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Inu: I am here to write another chapter, only this time I have permission from my captive. * looks at Sara, snuggled in bed. * She is sick, sadly enough. She hasn't felt well for the past two days, but despite that, she is insisting on going over to her boyfriend's house tonight. * grumbles curses and looks at her again * She's so funny looking when she's sleeping and sick. Sara doesn't own me or anyone in the show or manga or anything.

Makinglifeabetterplace= * blushes * No, I didn't know how to use the toilet. I am from 500 years in the past, ya know . . . Yeah, that last cliffie was kinda my idea. ^_^ Sesshy is over here, I can send him over to you if you want, he needs to get out anyway. He's getting antsy. He can hang with you for a few days, but Sara will want him back.* rolls eyes * I GUESS you can rub my ears, only once, though. I don't want Sara to know. I only let her do it, but I am feeling nice today. Wait, did I just say nice?!

HieiKitty -or- PhibbiKitty= Why'd ya say 'poor inu?' And, that Gourry guy freaks me out . . . please, don't mention him again. Sara was pretty creeped out too. Hiei. . . WHO IN THE SEVEN HELLS IS THAT?

Ok, on with chapter fourteen.

~*~Chapter Fourteen: Interrigations~*~

Sara watched as the human with midnight hair changed into the inu hanyou that she had been waiting for. He looked the same, as if not a hair had changed in 50 years. When he spoke, his rich, gruff voice rang through her head. She couldn't hold herself back. Tears threatening to fall, she flung herself at him. Everyone watched in amazement. They saw him wrap his arms around her waist, and her snake hers around his neck. Miroku could help himself. He was going to ruin this moment, whether he meant to or not.

"Inu Yasha, you seem pretty friendly with this one," he commented with a hentai smile creeping on his lips. "Could it be that we shall be expecting an heir soon?"

Sara froze, wide-eyed, as warmth left her arms. Kagome and Sango were about to advance on the houshi, but they were beaten to it. Wind breezed by as Inu Yasha ran at Miroku. The monk ran, trying to escape. Into the forest they went, disappearing in the darkness. Sara's knees gave out and she slumped to the ground in front of the fire. Although dawn had arrived, it was still slightly dark and chilly, so she wrapped herself up in the quilt that was by her. Sango took the absence of the men as an oppritunity to talk to the girl. She sat next to the hanyou.

"How is it you know Inu Yasha?" She said, watching Sara poke at the fire with a stick. Kagome had joined them, pulling her own blanket around her and handing one to Sango. Shippo immediately curled up in Kagome's lap.

"I met him before he was pinned to Goshinboku. That is what it is called, no?" Sara asked carefully. The two beside her nodded and silently urged her to continue. "To be more precise, I was standing beside him when it happened."

Kagome's hand went to her mouth. This woman was with Inu Yasha when Kikyo betrayed him. But, why would she be there? How did they meet? "Um, miss . . ."

"Sara." The hanyou answered shortly. "My name is Sara. That is all you need to call me."

"How did you meet him, Sara? What happened when you two met? You guys seem fairly friendly to just have met before he was pinned." Sara blushed.

"Actually, I arrived in the village he was in the night before. I had killed a large snake youkai and had been injured." She said, retelling the story as if it had happened a few hours ago. Apparently, she had recited this to herself many a time. "Kikyo and Inu Yasha saved me from death that night by healing and dressing my wounds. I woke up the next morning and left to the clearing just on the outskirts of the village. He followed me and I guess you could say we hit it off. We became friends." A tear fell down her cheek as her story plunged into darkness. "Kikyo showed up; blood was everywhere. Her blood. Then she shot the arrow." She managed to say quietly before stopping. She couldn't speak anymore of it allowed. Saying it to herself was painful enough.

Sango and Kagome watched as their hearts tried to reach the girl. They didn't want her to be in pain. She had witnessed betrayal between two who were in love (Inu: again, they still think I love Kikyo). Sara had seen a friend be pinned to an 'eternal' sleep just after finding their friendship. The two girls couldn't stand to see, whom they hopped would become, a friend be in such agony after finally finding someone they had searched 50 years for. Sango spoke first, becoming misty-eyed.

"Sara, don't worry. You found your friend! You have nothing to worry about for the time being. You can be happy, Inu Yasha is here for now, and now is all that matters."

"Yeah, live for now. Don't think of what will come. Just-" Kagome was cut off.

"What do you mean? 'Time being?' 'Inu Yasha is here for now?' What will come?? What are you two anticipating will happen?" Sara was partly scared, partly sad. What was going to happen to Inu Yasha? They talked as if he wasn't going to be around soon.

Sango and Kagome glanced at each other before they found interesting places on the ground. They shouldn't have said anything. They had just made it worse. Saying those things had put the doubt in her mind, a doubt that shouldn't have been there after just being reunited with Inu Yasha. Both Sango and Kagome spoke in unison, using the same quiet, sorrow-filled voices.

"Kikyo is going to take him to hell."

~*~(Inu: I could leave it there and be evil, but I decided not to. For some reason, I am being nice. . . )

"What in the seven hells possessed you to say that, monk?!" Inu Yasha said, sitting under a tree, glaring at Miroku. Miroku sat under a smaller tree across from the hanyou, rubbing at the bruises he had received.

"I was merely making an observation. You did seem awfully close to that girl having seen her for five minutes." Inu Yasha blushed. "You tensed and gasped when you saw her. Why? I have never seen you act that way, not even towards the two lovely ladies we travel with."

"First, answer me one question, Miroku." He nodded. "What do you think happened between Kikyo and me when I was pinned?" Miroku sat, confused and thinking how to phrase the answer.

"Well," he stroked his chin. "You were in love with Kikyo, and Naraku betrayed you both. He took Kikyo's form and tricked you. Then he took your form and tricked Kikyo. You went after the Shikon no Tama, and she attacked you, pinning you to the Goshinboku. Why?"

"Well, that story is a crock of shit if I have ever heard one. I, actually was never betrayed by Naraku. Instead, he attacked Kikyo in my body, but she pinned me before he got to me. And I am not, nor was I ever in love with Kikyo."

"Then why do you seek to kill Naraku for her sake?"

"She was betrayed by him in my body. She still thinks I was the one who did it." Inu Yasha leaned back and put his head on the tree's bark.

"All right, and what of this girl, Sara?" Miroku inquired, getting back to his original question. He was shocked, though, when Inu Yasha answered without hesitation.

"I love her."

"You WHAT?" Miroku asked, not sure if he heard correctly. 'Did he just say he loved this mystery woman? Inu Yasha? Love? Wow, and he never loved the priestess Kikyo.' He stared at Inu Yasha.

"I love her." Inu Yasha repeated, a little more aware of how red he was at the moment. His face was burning and his insides were feeling odd. He never experienced this feeling before.

'Yes you have, you liar.' Inu Yasha's conscious was speaking to him. There was going to be a battle.

'When, if you're so smart?'

'When you and her met in the clearing; when you were pinned and you heard her say that she loved you.'

Inu Yasha's heart skipped a beat. When he first heard her say it, he wasn't sure if his hearing was correct. Instead of saying that he loved her as loud as he could, he said it quietly, just in case that wasn't what she had said. Did she really tell her that she loved him?

"Hello, Inu Yasha?" Miroku said, tossing a stone at his friend. Inu Yasha hadn't been listening to anything he had said, and that was agrivating him.

"Huh?" He replied dumbly.

"I said," Miroku rolled his eyes, "that she seems to feel the same way. Her throwing herself at you seemed more then a mere friendly 'oh-you're-back' hug. You should tell her."

Inu Yasha suddenly became a very nice scarlet color. His mouth was dry as it hung open in disbelief. She felt the same way?

~*~

Sara stood up, throwing the blanket off of her. "Kikyo is going to WHAT?" Her emotions were soon joined by another: anger. 'The bitch who took him from me is going to do it again.' Tears soon made their way to her cheeks. She didn't care at the moment that she was crying. She was going to loose Inu Yasha again.

"She's going to take him to hell, Sara," Kagome said, bursting into tears. "I am so sorry! I wish you didn't have to be put through this, but she was brought back to life in a body of clay and earth. She is here to take Inu Yasha to hell with her. There isn't anything we have found that could stop it, but he will be taken and . . ." Kagome couldn't continue. Her sobs caught in her throat. Sango finished for her.

"And, like she said, we haven't found a way to stop the inevitable. We are sorry, Sara." Sara fell onto her back in the grass. She was only now, after half a centry of waiting, found her love. She wasn't about to let someone, who had been the reason for her wait, take him away.

Sara was going to find a way to keep him. Even if it killed her.

~*~End Chapter~*~

Inu: Well, Sara kinda woke up and helped with some of that, but only a little. She had to go take a shower before she goes to her boyfriends house. * grumbles * Hope you enjoyed that chapter, and I will try and get Sara to update soon, hopefully she will feel better tomorrow.

Inu Yasha.