The beginning of love between a lord that supposedly hates humans, and the human woman that has loved him since she laid her eyes on him.

#23. Everybody may look but nobody can see how intense his body holds his desire for her. And sometimes, the great Taiyoukai couldn't help but think if his hunger for her was also as intense as her hunger for him.

After almost losing Rin to death, Sesshomaru agrees to let her travel again with him. Amidst run-ins with wicked humans, scheming demons, and their own personalities, he finds himself inexplicably drawn toward the young woman. Does he dare open his mind to explore this alien sensation, or will pride keep him from considering that all his deepest beliefs are entirely wrong?

One-shot Sess/Rin. Companion story to "Because of You". Rated T for sex references. Rin's pregnancy is giving her some wild mood swings. What could be causing it? What is she going to do? Just a short interlude on Sesshoumaru and Rin's life as they prepare for a major change in their life.

Sesshoumaru/Rin. Set five years after the final events of the Manga. Rated M for sex and language in later chapters. Sesshoumaru hasn't visited Rin for a while. When he is finally driven to visit her, he must confront his decision on if he ever intends on inviting her back to his side. And in what capacity. Rin has to make a choice, what will it be?

AERISEPH. TAs become people over summer and Aeris isn't quite sure how she feels about that. - - - College AU for AU Yeah August.

Life is peaceful in the village where Kagome and Inuyasha live with their friends, but things are shifting. An unexpected question from Sesshomaru to Inuyasha serves as the catalyst for a series of events that will forever change the life of one villager.

Doomed to an existence that neither of them asked for, Aerith and Sephiroth struggle for survival in the bleak desolation of the Northern Crater. Epic and ongoing, rated M for later chapters.

100 Theme Challenge for HopeLight. They're two halves a whole, because after all ...there's no light without a little bit of hope.

He was always her favorite, but time and tragedy have robbed him of his light. Lucky for Prompto, Cindy loves fixing broken things. (Post game, fluff, angst)

-AU- Marinette Dupain-Cheng's life isn't going as planned: twenty-six, recently dumped, and running her parents' bakery. The highlights of her day are the emails sent by her mysterious pen pal, Chat Noir. That is, until handsome model Adrien Agreste starts swinging by the bakery after hours. But how is he to know the Ladybug he loves is standing right in front of him?

Suffering: The state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship. It was such a bland definition when supplied by the dictionary, yet when put to practice, it had the power to make or break someone. In her short twenty years, Esther Blanchett had experienced more suffering than most and yet she still kept her head up and her eyes fixed on God.

His first thought, when he sees her, is that she doesn't remember him. He's sure of it for a moment as she says, "I'm sorry- um, have we met?" But there are tiny flecks of brown in this woman's eyes, and a birthmark that wasn't there before, and she's not wearing her hairpins. She's Orihime, but she's not. "Forgive me," he says, "I mistook you for someone else."

Locked in a cell in Xing, Jae-ha must deal not only with his fresh injuries but also with an old problem: the paralyzing treachery of his own mind. It draws him into memories of one of the darkest moments of his past, but in the present, Yoon and the other dragons need him — and he needs them.

Five times Sesshōmaru actually feels envious over Rin. {Featuring SessRin; implied canon couples. Post-Manga and Asette}.

A single choice can change everything. Lightning sets out to save the people for a new world, but when she accepts the one who destroyed it as her reluctant ally, what was to be quickly comes spectacularly undone. ["what if"/full game rewrite]

Tomoe makes a daring request to his kami. Will she do it? (one shot)

Struck by mixed emotions Tomoe is not feeling like himself. In attempts of gaining back his former youkai self he however finds himself still thinking about the one thing he desired and allowed to slip away.

School, shrine duties, traveling to the underworld, fighting off demons, all seemingly normal in the life of the new Land God. But sometimes one just want some private time to relax. Only Nanami finds out that this time she is going to share her bath with someone that is equally eager for some relaxation. (one shot)

It is their memories that bring them together; but those memories can come with shackles. Older Hope/Lightning. Post-LR.

He took her away…far from the warmth of her sun.

They've survived the war. He's gained a heart. Now Ulquiorra and Orihime get to face their most interesting challenge yet: living together. A series of drabbles and interrelated one-shots in which shenanigans ensue.

It was the body. It was definitely just the body. It was the weak body of a mere human that was making him feel this way, he was sure of it.

The truth will transform you… Drowning in memories, bound to the past, and consumed by mortal regret, the penitent former general seeks the grave and forgiveness of the true mother never known, but not before he fulfills an obligation to the flower girl whose life he once claimed.

Claire first meets their new neighbors when she is seven. OR, that one AU where Lightning fails as the savior and Hope and Snow go back in time to ensure that the future never happens. [Hope/Light, slow-going; tragedy, drama, romance.] BONUS CHAPTER: HOPE ESTHEIM.

The woman who lives down below him is rather… odd. (UlquiHime Modern day AU)

They were always there to save each other from all the different monsters they'd faced over time. Now in the peaceful new world they have to save each other from a different kind of monster: loneliness. – Post Lightning Returns Ending

Post-game AU: Landing on a new and untamed world is far from convenient for Lightning and company. Even in a seemingly godless existence, humanity's flaws persist, some wrongs can never be righted and memories bind them to the past. Hope fears the ties are unbreakable.

Rin never did consider herself a human, despite the fallacy of her birth. Rin's inner thoughts on growing up with a demon, and her changing feelings. Does Sesshomaru accept Rin's humanity? And what would it take to convince her?

She had asked for it after all. He is not one to deny what he is, not even for her...

Sephiroth and Aeris suffer a loss great enough to threaten everything else that lies between them. [Post-Canon/Divergence. Marriageverse]

Sesshomaru returns bearing gifts only to find that his are not the only gifts Rin's been receiving. One-shot.

Knowledge previously unknown to Lightning gives her the ability to defeat Caius in Valhalla, but she must become his immortal companion to stop him for good and he must go with her to New Bodhum. The future is now fraught with unknowns, with a new government and rising tensions between Cocoon and Pulse - made no easier by Caius and Lightning now sharing the Heart of Chaos.

Seven Minutes in Heaven is only fun when you're not twelve, terrified, and tricked into playing with someone you've never met. [AU]

The foundations are set, now all that's left to do is build on them. 'Happily Ever After' is never easy. COMPLETE.

In the aftermath of Abel's resurrection and brief fight with Cain, Esther is left wondering if it was all just another dream or if Abel has truly returned to her. One-shot. Novel Universe. Rated for Abel's lack of clothing. Sequel to I Lived.

He knows what he wants. Now he just needs to get her on the same page. LR, Post-Game.

She hated flying, it was the worst form of transportation yet. But when Rangiku meets a certain grinning stranger that supposedly saves her, she figures maybe this flight won't be as bad as the rest. (Lemon, ginran)

Cloud's mako injection bestowed him with heightened senses: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. Perfect for battle, not so much for home. [CloTi]

Peach blossoms are more beautiful than cherry blossoms. 100 drabbles of Akura-Ou/Nanami.

Sephiroth tries to better understand people by observing Genesis, Zack, and Angeal. Unsurprisingly, it doesn't really help him much. -Nine out of ten dentists agree that you should read this fic!

It's been ten years since Sesshoumaru first left Rin in Kaede's care. Almost eighteen now, Rin has been attracting the romantic attentions of a young man in the village. This has predictably stirred up homicidal tendencies in everybody's favorite Daiyoukai. He finds himself in the unsettling position of having to finally make a decision about Rin's future...and quite possibly, his.

"Nanami's attention snapped to what was happening; she went to push him away, but when Tomoe's hand traveled up to her stomach, she stilled herself. She had wanted him to show affection, had she not? But this sort of affection, was she ready for it? " NanamixTomoe Rated M for later chapters.

When the anger turns into passion, there is little else they can do to remedy it. Rated M for a reason. Caius/Lightning gift-fic.

Ulquiorra/Orihime. AU. They say he's a clinically diagnosed psychopath, but she thinks he just lost something along the way.

Nine years after defeating the Labyrinth, Sarah is in Ireland - a land of old magic, where legend suggests her victory comes with a price and her story is far from finished. Something ancient has been set in motion and Sarah finds herself at the centre of a very old, very Goblin, tradition. As time passes, fruit ripens... Let the feast begin at the Goblin Market.

How one rainy night can change a person's life forever. AU. Zidag.

Free will is but an illusion to him, an ideal that taunts him endlessly and eats away at his sanity. But a single flower, blooming despite the darkness, may just be enough to pull him from the brink of ruin, even if he plucked it for the wrong reasons.

Seymour/Yuna.

A demon who lives on the outskirts of the village has an unusual guest one day: a blind human girl from the town. Being unaware of what and who he is, she stays with him for a time, saying that even though she lost her way and wandered to his home, the next time she came would not be a mistake; he is a lovely person, she says. He almost wants to laugh when she says this. Almost.

Yuffie contemplates what she could do without. And ends up trying to convince herself Vincent is one of them. Yuffentine. After DoC.

In a bid to become closer to his son, and get to know each other, Laguna suggests that they share moments from their past. Reluctantly Squall agrees.

Travelling once again together is not easy for Sesshomaru nor Rin. They both need to get used to the people they have become after so many years apart.

In which Zack does not get to Aeris first, and a General and a flowergirl try to make it work. Sephiroth/Aeris.

Post-Manga. It all began when Rin invites Sesshomaru to a picnic lunch. A collection of challenge drabbles centering around the Sesshomaru/Adult!Rin pairing.

-AU- "You'll always be a whore, just like your mother." Those words had been her undoing. Now years later, amidst the brokenness of her life there came this strange man, asking for what no one else ever had: Her heart. UlquiHime – Dark Fic-

In the thirties, they saw the country by train, working together to stay alive. In the forties, he left her behind to give her a chance at a better life. In the fifties, she's America's biggest star, and he's the journalist that never forgot her. OneShot

100 themes in RanxGin drabbles. They're all vaguely connected, chronologically. Updated DAILY.

They had different paths, but they all led to the same place. -Collection of 30 one-shots focusing on Cloud, Tifa, Denzel, and Marlene- *COMPLETE - Please see A/N on chapter 30*

Chapter 33 is now on. 22,600 hits. T now, M later. The version when Yuna doesn't tell her guardians Seymour murdered Jyscal, and she forces herself to marry him. All characters I.C. When Seymour wants Spira DEAD, and Yuna does NOT.

Byakuya Kuchiki? Seriously? What had she reduced herself to?

-Inupapa x Izayoi- She is broken, he is betrayed, and all they have left is each other. This is not the path they would have chosen for themselves had the fates been kinder. -Renamed from 'Once Upon an Inuyoukai.'-

A princess, a thief, and a look into the building of a tumultuous relationship. Bewarned: lime and swearing. Complete.

She was his life. He was her everything. A collection of Sess/Rin oneshots.

Actions speak louder than words, but without a voice, can the words inside you speak louder than those actions? A tale of unexpected friendship, struggle, love, and everything that goes with it. AerithSeph. Post Meteor, started before AC.

There was something more precious then any power in the world, his perfect family. Sess/olderRin one-shot R&R

A diary causes a bit of a disruption in Tifa's comfortable, carefully laid out plans, resulting in some purposeful and some not so purposeful temptation. Cloti Rated for explicit content in later chapters.

.Complete. Not long after the Wutain War draws to a close, a chance meeting allows two people to realize they aren't as alone as they thought.

Lord Sesshoumaru's gifts always meant the world to Rin. But as she got older, they started to hold a different significance... oneshot

Abel and Esther get used to this whole being married thing. Caterina plays referee for their first spat and Petros gets some interesting insights. Next in the Milk Tea Series. COMPLETE.

Abel returns to Albion after finally having defeated Cain, only to rediscover someone whom he thought he had forgotten. Speculation fic. AbelxEsther oneshot, full series spoilers.

After a battle with Kagura, Rin gives Sesshomaru something completely unexpected.

Esther Blanchett has learnt to look for the ordinary miracles. Abel x Esther. A sidestory or inbetween shortfic in the Milk Tea & Thirteen Sugars series. COMPLETE.

Inspired by Chelsea's Blanket Scenario challenge, Abel is diving deep into the River Denial when it comes to what he feels for a certain redhaired nun. COMPLETE.

Father Nightroad returns from a solo mission on a snowy evening. It always comes as a surprise when someone misses you enough to wait out in the cold... Implied AbelEsther. Oneshot, decidedly silly. Winner: best illustr. short fic, SakuraCon 2007

Life is what happens when you're making other plans. [Sesshoumaru x Rin] ONESHOT, COMPLETE.

A short, sweet look at the resolution of Sesshomaru's familial and emotional shortcomings, brought about by the birth of his first son.

At sixteen, strong willed and beautiful Rin must find her own path. She's quite possibly bitten off more than she can chew. Will Sesshomaru-sama save her in time? SessxRin revised 1/8/09

One-shot, FFIV. "Her mother always criticized the flowers, as if it was Cecil's fault the roses didn't bloom."

.Complete. At the Temple of the Ancients, Aeris decides to face Sephiroth on her own in an attempt to change his ways.