This is in Sango's POV-just a switch, I think. It will go back to Miroku in the next chapter.
Oh, and to Nix Entente! Please stick with it, I know it's long and drag-e with a lot of dot, dot, dots, but it'll pick up...uh, I won't say soon...but it will pick up! I promise!
Less "..."s too for a time.
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Does anyone reading play Zelda: WindWaker? 'Cause I just got it and it is really cool!
Inuyasha lied to us. I know he did because he always glances to the left when he lies. He told us that Houshi-sama left so that the chance of finding Naraku would be greater.
But I know Houshi-sama wouldn't do that, I know he wouldn't leave us without saying good-bye first.
Kagome-chan and Shippou seem content to believe him, I, on the other hand, am wary. With two fingers I pet the fire-cat resting on my shoulder knowing that Kirara misses him as well.
I suspect something happened while they were both away at the house of elders in that village we just left. But whatever it was, Inuyasha keeps silent about it.
He had stormed into the room that they were sharing and beckoned houshi-sama to come with him. He had said that the elder of the village wanted to speak to him and houshi-sama never came back. In fact, I saw him run out of the village with Inuyasha following close behind carrying the shakujou. A while later Inuyasha returned without him, feeding us his story as he entered our room.
I don't trust him anymore.
And am tempted to merely ask him what really happened but I know he won't answer, he never does. I keep walking, without Houshi-sama here my Hiraikotsu feels heavier then usual...I sag under the weight, plodding slowly behind Shippou and Kagome-chan. Inuyasha is scouting ahead.
"He'll come back, Sango-chan." Kagome-chan has fallen back to walk in step beside me, Shippou cradled in her arms.
"I'm not so sure he will...I feel something is wrong between Houshi-sama and Inuyasha...something happened at that village..." Kirara mews in agreement. I shift under the burden of my weapon.
"I'm sure it was nothing serious, probably just a, a misunderstanding, that's all."
"I'd still feel more right with Houshi-sama's decision if Inuyasha told us what happened." I tread wearily forward, at war with the emotions raging inside me.
I tell myself that I'm upset because our fighting force was by cut by one third. I tell myself that battles will be harder without the kazaana, despite the cold reality that it is a curse...I tell myself that even finding a room in a village will be that much more difficult...
I lie to myself.s
The hard truth is that I miss him...I miss his eyes, his face...I miss his smell...I miss the jingling of the rings on his shakujou...I want to hear him joke and laugh...I want to hear him chant his sutras...I want him to hold me when I ache...to rescue me when demons catch me off-guard...to sit with me in verdant fields...
I want to embrace him close to me...to feel his heart pounding next to mine...
"Sango-chan?" Kagome-chan's soft voice jolts me from my reverie.
"Yes...?" I answer lazily, still lost in my longing...
"We could ask Inuyasha..."
It isn't true! It can't be true! He would never...he would never...
I cover my face and scream alone in the sanctity of trees that surround me. Kirara's wet nose pushes against my cheek and I grab her tightly. I hug the tiny creature and feel her expand in my arms. I bury my tear-streaked face in her giant mane.
It can't be...
Houshi-sama would never...he always jokes but he wouldn't...he couldn't...
We had asked...and Inuyasha had uncharacteristically answered. He even seemed unbelieving...sorrowful.
"But the woman was terrified out of her mind." He had said. "She was screaming..."
I ran away from the others, wanting to be alone...
Part of me hates him-the other part of me believes that he is innocent, that he was framed...Naraku...he was framed...
Inuyasha said that he had struck him and didn't know if he had hurt him badly or not...
"I was angry at the bouzu..." I had listened with doubting ears... "she shrieked when he went closer to her." He had looked away then. "I didn't want anything to happen to you two...if he was guilty..."
"Didn't you ask him?" I screamed, "didn't you ask for his side of the story?"
"He said he hadn't seen her before!" He had yelled back and Kagome-chan had covered her mouth, tears were welling up in her eyes, Shippou was crying. "I didn't know, he always lies! How was I to know that he wasn't lying then?"
I slapped him.
I ran.
That was hours ago.
I wander back to the fire, my eyes red from sobbing
I am confused...I don't know what to believe and I tell myself that if I could only speak to him, I would know...I would know if he had hurt that woman.
"Maybe he will come back, maybe he'll find us again." Kagome draws me down to sit next her, draping a blanket about my shoulders as she does so. Kirara curls up on my lap.
The white-haired Inuyasha fidgets across from me, beyond the flames, I can tell that there is more to his story and I test my hunch.
"Inuyasha probably said he would kill him if he came back..." the half-demon nods once, looking away from me. Shippou hugs my neck, he hadn't seen the affirmation. I sip the tea Kagome-chan shakily hands to me, not really tasting it.
I don't want him to be gone...
I look to where he would usually sit, cross-legged, in between Inuyasha and me. It is cold and empty, flickering only with icy firelight.
