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Chapter 4 A Little Revenge Can Be Bonding
Sonnet woke up early the next morning. The sun was barley coming out as she made her way to the top of the cliff/hill in the front of her house. She was surprised to see someone already there.

"Miroku?" She asked, as he turned around to face her. He was wearing his newly sewn robes, that Yuri had cleaned and fixed for him. "Shouldn't you be resting? I mean, you're still healing, and you should try and rest for a while. Wouldn't want you getting hurt or anything." 'Not before mom sees you, anyhow.' She silently added.

Miroku just smiled at her. "I don't think I ever properly thanked you for saving my life, have I?"

"You're welcome, but I really think you should go rest right no-" Sonnet stopped. "Hey, wait a minute. How did you know I saved your life? I never told you."

"Ah. So you did save my life!"

"Yeah I did but." Now Sonnet was really confused. Why would he assume she saved him? After all, she was just a girl.

"Your wondering why I assumed you were the one who saved me, aren't you?" Miroku said, clearing enjoying her look of confusion.

Sonnet was starting to get pissed. 'Man, I am easy to read!' She thought angrily, glaring at him as he smiled.

"Yeah" She croaked, still staring at him with hard eyes. "Usually people think woman aren't good for anything except to cook and clean."

Miroku sighed, staring at the clear lake. "When I was younger, I traveled with two of the most strongest woman out there, both mentally and physically. I have learned not to underestimate what woman can do." He turned back to Sonnet. "You remind me a lot of them, especially the way you talk with out fear of what others might think. That's important in a woman, I think."

Sonnet couldn't believe what he just said. Could she have actually found a man worthy enough for her mother? A man would have to be understanding enough to realize that women were people too, and Miroku seemed like he did. But Sonnet wasn't just going to except him like that. She still didn't know that much about him, so she'd just have to make him stick around longer.

"Also," Miroku started, reaching in one of his robe pockets, "I found this by your door." He pulled out one of her daggers. "I can't imagine just any little girl would keep this in her room. Only a really strong one." He twirled it around his finger, as if teasing her to grab it out of his hand.

"You went in my room!?" Screeched Sonnet, as she made a dive for her weapon. Miroku pulled it out of the way and put the dagger above his head as Sonnet kept jumping up and down, trying reach it. "What are you, some kind of sick pervert?"

"Hey don't blame me. YOU didn't tell me where anything was. Besides, I thought I could try and fix it."

Sonnet put a knee in his stomach. She grabbed her dagger as he keeled over.

"Fix it? What's wrong with it?" Sonnet asked as she turned it over, trying to find the problem.

Miroku straightened up, trying to catch his breath. "Well, nothing's wrong with it, per say. It's just your much stronger than that. You need to keep improving your weapon if you want to improve as a fighter. Also, if you improve one of your weapons, your others skills will grow as well."

Sonnet was starting to get angry. Again. "Who are you to tell me what I need to do and not do. You haven't even seen me fight yet!" She screamed. "Also, how do I know your just a weakling. For all I know, you could know nothing about fighting. I mean, you were about to get eaten by that youkai before I came around and saved your butt. Why should I listen to you?"

Miroku shook his head. "Such language for a child."

"I AM NOT A CHILD!" Screamed Sonnet, stomping her foot in a very childlike manner. "And I'm going to kick your ass in a fighting contest!" Sonnet turned around and starting walking toward the training grounds. "Follow me." She spat.

Miroku smiled to himself. 'Wow, she is very temperamental' he thought as he calmly followed behind her. He kept hearing her mutter things like "Last time I ever do something nice," and "He thinks he so damn smart"

Miroku stared at the back of her head, marveling on how completely similar she and Sango acted. 'But Sonnet is Yuri's daughter, right?' He thought as they entered the blacksmith shop. 'Then again, I never heard her call Yuri 'mom' before. I'll have to ask her about that.' Sonnet walked out the second door to the field and slammed the door right in Miroku's face. 'Later' He thought, rubbing his nose and reopening the door.

Sonnet walked out into the field with to long poles. She threw one to Miroku, and got in fighting stance.

Miroku looked over the pole. It wasn't sharp enough to kill anybody, but it would hurt like hell if you got hit by it.

"Stop stalling and fight." Sonnet yelled as she took a hard swing at him. Miroku blocked it, and took a step back. Sonnet didn't miss a beat. She kept striking, twirling the pole around her fingers. Miroku just kept blocking her strikes easily, watching her as she tried to hit him.

"You're trying to hard to win." Said Miroku. "Just concentrate."

"Don't tell me what to do!" Screamed Sonnet as she drew back for another strike.

'What's happening?' Thought Sonnet, as she figured out that her strikes weren't hurting him. 'I'm not laying a thing on him!' She tried to hit lower, desperate to win.

Miroku blocked it. Barely. 'Whoh! I might lose something important if I don't end this soon.' He thought. When Sonnet went in for another hard blow, Miroku let her fall forward as he took her feet out from under her. He put the edge of his pole on her black, declaring him the winner.

'I.lost?' Thought Sonnet as she tried to get up. 'But I never lose. Except to mom, but that's different.' She finally managed to get up, and sat on the grass, glaring at Miroku.

"What, are you going to sulk now?" Asked Miroku, taking a seat next to her on the grass.

"No." Said Sonnet, trying not to sulk in front of him.

Sonnet moved her eyes to an interesting piece of grass as Miroku stared at her.

'So much like Sango. Even her fighting style matches hers.' He cleared his voice.

"You know you're a great fighter." Miroku said slowly, hoping she wouldn't take what he was about to say the wrong way. "But you fight a little bit.reckless." He paused for effect. "You know, when I was younger, I met a lot of interesting people. I even traveled with a few of them. One of them I remember quite well, a hanyou named Inuyasha."

"You traveled with a real hanyou before?" Sonnet asked, suddenly interested in his story. " But I thought they didn't exist anymore."

"Yes, they still exist, only they're pretty rare. The one I knew was part dog demon, part human, and he had one of the biggest tempers ever. Well, he always fought better when someone he cared about was in danger, mainly because he would just think more about the decisions he was making. Instead of just rushing into things and getting beat, he thought things out a little more than usual. He saved all are lives many times."

"Wow." Said Sonnet, eagerly listening to Miroku. "I think I would like this Inuyasha guy. Hey, did you travel a lot before you came here?" She asked.

Miroku looked surprised. He thought she was going to get all mad and defensive again. Sonnet looked up at him, ready to hear more.

"Well, like I said, I traveled with some of very interesting people in my day." Miroku said, praying he wouldn't get on her bad side again. "There was a dog demon, a miko, a cub kistune, and a beautiful huntress."

Sango greeted Li as he came into the village.

"Thanks for arriving so fast. There are a lot more demons than expected here, and more people are injured here than I can handle." Sango said, walking up to him.

"No problem." Said Li, jumping off his horse. "Glad I could be of service. The others will be here soon. They told me to go ahead." He gave Sango a little hug. " Just want to let you know, your daughter was begging to let me take her with me. That was, of course, before she saved that other guy from a youkai and turned her cute match making charms on him."

Sango rolled her eyes. "I'd hardly call them cute. More like unbelievably annoying. I feel sorry for the poor man. I wonder if he'll get out alive."

"Wouldn't bet on it." Li said, walking over with Sango to put his horse away. "I pretty sure she thinks I'm stupid or something because I haven't fallen for her little tricks."

"Yeah." Agreed Sango. "She's a little to cocky for her own good." They reached the barn, and Li put his horse inside. "How are things going with Yuri?" She finally asked, eager to hear of any love blooming between her two best friends.

Li sighed. "She still doesn't know I exist." He looked really sad. Then he suddenly got an angry look on his face. "And I didn't like the way that monk looked when I told him a beautiful woman nursed him back to help. I hope he doesn't try anything while I'm gone. That's why I was a little reluctant to come." He stopped when he noticed Sango wasn't walking with him anymore. He turned around to find her standing a few feet behind him, frozen.

Sango couldn't believe it. "M-monk? What monk?"

Li was confused. He didn't know if that was a look of surprise or panic on her face. Or both. "Um, the monk that Sonnet saved from the cat youkai. I only talked to him for a little bit while Sonnet was out, but he acted just as cocky as her." His eyes darkened a little. "I got the feeling he was going to try and hit on Yuri."

'Miroku!' Sango instantly thought as soon as she heard the word 'monk'. 'But why would he be over there?' She took a deep breath. 'Okay, breath. Stay calm. I bet there are a lot of perverted monks out there. Right?' She asked herself.

'Yeah. Just keep telling yourself that.' The smart part of her head said.

"Uh." 'cough' "What did he look like?" Sango said, trying to calm herself. Even she wasn't sure what she wanted to hear.

Li looked at her strangely. "Well, he had short hair, pulled in a ponytail in the back of his head, and he wore monks clothes and he carried a long, gold staff." He scratched his head. "I think." He looked back at Sango, who seemed to have opened her mouth even farther in shock. "Um, Sango, I think they want us to go get ready now."

Sango wasn't paying attention; she was too lost in her own thought. 'Oh my God! It is Miroku. Does he know? Does she know? Oh crap. Oh crap. I should have told her!'

She pulled herself together when Li started shaking her. "Hmm? Oh, yes, the demons. Okay, let's go."

Sango sprinted to the cabin. Li stood at her as if she had gone crazy. Shaking his head he followed her.

'I have to get back soon! We need to exterminate the demons, and get out of hear fast. Oh, I don't know if Sonnet will ever forgive me.'

Sango was interrupted by the old miko of the village running up to her.

"They're attacking us now!" She screamed.

"What! Who is?"

"The demons! They're here!"

"But backup hasn't arrived yet!" Li said, catching up to them. Screams could be heard from the village market. Sango and Li broke out in a sprint. When they got to the market, it was a gruesome sight.

Demons, everywhere. Attacking women and child, while the men were standing with their weapons, with a mix of confusion and terror on their faces.

'This wasn't suppose to happen!' Sango thought frantically as she watched the horrible scene unleash from around her. "Come on Li! We have to fight!" She screamed as she grabbed her boomerang.

"But we're going to lose! We can't possibly beat all of them!"

"We have to try." Sango said, sounding like she knew Li was right. Only one thought entered her mind before going out to battle, and she screamed it to Li.

"Tell Sonnet I love her."

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"So, is Yuri your mother?" Miroku finally asked as he helped Sonnet with her reaction time.

It was already late in the day, and Sonnet and Miroku have been practicing all day. After his stories, he decided to help Sonnet train for the rest of the day. He admited it, he was even having fun with this little girl. She wasn't shy at all, something he couldn't help but compare to Sango.

'Sango was so shy when it came to talking to anyone she didn't know.' He thought earlier as he listened to Sonnet tell her story, talking really fast and using lots of arm motions. 'I don't think this girl even knows what shy is.'

He found that he kept doing that throughout the day. Comparing Sonnet and Sango, Sango to Sonnet, trying to figure who Sonnet really was and if she had anything to do with Sango.

He found himself asking the question that had been on his mind all day.

"What?" Sonnet asked, taking off the protection mask from her face that she was using.

"I said 'Is Yuri you're mother?'" Miroku repeated.

"Yuri?" Sonnet looked surprised. 'Oh, I guess I never did tell him about my plan.'

"No, Yuri's not my mother, she's more like my sister. My mother's not here right now, she helping another village." She looked at coyly. "I'm sure you'll like her, though, when you get to meet her."

"What about your father? Is he over with your mother?" Miroku asked, uncertainly.

"My father," Sonnet started with clenched teeth. "Isn't with us anymore."

"Oh, is he dead?"

"I wish." Sonnet took a seat on the grass. Miroku followed her. "No, the bastards still alive. He left me and my mom before I was born. That jerk."

Sonnet wasn't sure why she was just opening up to this guy. She never talked about 'the bastard', not even Yuri, and yet she spilling her feelings to this monk she had only known for a day?

But, at the same time, it felt right. It felt like she could trust him. She didn't know why, but he was the first guy that she didn't feel like she had to act all tough around or else she would get walked on. He actually understood.

She continued. "My mom was probably hit the worst. She never talks about him, not even to me. But that's ok. I don't want to know what he did to get her so sad."

She looked up at Miroku, who was staying silently at her, telling her to continue. She went on."

"The bastard has made life for us not so easy, even though he's never been around. You should she how villages treat unmarried woman, especially one with a child who does men's work." Sonnet smiled sadly, recalling some memories. "I remember one time we got chased out of a village for telling people we knew how to make weapons. Another, we had rocks thrown at us for me not having a right father. That was all before we came to this village and set up a blacksmith shop, but I still remember. I was only 5 or 6 at the time."

Miroku looked stunned. 'A child shouldn't have to go through all that. What kind of person would throw at a little girl and hr mother just because she doesn't have a father.' "How is your life here?" He asked.

"Not terribly bad. They still talk behind our backs and stuff, but they don't throw rocks at us anymore, if that's what you mean." 'At least, not so much.' Thought Sonnet silently. "The worst thing is having already pathetic people make fun of us."

"What do you mean?" "Well, yesterday, for example. I was down by the lake, minding my own business, when these men behind the rock start saying some means things about my mom. I still haven't planned my revenge yet."

"Why don't you just go challenge them to a fight? I'm sure you can beat them. Not many people can beat you."

Sonnet scowled. "Of course I can beat a couple weaklings like them!" She shouted. She calmed herself. "The whole village knows I can beat just about anybody. But nobodies going to say yes to my challenge. They're stupid, but not that stupid."

"Well," Miroku started out slowly. "Maybe we can change it so they will say yes to a challenge made by you."

"Do I hear a plan coming along?" Sonnet asked eagerly. "Because tell me if you do! I want to it too!"

"Okay, so here's what we do." Miroku whispered in her ear as he told her the plan forming in his head.

They got up and went to go get ready.

"Come one, come all, to the strongest man on earth!" Shouted Miroku, standing in the center of the market. People started crowding around him, trying to see what was going on.

Miroku stood on a pedestal, with a huge cart behind him. "This man can defeat anyone! Cowards please stay back, because this man can smell fear. If you think you are man enough to fight, then come on!"

Nobody stepped forward.

"There is a prize for anyone who can defeat my champion, and I'll even let you go in more than one guy. Up to three, for whoever is brave enough to fight him!"

Still no one stepped forward.

"Which ones are they?" Whispered Miroku to Sonnet, who was in the cart.

"Umm," Sonnet tried to see thought the mask that was on her head. "Over there! On the far right."

"You, three sirs! Would you like to take a chance at my champion? Or are you afraid all three of you will get defeated by one man?" Miroku said, pointing at the three guys who were at the lake yesterday.

"Uhh." They stated dumbly. "What does he look like?" They asked as the whole crowd's eyes went to them.

"A fair question. Why don't we show everyone what the greatest fighter in the world looks like!" Miroku opened the cart, and everyone looked forward in great anticipation.

Out popped this midget person, wearing a long mask and little armor.

Everyone laughed.

"THAT's the greatest fighter in the world?" Said one man, laughing his head off. "My dog is bigger than that."

"I can't believe you're afraid to go against that." Said a pretty lady, slapping the back of one of the three men. "Okay, we'll fight." Said the leader of the men. "What's the prize?"

"You're find that all out if you beat him." Miroku said, turning towards his champion with a blindfold in hand. "And to make it all the more interesting, I will now blind my champion."

"We never talked about this." Hissed Sonnet through the mask.

"You want them to be utterly embarrassed, right?" Miroku hissed back.

"Yeah, but-"

"Don't worry, you'll win." He turned back to the three men, and handed them each a pole. "Ready? Fight!"

Sonnet grabbed her pole and turned to fight them.

All and all, it was a pretty pitiful fight. Sonnet beat all of them with one blow. They laid on the ground, unconscious and beaten.

"HAHAHAHA!" Screamed Sonnet, ripping off he mask.

'GASP!' went everyone in the crowd.

Sonnet danced around. "You got beat by a gi -r-l! You got beat by a gi-r- l!" She chanted over and over again.

After the whole crowd finished laughing at the men, Miroku and Sonnet made their way over to her house.

"That was great!" Sonnet said, still laughing. "Thanks so much, Miroku! I couldn't have done it without you!" She gave Miroku a big hug.

"No problem. Sometimes people need to be taught a good lesson. Besides, I got to flirt with the other girls while you were doing your victory dance. Do you mind me staying with you for another night?"

"No problem." Said Sonnet still smiling. 'He is totally perfect for mom! Well, except for his little flirting problem, but that can be fixed once he meets mom.'

Sonnet was so wrapped up, she didn't even see the men at her door dressed in demon exterminator clothes until she was right at her door.

"Sonnet!" One of them yelled.

"Yeah? What is it?" Asked Sonnet. She suddenly stopped smiling as the man walked up to her.

"I'm afraid I have bad news." The man started off slowly, looking sad. "The village your mother went to, went under a surprise attack by youkai before we could get there."

"But.everyone's alright, aren't they?" Sonnet asked, finding it hard to breath.

The man shook his head. "We could only save a few of them, but."

"What about my mom!" Screamed Sonnet, trying not to let the tears fall.

The man looked down on her, his eyes filled with pity. "I'm sorry, we couldn't find her. We had to leave before the demons to come back. The whole town was in ruins."

"So you just left everyone there!" Screamed Sonnet, unable to control herself any longer. "YOU COWARDS!"

The man stayed calm. "You have to understand, there was nothing we could do. We weren't ready to attack so many of them."

"No, you understand! My MOTHER is back there, and she could still be alive!" Sonnet said, as tears were steaming down her face.

'I find it very unlikely she would still be alive, Sonnet." The man said, slowly. "I'm sorry, but your mother is dead."

"NOOO!" Screeched Sonnet, crumbling to the ground.

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Sorry for the cliff hanger, but I wanted to get this story out! Don't worry, Sango's not dead. I would never do that.

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I'm having a little trouble picturing how Sango and Miroku broke up. If anyone has any ideas, feel free to tell me!

I'm going to start my new fic, 'If Looks Could Kill' on paper. The summary will be available at my page thing, but I need to know what's Naraku's human name spelled. I can't figure it out. It's like Onmigumi, or something. Please tell if you know.

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Sonnet and Miroku embark on a dangerous mission to save Sango. Please review!