AN: I know my chapters are getting really short but I promise that the next one will be long. They are not dead, I wouldn't kill off this most perfect couple... Sesshoumaru has turned into a real softie, I know, but he's in love. When he's in love I think he turns into a big fluffy puppy (laughs evilly.) THANK YOU ALL! I'm so happy to see that so many people who love this story, thank you again for reading and hanging on through my long absence when I was semi-insane from adjusting to college, thanks too for wishing me luck! (you know who you are!) Forgive I'm rambling on with the chapter...

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"Nothing in the earth or heavens could seperate us"

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Her eyes stung with cooling tears as fog was whispering around her face, the heavy hair filling her lungs with nothing but lead. Rin sat up her hand coming to her chest, feeling that her wound no longer bled, but remained gaping without pain. She sat up as a fierce wind blew the rest of the fog away revealing the splendor of Sesshoumaru's mansion… But it was different, there was something about everything around her that was eerily wrong. Laughter made her spin, she was standing at the edge of a square, that was made of smooth polished marble. People were milling all around dressed in luxurious yukatas and kimonos, chatty happily. Among the people were human like demons and strange beasts. Rin's grip over the hole in her chest tightened, seeing how the humans weren't afraid of the demons. Feeling her head spin Rin turned around to see that beneath a blooming tree was a red painted bench. There sat Sesshoumaru, looking younger then she had ever seen him.

To her Sesshoumaru looked about her age, but then he was also much, much older then Rin would ever live to be… Slowly she drew closer, finding that he was brushing his long hair which fell in a great curtain over his slender body. A large mirror rested on his lap, his yukata made of the finest velvet draped loosely around his shoulders

"Please stop staring at me young lady" he said loudly, turning to where she hid near one of the large columns. Rin made a noise stepped out and bowed lightly.

"Sumimasen" " she muttered bowing, he motioned her over where she gingerly sat next to him.

"Have you come here with your parents?" Sesshoumaru began putting his brush down and staring at her with piercing golden eyes.

"N-no my parents died a long time ago" Rin replied her hand drifting away from the hole in her chest. For a moment a look of shock registered on Sesshoumaru's face, but quickly it faded. He looked away from her, his eyes tracing the lines of his father's mansion.

"I'm sorry for your loss" he replied after a time, reaching out he touched her face. Brushing back the strands of hair from her eyes

"This can't be real, this world hasn't existed since I was a child… And you…" Rin felt the tears pouring down her face, hiding her face in his hand. Tears gathering in his palm.

"I-don't want you to die, if you die I will break" Rin cried out her whole body wracked with sobs. Sesshoumaru pulled her into his arms,

Rin could feel Sesshoumaru changing and when she looked up, no longer did he have the sweet innocent face of a teenager but the cool features she had seen unchanged for so many years.

"Sesshoumaru-sama, I still have the Shikon jewel, it is keeping me alive… I can use it's power to save you. Like I restored your arm…"

"But you might truly die" he whispered into her ear,

Rin smiled as a warm pink light began to fill the space between their two bodies…

"Don't worry everything will be all right…."

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The smell of sakura and forget-me-nots was the first sense that woke him, Sesshoumaru opened his eyes to see the fading sky had turned to pink. He sat up feeling a presence beside him and focusing on the small warmth found it was Rin lying face down in the flowers. Sesshoumaru turned her over and pressed his fingers to her neck, a soft pulse beat steady and strong. The wounds they both received were gone… Leaning over he felt a quiet joy well up in him as he kissed her lips, there was a gasp and Rin opened her eyes.

He sat back gazing down at her with an amused smile, she sat up the blue flowers falling out of her hair. The Shikon Jewel was clutched between her fingertips, opening her hand Rin revealed the pure shine of the shard. Her eyes were sparkling in it's light

"This dreaded thing saved us Sesshoumaru" she whispered looking into his eyes, Sesshoumaru nodded thinking of how he had almost stayed in that dream world. The world that had faded with his father's death…

"You are my life, you were the only reason why I chose not to leave this world. Because you are the last of my family, little orphan Rin"

"I'm not an orphan anymore" she replied softly, holding back the tears that threatened, her mind was numb and overloaded. He was saying such beautiful things, things that she had only heard him say in her dreams. This was bliss, this moment, a moment after their supposed deaths…

"What am I supposed to do with this?" Rin began slowly, not wanting to break this moment where his long fingers brushed her face. His golden eyes filled with adoration,

"Keep it, with it you shall never know death my dear."

Rin laughed… Closing her hand with a very light feeling in her heart, she knew that from now on there was nothing in all of heaven or hell that would separate her from Sesshoumaru…

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It was around three weeks after the mysterious disappearance of Kagura the Mistress of the Wind when Sesshoumaru's eyes flew open, it was nearly midnight and the sky was cloudless. Thousands of diamonds glittered in the heavens casting a light that was almost as clear as the early morning. He sat up, all traces of his restful sleep gone. A sweet extremely familiar scent lingered in the air…

"Sesshoumaru-sama?" there was a meek whisper

"What's wrong Rin?" he began almost patronizingly, now that the contract was over…. He felt very mischievous indeed and wanted nothing more then to play with her mind…

"Jaken did a bad thing today" she muttered, he could hear her twisting the sleeves of her sleeping garments.

Sesshoumaru ever smooth and silky as ever parted his lips to ask, when the sight of a pink jelly stained jar rolled into the ray of starlight.

His eyes widened slightly, when he heard that tiny voice answer "He spiked your whole dinner with the aphrodisiac."