Disclaimer: I'm not Rumiko Takahashi
Sango sighed as she sat alone in her bed. Tonight she couldn't sleep and tomorrow she had a big exam that she so desperately needed to pass. It was dark and she was the only one in her college dorm. Everyone else was out partying and having a good time. Sango rubbed what sleep was in her eyes out and got out of her make-shift bed.
She walked through the dorm and looked around. For being a women's' dorm, it was quite messy, though Sango never complained. She was quite used to it. Yawning, Sango walked into the small kitchen to get herself something to eat. She opened the fridge to find...nothing.
"Damn it...", Sango growled and closed the fridge.
Sango liked her room mates and was good friends with them, but some times, they could be real pigs! The mess was fine, but the fact that they eat all the food was not fine! With a slight whine, Sango stumbled to the phone and picked it up. She glanced at the clock and groaned. Most food services were closed by this time of night, but Sango was desperate and needed something to eat. She sat on the ground next to the phone.
Opening a phone book and searching through the yellow pages, Sango dialed the number of most food services that sounded good to her. Well, she was unfortunate, for none of the food services were open. Ah, but one caught her eye late said specifically in their ad that they were open at this time of night. With her tongue hanging out of her mouth, Sango dialed the number, but accidentally misplaced one number with a different one...
"Hello. You've reached the youkai hot line. We are sending a recruit to you at this very moment. Have a good day!", said the voice on the other end.
Sango held the phone and was confused. She hung the phone up and looked at the ad, then she remembered the message. Ad. Message. Ad. Message. Sango shook her head and put the wireless phone back on the receiver.
'I must be losing my mind from lack of food...', she thought and started walking back to bed when she suddenly heard a soothing and deep voice close behind her, almost in her ear.
"You called?", the voice asked.
Sango froze. She gulped and slowly, she turned around to see a silver-haired, golden-eyed man wearing some sort of red clothing standing behind her. She stared in confusion then started to laugh nervously.
'This must be another joke the girls are pulling on me...', she thought as she looked at the silver-haired intruder.
"Oh, I'm no joke. Unless you consider prank calling a wish-giving hot line a joke.", the man retorted.
"Wait. How did you...", Sango began, but was then cut short.
"You want your wish or not?", he asked, crossing his arms over his chest.
"What's your name?"
"Why do you want to know? I'm just gonna be gone when you make your wish. Now hurry up so I can go home."
Sango snorted. This was either a joke or a dream. So, Sango couldn't resist but to comply.
"Okay then. I wish I had a man like you to stay with me forever...", Sango wished.
The man looked at her with a look that meant 'you're kidding, right?', but he couldn't do anything about it. The man started to glow a light blue and started to float in the air. He put his hands together as if he were praying as his eyes glowed red. I light blue beam burst through the roof and onto the man. After that, he stopped glowing and floating, stumbling and falling, his head landing in Sango's lap.
Sango was stunned. She then realized that this was no joke at all. Naturally, Sango hand rested on the man's head and started petting him like a dog. She looked down at him and noticed he was asleep. It was not even a few moments later that he woke up, his eyes opening slowly. He looked up at Sango, a small blush tingling on his cheeks.
"T-That was no joke was it?", Sango asked.
The man sat up, looked away and scratched the back of his neck.
"Umm... No, it wasn't.", he answered.
Sango stared him for a long moment before smiling nervously.
"So... What's your name, anyway?", she asked.
"The name's Inu-yasha. And let me guess, your name's Sango, right?"
Sango's eyes grew wide, but before she could do anything, four girls slammed their way through the front door, laughing and snorting. They walked into the main room and frowned.
"What the hell is going on here?", Kagura asked, putting her hands on her hips.
"Sango-chan... Is that... A man?", Kagome asked, looking over Kagura's shoulder.
"He's kinda cute, but not my type...", Kikyo retorted.
"Hey! It's a man! Men aren't aloud in a women's' dorm!", Ayame pointed out.
Sango gulped. Inu-yasha stared in confusion.
"Sango, you know the rules. There are no men aloud here.", Kikyo told, waving a finger at Sango.
"But! I can explain!", Sango stood up on her feet and waved her hands around, trying to explain what happened.
Inu-yasha stared at the back end of the girl. What she was wearing got his attention. She was wearing a really short night gown. Hell, it wasn't even a night gown! It was a big, baggy shirt! Inu-yasha sniffed it from a distance and noted that it used to belong to a man.
"Sorry, Sango. But the rules clearly state that any woman who brings a man here will be kicked out!", Kikyo, stated, a little harsher than she meant.
The next thing Sango knew was that she was kicked out onto the small front porch, a box of a few of her belongings was with her, along with Inu-yasha, of course. Kagome stepped out while the other girls went inside.
"Sorry about this Sango-chan. Good luck... I guess...", with that, Kagome turned and walked inside when she heard Kagura call her name.
Sango sighed with frustration and picked up her box of things. She slipped on her sandals and huffed. The girl took in a deep breath, let it out slowly and turned away from the dorm, walking off the porch. Inu-yasha followed after her.
"Hey... Are you alright...?", he asked, trying to be as sympathetic as he could.
"Yes! I'm fine!", Sango snapped.
She sighed and walked up to her motorcycle. She closed her box and put in the small storage unit on wheels that was attached to her vehicle. Thank the gods it was a warm summer night! Sango looked back at Inu-yasha and sighed.
"You can't stay here... Come with me, I know where we can stay..."
Inu-yasha stared at the bike with confusion as Sango got on. He raised a brow and looked at Sango.
"Well...?", Sango looked at him.
"Uh... What is that thing?", Inu-yasha asked, walking up to it and poking at a tire with one of his clawed fingers.
"It's called a motorcycle. Now hop on! I need to get sleep for my exam tomorrow!", Sango demanded.
Inu-yasha gulped and quickly complied. He hopped on this 'motorcycle' and wrapped his arms around Sango's waist. Sango growled slightly.
"And watch the hands! I really don't feel like hitting you...", she grumbled and drove off into the night.
OOO
Light pierced his eye lids and made him groan and wake up. Inu-yasha's eyes fluttered open and he looked around the room. He was in a bed that was only made up of a few blankets in a room that was hardly furnished. From the looks of it, Inu-yasha guessed it was some sort of temple.
"I see you've woken up...", I masculine voice said from another end of the room.
Inu-yasha's ears twitched. He sat up and looked over at the man. He looked about Sango's age and had violet eyes. His short hair was pulled back into a small pony tail. He was reading some sort of manga and didn't even look up at Inu-yasha.
"Where's Sango? Is she okay?", Inu-yasha asked, almost desperately.
The man only smirked.
"She's fine... She's just at school taking her final exams, that's all. There's no need to worry. By the way, your clothes are being washed, so you're borrowing a pair of my pants."
Inu-yasha looked down. Indeed, his clothes were gone. He sighed and looked over at the man again. He silently crawled over to the guy and sat in front of him, putting his body weight on his knuckles and the balls of his feet.
"Who are you?", Inu-yasha suddenly asked.
The man almost jumped out of his skin, he was so startled. He looked at Inu-yasha with a smirk.
"Why, I'm Miroku. I'm a good friend of Sango's. She told me all about you..."
Inu-yasha grew a little nervous at this.
"Oh, she did?", he asked with a suspicious look.
"Oh yes... She said you were a guy from France or something... A body guard that her parents sent to protect her from danger. Which I don't understand, considering she doesn't need a body guard..."
Inu-yasha fell over as a response to the ridiculous excuse for why Sango and he were together.
"Hey, man, are you okay?", Miroku asked, looking away from his manga and at Inu-yasha.
"I'm fine... I'm just curious... How'd I get here? I don't remember a thing...", Inu-yasha sat on his knuckles and toes again.
"Sango carried you in here. You must've fallen asleep...", Miroku answered, looking back at his manga.
"So, where exactly are you from, Inu-yasha? ... Inu-yasha?", Miroku looked up from his manga to his Inu-yasha left the room, strangely being as quiet as a mouse.
OOO
Inu-yasha walked into the kitchen. Miroku's black pants fit his form pretty well, actually. He wasn't quite used to the human-modified clothes yet, but he knew he would eventually. Inu-yasha perked up and searched through the many cupboards for food.
"What are you looking for?", asked Miroku from behind Inu-yasha.
His ears noticeably perked up and he looked back at Miroku.
"Food.", he answered simply, then got weird stares from Miroku.
"What are you? I know for sure you can't be human. I mean the hair and the eyes and the ears, they're just not human..."
Inu-yasha was about to reply when the monstrous noise of a motorcycle could be heard from outside. Both of the boys rushed to the door. Once outside, both jaws dropped when they saw Sango get off the motor bike, excited by something.
"I passed! I passed!", she exclaimed, running up to the two boys.
"That's great Sango!", Miroku exclaimed as the two of them hugged.
Inu-yasha rolled his eyes at the two then snarled slightly when he saw Miroku reach down and cop a feel. He then smirked when he heard Sango growl and then slap the pervert. Miroku only laughed and rubbed at the new hand print.
"Hey, how'd you sleep?", Sango asked Inu-yasha with a soft smile.
"I...uh...can we talk?", Inu-yasha asked and yanked Sango into the house.
"Inu-yasha, what's wrong?"
Inu-yasha walked into the room he woke up in and closed the door, putting his ear to it and listening for Miroku. When he heard that the coast was clear, he looked back at Sango.
"Listen, we need to keep the fact that I'm a youkai a secret, okay?"
"You're a youkai?", Sango asked.
"Yes! And I gave you one wish! That's my job! Now that you made your wish, we need to keep the fact that I'm a youkai a secret, okay?", Inu-yasha asked, gripping Sango's shoulders and shaking her a bit to get his point through.
"Yes, yes, I get it. I haven't told anyone though... Miroku asked and I had to give him an excuse..."
"So you told him that I was a French body guard?"
"Yes..."
There was a moment of silence. Inu-yasha let go of Sango and turned his back on her. He shook his head and wasn't sure what to do about this.
"Why'd you make that wish?", Inu-yasha suddenly asked, but was calm and serious about it.
Sango was silent at first but then answered,
"Because I thought it was a joke..."
"So you made the wish because you thought it was a joke? That sounds quite ridiculous to me..."
"Of course it does! That's because you're a man! And men never understand how women feel!", Sango suddenly burst out.
Inu-yasha turned to look at her and saw that she was starting to cry. She fell to her knees on the wooden floor and silently wept. Inu-yasha kneeled in front of her.
'Damn it! I hate seeing women cry!', he cursed.
Then he did something that he wasn't aloud to do. He took Sango in his arms and held her closely to him.
"I'm sorry Sango... Please don't cry...", he whispered in her ear.
She calmed down but then blushed a deep shade of red. She hadn't been held so nicely before and she liked being held without the possibility of being groped. She closed her eyes and leaned into his warmth.
"Oh, Inu-yasha...", she whispered before the bedroom door suddenly opened.
"Inu-yasha, your clothes...are...done...", Miroku informed before slowing his speech at the scene.
Inu-yasha's ears perked up. He looked up at Miroku with a slight blush before looking down at Sango. She detected someone in the room and reluctantly departed from Inu-yasha.
"Did I interrupt something?", Miroku asked, tossing Inu-yasha's clothes at him.
"Uh... No! Not at all!", Sango tried to assure.
She turned to a confused Inu-yasha with a look of slight worry.
"Why don't you get dressed Inu-yasha? I'll be in the kitchen making you guys some breakfast...", Sango excused herself from the room quickly.
Miroku turned to Inu-yasha and smirked. Inu-yasha turned away from him and took off Miroku's pants, slipping on his more comfortable ones, before putting his under kimono and outer red haori on.
"Quite the ancient clothes you got there... Tell me, what are you? I am no fool. I know you're not human...", Miroku questioned, walking over and picking up his pants, folding them and throwing them in a corner of the room.
"Feh. Like I'd tell you!", Inu-yasha snorted and sat down next to the window.
"I won't leave you alone about this, Inu-yasha. Unless you want me to squeeze it out of Sango..."
"Keh! Doesn't matter to me!"
"Poor, poor Inu-yasha..."
"Stop it!"
"Stop what?"
"Doing that! I demand you to stop it!"
"Or else what? You'll destroy me?", Miroku retorted.
Inu-yasha stood on his feet.
"Like Hell, I would!", he argued back, cracking his knuckles.
Miroku sighed.
"You're obviously not human. Just tell me what you are and I speak of it anymore..."
"Of course I'm not human! An idiot could figure that out!"
"Then what are you?"
"It's supposed to be a secret..."
"I can keep secrets..."
"Fine. I'm an inu-youkai, part of the wish-giving youkai hot-line. There, you happy?"
" 'Wish-giving', you say?"
"I can't give you a wish, even if I wanted to. I have to fulfill Sango's wish first."
"And her wish was...?"
This was getting way out of hand. Inu-yasha blushed slightly and walked passed Miroku and to the door.
"Sorry, that's confidential.", he told and walked out of the door, down the hall and to the kitchen.
Inu-yasha walked into the kitchen and looked curiously at Sango.
"What are you cooking?", he asked, watching her cook whatever she was making.
"I'm making top ramen... I'm not sure if youkai like human food... but...", Sango answered, pouring the freshly cooked ramen into a bowl and giving it to Inu-yasha.
Inu-yasha used a pair of chop sticks that Sango gave him to pick up a huge wad of ramen noodles. He stuffed it in his mouth, chewed and swallowed. His golden eyes lit up to the wonderful taste of the noodles and he quickly finished them up in nothing but a few bites.
"I see you like it...", Sango pointed out, taking the bowl and chop sticks from him and putting them in the sink.
"I like it very much!", Inu-yasha exclaimed.
They both laughed and had a good time with Miroku for the rest of the day.
OOO
Later that evening, Miroku, Inu-yasha and Sango sat around Miroku's tea table to have tea together. Miroku looked over at Sango with a smirk and put his cup on the table.
"So, you said this morning that you passed your exam...", he pointed out, trying to start a conversation.
"Oh yes... I did... I'm so excited about getting a good job now...", Sango smiled and looked over at the confused Inu-yasha.
Before Sango could explain what an exam was to Inu-yasha, he stood up and walked over to the door.
"Inu-yasha, is something wrong?", Sango asked.
A loud crash could be heard from outside of the room. Inu-yasha ran out of the room and to where he heard the crash. Sango and Miroku followed after, only to stop when they saw a figure standing in front of Inu-yasha. He was a handsome man, with long silver hair like Inu-yasha's and golden eyes that showed no emotion. He, unlike Inu-yasha, had markings on his face: a crescent moon on his forehead and two red stripes on each cheek.
"W-Who are you?", Sango asked from behind Inu-yasha, placing her finger tips on Inu-yasha's shoulders and looking over one shoulder at the other man.
"I am the one everyone refers to as Sesshoumaru. I am here to collect Inu-yasha and bring him back home.", Sesshoumaru stated coldly, as if doing this were nothing.
"I can't go home now! I have a wish to fulfill! It's my job!", Inu-yasha argued.
"Yes, but you can't do your job if the system got override, now can you?", Sesshoumaru questioned.
Inu-yasha growled slightly.
"What do you mean by-"
"You override the wish-giving system when you granted that wench's wish! As a wish-giver, you should know that those kinds of wishes are prohibited to grant."
"So that means..."
"You need to come home in order for us to get the system up and running again."
Inu-yasha shuddered. Sango stared up at Sesshoumaru in confusion.
"Excuse me, Sesshoumaru...", Sango started and stepped in front of Inu-yasha. "Can't he wait for a few more days before going home with you?"
Sesshoumaru thought a moment.
"No. It's Father's orders and my job."
Inu-yasha jumped in front of Sango with a somewhat angry expression.
"Just a week. Please, Sesshoumaru, give me just one more week!", Inu-yasha pleaded.
Again, Sesshoumaru thought.
"Fine. You get one week. And I'm not leaving until you come with me.", Sesshoumaru told.
Inu-yasha, Sango and Miroku all nodded at the same time. Sesshoumaru looked from side to side at the place he was in.
"And where are my sleeping quarters for the night?", he demanded.
"Right this way, your majesty...", Miroku mumbled and led Sesshoumaru to an extra bedroom.
Inu-yasha and Sango looked at each other and sighed. It was now time for a good night's rest. Sango snuggled into the bed Miroku had let her use and fell asleep almost right away. Inu-yasha couldn't sleep though. He paced around in the room and often lingered over Sango's body, staring down at her.
She was so beautiful. Inu-yasha was grateful that Sesshoumaru was nice enough to give him one week to spend time with her. He was going to make her feel beautiful and loved. He was going to make this last week with her so wonderful and so happy that he'd make sure she'd never forget him.
OOO
One week later...
This last week was so wonderful for Sango. They did all sorts of things together. They climbed mountains, went hiking, jogging, swimming, skiing and lots of other fun things. They even went to Sango's old dorm together to gather the remainder of her stuff. Tonight was their last night together and Sango knew it was going to be hard for her to say good-bye.
Sango looked in her full-body mirror. It was the first time Sango had work the pink yukata her mother had given her. She looked rather dashing in it though. Sango smiled to herself and took in a deep breath, slowly letting it out before walking out of the room and into the main room.
Inu-yasha watched as Sango entered the room. Wow. She was more than beautiful. His jaw dropped as she walked up next to him. It was sun down now and the night of the new moon. Inu-yasha stood up and looked deeply into Sango's eyes, taking her into his arms and hugging her tightly. Sango hugged him back and watched as he transformed into a human.
"Inu-yasha... You're... different...", Sango pointed out.
She then smiled and continued hugging him.
"I'm human now Sango... I'm actually a hanyou...", Inu-yasha admitted it, he admitted that he was half human and not full demon, but it seemed like his Sango didn't mind.
They stood there, hugging, for what seemed like a long time before Sesshoumaru had to ruin the moment.
"Come on. We don't have forever. Let's get going!"
"I must go now, Sango. Live a good life and remember me forever...my Sango..."
OOO
Fin.