Sesshomaru looked up at the statue before him. He stared into her once beautiful almond shaped chocolate eyes. The whole through her armor clenched at his cold, stoic heart. His majordomo, Jaken, could not understand why he was always leaving him to care for the ningen girl he took in.

His eyes remained upon her stone ones. "Forgive me my love, I am still looking." He said softly he blew a kiss at her and turned to walk away. He stopped at the mouth of the cave turning back and seeing all the demons she had been fighting upon her death. Again his heart clenched.

He left the cave and flew back to Jaken and Rin. It has been more than seven years since the defeat of the evil hanyou, Naruku. Rin had grown into a beautiful young woman and he knew that men would come to court her. He had grown to love her.