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Blood Red Emerald

The young girl came up out of the well first, and peered around curiously. This new world was entirely different! The air felt so clear, so clean, defiantly not like her own world. And yet...it felt so...familiar here...she couldn't quite place it. It was as if she had been here before...no that can't be right.

She grunted and hauled herself out of the well, her feet hitting soft earth. Inu Yasha and Kagome jumped out very soon after. Sango heard them, and turned around swiftly. She had many unanswered questions.

"Where are we?" she wondered aloud. Kagome smiled.

"Every time Inu Yasha or myself jump into the well," she explained, patting the soft wood fondly. "We come here, 500 years in the past." She paused to let this sink in. "Oh, I almost forgot!" Kagome exclaimed. She walked over to the well and neatly popped out the shards of the Shikkon Jewel that were used for Sango's travel through time.

"So...we're in the past." Sango said distantly. "And, why did you bring me here? Surely this has nothing to do with me!" she took tentative steps forward, looking around at the very familiar scenery. "I've been here..."she whispered. "I can't explain when, but everything is so familiar..."

"KAGOME!!!" a little fur ball was seen zipping out of nowhere and landed neatly in Kagome's arms. "Kagome, I missed you!" he snuggled into her, as if he hadn't seen her in years.

Kagome laughed. "Shippo, I've only been gone for three days! You couldn't have missed me this much!"

"Lady Kagome, Inu Yasha." Miroku walked leisurely over the hill leading to the village. Sango walked quickly behind him, as if not trusting him behind her.

The young girl behind Inu Yasha stepped out shyly. She looked into the monk's eyes and was immediately captured in them. His eyes, his emotions, mirrored her own. Grief, sadness and loss were reflected in the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen. Her eyes traveled down his body to his right hand, gloved and wrapped in blue prayer beads.

"Oh...my...God...," she whispered, her left hand over her mouth, regretting immediately when he stared back at her own gloved hand.

Kagome noticed the silent conversation between the young girl and her ancestor. She cleared her voice noticeably, and grinned when that snapped the monk out of his trance.

"This is Sango." Kagome pushed the girl forward a little.

"I heard my name." shouted a rumpled taijiya. Sango had clearly just been woken up by her arrival.

When the exterminator walked out from behind Miroku, her eyes met her reincarnation's.

"Ummm, Sango, meet Sango."

"How are we going to tell them apart, I mean, they look almost exactly the same, and they have the same name." Inu Yasha wondered, looking around when everyone stared back. "What?"

"You actually said something intelligent, Inu Yasha." Shippo said with a nod.

"What do you mean 'intelligent' I'm always 'intelligent'." He growled. "Come here, you little runt." He snarled and chased Shippo right out of Kagome's arms, and around the well.

Kagome sighed. "Sit."

Everyone laughed as the poor hanyou became acquainted with the dirt.

"That is a good question though..." Kagome mused. How are we going to tell them apart?"

"My friends at school call me San sometimes...it doesn't bother me if you call me San." The girl spoke up quietly, still behind Kagome.

"Great! San it is then." Kagome smiled. "Now, let's go back to Kaede's hut and I'll explain to everyone what is going on."

Back at the Village

Everyone gathered around a small fire in the middle of the room, and Kaede passed out small bowls of some sort of soup, warming and very filling.

When everyone was finished eating, Kagome spoke slowly.

"You all can tell the similarities between Sango and San." She began slowly, as if not sure how to begin. "I believe that San is the reincarnation of Sango, and relative of Miroku, obviously." She gestured at the hand that bore the Kazaana.

"Now, San, would you like to tell us of what you know about your curse?" Kagome asked kindly.

"Sure...when I was born, my father was...disappointed. That's putting it mildly, of course. He wanted a boy, and heir, a vessel for the curse. I'm not completely sure of how long my family has had it, but we traced back our roots and found that the curse of the Kazaana started about 550 years ago...well that's in my time, anyway.

"I was required when I was younger to look back at each generation of the curse and to study what each of my ancestors did to stop it. The closest anyone came was about 50 years after the curse was placed. His name was Miroku, and he traveled with a demon slayer, a young girl, a demon cub and a hanyou, named Inu Yasha." She paused to let this sink in. "I'm sorry to say, but you were defeated. Naraku destroyed everyone, except for Sango, the demon slayer. She had agreed, a couple months prior to the battle, to bear the children of the monk with a deadly curse. She was pregnant, and did not want to give up the life of her child."

"Wait." Sango commanded. "Are you saying that I bore the children of the houshi?" she glared at Miroku, who was grinning like a fool off in his own perverted mind. "She sighed, and taking off her shoe, threw it with all her might. The shoe clonked Miroku on the head and snapped him out of his little world.

"Child." San corrected. "By the time your child was born, Miroku was already dead. Nott able to defeat Naraku, and with Inu Yasha and Kagome dead, he wandered off, in hopes to grow strong enough to defeat Naraku. He died, cold, and all alone in the mountains. If he had stayed with the woman that loved him, he could have seen his son before he died."

Everyone was silent at the news this young girl brought them. But everyone had the same thought in mind: We are to die to the bastard who screwed our lives up?

Inu Yasha was the first to leap up. "If you know what happens, then you can change it! Stay here, and help us!" he cried. "I don't want to die knowing it was Naraku who sent me to hell."

San spoke quietly. "The Priestess Kikyou and the taiyoukai Sesshomaru, as well as Kouga and his entire pack come to fight. They join Naraku, and completely outnumber you. Oh, and Inu Yasha, the final battle occurs on the night of the new moon."