2 days later...

Rin was woken up by her doorbell ringing. She rubbed her eyes and headed for the door.

"Special delivery for Rin Asano!" The delivery guy said happily as he handed her a huge box.

"T-Thank you?" She said as she wobbled into her apartment with the big box.

As she backed up further, she bumped into Sesshomaru. He took the package out of her hands and set it on the coffee table.

"What is this?"

Rin shrugged. "I have no idea. But I love getting packages!" She said excitedly as she opened it.

Inside was a bouquet of lilies and balloons with a card.

"Dovremmo ricominciare da capo..."She trailed, the sound of pain cracking through her voice.

"We should start over. That's Italian."

"Yes. It's a line from a dialogue I practiced in my high school Italian class with Kohaku. This is from him."

"What now?"

Rin dropped the card on the carpet. "I don't want them." She headed towards her room. "I'm going back to sleep. It's not often I get to sleep in." And she shut the door.

Sesshomaru looked over at the flowers. He picked each one up in his hand one by one and crushed them, then threw the display away.

He let out an annoyed sigh. "Sleeping. She's full of shit." He said to himself as he headed towards her room and swung her door open.

Rin was laying down, staring at the ceiling.

"I'm fine. You don't have anything to worry about."

"I'm not worried. As a matter of fact, I don't even care."

"I see."

"I did notice, though. You aren't smiling."

Rin sighed and slowly turned her head to face him. "My mother used to tell me I was like the sun. Kohaku was the clouds, and together we were the sky. Lately, he had become dark clouds, overcastting the sun. His presence was like the pouring rain. Whenever we would fight, everyone would ask 'what happened to your smile, Rin?' Like they were waiting for the thunderstorm to end. The clouds may be gone, but the rain hasn't stopped. So sometimes I don't smile. I try my best, but sometimes the storm overwhelms me."

"You don't have to smile, but you're wasting your time moping."

"What if he tries to come back? What if he comes here?" She whined.

Sesshomaru made a disgusted face, seemingly irritated by her attitude. "So what? Are you truly worried about that?" He leaned against the wall directly in front of her. "For the time being, this is my home as well, is it not? I will not let any vermin in here."

Rin began to smile. The way her cheeks rose up and glowed rosy red caused Sesshomaru's heart rate to double in speed. He could feel his icy heart melting as her sunlight burned it with its rays. Her happiness...it was soothing to his soul.

"So I take it the storm you spoke of is over."

"No. But a little drizzle won't stop me."

She got out of her bed. "I guess I'll start getting ready."

"For what?"

"Oh. You should be getting ready too. I have to return your paperwork and you have to take a drug test in a few hours."

"Drug test? I never had an addiction problem."

"It's procedural. They'll be looking for street drugs, downers, Prozac and anything prescribed that I didn't prescribe to you." She explained as she set out her clothes on the bed. "We have to follow every rule from here on out to ensure your permanent discharge at the end of the year. So be on your best behavior, okay?" She requested sweetly with a cute sing-song pitch that made his spine tingle.

"Whatever is necessary."

"Great! I'm going to take a shower. Don't. You dare. Come in!" She asserted, poking a finger at his chest.

He grasped her hand tightly, causing her to gasp in surprise. "You don't need to be worried about that. I'm not in a rush today like I was earlier this week."

"O-okay." She said, her legs trembling and knees buckling. She pulled her hand out of his grip slowly and headed into the shower.

Just knowing she was naked on the other side of the door was satisfying enough for him.

As they arrived at the hospital, Rin tried her best to conceal her excitement about returning to work out of respect for Sesshomaru.

She looked over at him after she parked. He wore a ferociously infuriated look on his face that Rin recognized from months ago when they first met.

Rin gently placed her hand on his shoulder.

"I'm sorry. I know you don't want to be here because it brings back awful memories."

"I'll admit it isn't the happiest place I have been but I'm not traumatized by it." He said cold and confidently.

Rin lowered her hand. She was beginning to lose confidence in her ability as a psychiatrist. Maybe she wasn't as good as she thought she was. Maybe she's been doing her job the wrong way all this time. 'I just can't read him. I feel like a failure.'

"Okay. Let's get this over with."

Rin headed inside the hospital with Sesshomaru at her side. Some of the staff members flinched and shuddered at the sight of Sesshomaru. They weren't exactly positive that a few days with Rin would stop him from attacking them.

Sesshomaru could sense and smell the fear running through the humans in the vicinity. He had missed that scent. Spending all his time with a human that gave off scents of excitement and happiness in his presence threw him off. He was losing his touch as a demon. Even her sweet scent mingled in with theirs. He had mixed feelings about the atmosphere. He wasn't sure which scent his satisfaction truly came from.

"Please follow me, Mr. Taisho." A male staff member instructed.

Sesshomaru looked back at Rin. She gave him an assuring nod and he went in the opposite direction, following behind the man.

They stopped at a small testing lab where he took a mouth swab and drew some blood from Sesshomaru. He didn't like surrendering his DNA to this pathetic human.

"Just one more thing we'll need." The man said as he handed him a cup and plastic bag. "The bathroom is this way." He told him as he led him down the hall.

Sesshomaru began to head inside when he noticed the man was following. "What the hell are you doing?" He asked the man.

"I have to come in with you to make sure you don't use someone else's urine. It's procedural."

Sesshomaru hated all the degrading procedures. His blood heated up with fury and rage.

He noticed the man was scared, perhaps even terrified, horrified that Sesshomaru would hurt him.

Sesshomaru wanted to, but Rin's face wouldn't leave his mind. Every time he wanted to act upon his anger, he would see her face, her stupid face and annoying smile and a tightening feeling in his chest would ensue.

'Is this what guilt feels like?' He wondered. He wasn't familiar with the emotion at all.

But whatever he felt, it was stronger than his anger and it caused him to comply.

Once he was finished and met up with Rin at the front desk, he felt a sense of satisfaction the moment their eyes locked.

He didn't like it. He didn't like anything he felt. He needed to do something to remind him he was still a demon, a powerful, fearful demon. He was determined to—

"I want to go get some ice cream!" Rin said childishly with a giggle.

Never mind. The desire to kill was gone with the wind once again.

"I know it's getting pretty cold," she continued "but it's never too cold for a scoop of cookie dough ice cream!"

Sesshomaru rolled his eyes. Rin didn't often act like she was still quite young, but when she did…Sesshomaru couldn't handle it. It confused him in so many ways.

But again, he couldn't help but comply. "Whatever you want to do."

Rin grabbed his arm and dragged him towards the car.

The longer the clouds stayed away, the brighter the sun could shine and eventually melt the block of ice.

Hey, anyone wanna write a few headcanons about what you believe happened in the previous two days between Rin and Sesshomaru? I'd love to see what you think lol. I'm not gonna write anything to fill in for those two days I just thought it'd be a fun way to interact with you guys.

I'd love to hear from you all!

Xoxo

-VQ