Note: I do not own Inuyasha, I just happen to be a big fan who loves to write fanfiction.
A young woman in her early twenties stood looking up at the tall glass building in front of her, which is owned by the Takahashi Corporation one of the world's largest conglomerate.
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath and mumbles a small prayer. "Kami, please let me be successfully today. For I know that can do the task that are listed for this competition. "
She had taken no more than a few steps, when she was pushed down by a weird looking little green man. Rin had fell to the ground, causing her to growl out which surprised the little man for he had taken a step back and looked at petite person in front of him with wide eyes. For a moment thought he heard his master.
"Jaken how could you!" the older woman said as she tried moving as fast as she could in her kimono. "Oh my, are you okay? Are you hurt? Please let me help you." A woman said panic as she reached down to grab the young woman hands to help her up. Only to have it replaced by another.
"Here allow me to assist you and do forgive the individual who knocked you down. He sometimes can be rude and forget to be kind to others." An older distinguished gentleman said with a smile.
"Thank you and for my appreciation, please accept this small gift." The young woman gave the couple a small box of what smell like a whole lot of goodness and bow before she turned to leave. She smiled and waved good bye then proceeded to walk into the main lobby of the building.
The couple just stood there shock at what just happed. They both looked at each other and smile for they were expecting the young woman to be rude and impolite. But then again they are one of the world's powerful families. Here they were thanked and awarded for their actions.
"Are you both just going to stand there all day acting like little children who was just spoiled by being given a treat?" Sesshomaru said as he watched what had happened.
"Well come along dear, let us proceed in before we are told that we are late for work." Inutaisho said to his wife while he proceeded to escort her in the building.
As they continue to walk to the private elevators, Sesshomaru glance over to the reception area to see that the young woman was no longer around. "Hn" Sesshomaru said to himself. On the ride up to the main office floors he had began to think about the young woman. 'The gesture from the young woman was truly unique. Most young women would have used this opportunity to benefit from his family. But the scent the young woman and her actions were true and genuine. Also, it seems like she did not know who they were.' The sound of the elevator doors opening brought Sesshomaru out of his thoughts. He had begun to stepped out the elevator forgetting the other individuals who where in the elevator with him.
Rin had walked up to the receptionist and informed them who she was and that she was there for the competition. The receptionist gave her a quick glance and provided her with a visitor pass. Another individual came quickly and escorted her to where she could prepare and set up everything that was needed for today small but private competition.
The talk gentlemen gave her quick and brief instructions of what was expected of her. As the gentleman was talking her she made quick notes of everything, hell itself was three times larger than her little rundown apartment. She had found herself pleased to know that whoever was holding this competition was well prepared and Rin was ready to begin. She was allotted a total of 3 hours to prepare the flowers, setting of the table, food and change of clothing, which she found oddly enough that they had her size. Rin had looked all around her, should could not believe what she was seeing.
Flashback
"Rin you won, OMG! I can't believe you won the next level of the competition." Sango and Kagome yell as they were jumping up and down with Joy.
Rin looked over to her friends wondering what where they talking about. She had just gotten off from work and was hoping for a little peace and quiet. But she could never turndown Sango and Kagome when they said they were coming over to spend time with her.
"What are you talking about that I won the next level of competition? Rin try asking the two overly exited girls.
"We have a confession to make and please don't get angry with us." Kagome said with a weary smile. Although Rin is a sweet, kind, caring and loving individual, but she does have different personality when it comes to certain things. The kids in school would call her the demon spawn, for she would be a whole different person when it came to missing with the young lady. (Having two older brothers who pick on her a lot due to it was to help her to defend for herself, when it came time for her to live on her own as they said.)
"We entered your name in a competition" Sango said as smoothly as possible while she and Kagome keep a distance between them and Rin. While they made sure they have a safe escape plan.
"Oh is that right" Rin said as she did not look up while she was trying to remain calm.
"Rin, sweetie, the truth be told we know what talents you have and when we saw this competition. Well you came into mind. Also, this is a way to get you to come out of your shell. Kagome said taking a few steps back and trying to place Sango in front of her.
"Sango you knew about this? And how is it that I was not aware of this competition? I don't ever remember going anywhere to compete. Rin starting to look up as her hand had reached over for the kitchen knife.
"Rin, yes I had helped Kagome with this, but please listen to us we did not mean any harm." Sango said as she tries pushing Kagome in front of her so when Rin was ready to attach it would not be her to get harmed.
Rin took a deep breath and decided to listen to the girls before she would be on the evening news for killing her two best friends. "Alright I'm listening, explain to me about this competition" Rin said as she took another deep breath and decided to pour herself a glass of cold water.
Kagome and Sango had begun to explain the details of the competition and what they had done for the submission. They even explained what was expected for the final part of contest that consists of cooking, baking, flower arrangement and personality test.
This was a quality that Rin had for she was the youngest child in her house and was left home alone more times than none to defend for herself. Her parents were always working and her two older siblings had decided to when they became of age to move out.
Rin was very surprise that she did not notice during the times they had asked her to do unique request. But then again her two best friends were asking for her help and she did what a good friend would do.
The more the girls thought about it, it felt like the individuals running the competition was looking for a sue homemaker or a bride.
End of flashback
"Miss Yamada, will there be anything else you need before I leave?" the gentlemen asked.
Rin was pull back from her memories on how she got here. "Yes, I notice that a list does not indicate any specifics on what the individual or group of people prefer to eat. It is only courtesy to know what they like to I can make sure that the food I prepare will meet to the individuals taste.
The gentleman was surprise by the question she posed to him. He looked down at his PD and saw that a message was received and did what was instructed.
Rin had smiled at the man and quickly gave him a cup of hot tea and said her thanks of providing him with the information he had.
As the gentleman left the room to report to his boss, he smiled and was surprised by the young woman act of kindness.
Rin had quickly looked at the time and made a determination what she needed to do within the time given.
She made the flower arrangements for they were simple, color and held a light fresh clean smell. She did not what the food she made to be ruined by the smell of over powerful flowers.
Rin had completed decorating the table and setting the plates along with the flowers. She proceeded to make the food base on the information she had acquired from the man early. Rin had looked up and saw the time.
"They should be her within the hour, if I change now I can create a drink for them. " Rin had mummer to herself.
Rin had selected a dress that was simple and elegant black dress with black heels that help insinuate her legs. She fixed her hair where it was partly up with loose strains of hair cascading down like a water fall. Rin was not a big person on makeup but since this time she had to do a presentation, she decided to apply earthly tones to help keep the natural look.
Once she was done she looked at the time she had less than 30 minutes to go. "Okay time to make the drinks. " She said with a giddy tone while a smile grace her face.
Rin was done and had the place looking spotless for her personal motto was clean as you go.
She heard a light knock on the door and looked at the man who provided her the instruction for the guest.
Rin smiled and had bow to welcome the guest that she will be serving today.
"Welcome, it will be my pleasure to be at your service today" as she was rising from her bow she held a angelic smile on her face. She was surprised that the couple from earlier where in the room; however, this was not time so falter.
She had quickly assisted the information the man had given
her early and escorted the individuals to their set.
Rin had waited for everyone to be seated as she begun to serve them their drinks and preceded with the food. She moved extremely quite in the kitchen area while her guests were having their lunch.
The door slammed open with very upset looking man. "Sesshomaru that was not funny, I'm going to kick your a.." Inuyasha was stop dead in his tracks as a young woman was in front of him with a smile that had him staring at her. "What, when did she move over here next to me, I didn't ever hear or see her move." Inuyasha thought to himself.
"Please sir if you could be so kind and follow me while I take you to your set over here. I shall gather your food for you look like your rather famish" Rin said as she lead Inuyasha by the arm escorting him to sit next to the gentlemen that she now presume who name is Sesshomaru.
Rin had quickly moved back into the kitchen and then proceed to make a large bowl of Ramen. Something about the young man seems to draw her to that type of dish.
"Son, it's nice of you to be able to join us today" the older gentleman had said.
Before Inuyasha could say something nasty about how he was fooled by Sesshomaru regarding location, Rin was next to him once again with that smile and a drink. "Sir, I shall have your food within moments; however, for now please enjoy this drink I have made for you."
All Inuyasha could do was look back at the young woman, smile and accept the drink that was handed to him. He took a sniff of the drink and then took a sip of it. "Wow, this is pretty good "Inuyasha said as he notices out of the corner of his eyes that Sesshomaru was intently looking at the young girl working away in the kitchen.
Inuyasha decided to have a little fun, but he was going to feel back for it was going to be at the expense of the young woman working in the kitchen.
Sesshomaru had continued with his meal and was surprise that within the time allotted this girl no young woman was able to make everyone something that fitted them precisely. Base on the simple information she had acquire prior to the competition.
Rin had finish making Inuyasha ramen and had walked over and place the meal in front of him. "Please enjoy your meal." Rin said as she turned to leave Inuyasha grabbed Rin's hand.
Inuyasha had stood up quickly and held Rin close to himself "Thank you for the meal that you have just placed before me, for I … Inuyasha was quickly pulled back by a very upset Sesshomaru.
"Little brother you should know your place" Sesshomaru said with very narrow red eyes while holding Inuyasha at the collar of his neck.
Rin was trying to process what had just happen between the two men, but all she knew was something needed to be done and quickly before there was bloodshed.
"Lord Sesshomaru, please stop no harm was done, Inuyasha was just trying to give complement on my cooking and nothing else" Rin said as she looked up to Sesshomaru with pleading eyes, while trying to get him to release Inuyasha.
The scent of fresh cherry blossom and lilies hit Sesshomaru had, he looked down and realized that Rin was very close. She was so close that her ample breast was push up against his arm. He begun to stare at Rin with he remembered his surroundings. Sesshomaru had release as he went to move he notice that Rin was still holding onto him.
"Rin, you may release me for I will not kill my brainless brother. However, I will not tolerate this behavior from you again Inuyasha." Sesshomaru said as he begun to move to sit down this time Rin had release him and preceded to move and look at Inuyasha.
Inuyasha had looked at Rin waiting for the your girl to give him a beating of this like for the aura around her had changed to something dark, black and scary a feeling he gets when he really pisses off Sesshomaru.
"Please dear kind Lord Inuyasha, do eat your ramen before it becomes cold" Rin said with a smile and proceeded to remove the place of the address guest in the room.
Once everyone was done with the main meal, Rin had begun to service the light, simple dessert. The entire room was silent as everyone was enjoying their dessert.
Rin had ensure that when the time as up that the only remaining thing that needed to be done was to remove the dessert dishes, clean them, dry them and put them up.
Rin had completed her task and had moved forward to face the guests that were in the room. "Thank you all for allowing me to compete in the competition today. For I hope that you all had enjoy your meal. "
The gentlemen who had assisted Rin and provided her with the information she needed had moved from the table and kneel before Rin.
"My lady, allow me to introduce myself to you for I am Miroku and will you do me the honor and bare my children?" Miroku said as he placed a small kiss on Rin had.
Rin was stun frozen and by the look she gave made for she could not believe this man. Here she thought he was nice but to come out and ask something like that was downright bold and rude to her.
A loud and menacing growl made Miroku move away from the young lady for all heads had turned to the origins of sound. Sesshomaru had begun to move, when his father Inutaisho had in turn made a growl noise back that stop Sesshomaru dead in his tracks.
Looking at the time Rin could not believe how long they had stayed with her and her time was up. Rin had once again bow and gave her thanks to them for the opportunity doing the competition. She had then proceeded to leave the room and be on her way home.
She had reached the elevator, when she was stopped before she could go any further. "Excuse me miss, you are being requested to meet with the owners. Please follow me this way." A woman had said.
Rin had just looked at the woman like she had just grown a second head. With a light sigh she had followed the woman to a large oak door.
The woman had knocked and proceeded to open the door. "Excuse me, I have the person you're requested here." She had moved to the side to allow Rin to pass through the doors.
Rin had bow and begun to great the owner of the company when she was shock to see that she was face to face with the four of the five individuals that she just feed.
"My dear, please come and have a seat and allow us to introduce ourselves" Izayoi said as she move to guide Rin to a nearby sit which happened to be next to Sesshomaru.
"My name is Izayoi, wife of the owner of this company Lord Inutaisho. Next to you is our eldest son, second in company Sesshomaru and our youngest, third in command Inuyasha."Izayoi said with a smile.
Rin had looked around the room at all the individuals around the room and was trying to understand what was going on.
Inutaisho had begun to laugh breaking the silence, "please allow me to explain what took place today and why you were called back before you were allowed to leave."
"Yes, if you could be so kind. It was my understanding that I was here for a simple competition; however, I have a feeling that it's more than that. " Rin said as she was preparing herself for she felt if this was some sick joke than the rich can be cruel to those who have not.
Sesshomaru had moved and hit a button that closed all the shades in the room and displayed a large monitor screen.
Rin was surprise to see the video replaying all that had taken place. By the time it was over, she was not only shock, but was somewhat upset that she was secretly being filmed without her knowledge.
Izayoi had Sesshomaru move and sat next to Rin for she could sense that Rin was no longer in a happy mode. "Allow me to explain what just happened and why it was done.
Before Izayoi could say a word, Sesshomaru had stepped in and was straight forward and blunt about their actions.
"Understand this human; we are a very powerful and rich family. We cannot afford having someone attempt to kill us all just for a simple playtime for others." Sesshomaru said as he turned his eyes to look at this father, for he knew if he tried placing blame on his step mother there would be hell to pay later.
Rin has sat there thinking about what Sesshomaru had just said. 'What does being human have to do with what just took place?'
Rin had stared at Sesshomaru and gave him and growled at him. This had not only shock all those in the room but it also surprised Rin. She told herself may times to not allow rude insults get to her or allow her other side come out.
She had closed her eyes and took a deep breath and stood to proceed out the door.
"Lord Inutaisho, Lady Izayoi I would like to thank you for allowing me to entertain your; however, this human must leave now for just like all other beings being played with is not a very pleasant feeling. And before, I say or do anything unbecoming my grandmother had though me to leave before anything bad happens." Rin said as she bowed again and then began to walk towards the door.
"Rin please do not leave and ignore by arrogant son and have a seat. I will explain why we took the actions that we did and the reason to why you are here now. "Inutaisho said as he stood before Rin with a more serious and processional manner.
Rin had move back to the seat and sat down, ready to hear what was going on from this gentleman in front of her.
Inutaisho had explained to Rin that his wife would like to create an environment where the average individual could go and enjoy themselves; however, they wanted to find someone with no experience or knowledge of how to run an inn. But none the less, the venture his beloved wanted to take was something he would do without a second thought.
"Let me understand, you would like to create a hot spring in the heart of Tokyo, where average people could go to? But that does not explain why did you filmed me or the other contestants, although I do understand that at time one should be cautious of unknown individuals ; however, since the list of contestant were selected with enough time to do a very thorough background check."Rin said while gave a side way glance over to Sesshomaru.
"Hey smart girl, don't you get it. You were the only person that was selected from the get go." Inuyasha said as he said behind the wooden desk.
"What! How can that be I'm sure that there would have been others?" Rin said with a surprise tone.
"Actually, your friend Sango is dating Miroku and he had mentioned that his girlfriend was a wonderful person who could feed a whole army and treated everyone like family. So I had requested that he keep it a secret and acquire samples before we brought you in. However, the whole ideal about making it appear as a competition was Sesshomaru ideal." Izayoi stated with a smile on her face.
Rin was lost for words should also, felt happy that her friends thought so highly of her and surprise that the person next to her would have come up with the ideal. "Well, I would be honor to help any way I can; however, I would only be able to assist during my spare time between work and work." Rin said with a smile on her face.
"We expected you to dedicate your time to be focus on this project, for failure is not an option for the Takahashi Corporation." Sesshomaru said while staring at the young woman beside him.
"That would be impossible, I do need to earn a living and provide food on the table, for nothing is free in the life of an average person." Rin said as she stared back at Sesshomaru.
Rin had noticed the time and did not realize that it was already 6:30 and she still had not eaten. She had move to get up when she felt a little dizzy and was falling down.
Sesshomaru had moved quickly to capture her in his arms, noticing how nice she felt. Rin was helped to sit back down she was given a glass a water from Izayoi.
"Sorry, I only had breakfast this morning and with all the work that was done, I guess I ran out of energy. I need to leave so I can go home and cook dinner." Rin explain, feeling a little better when she decided to move to leave.
"Oh dear, why don't you just come home with us and have dinner there, it has been a long time since I had a female companion over? Izayoi said looking like a little girl who was having her best friend over.
"Well, you see I don't live alone and having my roommate try and cook would be a bad thing. I don't think I could eat someplace else knowing my home would be burned down due to my failure to cook dinner." Rin said with a chuckle in her voice.
"Oh I see, well then Inuyasha go to Rin's place and pick up her roommate and bring them to the house." Izayoi commanded.
"Do I really have too?" whine Inuyasha
"Rin call your roommate and have them ready to be picked up in 15minutes, we will pick them up on our way" Sesshomaru instructed, while Rin to proceed to call Kagome and Sango to let them know that they will not be eating at home tonight.
They had all walked out to the front of the building and proceeded to walk towards the awaiting limo. The guys allowed both ladies to get in first. Izayoi sat next to Inutaisho, while Rin ended up sitting next between Sesshomaru and Inuyasha.
Both Sango and Kagome were outside their building when a black limo pulled up. A green little man had moved and opens the door for the girls to get in.
Rin had peek out and waived the girls to get in so they can go. With the two new passengers the seating arrangement changed. Inuyasha was not sitting between both Sango and Kagome and Sesshomaru and Rin were sitting across Izayoi and Inutaisho.
The ride to the mansion was quiet and peaceful. Rin was able to be comfortable being next to Sesshomaru that she started to nod off, only to fall asleep against his shoulder. Surprisingly, Rin was not awakened until it was time to eat dinner.
She had moved to snuggle deeper into the pillow she had in her arms, when her eyes pop open. She looked around her surrounding and realized she was no longer in a limo but in a well decorated room that screams dominating single male.
"I see that you have finally awakened" a cool, low masculine tone whisper in her ear. Unfortunately for Rin, she turned her head a little too quickly and felt like the room was spinning. She had closed her eyes and took a deep breath then decided to open her eyes one more time.
There in front of her was Sesshomaru deck out not in his business suite that he wore early during the day. Here he was wearing nothing but a towel around his waist with steam coming off his person. Rin proceeded to swallow the lump that was stuck for she could not believe what, who was standing before her eyes.