Desclaimer:IY is mine!!!! all mine!!!!! ::mob of angry lawyers:: ahhh!! okay! okay! hes not mine, all mine. But I can still pretend he is though! ::takes cover in a abandoned building:: They gone yet?

A/N: Thank you so much for the reviews!

Wish Upon A Star

Chapter 3: Hands Off

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"Inuyasha...Inuyasha! Slow down!" Kagome's lettle legs ran to keep up with her new furry 'friend'.

"Maybe you should walk faster!"

"I'm running! I'm hungry! Inuyasha, can we get somthing to eat? Inuyasha! Are you listening?"

"Keh!"

"Then how'd you know that I said something if you weren't listening? Huh? Huh?" Kagome snapped back in her know-it-all-7-year-old-voice. Inuyasha just growled. Kagome was really starting to bug him.

"Here!" the hanyou picked up a squirrel from the dirt, untwisting it's neck and back. Brushing it off, he threw it at Kagome who caught it. She screamed and threw it up into the air, out of her hands.

"That's dead!" Kagome whinced as she picked it up off the ground by the tail. "That's gross!"

"You said you were hungry!" Inuyasha growled back.

"Yeah...but-"

"Then eat it wench." Kagome looked at the animal, cringed, closed her eyes tight and bit into it.

She immediately wanted to gag. The taste of the raw flesh melted in her mouth. The fur and skin were chewey and fatty. The fur pricked the inside of her mouth like needles and the meat was cold and heavy, leaving a sour taste in her mouth. She felt it crawl down her throat and twitched in disgust.

"There! Now was that so hard?!" Inuyasha scoffed. Kagome just stood there, shocked and disgusted by her actions.

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The sky was a dark gray and threatened to rain. Rain an ashy, bloody and ominous rain upon their heads. The two had been traveling for days, looking for descent food and water. Their stomach's roared and their bodies begged for rest. But rest meant almost certain death, for bombs and sharpnals were dropped daily without warning and there was no shelter for them to take. They were lucky to have survived this long. Sadly, the only sign of life besides their own had been the dieing souls that lay pretzeled across the fields that they traveled. They were best friends; if they traveled the roads and came across someone alive, they could be seperated.

Sango's once long, silky, seven-year-old hair ahd been cut short with jagged edges. Her compainion Miroku, carried an oversized gold staff that had belonged to his deceased father. Both of them were orphaned and had taken on the roll of surrogate parents to Sango's 3yr old brother Kohaku.

Miroku had been celebrating his 8th birthday on the day of the 12th attack. Before their house had been bombed, Miroku had a fight with his parents. Miroku's father had pulled Sango, Kohaku and Miroku out of the demon that had engulfed their life. His father then ran back into the demon to save Miroku's mother, never to come out, the blazing inferno stole Miroku's family.

Happy Birthday Miroku! A card lay at his feet. It must have fallen out of his father's pocket when he set the children on the ground before heading back inside. Miroku peeled back the gold colored flap and pulled out the card. It was decorated in bright colors, ballons and a cake that read, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY SON!" Miroku opened it and read the bottom line with tears filling the space in his eyes. "Happy Birthday big brother!" Miroku thought of it often. Kohaku had taken the physical but not emotional place of his unborn baby sibling.

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The grass was high and it toyed with their bodies. Sango had to carry Kohaku on her back. Kohaku was born premature, making him unusually small and light to carry. Miroku stopped suddenly.

"Miroku?" Sango then realized what was wrong. Sango turned around and slapped Miroku hard enough to leave a bright red hand print across his face. "HENTAI!" she screamed.

"I'm sorry Sango! My hand just...just slipped!" Miroku hid behind his hands.

"Oh I bet they did!" Sango shook a threatening fist at Miroku and re-adjusted Kohaku on her back.

A rustle came from the curtains that blocked the three of them. Because it was so tall, the children couldn't make out who or what it was. Sango let Kohaku down.

"Get behind me Kohaku and be quiet." Sango whispered. Kohaku nodded and clung to the back of her leg. Sango and Miroku prepared to fight. Nothing would seperate them.

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"Keh." Inuyasha stopped in his tacks.

"Inuyasha?"

"Sush!" he waved his hand in Kagome's face and she sent him an evil glare.

"I smell something."

"What?" Kagome clung to the back of his robe, terrified of what lay beyond.

"Get off me wench!" Inuyasha shoved her off. Kagome's eyes bleed and the streams fell down her face.

"Sush, Kikyo...I didn't mean it!!" Inuyasha tried to calm her.

"Why do you keep calling me Kikyo? I'm Kagome! KAGOME!" she cried loudly.

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"Miroku, I think I hear someone. Kohaku, you stay between us." Sango motioned for Miroku to follow.

The three made their way through the grass. At the edge of the yellowish-borwn grass, came a clearing that had obviously been made by something large, perhaps another half-detinated bomb. A little further away stood a hanyou and a human girl. They both appeared to be about the age of seven on eight, just like her and Miroku.

"Hello?" Sango stepped out of the grass, followed closely by her company. Kagome stopped crying and looked up.

"I'm Kagome." Kagome said without hesitation. Her eyes were red and puffy, but glowed at the sight of another human being. "And that's Inuyasha." Kagome dumbly pointed to Inuyasha and blankly kept her face locked on Sango's.

"Hi." Sango stared back and waved slightly.

"Keh." Inuyasha crossed his arms and turned around. Kagome walked up to the crew and touched the side of Sango's face gently.

"You are real." Kagome starred and the air held an eerie silence.

"And I'm Miroku!" Miroku stepped out infront of Sango. "How are you doing pretty?" Kagome just stared. An angry look took the place of her blank expression and Kagome wacked him.

"Ew! Gross! Hentai!" Sango knew Kagome's feeling. As sympathy, she hit Miroku upside the head, leaving behind a rather large bump.

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Kagome, Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango and Kohaku sat around a small fire made from grass and twigs. Small twigs, very small twigs.

"Aneue. Aneue." Kohaku tugged at Sango's torn sleeve.

"What is it Kohaku?" Sango smiled down at him.

"I'm hungry."

"Hmm...then lets see what's in my bag then huh?" Sango scrounged threw her bag. "Ah, here." she handed him a peice of hard, sugar coated candy. Kohaku grinned and shoved the candy in his mouth.

Because he was so young, it was an unspoken agreement between all of them that Kohaku got a little more food than the rest of them. The group had decided to spend the night in a nearby cave. That way, they'd be "safe" from some of the bombs and sharpnals. Miroku toyed with the piece of his robe and rosary that surrounded his right hand. Sango said it was because when they were running for their lives, a stray piece of metal dug into his palm. Thus, were it remained. The fire tried despriately to reach higher towards the sky. It made a small crack here and there. Nothing more. It clung selfishly to its own heat, trying to keep itself alive and the light it reluctantly gave off was puny.

"It's really quiet." Kagome mumbled.

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A/n: Welcome Sango and Miroku. Thank u soo much to the reviewer who gave me that idea! Unfortunately, I dunt member who it was and i cant check my email cuz my compy's meanlol! But you know who you are! Thank you! What'd ya think? Love? Hate? Appriciate? lol! I tried to make it longer than the other chapters so i hope i succeded. It was really long in my notebook. R&R plz!! ja ne!

Hentai: pervert