Anyway, here's more of what you want! (I'm assuming since if u didn't you wouldn't have continued to chapter two.)
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It was as if Inuyasha's words had flipped a switch. As one, the girls screamed and fell. Looking somewhat embarrassed, they rushed forward to greet him as if that was their original intention. Except Rin, obviously. Sesshomaru saw through this.
"You stud," Inuyasha poked. Sesshomaru glared at him as he made the pleasantries. Rin sat there and tried to make herself look busy straightening her clothes.
"To what do we owe this visit?" Miroku asked as he stood and walked over to his boss.
"Jemmings file," he said and held it out. Miroku took the manila file and placed it on a random table.
"Well, thank you. But you didn't have to go to all this trouble." Sesshomaru shook his head slightly.
"I was coming back from a meeting. No extra trouble." And no wasted words with this guy.
"Why don't you stay now that you're here?" Sesshomaru opened his mouth, presumably to refuse, but Miroku cut him off. "I'll get the sake. Have a seat." Miroku smiled as he left, pleased to have trapped his boss.
Now, with only Inuyasha as an impartial party in the room, things were akward. "Well, you know how to kill a party," Inuyasha told him as he stood. He extended his hand to Rin on the floor who took it. When he pulled, she screamed.
"Ow!" Inuyasha froze, eyes wide.
"Sorry," he said and released her.
"No, I fell on it. I think it's just bruised." She held her left elbow.
"I'll get some ice," Sango said and flew out of the living room.
"It's fine, Sango, just-" Sango was already gone. She always had worried too much. Rin rolled her eyes as Inuyasha helped her to her feet by placing his hand on her right arm.
"Ice is best for bruises," Sesshomaru said, drawing everyone's attention unconsciencely. Rin remembered that he had always been like that, even when he was just a college student. He dominated just by opening his mouth.
"I guess I better have ice then," she said carefully. "I can't argue with the great Sesshomaru Tashio." Their eyes held challengingly for a moment.
"Of course not," Miroku said happily as he breezed in with the alcohol, followed by Sango with the ice. Rin smiled her thanks as she took it and placed it on her battered elbow. She sat on the couch and picked up the spinner.
"Let's not let- what'd you call him?" she asked Inuyasha, "Fluffy? -ruin our fun." Miroku clapped then rubbed his hand together.
"Oh boy, my turn!" Rin laughed at the aprehensive looks on her friends faces.
"Com on, Sesh," Inuyasha said using the more favorable nickname. Sesshomaru raised and eyebrow. "Whatever," he shrugged.
"It'll be rejuvinating," Miroku said enticingly as he shucked his shoes. Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow. "Alright, your loss."
"Take your places!" Rin said grandly and spun the dial. "Right foot red." Sesshomaru then walked over and sat on the other end of the couch. Rin held her breath fora moment, as did Sango, Kagome, and Ayame. Whenhe said nothing, they grudgingly put their right feet on the red dots. He just sat there, stoicly watching the game progress for ten minutes.
"You look well," he said quietly enough so the twisting group wouldn't hear.
"So do you."
"Rather odd stroke of luck."
"Sango and Miroku?" He nodded. She always had been able to keep up with his track of thought. "They're good together."
"Yes. His work is much more efficient and timely." She rolled her eyes. That was one of the things she hated about his personality; He never seemed able to look past numbers and files. But then she remembered that when he did, it made it all worth while. She shook the thoughts away.
"Left hand yellow."
"And Inuyasha seems taken with another one of your friends."
"I haven't seen Kagome so happy in years."
"Odd how that worked out."
"I don't think so. I always believed a Jersey girl was good enough for a Wall Street man." She looked at him from the corner of her eye. "Left foot green."
"Some are more flexible than others." He went along with her double talk, all the while knowing who she was really speaking of.
"People can have anything, if they want it badly enough."
"Not always."
"Right hand green." She did her best to keep her voice even, but Ayame heard something in it. She saw Rin's face and purposefully brought down the entire living sculpture.
"Okay," she said, "my ooty hurts now." 'Ooty' was code for 'one of our own is in trouble'. Ayame rubbed her rear-end and sent meaningful looks to the other two. They jumped into action immediately.
"I think it's time for some food," Sango announced. Kagome grabbed Rin's good arms and drug her to the kitchen with the rest of them. Inuyasha stood and walked over to Sesshomaru. He stopped in from of his big brother and crossed his arms.
"Her?" Sesshomru meerly glared. Inuyasha smacked his own forehead. "Why the Hell didn't you say anything!?"
"What 'her'?" Miroku questioned calmly as he sank into a chair and grabbed the sake bottle.
"The freaking 'her' that Fluffy dated in college and dumped later because she was 'holding him back'." Miroku just stared.
"That was your issue with Jersey?"
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"On my life, I swear to you I didn't know he'd be here," Sango said with her hands folded.
"I know," Rin assured her. "I kind of had a feeling he would anyway. No big deal."
"Stop being so noble!" Ayame said, practically shouting in her face. "That's the bastard that broke your heart! Show some emotion!" Rin's complextion turned chalky, but she shook her head.
"I can't anymore. My Sesshomaru Tear Reserve dried up a long time ago."
"I'm not saying tears, I'm saying anger! He didn't even give you a real reason. Aren't you curious? Don't you want to know?"
"I'm... not sure."
"Ayame," Sang said gently, shaking her head, "don't push."
"She needs pushing!"
"Why don't you let her decide what she needs?" Sango removed covers off the platters and carried some to the dining room. "She's a big girl now, not a high-strung teenager." Ayame looked sideways at Rin before grumbling off to her corner.
"Thanks," Rin whispered, "but I really do wish somebody would tell me what to do." Sango patted her hand sympathetically.
"You do need to work this out yourselves, you know. Tell him you still love him." Rin avoided her eyes. "You do, don't you?"
"Well, yeah. But-"
"Then tell him, see how he feels."
"He doesn't care."
"Did he say that?"
"No, but-"
"Then you don't know for sure. Just tell him. We'll work it out so you can have a moment or two alone, then you can-"
"No! Oh, promise you won't abandon me! I don't know what to say, I haven't prepared anything!"
"Some of the best things in life are spontanious," Sango told her, smiling like she knew something secret.
"It worked for you, but that's not who I am."
"It used to be."
"A lot of things used to be. They're gone, what do they matter?"
"Nothing is ever completely gone, if you remember it. You remember asking out the guy that visited your coffee house, right?" Rin nodded. "Then he said yes, you did go out, now look at how it changed your life. Take a chance, girl, maybe it'll change for the better this time around." Rin had another denial ready, but Sango had left again. Rin heard her telling the men the food was ready. Kagome smiled encouragingly at her as she made her way to the dining room loaded down with drinks.
"She sounds like a know-it-all, but only because she does know it all." Then she disappeared into the dining room as well.
"And your words of wisdom?" Rin asked Ayame leaning against the counter.
"If you didn't catch them earlier, you need a hearing aid." The she was gone.
"Okay Rin," she said out loud to herself, "what do you think I should do?" She watched her reflection in the new and shiny pot hanging on the wall. It remained silent. "You never were much help." Then she disappeared into the dining room.
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Yay! A dinner! Who knows how it will go........
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