Chapter Five
Such a Lonely Word
(Yeah, we're still in Miroku's POV.)
Miroku dashes through the forest around him, tears leaking freely from his eyes.
This isn't right. I just want things to go back to the way they were – before I ran off, and things happened…
I can't go back in time, though. No one can. But I screwed this up, and I have to… unscrew it, I guess.
Miroku trips and falls on the floor.
Ow…
Miroku has tripped over a giant boomerang. Miroku looks at it blankly.
A giant boomerang… strange…
Miroku stares patiently, nothing connecting in his mind at all.
Heh. Imagine the look of pain on Sango-san's face if this was shoved up her…
Sango-san!
Nerves have connected, apparently.
This is her boomerang, isn't it?! She never travels anywhere without it!
Miroku bangs a fist on his outstretched palm.
Sango-san was possessed! Now it's up to me to stop the madness…
…and finally win over Kagome when I save Sango-san!
Miroku becomes very motivated and runs back to camp.
(Kagome's POV. She's sitting alone in a clearing, and somehow Kirara has found her.)
Kirara: purr
Kagome pets Kirara gently.
Just about everyone's run away from Inuyasha-sama now. Even me… I never thought that I would run from Inuyasha-sama, the man that I truly love…
Is Miroku nuts, though? How can he think that I'm his princess? How?
Kagome hears a scream. It sounds an awful lot like…
Inuyasha-sama's in danger!
Kagome jumps up, startling Kirara slightly. Kirara groans, but follows Kagome as she runs back to camp as well.
(Miroku's POV. He's at camp, and there is so much blood drenching the ground that he can scarcely see the grass beneath it.)
What… what happened here?
Miroku sees Sango standing before the near-dead Inuyasha, clutching the various collected shards of the Shikon Jewel in her hand.
Oh no.
Miroku can hear his heart beating when Sango laughs coldly. It's definitely NOT Sango's voice.
Sango/Fairie: Hello, Miroku-chan. So good of you to join my little get-together. I think that maybe… I over-indulged myself, but no matter.
Miroku: You're scaring me.
Sango/Fairie: Of course I am. I'm supposed to be scary.
(A flash of dark light envelops the demon-like Sango. Sango's body falls to the ground, and the fairie appears again. This time, however, her formerly beige skin is a dark red that seems to have saturated her skin, much as Inuyasha's blood tainted Sango's body. The fairie's smirk reveals small, pointed teeth.)
Guess there's more to the rescuing thing than I thought.
Fairie clutches the incomplete Shikon Jewel.
Fairie: This incompetent human… her guard was down, all because of a wandering, perverted monk… happen to know him?
Know him? What a stupid question to ask. Of course I know him. I AM the wandering, perverted monk. But I can't let her pick up on that.
Miroku: You'll never get away with killing Inuyasha-sama.
Fairie grins.
Oh great. Now she'll kill me. Wonderful…
(Kagome's POV)
I don't have much time to lose, I know it… a flash of darkness like that can't be good…
(Inuyasha's POV)
Kagome-chan…
I can't die like this!
(Sango's POV)
Erg… what is going on…?
(Miroku's POV)
There's only one way to kill this weirdo… but that means killing Inuyasha-sama…
And much as I hate to admit it, Sango-san would die too. I can't let that happen.
Fairie places the imperfect Shikon Jewel in her palm before her.
Fairie: Oh yes… finally, the piece that will make me whole again…
Miroku: What are you talking about?
Fairie: The piece of the Shikon Jewel that gives me my powers has made me hungry… for more of this power… now that I have this piece of the Jewel… I will kill you, Inuyasha, Kikyo… Kagome, Sango, even the little kid that ran away from here minutes before that half-demon Inuyasha died…
Shippo is alive. Shippo is alive! There's hope!
Fairie: …I can finally have Sesshomaru for my own, the demon that I have so pathetically loved, ever since I saw him against you… as I tracked this shard… and now this shard is mine!
Sesshomaru? I knew there was something weird going on…
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Inuyasha. Stating the obvious, folks, it works wonders.
A/N: Sorry that this chapter took so long. I have so many other fictions going that this one took a while. And I didn't know how to write Inuyasha's near-death experience, and how to incorporate Sesshomaru, so that became a problem…
But if Bloody Sango/Fairie disturbed you, go ahead. Write a flame, those make me laugh. If the Miroku love story is disturbing you, I can't give you any advice…
