Disclaimer: Same as always.
*This story is dedicated to a friend who wishes to remain anonymous. I'm sorry Fate took everything away from you.
I Wish It Was Different
Ch. 4: "The Worst Is Found Out"
"Wow! We collected a lot of Shikon shards!" Sango exclaimed as she polished her just recently used boomerang.
"We still have a lot to collect!" Inu Yasha told everyone as he looked at the fused Shikon no Tama in his hand. A great
chunk of it was still missing.
"I think we did a pretty good job!" Sanbi said to Inu Yasha.
"It would be a good job if the Shikon no Tama was complete!" Inu Yasha yelled back.
"Well we are getting there!"
"Not fast enough!"
"This is pretty fast!"
"Here we go again." Shippou sighed and murmured to Miroku and Sango. Both nodded in agreement.
Sango suddenly felt a certain hand from a certain someone caressing her behind. Miroku got yet another throbbing bump on
his head.
"THAT'S IT!" Sanbi yelled as she stood up, towering above Inu Yasha. "I'VE HAD IT UP TO HERE WITH YOU!" Sanbi put a hand
above her head to measure her patience. "I'VE BEEN PUTTING UP WITH YOU FOR 2 WEEKS NOW! AND ALL YOU EVER DONE IS YELL AND
CRITICIZE ME! I'VE GOTTEN ENOUGH OF THAT FROM MY OJII-SAN! AND I DON'T NEED IT FROM YOU! I'M GOING HOME!!!!"
Sanbi grabbed Kagome's yellow backpack, stuffed some contents into it, placed it on her back, and proceeded to walk to
the well.
"Uh, Sanbi?" Sango told her. "The well is 3 days away if you walk, so why don't you take Kirara."
"Hm? Oh, thanks, Sango!"
"Keh! Why are you helping that brat?!" Inu Yasha continued to further annoy.
"I'm not a brat!"
"You're a brat and you know it!"
"JUST SHUT UP!"
Sanbi climbed onto a transformed Kirara, and the cat proceeded to fly toward the well. When they were gone, Inu Yasha
turned to Sango.
"Why did you let her go?" Inu Yasha growled.
"Because she needs a break from this world, and more importantly, YOU!"
"But we have shard to collect!"
"Sango-sama has a point, Inu Yasha." Miroku told him. "Sanbi-sama needs a break, just like Kagome-sama--"
Suddenly, the priest had a second bump on his head, this time from Inu Yasha.
"Keh! They're NOTHING alike! That girl, Sanbi, is more of a brat! Kagome was more of a bitch!"
This time, Inu Yasha was smacked by Shippou.
*I can't BELIEVE him!* Sanbi thought as she hopped of Kirara. *What did Anma-chan see in that hanyou, anyway?!*
"Arigatou, Kirara." Sanbi told the cat as she scratched her behind the ears. Kirara purred for a while, then flew off
into the direction they came from.
Sanbi hopped down the well while thinking, *I wonder how my family is doing.*
Sanbi climbed out of the well back at her time. When she got into the house, she realize no one was there. Suddenly,
the phone rang. Sanbi picked it up.
"Mushi Mushi?"
"Hello, who is this?" the person on the other end asked.
"Sanbi."
"Oh! Sanbi-chan! This is Anma-san!"
"Anma-san! O genki desu ka?"
"Hai. Arigatou, genki des. I was just calling to see how everyone was. I was calling for three days."
"Everyone is fine, I guess. I don't know, 'cause I haven't been home lately."
"Oh? Where have you been?"
"At a friend's house." Sanbi answered, knowing it was the half truth.
"Oh. Where are your parents?"
"Not here. I just got home."
"Okay. I'll call back then. Ja!"
"Ja na!"
Both hung up their phones. Sanbi sighed and went to the bathroom. Sure has been a long time since I've taken a nice,
hot bath.
"Taidai ima!" Sanbi's mother called from down stairs. Sanbi got up from her room and headed down stairs.
"Hi! How did you know I was home?"
Her Kaa-san pointed to the yellow pack on the kitchen table. "You know Tou-san doesn't like it when you do that."
"Gomen." Sanbi took the pack off the table.
"So how was it? In the other time, I mean."
"Oh.... well, let me start from the beginning."
*That cursed wench!* Inu Yasha thought as he stomped toward the well. *Running away like that, and THEN staying for 5
days?! I don't think so!*
Inu Yasha jumped into the well, and climbed out the other end. When Inu Yasha saw he was in the shrine at the Hiragashi's
property, memories flooded him mind....
(Insert "Inu Yasha and Kagome" music here)
"Inu Yasha! I have to study!" Kagome told Inu Yasha from her desk. Inu Yasha was on the perch of the window.
"Can't it wait?! We have shards to collect!"
"No! My studies are more important!"
"What can be more important than Shikon shard?!"
"If I don't study, then I don't pass my classes! If I don't pass my classes, then I don't graduate! If I don't graduate,
then I don't get a job! If I don't get a job, then I don't survive in my world! If I don't--"
"Okay! I get the picture!"
"So now you know why it is so crucial!"
"Not really."
Inu Yasha grabbed her book from her.
"Hey! Give that back!" Kagome yelled as she jumped for her book. Inu Yasha kept it out of her reach.
"What kind of language is this?!" Inu Yasha exclaimed as he looked at her math book.
"Shut up and give me my book!"
She jumped for it again, but he still kept it out of her reach. However, Inu Yasha stumbled and fell backwards, taking
Kagome with him. Both looked at each other and blushed deeply, knowing how wrong this looked. Kagome on top of Inu Yasha,
while he held her on top of him by he waist.
Inu Yasha blinked the memory away. He opened the door to the shrine, and saw the house. The house still looked like it was
in perfect condition. He saw Kagome's bedroom window, and he went up the tree, and peered inside.
He saw a girl at her old desk, however, it was not Kagome. It was Sanbi. He sniffed the air in the room. It was Sanbi's
sent. Kagome's seemed to have dissipated. Inu Yasha looked back at Sanbi, who was asleep over her book.
*Just like Kagome.* He thought. Suddenly, the bedroom door opened, and a woman came in the room.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!" the woman screamed, causing Sanbi to wake up, and look at Inu Yasha.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!" Sanbi screamed as well, which caused Inu Yasha to jump, and that caused him to fall out of
the window.
"Hm. This might sting a bit." Yuki, who was Sanbi's mother, told Inu Yasha as she sprayed antibacterial on his scratched
up face.
When Inu Yasha fell into the bush below the window, the sharp leaves cut him. Then when he got out of the bush, a stray
back cat attacked him.
"Oh, Kaa-san? Anma-san called."
Inu Yasha's ears perked up.
"Oh? What did she say?"
"Just wanted to know how we are doing."
"Okay. I'll call her back."
Yuki sprayed the antibacterial on Inu Yasha's wounds, but he didn't even flinch. He just say there, arms folded, and
mumbling.
"It serves you right!" Sanbi told the dog demon. "You shouldn't climb into people's windows like that!"
"Keh!" was Inu Yasha's response.
"Honestly! You are more trouble than you're worth!"
Inu Yasha glared at her.
"Oh, Sanbi!" Yuki scolded her daughter. "You should treat your boyfriend like that!"
"NAAAAAANIIIIII?!?!?!?!" Both screamed at the same time.
"Hai!" Yuki gave both of them a typical anime smile. "I want to show you some cute pictures of Sanbi, Inu Yasha!"
"NO! MOM DON'T!!!"
"And her is a picture of Sanbi sleeping! Oh look at the cute drool! And here is a picture of her sitting on the toilet
for the first time!"
Inu Yasha snorted and looked at Sanbi, who just turned redder than she already was, and turned her head; her pride
completely gone.
"Oh look! Here's Sanbi shaving her legs for the first time!"
Inu Yasha looked, then passed out with swirling eyes.
"Oh dear!" Yuki exclaimed. "I guess it showed a little too much."
"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!"
Sanbi stormed out of the house, one hand held the yellow pack, while the other dragged Inu Yasha to the well shrine.
"We're going to get more Shikon shards!" she told Inu Yasha, not waiting for his response.
She practically threw Inu Yasha down the well, then the backpack, then herself.
"Sitting on the toilet for the first time!" Inu Yasha snorted again, which got him slapped by Sanbi.
"If you ever mention that to anyone else, I swear i'll make your life so miserable, you'll be begging me to kill you!"
"Hey! Sanbi-chan! Your back!" Sango greeted.
"Hai." She greeted back, then glared at Inu Yasha. "Not a word!" she mumbled to him.
Everything seemed to get back to normal, if you define 'normal' as hanging out with people from ancient Japan!
"So what else did Kagome say?" Inu Yasha asked Sanbi.
"Eh? What do you mean?"
"You said to your kaa-san that she called."
"Oh! No, that wasn't Anma-chan. That was my kaa-san's kaa-san."
"So then which parent of your's did Kagome have?" Shippou asked.
"My father."
"Sanbi?" Shippou started. "Did Kagome talk about us?"
"Hai. All the time. She really loved you guys."
Shippou started to cry.
"We want to see Kagome!" he cried.
"I can't--"
Inu Yasha grabbed her by her collar.
"Go get her! I want that stupid fox to shut up!"
Sanbi glared at him coldly.
"Fine. I'll go get her."
Sanbi came back and entered Kaede's hut where everyone was gathered.
"Here she is."
Sanbi placed an urn in the middle of the floor. Everyone stared at it with pale faces. The urn was made up of pure ivory,
with blue saffire yambuki's decorating around the urn. The urn itself was truly beautiful, however, the contents were not.
Kagome was dead.
Nobody could say anything. Everyone was going through their own memories that they shared with the woman from the future.
They all stared at Sanbi like they needed help.
"She wanted to return." Sanbi told them. "I even offered to go back with her. She agreed to come back, however.... she
died the night before she decided to come back."
Sanbi fell silent again as Sango's choking sobs could be heard. Inu Yasha stood up.
"Keh! I'm glad the stupid bitch is dead!" he exclaimed and headed off to the forest.
Sanbi frowned deeply. "I'm going to give him a piece of my mind!"
And she stalked after him.
Inu Yasha fell to his knees in front of Goshinboku. The place where Kagome and him met for the first time. Inu Yasha
squeezed his eyes together as hard as he could, but the salty liquid escaped. Inu Yasha let out a cry of pain and hugged
the tree, as if begging for someone to tell him all this was just a nightmare.
That the Kagome he knew, who smiled for him, who laughed for him, was not dead. Not his Kagome. Not his Kagome whom he
saw only 2 months ago. Inu Yasha let go of the tree and shouted at the Heavens.
"Why do you do this to me?! Why do you torture me like this?!"
But the gods seemed to laugh at him more when a light wind picked up. Inu Yasha sobbed again.
"Gomen nasai, Kagome. Gomen nasai.... my Kagome...."
Sanbi looked at Inu Yasha with a pained look, and decided to leave him alone.
Deep into the night, a figure almost crawled their way into Kaede's hut. The figure sniffed a bit, looked at the old
lady, then looked around.
"She's here somewhere! I can smell her!" the figure told itself.
The mysterious person sniffed again, and came upon an urn.
"Is this her?!" the person sniffed the urn.
"It is! Ah, what luck!"
And the stranger grabbed the urn, and took off into the silent night.
"My Anma-chan's ashes are gone!" Sanbi screamed in a fit of panic.
"I'm sure it's somewhere around here!" Sango told Sanbi, just as equally panicked as everyone searched around frantically.
"Mu father is going to kill me when he finds out it was me who took his mother's ashes! He's going to lock me up in a
torture chamber and starve me! I'm going to forget what sunlight looks like! I'm going to forget what Oden tastes like!
I'm going to have to survive on raw rat meat! I'm going--"
Sango slapped Sanbi's face lightly, yet hard enough to make her stop and bring her back to reality.
"Gomen, but you were getting hysterical."
Sanbi sniffed. "I'll never forgive myself."
"The only way we can get Kagome back is if Inu Yasha sniffs it out."
"Inu Yasha?"
The dog demon slowly turned his head and looked up. He was curled in fetal potion against Goshinboku. His red rimed eyes
looked hunted and pained.
"Go away." he told Sanbi weakly.
Normally, Sanbi would have taken pity on him, and let him be. But her Anma-chan's ashes were at stake, and possibly being
degraded.
"Please, Inu Yasha! I desperately need your help!"
Inu Yasha didn't say anything. He just turned his head away.
"Please Inu Yasha!" Sanbi got on her knees and hugged Inu Yasha. "My Anma-chan's ashes have been stolen and--"
She was interrupted when Inu Yasha pushed her away, yet held her shoulders. His yellow eyes had the same intensity that
made Sanbi's heart rate speed up.
*Why is my heart racing so hard?! Must be a Spring thing.* Sanbi thought.
"Kagome's urn has been stolen?!"
Sanbi breathed hard. Her heart beat was increased. "Hai."
Inu Yasha let go of Sanbi's shoulders, and headed for the village. Sanbi sat there, a hand placed on her chest as if to
soothe her heart rate.
*Is that was made Anma-chan fall in love with Inu Yasha?* Sanbi wondered as she gathered herself, and followed after Inu
Yasha.
To Be Continued....
Preview for next chapter:
Ch. 5: "A Tragic Reunion"
There was no mistaking who she was. Though she looked a bit older than what everyone, except for Sanbi, remembered, she
still held a youthful appearance. She looked at her hands, shocked by how young they looked. Inu Yasha could smell her
sweet sent that he longed to smell for the longest time. But all he could do was mumble her name.
"K-Kagome."
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Hai. Arigatou. Genki des = Yes. Thank you. I am fine
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*This story is dedicated to a friend who wishes to remain anonymous. I'm sorry Fate took everything away from you.
I Wish It Was Different
Ch. 4: "The Worst Is Found Out"
"Wow! We collected a lot of Shikon shards!" Sango exclaimed as she polished her just recently used boomerang.
"We still have a lot to collect!" Inu Yasha told everyone as he looked at the fused Shikon no Tama in his hand. A great
chunk of it was still missing.
"I think we did a pretty good job!" Sanbi said to Inu Yasha.
"It would be a good job if the Shikon no Tama was complete!" Inu Yasha yelled back.
"Well we are getting there!"
"Not fast enough!"
"This is pretty fast!"
"Here we go again." Shippou sighed and murmured to Miroku and Sango. Both nodded in agreement.
Sango suddenly felt a certain hand from a certain someone caressing her behind. Miroku got yet another throbbing bump on
his head.
"THAT'S IT!" Sanbi yelled as she stood up, towering above Inu Yasha. "I'VE HAD IT UP TO HERE WITH YOU!" Sanbi put a hand
above her head to measure her patience. "I'VE BEEN PUTTING UP WITH YOU FOR 2 WEEKS NOW! AND ALL YOU EVER DONE IS YELL AND
CRITICIZE ME! I'VE GOTTEN ENOUGH OF THAT FROM MY OJII-SAN! AND I DON'T NEED IT FROM YOU! I'M GOING HOME!!!!"
Sanbi grabbed Kagome's yellow backpack, stuffed some contents into it, placed it on her back, and proceeded to walk to
the well.
"Uh, Sanbi?" Sango told her. "The well is 3 days away if you walk, so why don't you take Kirara."
"Hm? Oh, thanks, Sango!"
"Keh! Why are you helping that brat?!" Inu Yasha continued to further annoy.
"I'm not a brat!"
"You're a brat and you know it!"
"JUST SHUT UP!"
Sanbi climbed onto a transformed Kirara, and the cat proceeded to fly toward the well. When they were gone, Inu Yasha
turned to Sango.
"Why did you let her go?" Inu Yasha growled.
"Because she needs a break from this world, and more importantly, YOU!"
"But we have shard to collect!"
"Sango-sama has a point, Inu Yasha." Miroku told him. "Sanbi-sama needs a break, just like Kagome-sama--"
Suddenly, the priest had a second bump on his head, this time from Inu Yasha.
"Keh! They're NOTHING alike! That girl, Sanbi, is more of a brat! Kagome was more of a bitch!"
This time, Inu Yasha was smacked by Shippou.
*I can't BELIEVE him!* Sanbi thought as she hopped of Kirara. *What did Anma-chan see in that hanyou, anyway?!*
"Arigatou, Kirara." Sanbi told the cat as she scratched her behind the ears. Kirara purred for a while, then flew off
into the direction they came from.
Sanbi hopped down the well while thinking, *I wonder how my family is doing.*
Sanbi climbed out of the well back at her time. When she got into the house, she realize no one was there. Suddenly,
the phone rang. Sanbi picked it up.
"Mushi Mushi?"
"Hello, who is this?" the person on the other end asked.
"Sanbi."
"Oh! Sanbi-chan! This is Anma-san!"
"Anma-san! O genki desu ka?"
"Hai. Arigatou, genki des. I was just calling to see how everyone was. I was calling for three days."
"Everyone is fine, I guess. I don't know, 'cause I haven't been home lately."
"Oh? Where have you been?"
"At a friend's house." Sanbi answered, knowing it was the half truth.
"Oh. Where are your parents?"
"Not here. I just got home."
"Okay. I'll call back then. Ja!"
"Ja na!"
Both hung up their phones. Sanbi sighed and went to the bathroom. Sure has been a long time since I've taken a nice,
hot bath.
"Taidai ima!" Sanbi's mother called from down stairs. Sanbi got up from her room and headed down stairs.
"Hi! How did you know I was home?"
Her Kaa-san pointed to the yellow pack on the kitchen table. "You know Tou-san doesn't like it when you do that."
"Gomen." Sanbi took the pack off the table.
"So how was it? In the other time, I mean."
"Oh.... well, let me start from the beginning."
*That cursed wench!* Inu Yasha thought as he stomped toward the well. *Running away like that, and THEN staying for 5
days?! I don't think so!*
Inu Yasha jumped into the well, and climbed out the other end. When Inu Yasha saw he was in the shrine at the Hiragashi's
property, memories flooded him mind....
(Insert "Inu Yasha and Kagome" music here)
"Inu Yasha! I have to study!" Kagome told Inu Yasha from her desk. Inu Yasha was on the perch of the window.
"Can't it wait?! We have shards to collect!"
"No! My studies are more important!"
"What can be more important than Shikon shard?!"
"If I don't study, then I don't pass my classes! If I don't pass my classes, then I don't graduate! If I don't graduate,
then I don't get a job! If I don't get a job, then I don't survive in my world! If I don't--"
"Okay! I get the picture!"
"So now you know why it is so crucial!"
"Not really."
Inu Yasha grabbed her book from her.
"Hey! Give that back!" Kagome yelled as she jumped for her book. Inu Yasha kept it out of her reach.
"What kind of language is this?!" Inu Yasha exclaimed as he looked at her math book.
"Shut up and give me my book!"
She jumped for it again, but he still kept it out of her reach. However, Inu Yasha stumbled and fell backwards, taking
Kagome with him. Both looked at each other and blushed deeply, knowing how wrong this looked. Kagome on top of Inu Yasha,
while he held her on top of him by he waist.
Inu Yasha blinked the memory away. He opened the door to the shrine, and saw the house. The house still looked like it was
in perfect condition. He saw Kagome's bedroom window, and he went up the tree, and peered inside.
He saw a girl at her old desk, however, it was not Kagome. It was Sanbi. He sniffed the air in the room. It was Sanbi's
sent. Kagome's seemed to have dissipated. Inu Yasha looked back at Sanbi, who was asleep over her book.
*Just like Kagome.* He thought. Suddenly, the bedroom door opened, and a woman came in the room.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!" the woman screamed, causing Sanbi to wake up, and look at Inu Yasha.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!" Sanbi screamed as well, which caused Inu Yasha to jump, and that caused him to fall out of
the window.
"Hm. This might sting a bit." Yuki, who was Sanbi's mother, told Inu Yasha as she sprayed antibacterial on his scratched
up face.
When Inu Yasha fell into the bush below the window, the sharp leaves cut him. Then when he got out of the bush, a stray
back cat attacked him.
"Oh, Kaa-san? Anma-san called."
Inu Yasha's ears perked up.
"Oh? What did she say?"
"Just wanted to know how we are doing."
"Okay. I'll call her back."
Yuki sprayed the antibacterial on Inu Yasha's wounds, but he didn't even flinch. He just say there, arms folded, and
mumbling.
"It serves you right!" Sanbi told the dog demon. "You shouldn't climb into people's windows like that!"
"Keh!" was Inu Yasha's response.
"Honestly! You are more trouble than you're worth!"
Inu Yasha glared at her.
"Oh, Sanbi!" Yuki scolded her daughter. "You should treat your boyfriend like that!"
"NAAAAAANIIIIII?!?!?!?!" Both screamed at the same time.
"Hai!" Yuki gave both of them a typical anime smile. "I want to show you some cute pictures of Sanbi, Inu Yasha!"
"NO! MOM DON'T!!!"
"And her is a picture of Sanbi sleeping! Oh look at the cute drool! And here is a picture of her sitting on the toilet
for the first time!"
Inu Yasha snorted and looked at Sanbi, who just turned redder than she already was, and turned her head; her pride
completely gone.
"Oh look! Here's Sanbi shaving her legs for the first time!"
Inu Yasha looked, then passed out with swirling eyes.
"Oh dear!" Yuki exclaimed. "I guess it showed a little too much."
"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!"
Sanbi stormed out of the house, one hand held the yellow pack, while the other dragged Inu Yasha to the well shrine.
"We're going to get more Shikon shards!" she told Inu Yasha, not waiting for his response.
She practically threw Inu Yasha down the well, then the backpack, then herself.
"Sitting on the toilet for the first time!" Inu Yasha snorted again, which got him slapped by Sanbi.
"If you ever mention that to anyone else, I swear i'll make your life so miserable, you'll be begging me to kill you!"
"Hey! Sanbi-chan! Your back!" Sango greeted.
"Hai." She greeted back, then glared at Inu Yasha. "Not a word!" she mumbled to him.
Everything seemed to get back to normal, if you define 'normal' as hanging out with people from ancient Japan!
"So what else did Kagome say?" Inu Yasha asked Sanbi.
"Eh? What do you mean?"
"You said to your kaa-san that she called."
"Oh! No, that wasn't Anma-chan. That was my kaa-san's kaa-san."
"So then which parent of your's did Kagome have?" Shippou asked.
"My father."
"Sanbi?" Shippou started. "Did Kagome talk about us?"
"Hai. All the time. She really loved you guys."
Shippou started to cry.
"We want to see Kagome!" he cried.
"I can't--"
Inu Yasha grabbed her by her collar.
"Go get her! I want that stupid fox to shut up!"
Sanbi glared at him coldly.
"Fine. I'll go get her."
Sanbi came back and entered Kaede's hut where everyone was gathered.
"Here she is."
Sanbi placed an urn in the middle of the floor. Everyone stared at it with pale faces. The urn was made up of pure ivory,
with blue saffire yambuki's decorating around the urn. The urn itself was truly beautiful, however, the contents were not.
Kagome was dead.
Nobody could say anything. Everyone was going through their own memories that they shared with the woman from the future.
They all stared at Sanbi like they needed help.
"She wanted to return." Sanbi told them. "I even offered to go back with her. She agreed to come back, however.... she
died the night before she decided to come back."
Sanbi fell silent again as Sango's choking sobs could be heard. Inu Yasha stood up.
"Keh! I'm glad the stupid bitch is dead!" he exclaimed and headed off to the forest.
Sanbi frowned deeply. "I'm going to give him a piece of my mind!"
And she stalked after him.
Inu Yasha fell to his knees in front of Goshinboku. The place where Kagome and him met for the first time. Inu Yasha
squeezed his eyes together as hard as he could, but the salty liquid escaped. Inu Yasha let out a cry of pain and hugged
the tree, as if begging for someone to tell him all this was just a nightmare.
That the Kagome he knew, who smiled for him, who laughed for him, was not dead. Not his Kagome. Not his Kagome whom he
saw only 2 months ago. Inu Yasha let go of the tree and shouted at the Heavens.
"Why do you do this to me?! Why do you torture me like this?!"
But the gods seemed to laugh at him more when a light wind picked up. Inu Yasha sobbed again.
"Gomen nasai, Kagome. Gomen nasai.... my Kagome...."
Sanbi looked at Inu Yasha with a pained look, and decided to leave him alone.
Deep into the night, a figure almost crawled their way into Kaede's hut. The figure sniffed a bit, looked at the old
lady, then looked around.
"She's here somewhere! I can smell her!" the figure told itself.
The mysterious person sniffed again, and came upon an urn.
"Is this her?!" the person sniffed the urn.
"It is! Ah, what luck!"
And the stranger grabbed the urn, and took off into the silent night.
"My Anma-chan's ashes are gone!" Sanbi screamed in a fit of panic.
"I'm sure it's somewhere around here!" Sango told Sanbi, just as equally panicked as everyone searched around frantically.
"Mu father is going to kill me when he finds out it was me who took his mother's ashes! He's going to lock me up in a
torture chamber and starve me! I'm going to forget what sunlight looks like! I'm going to forget what Oden tastes like!
I'm going to have to survive on raw rat meat! I'm going--"
Sango slapped Sanbi's face lightly, yet hard enough to make her stop and bring her back to reality.
"Gomen, but you were getting hysterical."
Sanbi sniffed. "I'll never forgive myself."
"The only way we can get Kagome back is if Inu Yasha sniffs it out."
"Inu Yasha?"
The dog demon slowly turned his head and looked up. He was curled in fetal potion against Goshinboku. His red rimed eyes
looked hunted and pained.
"Go away." he told Sanbi weakly.
Normally, Sanbi would have taken pity on him, and let him be. But her Anma-chan's ashes were at stake, and possibly being
degraded.
"Please, Inu Yasha! I desperately need your help!"
Inu Yasha didn't say anything. He just turned his head away.
"Please Inu Yasha!" Sanbi got on her knees and hugged Inu Yasha. "My Anma-chan's ashes have been stolen and--"
She was interrupted when Inu Yasha pushed her away, yet held her shoulders. His yellow eyes had the same intensity that
made Sanbi's heart rate speed up.
*Why is my heart racing so hard?! Must be a Spring thing.* Sanbi thought.
"Kagome's urn has been stolen?!"
Sanbi breathed hard. Her heart beat was increased. "Hai."
Inu Yasha let go of Sanbi's shoulders, and headed for the village. Sanbi sat there, a hand placed on her chest as if to
soothe her heart rate.
*Is that was made Anma-chan fall in love with Inu Yasha?* Sanbi wondered as she gathered herself, and followed after Inu
Yasha.
To Be Continued....
Preview for next chapter:
Ch. 5: "A Tragic Reunion"
There was no mistaking who she was. Though she looked a bit older than what everyone, except for Sanbi, remembered, she
still held a youthful appearance. She looked at her hands, shocked by how young they looked. Inu Yasha could smell her
sweet sent that he longed to smell for the longest time. But all he could do was mumble her name.
"K-Kagome."
AN: Dum-dee-dum-dum... whew this is killing me! But i finally got a review from a friend of mine!! HI JAMIE-KUN!!!!
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Japanese vocab:
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Hai. Arigatou. Genki des = Yes. Thank you. I am fine
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