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7. Heaven
Patting the earth, making sure to pack the dirt tightly, Kagome gave herself a satisfied smile. That would do. Out of all the mayhem and destruction surrounding her, this would bring a tiny bit of peace to an otherwise grotesque picture. Her smile widen and she nodded assuredly to herself. Of course it would.
"Kagome!" Sango's concerned yell startled the young priestess out of her musings. Had she been gone that long?
"I'm over here!"
Sango walked up to her friend slowly, no longer rushing now that she knew where she was, and kneeled beside her.
"What are you doing?"
The battle had ended a while ago, ending with another successful shard in their possession, and the other's had already set up camp. Yet the young girl had wandered off before supper could even be started and the group had gotten worried. Sango volunteered to find her, having a hunch where she had wondered off to. And here she was.
Bending back slightly, Kagome let Sango's curious eye's observe her work. Leaning down closer, the slayer turned probing eyes onto the miko.
She smiled lightly. "Well, when we were leaving it just looked so barren and...hellish I guess, even with the bodies buried. So I thought I'd plant a few flowers from the meadow we passed a few minutes before. I don't know, it's kind of like a little bit of heaven in an otherwise seemingly evil place."
Sango nodded, noticing that the surrounding area, soaked in blood and guts and stray pieces of lumber laying around, really did look similar to something out of a nightmare. Kagome's little patch of colour was a welcome change.
As the two friends were heading back, a stray thought passsed through the slayer. In their group everyone was wrought by tragedy. Inuyasha, the betrayed hanyou, Miroku the cursed monk, Shippou, an orphaned kit, and her, the hardened warrior.
But then their was Kagome. Sure, she had seen the blood baths and observed the true nature of evil, but everyday she accepted it, and moved on. She smiled where other's couldn't, she laughed after things that had people moping for weeks. She cheered up everyone else when their misery was getting them down, and accepted their every fault, being the friend and sibling they needed. She was the group's own little patch of heaven on earth.
Suddenly, Sango hugged the younger woman. Kagome looked at her oddly.
"Sango?" she questioned, having no clue of the woman's inner musings.
She just shook her head, shrugging off the question. "Nothing. Thanks."
And although she had no idea as to what Sango was thanking her for, Kagome just hugged her friend back.
'Thanks,' Sango thought 'for being the little piece of heaven none of us thought we could have.'
