Rin practically collapsed as she finally got through the door to her new home. The paparazzi had been chasing her down for the past week. The day before the wedding Shuichi announced to the media the upcoming marriage of the Lord of the Western Lands. The wedding was thankfully media free or they would have seen how nervous she was now having given her life away to someone who didn't care about her.

But after the wedding day they followed them to the hotel and would not leave the front of the hotel. Since she and Sesshomaru had a suite to share, they didn't have to worry about anyone listening in on them or knowing that they were not even talking to each other. She spent a lot of time sitting in one room watching the TV while he sat in another watching another TV.

The things they said about her were rather horrendous. They criticized the fact that she was orphan and said that wasn't good enough for someone of high rank to be marrying. Then they criticized the fact that she was intending on finishing college. But at the center of all of the controversy was the fact that she was a human and how he had suddenly changed his mind on humans. Most said that the marriage wouldn't even last a year. She didn't like the idea of being married to him, but saying it wouldn't last a year made her want to last longer than that.

Then they finally got the chance to get back home. Well, it had been his home for all of his first degree and the first two-thirds of his second degree. This was her first time being its occupant. But they were all outside of the house making it difficult to get through.

Sesshomaru slammed the door behind him having had enough of their annoying questions. He never gave statements to them unless he called a press conference. But what sight greeted him was even worse. All of Rin's books and suitcases were piled up on the floor of the living room. He was thankful that she hadn't collected too much, but this was still too much to deal with. She would have to give up all the non-essential things.

"Your books can be put on the bookshelves out here in the living room, and your clothes can be put in our closet. But your other things will have to go."

"I don't think so," she informed him as she picked herself off of the floor. "Some of the boxes contain things from my parents."

"Then they can go in the attic." He wasn't about to let her start spreading her things all over his house.

Rin put her hands on her hips and tried to remind him, "When a couple gets married they compromise on how their house will look."

"I don't make compromises."

"You will now. Besides, this place needs a woman's touch or they'll think I'm not living here."

"Your stench will be enough." Rin's face grew red in anger. Every time he opened his mouth it was to insult her for being a human, and frankly that was why he ended up having to get married to her.

She then said to him, "You sure as hell didn't care about me being a human when you made me agree to marrying you."

"Because I had to marry a human."

She walked away and slammed the door to the guest bedroom, so he walked into his bedroom and slammed the door behind him. In the meantime the rest of Rin's friends had been hanging out in Inuyasha's room hoping to welcome her home, but the fight that just ensued kept them from making their presence known. "Which one of you is going to talk to her?" Inuyasha asked gruffly.

"Which one of us?" Kagome questioned him harshly. "Why don't you talk to her since she's your sister-in-law now. You're the one who got her involved in this."

"I've got to live with them whether they like each other or not," he informed her. "That's punishment enough."

Before any of them could say anything more the door was yanked open by Rin herself. "Bring your worst set of clothes with you tomorrow. I could care less about what the Ice Prince thinks. We're going to paint this house some livable shades of color."

"Whoa," Inuyasha said getting up from his seat on his bed. "I ain't getting involved in this. He's my brother, so he thinks he can beat the pulp out of me for anything I do to piss him off."

Rin just sighed and then said to him, "Fine, be a wuss. The rest of you are helping me with getting things cleaned up around here."

The three remaining non-members of this strange family just stared at her and considered their options. They could either take time out of their break to help their friend deal with a crappy situation, or they could get themselves in trouble with the Ice Prince. Figuring that Rin was probably right in how she was going about making the lie look more reasonable, they all agreed to help her.

That night Sesshomaru finally came out of his room when he noticed that Rin hadn't been in to at least put her clothes away. When he did find her she was setting up the guest room to live in. "What do you think you are doing?"

"Setting up my room," she answered him. She put a shirt on a hanger as she said to him, "You said you wanted me to put my stuff away."

Sesshomaru mentally rolled his eyes and corrected her, "I said you were to put them in our room."

Rin stared him down as she asked, "Our room?"

"Aren't you always telling me what married couples do?" She shook her head in a sarcastic gesture. "Married couples share rooms. And the cleaning lady will know that you are not sharing a room with me if all of your things are in here."

"Fine," she huffed as she started tossing her clothes still on the hanger back into the suitcase. Awkwardly she dragged the overflowing suitcase out of the room and down the hallway to his room without his help since he had gone to the kitchen to fix himself something to eat since he had missed dinner. When he came back in she was finished putting her clothes in the closet and was currently trying to change the sheets on his bed. "Why are you changing the sheets. I had them changed before we left for the wedding."

"That would have been nice to know earlier," she said as she struggled with one of the corners of the fitting sheet. For some reason his sheets were almost too small for the bed since they hugged the bed so tightly. "Will you at least help me since you're here?"

"That is not my job," he corrected her as he grabbed a shirt and a pair of sleeping pants out of his one remaining drawer in the dresser.

Rin threw up her hands in exhaustion only to lose the progress she had made on getting the fitted sheet stretched far enough to fit on. Another five minutes of tugged led to the fitted sheet getting on, which made the regular sheets a breeze to put on. As a final touch she set up the comforter on the floor with a couple of folded sheets to be used as his bed.

Sesshomaru reentered the room when he was quite sure she was finished. It was now midnight, and despite being a demon with an extraordinary ability to only need four to five hours of sleep a night, he was actually very tired. He attributed most of the exhaustion to the airplane flight. He never had trouble flying using his abilities, the but machines humans had to use to fly only reeked havoc with a demon's senses.

Rin had also changed into her pajama's, which were a mismatched t-shirt and pair of running shorts. She was already sprawled out on the bed with a sheet covering her as if she were trying to hide something from him. "Move over," he commanded her.

She looked up at him and fired back, "You can sleep on the floor. You're the demon."

"This is my room."

"Our room. If you remember right, you were the one who dragged me into this fake marriage." She was going to stay in the bed if it killed her...again.

"Married couples share beds together," he informed her waiting to see how she would react.

She rolled over so she didn't have to face him. "Married couples also love each other, and they respect each other." He gave up trying to fight with her and laid down next to her making sure not to touch her. This alarmed Rin, who shot up in the bed. "I didn't think you were actually serious." He didn't answer her but laid there hoping for once she would shut up and go to sleep. Rin waited a minute before giving up on him and lying back down. This was going to be a long night.

He left early the next morning for the capital actually happy about having to give up his break to do some work for his father. His human wife was quite the troublesome creature. But he certainly hadn't expected her to do all she had done during the week he had been gone.

The living room was now a burgundy red color, the dining room was a deep purple shade, and the guest bedroom was a shade of green. She hadn't painted their room, but it was clear now that she had moved in because it was feminine with all of the decorations. Heck, all of the house had some feminine decoration to it. Why couldn't she just leave things be?

As Rin came home from class she found Sesshomaru none too pleased. "I guess you ruined the surprise," she said to him trying to act innocent. "It looks much better now. Even your father agreed. Well, what your father saw of it from the pictures I sent him."

"My father knows about this?" he asked rather stunned. If his father had known he would have likely said something.

"Well, you know..." she said coyly. "He did give me permission to paint the house."

Now that just ruined Sesshomaru's argument to change things back. As soon as he would change things back his father would realize that they weren't getting along like all newlyweds did.