Chapter 1
Sango walked through the elegant forest, admiring all of the beautiful flowers that surrounded her in almost any direction that she turned "Wow." Sango said as her face met with a perfect arrangement of rare flowers. Sango's fingertips lightly tapped the flowers making sure that they were real.
"Sango!" a young childish voice called.
"What Kohaku?" Sango asked as she turned towards the voice.
"Father said that I'm getting better with my moves!" the child said as he stood in front of Sango. The young boy came about to Sango's chest and was wearing a loose fitting lightweight armor over a black jumpsuit of some kind.
"That's great Kohaku." Sango said as a small smile grew upon her beautiful features.
"Come on sis! Lemme show you!" Kohaku said as he swiftly grabbed Sango's upper arm.
"Kohaku!" Sango said as she slightly tripped from being pulled.
"Hurry!" Kohaku said with anger and excitement in his voice. Sango regained her position and started to follow Kohaku. "Okay, are you ready?" Kohaku asked as he picked up his weapon to show Sango his new tricks. Sango smiled and nodded her head. Kohaku threw his weapon at the three glasses and succeeded in breaking all of them.
"Good job Kohaku!" Sango said and walked up to her younger brother and placed an arm around his shoulders.
"You really think so?" Kohaku asked as he looked up at Sango.
"I know so." Sango said as a gentle smiled grew upon her face.
"Thanks sis!" Kohaku said and gave Sango a quick hug.
"Your welcome Kohaku, but know what?" Sango asked as she leaned down so she could be leveled with Kohaku's face.
"What?" Kohaku asked anxiously.
"If you want to be better, you'll have to practice a whole lot!" Sango said as she put emphasis in whole.
"Well then let me practice!" Kohaku said and turned away from Sango.
"Okay." Sango said as she let a small chuckle escape her lips before she left. 'This village has nothing for me, I'm sick of living here with my family and having to fight off every demon that comes through here.' Sango thought to herself as she walked up to her house.
"Hello Sango." Sango's father said as he greeted her.
"Hi father." Sango said and sat down on a chair.
"What's wrong dear?" he asked.
"I don't want to stay here anymore. I'm sick of this village." Sango sighed.
"Now Sango surely you can't be serious." he said.
"I am serious; I want to go live my life by myself without any help." Sango said as her shoulders sunk down.
"When you find someone to wed you, then you may live your life as you wish Sango, but until then, you have to live with your family." her father said.
"Please father, let me go, if you don't let me go, then I'll run away." Sango said.
"Sango your only 17 years old, why are you so eager to leave this soon?"
"I want to find my husband; I don't want to be forced to marry someone who I don't love." Sango said.
"But honey I-" her father started to say but got interrupted.
"Fine then! I'm leaving at sundown." Sango said and stormed off out of the house. 'How will I ever I find the one I love if I stay in this village forever?' Sango thought to herself as she walked through her village. She then stopped at one of the food carts. "Ma'am may I please have a loaf of bread and three fish." Sango said.
"Here you go." the woman said.
"Thank you." Sango said and paid the woman the money.
"Sango, what are you doing out so late?" a young man asked as he grabbed her by the arm.
"Tetsuya." Sango said and glared.
"Why don't you and I go somewhere?" Tetsuya said and strengthened his grip on Sango's arm.
"No. I wouldn't go anywhere with you." Sango said and tried to pull away from him.
"Your coming with me rather you like it or not." Tetsuya said and pulled her to follow him.
"Leave me alone!" Sango yelled.
"Shh." Tetsuya said and put one of his hands on her mouth as he carried her away to his home.
"What are you doing?" Sango said when Tetsuya shoved her in his house.
"Remember what I told you when you turned 13 Sango?" Tetsuya said and put his arms around her waist.
"No, what did you tell me?" Sango asked.
"I told you that when we turned 17 we would get married." he said and pressed her against a wall.
"I don't remember that." Sango said and tried to push him away as hard as she could.
"Oh but I do." Tetsuya said and pressed his lips against hers.
"Stop Tetsuya!" Sango yelled and slapped him across the face.
"Sango." Tetsuya said and rubbed his face.
"I'm sorry if I told you that, but I don't love you Tetsuya!" Sango said as tears ran down her face.
"Don't cry Sango." Tetsuya said and wiped away her tears.
"Stop, please." Sango said and pushed his arms away.
"You don't love me?" he asked with seriousness in his voice.
"I'm sorry." Sango whispered as she turned her head away.
"I understand. Go. Now." Tetsuya said and let her go.
"Are you going to be okay?" Sango asked.
"GO!" Tetsuya yelled.
Sango quickly made her way out of his house and picked up her food that fell when he disturbed her. 'I feel so bad.' Sango said as tears ran down her face. "I'm sorry Tetsuya." Sango said as she ran back to her house. When she went home she made sure no one was around before she went in. She then went to her room and grabbed an extra pair of clothes, her boomerang, and a small bag to carry her clothes and food in. "Goodbye." Sango said as she left the house. Sango started to make her way down the village when she saw many of the villagers headed towards her.
"Get out of the village!" yelled a man as he scrambled to escape the village.
'Oh no, what's' going on?' Sango asked herself as she reached for her boomerang.
"Demons!" "Hundreds of them!" "Save the children!" the villagers yelled as they all ran past Sango in a hurry.
"Kohaku!" Sango yelled hoping that he was still in the area. She then heard footsteps coming towards her.
"What Sango?" Kohaku asked as he caught his breath.
"Demons, come on, I need your help." Sango said as she motioned for Kohaku to pull out his weapon.
"But Sango, I can't fight...I'm not ready yet." Kohaku said.
"Come on Kohaku, I know you can." Sango said trying to get Kohaku to help her.
"O-okay, I guess I can help." Kohaku said and forced out a smiled.
"That's more like it." Sango said and threw her boomerang at the demons; she succeeded in killing a good 25 of them. Kohaku hadn't killed any of the demons, he was about to hit one of the demons, but a deep voice echoed words in his mind,
"Kill them...kill the villagers." Kohaku looked up and started to attack all of the villagers.
"Kohaku! What are you doing?!" Sango yelled as a demon attacked her causing her to fall. Kohaku didn't respond to Sango, he just turned away and continued to kill the villagers. "Kohaku stop!" Sango yelled. Kohaku turned around and looked at Sango.
"Kill her." the deep voice told Kohaku. Kohaku then started to approach Sango; his eyes were emotionless when he looked at her.
"Kohaku." Sango said cautiously when he started to come closer.
"I must kill you." Kohaku said and lifted his weapon up into the air and swiftly brought it down barely missing Sango. Sango then used her boomerang to block Kohaku's attacks.
"Please stop this Kohaku." Sango said and hit him with her boomerang. Kohaku quickly recovered and got behind Sango. "NO KOHAKU!" Sango yelled as Kohaku pierced her in the back with his weapon. "W-hy K-kohaku?" Sango questioned him as her knees hit the ground followed by the rest of her body. Kohaku looked at his sister's body and soon realized what he had done.
"I'm s-s-sorry." He choked out as tears started to fall from his eyes. "Please, don't die Sango." Kohaku said and wiped away his tears.
"There he is!" "He killed my son!" "He's demon possessed!" the villagers yelled as they charged towards Kohaku.
"What?" Kohaku asked. "I didn't mean to! Please don't kill me!" Kohaku yelled as the villagers aimed arrows at him and hit him. "No!" Kohaku yelled.
What the villagers, Kohaku, and Sango didn't know what that a powerful demon was lurking around, watching the whole thing from afar, laughing the entire time.