Long time no see guys. Thought I forgot about you, huh?
Me? Forget you?
Are you insane?
*gasp* I am a little disappointed in all of you... Thinking I forgot about you... I should punish you and not update this chapter...
Okay okay... Calm down. I love you guys too much to do that to you!
Onward my wayward Sess/Rin lovers! I think you'll like this one! ^-^
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Blouses, tee shirts, shorts, skirts, sweaters, pants, dresses, bed-wear, underwear, bras... Does anyone realize how important this is to a woman? Izayoi sure did, and went absolutely ballistic with Rin and their shopping spree. She had every design, every pattern, every piece of fabric, and Rin is sure that she has every single pair of shoes ever known to man. Regardless on how crazy this woman makes Rin, she can't help but feel thankful. After an hour of arguing with Izayoi about spending money, Rin realized that she was not going to win, Izayoi had an answer for everything, and when Izayoi used the buseness trip card for looking good, Rin just sighed in defeat.
After she accepted this new found agreement, she started to enjoy herself. The ladies tried on everything, Izayoi was extremely honest (if not brutally at some times), and really helped Rin out. Rin learned that her favorite scent was Hawaiian Sunset, and she got that smell in everything from air freshener to bath soap. Her favorite item that they had gotten, however was the toothbrush and toothpaste, real expensive stuff, Izayoi wouldn't let off brand of anything in her house. "Only the best for my kids," she would say with a smile. "But I'm not your kid," Rin would spit back. Then they would bicker some more. - Maybe it was the Automatic cat feeder, and the litter box that cleaned itself. Rin drew her line there and said a flat no. And then when Izayoi said that Rin was going to be gone for a week, and started to make her feel guilty, Rin would huff in defeat.
After a long day of bickering and shopping, Rin was exhausted. She enjoyed her first night in her new room. She didn't want to touch the tv contraption, and didn't even want to try and comprehend the remote for the high-tech cable in her room, she just listened to her radio and cuddled with her cat while falling blissfully asleep in her new Pj's.
After having a rather difficult discussion with both Izayoi and Pop's about how uncomfortable this living arrangement would be for her if it were free, she insisted that she at least pay something, rent, groceries, bills, anything! She had to sit there, and say she wouldn't move until they made a payment deal. She is now paying a light rent, pops called it, until she can save up a little more cash as time moved on. They all agreed, and Rin couldn't wait to show off her new clothes at work.
It has been a few weeks since this whole incident, and Rin's surprising, and rather peculiar raise in her paycheck. She tried to talk to Sesshomaru about it, but he has a way of evading discussions that he feels would not be worth the effort. The more Rin got paid, the more she saved and started to create a money plan. After rent and saving emergency money, the rest of it actually went to saving up for some concert tickets. Her group of friends wanted her to go with them to see the popular band Spits 'n Giggles live, and they wouldn't let her refuse.
A home, a steady paycheck, good friends, a fancy new cat castle for Ah-Un, and a bathroom...
Rin has it made!
She now looks out the window of her first class seat of the plane, feeling extremely pretty in her calm orange blouse and nice black slacks and closed toed, classy pumps that she is still training in. Izayoi "helped" her pack for their 5 day trip, and the packing was a trip in itself. Rin was able to narrow the 5 bags that Izayoi had packed to one bag and a carry-on, and felt that to be a personal accomplishment. She smiled in thought for her insane house mother as she tried her best to daydream.
Next to her was her good 'ol boss Sesshomaru, asleep from the loud and soothing buzz of the airplane's engine and the smooth as silk flight over 15,000+ of gravity pulling death ground under them. Rin has never ridden a plane before, so she is a little bit nervous. Her eyes grow at the many buildings and landmarks that they fly over, making her think of a million ways to die in the sky. Realizing that she is starting to write a mental book of horrible and unforgiving accidents in her head, she decides to find something to distract her from her overactive imagination, and turns to see her Sesshomaru sleeping like a baby. With him asleep, all that is keeping her company is her thoughts.
Looking to him he looks so calm, collected and relaxed... 'lucky bastard'. And the more she looks to him the more she starts to admire what is sitting next to her. Her worries fade from her as thoughts of him reside, and she starts to really study him. He sits, eyes closed, body relaxed and so...sweet. He looks careless, blissful, but at the same time maintains a sense of hyper-awareness, still hearing everything around him so clearly as to hear the thoughts from another's mind. He looked so careless by the way his hands leisurely hung from his seat's arms. but remained alert as ever as he sat up straight, almost giving the illusion of being asleep to fool others around him.
The more she studies his every feature from his silver hair to the markings of a full demon on his face, the more Rin realizes, he's drop dead gorgeous! She... just... 'Gah!'
Ever since she woke up in his bed from a drunken night of forgetfulness, things getting from bad to worse, to horrible, to not so bad, to pretty good, to heavenly, not to mention that he just decides to invade her life, kidnapping her from her flooded and destroyed home, being thrown into a wonderful loving home with a bed and bathroom and is cat friendly, and then throwing money at her as if she is doing exceptionally well at her job, he just suddenly becomes her secret guardian-fucking-angel... 'damn it, I have to actually be attracted to you after all that?!'
She huffs in frustration, not liking this feeling one bit. 'He's hot, and I'm bored...' double threat, she realizes as she just looks outside the window of death resting her head on her hand.
"Enjoying the view, are we?" comes the unforgettable silky smooth voice coming from his God given vocal chords.
'Oooh shit!' Aaaaand there's that blush. The blood rushes to her head in embarrassment, making her as red as a freaking bulls-eye. 'shit, shit, shit, shit!'
She wasn't even going to look at him.
"U-um... ye-yeah..." she chuckles very nervously, evading his whole body while trying to focus on the wonders outside... "But... y-you know... It's really weird being so high up..." she gulps. "Makes my stomach hurt."
He doesn't reply, however. He only looks to see her almost completely turn her body away from him in complete embarrassment, giving the smallest grin of satisfaction of her knowing he caught her looking at him. He is rather pleased with himself for making her blush, no matter how easy it was to do so. He let it slide, however, noticing how her right leg started to bounce uncontrollably. He quirked an eyebrow.
"Nervous?" he asks seemingly carelessly as he keeps his eyes forward, seemingly keeping his interests elsewhere.
"Yeah," she wasn't gonna lie. "First time on a plane... I'm a little..." she then saw a tall building that pointed to the sky like a needle then closed the shade with big eyes. "I'm a little hysterical... heheh" she she smiled then quickly started to become a little more paranoid. "I-I mean... I don't really know what to do. Do I sit quietly? Do I cry? do I go to the restroom? Do I need to throw up? There's those throw-up baggy thingy's in here to right-" she says as she starts to rummage in the little pockets around her seat.
She stopped...
She froze in her seat.
She felt something new.
...
Definitely new... 'Oh my God.'
"Calm yourself," he suddenly says as she looks to see his hand gently lie a hand on her, now still, knee. She looked up in complete shock.
She took a deep breath.
"There is no need to fill yourself with such nerves." his touch was wonderful. And it did wonders for calming her the hell down. Now she couldn't move any bone in her body. "Relax," he said as she finally took a deep breath and slowly nodded her head, hearing what he said.
It did take a moment for all of what he said to click... He was touching her... 'Uhh...'
"Hi there," a cheery female voice calls out from the isle to catch the attention of both passengers.
"Hello," Sesshomaru replied cordially, as he remained with his hand in her knee. It turned out to be a stewardess with a large smile.
"Is there something that I can get for the lovely couple while we finish your complimentary meal?"
"Complementary m-"
"Gin and Tonic for me," he says cutting Rin off to tell the stewardess what he wanted. "And a nice ice cold water for her," he looks to Rin. "She's terrible with alcohol," he says as his thumb starts to caress her soft skin just above her knee. He gave a slight grin as she wrote it down.
"Alrighty, that will be right out. And dinner will be ready in about 15 minutes." her smile was rehearsed but sincere as she left the two... love birds.
Right as she left, he slowly took his hand away from her pant covered leg and it left her endlessly questioning, endlessly asking herself... 'What... What just happened? ... Did that just happen? Was he... Was he hitting on me?'
'W-wh-what, was he insane?!'
Then she remembered...
"Terrible with alcohol?" she started to become offended by what she just heard him say crossing her arms and legs in anger.
"Yes." he says factually. "You have no tolerance for it."
She is baffled. Terrible with... "Says the man who gave me a glass of wine on that sushi date, -ha! Take that." she says with a winning attitude, forcing her chin up snobbishly.
He almost... Almost couldn't hold his smile. Quirking an eyebrow, he then added his two sense. "I strictly recalling you saying that it was not a date, Ms. Tamiko," his voice was so enticing.
'aaah damn... Way to put your foot in your mouth, Rin...' she rolls her eyes at herself. "No- no... That's not what I-"
"But," he started to inch closer. "if you are so inclined as to start changing your mind..." he says making her thoughts melt like butter.
"N-no... No, sir... That wasn't my-"
"Wasn't your what?" he says getting closer to her.
"It...I-It's- damn it Sesshomaru..."
"Am I making you feel uncomfortable, Ms. Tamiko?"
"Yes... actually..." she nervously laughed.
"Now why is that?" he asks curiously, yet his voice remained deep. "You said so yourself you didn't have any attraction to me," he says as he playfully wanting to see her sweat. "So this should have no effect on you whatsoever."
"I... don't," she couldn't tell him in the eyes suddenly shoving her body against the plane wall.
"You don't..." he repeated in nothing but a whisper. He then realized that he didn't even have to touch her to arouse her. That's interesting.
Suddenly finished with his little experiment, he sits away from her and grabs a book from his bag under his seat, as if nothing happened.
Rin just... O_o
"A little red wine is nothing compared to whatever you inhaled at the bar a few weeks ago, Ms. Tamiko." he says as he suddenly finds his bookmarked page in a book.
"What the... I-" Rin didn't know what... Oh right, their conversation. That was still happening.
And again, she became offended.
"Hey! That's not fair! I still don't remember what happened that night-and that doesn't help my case at all." she shut her mouth in an instant as the attractive feeling was officially replaced with more embarrassment. She slaps her forehead in shame. He smiled at her self harm. "You know what?" she suddenly said. "I probably don't wanna know what I did." she said as she opened the shade to look out rather than continue thinking about that God awful night. "I have a strong feeling that there are things that I did that you still haven't told me, for which I must thank you- and I am making myself sound even worse so I am just going to shut up now." she hangs her head in shame and in a grunt.
She is so ashamed.
"Here you go," the smiley woman returns with a tray full of drinks. "Gin and Tonic for you, and a nice cold water for the lady."
"Here," Sesshomaru says handing her the water. "Have fun,"
She bitterly took the drink with darts in her eyes. "I hate you."
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It's official. Rin does NOT fly! No matter what she did, she just could not settle down, and it was driving her nuts. They got their complementary meal, which still confused Rin. How the hell do they cool lobster tails and new potatoes on an air plane?! But no matter how anxious and nervous she had become, at least she was able to enjoy meal... Twice. It was about an hour they ate when she had to use the notorious barf bag thingy she questioned about earlier. That was when Sesshomaru requested a fizzy drink to help settle her stomach.
To take her mind off of her extremely embarrassing experience of the worst thing to happen personally on a plane, Sesshomaru told her about about the various cities that they flew over. His father was a business man and Sesshomaru was strongly "encouraged" to come along and learn so he would take over the family business in his past and thus had a lot of adventures in a lot of these cities... Until the mid-life crisis came and Pop's decided to write a newspaper instead...
Rin rather enjoyed the stories. She was so intrigued about travel and experiencing different cultures, so naturally she hung on Sesshomaru's every word. Some of the stories, however, were quite silly and she had a hard time believing that Sesshomaru and Inuyasha played hide and seek with animal masks in the middle of a small city. She was so appreciative of Sesshomaru for keeping her mind off her misfortune and her crappy luck on this flight.
It was extremely late by the time their plane landed in London. The airport was as busy as any other, and Rin was passed the brink of exhaustion. She stifled a yawn every 5 seconds. Knowing how tired she was, Sesshomaru made her sit at a bench and wait for him. He didn't want her slowing him down at the baggage claim, and commanded her to stay. Rin wasn't exactly complaining, she was so sleepy. She tried so hard to stay awake, but since she was safely on the ground, her brain was exhausted from the 16 hour flight, plus having to be 2 hours early at the airport to make sure they didn't miss their flight... her mind demanded SLEEP. NOW. She had been up for some time now, and for a human it is agony.
Sesshomaru returned to Rin's spot with an airport assistant to help with their luggage on a cart. Somehow, Sesshomaru knew that she wouldn't last long as he saw her snoozing away, lying her head on her carry on, practically snoring.
He carried her to the private car that was hired to wait for Rin and Sesshomaru. He gently glided her body safely inside the car, careful to make sure that her head rests comfortably before helping the assistant pack luggage in. With Sesshomaru's many extensive years in education, he is fluent in many languages, one of his first being English, so he was quite knowledgeable on how to properly conduct the driver.
The car drove smoothly in the late night of the London streets. They were empty, yet well lit. If Rin was awake, she would be in awe. However, it took nothing more than a gentle turn of the road for Rin's sleepy head to fall to the side and land on his shoulder, completely unaware of what she was doing. He gently quirks an eyebrow and listens.
She moans in her sleep, he learns... He rather enjoys learning something new to make her tick later. No matter how he would enjoy her reaction if she were to happen to wake up at this opportune moment, he just let her sleep. Though they had been up together this whole time, humans needed way more sleep than demons do. Demons can go days, even weeks without sleep, while a mere 24 hour sleepless cycle would make a human one sick, and if they could stay up for more than two days, humans could go insane and even die. He knew how tired she was and how frustrating her first flight had become. There was no sense in waking her up and making her feel worse.
He remained still for the remainder of the 20 minute car ride. He didn't want to risk waking her, though he believed that an atomic bomb threatening the city wouldn't wake this level of unconsciousness. As her head resided on his shoulder, he got a chance to study her this time around.
This girl, this... Rin Tamiko has been the most... interesting new experience for Sesshomaru. Rather it be her spirit, her strong will, her stubbornness, or her attitude, anything, there was something her reaction; something about getting a rise out of her. He loved to push her buttons and watch her react much like the child she is.
It was also her eyes, the way they always lure all the attention to her, her kindness and the way she always lends a hand in the office, her beautiful laughter when someone tells her a joke, her spunk when she becomes ambitious, and her blush when she continually becomes embarrassed.
The way that she inhales and exhales in a moan in her sleep, the way her eyelashes reside upon her cheeks in a deep, deep slumber...
He constantly wants to learn something new about her. He wants to find every crease, every crevice, and every dent about her, not to exploit it, but to show her that she does have them and that it is okay to have them.
'Ridiculous.'
He also wants to prove his father is wrong about him. All his life his father could see Sesshomaru's future, where he would go, what he would study, know where he would reside when and where, and even who he was with. Sesshomaru was sick of his father being right all the damn time... But with the road that he is traveling, Sesshomaru isn't going to prove anything anytime soon, other than that he is none other than a fool.
A stupid, weak fool.
Getting into their jointed rooms, a bell hop entered with him to help with luggage as Sesshomaru carried Rin up to her bed. It really wasn't a burden, since she weighed just about nothing. He lie her on her own bed this time and takes off her shoes. Letting her toss and turn to her own content, he thanks the bell hop and finally closes her door, and has time to think in his own space in his own room with no one but himself to interrupt.
He tries to look over his agenda for later on that day, but decides that he doesn't give a damn and just wants to get some shut eye himself. Regardless on how many times he stares at the adjoining door from his room to her's he shakes the pointless and ridiculous thoughts out of his mind and lies into an extremely light sleep, remaining aware of what is around him at all times. He'd be damned if anything happened without him knowing about it.
Ugh... What is wrong with him? What is he getting himself into?
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Okay well that's done. And it actually went where I wanted it to go and end the way I wanted it to end. Man I love it when stories cooperate with me. It makes my world seem a whole lot easier.
And did anyone see my shameless advertising for one of my other fanfictions? *cough*Spits 'n Giggles*cough*
I am absolutely positive that Sesshomaru is OOC in this chapter, and for that I am sorry, but I dunno what got into me. I guess he can't control himself when he is around her. Damn it.
I will give you a little secret about this chapter. The name of it "Larger than life" is the name of a Backstreet Boys song. I literally just named this chapter after that song because it's my favorite. - I went to their reunion concert last week, it was AWESOME! If you don't know the Backstreet Boys, you are most likely too young or don't live in America.
And that's okay.
I AM NOW GOING TO MAKE A DEAL WITH YOU! READY?!
If I hit over 100 reviews with this chapter, I promise a little somethin' somethin' *wink wink* in the next chapter. How does that sound? ^_^
See you little polish chickens soon!