A/N: Hey there. This is my first time at attempting to write anything for the Saiyuki fandom…so, let's hope this might actually be somewhat readable. I've been watching the series for a while now (just the first season. I haven't managed to get ahold of many episodes of Reload or Gunlock), so I know that I'm going to keep things accurate. But this part of the story is after the whole resurrection has been stopped, so just consider this post-series. Confusing, no? Also, it may seem AU, so bear with me. OH! And if you cry, you can blame all the sad music I was listening to.

Sha Gojyo was dead.

That just couldn't seem possible. The thought was unimaginable. It wasn't possible.

There was no way that the tough half-breed who loved women, smoking, and drinking would ever succumb to death. He would never give in so easily and he would never be stupid enough to wait around for death.

So when his best friend, Cho Hakkai, had arrived at her door, looking ashen-faced, his green eyes clouded up with forbidden tears and pain, it took everything she had not to pound on Hakkai's chest and scream in denial.

"I'm sorry Rhianna."

Those three simple words cut through the thick, awkward silence that had drifted between them when Rhianna Reynolds had opened the wooden door of her cottage in the early hours of the morning to find Hakkai standing there.

And just like that, it seemed to the twenty-two year old human, that the world had stopped spinning.

Rhianna Reynolds felt her legs shake and turn to jelly as she quickly crumpled to the floor. Or rather, she would have if Hakkai hadn't rushed forewords and wrap his arms around her waist. She felt the man pull her into him in a sort of comforting embrace—the same way Gojyo would hold her at night—and she felt then as if she just couldn't hold it in anymore.

The tears came slowly, one by one, until it seemed as if someone had opened a flood gate and the tears started flowing quicker and quicker until the woman turned and sobbed hard into the green eyed demon's chest, his arms seeming to wrap around her a little more tightly.

As the woman sobbed, she felt him shift to sit on the floor, and then begin to rock gently back and forth…back and forth…back and forth…

Soft whispers began to mix with the gentle rocking as Rhianna soon found herself ceasing her crying, but never leaving the man's embrace, her cheeks wet with tears, eyes and nose both puffy and pink.

"Rhianna?"

Hakkai's gentle voice drew the woman's attention back onto the situation and she weakly looked up at him. "Yeah?"

The man looked back down at her and she could sense there was something the man wanted to tell her. Something comforting, a message from Gojyo. Whatever it was, she wanted to know what it was.

"Before Gojyo died…he told me to tell you that he loves you…"

Rhianna watched Hakkai, her blue eyes searching his. There was more. "What else did he say?"

A lick of his dry lips. Rhianna knew there was more now. Hakkai would always lick his lips before adding something to the message.

And the following words that were Gojyo's final message to her were words that she would keep in her heart forever. The promise she would hold onto for the rest of her days.

"Gojyo also said that one day he would come home," a hand slid onto Rhianna's rounding belly comfortingly, a small kick greeting the hand. "And that you, him and this baby would be a family again."

A/N: Please review and just tell me what you think of it! If you have something negative to say, please explain how I can improve it! CONSTRUCTIVE criticism is appreciated! Thanks!