Disclaimers on everything that I don't own.

Chapitre 1,

By Winterwing3000

A brunette dozed comfortably on her couch. Her hand was hanging limply down the edge and the blue comforter slipped off her body as she rolled over, snuggling deeper into the couch.

BRING! BRING!

Her eyes started, and in haste, she fell off the couch. Grabbing the phone, she pulled it down with her to the ground. Yawning, she answered. "Rin here, who's this?"

There was a husky chuckle before the other person said, "Is that how you always answer the phone Rin?"

Immediately, Rin sat up, smoothing down her tousled hair, a small blush forming on her cheeks. "Inuyasha! Why are you calling me when you should be at work?"

"Did you forget the day of the week or are you still asleep?" he asked wryly. Confused, she glanced over at the calendar on her door and saw that it was Sunday. She giggled, embarrassed.

"Um, yeah. Sorry. So what's up?" Rin stood up and folded her blanket, then headed off to her kitchen.

"Do I need a reason to call my best friend?"

"Well, no. But how many times in my life do you just randomly call me on a Sunday?" she pressed on her coffee machine, watching as the steam steadily rose.

"Plenty of times!" Inuyasha said indignantly. "Anyway, since you're not busy," (he ignored the snort from Rin), "I want to meet me at the park in about 20 minutes. Think you can make it?"

"Uh, sure why not. Wait, this isn't about the prank I pulled on you last week, is it?" she asked him suspiciously.

"Now that you reminded me about it. I was planning on…" Inuyasha started leisurely, until Rin interrupted him. "Ah… I've gotta go and get ready. So I'll see you there, bye!"

Turning off her phone, the brunette sighed.

Inuyasha chortled as he heard the dial tone. Picking up the keys from the table by the door, he looked into the mirror for the second.

His reflection met his gaze. He had long silver hair and shocking amber eyes. The most surprising trait of his was his ears. They were atop of his head, triangular and twitched sensitively. Because of his different appearance, making friends was difficult. However, Rin accepted him easily.

Breathing out heavily, he ran a hand through his hair and pressed a speed dial on his cell.

"Hello?"

"Hey it's me. I'm coming over in like 5 minutes."

"Why?"

"I want to tell someone special about it."

"Oh, sure! I'll see you then, bye Inu!"

"Bye." Inuyasha slipped his cell back into his pocket and headed out to his car.

Rin hummed as she looked from side to side, hoping the catch sight of her best friend. She wore a striped skirt and a green tee-shirt. Her hair was tied into two pig tails, her bangs framing her face.

She checked her watch, making sure that she didn't arrive too early, which she didn't.

BEEP BEEP!

"Huh?" she saw Inuyasha across the street, smirking at her and waved once. Rolling her chocolate eyes, Rin crossed the street and gave him a big hug, which he returned.

"So? What is it that you wanted to show me on this Sunday afternoon?" she looked at him expectantly.

"Um… actually… she's in my car." He thumbed over to the silver Mercedes a few parking spots behind him.

"Oh… well, let's go then!" Rin said with a small smile, a bit worried. Inuyasha offered a hand to her, and she took it. They walked over to his car and someone came out from the passenger seat.

The brunette held her breath and stopped in her tracks when she saw a raven haired girl stepping out, a bit taller than her. She had blue eyes and her curves were accented by her yellow sunflower summer dress.

Inuyasha looked over his shoulder, perplexed at her reaction, but tugged on her arm. "Come on, Rin. Don't tell me you've got cold feet meeting my fiancée."

Rin nearly tripped over her feet and bit back a remark. Fiancée!

They both stopped in front of the girl and Inuyasha detached his hand from hers and wrapped an arm around the other girl's shoulders, pulling her close to his body.

"Rin, I want you to meet Kagome Higurashi. She's my fiancée. Kagome, this is Rin, my best friend ever since I was young." Inuyasha introduced.

Rin's heart and world shattered, breaking into millions of pieces. Her dream of Inuyasha and she being together forever was never going to come true again. He has another in her place. Now… she's nothing. After all these years, she thought that he knew how she felt about him, and thought that he felt the same…

"Hi, nice to meet you Rin! Inuyasha's told me a lot about you." Kagome said, holding out a hand and smiled.

The stunned brunette steeled herself to act normally. Returning the smile, Rin shook her hand. "It is great to meet you too."

"Why don't we all have lunch together? I want to know you better Rin. After all, Inuyasha was thinking about asking you to be the maid of honor in the wedding!" Kagome suggested. "Right Inuyasha?"

"Yeah." He returned, kissing her on the cheek.

Rin bit her lip, holding back her tears when she saw him kiss her. "Um, thanks but maybe another day. I've got a deadline on my newest book to meet and my boss asked me out to a lunch date last week."

That was a complete lie. There was no deadline; she already handed in her latest chapters last week. And she and her boss never got along and would never in a million years. Heck, she'll probably be friends with an alligator first.

Kagome looked disappointed and Inuyasha looked almost doubtful at her words. "I thought you hate your boss." he stated bluntly.

Inwardly, Rin whacked herself. Inuyasha knew practically about every relationship she had in her life, especially about the one with her boss since she ranted about it how much she hated him every other day.

"Well… this one is different. I'm meeting a new publisher! The old one seemed crappy. So, yeah. I'll see you guys some other time! Bye!" she forced another cheerful smile before spinning around on her heels to go in the opposite direction.

"Wait, Rin!" Inuyasha called out. She pretended to miss his call from the traffic and continued walking.

If she stayed another minute there with them, she won't know how much longer she could keep her tears in tact or if she could ever mend her heart. Sniffing, Rin drew out a tissue from her small handbag and turned the corner, went straight home and have a good cry.

Wiping away her tears, she hugged her pillow closer to herself. The clock beside her continued to tick in the quiet room and the lamp flickered on. Turning to her table, she picked up a wrought silver photo frame. A picture of Inuyasha and her from their graduation was behind the glass.

They had so many good times together. Everyone at school and on campus would know the two as inseparable. It was always Inuyasha and Rin or Rin and Inuyasha. No one at school didn't know who they were. During parties, dances, and school funds, they were always together. They even shared the same classes and electives.

Sighing sadly, she set it on her bed then stared at her wall, where there were posters of different female sports players and classics of Broadway. Blinking, an idea came into her mind. If she wasn't here, then she wouldn't have to face Inuyasha and Kagome. She wasn't an "anybody" anymore. Maybe… she could start a new life.

Somewhere else without Inuyasha.

AN: New story! It will have short chapters and a heck of a crazy plot. I'll keep the ending pairings till much later notice, so keep guessing!