
Snapping out of her dazed she push him back to get a good distance of space between them and crossed her hands between her chest with a glared.
"Wha-what are you doing here you jerk. And you're the one who should watch where you're going." Rin said.
Sesshoumaru just raised an eyebrow at her.
"Well, what are you doing here anyway? You haven't answer my question. Don't tell me you're a stalker?!" Rin exclaimed pointed a finger at him.
"Tsk. Who would want to stalk a woman like you." Sesshoumaru answered with annoying.
"'A woman like me'? You! Who do you think you are?!" Rin glared at him, well more like trying to because she only reached his chin.
"I do not has to answer to the like of you." He calmly answered her.
Rin was about to explode when a security guard came trying to calm the pairs.
With exasperated sigh because someone just ruined her day, she walked over to the reception.
"I'm a representative from Masamune Corp. and has an appointment here." She told the receptionist and was quickly get escorted to the room where the meeting will be.
"Please wait here, ma'am." An escort which Rin learned his name is Shippo, disappeared into a room. Rin guess was this was where the meeting is gonna be.
Moment later, Shippo came out of the room and with a bowed, open the door for Rin to step inside.
As she entered and bowed introducing herself, she looked up and meet two pairs of amber eyes staring at her.
Rin was shocked. "What is he doing here?!" Rin pointed at Sesshoumaru.
"You guy know each other?" Came an older voice.
"No." Came Sesshoumaru replied.
Rin just glared even more at Sesshoumaru. While Sesshoumaru looked at her without showing any expression on his face.
The elderly man seeing the tension between the two decided to break this moment and introduced himself.
"Well, as you can see Miss Rin, I'm Touga Taishou, the owner of Taishou Corp. and this here," he gestured to Sesshoumaru, "is my oldest son, Sesshoumaru."
Rin paled at that.
"S-s-son. He's your son?!"
"Yes, is something wrong with that?" Taishou asked with confusing.
"N-no. Nothing's wrong, sir." Rin answered.
"Okay. Please take a sit, Miss." Taishou gesture to a chair and Rin quickly took the seat, "let's go over the merger of what Mr. Masamune decided from the last time we talked."
Rin opened her notes into the projector and they all go over what it was. At the end, it was something writing on a bold words letter 'Arranged Marriage between Sesshoumaru Taishou and Rin Masamune' and that got Rin pales.
"Arranged Marriage?!" Rin and Sesshoumaru both yelled out.
"So he agreed on that too, huh." Taishou voiced out loud.
"I can't accept this." Rin voiced out just as Sesshoumaru was about to.
"Huh? Why can't you. Aren't you just a representative of Mr. Masamune?" Taishou question.
"I'm sorry, but I have to go. Good meeting you Mr. Taishou." Rin hurrying stand up to collect all the notes and with a bowed, she's out the door.
"Well, that is weird." Taishou voiced out
"Hn."
"What are your thought?" Taishou asked Sesshoumaru.
"I'm not going to marry that loud mouthing woman." With that, Sesshoumaru stood up and exist the meeting room.
"'Loud mouthing woman?'" Taishou said to himself. "Does he already seen her? What's with young people these day." Taishou signed.
As he stood up and walked to the door, he saw a pieces of paper on the ground from where Mr. Masamune Representative was just sitting moments ago. Picking it up, he noticed that it was a business card and what's written on there shocked him.
Title with bold letter 'MASAMUNE CORPORATIONS' and under it was the contact information which has a name 'Masamune Rin'.