Alright, I am back! Here's the update for this at a whopping six pages of hilarity and fluff! Please enjoy! A pairing finally gets together in this chapter!

Alright, first the notes. Sally White owns Linda Mason and Hikari Louisa Faye is based upon me while Nene is based off of my best friend and Akizuki is based off of Nene's real life sister. leshamarieinuyasha owns Chihoro, whom is based off her and I own Toshiro, whom was created for Chihoro's loving boyfriend.

I completely own Hikari, Renaia, and Gerald; and I pretty much own the rights to Nene and Akizuki as characters.

Rin and Hyoma hail from Chaos Wars while Soul, Maka, Kid, Liz, Patty, Tsubaki, and Black Star hail from Soul Eater. Inuyasha and Kagome hail from Inuyasha.

Ooh! And a request oneshot within my story boundaries to whoever can guess why I called this chapter Purest Life!

Enjoy and review!

New Beginnings: The Music in Our Souls

Chapter 9: Purest Life

"INUYASHA! Get up and get ready for school!"

This scream pierced the air of the house where Kagome lived with Inuyasha as well as her parents, her brother, and her cat. It was projected from Kagome and slammed into the dog ears of Inuyasha the hanyou.

"Leave me alone you useless woman!" protested Inuyasha, "That hurt my ears!"

"Well if you had gotten up when I was nice, I wouldn't have had to shatter your ears!"

"You could have at least been nice a second time!"

"I couldn't afford that! We have to really punctual today because Hikari and Miss Blake are holding that meeting today during first class!"

Inuyasha grumbled to himself and finally got up.

Meanwhile, Rin rapped gently but loudly on Hyoma's door before carefully sliding it open and slipping in.

"Hyoma, wake up. I made us breakfast," Rin called softly.

Hyoma jerked and sat straight up, slightly startled before he sighed and rubbed his eyes.

"Nhh…Rin? You made breakfast?"

"Well yeah, of course," Rin giggled.

Hyoma tilted his head, his red hair messily yet cutely ruffled and his reddish brown eyes droopy. A very slight yet hard to notice smile was on his face as he watched Rin smile brightly, her beautiful face just lighting up the room as her purple hair flowed.

"Thanks Rin. Um…I'll be down soon."

"Okay," Rin sighed, her heart jumping way too much.

She slid out the door and walked lightly down the stairs.

Hyoma hummed to himself for a moment as he sat there.

"Huh. I wonder if that's why breakfast has tasted so…sweet lately. I always thought Mom had just started getting way too much of a sweet tooth lately."

As Hyoma was clambering around his room trying to get read, Tsubaki was trying to wake up Black Star.

"Black Star, you need to wake up!"

He just lay there snoring.

"Black Star!"

Suddenly, he snapped awake and jumped up onto his feet.

"Agh! Who dares disturb a god?"

"I do! You need to get ready for school!"

"And I need to tell you something!"

Tsubaki eyed her meister, "What?"

Suddenly, Black Star reddened.

"Um…I, the godly Black Star…."

He couldn't finish….he couldn't do this….Tsubaki tilted her head confusedly.

"I, the godly Black Star….um….commend you! I commend you for waking me up promptly and gracing yourself with my presence so early in the day!"

"Um….okay. See you in the kitchen for breakfast."

Black Star sighed as she left. This was going to be way too hard. Soul would probably win this one. For once, maybe Black Star should admit the defeat…..

Maka yawned as she knocked on Soul's door sleepily, trying to wake him up.

"Maka, I'm already up and ready. Just like you," called a voice from down the hall.

Maka looked over and saw Soul standing there perfectly ready for school like she was.

"Wow, never thought I'd see the day."

"Well, you do enough. I figured I'd get my own lazy butt up."

"That's good. Nice going Soul."

"Thanks Maka. For everything you do."

Maka tilted her head. That was unfamiliar, but very welcomed. A pink blush lit her face as she twiddled one of her pink pigtails shyly.

"Y….you're welcome. Thank you Soul."

"Nope. Today, the cool thank you belongs to you."

Hikari saw four smiles on Rin, Hyoma, Soul, and Maka's faces as they all entered the classroom. Those smiles spoke volumes to her about what was in store since she could also tell nothing had happened. Meanwhile, Black Star couldn't seem to look Tsubaki in the eye and Kagome was seething at Inuyasha. Hikari bumped Linda and pointed it out, sending her cheerful partner in crime into a fit of laughter and smiles. Soon enough, Miss Blake collected them for their meeting in the gymnasium. Since not everyone could do the meeting before school, they settled for during first class.

"Okay everyone, we will be discussing the talk show….which isn't a talk show. It's more of an entertainment show where we'll all just be doing various things to entertain everyone during lunch," Hikari explained.

"Wait, when the hell will we eat lunch?" inquired Inuyasha.

"Everyone will have to pack a lunch and we'll be eating during a meeting we will have before lunch on every entertainment show day, which will be Mondays and Fridays for about a month or two. That will be about twenty entertainment shows or so, unless we decide to prolong it," Miss Blake answered.

She and Hikari were sitting on stools in front of the gym while the others were sitting in chairs before them. Hikari wore a long white skirt and a white tank top with a silky pink cardigan and pink sandals. Miss Black wore a simple black dress and heels. Her hair was in a bun and Hikari's was in a fairly long and very thick simple braid. Both looked so professional that it was scary.

"So, now we have to decide on a host and hostess pair and then decide on some things to do," Hikari completed the thought.

"I, the godly Black Star and my follower would like to be the hosts!"

"We would?" asked Tsubaki nervously.

"Yeah!"

Tsubaki sighed, "Okay."

Hikari smiled, "Any objections?"

No one said a word, so the idea was accepted.

"Yahoo!"

"Okay!"

"Alright, now everyone has to come with what they're doing. It can be a skit or a dance or a comedy routine. It can be anything, just has to be entertaining and school appropriate," Hikari explained, "-you have to let me know your act by Wednesday so I can put together the call list. Later on, there will be one show where we all sit on stools and babble like crazy friends. That should be entertaining. Anyway, just think and good luck!"

The group cheered and they were dismissed from the gym to head back to first class. As the day went on, Hikari and Linda watched their friends until they all had to go home from school. Back at home, Hikari wondered how her dear friends were doing. She didn't know, but she had the most wonderful feeling.

Renaia smiled as she knocked on Gerald's apartment door. She felt happy as always and just ready to hang out with Gerald like she usually did after school.

"Renaia, is that you? Stop knocking and start coming in. You know its fine," Gerald called from behind the door.

Renaia laughed as she entered the apartment and found Gerald in his kitchen cooking dinner. She couldn't comprehend why it would be fine to just walk in, but oh well.

"Hey there. Seriously, just start walking in. I don't mind; you practically live here!"

Renaia giggled, "Okay."

Meanwhile….

"Liz! Patty! Your eyebrows are asymmetrical again!" Kid wailed

Liz and Patty sighed in unison and Liz even facepalmed.

"They are not!" cried Liz.

"Eyebrows are funny!" laughed Patty

"Let me fix them!" protested Kid.

"Oh why me?" Liz asked herself.

"Me too, me too!" cheered Patty

Then finally, later that day, one of the bets was ended. Rin was downstairs singing and cleaning while Hyoma was in his room trying to do homework. His mother wasn't home, leaving the two at home by themselves. Unfortunately, Hyoma could not concentrate and even if he could, this math problem was impossible.

"What the hell kind of freaking math problem is this?" cried Hyoma.

It didn't help that all he could hear was Rin's beautiful singing.

"Watch the morning wind blow by

Take a glance of life's morning dawn

As I smile all the while

And I watch the heart sing of something so beautiful," Rin sang.

It annoyed him that he was enjoying this and it annoyed him more that he couldn't just get this stupid homework done.

"My heart grows under the smiling sun

And I wonder where love is

Maybe if I could just say it

It wouldn't be so far away, so far away."

Hyoma groaned and threw his pencil across the room before throwing his head into his desk. This was such a pain in the hind end and Rin….was actually helping. Hyoma sighed and arose from his chair before heading down the stairs. There she was in a long flowing pink and white dress with long purple hair and shimmering blue eyes, although her bangs covered one of those lovely eyes. She was moving so fluidly as she cleaned that it was like she was dancing, which was unbelievable given just how clumsy Rin really was. But maybe the truth behind how wonderful Rin was is just how she never needs to be so graceful. It's just how smart and how strong she truly is that never ceases to amaze him. He still remembered one time in Endia. When he had asked her a question and she had been all upset, likely because she was starting to feel useless because he had been such a jerk to her at times.

"Hey! I told you I know more than most people!" Rin cried.

He had just asked her how to register his Tower Key in Endia. For the first time, she had answered him without saying 'maybe' and he had laughed about it before telling her that. That had been her response. His response to that?

"I know. I always believed you. Thanks Rin."

"You're….welcome."

And there was that other time, way near the beginning of their adventure in Endia. The group had been talking about being stuck there, but Hyoma wasn't complaining since he was having fun there.

"How can you be so optimistic?" Hayatemaru, Hyoma's friend in Tokyo at the time had demanded.

"What's gotten into you Hyoma? You're acting strange," Shizuku, his other friend had pointed out.

"That's my question. You guys are usually so lighthearted. Why are you being so serious?" asked Hyoma

"We wouldn't be if things were usual. But this is obviously pretty far from usual!" protested Hayate.

Shizuku proceeded to complain about a first person shooter game coming out next week in their world at the time and Hyoma had proceeded to tell her;

"That stupid game can wait until we get back alright?"

"…Hyoma, what's the matter with you? Did you eat something funny?" Hayate inquired

"You know what I ate. I've been eating the same junk you have since yesterday. We don't have anything better to do when we get back do we? So let's at least enjoy what we're doing here…"

And then the truth had come out

"-I'm concerned about Rin too."

Rin popped up and asked the ultimate question.

"What about me?"

Hyoma had quickly reasoned.

"The Luin is after you. We caused trouble for the Kishidan too. They won't be easy to deal with either. If we find a way back and we all leave, can you handle them by yourself?" Hyoma asked

"Are you saying…?" Rin began

"I don't want to feel bad about leaving you on your own. What about you guys? Are you just going to leave her?" he yelled.

After Hiro, Okita, and Uru all admitted that the idea of leaving her behind was immoral and wrong, Rin got to say something.

"Hyoma…thank you…"

He looked away, "It's not about you. I just don't want bad karma in my life."

"But I'm so happy to know that you actually care about me. Thank you so much."

"…Hum."

"See, Hyoma is the man of men!" cheered Hayate

"Are you blushing?" Shizuku asked teasingly.

Of course he was!

"Shut up…."

"Rin? What are you-!"

Hyoma couldn't finish because his first words had proceeded to completely startle Rin. She jumped and stepped sideways. Before she could be warned, Rin's small white foot caught the wire of the stereo and sent her falling into the wall.

"Rin!" Hyoma started laughing, like he usually ended up doing when Rin fell.

At first she was always call him rude but eventually laugh at herself with him. This time was different. Rin was hurt, physically, and very embarrassed.

"Hyoma! Stop, that's so rude!" she cried.

Pain was etched in her voice and Hyoma didn't understand.

"Rin, you've laughed about it before," he stated, still partially laughing.

She leaned back and held her hands over her head and face area, which had hit the wall.

"I've never bled either!" she screamed before standing up and running past Hyoma to the stairs as she sobbed.

Wait…what? Hyoma glanced where she had landed, only to see blood on the wall.

"Rin! Rin, wait!" Hyoma yelped, rushing after her.

In record time, he was at Rin's door just as she slammed it shut and tossed herself into her bed. Hyoma groaned and knocked on her door.

"Rin, come on! I didn't even know you were hurt!"

"Leave me alone!"

Hyoma muttered a choice word and went to the bathroom to get a cold rag. He returned to her door and opened it, letting himself in. In the dark of her white and sky blue room with its accents of light pink, Hyoma could see her buried in her sheets.

"Rin, you're going to get blood on the rest of your face that way."

"As if you care!"

"Who the hell said I didn't? Again, I didn't know!"

"You should have checked first!"

"Well I didn't okay? Now just wash your face and let me look at it. Here, I even brought a rag."

Grumbling, Rin's silhouette sat up and reached behind her, given that her back was to Hyoma. He handed her the rag and she proceeded to wipe her face, her shoulders still shaking with sobs.

"Go ahead and turn on the light," she muttered.

Hyoma turned on the light and Rin faced him, showing the small and very minor cut on her cheek along with the harmless cut above the eye, which was also not a deep wound.

"Aw Rin, they're not that bad. Here, I'll get band-aids," he stated as he headed out the door and to their bathroom, where he collected two band-aids and the disinfectant.

He returned to find Rin crying again. Aw sheesh…..this girl.

"Rin, what's wrong now?"

"I'm sorry…I shouldn't have gotten mad at you."

Hyoma shrugged, "Don't worry about it."

He dabbed disinfectant on her wounds and bandaged both. Smiling, he recapped the disinfectant and laughed.

"There. Now we just have to clean the wall."

"Hyoma…thanks…I…Hyoma, I…."

Hyoma tilted his head as Rin choked up and turned so very red.

"I…love you," she whispered so very softly.

And even in that angel soft voice, the softest voice she had, Hyoma still heard her. His heart jumped into his throat as he smiled back.

"Rin, I love you," he replied.

Rin looked up and saw just how serious he really was as he caught her lips with his.