Sorry about the long update. I spent all night typing this so I could get it out as fast as I could. Hope you like it.

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Chapter 10 Everything Lost

"Why are we going this way?" Haru asked, following Sonnet as they headed toward his castle. "The village is in the opposite direction."

"I want to go thank that dog demon that saved us." Sonnet said simply, following the trail the mysterious demon had left behind. She didn't mention that she wanted to find out who he was. She remembered the stories her mother would tell her to get her to fall asleep, and sometimes they had a strong, silent dog demon that reminded her of the one that had just basically saved her and Haru's life. The thing was, her mother told them with such emotion and so vividly that Sonnet knew they weren't just stories, that they had actually happened, and to her. Sonnet had always wanted to know about her mother's past, and maybe this demon knew her from somewhere. Maybe, he even knew her father..

"I thought you said you needed to save your friend." Haru said, worrying a little.

"I do. But Miroku can wait to be saved. It's not like he's in any real danger." At least, Sonnet HOPED he wasn't in any real danger. She didn't want any harm to come to her new friend Miroku, but she couldn't pass up an opportunity to possibly learn more about her father. 'I hope he forgives me.' She thought silently.

Haru finally just stopped walking all together. He couldn't let a poor unsuspecting human walk straight into the hands of the strongest demons in the land. After his father, of course. The thing was, his dad actually tolerated humans, other than his mother. He loved his mother more than anything, but that was beside the point. Sesshomaru didn't like any humans other than Aunt Rin. He could barely stand him or any of his siblings, just because they had human blood in them. The fact that they were related didn't seem to matter to him.

Anyway, any human that had ever walked up to him had always been seriously injured by him.or worse. It was only worse if Aunt Rin wasn't there, but he'd be dammed if he let anything happen to Sonnet.

"I think it's this way." Sonnet started. She turned around when she realized Haru wasn;t following. "Hey, what's wrong?"

"I can't let you go on this way." He said, facing her.

"What, you want to carry me again? I thought we decided I could walk by myself."

He had a serious look on his face, one that made Sonnet increasingly uncomfortable. He walked closer to her, putting an arm on her shoulder to stop her. "If you keep following this trail, you will be hurt."

Sonnet looked backed with wide eyes. "W-What do you mean?" She asked, worried at the sound of his serious voice.

"The dog demon that saved your life is the dreaded Sesshomaru of the Western Lands. You won't get saved by him twice, and he'll seriously injure you if you go near him again." He said gravely.

Sonnet just stared at him for a moment. Then, with out warning, she smiled at him, and slapped a hand on his back. "Ah, don't worry about it! I've heard about him before from my mother! He doesn't sound to bad, and I can certainly take care of myself! Plus, with you there, we can't lose! Now, come on! I want to get there before nightfall." And with that, she grabbed his hand and sprinted down the small trail that Sesshomaru had left.

'Dear God! We're going to die!' Haru thought, as he had no choice but to follow after the most peculiar human he had ever met.

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"Who do you think that girl with Haru was?" Rin asked Sesshomaru as the reached the castle walls.

"Don't know. I don't recall him getting a slave before we left." He said, letting her down from his arms. It had been to short of a honeymoon, if you had asked him, and he wasn't in that good of a mood to have it end so quickly. Having to save his little half-nephew only added to his bad mood, though it did win him extra points with Rin. She always liked it when he would help out the family, and that always meant a reward for him.

"Kagome would never let him get a slave. And he didn't treat her like any slave either. He seemed very protective of her, and did you see the way he tried to protect her from all those other demons that were attacking them! It was so cute." Rin giggled, getting a dreamy look on her face. She put her arm around Sesshomaru's waist, sighing into his chest. "They reminded me of us, when you used to protect me like that."

"Used to?" Sesshomaru questioned, pulling her up for a kiss. He never liked showing affection to anyone, but with Rin it was different. She made him feel like he actually had some good in him, even if he didn't like to show it.

Unfortunately, another one of the brats had to come in and ruin the moment, just as it was getting good.

"Aunt Rin, Aunt Rin!" Yuffie said, running into the room, out of breath. "Mom wants you to come to the first aid room! Someone's hurt, and she needs your help to cure her!"

"Oh, no!" Rin said, rushing out of Sesshomaru's arms and out the door that Yuffie had come from. Sesshomaru folded his arms, and glared at Yuffie.

"So.how was the honeymoon?" Yuffie said with a weak smile, trying to get her uncle to not kill her. He didn't smile back.

"Er. I think I hear someone calling me!" Yuffie gave a shriek as ran out the door, with a fuming Sesshomaru on her tail.

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Dream Sequence

He didn't love her.

He didn't love her at all. It was all a joke. He never felt anything for her.

At first, Sango couldn't believe it. 'There was no way he couldn't have felt anything.' She said over and over in her mind, as she walked deeper and deeper in the woods. The only color that seemed to flash by was the pink and red from the cherry blossoms that seemed to stay in mi-air as she moved on.

But as the day wore on, she realized he wasn't following her. He wasn't chasing after her. He didn't care.

'He's not coming for me.' She said as tears welled up in her eyes. No matter how far she walked, the scenery around her never changed. It was like she was stuck in that moment of time, no way of moving foreword, or going back.

'How could he have felt nothing!' She screamed angrily in her mind over and over again. 'How could he have felt nothing when I felt so much?' Her heart lurched every time that questioned played in her mind, hurting more and more until she thought it was going to explode in her chest. She fell to her knees, the anger leaving her as she let the tears fall from her face.

'I've lost everything.' She thought as she wept quietly, her shoulders shaking slightly. 'My family, my village, my heart.' She tried to control herself, her anger welling up inside her once more. 'Pride. It's all I have left. I can't go back. I can't afford to lose it too.' She got up from the ground, standing tall as she walked on.

'It's all I have left. I can never go back.' That was Sango's last thought as she reached the end of the woods, walking into a bright light and leaving the forest behind.

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Sango dazedly opened her eyes in a cold sweat, as she also did when she had that dream. It took a few seconds for her eyes to adjust to the small light that was coming from the window, as she tried to remember what happened. There was a black hole in her mind as she found herself lying on a futon, her bare chest wrapped in bindings. She tried to get up, but a pounding in head told her to stop.

"Just lie still." A voice said from in front of her. "You're still very weak."

'That voice!' Sango's mind screamed as her eyes shot opened. She found herself staring into the deepest violet eyes she had ever seen, one that she never thought she would look into again.

"Miroku" She whispered, her mouth barely moving at all.

The man that she had ran away from all those years before was now standing right in front of her, so close she could just stick her hand out a few feet and touch him. The man that she thought she would never see again, was now looking at her with such passion in his dark eyes, making Sango's heart lurch as she stared deeper into them.

"Sango." He whispered back. Sango's heart constricted as he heard his voice, the sweet, caring voice that she had always leaped up whenever she heard it. She missed it so much. She missed HIM so much.

She tried to sit up again. She wanted to get up and get a better look at him. After ten years, she was amazed he was still so handsome, and it reminded her of the last time she saw him. She had to get a good look of him.

Pain shot through stomach as she tied to sit up. The cuts she had received in battle were deeper than she realized, and it hurt when she breathed. She was still a little woozy from the poison, too, which didn't help much.

Miroku saw her try to get up, and reached out to catch her as she fell back. He caught her gently in her hands and laid her back onto the futon.

"Take it easy." He said, tenderly wiping the hair that had fallen on her face. "You're still very weak."

"Why?" She said softly, facing him with her lovely brown eyes boring into him.

"Why what?" He asked, confused. He thought of a million questions she could have asked right then, but that wasn't one of them.

"Why are you here?"

He looked at her, surprised. 'Did she think I wouldn't be here for her?' He thought, hurt. "You got poisoned by a demon, and I brought you back. We were really worried about you."

"No." She said. "Why did you come after me? You weren't caught by slave catchers, I know that, so why are you here?" She really wanted to know. He didn't have to be here. So why is he? A new thought suddenly occurred to her 'He doesn't know, does he?' She thought, alarmed. 'He can't know about Sonnet!'

'Or course he knows!' The other voice inside her head said. 'He wouldn't be here unless he knew he had a daughter.'

Yet another voice in her head started talking as she kept remembering new information. 'Hey, wasn't Sonnet supposed to be with him?' It asked.

'Oh no!' They all thought together. 'Where the hell is Sonnet?'

"Sonnet!" She screamed out loud, before Miroku got a chance to answer. "Where's Sonnet?" She sat up quickly, and tried to get out, wincing all the way. She tried to stand up, only to have strong arms wrap around her again.

"I sent Inuyasha and Kagome after Sonnet." Miroku said, a smile tugging at his lips of the same stubbornness she had ten years ago. He didn't let go of her after he laid her back down. "You have to try and get some rest. You still haven't fully recovered yet." He walked over to the table and brought back some medicine in a cup. "Drink this. It'll heal you faster.

Sango took the cup, and drank it silently. She stared at the ground, her eyes wide and sad. "So you know?" She said sorrowfully.

Miroku eyes grew sad as well as he thought of Sonnet, and how he never knew of her until a few days ago. How he never got to watch his daughter grow. All those lost years, he could have spent with Sango and his own daughter. "Yeah." He said softly. "I saw the birthmark on her hand." He wrapped his arms tighter around Sango, joining her on the futon. He was glad when she scooted over and gave him room to lay next to her.

Sango rested her head against his chest, her eyes dropping as her head fell up and down with his rhythmic breathing. It felt so right to be in his arms again, she almost forgot about everything else. It was just her and him, together again.

"I'm sorry." She whispered. She yawned, as the medicine began to take affect. The pounding headache she had before was gone, but it was making her incredibly drowsy.

"Don't worry. Everything will fine now. I'm here." That was the last thing Sango heard as she drifted off into a peaceful slumber.

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"I have no idea where we are." Sonnet said, flopping herself down on the ground as gave a desperate sigh. 'Guess I'm not a good of tracker as I thought.' She said silently to herself.

It had taken them the entire afternoon to get where they were now. Completely and utterly, lost. Sonnet put her knees up to her face, as she gave a frustrated scream into her hands. "Danmit! We're never going to get out of here!"

Silence.

Sonnet had expected to have mean things thrown at her incompetence, by the 'Never-ever-mess-up-once' dog demon Haru. She looked up, confused by the fact that he hadn't said anything to her yet about being lost.

She saw him standing against a tree, as far away from her as he could get without being too obvious. He didn't seem to be listening to her at all, as he just stared into the cherry blossom filled woods. Sonnet wasn't sure what had made him so said.

'Come to think of it,' She thought, recalling the events from earlier that day. 'He's been silent ever since he tried to pursued her to not follow Sesshomaru.' The only reason she didn't realize it earlier was because she was so absorbed in trying to find the trail.

"Hey," She said smoothly, smiling smugly at him "You're not still mad at losing that fight, do you. Because you know, if you're going to be hanging around me, you're not going to be winning a lot of fights."

He didn't smile back. In fact, he didn't even turn his head to look at her.

Sonnet did not like to be ignored. "What's your problem?" She said with a hint of annoyance in her voice. "You've been sulking like a baby for hours."

"You don't care at all." He said, almost so quietly that Sonnet wasn't sure if that was really what he said.

"What?" She asked.

"You don't care about yourself!" He snapped, suddenly whipping his head around to face her.

"What do you mean!?" Sonnet matched his anger. The only thing she didn't like more than being ignored was getting yelled at for no reason.

He walked up to her, and put his hands on her shoulder. "Listen to me. You will get injured if you go visit Sesshomaru. Believe me. I know." He stared into her almost purple-looking eyes. Sonnet stared back, not about to back down just because Haru had lost his mind.

He didn't flinch either. Sonnet eyes grew wide as she stared into his. It's like she could read him, through his bright amber eyes.

"You. knew where he was all along, didn't you." She said slowly, realizing that was the reason why he didn't try to carry her or take the lead. He stared back at her, the looked away, guilty. She suddenly grew angry, as her face hardened. "You jerk!" She wrenched out of his hands as fast as she could. "We've wasted a whole day because you were to scared to face that dog demon!" She screamed into his face.

Haru looked confused for a second, then launched back with his own anger. "What!? Did you not hear anything what I was saying! I'm only looking out for a weak human like you!"

"Yeah, right! That's your excuse! You just a weak coward, and your hiding behind me so you won't have to face an tough competition!"

"You stubborn wrench!" Haru couldn't believe what she was saying to him! After he was trying to help her, too. "I'm only looking out for you! Can't you get that through your stick skull?"

Sonnet didn't see it as him protecting her. He saw it as him not wanting her to find out about her mother's past, even though she didn't exactly tell him that was her plan. "Don't tell me what I should get, dog boy! I can't believe you would lie to me like that. And here I thought you were someone I could actually trust!" She looked over him, with a look of disgust playing on her face. "I should have known better than to think I could trust a demon!" She said spitefully.

Haru looked like he was ready to hit her. "And I should have known better than to think a human girl would be smart enough to know when to back off!" He screamed back.

"Bastard!"

"Bitch!"

"Asshole!"

"Wrench!"

"I'm going to kiss your ass!" Sonnet threw herself on Haru, throwing a fist in his stomach. Haru put his hands up, protecting himself as Sonnet wildly threw punches. He felt one go hit his face, before the weight was lifted off his shoulders.

He looked up to his mother trying to keep a struggling Sonnet in her hands. Sonnet knew better than to hit a non-threatening grown up, so she let up pretty fast, and stopped moving. Haru saw his father come up from behind his mother, looking at Haru with an amused smile on his face.

"Aww, Kagome, you should have let them fight it out." He smiled at Haru. "I think it's time for Haru to get beaten up by someone his own age."

"Inuyasha!" Kagome hissed, disapprovingly. "We are not going to encourage fighting!"

Sonnet was surprised they hadn't said anything about Sonnet trying to beat the crap out of Haru, which she found incredibly lucky. "Who are you?" She asked.

The pretty blacked-haired human gave her a bright smile. "Oh! How rude of us. My name's Kagome, and the demon over there," She pointed at the white haired dog demon. "Is Inuyasha. We're Haru's parents."

"Really?" Sonnet said, raising an eyebrow. "I'm surprised. I would have never guessed someone as nice and pretty as you would have a rude son like that." She knew the next best thing to trying to get pitied is to compliment the person. Hopefully, she would get out of here unscratched, with her mom never knowing she got into a couple of fights.

Kagome had to smile at the girl in front of her. 'She looks exactly like Sango, but talks smooth like Miroku! She's too cute!' Out loud she said, "You're Sonnet, right?"

"Yeah, how do you know?" Sonnet asked, surprised that this total stranger knew her name.

"I'm an old friend of your mothers."

Sonnet jumped up at this. "You know my mother!?" She asked, leaping up at her. "Where is she? Is she okay? Can I see her? Please take me to her!" She wrapped her arms around Kagome.

"Sonnet, there's something you should know. Sango got in a little fight with a demon." She saw Sonnet's eyes fill with horror, as she opened her mouth to say something, she continued, "But don't worry. Sango's completely fine. She's healing very nicely, and we left her in Miroku's care, so we're pretty sure she's okay."

Sonnet smiled at the thought of Miroku and her mother spending time together. 'Maybe they'll start liking each other!' She hopefully thought.

"What are we waiting here for?! Let's go!" Sonnet said, as she pushed Kagome in the direction they came from. Inuyasha stayed behind, walking with Haru.

"I see why you didn't come home." Inuyasha said. He liked playing with Haru like this, because it was so easy. He had only known Sonnet for a few moments, but he already liked her. He just prayed she hadn't picked up Miroku's pervert genes.

Haru blushed. "There is no way I like her in the least bit, Dad! She's way to stubborn, and totally overreacts!" He said quickly in his defense.

"Don't worry, Haru. I'm only playing with you." Inuyasha smiled to himself, enjoying the look of embarrassment on his son. 'I hope Sonnet sticks around.' Inuyasha thought, as he and Haru followed the girls. 'Haru could really use someone like her.'

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Sonnet ran into the giant castle, unfazed by all the amazing objects inside the house. All she could think about was her mother, and hoping she was truly okay. Kagome pointed her towards a large door to the right, and Sonnet rushed in before anyone could day anything.

"Mom! Mom are you he-." She stopped when she saw her mother asleep, in the arms of a certain monk. Each had a look of total tranquility on their face, one that she had never seen on her mother before, and one she didn't she when she watched Miroku sleep.

'Boy did they move fast.' Sonnet thought, a little worried. She noticed the bandages wrapped around her mother's rib, and felt her face heat up in anger. 'He's not suppose to be hitting on her when she's injured.' She thought angrily, staring at his hand that was wrapped around her waist. She still felt it was her duty to protect her mother from the likes of perverts like Miroku, even if he was a nice pervert.

"Get off of her." She hissed, quiet enough so she wouldn't wake up her mother. She walked over to them, laying quite comfortably on the futon, and tried to pry his hands of his mother.

Haru walked in at that time, and just stared at her as she tried to get him off of her mom without waking them up. "What are you doing, wrench?"

"The name's Sonnet." She said, grunting as she lifted up his heavy arm. "And I don't like how he's feeling her up when she's injured."

'How much can one man's arm weigh?" She wondered, as it seemed to tighten its grip around her mom's waist the harder she pulled on it. 'God! Let go!'

"Are you just going to stand there, or are you going to help?" Sonnet jeered at Haru, who seemed to be smiling at her difficulty. Haru shrugged, and came over and grabbed Miroku's right hand, trying to untangle that one. He finally managed to get the hand undone, with much work.

"Hey, what's this?" He asked, staring at the hand that he had untangled. On his hand, there was a small, white circle, placed perfectly in the middle of his palm. Haru didn't know what it was.

"What's what?" Sonnet asked, as she looked over at what Haru was pointing to. She saw the white circle, and froze.

"Oh.my.god." She murmured, gaping at Miroku's hand. She brought up her right her, and put it next to his. The circles on both of their hands were the exact same size, both placed in the exact same place. Sonnet's mouth hung open, staring disbelieving at the sight in front of her. 'It.can't be.' She thought slowly. 'How.?"

Haru sensed her distraught and studied her reaction to this. He saw that she had the same mark on her palm as the guy who was sleeping with her mom, but he didn't know what it meant. She seemed to be in shock.

"Are you alright?" He asked, truly concerned about her. She hadn't blinked in awhile, just staring at the hand, and it was scaring him a little having her act like this. She always seemed to be in such control of everything, completely different than what she was acting like now.

"He's.he's.my." She stuttered, her eyes filling with tears. She held a hurt expression on her face, one that Haru couldn't stand to see.

She held her breath as she saw her mom shift around in her sleeping, looking like she was going to wake up soon. "Mom" she said in a soft voice.

Sango's eyes shot open as she realized her daughter was standing in front of her. "Sonnet!" She said, trying to unravel herself from Miroku's arms. She stopped when she saw the tears in Sonnet's eyes. "What's wrong?"

"What's wrong?" Sonnet asked in a tight voice. She couldn't believe her mom was acting like it was nothing! "What's wrong is that that monk has the exact same birth mark as me!" Her voice got louder as she kept talking, and she was screaming the last part at her mother, waking up Miroku.

"Wh-?" He said groggily. He looked up when he saw Sonnet standing a few feet away from him, her palm held out next to his. "Sonnet?"

She just stared into him, trying to read him through his eyes. "How could you lie to me like that?" She said, still staring at him, taking a step back.

Sango got up, a little shakily, and tired to comfort her daughter. "Sonnet, just listen to m-."

"No!" Sonnet shouted! "You lied to me! Both of you! You lied!" She fiercely looked up at Miroku, with more hatred in her eyes then he had ever seen in a little girl in his life. She pointed a finger at him, her voice low as she spoke and her eyes glistening. "I hate you!"

Before anyone could say anything, Sonnet turned around and sprinted out the door, before anyone could see the silent tears in her eyes.

Haru didn't know what was happening, but he felt very much out of place standing in a room with what looked like Sonnet's parents. He took a last look at them before following Sonnet out the door.

Sango stared at where her daughter had just run out on her. 'Sonnet.I'm so sorry.' She thought silently, her own tears threatening to fall out.

She felt Miroku brush past her and out the door, set on following his daughter.

"Miroku, wait!" Sango called out after him. She was still weak from the poison, and her stomach hurt when she walked.

"I have to go get her." Miroku said in an blank voice, a distressing look on his face.

"Wait!"

To late. He was gone. 'Oh, no.' Sango thought desperately. Kagome ran into the room, looking confused as she spoke to Sango. "What happened? I saw Sonnet and Haru leave the castle in a hurry, with Miroku hot on their tails. Is something wrong?" She asked.

"I should have told her." Sango said absently mindedly, staring at the door where the two people she cared for more than anything had just left. "Now I don't know if she'll come back."

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Tsk, Tsk. Sango should have told Sonnet about her father before hand. Now she ran away, to god knows where. How sad.

Thank you to all my reviewers! W/O you, there would be no story. You rock!

I read another fic by a different author that is very similar to mine. It's about Sango and Miroku's daughter, who grew up never knowing her father. At first I thought someone had thought my idea was good enough to be stolen, and I felt really proud. But then I saw the published date, and it was published two months before I wrote mine. I felt really bad, because even though I never saw that story before, and certainly didn't take the idea from someone else. But I still feel really bad.

Also, I am totally cool with someone borrowing my ideas, because more then likely you're a better writer than I am. I just want the reader's to get the best possible story they can. Just drop me a review saying your going to borrow my idea, so I can give some of my ideas to you and keep updated on it. Don't worry. I really don't mind.

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I think I'll have what happened to Sango and Miroku in the next chapter. Please review!

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