Title: The Beat
Author: Priestess Skye
Word count: 250
Genre: Introspection, General
Rating: G
Pairing: Inu/Sango
Universe: Canon
Prompt: Heart-shaped
The light of the fire flickered in the dark, casting shadows across the faces of her companions. The intimate setting usually served to calm her nerves and ease the stresses of a battle weary day. But tonight Sango was too distracted to. Allowing her mind to wander she thought back to the small fang she kept safe in the pouch tied on her belt. That, along with several fragments of her broken hiraikotsu would be all she'd need.
Or so Inuyasha had claimed.
Unlike the others, he sat off to the side, leaning against the trunk of a nearby tree. Though his eyes were closed, she knew he was wide-awake. His body was too tense, too still to be fast asleep. Slipping her hand inside the pouch to hold the fang, Sango had to wonder why he made the gesture. As far as she knew he never once offered to do the same for Kagome.
Focusing on the small object, she closed her own eyes, and simply focused on her upcoming journey. Within her palm the fang began to heat up, and throb, small enough for her to feel it. Slow at first, the rhythm increasingly sped up and steadied, as if it were his heart beating in her hand. Opening her eyes wide, she gasped, noticing his golden ones focused solely on hers, his chest rising and falling with each breath.
And she swore she could see the faint outline of his heart with each pulse of the fang.