Hey!!! Ok.. Yeah.. What is up? Sorry it's taken me awhile to update, but eh.. All I can say is I apologize to you all, and I really have no excuse for my laziness some days! Lol!! I hope you all are doing well! I also hope that you all enjoy this chapter.. Well, on with it already..

Disclaimer: I wish I owned the cute little dog eared Hanyou, but alas I do not…. --

Eavesdropping on the Toilet

Sango woke, a little confused of where she was at first. She felt as though she was drunk or over medicated.. She just wasn't sure which. Reality set in her mind once she looked at the dark, drafty basement she was in, lying next to her on the bed was Miroku, passed out like he was in a coma.

She felt dirty, and decided she would use the bathroom and take a shower. To try putting things together from the bits and pieces of conversation she, Miroku, Shippo, and Kaede had had.

'Can we really trust them? Were they really trying to help us?' were the thoughts running tired circles in her mind. She finished up in the shower, still trying to piece things together, hearing a voice out side the barley cracked window. The only window in the entire basement was in the small bathroom above the toilet. It was extremely small and there was no way either of them could fit through it, but it would allow them to know when the sun was up or down to count the days they would be trapped there.

She quietly eased herself on the top of the toilet, making out barely what the man outside was talking about on the phone. She had every right to eavesdrop. They were holding them hostage and as bait for their best friend in the world and their newest friend.

"All Kaede and Shippo were able to get out of them was that he found the girl who activates the necklace. He is with her somewhere, you and I both know that. How Kaede knew about the necklace, I won't ever know. Why did you give him the necklace?" the deep voice spoke suddenly. There was a short pause, and clued Sango in that he was on the phone once she didn't hear a second voice respond. It hit her who was talking outside, and who the person was speaking to on the phone.

"A dead woman's wish should mean nothing to a demon. You gave that filthy little half breed of yours full clearance to more power, he'll be stronger now and more difficult to slay. You do realize that don't you Inutaisho?" Naraku snarled into the phone.

"He must know about your plans obviously. He's gone without a trace, that Kagome girl is also. Really, I'm surprised that he got over Kikyo so quickly. The story she told me about how he asked her and such, I laughed for hours. After seeing his face I wanted to blow up inside with his stupidity of not realizing that she was with me for a full year of their relationship. I give many thanks to You, Sesshomaru, Kanna, and Kagura for that."

"Oi, my friend. I am taking care of the trash downstairs. Don't you worry. Once we stop slack on their food and then stop it completely I'm sure they'll begin to talk. What of that one friend of his, I believe his name is Miroku? He's the one with the famous parents correct?"

"Has anything been said by them at all?"

"So basically, they don't care. What of the girls parents?"

Naraku laughed an evil hearty laugh, breathing in barely before speaking again.

"Aw, how sad, the poor girls parents are dead, that leaves no one to miss her once we off her. Well, my friend, I must be going. I have my beautiful and equally evil fiancé' awaiting up stairs, and don't worry so much! If you and my father were able to kill off your human wife and get away with it, why shouldn't we be able to kill off your half breed piece of shit son?"

Sango's mouth dropped to the floor, her eyes filled with hot stinging tears. She had loved Inuyasha's mother as if she were her own. She was loving and caring, and did nothing but trust the man she loved. She slid off the toilet on to the floor, wrapped still in her towel. The cold tile floor made her shiver slightly, but she ignored it, too busy remembering the past.

Flashback

Sango sat next to Miroku in the backseat, becoming annoyed with Miroku's grasp on her hand and his constant, 'my Sango' thing he would always do. She was happy, her birthday was in two days, and they were on the way to their friend, Inuyasha's home. She couldn't wait to turn 6, she would finally be the same age as Miroku and Inuyasha. She told them she'd catch up, but they didn't believe her. She noticed that there was an Ambulance and two police cars in the driveway as they parked in the driveway.

Miroku's mother opened the back door for them, and Miroku released her hand from his face and his own hand, jumping out behind her. The paramedics closed the back of the ambulance and revealed Inuyasha. They rushed to Inuyasha, who was by the Ambulance, yelling at the Paramedic's to take his mom back up to her room. He was angry and they saw the tears rolling down his cheeks.

"What's wrong Inu?" Miroku asked as he and Sango had made their way up to him, the ambulance slowly driving off.

Inuyasha looked at them, sadness and angry filled his golden eyes, turned and fled from his friends. They chased after him, and saw him go up into a tree there was no way they could climb up to reach him.

"Inu! Come down and play!" Sango yelled in her small five year old voice.

"NO! GO AWAY!" yelled the six year old in the tree.

"Inu! Why are you mad?!?" yelled the six year old who'd latch himself back onto Sango's arm.

"GO AWAY! I DON'T LIKE YOU TWO ANYMORE!" the voice cried, breaking with cries and sadness.

"YOU ARE A LIAR! WHERE IS YOUR MOM? I'M TELLING ON YOU! SHE'LL KNOW HOW TO GET YOU DOWN FROM THERE!" Sango screeched at the top of her lungs, getting perturbed at Miroku's head rubbing her hand, and her angry friend in the tree refusing to get down.

In a split second, Inuyasha was no longer in the tree, he was standing in front of her, his eyes burning with anger and sadness at her.

"you can't tell on me to her anymore!" he quietly spat at her, sounding like spoonfuls of hate in his small voice.

"Yes I can! I'm going to go tell on you now!" she yelled back, a little unsure of how to react to Inuyasha's attitude. She grabbed Miroku's arm, acting almost as if she was trying to hide behind him.

"But you can't!"

"Oh, and Why can't I?"

"Daddy said mommy did something bad and that she's never coming back.." he muttered, tears filling in his angry eyes.

"Yeah she will, my mom and dad are always saying the other did something bad and that they aren't coming back, but they always do." Miroku interjected, trying to reassure his friend.

"no.. I saw my mommy. She didn't say nothing, she didn't see me. She was bleeding."

Sango looked at Miroku and then back to Inuyasha. She didn't know what he meant, a child's mind doesn't grasp the concept of death, they just feel like they were abandoned, and Sango knew how that felt. Her parents were gone too. Her aunt tried to explain they were in heaven waiting on her, but she didn't really listen or care, all she knew was she was alone in her life, with a cold hearted aunt that didn't care if she was there or not.

"is your mommy waiting in heaven for you now like my mommy and daddy are?" Sango asked with curiosity.

Inuyasha nodded, his father had told him something of that sort before he decided to try to get the paramedic guys put his mom back in the house.

"Maybe your mommy is waiting with my mommy!" Sango exclaimed happily, "She won't be alone up there waiting. She'll have my mommy and daddy to watch with!"

Inuyasha looked up at her, a little hope put into his dark amber eyes.

"Maybe, yeah. But, I don't want my mommy waiting for me there! She should be here with me." he finally complained, after thinking a moment.

"But your mommy is with the angels! She can be with you wherever you are. At least, that is what my Aunt Royashia says. She said to me about my mommy and daddy: You won't be able to see them, because the angels will give her an clear shield so you can't. But they are with me. And I know your mommy will be too!"

They heard Mr. Husako's angry deep voice come up from behind them. Telling Sango and Miroku they would have to go back home and come back another day to play and Mrs. Hounishi was waiting at the car for them. Sango gave Inuyasha a hug, and a smile to maybe help, Miroku waved goodbye to him, running after Sango.

end of flashback

Sango wiped the tears from her eyes, and thought about how cruel Naraku had spoken about Inuyasha, Miroku, Kagome, Inuyasha's mom, and her. Her parents had died when she was a year and a half old. She had a picture of her mom, dad, and her that was taken when she was eleven months old. She always kept it in her wallet. She pulled her board shorts she had been wearing into her grasp, and pulled the picture out of her wallet. Her mother was part of the personnel for CNN, she never actually knew what she did there, and her father was a very successful lawyer. Everything went to her in the will, and her aunt Royashia was to become the caretaker and guardian over her till she was 18. Sango would never have to work a day in her life, her parents had made sure of that. She had tons of accounts she didn't know what to do with. Her aunt was jealous that Sango had inherited everything of her parents. She didn't will anything to anyone else. She just got stuck being the caretaker and a mother for her niece she didn't even like. Sango couldn't say she was unhappy at all about the day her aunt moved out. She placed the picture back into the wallet, and began to get dressed in the clothes she'd been taken in, wiping the tears from her cheeks and eyes.

Miroku was standing outside the bathroom door, and hugged her tightly when he saw her eyes that were bloodshot, and the cheeks that were still stained from her fresh tears.

"What is it my Sango?"

She shook her head, basically telling him no speaking now, and broke their embrace, laying back on the bed pulling the blanket over her head attempting to warm herself up.

Miroku watched her lay down, he shook his head and went into the bathroom to evacuate the spaghetti and meatballs from his bowels and the Pepsi from his bladder.

'how are we going to make it through this if she won't tell me what she is thinking?' he thought desperately, sighing at their dilemma. He closed the bathroom door and went to work on helping him sleep a little better, and figure out how to help her cope.

"SIT!!!!!!!" Kagome screamed, making Inuyasha fall face first into the hard floor of the restaurant.

Once the enchantment had been broken, she pulled Inuyasha out of the door to the Explorer, and out of the parking lot as the Banks County Sheriff's pulled in.

"You are so lucky that Heather and Jo are helping us. Otherwise, you'd be going to jail right now for beating that guy up!" Kagome yelled at him, driving down 441 to somewhere.

"That waitress, Heather, we befriended… She was incredibly frightened, her entire scent changed in a spilt second when she saw him. He did something to her, I know he did. He deserved it because of the shit he was talking the other night, and for whatever he did to Heather." he shot out at her, pissed off she'd sat him and pulled him away.

Kagome shook her head, and just continued driving, after about 45 minutes, they found their temporary home, and were just happy that they could enter without having to see or talk to Koga.

Bank's County's finest, Phillip and Wayne, asked Jo, Heather, Matt, the ugly girl that Jason was with, and the clerk in the store, Tony, questions and the description of the attacker.

The only one who told the truth on the appearance of Inuyasha was the ugly girl.

The Phillip and Wayne looked at her like she was crazy when she said he had dog ears.

"Flip, I think we have someone on something here." Wayne laughed to Phillip, and called dispatch, notifying them that they were taking the girl into custody for being on an illegal substance. Jason was barely breathing, and reluctantly Heather preformed a very minimal assessment on him, just before the sheriff's came in. They knew she was certified, just not working as one at the moment because of a few speeding tickets on her record. The only reason she had initiated an assessment was that if she hadn't she could have lost her Intermediate license she had worked so hard for, failure to provide the call of duty. (AN: Yes, I swear! This is true in the state of Ga).

He was bloodied and bruised up pretty severely, and she told the Intermediate and Paramedic the findings she had observed, passed off C-Spine, and told them his pulse and respirations. The two quickly got him up on a stretcher and out the door to the emergency room at Athens regional. Heather felt bad that he was in critical condition, but not as bad as you would think.

'He hadn't felt bad when he beat me in front of my little boy and killed our baby that I had discovered we were having. Why should his life mean much to me?' her mind bitterly spat out.

"Well, I guess that is all the questioning we have. We'll take the girl here down to the station, and we should be back in about 45 minutes for coffee, have our stuff ready!" Flip said cheerily, flipping his pad up at her.

Matt ducked out right after, leaving Jo and Heather looking at the mess in the floor.

"See ya in a bit." Heather acknowledged, then turned to the huge mess of blood on the floor and looked up at Jo.

"Look at this shit on my nice clean floor I just finished mopping!" Jo complained loudly, and they began to laugh like idiots.

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