Chapter 1: The Dance
Rin's eyes widened as she stood on the steps, overlooking the dance floor at the college charity "ball". It wasn't much of a ball since everyone wore short dresses and their tallest heels and the guys weren't much better in jeans and nice button downs. Rin noticed the shimmering white hair. He only revealed himself as Mr. Killing Perfection, or what Rin nicknamed him as "Prince Charming." He was gorgeous and tall and many girls had proclaimed that they wanted to date him. Killing Perfection stopped and locked his golden eyes with her brown ones and Rin's breath hitched in her throat, her eyes widening at the contact. She ran her fingers through her hair before adjusting her short orange shift dress before turning around to get away from him.
'Not now. Not now.'
Rin whined in her mind, as she tried to find a bathroom. She weaved between people who were dancing to try to find the girl's bathroom. She slipped in, and closed the door behind her, gasping for air. She took the few seconds to look at herself in the mirror, grimacing at the bead of sweat on her forehead, her small ponytail on her right side was drooping. Apparently Killing Perfection's fangirls Kagura and Kikyou were trying to find her, to bring her to him. Why? She had no idea. And Rin had no intention of finding out. Rin moved from the door and into one of the stalls, sitting upon it, her heart to her chest. The door opened with a squeak and girls voices flowed into the room.
"How can we find Bell? I mean, at least we know she's from our school!"
"But why does Perfection want her? I'm much prettier than her…."
"He did say that we would be given rewards if we brought her to him."
"That does sound nice. I wonder what rewards."
"Hell if I know."
Rin took a deep breath in and slid her legs up slowly, and held onto her ankles, making sure that Kagura couldn't see her legs. Unfortunately, Rin banged her elbow on the toilet paper holder, making her eyes wide and her mouth drop open at the pain. Rin rubbed her elbow, swallowing back tears.
"What was that?"
"It seemed like it was from one of the stalls."
"Kagura go check it out then."
Rin's eyes widened as she saw Kagura's slim legs click into view, her maroon shoes glinting in the fluorescent light. She felt her left leg slipping down, as Kagura checked each stall with a bang. However, once Kagura got to Rin's stall, Rin waited with baited breath, her eyes clenching shut as the girl tried the lock.
"That's weird."
"What is?"
"This one's locked, but no one's in there."
"Guess its out of business. Let's go."
Rin waited til the girls left and let out her breath, sliding her shaken legs to the floor. She desperately wished that her mother hadn't put her through all of this mess. She slowly reached up and unlocked the door and walked out of the bathroom slowly, using the other exit. She looked around, and looked down at her watch. 'Midnight. Of course. Cinderella has to get home.' Rin thought to herself with a small smile, and went up the entrance stairs.
"STOP THAT GIRL!" Kagura yelled, as people's heads turned and gasped to see Bell there. Rin turned around, her eyes again locking on Killing Perfection in the back of the dance floor, his eyes uncharacteristically wide for such a stoic man like himself.
A movement happened, with a few men stumbling up the stairs to make a grab at her. Rin squeaked and turned on her foot and ran up the stairs to get to the hallway.
"C'mere Princess. Perfection's looking for you." Kagura sneered about a hundred feet behind her, but it made Rin hastily take off her heels, grabbing them in one hand and running out of the school. Rin jumped hearing her phone ringing.
"Are you ready to be rescued?" A voice was heard over the phone.
"God yes!"
"I'm outside."
"Okay." Rin panted as she saw the sliding doors slide open. She turned to look over her head to see a few guys and Kagura leading the way to get to her. Rin turned back, staring at the doors.
"Open open open open."
Rin pleaded and once they were finally open a second later, she dashed out and jumped into the open-air convertible of a lovely light blue car.
"OhMyGod Thank you Kohaku!" Rin breathed a sigh of relief as Kohaku started to peel out of the driveway of the University's gym and out onto the highway back home. He looked over at her out of the corner of her eye.
"You know. Going to that dance was a big mistake. You could have been caught, Rin." Kohaku said sternly, keeping his eyes and hands on the wheels at all times. Rin rolled her eyes.
"Puh-lease, and do what tonight? Play Brawl with you, Souta, Shippo and Souten? No thanks. I do that all the time already." Rin said with a grin thrown to him.
"Your sister isn't going to be too happy about it." Kohaku shot at her, as he pulled into a drive-thru Sonic.
"My sister was at the dance with Inu Yasha, Miroku and Sango. So, I'm good." Rin waved a hand with a grin. Kohaku sighed as he pulled into the underground garage of an apartment building. He parked the car and they hopped out.
"Really, Kohaku. I owe you one." Rin said with a smile, as they walked upstairs. He rolled his eyes.
"Just get to bed soon, if you don't want to play brawl with us." Kohaku said with a smirk over to her, ruffling her hair. Rin ducked after he ruffled her hair a few times.
"Stop that." Rin swatted at his hand with a small scowl on her face. Kohaku chuckled as they walked up to the lobby, said hello to Myoga, the Front Desk Security Guard, and hopped into the elevator.
Rin sighed as she leaned against the wall as Kohaku pushed the button. She closed her eyes, relaxing for a bit. She and Souten live in an apartment with three boys. One of them her brother, Souta. She has her own bedroom. Shippo and Souten live in another, and Souta and his boyfriend Kohaku live in the third bedroom. They all pool their money to pay for the rent, and it has been working out splendidly.
Rin's eyes opened as she was shaken slightly, looking up to see Kohaku's smiling face.
"Come on, Princess" Kohaku teased. "We're home."
Rin smiled as she followed Kohaku out into the hallway and to their apartment door. She waited until the door opened and walked inside.