Rin returned to work eagerly on Monday and sought out Kagome as soon as possible. Thankfully Kagome was alone in her office instead of arguing with her husband in his office like Rin usually found her doing. Kagome greeted her and bade her to sit in one of the two chairs seats in front of the desk. "Is there anything I can help you with," Kagome asked, in Rin's opinion, all to eagerly.

Rin sat down slowly and fidgeted with the hem of her shirt as she asked, "Do you know Sesshomaru well?"

Kagome, who was drinking her cup of coffee, almost spit out the contents of her drink over the desk. "Have you seen him again?" she asked nervously. She put the cup back on the coaster on her desk and wiped her lips gently to soak up the moisture on them.

"Yesterday, at the shrine." Her voice was dreamy and she stared out in space just beyond Kagome instead of at Kagome. "He invited me over to for breakfast at his home, and we talked for hours. He's got some really funny stories about Inuyasha."

Kagome sat there unsure of what to say. Sesshomaru had not mentioned that he had seen Rin again, so she knew not what he had told Rin that was true and false. She was thankfully saved by the phone ringing. Pouncing on the phone she interrupted Rin from going any further. "Hello." Inuyasha was on the other side of the phone complaining about something that one of their sons had done that morning before the nanny came, but she didn't need Rin to know that the call could wait so she put Inuyasha on hold for a second. "Rin, do you mind if I take this call? Inuyasha is upset about the kids again."

"Sure," Rin answered her knowing full well Inuyasha's temperament and that they had 6 children together, an ungodly number of child in comparison to most of the couples in Japan. She left quietly hoping that she would get another chance to talk to Kagome again.

Kagome returned her attention again to the phone and told Inuyasha to stop complaining and then hung up on him without Inuyasha's permission leaving him even more upset. Before he had a chance to call her back she was calling Jaken's phone. "Jaken, get Sesshomaru on the phone with me right now."

"He's busy," was the reply. "Mi'lord doesn't have time for nobodies like you."

At that moment Kagome wished she was upstairs in front of Jaken so she could reach out and slap him across the face. "Tell him it's about Rin, and I won't take 'no' for an answer again," she shouted through the phone at him.

It would be a couple of minutes before Sesshomaru picked up, his deep voice saying, "What about Rin?" His voice wore its usual emotionless tone, but Kagome wondered if she hadn't detected some concern.

"She came to my office this morning." She said in an annoyed tone, "If you're going to pursue a relationship with her, you need to keep the rest of us up-to-date on what you have and have not told her."

Sesshomaru leaned back in his chair hoping to bate her into some sort of an argument. "My affairs are of no concern to you."

"They are my concern when the person comes to me to talk about you and I have no idea what kind of false persona you have set up for them." She was easily taking the bait and revealing something Sesshomaru was pleased to hear, that Rin was indeed curious about him. "So are you going to let me know, or do you want me to tell her everything?"

Kagome smiled in victory knowing that he would have no negative reply to her question. She heard him grunt before answering, "She is not to know that I am a demon."

"Okay, we're going to continue hiding this from her. Will you at least tell us when she knows the truth?"

Sesshomaru roared at her, "She will never know that I am a demon, do you understand me?"

"Okay," Kagome said sarcastically. "You don't need to yell at me though. I have to listen to your brother yell at me enough."

"Half-brothers," Sesshomaru corrected her. "She also believes that I am the friend of the CEO of the company."

Kagome almost fell of her chair laughing. "Do you want to explain that one?" she asked him gasping for breath before continuing her laughing fit.

"I don't want her coming up here often to see me. She is not to see Jaken." With that said he hung up the phone on her just as she had done with Inuyasha, was was not storming into her office.

Before he could say anything she told him to go away and to ask Rin to come instead. He didn't want to go until he found out that it was about Rin and Sesshomaru, so he wisely left her alone. Rin came back and closed the door behind her. "Well, as you can see I think I waste half of my day with my good for nothing husband," Kagome teased.

"At least you have someone to go home to," Rin admitted. "I don't have anything to go home to."

"Well, speaking of someone, what about Sesshomaru? Do you like him?" Kagome asked her eagerly.

Rin pretended to be a little put off by the statement, "I've only met him twice. I don't even know what his last name is or where he works."

"Oh, you don't know much at all about him, but do you like what you know about him so far?"

Rin tried not to sound like a child as she dreamily said while staring off in space, "He's wonderful. He's so nice to me, and we can talk for hours and never be tired of talking to each other. I really enjoy how he looks at me and..." She thought about the kiss they almost shared and remembered exactly why it was that she was going to ask Kagome about. "What can you tell me about his personality? How does he behave around other people?"

Kagome leaned back in her chair, a sour expression on her face, as she gave an exasperated sigh. "He's frustrating." She started counting off using her fingers, "He's inconsiderate of other people's feelings, he's proud, he hates people unlike him, he...he doesn't like Inuyasha and is therefore harsh with me." Her face dropped as she then started listing off his good features, "But he did get us our jobs, and I've seen him be very gentle with just one person."

"I guess you could say two people now," Rin giggled. "He's not at all harsh with me. I can't even believe what you say about him. But I was wondering if he's kind of a ladies' man." Kagome started laughing again heartily and this time did fall out of her chair but continued laughing as she laid on the floor. Rin got up and walked over to the other side of the desk to get a look at Kagome and then put her hands on her hips as she said, "I was being serious. I had been around him for only one hour all together when he tried to kiss me."

Kagome's laughing grew louder and she clutched at her sides to keep the pain from the heaving to get worse. Finally after about a few minutes of laughing she calmed down enough to grab at her chair, and with Rin's help, get seated again. "I'm sorry," she said still laughing but more slowly. "But I've only seen Sesshomaru with one woman ever, and he was afraid to tell her that he liked her. He was too late, and she left him before he could say it. He's had eyes for no one else since...except for you, I guess." She let out another giggle but stifled it.

"Do you really mean that?" Rin asked her enthusiastically. "Do you think he's over her?"

"He must be if he's with you," Kagome said calming Rin. "Don't worry. Just see how he reacts before you do or say anything."