Note: Okay, I was debating making this story an M rating because of the sexual jokes and innuendos, but then I realized that it's nothing worse that what you see in the PG-13 movies anymore. Besides, if my job has taught me anything about teenagers today is that they start having sex in middle school because I've seen a file for a 12 year old teen parent. So if you can't handle that type of material, please skip this chapter.

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After the club the couple went home. The whole ride home they had been making out like a couple of teenagers. But in the back of her mind she worried about going to the next level. Sure, they were both virgins, so it wasn't hard to believe that he was also somewhat nervous. And indeed he was, but as a guy he was more willing to get to it.

But as he carried her into their room and placed her on the bed he noticed how stiff she had become when he had placed his hands on her bare shoulders as he kissed her. "Are you ready for this?" he asked her huskily.

"No," she answered him honestly in a completely frightened voice. He pulled away from her rather stunned at her answer. This was the same woman who almost had sex with him when they were still unsure of their feelings!

"What's the matter?"

"I'm really nervous about this. I mean we just confessed our feelings for each other. Normally couples wait a little while before getting engaged after saying that and then they have to wait awhile to get married."

He wanted to bang his head on the wall in frustration about now. His loins were telling him to take her, but his heart knew that she needed more time to get used to their changing relationship. "Okay," he said as he seated himself on the edge of the bed. He would need a long cold shower now! "When you are ready we will." She reached out to touch his arm but he got up to take a shower.

As Sesshomaru got out of the shower he found Rin in bed already under the covers but curled up in the fetal position, something she did when she was really upset. He knew she felt bad about not being able to please him, so all of the anger left in him ebbed away as he approached her. He spooned her while placing chaste kisses on her neck. "I love you, Rin," he whispered to her hoping to calm her. "I will wait until you are truly ready for me."

She shook out of pent up emotions and said to him, "I'm so sorry. I really do love you, Sesshomaru."

"I know," he whispered into her ear. "Just get some sleep." His voice was so gentle that she wanted to kick herself even harder, but at this point there was no way to rectify the situation tonight.

The next morning Sesshomaru got out of bed long before Rin woke up. When she did get up she found herself wondering what kind of a mood he would be in today. And things got even worse when he didn't show up for breakfast with the rest of the family. So after breakfast Rin pulled Kagome aside and explained to her everything that happened the previous night. "I'm sure he's not mad at you," Kagome said trying to comfort her. She really didn't know Sesshomaru, especially since it sounded to her like he acted differently around Rin than around everyone else. "He's probably just sexually frustrated."

"As much as you think that would help, it didn't," Rin said to her disappointed. "How do I get past the nervousness?"

"Well, I just let Inuyasha do all the work and I just enjoyed the ride. After the first twenty times or so you'll start to get a little more brave because you'll know a little better what you need. They'll always get off every time, trust me."

Rin sat there trying not to picture Inuyasha naked. She didn't know why that popped up in her head, but she definitely didn't want it there any longer. "Maybe I should let him try tonight."

"Maybe we should go shopping for lingerie for you," Kagome suggested. "I'll go get Izayoi."

Rin grabbed her friend by the arm as Kagome tried to walk away. "You are not telling her. I don't want everyone to know."

"She won't tell everyone," Kagome promised.

But sure enough Rin was right because Izayoi told Shuichi where they were going and why, and Shuichi asked Inuyasha to try and talk to Sesshomaru to give him some confidence. However that was not what Inuyasha had in mind to do. "So, I hear you aren't getting any sex," Inuyasha announced in front of his father and Miroku. The grin on his face was positively evil. "Couldn't get your woman to have sex with you?"

Shuichi rolled his eyes realizing that perhaps telling Inuyasha had not been the best idea. "Leave him alone. It's hard to get a virgin into bed the first time. They don't know what to expect, and the first time hurts them. Not to mention they all know that they most likely won't orgasm now until you have been with them for a long time."

"Not Kagome," Inuyasha tried to brag. "I pleased her the first time." What he failed to mention was that he had plenty of practice with Kikyo before he married Kagome, but she didn't know that little fact. "I bet you also pleased Sango the first time," he said looking at Miroku.

"Uh," Miroku said scratching the back of his head. The last thing he wanted to do was to look like he was less of a man in front of them. "Yeah." He gave a fake smile and a nervous laugh.

"And if you don't want to be shown up by your younger brother, who already lost his virginity before you, you better work it right. If not she'll be telling Kagome all about it in the morning."

Sesshomaru tried not to listen to Inuyasha, but unfortunately that evening when Rin hit on him he couldn't perform. So the next morning he sat down in the study only to hear, "So, how was it?" coming from his annoying half-brother.

"None of your business!" Sesshomaru growled.

Inuyasha started laughing as he said, "You guys still haven't. You're pathetic." As he kept laughing Sesshomaru left the room and went for a walk to calm himself enough to keep him from killing Inuyasha with his bare hands.

Shuichi thought it was best to step in at that moment. He sat Inuyasha down and explained to him, "Your brother really loves Rin, and the pressure he has to make their first time romantic is enough without you having to make him more nervous."

"Whatever! Even if I didn't try to make him nervous he still couldn't do it. I bet you that in a month they'll still be virgins."

"If I win, you have to refrain from making any jokes or quips at his expense for the next year."

"And if I win I can say to him whatever the hell I want," Inuyasha said shaking his father's hand.

What Shuichi hadn't counted on was the dirty tactics Inuyasha was going to use to help him win the bet. When he wasn't trying to give Sesshomaru performance anxiety he was trying to find ways to make Rin think she had to give Sesshomaru whatever he needed or he would leave her. Other times he would physically interrupt their few moments where they showed any physical affection towards each other.

The time that finally drew the last straw was nearly a month after the bet had been made. Sesshomaru was getting out of the shower when Rin walked in on him. Her face turned red as she saw his excitement. As he leaned in and kissed her his servant Jaken walked in on them. It was well known that Jaken was obsessed with Sesshomaru since he would often do anything he could to be in Sesshomaru's presence, and he even spent a year away because Sesshomaru told him to go somewhere to study the migration patterns of a certain type of bird.

Rin had been grateful that she was still fully dressed, but when Sesshomaru rushed to put a towel around his waist she noticed that Jaken was trying to move around in a way to get a look at Sesshomaru. Within seconds Jaken was thrown on his face in the hallway and locked out. Rin sat down on the bed now sure that the mood had been ruined, which it had. "Is there something about him that I don't know about?" she asked her husband, who was getting dressed.

"Yes, he is gay."

"What was he doing walking into our bathroom?"

Sesshomaru buckled his belt around the waist of his dress pants as he explained, "Inuyasha told him that we were trying to be intimate, so he's been chasing me around trying to find ways to keep us from..."

"So Inuyasha is to blame for this?"

"He's been the culprit in most of our problems. He'll do anything to make us nervous or to interrupt us." He sighed trying to imagine how it could be that his younger brother could get the best of him.

"Don't worry about him. Kagome will know soon enough." And she went in search of Kagome to tell her what had just happened and what Sesshomaru had explained.

Kagome in turn went to the study where the three males were sitting. "Sesshomaru, do you mind if I have a talk with my husband and father-in-law?" He obliged her by leaving and closing the door behind him. "What in the hell are you doing?" she asked Inuyasha as she hit upside the back of the head causing him to fall forward into the desk. "I heard that you were trying to sabotage Sesshomaru's love life?"

"Is that true?" Shuichi asked him.

"Hey, I have a lot riding on this bet!" he informed his father.

Kagome put her hands on her hips and asked, "What bet?"

Shuichi wanted to calm Kagome down so that she wouldn't yell any louder bringing in more people on the bet. He quietly explained to her, "Inuyasha thought that they wouldn't get intimate in a month, so I bet that they could because without any external influences they love each other enough to not let their nerves get in the way. I had been wondering why they hadn't, but now I know that Inuyasha was cheating."

"You should be ashamed of yourself!" she yelled angrily at her husband. "You have ruined something special between the both of them all for the sake of some stupid bet!"

"It's not just any bet. If I win I can say whatever the hell I want to the Ice Lord and Dad can't get involved. And if I lose I have to be nice to him for a year."

"I think that I want Shuichi to win not just because I want them to finally be intimate, but I also want you to be nice to him. He does a good job of tolerating you, so the least you can do is tolerate him."

"Well there's only a couple more days," he pointed out.

"Even if you do win, I'm not going to give you any until they do."

Inuyasha grabbed onto Kagome's arms and shook her as he whined frantically, "But that could be forever!"

"I don't care! You made this situation, and now you'll have to live with it!" She huffed and then left the room upset.

So Inuyasha stayed out of the way for the rest of the week and even got Jaken to leave Sesshomaru alone. Shuichi was starting to worry though because it appeared that the longer Sesshomaru went without showing his love to his wife the more reclusive he became.

But the last day of the bet things finally changed. Sesshomaru and his father were meeting with an advisor late that evening. The advisor was droning on about things that didn't particularly keep Sesshomaru's interest. His legs grew restless as did his mind so at one point he stood up and walked over to the window. The window over looked the garden, and it from it he could see his balcony. As he looked upon the moon soaked scene before him he noticed Rin was sitting on the thick railing of the balcony wearing the lingerie she bought when Kagome took her shopping.

The sight of her in the moonlight and in that skimpy outfit caused an erection. Without much thought he left the room and went out onto the balcony attached to the study. In a single leap he landed on the balcony and held onto Rin who almost fell off when her nerves caused her to jump. He caught her before she was able to fall. "Sesshomaru," she said breathlessly. "I thought you would be getting in later."

As he kissed her his father could see them from the balcony of the study. The other advisors had been interested in knowing why Sesshomaru had suddenly left them, to which Shuichi simply replied, "Ah, young love!"