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Chapter 13 Something Right

'Where is she?!' Sonnet thought, almost getting hysterical about not finding her mother. She called out her names a couple times, but still she couldn't find her.

'Maybe she left already.' Sonnet finally thought, after looking for her for what seemed like forever. She walked around a bit more, and saw a small hill. Thinking that if her mother was anywhere in the garden she would see her from there, she climbed it.

When she got to the top, she saw the one thing beside her mother that she wanted to talk to. Him.

He looked like he was going to make a break for it. 'That bastard isn't going to get away that easy.' She thought, her eyes narrowing. She wanted to give him a piece of her mind

He stopped and turned. She knew he knew she has seen him.

Miroku tried to get regain himself. 'It's okay. She's just a little girl, right? You can take her.'

Something told him this was one little girl who wasn't going to be taken lightly.

"Where is she!?" She shrieked at him, running up to him and reaching for her daggers. Of course, they weren't there, since that stupid dog demon had made her dropped them, so she settled with bringing her fists up and getting ready to punch him if needed. "What did you do to her?"

Miroku took a deep breath and tried to figure out a way out of this. How could he make her understand?

"Sonnet," He said slowly, putting his hands in front of him. "I don't know what you think happened, but you have it completely wrong. I talked to Sango, and we just barley got things straitened out."

"Yeah right!" Sonnet growled. "You tell her more of your lies!? She's vulnerable right now, and your just taking advantage of her!"

Miroku tried to hold his temper. "I am not! I would never take advantage of her like that!"

"Oh, yeah. Just like you didn't take advantage of Yuri, or that old man in the woods, or like anyone else you've probably lied to before I met you! Face it, you're just a manipulating monk who will do whatever it takes to get what he wants!"

"Sonnet, listen to me!" Miroku said angrily. His voice had risen, as he temper flared. She wouldn't even try listen to him.

"No! You listen to me!" Sonnet cut him off. "You have no idea what you did to us. You think that just because you weren't there to hurt us, we never felt anything? You will never know what it was like for us to live without you. To have every village we come to either scorn or shun us. To have people call us names behind our backs, no matter how much we helped them. All because you weren't there."

Miroku saw in disbelief as Sonnet's eyes began to fill with tears. Her voice held more emotion than Miroku had ever heard before, and he just stared at her, as she got lost in her words.

"And for my mother to live without you. Without a husband. You don't know what it was like for me to wake up every morning and see that same sadness in her eyes. For me to know that I will never be enough for her. Knowing that no matter how hard I tried, I could never fill that part in her heart. That she would always have that isolated look, know matter what I did. All because you left."

"And you will NEVER know what it was like for me. To listen to all the other kids tell great stories of their father, and for me to have never even met mine. To stay awake late at night, thinking of what I did to drive you away.to wonder why you didn't want to stay."

Sonnet's eyes were glistening, as her tears threatened to fall at any moment. They shone with a strange mixture of anger and sadness "You weren't there for us. That's the bottom line. Nothing you could do will make up for all those years torment and suffering your absence caused us. Nothing."

They stood there for a long time, just staring into each other's eyes waiting for the other to move. It seemed like eternity.

Even though Sonnet had just yelled her heart out, she felt as if a huge weight had been lifted off her shoulders. She had kept those things pent up inside her for so long, it was refreshing to finally let it out.

One look at Miroku's eyes told her that maybe she shouldn't had said those things. 'No!' Her mind screamed. 'You are not the one who betrayed your entire family. You didn't leave. You aren't the one that should feel bad. He should!'

But his eyes held more hurt than anything she had ever seen before. It was like she had broken his heart. But she couldn't have? He didn't care for her at all, since he left her before she ever got to know her.right?

She couldn't stand staring looking at him anymore. She had to leave. "I'm going to find my mother." She said, forcing her voice to sound hard. She was so confused right now, and just needed to get away.

She left Miroku standing in the field as she ran down the hill as fast as she could go.

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Haru sat at the table, listening absentmindedly to the many conversations that were going on while keeping an eye on the door. Everyone seemed to have forgotten the drama that was going on between the new humans. Actually, most of them either didn't know what was going on, or they were to busy with other things. Or they just didn't care.

Mom was busy with his other siblings, who were just getting to the age where they were becoming big trouble. Dad seemed to be oblivious everyone else's problem, and like Sesshomaru would ever care about humans. And as far as he knew, Aunt Rin hadn't even seen Sonnet or her parents.

"Hey Haru, are you ready to go train?" Inuyasha asked his son, carrying the Tesigua over his shoulder.

"Um, do you think you could take Kato or Yuffy with you? I don't feel much like training today." What was he saying? He NEVER missed a training session with his dad, and he would certainly never offer one of his siblings to take his place. They might start getting ideas.

Inuyasha looked surprised as well. He opened his mouth to say something, but a hard look from Kagome told him to let Haru miss this one session. "Well, I guess the twins are ready to train with me. Besides, we need to get you a new sword."

Oh yeah. He had forgotten that stupid human girl had made him drop them in the lake. "I'll go see what I can do about that now." With that he ran out to the garden, where he had last seen that same stupid girl.

He looked all over for her. He picked up her fresh scent quickly, and raced over to it. He found her walking slowly out of the other side of the garden, her eyes focused on the ground, completely unaware of the outside world. She hadn't even sensed him yet.

"Wrench!" He screamed at her, rushing over to her. He was ready to say an insulting comment about her, but the look on her face stopped him. "Hey, what's wrong?" He said, his voice full of concern.

Sonnet seemed to have just noticed his presence. "Oh, hi, Haru. I didn't notice you there."

Huh?! No snappy comments? No unseemly gestures? Now Haru knew something was wrong.

"Are you feeling alright?" He asked, studying her closely.

He watched as Sonnet's eyebrow furrowed, and a sad expression took over her face. "Y-yes. I'm fine." A forced smile came across her lips.

His heart reached out to her. Something was very wrong. She sat down and just stared at the ground, as if searching for the answers on the grassy field. Haru sat down next to her.

"Did you talk to him?" Haru asked, not sure what else to say.

"No." Sonnet said, her voice tight. She didn't even look up at him when she spoke.

Her tone told him not to press the subject any further, so he just stayed quiet as a comfortable silence took over them. He watched Sonnet out of the corner of his eyes, waiting for her to make the first move. To signal it was okay to act normal again.

"Why did this have to happen?" She said in a small whisper. If Haru hadn't had his super hearing sense, he would have never even made out the words.

"What?" He asked, getting more confused by the minute.

"Why did all this have to happen!?" Sonnet said, jumping up, her voice getting louder with each passing word. "Why did Mom have to go to that village? Why did she have to get captured? Why did Miroku have to be my father?"

She sighed and fell to her knees, just staring at the ground again. "Why did things have to change?"

So that what's this was all about. "You didn't want things to change?" Haru asked, beginning to understand the difficult girl sitting in front of him.

Sonnet looked up at him. "Well, I know my life wasn't perfect before, but.I don't even know anymore. I just want things to go back like they were before. Just me and Mom, like it should be. Without anyone else."

Haru stared at her with a look of sympathy in his eyes. "When things change, they don't always have to be bad."

Sonnet gave a snort. "Yeah, right. So far I've lost my mother, met a perverted monk, got kidnapped by slave capturers, almost got ripped apart by various demons, and met the last man I ever wanted to meet. Ever." She gave a sarcastic look at Haru. "So tell me, what has actually gone right through this whole ordeal?"

"Well," Haru started out, hoping he wasn't going to regret what he was about to say. "You met me, right? I think that should count as something that has gone right."

Silence.

'Stupid!' Haru battered himself. 'Why did you have to say that? Of course she doesn't think of you as a good thing. Damn, damn, damn!'

"You know what?" Sonnet said slowly, shaking her head. "You're right." A smile tugged at her lips, as it grew bigger and bigger as she thought more of the situation. "You are the best thing that has happened to me after all this."

They stared at each other, as an understanding was reached. They burst out laughing.

"That is really sad." Haru said, laughing as Sonnet rolled on the ground holding her sides.

"I know! I can't believe it!"

They both continued laughing, the humor of the situation finally getting to them. To Sonnet, it was a great stress-reliever, and as the laughter died down, a comfortable silence laid between them.

Sonnet smiled to herself. After all this pain and suffering she had been going though, who would have thought she would have made a friend? Maybe Haru wasn't THAT bad. Though, she would never in a million years ever tell him that.

"Haru" She said, still smiling. "Thank-you?"

"For what?" Haru asked, confused.

"For being there for me, of course! Like you were yesterday, and like you are now." Sonnet was beginning to feel a tad bit nervous now. "I-It really means a lot to me, Haru."

She hung her head, not wanting to show the blush that had quickly heated her cheeks. What was this? Her? Blushing!? Crap.

Haru could feel himself smile at her obvious embarrassment. It was nice to know she wasn't the only one who could have all the fun at this. "Anytime, Sonnet."

Sonnet's head shot up. "What did you just say?!"

Haru was taken back at her sudden outburst. "Umm, anytime?"

She jumped up and grabbed Haru's arm, staring him straight in the eyes. "You said my name!"

"Um, no I didn't." Haru said, lamely. Now it was his turn to blush. 'No! I lost my edge already!' He thought, trying to think of a way to save some dignity. His face got redder as Sonnet's smile grew.

"AHAHA! Yes you did! I heard you!" Sonnet threw her hand up in triumph. "Ooooo! I knew you liked me!"

Haru tried to keep his composure. He gave her an odd look. "I think something might be wrong with your ears. Maybe you should have them checked." He turned around and calmly started walking back to the house.

"What?!" Sonnet screamed, following him. "You can't just pretend you didn't say my name when we both know you did! You like me, just admit it!"

Haru shook his head. "Don't worry about it, wrench. You're a human. It's understandable." He didn't turn around to face her. He knew the only way to get her to forget about his slip up was to get her angry. 'Good thing it's easy to get her angry." Haru thought. He stopped walking when Sonnet jumped in front of him, a look of total anger on her face. 'Or, maybe not.'

Sonnet crossed her arms, blocking his path. "So we're back to insulting humans, now are we? You're a jerk, you know that?" She whipped around and started walking to the house on her own. His ears picked up a few curse words she was muttering.

He shook his own head. There was no winning with this girl.

He smiled to himself as he followed her. He couldn't remember the last time he'd had this much fun with anyone, not to mention a human girl. Maybe the humans weren't so bad after all...

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First off, thank-you to all my wonderful reviewers! You are so great!

Sorry, this took a REALLY long time to get done. I'm a little short on ideas, and time, but I will put all other stories on hold so I can finish this. This fic is almost done anyway. Only a few more chapters to go! Tell me if you want a sequel! And don't forget to review!

~Zephor~

Next Chapter: Sonnet finally finds Sango!