New chapter^^ y'all know my rules, you review, I write, it's how this works ^^ one little thing, be honest, I'm going to/ have added a new story about Sesshomaru and Rin/InuYasha and Kagome, but I want to know if I'm uploading too much and should stick to these, or continuing with adding new stories, don't worry, I do intend on finishing these I promise ^^
AN - I own nothing of InuYasha.
Sesshomaru tightened the buttons on his cuffs, completing his look for the night. Smirking at his reflection in the mirror, Sesshomaru shook his silver hair out and loosened his collar. Just because his date wouldn't look good didn't mean he shouldn't, and his light blue long sleeved button up shirt and dark pants only accented his already handsome features.
Smirking, Sesshomaru's thoughts were interrupted by a knock at his door. Tearing himself from his vanity, Sesshomaru stepped to the door and peered through the peephole, his grin growing wider when he saw his visitor. Pulling back the chain and unlocking the door, Sesshomaru opened up to reveal a black-haired beauty with red eyes in a tight black dress that came mid-thigh.
"Hello, Kagura," Sesshomaru greeted, grabbing his keys and sports coat from the rack before stepping out into the hallway with his on again off again girlfriend.
"Sesshomaru, looks like you're ready to pick me up and take me out," Kagura grinned, her red lipstick curving like devil's horns as she did so.
"I'm afraid not Kagura," Sesshomaru sighed, "I have someone else to pick up tonight."
"But Sesshomaru," Kagura whined, "I wanna give us another shot, I think this time we'll make it!"
"You said that last time, Kagura," Sesshomaru pointed out, stepping into the elevator.
"But I really missed you, us," Kagura simpered, clinging onto Sesshomaru's arm.
"Time before the last time," Sesshomaru remarked, pressing the button for the garage.
"So what's this tramp got that I don't?" Kagura accused, narrowing her eyes.
"A victory."
"Huh?"
Sesshomaru looked at Kagura's confused face, smirking as he patted her hand still gripping onto his arm.
"Your dear darling brother made me a bet you see; I doll the girl up, take her out, and get her confession and your brother is out of our university."
Kagura's eyebrows raised in realization, her smile returning to its rightful position, "So, you win, dump her, and take me back, right?"
The elevator doors dinged, alerting the two in the elevator to their floor. Stepping onto the garage floor, Sesshomaru sauntered over to his black BMW with Kagura in tow, her giggles filling the parking space.
"Need a ride?" Sesshomaru asked, unlocking the car and holding open the passenger side door open for her.
"Love one," Kagura simpered, stepping into the sleek car and let Sesshomaru close the door before stepping into the driver's side and starting up the car with a roar.
Shifting it into gear, Sesshomaru guided the car away from his complex and tore down the road to Kagura's destination, a club called Devil.
Arriving at the road behind the club after a conversation filled ride, mostly filled by Kagura go on and on about many trivial things, Sesshomaru pulled the car into park, and turned to Kagura, gesturing for the door.
"When you're done playing around with the unwanted, come find me, 'kay?" Kagura asked, pressing a kiss onto Sesshomaru's neck before slipping out the car's passenger side-door.
Smirking at her actions, Sesshomaru shifted the car into drive and turned down the road that led to his date for the evening.
Sesshomaru rested his lean body against the doorframe of the girl's apartment, having knocked twice on the apartment door. Checking his silver watch, Sesshomaru breathed a sigh of relief as he realized he was only a few minutes late.
The sliding of the chain and clicking of the door opening alerted Sesshomaru to Rin's arrival. Straightening up, Sesshomaru brushed the stray lint of his sports coat.
"Sorry I'm a little late, I was – " Sesshomaru's sentence when he saw the person who had answered the door, his jaw threatening to hit the floor.
She looked stunning, her hair cleaned and styled simply, but elegant on her; she had a little make-up on her eyes which were now visible under her freshly cut bangs and her lips had had their dryness removed, leaving fresh light pink lips in their place.
Sesshomaru's wide eyes trailed her form, looking at her knee length black V-neck dress; it wasn't as tight fitting as Kagura's had been but somehow, the effect was more desirable on Rin. Looking at her shuffling feet, Sesshomaru became aware that his eyes were making her uncomfortable. Looking up, Sesshomaru noticed a crane pendant hanging from her neck, completing her look without overdoing it.
Sesshomaru looked up to meet her eyes, only to find her eyes shifting away from his, the heated blush that usually came when he was around emerging on her cheeks once more; her fingers fiddled with the straps of her purse.
"Shall we go?" Sesshomaru asked, regaining his voice after the slight shock of her appearance, remembering not to frighten her else he loose the bet.
Rin gave a quick nod and stepped out of the apartment, turning to lock the door behind her. After the soft click was heard, Rin turned to Sesshomaru, who walked beside her to the stairs, holding the door open for her as they descended.
Arriving at his car Sesshomaru did the same thing for Rin as he did Kagura, holding out the door on the passenger's side. Rin looked flustered, but stepped into the cars all the same, looking around the interior of the vehicle with nervous eyes.
Slipping into the driver's seat, Sesshomaru turned the key and let the car growl to life, the corners of his eyes on Rin, noticing her eyes have gone from nervousness to looking at her hands in her lap.
The first several minutes of their ride passed in silence, Sesshomaru thinking of what to do or say that would ease the tension. Sesshomaru clicked in his iPod and handed it to her, allowing her to pick the song for the ride. Taking the hint, Rin scrolled through the songs until she found something she liked and clicked on it, placing the device in a cup holder.
Sesshomaru's eyebrows raised as Frank Sinatra's Fly Me to the Moon came on, and Rin visibly relaxed when the jazz reached her ears. Sesshomaru felt the uncomfortable silence in the car ebb away as the song played and Rin's eyes closed and her head rested against the headrest.
Relaxing himself, Sesshomaru pulled off the main road and wove through the less traveled streets and pulled up to a small restaurant on the outskirts of town. Stepping from the car, Sesshomaru moved over to the passenger side and held the door open for her, gently offering his hand for her to ease her out of the car.
Stepping lightly for the car, Rin watched as Sesshomaru shut the door and guided her towards the restaurants door, holding that too open for her. With a quick glance to the seating host, Sesshomaru and Rin were led to a table in the corner of the room and handed their menus.
Rin accepted hers with a gentle smile, before opening it and glancing down the menu, skimming through the choices with interested eyes. Her date had, however, already been to the restaurant so his order was decided well before his arrival.
Sesshomaru heard her gulp and close the menu softly before placing it on the table.
"Who is she?"
Sesshomaru stared at her, surprised at the sound of her voice, soft and sweet, much like herself.
"I beg your pardon?" Sesshomaru asked.
"Your girlfriend," Rin added meekly, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear.
"What makes you think I have a girlfriend?" Sesshomaru inquired, now curious as to how this girl's mind worked.
"Your car and you jacket smell like perfume," Rin pointed out, "not to mention you neck has, um-"
Sesshomaru rubbed his neck, pulling back his hand only to see a red smudge on his fingers. Growling in frustration, Sesshomaru's mind was quick to come up with an answer for her.
"Ex-girlfriend," Sesshomaru half-lied, "she came to my place tonight and I gave her a lift home considering I didn't want anything to happen to her. Don't worry though," Sesshomaru said, leaning closer to Rin, "there is nothing going on between us, she gave me a kiss to tempt me, not the other way around."
Rin looked down at the table top, not thoroughly convinced at his explanation; she was gullible, not stupid.
"What about you?" Sesshomaru asked, "you seemed to have kept something form me."
"Huh?" Rin asked, her brow contorted in confusion.
"Your voice."
"Oh," Rin mumbled, touching her throat, "that."
Sesshomaru eyed her, her lapse in silence only piqued his interest further on the matter.
"It got damaged when I was a kid," Rin explained cautiously, choosing her words with care, "and since then, when I do something strenuous for a long time, it acts up again."
"What did you do?"
"Huh?"
"What did you do, as a kid to hurt your throat?"
"I'd really rather not talk about that," Rin almost whispered, taking a swig of her water and looking at everything that wasn't him.
"Alright then, why didn't you tell me you weren't a mute" Sesshomaru questioned, deviating from her past but remaining on subject.
"You never asked," Rin stated simply, "you just assumed."
Sesshomaru just blinked, looking at the young woman in front of him with slight awe before smirking; she had a backbone, he'd give her that. He was about to continue their conversation, until a portly man came and asked for their orders.
"So, you've never been out of the country?" Sesshomaru asked, stirring his coffee.
"Never," Rin replied, dabbing her mouth with a napkin, "I've never had the funds."
"Hmm," Sesshomaru replied, sipping on his coffee and thinking back.
Throughout the entire dinner, he had tried to get her to talk about her past, but to no avail, she had kept very tight lipped about it, but had been polite all the same. Instead he opted for idle chatter and random questions, things people typically did on first dates.
The effect had overall surprised him; he had expected to be bored out of his skull, to be feigning an interest in everything she said. The result was quite the contrary; he was actually enjoying himself with her conversations.
She told him a lot about herself, yet kept quiet on the subject of family and her past. He found out through her that while she was a second year art student, she had had her first year at another, smaller university before one of her professors insisted that she go out for the scholarship here, giving her splendid reference and even helped her with her portfolio.
Rin was in luck as she already had three friends who went to the university and since she was going there on scholarship, she could finally room with them. The library job was to help pay for her rent and food bills, but it also gave her a chance to relax, despite efforts from Koga.
When he asked her about her appearance, she had grinned and almost laughed when he touched on that. Calming down, Rin explained that her friends had opted to traveling to China for some study in their fields and were set to come back before the winter term started and that in the mad rush of packing and scrambling, several of her things had gone into their suitcases and since her job at the library hadn't started yet, she was scraping for cash and couldn't replace it.
As for her dry skin and chapped lips, the art room was extremely dry at times and her new professor insisted on showing him her talents, meaning she was stuck preforming pointillism and whatever other style the eccentric man had popping in his head for the past several weeks.
"My friends can be so careless at times," she had giggled, "but they do mean well, they sent me a bunch of gifts and snacks from China, including the pendant, it was really sweet."
"Sweet?" he questioned, "they took half your stuff and didn't realize it, if they were such good friends, they surely would have noticed something."
Sesshomaru nearly clapped a hand to his mouth as he said it, he knew how defensive girls could get over their friends and he probably just blew it.
"They can be pretty scatterbrained, I'll admit," Rin agreed, "but then again, so can I," she giggled, "I guess we just learn to live with one another."
Sesshomaru just stared at her; he had said something most girls would have gone ballistic over, yet she almost agreed with him.
Rin had also asked her fair share of questions about him, ones he had been swift to answer and had told her only what he felt she needed. He told her that until she told him about her family, his was off limits as well. Rin nodded in silent agreement, figuring that fair was fair.
He told her the basics, he was a third year business major and he was set to inherit his family's business once he graduated from university, he already had access to his inheritance, and he was extremely well traveled, which led him to ask about her travels.
"Where would you like to go?" he asked, returning to the subject at hand.
"Oh, um," Rin thought about it, still wiping what was left of the chocolate sauce on her face.
That was another thing that shocked him about her, she ordered dessert, something none of his previous dates had done; typically they ordered a salad and just picked around the chicken or whatever else was they thought of as fatty. Rin ordered pasta in Rosé sauce and actually asked for a slice of chocolate mousse, offering him some, only to have him refuse.
"France would be nice, like in the Alpes, not in the big city as much, I don't like crowds all that much, or maybe England, I would love to see their gardens."
Sesshomaru chuckled, "so you're a nature girl?"
Rin giggled, "all the way, I find nature to be, peaceful and relaxing, I've never felt more, I don't know, whole then when I'm out on a hike or taking pictures."
"Pictures?" Sesshomaru asked, sipping his wine, "I thought you painted."
"Oh I do," Rin said quickly, "but photography is also part of my art course and it's kinda grown on me and the whole dark room process is really interesting and it too relaxes me."
"Don't you use digital?"
Rin laughed, "I've just told you I'm here on a scholarship and could barely afford proper hair care; do you think I can afford a digital camera?"
Sesshomaru grinned, "my apologies, I just thought that perhaps the school lent them out to students."
"There you go, assuming everything again," Rin said, wiggling her finger in front of him, smiling cheekily, "the camera I use is an old one, my uh, brother used to use it," she finished, her awkwardness returning as her smile slipped and her drink suddenly became very interesting.
Sesshomaru licked his lips, telling himself that he needn't be concerned with her past, that it was only natural curiosity that drove him to ask about her past, he didn't really care.
"Shall we leave?" Sesshomaru asked, gently rising from the table, and picking up the bill.
"Um, sure thing," Rin said, rising as well following Sesshomaru as he paid their bill and walked back out to his sleek sports car, Rin slipping easily into the car as Sesshomaru held the door open for her, her face unusually contemplative.
The sports car purred as Sesshomaru gunned up the highway and toward Rin's apartment, the silence of the car now strangle peaceful compared to the drive to the restaurant. Rin kept her hands in her lap and her sight never left them, her mind trying to come up with conversations but couldn't come up with anything she thought appropriate.
The car pulled to a halt in front of the complex, causing Rin's head to jerk up, as she realized that she was home.
Sesshomaru stepped lightly from the vehicle and held open the door for her once more, his hand extending for hers.
"Thank you," Rin murmured, alighting from the vehicle as Sesshomaru shut the car door, "for tonight, it was wonderful."
"You're welcome," Sesshomaru replied, leaning in to press his lips to hers.
"Goodnight," Rin muttered, slipping from his grasp and gently pushing him away, giving him a small smile that said, "not tonight."
"I'll, um, call you later, shall I?" Rin told him, walking up to her apartment building, unlocking the door and slipping inside, but not before turning to give him a wave.
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