I don't own Inuyasha. *Shrugs* Oh well.
I didn't get my ten reviews, but a friend of mine was bugging my to update, so I did.
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Someone Lost, Someone Found
Chapter 2: Miroku's guilt
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"Way to go, Miroku!" Kagome exclaimed angrily.
It had been a full week since Sango had run away, and the group was still looking for her.
Miroku sighed.
"Miroku, this is all your fault! If you weren't such a hentai, Sango wouldn't have run away!" Shippo pointed at the monk accusingly.
"Yea. And we wouldn't have to take this stupid detour." Inuyasha added.
Miroku, now having MORE insults to think about, and more guilt weighing him down, shrugged, trying not to show the hurt in his eyes. He knew that it was his fault, and that Kagome, Shippo, and Inuyasha were right, and that he may as well lie down and die for all the worth he was, but he just shrugged off their comments, pretending not to care. "Wonder how she's doing now, anyway." He thought, trying to picture Sango in his mind.
"I'll bet he isn't even SORRY about it!" Shippo quipped.
"Shippo!" Kagome scolded.
Miroku looked up; hoping that Kagome was going to tell Shippo that that was enough. No such luck.
"I'm sure he's sorry! Not very sorry, but I'm sure he's at least a LITTLE bit sorry! Isn't that right, Miroku?"
Miroku looked away and muttered something incoherently under his breath.
"What was that?" Kagome asked.
"Nothing." Miroku muttered, not looking at Kagome.
"Don't you even MISS Sango?" Shippo asked.
"Of course I miss Sango, Shippo. Now would all of you just SHUT UP?!" Miroku yelled. "I already KNOW that it's my own damn fault, I don't need or want you all to remind me every second of the damn day!" His eyes flashed, and he glared at each member of the group in turn.
"Miroku..." Kagome started.
"Forget it. I'll go look for Sango myself." Miroku shook his head and walked off.
When Miroku was out of earshot, Shippo asked a question. "Think we went too far?"
"Nah. The hentai deserved it." Inuyasha shrugged.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome started.
"What?"
"OSUWARI!"
"What was that for?!" Inuyasha yelled, his face covered in dirt.
"For being so insensitive!"
Shippo hopped onto Kagome's shoulder and laughed at the grounded hanyou.
"You weren't much better, wench!" Inuyasha growled, picking Shippo off of Kagome's shoulder and hitting him on the head.
~*~
Miroku walked slowly through the woods. "If worst comes to worst, I'll die here." He muttered, and kept walking. "Why am I even looking for Sango anyway? She ran off because of ME. I'm probably the LAST person she'd want to see."
Of course, Miroku couldn't have been more wrong....
~*~
Sango had been staying with Shina for five days already. She had to admit, these were some of the calmest 5 days of her existence, and she wasn't fond of not having much to do. "I wonder how Miroku's doing..." She mused aloud.
"Who's Miroku, Miss Sango?" Mika's big brown eyes snapped Sango out of her daydreams and back into reality.
"Maybe he's her brother." Kiyoshi suggested.
"Is he your boyfriend?" Tomie questioned, her bright eyes sparkling mischievously.
Sango blushed.
"I was right!" Tomie exclaimed triumphantly.
"Children! Shina walked up to Sango, a scolding look set upon her face, but, as always, her eyes betrayed whatever mischief she had planned. "Don't ask Sango such things!"
"Sorry Shina." Tomie sighed. "But we were just curious."
"Heh. I really shouldn't be scolding y'all, 'cause I'm very curious now myself." Shina grinned and sat down. "So. Who IS Miroku, eh?"
Sango groaned. "He's..." She really didn't know WHAT Miroku was to her. "Someone." She finished lamely; half hoping that Miroku was with her.
"Sango! Spill already!" Mika whined.
"Ya really should tell us, Sango, or we'll all make up our own opinions." Shina smiled as innocently as she possibly could.
At this, all the children started talking about their ideas of who and what Miroku was to Sango.
"I still say he's her brother." Kiyoshi muttered.
"No way! He's gotta be her boyfriend, or Sango wouldn't be blushing so much!" Tomie quipped.
"Maybe he's MORE than her boyfriend!" Mika grinned.
All the boys were over with Kiyoshi, and the girls were over with Mika.
"Brother!" The boys exclaimed.
"Boyfriend!" The girls retorted.
Shina crawled over to Sango. "They're gonna to keep at it until ya tell them who Miroku is, ya know."
Sango sighed. "I know, I know."
"So tell already!"
"Fine, fine. I don't know why I'm so reluctant to tell, anyway. Miroku is... was, a friend of mine."
"Was/" Aiko asked.
"You mean you aren't friends anymore?" Jiro added.
Sango shook her head.
"Why not?" Tomie piped up.
"We had a... disagreement." Sango muttered.
"Ooooooooooooooh! About what?" Mika and Shina leaned in.
"Nothing." Sango murmured.
"Miss Shina, it's getting dark." Mika noted.
"That it is. Okay, kids. Get inside and I'll make dinner." Shina smiled, motioning for the children to head in.
The children went inside without complaint, and Shina started in as well, but Sango sat still.
"Sango, you comin'?" Shina asked.
No answer.
"Sango! You in there?" Shina waved her hand in front of Sango's face. "Ya comin' inside or what?"
~*~
Miroku was rather tired. He had been walking for quite some time now, and he really needed a rest. But a young neko youkai he had run into had told him that there was a village close by, so he was determined to make it there.
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After about ten minutes of Shina calling to her, Sango finally snapped out of her trance.
"Rejoined the world of the living, eh?" Shina smirked.
"Hm, yea." Sango replied, still slightly spaced out.
"So... I'll repeat my question for the forty-eighth time. Are you coming inside?"
"Yea, I guess." Sango murmured, standing up and brushing the dust off of the kimono she had borrowed from Shina.
Shina sat Sango down and told her to stay put, but Sango refused.
"I need to do something productive. I'll be unbearably bored, otherwise." She objected.
"Fine. Then help me cook dinner." Shina offered.
"Okay."
While the two girls were cooking, Shina asked a question that startled Sango.
"What is Miroku to you?"
"I guess he's a friend."
"Ya blush a lot when you talk about him. Most people don't blush when they talk about friends."
"Well, I'm not most people."
"I already know THAT, Sango. Hey... Before you came here. To the village I mean, your life must have been a lot different."
"Yea. Very different." Sango agreed. "It was never even nearly this calm. Someone was always doing something, whether it was Shippo teasing Inuyasha, fighting youkai, Kagome and Inuyasha bickering, or..." She paused, unsure of whether to say it.
"Or what?" Shina probed.
"Or Miroku and myself, talking. Of course, our conversations usually ended up with him with a handprint on his face, but." Sango laughed half- heartedly.
"Oh. He must have been a pervert."
"He was. Hey. Why are all the children staying with you anyway?"
"All their parents... They died." Shina looked away.
"Oh. To lose all family at such a young age must be devastating."
"Yea. I like to think that they have another family now, though." Shina quickly brightened up.
"Hai. I imagine they think so too."
"I need t' go get somethin'. You stay here." Shina said, walking outside.
~*~
Miroku had finally made it to the village, and he was currently looking for a place to stay. There were very few places, and apparently no inn. And yet, he was wandering aimlessly around this tiny village, knowing that his efforts were in vain. And then he bumped into someone.
"Ouch." A girl's voice came from the ground.
"I'm terribly sorry, miss." Miroku leaned down and offered his hand to the girl on the ground.
She stood up and smiled. "No worries. What're you doin' out so late? And where do ya come from?" She asked.
Miroku noticed that she was quite pretty. Elbow-length crimson hair. Bright blue eyes, and a smile permanently set upon her face. "I am a traveling monk looking for a place to stay. You wouldn't by any chance be able to direct me to an inn, would you miss?"
The girl laughed, and it echoed throughout the night sky, a beautiful sound. "There ain't an inn in a tiny village such as this one, sir." She exclaimed.
"Well, then. Do you know of any place I could stay?" Miroku asked.
"I guess you could stay with me. I have 6 kids and a young lady staying with me already, so it's rather crowded, but."
"That would be great." Miroku smiled.
"Okay then! C'mon. My name's Shina, by the way."
"Miroku."
"Nice to meet you!" Shina smiled, forgetting that Sango knew a monk named Miroku.
The two walked side by side in silence until they reached Shina's home. To others, perhaps this would have felt odd; walking beside someone and not saying a word to them, but Shina and Miroku took no notice of that.
"Everyone, we have another person stayin' with us for a while!" Shina announced.
Everyone looked up from his or her dinner to see whom the guest was.
"Everyone, this is..."
"Miroku." Sango finished, her face turning pale, and her eyes betraying no emotion. Even the way she said his name was cold.
"No doubt about it. She's still mad." Miroku thought to himself.
"Um, Shina? I'm going for a walk. Don't wait up." Sango muttered, getting up quickly and walking outside, ignoring the snow falling.
"Ano, Shina-sama. I shall follow Sango-sama. I have something to say to her. I'll be back in a bit." Miroku nodded and quickly rushed after Sango.
Shina was left at the doorway, watching her two friends running away.
~*~
"Sango-sama! Sango-sama! Wait up would you?!" Miroku called.
Sango, of course, didn't slow down.
"Sango-sama. I am VERY tired. I have been walking all day, trying to find you. For crying out loud, at least stop and listen to me! What could it hurt?" He grabbed Sango's arm and stopped.
Sango kept her head turned. "Houshi-sama." She whispered. "WHY DON'T YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE?!"
"I can't do that, Sango, because that would mean leaving here and forgetting about you."
"That's right. Why won't you?"
"Because, Sango-sama." Miroku started, unsure of whether or not he really wanted to say what he was about to.
"Because why?" Sango asked, now slightly curious.
"Because I love you."
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Ending notes: Cliffhanger! Hehehe. I'm going to have to start this one very soon, because I'm curious myself as to how it'll play out! Review and I'll update folks!
Ja ne!
~ Hime Hoshi - Star Princess
I didn't get my ten reviews, but a friend of mine was bugging my to update, so I did.
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Someone Lost, Someone Found
Chapter 2: Miroku's guilt
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"Way to go, Miroku!" Kagome exclaimed angrily.
It had been a full week since Sango had run away, and the group was still looking for her.
Miroku sighed.
"Miroku, this is all your fault! If you weren't such a hentai, Sango wouldn't have run away!" Shippo pointed at the monk accusingly.
"Yea. And we wouldn't have to take this stupid detour." Inuyasha added.
Miroku, now having MORE insults to think about, and more guilt weighing him down, shrugged, trying not to show the hurt in his eyes. He knew that it was his fault, and that Kagome, Shippo, and Inuyasha were right, and that he may as well lie down and die for all the worth he was, but he just shrugged off their comments, pretending not to care. "Wonder how she's doing now, anyway." He thought, trying to picture Sango in his mind.
"I'll bet he isn't even SORRY about it!" Shippo quipped.
"Shippo!" Kagome scolded.
Miroku looked up; hoping that Kagome was going to tell Shippo that that was enough. No such luck.
"I'm sure he's sorry! Not very sorry, but I'm sure he's at least a LITTLE bit sorry! Isn't that right, Miroku?"
Miroku looked away and muttered something incoherently under his breath.
"What was that?" Kagome asked.
"Nothing." Miroku muttered, not looking at Kagome.
"Don't you even MISS Sango?" Shippo asked.
"Of course I miss Sango, Shippo. Now would all of you just SHUT UP?!" Miroku yelled. "I already KNOW that it's my own damn fault, I don't need or want you all to remind me every second of the damn day!" His eyes flashed, and he glared at each member of the group in turn.
"Miroku..." Kagome started.
"Forget it. I'll go look for Sango myself." Miroku shook his head and walked off.
When Miroku was out of earshot, Shippo asked a question. "Think we went too far?"
"Nah. The hentai deserved it." Inuyasha shrugged.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome started.
"What?"
"OSUWARI!"
"What was that for?!" Inuyasha yelled, his face covered in dirt.
"For being so insensitive!"
Shippo hopped onto Kagome's shoulder and laughed at the grounded hanyou.
"You weren't much better, wench!" Inuyasha growled, picking Shippo off of Kagome's shoulder and hitting him on the head.
~*~
Miroku walked slowly through the woods. "If worst comes to worst, I'll die here." He muttered, and kept walking. "Why am I even looking for Sango anyway? She ran off because of ME. I'm probably the LAST person she'd want to see."
Of course, Miroku couldn't have been more wrong....
~*~
Sango had been staying with Shina for five days already. She had to admit, these were some of the calmest 5 days of her existence, and she wasn't fond of not having much to do. "I wonder how Miroku's doing..." She mused aloud.
"Who's Miroku, Miss Sango?" Mika's big brown eyes snapped Sango out of her daydreams and back into reality.
"Maybe he's her brother." Kiyoshi suggested.
"Is he your boyfriend?" Tomie questioned, her bright eyes sparkling mischievously.
Sango blushed.
"I was right!" Tomie exclaimed triumphantly.
"Children! Shina walked up to Sango, a scolding look set upon her face, but, as always, her eyes betrayed whatever mischief she had planned. "Don't ask Sango such things!"
"Sorry Shina." Tomie sighed. "But we were just curious."
"Heh. I really shouldn't be scolding y'all, 'cause I'm very curious now myself." Shina grinned and sat down. "So. Who IS Miroku, eh?"
Sango groaned. "He's..." She really didn't know WHAT Miroku was to her. "Someone." She finished lamely; half hoping that Miroku was with her.
"Sango! Spill already!" Mika whined.
"Ya really should tell us, Sango, or we'll all make up our own opinions." Shina smiled as innocently as she possibly could.
At this, all the children started talking about their ideas of who and what Miroku was to Sango.
"I still say he's her brother." Kiyoshi muttered.
"No way! He's gotta be her boyfriend, or Sango wouldn't be blushing so much!" Tomie quipped.
"Maybe he's MORE than her boyfriend!" Mika grinned.
All the boys were over with Kiyoshi, and the girls were over with Mika.
"Brother!" The boys exclaimed.
"Boyfriend!" The girls retorted.
Shina crawled over to Sango. "They're gonna to keep at it until ya tell them who Miroku is, ya know."
Sango sighed. "I know, I know."
"So tell already!"
"Fine, fine. I don't know why I'm so reluctant to tell, anyway. Miroku is... was, a friend of mine."
"Was/" Aiko asked.
"You mean you aren't friends anymore?" Jiro added.
Sango shook her head.
"Why not?" Tomie piped up.
"We had a... disagreement." Sango muttered.
"Ooooooooooooooh! About what?" Mika and Shina leaned in.
"Nothing." Sango murmured.
"Miss Shina, it's getting dark." Mika noted.
"That it is. Okay, kids. Get inside and I'll make dinner." Shina smiled, motioning for the children to head in.
The children went inside without complaint, and Shina started in as well, but Sango sat still.
"Sango, you comin'?" Shina asked.
No answer.
"Sango! You in there?" Shina waved her hand in front of Sango's face. "Ya comin' inside or what?"
~*~
Miroku was rather tired. He had been walking for quite some time now, and he really needed a rest. But a young neko youkai he had run into had told him that there was a village close by, so he was determined to make it there.
~*~
After about ten minutes of Shina calling to her, Sango finally snapped out of her trance.
"Rejoined the world of the living, eh?" Shina smirked.
"Hm, yea." Sango replied, still slightly spaced out.
"So... I'll repeat my question for the forty-eighth time. Are you coming inside?"
"Yea, I guess." Sango murmured, standing up and brushing the dust off of the kimono she had borrowed from Shina.
Shina sat Sango down and told her to stay put, but Sango refused.
"I need to do something productive. I'll be unbearably bored, otherwise." She objected.
"Fine. Then help me cook dinner." Shina offered.
"Okay."
While the two girls were cooking, Shina asked a question that startled Sango.
"What is Miroku to you?"
"I guess he's a friend."
"Ya blush a lot when you talk about him. Most people don't blush when they talk about friends."
"Well, I'm not most people."
"I already know THAT, Sango. Hey... Before you came here. To the village I mean, your life must have been a lot different."
"Yea. Very different." Sango agreed. "It was never even nearly this calm. Someone was always doing something, whether it was Shippo teasing Inuyasha, fighting youkai, Kagome and Inuyasha bickering, or..." She paused, unsure of whether to say it.
"Or what?" Shina probed.
"Or Miroku and myself, talking. Of course, our conversations usually ended up with him with a handprint on his face, but." Sango laughed half- heartedly.
"Oh. He must have been a pervert."
"He was. Hey. Why are all the children staying with you anyway?"
"All their parents... They died." Shina looked away.
"Oh. To lose all family at such a young age must be devastating."
"Yea. I like to think that they have another family now, though." Shina quickly brightened up.
"Hai. I imagine they think so too."
"I need t' go get somethin'. You stay here." Shina said, walking outside.
~*~
Miroku had finally made it to the village, and he was currently looking for a place to stay. There were very few places, and apparently no inn. And yet, he was wandering aimlessly around this tiny village, knowing that his efforts were in vain. And then he bumped into someone.
"Ouch." A girl's voice came from the ground.
"I'm terribly sorry, miss." Miroku leaned down and offered his hand to the girl on the ground.
She stood up and smiled. "No worries. What're you doin' out so late? And where do ya come from?" She asked.
Miroku noticed that she was quite pretty. Elbow-length crimson hair. Bright blue eyes, and a smile permanently set upon her face. "I am a traveling monk looking for a place to stay. You wouldn't by any chance be able to direct me to an inn, would you miss?"
The girl laughed, and it echoed throughout the night sky, a beautiful sound. "There ain't an inn in a tiny village such as this one, sir." She exclaimed.
"Well, then. Do you know of any place I could stay?" Miroku asked.
"I guess you could stay with me. I have 6 kids and a young lady staying with me already, so it's rather crowded, but."
"That would be great." Miroku smiled.
"Okay then! C'mon. My name's Shina, by the way."
"Miroku."
"Nice to meet you!" Shina smiled, forgetting that Sango knew a monk named Miroku.
The two walked side by side in silence until they reached Shina's home. To others, perhaps this would have felt odd; walking beside someone and not saying a word to them, but Shina and Miroku took no notice of that.
"Everyone, we have another person stayin' with us for a while!" Shina announced.
Everyone looked up from his or her dinner to see whom the guest was.
"Everyone, this is..."
"Miroku." Sango finished, her face turning pale, and her eyes betraying no emotion. Even the way she said his name was cold.
"No doubt about it. She's still mad." Miroku thought to himself.
"Um, Shina? I'm going for a walk. Don't wait up." Sango muttered, getting up quickly and walking outside, ignoring the snow falling.
"Ano, Shina-sama. I shall follow Sango-sama. I have something to say to her. I'll be back in a bit." Miroku nodded and quickly rushed after Sango.
Shina was left at the doorway, watching her two friends running away.
~*~
"Sango-sama! Sango-sama! Wait up would you?!" Miroku called.
Sango, of course, didn't slow down.
"Sango-sama. I am VERY tired. I have been walking all day, trying to find you. For crying out loud, at least stop and listen to me! What could it hurt?" He grabbed Sango's arm and stopped.
Sango kept her head turned. "Houshi-sama." She whispered. "WHY DON'T YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE?!"
"I can't do that, Sango, because that would mean leaving here and forgetting about you."
"That's right. Why won't you?"
"Because, Sango-sama." Miroku started, unsure of whether or not he really wanted to say what he was about to.
"Because why?" Sango asked, now slightly curious.
"Because I love you."
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Ending notes: Cliffhanger! Hehehe. I'm going to have to start this one very soon, because I'm curious myself as to how it'll play out! Review and I'll update folks!
Ja ne!
~ Hime Hoshi - Star Princess