(Author's Notes)

I feel like Tim Curry from the movie 'Clue' now,

"I'm getting there! I'm getting there!"

(Story)

Sesshomaru gave Rin a reassuring smile before he closed the double doors. He immediately felt his cold demeanor coming back to him as he turned around to face her parents. His mother kept her cold demeanor while his father kept his warm poker face.

"Cute girl." Inutaisho quickly replied. Sesshomaru scoffed at him and approached the chair his father motioned for him to sit in.

"You already know what my answer to your proposition will be. I don't understand why you insist on pestering me with such propositions." He coldly said to his father. His mother sat in the seat next to him.

"Sesshomaru, I won't deny your creative spirit and unique mind, but that's why we feel you'd be useful for our joint proposition. This deal could give you a successful future." Yuzuki said trying to persuade her son to change his mind. Sesshomaru slammed his hand on the arm of the dark red leather chair.

"You just want to ensure that long after leaving the office, you'll have family ties keeping your company in your name!" Sesshomaru said in a stronger voice. Inutaisho was the only one to keep a calm demeanor.

"Sesshomaru, listen to your mother. You have the strategic skills and inventive mind to handle the future that we have planned for you. Look, you've already heard our business arrangement. My engineering company will be combined with your mother's high tech software development company and embark on a new industry of everyday software and technology. This company will run on the advancement that's defined the 21st century. You have the personality to run a fast paced industry like ours." Inutaisho explained. Sesshomaru just rolled his eyes. Yuzuki spoke next.

"Sesshomaru, the career path you're embarking on now will get you nowhere! What exactly can a Creative Writing degree offer you? Job security? Career advancement? Steady pay? Sesshomaru, you would be stupid to pass up this offer. Compared to the future we have planned for you, your dreams will get you nowhere." Yuzuki blatantly pointed out to him. Sesshomaru felt a ping of anger in his chest as he gave his mother a glare.

"I've said it before and I'll say it again! You are clearly not thinking about my own ambitions and what I want to accomplish!" He exclaimed.

"My son, we are only trying to secure you a future!" Inutaisho tried to explain to Sesshomaru.

"No you're not! You only want the satisfaction that I'll be there to secure you're precious investment and keep it safe in your possession by having my run the cooperation after you leave the CEO office! I won't be a part of this!" Sesshomaru said his voice now in full fury. His mother returned with equal strife.

"Feel free to resent this as much as you want! Sooner or later you will realize that by rejecting us you've secured an unsteady future! You will come back to us and beg us to take up this opportunity! You'll come crawling back to us!" Yuzuki screeched at Sesshomaru. His mind was scrambling to find just the right words to pierce her with his anger. But, before he had the chance, they were all taken aback by a sudden crashing sound just by the doors.

They quickly drew their attention to the office entrance and were shocked by the sight that they saw. One of the doors was wide open. As it started to slowly swing back, they could see a dent in the office wall where the door handle hit it. At the entrance of the office was a slightly crouch over Rin, and arm still extended from when he shoved the door open. But it wasn't the fact this little girl had enough force to open the heavy door hard enough to leave a dent in the wall. It was her eyes; her eyes filled with so much spite and resentment towards Inutaisho and Yuzuki. For the first time since he met her, Sesshomaru was intimidated by Rin, to the point that he was worried that Rin might do more than just put a dent in the wall.

(Author's notes)

Cliffhangers…a bitch to read but soooooooooo much fun to write! XD Fyi, eyedrops have now entered the picture! And I'm going to be honest, I have no idea how major businesses work or coincide, so I just made something that sounds fancy and convincing enough to give Sesshomaru a reason to fight with his parents. So for the purposes of my storing, winging it works! ^/^