Title: Uncertainty
Author: Priestess Skye
Word Count: 537
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Genre: Drama
Characters: Inu/Sango
Universe: Canon
Prompt: Unintended Consequences
Even if you marry he will still be there. He can't do anything else.
The others had long since gone to bed but she continued to sit by the fire, wide-awake and thinking. Things had become so complex and confusing in the past weeks, and Sango wasn't sure if it was for the better not. Miroku, though always amiable, had distanced himself from her. And Kagome? Well Kagome was perhaps just as confused as she was. Neither she nor Inuyasha would offer up an explanation as to their behaviour. Neither were ready, and she knew in the end, the two of them would only hurt the others, or themselves.
"Go to sleep, Sango," she heard him murmur from where he sat against the tree. His eyes remained closed but she knew he was constantly on the alert. His duty didn't only extend to her, it extended to all of them. He thought himself alpha, therefore he needed to guard all those below him. But it was also more than instinct.
It was love.
The fang had nothing to do with it other than knowing she needed a weapon. It was just yet another way to offer his protection…protection he would have offered anyway.
But had Miroku misspoke earlier? There was wisdom beneath all of that lechery, and it was wisdom that rarely failed any of them. "I've been thinking about this whole thing," she whispered, so as not to wake the others. These past few weeks have been going round and round in my head."
"So? What's the point? There's nothing to think about."
"I think there is. You gave me a weapon that contains a piece of you within it, and suddenly, I don't know…"
"There's nothing to know. It makes sense to me. My father's fang reacts the same way to Tenseiga. It recognizes its own. Your hiraikotsu may not be of my father's fang, but it is of mine and I am of my father's. It's connected. It's no big deal. You just need to get used to it."
Even if you marry he will still be there. He can't do anything else.
Still, Miroku's words haunted her. Could she one day marry knowing Inuyasha would still be watching after her? Would Miroku one day marry her knowing that he'd never be rid of Inuyasha as a potential rival?
And where had this idea of Inuyasha being a rival come from?
"One more question then I'll go to sleep." She turned to him fully and waited for him to open his eyes.
"Keh, make it quick. Some of us need sleep."
Smiling lightly, she saw past the mock annoyance and saw the curiosity within his eyes. She seemed to be doing that a lot lately, looking past what was obviously there and seeing something new, unexpected beneath. She was starting to see why Kagome continually defended him despite the hurt. Beneath the aloof hanyou was somebody who not only understood duty, but also went beyond that. He actually cared.
"Why did you give me your fang? Never mind the fact that I didn't have a weapon and I needed one. We could have found the materials anywhere to rebuild it. But why your fang?"