For the next couple of months they regularly saw each other at least a couple of times a week. Even though they did not exchange words, they often felt solace in just being within each other's presence.

The peace brought by Sesshomaru's entrance into her life was brought to an end when a disturbance shattered the normal hum of her daily routine. Being that she worked so close to Inuyasha's office she often heard the fights that often ensued between Inuyasha and nearly everyone else that worked under him or with him. Today's fight was not the usual volume and not with the usual people. This person was much more angry and had a much deeper voice. It also did not help that there was furniture being thrown around as if they were physically fighting with other, or so it sounded.

Rin peeked around the corner of her cubicle wall and asked Ginta, "Hey, Ginta, is everything okay in Inuyasha's office?"

He looked up from his work with a quizzical look on his face and then laughed at her. "I don't suppose you've ever heard the brothers fighting before." He rubbed the back of his head and smiled at her.

"I have heard that they don't get along," she commented.

He pointed to the two drawer file cabinet next to the opening of his cubicle in reference to her sitting there. She sat on the edge of the file cabinet and listened intently to what he would have to say. "That's only half of it. Sesshomaru likes to keep a tight reign on the company, so when Inuyasha makes a mistake he comes down on Inuyasha much more than anyone else in the company. Sometimes Hikaku and I wonder why Sesshomaru even made Inuyasha so high up in the company."

Rin had stopped listening to what he had said once she heard him mention Sesshomaru's name. "I don't think I've heard much about this Sesshomaru," she said once she realized he had finished talking a minute before. "What is he like? What does he look like?" she said almost too anxiously. She prayed that Ginta didn't think too suspiciously of her.

He laughed as he talked about Sesshomaru. "He's Inuyasha's brother and the CEO of the company. As you can tell, he's not the nicest person in the world. Most people are afraid to make him upset because he'll seriously hurt you, and he doesn't tolerate anything but complete seriousness. He's got quite an ego too. He seems to think he's much better than anyone else."

He stood up and motioned for Rin to follow him and he walked to Hikaku's cubicle and started talking to him about how Rin had yet to see Sesshomaru. Thankfully for Rin, Hikaku's cubicle was right across the hallway from Inuyasha's office. As she looked into the office she could see Inuyasha throwing punches at someone who was hidden behind the door and then getting hit in the face several times. "He's never going to beat Sesshomaru without that sword of his," Hikaku commented and Ginta agreed with him.

Rin was too busy waiting to see if this Sesshomaru was the same Sesshomaru she had started falling in love with. Her heart broke the second that she caught sight of Sesshomaru's face in the window. He had lied to her, and he actually had the audacity to think she wouldn't figure it out! In a huff she left for Kagome's office leaving Ginta and Hikaku confused. She threw Kagome's door and demanded, "I need to leave now!"

Kagome cocked her head to the side and looked at Rin sadly as if knowing what had happened, but Rin was not about to talk it over with her. After a couple of seconds of thinking Kagome told her softly, "You can take the rest of the day off, and I'll see you on Monday."

Rin marched out of the office and fled by foot back to her apartment and threw herself on her bed sobbing. 'He lied to me!' she thought over and over again. She had thought they were becoming closer, that perhaps he was falling in love with her just as much as she was falling in love with him, but she had been seriously wrong. He just wanted to use her and for what? What did he get out of their time together? Was he hoping to bed her later when he thought she would easily give herself up to him? Why would he lie about being her boss?

The night melted into day, but Rin did not wish to get out of bed unless necessary. She ate little and slept much between fits of sobbing. Finally Sunday came around, but for the first time in her life she did not want to go to the shrine. As noon approached she heard the sound of banging on her door and a person calling out her name. She laid in bed hoping that he would go away.

Sesshomaru had not heard a word from Rin over the past day and a half, and when she didn't show up at the shrine he worried that something was wrong with her. He hastily head for her apartment and could smell her presence still within the apartment. Over the years he had picked up the useful skill of lock-picking and got into her apartment hoping to find her still in decent condition.

What he found was Rin lying in her bed, tears falling from her face. The sight cut him to the heart, and he sank to his knees on the floor in front of her. When he reached out to wipe away a tear her hand shot out from under the covers and grabbed onto his finger. "Don't touch me," she said, her voice forceful. Never before had she talked to anyone before in such a harsh tone.

Sesshomaru's other hand reached out and covered her hand grasping his finger. "Rin, I can't imagine what it was that I have done to upset you so, but I am truly sorry. The last thing I want is to hurt you." His words were honest and he hoped that in his eyes she could see his sincerity.

As Rin looked at him she could see the open emotions in his eyes. Such raw emotions were flooding through him she found it exhausting. "You did hurt me though," she confessed in a saddened tone. "Why did you lie to me? Why didn't you tell me that you were my boss?"

Sesshomaru tried hard to not let his relief show in his face at hearing her question. She still had no idea about his deeper secrets. "I was afraid you wouldn't talk to me if you knew the truth," he confessed to her. It was the truth, but it wasn't the full truth. He had also intended to keep her away from his office to keep Jaken a secret.

Rin nodded her head in understanding and watched as Sesshomaru leaned forward to kiss her forehead ever so lightly. He got up almost immediately and insisted that she also do so. While she showered and dressed herself in more suitable clothing he was making her lunch. He planted himself in the middle of her couch and put the plate of food next to him waiting for her to join him.

After drying off her hair as best as possible, she sank into the couch next to him with her plate of food in her lap and her chopsticks hovered in the hair. "Aren't you going to eat something?" she questioned him.

"I have eaten already," he lied to her. He actually didn't care to eat human food and only did so as of lately to not reveal his true origins to her. She leaned against him as she ate and he said not a word. Instead his mind was deep in thought. Rin had reacted so horribly to the smaller lie of the bunch, and he worried about what would happen if she were to find out he was a demon, and not just any demon but the demon that had let her die all those years ago. If only Kagome had made her wish on the Shikon no Tama sooner he would have made Rin his mate and she would still be by his side instead of her reincarnation he couldn't have!

His throughts were interrupted by Rin setting her plate on the coffee table in front of them and took a sip of her tea. She then leaned back on the couch and curled up next to him while leaning up against his right side. He lifted up his arm and put it around her smaller shoulders and pulled her closer to him. They would sit like this for a few minutes before his sad voice said the words that would always haunt her, "Rin, I have not told you the complete truth about me because my secrets would hurt you. Since there are so many more secrets that I cannot share with you, I think it's best that we no longer spend any time together."

The words swam through Rin's mind as she snuggled closer to him in hopes that it would keep him on that couch longer. "I don't understand, really, what kinds of harmful secrets you could be keeping from me," she confessed to him. He said not a word but "humph'ed" and looked down at her memorizing her smell again. "But I guess I probably never will. I will miss you though, greatly." She stood up and started to walk away when he pulled her to him and planted a kiss on her lips.

The kiss was gentle, but both of the lovers felt the need for the other. As they parted for a breath he knew that he had to get away from her before he did anything more. He stood up and walked out of the apartment saying not one more word. Rin felt herself collapse on the couch and cry again for the fifth time that day.