Three months after the anniversary of her parents' deaths, a new client wanted to meet with Toga and Sesshomaru's family before deciding to do business with them. Toga invited the client to his home for a dinner and then to talk business while the wives kept themselves entertained.

Rin went to the mansion early to see Kagome. Because of their friendships with Karen and Joe, they had become much closer in those few months than before. The guests also arrived early. Toga walked into the living room with the guests following behind him. "This is Naraku Sato and his wife, Brianna," Toga announced.

Rin froze in fear. She had thought she'd never see him again, and there he stood before her. "Naraku, I haven't seen you since high school," she heard Kagome say.

"And this is" Toga started.

Naraku interrupted, "Rin Yamamoto. Or should I say Rin Matsuo now?"

"Yamamoto," she replied dryly.

Toga then suggested, "I take it that this is the Naraku Kagome spoke of during our first dinner. May I ask what exactly happened between the two of you?"

Rin shivered as Naraku grinned and stated, "We were once engaged. Thankfully, we never did get married since Brianna is all I need." Brianna gave the same sly grin as Naraku. "And she is married to Sesshomaru," he said directly to Rin.

Rin wished that at any moment someone would interrupt or change the subject. She turned her eyes away from the couple before her to search the room for anyone who might pick up on her uneasiness.

"And where is this husband of yours?" Brianna asked smugly.

At that moment Sesshomaru entered the room and announced, "I am here."

Naraku introduced Sesshomaru to Brianna as Rin breathed a sigh of relief, but relief would not last long because at dinner Kagome started asking Naraku what he had done since he graduated from high school. "Rin and I went to college. I majored in business and graduated suma cum laude. During our time there Rin's parents died, so I thought it was my duty to give her a family. Two years into our engagement she thought she was too good for me."

Rin boiled with anger. He made it sound like she was the one in the wrong! She jumped up and threw her napkin on the table. As calmly as she could make her voice sound, she said, "Please excuse me." Toga nodded and she went to the bathroom on the second floor.

Once in the bathroom she sat on the edge of the tub and wept over he poor decisions in the past. Eri and Naraku were the only ones who stuck by her side when her parents died. During their engagement, he started physically abusing her. It took Eri two years to convince her to break off the engagement. She had not seen him since that day until now.

She dried her eyes and stepped out of the bathroom. Naraku was waiting for her, but she didn't know how he had found her. "Trying to escape from me?"

"No. I wasn't feeling well." She felt bad despite the fact that it was a half-truth.

He started to close the distance between them. "You didn't tell them that you were once engaged?"

"I didn't want to tell them of the only part of my past I'm ashamed of."

He put both hand on the wall behind her on either side of her head. "You'll soon enough regret marrying Sesshomaru."

Rin could see something moving towards her out of the corner of her eye. "Is something wrong?" Sesshomaru asked.

Naraku straightened up and continued to stare at Rin. "No. She was just being feisty."

"My father wishes to speak with you." Naraku bowed and went back downstairs. Rin watched as Sesshomaru opened the door to one of the guest rooms. He gestured for her to go into the room. He closed the door behind them. "Why didn't you tell me that you were once engaged?" he yelled.

She shrank back slightly. "I'm not proud of it. I tried to forget about it."

"My father is asking questions now!"

"I know. I'm sorry." She hadn't realized that she was slowly backing up.

"And now you're intimidating him."

"I promise you that I was not."

"That's not what he's telling my father right now."

She backed into the bed and fell onto it in a sitting position. "Please trust me."

He continued to advance towards her. "I am having trouble trusting you right now because you didn't tell me about Naraku in the first place."

He was now close enough to touch her. She raised her arms in a protective manner, turned her head away, and closed her eyes screaming through tears, "Naraku, please don't hurt me! I won't do it again." In her mind she could see Naraku standing over her, hand raised about to strike a blow.

When she didn't feel the pain she slowly opened her eyes. Sesshomaru was standing there, confusion in his eyes. "I would never lift a finger to hurt you," he said calmly. She slowly lowered her arms and turned her attention towards him. "Did Naraku hurt you?" The tears increased as she remembered the many times Naraku had hit her. "Did he hurt you tonight?"

"No. He just asked why I hadn't told your family about our engagement." He sat down next to her. She looked at her hands in her lap. "I told him that I was too ashamed to tell them, and he told me that one day I'll be ashamed of our marriage." She sniffled. "That's when you saved me."

His voice was gruff as he spoke, "I'll talk to him."

"No," she said putting her hand on his lower arm. "It won't do much good."

"What can I do then?"

"Please hold me." She hugged him. He turned to make them both feel comfortable and hesitantly put his arms around her. They stayed like that for five minutes while Rin ceased her crying.

He got both of them to their feet. "I'm taking you home."

"No, don't do that. Your work is more important."

"Not right now. Father would agree. Besides, I can't talk with Naraku tonight without wanting to rip his throat out and feed it to him. How any man can hurt a woman like that" his voice trailed off.

"Okay. I'll go home."

Sesshomaru went downstairs to the study with Rin following behind. She waited in the hallway listening to Sesshomaru excuse them for the night. "Father, I am taking Rin home."

"Is she okay?" Toga asked.

"Seeing Naraku again has trudged up old memories she wished to forget."

"I see."

"Naraku, if you threaten or raise a hand to my wife ever again, I will personally see that you are degraded in the same manner."

Sesshomaru reentered the hallway. She followed him to his car, and he drove them home. Once at home she went to bed.