InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Never-Ending Love ❯ Chapter 10

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the InuYasha characters they belong to Rumiko Takahashi.

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Falling asleep in Sesshomaru’s arms felt as if I was in heaven. Honestly, if that’s how it felt to be in heaven, I NEVER ever wanted to leave. That night we patched things up between us and because of it, our relationship flourished.

During the first 3 months, we dated. We went out together and did what every normal couple in love would do, well tried, and had some really good times in the process. But many of those times, the paparazzi chased us around. It seemed that every time something had to do with the GREAT Sesshomaru Kitazawa, which by the way he HATED me calling him that, the media always had to be there. For being a simple businessman, he was really popular amongst all types of media. So naturally, we would be the subjects to many magazine and newspaper articles. I read one of the headlines once, as I was grocery shopping and HAD to stop to read what it said. I remember it quoted; “Youngest daughter of the late Daisuke Imamura has been seen romancing with newfound businessman Sesshomaru Kitazawa. Is this relationship more than what it seems?” It was posted on a tabloid magazine and it said something about them stipulating that our relationship was more of a business arrangement or fling because Sesshomaru needed the “push” from my fathers’ business to get his up. It obviously was a lie coming from a tabloid but either way, other well-known sources posted similar articles. But they were all LIES because by then, Sesshomaru’s business was fully stabilized and running on it’s own. He never needed any kind of support from my fathers’ business even when he started to build it. Sesshomaru and I made an agreement beforehand though of not paying attention to anything the media mentioned that we knew wasn’t true and continued living our lives.

Now I’m pretty sure that when Kagome found out about us, either by the media or by someone, she must’ve been FURIOUS. I could’ve imagined her reaction to it all; it must’ve not been pretty. Sango mentioned that when Kagome found out, she was in an absolute shock. Then, she got angry and wouldn’t talk to anyone; all she wanted was to be alone. Until one day, Sango got tired of it all and began to scold her, motioning her to move on and forget about what happened between us since it was all in the past. Also, telling her to GROW UP and stop holding on to old grudges on things that weren’t worth the time and effort. In the end, they ended up having a huge argument but Kagome lost the battle. According to Sango, she tried to make a deal with Kagome urging her to stop such childlike foolishness and as we can say, forgive and forget. Although Kagome, as stubborn as she’s always been, agreed on forgetting and moving on but refused to forgive. She claimed that I had inflicted too much pain and was not worthy of her forgiveness.

When Sango was replaying what happened, she hesitated in telling me what they’d arranged in their agreement. She kept trying to twist the words somehow, I guess thinking of a way to make it sound less harsh. Until I was beginning to get irritated at her going in circles and insisted that she just tell me what Kagome said. When she finally blurted it out, I was hurt but it didn’t surprise me to get such a response from Kagome. Nonetheless, I didn’t let my hopes down of someday being able to see each other as sisters and not as emissaries.

As for Sesshomaru and I, we lived life to its fullest. He took me to places I’ve never been and showed me things I’d never seen. I met all of his friends and made lots of new ones myself. I even got to accompany him on many occasions to his business parties. According to him, he liked showing off to his partners AND to the other men at the party that I was with him. Believe me, heads would turn both male and female, every time we would walk into any such event. He would always get ‘hungry’ looks from the single women, especially from what I could tell were the gold diggers. Now THAT was what always made me burn up with jealousy but I didn’t blame them for staring, he was handsome and even more when he was in his formal wear. Although, he was always able to sense my discomfort and ignored them, giving his complete attention to me. Although, he wasn’t the one getting all the attention, I would get stared down by a lot of men and he knew it as well. So at the beginning when he first introduced me, if he suspected a guy was flirting with me in the slightest way, the look he would shoot at them would be enough to make them stop. It was funny that with just one look, he could manipulate someone, well, he could be pretty scary sometimes. Afterwards, no guy would ever approach me throughout the entire evening, even if I was standing alone. Usually it only was for something important and then, they would walk away.

But I fully understood them for being so cautious around anything that involved Sesshomaru. If you were ever to meet him for the first time in a business meeting, he would probably seem like the biggest ass you’ve met in your entire life. His facial features changed completely, stoic and emotionless at times. The only emotion he seemed to show and very often, was anger. He took his business seriously and anything not meeting his standards would make him go over the edge. We could probably say that his temper, when it came to business, was as if it was hanging from a thread and any mistake would make him explode especially when deals went bad. He was also very serious and spoke in a firm, authoritative tone of voice, which was pretty scary and intimidating sometimes. All that was different with me though, it was completely opposite actually. He was an absolute sweetheart when it came to me. The many times I went to see him at his office, his face would go through an enormous change. You could literally see his features softening immediately when he sensed that I walked through the door, even if he was looking another way. Now it may seem that everything between us was always perfect, but that’s not true. Oh believe me, we had our share of arguments and would always end up mad at each other. But they didn’t last very long, before we knew it either he would come back to me or I would go back to him. Sometimes we would even cross paths with each other when we were on the way to see one another. We just couldn’t stay away from each other, our love was too strong and meager quarrels were not going to be the reason for us to separate.

I finally knew how it felt to have a life again and be happy living in it. My life was finally working out for the best, in most aspects, and at one point, it felt that absolutely nothing was going to be able to stop it. But just as things couldn’t get any better in my life, or so I thought, I was surprised to see that there was still something that could stand in the way of my complete happiness…

About 2 months later, my day started normal as always. I’d gotten up early to go shopping and had to pick up my mail from the post office. I needed a new outfit because Sesshomaru wanted to have lunch together and I wanted to wear something special. I spent all morning going from boutique to boutique and never had the chance to stop by and pick up my mail. At about noon, I headed back to my place so I could start getting ready before Sess arrived. I wanted to surprise him with the new outfit.

Arriving to the apartments, I turned into the parking lot and headed towards my garage. I parked inside and shut down the car. Leaving it, I walked towards the back seat and got the garment bag that had my outfit in it, a couple of little bags that were there and shut the door. As I stepped out the garage, I started to close the door and waited outside to make sure it did close. As I was waiting though, I began to get a weird feeling running through me and out of nowhere I turned towards the right, noticing that the same car I’d seen so many times before was there. It was the one that looked exactly like Kogas’ and since I didn’t see anyone inside the car, I ignored it and walked towards the building. Once inside, I took the elevator up to the fourth floor and stood still even though the doors were open. It was really quiet, more than usual, so I peeked out and looked around to see if anyone was there. When I saw no one, I stepped out of the elevator and headed in the direction of my place. Finally arriving to the last hallway, I turned into it but just as I was going to approach my door, I heard it. The voice that made the blood rush to my feet,

“Well, there you are. I was beginning to think you were trying to hide from me.”

At that instant, I stood straight and everything that I had in my hands slipped and fell to the floor. I slowly looked over my shoulder and my eyes widened when they locked with a pair of ice blue eyes, “Koga,” turning completely around to face him. I couldn’t believe that after all that time, we would meet again and he wasn’t exactly the one I wanted to see again.

He took a step closer, his lips curled up in a smirk, “Hey Rin. It’s been a long time.”

I took a step back, fear threatening to take over but I held it back and tried to keep my face as stern as possible, “What are you doing here? How did you find me?”

He shook his head slightly and took another step closer, “Aren’t you happy to see me? I went through great lengths trying to find you. That hurts, Rin,” putting his hand over his heart.

I took another step back, running into the wall behind me and swallowed hard. Raising an eyebrow, “You’re not offended, so don’t pretend to be. What do you want? Did I not make it clear enough for you that I didn’t want to see you again?”

He stood in front of me and caressed my cheek with his gloved finger, locking his eyes with mine, “I came back for you.”

I flinched away from his hand and stood up straight in front of him, my hands fisting at my sides as I yelled, “I’m not a damn object you can just pick up and take, you know. Plus, I don’t want anything having to do with you. I never have and never will. I’ve moved on, now it’s YOUR turn to do it. So, LEAVE ME ALONE, KOGA!”

But just as I was going to turn to walk away, he reached and grabbed hold of my neck, applying force until he roughly slammed me against the wall behind me. Upon impact, I gasped and grabbed onto his gloved hand with both of mine, trying to loosen his hold but failed miserably. He moved closer, pinning me against the wall with his body and I was able to see that his eyes burned with rage as he yelled, “DON’T FUCKING WALK AWAY FROM ME LIKE THAT! EVER!” Applying pressure to my neck as he spoke. My eyes widened and I felt my breathing becoming erratic because of his hand closing around my neck.

Closing my eyes, “Koga… Let… me… go.”

Applying more pressure to my neck, “NEVER, I know you’ve ‘moved’ on. I’ve seen you with that son-of-a-bitch Sesshomaru. I’ve seen your pathetic little ‘dates’ with him. I’ve especially seen the FUCKING way he looks at you, looking like a complete idiot. Just the thought of HIM touching you makes my blood boil. But I don't blame him; the bastard has good taste. Although, that’s not going to last very long. Now, did you honestly think I was going to give you up so easily?”

I opened my eyes and looked at him, “You’ve been stalking me? You are a fucking psycho Koga. You disgust me.”

He tightened his grip again and slammed my head against the wall, “SHUT THE FUCK UP!” I closed my eyes and a cry escaped my lips as he brought his towards my cheek, kissing me violently. I felt his tongue touch my cheek and his teeth slightly scraped the skin there. I kept twisting my head trying to avoid his kisses until I heard him growl and used his other hand to grab onto my face and turned it to face him. Then he tightened his grip of my neck, making it even harder to breathe. I opened my eyes and looked at him, “I warned you Rin. If you’re not going to be with me, you’re not going to be with anyone else. I won’t allow it. Especially with that bastard Sesshomaru, now tell me, have you fucked him?”

Gasping for air, I turned away from him and closed my eyes again. The tears that had been stinging my eyes began to fall and I tightened my grip on his hand, digging my fingernails into his skin under the gloves. But because of the pressure, I couldn’t get my voice to work since I was already extremely short of breath. His eyes widened and he slightly released his grip on my neck but tightened the one of my face, turning it to face him, “ANSWER ME YOU FUCKING BITCH, HAVE YOU FUCKED HIM?”

Taking an erratic breath, I looked straight into his eyes and yelled, “THAT’S NONE OF YOUR FUCKING BUSINESS!”

His eyes widened again and he pushed himself onto me, forcing his knee in between my legs and tightening his hand around my neck again, “LOOK WENCH, IT IS MY FUCKING BUSINESS. IF YOU…” Suddenly, the elevator bell rang and interrupted him. He turned in that direction and released my face but still held onto my neck. Then he turned towards me, lowering his face close to mine, his voice low, “This is NOT over yet, Rin. Just remember what I said.” He completely released me and took some steps back. Immediately as the pressure was removed, I gasped and brought one hand up to my neck using the other one to wipe my cheek with the sleeve of my jacket. Then he gestured pointing his fingers towards his eyes and then turning them towards me, signifying that he was going to keep an eye on me.

“Fuck you!” I hissed before he turned around and ran, disappearing into the dark hall on the other side of the building.

After he was gone, I leaned back on the wall, lifted my head up and closed my eyes, trying to catch my breath. Tears were rolling down my cheeks the entire time as I fought to gain control of my emotions. I felt chills throughout my entire body and I was cold even though I was wearing my jean jacket. A moment later, I calmed down a bit and turned around, kneeling down to pick up the things that I’d dropped on the floor. Suddenly, I felt a presence behind me again and took in a sharp breath. My eyes immediately widened and I stood up, fear flowing freely through me because I was afraid to turn around and see Koga standing behind me again. But I turned nonetheless and released the breath that I never knew I was holding when I saw that it was Sesshomaru standing behind me.

His smile immediately faded as he took a step closer, “What the f… Rin, what’s wrong? Why are you so pale?” His eyes were suddenly filled with worry and I couldn’t help lock mine with his. He reached up and cupped my cheek in his hand, wiping the tears that were still falling. I closed my eyes the moment his hand touched my face, his touch felt warm against my skin. His voice low, “You’re so cold, here.” He moved and took off his coat, slipping it across my back. I kept my eyes closed, savoring the warmth his body was giving off as he brought the coat around me, tucking me securely in it. Then, he held onto my chin and lifted my head up. I opened my eyes and caught him examining me, I guess to see if I had anything abnormal. That’s when he saw what was on my neck, the markings Kogas’ tight grip left. His eyes immediately widened and I almost saw his amber eyes turn red with rage as he raised his voice, “Rin, what the hell is this? Who did this to you?”

I jumped at the sudden change of his voice and my eyes filled up with tears again. I opened my mouth to speak but I couldn’t. I was still in shock and the river of tears that started to fall said it loud and clear. Suddenly, I felt myself get dizzy so I walked up and leaned onto him, resting my palms and head on his chest for support. I closed my eyes and relaxed to the sound of his heartbeat and breathed in deeply, inhaling his soothing and comforting scent. Then I felt him wrap his arms around my shoulders and lowered his head to whisper in my ear, “It’s all right, love. I’m here now; nothing’s going to happen to you. But I need you to tell me who it was.”

I lifted my head from his chest and looked at him. He smiled as he reached to wipe the tears away with his thumb; “It was Koga.”

His smile faded and eyes widened as he raised his voice again, “WHAT? How did that bastard know you were here?”

I rested my head back on his chest, looking towards the wall, “He’s been stalking me since you and Kagome kicked him out of the house, remember? That’s how he found out that I live here. He knows about us Sess and threatened me again. Saying that if I wasn’t going to be with him…”

He curled his fingers around my chin and lifted my head up to meet his gaze. Finishing the sentence for me, our eyes locked, “… he’s not going to let you be with another. Yes, I remember.” He then started to run his fingers along my cheek as he spoke, his voice was soft but yet firm at the same time, “That asshole doesn’t know who he’s messing with, how dare he think of hurting you. But believe me I will make sure, personally if I have to, that he will not go unpunished.” He then turned up to look behind me. I could tell that he was getting angry again because I felt him tense up. Raising his voice again, “Where the hell is the security here? They’re supposed to know who comes in and out. Why aren’t they here?”

Shaking my head, “Sess, it’s ok. Calm down.”

He looked towards me again, his eyes wide, “Calm down? How could I calm down? A lunatic just attempted to hurt you and you want me to calm down? We need to contact the authorities.”

“It’s not going to do much good, Sesshomaru. You know that.”

He lowered his tone of voice, “I know but we still need to report this to the police. They need to have it on record.”

Nodding, “But he was wearing gloves when he attacked me so there’s no way of proving it was really him, he left no fingerprints… Wait, he kissed my cheek maybe there might be traces even though I wiped it after he left.”

He lowered my head to place a kiss on my forehead, “Maybe. Come; let’s get you inside. I’m sure you must be tired. Then we can call the authorities.” He moved away and picked up all the items that fell on the floor. Once he got everything, he stood and wrapped an arm around my shoulder, walking me inside my place.

Once inside, Sesshomaru called the police and they came promptly. They recorded my testimony, photographed the markings on my neck and took a sample from my cheek. Sesshomaru never left my side throughout the entire evening. As for the building security, it seems that they were busy taking care of a disturbance happening at the same time that Koga came by. Koga’s not stupid, I’m sure he hired who ever it was to cause a scene and distract security so he won’t be caught. About a week later, I received a call from the detective confirming that the DNA sample they took matched Koga’s exactly. He also mentioned that since there were no official fingerprints from him on my neck, the sample wasn’t going to be enough to prove that it was really he who attacked me. But they were going to keep a close watch on him just in case he tried something again. I knew from the beginning that reporting him to the authorities would be of no use. Koga’s father ran his business under shady practices and I’m pretty sure he had connections with the police in order to cover up his illegal transactions. Thus giving Koga a carte blanche, allowing him to get away with anything he wanted.

Ever since then, Sesshomaru started spending MUCH more time with me. He would hardly ever leave me alone, not that I minded though. I liked having him around and keeping me company. That was at first though, there were times that instead of returning back to his place, he would end up spending the night in the spare bedroom I had. Now it started, as just occasionally, but then it became much more frequent. He always used the excuse that he liked my place better because it was more peaceful than his was and it would help him get more work done. But I knew the truth, he was afraid that Koga would come back if he noticed that Sesshomaru wasn’t around. So eventually, he ended up moving in since he already had most of his things set up in the room. Now I don’t want you to get the wrong idea about us living together, nothing ever happened between us. He was always a true gentleman and would never go beyond set borders. I actually liked having him around; the place didn’t seem as dreary as it used to. Also it’s not as if I didn’t know him well, we lived together once but under much different conditions and it felt exactly the same as back then, only this time it was just we two.

Everyone offered their support especially after the incident with Koga, except for Kagome, of course. It seemed that Koga had lost contact with all of his friends after the incident and disappeared since most of them disagreed on what he was trying to do. A month later, my 23rd birthday was approaching and Ayame wanted to make a big celebration for it, even when I refused. Eventually she and Sesshomaru convinced me and we set up the date for the party. They decided that it was going to be held at her home since she had the huge ballroom hall in her house. Ayame invited everyone; all of my friends, some of hers and Sesshomaru invited some of his friends and partners.

When the day finally arrived, everything had already been taken care of. I honestly hated parties, too many people and too much noise. But I couldn’t let Ayame or Sesshomaru down because they’d put so much time in setting everything up. I spent the entire morning at Ayames’ house, waiting for Ayame and Sesshomaru to give the final approval on the decorations and stuff. At around noon, we had lunch together out in the gardens I loved so much. Then at about 3pm, after Ayame and Sesshomaru finished chatting, we left back home to rest before the party. Honestly, they’d become close. They would talk about everything but mostly business and could go on for HOURS.

When we arrived home, I was tired and crashed onto the sofa as he walked into the kitchen. I placed my hand over my forehead, closed my eyes and sighed; “You two tired me out.”

He called out from the kitchen, “Who did?”

“You and Ayame.”

He laughed, “Why did we?”

I opened one eye and found him hovering over me, looking down at me and smiling. Then I closed it again and giggled, shaking my head, “Oh my goodness, you two just go on and on for way too long. There’s just no way of stopping you.”

Chuckling, “Well, it wouldn’t seem so long if you joined in the conversation, you know?”

Smiling, I opened my eyes and reached up to hold his face in my hands. Then I lifted myself up enough to pull him in and place a kiss on his lips. Looking into his eyes, “Well, talking about inflation and stock market investments isn’t really my thing.”

He laughed and moved in to kiss me again, “That’s not all we talk about.” Then he started placing light kisses on my lips.

As he continued to kiss me, I began to slowly lie down on the sofa, bringing him down with me. As I lowered myself down, I felt him begin to crawl over the sofa. So I moved my way over to place light kisses on his left cheek, giggling, “No but it’s always something related to it.”

He chuckled and fully climbed over the sofa, landing on top of me. He placed his legs on each side, straddling my lower body. He slid his hands under my arms and placed them flat on the sofa for support as he lowered his head to capture my lips. I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him down, responding passionately to his kiss and melting into him. He ended the kiss by placing sweet kisses on the sides of my mouth. When I opened my eyes again, I found him looking at me with loving eyes, smiling, “Liar.”

I chuckled, as I placed another kiss on his lips, “Never.”

Then a yawn escaped me and he laughed, “It looks like someone needs a nap.”

Laughing and nodding, “I really do otherwise I won’t be able to handle staying up late.” He nodded and started to move to climb off me but when I didn’t release him, he stopped and turned to face me again. My lips curled up into a smile; “You should take one too.”

He smiled, “I think I will.” When I felt him move down, I parted my legs allowing him to settle in between them and he rested his head on the valley underneath my breasts. I wrapped my arms around him, closed my eyes and relaxed to the sound of his breathing.

Sleep was beginning to take over but was interrupted when I heard his voice, “Rin?”

“Hmmm?” My eyes still closed.

“Nothing, just wanted to see if you were asleep yet.”

I snickered as I shook my head slightly, “Silly,” turning my head over to fall asleep. The last thing I heard was his low chuckle and felt him shift to make himself comfortable before I completely fell asleep.

Later that evening at about 5pm, I awoke to find him still asleep on top of me. He looked so adorable and was sleeping so soundly that I really didn’t want to wake him but I had to so we could get ready for the party.

Since it wasn’t going to be a formal party and it was about late-spring, early summer I knew it wasn’t going to get too cold later. So I decided to wear a khaki colored twill skirt that reached about 2 and a half inches above my knees, a fitted brown silk spaghetti strapped top that showed just enough of my cleavage and a twill blazer jacket over it, the same shade as the skirt. Finishing off the outfit were my tan colored high-heeled leather boots that reached up to about my knees. I put my hair up into a French twist and kept it in place with a pair of tan colored chopsticks. I applied a little bit of makeup, like always trying to keep the look natural, and put on some light pink lip-gloss. I sprayed on some perfume before I walked out to the living room finding Sesshomaru already there waiting for me.

OH MY GOD! He looked absolutely HOT! My eyes widened and mouth hung open as I caught sight of him while he was turning to face me with a BIG smile on his face. He was wearing charcoal colored slacks with light blue pinstripes, a light turquoise button shirt with blue and white stripes coming down and a black leather jacket over it. He walked up to me and placed his hands on my waist, “Wow, you look absolutely beautiful.”

Smiling, I lifted my arms and wrapped them around his neck, looking into his eyes, “Thank you. You look very handsome yourself.” His scent immediately hitting my nose, he smelled so damn GOOD. Well, he always did.

“Happy Birthday, sweetheart.” He leaned in and kissed my cheek and then wrapped his arms around me, pulling me in for a hug.

Giggling, “Thank you.”

He pulled back and turned towards me, “I have a present for you. Let me get it, wait right here.” I nodded and released him as he walked away and entered his room. Seconds later, he came back out with a small box in his hand and walked up to me. Handing it to me, “This is for you.”

I took the box from him and looked down, opening it slowly. My eyes widened and I gasped at the contents. He reached in and pulled out a thin silver link bracelet with a pink heart charm hanging from it. The heart had a smaller heart in the center made up of small diamonds. Looking up at him, “Oh my God, Sess. I can’t believe you bought it. Thank you so much.”

As he opened up the bracelet, I walked to place the box on the counter and returned to him. He then wrapped it around my right hand and secured it in place. As he was securing the bracelet, I covered my mouth and tried to hold back the tears that were threatening to pool in my eyes. With a wide grin, “There. It looks much better on you than on the display.”

I looked at the bracelet, looked at it closely and admired its beauty. It was special but it was not as special as he was. So I reached up and wrapped my arms around him, holding him tightly; “I just can’t say it enough, thank you.”

He wrapped his arms around and I could hear the smile still present in his voice, “You’re welcome. I wanted to give you something special and remembered that you really liked it when you saw it, so I figured that it would be the perfect present for you.”

“But I already have the perfect present, Sess…” Turning to kiss his neck and whisper in his left ear, “You, my love.”

He chuckled and lowered his head, pressing light kisses all along my neck, “Hmmm… You smell wonderful.”

I lowered and moved my head to the side allowing him more access to my neck. My skin crawling at the feeling of his hot breath tickling my skin and his lips sliding up and down. I raised my hand up to the back of his neck and slid my head up to whisper huskily in his ear, “So do you.”

He faintly growled as he kissed his way up to my cheekbone. Suddenly, the air around us seemed dense, making our breathing quicken. Also, it started to feel as if the temperature in the room rapidly began to rise. When he reached my lips, I turned towards him and pulled him in, kissing him with a sudden need that was building inside me as he responded passionately, tasting and caressing every corner of my mouth. He then pulled me closer to him and I felt his hands caressing my arms and back, making my body shudder underneath his touch. His hands working in unison with the rhythm of his kiss, making me want him, no, NEED him even more. He tried to say something but was forced to speak in between kisses; “If we… keep this… up… we’re never… going… to leave.”

“Mmmm…” was the only sound that came from me. The thought actually seemed very tempting at the time and suddenly I just didn’t care about anything else. All I knew I wanted was him but then I remembered there was a lot of people counting on us to be there, especially Ayame. So I gave him one final kiss on his lips before I backed away, my arms still locked around his neck and looked at him, trying to regain my breath. His eyes were soft and dazed and I could see a hint of lust glinting in them. He seemed to be pretty breathless as well. Smiling, “I love you, Sesshomaru.”

A smile grew on his face as he pulled my head down to place a kiss on my forehead, “I love you too.” He released me and I lifted my head up to look at him, “Now we must go before everyone starts to think something happened.” I nodded and we both turned to pick up our things from the kitchen counter. As we’re walking out the door, “Oh, I almost forgot to mention. Ayame asked Sango to take Kagome to the party as well. She’s going to try to set up a way for you two to have a talk.”

As he was shutting and locking the door behind him, “Oh”.

He turned over and smiled, “What do you think?” Then he offered his arm and I wrapped mine around his as we began to walk towards the elevator.

Looking forward, “She’s not going to want to talk to me. I’m sure of it.”

“How can you be so sure?” Looking at me.

Arriving to the elevator, I pressed the button and we waited. Turning to him, “Because I know she’s still mad at me.”

When the elevator arrived, we stepped in. As he was pressing the 1st floor button, “You never know, she might’ve changed her mind.”

Shaking my head, “I highly doubt it. Knowing Kagome, she holds on to grudges for a long time.”

Arriving to our destination, we walked out and headed towards the main door. “Come on Rin, be optimistic for once. It may work out better than you expect,” as he opened the door for me.

I stepped out and walked towards his car, which wasn’t too far away, “Well all I have to say is that, if I do get the chance to talk to her and she still refuses to listen, I’m just going to have to speak my mind openly. I don’t care if she gets hurt or offended by anything I say, I’m tired of this from her.” Reaching the car, he opened the door for me and shut it once I was settled and buckled in.

He walked around the car and entered through the drivers’ seat, smiling, “Well, let’s just hope everything works out for the best tonight.” Turning on the car and buckling himself in.

I nodded and smiled, “I sure hope so.” Finally, he shifted gears and started to head towards the exit, making our way to the party. Neither of us knowing what to expect from anybody but we were definitely anxious to find out what was to come.