Kagome and Inuyasha slowly walked together, hand in hand.
"Kagome. I'm sorry if I've been a little rude. I know you really wanted to come to this carnival thing, and I should have been kinder."
"It's okay Inuyasha. You weren't being rude at all tonight." Kagome kissed Inuyasha lightly on the cheek, which made him blush.
"Um. Thanks."
They walked in silence as they made their way to the brightest area of the carnival.
"Inuyasha! I want to present to you. The Ferris Wheel!"
Inuyasha looked at the huge wheel with boxes, and lights.
"This. This is that special thing you were telling me about?" Kagome looked disappointed.
"You don't want to get on do you?"
"Uh. Yeah! I was just asking if this is it!! Is it as bad as the other thing though?"
"No! It's much slower and it stops when we're right at the top sometimes. It's really fun!" Kagome said happily.
"Okay, if that's what you want to."
"Okay then!" Kagome grabbed Inuyasha's arm and ran to the line. Well, there was no actual line, which was kind of puzzling because there was ALWAYS a huge line for the Ferris wheel.
Kagome showed the man their tickets and jumped in one of the boxes with Inuyasha.
'This is going to be great!' Kagome thought happily.
The man closed the door and made sure that it was secure. He than ran to the booth and pressed a button, and the Ferris wheel began to move.
"Whoa!" Inuyasha gripped the sides of the box, and Kagome giggled lightly.
"You should loosen up Inuyasha! It's just a harmless ride!"
Inuyasha looked over at Kagome's warm face and smiled.
'Kagome's right. I need to loosen up. Kagome's not scared, and I shouldn't be either.'
Inuyasha leaned back in his seat and wrapped his arm around Kagome's waist.
"Thanks Kagome. For showing me how. how to have fun."
Kagome smiled as Inuyasha pulled her into his lap just as they met the top and stopped.
"What happened?" Inuyasha whispered into Kagome's hair.
"We're at the top. I'm glad they stopped it."
Just then, a loud noise filled the sky, and Inuyasha's eyes short open.
"What was that?"
"Fireworks! This is awesome! My.. My dad and I came to the carnival once, and fireworks went off when we came up here. It was the best thing I had ever seen in my life."
Inuyasha began to relax again, and his eyes closed slightly.
"Well I'm glad I got to see this with you."
"Me too," Kagome whispered. "I wish. I wish we could stay up here with each other forever."
"Me too," Inuyasha said as his eyes slowly began to close.
'Just you and me Kagome. Just you, and me.'
Below Kagome and Inuyasha, there was commotion everywhere.
"What's the problem?" the carnival owner asked quickly.
"The. The stupid booth is broken! The Ferris Wheel won't budge!"
"Well. How many people are up there?"
"Just two," the booth man said, otherwise known as Steve.
"And it doesn't look like they want to come down," the owner said, referring to the two sleeping forms of Kagome and Inuyasha. "Keep this under your hat. We'll have them down by the time they wake up, so don't go telling anyone. I don't want my business going up in smoke because we have defective rides."
Steve glanced at the two people in the boxes and then at his boss.
"I bet they wouldn't want to come down even if they were awake."
* * *
Sango looked down at her brother with a small bit of pity, but quickly recovered when she heard the sound of Raku gasp.
"You. You. You killed your own brother! Ha! Ha ha! The jewel shard in his back is now tainted-"
"And the jewel shard in his back is what is keeping him alive right now!" Sango yelled before Raku had a chance to finish.
"Enough stalling. Your dead."
Sango heard the fluttering of an insect's wings, and immediately turned around and threw her boomerang in Kohaku's direction. Her boomerang hit one of Naraku's insects, and it fell to the ground.
"You're not you're not getting that jewel shard! Miroku!"
Miroku slowly turned his sad face toward Sango's.
"Protect Kohaku. Please."
Miroku nodded and ran over to Kohaku's bleeding form.
'Please forgive your sister,' Miroku thought sadly. 'She's just releasing all of the sadness she's been holding in for so long.'
Sango turned from her brother's form and advanced toward Raku once more.
"No more interruptions. You're dead. I don't feel like saying it again."
Raku began to back away from Sango, fear clear on his face.
"Are you afraid? Do you fear me just because I killed my brother? Did you really think that I wouldn't kill him? Did you think that I couldn't? Did you think that I was THAT weak?"
Raku tripped over a root, and began to tremble.
"But, but why? You are only human! I can't be afraid of you!!"
Sango pulled a chain sword from her own demon slayers outfit and looked down at Raku.
"And now, I will kill you with the same weapon you forced my brother to kill with. You will die, just like my other comrades."
Sango raised her weapon and thought, 'This one's for you, Kohaku.'
"HA!!" Sango threw the chain at Raku and-
"NO! SANGO!!"
Sango grabbed the chain of her weapon just in time to see.. Kohaku?
"Ko.Koha.. Kohaku."
Kohaku slowly stumbled over to Sango while Miroku sat in shock.
"Sister. Please. Please don't kill him. If you do. You'll just be as evil as him."
"Kohaku. I. I thought you were dead."
"The jewel shard in my back, it keeps me alive. But you must, you must remove it. Naraku has tricked you into tainting the jewel."
"No!" Sango ran over to her brother and hugged him. "If I do, you'll die Kohaku!"
Tears began to streak down Sango's face as she hugged him tighter.
"I must leave this world Sango. My soul died a long time ago. And. I killed all of those people. Sango, I must leave this world or my soul will never rest."
"But. But Kohaku! We did so much to get you back! And now. And now you're going. Just like that. Kohaku, please don't leave me. I won't be able to live if your dead, knowing that I killed you."
"But Sango, you didn't kill me. Naraku did. That's why you have to defeat him. Not for just you and me, for all of us. Sister, I have to leave. But I'll always be with you big sister."
Sango put her hands on Kohaku's face and pressed their foreheads together.
"Okay little brother. If that's what we have to do. I love you so much though. Say hi to father for me. Trust me, we'll defeat Naraku and we'll avenge you and the rest of the people Naraku killed."
"Thank you Sango. I'll miss you, and I love-"
Kohaku's eyes back in his head, and he slowly slipped out of Sango's embrace.
"KOHAKU!"
"I do hate these family reunions. They're often so sad," Raku said from behind Kohaku. He held the jewel shard that was in Kohaku's back moments before, and frowned.
"You did manage to purify the jewel before I could take it out though, unfortunately. But it's okay. We were going to take the jewel from his back anyways."
Sango glared up at Raku.
"He wasn't finished! Kohaku didn't tell me all of what he wanted to say! You bastard!"
"Oh well. You already know what he was going to say. 'I love you too my dear sister.' What pathetic humans."
Sango layed her brother down, and smiled at him.
'Kohaku. I won't let your death be in vain.'
"Shall we continue with-"
Sango didn't even give him a chance to finish his sentence. She threw the chain sword directly at his heart, well, where his heart would be if he had one.
Raku fell back, dropping the jewel shard. Sango caught it and put it into her demon slayers suit.
'I'll keep it close to my heart.'
Raku grasped the air, and said, "I WILL, KILL YOU!"
Sango pulled the chain from him, and said, "That's not likely to happen in your current condition."
"KAGURA!"
There was a pause through out the forest. But then, there was a deadly wind, and Kagura appeared.
"Kagura, help me destroy these pathetic humans!" Raku pleaded.
Kagura was not amused.
"You weak, pathetic excuse of a demon. How dare you plead for help! You couldn't even destroy a couple of humans." Kagura glanced at Kohaku's lifeless form and cringed.
"And I see that you've lost a good warrior, and a jewel shard!"
"How can you say.. Good warrior!? He was just good because of the jewel shard!"
"SHUT UP! I should kill you now!" Kagura walked past Sango, and whispered, "Your friend is okay. She's in her own time now."
Sango's eyes widened.
"Come on!" Kagura threw her feather in the air and glared at Raku. "Naraku will not be pleased."
Kagura grabbed Raku, and then they left.
Kaede and Shippo came out of their hiding places and watched Kagura, and Raku leave.
"Coward!" Shippo yelled after them.
Miroku looked at Sango.
"I suppose we should carry your brother back to the village and burry his body."
Sango said nothing.
"I suppose so," Kaede said.
Miroku began to pick up Kohaku's body but was stopped by Sango.
"I'll carry him."
Sango held her little brother in her arms, and thought, 'Kohaku will be buried in an honorable place. It's the least I can do for him.'
"Kagome. I'm sorry if I've been a little rude. I know you really wanted to come to this carnival thing, and I should have been kinder."
"It's okay Inuyasha. You weren't being rude at all tonight." Kagome kissed Inuyasha lightly on the cheek, which made him blush.
"Um. Thanks."
They walked in silence as they made their way to the brightest area of the carnival.
"Inuyasha! I want to present to you. The Ferris Wheel!"
Inuyasha looked at the huge wheel with boxes, and lights.
"This. This is that special thing you were telling me about?" Kagome looked disappointed.
"You don't want to get on do you?"
"Uh. Yeah! I was just asking if this is it!! Is it as bad as the other thing though?"
"No! It's much slower and it stops when we're right at the top sometimes. It's really fun!" Kagome said happily.
"Okay, if that's what you want to."
"Okay then!" Kagome grabbed Inuyasha's arm and ran to the line. Well, there was no actual line, which was kind of puzzling because there was ALWAYS a huge line for the Ferris wheel.
Kagome showed the man their tickets and jumped in one of the boxes with Inuyasha.
'This is going to be great!' Kagome thought happily.
The man closed the door and made sure that it was secure. He than ran to the booth and pressed a button, and the Ferris wheel began to move.
"Whoa!" Inuyasha gripped the sides of the box, and Kagome giggled lightly.
"You should loosen up Inuyasha! It's just a harmless ride!"
Inuyasha looked over at Kagome's warm face and smiled.
'Kagome's right. I need to loosen up. Kagome's not scared, and I shouldn't be either.'
Inuyasha leaned back in his seat and wrapped his arm around Kagome's waist.
"Thanks Kagome. For showing me how. how to have fun."
Kagome smiled as Inuyasha pulled her into his lap just as they met the top and stopped.
"What happened?" Inuyasha whispered into Kagome's hair.
"We're at the top. I'm glad they stopped it."
Just then, a loud noise filled the sky, and Inuyasha's eyes short open.
"What was that?"
"Fireworks! This is awesome! My.. My dad and I came to the carnival once, and fireworks went off when we came up here. It was the best thing I had ever seen in my life."
Inuyasha began to relax again, and his eyes closed slightly.
"Well I'm glad I got to see this with you."
"Me too," Kagome whispered. "I wish. I wish we could stay up here with each other forever."
"Me too," Inuyasha said as his eyes slowly began to close.
'Just you and me Kagome. Just you, and me.'
Below Kagome and Inuyasha, there was commotion everywhere.
"What's the problem?" the carnival owner asked quickly.
"The. The stupid booth is broken! The Ferris Wheel won't budge!"
"Well. How many people are up there?"
"Just two," the booth man said, otherwise known as Steve.
"And it doesn't look like they want to come down," the owner said, referring to the two sleeping forms of Kagome and Inuyasha. "Keep this under your hat. We'll have them down by the time they wake up, so don't go telling anyone. I don't want my business going up in smoke because we have defective rides."
Steve glanced at the two people in the boxes and then at his boss.
"I bet they wouldn't want to come down even if they were awake."
* * *
Sango looked down at her brother with a small bit of pity, but quickly recovered when she heard the sound of Raku gasp.
"You. You. You killed your own brother! Ha! Ha ha! The jewel shard in his back is now tainted-"
"And the jewel shard in his back is what is keeping him alive right now!" Sango yelled before Raku had a chance to finish.
"Enough stalling. Your dead."
Sango heard the fluttering of an insect's wings, and immediately turned around and threw her boomerang in Kohaku's direction. Her boomerang hit one of Naraku's insects, and it fell to the ground.
"You're not you're not getting that jewel shard! Miroku!"
Miroku slowly turned his sad face toward Sango's.
"Protect Kohaku. Please."
Miroku nodded and ran over to Kohaku's bleeding form.
'Please forgive your sister,' Miroku thought sadly. 'She's just releasing all of the sadness she's been holding in for so long.'
Sango turned from her brother's form and advanced toward Raku once more.
"No more interruptions. You're dead. I don't feel like saying it again."
Raku began to back away from Sango, fear clear on his face.
"Are you afraid? Do you fear me just because I killed my brother? Did you really think that I wouldn't kill him? Did you think that I couldn't? Did you think that I was THAT weak?"
Raku tripped over a root, and began to tremble.
"But, but why? You are only human! I can't be afraid of you!!"
Sango pulled a chain sword from her own demon slayers outfit and looked down at Raku.
"And now, I will kill you with the same weapon you forced my brother to kill with. You will die, just like my other comrades."
Sango raised her weapon and thought, 'This one's for you, Kohaku.'
"HA!!" Sango threw the chain at Raku and-
"NO! SANGO!!"
Sango grabbed the chain of her weapon just in time to see.. Kohaku?
"Ko.Koha.. Kohaku."
Kohaku slowly stumbled over to Sango while Miroku sat in shock.
"Sister. Please. Please don't kill him. If you do. You'll just be as evil as him."
"Kohaku. I. I thought you were dead."
"The jewel shard in my back, it keeps me alive. But you must, you must remove it. Naraku has tricked you into tainting the jewel."
"No!" Sango ran over to her brother and hugged him. "If I do, you'll die Kohaku!"
Tears began to streak down Sango's face as she hugged him tighter.
"I must leave this world Sango. My soul died a long time ago. And. I killed all of those people. Sango, I must leave this world or my soul will never rest."
"But. But Kohaku! We did so much to get you back! And now. And now you're going. Just like that. Kohaku, please don't leave me. I won't be able to live if your dead, knowing that I killed you."
"But Sango, you didn't kill me. Naraku did. That's why you have to defeat him. Not for just you and me, for all of us. Sister, I have to leave. But I'll always be with you big sister."
Sango put her hands on Kohaku's face and pressed their foreheads together.
"Okay little brother. If that's what we have to do. I love you so much though. Say hi to father for me. Trust me, we'll defeat Naraku and we'll avenge you and the rest of the people Naraku killed."
"Thank you Sango. I'll miss you, and I love-"
Kohaku's eyes back in his head, and he slowly slipped out of Sango's embrace.
"KOHAKU!"
"I do hate these family reunions. They're often so sad," Raku said from behind Kohaku. He held the jewel shard that was in Kohaku's back moments before, and frowned.
"You did manage to purify the jewel before I could take it out though, unfortunately. But it's okay. We were going to take the jewel from his back anyways."
Sango glared up at Raku.
"He wasn't finished! Kohaku didn't tell me all of what he wanted to say! You bastard!"
"Oh well. You already know what he was going to say. 'I love you too my dear sister.' What pathetic humans."
Sango layed her brother down, and smiled at him.
'Kohaku. I won't let your death be in vain.'
"Shall we continue with-"
Sango didn't even give him a chance to finish his sentence. She threw the chain sword directly at his heart, well, where his heart would be if he had one.
Raku fell back, dropping the jewel shard. Sango caught it and put it into her demon slayers suit.
'I'll keep it close to my heart.'
Raku grasped the air, and said, "I WILL, KILL YOU!"
Sango pulled the chain from him, and said, "That's not likely to happen in your current condition."
"KAGURA!"
There was a pause through out the forest. But then, there was a deadly wind, and Kagura appeared.
"Kagura, help me destroy these pathetic humans!" Raku pleaded.
Kagura was not amused.
"You weak, pathetic excuse of a demon. How dare you plead for help! You couldn't even destroy a couple of humans." Kagura glanced at Kohaku's lifeless form and cringed.
"And I see that you've lost a good warrior, and a jewel shard!"
"How can you say.. Good warrior!? He was just good because of the jewel shard!"
"SHUT UP! I should kill you now!" Kagura walked past Sango, and whispered, "Your friend is okay. She's in her own time now."
Sango's eyes widened.
"Come on!" Kagura threw her feather in the air and glared at Raku. "Naraku will not be pleased."
Kagura grabbed Raku, and then they left.
Kaede and Shippo came out of their hiding places and watched Kagura, and Raku leave.
"Coward!" Shippo yelled after them.
Miroku looked at Sango.
"I suppose we should carry your brother back to the village and burry his body."
Sango said nothing.
"I suppose so," Kaede said.
Miroku began to pick up Kohaku's body but was stopped by Sango.
"I'll carry him."
Sango held her little brother in her arms, and thought, 'Kohaku will be buried in an honorable place. It's the least I can do for him.'