By Youkai Huntress
Vocabulary:Yuuki: Courage
Tsuki: Moon
Mochi: Rice cake
You'll know the rest if you're really an Inuyasha fan
YuukiThe sky was dressed by a dark blue cape with hundreds of silver-white stars as a pattern. There was no sound, as if all the spirits had decided to be quiet before the beauty of the firmament. No one was willing to interrupt the not so often seen peace.
Only two souls walked under the stars, their faces illuminated by the Tsuki in their way back to the village.
The female lift her head up to face the light and let out a sigh.
"There is something wrong?"
"No, it's just that. Do you know the legend of the hare? It says that that the ardent observer will perceive that on the Tsuki there lives a hare."
"Who is constantly preparing mochi? Otousan told me the story when I was a child."
Said the Houshi while smiling warmly at his companion, she turned to see him and then blushed.
"Why do you blush, Sango? There's nothing wrong with looking at the Tsuki to check if the hare is there."
"I don't know"
"For other person it would have been rare that a determined, strong tempered taij-ya would sigh at the remembrance of a child story, but that's because they don't know your true hidden nature."
"And you know it?"
"I had seen what you have allowed me to. However, there's a lot I don't know about you, Sango-chan.
Sango (You're no one to talk, Houshi sama.)
She turned to face the Tsuki again and give her back at Miroku.
Her lips started trembling along with the rest of her body, the tears were ready to flow, and the pain invaded her chest leaving little place for air. She could feel how her blood ceased to flow with heat, making her feel as if she was turning into an ice statue. Soon, the night, the Tsuki, the Houshi disappeared leaving their places to the painful memories.
-Flashback-
"Kohaku, what are you doing up when you should be sleeping?"
"Anehue, where is the hare?"
"The hare? Are you talking about the one who lives at the Tsuki?"
"It must have died; because when persons and animals die, you can't see them again. That's why we won't see Okaasan again."
The 10 years old girl walked towards her ototo, she embraced him to offer some console as well as to forget about her own pain.
"The hare isn't dead. It's just that you don't pay enough attention. It's right there making a delicious moshi."
She said while pointing at the Tsuki, she didn't see the animal but she had to cheer up her ototo, after all her Okaasan before dying made her promise she would look after Kohaku.
"If you go to sleep, I'll ask the hare to give me a moshi for you."
"You can't do that. Can you?"
"Yes, I can. Remember Kohaku that I'm your oneesan and there's nothing I wouldn't or couldn't do for you."
"I believe you, Anehue."
He started heading to his room but stopped.
"Anehue"
"Nani, Kohaku-chan?"
"Promise me that whenever I look for you, I will find you"
"You don't need me to promise that, I'll never leave you"
"Then don't promise it, if you say it I believe you"
With this the boy ran to his room and out of Sango's mind. She was back at the time when she was eighteen, at the time when she had failed at Kohaku. Suddenly, she felt strong arms embracing her, the warm of another body made hers stop shivering. But even if her body quickly forgot about the pain and concentrated in the hold, her mind and heart were still suffering. The injuries of the soul hurt a lot more than those of the body.
"Kohaku…. Why did he take you away from me? Why did he choose us? It isn't just! I promised Okaasan I would look after you… I failed her… More important I failed you…. I couldn't protect you…I didn't have the chance to say goodbye…. To hold you one last time… I lost a part of my heart when I lost you…I miss you so much Oniichan…"
She said it aloud as if finally she has reached her limit. She had to take the pain out; it was a great load to carry on her heart. She felt the tears following their way through her face. As soon as the first tear hit the right hand of her companion, she felt how he held her closer and how he increased the force of the hug.
Her reason started yelling at her to stop this, there she was sharing her deepest pain with the man who groped her rear at least once a day.
Sango (I have to admit that what it really bothers me is that I don't like to be vulnerable in front of people, not even Houshi-sama. He's right, I keep on hiding myself but you can be so easily and deeply hurt when you left someone really see you. I don't want him or no one to really know me again. I want him to stop holding me though one part of me wishes he would never stop. What am I thinking? I'm confused, like I am always that I with him, when he's not being a pervert.)
" …It's late we should go back."
She escaped from him and started walking with her eyes looking at the ground. She didn't care if he was going to follow her of if she had hurt him by breaking his tender embrace. She had to go away from him, in order to seal her pain and confusion.
"Sango, You didn't fail your brother."
Those words make her turn to see him; his face was serious but full of concern. He looked as if he was hurt but for Sango's surprise, the reason of his suffer weren't her actions but her own pain. However, anger rose again, was he so blind that he couldn't see how she was the one to blame for her brother's misfortune.
"I did! I had to protect him and look what happened. Naraku is using him as a puppet and all I can do is watch!"
"Don't blame yourself for Naraku's doing. He's the one who deserves to be punished not you. I promise you we'll free your brother."
"Although that won't change the fact that I already lost him and all the people I cared for."
She looked at him with sadden eyes, he stepped towards her and stretched his right hand as if he were going to put it in her shoulder but the hand stopped at mid air, she could see how he frowned at the moment he looked at it, while she was distracted by this, she didn't realize that he have already taken her face with his left hand.
"It takes great strength to deal with loss. But I assure you Sango you have plenty of it."
"I miss them."
"Be quiet for a minute."
Sango (Houshi-sama)They remained silent for what it seemed an eternity to Sango, all her senses were tensed probably for the fault of the Houshi's hand or due to his closeness.
"What did you hear?"
"I didn't hear anything."
Replied Sango a little bit impatient, was she supposed to hear something? The houshi already knew they were alone, what was he planning?
"You're wrong, when everything is silent, when there isn't any sound to distract you, it's the time your heart uses to speak to you, and among the whispers of your heart, you will hear the voice of those you hold dear but are away, because their spirit remains in yours eternally."
The taijiya looked at him amazingly surprised by his words, she knew why her heart has chosen this time to vent the pain, because he always knew what to say to ease her sorrow, also because when he talked like that, all the problems seemed to go away, even if it was just for a minute.
"Arigato, Houshi-sama"
"Stop crying, there's no one as beautiful as you when you're smiling"
She blushed but looked into his eyes, he did just the same, the Tsuki light the scene, and the stars were brighter.
Sango (His eyes had to be indigo, so they could eclipse the sky with just staring at me)
For a second, Sango thought the destiny was at last smiling at her. Until..
She felt an inquiring hand on her behind.
Sango went walking angry leaving an unconscious Miroku in the ground.
"Oyasumi Nasai, Houshi-sama"Even if she wanted to be angry with him, she was smiling even if the reason behind that smile was unknown to her.
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