InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Jungle Gym Affair ❯ Chapter Four ( Chapter 4 )

Kagome paused, scanning ahead in the letter before she read the rest aloud. Her eyes widened considerably, making Inu-Yasha more and more nervous by the second.

"Kagome, put it down," he said, "I don't want to hear it."

"Inu-Yasha, sit down," Kagome said, more than a little forcefully, "I think you're really going to want to hear this. It's about your father."

Inu-Yasha rolled his eyes, "Like I really care about whatever this bitch has to say about Naraku."

"He's not your father, Inu-Yasha."

Inu-Yasha sat.

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"Miss Rin," Touga said, smirking at the flustered girl, "I take it Sesshomaru has arrived?"

"Yes sir," Rin answered, running her fingers down her skirt, trying to smooth it down, "I believe he's waiting in the lobby for you, sir."

"You believe eh? Well, if you believe it, I believe it," he said, eyeing Rin's blouse, which had several buttons undone, "I'll need you to get him in here, while I find something to keep Jakken busy with."

Rin nodded, and spun around on her heal to grab Sesshomaru (and maybe a bit more, if Touga was right). He had been watching their relationship since Rin had joined his company a couple of years ago, and he was fairly sure they were headed towards marriage and children. 'Though' he thought, 'with the way those two carry on, it might not be in that order.'

He rolled his eyes at the thought, and buzzed Jakken.

"Yes Mr. Taisho?" Jakken said through the intercom.

"I have a task for you. I need you to go to a business meeting in my place. The one in Hong Kong. Do hurry."

The sound of someone scrambling out of their desk was heard just before a light knock on the door. Touga rolled his eyes at the sound, knowing that Rin still had not gotten used to the idea that she was allowed to enter without asking. The door opened soon after that, revealing Sesshomaru, his oldest son, who was being chewed out by Rin for opening the door.

He suppressed a smirk, choosing instead to grab a file laying on his desk.

"Now, Rin. You've located the agent that informed me of Inu-Yasha's death, right?"

Rin nodded, knowing he would be asking for details next.

"Now, who was it and why was this done?"

"Her name was Kagura Kano. She was a spy in the organization, and was overseeing the murders. When they failed to kill Naraku and Inu-Yasha, her life was on the line, so she lied to both sides to cover up her ass."

The two men nodded, and Touga placed a hand on his chin thoughtfully, "Now, if that was the case, how did they find out Naraku and Inu-Yasha were still alive?"

Sesshomaru nodded at the question, indicating that he too had pondered this, and turned to Rin for an answer.

"Well, that was actually Naraku's fault. Up until that point, they'd been living fairly quietly, in the poorer neighborhood by that old abandoned park off of Carrier. However, He'd been drunk one night, and caused a scene near Club Venice, which happens to be known for their ties with the Kits. He happened to be there that night, and recognized Naraku. They trailed him home, and killed him there. If not for that news report, they may not have even realized Inu-Yasha is still alive. However, the chances of them not having seen it is slim. Very slim, and it would take a miracle."

Sesshomaru nodded, "I saw it, though I've already contacted the police stations and the media. There won't be any more of that story out there, so if they somehow missed that report, Inu-Yasha is safe from them for now."

'For now' they all thought.

"Well, what's the first step?" Sesshomaru asked, turning towards his father.

"Rin has already taken care of that. She's notified Inu-Yasha of the basic facts, and has arranged a meeting for us," Touga answered.

"A meeting? We aren't going to get him?"

Rin shook her head, "Maybe we could have, when he was 17, but he's old enough to make his own decisions now, and your father respects that."

"Respects...Father, his life could be in danger, and you're giving him a choice?"

"Oh Sesshomaru," Rin said airily, "I highly doubt he's going to decide to put his life in danger, especially since he's got a girlfriend to protect."

Two pairs of Taisho eyes bore into her, causing her to squirm at their intensity.

"Girlfriend?" they asked simultaneously.

"Yeah, her name is Kagome-" she started, only to be cut off by Touga.

"I don't think it's a good idea to keep any girlfriends involved in this."

Rin resisted the urge to roll her eyes in front of her boss, and instead chose to voice her doubts about his stance.

"Mr. Taisho, he is your son. He wouldn't leave her alone. When you thought that the Kitsunes were after you, you were extremely hesitant in letting her go with Naraku."

"How did you know that?" He interrupted her again.

Rin ignored hm and continued speaking, "I do believe you only agreed to let Naraku take her and Inu-Yasha when there was an attack on your home. Do you really want Inu-Yasha to have to be convinced in the same way? And, as for 'how I know', it's what you pay me for, isn't it?"

Touga smirked, "Yes, I believe it is. And here I was thinking it was so you could distract my son."

Rin blushed but continued to look Touga in the eye, "I'd gladly do that for free Mr. Taisho. And it's not as if you mind. Been wanting grand kids, haven't we?"

Touga's smirk widened into a smile, "You do your job well."

Rin merely grinned, before she turned to Sesshomaru.

"It's time for us to go and fix up Inu-Yasha's apartment."

Sesshomaru nodded, and turned towards his father, shaking his hand to say goodbye. Once he and Rin were out of the office, she turned to hm with a quirked eyebrow. 'I'm about to be interrogated' he thought.

"You and your father act more like business partners than Father and Son," she observed.

Sesshomaru nodded, "It's always been like that."

"Why?" she pried.

He rolled his eyes at her, muttering something about her being nosy, but obliged her an answer anyway.

"We never had time to be in that traditional family setting. After Izayoi died, and Father thought that she and Inu-Yasha had passed on, he buried himself in work. I was raised by various office members. I slept here. I used to think he'd forgotten about me. But, eventually, he came down and brought me in his office, and started teaching me about the business."

Rin contemplated his words as the two of them stepped into the elevator. 'And you were craving his attention so much, you took what you could get...'

"I don't think you've ever said that many words at once since we met."

Sesshomaru thought about that. 'How long has it been? Only two years?' He remembered when he had first met her, when she was being evaluated for her building invasion.

He watched the figure moving on the screens in front of them, taking notes on the technique.

"Who is this?" Sesshomaru asked one of the other men observing the screen.

"Her name is Rin. She does pretty well, doesn't she?"

Sesshomaru nodded, though he wasn't that impressed. She was good, but there were better people out there. 'I could probably do better if I tried'

"She's okay. Give her an off site job. She's not that great, I'm sure we could find someone better."

"You sure about that?" a feminine voice asked from behind him.

Everyone in the room swung their heads back and the man Sesshomaru had been talking to stuttered.

"Miss Takaishi!" he exclaimed.

"Call me Rin," she answered smoothly.

"But..." he turned back to the screens to see a man waving at him happily.

"I'd like to thank your security officer Fred for filling in for me while I broke into your building."

"How did you get in?" Sesshomaru asked.

Rin grinned, "Well, that's for me to know and you to wonder about, Sesshomaru."

"How do you-" he started, but she winked and cut him off.

"That's what you'll pay me for, right?"

He looked at her and gave a rare smile, "Yes, I believe it is."

He was snapped out of his thoughts by the elevator's ding.

"Rin?" he said, as they stepped out into the main lobby.

"Hmm?"

"How did you break into the building on your invasion test?"

Rin gave him a peck on the cheek and headed for the doors.

"That's for me to know..." she said happily.

"And me to wonder about," he finished.

-

Rin always dominated the radio. While Sesshomaru had an extreme fondness for classical music, his girlfriend went after anything she could get her hands on. She'd taken to going through phases of particular favourites, and this week, it was their local alternative station. She squealed happily when she reached the station, and started singing along.

"Hey come and go and I don't kill a thing! It's just 'cause I'm a jerk and I don't care!"

Sesshomaru shook his head, "I think you got that wrong. 'They come and go and I don't feel a thing. It's not 'cause I'm a jerk and I don't care' is what he says."

Rin narrowed her eyes, "Rewind it."

Sesshomaru ignored her command, and reminded her that it was the radio, not a CD.

"You mean there's no TiVo for radio yet? Honestly! What are our scientists working on? No robots, no smellovision, no decentpainless way to pluck my eyebrows...I'm disappointed and disgusted," she ranted.

'She's just trying to distract from the fact that she was wrong.'

"It's dark out," he noted, helping her change the subject.

"It is...I hope that's not an omen...or a bad one, anyway."

Sesshomaru nodded, and searched his mind for a conversation topic. Normally, he was content to sit in silence, but he found that when he did, he brooded, and he didn't want to entertain thoughts of the worst case scenario when it came to his half brother.

"So...girlfriend?" he asked, referring to Rin's earlier mention of Kagome.

"Girl-oh! Inu-Yasha. Yes. And you'll never guess who it is!" she exclaimed.

Sesshomaru shook his head, "I doubt I could. Do you think I'd know her?"

Rin nodded, "Her name is Kagome. Kagome Higurashi."

His eyes widened slightly, "The Kagome Higurashi? As in, heiress to the Higurashi fortune? Daughter of Daisuke and Sora Higurashi?"

Rin nodded again, "Isn't it romantic?"

Sesshomaru smirked, "Very. I think I met her once."

"Twice," Rin supplied, "once at the banquet dinner for her grandfather's 80'th birthday, and once when she came with her father to a business meeting with your father."

"How do you-" he started, but shook his head, "never mind. It's what Father and I pay you for."

As they pulled into the parking lot of the apartment building, it was obvious almost at once that something was wrong. People stood around, pointing at the window of one of the apartments, which had been busted. From the glass on the ground, it was fairly obvious that it had been broken from the inside.

Rin and Sesshomaru exchanged worried glances, before hurrying up into the building. A couple of people yelled at them to stop, but they ignored their shouts. After clearing three flights of stairs, they found themselves where Inu-Yasha's apartment was supposed to be. It was unharmed.

Next to it, however, the neighboring apartment's door had been broken down, and a woman and her son stood outside crying. Another woman stood beside them, patting the woman on the pack and whispering reassuring words to her.

"What happened here?" Rin asked, gesturing to the obvious damage.

"We don't know," said the woman comforting the sobbing mother, "a man came, and he was knocking on the neighboring door. I asked him what he was doing, and he said he'd come to visit his nephew. I told him no one lived there yet, but that a boy lived next door...I went out to help her carry in the groceries, and we heard the glass break on the window..."

The little boy looked up at his mother, "Mama, she's going to be okay right?"

The woman just continued sobbing and whispering 'Mayu, Mayu!'. Sesshomaru shook his head, and led Rin out of the hallway. As soon as they had separated from the crowd, they looked at each other.

"Fuck," Rin swore, as Sesshomaru pulled out his cell phone.

After a couple of seconds, Sesshomaru spoke to his father.

"Yeah, it's me. Bad news. He was here."

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A/N: I know it's short! I'm sorry! However...don't expect the next one to be long either...

Zelix: Sorry! And thank you. :D

Hououza: Eep. Your name was a bitch to type out. The letter is the next chapter, sooo~

Angelic_Devil: Patience is a virtue, isn't it? I'm glad you like the story.

inu_doggie: Suspense is a good thing! *laughs*

Inu13: *laughs* Of course it's okay with me. Yeah, I couldn't resist making her pregnant. Babies are all I think about. XD;