Oh, this little story is turning into a cute one! I can hardly contain myself!

I am really proud of this chapter.

Enjoy!

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It is a day of leisure for Sesshomaru and his companion Un. It has been a few weeks since Un's win at the dog show, and Sesshomaru calmly telling his over zealous, infuriating mother that he will sooner gouge his own eyes out instead of exploiting his dog on something as completely ridiculous as a dog show ever again. Sesshomaru believed that it was time to let Un loose for a day, and decided to head to the dog park, so he could do as he pleased.

Sesshomaru sit at the large dog park, lounging in the shade with a book. He gave the Que for Un to run and frolic, and do whatever else that made him happy, but Un was not having it. He just sat there, next to Sesshomaru tongue out, panting in the light breeze. Now, just because Un is "supposed" to be a top league dog, Sesshomaru knows that he needs a little time to relax and just be the people loving, frantic little kaynine slob he was meant to me. This is the first time in a long time that Sesshomaru could care less about what his companion did, and it will soon be the first of many now that he has his mother off of his ever aching back.

God, no he never wanted to put Un through that hell. Sesshomaru had been through it himself. But his mother insisted, and insisted, and insisted, and insisted on "Showing off" his amazing dog... So he appeased her, made a deal with Un, and now he has to follow up on the deal.

Of course, this little deal of Un's will mean a few more problems that Sesshomaru's mother will create. Sesshomaru can hardly wait for her new intervention on his life.

But noooooooo... Killing her is apparently unlawful nowadays.

So he just has to wait patiently for her to die of incredibly old age.

Sesshomaru is a dog demon. So he knows how it feels to be primped and trained for a luxurious life, and have no time to let loose. Though he can currently control himself in any situation, thanks to numerous centuries of containing such a control, he knows that his companion, Un is almost the exact opposite. He is all dog after all, and he has so much energy that needs to be let go.

Not to mention all of the mental anger and steam that has been built of from his glorious master.

They are closer to one another than most masters are to their companions. Since Sesshomaru is, in layman's terms, part dog, he can actually have full mental conversations with Un.

That turns the story in a whole new direction, doesn't it?

'This is the first time in 6 months that I have let you off of a leash, outside, in a dog park. Go somewhere else. Go cause trouble.'

'Is that supposed to impress me, sir?'

'Don't start-'

'Don't start? I don't even know where to begin to start, pal. You have prissed me up, shattered my pride in that dog-awful show, and now you won't even let me see-'

'Go!'

'We had a deal, Sesshomaru.'

'If you keep pestering me about it, you won't have a life to fulfill such a deal.'

'I don't get it. What's so bad about her?' Un starts as he looks up to Sesshomaru. 'She is lively, has an amazing smile, her mane is as dark as night. Her personality is top notch. Man, she is one hell of a catch.'

'Drop it.'

'I mean, no wonder she is Ah's owner. They click perfectly.'

Sesshomaru doesn't say a word, yet let his anger resonate from himself to his dog.

'Yikes! Okay... I'll drop it... Just answer me this...'

Sesshomaru looks to his "pet" expecting him to finish his thought.

'Why won't you just accept her as your mate?'

Sesshomaru's eyes grew at Un's audacity. Really? Un is really going to go there?

'Come on man. Just admit it. You will feel so much better if you do. I mean, look at me.'

He looks to his mutt of a dog.

'You would do well to keep your preconceived assumptions to yourself.'

'I'm not a dumb-ass, Sesshomaru.'

'Are you sure?'

'Well, I am your dog... So if I am, it says something about you.'

'Is that all you insisted of speaking of.' Sesshomaru hisses.

Un chuckled at the reply. 'Yeah.'

'Then get out of my sight.'

After that thought, Un just looked away from Sesshomaru with a smug attitude. Even Sesshomaru can't keep it to himself.

'We're both whipped, man. Even you can't deny that.' Un finished his thought as he just continued to sit, royally pissing off his master.

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"If Sesshomaru is a dog demon, then why does he keep a dog as a pet?" Rin asked, extremely confused to her friend.

"Why not?" Kagome asked as she kept both eyes on the road.

"Isn't that against some dog demon moral code or something?" Rin really didn't get it.

"Not that I know of." Kagome glanced a weird look to her friend. "It's not different than Inuyasha and me owning that fur-ball back there." she pointed to the back seat that sat two dogs, 3 kids and another friend by the name of Sango.

"Yeah, as long as they don't abuse them or hurt them in any way, I don't see a problem with it," their friend Sango chimed in.

"It's just weird-"

"Is the idea weird, or is Sesshomaru weird?" Kagome caught her friend.

"Sesshomaru is a jerk. There is a difference." Rin says crossing her arms in resentment of the thought. Kagome sighed at her friend, thinking that nothing could fix her friends frame of mind.

"You know that just because he said one thing, doesn't make him an evil villain. Maybe he was having an off day and just had a poor way of showing it." Kagome tried to get Rin to think of him differently. Kagome has known him for a while now. He really isn't as bad as he perceived himself to be.

"Mmhm. I just know he is going to be there today. I can feel it," Rin shivers. She really doesn't like him.

"Maybe I will finally get to see some of this battle." Sango smiles. "I just hope that I have popcorn with the movie." she teased as Kagome giggled. Rin's aura was not taken lightly in the car full of individuals.

They make it to the dog park for another day, this time with their friend Sango and her three kids. With two dogs and three little ones, three adults are needed for such a trip as this. The bag of toys was given to one of the kids as a picnic basket as handed to another as they paraded in to the big Dog Park.

As Ah and Koga played with Kagome and Sango, Rin decided to play with the kids for a little bit with hula hoops and bubbles. She smiles as she tried to catch one of the twins and giggled as she tickled her and heard her wonderful laugh. It wasn't long until the other two tackles Rin to the ground and she was surrounded by little hands.

Sesshomaru kept his eyes the scene. He saw her play with the kids and saw how well she was able to tackle three all on her own. There was something strange about it; something that made his ear twitch, and made his senses heighten. He couldn't stop watching the scene. He didn't want to stop watching. It was something that angered him. He didn't like this feeling.

He wanted to lose control of himself.

This wasn't a good thing.

As they started to calm down, Rin tries to set up the blanket for them to sit on. Right as she reached for the picnic basket, she catches a glimpse of her dangerous premonition come true. There he sat, book at hand and Un at his side. Shivers went down her spine as she saw him. Instantly her unhappiness was felt through the whole group.

"Oh come on Rin. Don't tell me he's here. That means that I owe Sango 20 bucks." Kagome whined.

"Pay up, Kagome. He's over there," Sango smiled as she poitned to the white haired demon in the direction of Rin's angry face.

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'She's here,' Un automatically shot his face up to Ah's scent.'

'No,' Sesshomaru commanded Un as an intention to stay.

'Fat chance, pal. Time for you to pay up!' Un says before immediately rushing to the group of girls. He ran as fast as he possibly could towards Ah with nothing but smiles on his face.

Sesshomaru just sighs as he sees where he indeed runs to. Rin doesn't know what to do, she sees the utter happiness in Ah, and keeps looking to Sesshomaru expecting him to come and break up their reunion. Yet he just sits there, locking eyes with Rin, moving not one muscle to intervene. She stands, completely confused at his reaction.

Nothing.

He just looks down to his book and continues to read.

She hesitantly looks away as she sees their new friend. She smiles as she allows him to jump on her lap and pet him. Rin smiles feeling his extremely soft fur before he locks eyes with Ah and goes ballistic. All three dogs, Ah, Un, and Koga run happy and free having the time of their lives.

"Huh," is all that Rin can think of what just happened. Completely baffled.

"See? I told you he was't totally terrible! Looks like the sister-in-law isn't totally stupid." Kagome carries herself in pride as joins the kids and Sango in a game of Frisbee. Rin, on the other hand decides to walk to her arch enemy to have a few words.

He knows that she is coming. In fact, he could sense her vehicle driving here, he is so aware of her presence when she is near. And he just cannot control it. Sesshomaru sees this woman everywhere. Since the day they met. He hasn't been able to un-see her, and though he would never show it, it was diving him off the wall. Why her? Why does it have to be her?

She's ordinary. She is indifferent. She's human. There is nothing special about her.

Nothing...

That he will admit.

She continues to walk up to him, slowly, yet with purpose.

"Hi," she suddenly starts. He says nothing, just remains with his nose with a suddenly uninteresting book. "So, umm... Your dog," she clears her throat. "Un. He ran up to us, and greeted us... and stuff," she struggled to say to him.

"So I saw," was his only reply.

"Yeah, umm... And now he is playing with my dog," she points to the blissful dogs in the background. "The "mixed breed" that you loathe with every fiber of your being." her voice grows.

"Who said that I disliked your companion," he says refusing to look to her eyes.

"Well, you seemed to make that clear when you insulted my dog a few weeks back when we first met. I just kind of assumed-"

"When we first met?" he looks up to her. His eyes held a different meaning at his comment.

"Y-yes," she struggles to keep her point. "and now I don't even know what to think of you anymore." she laughs in confusion "One day you are an insulting ass that hurts my dogs feelings, and the next day you're all hunky dory with your precious prize winning dog with my mixed breed mutt." she cannot understand this guy.

"How did you know that Un won a prize?" his eyebrow shot up.

Rin's eyes bulged. "Uhh... I- uhh..."

At this point, Sesshomaru is done with this woman insulting him. Never, once did he say that he did not like Ah. After all that he had heard about her from Un, the mutt is really out of her league. He is fed up with this tantalizing woman.

"Your "Ah" is a perfect mix between a Labrador Retriever and a Boxer. She is all black with one white spot on her chest and on her left front paw, and she has longer eyelashes than most female dogs. She is indeed mixed, correct?" he asks as he stands, deeply inhales and gazes into her... eyes.

Rin's backs away in surprise, not expecting that at all. "Well... Yeah. But how-"

"And she is smaller than most. By her size, she was more than likely the runt of the litter or was treated poorly as a pup, is that correct?"

Rin continues to be baffled. "Uhh Y-yeah, I found her-"

"And you too. You are quite petite for your age, are you not? Be it unlawful surroundings growing up, or just your body's build. Compared to your friends, you are smaller then they, are you not?"

Rin blushed a bright red as her jaw drops.

H-How-? He...

He left her no room to respond. "I did not state anything that was untrue. I just spoke in a way that did not consist to your liking. It is to no fault of mine that you take what you will with unneeded negative connotation." he stated factually and unnervingly stoic.

Rin felt extremely belittled and a little ashamed, not to mention slightly thrown off by his vernacular.

But, he was right. He didn't say anything that wasn't the truth, that day. But it still hurt her.

"But if you didn't mean it like that then-"

*WHELP*

Both of them suddenly hear the loud scream of a dog getting hurt. They search for the source of the crazy and sudden heart-wrenching sound just praying that it wasn't one of theirs.

Then, out of no where, Sesshomaru runs, as slippery as the sight of lightening towards the sound. Rin immediately runs with him, only thinking the worst.

A crowd gathered around as the scene started to take place. Rin lost sight of Sesshomaru, as well as the rest of her crew. When she finally managed to break through the crowd her heart broke as she saw...

It was Un.

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Cliffhangers... They sure do suck don't they?

None of that was planned, guys. None.

I'll be back soon!

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