Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha but this story idea is mine!

I'm back people! Can you believe it? I finally have ideas for my fics. Well this one anyways. Not many ideas though so I'm going to start to end it.

Sesshoumaru could not bear the thought anymore. He had to go see Kairi and be with her, even if it would only be a short time.

I love her. I do and refuse to live in misery. For so long I have lived without happiness. Now I will live with happiness he thought as he leapt silently through the night to the North to leave the beloved Kairi a note on where to meet him. I have been sent a chance at love. I will not let it slip through my fingers he landed softly on Kairi's balcony. Inside was the northern lady sleeping. Sesshoumaru of course would not wake her. Silently he left the folded note near the bed and indulged himself for one moment and kissed her on the forehead (so unlike Sessy huh?) then left as silently and quickly as he came.

Kairi woke suddenly from the dream Sesshoumaru was in her room while she slept. She looked about and there was a note she knew it was from Sesshoumaru because it had his scent all over it and her room smelt of him. She breathed in his scent and opened the note. It read:

Kairi,

I have decided that both of us for too long have we lived doing what is best for others. It is now time to do what is best for us. I will be waiting in the forest bordering both our lands, right in the line of our lands

Sesshoumaru

Kairi gasped and let the note fall to the ground. Her heart in her throat. She smiled and fell back onto the bed her eyes glazed.

I will come she leapt from the bed and changed into a much better kimono and was out the door and racing to see Sesshoumaru. It is now time to do what is best for us rang in her head as she ran. She could smell him and what a wondrous smell it was.

In the distance she could see him and ran all the faster. She was so happy that they would be together let our castles crumble along with our rule she thought.

Sesshoumaru tried to swallow the lump in his throat as he saw Kairi coming. He was having second thoughts but didn't dare humour such thoughts. He knew what he wanted and what he wanted was Kairi. She slowed as she reached him and fell into his embrace; both expected it to be unnatural feeling but it seemed so natural. So right.

"I am glad one of us had the courage to say such a thing," Kairi sighed. Being so close was unusual to both. Neither noticed or cared what once was.

"A time of misery is over," Sesshoumaru answered he didn't want to let her go. All he wanted to do was hold her and make time stop.

A servant walked into Kairi's room looking for her. Some urgent business had come up and she was needed.

"My lady?" the servant asked and walked timidly around the room. The servant found the note on the floor and read it and gasped and rushed out to get the guard.

It did not take long for the guard to find Sesshoumaru and Kairi standing just like they were. Sesshoumaru was first to notice them. He gently released Kairi to bring his hand to the Tokijin. Kairi turned to see what had gotten Sesshoumaru on his guard. She went wide eyed oh no! They found us! She thought. Kairi tried to get the guards to not attack Sesshoumaru but couldn't. They claimed she was bewitched by the evil lord of the west. Sesshoumaru fought hard but in the end lost. He had been captured he let one growl that echoed through the forest.

A guard turned towards the sound and knew it was their lord's hidden cry of defeat. He quickly ran to the nearest bell and rang it. All knew what it meant. Every soldier in the west was soon out of Shiro and ready to die to get their lord back.

Sitting chained in the dungeon was Sesshoumaru. Bloody and beaten and chained by the wrists to the wall. No one listened to Kairi when she ordered them to free him. They merely beat him harder and cursed him for bewitching their ruler. Now he was too weak to even walk without support. I die for love he thought weakly and knew come sunrise he would be dead. Kairi thrashed around in her room, she was locked in and no one would let her out. She cried out the pain of her broken heart as she smelt the scent of Sesshoumaru's blood get stronger.

The soldiers came quicker when they smelt their lord's blood. The guards on the borders of the North had warned the soldiers that the western army was coming to regain their lord.

"Let them come. The west will be easier to conquer when they are gone," the caption of the soldiers laughed. Kairi heard this and knew now their lands and rule would crumble to the ground. Tears fell freely as her cries became silent. In the dungeon Sesshoumaru could smell the soldiers so here comes the cavalry he thought and closed his eyes.

A war broke out and during the battle; Kairi broke free from her gilded prison to get Sesshoumaru. Down the stone steps she ran and got to the dungeon.

"Sesshoumaru," she gasped at the sight of his broken body. Quickly she freed him, "can you walk?"

"Not without help," was his weak reply. With a grunt she pulled his arm over her shoulder and helped him out of the dungeon and to the tops. "You have to go back with the soldiers," she knew this would mean that they would never be together.

"You must come with me," he stumbled as Kairi quicken the pace. It was too fast for someone as injured as him.

Kairi bit her bottom lip, "I can not let my soldiers fight to the death to protect me and I leave with you anyways." Tears fell freely from her eyes. Sesshoumaru smelt the salt and felt his own tears.

"This war will end though. That we must do," he answered. Kairi nodded and walked over to a soldier of the west.

"Do not tell anyone I helped you. If they ask tell them you found him," she told the soldier. The soldier nodded and helped his lord walk outside. Kairi ran off to the rooftops and watched as the western soldiers turned and walked back to the west with Sesshoumaru walking in the front with the aid of two soldiers. "Goodbye my love," tears fell freely from her eyes still as she watched the only man she would ever love limp form her life forever.

Sesshoumaru looked over his shoulder at Kairi and felt the pain knowing that they could never be together I love you he thought but knew she wouldn't get his silent message.

Once back in the west, Sesshoumaru was brought to the infirmary to have a healer tend to his wounds. After his wounds were healed, the west returned to normal, well as normal as it gets when your lord is Sesshoumaru. Suka, Shikobira, and Kiba all watched Sesshoumaru for a while and knew that he was miserable and would be for a long time.

Kairi sat in the garden Sesshoumaru had planted for her and was silent as she sat. No servant dared to go near her while she was in such a state.

"Think she truly loved the western lord?" a servant asked another.

"Doubtful. Westerners are known for trickery," the other answered. Both nodded and walked off. Kairi had heard them but didn't care she loved him and he loved her. Suddenly Kairi got up and walked off to the borders of her lands and there on the other side of the border was Sesshoumaru. Both stared at each other for a while. Sesshoumaru gave her a sad smile and then walked off. Kairi watched him leave and could hear the wind whisper to her:

I love you

"I love you too," she whispered but knew the wind would not carry her message to him.

This is forever both thought as they reminisced about their short time together and the happiness they felt that too will last forever

What'd ya think? I hope you like it. I'm done now but if you people want a sequel I can easily arrange that.