Title: The Path Out of Hell
Author: landofthekwt
Rating PG-13
Prompt: Heat (Issekiwa Week 189)
Genre: Angst
Word Count:250
CU
Warning: Character Death
Summary: Rin dies in Hell, but Sesshoumaru will not accept her death.
She was cold so cold. As frigid as the mountain of dead that she was now destined to join. She had been so warm. So full of life. Her enthusiasm had melted the ice which had surrounded his heart.
His goals, his dreams, his ambitions seemed so empty now. Rin had been sacrificed to train his sword. How could he have been so blind? To exchange her life for such a thing?
Tenseiga was worthless. It was able to kill the Master of Hell and purify the mountain of corpses, but it could not bring back Rin. She was the only thing that mattered to him and she was dead and gone forever.
His tears felt warm upon his cheek, but they could not touch his heart entombed in ice. Tenseiga's light might illuminate the path out of hell, but he was trapped here with Rin forever dead to the world.
If only he had not sought to train his weapon. If only he had not sought out his mother to open the path to Hell. If only he had killed the hell hound before it took Rin into Meidou. If only. If only.
He would not leave her body in Hell. His mother had known that Rin would die if she went into Hell She would know how to revive her. Rin was not a lesson in compassion. She was the being who had sparked the fire in his heart and he would not allow it to be extinguished.