LET'S GO TO THE FUTURE

They all collected up their belongings for a brief trip to the future. Miroku went over to Hotaru. "Are you sure you want to stay here? You can come if you want." Miroku waited. Hotaru shook her head.

"I'll be fine, besides you said you'd only be a day or two." Hotaru smiled as she handed him the last of his bags. She turned and scooped Shippo off the ground; she squeezed him tight as he flapped his arms about. "I'll take good care of Shippo too." The girl giggled as she ran outside to say goodbye to the others. Miroku smiled with relief everything was perfect except the question in his mind about Sango.

They all headed off towards the portal. "InuYasha." Hotaru called waving a stick in the air. "One thing before you go." InuYasha grunted at her and walked away. "Fetch!" Hotaru commanded as she tossed the stick metres away. InuYasha froze; an ear twitched; he turned and bounded after the stick. Kagome fell to the ground in laughter.

"I'd never tried that one before." Kagome couldn't stop laughing.

Sango smiled then lost her step. She steadied herself and then found Miroku walking alongside her. She accidentally looked into his eyes. He smiled at her then placed his arm around her shoulder. She blushed and faced the ground. Kagome was quite startled by this and just followed behind watching their every move. InuYasha returned acting as though nothing happened. Kagome turned to him and whispered, "InuYasha, I think we should try and help these two get together." Kagome chuckled.

InuYasha just huffed. He strutted up behind them, pointed his arms straight ahead and split them apart. Sango jumped an extra metre away with embarrassment. Kagome knit her eyebrows with anger, that was totally the opposite of what Kagome had asked him to do. InuYasha stopped both of them in their tracks.

"What exactly is going on between you two?" InuYasha questioned.

Sango blinked acting clueless to give an impression that she was not intending to go along with the idea. Miroku laughed. "Have you never heard the phrase: care for others? That's all I was doing, looking out for Sango." Miroku laughed with his hand on the back of his head. Sango ducked her head; at this rate she would never admit her feelings to him. She continued to walk as Kagome noticed tears from Sango's eyes soaking into the dry soil.

"Sango…" Kagome whispered as she darted after her. Miroku and InuYasha stared blankly.

"Was it something I said?" Miroku turned to InuYasha.

"Feh! Girls! They're so wimpy, cry about the most pathetic things." InuYasha grunted as he walked on with his eyes shut.

Kagome hooked her arm around Sango's shoulder. "I…I think the priest was lying somehow; I believe he feels the same way for you as you do for him. I can just see it." Kagome comforted. Sango rubbed her eyes, yet her face remained shadowed by the angle it was at.

"He's an idiot…" Sango whispered. She faced Kagome, "didn't I tell you: love is sadness waiting to happen!" Sango shouted in tears as she fell to her knees and could no longer bear it all. Miroku and InuYasha came to a halt; did they really hear what they thought they heard?

Miroku dashed over leaving InuYasha to follow. He bent down to Sango. Kagome sighed, "that's not true, every love has a happy ending; look at me and InuYasha for example. We have our arguments, we get into the most life threatening situations, yet everything turns out ok for us in the end…" Sango looked up to see both Kagome and Miroku looking at her. She jumped as her head bashed forwards and smacked against Miroku's; he really surprised her.

'He always pops up at the worst times." Sango thought as she made a slight groan from the bruise which was due to appear from that bang. Miroku sat up again barely conscious and extremely dizzy.

"Geez Sango; what's your head made of?" Miroku regained control of himself again. He stood as Sango sobbed and continued with tears in her eyes. Kagome patted her on the back slightly, "come on, we better get going…" Kagome whispered enthusiastically. Sango looked up to see a volunteering hand in front of her face. She glanced at Miroku smiling at her, her eyes shimmered as she took his hand and was pulled to her feet. Kagome smiled.

"Thank you, houshi-sama." Sango turned away blushing again.

They reached the portal. "So this is it, I'm finally going to see the future with my own eyes." Sango smiled with excitement and turned to Kagome.

Kagome chuckled and took a few steps back. Everyone looked at her with their heads cocked. "I'm going home!" Kagome shouted with joy as she charged forwards. "Last one there has to do a for fit!" Kagome laughed as she jumped through it. Sango followed as Miroku and InuYasha stared at each other.

"What's a for fit?" InuYasha questioned with disgust. Miroku closed his eyes and shook his head with no idea. He opened them again to find InuYasha charging through. "Well I'm not gonna be the one that has to do it!" InuYasha laughed as he too passed it. Miroku sighed as he charged through. Hotaru and Shippo were watching from the woods behind.

"Bye-bye big brother!" Hotaru waved with laughter. They both headed back to the hut as the forests disappeared. "Umm… Shippo, what's happening?" Hotaru glanced around to see Naraku! Shippo jumped forwards to attack him and defend Hotaru. "I'm scared!" Hotaru yelped as she jumped behind Shippo.

Shippo knit his eyebrows. "I have to protect her, she's innocent and Miroku would never forgive me." Shippo swallowed his fears and built up his confidence.

Naraku sniggered. "You two will help me! Sango shall be mine!" Naraku laughed as Kohaku charged forwards and a scream echoed through the forest.

Kagome stood in amazement to find herself in her back garden. "No way!" She turned to see she came from the fountain in the middle of her garden. It looked exactly like the statue. She yelped as Sango came through and landed on top of her. Sango sat laughing.

"Sorry about that Kagome." They both shuffled aside to not get squashed by the other two. Two minutes passed and Kagome sighed.

"I bet they're still fighting over who's gonna go through first and not have to do the for fit." Kagome looked up to see InuYasha fall through. Followed by Miroku. Kagome stood and pointed. "Aha! Miroku you shall do the for fit." Kagome smiled with joy, it was just her luck; she knew the best for fit for him.

They all entered Kagome's house as InuYasha hunted for her cat.

"Mama! Grandpa! Brother! I'm home again and I have some friends." Kagome called but no one replied. She turned to hear a cry of joy from InuYasha who had captured the cat and playing with his paws.

"Wow! Your house is amazing Kagome! When can we go to the village or town or whatever you call it. I can't wait to go there!" Sango gazed out of her bedroom window. Kagome giggled and clapped, we can go today if you want. She stopped; she imagined all of them walking down through the city centre dressed the same way they are now. People would think that they were heading to an animé convention centre dressed like this.