Writing this chapter was painful, I'm not going to lie. But... I've been told via PMs that you guys want the next chapter. Back by popular demands... chapter 6! I haven't read this over for the second time. My brain is in mush right now. I need a good night's sleep... I hope you guys are appeased by a new chapter. *head hits the pillow*

Sesshomaru Takahashi sat at his office table, staring at the small prints on the piece of white document paper in his hand. He read, re-read and spelled out each sound in his head while intoning it meticulously. It was a divorce notice served to him by his wife, Rin. D-I-V-O-R-C-E. He read it once again before he got to the minute fine print. The paper... her divorce lawyer issued it. Her lawyer was his own brother: InuYasha Takahashi. What was this? His own family was against him now. He leered despicably. But why wouldn't they be? After all, he had gone rogue.

His head hurt. Yes, it did. He had been suffering from an onset of intermittent headaches for an extensive period of time now but lately it had been hounding him more often than it did before. He clutched to his forehead. Dammit. No painkiller would alleviate the pain. He brought his other hand up to rub his face. His head was pounding. It hurt. He tried to get up but fell back into his chair once more. This whole predicament he was in was taking a toll on his health.

He stared at the paper once more and in a moment of frustration he crumpled the paper in his hand and tossed it aside. Divorce... He leered. So it had finally come to this. To his surprise, didn't bother him.

'Just let have her way.'

She hadn't contacted him in weeks. He had tried to find her but Rin had already changed her number. Damn that woman. Of all things he was certain about, one was obvious: Rin's mind had already been set on the divorce. She didn't want him anymore. She had already made it very clear. If she was moving on then so was he. He should be feeling dejected but he wasn't. He felt numb. Indifferent. Nonchalant. He couldn't care less about it.

Sesshomaru pondered for a moment. After his announcement tonight at the dinner, what would everyone think? How would his actions affect his position on the board in the company? How can he appease the elder Hokkaido now that he was divorcing the shareholder's daughter?

Knock. Knock.

He raised his head to look at the woman coming in from the door. Sara strolled in with two large bags in her hands. Her high heels clicked as she walked on the hardwood floor.

"Honey!" Sara dropped her bags by the door and dashed in to cuddle up to Sesshomaru. She sat in his lap, wrapped her arms around his neck and snuggled up. "I can't wait for tonight. I've waited for this for so long. We can finally be together now in public!"

She glanced down onto the floor and the suspiciously crumpled ball at the foot of the desk caught her attention. She separated herself from Sesshomaru and reached down to grab the ball. "What's this?" she sat back down on his lap once again and began to unfold the document. Her eyes curled up into a crescent moon shape as she caught sight of the header: "Divorce."

"So it's official?" Sara had excitement in her voice. It was a situation that had bothered her. She had been praying for this to happen for months. Sesshomaru had initially offered Rin divorce papers but she had rejected them. They couldn't get a divorce unless both parties had agreed. But now? Now, she was the one who had made the initial offer. This was perfect. It was all going accordingly to her plans. Sara had Sesshomaru all wrapped around her little fingers.

Men. They were so easy to manipulate. Sesshomaru was a bit more difficult because of that troublesome wife of his. But who was she? She was Sara Asano. She had always gotten what she wanted out of men.

"Okay, out of our ways," Kagome winnowed through the crowd of paparazzi at the front door of Rin's apartment. Sango swung her heavy instrument case to defend herself from the crashing of the tabloid reporters. "Damn those hounds."

"We're trying to get through here! Get the hell out of our ways!"

The reporters pooled around, hoping to catch a glimpse of Rin.

"All of you, disperse now or I'm calling the police," Kagome held out her cellphone and threatened the paparazzi. This was all getting a little bit crazy. Even a month ago you couldn't even find Rin in a phonebook or on an online search engine. Now she was the cover girl of the gossip magazines. There was no one else but Sara who could have accomplished this.

"Let's not waste any of our time with these hounds, Kagome-chan. They're not going to go away. It's best that we don't attract too much attention on ourselves. Who knows what other crazy stories they would come up with if we get involved in this," Sango whispered to Kagome and tugged her sleeves. Kagome nodded. She had completely agreed with Sango. The paparazzi weren't just going to go away. If they wanted something, they had always gotten it. But after a while, they should eventually give up in pursuing Rin.

-x-x-x-

"They're all over the place," Rin sat down and handed two bottles of water to Sango and Kagome. "I can't deal with all of this right now. I am so scared of them. They're out of control! They were even waiting for me in the hospital atrium."

"We're here for you, Rin-chan..." Sango put an arm around Rin's shoulders and leaned closer to her.

All three women sat in silence and listened to the ticking of the clock in the room. They were content in each other's company.

"I..." Rin's voice was quiet when she finally mustered the courage to tell the girls the news. "I told InuYasha to send out my divorce papers to Sesshomaru today. It's over. Really over."

"I'm... going to be Rin Hokkaido in a few weeks," Rin brought her arm over to pull up the sweater draped around her shoulders. She bit down on her lips and gazed lifelessly at the coffee table that was draped with white linen.

Rin had draped everything in the house with white linen to protect the furniture from dust in the vacant house. She hadn't brought herself to remove them.

"Rin-chan..." Kagome watched Rin. It was heart breaking. She had never seen Rin so vulnerable before. "Is there still a chance... that... you can..."

Kagome's voice trailed off. She didn't know what to say anymore. Sesshomaru was not good for Rin. He had hurt her over and over again. Even she couldn't convince herself to convince Rin to stay with Sesshomaru. Perhaps divorce was the best thing for the both of them. This way it would all be less complicated. Sesshomaru didn't deserve to be in Rin's life.

"You don't have to come tonight," Kagome whispered to Rin while changing the subject. "You don't have to come. Sesshomaru will be there. Everyone will understand. Okaa-sama will understand."

"You know Okaa-sama would want me to be there, Kagome-chan," Rin forced a smile across her lips while shaking her head. "I can't hide for forever from Sesshomaru. I'll have to accept it one way or another. Why not start now? Tonight?"

Rin brought her hand to the small bump in her abdomen and smiled once more before she continued, "No matter how much I hate Sesshomaru. I still have his child. He will always be her father. She will always bear the Takahashi family name. I can't have a clean sever from him."

There was silence in the room as Rin stared at the austere white walls of her studio apartment.

"I can't," she whispered once more. Even though she had tried to suppress her emotions, a drop of tear trailed down her cheeks.

When the Takahashi have a family birthday dinner, they didn't do the affair justice by calling it a "family dinner." It was an official public event. All of the family's friends were invited. The terms "family friends" was used very loosely here because by "family friends" it included acquaintances, business partners, and friends of the family. Takahashi "family" dinners were always social affairs.

Kagome squeezed Rin's hand while the limousine came into a stop. Sango leaned closer to Rin and clutched to Rin's wrist.

"Are you sure you want to do this, Rin-chan?" Sango asked Rin once more before they opened the doors.

Rin looked away from Sango and stared the diamond bracelet around her wrist. She clutched to the white satin of her empire waist chiffon dress. Kagome and Sango had dolled her up for the dinner. She nodded in silence.

"No matter what happens, stay calm, okay?" Kagome reminded Rin once more. "I won't be with you the whole night because I promised Okaa-sama that I would stay with her tonight. If you stay with me you'll attract too much attention so stay with Sango-chan."

Rin nodded.

"Myoga ojii-san, we're ready," Kagome called out to the driver to open the doors for them.

-x-x-x-

Rin's mind was fuzzy. This was the first family engagement she would attend without Sesshomaru by her side. Would anyone notice? What would people think? Surely they must have seen the reports in the tabloids. Surely most of the guests would have already known about her broken marriage. Rin suddenly felt ashamed and insecure. It was only natural for her to feel this way. She didn't want anyone's pity. That was the last thing she wanted. She wouldn't be able to bear it. Rin wasn't a vain woman but she was dignified. Hearing people muttering about how she couldn't keep her husband and how she had been a failure of a wife would strip her of every bit of dignity she had left. She wasn't even competent enough to satisfy her husband and keep him around.

"Ah, Takahashi-san, Miyake-san, what a pleasant surprise! I haven't seen you in a while!" an unfamiliar woman approached them as Rin walked up the stairs of the hotel.

Rin realized that the woman was addressing her. How awkward, 'Takahashi-san'... Rin nodded politely at the woman and panicked inside. Rin was startled and flustered.

"Rin-chan, it's okay," Sango turned to Rin and squeezed her shoulder before turning to the woman. "Likewise, Narita-san, likewise. I hope you will enjoy the evening."

Rin ascended carefully up the steps while holding onto the railings and surveyed the guests around her in the reception hall. She couldn't help but to notice the grandeur of the banquet room. Crystal chandeliers, exquisite catering, magnificently dressed guests. The banquet hall was exceptionally large with its high ceiling and balcony. This was a Takahashi dinner alright.

With any luck, she wouldn't have to see Sesshomaru tonight. There were hundreds of guests. What were the chances of her bumping into Sesshomaru? She wasn't going to see him tonight. But she was wrong. She looked over he shoulders to the right and... there he was, dressed in black on white, looking more dashing than ever.

In the crowd of dinner guests, her glance met his. His golden eyes were so enigmatic. For some unexplainable and unfathomable reason, they had always seemed to find each other even in a sea of people. It used to be their blessing but now that supernatural connection they had was a nightmare to Rin.

She thought she was strong. She thought she didn't need him in her life anymore. He had breeched her trust. She was the one who told him to go away at the hospital when he insisted in staying. She should hate him. She should hate him for everything he had done behind her back with his mistress.

But... She still loved him.

She had tried so hard to forget about their love. But as soon as she caught sight of him, Rin knew she was back to square one. Rin stared at him. He was always so glorious. So handsome. He had taken her breath away.

'Sess... homaru...' she moved her mouth to say his name but no sound came out. Even if she did say his name, he wouldn't have heard it anyways from their distance.

Sesshomaru's mouth was agape when he laid eyes on Rin. His heart was precarious. How should he put it? He was ambivalent. Whenever he was away from Rin his emotions were detached from her but whenever she appeared in front of him he was helplessly attached to her.

He took a few steps in her direction towards her. He didn't know what he would say once he was in front of her but she was drawing him closer to her.

Suddenly it was like someone had pinched one of the nerves in his head, he twitched uncomfortably in pain and clutched to his forehead. For a brief moment the world seemed to have swirled around him.

Rin could tell something was wrong with Sesshomaru. She winnowed her way across the room to help him. She wanted to be by his side. To ask him if he was feeling alright.

Sesshomaru fell back and hit the unfortunate waiter behind him and the tray of red wine glasses shattered onto the floor.

Then she stopped.

Rin was frozen.

Sara Asano appeared out of nowhere and clutched to his right arm.

'That's where I've always held onto him before,' Rin quivered while she brought her hand up to cover her mouth. Why was Sara Asano here? Who invited her? Rin didn't move or make a sound. Everyone seemed to have noticed the uninvited woman by the eldest Takahashi son's side. Everyone was staring at Sesshomaru and Sara. The room grew dead silent instantly.

Sara had noticed everyone's eyes on her. 'Perfect,' she smirked.

Then, Sara did the unthinkable.

She shifted her weight and pressed her lips against Sesshomaru's.

Clank. Not far from Sesshomaru, a guest had dropped her champagne flute. The sparkling liquid drenched the hem of her silk floor length dress, making the purple color of the fabric darker than it was before.

InuYasha stared at his brother and his mistress in horror from the balcony floor of the banquet room.

'Sesshomaru, you bastard!' InuYasha clenched his jaw and clutched to the iron railing of the balcony. He turned to dash into the waiting room to find his mother.

All of the other guests' eyes widened.

"Isn't that..." A guest turned to her husband and whispered.

This woman... wasn't Sesshomaru's wife, Rin Hokkaido. In fact, she looked like... Sara Asano, Sesshomaru Takahashi's mistress. The tabloids' rumor was confirmed instantaneously.

Rin placed her other hand over her mouth. Tears were rushing down her cheeks like waterfalls. She didn't want people to notice her. This was the last thing she wanted. Even with both of her hands against her mouth, a small whimper escaped. Her body quivered and her knees weakened. A shooting pain shot up from her spine and her winced in pain.

'No... no... no...'

She shook her head over and over again. She had sent him the divorce papers already but the sight of Sesshomaru and Sara's lips making contact in such an important social engagement was too much for her to bear. Rin suddenly felt humiliated. She and Sesshomaru had been separated but their divorce had not been finalized.

'How could you do this to me, Sesshomaru?'

Suddenly it all dwelled on him. He realized what was happening. Sara had forced herself on him at his stepmother's birthday dinner in front of hundreds of family friends. Rin was here to watch all of this.

For the first time in two months, Sesshomaru felt rationality. Complete sense and rationality. He had total control of his mind. The past two months were a haze but now everything was suddenly so clear to him.

"Can we all welcome my lovely mother, Missus Izayoi Takahashi? Happy birthday, Okaa-sama!" InuYasha's voice resounded in the hall as Izayoi descended from the balcony floor of the banquet hall.

In an instant, the guests had turned their attention from the elephant in the room to Izayoi.

The woman in the purple silk gown, her features relaxed as her glance met InuYasha's. She gave InuYasha a thankful nod and advanced forward to grab Sesshomaru's arm.

Sesshomaru looked over his shoulders and gasped when he caught sight of the woman's grave face. "O...ka...a-sama..." he muttered hesitantly.

InuKimi Aiha was furious. The rims of her golden eyes were wet and red from suppressing tears of frustration. The purple silk of her dress swept the floor as she paced back and forth in the sitting room outside of the banquet hall. She had just witnessed the episode that had just occurred in the banquet hall with her son and his mistress half an hour prior. She couldn't believe it. She was enraged.

"What the hell is wrong with you, Sesshomaru?" InuKimi demanded an answer from her son. "I had to watch my son adoring his mistress! Do you have any idea how I felt?"

"Ok...aa-sama..." Sesshomaru's voice was weak. If the truth had to be told, he was afraid of his mother. Even his step-mother, Izayoi, was more pleasant than InuKimi.

"What is that bitch's name? I am more than disappointed in you, Sesshomaru! How could you do this to Rin?" InuKimi's voice was acrimonious. "I couldn't believe what I've heard before! But now? I fly all the way back into the country and I see this?"

She stopped pacing and turned to her son.

"Rin would not hit you, Sesshomaru," InuKimi raised her hand and thwacked across her son's face.

...

...

...

The sharp blow made a loud renouncing echo. "But I will. This one is for her!" It killed InuKimi to hit her own son but it had to be done. Someone had to slap some sense into Sesshomaru. She was his mother. It was her obligation as a mother to discipline her son when no one else would.

-x-x-x-

"Rin? Rin? Come here, honey," Izayoi pulled Rin closer to her. After dealing with all of the invited guests, Izayoi rushed over to Rin and Sango and Kagome helped Izayoi with taking Rin upstairs into a room.

Rin leaned closer to Izayoi's chest and sobbed. She cried. Cried... and cried. It was catharsis. Crying almost helped her ease her visceral pain. Maybe she shouldn't have come in the first place tonight.

"Sh... it's going to be okay, we're by your side, Rin. Well get through this," Izayoi cooed Rin and rocked her back and forth. "It's not good for my grandchild if you continue to cry, love."

Sango and Kagome watched Rin in silence. Sara Asano was probably over the moon right now.

There was a knock.

"I'll get it," Kagome offered and went over to open the door.

Inu no Taisho stepped into the room and had a concerned look across his face. "How's Rin doing?" he asked softly.

Kagome and Sango shook their heads. Inu no Taisho sat down beside his wife and looked at Rin apologetically.

"I'm sorry for what Sesshomaru has done, Rin," Inu no Taisho's voice was low and full of remorse on behalf of his son.

"No, Otou-sama, no. It's not your fault," Rin sniffed and her voice quivered with tears.

"InuKimi is with Sesshomaru right now. I've asked for the security to escort Asano out. Rin, we're not accepting her into the family," Inu no Taisho's voice was full of conviction. "Never."

'So it has come to this,' Rin had a bitter smile across her face as she unlocked the door of her home. Her home? No, it was a residence she used to share with Sesshomaru. It had been a week since that dreadful incident with Sara at the dinner. Legally, she still owned this home with Sesshomaru. Emotionally, she couldn't bring herself to live in there anymore. She needed to come back to get some things. InuYasha had called Sesshomaru this morning to forewarn him that Rin didn't wish to see him so Sesshomaru was out for the day.

'So many things had happened since I've last been there,' Rin closed her eyes and breathed in the familiar scent of the house. The last time she had left this house she had two bento boxes in her hands with hopes to surprise her husband at work. 'How pathetic.'

She slipped off her shoes and stepped upstairs. She walked into their bedroom - the bed was already made. Rin stepped into the bathroom of the bathroom and flicked the lights on. She braced herself for any evidence of Sara's existence in the house. But when the lights went on, she felt a sense of relief. Everything was just the way she had left it. There wasn't a trace of another woman in the house. Rin turned the lights off and went back to their master room. She took a deep breath. The room only smelled like Sesshomaru and her perfume. It didn't have another scent.

'Sara was never here...'

Rin dropped her handbag and walked into their closet. This was awkward... what she was doing. She couldn't put a finger on it.

She touched the light and advanced towards her side. She would miss this spacious walk-in closet.

-x-x-x-

"Okay, I'm ready for my surprise," Rin giggled as she stopped in front of the closet door. She turned around to look at her husband. Sesshomaru's eyes sparkled. He had a big grin across his face. "What is it?"

Rin had just come back from a weeklong business trip. From the moment Sesshomaru had picked her up, he had been hyping about the "big surprise" he had for her.

He leaned closer to her and whispered by her ear, "Remember how I promised to build you a bigger closet?"

Rin's eyes suddenly widened. No way.

"Well," he reached for the sliding door of the closet. "I've kept my promise."

With that, he scooped her by the waist and took her into the space and touched the light sensor. The room lit up and Rin gasped at her spacious new closet. Everything... was so perfectly organized. She surveyed the shelves... Sesshomaru had built her a 8-tier shoe rack. No way.

"Well?" he opened his mouth to ask for her reaction. Without another word, she seized his lips. She didn't need to tell him how much she loved her new closet. She showed him instead.

-x-x-x-

Rin glanced to Sesshomaru's side. His dress shirts were shoved hastily into the rack compartment. They were wrinkled and disorganized. He was useless without her. Rin shook her head.

'Enough nostalgia, Rin,' she reminded herself sternly. Rin moved towards her side and began rolling out her suitcase to pack up.

-x-x-x-

She was packing up her life into the suitcases. She finally zipped up the case with all of her winter sweaters and now she was going to tackle her skirts. How was she ever going to pack up her shoes?

Rin brought herself carefully down to take out another box - then there it was. A large elegantly engraved white box with a perfect five-inch lavender ribbon on top. She reached for the box and bit down on her lips. She ran her hands along the cover and held her breath. Then, she opened Pandora's Box.

Every little girl had probably dreamt about their big day since they were young. Rin was no exception. Sesshomaru was busy in the morning so her best friends offered to come with her while Sesshomaru was rummaging through paperwork at work that Saturday.

"She's coming! She's coming!" Ayame shouted excitedly while running out of the hallway of the dressing chambers. "Rin's first dress of the day, ladies and gentlemen!"

Rin stepped out of the room with a sweetheart mermaid gown with a small blush on her cheeks. Everyone's eyes were on her. She wasn't used to being the center of everyone's undivided attention. She shifted her feet slowly as the long mermaid skirt dragged languidly across the plush cream carpet.

"How's this?" she asked her peanut gallery with a meek smile. She didn't really like this gown to be honest. It was a bit too... revealing. The white chiffon hugged every single bit of her gentle curves, hiding nothing. The sweetheart neck showed way too much cleavage. Rin played with her fingers nervously while waiting for an opinion.

Kagome Higurashi leaned closer to observe the bride to be and rubbed her chin while giving her honest opinions, "Hm... It looked better on the rack. Next one!" She turned to her boyfriend, "What does InuYasha think?" The peanut gallery turned to the half demon who was dressed down from his usually sleek suits into hoodies and sweats. He was half a sleep on the comfortable couch. Kagome punched her boyfriend's shoulders and woke the poor man up.

"What? What? What's happening?" InuYasha shot up for his spot and began surveying the premises cautiously. He was trying to adjust to the environment.

"Well, if you were paying attention and not sleeping like an idiot, you would know!" Kagome shouted at her inattentive boyfriend and grumbled.

InuYasha wasn't pleased either. He was at the law firm until the wee hours finishing up the papers for court next week. The irritated half demon finally decided to reason with the syndicate, "Why doesn't Sesshomaru have to be here? Aren't having you, Sango, and Ayame here enough? Of all men, you get Koga and me!"

"Sesshomaru has to work this morning to finish some work to get ahead so he can take time off for his honeymoon! InuYasha you inconsiderate idiot! He said he'd come over when he's finished looking over the contract! Besides, what would you and Koga rather be doing on a Saturday morning? " Kagome smiled and leaned sideways to hug the grumpy man next to her.

InuYasha gave Koga a knowing look and both men gave each other an expression that could only be deciphered by practicers of the "Bro Code."

"It's not about whether you two want to be here or not, we need some good input from you gentleman about this gown on our lovely Miss Hokkaido," Sango interrupted the dual's telepathic communications. She then turned to Rin, "I agree with Kagome-chan. It doesn't matter what the men think about this gown... I don't even like it on my first basis impression. It's just not you. Next!"

Rin sighed of relief, "Thank goodness. I hated that one too. I'll be right back." Rin carefully took her steps back to the dressing room. "Here, let me help you," Ayame offered and took Rin's arm.

-x-x-x-

"How's this one?" Rin walked out with a short and puffy white dress with lots of laces and puffy shoulders. The knee length dress bobbed as Rin too each step. It made her look younger than she was. Koga cringed. "I may not know much about wedding dresses but this doesn't look like one to me," Koga voiced his opinion about the dress.

"What he means that it makes you look like a freaking Lolita doll," InuYasha leaned into the arms of the sofa with his left hand propping up his chin. Kagome shot InuYasha a death glare at his insensitive comment. He had just called his sister-in-law to-be a sexually precocious young girl. InuYasha suddenly realized what he had said and leaned forward to justify himself, "I didn't mean it like that! Oh whatever... This isn't the right dress."

"Well, the men have spoken. See, guys? You're here for a reason! Let's try the next gown, Rin-chan," Ayame tugged Rin's arm and led her back.

-x-x-x-

Eight more gowns later, little Miss Rin Hokkaido stepped out of the dressing room once more. This time, in an empire waistline gown. She stepped before the gallery mirrors and had a look of horror in her eyes. She snapped around, "I'm not getting married in this gown!" It was a statement so definitive no one tried to champion for the dress against the bride-to-be. Rin observed herself in the dress once more while cinching the fabric, "I hate it. I'm only going to get married this once. Once! I need to find the perfect dress!"

-x-x-x-

Sesshomaru surreptitiously sneaked into the bridal boutique and approached Rin's syndicate. "Sesshomaru! Perfect! You're here!" Sango was delighted at the sight of Sesshomaru at the boutique. "About time, Sesshomaru," InuYasha punched his brother playfully as he took a seat beside him.

"How are we doing here?" Sesshomaru asked the group while looking around at the boutique of wedding gowns. One seemed to catch his attention. He smiled. It was just so Rin. It was simple, elegant, and traditional.

"No luck," Kagome shook her head at the hopeful groom-to-be. "She hasn't found the one yet. Do you want to go in and help her out?"

"Sesshomaru!" Rin dashed out of the room in a one shouldered white chiffon gown and gave her fiancé a tight hug around the neck.

"Dress number twelve. I still hate it," Rin whined to Sesshomaru. "I've found the perfect man but I don't have the perfect dress to marry him in."

Sesshomaru grinned and poked Rin on the cheeks, "I think there's one that you might like."

Rin's eyes lit up, "Which one?"

"Go back to the dressing room, I'll bring it back for you," Sesshomaru grinned and gestured for Ayame to go with Rin.

-x-x-x-

Rin stepped out of the hallway and made her way into the gallery mirrors and stood before her syndicate. InuYasha stopped chewing on the piece of cookie in his mouth. Kagome slowly gulped down the slip of orange juice in her hand. Sango's mouth was agape. Koga dropped his bag of pretzel. Ayame had tears in her eyes. Rin turned around slowly and stared at herself in silence.

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.

The boutique was silent. Only the clock on the wall continued to keep the time.

It was an exquisite gown inspired by Cindrella's beautiful glass slipper. It was just as Sesshomaru had thought upon first impression - it was simple, elegant, and traditional. "It was Rin." The silky tulle ball gown with the cathedral train draped into a majestic pool around her feet. A thin taffeta of the dress was encrusted with small crystals. The sweetheart neckline rested right around her chest and the crisscross bodice hugged her waist perfectly.

Rin covered her mouth with both of her hands and began to gasp.

Sesshomaru walked over to Rin and gave her a tight embrace, "Is this the one, hun?"

Rin nodded and buried her face into his shoulder. She was trembling in tears, "Yes. Yes... Yes. This is the 'one.'"

It was perfect.

"We'll take it," Sesshomaru turned to the dress consultant and gave her his credit card for deposit.

"I will call in the seamstress in to take Miss Hokkaido's measurements," the consultant nodded politely and disappeared down the hall.

"Aww... I was just enjoying this whole dress-trying thing! They have free snacks," Koga pouted while holding up the small bag of pretzels. "Look! This is the legit type of pretzels too!"

"Alright, excellent. Sango and I have to leave for our dress rehearsal now. Concert's tonight at 7. Everyone's coming, right?" Kagome got up and straightened out her skirt.

He turned to Kagome and Sango and gave them a bright smile, "Of course. We'll all be there at our favorite girls' first concert."

Why she was thinking of this? The day she had picked out the perfect dress to marry him? She clenched the white chiffon in her hands. Then something dwelled on her. Why was she moving out of her own house? Was she admitting defeat? She was Rin. Rin Hokkaido Takahashi. She was tenacious. This was pathetic... what she was doing.

Rin pushed herself up and ran to find the phone from her handbag. She pressed the contact on her phone and waited as the dial tone rang.

"Hello? Rin?" InuYasha's voice was urgent; he knew it was Rin from the caller ID.

"InuYasha," Rin's voice was cold and dispassionate. "I'm not signing the papers anymore. I want you to withdraw the divorce paper."

"What?" the half-demon asked almost in a whisper. He couldn't make sense of what Rin was saying. He had to ask her once more, "You want this, don't you, Rin? You want a divorce from Sesshomaru."

"No, InuYasha. I'm going to stay with him. Divorcing him would mean that I let that woman win."

Go Rin!