Six months seem to pass in the blink of an eye. Rin sat in her usual spot on the couch. Ah just laid his head down by her feet. What is it about animals and human emotions that just seemed to connect? How could he know how sad she was? Ah would check on her everytime she coughed or sneezed.

Maybe Ah could just hear her stomach growl and worried about all the weight she managed to lose. "I'm turning into my mother..." Crying into pillow she couldnt help the sobs that escaped her mouth. Rin didnt have many friends since she isolated herself from them when her parents divorced.

Day after day was fighting off hangover after hangover. Calling and redialing her phone just to hear her moms voice again. Her head killed her to even get up to make herself food and she didnt know how she could stand how she was treating her only friend Ah. Ah was being threatened to be taken away by her father because walking to the pet store was too much work for her body in that state.

The day she was admitted.

She woke up face down by her toilet. All the lights were on in her house and she could hear her puppy pawing at the bottom of the bathroom door. She tried to pick herself up to comfort Ah but it took everything in her to not dry heave as she looked away from the floor.

"I'm okay." She said in a soothing voice. Maybe this will get the scratching to stop. "Mommy is fine..." She said lying to herself. In-between standing up and walking by her sink she couldnt help but make a pit stop to throw up stomach bile into her sink. "Fucking great..." Wiping her mouth she looked to herself in the mirror.

Her eyes were sunken in. Skin pale as snow from not seeing the sun in months. When was the last time she had even showered? How did Ah live with how gross she had become?

More scratching and whining came to her door. The knocking had come back to her front door scaring her dog from one door to the other one.

To her shock she saw her father staring into her keyhole. "Open up baby girl. It's important..." She could hear something in his voice she didnt trust but she did as she was told.

Her father was accompanied by two police officers. He avoiding eye contact. "I think it'll be safe if I take Ah for a couple of weeks and you can get better...sweetie you dont look too well."

"My mother just died you son of a bitch! Maybe if you two werent always at each others throats you two would still be married and maybe mom would still be alive today!" She went to reach for her dog when she fell over and passed out in front of the three men.

Thats when she woke up to that pair of familiar red eyes. The last thing she saw before her mother drew her last breath.

and they met

It was a long couple of days. Detoxing is an unforgiving bitch. Rin was throwing up day after day. She was cold, then covered in sweat from burning up. Her mood swings were drastic and the things she couldnt take back when the nurses tried to get her to eat only embarrassed her more. God would her shaking ever stop? The pills didnt help if she was throwing them up right after she swallowed them. Feeling sad and drunk was better than being miserable while getting it out of her system.

"Rin Ishihara... Good morning" This was when she first met eyes with Hakudoshis cool lavender ones. He stood there staring at her as he stood behind his father, Naraku. His face was pretty vacant compared seeming to stare through her but was still attentive.

The piercing red eyes looking almost amused at her in her state waited patiently for her to respond to him. "Miss Rin?"

"Y-yes..." Nodding she rolled over to escape both of their sights.

"This is my son, Rin. Meet Hakudoshi. He will be observing me while I take care of patients while he finishes his schooling. Your father signed a waiver giving my son permission to watch under me until the end of his last semester." Soon after they he made the announcement Naraku left. Leaving Hakudoshi to stand there as Rin continued to cry thinking she was all alone. All she wanted was her dog and to be free of this horrible place her father seemed hell bent on destroying her like he did to her mother.

"I read your file..."