"Promises Promises"
by Pixie
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Author's Commentary: You know, I had this all typed and ready to go before I left? And fanfiction.net wouldn't let me upload it! I was so bummed. But here it is, Chapter 14!
Chapter 14
Sango stared at her net. Twice now she'd turned on the bath water and pretended to be taking a bath, but still no monk. The hour of her revenge was finally here, and he was late! She examined the net again. Somewhere in the back of her mind, a voice nagged her, saying she shouldn't be using her demon hunting skills for petty things like this…but she ignored the voice. Because, quite obviously, this was no petty thing. It'll backfire…the little voice continued in Sango's mind. She couldn't see a way it would backfire. She had used this trap hundreds of times before. When someone entered the room, they would step onto the net, which would fling them in the air. In Miroku's case, it would fling him right onto Sango's bed.
Sango wanted to humiliate the houshi, not kill him. Though she was a bit concerned about letting the monk near her bed…But Shippo was waiting under the bed. He would spring out and tie Miroku down. Then, the fox had explained, he would have to leave, or else risk being in very big trouble. From there, Sango could torture the monk however she saw fitting.
Sango grinned at her reflection in the mirror, admiring her new cherry blossom lip color. It had been a gift from Kagome, and though the demon slayer had never found much need for lip color and other such silly things, she had grown rather fond of the beautiful pink color that shimmered on her lips. Suddenly, Sango thought of how Miroku would look in this color. She giggled at the image and decided one of the things she should do when she finally catches him, is find out just how he looks in that coloring…
Rin sighed, all her courage gone. Sesshomaru released her, and for a moment, Rin's heart fell, but then she saw him glaring murder at his servant and decided perhaps she still had hope after all. The little green man walked out of the door, much quieter than he had come in, leaving the tea behind. Rin smiled at Sesshomaru, though he could easily see her heart wasn't in it as she got off his bed and headed towards the door.
Come on…if you don't tell her now, she'll walk away. "Rin, wait. Allow me to…walk you to your room." Sesshomaru could have slapped himself. Walk her to her room wasn't exactly 'I love you'. It was more along the lines of something his half-wit brother would say to a girl. Rin stared at him curiously, before nodding. Sesshomaru exited his bed gracefully as he moved alongside Rin and opened the door for her.
Meanwhile…
Inu-Yasha sighed contently in Kagome's hair. This would be the greatest thing in the world he thought if only Kikyo wasn't back at the castle waiting for me. Without breaking the embrace, Inu-Yasha took one hand and swept Kagome's legs out from underneath her. She blinked in surprise, but Inu-Yasha's gaze seemed reassuring. She tightened her grip around him, and he around her as they took off back towards the castle.
"Kagome I…"
"Yes Inu-Yasha?"
"Never mind…"
The couple landed outside, still wrapped up in each other's arms for a moment. Inu-Yasha didn't feel he'd ever let go, and Kagome didn't want too, but she knew she had to go find Kouga and say thank you to him. She gently pushed Inu-Yasha away and smiled at him before running off inside. The half-demon started after her, but was stopped by a hand on his shoulder. He turned around to see who would dare stop the Prince, but his eyes softened as he saw Kikyo standing there.
Sango sighed as she turned on the water yet again. She let it go, until a bath would have been about full, then turned off the water. If Miroku didn't hurry up and fall into her trap someone else would. Sango had a sudden image of Kagome or Rin flying through the air and landing in her trap. She heard footsteps outside, and crouched by the door. Click, Click… The sound of the monk's staff was unmistakable. The door flung open.
"Lady San…" and then there was a small click and the sound of a monk flying through the air. A very lovely sound of you asked Sango. He landed smack on his back, right on Sango's bed and before he could blink, Shippo had tied one limb to each bedpost. Sango wondered if the kitsune was really as innocent as he appeared, tying Miroku like that.
"Lady Sango! Well, well, well, I knew you wanted me. I just didn't think you were this excited about it." Sango smirked and Miroku's grin slowly faded. She held up her beautiful cherry blossom lip color, the very shade she was wearing that day and approached him, leaning over the bed. However, applying the color was a task easier said than done. Miroku turned his head away from Sango. Determined, the demon slayer climbed right up on top of Miroku, throwing one leg on either side of him, an act that caused the monk to turn a bright shade of red. She leaned down and grabbed his chin with one hand and the lip color in the other. Miroku, however, was still quite squirmy, and ended up with lip color smeared over the bottom half of his face. With a quick and rather skillful toss of his head, Sango felt the lip color fly from her hand and then…
"Woah…Miroku, I didn't think you'd ever even get a girl to talk to you, much less THIS!" Sango turned and saw Inu-Yasha standing at the door, arms folded. He'd given Kikyo a quick hello, then ran off after Kagome. Speaking of which, Kagome was right next to Inu-Yasha and was staring at her roommate with an odd and shocked expression. Rin, who of course was right behind with Sesshomaru, blushed and looked away. Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow, more expression than he usually showed.
It was that exact moment as well, when Sango realized what they were seeing. Her, on top of a tied down Miroku. Her lip color, the lip color she was wearing, smeared all over the bottom half of his face, and thanks to the monk's squirming, even on some of his neck. Sango turned bright red and jumped off Miroku, who, though slightly pink in the cheeks, seemed rather happy and dazed.
The group continued to stare at Sango. They all seemed to realize, that, as Miroku was involved here, there was no way this could be what it looked like.
Author's Commentary: I know you guys are not going to like hearing this….but I have to leave again. In 4 days, until mid-july. SORRY!!!!! But I will update as much as I can until then!