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Rin let out a happy sigh as she dried her hair with her pink towel that she kept on her bathroom sink for those extra long, hot showers she loved so much. The shower had been just what she needed after such a hectic ordeal.
The left over water droplets from her shower covered her pale skin as she gentle ran another towel over her tingling body. She gave out another happy sigh at the sheer bliss of being clean and warm, a sensation Rin was unsure she'd ever feel again.
Rin tied one towel around her body as she continued to dry her hair between the ends of the other towel as she thought over what had just happened to her. From what she could piece together through her memory, Sesshomaru had come sometime after she had finished tyeing up the barn doors, and ultimately saved her from the winterly cold.
Rin shivered slightly as she remembered what it had felt like to be in his embrace, and how warm his hands had felt against her nearly frostbitten face. The young woman blushed prettily at the thought as she fidgeted back and forth in embarrassment.
It's doing your heart no good to be thinking like that, her conscious reminded her coolly as Rin let out a defeated sigh. Of course...the logical part of her brain just always had to be right. Just once she wished her heart could take the wheel of her life. But she did understand that thinking about Sesshomaru on such a regular basis would make dealing with him complicated. Rin's eyes strayed to the blinded window on the far side of the bathroom as she peaked through the curtains to look outside.
And by the looks of that storm...Rin thought as she bit her lower lip slightly, Sesshomaru is going to be here for at least another day or two.
She let the fabric fall from her fingertips then as she went to grab the outfit she had picked out before jumping into the shower. It was nothing fancy by anyone's standards, but it was comfortable, and that's all that Rin really looked for in her clothing. When she worked with animals and dirt all day; she had given up on looking pretty a long time ago.
She quickly dressed before taking a look at herself in the mirror. Normally, she wouldn't have even bothered, but having Sesshomaru there completely changed the situation. She wanted to look at least presentable to him.
Her eyes narrowed slightly as she tugged at the ends of her green sweater and stood on her toes to try and get a full body shot of herself. She pulled at the ends of her unruly hair that were trying to curl, but like always, the waves were too stubborn to straighten.
She gave out another defeated sigh as she flipped her hair behind her shoulders and, giving her reflection one last look, walked out of the bathroom.
She had just made it down the hall when she spotted Sesshomaru lazily sprawled across her couch, his large form looking almost comical on her relatively small furniture piece.
She couldn't stop the small smile that spread across her face as she paused at the end of the hallway to just gaze at him. He looked just like he had when he had slept there before. His face was softened in the bliss of slumber as his silvery hair framed his long, too-good-to-be-true face.
And Rin would've continued on staring until she realized that she needed to go check on the horses. She hadn't known if Sesshomaru had done what he had promised or not the night before. He had told her early that morning that she had slept peacefully on the couch throughout the night, but hadn't mentioned if he had been able to shut the stable doors.
Rin walked past the sleeping form of Sesshomaru to reach for her thick yellow jacket when she paused at the sound of stirring coming from Sesshomaru's direction. Rin turned back around to spot Sesshomaru sitting straight up on the couch with his left forearm resting on one bent knee. His eyes remained closed as he opened his mouth to speak,
"I wouldn't go outside," he warned her as he opened his auric eyes to glance back at her.
"Why not?" Rin asked curiously as Sesshomaru adverted his eyes to the closest window.
"It is still snowing outside," he replied coolly, "you'll freeze," he added as an afterthought.
"But I want to check on the horses, they might be – "
"They're fine," he interrupted her then as he returned his gaze to her form, "I made sure to shut the doors last night,"
Rin visibly relaxed at that as she gave him a grateful smile,
"Thank you," she murmured before turning back to hang her coat back on its hook. Though she was happy that she didn't need to go out in the cold anymore, she was still somewhat worried about the fact that the storm was still going on.
If this keeps up...just how long will Sesshomaru be forced to stay here? Rin thought to herself as she worried her lower lip gently.
"Did you eat something?" Rin asked as she turned back around to face him, though blushed slightly at how awkward the question had come out. Of course he had probably already eaten, it wasn't like he was going to wait for her to each with him.
"Yes," he replied icily as he adverted his gaze back to the window, seemingly uninterested in continuing to converse with her.
"I'm sorry," Rin murmured sadly as Sesshomaru's head turned back slowly in her direction.
"For what? You can't control the weather," he pointed out nonchalantly, but Rin only hung her head as she tried hard not to look upset in front of him.
"I know," she murmured quietly, "but I can tell that you don't like it here, and I'm sorry that you're forced to stay against your will,"
"I should be the one apologizing," he replied after a pause, and Rin's head shot up in surprise as she stared back at him. He hadn't turned to look at her, but merely stared in the direction of the window as he continued,
"I'm the one intruding on your hospitality,"
To say Rin was surprised by Sesshomaru's comment was an understatement. Never in all her days did she think that this arrogant and stubborn man would ever admit to anything along the lines of what he had just said. So, she did the only thing she could think of doing...she smiled.
She smiled because she was touched.
She smiled because she suddenly saw Sesshomaru in a new light.
She smiled because she liked the slight look of surprise that crossed over Sesshomaru's face every time she did.
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Naraku groaned as he continuously ran his hands through his tightly curled, black hair in frustration until his hair stretched out wildly in all directions. He stared at the paper on his desk as if his glare alone could set it on fire, and how he wished it would instantaneously com bust before his eyes.
The paper notified him (as bluntly as possible) that he owed the Two Swords Industry over two billion dollars. Where was he going to get that kind of money, and with such short notice? He hadn't even owned that much money in all his years of running his company. His own business was running low on funds to keep themselves afloat and comfortably away from bankruptcy.
A second later his office door was swung open as his assistant gracefully shuffled in. She wore a skin tight black gown that she seemed to prefer to wear whenever she worked undercover at the Two Swords Industry. Her painted red lips pulled down in a scowl as she surveyed her boss for a moment before inclining her chin.
"Inutashio is on the phone, he says it's urgent," she informed him in her typical, agitated voice. Though Naraku knew she could treat him with much more respect (being witness to it when he'd spy on her while she worked under Sesshomaru), he knew that she acted so defiantly because he held so much power over her.
Without him, the wind sorceress would be nothing.
He merely smirked at her in response before waving her off,
"Connect us, and then get out of my sight," he commanded as the sorceress flinched slightly before angrily bowing her head, and shuffling out of the room without another word. Naraku watched her leave with his red, calculating gaze as he mulled over the fact that he knew Kagura wished to escape from him, and run into Sesshomaru's waiting arms.
Of course, Kagura was thinking in the hypothetical given that she did not know how Sesshomaru felt about her. I suppose having my carnation working undercover does have its perks, Naraku thought with a smirk, reveling over the fact that he could read her every thought.
He had known for a good year that Kagura had this "secret crush" on the man that she had been forced to spy on, which hadn't been a secret for long. Kagura was still one of his creations, which meant that they were connected, whether she liked it or not. There was nothing the wind sorceress could keep from him.
Resting his arms on his desk as he continued to contemplate whether he should kill the dog demon's son to get him out of the way for good, his private line rang as he stared at the red blinking dot for a moment before picking up the receiver.
"Onigumo Inc, Naraku speaking," Naraku greeted civilly as he heard the dog demon reply in his usual booming voice.
"Hello Naraku! I'm glad I caught you!" Inutashio greeted exuberantly before his voice grew serious a second later, "It's come to my attention that you owe me a bit of money my friend, and if I were you, I'd make sure to pay up as soon as possible,"
"Of course, Inutashio," Naraku replied smoothly, his smirk evident in his voice, "It seems such a waste that we must speak over such a negative situation. Do allow me to make this up to you, my friend,"
"Simply paying me back on the loans you took from me to create your business is all I ask, Naraku," Inutashio replied civilly, though Naraku could practically picture the dog demon fuming at the mouth at Naraku's empty lie about making it up to him.
"Of course, and I will have that money for you soon," Naraku promised him coyly before he hung up the phone, not caring that he could've potentially pissed off one of the strongest men in Japan.
"It's only a matter of time until I'm the one who will be giving out the orders, Inutashio," Naraku growled as he ran his hand over his jaw for a moment before an interesting report caught his attention. He turned up the volume on his radio, only to smile as he continued to listen to the news.
"It seems I've already come up with a solution," he stated with a twisted smile, "this girl, Rin, and her rare horse will solve all my problems," he added as his smile deepened into a grin. He quickly pressed Kagura's calling button as the woman asked him what he wanted in an angered tone.
"Find out all you can about a girl named Rin who owns a Russian mare named Mika," he ordered as his secretary scoffed before reluctantly complying and promising to start researching her.
"It's about time Naraku got his just dues," Naraku chuckled as he typed in the girl's name on his laptop, and found a picture of a pleasant looking young woman standing in front of a large piece of land. Her long brown hair cascaded down her shoulders, and he noted the soft tint in her dark chocolate eyes that proclaimed her gentle spirit through the photograph.
"It's about time, indeed," he added in a whisper, his twisted smile returning as he continued to gaze at the young woman smiling on the other side of his computer monitor.
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"Hey, Sesshomaru?" Rin asked as she turned to glance at the man who seemed completely content on lying on her couch for the entire day.
"What?" he asked back nonchalantly.
"Do you think you'd ever give up on buying Mika?" Rin asked as she stared down at her hot chocolate mug, too shy to continue blatantly staring at him.
"It's why I came here in the first place," he pointed out, "why would I give up now?"
"I just wondered if we could be like this...without having the professional tension in the air 24/7," Rin felt herself worry her lower lip after she finished when she saw, out of the corner of her eye, that his eyes had narrowed slightly at her.
"Hn," Sesshomaru scoffed as he turned away from her then. He remaining irritably quiet as Rin felt regret fill the pit of her stomach, and she wondered then if she had crossed a line by saying what she had to him.
"Why do you act like that?" he asked a moment later as Rin cocked her head to the side slightly.
"Act like what?" she asked back.
"Act like...you genuinely care about what I have to say," Sesshomaru replied, turning to look at her once again as chocolate met gold for a fleeting moment.
"Because I do," she replied without a second thought, her head still slightly cocked to the side. Sesshomaru made it seem like it was...illogical for her to feel anything for him. Rin gave him a small smile then as she moved to sit beside him on the couch.
"Not everyone is fake in the world," she added gently, wondering why she felt this curiousness about Sesshomaru all of the sudden. It was like he had spontaneously opened up to her a little, well, at least a little more so than he had before.
His eyes narrowed slightly at her as if he were calculating her every word and movement before he turned away from her altogether, and stared back at the window without a word. Rin would've been offended if he hadn't had a slightly dreamy look in his eye, as if he were mulling over her words in his head.
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Inuyasha stood in the snow with his dark red winter jacket fastened around his body as he looked up at the high window of his and Kagome's bedroom. The light from the small tan lamp that Inuyasha knew Kagome adored was the only light source in the room that was apparent from where he stood.
A wide smirk spread across his face at the thought of his Kagome as happy as she was whenever she looked at that lamp. Something about it charmed her as well as relaxed her whenever she'd come home from a trying day at work.
Bending down to grab for another little rock from the sidewalk, Inuyasha carelessly threw it towards the window, and it gave out a light 'click' when the rock made contact with the glass. He had been tossing rocks up at their window for a good five minutes without so much as a curious glance from his wife.
He was about to reload his ammo when he spotted Kagome's raven haired head peek out the window before a gentle smile brightened her features. She quickly unlocked her window before sliding it outward to lean her elbows on the windowsill.
"It's just like when we were dating," Inuyasha stated as a form of explanation as he lifted his arms up in a careless shrug. What he had meant was that when they had been younger, he and Kagome had always had to sneak her out of her parent's house to see each other. He'd throw rocks at her window to give her the "signal" to climb down to him so they could run off together for the night. But, her father had always been fairly strict with her, and her mother was always worried about her going out with "a guy like him."
Inuyasha never held it against Kagome's mother, and never would. At that point in his life he had been a hot mess heading for ruin that only Kagome could fix, and he would be forever grateful to her for her patience and the constant love she showed him everyday that they spent together.
"It's freezing out here, Inuyasha! Get in here right now!" Kagome ordered, but was unable to hide the radiant smile as well as the slight giggle she emitted after the fact. Inuyasha shared her smile for a moment before he waved her down.
"I gave you the 'signal,' woman! You get down here!" he called back as Kagome gave him a jokingly dark look before she whirled her head around and disappeared from his sight. He watched the window for a time, and was about to give up on her and go inside, when he saw the front door fly open as Kagome hurriedly ran into his arms.
Inuyasha was taken aback from her actions that he nearly lost his balance and the two of them would've tumbled into the snow in a collection of flying limbs. Luckily he had been able to catch her in time before something like that happened. His hold on her arms tightened slightly as Kagome righted herself and turned to look up at him with those soft, brown eyes he adored so much.
"I missed you," he whispered tenderly as he ran the outside of his fingers along her cheek. Her cheeks heated slightly at his touch before she gave him a thankful smile and stood on her toes to give him a quick peck on the lips.
"I've missed you too," she murmured against his mouth before slowly pulling away to lovingly gaze into his eyes.
They just stared at each other for a moment before Kagome gently ran her fingers through his silvery hair and tugged his head in close for another tender kiss. Inuyasha smiled against his wife's lips before he wound an arm around the back of her knees as the other arm wound around her shoulder blades.
Kagome gave out a light breath of surprise when Inuyasha effortlessly lifted her into his arms and held her above the ground in bridal style. It would've been a perfect moment if Inuyasha had taken into account that they were standing in snow.
By picking Kagome up as fast as he had, the snow that had been attached to her boots flung off her shoes and straight into his face. He gave out a startled noise before losing his balance due to the fact that he could no longer see, and the two fell back into a pile of deeply packed snow.
An awkward silence filled the air for a moment before Kagome burst out laughing, her voice resonating in the air around them. Inuyasha would have been severely ticked off at himself for messing up yet another try at romancing his wife, but enjoyed the glint that shined in her dark brown depths every time he made her laugh.
"I love you," Kagome told him in between laughs before grabbing the collar of his jacket, "just the way you are," she added with a wink, most likely talking about his try at being a romantic. Kagome knew him all too well by now, and knew when he was himself and when he was trying too hard. But, that was what he loved so much about his wife, It was great that she knew what he was like and she accepted it.
"Love you too," he added with a slight blush, still embarrassed that his entire plan had fallen through.
"Now, honey, will you please come inside? I think my legs are about to go numb," Kagome asked as she began rubbing her frozen limbs. It was then that Inuyasha noted she had only come out in her nightgown, her long blue jacket and matching boots her only protection against the cold.
"Idiot," Inuyasha murmured as he brought her close to offer as much body heat as he could before standing with her still in his arms, "you should have gotten dressed before coming outside during a night like this," he added while inclining his head towards the clouds where snow was still falling relatively quick.
"I was too excited to see you that I forgot," Kagome awkwardly explained with a light giggle, "I'll think before I act next time," she promised as Inuyasha gave her a half smile.
"I sure did miss you," he informed her as he proceeded towards the house, "I hope you intend to fix the situation," he added with a smug smirk as Kagome gave him a knowing glance.
"If by fix you mean loving you until you can't see straight, then yes, I think I'm up for it," she winked, and let out a laugh as Inuyasha tried to tug the door closed behind him with Kagome still in his arms. With another masterful display of his skills at using his feet like hands, Inuyasha was able to tug the door closed as Kagome bent over to lock the door.
The two then proceeded up the stairs to their bedroom as the winter wonderland outside their bedside window remained beautiful, untouched, and serene around them.
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