Well I'm a sadpanda now, not even one review for chapter 12? Ouch, I wonder if it was that bad... I mean, I thought it was a bit much, but not even one review?
Oh well, maybe this one will get a few hopefully. Not much to say other than I will be posting Fan Mail 2 directly after this chapter, so keep an eye out. Espeically if your review will be appearing in it because it's the only way I reply to them now.
Ummm Nothing else to say so...
TL- *Shoves Miroku out this time* Go on, you know what to do, Monk.
M- *looks around nervously* TL Doesn't own Inuyasha or it's characters...
TL- Go on
M- But she own's Sonya and the plot... Can I have my shirt back now?
TL- No, I'm selling it to fangirls. Do you know how much Inuyasha eats? I have to do this, it's a sacrifice for the sake of fanfiction. Everyone has to make them now and again.
M- I can understand this. But my shirt?
TL- Could have been your pants.
M- ... Alright
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"I'm going to take a bath." Sonya sad suddenly, breaking the tense silence that surrounded the campfire that night, causing the other five members to glance at her then turn and glance at each other.
"I'll come with you." Kagome offered with false cheer, already starting to climb to her feet despite the warning look Inuyasha shot her. After what he saw earlier today between the female wolf and Koga, he made sure Kagome was either too busy or too far away from Sonya to talk to her or even be too close to her.
"No. I'll be fine. Besides, I'm sure your pup over there doesn't want me around you right now." Sonya laughed lightly, refusing to look up from the yellow bag she was digging through to get a towel and bathing supplies. "I'll be back after a bit."
With that she turned and walked out of the light from the camp fire and disappeared into the dark of night without another word or look in any of their directions.
"Sonya..." Kagome sighed and sat back down, a sad frown pulling the corners of her lips downwards as she stared in the direction her friend walked off in. "Don't worry about her. She's dangerous enough to keep anyone away from her." Inuyasha scoffed, folding his arms in front of himself as he glared at the fire. "I don't want you alone with her, Kagome. There's no telling what she can do."
"Sonya would never hurt me!" Kagome burst out and jumped to her feet to glare down at the hanyou. "She's been like this before and never did she once try to hurt me! If you don't like me going around her, then we might just go and search for the jewel shards ourselves!" With that, she turned and ran off into the dark, following Sonya's direction.
"I'm with Kagome. She's never tried to hurt any of us. I don't see why we're so nervous around her right now." Sango finally said, earning a disbelieving look from Inuyasha as she too stood and turned to follow the other girls. "We stayed with you after you lost your mind to your demon blood, Inuyasha. I don't know what happened to Sonya. But with how she's protected and helped us, the least we can do is still treat her the same."
With that she walked out into the dark as well, intent on finding Sonya and reassuring her that she didn't think the wolf any different than she did before.
Humming softly under her breath, Sonya slipped off her clothes and slowly walked into the warm water of the lake she had scented not too long ago, allowing a small sigh of relief to fall from her lips as her eyes closed. Walking farther in, she stopped when the water reached her waist and opened her eyes once more to stare up at the full moon with a gentle smile.
Reaching down, she scooped some water up in her hands and brought it up to wash her face off before dunking under the water completely to soak her hair. Humming once again, she turned back to grab the soap and shampoo from the shore and began washing her hair while sitting in the shallow water, her tails swaying slightly in the gentle current behind her.
The sudden image of Kagome hiding behind Inuyasha popped up in her mind, making Sonya pause in her movements and drop her hands down into the water in front of her silently, staring at the claws tipping each finger that glinted slightly in the moonlight. Slumping her shoulders slightly, she felt a small shudder wrack her body at the look of fear in her friend's eyes and closed her own tightly, trying to force away the image.
'What are you?'
"I don't know what I am anymore." She whispered quietly, staring down at the water again with a low sigh, her shoulders slumping farther so she curled in on herself slightly, arms wrapping around her knees as she drew them up to her chest.
"You're my best friend. That's what you are."
Jerking in surprise, Sonya whirled around to stare up at Kagome where she stood on the shore a few feet away with a slight smile on her face. "Want some company?"
"You sure you want to be alone with something like me?" Sonya scoffed, turning back around and began scrubbing at her hair with a vengeance, intent on trying to ignore the stares she felt wandering her exposed skin.
The baths she took before with Kagome and Sango, she always made sure to wear a shirt despite the odd look she got from Sango for it but she slayer always managed to never ask and just ignored it for the rest of the bath, much to Sonya's relief. "There's more than I remember." Kagome murmured quietly, slowly walking into the water to sit next to the wolf and began washing her own hair after soaking it too.
"Yeah... I had a few run-ins when I last saw you there and when I got here." Sonya murmured off-handedly, one shoulder moving up in a slight shrug then leaned forward to soak her hair and wash out the soap. "They aren't anything though. I've seen worse on some of the people around here."
"True." Falling silent, the two girls washed themselves at a leisurely pace until the sound of footsteps came up from behind them. "Room for one more?" Sango asked with a slight smile when they turned around to look at her.
Feeling herself tense from the way the slayer's eyes wandered over her scars, Sonya turned back around and let out an over-exasperated huff playfully. "I suppose. But I don't think this whole lake would fit one more person if anyone else wandered by to ask."
Laughing under her breath, Sango undressed and joined them in the water, sitting on the other side of Sonya as they settled into a familiar routine together once more.
Shooting a glance out of the corner of her eye, she caught Sango eyeing the bullet wounds on her shoulder and upper chest with a curious frown on her face. "Bullet wounds."
"Oh! Sorry, I didn't mean to stare..." She jumped and turned away with a faint blush on her face, suddenly very intent on washing a single spot on her arm. "Don't worry about it. I expected it really, you don't normally see wounds like this in your time." Sonya shrugged and reached up to touch one of the wounds right below her collar bone with a slight grin.
"Did Kagome explain guns to you?"
"We've seen them. Big things that use a powder to shoot out a ball of metal, right?" Sango shot a curious glance over at Sonya, unsure if she was right.
"Sort of, the ones in our time were smaller and they packed a bigger punch... The bullets varied from ones that just tore through flesh to ones that exploded inside to send shards of metal inside the body so it's harder to get out." The wolf explained, her head tipping back to stare at the stars. "They're used a lot by the kind of people I used to live with. My gang... Or pack I suppose. It was the only way we had to defend ourselves or our territory."
"I see... How did you survive so many?" Sango ventured hesitantly, unsure if she would be willing to answer. "I wouldn't have if Kagome and her Mother didn't take care of me." Sonya said truthfully, shooting a wide grin at the miko beside her, earning a smile in return. "Whenever I ended up being wounded too badly to take care of it myself, I'd go to them and they'd fix me up without question."
Frowning slightly, Sango raised the rag she was using up to her other arm and focused on it while deep in thought. "If you were badly wounded, why didn't you go to a healer.. Or... Doc-tor?" She asked finally, looking over at the two women in question, watching as Sonya tensed slightly and Kagome let out a low breath.
"Because if she went to a doctor or a hospital even, they'd know she was part of a gang and take her to the police. They keep the law and what she did broke those laws. She would have been imprisoned for it. So Mom and I took care of her so she wouldn't go through that." Kagome finally answered, breaking the small silence that grew between the three of them.
"Oh..." Sango trailed off, her eyes drifting forward to look out over the lake, watching as the moon and stars reflected on it's smooth surface. "Sonya, what happened earlier today. I don't fear you or blame you for it. I just wanted you to know I'll stay by your side." She said suddenly, feeling the need to explain herself to the wolf beside her.
Sucking in a startled breath, Sonya looked over at Sango with wide eyes. "What?"
Turning to look at her again, Sango smiled and nodded her head. "You take care of Kagome and treat her like a sister. All you've ever done is help us, so I don't see any point of treating you like a dangerous person when you've never done or said anything to hurt us."
Feeling a hopeful smile tug at her lips, Sonya looked over at kagome to see a smug expression on her face and shoved the miko lightly on the shoulder. "You knew she would follow you here, didn't you." She accused in amusement, watching as kagome tried to rearrange her face into a mask of innocence and failing miserably. "I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Oh shut up. You're hopeless." Sonya laughed and stood up, her arms reaching over her head in a stretch before walking farther into the water. "You know what I haven't been able to do, even after showing up in this time?"
"What?"
"I've never been skinny dipping before." With a fanged grin, she dove into the water and swam out into the middle with powerful strokes before turning around to stare at the two girls expectantly. "Well? Am I doing this alone or are you two chickens going to join me?"
Turning to Sango, Kagome grinned suddenly and jumped up to run deeper into the water with a gleeful laugh and swam out to join her friend. Shaking her head slightly, Sango glanced around quickly before joining them with a smile of her own, a faint blush growing on her face once she fully realized what they were doing.
Good thing Miroku was back at the campsite... She hoped anyway.
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