Chapter Two : A Deal with the Devils

Waking up was a normal process for everyone, that was, if you were not awakened by people whispering something about you. And, in curiosity, she had a right to know; she tip-toed her way downstairs, listening to the couple's conversation.

"Rin is the only one who can help." whined Inuyasha. She never thought a man could whine so bluntly to a woman, but Inuyasha had proven her wrong countless of times; she should have known.

"You have to ask her yourself, sweetie. I can't help you get everything you wanted for the rest of your life." Kagome stated the truth, hoping he would get the idea.

"But you could if we..." Inuyasha trailed off. Who said that he didn't have any tricks up his sleeves?

Inuyasha had always used that trick to get to Kagome, making Rin really wondered sometimes. 'Is she blind or just plain stupid? Inuyasha is such a... a... What is the right word? ... A... a... man!' Wow! She had never felt anything more disoriented than using that word to describe Inuyasha. The only time she should use that word in a sentence with Inuyasha was if the word "isn't" was in the middle! 'Yuck, now I need a shower to wash away my mind and, oh, have to brush my teeth too.' Rin sighed, forgetting she was supposed to be in hiding. Bad move, Rin, because as we were all aware of was that Inuyasha had good hearing, and so...

"Who is there?"

BaUmp!

Kagome stuck him with the chair she was sitting on, her veins were popping with her eyes closed. And as you could see: poor doggy was lying on the floor, being helpless as usual-- all in all it was because of his pure stupidity...

'I rest my case. Inuyasha needs professional help.' Rin thought prior emerging within eye sight. She waved. "Hi," Her face was saying, 'Please don't hurt me. I'm an innocent person just trying to get by.'

Inuyasha popped right back up, wanting to challenge Kagome, but she punched his left shoulder, turning him to face Rin. "You punch like a sissy." mumbled Inuyasha; he was somehow in a safe distance from the maniac's reach. Smart move, he probably thought he could take over the world now. Silly Inuyasha, smartness is for those of the female gender.

"Well," started Kagome, ignoring Inuyasha's statement. She would get him later for that. "Rin-chan, are you going to help him?"

"Help him with what? I only heard 'Rin is the only one who can help,' and your mushy lines." Rin interpreted. They were getting nowhere with this. Why wouldn't they come out and speak? What? She would never bite! Or was it because whatever they wanted her to help them with could ruin her future? What kind of friends were they?! Leading a girl on like that! Some friends, she told you, some friends!

It was a good thing somebody in this world could understand him; he and his Inuyasha-ish way were something of a mystery to everyone but those that could be abnormal, which didn't include Rin. "Inuyasha has a brother."

Tell her something she didn't know. She had heard him mention a few things about this brother, not in a good way, but still. "Go on." Wait; what was his family name? Tetsusaiga? She might have a clue to where this path was leading...

"His name is Sesshomaru Tetsusaiga, every female favorite actor slashed model model as'h'le." interrupted Inuyasha. "I didn't see why,though. You women and his looks, obsessed. Obsessed!"

And here came another...

BaUnk!

He just couldn't keep his mouth shut for more than ten seconds. "Would you like to tell the story or should I?"

"Go ahead!" he yelled from his stance against the ground. "You are so cruel." He knew he sound cute, and she wouldn't hurt him again when he was there,on the floor, so he mumbled on in his little world.

"Inuyasha isn't in good terms with him." Kagome paused, trying to remember what to say next. "Their mother is worried. She is a lovely lady, Rin."

Yes. Okay, saying she knew where this was going was now a lie. She was lost, stuck in Kagome's jumbled words jungle. What did their mother being a lovely lady had anything to do with his brother being an actor slashed model dude? "What is she worrying about?" That was the only thing that she could pick up.

"His brother is under the pressure of marriage, Rin. As I recall from years ago, you wanted to live here, ne?" Kagome slowly snaked her way into Rin's mind; the poor soul didn't even know when the devil attacked.

Rin nodded. "Yes, I still do. But if he is an actor slashed model. Why couldn't he just get someone to go help him already? I understand perfectly clear now where this is going. Is there something wrong with him? You know... the possibility of him being... gay?"

By that word, both souls before her launched themselves to the floor, laughter was dancing in the atmosphere while Rin wondered what could have gone wrong to let her see such a sight as this. Two crazy people, laughing their guts out. Rin shrugged, like she had said before: crazy, definitely crazy.

Kagome was the first one to collect herself, figured. Holding her stomach because of the acute pain she endured from laughter, she sat back in the chair to cool herself down a little more. "That's absurd." she spoke through Inuyasha's raging laughter.

Both girls just hoped that Inuyasha would not kill himself from laughing; they would not know how to tell his family, for starter, of his young death. Inuyasha pulled on Kagome's left foot, balancing himself through the pain. When he finally sat up and bitted the inside of his mouth to contain himself, Kagome patted his head like the pet that he was, before continuing her speech.

"No, he is straight. In fact, I think his problem is he thinks too highly of himself." Kagome scratched her arm, feeling weird about using Inuyasha's everyday words to describe his brother, but what scared her was how they fitted perfectly to what she was trying to get out.

"The stuck up jerk." Inuyasha butted in, squeezing Kagome's hand to tell her to continue. Look, you guys, the pet was trying to become the master!

Kagome yanked Inuyasha's hair, a warning to all dogs that had become too loose. "Sit down, Rin."

Rin thought she would have to stand there until tomorrow. By the rate everything was going, she wasn't very much surprised of actually how long it would take and was delighted that she was invited to be seated in a chair, sparing her aching feet.

"As I was trying to say before, he doesn't just get any girl because this effect their inheritance." Kagome cleared her throat.

"And you guys need me because?" She wasn't going down just like that.

"Come on. This is a great opportunity for you. You both needed "the marriage." Look, we'll make a contract and everything. Please, Rin-chan. Only you can help keep the Tetsusaiga in one piece." Kagome and Inuyasha double teamed her; their eyes, their mouths. Eeek! The torture of friends!

"Sure..."

And so, the girl bluntly agreed with the crazy people. She didn't know where this was taking her because she was too consumed by her friends' happiness to think correctly for a moment. Who would have known? She had done something irreversible…

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Inuyasha's house... erm... mansion was impressive! White gates that reached the starry night and touched the moon automatically opened as Inuyasha's silver BMW came into view. He lived within the forest floor, behind a mountain, like all rich people did to have peace, she guessed. She had agreed to helping them, but she didn't know that helping them meant going to his home this soon. She thought they would have let her met his brother and signed the contract before inviting her to their home, with his family and stuffs.

Correct her if she were wrong now, did the colors silver and white proved to be attractive or something. All she saw was white--after passing the white gate was white upon white. There were no signs of grass, only plants and flowers that were... white as they drove up the drive way that could be in the same width as any freeway lanes. There were statues of dogs and dragons, and a water fountain that was designed with irregular shapes. But what caught her eyes were a huge statue of a dog with a scary looking sword in its mouth. Weird people were always having weird ideas for decorating tastes.

A butler opened one of the doors, and, to her surprise, he was dressed in black. Finally, a color beside white and silver! It was not that she didn't like those colors, in fact, they were her favorites, but too much of them could kill her liking for them. He bowed. "Welcome home, young master." he greeted Inuyasha.

Inuyasha, though, just nodded his head, kind of bored by his casual greeting.

"May I help you with something, Misses? Glass of drinks?" he offered.

Inuyasha pushed him off. "We'll be having dinner soon. I don't want them to spoil their appetites." What he meant was, 'Get away from them. We are here for business, old man.' What did he eat? Did someone step on his tail or something? The poor guy was just trying to make a living; he didn't have to act so spoiled!

"Inuyasha!" warned Kagome. She stumped on his foot, sending him to his pogo stick.

"Thank-you, Mr. We are not thirsty." Rin assured him politely. Did anyone ever bother to teach the mutt some manner? Or was it he was too rich to need them?

"All right. Fine. Sorry, man. I'm nervous." He glanced at the two girls when the butler disappeared after he muttered, "It's all right, young master." "Can we go now? I would like to get this over with if you don't mind." snapped Inuyasha, earning his beating... again.

What could I say, the guy was a little dense after a couple of beating or two from his lover. And so he got back to his role, rubbing the many bumps on his head. "Thanks a lot, Kagome." he mumbled, thinking she couldn't hear him.

She struck him on the head one more time. "You're welcome, sweetheart. I love you too."

He was leading the way toward his room. Nothing seemed too much out of the ordinary in his house when it was on the rich standards. But for someone in middle class, like Rin and Kagome, they were enhanced by the chandelier that was attached to the roof and stopped a few feet before the second floor, glimmering like diamonds in the sky. Kagome still couldn't ever get over it, no mattered how many times she had seen it. (She had a thing for sparkling things, especially when it resembled something that almost all of the women on earth desired.)

The floor they paced on was made out of golden wood, smoothed and waxed clean of any blemish that could be seen. The railings that rooted themselves onto the staircases were craved out from glasses, each pole on each step was skillfully twisted like the spiral shape they were in as they brought the people up and down from floor to floor.

As they walked down the second floor hallway, their eyes took in images of the distances the doors were to one another, giving them a well enough estimate of how much space there could be. Glancing to the right, Rin looked interested at the purple flowers they had in the library that separated two hallways from one another. Their were a couple book cases, a silver desk with an up to date computer, and a sofa and a bean bag chair.

She immediately found herself alone in Inuyasha's bedroom after she witness another fighting scene between the young couple. They went to get ice-cream, fighting over what flavor they'd get. Typical. She pitied the couple and then herself. Inuysha's bedroom wasn't much too see. She figured, he would not let anybody clean it up. Pile and pile of clothing were stacking up his room. There was no space on the floor and his room was not small! It was as big as any master bedroom. That just go to show you, Inuyasha was not the clean type. Poor Kagome. Wait, was that possible? Poor devil? Eeeek! What was she thinking at the moment?

Maybe she should lie down and rest for a moment. Her head was spinning from her recklessness of not sleeping well last night. She couldn't sleep nor close her eyes because each time, last night, those golden orbs were haunting her, mocking her. Damn that stranger. If she were ever to meet him again, she would give him a piece of her mind.

Sometimes later, she felt someone, who was out of their mind, kicking her foot. She blindly threw the pillow at that person; snapping up from her position, she sent that person her fist of anger, but was caught by her wrist before giving that person a serious injure. Hey! She might be tiny but could throw a punch like anyone with average strength!

Her eyes glared up. She must still be in dream world for those golden gazes were standing in front of her again. Blinked. Blinked. Nope, it didn't go away.

A brief second passed, both beings were skimming, questioning themselves. Eye to eye, chocolate versus rarely found golden, a fight of superior; neither one was going to back down. To them it was a contest, but others, who had just stepped into the room, found it amusingly odd and exciting to happen.

They seemed like they were in love. The way they were throwing themselves at one another through heated gazes as if they were the only two in the massive room.

Inuyasha was always the one to ruin the moment; he threw the bowl of ice-cream toward the stranger. "Think fast!" he yelled, shutting the door behind him as he pulled his lover along. "Have fun compromising with the jerk, Rin!" He laughed on the other side as a click came to their ears by sound waves.

Of course, did you even doubt the person one bit that he could not dodge the flying bowl? His right hand now held the bowl, staring at it strangely, their eyes competition was a draw. Broken as that was, both souls drifted to silence; both not satisfied with even scores.

Some said she might be slow, but she was not; it just took her a while to interpret things after a heated battle... A battle that was very stupid to begin with. Her eyes that were walking on the ceiling, not wanting to face the stranger known as Inuyasha's brother, jolted up twice their sizes. She cautiously made her way toward the door, hoping it wasn't what she'd come to conclusion with. Her hand settled on the knob, turning it, but she couldn't divide the door from its glued position to the wall.

"I-nu-ya-sha! Ka-go-me!" A heated snarl passed through her gritted teeth. She knew the couple were still standing behind the door, listening in on her and his brother.

She heard laughter as footsteps echoing down the hall... They wouldn't... They wouldn't dare...!

And they had... They had left her to compromise with the stranger... the stranger known as Sesshomaru...!

.:Inuyasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.

.:Pu.Date:12.24.04

.:V.2: 10.22.06

.:Partially Edited

.:Post: Sun.1.21.07

.:5 1/8 pgs

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