Chapter 2

Rin's big brown eyes were staring to the emptiness of her room as she was biting a piece of the cake she had brought home. Rin was not hungry, but she knew that she had to at least eat something to survive the day. "How can a tiny body such as hers could be under so much stress" she wondered. Rin grabbed another piece of cake as she sipped her orange juice, she was so tired, but could not go to sleep as she needed to study. "Such a long day!" she whispered to herself. She started reviewing on her mind everything she had to do for the next day, she had to clean her room, attend to three classes, go to the hospital again and study, study, study. She then realized she was missing something, but what? Rin thought that was pretty much it, but wait, Ohhhh….now she remembered; TOGA! Toga asked her to be part of the stupid mentor program as a mentee, yeah like she had time to hang out with upper class students. Why on earth she hadn't say NO!? Well, she knew why, Rin has always been a goodie, goodie and she just could not refuse to that charming smile and gold orbs. She knew it was weird to think an older man such as Toga was handsome, but she had to face it, the man was not bad! So, she made space in her schedule to go to the mentor placement meeting. Rin had to be there at 4 PM and have dinner afterwards with her new "mentor" "Wohooo" She thought with sarcasm. Rin took a quick shower grabbed her pajamas and went to study for her Anatomy and Epidemiology courses. When it was 1 AM she went to bed. Covering herself with her flower patterned bedcover, she immediately fell asleep.

Rin woke up to the sound of her cellphone alarm. "Rise and shine" she thought to herself struggling to get out of bed, she almost tripped with one of her own shoes while walking to the bathroom. As she looked herself in the mirror she could tell she looked extra tired today, her raven locks completely out of place, huge black eye bags below her big chocolate eyes, her thick eyelashes full of rheum and she felt completely gross. "Great, I have the worse face ever!, I actually wanted to look nice today" Rin mumbled to herself. Determined to do so, Rin washed her face carefully and combed her hair several times, then she went to her little desk where she kept all her tiny make-up collection and started to cover all her eye bags, possible pimples and some imperfections with concealer. Rin applied the concealer careful enough around her heart shaped face and then applied blush "to look healthy" she giggled. Lastly she put on some mascara in order to enhance her big brown eyes. She was satisfied with her appearance, her make up looked really natural and she looked pretty. "Okay, now let's start the day and hopefully it would be a good one! " she thought positively.

Rin entered to her epidemiology class with 10 minutes of anticipation enough to check facebook and send a good morning text to her grandmother. While she was doing so, a young man with freckles and a beautiful smile approached to her. "Good morning Rin" he said with a pleased tone, Rin looked up to see who was greeting her, she then realized that it was Kohaku, her new friend from medical school. "Hey Kohaku what's up?" she asked, happy to see him. "Not much, I have been studying but I can't understand the cell signaling pathway involved in virus spreading through cells" he replied with a defeated tone. Rin felt bad for him and answered "I can explain it to you this weekend if you want; I would offer to teach you today but I have to go to the hospital today for my volunteering". "Volunteering?" Kohaku asked confused, "I thought we were not required to do it anymore". Before Rin could answer the class was starting and they both turned their heads to the board. When the class was finally over, Kohaku had a big look of confusion on his face, which made Rin feel sympathy towards him. "No worries, I will help you, we will meet at the library on Saturday at noon, bye for now!" Kohaku nodded his head and gave her a grateful look, "Is it my idea or Rin looks prettier than usual" with that thought on his mind he left the room smiling.

Rin hurried to the hospital, her shift today was going to be short as she had to go to Miroku's office to be assigned her "wonderful peer mentor". As she finished her shift, she went to the restroom and fixed her hair again and put some lipstick on. "I could be assigned a cute mentor" she thought, "I could be assigned to Sesshomaru" she smiled at this thought, but her face became serious again as she forced herself to think otherwise. " What on earth Rin!? The guy is perfect; he would never look back to a girl like you. Plus, he is in third year! You just started med school" She released a breath she was holding in and directed herself to Miroku's office.

Rin was standing outside Miroku's door, she was inexplicably nervous, when she finally gathered the courage to open the door, she was interrupted by a long arm who grabbed the door knob first. She looked back to see who was behind her and surprisingly it was the president of the University, Toga Takahashi. Rin gulped as she saw his everlasting charming smile, she was so nervous to see him. Now that she knew Toga was such an important man, she could not help but to feel awfully uncomfortable around him. Toga did not talk, rather he motioned her to get inside first with his hand as Rin nodded and got inside the office. What she saw made her twice as nervous, sitting on the desk was Miroku and next to him was another silver hair man with accentuated yet handsome face features Rin was surprised to see this man had golden eyes too. Sitting on one side of a table near Miroku's desk was Sesshomaru, looking bored as he read a book. Sesshomaru did not even bothered to acknowledge the presence of Rin or his father, remaining his sight towards the book. Sitting next to Sesshomaru there were 2 girls, one had long black hair and blue eyes. Rin had seen her before, she thought she was from second year, but she was not sure. She seemed to be a really good student and nice too, but she could not grasp what her name was. The other woman had her dark brown hair up, she had a tiny nose and beautiful lips; Rin had never seen her before.

Rin was too busy scanning the room to listen to Miroku as he asked her multiple times to take a seat. When she noticed Miroku has been talking to her for quite sometime now, she felt embarrassed and quickly sat down to the other side of the squared table. It was not until she was on her sit that she realized that in the far corner of the room, next to a white board, another woman sat in silence. She was very pretty, her raven hair (very much like hers) was tied in a neat bun with her bangs cut before reaching her eyes. Her skin was pale, yet beautiful shining against the light of the room and she had a beautiful face. Her eyes had an exotic reddish color that beamed against the light. Her eyes stared straight at Rin with distaste. When Rin realized that this beautiful yet strange woman was glaring back at her she quickly lowered her sight to the table. As Rin looked up again, she saw Sesshomaru's peaceful golden orbs looking back at her, like analyzing her, seeing through her soul. This made Rin quite uncomfortable so she decided to talk to the blue eyed lady in front of her. However, when she was about to ask a question, Miroku's voice interrupted as he greeted everyone in the room.

"Hello everyone, it is quite a pleasure to have you all here. I am specially thankful for President Takahashi's support and funding to this program" Rin saw Toga nod and smile lightly as Miroku spoke. "Thanks to the volunteering Mentors and thanks to the mentees for enrolling to this program. I hope we all have a great experience throughout the next year" Since everyone in the room stayed quiet, Miroku continued " Well as your mentors already know, their role towards their mentees is to help them with classwork, study for exams and provide advice for different life situations you may face here. You are encouraged to rely on your mentors for any problem you have whether is personal or professional. Your mentors are in the obligation to help their mentees in any circumstance" When Miroku finished this sentence, Rin notice the annoyed expression on Sesshomaru's usual stoic face, as well as the strong grip on his had with which he almost tore apart the book he had on his hands. Miroku seemed oblivious to this as he started pairing the mentors with their respective mentees. Rin was surprised to see that there were 3 more students sitting next to her that she did not realize of their presence until that moment. "I can be very absent minded sometimes" she thought.

Koharu with Sango" said Miroku as the girl with dark brown hair stood up with a smile in her face. "Midoriko with Kagome" Rin saw the blue eyed girl stand up and join her mentee, "Inuyasha with Hojo" The silver hair guy that looked very much alike Sesshomaru and Toga stood up making a noise with his mouth "Feh". It was not until that moment that Rin realized she was the only one without a mentor "that means I will be paired with…." She could not finish her thoughts when Miroku added "And Rin with Sesshomaru" Rin looked towards Sesshomaru who was looking at Miroku and ignoring her. Rin decided to stay quiet until he decided to talk to her.

After Miroku dismissed the other mentors and mentees, Rin was left alone with Toga, Sesshomaru, Miroku and that not so friendly looking woman in the corner. At this point Rin decided to speak " Hey Sesshomaru….niiice ehhh nice to meet you" she stammered. Sesshomaru glared at her and ignored her once again. Rin could not believe it, she was getting really upset "WHAT A JERK!" she thought. Rin saw the woman sitting away from everyone else approach towards Sesshomaru and her, "Geez she looks even more beautiful up close now" The woman had style, her white coat accentuated her woman curves, she had a nice body and dressed in a very classy way. When this woman was close to Sesshomaru, she shot daggers at Rin while crossing her arms around her chest and said in a condescending tone "So this is your new little responsibility now Huh?" Sesshomaru looked more annoyed than before and said "Not now Kagura". Kagura half smiled and retired to the corner she was previously seating.

At this moment Sesshomaru rose from his chair and placing both of his arms on top of the table said in a serious yet elegant tone of voice "Father, Miroku, there is no way this Sesshomaru is going to mentor this girl" Rin could not help but to feel rejected and sad about his comment "Well it was not me who wanted to be part of this program on the first place" Rin thought defensively.

Toga replied "And why is that my son?

Sesshomaru turned towards his father saying " This Sesshomaru does not have times for such trivialities. I did not need a mentor on my first year and no one should need it. This Sesshomaru worked hard in order to be the best and same should be expected of everyone else"

At this point Rin was dying inside her mind, she was not only embarrassed because of the rejection, but upset because that was exactly what she thought! She just needed to study in order to be successful in Medical School! "GEEZ"

Toga's face turned serious and answered with what Rin thought was an angry tone of voice, "I was the one who chose this girl to be your mentee and you her mentor. She has potential and spirit, I think both would benefit greatly over a mutual professional and friendly relationship"

Sesshomaru's face grew more upset his beautiful golden orbs looked like they were going to rip his father's face off his skull; his already pointy, perfect nose looked thinner as Sesshomaru's face stared at his father with more intensity. "This Sesshomaru would not change his mind on this matter" he answered coldly.

Toga released a sigh and grew calmer, " What do you propose we do then? I already called Miss Amori to be part of this program. You will need to assign her other mentor."

Sesshomaru, who seemed slightly appeased with his father's resolution said " Very well then, Kagura will take my place"

Kagura, who seemed not to be paying attention to the whole conversation, yelled WHAT!?

Rin who observed all the scene from the table thought "This cannot get any worse"

Cliffhanger! What will happen from here? Poor Rin, now she is stuck with Kagura. Please do not get mad at me, this story has to be realistic so is not easy that Sesshomaru accepts to mentor someone just because. Maybe Rin will learn a thing or two from Kagura. Sesshomaru and Rin need to struggle before becoming a thing! So please let me know what you think. Reviews would be appreciated.