Inu-Yasha

Betrayal of the New Moon

Twenty-One

Sango waited until they stopped for the night so she could leave without any one noticing. There was only one way for her to be able to keep the baby without Naraku knowing that the child was Inu-Yasha's and that was for her to disappear until the bastard was dead. She wouldn't be able to fight much longer and she wouldn't be able to defend herself if she was left behind and Naraku came to attack the village just to piss Inu-Yasha off.

Sango knew how the bastard worked and had a funny feeling that he would do something to destroy their child just for the hell of it. She wondered how Inu-Yasha would react when she told him that she was pregnant. Inu-Yasha was already freaking out because of a dream and now that she was pregnant she wondered how he would react. So she decided to do the most logical thing at the moment, leave without saying goodbye. It wasn't goodbye, not really anyway.

"SISTER!" A familiar voice shouted as she walked away from camp having had said that she was going to go out to look for some firewood. "SISTER!"

Sango wanted to keep on going but her feet just froze.

"You're leaving, aren't you sister?" Kohaku asked as he slowed down and finally stopped.

"Yes." Sango replied after a few minutes of silence passed by the siblings.

"But…" Kohaku protested. "You haven't even told…"

"I KNOW!" Sango snapped and realized that she did. "I'm sorry…" Sango quickly apologized and looked down. "I didn't mean to yell at you. I…"

"Why don't you tell him?" Kohaku asked. "I'm sure that he would…"

"Kohaku…" Sango said softly after she took a deep breath. "Inu-Yasha doesn't want to marry me just because of a dream." She said sadly. "What makes you think he won't react in a similar way when he finds out that I'm pregnant."

Silence and then there was nothing but wind that passed through.

"But still…" Kohaku said. "Where will you go?" He asked.

"I don't know." Sango admitted turning to look at her brother. "We've made plenty of friends over the years of traveling and maybe… one of our friends will take me in. I'm not going back home because the Taijiya village will be the first place Inu-Yasha will look."

"It'll hurt him, you leaving like this." Kohaku said softly.

"I know." The female Taijiya said and it took everything in her not to make her voice break as she spoke to her brother. He was another loose end that she would have to leave behind as well. She had finally gotten him back from Naraku and now she was parting with him again. Why was life so unfair? She wondered as the two siblings stood there in silence, neither one saying a word between the other.

"I'm coming with you." Kohaku said and Sango suddenly felt a tug at her hand and she had to fight back the tears that threatened to fall from her eye lids.

"No," Sango said sharply which made the younger boy, no man look at her with a questioning gaze. "You are to stay here with Inu-Yasha and the others." Sango replied. "Even though I will no longer be able to fight to get revenge on the death of our family and friends, you will still be able to. You have gotten quite strong over these past few years." She said laughed. Well, it really wasn't a laugh, not really anyway. It was more of a "humph" type thing but the noise wasn't really a humph. "Kind of ironic isn't it?" Sango asked as she stared at her younger brother with sad eyes. "You are to defeat Naraku but in some ways we have to think him. You did become stronger thanks to him. At home it would have taken you a much longer time to get to the point where you are because of how you where." Sango explained as her little brother looked at her with a confused look.

"I don't care what you say!" Kohaku shouted as he suddenly rebounded back to his serious side, ignoring what his sister had just said thinking that it was crazy talk from her being pregnant. "I'm coming with you!" He shouted.

"Kirara-Chan." Sango said to the neko youkai who had been sitting on her shoulder this whole time. She took the neko off of her shoulder and held her infront of her and hugged her old companion briefly. "Stay with Kohaku and watch over him and Inu-Yasha for me will you?" She asked as the neko looked at her with a cute crooked look and mewed a bit confused.

"I'm leaving and am leaving you with Kohaku who is to stay with our friends. Will you watch over him and Inu-Yasha for me Kirara?" Sango asked sadly. "I'm afraid that I might not be back for quite some time. I don't know how long it'll take to defeat Naraku but as soon as I get word that he's dead I'll come back for you two, Inu-Yasha as well if he'll accept me back."

Kirara mewed nodding understanding her master's pain. She knew what her older master was going through since she had been there since the beginning of their journey. She licked Sango's face as the female Taijiya held her up to her cheek and she nuzzled against the woman's face affectionately. She then jumped onto Kohaku's shoulder and watched as her female master embraced her younger master.

"I am sorry to do this to you little brother." Sango said once she broke the hug. "I know I have no right in asking you a favor seeing as how I am leaving you like this but…" She said somewhat hesitantly and held her breath for a couple of seconds before releasing it. "Could you please not tell Inu-Yasha anything about why I left or that you even know that I left?" Sango asked as she looked into her brother's matching brown eyes. "You're not very good at lieing but Inu-Yasha doesn't know that. If he knows that you know where I am or why I left he'll probably beat the living crap out of you and then come looking for me. I want him to be able to fight Naraku the way he always fights. I don't want him to have any extra burdens, if he has a child around to worry about then his mind will be distracted. You see how he fights Kohaku, if there's something that distracts his mind, such as having to worry about one of us he will start to…"

"I know." Kohaku said frowning. "I used it against him many times while I was trying to earn Naraku's trust." Kohaku admitted feeling rather ashamed about himself. "I'll keep your secret sister but you better return. If you do not wish to tell me the location of where you will stay at least take Kirara with you and then send her back once you found where you'll be living so that she can know where you are for when Naraku is defeated. I hope that we have him defeated by the child my nephew or niece is born." Kohaku said grinning and Sango couldn't help but do the same.

"Thank you." Sango said as she signaled for Kirara to come back to her. "Until Naraku's dead then. Do your best."

"I will. I'll defeat him for our clan." Kohaku promised.

"Thank you." Sango said softly and turned her back and left. Kohaku watched until she was out of site.

'Forgive me my brother.' Sango thought as she made her way to the edge of the forest hours later. 'For placing my burden on you.' She thought as a road now appeared before her. 'Inu-Yasha,' She thought thinking of the hanyou and felt as their unborn child kicked at the thought of the name. 'Please take care of yourself and don't be too hard on Kohaku. I'm doing this to protect our family.' She thought hoping that her thoughts would reach the man she loved.

…….

They searched the forest, trying to find the female Taijiya but found no site of her. Inu-Yasha could not smell blood nor did they find Sango's or Kirara's bodies. He grabbed hold of Kohaku's top and pulled the boy off of his feet. "Damn you, you know where she is don't you?" Inu-Yasha barked causing Kohaku to stare into the hanyou's gold eyes.

"No," He answered rather with a monotone voice. "I do not. She and Kirara are missing and I'm afraid that something bad might have happen to them." He lied as he tried to get the hanyou to calm down. 'She's right…' He thought rather dimly. 'It is hard for me to lie but I'll just have to get use to it.' He thought and held back the sigh that wanted to be released.

"INU-YASHA!" Kagome shouted at the hanyou who turned to look at her. "LET KOHAKU GO, IF HE DOESN'T KNOW HE DOESN'T KNOW!" She shouted causing the hanyou to wince. "Besides, for all we know, Sango and Kirara-Chan could have been kidnapped and while you're here bickering with her brother, you could spend that energy looking for her!" She snapped.

"She's right, Sango has been ill lately so it would be easy for her to get captured since she's not at her full strength." Miroku explained which caused Inu-Yasha's gaze to shift to the monk.

"Why would they take Kirara for?" He asked which made Miroku frown for a minute.

"Because Kirara was getting in their way and she would have come back here and report their hideout to us! Now let us not waste any further energy and use this…" Miroku paused trying to think of the right word. "Hot… heated…." He frowned since every word that came out of his mouth could have been taken sexually.

Inu-Yasha released Kohaku who landed on his butt and turned around. "Let's go." Inu-Yasha said. "Sango's sent should still be fresh, all I have to do is find it and…"

At that moment it began to rain.

He punched the nearest tree in frustration. 'Sango…' He thought. 'Where are you?'

……

They searched for Sango days later and something was beginning to tell him that Sango was not kidnapped, that she left them on their own free will. He checked the Taijiya village and he also checked Kaede's village but there was no sign of her. The first month went by and then a second, he knew that even if Sango had been ill, she still could have fought her way out or at least Kirara could have. He knew that she wasn't dead because he would sense her death if she died.

It was as if she completely disappeared off of the face of the planet. 'Why?' Inu-Yaha couldn't help himself. 'Why, why would you leave?' He asked as his hand clutched hold of the ribbon that he had gotten for her and had meant to give it to her when the time was right. It wasn't much of a gift but it was all that he could really afford.

'Yes, she did leave him…' His mind told him sadly as he just stood there at the edge of the Inu-Yasha forest. That would be the only possible explanation. She left him and left her brother to finish her job at killing Naraku. But why would she leave? He wondered as he stared off at the spring infront of him. Apparently she had been lieing to him, he realized as he stood up on the branch without loosing his balance. She had been telling him this entire time that she loved him but that was a lie!

How could he have been so stupid? He wondered as he clutched the ribbon in his claw-like-hands and didn't even care that his own claws ripped through his skin. The blood flowed from their open wounds and dirtied the ribbon. First Kikyou, then Kagome, now Sango. It was ironic now that he thought about it. It seemed like women where always betraying him. Well, technically he betrayed Kagome but that wasn't the point.

It would not happen again, he promised as his clutch grew tighter if such a thing where possible. He swore that he would not allow himself to be fooled by a woman ever again, whether he was human or not he would not allow himself to show another his affection other then friendship if even that. No one would get close enough to him so that they could hurt him again. He wouldn't allow it.

Relaxing his hand, his claws slowly relaxed until they where no longer touching the palm of his hand. Four finger-nail like marks with fresh blood flowing from them could be clearly seen. And the ribbon that he had gotten for Sango's hair had flown away, being taken by the wind.

…..

Sango felt as her water suddenly broke and she cried out and held her stomach as she started to fall to her knees. No one was around to help her since she was staying at the edge of the village, not wanting to be in eye's view of the villagers just incase one of them would decide to try to hurt her child once it was born.

Gravity took over and she unwillingly used her hands to keep her body up. Her body was shaking and it was in terrible pain. "H… help…" She begged as if there was someone near by who could hear her.

Her vision began to blurr as someone approached her and she reached out her hand for help. "Help…" She muttered one more time as she lowered herself to the ground as gently as she could as the darkness began to take her. "Inu… Yasha…" She managed to whisper as she fell unconsciouss

……

It was mid after noon when Sango woke up. She felt weak and drained and wondered what was missing. When she realized what it was she tried to sit up but it hurt and she felt a cold hand push her down. She looked up to only gaze into Kikyou's eyes.

"Kikyou!" Sango gasped as she stared at the un-dead miko.

"This is yours." Kikyou said as she handed Sango the new born who was wrapped in a simple blanket. "Now Taijiya, you will explain to me as to why you had Inu-Yasha's child for payment of me not taking your life last night as I should have."

"What are you talking about?" Sango asked and Kikyou explained what had happened.

"Now," Kikyou said with a threatening note. "Why is it that you had Inu-Yasha's child?"

Sango held her baby and looked at it for a moment. "Is it a boy or girl?" Sango asked ignoring the question for the minute as the infant grasped it's mother's finger.

"Girl and to answer your other question, she's going to be fine." Kikyou answered.

Sango smiled at her daughter before forcing herself to sit up and took a deep breath. "It…" She started and then explained the whole story.

……..

Five days later, Kikyou headed off out of the village and Sango and her newborn daughter watched as she left.

Flashback

"I might decide to keep your secret from Inu-Yasha the next time I see him but I might let it slip if he is still the way he was the last time I seen him." Kikyou threatened. "If you do not go back to him as you promised I will personally see to it that I will kill you." Kikyou promised.

"You still love Inu-Yasha don't you?" Sango asked as she looked at the miko who didn't answer. "That's ok, you don't have to answer, what you did for me and Inu-Yasha last night is a good enough answer." Sango said smiling softly as she stared at the miko with a newly found respect for her. "Thank you." She whispered once she knew that the miko could not hear her.

"Now," She said looking at her baby. "We need to do something about you not having a name little one." She said to her sleeping daughter as she headed back toward their hut. 'Inu-Yasha…' She thought as she looked at their sleeping daughter. 'I hope that one day soon you will be able to see her.'

THE END

It's over? OMG what? You can't leave it there you can't! UU don't mind me... It's really early in the morning and I'm lacking my caffiene.

But to answer your questions, it is over. This is the last chapter of this book I guess you can call it. There will be no epilogue so deal with it! Haha! Just kidding. UU Like I said I'm tired and I intend to act a little odd when I'm tired... but then again I act odd when I"m wide awake so explain that one? ANYWAYS!

Incase you are all wondering, I am more then likely thinking of writing a sequal to this "book" but it depends on the demand for it. I already have ideas for it and am ready to start writing... err... re-writting it but it depends on how many people would actually read it. I really want to do a sequal but if no one's going to read it then what's the point? It'll just be a waste of my time which is very precious right now seeing as how I only have one month left of the school year.

I was going to make this chapter into 2 chapters instead of one but decided to fit it all here because had I made part of it an epilogue it would be REALLY short and I usually try to avoid chapters that are less than a thousand words long.

THANK YOU ALL for all of the reviews (not including flames) and thank you for reading. If I do make a sequal to this fiction, which I more then likely will (but might start it faster if there's a demand for it...) I'm thinking of calling it "Broken Promises". I have the first chapter already written sort of but it needs heavy editing but well like I said I'm not sure if I'll poste it yet or not. So review people!

Happy Readings

-Darkia-