A/n: this will be similar to making a deal with the grim reaper, but it will not be the same.

Ulrich was on cloud nine, he was on his way to meet his girlfriend Yumi for their 3 year anniversary. They met each other during their junior year of high school, when she transferred to his school and when their eyes met they knew they were met to be.

A few months after their first encounter, they began to date the start of senior year, and now they were sophomores in college and loving every minute of it. In fact Ulrich was planning on asking Yumi an important question, and if thins went right she would say yes.

Taking out his cell phone he dialed her number "Hello" said Yumi over the receiver "Hey Yumi I'm be there in a fe…" said Ulrich but his sentence was cut short, in his haste to get to her and the fact that he wasn't looking where he was going, he never noticed the car until it was too late.

"Ulrich? , Ulrich are you there" said Yumi anxiously when the call was cut off she assumed the worst, while she was waiting for him to call her back she heard the sirens of the police. Now normally it wouldn't mean anything to her, but they were heading in the direction Ulrich usually took to the restaurant.

Without thinking she ran in the direction the vehicles went, not long later she saw that the road was blocked off and people were crowding her view. Pushing through the crowd she felt her legs grow weak, Ulrich was lying on the ground with his arms and legs bent awkwardly and there was a huge pool of blood surrounding him.

"ULRICH" shrieked Yumi and would have run to him, but an cop held her back "Stay back this area is roped off " said the cop. "He's my boyfriend, please let me go to him" begged Yumi, but the officer would budge until another cop showed "Let her through, Ryan" said the second officer.

Officer Ryan released his hold on her, and she ran full speed for Ulrich's body. She held his head on her lap as she cried rivers, she didn't let go until the paramedics took him from her. She declined the offer to ride along; instead she called friends to let them know what had happened.

A few feet away stood the ghost of Ulrich; he looked the same way he did at the time of his death. He watched Yumi cradle his corpse while she cried, and he wanted nothing more than to run to her and give her comfort. And he would've too until a hand landed on his shoulder.

When he died, discovered the Grim Reaper standing near him, and told him he was dead. But instead of whisking him away to some afterlife, he waited for a few minutes and when Ulrich asked why he simply pointed and said "her". And that's when Yumi showed up.

"It's time to go" said Death, "How can you watch her suffer like that and not care, don't you have a heart?" asked Ulrich. Death turned to him and said in a 'dead' voice "I do have a heart, ijust forgot how to use, in my job you have to close off your emotions or you go insane from the grief".

When his friends showed and tried to comfort Yumi, the Grim Reaper turned and walked away and told Ulrich to follow. "Where are we going?" asked Ulrich as they continued to walk, "Judgment" said Death as he and Ulrich dissolved into mist.

A few days later the funeral for Ulrich was being held, all his friends and some of his classmates and even some of his teachers showed up. Yumi sat through the entire ceremony silent and stared straight ahead, for the past few days she never uttered a single word.

Her friends were worried at this lack of emotion; they would have felt better if she was constantly crying or breaking things in rage. They were concerned that she might try to do something drastic out of grief.

After the casket for Ulrich was buried everybody left the graveyard, everyone except Yumi and hers and friends who stood a few feet away to give her privacy. When she thought she was alone, she released all the pent up emotion and she cried for him, for the unfairness of it.

What really was the hardest blow for her was the fact that Ulrich possessions that he had at the time of his death was given to her. His journal's last entry said that he was planning to propose to her, and he had the ring with him.

After she had finished her crying she walked away to her friends who tried to comfort her the best they could. But despite everything she never looked back at the headstone.

If she had,she would have seen a cloaked figure emerge from behind a tree.

A/N: well what do you think? Please review so I know how good or bad I did please!

Later.

Signed Lord Jason.