Disclaimer: Inuyasha doesn't belong to me. It belong to Rumiko Takahashi… ::sigh:: *

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"kokoro no katachi soto
nazo te wasure zu ni obete"

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"Lightly tracing the shape of a heart,
without forgetting, please remember"

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IronyChapter 5…

…Changed…

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The young woman knelt, she kept her head bowed. The sharp pain that tore at her stomach remained, but it was a different kind of pain. She couldn't control her body, it moved on its own. She opened her mouth to speak, but nothing came out. Just silence. She slightly lifted her head to look up at the figure in front of her. The one she had hated most. The monster who hate turned Kikyou and Inuyasha against each other. The one who had cursed Miroku with the Kazaana; The one who had used her brother as a puppet to kill her father and comrades. Using her brother against her…

"Sango" his voice was calm, emotionless.

She clenched her teeth, throwing him a hateful glare.

"Your body no longer belongs to you" he stated, his lips curling up into a sinister smirk.

"As long as the Shikon no Kakera remains in your body, you belong to me"

The color drained from her face.

'I have a… Shikon no Kakera in my body?' The thought horrified her.

'Am I… like Kohaku now?' she wanted to ask, but she couldn't bring herself to do so. She couldn't speak willingly either.

"You will prove quite useful to me. None of your friends will lay a hand on you. They could never harm you."

It all made sense now…

"Kill them."

'Iie…' the taijiya reluctantly rose to her feet, hefting the bone boomerang that lay next to her onto her back. She gracefully strode out of the room, heading outside.

'If I could just remove the shard from my body…'

The shard had been imbedded in her stomach, just where Kagura's wind blade had hit.

'So that's why it's healed so rapidly', There was no more blood, not even a scar.

'If I get the shard out… I'll gain control of my body again' Sango kept walking. She didn't know where she was going. Naraku had obviously known that there was no point in searching. Her friends would come to her.

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"Koharu-chan!" Kagome walked up and greeting the young girl with a hug.

Koharu didn't react to that, her eyes never leaving Miroku.

"What happened to Miroku-sama?!" she ran up to the unconscious houshi, examining him.

"Miroku-sama got injured in an earlier battle with a youkai" Kagome explained.

"Stupid bouzo almost got himself killed, being so reckless and--"

"Osuwari!"

The poor hanyou's face implanted itself to the ground with a crash.

"Kagome, you bitch!" the muffled cry came from the ground, as Inuyasha tried to speak through a mouthful of dirt.

Kagome sighed in annoyance, ignoring him.

"Since you left me here, I've moved in by myself. Bring Miroku-sama into my hut, You can tend to his wounds there" Koharu motioned to the a tiny wooden house right next to them.

"Alright" Kagome gave her a thankful smiled as Inuyasha rose to his feet slowly, dusting himself off, still glaring at Kagome.

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Miroku winced, opening his eyes slowly. He had woken up to the sounds of quiet chatter coming from a few feet away.

He groaned, sitting up slowly. He blinked a few times to clear his vision, which was a little blurry at first.

"Miroku-sama!" he turned around as the young girl threw her arms around him.

"K-Koharu?" he stuttered, confused at where he was and what the girl was doing here.

"Miroku-sama, how are you feeling" he saw Kagome sitting by Inuyasha in another corner of the room.

"I've been better" he replied absently. The wound on his back did hurt, but it was healing. He remembered shielding Sango from the wind blades.

'I hope she's alright' He sighed.

Turning his head towards the other corner, where Shippou was asleep, curled up with Kirara.

Kagome, Inuyasha, Shippou, Kirara, even Koharu…

But then…

"Where is Sango?"

He noted how the faces of the people in the hut darkened. The room silenced.

Koharu, being the outsider of the group had been told of what had happened to the taijiya. She remained quiet.

'The question seemed simple enough…'

Miroku noticed how Kagome kept her eyes to the ground, her eyes blurring up with tears. He couldn't understand what was going on.

What had he missed?

'Tears…?' Miroku felt his heart clench.

"Where is Sango?" he repeated the question through clenched teeth, hoping for her to walk happily into the hut as if nothing was wrong. Maybe she was taking a bath…

Maybe she went out for a walk…

Hell, he'd even be happy if she was outside talking to another man. Just as long as she was okay…

Finally the hanyou spoke up, gathering enough courage to inform the houshi of what was really going on. He answered him, plain and simple, "Sango's gone"

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A/N: Wow im evil. I love cliffies, ne? ^^;;; For some reason, I just love torturing my favorite characters ^^;; Since those are Miroku and Sango, that's what I do hehe ^_^ Bishie torture is funPlez R&R! Arigato! Ja ne!! ! ~.^

11-03-03… ¬.¬;;