AN: Hello all!! Did you have a happy Easter? I don't know if I asked that already or not, I'm a little slow. I've got testing tomorrow, and I just finished an application for editorship for next year for my school paper. * Sighs * Yeah, I'm stressed. I had to write an article, and I had just wrote it in two classes before my journalism class, and I was fixing it, getting quotes, and trying to type it. * Sighs * yeah, stressful. Okay, okay, replies!!!

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Aprill May: Wow, thank you so much! I can't believe that you like it! No, love it! Lol. No, really, thank you. I can't tell you how much I am happy that I have gotten so many reviews on this story. I've only got, what, seven chapters so far? Just about, and with all the reviews, this story is almost catching up with my other favorite one. =P ha, ha. Wells, I'm just so glad that you love it, and sorry for the cliffhanger, it's all taken care of now. Just had to add in more suspense for this chapter. =P laterz! And thanks for reading, please continue!!

Nabob: Wow, 30 hours... that's a long time without eating. I could last that long, only because I don't eat much anyways. But, no, Kiara is not Kirara. She is someone I made up. Kirara hasn't shown up in the story yet, but she will. Just like everyone else. Just wait, and, yeah, you'll see. Please keep reading!!

Aamalie: did you stay up to read my fic? Really? Mine? Out of all the others? Or are you lying to me? I dunno... but, don't worry about it. You will get some of your questions answered in this chapter, hopefully... lol. Wells, please keep reading!!

Sango-ish: Is that a good thing that I gave awesome detail on the picture and that I had the nerve to share with the WHOLE WORLD my faith? Is that the bad part? Wells, yeah, the first person thing... I can write it good when I have an idea for what's going to happen, but when I don't have a clue what to put next, I screw it up. So, yeah. When it's like that, just know that I had no idea what else to put there. But, I'm happy I got an applause!! Why were you annoyed? If I may ask. Was it just the cliffhanger? I'm confused... heh. Wells, please keep reading!

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Chapter Six-Dark Stormy Nights

Thunder sounded outside again, and this time I wasn't ready for it. I jumped up, feeling a cold shiver run up my spine. Kiara looked at me with concern, and I looked at her the same way. We might be trapped in here for who knows how long. I mentally shook the thought away and walked back to the phone, deciding it was a good enough time to check Kaede.

I picked up the phone and put it back down after listening to nothing. No dial tone, no operator, nothing at all. I looked up and saw Kiara standing in front of the window, her hand on her chest, and her eyes cast out of the window staring at the rain. I felt my heart twist, something was definitely wrong in this building, and it was tearing at me.

In the back of my mind I heard a voice telling me "danger." I listened to it as best I could, and I looked around me.

"Danger," the voice said, sounding like that of my fathers when I grew up. "There is evil in this room, take it out now. You know where it is, take it out of my house."

'Where is it?' I asked in my mind, letting my heart reach out to the whole church, searching for that evil presence. 'I can't see it. There's nothing here.'

"You can't see air, but you know it's there," the voice said. "Just reach out more. Concentrate on it. Let your senses fall out of you."

'How do I do that?' I asked, walking around the desk and towards the middle of the hallway. Kiara stood a few feet away from me, and there was something in me calling out, like an alarm. My heart beat faster and I began to breath heavier.

"Yes. That something is here," the voice said. "Following your senses."

I frowned and stopped walking. I stood in the middle of the hallway, my senses flowing through me, yelling at me that the danger was near. I turned to my left, facing the sanctuary, and the sense died down a bit. I continued on turning, and once I faced the desk, the sense sped up a bit. I still moved, staying in my small circle, and once I faced Kiara, my sense went crazy like a swarm of bees.

I frowned in confusion and walked towards her. She was still facing the window, and with each step I took my senses jumped and wailed, yelling at me.

"Yes," the voice said quietly, as if I was sneaking up on it and it didn't want to make a sound. "Move closer. Almost there..."

I was standing right behind her, my senses going nuts, my heart pounding wildly, and my lungs inhaling and exhaling quickly that I thought I would choke trying to breath. Kiara turned around, and she glared at me.

"What is it?" She asked.

My heart went to a steady beat, my lungs stopped moving quickly, and I was calm. I stood in front of her, a serious look on my face. "What are you?"

"What do you mean?" She asked, as if I was asking her some hard, trick question.

"You know what I mean," I said. "What are you?"

She looked at me right in the eyes, and then a sly grin formed on her cold purple lips. "Finally you notice." She laughed, her voice changing from that of an old woman to the kind of voice that you hear the cartoon devil's voice. The voice was a man's, and it sounded evil.

I stood my ground. Of course fear was in me, but I didn't let it show. "What are you doing here, demon?"

She laughed, "I thought you figured that out, too? Guess not. Man, are you slow!"

I frowned at her, "I'll ask again, what are you doing here?"

She stepped up to me, our faces so close our noses almost touched. "I'm here to get rid of you, once and for all." She laughed again, her voice echoing throughout the church.

The lights flickered, the walls shook, and paintings fell off of the walls as if an earthquake was happening. I stood there, the floor beneath me shaking and crumbling. I stood there, watching her laugh, seeing from the corner of my eyes everything fall onto the ground and crash. She continued laughing, and I continued standing there.

The ground was torn apart underneath me, and I finally fell to my knees. Kiara laughed, and the church shook more to where I couldn't stand anymore. She glared down at me, her eyes were blood red, watching me so I wouldn't stand. I fell onto my back, pressure pushing down on me hard. It hurt, pressure just pushing its way down onto me. I closed my eyes, more pain falling onto me.

My arms grew weak, my legs couldn't move, and it was harder to breathe. The shaking stopped and Kiara stopped laughing. It grew silent in the church. Except for my breathing, I heard no sounds. I tried to open my eyes, but when I did I saw nothing but black. I lay on the ground, the pain still in my legs, arms and chest. I could only lay there and listen. Listen to my breathing, and...

The door was knocked open with a burst. I could hear it all. A woman gasped. Quick footsteps towards me. Another's breathing over me. I felt two arms wrap around me tightly, holding me tightly.

"Kyle!" A woman shouted. A voice... one that I hated to hear that name from... "Come here and get him! He's hurt!"

A felt two more arms, stronger ones, wrap around me and lift me up. The softer arms were placed on my chest. "It's okay, Miroku, I'll take you home."

That voice...

Sango.

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I sat on the soft red chair in Kaede's office at the church. I stared at my hands that lay on my lap, and Kaede sat in her chair, her eyes staring at me with concern.

"I take full blame of what happened to the church," I finally said, the silence killing me. "It was my fault. All damages were my fault."

Kaede shook her head, "I don't believe that."

"Reverend..."

She raised her hand to stop me. "Please, during church call me Reverend, but during just a normal conversation, call me Kaede."

I nodded, "Kaede... If I had known that Kiara-the demon-was going to do something like that, I would never had allowed it inside the church."

"But you did it," she said, not sounding angry as I thought she would be. "You did what you thought was right, letting an old woman into the church for warmth and to get out of the storm. There is no punishment for that. You did nothing wrong."

"I still feel terrible..." I said.

She sighed and closed her eyes. "I don't know what to say to change your mind about that."

"Just... let me help fix it up, please." I said, looking at her.

She looked back at me for a few moments, but nodded. "Alright, if it'll make you feel better. We'll have to come up with something to tell the church on Sunday, though."

"Let me do that," I offered.

She nodded and stood up. "Very well, you can tell them on Sunday morning."

I stood up, shook her hand good-bye, and left the room. Sango was waiting for me out in the front hallway, her husband Kyle waiting by her side.

Yes. Her husband. She told me last night while she was tending to me after they found me in the church. Kyle Matanori was the man's name. Not bad a guy, really. He's nice, and I could see why she loved him so much. He was built, dark brown hair on top of his tight, but a little loose, face, and dark green eyes. He was very handsome. More than I could ever be.

They stood up and I joined their sides. "Thank you for your help," I said, bowing my head slightly. "I don't want to intrude on you any longer, so I will leave you."

Sango opened her mouth to say something, but I walked away, not wanting to hear it. She was probably going to apologize for not telling me she was married, or for leaving me alone to get hurt. I was in enough pain, and I didn't want to hear more. I had been hurt before. Now I had been hurt again.

I opened the church door and stepped out, walking down the steps. I stood in the middle of the sidewalk and sighed before finally walking back to my apartment to take a shower and relax, get things off of my mind. I walked home, the sun shining on my back. It was a clear sky, beautiful day, but it didn't make me feel happier.

I was heart broken once again.