I woke up the next morning, not really knowing what to do. My lessons were canceled. Apparently, Teach's daughter had a son. She said something about bad luck coming if she didn't go and see the newborn. I didn't even know Teach had a daughter. Honestly, She looks no older than a thirty, but then again, marriage or mating, whatever you want to call it, is much different here. I mean, I'm going to be mated in less than a month. Sesshomaru and I just kind of skipped over dating… I never thought Mom would be right when she said I'll date after I'm married. Anyway, that basically cleared my schedule for the day. After staying in bed for around an hour, I finally got out of bed.

I eventually headed to the kitchen, deciding to make something sweet. After fussing with the head cook, and winning the argument, I started baking. Unfortunately, there wasn't a store I could run by to buy chocolate, so I made do with what I had. After putting a motely of ingredients together and about twenty minutes of waiting, the end result was shortbread cookies. It smelled good, but it was the taste test that would decide if the effort was a waste. I gave some to all of the cooking staff, since I made a lot more than I thought I would, and we all tried it together. After a moment, rainbows and sparkles could be seen everywhere. Unless the shortbread made us all high, I had somehow managed to beat the odds and made something good. After transferring the baked good to a serving dish, I went to Rin's room. Her lessons don't start until noon, giving us enough time to enjoy the snack with some tea.

"Kazumi-san, did you really make these?" Rin asked after eating some.

"Surprisingly, I did."

"…"

"Is something wrong, Rin?"

"Kazumi-san, how do you know that you're in love?"

I stared at her for a moment.

"Why do you ask?"

"Well…"

"Do you think you're in love?"

"I don't know."

I sighed as I walked over to her side. I sat next to her, and laid her head down on my lap. I started to stroke her hair as I thought up my words carefully.

"I knew you were acting strangely distant, but I didn't think that this was the cause of it." I admitted. "Would you care to explain the situation to me?"

She nodded.

I looked at the door, and scanned the area. There wasn't anyone around.

"Go ahead."

"While Sesshomaru-sama and Kazumi-san were away yesterday, Rin was playing." She started. "Rin has been playing with a boy around her age for some time now…"

"How old?"

"…"

"You have to tell me everything."

"Fifteen."

"Rin, you're only eleven."

"But Lord Sesshomaru is much older than you, Kazumi-san!"

I felt as though an arrow had planted itself in the back of my head. I already had this talk with Kagome and her friends. I wasn't going to relive that moment. "Continue."

"Rin has enjoyed playing with the boy, but yesterday, he said that he had to leave for a long time. Now Rin's heart hurts."

"What did he say before he left?"

"Well, Rin had started crying by then so he said that he would come back and find Rin one day, and that Rin should wait for him."

That's definitely something from a romance story, but, could I say that it was love? It's harder to see the difference between friendly love, and romance love in kids. Heck, I have trouble seeing it in adults because I'm extremely dense when it comes to these things. I'm sure that this can develop into more than a friendship, but I don't want to set her up for heartbreak…

"Kazumi-san?"

"You're right to be confused by this." I told her.

"Is it love?"

"… Why were you crying when Bunny-chan said he was leaving?"

"Bunny-chan?"

"It's safest to use that name for him, that way no one will know what we're talking about."

"Oh, okay."

"Now, why were you crying?"

"Well…"

She took a brief moment to think about her answer.

"I think it was because I wasn't going to see him in a long time, if ever again."

"See Bunny-chan, or play with Bunny-chan?" I asked for clarification.

"See Bunny-chan." She answered without hesitation. "Maybe?"

"And what did you and Bunny-chan do?" I asked.

"… Bunny-chan took me into town sometimes, and gave me lots of things."

"Can you show them to me?"

Rin nodded before looking outside of the door. She then closed the door and went under the table. She brought out a sealed box from a secret compartment under the mats. After taking off the lid, she showed me the box. There were all sorts of toys and accessories in there, some I wondered how a fifteen year old could afford to buy. Rin quickly closed the box again and hid it. She had taken measures to make sure demons couldn't find it. I couldn't pick up on it, even when it was open. How many seals did she have to keep things hidden from us?

"Well, Kazumi-san, is it love?"

"This is the last question. Did he give you anything to remember him by?"

Rin remained silent. This would be my trump card, I waited for Rin to make some sort of movement, but she seemed to be very distressed.

"Rin, you must answer."

She grimly nodded her head before making her moves. My eyes widened slightly as she made her way to her closet. After hearing her shift through several things, she came back, clenching onto something. She opened her hand and showed me the two gems she was holding onto. This was Skip Beat all over again. I took the rock that looked like a fused peal and diamond and stared it down. If this boy didn't love her, I would punch him in the face for giving her all the wrong signals. From the way Rin squirmed, and was flushing, I could tell that some sort of emotion was developing in her. She was hiding things from me AND Sesshomaru, and this wasn't a petty thing. I was pretty sure that the boy, at least, liked her, but this only made me more certain. Whoever this person was, they had access to wealth, and had been smitten by Rin. Sesshomaru wasn't going to like this at all. I quickly gave the gems back to Rin to hide, and placed her back in my lap.

"You promise not to tell, right?"

"This is a secret between girls." I said as I pinky promised.

"So, is it love?"

"I can't say," I lied, "you're both too young to understand it."

"So… it's not?"

"It can certainly develop into something more, but you will have to wait and see if Bunny-chan keeps his promise." I explained. "You must never forget Bunny'chan's face, what he has said, or what he has given and done for you. You must treasure it, only then can we find out."

Rin nodded her head in understanding, and we both went back to eating and drinking tea. Not so long after, Rin had to go to her lessons. I cleared our plates, and took them to a maid to be cleaned. I took the remaining five pieces shortbread cookies to Sesshomaru.

When I entered his study, he was analyzing some documents. I poured him some tea, and placed the cookies in front of him. He looked at my efforts before ignoring them completely. I rolled my eyes.

"If you didn't want it, you should have told me while I was putting it down." I complained as I reached to take back my gesture of kindness.

"Leave it." He told me.

I did as he said, and waited on him to make a move, but he didn't. I sighed before taking one more cookie.

"You're lucky I really like sweet things. If I didn't, this wouldn't be enough to satiate my desire to throw something at you." I said as I walked out the door.

"I would think you have had more than enough for today. Anymore, and you might not fit into your kimonos." He said.

I really wanted to throw the cookie at him, I really did. Instead, I took a bite out of it and started to open the door.

"When I say something like that, I get thrown at a wall. You are VERY lucky that I'm not ill-tempered."

"I am speaking of your weight, not your temper."

I turned around and chucked the cookie at him. "You irritate me." I said through clenched teeth as he easily caught the cookie.

"Irritate, or intoxicate?"

I growled at him before shutting the door. He could have at least said thank you! But no! He has to go and talk about my weight! I don't even weigh that much! My body shape is entirely different from before!

As I stormed away, I realized that his goal wasn't to insult me… It was to get the cookie back. I would have gone back to give him a piece of my mind, but I had nothing to say. The entire conflict had been made in effort to fix the smaller problem he created with his silence… So in the end, we were technically fighting over a cookie

WHY DIDN'T HE JUST SAY HE WANTED THE DAMN COOKIE?! He didn't have to do all of that! Really… I hope he didn't just want that cookie. I hope there was some other ulterior motive to that. Simply thinking about it made me laugh. In my life, I've gone from hating him when I first started watching InuYasha, the anime, to liking him, to being his fangirl, to legitimately loving him. How the hell has he done this to me?


A/N: I finally updated! Yay! Sorry for taking so long. I didn't know where I was going with this for the longest, then I lost my flash drive, then I got sick… but that's still no excuse! I hope you all enjoyed it. Thanks again for the support and love. I'd love some feedback, I mean, you don't have to or anything, but I love reading reviews, good or bad, because in the end, they're there to tell me what I need to improve, or keep doing. Hope you all have a good day/night/afternoon! (P.S: I finally found out how to put the little line! :D)