Yakusoku-Promise
"Sayonara, Aishiteru…"
("Goodbye, I love you…")
-Hikari no Naka E-
from Escaflowne
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They'd told him- warned him- not to use the Kazaana. Inuyasha had again threatened to break his arm if he tried. The hellhole in his hand had just gotten too large, if he used it again, it would surely suck him in.
He'd assured them, promised them, of course not, and did they think he was stupid?
But then Naraku had attacked Sango. She would have died, for certain. And so he used the Kazaana. One last time.
He'd gotten rid of Naraku, and most likely the curse, but they wouldn't know. As Naraku disappeared, Miroku too was sucked into his hand.
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"That idiot!" Inuyasha said gruffly. His eyes were suspiciously shiny-looking, but he didn't cry. Kagome, however, was leaning on his shoulder sobbing. Shippou was sitting on Inuyasha's head, clinging to his ears and crying loudly.
And Sango knelt in the crater of Miroku's grave, staring mutely at all that was left- his glove and the prayer beads. She stared at the ground for a time, and then wrapped her arms around herself.
"Stupid…Stupid…" she whispered, and started to cry softly.
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The baby was born barely a day less than nine months later. For the first time in fifty years, a child from Miroku's family line did not have a kazaana in his palm. The child would not live his life with death hanging over him from the beginning.
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A/N- Oi. I have no idea where THIS piece of serious angst and pointlessness came from. I don't LIKE angst! But it's been running around in my head for awhile, and it wouldn't leave me alone. So, since I should be working on my thesis (which is due really soon), I decided to get this out on paper instead! Ah, procrastination. I know this story is more than a little strange. There's a backstory, but it wouldn't make much sense to anyone but me. By the way, if you hate the ending…so do I. But this is what I came up with. Anyways, please review! Criticism is fine (but grammatical criticism isn't. Unless it's a major mistake, I probably wanted it that way) Flames will be given to Dilandau to play with (Although this story probably DESERVES them -_-)