Akida- Look I've returned! Once again I must apologize for leaving you guys on edge.....if the last chapter even had an edge . Anyways, for some strange reason I wasn't able to get online and update, but nevertheless I shall bring you the next installment of this story.
-:-Disclaimer-:- Ok standard procedure still applies, and I don't own any of Rumiko-sama's characters. ::muffled screams can be heard from a closet in some dark corner::......Eh....ok.....maybe I don't own them, but abducting and owning are two different things right?
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The man looked into his eyes for the longest time, as if searching for some lie behind the dog demons eyes. He kept staring at him so long and intensely, that Inuyasha could feel the hairs on the back of his neck prickle, and a sickening feeling wedged its way into his stomach as he wondered if this was how lovers stared at each other before they ate each others faces off in a passionate game of tonsil hockey. He was about to shake him again and tell him to stop freaking him out, when the man shook his head as if coming out of a daze and replied gleefully.
"Oh your looking for Sai? Well how lucky for you! I'm the Healer Sai!"
Inuyasha paled and suppressed the urge to faint.
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High above the rugged green speckled hills of the mountains, and through the thick haze that clouded the afternoon sun, a fiery speck made its way across the sky. A crane perched on a craggy outcrop monitoring the fire cats passage, let out a hoarse call, and took flight towards its next destination in a flurry of feathers.
Sango turned to her left and glanced down at the unchanging landscape, and strained her eyes to pick out any signs of a settlement. Each stretch of land they crossed put a weight on her chest, and she tried to compose herself as panic welled up inside her.
Its been so long since we left Inuyasha, and I still haven't seen any sign of that village Kaede-sama was speaking of.
She felt Miroku's weight shift against her as Kagome, who sat behind him in the rear, moved forward to keep from falling off. Shippo protested momentarily from his mussel like position on Kagome's shoulder, but then went back to suppressing waves of nausea from the dizzying heights. Miroku's hoarse cough sounded from behind her, and she tilted her head to look at Kagome from the corner of her eye.
"Kagome, how is he doing?" She said raising her voice over the winds that swept by them.
"Sango I....we need to hurry and find Shizen, I think he's gotten worse," she said massaging Miroku's shoulder as he moaned faintly.
Sango suppressed the rising dread that threatened to engulf her mind, and blot her sense of rational thought. She nodded to reassure herself that they would find the village, and also to keep the vile image of the monks painfully slow death from her mind.
She scoured the landscape desperately looking for something that appeared to be a civilization. She leaned over slightly squinting her eyes, as two dark specks lumbered slowly along the ground below them. Calling a sharp command to Kirara, the cat descended swiftly yet slow enough as to not jolt the sickly passenger she carried.
As the lush earth drew closer, Sango was able to pick out that one of the shapes was a large four-legged animal, and the other could have been a human draped in a greenish blue cloak. The green clad figure strode beside the animal in an unhurried manner.
Throwing caution to the winds, Sango had Kirara land in a meadow to the right of the walking figures, and Sango immediately dashed towards them in the hopes that maybe the "human" could provide directions. As she neared she could now distinguish that the large animal was an auburn colored horse with a plodding stride, and the green clad figure was a considerably tall woman. Gasping and wheezing, she scrambled up a shallow incline, and stood in front of the woman a few meters away, blocking her path.
"Excuse...me," she said between exhausted puffs. "Can you please give me directions to a place called Shizen? Is it near here? It's urgent that I find that place as soon as possible."
The woman did not reply, but Sango noted the way her hood covered her face and eyes, and she felt a slight unease at not seeing a persons face. Then again, she wouldn't take to kindly to someone who just came up out of the blue demanding directions. She chanced a glance towards her two friends, and saw that Kagome was carefully pulling Miroku from Kirara's back onto the ground, and Shippo made a great display of appearing as if he'd pass out.
After a time of stiff silence, broken only by the sharply cool breezes that danced through the tall grass, the looming woman responded.
"What does one such as yourself, wish with the 'Village of Healers'?" Sango noted the slight Indian accent in her voice, and shifted her weight as she continued: "You say it is of great urgency that you are told of its whereabouts, but many people can be mistaken for what is truly urgent business and what is trivial worry. Is this urgency plausibly?"
"Of course its plausible!" Sango snapped angrily. "Who the hell do you think you are questioning me like that!? If I didn't have a damn good reason to be going there, I wouldn't even waste my time asking for directions!"
A light chuckle escaped the hooded figure, and Sango had to exercise an incredible amount of self-control so as not to walk over and punch her. Composing herself somewhat, she listened stiffly as the woman continued taking no notice of Sango's temper.
"Perhaps explaining your situation would be a more suitable course of action?"
"I don't have time to tell a perfect stranger my problems! But the point is that my friend is suffering from a fatal poison even as we speak! If I don't get him to Shizen there's a possibility he might.....die." She choked momentarily on the last word.
"Fatal poison you say? It couldn't be all that fatal, for your friend would have surely departed this realm by now. But, sometimes the worst of things do take time to settle in don't they," she said slowly more to herself than to Sango. "Yes, I see now, Shizen would be the best place to go for something like that. It is said the healers who practice there can cure any ailment....so it is said, so it is said."
"So will you take me there? You sound like you know where it is," Sango said hopefully.
The woman turned away form her and cooed softly to the auburn stallion that nudged her arm. She stroked its forehead in small circles, and said a few words that Sango guessed was her native language. She watched her as she completely ignored her as if she'd dropped off the face of the earth, and felt a sudden spark of annoyance at the nerve of this stranger. First she had probed her like a detective extracting information from a criminal, then she ignored in the same instant like she wasn't there.
Many minutes passed by as the woman's attention was solely on the beast, and Sango felt the need to break something before she snapped. Here she was standing in the middle of this road waiting for the approval of a stranger, while Miroku was most likely steeped in pain, and for once she actually wished Inuyasha were here to beat the information she needed out of the bizarre woman. When she almost considered doing the beating herself, the woman turned towards her and nodded.
"I have decided......I shall allow you to accompany me to Shizen."
Finally! I swear any longer and I would have...
Sango hampered that thought and bowed graciously instead: "Thank you kindly, you have no idea how helpful this is to us."
The green clad woman merely nodded, and turned her attention to the meadow on her right where Kirara sat next to Kagome.
"Call your friends miss."
Sango did so and Kagome waved a hand in the air indicating that she had heard her. The exterminator watched as she hoisted the monk onto his feet, wrapping an arm around his waist and draping his arm over her shoulder, and moved sluggishly towards the road with Kirara and Shippo following close behind.
"So," Kagome began slightly out of breath from carrying her dead weight. "Can she help is get to Shizen?"
"Yes Kagome, I think she's going there so we'll be traveling with her...." She trailed off glancing over to the horse nudging the woman's arm, and motioned to it. "Do you mind if we...?"
The woman paused and stared at Sango until she figured out that she meant 'Can we use your horse to carry our load so we don't have to', and nodded.
"By all means miss, besides it will make the passage all the more quicker."
She said this while mounting her charge, and lifting the monk effortlessly from the ground and onto a space in front of her. Sango gave the unusually tall woman a second glance, wondering if she was a demon of sorts, and took her place on Kirara's back adjusting the weight of her oversized Boomerang. Kagome perched behind her glad that she wasn't in danger of falling off this time around, although Shippo wasn't too content with the fact that they were already leaving before he could walk a straight line.
" 'The Village of Healers' should not be too far from here, and if we follow this road due north," she pointing straight ahead, keeping a firm hold on the auburn horse pulling against its reigns. "Then we shall reach it before sundown."
"The sooner the better," Sango added as Kirara lurched forward. "Time has been against us since the moment he was inflicted with that poison, I'd be better if we could make it well before sundown."
"Indeed," the woman replied softly as she followed after the fire cat, with an arm wrapped around Miroku's torso to steady him. She glanced at the monk for a moment, and noted the dark shadows around his eyes and the pale, fragile quality his face had acquired.
How strange for a poison to make a person appear as if they've died already, what manner of beast or being could possibly do this? I've never seen a toxin do this to someone.... or perhaps..... this toxin isn't the only thing that ails him.
Sango looked to her left as the woman caught up to them, and narrowed her eyes at Miroku's position on the stead.
If he was awake right now, he'd be loving every moment of this..... dirty hentai--
"If you'll excuse me...but what name is given you and your comrades?" The woman shouted to be heard over the chilly mountain winds whipping by them, and interrupted Sango's thoughts in the process.
"Oh sorry about that! My name is Sango, this girl behind me is Kagome, the fox-child is Shippo and the man your carrying is Miroku!"
"Miroku," the woman said the name slowly. Kagome and Shippo glanced quizzically at each other, and prayed to whatever divine god there was that this woman hadn't been with Miroku in any way shape or form.
"That name sounds familiar to me for some reason." Sango gagged, and Shippo and Kagome laughed nervously. "But then again, I know a lot of people with names beginning with 'M'. " She replied looking over at Sango who had a stiff, murderous glare locked onto the black robed man. "But don't worry Sango-san, I'm not going to steal him away from you."
The weight of that suggestion hit Sango like a ton of bricks, and the Exterminator caught herself as she nearly fell from Kirara's back. Righting herself, she whipped a stunned red face to the taller woman protesting the acknowledgment.
"...Aga...naaa..no-NO! I-Its not like that! Seriously!--"
"Ah ah. No use denying it Sango-san, and even if you continue to its a bit less convincing to do so with a cherry red face such as yours," the woman replied laughing.
"Oh Shut up! That's just creepy, I've got absolutely no interest in that hentai! In fact, you can have him for all I care! I'd sure take a load of our hands!"
"But you know what Sango," Kagome sounded over her shoulder from behind. "You do get a little on the defensive side whenever he asks other women to 'Bear his Child'--"
"Oh Kagome not you too?!"
"Say," Shippo said with a look of sudden revelation. "Now that I think about it, your probably the only woman he hasn't made his proposition to.....your not feeling left out are you? Because you know I'm sure he'd--"
"Shippo-chan you don't want to finish that sentence," Sango growled menacingly.
"Ha ha ha, Sango-san it seems we've prodded a sensitive issue," the woman interjected and continued to tease the frazzled girl. "It could be just me, but you seemed a bit....oh....jealous when I dragged your male friend up here with me. We could always stop and trade places, you and I?--"
"Ugh Please!! Spare me will you?! Your making my skin crawl!!"
Sango was the only one who didn't seem to appreciate the fun being poked at her, and yet it provided to divert her mind from the turmoil of the past weeks. Despite herself, she turned a worried eye to the sickly monk, and stayed her gaze for a moment to inspect the same odd distinctions made by the green clad woman.
He looks dead already...could this be another side effect of the venom running through his veins? Oh please don't die Miroku, you may be a creep, but even you don't deserve to die this way...not you or anyone else...
"Oh and by the way," the woman spoke suddenly dispersing Sanog's thoughts again. " My name is Miharu, Kagami."
"Miharu, Kagami." Sango said the name slowly putting it away into her memory. She was good with names, and who knows when a situation requested the recalling of a particular name. "Kagami-sama, I will be forever be in your debt for helping us like you have, there must be some way I can repay your kindness..."
"If he lives Sango-san, consider your debt to me paid. A persons life outweighs anything you can possibly give me, and knowing that I assisted in the sparing a life from a death far before their time is more than enough."
Sango nodded reflecting on those words, and forced her gloomy mind set into a state of optimism. She had to keep a strong front for the sake of her friends, and for the sake of her sanity. She couldn't let her emotions rule her completely, not when her friends needed her most, and not when Miroku needed her most.
Wait.....Miroku needs me most? Where the heck did that come from?! Ugh, I must still be thinking about what Kagami-sama was teasing me about..... at least.... I hope she was teasing me...
Putting that thought behind her, she focused on their destination: Shizen, 'The Village of Healers', as Kagami had referred to it, the one place in this region that could help Miroku evade death once again. But if even they couldn't help him, then who or what could?
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"Eheh.......this is......some kind of......some kind of joke.......right.........please say I'm right........please tell me your just being funny...."
"No I'm not joking, why would I joke about my own identity?"
A very miffed dog-demon sat back and crouched in his usual doglike stance, narrowing his eyes at the red robed man before him. Studying him like one would study an obvious liar. Unfortunately, this man wasn't lying, and it took a good deal of 'human' self-control not to reach over and throttle him, and make him say he was lying through his teeth.
You've got to be kidding me! This clumsy, fluff headed oaf is supposed to be Sai? The same Great Healer Sai that is supposed to be able to cure, remedy just about anything you throw at him?! Ugh that's it! Its the end of the world as we know it when someone like this guy is given a powerful position...
Inuyasha continued to stare at him and Sai stared back with that overly happy expression that made you want to strangle the 'happiness' out of them. Sai, who was now copying Inuyasha's seated position, continued to lean forward until his nose almost touched the dog boys face. When Inuyasha returned from his trancelike state of denial, his nerves nearly shorted out at the distance proximity with which Sai had slowly closed. He leapt up onto the boulder in a surge of silver and red, and made a displeased face at the bemused Healer.
"...*gasp**gasp*...Will you quit doing that?!"
"Huh? Doing what?" Sai asked innocently.
"Getting so close to me! Stop getting all close like that, your freaking me out!!"
"Well you keep staring at me like that, so.....um......shouldn't I be the one--"
"Ah shut up already, your confusing me." Inuyasha cut him off huffily and returned to the tall emerald grass of the mountain earth. "Anyway, do you think you could take me to Shizen? I already told you I've got a friend that's been inflicted with a fatal poison, so don't try to feed me that 'You-don't-have-a-good-enough-reason-to-go-there' crap, because your taking me there whether you want to or not! Got it?"
"Yessir! Can do sir! No complaints or dissents here sir!" Sai replied in mock military fashion, standing up straight and saluting the unimpressed dog-demon.
" *sigh* Your just asking to get strangled aren't you?" Inuyasha tilted his head and gave him a sugary sadistic murderer's smile.
"Huh wha-- wait a minute....you....you promised you wouldn't kill me!! You lied to me! You are going to kill me aren't you!?" Sai screeched looking considerably like a freshly bleached sheet. He scrambled up the boulder, tripping himself numerous times in the process, and stood there for a minute before he spotted two travelers on a high road in front of him. He began waving his arms frantically in the air screaming, while Inuyasha clambered up behind him.
"Help!! Somebody help me!! I'm going to be eaten! Mauled! Dismembered! Mutilated and discarded in a steaming pile of blood and sad memories!! Why?! Why have the Gods cursed me with such an unkind and unfair fate?! Don't I pay my taxes on time?! Is it about me not giving enough of myself to the world?! Do I have to donate my arm, my leg, and my kidneys in order to escape this dastardly fa--"
"Will you shut up already!!? And get down here before you hurt yourself you accident prone idiot!!" Inuyasha shouted attempting to drag the flailing mass of blue from the rock, but not without snagging a claw on his lengthy red sash, and having it unravel as he struggled with him.
"Ack what the--..Hey what are you doing?! Stop pulling at my sash your going to make my robe fall off--Ugh!! You vile cretin, your going to force yourself on me and then your going to kill me!!"
"What the?! I am not!! Quit jumping to sick conclusions like that and--"
"Ack! Help me please, dear lord someone help this pitiful soul!! You have to help me! Don't let him take what's left of my fragile virginity!! He's not even my type!--"
"Get down here you fool!" And with that Inuyasha finally hauled Sai from the rock he was glued to, and threw him forcefully to the ground. Inuyasha cast a nervous glance over to the two travelers on the road, and continued to watch them as they looked at each, shrugged, and continued on as if they hadn't seen the strangest two minute display of their late afternoon trek.
"Now then," Inuyasha muttered grumpily as he turned to look at the shaking bundle of blue and red, and sighed feeling a sudden wave of fatigue creep over him. Despite this entire crazy ordeal he'd endured, he was still back at square one with this insane Healer, and to add to it he know had a throbbing headache from all his screaming.
That's it. From now on I am never going to volunteer to look for someone again... their just going to have to find people themselves, or not find them at all 'cause I sure as hell won't do it....
Sighing heavily he knelt down leisurely and looked across at the 'Famous Healer', still trying to convince himself that this was really him. Shaking his head, and for maybe the only time in his life, he spoke to him quietly without his usual 'I-command-you-and-you-have-no-say' manner of speech.
"Listen to me, I need you to help me....I need you to heal someone who can't die yet.....If I was going to hurt you, you would have to do something that seriously pissed me off enough to take revenge on you. If this person dies," he said inching forward slightly and noted how Sai remained motionless. "Then someone who loves him deeply will be in a lot of pain." Inuyasha placed his hands on Sai's shoulders in a gently grip, in which Sai didn't squirm away from. "I'm asking you now.......will you help me cure this person?"
Inuyasha watched Sai's facial expressions, and wondered at the fragile distraught look his eyes held. His usual comical 'I-have-no-idea-what's-going-on' expression was replaced by one that strangely appeared like that of a battered child. Inuyasha was puzzled by this, and in fact, it bothered him a little.
"If I refused to assist you," Sai finally said at length. "I couldn't possibly keep the title of a Healer, for a healer gives aid wherever it is needed. No matter if they be friend or foe, demon or human, I will give aid to anyone in need.....anyone."
Sai gazed at Inuyasha and nodded his head as if making a mental confirmation to his words. He took the demons hands in his and stood slowly, squeezed them once, and then donned his light-hearted expression.
"Alright then, Shizen isn't far from here so if we leave now then we can help your friend in no time.....eh," he paused suddenly looking around himself. "Um......where......is your friend?"
"Eheh....well you see....I was expecting to run into a band of raiders, and not a band of thickheaded thugs, so I had my other three companions leave to look for Shizen while I remained here."
"Um well....*sweat drops*..that does kind of making curing him a little difficult don't you think?--" Sai trailed off as he saw Inuyasha form the makings of a glare that promised pain. "But I guess your expecting me to get you there....that's right......isn't it?"
"Mhmm exactly and uh..." Inuyasha began staring at Sai's tight grip on his hands, then looked back up at him. "You wouldn't mind letting go of me would you? I'm sure if I detached your hands, it would make life a little more difficult than it already is."
Sai let his hands go quickly and gave the dog demon his best watery smile, which evaporated under the withering glare he received. Instead he turned his attention to his right, and motioned towards another pass northeast of them. Inuyasha nodded, and tried to envision the Healers Village beyond that pass, and prayed that Sango, Shippo and Kagome had found it and arrived well before he had.
Sighing heavily, Inuyasha fell into place behind the Healer trying to draw a mental picture of what this village would look like. Since he wasn't good with mentally drawing pictures, he let that go and kept his amber eyes riveted on the mist enshrouded passage ahead. He could feel that somewhere beyond that passage, lay a civilization completely devoted to the treatment of others, and hopefully his companions had already reached that place of sanctuary.
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"It will be just over that rise, we are drawing near now." Kagami shouted as she ducked a low hanging shrub tree.
Kagome gaped at their surroundings. The scenery had changed dramatically and she couldn't help staring open-mouthed at the craggy hills. Ruins of a variety of stone works littered the hillside, making the passage appear like time travel in motion. Ruins of carefully carved steps scored into the hillside, ornately carved pillars reaching dizzying, and huge toppled spires lay enveloped in vine plants. The ruins were made from marble, red stone, granite, and some were even coated and now appeared like aged gold. Stone slabs forced into the hillside depicted humanlike figures in a sequence that she guessed was intended to show important events.
Incredible! This place is like a museum! I wonder if any of these ruins have anything I should remember for history class.... supposing I'll even get to a day of class...
"This place is amazing," Sango said voicing Kagome's thoughts aloud. "What is this place?" She asked Kagami as she inspected a statue of an armless angel made of granite.
"Oh, this place is called the Road of Worlds." Kagami replied ducking a low hanging branch. "It is called this, because a long time ago, peoples from many nations and cultures would make their homes in these mountains. And as with all people, they began etching their place in the world buy building stone structures, buildings, homes and the like. As more people came, this land began to look like a honeycomb in a beehive, with all the cultures moving in together. I think even the Greeks at one point took up residence as well."
"But I don't get it," Kagome frowned. "Why have all these different people, from all over the world, come live in one place? Were they trying to make some kind of Utopia-like society?"
"Not too bad girl, you've got a good head on your shoulders." Kagami replied grinning. "Yes, that's exactly what their goal was: To make a Utopia of the worlds peoples. In a society like that, everyone must share what they have and in turn your neighbor must share what they have. Now, the problem is people don't share very readily with each other. There will always be the group of people who wants more than everyone else, and they will always convince other groups that having more than everyone else puts you in an alpha dog position." She continued shifting Miroku's weight slightly.
"Now, the only way to get more in a place where we all share are goods is to either steal them, or wait for someone to die then steal them. To make a long story short, push came to shove, wars broke out between them, and the ending result is all these beautiful ruins and no people living in them."
Sango and Kagome digested the story, turning the bits of information over in their minds. Kagome was thinking, that most of history seemed to revolve around wars just like this one, and the countless battle sites of the feudal era. The fact that some things couldn't be solved with just words alone put a new light on her thoughts of human nature.
"You know, now that I think about it." Shippo began peering absently into a hole that appeared to have been a dwelling some time ago. "Humans are preoccupied with killing off demons, and at the same time with killing off other humans they consider threatening. Yet, at the same time demons are preoccupied with killing off humans, and at the same time with killing off other demons. So, if were all busy killing each other and members of our own species...then wouldn't that make us all alike?"
"What are you getting at Shippo-chan?" Kagome said turning a puzzled look towards the fox-child clinging to her shoulder like a mussel.
"Well, if were all thinking and doing the same thing, which happens to be killing stuff, then aren't humans....in a sense....just like demons and vice versus? If were all just like each other.....than why fight?"
Sango laughed suddenly and said: "You know Shippo-chan, for a little fox runt like you, you sure have an interesting way of looking at the world."
"Well its the truth!"
"Aye, there is a sense of rationality there." Kagami grinned thinking about it. "You'd think that with all the destruction either race 'causes we'd be fine living with each other. But I think that's the problem right there: actually coexisting with each other, and sharing the same breathing space. And that is why a utopia between humans and demons will never truly exist."
"Well, were kind of doing the utopia thing right now," Kagome added in. "I mean, Inuyasha and Shippo are demons and their coexisting peacefully with us.....Well, ok, we do get into fights, but not to the point where were drawing blood."
"I think the problem of having humans and demons live with each other comes up when there are larger groupings of them," Sango said slowly. "If there were just a lot of small groups, I guess things wouldn't be so rough...?"
"Don't forget, there are sick twisted demons like Naraku out there," Shippo remarked scrunching up his face. "Demons like that are always trying to screw up everyone's lives whether their human or demon."
"Ugh, that is true." Sango replied stabbing at a mental picture of their baboon clothed menace. "I think first, we'd have to purge the lands of all that share his demented way of life, then try the utopia thing between humans and demons again."
"Or," Kagome said slowly forming a slight grin. "We could all be like Inuyasha."
"Ugh gross! I don't want to be like dog breath," Shippo replied pulling a face. "I'm fine the way I am thank you very much."
"I think I have to agree with Shippo-chan on this one Kagome. I don't have anything against the guy, its just the thought eating, sleeping, and breathing the need to fight something is a bit....I don't know.....tormenting. And don't forget Kagome, the only reason he's still hanging around is so he can get his claws on the Shikon Jewel so he can become a full-fledged demon."
Kagome rolled her eyes: "Guys that wasn't what I meant. I meant what if we were all half-demons. Inuyasha's half demon and half human....so...if we were all that way, then we really couldn't argue that we have to get ride of demons to ensure our safety because, we'd all be demons!"
Sango frowned trying to figure out where she got that bit of logic from and said: "Kagome, your saying that if we were all half-demon and half-human, we couldn't whine and gripe about one race screwing up the balance of life?" She thought it over some more. "Huh....guess that does make a little sense."
"Well its making my head hurt!" Shippo whined scratching behind an ear. "How'd this weird conversation get started anyway?"
"I don't know but I'm going to stop thinking about it too," Sango said sighing heavily. "Its giving me a headache--hey what is that!"
The group looked to where she was pointing. A tall thick, smoothly carved wooden pole jutted up out of the ground, in the middle of a clearing to their left. A sun like object glittered dully from the top of it, and a long red cloth tied to the base of the sun fluttered lazily. Two more just like it came into view on either side of them, and three more after that.
"Those are markers Sango-san," Kagami replied watching them as they trailed beside them. "The Healers had them put up to show travelers that they were nearing Shizen, a place of sanctuary for anyone who wished it.....we should be nearing it.....right about..........now."
The close knit hills opened up suddenly, and a meadow of grass and jagged ash rocks covered the landscape. Low mountain hills broke the horizon line in a rough circle. Kagami pointed to a hazy dark splotch ahead of them, and turned an eye to Sango watching her expression. The exterminator stared at the splotch in front of them, knowing that that had to be Shizen. It was the only thing it could be this far out in the mountains, and a sense of urgency enveloped her mind as the splotch toke the form of a vast patchwork of settlements.
So that is Shizen, this is where that Healer Sai is supposed to live. This is where your pain ends Miroku, no longer will you be in a poisoned, fevered sleep. We'll finally be able to save you.
Sango stole a glance at the monk and smiled beside herself. After he was cured he would be back to his usual hentai antics, and the exterminator felt she would be more at ease once he was the way he used to be. Urging Kirara to speed up her pace, she watched the first few glimpses of a civilization devoted to the help of others whiz by her, and reflected on the long hard journey they had taken to get here.
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Akida- Look I've finished this chapter finally! I was intending it to be a little longer than this, but the last couple parts of this story didn't fit well with the flow of this chapter. Anyways, now that I've alerted you to this trivial piece of information, go review! Go tell me that I toke forever to update! Go sympathize with Miroku in the 'Nothing-good-ever-happens-to-me' department! Go do whatever you like, but please leave me a review first!