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Chapter 5

Let them drink their haterade

Work didn't turn out as I planned it would. Gave Kaede a little surprise when I arrived saying I would work that night. I had to explain to her why I was handcuffed to a dog demon and because of her hard hearing and confused mind it took almost an hour to explain. Could someone please put this woman into a retirement home already?

Sesshomaru didn't seem to mind the work at all, and this was because of the girls practically falling at his feet. No seriously, the floor was so full of grease that they must've slipped. But that's not the point. There were more girls coming in then I could count, and most of them I recognized from school. Someone must've heard me talking about him coming to work with me and made sure every girl in the world would show up. And because he and Kagura were officially over, he was single. Well almost single. There was still me.

Overall, it was a busy night full of fan-girl screams that made my ears hurt and constant talk about Sesshomaru that made me want to hurl and punch every single girl in the face. But I did make a lot of tips and since Sesshomaru was volunteering, I got all of it. And more tips equals happy Rin.

Kaede was happy too, and even offered Sesshomaru a job. But after a quick shake of my head and saying he already had a job, she gave up.

We ended up closing around one am. I was exhausted and wanted to find a nice cozy bed to collapse on. Must've been more tired than I thought though because the gross bench outside of the diner, where Moe the hobo sleeps sometimes, started to look very comfortable and welcoming. I realized that I could pass as a hobo though because of my lack of money and smelly odor. But I didn't know how Moe would feel about me taking his bed. Still I had a feeling that the dog demon chained to me would be a dead giveaway and I wouldn't pass as a hobo.

The first thing Sesshomaru said to me after we left the diner was, "You smell like rotten fish,"

"Thank you for your observation captain obvious! I am aware I smell like rotten fish. I work in a diner after all," I replied, not making eye contact. But he was right. You know you smell bad when you can smell yourself. And it was bad. But I wasn't the only one. "And besides, you smell as worse as me, so you shouldn't be talking."

Silence. I think I just insulted him. Score one for Rin!

"Hn, let's go home," he said, dragging me forward.

"Whoa," I almost tripped, "hey, stop!"

"What!?" he sneered.

"How are we going to get home with no car?" I questioned. He looked at me like I was stupid. I was not stupid so I didn't know why he was looking at me like that. "What?"

"We fly," he said, shortly.

Oh hell no! I was not going up in that…that…sky with no parachute. "Uh, no thanks I wish to keep my life."

"You do not have a choice Rin. It will take hours to walk and I do not have a phone to call a taxi."

"I don't care. I am not flying! No way! No how! Tough cookies!" That's when I started to pull my hand, motioning that I wasn't going to leave this ground.

"It's not up to you Rin" he argued.

"If humans were meant to fly, we would grow wings. Do you see wings? No, that means no flying!"

So what if we were arguing, like I said before it was our job to fight. At least it wasn't raining on us.

Apparently the Universe hated me because it started to rain. Hard. We were soaked in minutes. Yeah, now I was definitely not flying. Wait a minutes, maybe the Universe gave me rain so we wouldn't have to fly. Well, I take it back. Thank you the Universe. "Please don't tell me you're going to fly in is this weather!"

He growled, "Then tell me what you plan on doing now?"

I sighed, "Come on, my house is only a few blocks away."

We walked the few blocks to my rundown apartment complex. Sesshomaru has been here before so I was glad I didn't have to give him the grand tour. Still, I knew what he was thinking and I totally agreed this place was a dump.

When we entered my apartment and I went to switch the lights on, I wasn't surprised to see them not working. I sighed heavily. I was so not in the mood for this. "Sho must've forgotten to pay the electricity bills…again."

"You get this often?" Sesshomaru asked.

"Almost every single month," I frowned, moving inside; feeling my way around. "I'm too lazy to go fix it. There should be a flashlight- Ouch!" Great I stubbed my toe. Stupid table! Stupid dark! Stupid…everything!

Sesshomaru then grabbed my cuffed hand with his and navigated me through the dark. Oh I forgot that demons could see in the dark. Stupid Sesshomaru. "Which drawer is it?"

Wait, were we in the kitchen already? I can't remember, and it's only been what….a few days give or take, since I been here? Wow. "I…uh…second drawer to the right? I think."

I was relieved I was right when I saw a little light illuminate the room. And Edison said, let there be light! Or at least that's what I think he said. Somewhere around that line.

Anyway I was so glad that we had light I didn't notice my body shaking uncontrollably. "Is it cold in here or is it just me?" My teeth were chattering too.

"I should get you warm before you catch a cold," Sesshomaru suggested. "Why is it so cold in here anyways?" Hold on, Sesshomaru didn't just say that, did he? I mean the getting warm part not why is it so cold part. Why was he being so nice all of a sudden?

I shivered, "Oh…um, Sho f-f-forget-ts to p-pay the b-b-bills somet-times."

"I'm going to have a little talk with him tomorrow. You're better off outside in the rain then in here."

I didn't answer back. I was currently shaking my life away.

"Where are your towels?"

"T-this w-way," I shivered, grabbing the flashlight from him.

When we got to the bathroom, I grabbed a few towels and wrapped it around me. "Here," passing one to him. Then a grabbed a lighter and lit a few candles around the house including in the bathroom. Heat and light. Perfect combination.

"You'll have to get rid of your wet clothes," Sesshomaru stated.

"But I don't have any extra."

"So," he smirked.

Oh my god! "I'm not going naked in front of you!" I complained.

"It's not like I've seen it before. Anyways, does your shower work or not?"

"I doubt it. There's never any hot water."

But when Sesshomaru turned it on, there was. Wow, Sho must've paid the water bill this month. I give him props to that one. "Alright, in you go," he said while getting undressed with some help from the 'magic'.

Wait…what? Undressed? "What do you think you're doing?" Was he crazy? I wasn't going to shower with him!

"I'm not going to smelling like fish all night and neither are you. Now get in before I do it myself."

"No way!" Not in his life time I wasn't, which was apparently is a very long time.

I blushed and looked away suddenly. He was naked. Oh god, okay Rin calm down. Deep breaths. In. Out. In. Out.

"Rin!" I jumped from the sound of his cold voice.

"You… have one first," I suggested, still looking away. "I'll go in after."

"No because your water might turn cold in any moment."

"I-I don't mind, I like cold showers."

"Rin, you are getting a hot shower. You were just out in the rain, you are soaking wet, and you are going to get a cold. Now get in!"

It seemed like I wasn't going to win this one. "Fine!" I yelled.

I stepped into the shower completely naked, not even trying to conceal my bareness. He's seen everything, what's the point. Yes I was blushing immensely, but who the hell cared. Me, that's who. Oh, I was so embarrassed.

We didn't say a word to each other for a few minutes. All we did was stand there. Naked. It was really awkward. I could tell he was looking at me too. While I, however, looked at my lovely green tiles on the wall. But soon I finally had it. "Take a picture it lasts longer!" I snapped.

But suddenly I was pushed against the tile wall. Not this again. "Rrrrinnnn," he purred. Wait, Sesshomaru purrs? What is he? A cat?

I gasped as he lowered his head to crook of my neck and sniffed it. Okay, I had no idea what he was doing. Really I didn't. "Umm…okay." What do I do? What do I do?

There I was in the shower. With my worst enemy. And would probably end up having sex. With my worst enemy. Again! What was wrong with me?

"Rin….you smell good," Sesshomaru suddenly commented randomly. Well at least I didn't smell like fish anymore.

My hands moved to his perfect sculpted chest, oh his muscles were so hard and….stopped it! And I pushed him away. "Okay, enough," I breathed, faking a small laugh to make him believe I wasn't interested at the moment.

Then he leaned forward for a kiss. Eh, one kiss wouldn't hurt. But before our lips touched, the water suddenly turned ice cold. I screamed loudly, making Sesshomaru back up, growling. He must've thought an intruder interrupted us because he was suddenly in a fighting stance.

I turned off the water quickly, relieved, and turned to Wolverine. "There's nobody attacking us. If you want something to attack, attack my shower head. It's broken anyways."

Because our clothes were still wet, we wrapped ourselves in our towels and made our way to my very comfortable bed. This was one thing I've missed and the only thing in my apartment that actually good. There were warm blankets, soft pillows, and very comfy mattress from Mattress Land.

Soon we were all bundled up. "Nice bed," Sesshomaru commented, obviously copying what I was doing back at his house.

He pulled me closer to his body. I didn't mind. He was very comfortable like a pillow except more hard. "Thanks." But I was still wondering something. "Hey, why are you being so nice to me?"

"Hn, what do you mean?" Was he serious?

"I mean, what was with all that I-should-get-you-warm-before-you-catch-a-cold stuff?"

There was a slight pause before he said, "I don't want you getting a cold while handcuffed to me or I would be forced to stay home suffering from your infected smell." I knew it was too good to be true. "And I was worried."

He might've said that in a low whisper but I heard it. Made me smile. "Okay, then what about back in the shower when you said I smelled good? Last time I check, I smelled horrible."

"Your smell is tolerable when you don't have the rotting fish smell or any other disgusting smell on you."

I knew he was avoiding the obvious. But whatever, getting a compliment or almost a compliment from a demon, especially a dog demon, was supposed to be like once a life time or something like that.

"Rin?"

"Hmmm, what is it Takahashi?" I answered smiling, fading away slowly.

"Let's…have a date?"

I couldn't understand what he was asking me on account that I was half asleep, but I was pretty sure he said he wanted a date. Now the question was what did he mean by 'date'? "Are we talking 'date' as in the social interaction or 'date' as in the dried fruit?"

"The first one."

"Yeah," I mumbled, falling asleep, "sure. Okay. Whatever you say."

And I'm asleep.

xXx

I was surprised that I woke up the next morning in my bed. Maybe everything was just a dream. But I was even more surprised to see Sesshomaru lying next to me, staring at me intensely. Damn, so it wasn't a dream. But his stare did freak me out a bit. "Will you stop that!?" I snapped.

"Surprised to see me here? I bet you were wondering if it was all a dream," he smirked.

I swear this guy can read minds. "What are you doing up anyways?"

"I don't sleep much."

I sighed, sitting up. "Of course you don't. What time is it?"

"Six."

Ugh, seriously. "I'm going back to sleep," flopping back down onto my pillow. But wait, I couldn't go back to sleep on account of a DEMON IN MY ROOM! "Stop staring!" I yelled, hitting him with a pillow.

He chuckled slightly. "I'm looking forward to our date."

"What date?" I looked over to him confused. I thought that was just a dream.

He moved on top of me. "The one you decided to accompany me one when I asked you last night."

"I did?"

"You did," kissing me softly before parting. I was getting used to his kisses. The more he kissed me the more I liked them.

When we got dressed in our smelly, fishy clothes from yesterday, we left the apartment for school. Sesshomaru apparently looked confused though when we continued walking. "What's wrong?" I asked.

"How do you get to school?" he asked, looking ahead.

"Walk."

"You walk all the way there?"

Was he serious? "Yes," I laughed. "Not all of us can afford cars you know. Especially nice, fancy, expensive cars. Don't tell me you never walk anywhere."

"Ridiculous. What's the point in walking when you have a car?"

"Uh, exercise?"

"I get it almost every day."

Oh right, demons and there great bodies. If only humans could do that. "Well I like walking and will continue to do it. Besides, you should start thinking about walking places too."

Sesshomaru stopped and glanced at me from the corner of his eyes. "Explain."

"Well I'm sorry to tell you this Takahashi, but your driving is terrible."

"I'm a fine at driving."

"Well if you were 'fine' then you would notice a side walk where people…you know, walk."

"I am well aware what a side walk is Rin."

"Apparently you don't because I'm always the one you almost run over every day."

"Like you would be a better driver," he muttered.

"Yeah, I would."

"Ridiculous."

This time I stopped. "Oh is that a challenge?" He raised an eyebrow at me and I giggled. "Then challenge accepted."

We walked in silence after that until we arrived at the school. There we were met with a long limo with fresh clothes. Thank god! We got dressed, and finally started to walk towards the school entrance. It was strange because Sesshomaru suddenly became tense. Then what was stranger was he laced his fingers with mine. "Uh, Takahashi," trying to pull his grip from mine, "what are you doing? People are staring."

I grinned at the passing stares directed at us. It felt like I had grown two heads. But no it was only me holding hands with Sesshomaru. Nothing strange there.

"We are dating, are we not?" he whispered in my ear.

"What? No we aren't," I argued.

We went inside only to get more stares. "You agreed to go on a date with me, so that means we are dating."

"It's one date and we haven't even gone on it yet," I answered.

We reached my locker, and I opened it as he spoke again. "It doesn't matter Rin. The point is that you've agreed to accompany me on the date, meaning we are officially dating."

"On what planet?"

He seemed confused by my logical question. "On planet Earth."

"Well apparently you aren't on planet Earth because on Earth we don't do that."

"I've done it." Huh, his answer made me wonder how many girls he's dated. Wait, scratch that. Wonder how many girls he's had sex with while dating Kagura.

I slammed my locker, "Okay, correction, humans don't do that," I said, walking to our class.

"May I remind you Rin that we have kissed numerous of times?"

Oooo, he got me there. "Touché."

He stopped me before entering class. "Then we are dating," he smirked, leaning in and kissing me.

Yup he kissed me. In the hallway. In front of everyone. When we pulled away, I grinned at him. "Fine, we're dating. But that doesn't mean I'm not going to stop call you Takahashi."

"Do as you please…mutant."

Okay, now I know I've never told anyone why Sesshomaru calls me Mutant, and trust me it's my fault for forgetting, and I quote from Sesshomaru, 'from my lack of memory because I'm a foolish human girl'. Anyways, back when he took my lovely, red sucker from my hands, I was in the middle of my mute stage. Sesshomaru always wondered why I was mute, and because I couldn't talk or tell anyone, he never found out. Thus the Mute part in mutant.

Now the second part is… interesting, I guess. When I was little, I was surprisingly below average in size. I was the shortest girl until middle school when I had a growth spurt. Sesshomaru said I reminded him of a giant ant because my dark hair and lack of size. Sure showed him when I showed up in eight grade with a four inch difference.

But mutant was actually thought up by Koga, his best friend, who was teasing me one day in the second grade. He was saying the word Mute girl and Ant girl while dancing around me like an idiot. Sesshomaru of course was snickering, and I was there crying until Ayame came along and punched Koga in the face. Then she said sorry to him. I still don't know if that's a sign of affection or Ayame not wanting to get into trouble. She did or still does have a crush on him. Anyways, that's another story. Okay…uh, Koga…right, while Koga was dancing around me, he accidently said mute and ant after another and voila, mutant was born.

xXx

I couldn't believe what was happening.

People were talking about me. Me! Rin! This wasn't happening. And they weren't just talking, they hating. Every single girl we walked by glared at me with fire. And when we entered the cafeteria, it was worse.

Was it because I was holding Sesshomaru's hand? Possibly.

Was it because we kissed in the hallway? Maybe.

Was it because we were now officially dating? Hell yes.

I was the most hated person in school. Every girl, and some boys, now stared at me with hate, hate, and more hate. It was like they were the Grinch and I was the entire Who Ville community. And it was all because I was dating the hottest guy in school. Wait, I didn't just say hottest, did I? Eh, oh well.

Everyone knew me for being Sesshomaru's enemy not his girlfriend. So when I walk into the school, holding his hand, and being all lovey dovey, I was bound to get stared at. It's not rocket science people. It's very hard to get a job as Sesshomaru's official enemy. It consisted of a lot of teasing and hurt. Don't get me wrong, I was still his enemy. I was just his girlfriend enemy. If that makes any sense.

Plus since every girl in school found out he and Kagura broke up, they were probably hoping aka dreaming they would become Sesshomaru's next girlfriend. Sorry people, that role has been filled my moi. Man, being in Sesshomaru's life is exhausting.

"Do you know how popular you really are?" I whispered to him.

"Hn, don't ask such silly things." That's his way of saying you are asking a stupid question. Stop it.

We sat down at the table only to get stared at more by Ayame and Kagome. "What?" I asked. It was like they were frozen in time.

"So you are dating," Ayame spoke first. "I…I can't believe it."

"Wait, how do you know so fast? He told me before class this morning."

"People saw you and him kiss. Then I guess news travels fast around here."

"Great," I sighed. "I shall meet drama's gates soon enough."

"Whatever Rin, they're just jealous. Let them drink their haterade." Way to state the obvious Ayame.

"Well looked at it this way," Kagome stated. "At least you can say you've dated a dog demon and lived to tell about it."

"Kagome, I've argued with a dog demon and lived to tell about it," I corrected.

"And I've argued with a half-demon and lived to tell about it," she smiled proudly.

"I told you Rin," Ayame cut in.

"About what?"

"That you would fall for him."

I laughed. "I did not fall for him!" Yes, I did. "You're crazy, Ayame."

"I swear if he hurts you though, I will cut out his guts and feed it to my fish."

"Excuse me," Sesshomaru interrupted. Oops forgot he was there, "could you please stop talking about me like I'm not here."

"Oh you're not," Ayame smiled. "You're invisible to me right now."

"Sorry to break it to you wolf, but you are currently talking to someone that can kill you, and because this is your fault that I am stuck with Rin, I should be inclined to be part of this conversation."

That reminded me. "Hey, whatever happened to your friends? You know, Koga and…I don't know the other names."

"Hn, they've decided to go their own way. I am no longer friends with those fools."

"Why?"

"At the party, they kept insulting and making rude jokes about you. So I told them I wasn't going to be friends with them no longer. End of story."

Okay, sounded kind of sketchy to me. "So you chose me; your worst enemy, over your friends; those guys over there?"

"Yes."

"Because you liked me?"

"Yes. I felt insulted by their words." Okay…whatever.

I glanced over at their table to see them staring at us, then I moved over to Kagura's table where she was more glaring at me hard. Those red eyes of hers actually looked like they could actually burn holes in someone. Oh I hoped that wasn't one of her secret demonic power thingies.

But then one of her friends started to whispered something in her ear that made her frown turn upside down into a large grin. An evil grin. Then they got up and left without a word. What were they planning?

"What is it?" Sesshomaru asked, looking my way.

"Oh probably nothing. Just Kagura and her stupid posse."

But when we left the cafeteria after the bell rang, I was wrong. Kagura was up to something, and it included hundreds of pictures of me. Actually it was my face with a body of a half-naked woman and the words 'Virgin Whore' written in large, red letters at the bottom, posted all over the school.

Kagura had officially gone too far.

This meant war.

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Updated: February 18, 2014