SO: u know what?
KO: oh! Oh! Lemmie guess! Ah...nope....what?
SO: this chapter is short...
KO: oh, ya I know...I didn't really have any ideas...
SO: so I can see...um...so anything important in this chapter?
KO: ah, nope!
SO: u know, even short ur chapters are better...
KO: we've been through this, your chapters rock SO
SO: (sighs) so I've heard
KO: this is NOT good for your self-esteem...
SO: ur point?
KO: we should just sit back and laugh evily!
SO: o...kay?
BOTH: bwahahahaha!
SO: um...what was the point of that?
KO: it made u feel better, didn't it?
SO: meh...so it did
KO: good! Now that everyone is in a good mood, on with my chapter! Heheheh!
SO's Disclaimer: KO: hey, y do u get 2 do it?
SO: cuz u did it last time...now: we don't own Inu, but KO does own felt markers...she will come after u if u don't review...mwahaha!
KO: hey! Thatz my disclaimer
SO: ur point?
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Chapter 4:
Target! Koharu!
"Roses," the dark-haired lady, Koharu, mused, "or tiger-lilies...or peonies." Koharu sighed and then yelled, "So many options!" I laughed and closed the curtain to the window as I watched my fiancée.
"And to think, Koharu was normal before she met me," I laughed appreciatively. It was true too, Koha and I have changed each other. I am less rash and perverted (hard to believe?), and she is less afraid to be herself.
"Damn it," came my fiancée, "Miro-kun, I can't choose," she sighed. I smiled and shook my head. "Roses or peonies," she went on ranting. "It is WAY to hard to choose. What..."
"Roses," I interrupted with a smile, "pink. That is your favorite colour." A fact that dear Koharu seems to have forgotten.
"Oh," Koharu flushed, "yeah..." she giggled nervously. I kissed her. "That means don't worry?" she questioned cutely. My fiancée is so smart.
"Where were we?" I smiled playfully, leaning into Koharu. The phone chose that exact moment to ring. "Hello?" I sighed, "what?"
"Miro, this is Kikyo. You remember me, correct?" she drawled. Of course I remembered Kikyo, she was my sister's best friend for years, and was a witness when she dies. I felt a familiar hollowness fill me. "Kagura's friend?"
Shattering, I swear to you, I heard shattering. It was my heart. "Y-yes," I stumbled over my words like a baby giraffe's attempt to walk. "What would you like?"
"I am seeking my sister Koharu. Would you please fetch her for me? I just received word of your union...I wish to congratulate you." Koharu was Kikyo's sister? I thought Kaede was...
"Certainly," I said carefully, "one moment." I placed my hand over the receiver. "Koharu, your sister wants to wish you well." I gave her a look that said; "we are discussing this later". In my 6-7 years of knowing her...how could I not have known?
"Hello," Koharu said, brows furrowed, taking the phone. Emotion then drained from her eyes. "Miroku," she said coldly in a tone that was not her own, "would you please leave?" And without even knowing it, I was outside of our apartment.
I decided to take a walk as memories of my late sister Kagura flooded my mind.
"Miroku," said my sister thoughtfully one day at the park. "Come listen to me."
"Okay," I said agreeably, slipping down the orange slide and seating myself beside Kagura. She was quite pretty, with waist length black hair and ruby eyes. She was always dressed elegantly and very outgoing. "Yes sister?"
"Miro, one day, you will be big," Kagura explained, pulling my six-year-old form into her twelve-year-old lap. "But I may not always be there," she said carefully. I was too young to know she was pained.
"Yes you will," I interrupted, wiping my sticky lollypop-fingers on my jeans. "You'll always be. If you move, I'll come," I shrugged. I really thought it was that simple.
"Miro," she sighed, "I have a monster of sorts growing inside of me, and it is trying to take me to the spirit world." Again, I didn't take Kagura very seriously.
"You'll win," I shrugged, quite assured. "Daddy always calls you his strong girl." Now I realize why he wept and held her hand when he called her that. I heard my sister sigh.
"I am losing, Miroku," she whispered. "So when you are big, remember to never give up on your dreams. And that you are never too young to love." That's all I heard. I began to understand...Kagura was dying.
So I ran from my sister.
"Become strong," she said to me years later as I visited her in the hospital when she was sixteen. "REMAIN strong." So were the last words Kagura ever said to me.
I am now crying...I wish my sister would be with me for my wedding. I collapsed against my building and stayed there for a long time.
Eventually, I returned to the suite Koha and I lived in, fully wanting to talk. I wish to know how Kikyo knew where to find us, and why I never knew of their relation. "Koha, are you off the..." and then I could only stare.
- 3rd Person's P.O.V. -
Sango sipped her tea daintily, having just had a nice visit with her old friends. "What a peaceful day," Sango sighed, thoroughly relaxed. Her relaxation was short-lived.
Sango gasped as her door was thrust open. "Show yourself," she demanded in a fighting stance. And there, panic-stricken and breathing heavily was Miroku.
"Sango," he said breathlessly, "Koha is missing!"
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SO: u know, I had no real intention on making Kikyo 'evil' in this fic
KO: well it was my chapter and I wrote it so blah!
SO: thatz...great...
KO: I know! (big grin)
SO: another thing, u ended it in the worst spot for me! This'll be tough to wrote now... (sighs)
KO: u can do it! Ur SO after all!
SO: so? That means nothing...
KO it means everything!
SO: whatever...
KO: mwahaha!
Preview for Chapter 5:
Memory Blank
Nothing good could come from this. It was all so sudden. There was something weird going on...so I go playing detective, but that only get's me in trouble. "I'm sorry Miro, I didn't bring back Koharu..."