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Sango and Kagome

InuYasha and his friends had been searching for three days straight looking for Kagome. Nor InuYasha, Shippo or Kirara could pick up her scent anywhere, it was like she had dissapeared. They were determined not to give up though, InuYasha especially. He knew he had seen Kagome, spoken with her, touched her, and he refused to rest when she with the thought that she might be in some kind of danger on her own, though she did have that strange looking neko with her...

The group were eventually forced to stop and make camp for the night on the edge of a new forest they had discovered. Each one of them were taking turns in guarding the camp should a demon come out of the forest during the night.

Miroku joined Sango when it came to her turn and sat with her. " Why do you think we havn't been able to find a trace of Kagome's whereabouts? " Sango asked him.

" I don't know Sango..." Miroku replied. It was true he wasn't even sure for certain that he believed Kagome was really alive again, he really only had InuYasha and Kaede's words to go on. He had seen that miko though, that they all had seen. The miko had looked so like Kagome aswell, and Miroku wanted Kagome back with them as much as the next person.

A thought struck Miroku.

" Maybe...Maybe lady Kagome is hiding herself..." Miroku suggested, running the theory over in his head.

" What do you mean? " Sango asked, intrigued.

" It is possible that Kagome, being a miko, is hiding her scent and aura spiritually, perhaps so rogue demons will not smell her out. "

" Could Kagome really perform such an act? She never did before..."

" Kagome had powers within herself that she didn't know she possessed...I expect it is possible for her to do so..." Miroku explained.

" I guess that's true..." Sango said bluntly.

Sango was worried, nearly as much as InuYasha. If her best friend and sister was really out there somewhere, then she would be in danger on her own. What if she was hurt and in need of help?

Sango pushed those thoughts aside though, and tried not to worry herself to much over it.

Up on his perch in the tree, InuYasha was thinking to himself about Kagome again. He'd notebly be doing alot of that lately...

What if Kaede was right? What if Kagome truly had forgotten them all? Would he be able to handle such grief?...Why had Kagome been saved? What did fate have planned for her?

He was okay with the fact she was alive and not dead, but it worried him still at what the purpose of those actions was. It worried him even more that he couldn't be along side at the moment, that he couldn't keep her safe from harm, that he couldn't protect her...

" InuYasha! " Someone called out to him. InuYasha looked down to the ground to see Shippo waving his arms madly him. He looked over to Sango, Miroku and Kirara to find them all in battle mode. Then InuYasha sensed why. A demonic aura was heading straight toward their camp from the forest...

InuYasha jumped down from the tree, brandished the Tetsusaiga, stood by Miroku and Sango then inwardly cursing himself for not realising the danger at hand earlier. Shippo ran behind them, as they all stood ready with their weapons, awaiting the demon's appearence.

Out of the trees, there came a shrill cry followed by a great looming shadow. A giant bird like demon, resembling that of a large eagle in size but a vulture in appearence swooped over them, brandishing its mighty talons.

Shippo yelled out in fright and Kirara hissed. The great bird came swooping down to them, its claws looking ready to grab something in its grasp. The group were forced to separate and jumped away from the bird's path. InuYasha looked up in time to see Shippo being chased away from them by the demon, wailing like a banshee. Sango saw this and sprung into action.

" HIRAIKOTSU!! " She bellowed as she threw her boomerang at the demon, swirftly knocking it off course from Shippo. The demon screeched in surprise and turned round to face Sango as she caught back her weapon. It completely forgot about Shippo, and instead went for the demon slayer.

Before Sango could launch her weapon again the demon had her in its grip, bringing her higher and higher into the sky.

" Sango! " yelled InuYasha as he realised he couldn't use the wind scar with the danger of hitting her.

" SANGO! NO! " Miroku yelled as he ran in the direction the great bird was taking the woman he loved. The bird demon soon slipped out of view though, as Sango was taken deep into the forest and into the direction of the bird's nest.

" NO! " Miroku continued to yell when he realised what the bird planned to do with Sango.

InuYasha growled in frustration. They had to find Sango fast, before she was possibly eaten alive.

" Let's go Miroku! " He yelled to the monk, only to find he was already half way on the bird's tail on Kirara, Shippo on his shoulder. InuYasha ran after them into the dark and unknown forest.

Sango had managed to grab her sword and began trying to slash her way out of the great bird's grasp. She was able to stap its foot, and it wailed out in pain, finally releasing her. Sango began fell to the ground in pain. She hurt all over from the force of the fall, aswell as the claws the demon had dug into her side. The pain was imense, and she struggled to stay conscious. She soon blacked out.

Out of the shadows came a figure. She'd heard the sreams of the demon and a woman and decided to investigate. She gasped as she layed her eyes on the horrific state of the demon slayer infront of her. She rushed over and checked for a pulse.

" What did you find mistress Kagome?!? " Came the worried call of Kari.

" A woman, " Kagome said as she sighed in relief at finding a heartbeat, " She's badly injured but aliive! "

Kari came over to her side and sniffed the slayer. " She smells of the great demon bird clan from the mountains! "

" Probably would have found herself the demons' dinner if she hadn't gotten away, " Kagome said as she inspected the woman's wounds. She had several deep gashes in the side of her abdomen and her front was badly bruised, sopposedly from a fall.

" Lets get her back to the river, I can clean and wrap her wounds there, " Kagome said as she gently raised the woman's head, " Kari, can you carry her over there on your back while I hold her on? "

Kari nodded as he transfromed into the larger neko from before and bent down to allow Kagome to place the woman onto his back. Kagome climbed on after to make sure she didn't fall off as Kari bounded off in the direction of the river they had been staying at for the night.

Miroku and InuYasha had heard the bird demon's cry of pain and Sango's scream as she fell from deep in the forest. They could only quicked their pace and hope to find her somewhere up ahead and unharmed. Their efforts were prooving futile though as they could find no trace of their demon slayer friend anywhere.

Sango fluttered her eyes open slowly as she lightly groaned in pain. She turned her head to see a small amount of sunlight peering through the dense forest she found herself in, signifying an early sunrise. It was still mainly dark. Wait...Where was she?

She was leaning against something warm and cosy and recognised the sound of a river flowing nearby. She looked down upon herself to find that her wounds from earlier had been cleaned and carefully bandaged up with some fine, white cloth.

" Mistress! She has awakened! " Came a voice from behind her. Sango turned her head around slightly to find she was resting against a giant cat! " Kirara?..." Sango thought.

Someone suddenly lightly touched her forehead with a warm, gentle hand. Sango blinked to clear her vision a little to find herslef staring into the face she least expected to see. She blinked a few times to make sure her eyes weren't decieving her. She found they weren't.

It wasn't possible...She didn't ever think she'd find herself looking into those warm brown eyes again, the eyes that were always so full of life, light and compassion...

Kagome...

InuYasha and his remaining friends had been searching all night long for Sango, and were growing increasingly worried when they found no trace of her, Miroku more so.

" Grrr Where are you Sango?!? " InuYasha growled under his breath trying to hide his concern from the others.

" Ka...Kagome?!? " Sango stuttered.

The woman blinked a few times in surprise at how she'd known her name, but shrugged it off.

" Umm...I've wrapped up your wounds for you, I had some spare cloth inside my kimono and a few herbs that I have collected, and you don't appear to have caught a fever in the night so I'd say that with a little rest you're going to be fine, " Kagome told Sango while smiling, glad she was alright.

This woman suddenly looked familiar...Had they met before?...

Kagome didn't think so but then she remembered something. " The slime demon! "

She had been one of the people fighting of the slime demon that had attacked the elder's village that day! The demon slayer!...InuYasha's friend...

" What...What is your name? " Kagome asked Sango gently.

" Huh? Kagome you know..." Sango stopped in mid-sentence. Kaede had said that Kagome had no memory of who they were who who she had been...

" Kagome, do you recognise me? " Sango asked her, a hint of worry in her eyes.

" You...You were the demon slayer who was with InuYasha that day...I met him in the forest...I am sorry but I don't know your name though..." Kagome said apologetically.

" Oh..." Sango said, sadness filling her heart. " This must be how InuYasha feels..."

" My name...is Sango..." Sango told Kagome. It felt wierd telling Kagome that, as if she were speaking to her for the first time. Sango was hurt that Kagome didn't know who she was...but didn't know who any of them was...she probably didn't remember anything from before...

" I have to try and help her " Sango decided. She tried to sit up properly but found her injuries prevented her from doing so.

" No! You musn't move! Move to soon and you'll open up those wounds again..." Kagome said hastily, gently pushing Sango back against Kari.

" Have...Have you seen my friends anywhere? What about that bird demon? " Sango asked after she leaned back down.

" No I'm sorry I haven't, " Kagome said sadly, " I wouldn't worry about that bird demon, or any demon for that matter though. "

" How come? "

" I have put up a barrier that hides both our aura and scent. "

" So Miroku was right about how she'd been hiding..." Sango thought. She looked at Kagome. She was dressed differently, wearing the same clothes Kikyou once had, but other than that she hadn't changed. She had the same hair, the same skin, the same eyes...she was their Kagome...even if she didn't know it. Sango suddenly had the desire to hug the friend she thought she had lost forever, and suddenly felt filled with a slight joy.

" Ka...Kagome? Will...Will my friends be able to find me? " Sango asked her.

Kagome smiled gently. " Yes they will find you. I can sense them nearby actually, so I'll put the barrier down in a minute. "

Kagome knelt down to Sango and with the help of Kari she leaned Sango back against a tree. Kagome suddenly remembered that InuYasha was of Sango's friends. She couldn't see him again, last time it had caused her to become distarcted...to emotional...she couldn't afford to loose control of them again! She had to concertrate of the mission that Midoriko had set her and nothing else!

" Are you alright against there? " Kagome asked Sango.

" Yes, thankyou Kagome..." replied Sango.

Kagome nodded before standing up and beginning to walk away in the opposite direction.

" Hey! Where are you going? " Sango asked alarmed, " don't you want to see InuYasha?!? "

Kagome stopped and looked back at the woman. She did want to see InuYasha...Whenever she remembered his golden eyes and the way he had looked at her she felt a strange floating sensation in her stomach...and a tingle down her spine that she couldn't explain...

As much as she wanted to see him, she knew she couldn't, it might jeapordise everything if her mind was to become clouded again...

" Send him my apologies, but I'm afraid I cannot see him again, nor can he me..." Kagome said sadly, her eyes cast down, her heart telling her the complete opposite. She turned away and began to walk away again until she felt something. " InuYasha's aura! "

Quick as lightening Kagome took down the barrier hiding Sango and ran off in the opposite direction, Kari following in persuit.

Sango barely had time to call her name before she heard several voices and a meow call her own. She turned her head to see Miroku and InuYasha bounding towards her with Kirara and Shippo.

" Sango! Are you alright?!? " asked a concerned Miroku as he knealed beside her.

" Ye..Yeah...I'm fine...my wounds will heal..." Sango said slowly.

" Hey Sango, you okay? You look kinda pale..." InuYasha pointed out. He sniffed the air...he smelt something familiar...

InuYasha's eyes widened with shock as he recognised the scent and the way Sango's wounds had been wrapped up.

" Sango! Kagome was here, wasn't she?!? " he asked her forcefully.

" InuYasha? " Shippo asked worriedly.

" She was wasn't she?!? " InuYasha asked.

Sango nodded her head slowly, about to tell him what Kagome had told her about the two of them but found he had already scampered off into the direction Kagome had dissapeared to.

" Kagome was here!?! " Shippo asked exitedly.

Sango didn't answer though, she could only stare off in the direction InuYasha went.

InuYasha ran as fast as his legs would carry him, hoping he could catch up with Kagome before she flew off on that neko demon again.

" Kagome please! Wait for me! Don't you run away from me again damnit! "

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