Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or Sesshomaru. (Kagome and Rin do teehee!)

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Chapter 4: Mission: Improbable

Rin knew Kagome very well; or at least that's what she'd always think to calm her nerves. But there they were, on a couch, dogs in front of them, inside the vet's waiting room. Kagome did hold up to her word after all.

Inuyasha was a little jumpy and Sesshomaru would glare at anything that moved in the room, but that was to be expected; the boys never had pleasurable visits to the doc. Somehow needles weren't their thing. Well, at least this time they're not getting a shot, huh? Wink, wink.

"Kagome?" Rin asked her friend who was sitting on the other side of the couch.

"Hm?" she replied, not looking up from the magazine she was reading in her hands.

"Kagome, what are we doing?""

"Huh?" Kagome finished reading the last line and faced Rin. "What is it?"

Rin sighed. "This!" She waved her arms in the air, signaling the waiting room they were in.

Kagome looked at her as if struck dumb, and then replied, "What? Like you didn't get it when I explained it to you eighteen times in the car on the way over?"

Rin put her arms down onto her lap. "No. I still think this is just...just... Stupid!"

Kagome didn't bother anymore. "Well, frankly, I don't care. Besides, we're already here, aren't we? And if you've come along with me all this way, than it must mean that you're in this with me."

Rin looked at her, letting her words sink into her slowly. Then she slapped her face with one hand, mumbling something.

Kagome rolled her eyes and turned to look at Inuyasha. He lay in front of her feet face up, paws curled up on his chest. His eyes were closed, and he seemed so peaceful; his innocent little brain had no idea what was about to happen.

Kagome felt guilty for once in a long time. Sure she couldn't get along with this little charade any longer; her steam had already subsided, and she had never thought of getting Inuyasha...you know... in the end. But she couldn't just give up now, and prove to Rin that she had been wrong all along. She'd have to swallow her pride, and she wasn't used to that.

Safe assured, though, Inuyasha wasn't going to get fixed.

"Inuyasha. Inuyasha. Please report to the doctor's office."

Kagome startled at hearing the loud speaker suddenly come on. She then spoke to Inuyasha to wake him up. At first his ear twitched. The second time around he ruffed. But the third call from Kagome made him finally open one eye, then get up slowly.

Both walked over to a door and Rin yelled back, "Kagome, don't do this!"

Kagome stopped at her words, then continued walking without looking back.

Rin felt depressed. This wasn't like Kagome at all. She knew that her girlfriend could be pretty stubborn at times, and would even turn in her silly attitude whenever she knew she was wrong. But now... Kagome looked serious. Seeing that her pride had yet to falter, Rin tried to think up of something she could do.

Then, she had an idea. Quickly she got up from the couch once Kagome had been out of sight, and knelt down beside her dog. Sesshomaru, who had been sitting upright since the moment he arrived, looked toward his human.

Rin grabbed a hold of his head, nestling her fingers in his fur. Looking straight into his eyes, she said, "Sesshy. Listen to me," she then pointed a finger at the door her friend had gone through, "You know why we're here, right? Your brother's in there and is about to get a serious mishap if nothing is done about it. Kago can be hard headed at times, but this time she went too far. And if we don't act now, something that we could regret for the rest of our lives will occur and I could never bring myself to forgive myself for letting this happen. Do you understand? Inuyasha needs our help, and I know you would do anything for him; so please, Sesshy, help me get him back from the vet!"

The rest of the pet owners in the waiting room looked at her as if she was crazy, talking to her dog like that and raising her hands up in the air as if she were to begin a mission.

If Sesshomaru could have understood her and her obviously ridiculous speech, he would have smirked jokingly if not laughed at her for thinking that he, the great lord Sesshomaru, would ever come to lend a magnificent, elegant, perfumed silver hair on his head to help that idiotic excuse for a half mutt that shared half his blood.

But the dog couldn't understand Rin, so at the mentioning of his brother's name he just huffed and moved to sit elsewhere. He was astute enough to know what a waist of time something could be, and this was it.

Rin sighed, for she knew what was going on; he'd done it on various occasions before, so it was no use to try and make him follow her. Instead, she figured he would have been a disturbance to her anyways, and set off on her own to save Inuyasha, waving a 'stay there' command to her Fluffy-kins.

Sesshomaru watched as his master walked away, a little concerned, but gestured otherwise and lifted his high head even more magnanimous if he could, hoping to stay the rest of the time being staring into nothingness, as usual.

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Inuyasha lay on the vet's table wearing a defensive-looking face. He always put in on whenever a guy would come too close to his girl in the park or whenever Sesshomaru looked ready for a dog fight. Kagome sighed; This is going to be harder than I thought.

The vet's apprentice was getting a few things ready for their visit and the 'clink' noises and light bouncing off of the slim needles and knives that she moved about were getting Inuyasha even more nervous.

Kagome tried to sooth her dog. "Oh, come on, Inuyasha. You're not afraid of some little needles, are you?"

He turned to look at her, cursed in dog speech, and then turned around to see if he could make an escape.

Kagome caught him by the smooth skin of his neck, and held him tight against the table. "Oh no you don't! Your getting a check up and that's final! Now stay down and behave! Sit boy!"

Once again, the poor dog fell hard face down against the metal table, leaving a little dent mark. The sound that the crashing of his noggin made when it came down upon cold metal resounded in the room, through the passageway, until it came upon the animal owners in the waiting room, followed by a loud, hurtful whine from the mutt.

Sesshomaru moved his gaze from the wall to the door where Rin had gone through, highly satisfied with the sound of his brother's torture.

Rin, who was trying on a white gown somewhere, caught the noise as well and hurried off to the second stage of her plan. For all she knew, she could have been late already!

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When the vet came in, the middle-aged woman in a white gown slipped a hand through the door that led from her office over to her work space, peeked shyly, and hurriedly looked around the room to see if only the dog and its owner were inside, alone.

"Aw! Finally!" Kagome was getting a little frustrated with having to wait so long for her.

"Uh... y-yes! Of course, heh heh!" The woman chuckled, scratching the hair on her head and sweating a little. "I, um... was caught up with, um...something else, heh heh! Sorry I took so long!"

Kagome crossed her arms, seeming unpleased. She sighed, "Well, lets just get this thing over with, why don't we?"

"Yes, o-of course!"

Kagome eyed the woman. "Are you okay?"

Jumping back and getting even sweatier, the vet replied, "Why yes, of course! Why wouldn't I be!"

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"Ah! Here we go!" Rin had finally managed to open up one of the little doorways that lead up to the air conditioning vents that dangled from the ceiling after much effort to keep quiet. Putting the door down softly to her side and sticking out her tongue like great minds do when they are in the process of concluding a great masterpiece, she got into the vent with quiet ease.

"Hm...Now where did they go?" Rin crawled her way through the narrow vents, looking through the little windows in her path and searching for the one that led to her friend's dog's appointment.

Finally, she found it.

Able to see everything from her point of view, Rin kept quiet and listened into the conversation until her cue would come.

"Ahem. Shall we begin?" The vet held her chin and stared weirdly at Inuyasha, pondering something. After nodding some and repeating words of contentment over and over again, leaving Kagome spaced out, she finally said, "Yes, yes." With this she jerked up, holding a finger in the air. "Inuyasha is sure one healthy pup!"

Kagome almost fell over. "But you didn't do anything!"

The vet looked at her surprised.

"Listen you, I brought Inuyasha here for a reason and I expect it to be handled quiet professionally, thank you very much!"

The vet stepped back a little, but didn't seem too surprised with Kagome's reaction. Clearing her throat she began, "Ahem. Well then, lets s-see..." She studied the instrument table behind her then took out a stethoscope Holding the ear pieces in one hand, she then put the round piece on Inuyasha's back. The dog had calmed a bit and, unlike with his regular check ups, lay in ease.

Kagome was intrigued by this. "Hm. Yes, yes... Excellent! Like I said, Inuyasha is a strong young one!" The vet put down her instrument. "Now, I think that should do it. You are more than ready to leave!"

Kagome almost fell back again. "What! You're kidding me, right! What kind of a doctor do you call yourself?" Obviously Kagome didn't need to be a master surgeon to know that that wasn't how the instrument was used.

The woman blinked, confused. "But... I thought I was supposed to be a vet..."

Small strands of hair started to pop out of Kagome's head. "You are a vet..."

The doctor smiled. "Oh. Well, that's great then!"

Kagome stepped back. "What the...?" After pulling herself together she said in a serious tone, "Look. Something weird is going on, here. I bring an animal in here, and your supposed to check on him, alright? And check him right! You never were like this on our previous checkups, and so if there's a reason why you can't do this right now, I'll have to go somewhere else."

Rin, still inside the vent, gasped. No! If she leaves, then I'll have to do this all over again! My plan would be ruined! Not to mention she hasn't changed her mind yet!

The vet got worried as well for some reason, then replied, "No! Wait! I-I can explain! Here. First I...uh...have to wait for some results to come in from...uh…the previews patient and...uh, yes, that's it...and until then I won't be able to tend to Lord Inuyasha for you!" The vet inhaled a big gulp of hair after saying all that with one big frightened breath of air.

Kagome blinked. "Uh...okay..." She didn't seem too comfortable with the way things were going but shrugged it off. The truth was she didn't want to go to some other place if she was already here. But though the vet was the same one she always went to, something about her was just not right...

"Wait a second... did you just say, "Lord Inuyasha?"

The vet gulped down on hard saliva. "Uh..uh... d-did I just say that? No...I-I meant...uh...you see..." After fidgeting for a while the intercom finally turned on.

"Ms. Kagome. I have a man here that says you ordered twenty medium-sized pizzas. Please come to the front counter. Ms Kagome."

"Huh!" Kagome jumped. "What the..." She hadn't ordered any pizzas!

Rin held a hand in front of her mouth to try and hide her giggles. The prank call she had made earlier was now making her plan spring in to action. Yes! Finally, the pizza guy came! Now for operation 'B'!

"Uh... Maybe you should go and check that out...?" the vet finally suggested.

Kagome clenched her fists together and headed for the door. "Hmph! This better be a mistake of some kind!"

As soon as she had left, the vet cleaned off her sweat from her forehead and instantly ran towards Inuyasha's side. Whispering so low that Rin couldn't hear, Myoga popped out from under the vet's hair and stated in his normal voice, "Lord Inuyasha, it's me! Myoga! I've come to rescue you from the horrible fate that awaits you!"

Myoga had planned stalling Kagome for as long as he could so that she would either reconsider the whole thing or leave out in an outrage. Ever since the flea had found out just what the girl had planned to do with his master, he had been in a state no closer to a coma. He had overheard one of the vet's employees' conversations, and once the truth was let out, he had to keep himself from fainting. All he remembered after that was how many nightmarish visions had come to mind and how humans could do something so horrible and unheard of to a dog. Not only that, but they were about to exercise it on his Lord!

Oh sweet mother of kami...

Just before Myoga could do something else Kagome stormed back in. "And don't you even think I'm letting you a second alone with my dog! Now come with me!"

Unable to respond, the vet was yanked by Kagome and had to leave the room. Myoga cried silent tears"But, but..."

Rin couldn't have been happier. Everyone except Inuyasha was gone and, knowing Kagome, she had no less than 13 minutes to get her job done. Perfect. It was more than enough time for her to deal with the situation at hand.

Still thinking Inuyasha needed any rescuing and with a wide smirk, she started unscrewing the window latch and once that was done, she punched herself an opening and fell landing next to Inuyasha's table—but with a hard thud on the floor.

Inuyasha had heard her before in the vents and, knowing it was only Rin, kept it easy. He had followed her movements with his head and, just as she had hit the floor, sweat dropped while making a sharp down movement with his noggin. In his cute little doggie mind, he thought, Well, that had to hurt!

Standing up and quickly patting off any dust bunnies on her white gown, Rin tried to compose herself, giggling in an embarrassed way at Inuyasha who was now seeing eye to eye with her from his spot on the table.

"Uh...heh heh, my bad!" Scratching her head with her eyes closed, Rin then put her hands on her hips. "Well, at least everything's going according to plan."

"No, no, no, no, no!"

"Huh? Wha!" Rin gasped, recognizing Kagome's voice from behind the door. "Oh man! She's come too early! And if she sees me here, then... Uh-oh." The white gown was to act like an employee if anyone else found her where she wasn't supposed to be, but Kagome couldn't see her! Rin scrambled through some boxes on the floor and, after finding some balance, was able to climb them up till she got to the vent from whence she came.

Wait! I forgot the screen! Looking down at the floor where the vent's door was, she prayed no one would see it.

"A-and that's that! I will not leave Lo- I-I mean, Inuyasha alone in the room!" Myoga was having a tough time convincing Kagome to let him stay behind.

"And for the last time, no!" Pulling the vet to the door, this time by her collar, the two were out of the room once more.

Cringing from the door being shut so hard, Rin let out a heavy sigh, finally being able to breathe again.

Changing into mission-impossible –mode again, she jumped out of the air vent, landed on her feat just like a cat would, and wasted no time.

Bringing herself up as straight as possible, she saluted the mutt with her left hand on her forehead, almost like a soldier would. "Ahem! Inuyasha, I've come to save you from the horrible fate that awaits you! (deja vu, huh?) Now come with me, sir Inu of the dog clan!"

Inuyasha, not understanding a word she said, just kept staring up at her. Rin insisted again. "Inuyasha! We have to hurry! Either you walk out here like a male or you...Argh! Never mind!" She resulted in tugging him off the table, but was cut off when she heard voices coming from the outside. "Drag!" She let go of the mutt's paw, jumped on some furniture, then made her way into the vent again so she wouldn't be seen.

The vet came in in a hurry, followed by Kagome.

"But you don't understand!"

"Whatever! I've had enough of this weirdness for one day! I have to put up with it as much as it is at home! I'm leaving! Down boy!" Kagome directed her attention towards Inuyasha, making him understand that that command was meant for him. He leaped off the table. After muffling a few things under her breath, Kagome headed out towards the waiting room. "And that's the last time I come here!" The girl left, slamming the door behind her. First the doc, then the pizza guy. Sheesh. What a crazy morning.

Myoga, staying behind in the room, started laughing historically in his own voice, still controlling the woman's body. This maid Rin jump back a little.

"Ha ha! Yes! I did it! Now Lord Inuyasha and Lord Sesshomaru are safe! Yes! Woohoo! Yippie! I'm off the hook!" Ceasing from jumping up and down, Myoga then realized that Kagome was actually leaving.

"Ahh! Wait! If I don't get back to the girls soon, they'll leave without me!" Still in the vet's hair, he hurried the body through the office's door.

Rin, still a little shocked, relaxed her body again from holding on to her breath. Shoving the incident that just played out to the back of her mind for the time being, she looked at the sleeves of her gown and sighed again. "Well, this was pointless."

A little tired but happy everything turned out for the best, Rin started going back through the vent to get out. Phew. I wish there was an easier way to get out of this place...

After trying to find the first opening that she had gone through, Rin had found herself lost.

Uh…I think I'm lost…

But fate didn't bail on her, for it wasn't long before she heard Kagome's voice again…

"Listen here, bucko! I ain't buyin' no pizzas that I never called for!"

"But….but…I can't just take this back with me! My boss'll kill me! You have to take the pizzas!" Rin could tell that the delivery kid was sweating out there. Or at least that's who she thought Kagome was yelling at.

Crawling just a few feet further, Rin found yet another little door that led to the vet's check-in counter. In fact, she was behind the counter on the ceiling, from where she could see. Kagome, from her spot at the very front of the counter, was firing up the whole room and had apparently won the discussion. Inuyasha was sitting next to the exit, ready to leave as soon as possible, and Sesshomaru hadn't moved from his former location, which was in the far corner of the room.

Phew! Oh good…Now I just have to find a way to get out of here while no one sees me…Yeah, like that's ever going to happen! I need some sort of diversion…

Rin started to think of something when she reached out for her phone and managed to get her sleeve caught in one of the screws. Oh great. Now what?

Tugging at it, she just seemed to get even more tangled up in the narrow vent.

"Huh? Did you hear something?" Kagome asked, looking around. She thought she had heard a soft thumping but it must have been her imagination. Looking up, she saw the air vents. "Humph. Must be rats or something…"

Rin instantly stopped. Rats? No way! She was allergic to them! Horribly allergic to them! She started to sweat, but calmed down when she noticed that Kagome must have confused her banging with a rat in the vent.

Rin gulped. Rat? In the vent? She had never thought of that! If she had, then she would have thought twice about going into the vents. Come to think of it… I have been feeling a little weird since I got in here… Um…Maybe there really are rats in here! I've got to get out of here!

Quickening her pace, she began to take off her gown completely since her nerves were too much for her to be able to try and get the sleeve untangled.

"Hey? Where is Rin, anyway? Rin? Rin! Where did you go!" Kagome looked around for her friend in the waiting room, only to spot her stuck-up canine alone by himself instead. Walking over and kneeling next to him, she asked, "Hey, Sesshomaru? Where did Rin go?"

Sesshomaru, being polite for once, moved his sight toward the door he had seen his master go through.

Kagome looked at him, then to the door, then asked, "She went through there? Are you sure?"

After receiving but a small grunt in return, she then stood up, hands on her hips. "Argh. This is hopeless. Like he could actually tell me where she went…"

Rin had noticed her Fluffy acting all Lassy-like and grinned. She was proud of herself for teaching him so much!

"Squeak, squeak."

"Huh?"

"…Squeak."

Rin slowly turned around to look behind her and saw none other than a small rat crawling closer to where she was. This made her jump and sweat drop. Ahhh! It's the devil! The devil's come out to get me! Argh!

Getting a little too excited, she started moving too much, catching the attention of everyone in the waiting room. "Uh…Hey! Can someone hear me? I need some help here, quick!"

Although her voice was a little muffled, Kagome had recognized her friend's voice loud and clear. "R-Rin? Is that you? What are you doing in there?" She got past the counter and stared up at the vent.

"Ahh! Kagome! Quick, help! There's a rat in here, ahh!"

The brothers had noticed her voice, too, and were now facing in the vent's direction.

Looking back again, Rin's heart started to pump even more blood seeing how close that little badger was getting to her. He was just a few feet away! And…Oh my God! ANOTHER ONE!

Coming out from around a corner there came this big, fat, ugly rat. It was nearly three times as big as the first one, and it was coming even faster towards her!

"Ahhh! The devil's come to take me and he brought reinforcements! Ahhh!"

Rin's breathing had stopped, and her mind traveled back to the days where some rat incidents had made her fall seriously ill and under hospital care. Just touching their fur could make her sick!

"Rin! Hey Rin! Are you ok? And…d-did you say there was a rat in there? Rin? Rin! Can you hear me!"

Kagome's shouting woke her up and gave her the jolt of a lifetime. "Ahhhhh! Someone, heeeeelp! There's a really big rat in here, ahhhh!"

Inuyasha sprung into action and ran towards the counter, making a round turn through a little opening they had. He found his way next to Kagome and stood there like a good dog, jumping up every now and then while barking, as if trying to help Rin out in any way that he could.

Sesshomaru too had reacted to Rin's cry, if only just a bit, but failed to move once Inuyasha headed towards her.

Kagome's eyes thinned. She knew all too well just how difficult the situation was getting. Now in a panic, she started screaming as well. "Hey! We need to get her out of there-- now!" Cupping her hands, she voiced, "Rin! Can't you get out!" Turning back towards the secretaries and pointing a finger up towards the vent, she screamed, "Hey! Didn't you hear what she said! She needs our help! There's a rat in there and she's allergic! Didn't you guys get that? Help her out, now!"

Dogs aren't completely oblivious to everything; they're just differently-abled from humans in communication. So Sesshomaru knew what was going on even though Rin's words meant squat to him.

The lord scrunched his silver eyebrows, hard.

"Ahhh! Kagome, they're at my feet!" Rin struggled to get free but only become even more tangled up between her gown and the vent's narrow space. With all the commotion she couldn't think straight and just kept getting even more tied up.

"Rin! No! Wait!"

Both rats were working up their way fast up her leg that time seemed to stop for the moment.

And everything else around her: the gown, the vent, the secretaries, the delivery guy, the clients, their pets, the whole room and it's entireties—heck, even Kagome and Inuyasha seemed alien at that very moment, and nothing was more important to her than…Fluffy. For some reason her mind pictured just Fluffy.

One of the rats started to sniff at Rin's bare leg, causing her skin to itch. Rin screamed as loud as she could, an unknown force telling her just what to say.

"LORD SESSHOMARUUU! Ahhh! Help me, Lord Sesshomaru!"

Rin's child-like high-pitched screams filled the air, making everyone nervous to the point where they though she was just about to get killed.

Sesshomaru's ears perked up.

Inuyasha almost had to close his ears from the volume, and Kagome stared blankly at her friend's face from across the little window. Lord… Sesshomaru?...

The rats got frightened from Rin's screaming that the big one bit her just above the ankle, digging it's teeth deep into Rin's skin.

"AHHHHH!"

"Grr…Ruff!" In less than a second Sesshomaru reacted, growling with a dangerous air and glaring like a mad dog at the vents, eyes turning pure blood.

No one could say just how fast he moved, but they were almost sure he had to have wings of some sort to have sprinted from his corner, across the room, leaped over the desk counter even higher than he needed to with his nails, paws and open jaw in front and, within that same leap, tore open the vent along with scraps of paint that fell from the ceiling, managing to bring the whole system down from the mighty blow.

Before anyone could react, he twisted in the blink of an eye once he scraped the floor, catching Rin on his back just as she fell from the blast.

Both rats fell after her, Inuyasha taking care of them with a full blow of his claws.

Not even Kagome, who had front-center seats to the spectacular, could believe her eyes. What kind of dogs were these!

After some of the debris and dust cleared out, Sesshomaru laid an unconscious Rin on the floor with the delicateness no one would expect from a dog, and stood staring down at her until the paramedics arrived, not looking up once.

He never left her side.

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She sighed.

Sometimes life was just too complicated. Other times it was just too simple to adjust to.

This was one of those nights where there was nothing else to do but to remember how lonely one felt inside. And how close to death all of us are.

"Inuyasha, I hope Rin will be alright…" Her voice came out dry.

Inuyasha cocked his head to the right, staring intensely at Kagome.

Even as a dog he couldn't help but feel sorry for her. She looked so sad, and yet remained ever so graceful. Her hair played in the night wind, and the stars made her eyes glow. She was almost celestial herself. She was beautiful.

Such a beautiful flower cannot be seen crying…

For what is a rose, if not for its cherry, red face?

That's how she always was to him. Well, ok. So a few words here and there could get lost in translation, but I believe that's not completely far form the truth.

He couldn't bear to see her cry.

Inuyasha prepared himself if he saw even a trace of a tear come down her cheek, but this night, it didn't. She just kept staring into the abyss of city lights in the horizon, holding up her fake smile upon her hands, resting her elbows on the cool, soft metal of the rails of her apartment building's ceiling.

There they were; a girl and her dog, a top of the world, on a sad night.

"I… I feel like a fool. If it weren't for me, this would have never happened…"

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"I feel like an idiot. I made an idiot of myself, Sesshy."

The hospital days were over, yet everyone was still feeling down.

Rin stared blindly in front of her, dimming her eyes a bit and sighing a puff of cold air.

Sesshomaru looked at her from the corner of his eyes without turning back his head, and kept on walking.

Rin loved taking daily strolls in the park, and nothing could clear her head more than doing just that with her faithful companion.

Reality came back to her once Sesshomaru stopped, obviously pleased with the spot he had picked out for. Rin looked down at him and clicked off his leash. The lord walked towards some bushes just further up front and Rin sighed again. If it weren't for him, she would have been a goner right now. She owed him her life.

I embarrassed everyone at the vet's the other day…Not to mention coming off as a total idiot.

She had only wanted to help Inuyasha out, but ended up at the hospital herself. Kagome asked her what had gotten into her for thinking up such a maneuver like that, but told her it was all her fault for not telling her that she never was going to go along with the insinuations she had made earlier that morning.

Rin just smiled. Sometimes she forgot not to trust in Kagome.

And now, standing in the park, alone, she started to cry.

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Inuyasha scooted just a bit closer to Kagome with stealth, trying not to seem too readable. The girl soon looked down at how close both of them were to each other.

A warm smile appeared in the corner of her mouth and she sat down alongside him and cradled her arms around her knees, letting her head drop on her dog's side.

Inuyasha sweat dropped because of the closeness but reminded himself he had wanted that all along. So he leaned his own head on hers.

Sighing, and trying to forget everything going on in her mind for the moment, she asked, "Inuyasha… You'll protect me too, won't you? I mean, just like Sesshomaru did to Rin. You'll always be there for me, right?"

Her sudden choice in words surprised him, but he answered nonetheless. After all, his owner needed some comforting. His love needed some comforting.

Yes. I will.

"Woof"

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Rin had let out a few tears, but then chuckled from her stupidity. And to think that I could have gone out through the hole in the vent that I had already gone through twice when I was in Inuyasha's check-up room… Boy, that was dumb of me, huh!

Rin was feeling better physically, but it seemed that what was getting her down now was the fact that she had screwed up.

It's just like me… First my parents…then Kagome…and now…

"Huh?" Rin noticed something moving in the distance and caught Sesshomaru's fur shining between some trees. Walking over she spotted him sitting up tall in the middle of a small mound, staring up into the sky.

Smiling, she came towards him slowly, enjoying any time she had alone with him. Something about him was just…different. Not because of how he acted, but because of something in him she knew was special. Just like Inuyasha.

Rin knew she couldn't be dreaming. All the things she'd been hearing, witnessing, doing…these brothers weren't like any other common dogs, and she liked that. Soon she'd find out their secret, and that'll be the day her dreams would come true.

After all, she couldn't have said 'Lord Sesshomaru' for no reason, right? That word had come out of her mouth because she felt like saying it. It had seemed right somehow.

There's magic here, Rin, she said to herself. Magic.

Not making a sound and avoiding any rough movements that could ruin the peaceful atmosphere, she sat Indian style next to her lord and joined him in his star gazing, her mind running free with the wind's blow.

Nothing could replace times like these.

The girl lay in silence and the dog stood high and proud in the moonlight.

Sesshomaru acknowledged her presence without saying a word, and Rin didn't need one to know that he had so. It was just how he was.

The moon and all its brightness…

reflects but the love I see in your eyes.

A girl lay in silence and her dog stood high and proud in the moonlight. Nothing is said.

Rin smiled, closed her eyes and felt the sweet air rejuvenate her soul. She was safe, just as long as she was with him.

"Fluffy…"

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Ok. So the sudden change of craziness to a little 'fluff' was awkward, not to mention Rin was…well…different. Hey, I needed the comic relief! And seeing that the boys aren't 'demon' yet... Hope you guys liked it! Of course I couldn't let the guys get…well, you know! I'd NEVER let something like that happen to them! And to think some of you actually thought I would!

THANK YOU for all the reviews, guys! I loved them, and they made me try harder to bring a good story to these pages. Keep 'em coming! (Don't worry, the dogs will be 'normal' soon!)

Well, review!