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Chapter 8

Let's name our chicken Sesshomaru

Ah biology class, how I loathe you.

Biology. In one word…actually it didn't deserve a describable word. It was the worst class in my mind. Why should I waste my time dissecting disgusting animal parts when I could do something better with my life? What was the point of this class? There was no way I was going to use biology in the future… I didn't get it. Please someone explain why I have to cut up some chicken to figure out what was inside. I didn't need to know what was inside. I wasn't interested. And I'd rather keep my stomach, thank you.

If I wanted to know what is inside I could just Google it. That was the reason why Google was there, to answer question on stuff you didn't feel like doing yourself. For example, is today tomorrow New Zealand? - Yes. Or, where to buy pet Russian dolphin for a good price. Without Google I'm pretty sure the world would end.

Anyways back to dissecting the chicken. Like I said before, I didn't need to know what's inside a chicken. All I know that it has a heart, stomach, more intestines, a brain, and you can eat the chicken fried, roasted, or barbequed, what else is there to know. I didn't want to know how it pooped or how it lays eggs. No thanks, I was good on that subject.

And since I was stuck to Sesshomaru, guess who my partner was…

"Let's name our chicken Sesshomaru," I announced happily.

He was insulted, I could tell. Call it enemy's intuition.

"You want to name this disgusting thing after me?"

"Yup, because it reminds me a lot of you. All smelly and odd looking."

He narrowed his eyes. "You think I'm smelly and odd looking?"

"Well you are a dog."

"Then let me remind you that you are dating that smelly and odd looking dog."

I pondered for a moment there. He was right. "Touché."

At least biology and Sesshomaru were getting my mind off other things that I didn't want to think about. Like the Anonymous love letter that I got the other day. I just hoped it was the only one and perhaps a mistake in the first place. I mean people could've mistaken my locker for another right? Right?

It wasn't like I had a stalker or some creepy serial killer after me and…why would a serial killer come after me? What would they want from me? Well on the bright side I had a bodyguard twenty-four/seven. Nobody was going to touch me. No siree bob.

Today was going to be a day to just chill out and hug a tree. Okay maybe cut out the 'hug a tree' part out but the 'chill out' part was staying.

However, I knew my dream was short lived because once the bell rang for lunch I heard the snickers and whispers rolling in. God, I was so sick and tired of this. But the reason they were laughing was not at the poster of me saying 'Virgin whore,' no, this poster was of me but instead of 'Virgin whore' it said, 'school slut' with a pregnant belly photo shopped on my body.

I heard Sesshomaru growl but before he did anything, I tore off one of the posters and started dragging him through the hallways, ignoring the constant yelling from my ankle. Inside the cafeteria, I saw her. The one who made my school life a living hell in less in two weeks.

"Kagura!" I yelled, slamming the poster on the table. "I am so sick and tired of this none-sense. Stop!"

"Stop what?" she asked, acting all innocent and sweet. I hate sweet!

"Don't play dumb with me you little, rich snob. You are to blame for putting these posters up all over the school and making my last year in high school horrible. What, do you want me to break up with Sesshomaru that much? If I do, will you stop?"

Her friends giggled as she joined in with them. "I seriously have no idea what you are talking about Rin. I've told you before that I am not to blame with those odd posters nor do I care what they say. All I care about is getting you away from Sesshy so I can have him back. Will the posters make that contraption around your wrist unlock? I doubt it. So why don't you get out of my air and back into your own."

I was about to speak back to her when Sesshomaru stopped me. "She's telling the truth," he said. "She is not to blame for your suffering. Not this time."

"Are you defending her?"

"Not at all. But I do not feel fear inside her. She is telling the truth, Rin. Leave her and we'll figure out who is really doing this."

We walked away after that. I was clearly upset with the situation and was really curious to know who was doing this to me. It was so bad that I started to cry. Yes, cry. I, Rin Mori, started to ball my eyes out in the middle of the hallway. Isn't that a picturesque moment. Yes, let's all take a picture of the school slut crying her eyes out. School year book here I come.

Sesshomaru suddenly pulled me into the nearest janitor's closet to calm me down. Wait…the janitor's closet. Oh great.

"I-I swear I'm-I'm n-n-not p-preg-gnant-t," I stuttered, trying to get control of my breathing.

"Shhh, Rin relax. I know you aren't."

"You do?"

"Yes, I would smell it if you were. Now stop crying," he hushed, whipping the tears from my eyes. Sometimes he was nothing but a softy underneath.

"Wow, Takahashi, you do have a heart," I commented quietly.

He gave me his rare smile and kissed me quickly. "Come on, let's get out of here."

Wait that was it? He had brought me into the janitor's closet to just console me? "Didn't you have something else in mind when we entered here?"

"Yes, but I figured right now might not be an appropriate time."

He was such a sweetheart. Gods, sometimes I wished he was always like this but then once I thought about it more I realized that it would be no fun to make fun of him and vice versa. I mean how can a sweet guy say such harsh things to a girl like me? - They can't. It would be impossible.

But as I walked to my locker I wondered what would happen if I did get pregnant. Would he still be with me?

"Hey, what if it happened?" I asked.

"Hn, what?"

"Got pregnant? What would happen?"

He stopped us and faced me. "Rin…I don't know."

"Would you stay with me?"

He paused for a moment. "Yes."

I smiled, holding out my pinky finger. "You promise?"

"Yes."

And that's all I ever hoped for. That and winning the lottery.

xXx

It's not all sunshine and rainbows like everybody says- oh look a rainbow- off topic sorry. There comes a time when everything in life goes downhill and uphill at the same time. I was currently in one of those moments. For the uphill part I had Sesshomaru, my boyfriend/enemy, - as much as my dismay- handcuffed to me. For the downhill, I had a creepy- I've figured it would be a stalker since he is making my life a living hell- person leaving notes saying he liked me or loves me, and also someone leaving posters of my precious body and face all over the school with different insults each week. Great life, great life.

I found another letter today-by anonymous of course- saying that my hair smells like chicken. Okay ew… oh wait, didn't I dissect a chicken in Biology? Perhaps this secret admirer was in the same class as me.

Sesshomaru didn't look happy one bit. He was so cute when he was jealous. For me though, it was the feeling of fierce anxiety where I wanted to place my head in the dishwasher at work to get rid of the worry. But I think that would hurt.

"Rin…RIN!"

I blinked turning in my seat towards Kagome. "Uh yes?"

"Did you hear what I said?"

"Hn, of course she didn't," Sesshomaru cut in. "She was in dreamland dreaming about chickens."

I gave him a cold stare, feeling a little nauseous from this morning dissection, before going back to Kagome. "Sorry Kagome what were you saying?"

"I said that you should go on a double date with Hojo and me."

Oh god she was still going out with him. I wanted to say 'Kagome, you got to dump this guy and go for someone better. Nobody wants a boyfriend that's 'helpful'. It will ruin your reputation.' But did I say that? –No. "Uh, yeah sure."

Then of course the dog all of a sudden decided to jump into the conversation again. "No."

"What do you mean no?" I snapped.

"I mean I do not want to be scene with three humans who happen to be rather annoying. I can barely tolerate you, now you want me to put up two more? No thanks."

"Rude," Kagome commented quietly.

I, however, just sat there with my jaw hung open. Oh god, he just insulted me- again.

"Close your mouth Rin, you'll catch flies," he instructed simply.

My jaw twitched in anger. "Takahashi, you…little….Ugh!"

"Think before speaking, Mutant. It might help."

But before I could go full explosion on the dog, the teacher arrived. Thank you, Mrs. Abe for saving me. If she was a second late, Sesshomaru would be six feet underground. I did forgive Mrs. Abe for her little pairing incident and making me go with Sesshomaru on a project, because if she hadn't then I probably wouldn't have started dating the guy. Hold on, if I didn't get pair with him then I probably wouldn't be in handcuffs either. Never mind, I take it back! I would never forgive Mrs. Abe.

"Ms. Mori, Mr. Takahashi, are you ready to present?" she asked.

I stared at her wide-eyed trying to figure out what the hell she meant by…present? Oh shit. "Uhhh…"

No, we didn't even work on our project. Great, now what?

Apparently we were going to the front of the class. Wait, what was Sesshomaru doing? "We have nothing prepared," I whispered to him.

"Just follow along," he answered back. "For our presentation, we were focusing on the relationship of being enemies. To experiment what would happen if we got closer, we decided to handcuff ourselves together to see how long we would last. But unfortunately we miss placed the key so I've been like this for some time.

"During this time together we have learned to get along just like any normal human and demon would. However, that is where it changes. Over the years, human and demon relationships have grown apart, mostly because of our distances between societies. While demons are higher in class and are quite successful in business, humans have started to decrease in employment and are mostly living on the streets. Take Rin Mori for example: part-time job, small run-down apartment- poor. While I, son of a tycoon business man and part of the richest family in the world, have as many expenses at my fingertips."

I wanted to stop him there since my pride was almost gone but it seemed like he wasn't going to give up. He would be getting a lecture from me later.

"Two totally different people, living in two different worlds. I know it seems strange that we are handcuffed and are still enemies, but I wouldn't change a thing. Most of you already know of Rin and I's relationship but if you don't then I'll let you know that we are together. Getting to know my enemy these last few weeks was a total pain but a joy because who knew that this girl could change my life. I've grown as a better…person if you like to call it and it's all because of the yelling I've gotten from this girl. I'm thankful for her being in my life and I can't wait for the future with her."

Oh god, here come the tears. I was speechless. It sounded like he was…

"Anything to add Rin?" he whispered.

All I could do was look up at him, mesmerized by his speech. "No, you said the same thing I was going to say." Pfft, yeah right.

He nodded. "We're done," he announced.

The room was quiet…well this was awkward. But a second later, the claps came as well as some evil glares from Kagura. Eh, oh well, what can you do?

I was still out of it on the way home. All I was thinking about was Sesshomaru's amazing words. I had no idea he could even say that much. I bet many people besides me were shocked out of their skin at the amount of words spoken from someone so…stoic. I didn't care if we got an F, well Sesshomaru probably cared, but in my books that was an A++++++…..+ times one million.

At least we were home alone again. Well kind of. The maids were running around the mansion like they had a stick up their butt but, other than that it was just Sesshomaru and I.

"Hey Takahashi, for a second there I thought you were going to drop on one knee and ask me to marry you."

He raised an eyebrow like he had no fucking clue what I was saying. "What? When?"

He didn't any fucking clue to what I was saying! God was he dense. "Back at the school…in class…the presentation?"

"Oh right." Yes, there you go. "Why would I propose to you? I said those things because I couldn't think of anything else. It was nothing more than acting."

Acting? "Oh, I see." I think my heart just broke a little. "Yeah, that's what I was thinking."

"Listen Mutant, I am not interested in marriage one bit. That little speech was nothing but fake."

Then I realized that perhaps he was just joking around with me. I sighed. "Whatever you say Takahashi." But then again, maybe he wasn't. Oh great, here come more anxiety.

"Just be happy that the class liked it."

"Right of course. It was a good speech though. Good job convincing everyone."

"One of my many special qualities."

"Right…special."

"But I'm still dating you, Mutant. That is not going to change. And perhaps there were a few things I said that were true, but you'll have to figure that out on your own."

I hit on square in the chest, of course not affecting him. But my hand…ouch. "Shut up, Takahashi."

"Just remember, Rin that you are mine and will always be mine."

I smiled, moving closer to him, our cuffed hands locking together. "Good."

He kissed me then, our lips fitting together like puzzle pieces. My mind wandered into fantasy land, picturing us in the future. Our wedding, our children, and then I realized…

Perhaps he could be my happily ever after.

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Updated: May 19, 2014