Disclaimer- I do not own the show Inuyasha or the characters.

Author's Note- I just want to say thank you to everyone who has read, reviewed, and supported me. I am so sorry for the extremely, extremely, long wait. I'm not happy with the story or the way it ended but I'm done. Finally. It'll be exactly 2 years since the last update on Wednesday. 7years since I began. I started another story and was going to post right after this one was done, but it's wasn't finished in time. It'll be posted as soon as it is.

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After leaving Sesshomaru's, Rin went and checked herself into a hotel. She didn't want to go back to her fathers because she wasn't ready to explain to him and Claire what had been going on. Not to mention she wasn't up for any of Claire's snide comments. And Inuyasha was out of the question because she didn't want to cause him any more trouble. Besides, she needed some time to herself to process everything and decide what she was going to do. Finding a permanent place to live was definitely on her list. However, she didn't need to worry about that just yet. She had more than enough money to stay in the hotel for a few months. She also needed to talk to Inuyasha. Most of all she thought about Sesshomaru, even though she didn't want to. What was he doing? Did he feel horrible for being an asshole? Did he drop dead yet? Could she ever forgive Sesshomaru? And if she could, would she want to? Sure, she could understand his reaction but that didn't make it right. And if he hadn't been such a stupid, inconsiderate bastard that jumped to the wrong conclusions, she could have explained and cleared everything up. She both loved him and hated him at this moment. Rin ran her hand through her hair and groaned. She didn't have time to deal with this right now. She had art work that needed to be finished and turned in. Pushing everything except her artwork to the back of her mind, Rin went on to complete her work. As soon as she was finished, she dropped her portfolio off with her teacher and went to Inuyasha's house. She figured that he would be the easiest to deal with. Rin knocked on the door until he opened it.

"I'm sorry." she said before he could say anything.

"You're an idiot. I never blamed you."

She let out a sigh of relief and hugged him. She wouldn't have been able to forgive herself if she had completely ruined their friendship.

"Hey, you want to come in?"

"Not today. There's something else I need to do. I need to ask a favor." she said. "I need you to tell me how to get in contact with Kagome."

Inuyasha looked at her for a few seconds.

"Can I ask why?"

"I want to apologize to her. I owe you one too. I never meant to cause you any trouble. I was being selfish and thought I wanted to be with you. That was really stupid when you think about it because even if I was in love with you, you weren't in love with me. I never stood a chance." she said as she ran her hand through her hair. "I know how much you love Kagome and I don't want to be the reason you split. That's why I want her to know that there really wasn't anything going on."

"I know."

Rin stiffened at the sound of Kagome's voice. She turned and saw her coming from the kitchen.

"Inuyasha and I talked already. We're good now." Kagome explained.

"You heard all of that?"

"Yes, but it was nice to hear it from you."

"Well like I told Inuyasha, I really am sorry. You genuinely tried to befriend me but I was a complete bitch."

"It's okay. I'll be honest too and say that I don't like it, but I do understand."

"Thank you. That means a lot to me. Well, I hate to just come and blurt all of this out but I really need to get going. I have a few things I need to finish for my art class."

She was lying of course, but she needed to get out of there. It was so damn awkward. Suddenly Kagome moved closer to Rin and hugged her.

"Thank you for coming to apologize. However, I wouldn't have let him go without a fight." she whispered.

"I'm glad."

Rin nodded her head and pulled away. Really, what could she say?

"So how are you and Sesshomaru?" Inuyasha asked.

"Great. We also talked and were able to finally come to an understanding."

Rin wasn't ready to deal the Sesshomaru issue at the moment so she felt she had no choice other than to lie. She threw up her hand in a wave and quickly got out of there.

Once she was out of sight, Kagome looked at Inuyasha.

"Does that mean they worked things out and are okay now?"

"When dealing with most people, yes. In reference to Sesshomaru it translates to him being an ass to her. It's probably worse than before."

"So are you going to talk to him?"

"No. My getting involved will probably just make it worse."

"What if I do it?"

"Hell no. That asshole will see it as you trying to get them together to keep Rin away from me. Let's just leave it for them to solve."

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Despite what he said, Inuyasha couldn't help getting involved. Rin was his best friend and Sesshomaru, regrettably, was his brother. They had to frequently see each other at their parents house and at work. Like now. He had to drop off some papers to Sesshomaru and it was killing him not to say anything. It had been a few days since Rin had visited him and he still hadn't heard from her. Sesshomaru could feel Inuyasha glaring at him but he ignored him.

"Have you talked to Rin lately?" Inuyasha asked.

Sesshomaru continued ignoring him. He didn't want to talk about Rin, especially not with Inuyasha. After he finished going through the papers and signed them, he then handed them back to Inuyasha. Unfortunately, he didn't leave.

"No one has heard from her in a few days."

Instead of saying anything, Sesshomaru turned to his laptop and began typing something. Inuyasha glared at him.

"You misunderstood what you saw. Rin doesn't love me and you know it."

"Goodbye Inuyasha. You are wasting my time."

"Is that what you did to Rin? Say something mean to make her leave?"

Sesshomaru tensing slightly told him that he was right.

"You're a fucking asshole. The problem with you is that everything came so easy to you. You pushed Rin away without giving her a chance because you realized that there was a possibility that you'd lose."

Inuyasha dragged his hand through his hair in frustration. He absolutely wanted to kill Sesshomaru for being so damn stubborn. He wasn't so blind that he couldn't see that Rin had feeling for him. This could all be over if he could just tell Sesshomaru how Rin felt. However, Inuyasha wouldn't betray her that way. Besides, he wanted Sesshomaru to mend things with Rin without knowing her feelings.

"You fucked up big time." he said heading toward the door. "The last thing I'm going to say about this is apologize to Rin. Ignore me all you want but at this point it's probably the only way you're going to get her back."

Once Inuyasha left Sesshomaru sighed and pushed his laptop away. How in the world was he supposed to get any work done with this on his mind?

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Rin looked at her watch for the fifth time. She was running close to an hour late for the art show. Fortunately, she would get there in time to still be considered fashionably late. Unfortunately, she wouldn't be able to make any last minute changes to her display. She was still mad at herself for just handing her entire portfolio over to her teacher to setup anyway she wanted. Because of the whole Sesshomaru situation, Rin hadn't been in the mood to deal with it. Therefore tonight was the first time she would see how her display turned out. Rin walked over to her display and froze. If she hadn't had a white-knuckled grasp on her glass, she would have dropped it. Mixed in with the work she meant to submit were some of her sketches of Sesshomaru. Most were her way of taking her anger out on him so he was drawn as a demon, warlord, donkey, and a few others along those lines but there were a few nice ones, especially one of him as a small white puppy with huge, watery eyes or a mini Sesshomaru.

"Do you like the placements?" her teacher asked walking up to her.

"Why are those up there?"

"They were in your portfolio. They're absolutely gorgeous and I'm glad you entered them."

Rin groaned and mentally kicked herself for blindly handing her teacher her portfolio.

"Unfortunately they have to come down."

"Many people have expressed an interest in them."

"I don't have the model's permission to display them."

"Is that all? He signed a release earlier."

"Earlier? How did you get his contact number?"

"It was unnecessary. I happened to be at the door when he walked in."

"Sesshomaru is here?"

"Yes. In fact..."

"Hello Rin."

Damn it. Rin didn't want to deal with him just yet, but it was too late to get out of there now. She plastered a fake smile on her face and turned to face him.

"Hello Sesshomaru."

"Excuse me you two. I see someone I need to talk to. I'll see you later on tonight."

The teacher walked off. Sesshomaru looked at the Rin's display and then back at her.

"Interesting pictures you've submitted."

"They weren't supposed to be included in the show. I was just talking to my teacher about having them taken down."

"Why? They're very good. And from what I've seen, everyone likes them."

"Thank you. So why are you here?"

"I've decided that I like the idea of the murals. I'm looking for potential artists."

"In that case, you should be talking to Mai and Kyle. As much as I would like to think, I'm not the best in the class." Rin said with a fake smile.

Honestly, she didn't care about being best in the class. What she cared about was the fact that it wouldn't be her artwork on Sesshomaru's. Yeah, her jealousy was irrational, but damn it those walls were hers.

"I'll remember to check out their work as well as a few others."

"Good luck with that. If you'll excuse me I have something to do." Rin said and walked off.

She needed a few seconds to herself so she headed outside to the patio. She frowned when she realized that Sesshomaru was behind her.

"Why are you following me?"

"We need to talk."

"No, we don't. I think we said all we've needed to say. In fact, it's probably best if we don't say anything else."

"Rin."

"Look, I don't want to talk to you. When I did want to talk, you acted like it would kill you to grace my lowly self with some of your time. Remember not having time to waste on me? I refuse to jump through hoops now just because you changed your mind. It could've been different. All I just wanted was for you..."

Anything else she was going to say was cut off as Sesshomaru kissed her. Despite not being happy with him, Rin's first reaction was to kiss back. And to her dying day she would deny slipping her tongue in his mouth first. Seriously, how could she resist his very, very, luscious mouth? It wasn't until she felt her back hit the wall behind her that she snapped out of haze. Rin pushed him back but couldn't move away from him because he was blocking her way. Damn it, this isn't what she wanted to do. Rin wiped her mouth and frowned at him.

"Do you really think some stupid…"

Sizzling, mind blowing

"Kiss makes everything alright?"

The weak kneed mess of a girl inside of her was screaming yes. Judging by his body language, it wasn't hard to figure out that his answer was yes. Arrogant, sexy, bastard. Still, Rin refused to let herself be appeased so easily. His total dismissal of her that day had deeply hurt her.

"It doesn't." Rin said answering her own question. "You should have given me a chance to explain. Instead, you just brushed everything off as a game. Well, it wasn't. I wouldn't have risked rejection and asked you on a date if it had been."

Every ounce of smugness that Sesshomaru felt at Rin giving in quickly drained away. He didn't like seeing that defeated look on her face. He was screwing this up all over again. He was intelligent, ran his own company, as well as co-ran his family's multinational, billion dollar company yet he couldn't seem to get this thing with Rin right.

"I'm sorry."

For once in his life, Sesshomaru decided to listen to Inuyasha. He was never going to live it down but it would be worth it if that moron's advice was right. Rin froze. Holy hell. Apparently she was having a stroke because there was no way she just heard Sesshomaru apologize. He used her momentary pause to stand in front of the door to keep her from opening it.

"It was wrong of me to kiss you. And I shouldn't have said what I did that day. I know that it wasn't a game. I saw you with Inuyasha and I..."

"Was jealous?" Rin asked sarcastically.

As if. It was more like Sesshomaru hated losing.

"Yes."

Oh god, now she was hallucinating. The great and powerful Lord Sesshomaru was admitting to a weakness, and something as beneath him as jealousy at that. Rin never thought she'd see the day.

"You are without a doubt the most stubborn and annoying person I ever met. That is quite a feat seeing as I have that ignorant simpleton for a brother. You irritate me in ways I never thought possible."

Okay, there was the cold jackass that she knew.

"Do you want me to hit you?" she asked through clenched teeth.

"Yet I miss it. I miss you." he continued ignoring her threat. "Accept my apology and come back home. Please."

"I absolutely hate you." she said without any real hatred behind her words. "I guess I have no choice but to agree since you said please so nicely."

"No choice at all." he replied with a small smirk. "Can we go now? I've had enough public displays for today. They are beneath me."

He nodded towards the people inside who were doing a bad job at pretending not to look at them. Rin couldn't stop herself from laughing. Even after all of that he was still an arrogant asshole. But that was one of the many things she loved about him and she wouldn't have it any other way. Rin grabbed his hand and turned to take a step forward but was stopped when Sesshomaru didn't move. She looked at him only to find him staring at her. She let him do that for a few moments before she became nervous.

"Why are you staring at me like that? Is something on my face?"

"I love you Rin."

A huge smile spread across her face.

"I love you too Sesshomaru."

This time Rin move closer and kissed him.

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~The end ~

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MINI EPILOUGE:

Later that night Rin lost her virginity to Sesshomaru. Surprisingly, it was Rin who pounced on Sesshomaru, not that he was complaining. In fact, they spent the next three days locked in his apartment.

Kagome and Inuyasha moved their wedding up two months. At the reception, Inuyasha decided to call attention to Sesshomaru and Rin's relationship. For the next half hour they had to deal with people questioning them while Inuyasha and Kagome watched with smirks on their faces. Sesshomaru in turn congratulated them on their impending parenthood. Rin and Sesshomaru used the commotion to quickly slip out the door. Kagome and Inuyasha denied the pregnancy but six months later their twins were born.

A few months later Rin was once again reminded of her mistake of not paying attention to the art show. She forgot that there would be an auction at the end of the night and didn't mark any of her work as not for sale. Consequently, a picture of a demon Sesshomaru ended up as the cover for a bestselling romance novel. Sesshomaru was able to use his considerable resources to not only get them to reprint the covers but buy back most of the ones sold. Unfortunately, Inuyasha got his hands on a few boxes first. There was no way he was going to miss out on this humiliating blackmail jackpot

After graduation, Rin continued painting and then opened her own gallery. Sesshomaru merged his business with the family business and continued buying and restoring hotels on the side. Rin helped him when she wasn't busy. Five years later they got married in a private ceremony at one of Sesshomaru's hotel. Six months later they had a huge extravagant one for family and friends. Everyone was shocked a year later when Rin announced that she was pregnant. Although neither she nor Sesshomaru had thought they wanted children and were apprehensive about having one, they couldn't have been happier when their daughter, Kyou, was born. Naturally, Inuyasha had the privilege, and camera on hand, to witness Sesshomaru's face the first time he had to change his little girl's diaper.