DISCLAIMER: Unfortunately I own nothing : ( none of the songs or characters I use in this story.

I need conflict! So let's see what this next chapter brings : ) this is the last chapter with a lot of Kagome and Inuyasha stuff. Next chapter is all Rin and Sesshomaru : ) sorry that it's pretty long…

Chapter 4: Someone to lean on.

All of the girls were awaken by Akami slamming the front door when she walked in at 6:30am.

"Mom… what's wrong?" a sleepy Rin asked from the top of the stairs.

"Sorry to wake you but I need to speak to you and Kagome. Sango and Ayame can come too. It's important, so hurry." She walked into the kitchen, leaving Rin the job to make sure her friends hadn't fallen back asleep.

When they walked into the kitchen, Kagome collapsed onto a chair and whined. "MOM! Whatever it is, it can wait until 3pm when we actually wake up."

"Oh shush Kagome. I've been up all night working. You're not the only one who's tired. What time did you get to sleep at anyways?"

"Sometime at four in the morning I think… but I didn't sleep that great…"

"Well then the better reasons to say this then go to sleep. Your father called me…"

"What!" they both screamed, completely awake.

"Yeah… last night, just after midnight… he called to say he's marrying that slut he calls a woman, and that he expects both of you to attend… It's in May… He also wants you two to stay there with them… for a full year… Girls. I love you. Just know that this is your choice and your choice only… I'd understand completely, if you wanted to go to New York for a year… Or longer…"

"Mom…" Rin started at a loss for words. 'this is hurting her and she doesn't want us to see how much…'

"Hell no. I'm not going. He left us. It was his choice. Not ours. He can't just come back into our lives like this. He can deal with this without us. Wasn't he the one that said he wanted 'a better life? With better children.' To 'forget this nonsense'? That's what I thought. So hell no. I'll stay here thank you very much."

"Ok Kagome." No one missed the brief moment of relief that washed over her face to hear Kagome say she would stay, but the panic came back as she looked at her other daughter. "And you Rin…? Do you wish to go see him?"

"Mom… I… I want to stay here… his girlfriend- I mean fiancé, is rude. She is always rude to Kagome and I and honestly, I agree 100% with Kagome. He left. Hell. He's been gone for 11 years. Kagome's seen him once since he left, Souta's never met him, and I haven't even seen him since I was 6… hell we're lucky if we even get a Christmas card, but never a phone call… he doesn't even know when mine and Kagome's birthday's are, and they're the same day! How hard is November 17th to remember? So I'll be staying here as well…"

This time the relief on Akami's face didn't fade as she smiled from ear to ear. "Ok girl's. Just make sure that you call him before spring break is over ok?"

"Yeah no problem." They both answered at the same time.

"Guess we aren't going back to sleep eh?" Ayame asked smiling sweetly.

"Umm Aya? You can stay awake if you really want, but I'm going back to sleep!" Kagome smile but then thought of something Rin had said. "Mom…? Did he… Did he ask about Souta…?"

Her mother shook her head slowly. "no… since Souta was only one when he left, and like you said, he's never visited or anything, it would be harder for him to go see him. So can I ask you guys for a favor?" they all nodded. "Since you aren't going, don't bring this up in front of him. Please. It's better he didn't know…"

"ok… we understand… hey guys. I know you wanted to sleep, but could we maybe go for a walk? I need to clear my head…" Rin smiled at her friends. None of them knew what her actual reason for suggesting the walk was. She just wanted to see Sesshomaru. Even if she wasn't sure how he felt, or how she felt for that matter, the last time something really upsetting had happened to her, he had been there and now she felt like she need him to be there again.

"Rin. It's 7am on a SATURDAY. But… we do love you… so ok. We'll go for a walk." Sango smiled. They got dressed within 10 minutes and left soon after that. They'd agreed that they would walk to Ayame's house to play soccer in the field behind her house. (A/n Ayame live's in the country so she has a lot of space around her house.)

As they walked out the door, they noticed that the boys were outside as well. Sesshomaru and Inuyasha were in the middle of a fight. Sesshomaru was glaring at Inuyasha and Inuyasha was glaring back while screaming insults at him. Sesshomaru was done with listening to Inuyasha run his mouth, and was about to put him in his place. His hand had a firm grip on his sword, and Inuyasha stood in a similar stance, only Sesshomaru looked a little calmer then Inuyasha. He pulled his sword out and his brother did the same. Miroku slowly backed up and Sesshomaru growled. Inuyasha was pushing him too far. Neither of them were about to back down and both of their swords started to glow. Just as they were about to attack one another they both noticed the girls presence. Sesshomaru inhaled Rin's calming scent and put his sword away. "Consider yourself lucky, little brother." Inuyasha continued to growl, but he soon did as Sesshomaru had, not wanted Kagome to watch him most likely take a beating from his brother.

The girls walked over to them, with confusion clear on their faces. "What was that about…?" Rin asked hoping to get the answer from Sesshomaru.

Instead of getting the answer she wanted he just stared at her before he shook his head. "Forget about it."

She glared at him, and he was shocked. Their moment didn't last long, because Inuyasha smirked. "Sesshomaru just doesn't know how to take a joke."

Sesshomaru glared at him. Miroku decided that Sesshomaru might just kill everyone there if Inuyasha made him made enough, and he liked life the way it was. "Umm Inuyasha? If I was him, I would've killed tried to kill you too…" Inuyasha glared at him and he figured he'd rather take his chances with Inuyasha then Sesshomaru. "Oh come on Inuyasha. That was pretty rude to say to your brother. And you know that you weren't joking." The girls opened their mouths to ask the same question, Miroku shook his head. This is not something they want to be in the middle of.

"umm ok.. well we were walking to Ayame's, wanna come?" Kagome asked, not sure why she did but couldn't stop herself.

They all walked to Ayame's place, and on the way, Koga joined them. The farther they walked, the more divided they became. Ayame and Koga were walking ahead of everyone else, both glaring and arguing with each other. Kagome and Inuyasha were walking faster than the others, but were still behind the 2 fuming wolf demons, and were having actual conversations! Even though they both made their share of sarcastic comments. Miroku and Sango were walking behind them, with a large gap in between themselves, because Sango was already tired of slapping him, and thought distance was the best resolution. Rin and Sesshomaru were behind everyone, walking slowly, and mostly in silence. Neither of them really knew how to start any kind of conversation, and it seemed like there was an awkward silence, that even Sesshomaru wanted filled. Soon enough Rin started to make a few comments but there was still a lot of silence.

Spring break was almost done, and besides a very awkward phone call from Rin and Kagome's father, in front of everyone, it had passed pretty much the same as the second day. Even though Rin and Sesshomaru hadn't discussed what they wanted to, Rin was more comfortable with the silence, and filled in more of it. Plus it was warmer, so they spent more time out side, and more time with Koga, since he was now staying with the boys.

It was the Friday before school was going to start, and they were all more comfortable with each other. The girls were upset that they hadn't done anything memorable for the break, so they got up early and started to prank each other. As soon as the boys found out what was going on, they joined in. it was pretty intense, but there hadn't been any really big pranks and the boys had to go inside for lunch. While they waited for the boy's to come back out, they planned a huge prank on them. By 2 Kagome called 'T' because she had plans to go see a friend, and wanted a shower before she left. While she was in the shower the girls came up with a prank for Kagome, since she really hadn't been pranked as much as everyone else. They took all of Kagome's clothes out of her room and brought them into the front yard. Next Rin locked all of the other doors in the house and locked all the towels in her room. Lastly she snuck into the bathroom and took what Kagome had been wearing before, only leaving her a towel. When Kagome got out of the shower, she automatically knew what they had done, but when she walked into her bed room, she couldn't help but shriek. She didn't think that they would do such a good job!

When the boys heard the scream, they ran out into the front yard to see what was going on, only to see Rin, Ayame, and Sango, rolling on the ground, holding their stomach's from laughing so hard. The boys walked closer to the girls and noticed that they were laughing by a big pile of clothes. They were about to ask what was so funny about clothes, when they saw a very pissed off looking Kagome walking towards them, in just a towel. They knew the answer now and didn't bother to ask.

"Man. I love girls…" Miroku said as Koga nodded and gave him a high five.

"SHUT UP!" Kagome screamed at the boys then turned to the girls. "WHAT. THE. HELL. YOU STOLE MY CLOTHES!"

The girls looked up at her and then started to laugh again, only this time harder, which made the boys laugh. Kagome, looking even more pissed took a step towards the girl's. they all shut up and stared at her, with terror clear on their faces, as they slowly stood up. Rin and Sango both looked at each other before they smirked and turned back to Kagome. "IT WAS AYAMES IDEA!" they both screamed and ran. Sango hid behind the bushes in the boys yard, while Rin ran and used Sesshomaru as a shield. Going against everything he believed in, he looked at her with shock and then started to laugh at her.

Ayame visibly paled and ran away from Kagome, while screaming. "TRAITORS! BESIDES! I may have suggested it, but Sango moved most of the stuff and Rin was the one who locked everything AND snuck into the bathroom! That's way worst!"

Kagome looked at her friends and laughed. "There's no way I'm coming after you guy's right now. There is no way that you guys planned this badly. 20 bucks says that Sango's got her boomerang somewhere, and Rin never goes anywhere without her sword, and Ayame's a demon! I'm not coming at you unprotected! And in a towel! Wait here." She smirked as she grabbed a random pair of jeans and a t-shirt off the top of the pile of her clothes, and ran into her house.

They all understood what Kagome was doing and went along with it. Sango walked out of the bushes and grabbed her boomerang that was on the side of Kagome's house, while Ayame came out of hiding, smiling. Rin was the last to come out, but when she did she was holding a beautiful sword. Like Kagome, Rin was also a priestess, the only difference was that Kagome was trained with a bow and arrows, while Rin was trained with a sword. When she held it, it glowed a light pink and she smiled. Kagome walked out of the house holding her bow and arrow up, pointing it at Sango. Sango slowly walked towards Kagome, and Rin and Ayame did the same. They met in the middle of the road and each held up their weapons. They made eye contact and all started to laugh. They dropped their weapons and held onto each other to keep from falling over.

"AWE COME ON!" Koga screamed from behind them.

None of the girls could answer him because they were laughing too hard. Finally Rin calmed down enough to try and answer him. "What is it – Ko – ga-!"

"What is it? You've got to be kidding! Last time you guys got into a DECENT fight was over six months ago, at the start of the year when Kikiyo said shit about you, and you guys were stupid enough to believe it! I thought this was gonna be one of those fights again!" he pouted.

The girls started to laugh again because of the boys expressions. Sesshomaru looked somewhat shocked that Koga wanted them to fight, or because they had done it before. Miroku looked disappointed that they weren't going to fight, Koga still looked pissed, and Inuyasha looked pale?

They shook their heads and picked up their weapons. As they were walking away to put them away they heard 3 voices shouting at them from down the street. "STOP! DON'T FIGHT!" Souta, Shippo and Kohaku screamed out of breath, running up to the girls.

The girls started to laugh again, this time so hard Rin actually fell over. Sango walked up to her brother and hugged him. "Relax guys! We weren't fighting! It was just a prank. We stole all of Kagome's clothes, and then we were gonna pretend to fight in front of the guys, but it turned out we could do them both at the same time. Good thinking Kagome." She winked to her friend.

Kagome smiled and bowed. "why thank you. And no worries guys." She bent down a little so she made eye contact with her brother. "I think we are done fighting for real. We really did a number on each other…" she smiled remembering how much they'd hurt each other. Ayame had scratched all down Kagome's leg with her claws. Rin had gotten a broken arm after Ayame got mad because she'd cut off a big chunk of her hair. Sango took Ayame's distraction as an opportunity, and hit her with her boomerang and she hit a wall, hard enough to break the wall. Kagome used that as a chance to get Sango and shot an arrow at her, hitting her in her left shoulder. They looked at each other and started to laugh, before they had to go to the hospital.

Rin started to laugh at the memory. "God your violent Ayame, I only cut your hair; you didn't need to break my arm!"

"PLEASE! Your sword would've purified me! It was self defense!"

"Hahaha Ayame I seem to remember Rin trying to help her sister after that cut you gave her. Speaking of Kagome, what the hell. You shot me with an arrow." Sango interrupted.

"I was trying to stop you from throwing that god damned boomerang at us!" by no they were all laughing at each other and Koga decided to join in.

"I seem to remember you four looking at each other and laughing at what you'd done… great friends… you didn't even think about going to the hospital, I had to drive you four. Retards."

"Oh come on Koga. You know you were too scared to try and break the fight up. Very manly." Kagome laughed and noticed that there were 6 boys giving her weird looks. "oh right! Guys, this is mine and Rin's younger brother Souta. This is Sango's younger brother Kohaku, and this is Ayame's adoptive fox demon, Shippo." She pointed to them before turning to the older boys. "guys, these are our new neighbors." She explained feeling weird since they'd moved in 2 weeks before, but this was the first time Souta had come back home. "This is Sesshomaru. This is his half brother, Inuyasha, and this is his cousin Miroku. You already know Koga, but he's staying there for the next 2 weeks." They all waved at each other awkwardly.

"I'm kinda upset that I didn't get to see you fight. I always thought you looked best fighting… well until I saw you 10 minutes ago in that towel… did you know that it's been exactly one year. One that day last year, you looked so pretty. Probably because you were in only your bra – "

Rin looked up, and only a few feet behind her was Hojo. She wasn't scared of him. Hell last year when she found out what he had done to her sister, he was the one that ran from her. She walked up to him and slapped him across the face, hard, cutting him off in the middle of a sentence.

He looked down at her with eyes filled with hate and she didn't even flinch when he lifted his hand, as if he was about to slap her, and chances of him doing just that were very high. "Listen up girl. Stay out of this. This is none of your business-"

"-Like hell it's not!"

"watch it. And don't you dare try that little trick again, or else."

"Or else what?" she asked crossing her arms over her chest.

He lifted his hand to hit her back, when at the same time Kagome pushed Rin to the side and Sesshomaru pulled her behind him and growled at Hojo. She was shocked that he was showing emotions again, and that he was trying to protect her. He didn't know why he'd done it, but he couldn't ignore the fact that 5 years ago he's promised to protect her. None of that mattered at the moment though because since Kagome had stepped in front of him, she had just been slapped, and hard. Everyone stepped up to see if she was ok, which kinda pissed Sesshomaru off because he thought Rin should stay away from him, but Kagome waved them off.

"It's ok. I've been hit before. But you!" she screamed turning her attention back to Hojo. "I told you last time. Don't ever hit, or touch, me again! Get the hell away. You've done more than enough! Leave!"

"Come on babe. It's our anniversary."

"It would've been, but you did something unforgivable!"

"Come on Kagome! She meant nothing to me! It was a mistake. Have a heart!"

Inuyasha was confused. 'she's this mad at him just for cheating on her…? Like that's bad but… she seems to be taking this really far. So are the other 3 actually… maybe this isn't something I want to get into…' He came out of his thoughts when he heard Kagome's voice.

"How dare you. HOW DARE YOU! You know that that is NOT what we are talking about. Don't you dare bring this up in front of my younger brother again. That was a year ago. I don't need this right now. Now I'm not going to say it again. LEAVE!"

"Ok. Then I'll see you tonight for our anniversary dinner." He winked at her.

She couldn't hold back her frustration anymore. She walked right up to him so they were only inches apart. He was taken aback by her proximity, and tried to wrap his arms around her waist. Everyone froze.

Inuyasha didn't know why that made him mad, but it did, and he was about to interrupt when Kagome unfroze and kneed him in the stomach. He fell hard to the ground.

"Oww…" he mumbled, clutching his gut.

"I told you not to touch me! How does it feel to be on the other end of that?"

"Wait…" a confused Souta mumbled from behind everyone. "He touched you like that?"

"Souta… forget it…" she whispered without looking at her brother, then with a less threatening voice then she wanted, turned back to Hojo. "Leave…"

Finally everyone got out of the shock from what had just happened and Inuyasha ran to where Hojo was and picked him up by the collar. "You heard her. Leave!"

He crawled away on his hands and knees after Inuyasha had dropped him. Everyone was asking Kagome if she was ok, but she had her back to them and was waiting for Inuyasha to turn around and look at her. When he finally turned to look at her, she looked so broken as she tried to hold back her tears. He felt his jaw drop as he took a step towards her "hey, you ok?" he watched her try to answer, but all that happened was her tears fell and she ran to her house. "I got her…" he said when Rin tried to follow.

They watched as Inuyasha helped Kagome into the house. Rin sat down in the boy's lawn and put her head in between her legs. She noticed someone sat beside her but didn't look up, thinking it was just Sango or Ayame. "Rin." Sesshomaru's voice made her jump a little before she looked up at him.

"Why did you growl at Hojo?"

He gave her a sideways glance and decided to be honest with her. "Because he was going to hit you."

"why do you care? You haven't said much to me these past two weeks… "

"I'm just thinking about what happened before I moved here… to be honest. I'm confused about it…"

"Tell me…"

"HEY GUYS!" Miroku screamed from Kagome and Rin's lawn. "Get over here. I think you'll want to see this."

Kagome and Inuyasha:

She was at her door and by now she was crying so hard she couldn't see where the door knob was, so she waited for someone to come. When Inuyasha made Hojo leave, she wanted to thank him, but when he looked at her, she saw the pity in his eyes, and it hurt.

"Kagome… Need help?" asked the very person she had been thinking about.

"Inuyasha…" she whispered, not turning to look at him.

"Kagome. Look at me." He said turning her to face him.

When she opened her eyes, he was so close, so she decided to close the distance. She reached out and hugged him, sobbing into his chest. "T-t-t-t-t-tha-nk- y-ou" she choked out, holding onto him for her life.

"Shhh." He said stroking her hair and holding her against his body. "It'll be ok. Here come on…" he opened the door and led her to the couch. "it's ok. He's not here. He won't hurt you while I'm with you. I won't let him hurt you."

She nodded and tried to hold back her sobs. "Thank-you. I guess that I should- tell you how this happened…"

He shook his head. "You don't have to…"

"No I should tell you. You just said you'd protect me, you've got the right to know what happened…" she took a deep shaky breath. "Ok so 11 years ago, my father cheated on my mother, and got us deep into debt. He'd bought a second house in New York for his other family, and only came to see us once a month. When he was home he took out all of his anger on Rin and I. He hit us and treated worst every time he came back. When he left he told us it was to have better kids. He left for good exactly 11 years ago, 2 days ago. If that makes any sense? I've seen him once since he left, and it was only because I was on a school trip to Niagara Falls, and he happened to be there… he didn't know who I was, even after I said my name. He only clued in when I added my last him… that was the last time I saw him. Rin didn't even see him because she wasn't on the trip. She was supposed to be, but our grandmother got very sick and Rin went to see her. I wanted to go see her as well, but my mom told me to go on the trip and get information for Rin and I, then go see Rin instead of going home. When I got there, Rin told me what had happened… Rin and our grandmother were making supper and our grandfather fell down the stairs and snapped his neck… landing right in front of them… Rin ran into the forest for 5 hours, I'm guessing that's where she met Sesshomaru. When she came back into the house, our grandmother was trying to hang herself, Rin watched her die because she couldn't get her down… she had to spend a whole week there before I finally came to get her. She hadn't left the house at all during that time because the next day she was attacked by a wolf. Sorry, I just thought you'd like to know how I thought Rin and Sesshomaru met… And it fits into the story…"

"It's ok. Tell it however you want."

"*sigh*" she took another deep breath. "ok. Here is what happened with Hojo…" she closed her eyes and she felt him put his hand over hers. "Well it was a year ago, yesterday… Hojo told me to go to his house to help him plan out anniversary dinner, which would've been a year ago tonight. I got to his house 20 minutes early because I had to go somewhere with my mom, and when I got to his house I saw him and another girl half naked in the back of his car. The worst part was that the girl was wearing the shirt that I gave him for his birthday. He cheated on me, not only the day before our anniversary, but also the day after the 10 year anniversary of the day my father walked out on us forever. I was heartbroken, so when he showed up at my house later that night asking why I never came, I ended us. The next night he showed up at my house again, only this time telling me I was going for a walk with him. I told him 'no' and he hit me. He told me he would do it again if I didn't go with him, so I went. After he tried to apologize, I tried to leave. He covered my mouth and dragged me into the forest… he hit my so that I passed out. When I woke up I was groggy but noticed that he was undressed and I was only in my underwear. He hadn't realized I'd woken up, so when he tried to take off more of my clothes, I freaked out and kicked him. I got up and ran. Luckily when I reached the path in the park there was a police officer. But he was a douche and tried to lecture me on decency and prostitution. He only caught on when Hojo came out after me, screaming that I was a tease and he would get me…" she shivered. "He only got community service and two weeks in prison… When he got out he stalked me… that's why I have a restraining order… only my family, Ayame, Sango, Koga and you, well and I guess Hojo know the story. Even Koga and my brother don't know everything…"

She'd held in her tears for the whole story, only because her eyes had been shut. When she opened them and looked into Inuyasha's eyes, a few tears started to fall. He squeezed her hand comfortingly, not wanting to invade her personal space. When he did that she started to cry harder and threw herself into his arms to cry onto his shoulder. After a few minutes she fell asleep and he tried to move but she wouldn't let him. Instead she pulled him down onto the couch to lie down with her. Not wanting to wake her up, he tried to roll out of her grip, but she didn't let him. He took out his phone trying to get help because he really wasn't in a comfortable position. 'I can't text any of her friends, I don't have their numbers. I can't text Koga because he seems to think Kagome is his. I can't text Sesshomaru because, well, it's Sesshomaru, and he wouldn't help me if I begged. I don't really want to text Miroku because he'll make some kind of comment… guess I don't have a choice…'

INU:

'Miroku. Can you help! Kagome fell asleep on me and I'm stuck…'

MIR:

'oh damn. ;) what were you two doing…? ;)

INU:

'shut up and help. Or else.'

MIR:

'ok… fine…'

Moments later everyone walked in and laughed at how Inuyasha was stuck. Kagome had her arm completely across his chest, gripping his shoulder, while her head was against his other shoulder. He would've been ok with that, but he was only half way onto the couch, his right arm and leg touching the ground in an attempt to keep himself from falling.

"Shut up and help me up. Without waking her up please. Miroku! Didn't I say for you to come. Not everyone…" he begged and accused at the same time.

Sesshomaru laughed from his spot beside Rin. "oh, I don't know… you look very comfortable little brother."

"Shut up fluffy!"

"FLUFFY!" everyone yelled at the same time.

Sesshomaru looked furious as he glared at his half brother. "I told you never to call me that." He growled through clenched teeth.

"Chilax Fluffy. It's not that ba-" He was cut short when Sesshomaru smacked him on the back of his head and left.

"ok seriously." Miroku cut in looking at where Sesshomaru had left. "One of these days he's going to actually kill you…"

"Shhh! Don't warn him. Keep it up mutt." Koga smiled.

Inuyasha growled a little bit at Koga, trying not to wake Kagome up. "Hey Roku. You think I don't know that your only trying to save your own ass from being the person he takes the rest of his anger out on after I'm dead? Keh. Great cousin…"

He was cut short when he heard a giggle from the girl at his side. "sorry, I just woke up when I heard you growl and heard what you said…" she blushed when she realized that she was still in his arms.

He noticed that she's blushed when she made eye contact and thought she looked cute like that. 'Damnit. Where did that come from… ?' He realized that she still hadn't pulled away and held her a little bit tighter. "No need to apologize. Sorry I woke you…"

She laughed "No need, honestly, I've never been woken up like that before, and it felt kinda cool-" she stopped when she realized what she'd just said and blushed a deep red. "Umm… sorry… I umm… I didn't mean to say… uh well… that…" she stuttered as he laughed at her while she hid her face in his chest. She just realized that she was still in his arms and that he was almost off the couch. She jumped up and started to apologize. "Oh. My. God. I'm so sorry for kicking you off the couch, and for falling asleep! I'm sorry!-"

He sat up while she apologized and when he thought she had said enough, he covered her mouth. "shhh. It's alright! Besides. All that rambling is gonna give me a head ach."

She tried to say something, but since he hadn't moved his hand all that came out was mumbles, which made him laugh, so she glared at him. He took his hand away from her mouth "Jerk." She mumbled.

"You know it doesn't matter how quiet you are, I can still hear you." He said twitching his ears.

Everyone left the room at that point. Koga and Miroku were in the kitchen, making sandwiches, after being yelled at my Sango and Miroku, while Rin had followed Sesshomaru out of the house, and they were now sitting together in the lawn. Kagome saw his ears twitch and really wanted to touch them. She knew he'd say no like he did last time, but this time she didn't bother with asking. She reached out and touched his ears. When he froze, she froze as well, but when she realized he wasn't objecting she started to rub his ear. He seemed oddly relaxed considering someone was touching his ears. 'what's the matter with me? If it was anyone else I would've detached their hand from their arm… but I don't want her to stop…'

She noticed that he wasn't even glaring at her, he's eyes looked oddly soft. 'is that… lust…? No, it can't be. He doesn't think about me like that…'

Little did she know that he was feeling those exact emotions. 'Damn. I can't make a move or anything. She's too emotional right now… all she needs is a friend right now and that's all I'm gonna be…'

"IF LOVE IS AN OCEAN WIDE, I'LL SWIM IN THE TEAR'S WE'VE CRIED, THEY'LL SEE US THREW TO THE OTHER SIDE. WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT. WHEN LOVE IS A RAGING SEA, YOU CAN HOLD ONTO ME. WE'LL FIND AWAY TONIGHT. LOVE IS AN OCEAN WIDE."

"oh that's me…" Sango said coming downstairs with Ayame behind her. "Hello? Yeah, I'm at Kagomek and Rin's. why? Oh ok. Sorry I don't know. Call Ayame's? k bye. Love you too." She turned to see Ayame glaring at her. "What? Oh that? It was my mom looking for Kohaku… Relax."

"OK, OK. So what are we doing tonight?"

"My deepest apologies Ayame," Miroku interrupted. "But you see, Sango has agreed to a date with me tonight."

"SANGO!" Ayame screamed.

"What…?" Asked the tomato red Sango.

You agreed to this?"

"Umm yeah… With conditions. He is to stay out of my personal bubble and not touch my ass at all."

"You own a donkey!" Miroku screamed, in fake shock.

"Watch it, or I won't show up at all." That defiantly made him shut up.

"Kagome!" Ayame screamed, not wanting to be the only one freaking out, since Koga was congratulating Miroku.

Kagome and Inuyasha had been on the couch; still starring into each other's eyes, when Ayame's yelling caused them both to jump. Since Inuyasha was angled, half way off the couch, he fell off the couch, falling to the ground. There was a loud thump, followed by Kagome's laughter.

When Kagome dragged Inuyasha into the kitchen, they were both still blushing, but were now either laughing too hard, or too pissed off to notice.

"What's up your ass Yash?" Miroku asked his cousin.

"You know? It's kinda cute how you two have nicknames for each other. And nothing, he just fell off of the couch."

"'You know it's kinda cute how you two have nicknames for each other'" Miroku and Inuyasha imitated them.

"IMMATURE!" Kagome and Sango screamed, while laughing.

"Enough!" Ayame said getting their attention. "More important things have happened then the fact that Inuyasha has zero coordination for a demon…"

"hey-"

"AWE! I'm important? thanks Ayame!" Miroku smiled.

"wait what?" Kagome asked, honestly confused.

"MIROKU AND SANGO HAVE A DATE TONIGHT!"

"What! Since when?"

"Wow. Way to go Roku!" Inuyasha and him high fived.

"Umm since this morning… while we were pulling pranks… but he threatened me! He told me he would drop me in the water. IT STILL APRIL!"

"You weren't very hard to convince. Besides, you already had your hands all over me." He winked.

"did not! I just didn't want to be dropped in the water!"

"same thing." He winked.

"OH MY GOD! I HAVE TO TELL RIN!" Kagome jumped up and headed for the door.

"I'M COMING!" Ayame screamed following her.

"Then hurry!" But instead of hurrying like Kagome had said, she stopped herself, causing Ayame to run into her.

"what's wrong?"

"look…" Kagome pointed across the street to the boys front yard, or more specifically to a very happy looking Rin, in a smiling Sesshomaru's arms. "Holy shit…" Kagome whispered while Ayame tried to get over the shock of what she'd just seen.

She didn't take long to get over it and started to shriek in happiness, until Kagome out her hand over her mouth dragging her into the kitchen. "EWWW! You did not just lick me?"

"You did not just pull me away from that!"

"You were gonna blow our cover!"

"what are you two talking about?" Koga asked sounding a little pissed. "Why are you screaming?"

"Promise you'll be quiet?" Kagome asked.

They all nodded and Ayame bounced up and down "RIN. AND. SESSHOMARU!" that was all they needed to hear and they all ran to the window to see what was going on. Sure enough there was Rin smiling with her head against Sesshomaru's shoulder, while he had his arms around her, also smiling.

"Shit…" Inuyasha mumbled.

Sorry it was long… and there wasn't much Rin and Sesshomaru, but I really wanted to get Kagome and Inuyasha out of the way. Next chapter is ALL Rin and Sessy :P oh and please check out my other story; You Can Let Go. You can find it under Sango, K+, Family/hurt/comfort, and obviously English. It's just a one shot, but check it out. And please review : ) thanks for reading . I'd love some critics. Please! Any! Oh and the song that was used for Sango's ring tune was Ocean Wide by the Afters.