Chapter 3

Rin's small body was leaning towards a tree, "This day has been exhausting" she thought, "I can't believe that these kind of things always happen to me!" Rin exclaimed loudly as she recalled the events of earlier in the afternoon.

Kagura was becoming nuts, she was so angry "No Sesshomaru, No, No, NO. I don't know who you think you are, but you are not bossing me around!" she yelled out loud while throwing her hands in the air motioning her frustration and anger to Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru, on the other hand, remained impassive, his hands tight together while his chin rested on them. He was clearly ignoring Kagura as she threw a tantrum. When Kagura finally finished yelling, Sesshomaru elegantly raised his eyebrows as he spoke non-chalantly to Kagura "Are you done?" Kagura just remained quiet as her faced showed clear signs of disgust. Sesshomaru continued coldly "I thought you said you will do anything to please me". "That was not what I meant" she replied with a clear tone of frustration. Sesshomaru just muttered a "Hnm". After a good 10 minutes of silence, Kagura seemed to give up and finally said "Okay, I will mentor this little vixen"

Rin wanted to speak up at this comment, but she was interrupted again when Toga said relieved "It is settled then!" He turned and directed his body towards Rin with a defeated smiled "I am sorry Miss Amori, I really expected this situation to have a different outcome" Rin replied almost cheerfully "Is not a problem Sir, really, as long as I have a mentor". Toga smiled back at her and took his leave. Miroku was now sitting on his desk clearly exhausted with all the drama. Sesshomaru stood up, glanced at Rin for a while as she stared back. During those seconds that seemed hours to Rin, she could appreciate his perfect face structure again, but then she realized his face was not the only perfect part of him. He was an attractive man, he had a regal body and walked with grace. "Geez he looks like one of those feudal lords of the old Japan" she thought. When Rin noticed that they have been glaring at each other too much, she smiled. It was a sincere smile, Rin felt that he needed to know that there were no hard feelings amongst them. Yeah the guy was a jerk, but at least he waited until everybody left to say he did not want to mentor her. Yes, he also made her feel useless and completely stupid by rejecting to mentor her, but hey if someone was as handsome and smart as him would probably act the same way. So yes, she was smiling at him, a really truthful and happy smile as she waved her goodbyes. However, before Sesshomaru left, she could have sworn his ever stoic and emotionless face changed slightly to one of confusion, his mouth slightly open forming an "Oh" with his lips. Notwithstanding, Rin could be wrong, when she wanted to look back again and make sure of what she saw, Sesshomaru had already left the room. That left her again with Kagura and Miroku, the three of them stayed quiet for a while. Rin decided to break the silence, "I think I will take my leave now, do not worry Kagura you and I don't have to have dinner together. I will see you for our weekly meeting" with that and not waiting Kagura's response, Rin stood up grabbed her things and left the room.

Now there she was, leaning towards a tree, thinking and being miserable. "Nobody wants to be around someone who clearly despises them" she thought. She stayed in deep thought for about an hour when she heard a growling sound. It was her stomach. "What time is it now?" she half mumbled. "Ohh shit…it's 8 pm" I need to eat something. Not wanting to cook at her place, she decided to grab something at the school cafeteria.

As Rin was making the line to grab something from the buffet stations she spotted Sesshomaru eating a portion of beef, mash potatoes and salad. He had taken his white coat off, exposing his toned abdomen under his blue, short sleeve shirt. He looked so handsome and alone. "Didn't he had any friends?" just as Rin was finishing the thought she saw, Kagura approach to him. As she expected, he did not acknowledge her when she sat down and started talking. She grabbed Sesshomaru's hand, and though he did not take it off, he did not take her hand on his either. It was like Kagura was talking to the wall. Rin felt bad for Kagura, the guy was clearly rejecting her. She decided not to peek anymore and grabbed her food.

"Three months now and I have not made any friends. I blame med school for it" Rin sighed at this thought. While Rin was approximating to an empty table she felt a strong grip grabbing her shoulder. For 2 seconds she imaged that it could be Sesshomaru to apologize, as she turned Rin was surprised with the sight of long silver locks, and golden orbs staring at her. Reality struck Rin when she saw that these features did not belong to Sesshomaru but to the similar man from before. "Inuyasha…I think" Rin said insecurely. "Damn right" he answered with a small chuckle. She just smiled back at him as he added "Would you like to eat with the mentors and I? I know what happened with Sesshomaru. He can be a royal asshole sometimes" Rin did not replied to the Sesshomaru comment, but she agreed to eat with them "Thank you I would love to eat with you guys. You are so kind" Inuyasha smiled again and directed her to the table. Since Rin was facing backwards to Sesshomaru's table, she failed to notice Sesshomaru's golden eyes staring perpetually at her.

Rin sat down and was amused to see that all the peer mentors from before were friends. Sango, Kagome and Inuyasha were at the middle of their second year, and were considered really good students. They had known each other from Senior year of college while studying foe their med-school exams and became inseparable from there. Rin was also informed that they were close friends with Miroku and that they hated him at first due to his perverted nature. "They are a funny bunch" Rin thought as she was laughing about a story of how Sango punched Miroku in the face when he tried to touch her breasts. While they were all laughing at the incident, they heard a familiar friendly voice saying "At least it worked" they all stopped and stared a Miroku as he sat down while placing a quick peck on Sango's lips. Rin was beyond surprised, "How long have you been together?" she asked in disbelief. "3 years next month" Sango answered with a smile. Rin smiled politely as she remembered Miroku's incident with her thighs, aside from other indiscretions she knew about Miroku. "Poor Sango" thought. Then again she was told Inuyasha and Kagome were together and at the same time were not together, because they were always fighting. Kagome directed her blue eyes towards Rin saying " Rin please feel free to eat with us anytime you would like. We get it is hard to make friends in med school we are friends because we knew each other in college. Not everyone has that luck" Rin felt her heart melt with Kagome's words, she was going to take her word for it, she really needed friends. "Thank you guys so much, I really could use some friends". "Is not a problem at all, Sesshomaru could be a useless peer mentor for all I know about him" said Inuyasha with a slightly angered tone. " Oh no, Sesshomaru is not my mentor anymore is Kagura"

WHAT!? They all exclaimed in unison, except for Miroku who sighed and started explaining everything to his friends. After he was done, Inuyasha burst out loud "what an asshole! My half-brother can be a royal asshole". Not too long after that, Sesshomaru came next to him and glared at Inuyasha with his piercing eyes saying "Careful with your words half breed. This Sesshomaru will not take offenses from anybody" and with that he left. Inuyasha could just mutter a "Feh"

After the dreadful encounter, Kagome and Rin walked together to their apartments, they lived in the same student building but in different floors which made Rin feel closer to a friend. As Kagome and Rin walked together they chatted about everyone and everything. Rin was very curious about Kagura so she decided to ask Kagome about it "Soo…who is Kagura? I saw her dinning with Sesshomaru before. Do they have anything between each other" Kagome sighed at the question and said with a tired tone of voice " It is complicated. Sesshomaru is a very complicated person as you can already see. Kagura is always around him because she chases him around. In the beginning Sesshomaru would tell her to leave, but now just ignores here." Rin's response was only to mumble an "I see" " Well, rumor has it…" Kagome continued, "people say that Kagura sleeps with Sesshomaru and that he just uses her to satisfy….you know his man's needs" . "That is awfully gross" Rin replied genuinely disgusted. "Yeah well, we are all grown-ups, you know, it is quite normal for people to fool around, but I guess Sesshomaru is very mean sometimes" When Kagome ended talking, they were already waiting for the elevator, Rin stayed on the 5th floor while Kagome went up to the 8th floor.

Rin felt exhausted it was 10:30 pm and she clearly was not going to study; she knew she was going to regret it later. She took a shower, reflecting upon the events of the day, when she went out of the bathroom she noticed an e-mail on her phone. "I will see you tomorrow at noon for our weekly meeting….Kagura" "Oh boy," she whispered. Another long day tomorrow, thank God she had class from 3 pm to 7 pm tomorrow, this meant she could sleep a little bit more and would be able to meet with Kagura. She had to find a way to deal with her and be at peace. She thought of different strategies while tugging herself into bed. "Tomorrow is going to be a great, great day" Rin thought positively as she fell into deep slumber.

I have trying to post fast this story. It honestly has been in my mind for the lomgest time. I know things are slow for now, just hold one a couple of chapters. I promise it would get better. I just think it cannot be was for someone as proud as Sesshomaru to be with a girl like Rin that easy. I hope you guys enjoy it. There is going to be a small, really tiny lemon I just have not decided when. Please bare with me! Also please be kind and review, it would be really nice to have input and feedback for the story. I can see that I have quite a few visitors which makes me happy, but I would love to have some reviews. Until next chapter, tootles!