(A.N: And so, here is the 6th glorious chapter. first order of buisness. I apologize if there are any big spelling mistakes or gramatical errors in my fanfic. The Word program on my laptop doesn't have spell check ;, usually i can catch errors, but with exams coming up and everything I tend to bypass most of the obvious ones. (lol, this update took so long that my exams have been over for ages...-) Second order of buisness, this is the chapter (but mostly in the next cause I just really want to update) where everything will start to pick up, the plot will be developed along with the conflict (oh don't sigh, there has to be one somewhere). Oh btw, there will be some kagome bashing in this chapter and possibly in future chapters. I really just don't like her -. Thank you very much for all your support. More reviews equals faster updates, so keep on reviewing :P. And on to the story.) ( I'm also very very sorry for how long this update has taken. I've been working on finishing my novel over on fictionpress so I havn't gotten a chance to actually write more of this fanfic. but because my novel is winding down for the time being I finally have time -)

Five hundred, nineteen years and counting. Every single year, meaninglesly added to an equally meaningless life. Boring and bleak, every single day the same. The only interesting thing that has happened in these excruciatingly long years, was when I one day by chance, stumbled across Inuyasha and his mate. I had always known that he had chosen to become a human and go back to her time to be with her, but I never once imagined that i would meet up with him again.

As I think about Inuyasha and his newfound life, I can feel an incurable bout of envy, uncurling in my gut. Unlike myself, he had been allowed to skip past the last five hundred years. The years that I had to suffer through, watching with every century, humans taking over nation after nation, country after country, now in full possession of the entire world. My contempt for humans in general only grew when they proceded to push demons of the map completly. They no longer hunted us down, which I suppose was a nice change, but instead they chose to refuse that we even exist. I was forced to hide my demon abilities, and change my records every now and then, so that the state wouldn't become suspicios of a never aging person who simply refuses to die. Demons weren't respected anymore, infact the majority of the human race didn't even believe that we existed. To them, Demons were nothing more than a fantasy, something awe inspiring and deadly at the same time. I became a shadow of what I once was. I hated it.

Of course, I still missed my love. I missed Rin every day of my life. Every year, on the day of her death, I would go back to the place that she was buried, which now resided in a rather desolated park. Years and years ago, I created a small company of sorts. It delt with nothing in perticular, and yet everything at the same time. With time it started to grow, fast becoming one of the most succesfull and promising companies in Japan. Every few decades, I would write up a will, allowing my next identity to inherit the company and all it's profits. After all this time, it was childs play for me to purchase the park in which Rin lay, when the government was preparing to tear it down and build strip malls and other such vulgarities in it's place. They were far more pleased at my offer for it, and immediatly signed the property over to me. I had a marble angel built to serve as a grave stone for Rin. Her name had been carved at the base that the angel stood on. However, to this day the land still remains a public park, even though very few people choose to pass through it. I knew Rin would want it that way. She had always been a people person. Quick to make friends and quick to please.

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After I had been re-aquainted with my long lost younger brother and his recently made wife, the two had begun to insist that I drop by on a nearly daily basis, and if i couldn't make it to them, they would come to me. On these such visits, Kagome would often appear in my office at any time of the day that pleased her, carrying containers of food, that she insisted I eat with them, dragging Inuyasha along behind her. Although Inuyasha's disposition hadn't seemed to change one bit throughout all the years that he had been absent, I could tell, if i listened and watched very closly, that he no longer held as much contempt and hostility towards me as he used to. This pleased me, more than I wanted it to.

"Good morning Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha and I thought we should bring you some food. I know how terrible your diet can be, and besides, even you need a bit of company sometimes." I sighed internally and prepared myself for the next two to four hours of insistant blabbing from the most annoying female on the planet. I could feel eyes on me, and turned just in time to see Inyasha giving me an apologetic look and shrugging his shoulders. I was greatful to him for this and a slight nod in return. Lucky for the both of us, Kagome was so caught up in whatever it was she was saying that she didn't see the exchange. Had she seen us, we would have cirtainly been in for the most annoying emotion she posessed, coincidentally for this short tempered girl, it was her anger.

And so the next two and a half hours passed by excruciatingly slow, each tick of the clock grating ever so slightly on my already frazzled nerves. I really just wanted nothing more at this moment than for her to just leave. I don't remember hating even Naraku, who betrayed me and threatened Rin several times, this much.

Luckily after about an hour of her insistant blabbering, Kagome's cell phone blared into life. After a couple of minutes of neverending discussion on her part, she finally hung up and closed the phone with a snap, turning to face us at the same time.

"I'm terribly sorry Sesshoumaru, but I have to go now. I have a previous engagement that I completely forgot about." Why was I not surprised?

"Inuyasha are you coming." She asked in that nazaly voice of hers as she faced him, hand on hip and a slightly irritated expression on her face.

"No, actually I think I'm gunna stay here for a while." I blinked a few times in surprise and resisted the urge to pinch myself to make sure that I was indeed awake.

"What? Are you serious?" She nearly sscreached.

"There's food here." We both knew that this was a lie. Kagome's food was in no way up to either of our standards. She just wasn't a very good cook.

"Um...ok then, bye guys." She waved hesitantly before giving up and simply leaving. Meanwhile, I waited for Inuyasha's evident excuse for his choice to stay with me of all people. He may not hate me but as far as I knew, I wasn't yet on his list of favorite people.

Eventually...after a few moments of rather uncomfortable silence, I decided to break the trend and ask him the obvious.

"Ok Inuyasha, any particular reason you decided that you suddenly desired my company above your wife's?" I waited, but no scathing response followed. I looked over at him, curious, only to find him staring back with a somber expression on his face.

"Inuyasha?" I was becoming quite concerned, and nervous. I didn't know how to respond to him when he wasn't looking for a fight.

"I'm sorry." He said so quietly that had I been a human I would have missed it.

"...For what? I don't understand." I was thoroughly confused. He had never in my hundreds of years of knowing him, acted like this.

"I went to the park yesterday...the one where we burried Rin."

"...Oh." Was my intelligent reply.

"...I just wanted you to know that...even though we've never really gotten along, I'm still around if you ever need someone to talk to. I'm your brother after all...thats what I'm here for." The corner of his mouth twitched upwards into a small smile. He stood slowly, and moved until he was standing more or less in front of me. I had lowered my head at some point, so I couldn't see him, but I knew that he was there.

He placed his hand on my left shoulder, patting me gently before moving gthe limb back to rest at his side. At this point I did return his gaze, offering my own small smile.

"Thanks...I might take you up on that offer sometime."

After Inuyasha had left, I decided that it was time to pay my Rin another visit. I left all of my files and whatever I had been working on, where the were, opting only to lock my office door behind me as I left. It was getting colder out every day. I remebered a time, before I had ever met Rin, when the cold never bothered me. In fact, I never even noticed it. However when Rin came storming into my life all sunshine and light, the cold suddenly became an issue for me. She possessed so much warmth at all times that it soon had me craving the feeling. When she was gone, everything reverted back to being cold. I couldn't take the cold any longer.

As I neared her burial place, I took a short detour to a flower shop. The least I could do was buy her some flowers to shed some light on her eternal home. The price for a single bouquet of roses seemed to be unbearable high as of late, however I suppose that nothing was to good for my Rin.

Sooner rather then later, I found myself standing at the foot of the monument that marked Rin's grave site. I laid the bouquet at the marble angels feet in a sort of offering to my love. I was glad that the park was empty today, for I preferred to be alone with her. Or so I thought that I was alone.

"Oh, I'm sorry, excuse me." A soft feminen voice sounded from somewhere behind me.

"Sorry for what?" I asked as I begane to turn towards her.

"I...I just bumped into you." I hadn't even noticed that she had done that.

At this point I had turned to face her, but I had yet to actually look at her.

"oh...um...thats alright, don't worry about it." Even though I couldn't remember the act, I figured I might as well let her off the hook anyways. Besides, she had such a familiar sounding voice and comforting aura, that I couldn't let her go without making sure that I had assured her that she whouldn't be sorry. At this point I finally chose to look at her. And almost had a heart attack.

"Rin?"