Chances Not Worth Losing
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Inuyasha.
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In January Rin was really losing her patience. They were only a week away from his inauguration, and they were yet to be married. He had even gone so far as put off any and all planning. All Rin had done to get ready was buy her dress and sell her house after moving her things into Sesshomaru's. Having had enough, she marched over to Sesshomaru's house that night after work and let herself in. He was not home yet, and he had been getting home later and later as the months had gone on.
When he finally did come home she was brooding on the couch. Her dark aura filled the house, and he could feel it immediately upon entrance. "Rin, where are you?" She didn't say anything, so he was forced to go looking for her. Her look was one that he had never seen before. "What is wrong?" he asked as he sat down on the couch next to her and tried to pull her into his lap.
She squirmed out of his reach and stood up to shake her finger in his face. "How can you be so casual when you haven't kept your promise?"
"And which promise is that?"
"You promised me that we would get married before the inauguration, and the inauguration is exactly a week from today!"
"I know I promised that, but things have been a little busy lately." His voice was calm, and that just infuriated Rin even more. "I still promise you that we will be married soon."
"That's what you say now, but when you start, the General Assembly will be back in session and you still won't have time!"
"I always have time for you." He tried to stand up, but Rin pushed him back down.
"Have time for me? If you had time for me you'd at least let me start planning our wedding. I know that we can't set a date, but we could at least be ordering things, getting invitations ready, trying to figure out a date…" she said ticking everything off on her fingers.
He reached out and pulled her into his lap. "If it makes you feel any better, I have bought a tuxedo. A black one."
"And that will make everything better?"
"It's something." He started placing kisses over her neck. "We could go ring shopping if that's what you want. I was actually planning on asking you to do that tonight."
"Do you mean it or are you trying to get yourself out of the fire?"
"I truly mean it. I asked the jeweler if he can let us browse after hours."
Rin looked into his eyes to see that he was indeed telling her the truth. "Okay, but I'm still not happy with the progress."
"Don't worry; things will be done in good time. I don't want to wait any longer to have you all to myself than I have to." He continued to place kisses up and down Rin's neck before licking the spot where he would mark her. "This spot just doesn't look right without my mark there."
Rin got up and said in a serious voice, "Then you shouldn't wait so long to marry me."
"Are you going to behave this way all night?"
"I will behave this way until you stop stalling."
"Okay," he sighed. "How about this weekend we spend all of our free time getting things ready and pick a date." She turned around and smiled at him before plopping down in his lap again. "I take that as a confirmation?"
"Yes." She placed a chaste kiss on his lips before standing up again and demanding that they get going.
Rin chatted incessantly all the way there about everything they had to do that weekend, but Sesshomaru had other plans in mind. Without Rin's knowledge, Sango, Miroku, Governor Martinez and his mate, the President of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the House (who was to become the Speaker soon), and he had been planning the wedding. Actually, he had done most of the planning and the setting up. He had decided to give her the wedding of her dreams, for the most part, without the hassle. It was his hope that she wouldn't be too mad at him for taking away from her planning it and that the gesture would make it even more special.
They pulled into the almost empty parking lot of the jewelry store. The only other person there was the owner of the store, who also happened to be the senator from that district, and they had worked out a deal to get the rings engraved immediately so as to be prepared in time for the wedding only three days away. "Good evening, Sesshomaru and Rin," the jeweler/senator greeted them. "The whole store is yours to browse."
"Thanks," Sesshomaru said while Rin wandered around looking at the rings. It would take an hour for them to agree upon which rings they liked best. Once that was done, Sesshomaru put in the order for the engraving and paid by credit card. Thankfully Rin hadn't been paying attention to their discussion about the cost otherwise she would have realized that the price was higher than normal had they not needed the rings to be engraved so soon. When that was finished, Sesshomaru drove Rin home so he could finish a few things without her there.