(( I do not own any of the Inuyasha characters, they belong to Rumiko Takahashi and Dante belong to theglassaddiction ))

Zabel, a demon from far away with only death in his mind got an interest in the western lord and jis beloved mate. The lady of the west went to delay his amries while lord got his own troups together, but something went very wrong. Sesshomarus mate died in his absence and this is the story of the soulbond lovers, how his mate Dante watched him wither away to then see her friends fight for their reunion in death.

Chapter 2

It was all quiet.

Except for the soft choking, cries that came from the young girl and female hanyou that hovered over the taiyoukai in her arms.

As his heart had stop beating, he'd returned to his human form.

Dante stood about one meter away from them, looking down into the ground.

{ Why am i here...why do i have to see this...why...}

"He shouldn't had died..."

Dante twitched as she heard the hanyou's sobbing words and she looked at her as she held her mate.

She should be holding him...but it she did, he wouldn't had been there.

" He shouldn't had needed to go insane...he could had lived on..."

She clenched her teeth as she lent over him again, her tears falling down on his cold face.

"If that bitch hadn't taken away every light he still had..."

{ Taken...away..?}

Dante moved slightly forward and kneeled beside them again, not able to look at his face and looked up at Sonny's.

Her eyes were full of sorrow and fury, her eyes not much different than what Sesshomaru's had been a while ago.

But she still had light in them.

Even if it were flickering now.

But then two arms embraced her from behind as her human boyfriend held his arms around her and the flickering weakened.

Sonny leaned back against Akio's chest, sobbing into his shirt.

The half angel raised and took a step back as they all watched him in silence.

"He should lay next to her. His body should be by her side..."

Hiten looked down on the halfling

In the humans arms, his pike feeling heavy of its deed.

"How could we do that? Only Dante knew how to get there..."

"I can."

Everybody turned their heads back at Mizuki, which just had spoken.

"I bring all of us there. I might not be able to take us the straight path as...as she did, but we'll get there"

"...Thats alright...we just need to get him there. He needs her, even if non of their souls are still in their bodies"

The others nodded slightly in agreement to the words that surprisingly come from the ex leader of the band of seven, Bankotsu.

"Yeah...we should get going as soon as we can"

Sonny looked up at Mizuki which nodded at her.

"Yes. Lets leave"

-Dante´s dimension-

The little group of friends stood staring out over the landscape in front of them, eyeing these new lands they have never set their foot in before.

"...Uhm...how do we find them?"

Inuyasha looked frowning back at the others, crossing his arms as he did so.

No one even bothered to care about that look on his face, they were surprised enough that he even pulled his rivalry with his brother aside a much that he willingly followed them to a world only his brother and Rin had seen. So then Rin spoke her first words since her adoptive fathers passing.

"I can show the way...the castle over there is where her family lives. We should find Makoto and..."

The young girl stopped for a bit, the words stuck painfully in her throat.

"...and the other things we seek"

They looked sadly but understanding at her as she spoke, nodding at the meaning at her words.

The young girl was now parentless once again.

The four females, Mizuki, Sonny, Kagome and Sango joined her side as they walked towards the castle in the distance, speaking softly to the depressed girl between them.

The guys followed tightly after, Bankotsu carrying his cold friend in his arms, not knowing that this whole thing still was observed by the pained soul which belonged to the once powerful youkai's mate.

She kept following them.

She felt that she had to.

She couldnt leave him.

She never would.

Dante followed the mourning train of youkai, hanyou's, angels and humans as they closed in to the castle grounds, but she kept her distance.

{ I wonder...what the'll do..}

She saw Sonny speak low to the gate keeper and he showed them the way in.

One of them even guided them inside.

She looked suprised at their easy entry, they even let the fighters keep their weapons. She couldnt help but wonder what excuse she used to get in.

It usually doesnt be that easy and that their got to keep their weapons?

That was odd.

Maybe they just said the truth.

Her engagement and marriage must be known by the people by now...

And her death.

She ran past the gate, right before the guards unseeing eyes as she closed in to the group she had followed.

She stopped running as she arrived close to them, now staying by the right side of Bankotsu as Mizuki had occupied his left.

She reached out for Sesshomaru's pale skin again, trying to focus her mind into her palm as it would be able to touch him if she did.

But to her big disappointment the same as before happened and she looked pained away and focused on the path before them.

They were now led through the castle gates and entered the main part of the castle, which was a big throne they were asked to stay asa servant ran to get the the his mistress, leaving the group in the middle of the hall. Some people which had already been in the room look weirdly at them and slightly frightened and horrified as they saw the corpse which was in Bankotsu's arms.

They probably couldn't see him clearly, but Dante saw that some recognized the pattern of the sleeve that where hanging in their view. Those people turned quickly around and sneaked away, probably to tell everyone the latest gossip.

That their passed princess mate now was dead as well.

She observed the servants different actions for a moment but were soon distracted by a movement in the corner of her large doors in the end opened and the lady of this castle strode in, followed by two servants.

Or more like guards.

She didnt trust her visitors at all. But it was neither her mother or the tall and muscular servants beside her that caught her daughters attention. In Belle's arms, where a little bundle of cloths and blankets and you could see that something tried to crawl out of it, trying to get into sight.

Soon a head popped out and two teal eyes looked at the newcomers, his magenta stripes and navy blue crescent moon shining against his pale skin and his silver hair is all messy because of his fluffy prison.

It was Makoto.

Makoto smiled as he recognized the scents and people before him and he struggled to reach out for them, but then he stopped.

He'd found another scent...

A scent that was wrong.

He started moving again, even moree this time, whimpering as he struggled to get to him, to the one which scent was wrong.

He needed to get to him.

The young pup couldn't tell what was wrong, why he didnt go to get him.

Why he didnt move as he lay in one of the humans arms?

The young inu started crying, stretching his hand out towards his father.

Makoto didnt know death.

But he knew how his mother had scented before she disappeared.

And now his father scented the same way.

He wanted to be in his strong, warm arms so badly, he had missed him ever since his granny had taken him away.

He hadn't wanted to go.

He hadn't wanted to leave his father, with that pained and crushed expression in his face as the woman that looked like his mother took him away from him.

And now he would disappear, just like his mother.

Makoto transformed and jumped out of the arms of an surprised god and flew towards Bankotsu which observed the pup calmly, but his eyes were kind of glossy as he did.

Makoto looked confused at him, not knowing why he acted like this and the request in his red eyes obviously were understood by the human.

He kneeled down towards the floor and carefully laid Sesshomaru down and Makoto landed softly next to him. He tripped towards hi fathers face, sniffing softly as he whined, trying to get an response.

Nothing.

As nothing happened did he buff his nose against his cheek.

He flickered slightly.

How cold it was.

He whined again as he licked his cheek gently.

Nothing happened now either.

Tears fell from the pups eyes as he leant his small head on the still chest that he'd rested close to so many times before, but which now had no beat inside it.

Somehow he knew, even though no one explained it to him.

His father were gone.