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Ch. 4
Rin woke up from a very restful sleep. Stretching under the covers after laying there a moment she sat up to get out of her bed. Not a moment later did her door start to bang.
"Rin! Get up! There's an emergency!" her uncle yelled through her door. Rin bolted to her door and yanked it open. She found her uncle in the living room trying to yank on his shoes. He looked up to see Rin standing there looking confused.
"Someone set fire to the studio," Silas said and that was all that was needed for Rin to bolt back to her room to quickly throw on sweats and a sweatshirt. She grabbed her shoes and followed her uncle out the front door barefoot.
Once in the car they tore down the road and first thing they saw was the black smoke billowing into the sky. Silas turned the last corner sharply to reveal a devastating sight.
Half the building was in flames, firetrucks spewing water to douse the fire, firemen were running around with hoses to get at better angles, spraying even more water. Silas was beside himself when he stepped out of his car. Rin did the same looking at the burning building in disbelief.
Everything was chaos.
Rin watched her uncle start to walk forward, his fingers digging into his hair. She watched him helplessly as he watched as his livelihood was boring to the ground.
It wasn't till midmorning that the last of the fire was put out did a fireman in a chiefs helmet came over. A policeman also came over.
"Are you the owner of this building?" the policeman asked.
"No, but I ran my dance company here. The owner of the building is-"
"Me," a voice came forward in the form of InuTaisho himself.
"InuTaisho," Silas whispered and hung his head, Rin put a comforting hand on his shoulder.
"What caused this?" InuTaisho asked getting straight to the point.
"We believe it was arson," the fireman chief spoke up next, "The point of origin was a melted gas can behind the building."
"Do you have any idea on who might have done this?" Initiate asked getting to the point once again.
"Not at this time, sir. So you know anybody who could have done this?" the police officer turned the question back on InuTaisho.
"I have many enemies sir, but none would do this. I know for a fact," InuTaisho said looking straight into the police officer's eyes. The officer gulped and nodded his head and turned his attention to Silas.
"Mr. Ito-" he started.
"I may know who did this," Silas said, InuTaisho scrunched his eyebrows.
"Who Mr. Ito?" the officer asked prompting for him to continue, a notepad ready to take down names.
"As a dance studio, we select roughly five couple to go to competition. So we have rivals that go to those same competitions. Once of them is run by Naraku Onigumo. He's dirty and he's a cheat. We would have last years competition in the bag, but…they nearly broke Rin's ankle."
"Uncle-"
"No Rin. I know what you are going to say, it was no accident. The judges themselves are so far into Naraku's pocket they didn't even call it," Silas explained, turning to the burned building he further added, "I'm ruined," and walked away to sit on the curb.
Rin looked at her uncle in despair and turned to look at the building herself. Her livelihood was in that building, now it was in shambles.
She walked up to the police officer and got his attention.
"Yes miss?"
"I was wondering when it would be a good time to retrieve stuff form the building. My uncle had a safe in the front office…," Rin explained.
"As soon as everything has cooled down, we will have someone go in and retrieve it. Is there a name and number so we can contact both of you?" the officer asked and Rin rattled off their home phone. Rin gave her thanks to the officer and turned to see InuTaisho talking to Silas.
Rin walked up when they had finished and InuTaisho walked off, now talking into his phone.
"Rin, InuTaisho offered us a place to dance," he said that made Rin's eye's go wide.
"Really? Where?"
"His ballroom. He offered it to all the dancers going to competition," Silas said, "Can you handle sending emails to all of them?"
"Yes," Rin nodded, a smile gracing her face for the first time that day.
XOXO
Rin read and re-read the email she was about to send. Her uncle has been on the phone with parents for most of the day.
From what she heard her uncle say was that he was suggesting other dance studio's and that he would recompense them for that month's dance lessons. It was heartbreaking to see her uncle this out-of-sorts.
Rin sighed when she deemed her email adequate and hit send
bzzzzz, bzzzzz
Rin turned to there phone to see a text from Sesshomaru.
'I hear about what happened. Are you okay?'
Rin smiled and started typing back.
'I'll be fine. My uncle though…lets just say he's seen better days.'
She hit sen and waited for him to reply back. She heard her uncle once again talking on the phone.
bzzzzz, bzzzzz
'Your uncle will be fine. I heard from father the insurance is going to pay for everything.'
'Thats good. By the way can you tell your father the next time you see him, tell him thanks.'
'For what?'
'For letting us use his ballroom for a temporary dance studio. He only offered it to those going to competition, but I'm very grateful.'
'I'll let him know. When will you start coming over?'
'Hopefully Monday. Why? Will I see you there?'
'That is a possibility.'
'Well until then. I'm going to go to bed. Goodnight Sesshomaru.'
'Goodnight Rin.'
Rin smiled and set both her laptop and phone on her nightstand. She snuggled into her bed sheets and fell asleep.
XOXO
Monday rolled around and Rin was once again in front of the Takahashi mansion. She walked around the large house because InuTaisho made a stipulation that they not enter the main house. Rin was fine with it as she entered the ballroom through the backdoor.
The ballroom itself was huge, with high ceilings and a fresco that depicted dog demons flying through the sky. The walls had several oval mirrors and framed with gold filigree.
Rin sighed and walked over to the surround sound system that looked like it was recently put in. She played with it for a mement until she heard someone else walk in. She turned to see her dancing partner Kohaku.
"Hey Rin," he said sitting down to take his tennis hoes off to put on his dance shoes.
"Hey Kohaku," Rin ruled back, finally figuring out the stereo. She put on some music and they both started out with some stretches. About fifteen minutes later they warmed up with a simple waltz.
Then they started their true routine which involved four dances. The waltz, rumba, and the tango. The fourth one was a backup incase they needed to change things up.
"How is your uncle?" Kohaku asked as Rin turned off the stereo.
"He's coping. He had to find another job, part-time though. There isn't a high demand in dance instructors at the moment," Rin replied, trying to play it off like it was no big deal. Kohaku saw the despair in her eyes though. He hadn't seen her eyes like that since her parents died, since he's known her his whole life.
Rin shook her head to get rid of all the bad though plaguing her mind, breathed in deep and put a smile on her face.
"Now on a lighter note. Seeing anyone?" Rin questioned.
Kohaku was taking a swig from his water bottle when she asked nearly spitting out the water in his mouth.
"N-no," Kohaku answered in a stutter, but it was the slight blush on his face that gave him away.
"Oooo! Who is it?"
"None of you business!" Kohaku nearly yelled and hurriedly packed up his bag before Rin corned him with endless questions.
"Besides what about you?" he quickly diverted.
"Me?" Rin cocked an eyebrow.
"Ya you and-" Kohaku nodded toward the door. Rin turned her head in confusion. In the doorway was Sesshomaru. Completely forgetting her interrogation of Kohaku and ran in Sesshomaru's direction. She hadn't seen him since the ball. Unable to stop herself she threw her arms around his neck.
Sesshomaru was surprised with the welcoming he received, but he did not mind it at all. HE looked at her dancing partner and saw him halfway out the door, making his escape. Now he could have Rin all to himself.
Rin let go of his neck and looked up to look at his face.
"Hello Sesshomaru. How have you been?"
"That was my question," he returned, loosening his hold slightly so she didn't get uncomfortable.
"I've been good. Fell a little behind ever since…well never mind," Rin didn't want to mention the fire.
"The fire needs to be mentions. That is mostly why I'm here," he said while letting to of Rin completely to grab something out of his jacket. It was an envelope and he handed it to Rin.
"What's this?"
"The insurance claim," he said watching her pen the envelope and pull out the paper that was in it. He watched her as here eyes widened in surprise. Then she looked up to him.
"They are paying for all of it?" Rin questioned.
"Yes," he said simply.
Rin looked back down at the paper again and reread it to make sure she wasn't dreaming.
Sesshomaru watched as the shock started to fad and smile was appearing upon her features. It gave him time to truly admire here looks. Her hair was up in a braid bun. What would he give to undo the restraints holding her hair in place so he could run his hands through her wavy locks and bring her in so he could-
"Sesshomaru?"
Rin was looking up at him with questioning eyes and the envelope extended in his direction.
Did he just space out?
He mentally shook himself and cleared his throat.
"Keep it. Me and my father made copies. Your uncle could probably use some good news right now," he said, trying to recover from his daydream.
Rin retracted her hand and placed it over her heart.
"Thank you Sesshomaru. I probably should go and tell him," Rin said, not really wanting to part with him. Sesshomaru nodded his head in affirm, watch her turn and then pause. She walked up to him and pecked him on the cheek.
Blushing, Rin hurriedly gathered her things and left the ballroom, leaving Sesshomaru in shock. He smirked and turned on his heel wondering when the next time he would see her.
XOXO
A/N: Hello my peeps! Long time no read! Here is the next chapter. Hope you enjoy!
