Chapter 4 (: Woooow! I haven't updated this story in forever! Haha I haven't forgotten it though just so you guys know. However, my writing style has changed over time but it's for the better. Please enjoy!

When we got back to the Keade's house, Sesshomaru seemed out of place for a moment. I looked to Keade with a smile.

"This is my friend Sesshomaru, Keade. The one I told you about." I introduced. She nodded her understanding and put out a hand.

"Nice to meet you, young man." She said kindly. He took her hand and gave it a firm but calm shake while beginning looking around the house.

"This place is pretty nice." He complemented.

She laughed. "Yes, well at my age I'm getting money from so many different sources I might as well have two or three more people living here to take care of."

He nodded in response. "Thank you so much by the way for allowing me to stay here."

She smiled politely. "Of course. Any friend of Rin's is a friend of mine." She replied.

He chuckled. I grinned. "What's so funny?"

He shook it off. "Nothing. I'm just glad that you were able to make some new friends."

I smiled slyly. "Why does that matter to you?"

He shook his head in disapproval. "You know that's not what I meant, Rin."

I jutted out my lower lip in an attempt at a puppy dog face before his criticizing expression cause me to stop in embarrassment. I dismissed the charade and decided to explain in words rather than actions.

"I never have to work for guys, normally they're the ones to confess to me. It sucks knowing that you actually know I like you and don't care. You still treat me like a little kid." I told him, being as literal as I could without sounding dramatic.

He laughed, sounding slightly apologetic but taunting at the same time. "How am I supposed to treat you as an adult when you're constantly doing immature things such as puppy dog faces?"

I grimaced with my reply. "Well I don't know how mature you think you are, Mr. but if you ask me it's pretty immature to laugh at little girls." I said, putting emphasis on the words I hated most of the sentence. The words that he still thought of me as.

He chuckled back. "Just because you act like a little girl doesn't mean you are one. Trust me, you're much more developed in…*cough*…other departments."

I caught on immediately to what he was referring to and a crimson red covered my face out of embarrassment. I looked to the floor, to hesitant to make eye contact.

It was then that I realized that Kanna and Kaede had apparently been watching our entire exchange because they both burst out laughing. I looked up for a moment, still not able to tone down the red in my cheeks that apparently decided it wanted to stay painted on my face for the time being.

Sesshomaru patted my head in comfort and reassurance before turning back to the girls with a carefree smile. His expression reminded me of how much he'd changed from being the cold and self-reliant man I'd met in the jail cell only a few months back. I looked up at him in slight awe, all traces of embarrassment gone.

A moment passed before he looked down at me, curiosity, most likely as to why I was looking at him in such an odd way, showing through his eyes.

"What's wrong?" He asked, carefully.

I shrugged with an assuring smile. "I suppose I'm just surprised by how much you've changed since I first met you. I'm glad."

He tilted his head, a motion that could almost be confirmed as childish, and looked me in the eyes.

"…You didn't like the old me?" He asked, seeming slightly upset by the idea that I had ever disliked any part of him. Why would that upset him?

I shook my head with a small smile of reassurance. "Of course I did. You helped me a lot and even though you acted as though you didn't care, you still showed more concern for me than any other man I met there. It's just that I'm glad you aren't as…closed up, shall we say, as you were a while ago." I explained.

He looked at me hesitantly, adverting his gaze for a moment to see the confused look in Kanna and Kaede's eyes.

"Huh, I guess you're right. I have changed since being in prison, I couldn't really say that any of it was your doing though." He replied simply, taking a seat in an arm chair that was only a step back from where he'd been.

I looked at him carefully for a moment, making sure I understood what he was saying completely. He was actually saying that his new found self was not because of me? That I wasn't even a part of it? His ignorant thoughts annoyed me. How could he give himself credit?

I huffed and looked down at him. He seemed oblivious to me, however, because he turned away almost immediately.

"…You're actually saying that I had nothing to do with you becoming a happier person? …A better person?" I stuttered, surprised by my own unbelievable words.

He nodded, seeming as though he thought it was the most obvious thing in the world. I shook my head in disbelief.

"So who are you giving the credit to exactly for your new found self?" I spat.

He chuckled. "Myself, obviously. It was merely the confinements of prison that kept me the way I was. As soon as I got out I was fine."

I swallowed. I apparently hadn't gotten rid of the self-reliant part of him. He was still giving himself credit and refusing to believe that anyone else had helped him in any way.

"Wow…" I said simply, not bothering to look at him again as I made my way up to my room that resided on the second story of the house.

Sesshomaru looked as though he'd just lost a large deal of money that he'd been sure he would be able to win. As I walked upstairs, trying not to make things more complicated than they needed to be.

I'd known since I'd moved into Kaede's house that the walls were very thin and if you were listening carefully you could easily hear the footprints of a mouse running through the hallways had there been any in such a well maintained home. Knowing this, I lied on my bed and listened for any voiced coming from downstairs.

"What got her so mad?" He asked in obvious denial of having done anything wrong.

I heard Kanna's frustrated sigh before she spoke her next words. "Sesshomaru, I thought it would be easy for you to understand. Rin seems to have been working really hard in order to become your friend and get you to open up even slightly to her. She told me a while ago that she had surpassed her attempts and that you were even better than she'd been hoping for. I'm sure that having you give her no credit for the new side of you, knowing that she'd tried so hard to help you, made her upset." She explained perfectly.

Kanna had pretty much translated my exact thought in her own words. "Plus it actually sounded really pig-headed to have your first instinct be to give yourself credit." She said flatly. I giggled to myself at her plain usage of words before I continued listening to the conversation.

"…But why would that make her upset? Even if she had been the one to chance me for the better, why does it matter who gets the credit so much?" He asked.

Kanna was quiet for a moment, I assumed she had shrugged to his question because of her next words. "Why don't you go ask her?"

I sat up in bed, hearing Sesshomaru heading upstairs. I decided after a moment, however, that it would look to obvious that I'd been listening to them if I made myself look so erect. I laid back in bed casually before hearing the sound the door opening and a confused Sesshomaru on the other side.

"…Can I ask you something?" He asked openly. Short and to the point: The way I preferred.

I nodded, not quite sure I wanted to talk until I was sure of what he wanted to ask me.

"Why does it matter so much to you if I give myself credit for my new found personality?" He asked, not taking a breath between sentences, almost seeming worried that if he did I would yell at him for using up all my oxygen or something. Was I really being that much of a bitch?

"Well honestly, it's mainly because I don't like people taking credit for my work. I also don't like other people giving me credit for their own work when I know that I didn't do it or when people blame me for things I'm not guilty of but that's beside the point." I explained, seeming to have only confused him more.

I took a deep breath before trying again. "Those are my only issues. If you avoid doing any of those things than I won't be upset ever again but the idea of whatever I try my best at being dismissed as someone else's doing I feel as though I might as well no have done it at all." I said, hoping to have cleared things up for him a little more.

A look of understanding flashed across his face before he looked into my eyes. "…Perhaps I was being a little big headed down stairs. I guess I'm just not used to people doing stuff for me so when you told me that you'd actually helped me in some way I denied it. I'm not an idiot though, it's obvious that you were the one who healed me."

I smiled at him and nodded my forgiveness. "Healed you?"

He chuckled. "Yeah, like my own, personal nurse."

"Your own, personal, immature nurse that happens to like you alot no matter how much you try to ignore it." I added onto his statement.

He shrugged it off. "I'm not so much ignoring it as much as I am postponing it."

I tilted my head in confusion before voicing my curiosity.

"…What?"

He laughed. "Of course I've been attracted to you, Rin. I'm pretty sure it's impossible not to be, however, I prefer to wait until you're a little older." He explained.

I huffed in annoyance. "So that's what was stopping you? Why do you need to wait? I'm already eighteen." I informed.

He breathed out before explaining. "Maybe physically. But I'm pretty sure in your mind your about as mature as a ten year old." He teased.

I grimaced. "So you're trying to force me into maturing by bribing me with…yourself?" I asked, slightly intrigued by the idea.

He nodded, looking proud of himself. "You helped me change for the better, now I'll help you."

I hit the bed with my tiny fists in frustration. "But Sesshyyyy! That's not fair. I don't wanna grow up!"

He chuckled. "Let's start by not throwing random tantrums…And calling me Sesshy. I could do without the nick name for a while." He teased.

I pouted. "You know, you're not gonna make it anywhere with me if you don't straighten up." He pointed out.

I nodded, doing my best to look professional, and sat up with my back as erect as possible as if in the military. He chuckled. "Realll mature, Rin."

I gave up in my attempts at looking the part for now, realizing that it would be impossible for now. "Well it's kinda hard to be mature when you're just standing there watching as if I'm gonna chance in a couple minutes." I explained in a huff.

He laughed. "Alright then. I'll give it time. I've waited for you this long, I suppose I can make it a little longer."

His words confused me. How long had he been waiting for me? Since we'd been in jail? I bit my lip at the prospect and smiled to myself.

When I came downstairs a few moments later, Kaede had made a full meal for twelve. I laughed to myself at this, not realizing that she's been cooking spaghetti in the kitchen while we were talking until now. I smiled at her apologetically.

"I thought this kind of stuff was our job? After all, we're here to help take care of you, not the other way around." I reminded her.

She shook her head. "That's not necessary. As far as cleaning goes, I could use your help, but when it comes to cooking, you girls need to learn to leave an old woman to what she's best at. Besides, you're all partially only here because of the company you offer. I do, indeed, enjoy having you all around." She replied.

I smiled to her, slightly upset by the idea that she didn't have many people to talk to. Why would her grandchildren or any old friends call her? She was one of the nicest old women I'd ever met.

I took a seat at the table as Sesshomaru and Kanna quickly followed suit. Kaede already put out the plates and was now sitting in the seat across from me.

As we began to eat and make small talk though out the next hour or so I began plotting different ways to make Sesshomaru think of me as more mature. If that was the only thing standing between me and him being together, I would get rid of the issue before it had even lasted long enough to be called an issue…

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