Disclaimer: You know, before fanfiction.net, I didn't truly understand what the purpose of a disclaimer was. What a sheltered childhood I had. '-_-a
More Disclaimer!!: Oh, and credits for the face goes to a friend of mine… who doesn't watch TV. How whacked is that? I think it's crazy. Dude's got a lot of willpower. I couldn't last more then two days without .Hack//sign, or Orphen, or YuYuHakusho, or Inuyasha… none of which I own, coincidentally. Let's just say I brought about 10 hours of Orphen up north on a family vacation… ^^;;;;;;;
A/N: Greetings all, another update in celebration!!- or boredom, whichever.
Well, Inuyasha is back on in this area!!! ^_^ I missed everyone on that show so much!! I lent my tapes … all 6 of them… to a friend we "converted" to the "dark side". *cough* So, in short, I missed Inuyasha's sadistic blushing, Kagome's slightly creepy voice, Miroku's… erm… I missed Miroku, Sango's whacking of Miroku, and Shippou's… over-cheery happiness and little-kid-ness. Okay, so maybe not that much… but still. And I missed Koga. He rocks the world. ^^
Some people might miss Sesshomaru. I'm one of them. He's so pretty!!! ^_^ Welcome to the "Swooning fangirl" mode of Darkest Side of Death. Pure darkness can be happy too, you know.
Thanks to Kitai Matsuru, who has reviewed my fic from the first, you are the bomb. I appreciate the fact that I have one steady reviewer… *cough* … I'm thankful for the fickle people that pop in then LEAVE right away too. Really, I am. ^^
I have over 10 reviews!!!! And less then 10 chapters!!!! I have… seven chapters!!! And… 13 reviews!!! That's… more than ten!!!
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If anyone actually read the whole A/N portion of my fic, tell me. Cause it's fun to do, and I want to know if anyone cares about my efforts. And because I'm bored and I like that crazy little stuff. Maybe the top part belongs at the bottom. Maybe I'm still slightly sick. That must be it. Yep. That's gotta be it.
Glass House
"Cause I know who I am and I won't fake it, I'm gonna take a stand, It's my faith that keeps me strong, The light is on in my glass house"
-------- Sango's POV ---------
The warm summer sun draws me out of a troubled sleep. Dreamless and light, I have the sinking feeling that I didn't really get any sleep at all. I think I'm too tired.
Everyone's still asleep. Kilala, Shippou, Nori, and her demons….. people… … …things. It makes me want to cry for some odd reason. Something must be wrong with me. Maybe I got hit in the head with something. Maybe this is just a bad dream. Maybe it's just a nightmare. Maybe I've been caught in some trick of Naraku's, making me think that Miroku's gone, making me believe I have no hope of ever seeing him again…
I sigh, and the sound is like a winter breeze, here in the summer air. So totally out of place I don't know why I even did it. So totally unlike me I don't even know what made me think of it.
Inuyasha and Kagome are no where to be seen… can't believe I didn't notice that already.
What if- what if something's happened to them?! The thought hits me like a ton of bricks, waking me up quite fully. I'm so totally aware I think I could sense a pin drop in another village.
I dive into the forest as softly as I possibly can, leaving the others asleep. They are safe; what with Nori and a horde of warriors and healers at her disposal… and there's Kilala… Poor Shippou, all alone with Mir-
…oh, how could I forget.
Miroku's gone.
I pause and listen for any sign of Inuyasha and Kagome. Those tears that are caught in my throat can wait for a later time. Maybe never. At this rate I'll be a sobby, wimpy, pathetic, though wealthy woman in my next life. Maybe that's who I was in my distant past… if such a thing is even possible…
If I can't think straight, I'll never find Kagome, Inuyasha… or Miroku. I have to concentrate.
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Voices.
Kagome! Inuyasha! I walk forward. What if I'm walking into an attack? I pause, then start walking again. I'd rather be captured with them then safe. I can't be alone anymore. I wish I could withdraw that thought as soon as I spoke it. But I wouldn't be alone. I'd be with Shippou and… Nori. For some odd reason, I don't think too highly of Nori. Maybe it was just the presence of those demon… people… things of hers. But there was something amiss about the thing that is Nori. Something's wro-
I almost walk into a tree.
Damn thinking. Now I know why it was never encouraged for women to get educated. Women think so much, they forget everything else. Then we'll rule the world. Then the universe. Then a large chain of the store-things that Kagome likes so much. I mean, no woman can rule the world in a day. Hey, no man could rule the world ever, so don't laugh.
I'm going to stop thinking now, before it gets me killed.
I step into a glen and see Inuyasha and Kagome, sitting reasonably and talking like… well, people. Civilized people. They aren't trying to kill each other, or rather, Kagome isn't trying to kill Inuyasha, and Inuyasha is sitting, not laying on his face in a small crater. Inuyasha doesn't appear to be calling Kagome rude names or anything of the sort, either. This is scary. I wonder what happened last night… ooh…
*squick*
… I think I'm going to stop thinking now, so I don't become mentally scared for life.
"Um… Inuyasha, Kagome!" I call, pretending I just came out of the trees into the glade and I haven't quite seen them yet.
"Over here, Sango!" Kagome calls, waving happily to me. Inuyasha scowls at me. Kagome beams at me. Overly brightly. Yep, something happened.
"Oh, I was looking all over for you guys!" I gush, disgusted at myself. "Everyone back at camp is asleep… or they were when I left."
"We, er, I just woke up too," Kagome stutters. Now she resembles a tomato. What happened last night?
"I'm going back to camp," Inuyasha announces. I think he was more then happy to get out of here before the "invasion of the girl talk"… or maybe he just didn't want to see me.
"Okay," Kagome says, with a twinge of sadness on her voice.
"'Kay," I say.
"Feh," replies Inuyasha as he bounds off into the woods.
"Ah, the word of the wise. Where did he get his wit," I remark dryly. Kagome laughs slightly, watching the last spark of red from Inuyasha's clothes vanish to the north… wait, isn't camp the other way?
"So…" Kagome starts sheepishly. "What did you see?"
"Nani?" I gasp, a blush creeping up my cheeks.
"You could see where we were from where you were standing," Kagome replies shortly.
"Yeah, I guess you're right." Now it's my turn to be a sheep. "I just saw you two talking… I was afraid you'd gotten captured, so I went looking for you… I didn't want to loose you guys too…" I'm sniffling. I'm being so emotional it's making me sick.
"Thanks for caring about us so much, Sango," she says, softening to my cause. I must remember this; act noble, Kagome forgives. Easily. No matter what the offense is.
"Oh… I mean, I. Think it be. Assume. Um… well…" Stuttering around like an idiot… not good. It means that yes, Sango is loosing her sanity, completely, utterly, fully. Beautiful.
Kagome cocks her head at me as if she understands what I'm saying. At least that makes one of us.
"So… what did happen last night?" I say quickly, for lack of anything better to say, and because the curiosity is about to kill me… and I'm not a cat. It was that bad.
"…ooh… So. Um. Yes, About that. I…" Now it's her turn. I can see the teachers now… 'Good little kiddies, taking turns so nicely!!! And sharing each other's speaking styles as well!!!' We'd pass Kindergarten with flying colors. I'm happy Kagome talks a lot. She gives everything such a… humorous edge, hn?
"… so… something did happen," I say, looking at her evilly.
"…you… Sango!!!" Kagome looks outraged.
"Okay, so I was wrong," I say slightly. "But it's an answer in the least." She nods at me. My logic has not yet failed me!!!
"Ano…" Kagome starts. And with that enlightening conversation, we sit in silence listen to the sounds of bird calls while we wait for the sun to fully rise so we can go back to camp… or rather, someone to come yell at us to make us move. Everyone was quite tired, and this was the most relaxed I'd felt since Miroku went missing.
'Miroku,' I cry in my mind. 'Miroku, don't you dare die on me!! You hear me! Live you ecchi!! If you die I'm gonna kill you!!! Stay alive!!! If you make me cry again, Miroku, you'll regret you ever died!!'
In my mind, I'm crying hysterically.
And nothing I'm thinking makes any sense at all.
Makes me think. When this is all over, will I run, crying, to fall into Miroku's arms? Will I love him? Will he still love me? Will he be okay? Will he be alive, or will I cry over his corpse? Will he hate me? Will he break my heart? Will he be… different? After fighting through all the pain to get to him, will I even be able to cry?
If he dies, how many more of us will die needlessly in the attempts to save him?
Will I even live to see him again?
To Be CoNtInUeD
… I was bored.
The thing that sucks about the phrase "to be continued" is that you can do the alternating caps thing and you can't tell until you get to the "continued" part, so it looks really stupid.
To be Continued
There.
I like that better.
I don't get what the difference is, either.
And it's a teensy, weensy, Japanese/English dictionary!!
Note! This is just for the words used that weren't mentioned before in the other j/e dictionary in part………4. So if there's one you don't get, go back to part four and read the dictionary. Thank you.
Ai shiteru- I love you
Chotto- a little
Ecchi- pervert
That's it. I blame it on the fact that I lost those lovely pages I like to call my …
…cheat sheets. They have all the words I could possibly need!- or that I could possibly think of needing. Well, they went missing. I was using my memory. Really. Not my other chapters. Okay, maybe I was… but just for spelling!!!
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