Sango sat down in a chair near Rin in the patio. "I can't imagine what you're going through right now," she admitted to Rin.

"I don't even know what to think right now," Rin admitted to her friend. "I was so mad at Inuyasha last night I just had to get out of here. If I hadn't I wouldn't be in this predicament."

"But what's done is done," Sango reminded her. "Besides, this could turn out to be a great opportunity for you."

Rin looked at her completely puzzled by what she could mean. "Huh?"

Sango looked towards the window to Inuyasha's room and sighed, "You already know that Sesshomaru will always be faithful to you. And maybe in time you two can learn to be good friends. If I ever get Miroku to settle to down with me, I'll always be worried that he's not going to be faithful to me."

"He's not worth even dating then," Rin said stubbornly. "If you can't trust each other than it'll never work."

"Maybe that's sign your marriage will be successful: you can trust each other."

"...to hate each other," Rin corrected her. "Why me though? He could have nearly any woman in the world, but he picks me."

"Well, you owe him your life." They both heard the sound of someone opening the sliding glass door that opened up into the patio. When they looked up they saw Inuyasha standing there. "I told you to give me some time alone with her," she chided him.

"But I thought that..." He stopped what he was about to say and ducked out once he heard Kagome yelling at him.

The women sat there in silence until the door opened again. Sango was about to yell at Inuyasha when she realized it was the other brother. He stood there in complete silence staring at Sango as if he were trying to tell her something with his eyes. She felt uncomfortable knowing that he had business with Rin that she was not wanted in. "I'll talk to you later, Rin," Sango said getting up and walking past Sesshomaru, who did not even acknowledge her presence.

Rin looked the other direction hoping that he would get the idea that she didn't want to speak to him at the moment. "I have been told that Inuyasha has talked to you."

"Yes." Neither of them knew what to say at that moment, which was a first for Sesshomaru. The woman was attractive, for a human, and she would likely not take advantage of his wealth or power. But she would not be an easy one to convince to help him. "Why me?" she asked him after a minute of silence. He had hoped she wouldn't ask that.

"You owe me your life."

"Just because of that?" She stared him down hoping he might give way even just slightly to what his true intentions were. "You could have any human woman in the world hanging off of your arm, but instead you chose to pick the woman you just happened to save with your special sword?"

He looked at her rather perturbed by her questioning. Just to satisfy her curiosity just this once he informed her, "You will not willingly do it." That struck Rin as rather odd. "If you agree to this you will use what power you will want to use to help others while most women would use it only to further themselves. My father would never agree to a marriage with a woman who doesn't want to help the people." Rin was now actually impressed with his logic. He had thought this out in the very short time he had even known of his existence.

When he turned away from her to leave she called after him, "Wait!" He turned his face to look at her. "If we are going to pull off this elaborate lie, I think we need to discuss the details and get to know each other."

"Just do as I instruct you." He turned his face again to the door in hopes that he could get out of the uncomfortable situation he had just gotten himself into, but she didn't have any intentions of quitting right then.

"I'm not just going to do as you tell me to. First of all, I'm not a child. And second of all, if you want your father to believe that you love me and vice versa you need to listen to what I have to say. You'll never pull it off the way you're doing it." She crossed her arms across her chest to show that she was going to be stubborn about this. He looked at the cross look on her face and inwardly sighed. He didn't mind a challenge, but this was one he was not willing to deal with. "If you're not going to put any effort into this, then I won't either."

He shot her a look that said that he didn't appreciate her tone with him but did sit down in a chair across from her. "What do you need to know?"

"Well, first I think we should discuss when we'll be getting married and when you'll be telling your father about our engagement."

He stayed sitting up straight in hopes that he could escape as soon as possible. "We will meet with my father next Saturday. We will announce it then. He will make the arrangements for the wedding. Is that all?"

Rin cocked her head and wondered how dense he was about emotions and relationships. "What about buying me an engagement ring?" He stared at her blankly. "We need to go out and buy me an engagement ring. It won't be believable without one."

"If I buy you one now the media will leak out the story before we tell my father," he corrected her. She had not taken in consideration that the paparazzi would now be following her around. "We will wait until it has been announced to the public." Rin nodded her head in acknowledgment. "What else do you believe will be needed?" Now he was just going to ask her in hopes that she would hurry up.

"I assume that I'll be moving in here." He didn't say anything or even nod so she assumed that she had been correct. "I still have one year of school left."

"As do I," he informed her.

"Then I guess that won't be a problem. But I do want you to know that I will get a job after graduation because I refuse to sit around all day." He nodded his head slightly as he laughed to himself at how determined she was to think her life would be like any other. "And we do need to get to know a lot about each other. You don't even know my name." He stared blankly at her. "My name is Rin. Rin Arai. I was born to Tadao and Manami Arai. I had three older brothers: Masayuki, Kichiro, and Hiroki. When I was eight I was staying the night at a friends house when some thieves broke into our house. They killed my parents and my brothers. I then grew up in an orphanage." Sesshomaru kicked himself for picking an orphan. She would likely want a family later on, but then he wouldn't have to deal with that for awhile since she wouldn't want to sleep with him when she couldn't even stand being around him.

She continued, "I'm going to college on a full ride scholarship that pays for my tuition, fees, and housing. The rest of the money is what was left over from my family's estate. Next year I was planning on getting student loans."

"There will be no need for that," he informed her.

"Right," she said not sure if she should say 'no' now or not. Deciding that was a better argument later on down the road she told him, "I am allergic to penicillin and tomatoes."

"Do I need to know this much about you?" he questioned her. This was a lot of stuff to learn in only a week.

"Of course you do! Emperor InuTashio probably knew more than that about Empress Izayoi when they first slept together." She noticed the way his eyes flashed in anger at her statement, so she took note not to mention anything about his past if she didn't have to. "Oh, and I love flowers. I decorate things with flowers all of the time. Now, what do I need to know about you?"

"Nothing."

"I can't be in love with you if I know nothing about you," she protested. "Like, what do you do for fun when you aren't working or studying or sword fighting? What's your favorite food? What's your favorite memory? Do you have any friends you are close to?"

"You do not need to know anything more about me except that I do not care to share my life with anyone."

"If you love someone you do share your life with them. You don't have to tell me everything about you, but if I knew a little more about what you are thinking I could understand you enough to fake that you are open with me."

"I hate talking to you about this and I don't care to be married to a human. Is that enough for you?"

Rin threw her arms up in the air and grunted in frustration. "I guess I'll just have to hang around you every free second I have for the next week until you either tell me what I need to know or I figure out what exactly it is that you do."

"You will do no such thing." He stood up and started to walk away from her when he noticed she was now following him. "Leave me be," he commanded her, but she was not just about to roll over and play dead. As he got to his room he slammed the door shut in her face, but she just opened it and walked right in. He pretended as if she were not there, so she took the opportunity to look around. "Don't touch my things," he warned her.

"They'll be my things as soon as we get married," she reminded him. "You might as well get used to me arranging things around the house as I see fit. No one will ever believe that I stay here often with the way you guys keep it. It's too plain, and you let Inuyasha keep it too messy."

"Inuyasha is the one who is messy," he corrected her.

"Well, there are two of us and one of him so he'll just have to keep things clean around here." For the first time since Rin opened her mouth today he finally found something about her to like. "Oh, and I will definitely have to repaint half the house. White is such a boring color."

"This is my house; you will not change it," he threatened her.

She put her hands on her hips and said to him, "Would you rather just kill me and lose your chance to inherit your title as the Emperor?" He didn't want to answer either way in fear that she might actually try to screw things up for him. Maybe she was going to take advantage of him after all. "That's what I thought. There will definitely be some changes made around her."

Sesshomaru sat there seething in anger at having to listen to all the crap she was spitting out. It was no wonder he had never gotten himself involved in any relationships; they were too complicated. "Oh," she screeched out loud. She ran out of his room, so he closed the door hoping that would be the last he had to listen to her that day. What had he gotten himself into? She returned back only a couple of minutes later but this time with everyone else in the house. "We have to come up with a story about how we met," she started to count off on her fingers as she went through the list. "How we started dating, our first kiss, and how you proposed. You'll need to come up with a story about how you knew you were in love with me and you knew you wanted to propose."

Inuyasha stood by laughing the whole time as Sesshomaru grew more and more annoyed with Rin and now with Inuyasha. "What are they doing in here then?" he asked blankly.

"They have to be a part of the story, so they need to know what to say in case they are asked. "So, how did we meet?"