Brownies Chapter 12: Dance, Sango, Dance, an inuyasha fanfic

Her cheeks are scarred, her leg a limp, tears stain her eyes, yet she walks on………….the show must go on………….

"Families are like brownies; sweet with a few nuts."

Chapter 12: Dance, Sango, Dance

Sumiko stood in front of a group of rouge samurai, speaking to them. One of them said something to her and she laughed, smiled and said something back. Kagome, Sango, Shio, and Shippou sat together under a tree watching her.

"She's going to get hit on my one of those guys." Sango predicted.

"I think she's already getting hit on them and doesn't understand." Shippou guessed.

"Well, whatever's happening, she doesn't seem very afraid of them." Kagome said. One of the samuri went up to Sumiko and dropped something in her hand.

She smiled. "Thank you!" ^__^ And she waved to them as they left.

Sumiko skipped over to where Shio was sitting and sat next to him.

"What was that about?" Sango asked.

"Lookie!" Sumiko held up a shikon fragment.

"Whoa! You got another one of those?!" Shippou cried.

"Yeah! They let me have it cause I said please!" Sumiko said. She holding up the shard and looking at it through the light. She handed it to Kagome.

"Oh! That reminds me." Kagome said, after putting the new shard with the others. "Shio, why do you collect the shikon shards?"

Shio reached into his shirt and pulled out the chunk of shikon shards that hung from his red rosary. He gazed at its glowing radiance for a moment before saying, "It's been so long, I don't even remember why. What's up with that?"

"You can't even remember?" Sango asked.

"Well, I remember it was important!" Shio said as-a-matter-of-factly. Meanwhile, Sumiko was gawking at the pretty shard hanging from his necklace. In the blink of an eye, she took the necklace from him and held the jewel herself.

Shio was taken aback by the speed but recovered quickly. "Hey! That's mine!" he grabbed for it, but she pulled it away from him. She smiled at him and said, "Kitty funny!"

"Why you-!!" he started trying to grab it back from her, but she was always pulling it out of his reached. He leaned over her as she held it far away from him with her right hand.

"Sumiko wanna see it!" she said. They fought over it like little children until Shio shouted. "Give it now, Sumiko! My sister gave that necklace to me!"

She looked at him stunned. "Kitty sister?"

The others looked surprised too. "Shio, I didn't know you had a sister." Kagome said.

He sighed and said, "Not any more. She died a long time ago."

Winter had set in on the Aka shrine. Twelve year old Shio sat on the floor making a potion when Sashimi came skipping over to him. He looked up at her and she smiled down at him with her hands behind her back. ^__^

He blinked, "What? Is there something on my face?"

She giggled and waved at him. "No Silly Shio!" she held out her hands and there was a bright red necklace. "Look! I got a surprise for you!"

"Ah!" he said by how cool it looked to him. He took the necklace and put it around his neck. "Thank you!" he said happily.

She smiled, kissed him on the forehead and said, "Only the best for my favorite brother!"

Shio sweatdropped. "I'm your only brother."

She giggled and skipped off happily.

The group arrived at a nearby village. Paper Lanterns hung from strings that stretched from house to house. Flutes were heard playing in the town from a mile away. Some sort of celebration was going on. As the approached they realized what was going on.

"Party!" Shippou jumped out of Kagome's bike basket and ran over to the food.

"Party?" Sumiko asked.

Sango turned to say something to Miroku but he was gone. The monk had already made his way over to the beautiful women.

"Excuse me miss?" he held up one girl's hands. "Will you bear my child?"

Sango grabbed him by the ear and bowed politely to the girl. "I'm sorry if he's caused you any permanent damage. He is stupid." And with that she dragged him away.

Shio watched as Sumiko went out onto the dance floor and started dancing with Shippou. Then he noticed the line of girls next to the dance floor with depressed looks on their faces, watching the other people dance. The wall flowers. He smiled and casually, yet sexily strolled over to the wall. He clasped his hands together and scanned the line. "Let's see, would any of you lovely ladies like to dance?"

The girls realized he was standing there and looked up at him. They all gasped and went starry eyed at his beauty and started shouting. "ME! ME! ME!"

Shio laughed a little then noticed one girl at the end of the line. She was sitting down hugging her knees. She looked up at him shyly then looked down again blushing in embarrassment. Her clothes were very unrevealing, not showing herself off in any way. She was shrunken into herself and her hair tied tightly in a scarf.

He strutted over and stood in front of her. He elegantly held his hand out in front of her. She slowly looked up at him in shock. He smiled down at her. "Would you dance with me, pretty young lady?"

She blushed a little and said, "I'm not a good dancer."

"That's okay! I'd like to dance with you anyway!" Shio smiled, still holding out his hand.

She glanced from his erotic smile to his hand then his smile again. She hesitantly reached out and he took her hand, pulling her up to stand.

"Excuse me," Kagome went over to the village chief. "What's the party for?"

He smiled at her and said, "This is a party to celebrate my daughter's marriage!" over at the center floor, a beautiful handsome man was dancing with a short, plump woman with half a mustache on her round face.

Kagome sweatdropped.

"It's a beautiful love story," the village chief said. "One day, he was found in the woods, he had been through an awful war, and it was my daughter whom rescued him. She gave him first aid, and soon after they were fast in love! He was able to recover from all of his battle wounds except for the blindness."

"Blindness?" Kagome asked.

'That explains a lot.' Inu Yasha thought.

"You know what I think your problem is, Sango?" Miroku asked her as soon as she stopped dragging him.

"What?" she asked.

He grinned at her his in his cute way. "I think your jealous and it's you who wants to bare my child."

"WHA?! NO WAY!!" she shouted blushing.

"If not that, then dance!" he said. He bowed all gentlemen like and held out his hand. "Will you dance with me, Sango?"

She looked down at him shocked and blushing. A hot feeling spread across her cheeks so she turned away before he could see it, and said, "N-no! I don't want to!"

"Okay," he said straightening up. "Then I won't dance either."

"What?" Sango watched as he leaned agains the side of someone's hut and watched the dancing. She hadn't expected him to not dance at all. And he wanted to dance with her??? He wanted to dance with her only???

She blushed at the thought. Even if she wanted to dance with him, she knew in her heart that she didn't know how to dance and was too afraid to try in front of everyone.

She leaned against the side of a hut and looked down at the ground.

Shio lead the girl out onto the dance floor and noticed that she was trembling. "What's wrong?" he asked.

She looked up at him terrified. He smiled and said, "Don't be afraid! You're the prettiest girl here!"

"No I'm not." She whispered.

"Of course you are!" he said as if that statement were preposterous. "You are so pretty, those girls over there wish they were as beautiful as you, the guys, they all wanna dance with you, I feel like the luckiest guy here."

She blushed but still looked shy and scared. "You're just saying that, I look ugly."

"No, you don't!" he laughed as if what she was saying was funny. Then he grabbed her and pulled her into an advanced dance step, she looked at him terrified. "You have no need to be afraid." He whispered. He twirled her and her kimono loosed a little, showing her figure and a little cleavage. He pulled her back, dipped her and the scarf fell off her head, long satiny black hair tumbled down and he spun her again and pulled her close. She blinked in bewilderment and Shio pulled a small mirror out of his kimono. "Look." He held it out to her and she gasped at how pretty she looked. She really was beautiful.

"Told ya'." He grinned and started the dance lesson.

Kagome smiled, watching Shippou and Sumiko dance. She looked down at Inu Yasha, who was sitting in his famous sitting pose with his eyes closed. She kneeled down and asked, "Inu Yasha, do you--?"

"No." he said.

"But I haven't asked anything yet!!" she said.

"I'm not in the mood." He said without even looking at her.

Kagome sighed and leaned against the house again with a pout.

Sumiko and Shippou were laughing and dancing. Then Sumiko looked up at saw the four teenagers against the wall. She stopped laughing, thinking as she danced then said, "Shippou?"

"Yah?" he asked.

"Sumiko be right back." She said and skipped off. Shippou didn't mind, he started dancing with Kirara. Sumiko hopped infront of Sango and said, "Guten Tag, Sang-goo!"

            "What?" Sango asked. She didn't understand German.

            "Why you sad?" Sumiko asked innocently.

            Sango put her hands behind her back and looked down with a tired expression on her face and glazed eyes. "Nothing, Sumiko."

            Sumiko glanced at Miroku then at Sango. "Does Sang-goo want Monkey's attention?"

            "Huh??" Sango looked up at her and blushed.

            "It okay," Sumiko smiled at her and said. "Monkey nice! He smile at people, make them happy. Carries jinglie stick, makes pretty sound like keys, make me feel better. He say nice things!"

            Sango looked down again sadly still blushing. "Well-"

            "He like Sang-goo, too!" Sumiko said.

            Sango looked up at her again wide eyed. "What??"

            "He like Sang-goo!" Sumiko smiled. "He say she pretty and nice, and kick-ass fighter!"

            Sango turned bright red.

            Sumiko just smiled and tilted her head to the side innocently.

            Sango just closed her eyes and whispered, "Even if he did, he's still a pervert. He's more interested in someone bearing his child."

            Sumiko looked over at Miroku again. Then at Sang-goo. "He does? He gives you his eyes though!"

            Sango gave her a confused look. "What?"

            "He give you his eyes." Sumiko nodded. "See his eyes always big and brown, but they get all wide and happier when he look at you."

            Sango stared at Sumiko for a few seconds then glanced over at Miroku, who was still standing against the wall. A girl came up to him, blushing and asked. "Would you dance with me?"

            He smiled at her.

            "Here it comes." Sango's heart sank.

            "No thank you." Miroku said. "I'm waiting for someone else."

            The young woman looked disappointed and walked away. Miroku leaned his head against the wall and smiled up at the stars with large brown eyes.

            Kagome came over to Inu Yasha as another fast paced, happy dance song came on. "Do you wanna dan-"

            "No, not in the mood." He said not moving.

            "-Why does Monkey give Sango lots of attention?" Sumiko asked herself out loud. "Sumiko wish she could get lots of 'ttention!"

            Sango looked back at Sumiko and said. "Well, if 'I' liked him – hypothetically of course – it wouldn't matter because I don't dance.

            Sumiko looked at her confused. "Why you not dance? Dance fun!"

            "No." Sango said shaking her head. "It's not fun. Everyone is looking at you like they're judging you, and then you look weird while you dance." She said hugging herself.

            Sumiko studied her for a few seconds in silence. "Judge? Party is fun though!" she said. "Party fun! Party happy! No reason to be sad, dance fun! No judge!"

            Sango looked up at Sumiko's smiling sincere face. Then Sumiko waved and said, "Hosta la Vista, Baby!"

            A slow song started up.

            Inu Yasha stood up causing Kagome to look at him. He faced her, looked her strait in the eye and held out his hand, "Okay, now I'm in the mood."

            Kagome smiled, took his hand and they walked out onto the dance floor.

            Miroku stood looking down at the ground when all of a sudden he saw a pair of feet and the bottom of a kimono stand next to him out of the corner of his eye. He looked up to see Sango standing there blushing and looking at him shyly. She held out her hand.

            Miroku smiled at her, took her hand and they walked out onto the floor. They stopped in the middle of the sea of slow dancing couples. Miroku held out his arms as if asking for permission. Sango blushed and put her arms around his neck. He put his arms around her waist without even feeling her up. They started slow dancing.

            Miroku felt Sango trembling, he rubbed her back trying to sooth her and she slowl started to calm. Sango looked over his shoulder as they went around in their rotation of the floor. She saw Inu and Kagome slow dancing, then saw Sumiko sleeping by the side of a hut with Shippou. She smiled at them and closed her eyes.

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^___^ Awww…Feel the fluff! Btw, I can't give out anymore Shio pictures, sorry……..