Author's Notes: Hi everyone! This is my first attempt at an Inuyasha fan fiction, so please be nice with the reviews. I LIVE on reviews. Here's my motto: LITTLE / NO REVIEWS = NO NEW CHAPTER / DELETE FAN FICTION. You can call it bribe if you want to. By the way, I'm VERY slow to update, so please bear with me. One more thing, if someone did this before (or something like this fan fic) I honestly did not steal this idea from you. It just came to me.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. If I did, then I would be rich by now – which I'm not. :(
Summary: In the future, Sesshoumaru is a wealthy business man. Having been through centuries without Rin, he finds Rin's reincarnation. However, Rin has no memories of her past. How did Rin die in the first place? What happened years ago? Sess/Rin
Title: Fragile Heart
Chapter 1: A New Meeting
It was just like any other day. The sun was rising over the horizon, waking up the world with its brilliant red and orange colors. The city of Tokyo never looked better. The sky was as blue as ever and there wasn't even a dark cloud looming in the sky. Children played around in the grass, while the adults got ready for a new day. Everyone was smiling and laughing, like their lives just couldn't get any better. For Sesshoumaru, however, it was just like any other day.
Sesshoumaru did not see the splendor of Tokyo, while gazing out of his window. His mind was occupied with more troubled thoughts. One would think that time could dull any pain, regrets, or memories. Sesshoumaru had all the time in the world. He had seen many things in his lifetime. Some of the things he had seen are things that we could only see in our dreams…or in our nightmares. But for Sesshoumaru, time could not dull his troubled mind. In fact, time only fueled his pain as wood fuels a growing fire and makes it burn brightly. The immortality, that he possesses and had saved him countless times, was now his curse.
In one section of his lifetime, he was the infamous Lord of the Western Lands. Sesshoumaru was feared by both humans and youkai (demons) alike. He prided himself in his youkai heritage and despised his hanyou (half-demon) brother, Inuyasha. Although many know him as the cold-hearted demon lord, no one knows exactly why he had taken in a human child. The child's name was Rin. As Rin grew older into maturity, she became the most sought after maiden not only in the Western Lands but all over Japan as well. Her beauty was beyond compare, and it was even said that Sesshoumaru himself, although he detested humans, wanted Rin for his mate. At that time, Sesshoumaru was just as equally sought after as Rin, if not more so. However, it could not be proven whether these rumors had any truth in them. For on Rin's eighteenth birthday, she mysteriously died.
Where are you… Rin…
After staring out of the window for what seemed like hours, Sesshoumaru decided to take a walk in the park nearby his mansion. Grass and flowers were everywhere. The fragrant smell of flowers reminded him of Rin. When she was younger, Rin always seemed to pick flowers for him. Before, he dismissed it as the foolish, childish act that it was. He could never imagine himself actually missing the flowers or the child that gave it to him – but he did. For centuries he had waited. He waited for the child to return and give him beautiful flowers. He waited for Rin.
Sighing, Sesshoumaru stopped walking and sat down on a nearby bench. He wanted to come here so he could ease his troubled mind, but all he could think about was Rin. He looked around to see humans and demons coexisting together. Centuries earlier, had someone told the great lord that he would someday live, dress, and eat like a human, and other demons would do the same and even coexist with them, he would have laughed himself into a seizure. Then, he probably would have killed the man's family and friends, tortured the man himself, and cut him up into little pieces for even suggesting such a notion. And now here he was. The scene described was right before his eyes, and he still hasn't laughed or died yet. Most humans don't even know that demons existed. They only talk of them in bed time stories to frighten children who don't go to bed or listen to their elders. Things sure have changed… for the good or bad is still left to be seen.
Coming out of his thoughts, Sesshoumaru noticed that a young woman was standing in front of him. The woman had long, silky, black hair that traveled down to her buttocks. She had brown eyes and long eyelashes that seemed to brush against her high cheekbones. Her lips were red, and she was smiling at him. The sun was behind her, and it almost gave her an ethereal air about her.
She reached down and pulled a red rose from the dozen that she was holding. She presented the rose to him, still smiling.
"Don't look so pained. Today is a beautiful day. The sun is shinning, and there isn't a dark cloud in the sky. Enjoy yourself, and I hope this present will cheer you up."
Mechanically, as if in a trance, Sesshoumaru took the flower. The woman gave him one last, lingering simile and walked down the path. Sesshoumaru looked at the woman until she was out of sight, and then he looked at the flower she gave him.
Red roses mean love…
Yes, today is a beautiful day…
Because I finally found you… Rin…