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Ume was bounding beside her in excitement, telling her that she thought she’d found it. The spice in her life she’d been looking for for months.
“Really Rin, I always thought something was wrong with me. The furry con was definitely not right, and that age play website didn’t feel good either, but this feels like it's the perfect level!” She said, her high pitch voice sounding like squeaking bells as she spoke quickly.
Rin rolled her eyes but continued next to her bouncing form, “And the reason that I am coming to you for this stop of your eat, pray, fuck journey is…?” Rin said leadingly but Ume just laughed at her. “Maybe I wouldn’t have pulled you if you didn’t tell me how much you liked it when Hiroto tied you up so he could paint you”
Rin flushed brightly before turning to glare at her friend. “I told you that in confidence and who cares? We stopped hooking up 6 months ago, it's not like I can go back and start that train wreck over again.” She said, pulling the doors of the club open and walking through with Ume hot on her heels.
Ume pushed past her and towards a towering man standing at the coat check and checking to make sure they were in the right place. Her heart had stopped the minute she’d locked eyes with the tall man. He was huge, definitely over a full foot taller than herself but his body was sinewy and lean. His shiny silver hair hung down his back in a clean french braid and she noticed pointed ear peaking out from the braid. He was dressed like he’d just come from the office, with a white button up that was rolled up to his elbows and grey slacks, a white fluff trailing over his shoulder and down behind him.
Rin felt herself take a gasping breath as she stopped her inventory of his body to take in his face. Alabaster skin was in stark contrast to two magenta strikes adorning each cheek and a blue crescent moon sitting at the center of his forehead. His eyes looked like someone had melted gold and poured it directly into his perfectly symmetrical face.
“Rin, what are you doing! Come up here and help me pick my position!” Ume yelled from in front of the man and Rin flushed brightly before walking over to stand in front of him as well.
“Okay so he said that Red is for learning, Green is for dominant and Yellow is for submissive. You should probably take Yellow but I’m thinking I should go for Red.” Ume spoke, ignoring the still flushed face of her friend.
Rin sputtered before huffing out, “I think we should both take Red since we don’t know anything about this.” Ume shrugged her shoulders before grabbing herself a Red name tag and writing her name. Rin went to grab a Red tag as well but was stopped by a huge hand laying over her own.
Her eyes snapped up to see the beautiful man looking down at her silently with blank eyes before he moved her hand to the yellow and pressed down gently.
She flushed but took the yellow name tag instead and quickly scribbled her name there. “Alright! Where do we go now?” Ume asked, smiling brightly up at the stoic man and completely missing their interaction. He simply raised his hand and pointed towards the open double doors to his right and Ume said a quick thanks before dragging Rin by the arm through the doors.
Rin took in the semicircle of chairs and the refreshment table before grabbing herself a glass of water and grabbing a seat in the circle. There were two women at the head of the circle in a quiet conversation, a tall woman with brown eyes and deep brown hair in a ponytail and a girl to her right with white hair and sea blue eyes. Rin sipped her water quietly while Ume whispered in her ear how excited she was to be there and all the debauchery she was ready to experience.
Two giggle frat boys sat next to them, their eyes darting to them frequently before they laughed and shoved each other whispering something about pledges and freaky shit before they once again succumbed to chuckles. There were two other women to the left of them, looking to be in their mid 30’s, one of them looking as excited as Ume and the other looking as uncomfortable as Rin felt.
At least I’m not the only one who was dragged here by force.
Rin looked up from the now full circle to notice the stoic man from the front had joined the other two women at the head of the circle, his fluff over the back of the chair and hanging towards the floor. He simply stared around the circle until his eyes landed on hers and did not leave. She looked up and their eyes locked. She couldn’t break the gaze and the longer she looked the more she felt like she was melting. She felt somehow safe under his indifferent gaze and he didn’t seem to be breaking their extensive eye contact either. She thought she heard someone talk about what they were here to do but she couldn’t hear anything until Ume’s hand shot up next to her.
“Is there going to be a demonstration? Or something to see what a scene looks like?” Ume said next to her and Rin broke her eye contact to send a glare towards her friend.
The woman at the head of the circle laughed but shook her head. “This is just to learn more about what it looks like. If you really want to see what it looks like you can stay after and I’ll give you some times of play nights so you can really see it in action.” The woman said and Rin felt Ume slightly deflate next to her.
The woman at the head of the circle stood up. “Alright, first some introductions. My name is Sango. I’m a Dominant and I’m 24. I started these meetings a few years ago when I graduated college and wanted to learn more but realize how overwhelming just walking into a play night can be. I go to play nights to scene. Alright Shirori, you go next!” The woman now distinguished as Sango said, sitting down and allowing the woman next to her to stand.
“My name is Shiori, I’m a dominant and a half demon. I am a painter and I am unattached at the moment.” She said, her voice quiet and small. Sango smiled gently at her and Rin looked quizzically at the small woman. Nothing about her really screamed ‘I’m going to dominate you’. She was quiet and unassuming and it seemed like she was avoiding eye contact with everyone in the circle.
Once Shiori had sat, the beautiful man stood and seemed to only look directly at Rin as he spoke. “My name is Sesshomaru, I am a dominant.” He spoke and Rin felt a shiver go down her spine as the deep baritone of his voice. He broke their eye contact and sat once more before looking blankly out over the circle.
Sango began talking, lifting fingers and clearly listing rules and speaking about what Rin assumed was good and valuable information about being in the BDSM scene and what it would entail but she found herself completely focused on the man. The way he seemed to only blink a few times a minute. His nostrils seemed slightly flared and his eyes remained blank but seemed slightly tensed around the edges. She continued studying his face until Sango pulled a box from her side and pulled out leather instruments.
Rin listened to her explain the use of the tools but her mind kept drifting, different positions and situations playing out in her mind starring herself and the beautiful man in front of her. Tied to a bed while he ran a nine tails over her body. Gagged while he fucked her from behind. Having to wear the butterfly vibrator while he controlled it from afar. Once she’d pulled herself from her fantasies she looked up to see Sesshomaru was staring directly at her, his eyes still appearing blank but his nostrils definitely flared and staring deep into her soul.
She half noticed some of the other people in the circle had left or moved. She noticed a bit more when Ume made a mad dash towards Sango at the front of the circle. She finally snapped back to attention when she noticed Sesshomaru had broken their eye contact and had stood from his seat. She took a shaky breath and closed her eyes before relaxing into her chair and shutting her eyes, waiting for Ume to get her questions out of the way so they could leave.
“Your friend is loud.” She heard from next to her and her eyes snapped open to see Sesshomaru had moved to sit next to her rather than at his position at the front of the circle. She nodded her head in agreement and tried to force her eyes to remain a normal size.
“She’s excited to try everything. She’s basically trying every kink in the book until she likes one enough to actually stick with it.” Rin said, looking over to see an overwhelmed Sango patting a smiling Ume on the shoulder.
Sesshomaru hummed in response. Rin turned her eyes back to look at him again and noticed his eyes were completely locked on her face. She flushed brightly but felt herself completely drawn in by his golden eyes again. “You are also interested in BDSM.” He said, but Rin figured he must mean it as a question.
She shrugged her shoulders before giving a small nod. “I’ve experienced a little bondage and was interested. She asked me to come with her so I figured why not try it out. I was, uh, a little distracted though. I didn’t really hear most of what Sango said.” Rin admitted, letting a sheepish smile grace her lips.
Sesshomaru was silent and Rin assumed the conversation was over. She turned back to look at Ume eagerly writing something in her phone.
“Would you like to have coffee with me?” She heard from her side and her eyes snapped back to see Sesshomaru was also looking ahead of them. She nodded slightly and he hummed in understanding, pulling a cell phone from his pocket and placing it in her hands. Her hands shook as she added her number to his phone before handing it back to him. He took it and sent her a message before pocketing it and standing.
He looked down at her and she swear his nostrils were still flared before he said a curt goodbye and was gone. Rin stared after him for a moment before Ume jumped in front of her and grabbed her hand pulling her hand to lead her out of the meeting space. Rin pulled her phone out of her pocket to see the message from Sesshomaru staring back at her.
[From: Unknown Number : I look forward to seeing you again, Rin. ]
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Fuck, Fuck, Fuck! She cursed as she walked quickly towards where Sesshomaru had asked her to meet him.
Her lecture had run long which wouldn’t have been a problem if she hadn’t then also missed the bus and had to wait another 7 minutes for the next one. She quickly glanced down at her phone and noticed she was only 5 minutes late and her destination was the next block up.
She walked quickly up to the coffee shop to see Sesshomaru already seated outside. He turned to look at her with his blank stare, shaded by the umbrella over the table, but Rin swore he seemed excited to see her. She let out a big smile and rushed to the table he’d claimed, throwing her backpack on the ground before sliding into the seat that was already pushed out for her.
“I’m so sorry I’m late! My professor tends to pontificate and he held us over so I missed the bus.” She exclaimed hurriedly, a sheepish smile on her lips. Sesshomaru just appraised her before pushing a latte in front of her. “It is of no consequence” He said, his flat tone giving her no idea if he was upset or not.
She grabbed the cup in front of her and took a sip before her eyes snapped up to his face once more. She let out a big smile. “How did you know I would want a Mocha latte?” She asked, taking another sip. She noticed him give a noncommittal grunt but he didn’t speak further.
She placed the cup back on the table and looked over to him. He was staring at her intently, his nostrils once again seeming to flare but there was less tension around the corner of his eyes. She didn’t know how but she could tell he was happy to see her, excited even since they hadn’t had time to connect until a week after the meeting.
“Who are you?” He asked, breaking her studying of his face. She cocked her head at him but he didn’t elaborate.
“I’m Rin, you remember my name don’t you?” She asked teasingly. She could see the ghost of a smile on his lips but he didn’t move. He moved his hand up to gesture for to speak more and she let out a small laugh before leaning back into her chair.
“What do you want to know? Elevator facts or literally everything?” She asked, appraising his still stoic form, trying to read for any additional queues to his moods or thoughts. He leaned slightly forward, just a fraction of an inch and said clearly, “Everything you are willing to share.” He said, his tone demanding and his eyes narrowed as he focused on her. Rin stared into his eyes for a moment, unsure if he was angry but there was no tension around his eyes, his lips seemed relaxed and the demand seemed more out of fascination.
She shrugged before beginning. “I’m a junior in college studying plant sciences. I want to be a botanist, and this summer and I have an internship lined up with the Boston Public Garden in their floral gardens. I’m a little old for my level, I’m twenty and my birthday is next month. I took a year off before college to figure out what exactly I wanted to do. I was adopted when I was 10 and my dad is a Kappa demon. Oh! And after our meeting Ume went to a play night and said she was definitely not interested but I think I still am.” She said, her tone getting quieter towards the end of her introduction.
“You are young.” He said, his eyes once again tensed around the edged. Rin nodded in agreement, “I’m young but I’ve been through a lot. I tend to be a good judge of character.” She said, winking at him and noticing the tension release from his eyes.
Sesshomaru gave her a curt nod, “Why flowers?” He asked, his eyes still holding the intense look but Rin could now clearly define it as over-eagerness. She smiled brightly before looking into his eyes. “They’re beautiful. You treat them with love and care and they bloom and when they have finished they wither to come back in the next season to spread beauty and joy again. Sorry, I bet that sounded really sappy.” She muttered, breaking their eye contact to glance around the sunny street around them.
She gently held her cup in her hands, her fingers fidgeting around the cup. She felt his large hand come up to cover her own and noticed similar markings on his face adorning his wrists and her minded wandered to how far the stripes would go.
Bad Rin! He is being very polite, calm your fucking hormones.
“So tell me about yourself Sesshomaru!” She squeaked out, her hand tingling where his own still held her, putting a slight pressure but not lacing their hands together. He pulled his hand back and Rin immediately missed the warmth before bringing her eyes up again.
“I own a financial company. Inuyasha is my partner, we are brothers. He is very loud. I would like to train you as my submissive.” He spoke each fact directly. There were not light or teasing tones, just factual statements. Rin studied his face through the statements. His eyes were hard when speaking about the company, the tense crease returning to the corner of his eye as he spoke about his brother, and a deep softness coming to his eyes when he told her he would train her.
His tone did not change but Rin felt like she had heard a completely different conversation. He did not necessarily enjoy his work, but he did it well. His brother was a stressor but he respected him, and he really wanted her to agree to be his submissive.
Rin took another sip of her coffee as she looked him over. “What does being your submissive entail? Is it like a sex thing or is it a pain thing?” She asked, willing the tingling in her belly to calm enough to know what she was getting into.
The tense lines around his eyes disappeared but the softness in them remained. “Whatever you wish.” He said and Rin felt her whole body heat at the idea. She noticed Sesshomaru’s nose flare and his eyes now held a heat in addition to the softness.
She let out a shaky laugh, “You really don’t speak much, do you Sesshomaru?” She teased, trying to calm her nerves from the excitement of the conversation. He grunted before responding. “I do not speak without reason.”
“And you think I’m a submissive. No doubt in your mind that I am.” She stated, searching his face for clues. He nodded, “I would like to explore the tension you create.”
She leaned back in her chair and took the final sip of her coffee. “So not only do you rarely speak, you speak in riddles and poems.” She teased and although his face remained stoic she could see she’d humored him. He gave another curt nod and she let a huge smile spread across her face as she mocked a bow in her chair.
“Well thank you so much Sesshomaru for gracing me with your words. I feel very special.” She teased but when she looked up his eyes looked serious and he nodded his head in agreement. She flushed slightly before looking back to his eyes.
The same gold that seemed to be the only way to understand what he meant when he spoke. They looked soft and almost admirable and she felt a sort of comfort in them.
“I’ll do it.” She whispered, her eyes still locked with his. She immediately saw the gold darken slightly and her stomach twisted in knots. “But I do have a condition.” She said, watching his eyes morphing back to the warm soft look.
He didn’t speak and Rin continued. “I think if we’re going to do this, I would like to date first. Not just jump right in to something you know everything about and I know nothing about. I want to get to know you too. Make sure you’re not a serial killer or something.” He nodded his head in agreement.
“So that’s it then? You want to date me?” She asked and she saw confusion spark in his eyes before he glanced down at the table in front of them and then back to her.
“Are we not?” He asked and Rin smiled at him. “So this was our first date?” She asked and he nodded, the confusion still in his eyes.
She laughed but nodded in agreement, and stuck her hand out. He reached his own over and grabbed her hand, his huge hand once again swallowing all of her own. “I hope you don’t mind that I don’t kiss on a first date, my dad told me it was bad manners with demons.” She joked and his eyes brightened considerably, the hand holding her own tensing slightly around her.
“What kind of demon is he?” He asked, removing his hand to place it on the table in front of him. “He’s a Kappa.” She said and his eyes flashed with something before he nodded in understanding.
“What are you?” She asked and for the first time she saw a feral smirk spread across his face.
“Dog.” He said, and for the first time Rin heard passion in his words. He was proud of his heritage. Proud of who he was.
“Just a pure dog? Nothing else mixed in?” She asked, moving her hand to block the sun that had moved to be a little too directly on her face. He stood silently and adjusted the umbrella above them to deflect the sun before sitting once more.
“I am sole heir to the western hemisphere. Born of the union of two great dog demons” He said, the passionate tone still evident, but holding a bit of tension. As if the burden placed on him by his parents was an issue. Rin smiled gently and reached her hand out to comfortingly pat his hand and revel in the tingle it sent through her hand once more.
“Not a huge fan of your parents, huh?” She asked and she saw his eyes widen slightly as he gave her a curt nod. She pulled her hand away to mimic his previous motion, requesting some sort of elaboration.
He sighed slightly before speaking, “They are both loud. I prefer quiet.” He said and Rin snorted causing Sesshomaru’s eyes to snap to her own once again. She looked at his confused look and laughed, “Sorry, you say that like its shocking.” She said, still chuckling slightly. His eyes relaxed once more and Rin smiled brightly.
Not so hard to read now are you, Sesshomaru.
“My parents were the worst, so I get not exactly getting along with them. My adopted dad is great though, I think he loves me and is stressed out by me an equal amount. His name is Jaken and I’m sure if you knew him you would know what I mean by that.” She laughed before returning to meet Sesshomaru’s impassive face marred by slightly widened and shocked looking eyes.
She raised an eyebrow at him and cocked her head, “What did I say?” She asked and he studied her face for a moment before repeating Jaken. She nodded and gave him a quizzical look before he nodded.
“Jaken was my partner several hundred years ago.” He said simply, still staring at her face. She let out a huge laugh and patted her leg. She looked up to see him looking at her, his eyes now confused. “You’re not kidding?” She asked and he shook his head slightly.
“How old exactly are you Sess?” She said, testing out the nickname she’d been calling him in his head. He didn’t even seem to notice it as he took her in once more. “Over 800.” He said simply. She felt her mouth pop open and she stared at him, slack jawed.
His face held nothing, his eyes not even showing anything except the soft gaze. “When’s your birthday?” She said, staring at him in wonder. He looked back at her and shook his head. “I was born in spring.” He said as if that was the answer she needed.
Her face held wonder as she looked at the man before her. He looked no older than 32 years old, no wrinkles on his face and his back held high and erect. He dressed well and except for writing texts like he was writing a letter, nothing about him indicated he was older than he appeared.
“My dad never mentions his age. Just tells me I’ve taken years off his life with my ‘wayward actions’” She said, pulling her hands up in air quotes as she spoke. She heard him snort and she could feel him roll his eyes although his face remained impassive.
She continued to study his face before leaning back. “Well I celebrate my birthday and if we’re going to be dating I want to celebrate it with you.” She said sternly and she saw him nod in agreement.
A huge smile broke across her face and she reached out to pat his hand. “I think this is going to be fun, Sess.” She said, her eyes shining at the seemingly blank man in front of her with very soft eyes.
Sesshomaru studied her more, the text to his brother and father burning against his pocket. She was much too young to soul bond now, but the more she spoke the more he was sure. The scent from the previous week now engulfing him and calming his soul, her smile causing his heart to beat erratically in his chest, and her eyes somehow able to understand what he said when he said nothing.
[To: Father & Inuyasha: I have found her. She is human .]