A/n: wow I'm fast lately… yeah I probably just jinxed myself... oh well. Anyways here is the next chapter. Thank you for all of the reviews, every review I get makes me inspired to write faster. . So just keep the reviews coming ..

Memory

"Rin…your finally here." Sesshoumaru said while leaning over the bed. "I've missed you for so long." He said quietly as he leaned down and kissed her lips. "Soon, I will have you all to myself once again."

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"MOM!" Rin sat up in bed panting "Mom… I hope you're ok." Rin said quietly, while looking around trying to remember her surroundings. "It's been three days, today I can finally see you." Rin thought, while jumping out of bed.

Running to the bathroom, she paused as she heard the shower going. Beginning to blush, she turned around and walked towards the bed waiting for Sesshoumaru to be done with his shower.

Getting up, she slowly made her way to the mirror on the door. Looking at herself, she sighed as she remembered the dance was tonight and she had not found anything to wear. "How can I think about this dance when my mother is hurt." Rin said while wrapping her arms around her waist.

"Rin…" She turned around quickly as she heard Sesshoumaru's voice. "We don't have to go to the dance tonight. It was just a suggestion." He said while putting his hand on her shoulders. "We can go and visit your mother as long as you like, or you can just visit her if that makes you feel better.

"No… we have had this planned, and we're going to go." She said while hitting him. "We have to enter you in that gorgeous man contest, right?" She said while trying to make her self laugh.

"It's ok, we don't have to." Sesshoumaru stated while kissing her on the forehead, sending her into a shocked state. "If you care about your mother, then be with her, I'll promise to go to the dance for you and enter the contest." He said while pulling her into a hug. Reacting to his hug, Rin wrapped her arms around his waist and leaned her head against his chest.

"No… I care about my mother, but she would want me to have fun, because I never have any. I will visit her as long as I can today and then I will come home and get ready." Rin said while bringing her hands up to her chest and resting them there as she leaned against Sesshoumaru. "Why do things happen so unexpected?" Rin questioned.

"It's just how life goes, thinks about all those people who ask that question after someone they love has died." He said while feeling a tear (rip) at his heart at speaking those words.

"I guess…." Rin said while walking away from him and towards the bathroom. "Will you take me to the hospital after I'm done with my shower?" Rin asked, while just about to close the door. "Also we need to stop by my house." Rin smiled slightly, finally closing the door.

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"I'm glad you ok mom!" Rin said while giving her mother a hug.

"Yeah, I'll have a nasty scar but I'm fine." She said while smoothing out her daughters hair

"I will have to go through therapy for my leg, but like I said it will keep me in the hospital for about a month or two. Izayoi has agreed to pay for my care and to take care of you."

"I'm just so glad your ok." She said once again, this time grabbing her mother's hand. "This lifts a lot of stress off my chest.

"Well you better get going, Izayoi told me that you have a dance tonight and Sesshoumaru is your date?" Rin's mother said while laughing a little. "How cute, my daughter has a date to the dance.

"Mom…Get better soon ok. We'll be back tomorrow ok?"

"Sesshoumaru, I expect you to take good care of my baby, ok?" She said to him, taking his gaze away from the very white wall.

"Yes I will."

"My your voice changed." She smiled.

"Ok we will see you later mom!" Rin said excitedly.

"Later baby girl."

Rin walked out of the room followed by Sesshoumaru, who smiled knowing that Rin felt much better.

Walking out to the parking lot, Rin smiled as she ran to the car. Getting inside as Sesshoumaru unlocked it, she then threw her seatbelt on as she felt Sesshoumaru pull out in a hurry.

"We have an hour till the dance." He said while looking at his watch. "Izayoi?" HE said while talking on the cell phone. "Get your stylist there in 10 minutes and get that dress I bought for the masquerade and get it ready for Rin." He said calmly while trying to ignore the look that Rin was giving him. "I will father to bring down my traditional wear. Tell him to set it in my room. Oh and Izayoi…thanks" Rin smiled as she heard Izayoi's voice over the phone.

Her smile slowly disappeared as she felt Sesshoumaru slam on the gas. "Slow down………." Rin's screamed echoed as they appeared at the house in merely five minutes.

Jumping out of the car, she ran inside afraid for her life. "Leaning against the wall, she screamed as she felt two pairs of hands grab her and pull her into a room. She paused as she saw Izayoi standing there calling out some words. People began to pull at her hair and mess with her face.

Sesshoumaru soon followed in, knowing already that Izayoi must of kidnapped Rin into some room in the house. Walking to his room he slowly began to get ready.

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"Ok Rin your ready…. That was 30 minutes exactly now run down stairs… oh wait don't forget to put on your mask!" Izayoi said while handing it to her.

Rin began to run out the door only pausing to look in the mirror to admire the work done by Izayoi's stylist. "Dear have fun?" She said once more before watching her leave the room.

Sesshoumaru on the other hand was waiting down stairs sitting with his legs crossed, his opposite elbow resting on his knee, his hand propping his head up. He stood up as he heard footsteps. Standing up, he moved his clothing around a little.

He sighed remembering the last time he had worn this one set of clothing, his demon clothing... Moving the fluffy like thing to the side, her began to straighten his shoulder plate. Bring a hand behind his neck he slowly moved his hair to the back with a slight movement of his hand.

His heart calmed as he watch a certain beauty make her way down the stairs, her kimono various colors. He smiled as he remembered giving her that identical kimono so long ago. It was a lavender color, on certain areas of it; it had sparkled in certain areas. Around the kimono was flower shaped patters. The waist time or bow was a darker shade of purple that gave the kimono a more elegant look. Looking at her hair, he noticed that Izayoi had it straightened with some of the front hair pulled back into a pony, but leaving a lot of hair to frame her face. Her mask was a silver color with feathers lining around it.

Sesshoumaru smiled and held out his arm to her. She slowly wrapped her arm around his and walked to the limo with him.

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Walking into the dance, the both of them got several stares. Most women were wondering who the tall man with long silver hair was.

Looking around Sesshoumaru finally spotted the sign ups for the Gorgeous man contest. Walking over, people practically stepped aside for him. He kept his eyes straight as he walked slowly to the front of dance. (You guys know how he walks in the anime… That sexy cool walk of his drool)

Rin slowly followed behind, as she also received looks from people. "Se…" Rin stopped her self as she remembered not to announce who he was till the end. "Sama!" Rin said, causing Sesshoumaru to whip around. His eyes softened as he stared at her. Grabbing her hand he walked with her to the front.

"Here hotty!" A girl said while handing him a contest sheet. "If you're this hot now, only imagine without the mask." She said while winking at him.

"You make me sick…" Rin looked at him, as he said this to the girl. "Your shallow..." He spoke once again before walking off as he left the filled out form in front of her.

"Now I see why you hide yourself." Rin said quietly to him. "Just being around you when you're cleans makes a big difference." She said feeling sorry for him.

"Dance with me…" HE said calmly while grabbing her and pulling her to him. "Be with me…" He said quietly, enough for her to hear. "Tonight…" He whispered in her ear. "Look at my eyes…" He said lifting her head.

Rin paused not having noticed that his eyes were actually gold. "Gold." She brought her hand up to his mask and touched near the eyes.

"There my true color." He said while grabbing her hand and kissing it gently. She froze as she felt his lips touch hers. She relaxed after a bit finding the kiss quiet comfortable.

"What's wrong with me?" Rin said to her self as she felt her heart pound... "Why won't I pull away…am I that shallow to only care for him after his looks?" Rin questioned her self as she felt his arms tightened around her waist.

She froze slightly as she felt something wet hit her cheek. She felt like crying as she watched Sesshoumaru fall to his knees while still hugging her, his head lying against her stomach. All she could do was bring her hands to his hand and bend down and then began to hug him. "Se… what's wrong…" Rin questioned finding it a bit awkward to see someone like him crying. "Did I do something wrong? You're my friend I don't want you hurt." She said, causing him then to get up and act as if nothing even happened.

"What's wrong?" She repeated once more, while cupping his cheek. By this time Rin hadn't cared about the scene they were putting on. She didn't care about all the people who were staring at her and him.

"I'm fine…" He said, not exactly realizing why he himself just broke down. "The contest will start soon…Lets go get something to drink…" He said calmly while grabbing her hand.

Before they could even move a loud piercing screech went across the gym. "Um… yeah will the 10 contestants who signed up for the Gorgeous man search come up?" The girl said.

Each and every one of the men that came up was very attractive in there own way. Calling out they by 1-10, each of them got cheers. From the cheers there was a voice monitor in the back that generated the amount of sound coming from the group.

"Ok we have gone through all 10, but we can only choose 3 contestants right now. The machine gave us the cheers and we've got number's 2!" A whole bunch of cheers were heard once again. "Number 7" Once again followed by cheers. "And number 10" The cheers erupted louder than ever, Rin's being one of them. "So we have our three finalist. We have the names of each of these contestants. If you know who they are, don't be shouting out there name. We had one last shout off for each of these people and the papers just go t here and number 10 won of course…" She said while looking behind hearing massive amounts of cheers. "Half these people in here probably know him, but then again they don't really know him do they." The girl said while smiling. "This is such a shock to me.

"Go number 10!" Rin screamed while earning a smirk from him.

"Now will number two please step forwards to remove your mask?" She said, watching as he slowly removed his mask as he walked forward. "Yes we have Tyler McKinnon." She said earning some boos. "Now, now, just because he wasn't who you expected…Now number 7 please… yes, yes I know you know, we all know it is Tenshin Kurosaki! I'm just surprised he didn't win." The girl laughed a bit before pulling out the winner's paper. "Like I said this last one is a big shock for me and you all, but you have to guess. On the count of three I want you guys to yell out who you might think it is in our school. Remember we have many silver haired beauties… male wise in our school." She laughed once more while patting him on the back. "One…Two…Three!" She paused as she heard a mixed jumble of various names from people. She did not even once hear the correct name. "Man you guys suck at this, I'll give you one more chance. I didn't even hear it once! Now! ONE…TWO…THREE!" She sighed. "Ok guys and gals, be quiet you guys are wrong.

"I told you number 10!" Rin screamed trying to keep him a secret until his name was revealed.

"Will number 10 please step forward?" She said watching him walk forward. "How about removing your mask and seeing if they can find out from there?" She said watching him take of his mask and drop it to the group, his mask not being the only thing that drop to the ground. The room got quiet as they started at him; most of them were stunned and awed. They still had no idea who he was but found him to be the Gorgeous man of the night. "Um… wow? I didn't expect that!" The girl laughed once more, having hoped to see someone ugly under the mask. "One… two… three!" Everyone was silent. "It is Sesshoumaru Takeshiro!" She all bout yelled causing the some of the parties in the room to gasp.

Rin smiled as she heard a few of the side conversations. "You liars" Rin said remarking to one of the girl's comments. "You never knew he was this way, just the other day I saw you picking on him." Rin said while pushing her.

"Rin? How long have you know about this?" Tracy came yelling at her. "If I would have know he was like this when he bumped into me I wouldn't have cared…" Tracy yelled in excitement.

"Shut up…" Rin said while walking away towards Sesshoumaru. Running over to him she laughed as she felt her self being picked up by him. "I told you… you'd win. I totally understand why you hid yourself now." Rin said while laughing as Sesshoumaru and her left the dance full of stunned people.

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A/N: there is still more don't worry . Probably now much but there is more. Next chapter will be explained about his breakdown.