Rin/Sesshy fiction :D
Chapter 1
A brunette woman looked at the beaten up watch, that had taken up residence on her arm, and sighed. There were still thirty minutes left in her shift, and she was wondering why she hadn't taken off already, but she felt some comfort in doing what she would usually do during the day. She also felt an obligation to finish what she started that day. She was anxious for the half hour to be up, but she decided to try and enjoy the time she had. There was a small fan blowing wind through her long hair. It was longer than it usually was but she didn't have the time or the money to spend on a hairdresser, and she was afraid to do it herself, she didn't want to ruin her hair. She could smell the scent of sweat and stale food, in the over crowded room, and the smell slightly made her sick. She looked up and saw a silver rectangle that had her name on it: Rin Tochigi. A extremly common name, for an extremly common girl, she thought to herself.
Rin Tochigi worked in a small cubicle, on the second story of The Taisho Company. Which wasn't very impressive considering that there were 110 floors in the building. She pretty much worked with numbers. It was a brainless job, just transfering numbers so someone on a higher level could deal with them, but it was a job, and for the most part it paid her bills, even though she was being paid barley over minimum wage. She lived in a small 2 room appartment, in the down town area. It wasn't a great neighbourhood, and there where a couple different gangs. Rin deffinatley wouldn't want to walk around at night. It was a bright and noisey block, and half the time Rin couldn't sleep properly because of all the noise from the traffic, even though she wouldn't be able to sleep even if it were dead silent. It was slightly annoying but she couldn't afford to get a different apparment, and she wasn't going to move back to her mothers house. At the moment where she lived was the last thing on her mind though, all's she could thing about was what awaited her on the roof. The excitment of what would take place, but she couldn't help but to be slightly nervous, mostly just because she was slightly afraid of heights.
The green eyed woman typed in a couple more numbers into the computer and realized she was done for the day. She had no more work to do, and she wasn't sure what to do anymore. Rin realized she still had 25 minutes left in her shift but she could leave early if she wanted since she was already done. She was trying not to prolong the inevitable, but her body didn't want to move out of the uncomfotable chair she had been sitting in for hours on end. Most people would bring their own chairs to work instead of sitting on the one that was provided by the company, that had no back support or cushions, but Rin didn't see the point. Rin wondered why the company was so cheap even though it was probably one of the richest and most sucessful in the world, although you wouldn't think that if you worked on the first twenty floors. So many things in the world were Taisho brands and many houses, and buildings were built by the Taisho company, then they would sell them for three times the money that they cost to build.
It was actually a pretty evil company if Rin actually thought about it. She had never heard about the company giving back to the society, all's they did was over price thigs that didn't seem to be that great of quality, and pollute the air. She wouldn't be surprised if she found out that they distroyed an orphanage, and sold the children into slavery. There had been many scandals surrounding the company, and she wasn't sure if they were true or not, but if they were true Rin had been working for an evil... EVIL company, for two years. She was 21 and she had started when she was 19, it had taken her a year to scrounge up enough money to move out, and she had been living on her own for a year now. Her mother wasn't happy when she decided to move, and get a job. She wanted her to go to college but Rin didn't want to make her mother waste the money that she had.
Rin had once had dreams for her life, when she was younger and niave. She had wanted to be a doctor to help people, to save people. But she got over that once she turned 15. Rin realized dreams were called dreams because they weren't realistic at all. So she just worked at a company that was destroying the planet, and she wasn't going to complain about it. She glanced at her watch again and saw that it was still only 15 minutes till seven. Her shift started at 8 in the morning and ended at 7 at night. She worked seven days a week, so she ended up working 77 hours every week and only spending 91 hours at 'home'. Rin had alot of time to do useless math that didn't really matter. It was pretty much just something to do.
She glanced out into the small asile between her cubicle and someone elses. There were people walking quickly by, all busy with something to do, she could tell a few of them were from a higher level, and they had looks of disguist on their faces. This was pretty much where the poor people worked, it was a job that wasn't really needed and if the company couldn't afford it anymore, they would have no problem shutting it down. She wondered why everyone always seemed so busy during this job, she just sat there all day slowly typing in numbers. Everyone else was typing as if their lives depended on it, and were rushing around with paper work. She was probably considered the slacker on this level,if anyone noticed she existed anyway. Not once in her two years at the company, had anyone said a single word to her, just to talk, she had gotten a couple people telling her she needed to do a few things but no one had ever said hi.
Rin started bouncing her leg up and down trying to pass time, she couldn't help but fidgit, she started tearing the corners of some of the blank papers on her desk. Soon she had a pile of torn up paper in front of her. Her leg was still bouncing, and her fingers were twitching with nothing to do. She fiddled with the hem of her old unfashionable shirt. It just hung on her body, it didn't have any shape to it, and the colour was fading. She couldn't afford to go and buy clothes and she didn't really care much about her appearance. She didn't use make up, and the only thing she did in the morning after getting dressed was brushing her hair. She took showers at night because she usually couldn't get herself to wake up before 6:30a.m. She might actually be pretty if she did something with her hair, put at least the tiniest hint of make up on, and she had clothes that were actually form fitting. But Rin didn't care what others thought of her, and that is one of the main reasons that women get all dressed up and put on a bunch of make up, to impress people. Rin didn't have anyone to impress, she just wanted to be left alone, she didn't want anyone to look at her and try to talk to her. People were trouble, and she was going to stick to that analogy.
The green eyed brunette looked down at her watch again, there was only five minutes until her shift was over. Rin was glad, it had felt like time decided to slow down just to annoy her. She started shutting down her computer, and putting things away. She piled all the papers in one spot on the desk and tidied up the stray objects all over her desk. There wasn't much on the desk after she was done, most of it was in drawers. After she had put every perfectly in it's place, she then slowly stood up from her desk and pushed the chair under the desk. Rin walked out of her cubicle and looked inside it from the aisle. It was perfectly clean, everything was in it's place, but she failed to notice the old jacket drapped over on side of her desk. She was too preoccupied. Someone was trying to walk down the aisle and very rudley told her to get out of the way. She started walking down the aisle, and got out of the persons way. She made her way through the maze of diferent aisles, and found the elevator.
She pressed the up button and waited impatiently as the elevator slowly made it's way down. It was on floor 50 so Rin had a little bit of a wait. She stood there tapping her feet, urging the elevator to go faster. Someone stood beside her, and Rin glanced over for a second and saw an ordinary looking woman standing there with the same impatient expression mirrored on her face. Rin looked away wondering if she was going up to the roof too, but decided that she was too well dressed, and the woman had an air of self confidence surrounding her. Rin glanced over again and saw a sparkling ring on her left hand. Deffinatley not going up to the roof, why would a woman with a husband want to go up there?
The elevator finally opened and a few people came out. Both Rin and the woman walked into the elevator, the woman pressed floor 75 and Rin pressed floor 100. The woman gave Rin a slightly startled glance, wondering what she was doing up there. A woman that looked like Rin would work on the 100th floor. Rin would've liked to press floor 110 but you needed a code to get any higher that floor 100, so Rin was just going to have to take the stairs after that. They both stood there in an awkward silence, until the elevator doors finally opened to both their relief, and the woman walked out. Rin stood there hoping no one would come into the elevator, and ask her why she was going up to floor 100. Luckily she made it up to floor 100 with out anyone going in. When the elevator dorrs opened Rin gasped, it was beautiful! Everything was decorative, Rin wasn't sure if she'd ever seen such a grand room before.
She suddenly felt uncomfortable and she knew she didn't belong on this floor by the way people were giving her looks. She tried to shrink into the backround but it was hard, because the backround was just so grand. She saw a door saying emergency exit, and hoped to god that when she opened it an alarm wouldn't go off like in some buildings. She quickly made her way to the emergency exit, and opened the door while cringing. There was no alarm and Rin breathed a sigh of relief. She quickly made her way up the stair well that was only supposed to be used in case of fire, and panted after she had made it up to the 101st floor. 'Only nine more floors', she thought to herself trying to make herself go faster. She may have been skinny, but she was extremly out of shape. She couldn't remember the last time she had worked out, or done anything that required an effort.
She tried to skip stairs as she made her way up the second stair case, but she only ended up tripping and scraping her palms and knees. So she decided to go up the stairs one at a time. Her breath was coming in ragged gasps and her legs and lungs were burning by the time she had gone up 5 more stair cases. She was on the 106th floor. Only 4 more floors to go until she made it to the roof. Then she realized after 4 stair cases she would only be on the 110th floor, so she still had to do one more after that. She groaned, but contiued up the stairs. She was sweating, and she was walking by the time she got to the 110th floor. 'One more floor, one more floor, one more floor', she chanted inside her head, trying to get herself to go faster but her legs refused to go faster. In fact they just slowed down more and were dragging. Rin's mouth was dry and she felt like she was goign to faint by the time she got to the roof. There was a heavy grey door between her and her fate. All's she had to do was open it. She reached for the door and pushed the cold grey metal with weak quivering hands. And with some effort on her part the door swung open.
Rin stood in the doorway panting, then walked out into the dark.
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