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A/N: Compliant with the original series with some devious deviations.
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A patient was dying.
It was Rin's turn to run the CPR session to save that patient. Rin broke a sweat and made it very obvious. The resident instructor noticed how nervous Rin was and how she couldn't think clearly through the CPR session.
She lost the patient. The patient would have died anyway.
The instructor criticized Rin on several mistakes she had made. The most critical mistake was how nervous she was.
"As a physician, you're the leader of the team. Don't act nervous even if you are! You'll make the whole team anxious and nobody could think anymore. Be on top of your game for the next session. I expect improvement!"
"Yes, Dr. Hiachi!" Rin answered looking down at the floor.
When the team left and the patient removed from the room, Rin sat down on a chair in the corner and started crying. She cried, not so much for the criticisms she received, but more for the loss of that patient.
The familiar janitor walked in. He looked at her slumped posture on the chair with her head casting downward. He couldn't see her eyes, but he could smell her tears.
"If you cry every time a patient dies, then you'll be crying a lot." He started to clean the room and said no more.
She didn't look up at him, she knew who he was from his voice. She simply said, "Mr. Janitor, I am so useless!"
"Sesshomaru," he introduced himself because he was slightly aggravated that she called him Mr. Janitor. He looked her way for a moment and saw a drop of water falling from her face. "How did she earn her medical degree with that confidence, or lack thereof!" He didn't say anything to comfort her. Ten minutes later, he said, "You need to leave. I must clean the room."
He knew humans enough to know that his bluntness wouldn't really win her love, but he was not one who could pretend to be sweet unless the emotion was natural.
For several weeks, he observed her.
There had to be a key to every lock. He wanted to know just what would open up her heart to him. Curiosity got the better of him. He had to do it. He wanted to know her from the inside out.
"MiLord, where are you going?"
"Back in time."
"MiLord, why?" Jaken's shrilling voice cried out.
"Jaken,"
"Yes, MiLord."
Sesshomaru raised his hand and slowly made a tight fist while glancing at Jaken, "Do not be so aggravating."
That successfully silenced Jaken.
Sesshomaru stepped into the gate of the underworld and disappeared.
"Does she know what she is?"