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Summary: Neither Sango nor Kagome knows just how difficult the other's life is... Until they switch bodies that is.
PAIRINGS NOT YET DECIDED
Sango sighed and slid into the hot spring next to Kagome. It had been another long day. Nothing out of the ordinary had happened. She had woken up, helped Miroku make breakfast, fought a giant cat-like youkai who had Shikon shards, slapped Miroku a couple times for groping her, helped make dinner, and finally, got a rare treat, a bath in a hot spring. Sango smiled about the last part, "all in a day's work." She murmured tiredly.
Kagome watched Sango slide into the hot spring through the corner of her eye. She too had had a normal day. Well, as normal as it gets for someone who's traveling with Inuyasha. She had woken up, eaten breakfast, studied for perhaps half an hour before Inuyasha dragged her away from her textbooks, dodged questions from Shippo about things six-year-olds did NOT need to know (for the most part, the questions were triggered by things Miroku said), sat Inuyasha for various reasons, and eaten dinner. She was as pleased as Sango about this treat.
Of course, neither girl pitied the other for anything more than family or love issues. As far as they saw it, the other led a fairly decent life. And Sango was the first to voice this thought.
"I really envy you, Kagome." She sighed.
This took Kagome by surprise. She didn't know how ANYONE could envy HER, "Why on earth would you envy me?"
"Because you lead such an... easy life."
Again, Kagome was taken by surprise. "EASY? MY life? You're joking!"
"No, I'm serious."
"Let me get this straight. I spend most of my time in a time period about 400 years before I'm even supposed to be BORN, get almost NO studying done, am probably not going to get into a decent high school because I've missed so much school, AND have to deal with Inuyasha, and YOU envy ME?"
Sango nodded bluntly, "yup."
"If anyone should envy someone, it should be me envying you." Kagome said matter-of-factly, then sighed, "I wish I was you, Sango. You lead a much more simple life."
Sango's eyes widened slightly, and she found herself unable to speak for a while. When she finally regained her voice, she was able to speak in a whisper, nothing more, "Kagome, I'm not going to make a list of all the reasons why you shouldn't want to be me, because it would take me all night."
"Heh, then name three reasons." Kagome muttered.
"First and foremost, Kohaku. Second, having to deal with Houshi-sama groping me every chance he gets. And finally, the knowledge that everyone in my family, and a great majority of my friends, are dead."
Kagome couldn't argue. Sango brought up valid reasons without mentioning Naraku directly. Instead, she huffed and turned away, "I still think you have an easier life."
"Whatever you say, Kagome. Things are always easy until you try them." Sango looked up into the night sky, stars glittered like tiny jewels, and a round full moon shone.
"What's that mean?" Kagome asked, suddenly interested.
"It means that people always think things they've never tried are easy, but when and if they try them, they realize that they're harder than they appear." Sango kept her face to the sky, trying to hide the tears forming in her eyes. "Kohaku always used to say that during his training to become a youkai taijiya."
Kagome's huffy expression changed immediately into one of pity, "oh... I'm sorry. I didn't mean to..."
Sango faced Kagome, smiling through the sheet of tears that covered her cheeks, "it's not your fault. You can't control my mind."
"Yea, and you can't control mine, so I'm free to think what I want about our lives."
"I guess you're right."
Nothing more was said until the girls reached camp.
"Night Sango." Kagome muttered.
"Good night Kagome." Sango nodded.
The girls went their separate ways and fell asleep almost immediately.
Late at night, someone crept around and put two fortune cookies in Kagome's bag (don't ask me how they got them!).
"Kagome! I want CAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" Shippo exclaimed.
Kagome sweatdropped, "okay, okay. I'll give you some pocky." She rummaged through her unbelievably heavy bag and found a box of pocky, which she immediately handed to Shippo. Two fortune cookies caught her eye. She shrugged and took them out.
She handed one to Sango, "want one?"
"What are they?" Sango asked.
"Fortune cookies. They have a little piece of paper in them which is supposed to tell your fortune."
Sango shrugged and opened her cookie carefully. It took her a while to decipher the kanji in the paper, but she eventually got it, "if what you see is what you lack... understanding will bring you back." She read slowly, "Kagome, what does that mean?"
"I... have no idea at all." Kagome shrugged, cracking her fortune cookie open, she read the fortune. "If what you see is what... hey, mine's the same as yours."
Sango laughed, "guess we have to figure them out then."
"Guess so."
The girls went to sleep that night, neither of them any closer to figuring out what the fortunes meant.
Of course, the fortunes began to glow, and both girls would soon know what they meant.
Kagome sat up slowly. Normally, she was cheerful and bubbly, but today she just didn't feel like it. She looked around her and realized that it was before dawn. "What the... I'm never up this early."
"Ah, Sango. You're up. You mind helping me over here?" Miroku's voice drifted through her ears.
Kagome looked around to try and spot Sango, but all she spotted were Shippo, Inuyasha, and her sleeping forms... "Wait, rewind." Kagome muttered. "That's ME. Then who am I? She looked down and saw that she was dressed in Sango's pink and green yukata. "KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
"SANGO!" Miroku called once more.
Kagome felt the back of her head, her hair had suddenly grown longer and was tied at the bottom in a ponytail. Suddenly, it hit her like a lead balloon. "I'm..."
"Sango! You in there?" Miroku's rosary covered hand waved in front of Kagome's face.
"N-no, Sango isn't here..." Kagome stammered, realizing that this must sound awfully strange since she had Sango's voice and body. "But I am, somehow."
"And you are?" Miroku asked curiously.
"Kagome."
"KAGOME?!" Miroku yelled.
"Keep it DOWN Miroku!" Kagome hissed. "Everyone else is still asleep!"
"Right, sorry. But... you're in Sango's body and..." Suddenly, a rather evil looking grin covered his face, and his hand reached down her back.
Kagome may not have been as fast or aware as Sango was, but she knew when Miroku was about to grope her, and she quickly slapped his hand away.
"Hm, less painful than Sango." Miroku noted. "So. Do you intend on telling Inuyasha and Shippo? I'm pretty sure Sango, uh, you, uh, ah hell, you know what I mean, she'll find out when she wakes up. This is more than a little unusual, you know."
"No, I'm not going to tell Inuyasha and Shippo. And I'm as freaked as you are... but what can be done about it?" Kagome shook her head.
"Then... I guess I call you Sango."
"Guess so."
"This is going to take some getting used to." Miroku muttered.
"No kidding." Kagome agreed.
Suddenly, Kagome's body walked over to them.
"Kagome, what the hell is going on? WHY am I in YOUR body?!" Sango in Kagome's body asked. "And HOW can you walk in this skirt?"
(A/N: Quick explanation. Sango is in Kagome's body and vice versa. Kagome = Sango, Sango = Kagome)
"I have no idea." Kagome sighed. "But keep it down."
"I take it Houshi-sama already knows." Sango pointed to Miroku, tugging on her short skirt. It was rather uncomfortable.
"Yup."
"Do we tell the others?"
"No. I don't know how they would react... and I doubt it's worth the risk."
"Okay. Then I guess we need to learn how to, um, be like one another?"
"Sure." Kagome shrugged.
"First off, he," Sango pointed to Miroku, "is Houshi-sama, never called by his true name."
"That might take a bit of getting used to." Kagome sighed.
"Second, I'm not sure if Kirara will know the difference. Hiraikotsu may be a bit heavy for you, so you might want to find some way to avoid using it. Fake an injury or something."
Kagome nodded.
"Um, slap Houshi-sama if he gets too close, don't be cheerful and agreeable, and don't hang around Inuyasha so much."
"Okay, my turn." Kagome smiled. "I'm not sure if you can S-word Inuyasha. You should try it sometime. Second, pick up my textbooks sometime when you have the time. It'll look really weird if you don't. Um, if Shippo wants candy, it's in the front pocket of my bag. And, er, you'll have to come with me when I go back to my time."
"Sounds simple enough to remember." Sango grinned.
"Oh, and you can't call Miroku Houshi-sama, since I don't." Kagome added.
"Right, okay. That might be a little harder. Long time habits and all."
"Um, ladies, if neither of you mind, could one of you help me with breakfast?" Miroku interrupted.
Sango was about to get up when Kagome stopped her. "Inuyasha might wake up, he'll think something's weird if he sees my body over there helping Miroku."
"Oh, right." Sango nodded.
So Miroku and Kagome headed over to the fire to make breakfast while Sango trudged up a hill and sat down, staring into the gray sky. "How the hell did this happen?" She wondered, tugging at Kagome's skirt again. "The next time Kagome goes to her time, I'm going to make sure she gets me something more comfortable." She vowed grumpily.
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Summary: Neither Sango nor Kagome knows just how difficult the other's life is... Until they switch bodies that is.
PAIRINGS NOT YET DECIDED
Sango sighed and slid into the hot spring next to Kagome. It had been another long day. Nothing out of the ordinary had happened. She had woken up, helped Miroku make breakfast, fought a giant cat-like youkai who had Shikon shards, slapped Miroku a couple times for groping her, helped make dinner, and finally, got a rare treat, a bath in a hot spring. Sango smiled about the last part, "all in a day's work." She murmured tiredly.
Kagome watched Sango slide into the hot spring through the corner of her eye. She too had had a normal day. Well, as normal as it gets for someone who's traveling with Inuyasha. She had woken up, eaten breakfast, studied for perhaps half an hour before Inuyasha dragged her away from her textbooks, dodged questions from Shippo about things six-year-olds did NOT need to know (for the most part, the questions were triggered by things Miroku said), sat Inuyasha for various reasons, and eaten dinner. She was as pleased as Sango about this treat.
Of course, neither girl pitied the other for anything more than family or love issues. As far as they saw it, the other led a fairly decent life. And Sango was the first to voice this thought.
"I really envy you, Kagome." She sighed.
This took Kagome by surprise. She didn't know how ANYONE could envy HER, "Why on earth would you envy me?"
"Because you lead such an... easy life."
Again, Kagome was taken by surprise. "EASY? MY life? You're joking!"
"No, I'm serious."
"Let me get this straight. I spend most of my time in a time period about 400 years before I'm even supposed to be BORN, get almost NO studying done, am probably not going to get into a decent high school because I've missed so much school, AND have to deal with Inuyasha, and YOU envy ME?"
Sango nodded bluntly, "yup."
"If anyone should envy someone, it should be me envying you." Kagome said matter-of-factly, then sighed, "I wish I was you, Sango. You lead a much more simple life."
Sango's eyes widened slightly, and she found herself unable to speak for a while. When she finally regained her voice, she was able to speak in a whisper, nothing more, "Kagome, I'm not going to make a list of all the reasons why you shouldn't want to be me, because it would take me all night."
"Heh, then name three reasons." Kagome muttered.
"First and foremost, Kohaku. Second, having to deal with Houshi-sama groping me every chance he gets. And finally, the knowledge that everyone in my family, and a great majority of my friends, are dead."
Kagome couldn't argue. Sango brought up valid reasons without mentioning Naraku directly. Instead, she huffed and turned away, "I still think you have an easier life."
"Whatever you say, Kagome. Things are always easy until you try them." Sango looked up into the night sky, stars glittered like tiny jewels, and a round full moon shone.
"What's that mean?" Kagome asked, suddenly interested.
"It means that people always think things they've never tried are easy, but when and if they try them, they realize that they're harder than they appear." Sango kept her face to the sky, trying to hide the tears forming in her eyes. "Kohaku always used to say that during his training to become a youkai taijiya."
Kagome's huffy expression changed immediately into one of pity, "oh... I'm sorry. I didn't mean to..."
Sango faced Kagome, smiling through the sheet of tears that covered her cheeks, "it's not your fault. You can't control my mind."
"Yea, and you can't control mine, so I'm free to think what I want about our lives."
"I guess you're right."
Nothing more was said until the girls reached camp.
"Night Sango." Kagome muttered.
"Good night Kagome." Sango nodded.
The girls went their separate ways and fell asleep almost immediately.
Late at night, someone crept around and put two fortune cookies in Kagome's bag (don't ask me how they got them!).
"Kagome! I want CAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" Shippo exclaimed.
Kagome sweatdropped, "okay, okay. I'll give you some pocky." She rummaged through her unbelievably heavy bag and found a box of pocky, which she immediately handed to Shippo. Two fortune cookies caught her eye. She shrugged and took them out.
She handed one to Sango, "want one?"
"What are they?" Sango asked.
"Fortune cookies. They have a little piece of paper in them which is supposed to tell your fortune."
Sango shrugged and opened her cookie carefully. It took her a while to decipher the kanji in the paper, but she eventually got it, "if what you see is what you lack... understanding will bring you back." She read slowly, "Kagome, what does that mean?"
"I... have no idea at all." Kagome shrugged, cracking her fortune cookie open, she read the fortune. "If what you see is what... hey, mine's the same as yours."
Sango laughed, "guess we have to figure them out then."
"Guess so."
The girls went to sleep that night, neither of them any closer to figuring out what the fortunes meant.
Of course, the fortunes began to glow, and both girls would soon know what they meant.
Kagome sat up slowly. Normally, she was cheerful and bubbly, but today she just didn't feel like it. She looked around her and realized that it was before dawn. "What the... I'm never up this early."
"Ah, Sango. You're up. You mind helping me over here?" Miroku's voice drifted through her ears.
Kagome looked around to try and spot Sango, but all she spotted were Shippo, Inuyasha, and her sleeping forms... "Wait, rewind." Kagome muttered. "That's ME. Then who am I? She looked down and saw that she was dressed in Sango's pink and green yukata. "KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
"SANGO!" Miroku called once more.
Kagome felt the back of her head, her hair had suddenly grown longer and was tied at the bottom in a ponytail. Suddenly, it hit her like a lead balloon. "I'm..."
"Sango! You in there?" Miroku's rosary covered hand waved in front of Kagome's face.
"N-no, Sango isn't here..." Kagome stammered, realizing that this must sound awfully strange since she had Sango's voice and body. "But I am, somehow."
"And you are?" Miroku asked curiously.
"Kagome."
"KAGOME?!" Miroku yelled.
"Keep it DOWN Miroku!" Kagome hissed. "Everyone else is still asleep!"
"Right, sorry. But... you're in Sango's body and..." Suddenly, a rather evil looking grin covered his face, and his hand reached down her back.
Kagome may not have been as fast or aware as Sango was, but she knew when Miroku was about to grope her, and she quickly slapped his hand away.
"Hm, less painful than Sango." Miroku noted. "So. Do you intend on telling Inuyasha and Shippo? I'm pretty sure Sango, uh, you, uh, ah hell, you know what I mean, she'll find out when she wakes up. This is more than a little unusual, you know."
"No, I'm not going to tell Inuyasha and Shippo. And I'm as freaked as you are... but what can be done about it?" Kagome shook her head.
"Then... I guess I call you Sango."
"Guess so."
"This is going to take some getting used to." Miroku muttered.
"No kidding." Kagome agreed.
Suddenly, Kagome's body walked over to them.
"Kagome, what the hell is going on? WHY am I in YOUR body?!" Sango in Kagome's body asked. "And HOW can you walk in this skirt?"
(A/N: Quick explanation. Sango is in Kagome's body and vice versa. Kagome = Sango, Sango = Kagome)
"I have no idea." Kagome sighed. "But keep it down."
"I take it Houshi-sama already knows." Sango pointed to Miroku, tugging on her short skirt. It was rather uncomfortable.
"Yup."
"Do we tell the others?"
"No. I don't know how they would react... and I doubt it's worth the risk."
"Okay. Then I guess we need to learn how to, um, be like one another?"
"Sure." Kagome shrugged.
"First off, he," Sango pointed to Miroku, "is Houshi-sama, never called by his true name."
"That might take a bit of getting used to." Kagome sighed.
"Second, I'm not sure if Kirara will know the difference. Hiraikotsu may be a bit heavy for you, so you might want to find some way to avoid using it. Fake an injury or something."
Kagome nodded.
"Um, slap Houshi-sama if he gets too close, don't be cheerful and agreeable, and don't hang around Inuyasha so much."
"Okay, my turn." Kagome smiled. "I'm not sure if you can S-word Inuyasha. You should try it sometime. Second, pick up my textbooks sometime when you have the time. It'll look really weird if you don't. Um, if Shippo wants candy, it's in the front pocket of my bag. And, er, you'll have to come with me when I go back to my time."
"Sounds simple enough to remember." Sango grinned.
"Oh, and you can't call Miroku Houshi-sama, since I don't." Kagome added.
"Right, okay. That might be a little harder. Long time habits and all."
"Um, ladies, if neither of you mind, could one of you help me with breakfast?" Miroku interrupted.
Sango was about to get up when Kagome stopped her. "Inuyasha might wake up, he'll think something's weird if he sees my body over there helping Miroku."
"Oh, right." Sango nodded.
So Miroku and Kagome headed over to the fire to make breakfast while Sango trudged up a hill and sat down, staring into the gray sky. "How the hell did this happen?" She wondered, tugging at Kagome's skirt again. "The next time Kagome goes to her time, I'm going to make sure she gets me something more comfortable." She vowed grumpily.
Ending notes: WHEEEEEEEE! THIS IS FUN! REVIEW PLEASE! REVIEWS KEEP ME ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE! Or at least writing.