A/N: Well, you've done it. These are the people you have to thank for the new chapter; (not in order)
1 - Tsuki
2 - DemonsxXxHeart
3 - Taraah36
4 - Fred anne (guest)
5 - TsukimoriKuchiki13 - One of the Perverts from Day 57
6 - Mi Ling Chi
7 - Jolie luv
8 - Lp (Guest)
9 - AngelsxXxHeart - A confessed Pervert from Day 57
10 - Gaga overSessy
And nice try 'NotDemonxXxHeart' but I let Mi slide when she's the test reader and reads this before anyone else. I won't let you slide too. Sorry.
Here is your reward. =^_^=
Oh, and check out 'Bunny Suit' It's a story I co-authored with Mi Ling Chi You can find it under our joint account 'Ling And Story'
Day 61: Rain, Rain, Go away
"Rain." Rin sighed as she opened the back door of the shop, the world a gloomy darkness with the water pouring from the sky.
"Hey Rin…" Some of the other girls stood in the shelter of the back room. "You want to come with us tonight? We're gonna hit the bar. It's a Friday after all."
Rin put her hand out into the falling water. "Nar, I should get home. I've still got to make dinner."
The girls giggled suddenly. "Oh yeah, you're lovely flatmate."
"Are we ever going to meet him? The way you talk about her… he sounds cute."
Laughing, Rin turned to them, leaning on the side of the building. "Oh, he's just shy."
"I wish you had a photo." One girl sighed hopelessly. "I mean… he took you in… asks for $15 rent a week… he sounds like a total sweetie!"
Rin lowered her head away from them. "Humm."
One girl grabbed her arm. "Look, why don't you come with us to the bar? You could do with a drink and I want to hear more about him."
"I'm not really dressed for a bar."
"Let's just go!" She yelled, pulling her into the rain with a squeak. They left the back of the shop to the street, many people running from the rain or hiding under umbrellas. The girls all looked over it and began scrambling between buildings and shelter, laughing as they got soaked.
"Rin!"
Rin blinked as she stood under a shop front, looking up and over at the voice as someone walked over to the group of four, an umbrella over their head. He lifted it and revealed his face. "Don't walk past me when I was waiting for you."
The other girls all gasped at his face but Rin smiled, walking over and giving him a quick hug. "Oh, thank you."
"Come on." He held the brolly over her head. "I'll walk you home."
Rin nodded and turned to the others. "See you tomorrow guys!"
They didn't argue, just stood amazed as Rin walked off with her arm in Sesshomaru's. "Thank you for coming."
"I realised when I came in that you forgot your umbrella." He said with a soft smile.
She smiled and looked over him. "How long were you stood outside for?"
"Not long. Five minutes tops."
She frowned. His arm and clothes were soaked. It was much longer than five minutes. "Sesshomaru… why are you always so… careful when we're out on the street?"
His eyes shifted to her. "What do you mean?"
"Well, we never go anywhere busy… or with a lot of people… and when we go to the supermarket… you always have a hat on and those glasses of yours on."
"Is it a crime to wear a hat and glasses?" He shrugged, looking back at the road. "And I take you quite places because you're not good in crowds. Remember the theme park?"
Rin sighed at the thought and memory. Sesshomaru had taken her out to a theme park a few weeks ago but she'd freaked in the crowds as they pushed her around. "Yes… but… it almost feels like you… are trying to hide."
They walked in silence for a moment, the rain pouring down around them.
"Sesshomaru?"
"Sorry, I was lost in thought. But I'm not trying to hide. Promise."
"Promise?"
"Promise. Come on, I'm soaked."
With the rain getting heavier by the moment, they began to half run back home, keeping the umbrella close to their heads. Then the two made their way to the apartment building and into the lift, sharing it with a couple who seemed too busy with each other to be bothered with them. They got off on the third floor and then it was a straight ride up. Inside, Rin took her soaked jacket off and shook her head like a dog. "Yuck!"
"Easy Rin." He chuckled then walked into the kitchen, pulling out the coffee machine. "Say, any of those biscuits left?"
"Not if you got your sticky fingers on them again."
"What?" He grinned and tried to look innocent, a look that didn't work with his eyes so narrow. "They are really good."
"Hence why I stopped making them." She reached up to the small metal tin and opened the lid. Then her eyes narrowed and she blinked. "What…" she lifted out a large flat red box. She opened it and felt her mouth drop open. "What the…"
"I forgot the one month… I wasn't going to miss the two month." Sesshomaru said smugly as he looked over his coffee mug at her.
Rin gasped as her hand ran over the silver necklace with a round aqua blue stone in the middle of a silver sun design. Even in its box it sparkled and caught the light. "It… it's beautiful."
"Let me put it on you." he said, reaching out over to her and easing the necklace out. "Turn around."
Rin did as asked and held her hair to the side, allowing him to put the pendant around her and connect the clasps. It hung coldly over her skin as she turned and looked up at him, a shy, timid smile on her face. He looked at her then lifted the pendant. "It suits you."
"I have a feeling Mad' had a part to play in it."
"No… I only asked her what colour. It was blue or purple." He let it go and lifted his head to her chin, lifting it a little. "I chose it for you."
Lowering her head again, Rin looked at it. "It is beautiful. Thank you. You didn't have to."
"I wanted to."
Slowly, he traced her jaw line with his finger, teasing her into lifting her head and looking up at him. He was already leaning over as she looked into his eyes, closing her eyes with him, preparing for another kiss. His breath caressed her skin for a moment then they both moaned.
"Jack?" Rin moaned, dropping her head onto his shoulder as the doorbell continued to ring.
"Yeah. Sorry." He pecked her lips and stepped away. "You might want to go to your room. I've been avoiding him all day; he's going to be pissed off."
"I think I might." She smiled and hurried off to her room as Sesshomaru opened the door. She spared a moment to eavesdrop.
Jack was walked in… but it wasn't Jack. He wasn't smiling. His hair was smooth and neat and his eyes were cold and set on the other man. He was a totally different man. "Sesshomaru you bastard. How DARE you skip the meeting?"
"I saw no…"
"Don't give me that bullshit! You knew it was important, you knew you had to be there. You made me look right a right ass." He forced something into his hands. "Read it."
"I told you, I'm not interested."
"What? Because it would take you out of the country? Sesshomaru, you agreed to do this YEARS before you met Rin. It was written to fit your demands. Not you're going to bloody read it and do it! Do I make myself clear?!"
Sesshomaru stared at the man then turned his head to the side, his cold emotionless face fixing on Rin. "Rin, go into your room, I don't want you to hear this."
Rin blinked then nodded, vanishing and closing her door. With the wood between them, she could only hear muffles but she could tell Sesshomaru was shouting back. It went on for a while.
A long while.
So long Rin got fed up of trying to listen in and turned on her TV to drown out the noise.
An hour passed before the front door slammed shut and Sesshomaru knocked on her door. "Hey."
She held in a chuckle at his red face. "Hey. Everything alright?"
"Trouble at work."
"What did he mean 'take you out of the country'? And…" she blushed. "What's it to do with me? If you don't mind me asking."
He sighed and walked over to her bed where she was sat, turning the TV off. "I have some work coming up… but it would take months and is in France. I refused to take it because you couldn't come with me… not having a passport."
She blushed even deeper. "What's it to do with me?"
With a soft sigh, he almost dropped onto the bed. "Well… one; I'd miss your cooking. Two…" he leant over and pressed his nose into her. "I'd miss you. You're unlike anyone I know Rin. I… I feel myself around you." he kissed her hair. "And… three… I want to be close… so I can protect you."
"You shouldn't turn work down because of me."
"I know. But I have. I told Jack I'm not leaving the country. Not at least until you get a new passport."
"Without proof of who I am… I never can."
"Then I'll never leave."
"Sesshomaru."
"I mean it Rin. I'm not leaving you alone." He kissed her forehead, holding her cheeks between his hands. Then, as he leant back, he hesitated and leant down, kissing her lips. Rin leant into him until he broke away from her. He smiled and kissed her nose. "Don't worry…"
"I'm safe."
"I was going to say, I'll deal with Jack but safe is just as good."
A/N: Aww! He came to pick her up in the rain and he's turning down work to spend time with her. How sweet!
And… Jack appears to have a double personality, one when things are going his way… one when they aren't. *cough* InuYasha *cough*
