Sesshomaru's POV

"You look like shit." Inuyasha said, as he walked into my office. I didn't even bother looking up from my laptop, but did growl at him.

"Yeah, sounds about right. What's up?" He sat down on a chair opposite my desk, propping his feet up on my desk. This time I looked up from my laptop and glared at him until he sighed and removed his feet.

"Nothing."

"Rightio. Well I just came round to remind you about dinner tonight. 7:00 my place, don't be late."

"You couldn't have just called to tell me that?" I asked, going back to my laptop.

"Easily. But by coming here I also get to see Kags."

"Hn."

"Well I'll see you tonight. Don't be late." And with that he got up and left.

Inuyasha had changed a lot over the years. While he use to be rude, annoying and immature, though he still is all of those things, it's not as obvious. He's now a senior detective for Tokyo Police Department, and was now a lot more patient and understanding. He had changed after she left, which I was thankful for in many ways, about the only good thing to come out of that situation though. He still had quite a temper but he was able to control it a lot better now and didn't resort to punching whoever offended him.

I guess in some way or another everyone who was close to her had changed when she left.

I sighed and turned to look out my window, thinking about dinner tonight. Inuyasha had finally worked up the courage to actually propose to Kagome, and while there was going to be a congratulations party, dinner tonight was suppose to be a more private celebration with just our close friends and immediate family. It had been a while since we had all had dinner together, so I was guessing tonight was going to be big.

My day passed by normally (well as normal as it can get with Miroku, Kenji and my dad around) and before I knew it I was out the front of Inuyasha and Kagome's house raising my hand to ring the door bell.

'This is such a familiar smell...' I thought, I sniffed the air a bit more, but couldn't place it. It smelled wonderful though, like all my favourite smells rolled into one to create something brilliant...

I was just about knock again when the door flew open to reveal a very excited Kagome.

"Sesshomaru! Come on in!" She said, practically bouncing up and down.

'Wow, she must be really excited about dinner...' I thought as I followed her inside.

Kagome worked for our fathers company, in the mechanics department. She was the only girl that worked there and spent most of the time covered in grease, but she loved it. I knew though that when her and Inuyasha were married that she would start only working part-time, just like Ayame had done when her and Kouga had finally gotten married.

Originally those two hadn't wanted to get married so early, and were forced into it by their tribe. But marriage ended up suiting them incredibly well and they were still going strong. Kouga was a senior detective, the same as Inuyasha, and Ayame was now a part-time nurse. And one week ago Ayame had discovered she was pregnant, everything was working out perfectly for them.

I walked into the living room only to meet a bunch of excited faces looking at me expectantly.

I raised an eyebrow at them, wondering if I was about to be on the receiving end of a practical joke.

"Hey Sesshomaru." Said a voice behind me.

I suddenly realised what the smell was, and why it was so familiar. I hadn't smelt her in five years, or heard her voice. I slowly turned around and came face to face with her.

"...Rin..."

Rin's POV

I felt like I was dreaming, but if I was I didn't want to wake up. I hadn't felt this happy in years. Of course Kyo always made me happy, and he was more then enough. But there had always been the slight feeling of emptiness. I had missed everyone so much, that it was so unbelievably great to see them all again.

As soon as I had walked into the kitchen, where everyone was, I was immediately smothered with hugs. Sango, Ayame, Kouga, Izuyoi and Kamako seemed beyond ecstatic to see me, they seemed to have forgiven me for leaving and saying good-bye in a letter, something that made me even more happy.

"Whose this little guy?" Kouga said, bending down so he was eye level with Kyo. Everyone had said hello, and had now noticed that I had a four year old kid standing next to my leg holding a dog (that was wriggling to get free and go and greet everyone else in the room...)

Kyo slowly turned his head so he was facing Kouga. As soon as Kouga saw his eyes he gasped and his mouth fell open. There weren't many demons with golden coloured eyes, to be more specific there were four, though most people didn't know that a fourth existed...

"...Everyone, meet Kyo... my son..." There was silence in the room as everyone processed this. Kouga managed to close his mouth and a slight smile slowly formed on his lips.

"I always wanted to be an uncle..." He murmered quietly. "Hello there Kyo, I'm your uncle Kouga." He said and held out his hand for Kyo.

"He's gorgeous." Izuyoi whispered, and I saw tears well up in her eyes.

"I guess we finally know why you left..." Ayame said, smiling. She then went over to join Kyo and Kouga. Kyo had let go Rei (who was now smelling out the kitchen) and seemed to be taking an immediate liking to Kouga.

"I'm sorry I never told any of you. I know it would have been hard, but it was something I had to do." I said, looking around the room. Everyone had small smiles on their faces as they watched Kyo.

"I'm a grandmother... I feel so old..." Kamako said, I laughed.

"I do too... Kenji and Inutashio are grandfathers..." Izuyoi said, her smile grew at the idea.

"Well Kyo," I said, he turned his attention back to me and I begun introducing him to everyone else. "This is your grandma Izuyoi and your other grandma Kamako, and this is your aunt Sango."

"Hello!" Kyo said, getting more and more excited. He had always wanted to meet his family, so I guess now that he was finally able to he was going to enjoy every minute of it. Before the only family he had was me and our dog Rei, but now right in front of him were a bunch of people that wanted to know him, that look down on him for being a half-demon. It seemed ike he had just found where he belonged...

Half an hour later after everyone had slightly calmed down, Kouga, Sango, Kyo and Rei were outside playing while Kamako, Izuyoi, Ayame and I were inside having some tea and catching up.

"So how far along are you?" I asked Ayame, there had been a lot to catch up on. I heard about Kouga and Ayame's wedding (she promised to show me pictures as soon as she could), that Inuyasha had just proposed to Kagome (about time in my opinion), and what everyone was doing now days.

I never would have thought that Kouga and Inuyasha would end up working together, but turned out that they were both senior detectives for the Tokyo Police Department and that they even shared an office (though that bit wasn't willingly...).

Sango had ended up in fashion, she had taken the work experience job I had set up for her before I left, they ended up liking her so much there that they ended up sponsoring her to go to university and do designer courses.

Ayame had of course become a nurse, though she was only working part-time now and would most likely take a year or more off while she was pregnant and had the baby.

Kagome was working in the mechanics department at Inutashio and our dads company, she planned on only doing part-time work though when her and Inuyasha were married.

Miroku was on his way to over taking our dads company with Sesshomaru. Everyone seemed to be avoiding talking about Sesshomaru with me there and I wondered if he was angry at me for leaving. After all I hadn't ever called or anything, not even an email, so I understand if he is, even though it hurt.

"I only found out last week, so I've got a while to go." Ayame said, I was so happy to see that her and Kouga were going good.

'Kouga has been through so much so he deserves to have a happy ending with the woman he loves...' I thought as Ayame told me the story of how she told Kouga she was pregnant.

"I was at home when I found out and completely ecstatic, and of course I had no one with me to celebrate with. So I went straight down to the police station to tell Kouga, but when I got there he seemed to think I was in some sort of trouble and was threatening to kill whoever had hurt me. Though I don't blame him for jumping to that conclusion, a car had driven in a puddle as it drove past me and splashed me with mud so I wasn't looking my best. Not to mention I had run all the way there because I was so excited so I was also out of breath." She said, smiling happily at the memory. I imagine what would have happened, Ayame running into the police station, out of breath and covered in mud. Kouga immediately thinking the worst and threatening her so called 'attacker'.

"Did you finally get him to calm down so you could tell him?" I asked, taking a sip of my coffee.

"Sort of... We were out in the front reception, right near the entry, and he was threatening to cut off the head off my 'attacker'. Inuyasha was there, he was also shouting about killing whoever hurt me, not helping in the slightest way. So there I was in the reception area of the Tokyo Police Station with two pissed off demons, when I told him I was pregnant." I burst out laughing, I could practically picture Kouga's face when she told hims she hadn't been attacked, but was pregnant.

"That definitely was an interesting day." Kouga said from behind me and I turned around to see him walking in with Sango who was holding Kyo's hand. Kouga walked up and gave Ayame a kiss on the cheek, and stole her juice.

They looked so happy together and I couldn't help but feel a little bit sad that my own romantic life consisted of me still in love with my high school boyfriend. Though in my defense mine and Sesshomaru's relationship had always been more then a high school love story. To me he was my soul mate, the one I was meant to be with. I didn't know what I was to him now, but I know that he use to love me and I was more to him then a high school crush. Whether or not he still loved me though I didn' know...

It was strange to be back here after all this time, strange to see my friends and family so much older then what I remembered them. Strange to see how much had changed and how much had stayed the same as well.

About half an hour after Ayame finished telling her story, Miroku arrived home. As soon as he walked into the kitchen he got quite a happy greeting from Kyo.

"Uncle Miroku!" Kyo said, then jumped into his arms. Miroku caught him before he dropped to the ground again and started laughing.

"Good to see you too Kyo. Hey Rin." He said, giving me a welcoming kiss on the cheek.

"Guess what Rocky," Kyo said, practically bouncing up and down in Miroku's arms. Rocky was the nickname he had christened Miroku with as soon as he could talk. "I got to meet your soul mate! Remember one time when you came around and you said that she was your soul mate and was the best girl in the world?! Well I finally got to meet her!"

I looked over at Sango and saw that she was blushing furiously, but also quite happy. Miroku looked up at Sango, with a slightly red tinge on his cheeks.

"Well that's good, I'm glad you finally got to meet her." He said, putting Kyo back down on the ground and walking over to Sango giving her a quick hello and a kiss.

"So how come you're here? You should have called me and I could have picked you up from the train station or something." Miroku said, turning his attention back to me.

"It's OK Miroku, I'm more then capable of getting a cab, I was even able to convince the driver to allow Rei inside as well." I said, purposefully avoiding his first question. I didn't exactly want to tell everyone that I had been attacked and nearly raped my Onigumo Nakaru. Miroku seemed to catch onto the fact that I didn't want to answer his first question and didn't bring it up again.

"So how long are you here for? You know where you're staying yet?" He asked, getting himself a cup of coffee.

"As long as I can stay here for. I don't particularly want to go back to Osaka, things get a bit lonely over there, so I was hoping to find a place here. As for where I'm staying, most likely here or at your place. But I can always check into a hotel if need be."

"Don't be silly, you don't need to go to a hotel." Izuyoi said, Kamako nodding in agreement.

"Yeah, you can even come stay with us if you want to." Ayame said, Kouga agreeing.

"Well, good to know I have options. But I want to see how things go first."

"What things?" Sango asked, as Miroku came over to join her with his coffee.

"Well, Kyo will be starting school next year, so I'll need to find a good school for him. I need to find a proper place to stay, not just one of your houses, cause even though I'm sure you would offer I don't want to be a burden. I need to make sure Kyo settles in OK, cause if he doesn't and would prefer to go back to Osaka where he has friends then I don't want to deny him that." I said, then admitted one of the biggest problems I was afraid of. "But I also need to sort out things with Sesshomaru..."

Everyone went quiet so the only noices were Kyo and Rei playing in the living room.

"Well... I would love to help you look for a school for Kyo. After all it would come in handy in a couple of years." Ayame said, rubbing her stomach.

"All of us can help with the apartment thing." Kamako said, everyone nodding.

"And don't worry about Kyo, you know as well as I do he's always wanted to come here and meet everyone, so I doubt he will want to leave any time soon. And all of us can help make the transition easier for him." Miroku said, everyone nodded in agreement again.

Everyone went silent again, clearly not sure what to say about the whole Sesshomaru thing, it was me that finally broke the silence.

"How is he?" I asked, looking down at my empty coffee cup.

"Good... I guess." Kouga said.

"Changed a bit, from when you last saw him..." Izuyoi added, I nodded, not sure what to make of this information.

From Kouga's tone of voice and the hesitation I could guess that Sesshomaru was either not good and he didn't want me to feel guilty or he was great, he didn't miss me at all and he didn't want me to be upset. And what did Izuyoi mean he had changed? What sort of change? Like his appearance had changed? Or his personality had changed?

I was left mulling over these questions as someone hastily changed the subject and everyone tried to bring the conversation away from the Sesshomaru topic.

"So are you coming to Kagome's tonight?" Miroku asked me, I looked at him with confusion. "It's their engagement party tonight. Just close friends and family, so it might be a good time for you to...catch up with people..." The last bit came out awkwardly, but I nodded in understanding. The sooner I tell Sesshomaru the better.

And that was why half an hour later I was sitting in a car with Kyo as we drove to Kagome and Inuyasha's house.

"It's not far, just round the corner."Miroku said from the drivers seat, I nodded. I could feel my stomach doing flips from nervousness and tried to distract myself from thinking about Sesshomaru.

Only to fail miserably.

'What if he just takes one look at Kyo and me, then turns around and leaves? Or what if he says he never wants to see us again? Or what if he hates Kyo? Well if he hates Kyo then he's not worth it...' I thought, but even the thought alone brought tears to my eyes. I quickly squashed all thoughts concerning Sesshomaru before I became a sobbing wreck, just in time for us to pull up into Kagome and Inuyasha's drive-way.

Their house was gorgeous, like something out of a movie. It wasn't as big as our parents house, but still quite large. It was two-story and had a sort of modern style to it but not the type of modern style that made it look like the house came from a different solar system.

'Well this is just nerve wracking...' I thought as I got out of the car and made my way up the drive-way.


To say Inuyasha and Inutashio reacted strangely would be an understatement. As soon as I had walked through the front door, (Inutashio was already there, having gone there straight after work) they were all hugs and greetings, Kagome just as excited to see me as they were.

Then Kouga and Ayame came in with Kyo, and their faces went completely blank. Finally after what felt like a million years of silence, in which everyone looked either at Inuyasha or Inutashio, wondering if they should say something, Inuyasha spoke.

"I don't feel as unique as I did ten minutes ago..." I wasn't sure what to make of that... I mean does that mean he doesn't like Kyo already? If so I was definitely going to kick his ass.

"Oh god, one Inuyasha is enough to deal with... Imagine two..." Kagome said, Inuyasha gave her a dead-pan look and the rest of us broke out in laughter.

"Guess there's four with golden eyes now..." Inutashio murmured, then went and knelt in front of Kyo, who was looking as if he couldn't decide what he should be doing.

"This is Kyo." I said, walking over and picking Kyo up. Inutashio stood up as we did, still looking at Kyo. "My son. Kyo meet your other grandpa."

It took a while but eventually Inuyasha and Inutashio got over the shock of meeting Kyo. I could understand why it was a bigger shock to them then it was to anyone else. They were Kyo's blood relatives, and it would have been rather surprising to suddenly meet someone who smells so much like they do.

Everyone was in the living room while Kagome gave Kyo and I a tour of her house. It was bigger then it looked from the outside, though still not as big as our parents. She had just finished showing me the dining room when the doorbell rang.

Instantly I froze, knowing exactly who it was. Knowing that the next thirty seconds would effect my life in such a way that it was surprising I didn't just turn into a pile of mush on the carpet.

'Please be a delivery person, please be a delivery peron, please be a delivery person.' I thought over and over again. I knew it wasn't, I mean what kind of delivery person arrives at someones house at 7:00 at night?

Kagome bounded over to the door and threw it open, a bit more energetically then she would have under more normal circumstances. But I guess it's not every day your sister turns up after five years with a four year old son, and is just about to see the love of her life for the first time in five years. No stuff like this definitely did not happen everyday...

"Sesshomaru! Come on in!" I heard Kagome say, and knew that it definitely wasn't some kind of delivery man of some kind.

The conflict raging in my head grew louder and louder as I heard him step into the house. Part of me desperately wanted to see him, the other half wasn't ready to face him yet. Yes it had been five years, but five years just didn't seem quite long enough at that moment...

I saw him walk in and head towards the living room, his back towards me. I could picture him raising an eyebrow at every ones faces looking at him expectantly and figured I should make my entrance before he smelled us out.

Stepping forward I hugged Kyo to my side for support and took a deep breath.

"Hey Sesshomaru." I said.

He spun around to face me, shock evident all over his face. I saw him take in my face, as if my voice and scent weren't enough to confirm it was me, but he needed to see it as well.

"...Rin..." His voice sounded even more beautiful after five years of not hearing it. Sure I had lived the first seventeen years of my life without hearing it, but I hadn't met him then.

I hugged Kyo even closer to my side, Kyo in turn hugged my side even tighter. I saw Sesshomaru's eyes travel down, then widen even further when he saw a pair of eyes identical to his staring right back. I could practically see him smelling the air as if to confirm it, and decided that this was when I should step in.

"Sesshomaru, I'd like you to meet Kyo... Our son."


OK! Finally done! I must have written this chapter out like six billion times before I actually liked it...

Just so everyone knows, I won't be able to update for a while cause I'm going on holidays, so don't expect anything for like two or so weeks... sorry...

Hope you enjoyed it! I know it's a bit short, so I'll try and make the next one longer.

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