Chapter 1: Two separate ripples

Rin stared at the phone on the desk, mentally willing it to ring. It, of course, did not. She twirled her long ebony hair once more. This was ridiculous. Didn't anyone ever need a legal consultant at all?

The human gave a soft sigh. She mentally sorted through work she could actually do and ran up with a blank. The truth was, there really wasn't anything to be done. She had wrapped the remnants of the last case already, including all the paper work. There hadn't been a single case for the past month, which was one of the worst 'droughts' this lousy law firm actually had.

Rin looked over to the cubicle on the right, where a lady dressed in a stunning red suit and an ultra chic bob was seated. Yura had taken to filing her nails and was probably about to do a manicure. She looked utterly unfazed at the lack of things to do. But then again, Yura probably could afford not to work. Her family owned a very popular hair salon in the Shibuya District and was rolling in the big bucks. Moreover, her boyfriend was some director in some steel and manufacturing company too. That girl really didn't have to work.

Rin really couldn't. She had to work in order to support herself. However terrible the pay here was, it at least paid the bills for a swinging bachelorette of a grand old age of 28. She sighed once again. Her life was in shambles if she had to admit it herself. Old suit, old shoes, boring hair and no boyfriend.

'Zen, Rin, Zen.' She breathed in and out. Think happy thoughts. Think happy thoughts.

The smiling faces of Rika, Ryo and Ai suddenly popped up in her mind. Rin smiled. Her nieces and nephew never ceased to bring a smile to her face.

'Wonder if they're fine.'

She then realized belatedly that she hadn't seen them in a while. The last time she had seen them was before Kagome went on a Caribbean cruise with Inuyasha. Her older sister really had a good life.

The phone started to ring.

'Finally! It was about time.' Rin thought rather excitedly.

"Hi! I'd like to order a Seafood Supreme Pizza please."

At any moment, Rin was going to tear out her hair and start screaming. Insanity was no longer going to be just a condition, but a way of life if this kept up.

Half a city away, insanity took on a different style as a handsome but extremely stoic looking man sat in a black designer swivel chair. He perused the many documents on his desk. There was a small knock on the door and a short toad-like man walked into the office, bearing another huge pile of documents and was about to drop them.

Sesshomaru massaged his temples slightly but still not showing any obvious signs of fatigue. The mask of coldness still fixed on well. But inside, he wondered why there was such an endless amount of work. This was almost triple his usual amount of work as CEO of Takahashi Corporation. And his usual was already an unimaginably gargantuan amount.

Why were there now so many unchecked documents, unauthorized payouts, unsigned contracts and minutes to look through?

It then suddenly dawned on him. His stupid Hanyou brother and his wife went on holiday. Without the deputy CEO and Head of Accounts, many documents that needed authorization from higher authority had come to him instead. No wonder he was swamped with more work than usual.

Shouldn't they have come back a week ago?

Sesshomaru had been so busy with the newest acquisition project he hadn't realized at all. It was only after the paperwork had reached a limit where he worked 17 hour days then it now figuratively bit him on the head.

Stupid Inuyasha. Why had he gone for so long? And really, Kagome should have had more sense than that. They were probably attempting to drive him to an early death or something. Those two never ceased to try to torture him with their lack of common sense. Well, at very least, they did have adorable children.

His mind visibly relaxed as he thought of his two nieces and nephew. He had not liked their parents much but he had a very soft spot for the three children. That was probably their only redeeming factor that he could think of thus far.

A sneaking suspicion came up to him again. The two of them could be rather irresponsible at times, acting like silly teenagers but this time, they had not called at all. This was odd behavior even for them. He quelled the nagging thoughts and went back to the now mountain high pile of documents courtesy of Jaken.

Disclaimer and A/N: Thank you for reading my latest Fanfiction. It is based loosely on a Singaporean comedy of the same name. As usual, characters belong to Rumiko Takahashi and not me. OCs- the children belong to me though. Do review and look out for the next chapter: Chapter 2: Brought together