Title: Rin's Four Legged Obsession

Authoress: Liko-chan

Warnings: Language, fluff, OOCness, TWT, humor

Summary: Rin gets a puppy from a village after they find out that she's Sesshoumaru's charge. As Rin cares for the puppy, she eventually becomes so in love with it, she practically forgets about her Sesshoumaru-Sama. In time Sesshoumaru begins to miss his 'Rin moments' and wants the 'mutt' gone... but Rin won't let it go...

Disclaimer: My fingers are going to break if I type it, but hey, what the hell. I...don't own...Inuyasha, or...it's characters. :that was harder than I expected:

A.N- Hello, my lovies..Okay... Anyhow, I want to thank you all for over 40 reviews, I'm really happy to be fortunate enough to get so many in just 4 chapters. Thank you all VERY much. I'm happy I can be some entertainment to you.

Rin's Four Legged Obsession

Chapter 5: How Embarrassing

Jaken ordered the servant to clean up Fluffy's little present, so Rin could go eat her breakfast before it got too cold.

He had a feeling that she would be eating cold food for as long as that mongral was around.

In the dinning hall, Rin sat at the head of the table with the puppy in her lap. Knowing Sesshoumaru would highly disapprove of this, she made sure not to let anyone know the pup was there.

"May I have more beef?" Rin asked the chef, kindly, as he placed some noodles on the table.

Adoring Rin as much as every other maid or servant in the castle, the chef nodded happily and walked back into the kitchen.

Since she'd sat down at the large rectangular table, Rin had been giving the puppy every ounce of meat she had been served. Which wasn't much since she ate so little, but she asked for mutliple orders.

Fluffy, of course, happily ate up the delicious meat, whining for more. Just as the chef re-entered the dinning hall with a platter of beef, Sesshoumaru walked in through the opposite doors.

Rin turned slightly to glance over her shoulder at her Lord, allowing the puppy to slip off her lap and onto the ground.

"Milord?" She said, turning all the way around to face him.

Sesshoumaru nodded at her and the chef. "Beef, Rin?" He asked, confused, though he didn't let it show on his face.

Rin looked confused a moment, then turned toward the chef. "Oh yes, beef, um..."

Sesshoumaru raised a brow. "No need to answer, what you decide to eat is your choice."

But when had she become such an avid meat eater? That was a large plate of meat just for her, she was barely 90 pounds! And last time he had checked, which was yesterday, mind you, Rin preferred veggies over any type of animal.

Rin smiled and grabbed a piece of the sliced beef off the plate and stuffed it into her mouth. "Delicious." She muttered, forciably swallowing the barely chewed meat.

Sesshoumaru ignored her obvious lie and walked out the dinning hall. He didn't eat in front of her, for various reason, but the main one being he didn't eat his meat cooked, like she did.

Rin sighed and looked under the table for the puppy. 'Nope, not there' she thought. Getting out of her seat, she apologized to the chef for leaving so suddenly but thanked him for such a good breakfast. Although she feed most of it to the puppy, who was, now, nowhere to be found.

"Fluffy?" She said, crawling under the table. "Where are you?"

Confused and a bit surprised, the chef fumbled with the dish in his hands, before setting it on the edge of the table. He dropped onto his knees onto the ground. "Lady Rin, are you okay?"

Rin groaned. "Rin! Not lady Rin!" She said annoyed. Gah!! Hadn't she made it clear she didn't want to be called that!?

"Why not 'Lady Rin'?" Came a cold voice from above the table.

"Because, Rin does not want to be called Lady Rin, okay?" Her voice, still annoyed, carried through the empty dinning room.

"Not 'okay'." Came that same monotonous voice.

Rin growled and peeked out from under the table. She didn't realize that she'd crawled all the way to the other end of the table, which was quite far.

"Why not?" Rin asked, still slightly angry.

There was no response to that, only sounding footsteps getting closer. "Rin."

Now she remembered whose voice sounded so cold and monotonous. "Lord Sesshoumaru?" She stuttered.

She crawled halfway out from under the table, the drapes hanging on her back. Then, an out-stretched hand grabbed her wrist and pulled her up, from under the table completely. "Rin."

It was, in fact, Lord Sesshoumaru. Rin blushed, nearly forgetting about the puppy until she heard a loud yelp.

"Fluffy!" She called, wrenching her hand from Sesshoumaru's grasp. His claws nearly cut her, but her wrist was so thin, they managed to just slip out of his hold. She burst out of the dinning hall, running to wear she thought her pup would be.

Sesshoumaru followed, leaving a very confused chef behind. "Who's Fluffy?"

When she leaped out of the dinning hall, she propelled her forward, jumping out onto whoever was hurting her pup. She strangled the tall figure, beating him on the head. "Let Fluffy go!"

"Hey, get off, Rin!" Yelled the culprit.

Rin finally stopped beating on the poor guy once she realized Sesshoumaru had pulled her off him. "Ryo?" She asked, adrenaline still pumping.

"Yea. So, this mangy thing is your's?" He asked, avoiding eye contact with Sesshoumaru. He figured the man was either pissed that he'd addressed Rin as simply her name or that he hadn't gotten rid of the dog before Rin found them.

"Yes, it's Rin's puppy. His name is Fluffy." She said proudly.

"Fluffy? That's what you're calling it?" Ryo laughed. He lifted the pup up by the scruff of its neck," but it's a boy!"

Rin nodded. "So? He reminds Rin of Sess- "

Sesshoumaru interrupted. "Rin, get the pup."He did need to save his reputation, after all, "And Ryo, get out of my way."

Rin obeyed, yanking the poor, tortured pup from Ryo. "What'd you do to him?"

Ryo blushed. "Well...I didn't...I, uh, I just, sorta.."

Rin inspected the pup, making sure it wasn't injured. Well, not physically, anyway. The poor thing was, no doubt, tortured on the inside.

"Tell Rin what you did." Rin ordered, sternly. She was a little over four feet, yet ordering around a demon who was inching on 6 feet.

Ryo's blush intensified. "Well, I wasn't sure whether it was a guy or a girl and then it...it bit my ankle and I thought...well, your too young to know what I was thinking, so I pulled it's tail up and it yelped and so I-"

Rin was embarrassed for Ryo. Poor guy. "Really, it's okay. Rin's puppy is fine." Tortured but alive.

Rin followed in the direction Sesshoumaru went. He had long since left because he found Ryo's situation rather embarrassing for Ryo and him. Really, the coyote couldn't smell that the dog was a male? What the hell kind of senses did Ryo use, if he didn't use his nose like most dogs!

Rin found Sesshoumaru near his office door, either thinking or dozing. Rin was sure he was thinking, because sleeping was just not him. And he was standing...though sometimes she was sure he slept while standing, with his eyes open.

"Lord Sesshoumaru?"

Sesshoumaru glanced over his shoulder and looked at Rin. She had that wretched puppy with her. He opened the office door and left it ajar. A sign that she could enter if she'd like.

Rin smiled to herself. "Fluffy, stay here. Rin will be back."

The puppy whined as Rin put him down. "Rin is sorry, but I don't think Lord Sesshoumaru likes you very much, so you have to wait here."

She skipped into the office, waving 'bye' to the puppy. The pup only whined more and headed back toward the dinning hall, where Ryo was trying to pick up the pieces of his dignity that was scattered all over the floor.

Ryo stopped in his tracks when he caught a whiff of that evil little pup's scent. He growled.

The pup, who had been following Ryo for reasons unknown, suddenly leaped up and attacked Ryo's tail.

"Hey, get off!" He turned in a circle trying to grip his tail. The stupid dog was going to chew all the fur off!

The puppy barked muffled barks and continued to chew on Ryo's tail. Rin rushed out of Sesshoumaru's office, after kindly telling him that the pup needs dog food, a collar, and a bed. All of which he needed to pay for, since she was, in all essence, poor. And that she needed to go into one of the villages to get the aforementioned things. The bed he would need to have specially made...

She finally made it to the very odd and disturbing site of Ryo gnawing on the pup's tail, while the pup, in turn, gnawed on Ryo's tail.

"How do ya like that? Huh, huh!?" Ryo growled. Though he wasn't biting hard, for fear the dog might actually use those tiny, sharp teeth.

Rin laughed out loud as once again, Ryo's dignity shattered all over the floor. Sesshoumaru approached the scene of the two canines.

Could this be anymore humiliating?

Rin continued to laugh as she pulled Fluffy off the coyote youkai. "Fluffy, you can't go around attacking Ryo like that."

Ryo mumbled some of Jaken's favorite words under his breath, as he straighten his tail fur out.

Sesshoumaru turned his attention to the pup, who was currently licking Rin like she was an apple flavored blow pop. (His favorite kind of sweet).

Sesshoumaru almost growled but held it back. He again looked over to Ryo, who was in fact, growling out loud at the pup. Either because it was licking Rin, or because his tail was soaked with dog slobber.

Probably the latter.

Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at the pup, only to get two big balls of brown innocence looking back at him. Deceiving mutt...

A.N- Hope that was good. It's late now, well, for me anyway. I'm gonna go sleep now, and hopefully type another chapter for you all tomorrow. Review!

P.S.- Just so you know, I based Ryo off of Inuyasha. I intended to place Inuyasha in, but then decided to use Ryo instead. And when I write Ryo's character, I imagine Kouga, though it's more of Inu's personality.

Edited 2. 20.08. Corrected grammar and added sentences.