Started: 4:08 PM ; May 4, 2004

Finished: 4:38 PM ; May 4, 2004

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Nieva

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She knew she shouldn't have gone alone to look for the blasted hanyou. It was more or less her undoing as the wind blew even harder, chilling her to the bone. And why, pray tell, did Inuyasha go out in the snowstorm? Her eyebrows crinkled as she thought of all the places he could be.

And yet, she was still outside looking for him.

Sango sighed as she continued to trudge through the heavily packed snow as more fell into her long hair. She couldn't bring Kirara, no. Kirara was far too injured from their last battle. And she most certainly would not bring Miroku. Who knew what went through that pervert's mind when he was alone with a woman in a snowstorm? And Kagome... Kagome was still in her time, obviously still mad at Inuyasha for something. Sango had to be honest, she had no idea what had started the argument.

She suspected that Kikyou had something to do with it, but... she sighed again until...

"You sigh loud." She looked up the tree she was just about to pass to see the very hanyou she was looking for. "Why are you out here anyway?"

"I could ask the same for you," Sango retorted, as a glare set on her face. "Kaede-sama sent me to look for you."

"Feh, I'm fine," Inuyasha responded, leaping from the branches. "You're the one who needs help. Who goes out in a snowstorm alone?" A pointed look in his direction shut him up. For a minute. "Besides, I can stand weather like this. You can't."

Sango wasn't in the mood to argue with the tempramental hanyou, so she turned.

"Oi! Where're you going?"

"Somewhere warm! It's freezing, if you hadn't noticed," Sango answered, starting to walk away, just before she was pulled upon the hanyou's back. Almost like Kagome... She flushed a little as Inuyasha started leaping away from where they were...

She noticed they were now far from the village.

"Where are we going?" She asked, but the wind was blowing so hard that she wasn't sure that he'd hear her.

"Somewhere warm, now shut up."

By the time Inuyasha found the so-called 'somewhere warm,' Sango was nearly numb from the cold. She slid off of Inuyasha's back onto her feet, and looked around wearily. She had never seen this place before. A lump of snow in the middle of a field... wait, didn't that lump of snow have a door...? Walking up to it, she brushed some snow off to find it was a small hut.

"See? Told ya I'd find ya somewhere warm," Inuyasha said, almost as if he was proud of the fact. Sango inwardly sighed and rolled her eyes. Even without Kagome, he still seemed to want someone to be amazed by his so-called powers.

"We'll see if it's warm," Sango answered as she walked in. And then she shivered. Turning to Inuyasha, she hissed, "Are you crazy?!" Her voice must've hurt the hanyou's sensitive ears, for they pinned themselves to the back of his head.

"Wha–?"

"It's freezing! It's worse than outside!" Sango exclaimed. "And... and we have nothing to keep us warm!" Unknowingly she shivered. "I really should've brought Houshi-sama with us. I know he could've brought one of those blankets he had with him..." Just as she spoke, something warm was placed around her shoulders. Looking down, she noticed that it was Inuyasha's fire rat haori. Inuyasha wasn't looking in her direction she noticed, when she looked up. But were his cheeks pink...? "Thank you, Inuyasha." A small smile lifted her cheeks as she sat down next to the wall.

"Feh," Came the hanyou's oh-so-articulate reply. Sango wrapped herself a little more with the haori.

After about a half hour of silence, Sango heard a soft "tap, tap, tap" sound. Turning to the source, which happened to be Inuyasha, she noticed...

"You're cold!" She exclaimed. It was so obvious, now that she saw it. His lips were starting to a light blue, his teeth were chattering... Muttering under her breath, "Men are so stupid sometimes..." She took the haori off of her and placed it on the hanyou. "You know, you could've just said you were cold. You didn't have to just sit in the cold for my sake, you know."

Suddenly, almost as if Inuyasha had snapped back into consciousness, he opened his mouth to speak, but a glare from Sango made him shut his mouth.

"Besides, it's not that cold anyway– achoo!" Sango sneezed. Just as she excused herself, she felt herself being pulled..

Into Inuyasha's lap.

Stiff from surprise, she looked from side to side. What should she do?! This was far too forward for anyone to do, especially to her. And... and didn't Inuyasha care for Kagome?

"Quit it," Inuyasha said, grumpily. "You're cold, I'm cold, we just have this," he motioned to his haori. "So sit down, shut up, and we'll be out of here in the morning."

Oh yeah, this was so romantic, Sango thought sarcastically as she leaned against his chest. However uncomfortable it was, she found it to be fairly warm... and she couldn't help herself when her eyelids fluttered as she fell asleep.

"Kya~!" *Slap!* Sango was on her feet immediately when she awoke that morning. "You... you! I could expect something like that from Houshi-sama, but certainly not you!" Inuyasha rubbed his sore cheek from the other side of the room. A glare was set on his face.

"I told ya, I didn't mean to do it! I was asleep!"

Oh yeah, like she'd believe that. Her face was still tomato red when she took a deep breath.

What had happened that morning was when she woke up, she had felt lips on her neck, nibbling, sucking... and when she saw that it was Inuyasha...

Stomping out of the hut, she made sure that she would never go after that hanyou again. Alone, at least.

However, she did notice the smirk that was decorated on the hanyou's face. Shortly before she pounded his face into the snow.

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Seeing as how RurouniStar had this as a somewhat challenge on her website, I decided to try my hand at it. This is my very first San/Inu pairing fanfic, however non-romantic it sounds like. I tried, though!

Disclaimer: These characters do not belong to me.