Common disclaimers on the characters Rin and Sesshomaru, who are intellectual property of the esteemed Takahashi Rumiko-san's InuYasha series. Oh and that I don't own. I'm only a poor college student after all.

Warning! It might get a bit creepy...

Sacrificial,

By Winterwing3000

The room was made of dirt and carved stones. A granite tub sat in the middle on a raised platform. Wooden torches were burning with painted oils. A skylight from above allowed the moon to beam down directly over the tub.

A woman dressed in a plain white robe and had long cascading dark chestnut hair was hunched over the edge of the granite case. Inside, a man with shining silver hair was covered in nothing but a loin cloth across his groin and lay immobile.

"I've never meant to do this," she whispered as she traced her fingers across his cheek. He looked up at her, amber eyes ablaze with fury. "But my master has made me see the errors in my way."

"And even though she has accepted our love after much persuasion," Her fingers paused at his ear as she tilted her head to the sky, reminiscing in past moments. He could see the pain unconsciously enter her eyes. "I have broken the most important rule of our sect and this is the only way that I can repent."

"My dear Sesshomaru," Rin whispered as she seemingly slithered over the edge and arranged herself on top of him. His body was hard and strong and it glistened from the shine of the oil. The silkiness of her robe pooled over his skin and he couldn't help the inward shudder as her breath ghosted over his bare torso. She rested her ear over his pumping heart. "Have I ever told you how much I loved hearing your heart beat? It is such a beautiful sound."

She looked at him under her long lashes as her nails pressed into his skin, leaving an arc of crescents where his heart should be. "I will always carry its sound with me in my memory, because I no longer can see you. No one will."

Sesshomaru hardened his eyes, the only part of his body which he could control as all of his other parts were restrained by a spell. A pout made it across her full pink lips and she sighed, as if distressed by the thought. "It is a pity that I must repent this way, but it is also a way which no one else can have you. We'll be together, forever."

Her eyes appraised his facial appearance, soaking in his body heat as she pulled herself up. Her gown smoothed over his lightly bronzed flesh and it glowed from the moonlight directly overhead. Her head leaned forward so that their noses touched. Their lips were separated by a hair's width.

"My master will be here soon to seal us in this fine casket and we will be watched by the splendid sun god Gnayiat during the day and the magnificent moon goddess Gnaileuy during the night. Our bodies," She licked her lips as her doe eyes darted to his firm mouth. "Will be entwined here and guarded by the stars and clouds, never to be moved. Our flesh will slowly decay so that there will be nothing the white and smooth bones left to remind our future gravediggers of our legend."

Their hearts beat in sync, slightly accelerated from hate from him and thrill from her.

Rin whispered her lips across his forehead then over his brow. "The process will be painful and long. They will pour buckets and buckets of a magical mixture which will slowly lock us into place, starting with our feet and slowly up our bodies until only our faces are left. The weight will bear down on our chests, breaking our ribs and piercing our hearts. We will bleed on the inside and breathe our last words facing the wonderful sky as our witness."

"And our soul, the very essence of our lives will escape into the air and captured by the goddess of death Kuyyad. She will cast us into the cycle of never-reincarnation as we are sinners, betrayers," she uttered with conviction.

Sesshomaru swallowed words of distaste as her words rang true. Rin smiled down at him and ardently pressed her mouth openly against his. He felt her thighs straddle his midsection and her toes brushing against his sides. Her hands pressed down on his chest as she pulled away breathless.

"I will never regret being yours," she told him directly, eyes half-lidded and lips bruised. "Your sacrifice for me is not in vain."

He could hear the shuffling of many feet entering the stone chamber and tall shadows suddenly surrounded the granite casket. He recognized the older woman standing at their feet. She spoke but the words were foreign to his ears.

Rin turned to face her master, dragging the tails of her hair over his face. She returned some words to the woman before settling her weight along the length of his body.

She looked at him one last time and whispered just as the buckets were beginning to tip at the edge.

"Because you will never regret being mine."

NOTES: This is Alternate Universe.

Age is irrelevant I suppose, but they're old enough to be killed.

AN: This one took a little longer to plan, but I'm pretty satisfied with the final results! It was a tad gruesome as I got more into it though, and I apologize for those who became squeamish after reading.

Big thanks for all the support from my readers and reviewers! You guys are awesome!

This is for the LJ Community, 30 kisses, without the underscore. This is from List Alpha, theme #21 (occult).