Chapter?: I Can Fix This
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Sango carefully plucked the sleeping Kirara from her lap and sat her aside. That done, she rose from her spot on the futon gracefully, not making a sound.
Cautiously, she placed one bare foot on the floor. Making noise was not an option, she simply couldn't do it. Silently, and very slowly, she crept to where Kaede slept.
She breathed a sigh of relief, and muttered a quick prayer, thankful that the old miko was dozing peacefully.
After taking an extra minute to make sure she was in fact, sleeping soundly, she turned and made her way back to her futon.
The demon exterminator bent down to pick up her now mended taiji suit. She smiled slightly, admiring her own handy work, she couldn't even tell that it had been ripped only hours ago.
Still making sure to be quiet, she untied the belt of her Yukata, then slid out of it, letting it drop to the floor. Quickly, while hoping no one caught her like this, she pulled on her taiji suit.
She looked down at herself, mentally making sure everything was in check. Katana, armor, and her boomerang was laying on the futon, ready for her when she needed it. But she wasn't quite ready for that yet, there were a few more things she had to do first.
'hmmm..if I were an old miko ... Where would I keep blank scrolls, ink, and an ink brush…'
Sango scanned the room with her eyes, finally stopping at an old wooden trunk, engraved with beautiful designs depicting a serene forest.
That would be where Kaede would keep them .. surely .. And hadn't she saw her going there to get them before?
Of course ... If it wasn't ink and such, she really didn't want to know *what* was in there…Kaede was kind of strange..
Regardless of her own uneasiness in, invading someone's property, Kaede's of all peoples, and stealing it…not only that but what else she might find, she still needed the stuff, and the trunk seemed like the most logical place to look.
After hesitating a moment, she finally walked over to the trunk and opened it. Kaede really should have put some kind of a lock on her things. In the hut lit only by one small candle, it was rather hard to make out the contents of the trunk.
Not knowing anything better to do, she reached her hand in and felt around. Something glass …. Small … and cube like …
She brought it out into the light. It was all she could do not to voice her happiness at her find.
A bottle of ink.
She sat it aside and dug around some more in the chest. After a little more searching, skipping over some ... Unidentifiable objects..or rather, ones she didn't want to identify, she soon found the rest of the things she was looking for.
Finding no where better to do her work, she moved over to where the light was brightest and sat her paper in the floor.
Carefully, she dipped her brush in the dark ink. She mentally slapped herself, realizing that her hand was shaking, she had no reason to be! She wasn't doing anything wrong! .. no .. nothing wrong at all…she was just .. Fixing things.. Everything was going to be alright!
As if to prove this to herself, she brought the dripping brush over the parchment and began to write.
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Miroku,
Don't worry about me. If your reading this, then obviously I am yet to return. I assure you that I will be back soon. So don't worry.
And don't be angry with me, now, or later. I had to do this. It was either this or let my baby die.
And I am not about to let that happen. Our child will live Miroku. That I promise you.
I can't say that I am only doing this because of the baby, this probably would have happened regardless of this situation. Simply because I am who I am.
Kaede told me my body isn't strong enough.
Do you know what that's like for me? I, Sango, the demon exterminator? I've always been 'strong enough'. My whole life has been spent fighting demons. I've killed hundreds upon hundreds of them ...You know, I was the strongest exterminator in my village…
But suddenly ... I'm not strong enough.
And this isn't the first time I've been aware of it. Do you remember fighting with Naraku? Of course you do, it was barely weeks ago. I wasn't strong enough then. And it wasn't my lack of physical power, *that* I have plenty of, you've seen me fight.
It was the fact that I couldn't see him. I couldn't see the bastard.
And that's the same reason our baby isn't okay right now.
Because I couldn't see the demon.
You know, If I were Kagome, my body would be strong enough to heal the baby. Of course, If I were Kagome, I would have saw the demon, and wouldn't be in this mess.
And I'm jealous of that, what she has.
She was just like me, except weaker, only weeks ago ... And now ... Now she's stronger than me.
I might still be able to fight better than her…but is that really the most important thing?
She won't have to worry about sickness, for her, or her children. She won't have to worry about dark, star-less nights, or bird demons with barriers that block out the sun. She won't have to worry about death, because, naturally, it will be many, many centuries before it touches her.
I'm not usually a jealous person ... Oh, forget I said that, I'm sure you still have knots on your head to prove other wise.
So, maybe I do get a little jealous sometimes.
And maybe I am a little hormonal, as Kagome puts it, because of the pregnancy.
But no matter how much that may be affecting my decision. I still stand beside it.
My baby will live.
Please don't follow me, I know Inuyasha will be able to track me down with his nose ... Please don't try to stop me, I have to do this.
I'll be fine.
And just in case, I'm taking Kagome with me…for one thing, I'll need her nose, and another ... Just in case of my capabilities not fulfilling my needs.
I'm sorry I can't tell you what I'm going to do.
You'll find out soon enough..
Who knows, maybe it might not even work ... I might not be right.
I'm sorry for doing this to you, running off without warning…but I'll be back, soon.
I love you.
Sango
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Sango glanced at the note, now finished. She never had been particularly good at writing, but at least it was legible. The ink had smudged in a few spots , and some of the words were close to being unidentifiable, but all in all, it was half-way decent.
She reread her own words. They sounded pathetic. She never was one to be so open with her feelings. And even in such a situation, all the heartfelt and honest words disgusted her, making her quite uneasy.
She almost considered ripping up the letter and replacing it with something more 'her'.
Preferably, just one sentence.
'I'll be back soon.'
Of course, that really wouldn't do, and certainly wouldn't prevent Miroku from following her. Even *with* the much longer note, she wasn't quite sure he wouldn't follow her.
After waiting a few minutes for the ink to dry, she picked it up and laid it out on the futon, beside Kirara.
Grabbing her massive boomerang, she made her way out of the hut.
However, she stopped momentarily at the door, catching site of the ink and brush still sitting on a floor. For a moment, she debated whether or not she should put them back where they belonged. Finally, she decided that since she had already used them without permission, leaving them out wouldn't make much of a difference.
Ever so quietly, she pulled open the wooden door, and stepped out into the cool night air.
The hour was late, she had waited until she knew, or at least hoped, that everyone else was asleep.
Though the sky was dark, it was nothing compared to the night of the battle with Naraku, or the barrier Tsuyu had put up.
She took a moment to bask in the gentle breeze before making her way to Inuyasha's tree.
Just as she had expected, Miroku was asleep against the base of the trunk, looking positively stressed, especially for someone who was asleep.
Unable to resist the temptation, and feeling a tad bit guilty, she bent over and kissed the top of his head, hoping that he wouldn't wake up.
He flinched a bit, she froze, midway up to standing straight again. She refused to breathe until she was certain he had not awoken.
After a second or two, he settled back up against the tree. He still didn't look too comfortable, but at least he was asleep.
Now came the tricky part. Finding a way to reach Kagome, who was surely sleeping up high in Inuyasha's lap, and doing it without waking Inuyasha, or Miroku, and not killing herself in the process.
She really should have thought this out better.
Why did Inuyasha have to sleep in trees anyway? Dogs weren't ones to sleep in trees! That was more of a cat thing!
'baka dog'
So what was she supposed to do? Climb up there? Surely she would wake everyone up in doing so! She could climb trees, but not near with as much grace as demons, such as Inuyasha, and now even Kagome.
'They really should sleep on the ground like normal people.'
Suddenly, she became very aware of the abnormally large and equally heavy boomerang she had resting against her shoulder.
She brought it out in front of her, studying it. There was just a chance … maybe … she could use *it*?
It was awfully big though, was her aim really that good? And could she actually throw it at Kagome without hurting her ..
If it surprised her, she might scream and wake Inuyasha. .. Not to mention everyone else.
But still .. It seemed to be the only way. She stood there, glancing at her boomerang, and then trying to find the silhouette of Kagome and Inuyasha. She couldn't see anything but the leaves and limbs.
Maybe it wasn't such a good idea.
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Kagome rested comfortably up in Inuyasha's arms, high above the ground. Granted, she wasn't sleeping like everyone else in their right mind, but she was resting comfortably.
How was she supposed to sleep after a day like that? Wasn't there anything she could do? Anything anyone could do? Sango's baby couldn't just die!
That just wouldn't be fair, they had done so much for the world. Killed an evil demon, collected many, many tiny shards so that they wouldn't fall into the wrong hands, not to mention killing other not-so-nice demons along the way!
Was this there reward?
Of course, she couldn't really say that. She had been bestowed such great fortune. She was alive, and with Inuyasha, forever. And there had always been that chance that not all of them would even be alive after fighting Naraku, but here they were, each one of them.
No, she certainly didn't have any right to be complaining, after all, it could have been much, much worse.
But still, it didn't seem right. Why would some random bird demon, one that Miroku claimed should be extinct, show up one day and mess everything up? Well ... Not everything, but it sure had put a damper on the good spirits they had been in since defeating Naraku.
Kaede had said that the baby wasn't dead yet. But obviously it wasn't going to heal itself on its own, Sango wasn't a demon. But could they still save it… somehow?
Her nose abruptly picked up a new scent on the wind, automatically jarring her from her thoughts. She wasn't the only one awake.
She glanced around on the ground, searching for Sango, that *was* who she had smelt.
There she was, standing at the door way, in her demon exterminator suit, fully armed.
Now that didn't make any sense.
Why would she be just standing there all somber like, fully prepared for battle?
Then she was moving again, over to the tree.
She stopped at Miroku and kissed the top of the head.
'With the way that she's acting, it almost seems like she's leaving us… but why would she do that?'
Instead of leaving, as Kagome had thought, Sango continued to stand there, and then stare into the trees, a look of bewilderment on her face.
Was she … looking for her?
After a few more moments of searching the trees, presumably for her or Inuyasha, the demon exterminator turned her head to look at her big boomerang.
'Surely she wouldn't…'
As if to prove otherwise, Sango brought the boomerang out in front of her, staring at it, and then up in the trees.
'I'm really not in the mood right now to be hit with a big boomerang..'
Realizing there really wasn't much else to do, she decided that she most definitely would have to go down there and stop her before she killed anyone.
Trying her best not to wake him, she lifted herself from Inuyasha's lap, removing the hand he held possessively around her waist. He growled a little in protest, but stayed asleep. Shippo, for reasons far from her range of conceiving, had chose to sleep on Inuyasha's shoulder. The site of which, should have marked the end of the world, and if it weren't for her knowing what would happen for the next five hundred years, she would have been want to believe so.
Sitting on the branch, right in front of Inuyasha, she looked down to find Sango, as well as Miroku. It really wouldn't do to fall on either of them. She saw them both easily and scooted up farther, so that she was far from in range of hitting them..
Taking a deep breath, she mimicked what she had saw Inuyasha do earlier. Shift weight. Slide. Fall. Land Gracefully.
Or land on your feet, then almost fall down if it weren't for an arm coming from your best friend supporting you.
'Well what'da'ya know, Shippo was right, I didn't do half bad..'
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As Sango stared up into the trees, she began to notice something rustling, surely no one was awake at this hour. But then, something was falling out of the tree!
Something that looked a lot like Kagome.
Before she knew it, Kagome was right in front of her, having landed on her feet, but wobbling miserably, she looked like she was about to fall over.
Not wanting her friend to fall and wake everyone up, she reached out and steadied her.
"Just what do you think your doing!", know not in threat of falling over, Kagome asked the question that had been playing in her head since she saw Sango at the door.
Instead of answering, Sango clamped a hand over her mouth and led her away from the tree, Kagome, not knowing anything better to do, followed her.
But even when they were out of Inuyasha's hearing range, Sango didn't stop, or say any word of explanation, in fact, she didn't stop until they had reached the edge of town.
Once there, Sango finally released her hold on Kagome.
"What are you doing!"
"I'm going to fix this.", It didn't sound like there was any stopping her.
"Fix what?! And where are you taking me?"
"I'm taking you with me to fix this.", Sango glanced down at her abdomen in explanation for the former part of Kagome's question, before Kagome could ask anymore questions, Sango realized something, the girl would not go anywhere without telling Inuyasha, not since they'd became mates. "Ugh, we might be gone a while, do you want to leave Inuyasha a note?
"I'd like to know where were going.", Kagome hesitated a moment, "but a note would be nice too.."
Sango gave a meek smile and headed back to Kaede's.
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Once again inside Kaede's hut, Sango went over to the scroll she had written.
"I don't guess you can write this type of writing, can you?"
Kagome took one glance at the scroll and knew at once that there was no way she could write in that style.
She shook her head no.
"Alright, what do you want me to write then?"
"Wait…how do you know how to write, in history, they taught us that not many people were literate at this time…not people like demon exterminators."
Sango glared at her, offended at the demon exterminator generalization, "Some people, like to be able to write a little Kagome, regardless of what they are.", seeing that Kagome hadn't meant it like that, she quickly explained, "There was an old woman in our village that taught those who wanted to learn; I wanted to learn. Now what do you want this to say?"
"He's gonna be mad at me ya know…no matter what I say ... Umm…how about you say,
Inuyasha,
I'm sorry that I left without telling you, Sango is making me. Not forcefully, but, well, I have to because she's my friend. Please don't be mad at me. She says we will be back soon, though where we are going I'm not quite sure of. Take care of Shippo while I'm gone. I love you.
Kagome."
Sango hastily wrote down what Kagome dictated, even sloppier than the note above it. As she listened to what Kagome was saying, she was very much reassured on the fact that her note wasn't quite that pathetic.
"um ... Does that sound okay?"
Regardless of what she was really thinking Sango shook her head yes, there really wasn't time to go rewriting the note.
Sango sat the note back to its previous position, and, feeling guilty, returned the ink and brush back to the trunk.
Kagome looked at Kirara, watching them both from the bed. "Are we taking Kirara?"
Sango noticed for the first time that Kirara was awake, she hadn't intended to take her, but there really wasn't any reason not too, besides, it would be the quickest way of transportation. "Sure, why not."
She went over and picked up her cat demon friend, and now, once again, she was ready to set out.
Kagome still looked confused, "so ... Where are we going?"
Sango only smiled and pointed at Kagome's nose, "You tell me."
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Sango carefully plucked the sleeping Kirara from her lap and sat her aside. That done, she rose from her spot on the futon gracefully, not making a sound.
Cautiously, she placed one bare foot on the floor. Making noise was not an option, she simply couldn't do it. Silently, and very slowly, she crept to where Kaede slept.
She breathed a sigh of relief, and muttered a quick prayer, thankful that the old miko was dozing peacefully.
After taking an extra minute to make sure she was in fact, sleeping soundly, she turned and made her way back to her futon.
The demon exterminator bent down to pick up her now mended taiji suit. She smiled slightly, admiring her own handy work, she couldn't even tell that it had been ripped only hours ago.
Still making sure to be quiet, she untied the belt of her Yukata, then slid out of it, letting it drop to the floor. Quickly, while hoping no one caught her like this, she pulled on her taiji suit.
She looked down at herself, mentally making sure everything was in check. Katana, armor, and her boomerang was laying on the futon, ready for her when she needed it. But she wasn't quite ready for that yet, there were a few more things she had to do first.
'hmmm..if I were an old miko ... Where would I keep blank scrolls, ink, and an ink brush…'
Sango scanned the room with her eyes, finally stopping at an old wooden trunk, engraved with beautiful designs depicting a serene forest.
That would be where Kaede would keep them .. surely .. And hadn't she saw her going there to get them before?
Of course ... If it wasn't ink and such, she really didn't want to know *what* was in there…Kaede was kind of strange..
Regardless of her own uneasiness in, invading someone's property, Kaede's of all peoples, and stealing it…not only that but what else she might find, she still needed the stuff, and the trunk seemed like the most logical place to look.
After hesitating a moment, she finally walked over to the trunk and opened it. Kaede really should have put some kind of a lock on her things. In the hut lit only by one small candle, it was rather hard to make out the contents of the trunk.
Not knowing anything better to do, she reached her hand in and felt around. Something glass …. Small … and cube like …
She brought it out into the light. It was all she could do not to voice her happiness at her find.
A bottle of ink.
She sat it aside and dug around some more in the chest. After a little more searching, skipping over some ... Unidentifiable objects..or rather, ones she didn't want to identify, she soon found the rest of the things she was looking for.
Finding no where better to do her work, she moved over to where the light was brightest and sat her paper in the floor.
Carefully, she dipped her brush in the dark ink. She mentally slapped herself, realizing that her hand was shaking, she had no reason to be! She wasn't doing anything wrong! .. no .. nothing wrong at all…she was just .. Fixing things.. Everything was going to be alright!
As if to prove this to herself, she brought the dripping brush over the parchment and began to write.
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Miroku,
Don't worry about me. If your reading this, then obviously I am yet to return. I assure you that I will be back soon. So don't worry.
And don't be angry with me, now, or later. I had to do this. It was either this or let my baby die.
And I am not about to let that happen. Our child will live Miroku. That I promise you.
I can't say that I am only doing this because of the baby, this probably would have happened regardless of this situation. Simply because I am who I am.
Kaede told me my body isn't strong enough.
Do you know what that's like for me? I, Sango, the demon exterminator? I've always been 'strong enough'. My whole life has been spent fighting demons. I've killed hundreds upon hundreds of them ...You know, I was the strongest exterminator in my village…
But suddenly ... I'm not strong enough.
And this isn't the first time I've been aware of it. Do you remember fighting with Naraku? Of course you do, it was barely weeks ago. I wasn't strong enough then. And it wasn't my lack of physical power, *that* I have plenty of, you've seen me fight.
It was the fact that I couldn't see him. I couldn't see the bastard.
And that's the same reason our baby isn't okay right now.
Because I couldn't see the demon.
You know, If I were Kagome, my body would be strong enough to heal the baby. Of course, If I were Kagome, I would have saw the demon, and wouldn't be in this mess.
And I'm jealous of that, what she has.
She was just like me, except weaker, only weeks ago ... And now ... Now she's stronger than me.
I might still be able to fight better than her…but is that really the most important thing?
She won't have to worry about sickness, for her, or her children. She won't have to worry about dark, star-less nights, or bird demons with barriers that block out the sun. She won't have to worry about death, because, naturally, it will be many, many centuries before it touches her.
I'm not usually a jealous person ... Oh, forget I said that, I'm sure you still have knots on your head to prove other wise.
So, maybe I do get a little jealous sometimes.
And maybe I am a little hormonal, as Kagome puts it, because of the pregnancy.
But no matter how much that may be affecting my decision. I still stand beside it.
My baby will live.
Please don't follow me, I know Inuyasha will be able to track me down with his nose ... Please don't try to stop me, I have to do this.
I'll be fine.
And just in case, I'm taking Kagome with me…for one thing, I'll need her nose, and another ... Just in case of my capabilities not fulfilling my needs.
I'm sorry I can't tell you what I'm going to do.
You'll find out soon enough..
Who knows, maybe it might not even work ... I might not be right.
I'm sorry for doing this to you, running off without warning…but I'll be back, soon.
I love you.
Sango
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Sango glanced at the note, now finished. She never had been particularly good at writing, but at least it was legible. The ink had smudged in a few spots , and some of the words were close to being unidentifiable, but all in all, it was half-way decent.
She reread her own words. They sounded pathetic. She never was one to be so open with her feelings. And even in such a situation, all the heartfelt and honest words disgusted her, making her quite uneasy.
She almost considered ripping up the letter and replacing it with something more 'her'.
Preferably, just one sentence.
'I'll be back soon.'
Of course, that really wouldn't do, and certainly wouldn't prevent Miroku from following her. Even *with* the much longer note, she wasn't quite sure he wouldn't follow her.
After waiting a few minutes for the ink to dry, she picked it up and laid it out on the futon, beside Kirara.
Grabbing her massive boomerang, she made her way out of the hut.
However, she stopped momentarily at the door, catching site of the ink and brush still sitting on a floor. For a moment, she debated whether or not she should put them back where they belonged. Finally, she decided that since she had already used them without permission, leaving them out wouldn't make much of a difference.
Ever so quietly, she pulled open the wooden door, and stepped out into the cool night air.
The hour was late, she had waited until she knew, or at least hoped, that everyone else was asleep.
Though the sky was dark, it was nothing compared to the night of the battle with Naraku, or the barrier Tsuyu had put up.
She took a moment to bask in the gentle breeze before making her way to Inuyasha's tree.
Just as she had expected, Miroku was asleep against the base of the trunk, looking positively stressed, especially for someone who was asleep.
Unable to resist the temptation, and feeling a tad bit guilty, she bent over and kissed the top of his head, hoping that he wouldn't wake up.
He flinched a bit, she froze, midway up to standing straight again. She refused to breathe until she was certain he had not awoken.
After a second or two, he settled back up against the tree. He still didn't look too comfortable, but at least he was asleep.
Now came the tricky part. Finding a way to reach Kagome, who was surely sleeping up high in Inuyasha's lap, and doing it without waking Inuyasha, or Miroku, and not killing herself in the process.
She really should have thought this out better.
Why did Inuyasha have to sleep in trees anyway? Dogs weren't ones to sleep in trees! That was more of a cat thing!
'baka dog'
So what was she supposed to do? Climb up there? Surely she would wake everyone up in doing so! She could climb trees, but not near with as much grace as demons, such as Inuyasha, and now even Kagome.
'They really should sleep on the ground like normal people.'
Suddenly, she became very aware of the abnormally large and equally heavy boomerang she had resting against her shoulder.
She brought it out in front of her, studying it. There was just a chance … maybe … she could use *it*?
It was awfully big though, was her aim really that good? And could she actually throw it at Kagome without hurting her ..
If it surprised her, she might scream and wake Inuyasha. .. Not to mention everyone else.
But still .. It seemed to be the only way. She stood there, glancing at her boomerang, and then trying to find the silhouette of Kagome and Inuyasha. She couldn't see anything but the leaves and limbs.
Maybe it wasn't such a good idea.
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Kagome rested comfortably up in Inuyasha's arms, high above the ground. Granted, she wasn't sleeping like everyone else in their right mind, but she was resting comfortably.
How was she supposed to sleep after a day like that? Wasn't there anything she could do? Anything anyone could do? Sango's baby couldn't just die!
That just wouldn't be fair, they had done so much for the world. Killed an evil demon, collected many, many tiny shards so that they wouldn't fall into the wrong hands, not to mention killing other not-so-nice demons along the way!
Was this there reward?
Of course, she couldn't really say that. She had been bestowed such great fortune. She was alive, and with Inuyasha, forever. And there had always been that chance that not all of them would even be alive after fighting Naraku, but here they were, each one of them.
No, she certainly didn't have any right to be complaining, after all, it could have been much, much worse.
But still, it didn't seem right. Why would some random bird demon, one that Miroku claimed should be extinct, show up one day and mess everything up? Well ... Not everything, but it sure had put a damper on the good spirits they had been in since defeating Naraku.
Kaede had said that the baby wasn't dead yet. But obviously it wasn't going to heal itself on its own, Sango wasn't a demon. But could they still save it… somehow?
Her nose abruptly picked up a new scent on the wind, automatically jarring her from her thoughts. She wasn't the only one awake.
She glanced around on the ground, searching for Sango, that *was* who she had smelt.
There she was, standing at the door way, in her demon exterminator suit, fully armed.
Now that didn't make any sense.
Why would she be just standing there all somber like, fully prepared for battle?
Then she was moving again, over to the tree.
She stopped at Miroku and kissed the top of the head.
'With the way that she's acting, it almost seems like she's leaving us… but why would she do that?'
Instead of leaving, as Kagome had thought, Sango continued to stand there, and then stare into the trees, a look of bewilderment on her face.
Was she … looking for her?
After a few more moments of searching the trees, presumably for her or Inuyasha, the demon exterminator turned her head to look at her big boomerang.
'Surely she wouldn't…'
As if to prove otherwise, Sango brought the boomerang out in front of her, staring at it, and then up in the trees.
'I'm really not in the mood right now to be hit with a big boomerang..'
Realizing there really wasn't much else to do, she decided that she most definitely would have to go down there and stop her before she killed anyone.
Trying her best not to wake him, she lifted herself from Inuyasha's lap, removing the hand he held possessively around her waist. He growled a little in protest, but stayed asleep. Shippo, for reasons far from her range of conceiving, had chose to sleep on Inuyasha's shoulder. The site of which, should have marked the end of the world, and if it weren't for her knowing what would happen for the next five hundred years, she would have been want to believe so.
Sitting on the branch, right in front of Inuyasha, she looked down to find Sango, as well as Miroku. It really wouldn't do to fall on either of them. She saw them both easily and scooted up farther, so that she was far from in range of hitting them..
Taking a deep breath, she mimicked what she had saw Inuyasha do earlier. Shift weight. Slide. Fall. Land Gracefully.
Or land on your feet, then almost fall down if it weren't for an arm coming from your best friend supporting you.
'Well what'da'ya know, Shippo was right, I didn't do half bad..'
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As Sango stared up into the trees, she began to notice something rustling, surely no one was awake at this hour. But then, something was falling out of the tree!
Something that looked a lot like Kagome.
Before she knew it, Kagome was right in front of her, having landed on her feet, but wobbling miserably, she looked like she was about to fall over.
Not wanting her friend to fall and wake everyone up, she reached out and steadied her.
"Just what do you think your doing!", know not in threat of falling over, Kagome asked the question that had been playing in her head since she saw Sango at the door.
Instead of answering, Sango clamped a hand over her mouth and led her away from the tree, Kagome, not knowing anything better to do, followed her.
But even when they were out of Inuyasha's hearing range, Sango didn't stop, or say any word of explanation, in fact, she didn't stop until they had reached the edge of town.
Once there, Sango finally released her hold on Kagome.
"What are you doing!"
"I'm going to fix this.", It didn't sound like there was any stopping her.
"Fix what?! And where are you taking me?"
"I'm taking you with me to fix this.", Sango glanced down at her abdomen in explanation for the former part of Kagome's question, before Kagome could ask anymore questions, Sango realized something, the girl would not go anywhere without telling Inuyasha, not since they'd became mates. "Ugh, we might be gone a while, do you want to leave Inuyasha a note?
"I'd like to know where were going.", Kagome hesitated a moment, "but a note would be nice too.."
Sango gave a meek smile and headed back to Kaede's.
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Once again inside Kaede's hut, Sango went over to the scroll she had written.
"I don't guess you can write this type of writing, can you?"
Kagome took one glance at the scroll and knew at once that there was no way she could write in that style.
She shook her head no.
"Alright, what do you want me to write then?"
"Wait…how do you know how to write, in history, they taught us that not many people were literate at this time…not people like demon exterminators."
Sango glared at her, offended at the demon exterminator generalization, "Some people, like to be able to write a little Kagome, regardless of what they are.", seeing that Kagome hadn't meant it like that, she quickly explained, "There was an old woman in our village that taught those who wanted to learn; I wanted to learn. Now what do you want this to say?"
"He's gonna be mad at me ya know…no matter what I say ... Umm…how about you say,
Inuyasha,
I'm sorry that I left without telling you, Sango is making me. Not forcefully, but, well, I have to because she's my friend. Please don't be mad at me. She says we will be back soon, though where we are going I'm not quite sure of. Take care of Shippo while I'm gone. I love you.
Kagome."
Sango hastily wrote down what Kagome dictated, even sloppier than the note above it. As she listened to what Kagome was saying, she was very much reassured on the fact that her note wasn't quite that pathetic.
"um ... Does that sound okay?"
Regardless of what she was really thinking Sango shook her head yes, there really wasn't time to go rewriting the note.
Sango sat the note back to its previous position, and, feeling guilty, returned the ink and brush back to the trunk.
Kagome looked at Kirara, watching them both from the bed. "Are we taking Kirara?"
Sango noticed for the first time that Kirara was awake, she hadn't intended to take her, but there really wasn't any reason not too, besides, it would be the quickest way of transportation. "Sure, why not."
She went over and picked up her cat demon friend, and now, once again, she was ready to set out.
Kagome still looked confused, "so ... Where are we going?"
Sango only smiled and pointed at Kagome's nose, "You tell me."
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Sorry it took so long.
I don't really have any excuse except that I didn't feel like writing.
The next chapter should be out in less than a week, anywhere from 3-7 days.
Angry shadow:That's really not good. I'm sorry to hear that..I hope your alright..and I hope things get better..
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yeah.
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