Snapshots of Life
Chapter 6: Be Careful what you Beg For
Rin's head propped up by the heel of her hand slid down her arm and hit her desk. She looked up sleepily screaming "I'm awake!" a sheet of paper stuck to her forehead. She looked up again her eye sight blurry with the sleep that she didn't get last night. She looked at the hazy blobs that were supposed to be her friends and tried to focus.
"How's she doing now?" Sango asked a cup of hot hazel nut coffee from Starbuck's in her hands.
"See for yourself." Kagome said picking Rin's head up from the desk again. She held her eyes open and faced her toward Sango so she could see her exhausted state.
"Here Rin drink this, it'll give you enough energy to stay awake through the interview that you begged so hard to get." Rin frowned in her drowsiness and groped her desk for a pen and threw it at Sango, or tried.
"Shut up, I don't want any of our coffee it tastes like watered down mud and sugar." She said in a slow slur of words that resembled the babbling of a drunk.
"I know that's why I went to Starbuck's." Sango said smirking as she held the cup in front of her jiggling it from side to side. Every time Rin swiped for itSango pulled it back teasing her for her artificial energy. Rin moaned and shot her a weak glare.
"Sango just give it to her, before she tires herself out even more." Kagome said looking at the pitiful state her friend was in. Rin took a big gulp and smiled happily the hot liquid warming her insides and giving her something to do before it kicked in.
"So why exactly did you stay up all night?" Sakiya asked from Rin's computer trying to win a game of Chip's Challenge.
"Well, I was so excited that I got this interview that I couldn't sleep." She sat back in her chair and yawned from behind her desk. Sango shook her head andpicked up the file on Rin's desk marked Sesshomaru. It was surprisingly light and to her surprise the information on the inside matched the weight. Usually Rin was so thorough that she could bemistakenfor memberof the person's family. All the information inside was basic and could be achieved by anyone. When she pulled the file down from her face she couldn't stop the surprise from showing and recieved an embarrassed sigh from Rin.
"I couldn't find anything! It's like he hides from the media! But how can you hide from the media? That's a feat only Kami himself could pull off. It was damn near impossible for me to get this information. It's weird because he doesn't exploit himself to get popular like most people do, yet is still so popular. I can't figure out why though. It makes me mad just thinking about it. Nobody has even captured the essence of him but he still manages to make the girls faint." As Sango moved to put the file back down on the desk a picture in the folderslowly came under gravity's pull and floated to the ground. She picked up the photo and studied it for a while smirking.
"Damn, I see why he's so damn popular. Look at that face, and that body." She said handing the picture to Kagome. It was a picture of the mystery man with a pair of Levi jeans on. His eyes blazed like the sun. His long silvery tamed mane sheltered his back and beside him was a black sheet ripped to shreds with the word Levi on it. He looked at the camera with an indifferent stare on. In his right hand shreds of the black sheet hung from his claws limply. He was the only person that could make a inanimate object look dead.
"He looks like Inuyasha, except professional. Look at his abs, my camera would love him. Can I have this?" She said passing it to Sakiya.
"I've seen Sesshomaru before we lived right across from--- whoa, I haven't seen him like that." She said as she turned her head to the side looking at his abs on the little photo.
Rin snatched it back and glared putting it faced down in the envelope so that she couldn't see it. That's what really kept her up all night, imaging talking to someone that handsome. She didn't even have anything to talk to him about. Her stomach was cramped and irritated from worrying. She began to gnaw at her nails.
"You're really nervous huh?" Sango said her cocky air gone now.
"No, why would you say that, crap!" Her pinky nail that always got the abuse when she was nervous was now bleeding from being bit down too far. She rambled in her desk drawer for a band aid.
"Maybe because of the way you're snacking on your nails." Kagome said grabbing her hand and helping her apply the band aid to it.
"Chill out Rin. It'll be okay." Sango said smiling.
"Yeah I guess it will since you guys will be here." She looked at them and frowned when they looked away.
"You're going to be here right?" She said making false hope in her mind despite the looks on their faces.
"Kagome and I have to work. If it weren't for that tramp Kikyo we would so be here for you." Sakiya said.
"Sango!" she said panicking now. Sango frowned, Rin was never this nervous before. Hell, Rin was never nervous it was just in her nature to be a ball of sunshine.
"I'm sorry, every since we went to Mr. Anonymous I've been swamped with work…but if you really want me to stay I will." She said. Rin looked at her and dared herself to prolong Sango's dream for something as stupid as being nervous.
"No that's alright, I'll be fine." She said shaking her head slowly. She'd be okay, nervousness was never her thing and it wasn't about to be now.
"Are you sure?" She asked looking into her face to see if she was telling the truth. She didn't want to leave Rin alone if what she really wantedwas not to be. She always wanted to be there if she had a choice.
"Don't worry about me Sango! I'll be alright. I don't even now this guy, so there isn't anything to be worried about." She said goading Sango's thoughts out of worry. Sango nodded hearing the sureness in her voice.
"Aww man!" Sakiya sat back and crossed her arms over her chest in a pout as a voice on the computer said "you got mail!" and a screen popped up over her game making her lose again. Leaning forward determined to find out who ruined her game when she finally thought she was about to win.
"Who's Hisho? Hey Rin you gotta email." she said clicking on the email alert.
"Read it to me." She said.
"Hello everyone it is your beloved boss. This message is involving a security breech that happened about a month ago.---"
"A security breech?" Rin said sitting up in her chair and taking her feet off the desk. Kagome and Rin looked up engrossed in the news that someone might have broken into the studio.
"This person is considered extremely dangerous and has gotten onto the premises many times before. I have no idea why she has chosen to target The Now as a pawn in her sick game but I have a hunch that it is a product of her psychotic tendencies. So if she is spotted, from a safe distance alert security. As I'm sure you know your safety is what I live for so stay safe. Here is a picture of the perpetrator." She scrolled down a little, and studied the picture of certain girl pointing angrily at whoever was holding the camera and shouting in her still frame. She began to laugh getting the jest of the rest of the email. Her friends raised an eyebrow to her outburst of laughter. She turned the computer screen around so that the three of them could share in the joy of laughing at the picture of Sango. Sango looked at the computer and growled standing up.
"Sango s-sit down!" Rin laughed trying to control herself before Sango completely exploded.
"Your boss is an asshole and you know what? I think I should tell him about himself, with a bat!" She shouted walking to the door growling. Kagome stepped in front of him holding back her laughter long enough to subdue Sango's rage.
"Sango, it's not that bad. I mean maybe he's just playing." She chocked out through her laughter.
"Yeah, he's probably um…"
"You got nothing! Why are you guys protecting him anyways? He didn't even fire that big muscle head pig Frankie for molesting me!" She shouted still riled up about the violation of her body.
"Whoa, tell me who is Frankie?" Sakiya said finally calming down.
"He's the head security guy here. He's a fucking rapist and I'm surprised that I am the first to actually report his abuse. They probably have reported abuse but Hisho won't do anything about it. I live for your safety, whatever!" She said calling Hisho's bluff.
"Yeah Travis is creepy. That's why I don't stay after hours anymore I swear he was watching me one night." Rin shivered involuntarily recalling her own experiences with the pervert.
"Who's Travis?" Sakiya asked.
"The pervert, Sango just calls him Frankenstein, Frankie for short, because he's so huge. He's tall but huge in his body, he looks just like Frankenstein. I wish Hisho would fire him, but why would he listen to us? He never listened to us before." Rin said frowning.
"I hate people like that, but I bet he'll listen to you once someone decides to sue him." Sakiya said pressing the print button on the computer.
"Yeah, somebody might not be lucky like you were and have someone there to save them. I don't know what I would do if I was alone with him." Kagome said genuinely worried. This guy had been a big problem as long as Rin had been working there.
"Look! Haha! I think this picture is even funnier printed out on paper!" Sakiya took off running Sango hot on her trail for the picture.
"Pass!" Kagome took the picture from Sakiya teasing Sango with it then stuffed it in her purse walking to the door.
"Kagome would you really do that to your best friend?" Sango said.
"Yes I would." Sango frowned and took a seat glaring at the two of them, mostly Sakiya. She vowed to not speak to them for conspiring against her.
"Now that that's settled I'm going to the vending machine. I'm not made to skip breakfast in the morning. Any orders, I'm buying!" Kagome said jumping up pulling money out of her purse.
"Anything chocolate, I've been craving it." Sango said breaking her vow of silence for the love of her life, chocolate.
"I'm fine, coffee does a body good." Rin said consumed with the liquid in her cup.
"You do know that coffee stunts the growth right." Rin shrugged and took another swig of her warm coffee.
"That's why I have high heels." She said putting her feet up on the table so that everyone could see the pink heels under her light blue jeans. Her thin pink shirt took the shape of her upper body and was split at the arm one end of the shirt longer than the other.
"I'll come with you, the restrooms' right next to the break room right?" Kagome nodded giggling at Rin's comment.
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"Hahaha! And here's a picture of him when he found out that we slashed his tires!" Inuyasha howled walking into the front doors of The Now handing them to Kouga. Kouga and Inuyasha laughed loudly not caring whose office it was penetrating or how Miroku was finding it harder and harder to keep the scowl off his face or the glare out of his eyes. He thought the actual deeds and the effect it had on them was bad, but now listening to his friends joy at his expense he could conclude that the aftermath was defiantly worse.
"Sir may I help you find a--- Mr. Takahashi, Mr. Takana and Mr. Yukio!" The brunette woman at the front desk with banes looked up and smiled a blush crossing her cheeks. She smiled and leaned across the desk her pretty face friendly and welcoming. Kouga shot her a grin and then waved half heartedly and Miroku took her hand and kissed it.
"Hello. " Inuyasha smirked at her setting her face in flames.
"Will you tell Mrs. Rin Iouta that we're here?" He said ironically in a low voice smiling at her. She smiled back and picked up her phone.
"Yes hello? Ms. Iouta Mr. Takahashi, Mr. Takana, and Mr. Yukio are in the front, okay." She said wondering why Rin was suddenly her perky self again.
"Go ahead."
"Thank you." Kouga said as they passed her and began walking down the maze of hallways that lead to Rin's office where ever it was; he couldn't remember he was too busy humiliating Miroku.
He handed the envelope of pictures to Kouga and watched amused as Miroku flinched every time Kouga shuffled to the picture and laughed at the comical looks on Miroku's face. He began to recognize the hallway as the one that Rin's office was on, so much so that he could predict what was coming up next in his head. A plant, the women's restroom, the men's restroom, the break room with Kagome in it at the vending machine. He turned around his mind registering what he saw. To his surprise what came to his face wasn't a smirk but a frown. She was mad at him and he didn't like it. He had left them on a sour note that would be hard to fix. He had to fix it and he had to do it now. He didn't know why it was so important to him but it was and he always got what he wanted.
"Inuyasha?" Miroku asked despite his humiliation.
"Uh, I gotta go to the bathroom, I'll meet you there. You know where Rin's office is right?" He said getting a nod from Miroku and laughter from Kouga. He walked into the restroom giving them time to turn away. He stood pressed against the tiled wall until his ears picked up the sound of the retreating footsteps. He peaked out of the restroom and watched them as they turned the corner.
He walked to the break room door and put his hand on the cold metal wondering if Kagome's attitude would prove to be like the door, cold and stiff or would she blow up at him. He looked into the window and watched her as she gently pressed the numbers matching the items she wanted and then began to bang her fist on the machine when it didn't give her what she wanted. She rested her head on the machine tired out from beating it. He could feel a smile come to his face at her goofiness, and to his disdain found himself ducking when she looked his way as if she felt him watching her.
"I hide from no one." He said quietly standing up. He sighed as he put his hand on the door handle and slowly turning it. Before he could get the door open his cell phone rang. He quickly answered it afraid she would here it and leave before he could make amends.
"Hello!" He snapped turning his back on the door. He rolled his eyes as the representative of the magazine he and Kouga were currently supposed to be taking pictures for lectured him over the phone for being twenty minutes late. Leaning back on the door he slid down sitting on the ground.
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"Wait look at this one Miroku." Kouga laughed showing evidence of Miroku's most embarrassing night of his life. Miroku arched forward trying to take the pictures out of Kouga's hands but only succeeded in knocking them out of his hand into a big humiliating mess and making Kouga laugh harder.
"This is a good picture of you Roku."
"Everybody's funny these days." He muttered under his breath shoving his hands into his pockets and turning the corner leaving Kouga to pick up the pictures by himself.
He bent down willing himself to stop laughing and began to gather the pictures again looking at each one and chuckling each time he put one back in the sleeve. One last picture lay alone on the floor away from all the rest close to the wall. He walked over to the wall and picked the picture up not recognizing it, but despite that he still smiled running his index finger over the people in the picture one in particular.
In the picture Sango and Inuyasha were smirking wickedly in the night, Sango holding up deuces while Inuyasha laughed and pointed at something in the distance. In the back of the two standing on the hood of a limo a smile purer than he had ever seen on her face lighting up the photo was Sakiya. He stood up slowly, loving the dazzle of her smile and that outfit that she had been wearing that night. That night he had had merely a sample of her skin and intimacy and had partly used helping her as an excuse to do so. He pulled the picture down from his face and to his surprise found the real Sakiya standing there her body in mere stride like he had just materialized out of nothing.
She took the picture out of his hand and smiled this time real like the way she did in the photo. He smiled a ghost of a smile as he watched her show him her true self despite him being there. She looked up and handed him the picture smirking, then giggled a bit looking up at him.
"Hi." She said still giggling. He smirked back; they were making progress that was the first time that she didn't offer him a sarcastic remark as a salutation. She leaned into the wall crossing her arms and smiling. She wouldn't be surprised if he showed up at her apartment, he seemed to be everywhere nowadays.
"So what brings you by?" She said.
"Inuyasha, Miroku and I came to give Rin mental support before she interviews Sesshomaru."
"She'll need that. Rin Iouta is the anti-Sess." His chuckle faded into silence and his smile faded in seriousness. He put his hand by her head using it as a support. Finding the minutes ticking by she glared a little catching herself before it became something too vicious. His eyes were trained on her electric storms of emotion.
"Do you need something?" She asked not being sarcastic; he looked as if he had something on his mind.
"I need the same thing I needed the first time I met you, when you tried to castrate me. Let me take you out angel." He said to her comforting her with soft words instead of cocky ones.
'Angel...' She narrowed her eyes at the nickname.
"I can't, as you found out I'm in the middle of something right now, and I'm not quite through snipping the loose ends." She frowned. His inner demon growled in jealousy that she still thought of her ex. Her eyes stayed with the floor as she rubbed her arm sadness crossing her face. He growled deeply in the back of his throat so deep that it went undetected by her human ears. She was still thinking about that asshole? You would think that she still loved him, and that in his mind was unfathomable, when he had entered her life she was done with that chapter. She needed a real man and that real man just happened to be an ookami hanyou named Kouga.
'The bastard's still calling me, fucking stalker.' She glared.
"Do you have something to say, wolf?" She said her eyes stubborn reading part of his mind. He snorted at her demanding tone of him and her nickname that she shared with Inuyasha for him sending her into a mild form of annoyance.
"I can tell you grew up with dog breath." He said gruffly watching her bristle between his arms as he put his other hand beside her head and caged her in.
"There's a little thing called personal space, look into it, and while you're doing that why don't you insult more of my friends, that just makes my day." She said putting her hand onto his arm feeling it swell and become rock hard beneath her fingers. She pulled her hand back cautiously dreading the feeling that she wasn't in control of this situation.
"You didn't seem that bothered the day I was saving you from those twins, you even thanked me for it." He said sneering wanting to feel the struggle of her inner bull.
"Yeah I thanked you for the thought of helping me, but as for the gesture I've had better wolf." She said fully succeeding in bruising his ego and giving him what he wanted. He didn't know how her attitude toward him could do a complete one eighty so easily but he loved to see her buck against him. He looked down on her at her eyes then traveled down to her lips being turned on by her inner struggle not to like him.
"That's not what I saw." He watched her blush.
"And I thought demons had good eyesight." She said walking back to Rin's office with Kouga closely in tow.
"It's just a matter of time." He said catching up with her quick strides placing his arm around her shoulders liking the smirk on her face. She rolled her eyes and smiled considering saying no to the cocky man beside her a personal pleasure.
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I kicked the machine one last time glaring at it as though this kick will some how be different from the other three hundred times I assaulted it.
"Stupid machine, you took my money you hunk of junk." I say then put my hand on my forehead realizing that I am chatting with an inanimate object. Bending down beaten by my mechanical foe I pull out the picture of Sango and look at it to cheer me up, pathetic I know but its working.
"Poor Sango. Maybe I'll do something to cheer her up" I say aloud kicking the machine one more time before grabbing the three bags of chips, four candy bars and adding them to the soda I bought and stand up. I shiver a bit happy about leaving the lone room. After discussing Frankie with Sango it's unnerving to be in a room by myself here. That's all the more reason to leave quickly.
As I turn to leave I am stop by a large mass whose immobile position knocks everything in my hands except the picture of Sango falls to the floor. I feel like glaring at whoever it is but it was my fault.
"Don't you know, that vandalizing Now property is a crime?" The mass says to me. I look up prepared to apologize but am caught off guard by the face of my guest. I know his face and I hide my reaction just in case I am wrong. I run my eyes up his tall bulky body all the way up to his dirty (as in not washed) blonde hair and realize, well confirm that I made no mistake. This is Frankie.
"I—I" I keep in what I really want to say choosing to get out as quickly as possible. I turn to the left to walk away but again am met with his big body. Backing up I hit the vending machine chills quickly making their way down to the back of my legs, though I'm not afraid, just aware of what he is capable of.
"So you know her?" he grins taking my chin in his calloused hand. He turns my head this way and that examining it, weighing me against Sango in his sick mind. I slap his hand away and shiver much to my dismay. Gross!
His body towering over mine and shrouding me in a shadow inches closer to me, my fifty cent bars of Hershey's chocolate oozing out from under his shoes his. I look down at my candy slightly annoyed that he crushed them like they grew on trees. Before I realize it I voice my thoughts.
"Those weren't free!" I hiss getting his huge fist slammed into the glass behind me as an answer. The glass spider webs and becomes flimsy behind my back.
"You didn't answer my question wench." His patience is thinning and I can tell by the way he has clamped his hand over my now bruising arm.
"It's none of your business! How is that for answer for you?" I say pained trying to relinquish the pain he has inflicted on me.
"Where's your friend? We have unfinished business. Every since the first time I've met her I've wanted to have her body beneath mines. I want her so bad I can taste the little bitch." He licked his lips imaging her grinding into me. My stomach turns as the little space I did have is now gone. I slap him fueled by the anger of Sango and the anger of him not respecting my space. He slaps me back sending me a little further into fear but not enough to where I can't think. My face burns and I feel something grow within his pants. What kind of freak gets off on the pain of others? Apparently he finally figures out that Sango isn't in the room and begins to massage up my thigh almost to the opening of my skirt. I slap his hand away impurities crawling on my skin.
'This perverts going to rape me!' I think looking around the room insanely for help. My body thrashes and bucks against his only making him happier. I can feel my saner mind begin to leave as I thrash. He grabs my shoulder and slams me into the coke machine next to the broken vending machine.
"Chill bitch, you're not who I want, so you don't have to worry about anything happening to that sweet ass you got there. However you can give your friend a souvenir for me." He says heading in fast for a hard kiss.
As he leans in for my lips his face is ripped away from the air around my mouth and slammed onto the floor. Inuyasha stands in front of me pissed to say the least with me behind him protectively. He doesn't know how happy I am he is here!
"Don't you ever put your fucking paws on her again unless you want them broke the hell off! Don't even breathe her fucking air you sick bastard!" He shouts. The man lunges at him a look of disgust on his face prodding Inuyasha's sunglasses off his face as he gets into a defense stance. As the slow man runs for him Inuyasha places his fist into the monster's gut sending him reeling to the door leaning on it for support and gasping for air.
End Kags P.O.V.
"Dirty fucking hanyou!" He says when he gets his breath back as a drive by insult. He leaves the room holding his stomach.
Anger rises off of me at the insult that he hadn't heard for years. I fight the urge to follow the man who dared to force himself on what I was pursuing. I growl my nose flaring at the way that bastard's and Kagome's scents mixed heavily in the air. Remembering that she was still there and she was the one who had taken the damage because I wasn't there to save her, I turn back to her a soft look on my face. She held her arms her body crawling with impurities. Her body that I have been fighting hard to make mine has no business being manhandled by that big bitch.
I walk to her stopping in front of her. Her face pulsated under my tender touch. That's how it should always be, my touch. I can feel the fire of the slap under my open palm. I growl deep clenching and unclenching my fist leaving puncture wounds from my claws on my hand. Nobody touches what is mine and mine alone. Usually I'm not this domineering but I can't get past the fact that he dared to touch her. I scowl making myself angrier.
'Why the hell wasn't I here?' I ask tracing the bruise on her arm with a lone claw.
"Are you okay?" I ask ready to except her praise. I look up surprised when she slaps my hand away, glaring at me. Picking up her stuff she heads for the door…angry? Angry! I step in front of the door grinning at her. Its surprising that after almost being raped she can still hold a grudge. She scowls at me ready for a fight.
"Whoa, I'm not here to fight!" I say holding up my hands like a white flag. I would have thought saving her would have been enough of a white flag for her.
End Inu's P.O.V
"Wait I…" He said reluctant to say anything contradicting the hard truth that Kagome could be a bitch.
"You what? You want to call me a bitch, well spare me because I can get that from him!" she shouted pointing past Inuyasha and after Frankie. Inuyasha smoldered at the mere comparison of the two of them. Inuyasha glared at the thought of her going to him then sighed leaning his head back for a temporary escape from this mess he had created.
"No, I'm sorry." He said tiredly. Fighting with her was quickly draining him and by this point in time he actually meant it. He watched her face soften at the right answer correctly expressed; sincerely.
"You should be. Don't ever call me bitch again Inuyasha and I'm not kidding." She said her voice disappointed. He grins at her, her demand cute to him in every possible way.
"For your knowledge babe I don't think you're a bitch. In a demon's household bitch is a common word." He said speaking the truth however cocky it was. He walked over to the vending machine punched out the rest of the glass and grabbed some chocolate to replace her crushed ones.
"Okay bitch." She smirked the word sounding more vulgar coming from her. He scrunched his face up taken aback by her language.
"It's usually directed toward a woman." He said despising the word toward him. She nodded searching her purse for any more loose change. She looked up at his silence finding him brooding and no spare change. She smiled at him her grudge fully dispersed now that he had learned his lesson.
"Don't worry Inuyasha; I'm not going to start calling you that on a regular basis now. I just wanted you know how I feel when you decide to call me by that nick name." He was still upset about learning something that wasn't self taught, that actually made him feel something on the other side.
"He crushed all Sango's chocolate and now I'm broke. I'm having a great day!" She said looking at Inuyasha after another trip into her purse. He handed her four chocolate bars smirking out of his funk.
"Thank you." She said walking next to him as they walked back to Rin's office. She smiled at him and he felt something foreign surge through him at her simple pleasure. Most women he'd been involved with would have insisted that he get the chocolate from a candy shop three hundred dollars a box simply because he could but she was different. She didn't even ask him for any money. He wasn't rich but he was well off he could certainly spoil her and still have the money the next day to do it again.
"Thanks for saving me. I'm sorry he called you a dirty hanyou." She said opening a bag of chips a frown on her face. He looked away retreating from the insults. Something told her that wasn't the only time he had been insulted for what he was.
"Don't apologize. He should be glad he ran he would have died for touching you and the insult." He said seriousness lodged in his words and mind.
"Kagome?" He frowned at her as she snacked on a back of chips. She stopped eating halted by the seriousness on his face and voice.
"Yeah." She said.
"Are you sure you're okay?" he said waiting for her so he could follow the scent fresh on his nose to murder Frankie. She smiled at him again putting a reassuring hand on his shoulder.
"I'm sure." She said feeling his eyes on her red cheek.
'Because of you.'
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"I can't believe he did that to you Kag! Rin you really need to talk to your boss that bastard, he has gone too far!" Sango said. Kagome held her hands up expressing her good health leaving out the man's provocative fantasies of Sango.
"You know he's not going to get rid of him, besides I'm fine guys I swear!"
"Kagome don't say it was okay because it wasn't." Inuyasha somewhat snapped put off by the fact that it seemed like she was protecting him. She didn't realize what she was putting at stake by saying that it was just 'okay'. She was putting herself at stake taking own self and her body for granted but as long as he was around it would never be 'okay'.
She looked down her friends' lectures getting to her.
"It's not okay though Kagome it would have been a lot worse if Inuyasha hadn't of been there! I say we call the police." Sakiya said sounding unusually reasonable. They all looked at her weirdly getting a glare in response. They would have thought Rambo would have been her answer.
"Or me Miroku and Inuyasha can beat the hell out of him." Kouga said Inuyasha liking his idea more than the police thing.
"It's okay really it is. Inuyasha broke his nose." Kagome said smiling at him.
"He's lucky that's all I broke."
"I guess." Sango said not willing to let this be the end. If he wasn't going to be behind bars he would be fired if it was the last thing she did. She wouldn't let him take it further than that with anymore girls at Rin's job.
"I heard you had a bad date Miroku, care to share?" Rin said trying to change the subject smiling at Miroku who only got a pink hue over his nose in a response. Sango frowned wondering why the joy that revenge had promised her wasn't there. She had tried to persuade her mind to brag at his expense but couldn't bring herself to do when she looked at the charming smile that he gave her despite her trickery. Was he really that much nicer than her?
"It wasn't that bad, it was with Sango." He smiled at her and she blushed not knowing if it was embarrassment or his compliment. She was quickly beginning to feel like the bad guy and, that was not a feeling she liked.
"My father always said a woman scorned was worse than hell it's self and I guess the only thing I regret is the fact that I scorned such a beautiful woman and ruined what would have been a great date." She couldn't help it her mouth hung open, how could he be so sweet after what she did to him? Sango frowned begging her mind not to doubt her childish decision to have a hand in Miroku's emotional demise.
"Aww, shame on you guys!" Rin said, adding to Sango guilt.
"Inuyasha was the master mind behind it all! He made me." Sakiya said simply. Inuyasha glared at her and shook his head.
"Hell no don't pin this on me you helped of your own free will!"
"Though I was born at night I wasn't born last night, but my vendetta is with Inuyasha. So I forgive you." He said to her earning a smirk thrown in Inuyasha's direction. Sango frowned guilt eating at her. Was he that much of a good guy that he could excuse her from being a bitch to him and tricking him into ultimate humiliation in a filthy convenience store restroom, damn she was definitely guilty.
"It was still funny." Kouga said laughing with Kagome who was shuffling through the freshly developed pictures.
"Oh, damn we gotta go!" Sakiya said standing up abruptly showing Kagome her watch, which read a little past ten thirty.
"Bye guys! Good luck Rin!" She took Sakiya's hand yanking her out of the door.
"Bye Kag." Inuyasha said waving to her quick exit.
"I guess we should be going huh?" Inuyasha asked Kouga yawning. Kouga shrugged not at all fazed by the glare on Miroku's face.
"Oh no let's stay a little longer! We're only forty five minutes late!" He said laying the sarcasm on thick.
"If you insist." Inuyasha said leaning back in his chair. Miroku rolled the folder up on Rin's desk and swatted the back of Inuyasha's head with it. Inuyasha glared at him standing up and headed to the door. Kouga laughed waving wishing Rin luck.
"Bye Sango!" Sango looked at Rin with a stressed expression waving. She begged herself not to do what she was about to do. You don't make up for revenge! It was an unwritten rule!
'Wait you don't have to this! He's a pervert remember that!' Her mind screamed trying to bring her hand stretched out for Miroku's shoulder down to her side but her body registered nothing.
'No! no no NO NO NO!'
"Miroku?" she said her face pained and the grip on his shoulder light. He stopped and turned to her a smile on his face.
"Yes?" He said disappointing Sango in the hopes that he would mess up and restore her to her old revenge loving glory.
'I can't believe I'm doing this.' She put her hand on her face shielding it from his.
"I… I uh…"
"Take a breath Sango. I'm sure what you have to say isn't that hard to get out." He said smiling.
'You have no idea.'
"I want…Let's try… I feel bad about what I did and I want to… try again?" He looked at her as if she was lying.
"Is this a trick?" He said looking at her face for any sign of a lie. He searched her eyes and found nothing. She looked at him a pitiful look on her face.
"Sango my dear you are not cut out for revenge…"
"I'm serious Miroku, I want to try again." This time she sounded sure in her decision to undo what was done. He looked at her contemplating turning it down. He sighed knowing he couldn't turn a date with her down even if he was sure she was going to trick him again.
"Alright, but this time I'm picking where we go." He said.
"Okay, Details please." She giggled a bit her guilt peeling away. He smiled her smile erasing the slate clean.
"Tomorrow at nine, we're going to Singe so come dressed accordingly. Got a pen?" She nodded and pulled a pen out of her purse. He grabbed her hand and wrote the address and his number on her hand. He smiled down at her and opened his mouth to speak.
"Miroku bring your ass!" Kouga shouted. He sighed and handed her the pen back.
"Bye!" He said waving to her catching up to his friends.
"See you tomorrow!" She yelled waving him off. As she made her way to her car she realized she didn't know what the hell Singe was, and she really didn't want to call him. She frowned putting her head on her steering wheel. She didn't like the way things were going. Since when did guys have her number before she got theirs, and when exactly had she stopped wanting to hurt Miroku? Nothing good was going to come of this!
Rin
Rin laid her head down on her desk willing herself to step out of the mild form of panic she was going through. She couldn't come to grips with the fact that she might have failed at her job even if it was a little bit. Not that it was a new feat for human beings to fail at something, but Rin had made it a point to never fail, ever. It just wasn't an option and she needed this silence and time alone to compose something out of nothing. Nobody had ever gotten to the point that they eventually wanted to end up by giving up when things became too hard. Rin loved her job, but she still wanted to explore all aspects of it to be sure that where she was, was where she really wanted to be. For a long while she had been experimenting in many different jobs and after a lot of searching she had finally narrowed it down to entertainment and writing.
"Rin---" Rin looked up from her thoughts a woman with shoulder length blonde hair smiling at her timidly various kinds of make-up in her hands. Rin stood up feeling like it was her turn to go in the doctor's office. The woman frowned and handed some of the make-up to Rin as she directed her down the hall to the make-up room.
"What's wrong Rin?" She asked as Rin sat in the chair in front of the vanity mirror light illuminating any spot on her face that need a touch of make-up.
"Nothing…" She said.
"Rin, you're not nervous are you?" She asked applying sparse amounts of pink eyeliner above her eye.
"Of course not Karen, have you ever seen me nervous." She lied smoothly convincing Karen as she shook her head no.
"See I'm fine." She said. A woman in tight black jeans with flat irons in her hands took Karen's place and Karen sat on the couch in the corner of the room. Rin threw a look Karen's way at the woman's quiet form feeling her need to instigate. She looked at her skeptically through the mirror as she straightened her hair. She looked at her a grin riding on her lips.
"Okay what's up?" Karen said crossing her arms over her chest.
"Nothing much…Except I saw your latest interviewee." She said grabbing another strand of her hair. Rin shrugged refusing to stroke her ego for some rumors and instigations about him.
"So what's he like?" Karen asked leaning forward in her chair while Rin acted like she was fazing out of the conversation.
"Well…" She started off slow agonizing for Karen.
"Quit playing, come on." She whispered the lure of gossip too much for her. Rin smiled at the two listening secretly.
"Okay. He's gorgeous! I've never seen anything like him and he's so fine, he brings a new meaning to tall dark and handsome, maybe six something. But he's a total ice king! I tried to get him to..." Rin closed her eyes deeming her information useless. When had her information of the stars that blew through here ever been worth anything, Rin smiled. She was waiting for the first naïve young star to come in here so that she could trap him and be treated to the life she swore she was supposed to be born into. Every chance she got she told Rin and Karen this.
"Well ladies I have to go my segment of the show is coming up." She jumped up as soon as she felt her put the last touch on her hair. They waved to her as she made her way to a room with cameras and a decorated set as a handsome man stood on the stage talking about the latest information on the world's most popular stars. People rushed behind the cameras their duties unknown to Rin as they ambushed different people with make-up coffee, headsets and other things.
"Excuse me." She said as her and a young boy about the age of sixteen almost collided.
"Its okay miss good luck today." He said spinning around the box of pizza in his hand not shifting once against his speed. Everyone seemed to be over aware of how big this project was, she just didn't like being unprepared. She made a quick left out of the busy part of the room and headed to the middle of the room into the door that was labeled Cue Room. The room had tables built into the wall where people were working. In front of her were machines with all sorts of wires and buttons. She opted to stay away from them before she touched something and cut off all the lights on the stage.
She walked to the water cooler trying to remain inconspicuous as her boss chatted domineeringly to her coworkers, demeaning them as human beings like he did to anyone he felt was beneath him which was everyone.
"You idiots mess up again and I'll fire you!" He shouted up at the girls making up for his short stature.
"Y-yes sir!" They said quickly heading out of the door trying not to encourage his wrath. He ran a hand over his thin brown hair barely enough to cover his scalp then stuck his hands in his pockets proud of his intimidating qualities. He spied Rin much to her consternation and sauntered to her a smug look on his face as he approached her. She placed the cup to her mouth and looked above him refusing to make eye contact.
"Rin." She ignored him continuing to look above his less than average height.
"Rin!" He shouted. She looked down slowly then feigned surprise.
"Oh, sorry didn't see you there Hisho." He somewhat glared at her. She was one of the few people he couldn't get to and she did it with such a sunny attitude.
"Is it too much to ask for you to call me sir?" He murmured, she giggled like he was playing with her. She knew he wasn't she just didn't respect him enough to comply with his wishes. He sighed like she wasn't understanding and placed his hand on his face. He thought she was a complete idiot but that didn't bother Rin much. He didn't know her, she was very intelligent. The only reason he hired her was because he thought she was a moron despite her college degree at such a young age and he figured he would be able to run over her. Even though her works and abilities to get interviews were the best he had ever seen he still doubted her intelligence thinking the cause for her "luck" was he and her dumb beauty. Over the time she had been working for him she realized he didn't think very much.
'I should have stayed in my office.' She nodded and let him semi-praise her for her good work on getting Sesshomaru to do the show.
"Rin! You're on in two!" A man with a headset on said as the show cut to a commercial. She smiled at Hisho happy to leave him in his self thanking conversation. Once she entered on the stage people rushed to her giving her everything she needed and more. She let them have the outside of her as she fazed out of the attention and focused on the man walking confidently toward them his molten eyes trained on her through the thick crowd of bodies hovering among her. He took her full attention connecting with her in a way that someone you had never met couldn't, yet he looked at her as though he knew her.
He remembered her from the fashion show and by the look in her eyes he could tell that she realized that he remembered her. He let a smirk grace his usually unfeeling lips. She adverted her eyes giving in to the pack around her. Maybe she would be more than a hungry interviewer that would bend to what he told her to.
"Oh, Mr. Takahashi, it's great to have you here!" Hisho said holding out a lonely hand. Sesshomaru looked at it like it had crawled out from the sewer. Didn't he see that he was busy?
"Okay…well I would like to thank you again for agreeing to do this; I know you're very busy." Sesshomaru looked from Rin to Hisho mild annoyance etched in his stoic features. He pulled his hand back like it had been burned and began walking motioning for Sesshomaru to follow him. He ignored the fact that Sesshomaru had already begun to resent him and continued to praise him.
He walked him up the stairs to the set oblivious to the fact that Sesshomaru had been looking at Rin and not him. He wasn't sure why but he wanted to make her flinch under his gaze. It really was a mystery to him but since he wanted it he would make it so, even if it happened to be on live television.
"She is a bit bubbly I know but she hasn't failed me yet and I'm sure she won't fail me now. She isn't one of the sharpest tools in the shed but that's not exactly why I hired her, you know what I mean?" Hisho laughed, the her being Rin. He looked at Sesshomaru his last dumb statement meant to reach him on a male level but failed him miserably, he now found Hisho annoying as ever. Sesshomaru's cool expression changed into a slight glare and Hisho had begun to wish that he would go back to ignoring him.
Hisho rudely shooed away everyone and called Rin out pounding on her patience again today. She walked over to them a hidden glare on her face as she approached her short boss.
"This is Rin Iouta who will be---"
"I am quite aware of who she is." He said his voice accusing Hisho of calling him stupid. He read deeply into the offence and quickly backed off giving Sesshomaru his space.
"O-of course you do, sir." He laughed nervously walking into the cue room after waving, to afraid to speak and give a vocal goodbye. Rin giggled a little covering her mouth to hide the smile. It was always a comical thing when Hisho was knocked off his high horse and reminded that everyone in the world weren't one of his employees.
He examined her as she giggled taking on the air of a child. He could not sense the ditziness in herbut instead realized the idiocy in the boss, outside the fact that he irked him. Rin was intelligent and hid it well from those she did not trust. He would make her show him that and more even if she didn't trust him. That was the way of the world, Sesshomaru wanted and Sesshomaru acquired that's just the way it was.
Before she could rightly introduce herself her hand was taken in his clawed one. She looked at their hands taken aback by his demand of her attention. She looked up at him his glowing eyes enrapturing her in something she couldn't escape if she wanted to. She examined the situation aware of this strange liaison he had created between the two of them. If she pulled her hand back and flinched under his gaze she would be terrified of his inner thoughts of her and mess up the interview, and that was not an option. So she smiled at him grasping his hand tighter in her small one her eyes challenging. Just as she opened her mouth to speak the same man that had saved her from Hisho earlier appeared in front of them and began counting down on his fingers from five. He released her hand walking off the stage waiting for his cue to enter back on the stage and into the view of the audience.
"Hello this is Rin Iouta here again with your favorite part of the show, the Now, as in what's in! That's right, the A-list." His golden eyes flooded her attention as he watched her run lucidly and lively through the lines she had just made up out of the camera's view as he waited for his cue. "From the bad boys and girls that made headliners with outrageous stunts to the ones with a heart of gold that has made a special place in your heart and mines. Or if mysterious, sexy and sophisticated is your type you're in luck because I happen to have someone who fits that description to a tee." She smiled and entertained the people who were watching her as she spoke.
"Don't scream too loud ladies. This man is one of our world's great models bringing his own unique style to the camera and the people," the picture of Sesshomaru that was on Rin's desk was displayed behind her a thousand times bigger, even more delicious. She turned around and smirked at the picture admiring his well-built body displayed across the screen, larger than life. "But now he's all grown up yes, all grown up…" He smirked at her toying with the audience and flirting with his picture. She turned to the picture again and flirted with it tempting the girls in the audience with that same picture up on the walls in their rooms.
"At the age of 18 he started the very popular," She leaned into the camera willing the audience to connect the clues she was so agonizingly drawing. "clothing store Tenseiga which I believe is where I got my clothes." She laughed like the audience was sitting right in front of her. Hisho smiled her natural gifts with the camera pleasing him. "Talk about ambitious right? Alright let me shut-up and bring him out here before I cause a riot. Welcome Mr. Anonymous himself, Sesshomaru Takahashi." The camera man pulled back getting a wider view so that he could film both of them at the same time as Sesshomaru walked across the stage silkily his face the same as it always was, preserved and cool his disregard for the camera and the people watching him making him even sexier.
Rin forced herself not to think, refusing to give her mind room to find this man attractive while she was in front of the camera. She had a job to do. As he approached she again took his hand opting not to skip the hug that she had given to other stars that had been on her show to save her from the possibility that her face could light up and she would lose the battle of will.
He of course could not hear her thoughts and would like it if her face burned from the slightest touch of him. Her hand still apart of his he kissed it tenderly raising her small hand up to his lips the kiss soft and chaste. Her hand twitched under his lips prompting him to smirk slightly as he pulled away from her. She maintained her composure and grinned coolly at the camera taking her seat beside him. His eyebrows disappeared behind the fringe of his bangs as he smirked at her taken aback by her stubborn attitude.
'He…he kissed me.' Her thoughts spoke timidly shocked by this simple gesture that she had experienced so many times before. What really shocked her was the fact that it bothered her and had made her heart skip a beat traveling up her arm sending small tremors through her nerves. Sure her guest on the show often kissed her hand or gave her hugs but for some reason that Rin could not pinpoint it seemed different, like he wanted to spur some reaction out of her. The gleam in his beautiful eyes told her so.
She to him looked like she wasn't a day over the age of seventeen maybe even eighteen but that was pushing it. Yet despite the innocence in her appearance she moved and talked like a woman taking his golden gaze with intensity that no one he met before had been able to match.
He sat down straightening his white suit so that it looked as perfect on his strapping body as it did when he was standing. He wore his suit like it was specially made for his broad shoulders tall stature and well toned body. He straightened his tie and looked to her waiting for her line of questioning.
'Here we go.'
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"She's doing pretty good. I don't know what she was worried about." Sakiya said through the bobby pins in her mouth her sentence indistinct.
"What?" Kagome asked her eyes glued to the t.v. where Rin was smiling at Sesshomaru who had yet to crack a smile a phone glued to her ear and a chip in her other hand.
"She said she's doing pretty good, she doesn't know why she was so worried." A kitsune in the barber chair under Sakiya's skilled hand reiterated Sakiya's sentence for her as she watched the show. Her lavish bluish tail hung from the back of the chair swinging timidly from left to right. Sakiya took the bobby pin from her mouth and placed it in the youkai's thick hair pinning it back so that she could another layer of extensions to her midnight hair.
"See Sango, even Sakiya thinks so. She looks so natural."
"Yeah she does she looks as if she knows him, I wish I knew him." The kitsune said her tail speeding up against Sakiya's legs.
"Misty thinks so to, I think Rin's just fine. Who's Misty? Oh, she the model I'm taking pictures of today at the Shinto Aquarium. Hey Misty?"
"Yes?" She smiled small fangs gleaming in her mouth.
"My friend Sango says Hi." Misty waved like Sango was standing right there her yellowish orange eyes smiling.
"She says hi…okay bye and stop worrying she'll be fine." She tossed the phone on the other cushion of the black couch she was sitting on and turned back to the television increasing the volume.
oooOOooo
"Why would she want to interview him? He's a cocky asshole." Inuyasha said glaring at the tv screen as the photographer he locked out of the room screamed angrily at him through the door. Inuyasha glared at the door and picked up the remote increasing the volume until the man's enraged rants were completely drowned out.
"Then you two aren't as different as you claim to be are you?" Kouga laughed his eyes on the television as he dodged a bottle of shampoo aimed for his head.
'Hey, at least they're here.' Miroku chuckled at Inuyasha's childish actions. His attitude had steadily begun to go down hill during the show. Rin happened to ask Sesshomaru did he consider his younger brother a rival for him and he had quickly shot that notion down and declared Inuyasha an idiot, a moron, and a dunce all in one afternoon. Rin laughed it off saving face for Inuyasha calling his insults jokes for the public and rushed into another question before he could call her on her intended mistake.
'Bastard.' He glared at the tv set choosing to ignore Kouga's snickers at his expense… for now.
oooOOooo
"Time has flown by so quickly." She said feigning disappointment.
"I would think it was prone to in the company of someone as beautiful as you." He said his words gliding out of his mouth easy and attractively. He was enjoying her subtle gestures of avoiding any compromising positions with him that would show any form of attraction to him or the real her. She hadn't verbally or physically (he liked a physical thank you more than verbal ones.) accepted any of his compliments. She separated herself from the people and himself slighting him the chance to see that fire she hid so well from the people around her.
'My, couldn't you charm Mona Lisa out of her painting.' She glared inwardly. Why did she feel as though he was challenging her?
"Well lucky for you I have saved the last question for last. Are you ready?" She grinned.
"As I'll ever be." He said.
"Good, so how are you with the ladies?" She asked the answer known by everyone but still needing to be explored. He grinned his teeth actually showing in a smile like matter, more goading like than smile like. He leaned his body toward her,almost crossing the table that separated them. He tilted his head toward her making the camera close in on them.
"Do I have a girlfriend or how am I with females?" He asked toying with her. Her eyes took on slight annoyance but only for a split second then she smiled at him.
"Surprise me." She teased her words low and luring.
"I do not have a girlfriend but as for my status with women, I haven't met one I couldn't get yet." Rin sat back like he had spit in her face finding it harder to keep herself controlled like he so easily controlled his voice and facial expressions.
"How can you pull that off?" she said him incredulously. Most women could feel how he could pull that off as soon as he walked into a room. He narrowed his eyes at her, was she actually going to doubt him? Sure he had allowed her to toy with him on some degree but he was done playing now.
"Would you like me to show you how?" he asked her crossing into her comfort zone. She smiled a wicked smile then turned to the camera repairing it slightly.
"Ehehe..." she laughed slowly, avoiding the cameraat all cost. She could not speak and her heart was caught mid-beat at the look in his eye, and the possibility that he wasn't just being charming for the audience. He grinned at her letting his white fangs enhance theseriousness of his question."Well that's all the time we have for today, stay tuned for The Rock Star Look on Now." She laughed smiling at the people, having lost the test of will red claiming her face as she spoke.
"That's a wrap!" the cueing man stepped out of nowhere giving Rin the liberty to walk off the stage and out of the range of Sesshomaru's smirk.
He watched her leave giving her a head start. He fully intended on following her, did she actually think that she could just leave?
"That was great! Just great! You are one of the best things to happen to this station in a long time!" He recited the line he gave to all big stars that came for Rin's show. Sesshomaru's eyes stayed with the direction that Rin escaped to. Hisho grabbed his sleeve demanding his attention. He glared down at Hisho this time not watering it down. Hisho took a step back his explanation coming out as dribble.
"I…I Mr. Takahashi, I have a proposition for you!" He sped up his sentence as though trying to finish his sentence before Sesshomaru hit him. Sesshomaru quirked an eyebrow his inner-business man's needs exceeding his male libido's wants.
"A proposition?" He said his voice collected. Hisho smiled the burn of Sesshomaru's glare easing off of him.
"Yes sir, walk with me, talk with me."
'Bastard!' She shouted in her mind just in case someone was in the break room. She was completely right! He had been challenging her and by being a cocky pervert had won. She had an image to obtain and not only that but she was trying to prove something to Hisho; that she could hold her own in whatever she did, and so far she had proved that fact. Who the hell was he to come in change that so easily? What did he have to prove? He couldn't just stir her up and play with her like a marionette damnit!
'That is why you're angry, isn't it?' a vauge voice called in the back of her mind.
"Of course that's why...I'm angry." She said trying to convince the voice and herself that the words were sincere. She pushed the voice away before it could say something that she couldn't prove wrong or just push away.
"I need something sweet." She said sharply to no one in particular walking to the vending machine that was taped up with caution tape.
"What the hell happened here?" She shouted poking the tape that covered up the shattered glass pricking her finger.
"Damn," She stuck her finger in her mouth the metallic taste filling her mouth. "I'm having the best day!" she said sarcastically her cell phone ringing in her pocket.
"What!" she snapped the name on the screen coming up Hisho.
"Rin come down to my office quickly!" He ordered to her waiting for her reply but receiving a dial tone instead.
"And it gets better." She cursed leaving the room slamming the door behind her. She maneuvered through the hallways cursing every step until she made it to Hisho's office. Slowing she opened the door wondering what bad luck would be waiting for her behind the door.
She walked into the room a little more than annoyed her finger in her mouth. She became even more annoyed once she looked up and no one was in the room except the last person she wanted to be alone in the room with, Sesshomaru. She put on a forced smile standing away from him.
He watched amused as she paced subconsciously sucking on her index finger until the blood was subdued then began chewing on her pinky nail. His eyes were hers enticing goosebumps up her arms and down her neck. He wanted her attention and she wished he didn't, because as long as he desired it regardeless to what she wanted he would get it, negative or positive. So, if he was going to have her attention it would be negative.
She turned toward him ready to verbally attack him shocked to see he wasn't there. She turned to leave the room, creepy now that Sesshomaru decided to pull his disappearing act. She collided with a hard body making her stumble backwards. He stared down on her at least a foot taller than her.
"Rin…" He whispered her name letting it marinade as if testing it out in his mouth, tasting it on his tongue. A blush appeared over the bridge of her nose like a mark of shame, destroying her self composure that she had been trying so hard to keep.
"What the hell did he tell you?" she snapped glaring up at him taking on his amused eyes with that fire he wanted to see. He shot her a questioning look, her outburst indecisive and puzzling.
"Hisho! What the hell did he tell you? What, did he say I was unintelligent? Because if you think I'm too dim to see what you're doing---"
"Rin," he breathed her name again this time following up with a question. "You never answered my question." He closed the space between them further leaving less room for Rin to gather her nerve.
"Your question?" She asked backing up a bit into a space in between the chairs where there was only enough room for her and him to stand without causing them to shift.
"Yes Rin," she wished he would quit saying her name. "my question. I believe I answered yours but you did not answer mine." He said in a husky whisper.
"How can you pull that off…
"Would you like me to show you how…
Her eyes widened and a smirk crossed his lips. Her heart pace quicken and the blush above her nose that never really disappeared grew spreading across her face and across her body in a way that a blush could not embody. She didn't know what to do, all at once he was able to control how she felt and she did not like that feeling, so she fought it. She didn't want to explore the option that she might actually like to answer his question with a yes.
'Who knew my subconscious voice was Miroku!' She scolded herself for the thought.
"Back off ice king." She growled into his face. He placed his clawed hands on either side of her head leaning into his eyes narrowed.
"Wench, refrain from insulting me. Your façades don't interest me." He growled into her his vibrato pulsating into her filling the hollows of her body. His warning bounced off her the only thing getting to her was his body so close to hers.
He growled again looking from her to the door, his intrigue growingwith every glare and fighting word she sent him. No one dared to fight Sesshomaru Takahashi. Footsteps against the floor sent him into another low thunder of annoyed growls and his golden gaze shifted to the door. He removed the cage of his hands and arms away from her and straightened his suit taking the last seat in the long row of chairs lining the wall in front of Hisho's desk.
Hisho walked into the office a can of soda in his hand. He smiled at Rin delighted that she had actually listened to him and came to see what he wanted.
"Have a seat." She sat quickly anxious to leave.
"Something wrong Rin?" She quickly shook her head no giving Hisho her full concentration.
"This week for your human interest piece, I would like you to do it on Mr. Takahashi. I know you do not have as much information as you might want to write an article," He shot down her first excuse not to do an article on him. "So he has graciously agreed to make it a project." He said pleased. Rin's temperature was no longer higher in fact it was dropping; a little below normal.
"…what?" She asked quietly the question so quiet afraid of the answer.
"You two will meet over a time span of two weeks. He said he would be completely honest with you so that your article will be full access. This'll drive the fans nuts." She looked at her boss with a blank look on her face contemplating saying no. What gave him the right to book her calendar for the next two weeks? She scowled at him shocking him. He wasn't aware she could do anything but smile.
Sesshomaru stood on her too fast for her to cover herself and hide from him. She jumped his aura engulfing her in fire catching her off guard. She turned around a glare still clinging to her face stubbornly. He looked down on her his eyes glinting roguishly against her glare.
"Are you lost?" She warned her space violated. He grinned at her that fire that he was looking for surfacing against him. Her space his space what was the difference? Didn't she know that he went where he wanted; he followed rules for no one. He was anything but ordinary, and he wouldn't be treated as such.
"Rin," her name never sounded so good his voice rich, fervent and demanding speaking to her seductively saying more than just Rin. I'm looking forward to our time exploring each other." His words were slow and provocative as he fished his pockets for something, his eyes never leaving her. He grasped her hand filling it with his, his claws tempting her skin in a way she had never experienced before. Her hand which was empty before he held it was now occupied by soft cloth. She grasped her hand around it before it hit the ground.
'What the hell is this?' She thought looking at it as it stained red soaking up her still bleeding finger.
'He could tell I was bleeding?' then she remembered his youkai blood that allowed him to smell her injury. She glared still turning toward Hisho.
"Rin!" He said her name in an angry parental tone angered by her discourtesy toward him and Sesshomaru. The glare still marred her face passionate and subduing. She turned on her heels leaving the room and her boss speechless. She looked down at the handkerchief in her hand sordidly and grasped it tight, holding it out in front of herself.
"Wow, Mr. Takahashi! Every since you came into my life I've had so much fun! Let's see how much more fun I can have with this," she held the handkerchief up higher smiling at it fictitiously. "and a lighter!"
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Alright there's chapter six. Rin has her plate full for the next 2 weeks as Sesshomaru's muse. Maybe she'll have more fun than she thinks she would. I don't know ,she seems to want to stay as far away from the "Ice King" as she can. Sango and Miroku fans, next chapter is for all you guys and soon, very soon Miroku will take his revenge on Inuyasha. So review, review, review! Like these kind people down here:
Snoochie- Thank you, but if you're going to use that prank remember the most important thing, take picture and make doubles! LOL.
Luna-Divine- Well thank you Ms. Divine, yeah the girls really do seem to despise the guys but at least she didn't hit him right? Or try to hit him. I don't think she could get away with hitting him. I'm sorry I took so long, I try to make it the best I can before I release it because I'm determined to make this the first story I've finished since I've been writing on Review again and by all means ramble. : )
Toxiclollipop- I love making them hard to get it gives the story a nice edge right? Review again.
Anonymous- I do take too long to update ( I bet you're saying "Duh!" or something to that effect. Lol.), it's a little nerve racking really, because I don't want to lose any readers. But thank you for the reading reviewing and the compliments. I'm thinkin' about that idea with Miroku and Kagome.
Arrianna- Are you kidding devious is my middle name! LOL. I hope you like this chapter as much s you liked the other one.
angel15025- Thank you and review again!
fallenangel7583- Evil right? Inuyasha's a psycho! He'd probably do something like that. Yeah, but its scenes like the runway scenes that makes his cockiness grow. The length not bothering is good to know because this chapter wasn't exactly short. Thank you very much for the applaud, I'm happy that you're sticking with me through these chapters!
Vengeance4love23- Hope you loved this just as much.
Windgal- He is cocky as hell. Not exactly ASAP but at least I updated right?
Toya's Girl- Yeah you are making my day, I'm glad you like it long because I don't know how to write it any other way.
Animedorkette- Kouga hmm, yeah he helped but looks like he enjoyed itmore than she did. But hey if Miroku wasn't a pervert he just wouldn't be Miroku would he?
There's all my reviewers thank you for your support review again and let me know that you still with on this story!
- Unseen Jade Eyed Wolf
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