They were both sitting in the black Mercedes car in silence. Kagome looked from the window, feeling uncomfortable in his presence. She glanced at him. He was wearing a sort of glasses that would protect his eyes from the lights of the cars. She nearly rolled her eyes. Hiding his eyes was becoming a habit for him. For instance, why would someone wear dark glasses in his office?

"Where do you live?" he suddenly asked in his deep voice. She cleared her throat before answering. He simply nodded and took a turn to the left. She had to admire his driving skills. She could barely feel them moving despite their high acceleration at the moment. However, she decided to break the silence between them.

"Thank you for giving me a ride. I know that you are certainly busy."

He took another turn, not answering her. Kagome felt anger boil in her veins. He did not even bother answering. Who did he think he was? She could barely wait to destroy him. She would enjoy seeing him beg for mercy. His company will crash so fast that he will be in the street in no time. She smiled to herself, satisfied with her plans when his voice brought her back to reality.

"I know that I seem to you as the worst person in this world and I am sorry. I didn't mean to shout at you this morning."

Kagome looked at him, surprise all over her face. Did he just apologize to her? Him, the man she had to destroy, and the arrogant boss she had to cope with?

"It's okay." She mumbled and to hide her sudden embarrassment she opened her purse and started searching in it.

"Did you lose something?" he asked, glancing at her purse.

"No Mr. Taisho, I am just looking for my mirror. I can't find it."

Inuyasha touched the top of the car in front of her and a mirror suddenly popped. Kagome looked at him for a second before she felt something cold slip on her hands. Startled, she snatched the cold thing and found a necklace in the form of a semi heart. She furrowed her eyebrows. It must have slipped from where the mirror had popped from. It was a little bit dusty but magnificently golden. She traced it with her fingers and felt a shiver run down her spine. So familiar, it was so familiar. She closed her eyes in the dark car and held the semi heart necklace even tighter. Was it a coincidence that she had dreamt of such a necklace the night before? She bit her lower lip. The coldness of the material between her fingers almost matched the coldness of her mind.

"Are you okay? You seem dizzy." Inuyasha asked her, looking at her through the darkness. She was being terribly silent and she didn't even bother with the mirror.

"Can I ask you something?" She whispered, her head giving her a sudden ache that shot through her entire body. Why was this scene oddly familiar?

"Sure." He answered, slowing a bit. She gulped.

"Did you ever feel that certain events in your life have a kind of familiarity in them? The simplest things?"

Inuyasha stayed silent and she thought that he would never answer but admitted wrong when his voice rang in the car.

"Yes, just recently."

Kagome shook her

Head positively.

"Oh, and Mr. Taisho, I am sorry but this necklace just slipped from the mirror. I believe it is yours."

"What necklace?" Inuyasha asked coldly.

Kagome took the necklace from between her fingers and raised it to her eye level.

"This one." She answered, moving it towards him. The young man looked at it and his hands froze on the wheel. He hadn't seen this necklace since the day of the funeral. He had put it somewhere but he just forgot. And there she was, the woman that resembled her so much, showing it to him. Painful memories returned and he felt himself sink in guilt. "When I found you Kagome, I found the other part of my heart, that's why we will put these necklaces, to remind ourselves that we belong to each other."

Kagome's voice suddenly rang in his ears.

"Oh my God, pay attention!"

He shot his gaze back to the road and barely dodged a car coming in the opposite direction. The sound of powerful breaks was heard and Kagome felt that her hand were on fire. Just like the dream, the sound of breaks. Her respiration suddenly accelerated. She felt that she was going to asphyxiate. She put her hands around herself, fear in her eyes. Why, why couldn't she remember? She could feel how close and in the same time how far she was.

"Mercedes!" he suddenly shouted and she looked at his direction. "We're okay! Snap out of it" Inuyasha continued, seeing how pale she was. "It was nothing, I just pressed the brakes."

Kagome shook her head and took a deep breath.

"Are you okay?" he asked. "Do you want me to take you to the hospital? I am really sorry, I just…I am sorry."

Kagome regained her composure and managed a smile. He was a little bit cute when he was worried.

"I should be the one to be sorry. I distracted you with the necklace."

Inuyasha relaxed in his seat, his eyes diverted to the road in front of him. His mouth curved in a deep frown. He nearly killed himself and his employee because of a necklace, the only piece that bounded him to her, forever. He closed his tired eyes. He deserved it, for betraying her, betraying her memory. His brother was right, he had to move on, he had to free himself.

"Throw it from the window Mercedes." He said in a cold voice.

"What?" she whispered, looking at the necklace. Apparently, there was something behind this piece she was holding, something that had a powerful effect on the man next to her. How? Why? She thought that he was cold and uncaring, and there he nearly died because of his emotions. She was not stupid; she saw his face while he looked at the semi heart. It was hurt. How could he betray so many emotions without even revealing his eyes? What would she see if she ever saw his hidden orbs? A shiver shook her body when he raised his voice with the same sentence.

"Just throw it, it is an order."

She slowly opened her window and tossed the necklace away. Seconds later, the sound of it hitting the ground was heard and at the same moment Inuyasha accelerated with his car. He would not look back; he had to get free from her. He thought that with time all his sadness would disappear. He smiled bitterly. He was certainly wrong.

Kagome looked from the window. She almost regretted asking him to escort her home. The ambiance was so tensed and she could feel a heavy weight on her heart. Shadows, guilt, desperation. Inuyasha Taisho was not as bad as he seemed, he had his weaknesses, his mysteries. He was a lonely man and she was lonely too. Her mind was lonely, empty.

She took another deep breath when the car suddenly came to a stop. She glanced at her boss. His hands were tightened on the wheel driver. He suddenly made a turn and accelerated.

"But Mr. Taisho, we're going back to the company. Why?"

He didn't answer and she decided not to insist. He was different, weird, but was she not? He suddenly stopped in the same spot where they nearly crashed and got out from the car like a mad man. She followed him as he surveyed the area, his jaw clenched, his hands slightly trembling.

"I cannot let go. Help me find the necklace."

Mercedes felt his desperation reach her heart. Her boss had two faces, nearly two personalities. He was arrogant in the day light, lonely and vulnerable in the night. At the moment, she didn't even bother to think of it as a weakness to destroy him. She just walked past him and helped him search for what seemed to him like the treasure of life. She saw him kneel on the ground, his fingers caressing the road, trying to find it in the absolute darkness. Suddenly, a ringing voice was heard as his hands came in contact with the golden material. He took the necklace in his hands and murmured so low, but no low enough for her to not be able to hear.

"Forgive me." Then he put it around his neck.

At that moment, Mercedes was certain of something, something that she did not even understand, something that would play against her plan, and something that surprised her. Inuyasha Taisho was in love.

"Rin, you're being ridiculous."

"No I am not! I am telling you, I saw her this afternoon, having lunch with my brother and then I saw her leaving the company with your brother. And you're telling me that she doesn't have something hidden behind this behavior?"

Sesshumaru sighed loudly as he unbuttoned his shirt and threw it on the bed, his body exhausted from a long day of work.

"I don't care, this is something so insignificant that I would not even bother thinking about. What Mercedes do is not of our concern and if she likes my brother, well, let them manage themselves."

Rin suppressed a frustrated growl.

"Fine! But I will look at her file early in the morning. I will check everything again. I know that there is something hidden. For example, where is her family? Doesn't she have any friends, any history? Any boyfriends? Any relatives?"

Sesshumaru sat on the bed and smiled to his wife.

"Will I be able to stop you?"

"No!" she responded stubbornly.

"Then do what you want, just don't let Inuyasha know. We don't want him to make a big deal out of this. I can't believe he actually accepted her in the first place."

"Yeah." Rin said, sitting next to him. "He's more stubborn than you are."

Sesshumaru smiled playfully making Rin back a little.

"Did you just call me stubborn?"

Kagura looked at her cell phone for the hundredth time before growling.

"I want them to be apart! I don't want them to be happy! You promised to help me Chris!"

Chris laughed from his couch while playing with is drink.

"Oh, you mean my dear sister and her husband?"

"Yes I mean them!" she shouted, frustrated. "I know that you and your associate Naraku are planning something against Inuyasha but that doesn't mean that you cannot help me with Sesshumaru."

Chris topped laughing and looked at her.

"What do you know about Inuyasha?"

Kagura laughed and took a seat next to him.

"Oh my dear Chris, don't think that I am a fool. I overheard your conversation last time. You sent this bitch after him in order to seduce him. I think that it was an idiotic thing to do."

"Why?" Chris asked, taking a zip form his drink.

"Well, he has his supermodel, why would he care about Mercedes. She may be very beautiful but models know how to satisfy a man."

Chris frowned a little. Naraku told him that he did not want any relationship between Inuyasha and Mercedes but he had to admit that Kagura was right. Mercedes would need to be physically involved with Inuyasha at some point if they wanted the plan to succeed.

"Kagura, you will not tell anyone about this, would you?"

The young woman leaned her head on the couch, a smirk gracing her lips.

"It depends. Will you help me with Sesshumaru?"

"Yes I will."

Kagura laughed.

"Then I will not tell a soul. Why would I over cross you Chris? We're friends aren't we?"

Chris put his drink down on the table and scooted near her.

"Of course we're friends." He whispered, playing with her hair. "We're very special friends." He added, crashing her lips in a searing kiss.

Rubin was sitting on a chair in a press conference. Camera flashes were nearly blinding him as a journalist asked him again.

"And who will film the video clip with you?"

Rubin leaned into the microphone, his green eyes glowing.

"I did not find her yet. We will surely start some auditions."

Another journalist stood up, initiating the next question.

"And what would you want her to be like?"

Rubin smiled.

"I will find her as soon as I see her. The description I have in my mind cannot be described. I will just know her."

"Will it be Karla?" another one asked, causing a series of whispers and questions. Rubin sighed deeply.

"Why would it be Karla?" he countered with his own question. His answer came from another journalist.

"You are filming a publicity together and we saw you together on many occasions."

"No, it is not her." Rubin answered patiently.

"Do you have a romantic relationship with her?"

"No, I don't. We're just friends."

"We heard rumors that you two went on a romantic trip last month."

Rubin laughed, shaking his head negatively.

"That's silly."

"Then how do you explain your disappearance last month?"

Rubin put his head between his hands. His life was not as great as people thought. He wanted to film the video clip of princess of my heart but he could not find this girl, this girl who would fit his description. But he knew, somehow, that she was near.

Inuyasha arrived to his apartment. He passed the key and slowly opened the door. H had just driven Mercedes home and his ride was not exactly pleasant. In fact, he didn't know if he would be able to face her in the morning. He was very embarrassed at the fact that he searched the street for the necklace. He put his hand on the necklace and a smile went to his lips. She was different then what he thought. She was not arrogant and uncaring, at the contrary, she was tender…beautiful and her eyes. He opened the door and was surprised to find candles illuminating his whole apartment. He penetrated and saw Karla, leaning against his couch, smiling in a startling yellow dress.

"Wow." He simply said, amazed by her beauty. She smiled and made her way towards him. Instantly, his hands went to her waist and hers locked around his neck. No words were necessary as they kissed passionately. Karla slowly unbuttoned his white shirt and reached to caress his shoulders when her fingers collided with something cold. She broke the kiss and looked at the necklace around his neck.

"What's that?" she whispered and Inuyasha felt guilt wash over him. He cleared his throat and walked inside his apartment, lying on the couch.

"It's a necklace that was mine a long time ago."

"Oh." She answered, following him. "I just never saw it before."

"Yeah." He responded vaguely. "I kind of lost it."

"It's okay. It's beautiful on you." She murmured, leaning over him, her body covering his. She kissed him again and they lost themselves, Karla enjoying his warmth, him trying to forget.