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Summary: Rin is just your a-typical mermaid one course away from a degree that would get her out of the boonies. When a shark attack has her jumping into a boat for protection it's her chance to get up close and personal with the those that she must research for her final course. Those living on land. SR
Rabbit Eggs - Hooked
She was naked and on his boat. She was on his boat naked. She was on his boat naked and… his kid brother was mere feet away talking to a fisherman on the pier.
Sesshomaru Takahashi liked to think of himself as a normal man, if one could count a youkai in a constant humanoid form as a man. And he'd like to think his life was bland and unexciting, even if an eight year old half brother that he had been completely unaware of had been dropped off on his front steps barely a week prior to this event.
But this happenstance, this naked woman, barely covered by a torn fishing net, her long dark hair not covering her nude form as he was sure it could, this was not normal. This was not acceptable. He took a step closer to her and poked her with one elegantly clawed finger. She did not stir.
He looked at her closely, upon her shoulder was a black bruise that he was sure would hurt something fierce when the girl came to. There was a matching one on her left leg, marring the sun kissed skin which appeared so silky and flawless everywhere else. Her hair appeared longer than she was and was swept up off her shoulders and trailed towards the edge of his boat, precariously hanging overboard licking the surface of the water.
His eyes trailed downward stopping at her tiny darkened nipples and he found himself watching them fall rhythmically a few times as she took shallow breaths. After realizing his eyes were trailing further down her body he pulled himself out of his trance. He needed to know why she was on his boat, naked.
He shook her this time, a bit more forcefully than his last attempt. He needed her gone, now. Inuyasha could only be occupied for so long. "Wake up…" He said constantly aware that at any second his brother could come around the corner. The young woman began to stir; she moved her body a bit twisting it in a way that gave him a lovely view of everything he could ever hope to see on a female body.
Suddenly she bolted up, her hands immediately grabbing her foot that Sesshomaru finally noticed was bleeding. A fact he could have already known if he hadn't been staring at her chest and the way her curly locks seemed to find inhumane ways of wrapping around her dark nipples.
The girl sat stunned for a moment, her fingers rubbing her foot with care, brushing against a rather spectacular tattoo of amethyst fish scales that covered both feet. She finally looked up at him with a puzzled grin. "Hi…" She muttered, as though she belonged where she was and he the same. She was far too causal for the predicament she had found herself in, at least that was his opinion.
Perhaps she was drunk, he mused. Yes a co-ed on a drunken misadventure that landed her on his boat, slightly injured and of course, naked. He swore it was the only scenario that made any sense. Unless his kid brother was a gigolo and had a habit of getting older women, he stopped himself from smirking at the thought of Inuyasha running a harem.
"Hello, I'm Sesshomaru Takahashi and you are?" He asked wondering how she had managed to slip onto his vessel without his notice. Maybe he shouldn't wear his limiter ring as much as he had been.
"I'm Rin… Just Rin…" She paused her probing at her injured limb before looking up at him. Her tongue quickly flicked out of her mouth to dampen her bottom lip.
Sesshomaru found that little motion highly erotic and felt ashamed for it. Honestly, he had seen many a naked woman before; this one should not be affecting him at all. "So, I guess you had one too many and found your way here?" He questioned as the girl gave him a strange look.
"I don't understand, one too many what?" She replied sliding to the edge of the bench she had been laying on and applying experimental pressure to her lower limbs.
"Nothing, come on let's get you up and at them. Can you walk?" He asked trying to be a decent man and refusing to take his eyes away hers.
"I'm not sure, but who am I to be getting at?" She asked as he pulled her upwards and she struggled to keep her weight balanced.
He momentarily forgot her question he was so enthralled by the silky feel of her skin and her hair which brushed against his knuckles as he attempted to steady her. He felt a primal purr build up in his throat before he forced it back down by biting his tongue. The net slid off of her shoulders and he found himself watching the material fall. His line of sight brushing pass a delightful patch of dark curls nestled in between her legs.
"Why are you naked?" Sesshomaru muttered before his eyes snapped back up to hers. Perhaps that wasn't the greatest question. There was an awkward silence in which he watched the girl shift her weight awkwardly. "Rather, what are you doing here?"
"Oh… well… there were sharks." She said as if that was the answer to everything. She let out a light yelp as she tried to place all her weight on her injured foot. She carelessly toppled into Sesshomaru's embrace before letting out a string of foreign, what he assumed were, curse words.
"Did the sharks take your clothes?" He asked with a raised brow as he helped the young woman sit back down on the bench. He found himself staring at her chest again and before he could begin thinking more perverse thoughts he pulled his shirt off and threw it at her.
She stared at the garment for a brief moment before slipping it over her head and carefully tying it at the bottom so that it wasn't so free flowing. Sesshomaru instantly found it a bit easier to think. "No… I didn't have any." She muttered as a soft blush graced her cheeks.
'Bingo, drunken skinny dipping co-ed.' He thought to himself before letting out a soft sigh. "Look, where are you from, I can get you a cab home…"
"Um… Have you ever been to Wakkanai?" She asked nervously tugging at her hair and braiding it into a complex pattern that seemed to make it appear shorter in length.
"No… That's way up north isn't it?" He asked suspiciously. They were currently a ways outside of Osaka and Sesshomaru had never been one to travel far north.
"Yes, it is. I am from there." She nodded as she spoke, almost as if she was reassuring herself.
"You do know that is quite far right?" He asked not entirely convinced.
"Yes it is, quite a few hundred leagues away…" The girl muttered.
"Leagues?" He questioned the terminology as she simply smiled at him and nodded. "Ok, look where are you staying I can drop you off, or hail a cab or…"
"I just got here; I'm not staying anywhere yet…" She replied that sweet tongue of hers once again darting over her bottom lip.
Sesshomaru was just about to suggest she use his phone to call someone, anyone when he heard the patter of feet behind him that announced Inuyasha.
"Sesshomaru, look at what the fisherman gave me…" The dog eared boy called out before skidding to a stop in front of Rin and Sesshomaru. "Oh… Hi…"
"Inuyasha, this is my friend Rin…" He muttered because obviously this girl he had just met who had been naked on his boat was a friend. "She's new in town and was staying on the boat until she finds a place to stay…" He lied hoping that the eight year old wouldn't question him.
"Oh… it's nice to meet you Miss Rin. Are staying on the boat because I came to live with him?" The boy asked curiously. "Because you smell like him…"
Sesshomaru began to cough violently as Rin's eyes widened. "I suppose that is because I borrowed his shirt…" Rin replied not sure if the boy knew exactly what his words had seemingly implied.
"Don't you have your own clothes?" Inuyasha asked innocently.
"Inuyasha that is not an appropriate question to ask a…" Sesshomaru started before Rin answered with a grin.
"They were stolen by sharks!" Rin exclaimed as the golden eyed little boy looked at her suspiciously.
"No way, you would have been eaten." Inuyasha replied before Rin motioned down to her foot which was still bleeding. But the wound did in fact look like a bite mark. "Oh cool!" Inuyasha muttered happily as he bent down to look at the injury regarding the wound with a childish fascination.
"The fact that Miss Rin is injured is not cool Inuyasha…" Sesshomaru muttered shaking his head. He was unsure as to how to deal with children, or their interests in general, but he was pretty sure this wasn't normal. And really all he wanted right now was normal.
"I'm surprised he didn't tear your foot off…" Inuyasha said wide eyed as Rin plopped herself back down on the bench to inspect her foot much like Inuyasha had been doing.
"Oh trust me, she tried. I just swim really fast." Rin replied as she dramatically flailed her arms in the air as if she were swimming and then she gave the boy a little wink.
He laughed clasping his hands together. He looked up to his brother and smiled. "So she is going to stay with us right?" Inuyasha asked.
"What?" Sesshomaru asked, stunned that the boy had laughed, being as he hadn't been able to pull such a reaction from him since the first moment they met, and still confused by the question.
"Well, obviously, she can't stay on the boat anymore with her foot messed up and the sharks stealing her clothes…" Inuyasha said crossing his arms. "And you didn't have to make her stay on the boat because of me…"
"I didn't banish her to the boat because of you…" Sesshomaru replied before receiving a look from the child that screamed bull shit. "Look, we just need to give her some cab money and then we have to find you a babysitter, summer just started and I have to get back to work soon."
"Miss Rin can watch me." Inuyasha offered up causing the dark haired woman to look up in surprise.
"Inuyasha…" Rin muttered before Sesshomaru spoke.
"We don't even know her…" Sesshomaru started exasperated.
"You said she was your friend." Inuyasha pointed out. "And she is living on your boat, in your clothes, after being almost eaten by sharks. And it's not like you know me that well either. The social worker said you didn't even know about me." The young hanyou said before stomping away from his older brother.
"Inuyasha wait it's not like…" Rin called after him trying to follow but automatically falling over as pain shot up her leg. Sesshomaru caught her before she kissed the floor of the boat and then let out a deep sigh.
"Look, with him the situation is delicate, and you seem to be in a bind. I don't have to go back to work for another week. You can stay with us until then… Afterwards you are going to have to figure out something…" Sesshomaru said before shifting around and scooping her up heading after the angry eight year old. "You think that could work?"
"Yes… A week would be perfect… But do you think we could possibly find me some land wear?"
"That will definitely be arranged…" Sesshomaru muttered deciding not to comment on her strange wording or the fact that if she didn't get some 'land wear' he could not promise her he wouldn't become quite the pervert.