Hello everyone~ Guess who is finally back? I am bringing you the new and improved version of Welcome to My Life! I hope that you all enjoy it!
And for those of you who have never read my stories, please do not read my older work! It is quite horrible.

I do not own Inuyasha or any characters from the series. I do own OC.

Chapter 1

A young woman stood in front of a silver mirror. Her broken reflection staring deeply into her eyes as the mask she kept up fell slowly to the ground to shatter into a million pieces. Small tears stained her pale pink cheeks as they raced down to the bottom of her jaw while she cursed to the wind, hating her life. Just as she shook her head to clear the depressing thoughts, a knock echoed from the door. The frown that had marred her beautiful, youthful face was replaced with a smile, showing the mirror that she was about to walk back into the outside world. A couple of tears were enough to shed…for now.

The woman outside the door stared at the teenage girl as she walked out. The elder's vibrant green eyes hardened, reminding the young woman of emeralds. Her long brown hair, curled and pinned stylishly on top of her head, swayed as the woman shook her head before scolding the girl.

"What took you so long, Rin?" Flustered. That's how the woman's voice sounded to the ears of anyone who might have walked past. The voice of a worried mother, others might have thought.

The young woman, obviously known was Rin, calmly spoke. "I was fixing my make-up, Mother."

Rin's fingers reached up a bit to brush her medium length brown hair, which her mother spent over an hour straightening to perfection, over her shoulders. The tips of her hair had started curling just a few minutes ago, which was not a surprise. It was a deep chocolate-brown color and thicker than a horse's mane, yet softer than silk.

Her eyes were a pretty deep brown color that had brilliant green flecks surrounding the pupil. Their unique wide, almond shape was outlined by brown eyeliner that had been picked out to make them really pop. It always amazed people how beautifully haunted those eyes always were. It was as if they held secrets and seen things no other human being had ever seen or even heard of. Things that only happened in fairy tales.

"Next time don't take so long. Everyone was wondering where you went," came the swift lie Rin's mother always said to make her feel horrible. "Some people even thought you had run away," was the last thing the woman said before turning on her heel and walking down the hallway, knowing that Rin was right behind her.

With a silent sigh, Rin ran her fingers through her hair, staring at her mother's almost completely bare back. Oh, how she longed to go back home and just curl up on her bed in her bedroom with her best friend sitting next to her as they tried to find something interesting to do. But she knew that wouldn't happen now. It was said best friend's birthday party; and Rin was not only the guest of honor, she was the hostess. Tonight had been in planning for months.

"RINNY!" called out Rin's best friend before the eccentric little blonde flung herself at Rin. "I thought you had left me," she cried out, her arms wrapping tightly around Rin's torso.

"I would never leave you, Rae," Rin said honestly, her eyes sparkling and meeting Rae's bright electric blue ones. "Besides I can't leave you to fight off the wolves by yourself."

Rae let out her beautiful giggle that was music to Rin's ears. Hearing that soft sound always warmed Rin straight down to her very core. The little blonde was the best thing to have entered into Rin's life. She was the one person who Rin would be lost without.

"Now c'mon! They are about to cut my cake!" Rae squealed out as she dragged Rin across the tile floor. Her long, pale blond hair swayed behind her and over her shoulders, catching the eyes of several people in the room. It was such a normal response that happened wherever Rae went.

It was all Rin could do to follow behind Rae and not laugh at the fair-haired girl's excitement. Rin knew that she would stay beside Rae no matter what came their way. Her smaller friend was just a bit more fragile than Rin herself was. Having this knowledge is what had drawn her to Rae several years ago and caused her to become highly protective of the little blonde.

Everyone at the party just stared at Rin after Rae accidently let go of her hand to rush over to where the table was set up in the middle of the room. Many of the people were whispering rude remarks about the brunette as she slowly made her way to where Rae was. None of them have every really liked Rin for one reason and one reason only. She came from a broken home and was apparently the only one in her family was who "damaged" from how they lived.

Suddenly, Rin felt some type of cold liquid splash onthe front of her chest, staining the beautiful dress Rae's mother had loaned her for the evening. It was the thought of how the older woman would react that froze Rin, it was the sight beautiful little brown eyes glaring harshly down into her deeper brown ones that gave her pause. There was such malice, such hatred in those eyes that it hurt. How could someone who had once claimed to love her hate her so much? It did not make any sense to her.

The person in front of her gripped her pale arm tightly in his tan hand as he snarled into her ear. "Watch where you are going, trailer trash." He then shoved her away, almost sending her into the hard, ivory wall and on top of the table standing nearby. His handsome features contorted into mocking humor as he called out loudly, "I knew you were obsessed with me, but you could be a little more discrete and not paw at me while I am drinking something!"

Semi-long dark brown hair with bangs swept to the side swayed back and forth as he laughed at her. His tall, lean body standing a few feet away from her as his wide, doe-like brown eyes glared down at her. It was amazing that someone so handsome could be so cruel.

Slowly Rin eased herself back up on her feet. It was going to take more than his insistent cruelty to ruin her mood tonight. She straightened her back moved to walk past him only to have him grab her upper arm in a tight, almost painful grip. His nails, she could feel them digging into the soft flesh of her arm while he moved his lips close to her ear to whisper, "You ARE nothing. You are just a stupid girl who I thought would be an easy lay. All those words from me, they meant nothing. I never cared about you."

Just like before, Rin could feel those words straight through her heart as she remembered the day he said those words so many months ago. It still stung, but she was stranger than this. She would not allow her world to come crumbling down around her again. Yet, she still couldn't stop the memories of them laughing together and having fun assaulting her, including the one memory of the night she nearly let him take her virginity. Oh, how she was glad that she never let him touch her like that, or else he really would've made her life hell.

Rae's normally meek voice suddenly rose above the sound of the music startling everyone in the room. "HEY CHUBAKA! Let her go before I have my bouncers throw you out like the trash you ARE. You are not even supposed to be here," she growled out. Her blue eyes were like laser beams glaring at him as the five feet tall girl marched in their direction, her small hand grabbing ahold of Rin's and pulling her friend behind her. No one messed with her Rin and thought got away with it.

As they left the male standing, Rae walked over to one of the bouncers and whispered a few things to him before heading over to where her cake was standing, just waiting on them. After everyone sang "Happy Birthday" and Rae's grand cake was cut, Rae started to open her presents. Each time one was opened and there was something "great," she would squeal and jump around.

Since everyone was busy, Rin took this time to sneak outside into Rae's mother's huge garden and sat under her favorite sakura tree. This was her favorite place at Rae's home because it looked like it came out of the Feudal Era of Japan, or even a Japanese fairytale with all the koi ponds, sakura trees, little red bridges over small creeks. It was absolutely beautiful.

Running her fingers through her brown hair, Rin sighed digging her teeth into her bottom lip, chewing on it softly. 'What am I going to do,' she thought tentatively, staring up at the beautiful, indigo night sky. Her eyes looked longingly at the stars shining brightly down at her. 'Oh, Rae. If not for you, I would not be here."

On the other side of town

A tall male stood at the door of his new "home." A frown curved his lips down, marring his beautiful angular face. "Why is this Sesshomaru here again," Sesshomaru said coldly to his the male standing next to him, a male who he was almost an exact replica of.

"Your step-mother and I thought this would be a nice change of scenery for all of us," was his father's equally as cold reply as he sat down the large cardboard box he had carried. InuTaisho had never understood his eldest child. Even though Sesshomaru looked like a cross between him and his ex-wife, InuKimi. He had hoped Sesshomaru had taken more after him than after her, yet the Fates had not been that kind to him.

Running his long, slender, tapered fingers through his knee-length silvery-white hair, Sesshomaru stared at the newest place he would live. It was a modest little place that seemed just big enough to fit all of them comfortably, yet it was not big enough to allow him to escape from his father for too long. His hard, amber-colored eyes surveyed the area around him before he stepped into the house to head up to the room that he would soon call his own. He already knew that his father had seen to it almost all of their possessions had been set up so they wouldn't have to do it.

As Sesshomaru walked down the barren hallways of his new "home," he couldn't help but feel as if he was a little lost. Everything he had ever known had been ripped from him and now he was stuck in a small town in the middle of nowhere, with the closest major city two hours away. This had to be his father's way of punishing him for "disobeying" his orders of not going out to a party with Kagura.

The empty hallways seemed to mock him, as did the creaking of the stairs as he made his way upstairs to the very last bedroom. His fingers wrapped around the cold metal of the doorknob before he twisted it and slightly pushed on the door to open it. He looked around at the average sized bedroom that fit everything he owned, even the bigger things. The box in his hands was immediately set down on his desk, since the items in the box went on and in the desk itself for his school.

Amber eyes immediately spotted the welcoming sight of his king-sized bed. Sesshomaru took his time getting ready for bed before he climbed under the deep red and gold silk sheets and folded the black silk comforter down to the foot of the bed where it belonged on such a warm spring night. Already he could feel the cool breeze flowing in through the windows that he had opened in his room.

Strangely, he could feel anticipation bubbling in his would finally be able to see his cousin more often, instead of at family functions. That was all the mattered to him now. Seeing her would make staying in this hell bearable.