Prologue
"Lord Sesshomaru?"
He sighed. "Yes, Rin?" The young girl gazed up at him with innocent eyes, oddly comforting him.
"Will you bury me when I die?" Squeezing his eyes shut he decided quickly to go with the truth.
"No, Rin." She flinched and he continued, already regretting his decision to be honest, "By the time you have passed, I will have already moved on." Silence met his answer and he snuck a glance at her out of the corner of his eye.
"Oh. Okay then." Standing gracefully, she pulled her kimono straight and walked uncertainly into the deeper forest, never to return.