InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ It had to be you. ❯ Surprises ( Chapter 4 )

******STANDARD DISCLAIMER HERE***** I DON'T OWN INUYASHA IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM*******

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Last time…

She turned her attention to the person who called out to her and waved hello. If she had turned back around she would had seen all the band members with disgusted looks on their faces toward her companion. She left the stage and walked over to the bar area and sat down.

"So what is this surprise you have for me…"

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"So what is this surprise you have for me Naraku?" Rin said shyly as she received a hug from her manager.

Naraku Kase is a handsome man with fair skin, long black hair, a height of six feet, and the most intensive ruby colored eyes one could ever imagine, and he was the most devious, cruelest and sleaziest manager there ever was in show business. Everyone who ever had past dealings with him, had always compare him fondly and lovely to that of a …tarantula. Except his good-looking outer shell cleverly disguised his more evil interior which is always poised to strike.

He met Rin six months ago at a local talent show sponsored by the Shop and Drop department store. At first site he didn't think that she looked like much, because she was wearing a long dark skirt, a large granny print short sleeve shirt, and her hair pulled tightly into a high ponytail that didn't suit her face. She looked like a stereotypical geek.

However, the moment she started singing her song 'Somewhere over the Rainbow' there wasn't no one dry eyes in the audience. Her stage present was marvelous, and her voice was the best he heard in years, he could tell that singing come to her naturally. He quickly wormed his way into the Rin's good grace, and skillfully tricked her into signing a two-year contract putting him in charge of all finances and performance schedules.

Unlike his pervious victims who he would rapidly sucked dry leaving their defeated carcasses penniless and shattered dreams of stardom. With Rin, his carnivorous tactics were quite different. He actually helped her get a few legitimate singing jobs, before landing her the gig at the Youkai's Lair. But, also during this time his platonic feeling towards his innocent singing protégé were darkling into something more fiendish.

After releasing Rin from his embrace, he slowly rubbed his chin as if he was thinking of something and then responded mischievously, "Well, I did notice a large package in your dressing room a few moments ago. I wonder if it's in there?"

"Oh you!!!" Rin giggled, and lightly pounded him in his arm. "I can't wait to see it, but I have to ask Miruko if it is okay to leave just yet."

She was about to stand up when he placed his hand on her shoulder and said, "Don't worry about it, you can leave practice wherever you want. You're the star."

She raised an eyebrow and uttered, "I don't think so, Naraku. We were just in the middle of rehearsal, and I still have a lot to do.

He then grabbed her left hand and began to caress it gently, "I'll tell you what, I'll go over a talk to him to see that it okay for you to leave. Alright?"

"Alright, but I'll only leave if he says that it okay." She then watched he walk over to the stage area and talk to Miruko.

As of lately, Rin had notice that Naraku had been touching her more and more. He didn't do anything that was inappropriate, it usually was no more than a hug, or the stoking of her hand or shoulder, or an occasional kiss on the cheek for good luck. It was just something about the way it felt afterwards, that made her uneasy about it a little. But then again she would always remembered that she wasn't that experienced with men, and maybe what was just the way he was, once he got to know a person.

She came back from her thoughts when she heard Miruko call out to her, "Rin, you can go. Everything is perfect for tonight, just go relax and ready at seven."

Rin swiftly ran over to the stage, where he and Naraku were standing and questioned, "Are you sure? I thought you wanted to go over a few more arrangements."

"No, you're fine. You know all the songs perfectly, and for that other song, I'll be the only one accompanying you so you'll be great."

"Okay, but I'll be in my dressing room just in case you need me back." As she started walking toward her dressing room, she missed the smug looked Naraku gave Miroku before he yelled out, "Rin, wait for me." and then proceeded in following her.

The band members were stunned to say that least. They were sure Miroku was going to tell that arrogant bastard to go fuck himself, when he came over and commanded him to let Rin miss the rest of the practice.

"Miroku" Shippo spoke curiously, "Why did you do what? There's…"

"Drop it Shippo!!" he shouted, "There are some things, you just can't fight." He then walked back over to his piano. "Okay, you guys. Break's over…let's get started again."

The other members just looked strangely at each other, but pick up their instruments and continued with practice again. As Miruko played, a song's harmonious melody another tune was playing itself in his mind over and over again, 'I going to get you one day Naraku. Count on it.'

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In the small dressing room, Rin looked at the large white box that was beautiful decorated with a yellow silk ribbon around it.

"Are you going to open it, or are you going to stare at it until it melts?" Naraku chuckled.

"Open it of course." she answered, as her hands carefully undid the bow, so not ruin the exquisite looking ribbon. Then she lifted the top up from the box and unfolded the white wrapping paper that concealed the item.

"Oh my goodness!!" she gasp, then with shaking hands reached for the article to hold it up. It was a light violet chiffon strapless dress. The bodice of the dress was decorated with sewn on crystal rhinestones that when across the right breast to the left side of the waistline. While the skirt section contained three multi-layers of the lightweight material cut into a handkerchief style edging.

"It's quite beautiful Naraku. But I can't wear this." Rin said, as she folded the dress back into the box.

"Why not?" his voice sounding confusion.

"I wouldn't look right in it. I don't have the body for it." she whispered lowly.

Rin had two main problems; First, her shyness around the opposite sex. And secondly, her inferiority complex about her body.

She was slowly making progress on her first dilemma, but the second was a little bit harder to overcome. Unfortunately ever since she was twelve Rin brought into the media's idea of what a beautiful woman looked like. Even though her mother and father constantly told her that the magazines depicted a fake image, she took their reading as gospel.

So she would always wear large articles of clothing to camouflage her so-called flaw body, and fix her hair in the latest fashion trying to accent what she though was a featureless face. Even her performance clothes were large and ill fitting, but they were stylist enough to be on stage.

Naraku couldn't believe what he was hearing. He once had the opportunity to peeped in on her while she was changing for a show and he nearly doubled over from the painful erection he got from seeing her naked. His crafty mind quickly came up with a plan on how to exploit the girl's weakness for his own advantage.

He knelt down in front of her, and lift her chin up with his hand, and looked into her eyes, "Rin, do you trust me." his voice sounding so sincere.

"Yes…but…"

"No buts. I would never steer you wrong. Please wear the dress tonight…for me."

After a few moments of debating about it, she muttered, "Okay, I'll wear it for the show tonight."

He then stood up, smiled and said, "Oh I don't want you to wear it just for the show. I also want you to wear it later now tonight when we have dinner together."

Her eyes widened, and mouth dropped slightly before she spoke, "Naraku, I can't have dinner with your tonight. I already have plans with someone."

His smile disappeared and his voice became harsh, "What kind of plans do you have."

The tone of his voice took Rin by surprise. He had never spoke so severe to her before, she didn't understand what was happening. But she remembered how the band reacted when she told them about her accident and she didn't want Naraku to start behaving the same way so she decided to tell him a half-truth.

"I'm having dinner, with a friend who helped me out yesterday."

"Can't you have dinner with her another night?"

"You know my work schedule, I really don't have any other time available but tonight. And it's a he not a she."

He quickly turned his back to her, his mind reeling from her statement. Did she have a boyfriend now? Did she honestly think that he would allow her to be with any another man but him? No, she was going to be with him tonight, but how could he make her break the date. Suddenly, his evil smirk appeared, he knew exactly what to do.

He turned back around and said, " Rin it's very important that you be with me tonight."

"Why?"

"Because I lined up a few important heads from Virgin Records to meet with us tonight. I was saving it as another surprise for you, but you rather force my hand into telling you. And they are in town just for tonight. So what more important to you…your career or some date you could always get again."

Rin nearly fainted around in her chair. She was going to meet with some big shots of a record company, this could be her big break. As her mind was coming off her fabulous high, it drifted to Sesshomaru. She really wanted to see and talk to her guardian angel, but this was a chance of a lifetime.

"Okay Naraku, I'll go with you to the meeting tonight."

"Great!!" He was laughing inwardly at how well his plan worked, "Now, I do have I one more surprise for you, before you start getting ready for the show." He went out into the hallway and looking around then he shouted, "COME DOWN HERE!!"

And few moments later, she was face to face with a pretty young woman carrying a duffle bag over her shoulder. " Rin, I want you to meet Yura Aoki. She will be your personal hairdresser and makeup artist from now on."

Rin was speechless again, she didn't think she did that bad of a job with her hair. But before she could interjected, Naraku spoke up, "I think you do a great job with your hair, but it's just time that you let it have more of a professional polish to it. Trust me."

She sighed , and nodded her head. "Fine, I pick up right after the show." He pulled her into a tight embrace, and kissed her on the cheek. Then he brought his lips close to her ear he whispered, " Good luck… sweetheart." in a very husky tone before leaving her room.

Rin shiver as the creepy feeling rush over her body, "I wish, I knew why I felt this way around him."

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It was around six fifty when Sesshomaru drove his car into the club's VIP parking lot. He was amazed to see the endless line of cars waiting to park in the separate lot that had a blazing neon parking sign above it.

Stepping out of his car, he took notice of the club's exterior. The building was small; it was about the size of an average McDonald's. It couldn't hold more than seventy people tops he estimated, and he saw more than one hundred people in line.

He felt a headache coming on, the image of all those people jammed into a the tiny club, women wearing nose curling perfume, and the stench of alcohol perfuming the air as it is spilled on clothing and furniture. He thought he would have a convulsion right there in the lot, but he was going thru with it because of his promise.

Not the one he made to Inuyasha, he would have been more than happy to renege on that one, but the one he made to Rin. They were to go to dinner after she got off work, and a small part of him was looking forward to seeing her again.

"Hey Sesshomaru….over here!!" His head snapped up looking around for the location of the voice .

"Why don't you look behind you, dumbass!"

He turned and saw Inuyasha standing by an open doorway in the back of the building waving at him. As he walked towards his brother, he heard music pouring out structure loud enough to do hear from two blocks away.

Can't you hear the music's pumpin' hard like I wish you would?
Now push it

Sesshomaru tossed him a murderous glare as Inuyasha smirked, "Don't worry. This is the last song of the DJ's set. The show should be starting in a few moments from now."

He followed him inside and was surprise to see that they had to go down some stairs. While they walked down the dimly lilted fluorescent stairway, Sesshomaru notice at the bottom of the stairs a door cracked open slightly with light spilling out of it. He also heard people laughing and talking, and glasses clinking together.

Once Inuyasha opened the door, they were temporary blinded with a bright white light. As Sesshomaru vision slowly came back ,and what he saw was quite impressive. The layout of the club looked a lot like Rick's Café from the movie 'Casablanca'.

The underground club could easily hold up to three hundred people, the servers wore short 60's style strapless cocktails dresses with a white fluffy underskirt, and the tables décor was white and gold linen with shiny sliver tiffany lamps on top of each table.

And the bandstand area was on a raised platform with a sheer material backdrop that shimmered under the stage lighting. On stage was a shiny black upright piano, a drum set, sax and trombone in their holders, three stools, and a bright sliver mic stand with a 60's style mic head.

"It's pretty nice, huh?" Inuyasha uttered.

Not wanting to show his approval of the club, Sesshomaru answered in his usual tone, "Feh, it will do."

"You know, I hope I'm around the day that stick comes out your ass. You might be fun to hang around with then. Come on."

Sesshomaru pushed down the urge of drag him back outside to kick his ass, as he usually did every time he pissed him off. He decided to put his energy to a better purpose, and try to find Rin.

He and Inuyasha sat down at a VIP table that was close to the stage. Since Rin didn't tell him what she did at the club, he assumed that she was a waitress. So, he looked around at all the scantly dressed woman, but couldn't find her.

'She did want to meet me here tonight…Didn't she?' he thought, feeling a little frustrated about not being able to find her yet, and his face was beginning to show his irritation. But Inuyasha was to busy checking out the food menu to notice his brother's plight.

"Damn, they got fried cheese sticks here. I love some things." He looked over for the nearest server and yelled, "HEY YOU…COME OVER HERE!!!"

A young dark haired woman approached the table and said, "Good evening, I'm your waitress Kagome. How can I help you?"

"Yea whatever… I'll take an order of cheese sticks and a Corona. You want her to bring you anything, Sesshomaru?"

"I take Absolute …no ice."

Kagome was walking away when Sesshomaru called her back over, " Kagome was it?… I am looking for someone. Tell me do you know…"

Suddenly two hands curled around his neck and embrace him tightly, and said,…

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A/N: In case, you didn't recognize the song section it was Salt-N-Pepa - Push It. It's a old song, but I still love dancing to it. Also I want to thank the people who so far sent in some songs ideas. They are really good ideas, but I still need some more…SO PLEASE HELP ME OUT…SEND MORE SUGGESTIONS.

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!