The Fire Within

Flaming Soul here! So . . . Heh, it's been a long time since I've watched the movies I wrote about in the last chapter, so I apologize if some of the information on the movies was wrong.

"Talking"
'Thinking'
((Author Notes))


Recap: 'I was certainly lucky to have met Sango.' Thought Kagome as she lay under the sheets in her bed. Yawning Kagome turned the lamp off and was fast asleep in a matter of seconds.

Sounds of the pitter and patter of the rain rang softly through the house. As one mind was drifting off into the land of dreams, the other lay awake, in constant thought throughout the stormy night.


Although a dim light entered the room, the sounds of birds chirping and singing their song of morning glory had not been heard. The rumble of the storm replaced it instead.

'The storm is still going on . . .' as brown eyes peered around the room. Soon after Kagome sat up rubbing the sleep from here eyes, her raven tresses a complete mess.

"8:06am . . . It's so early . . ." muttered Kagome, as she fell back into the bed. She tried falling back asleep, but alas, she couldn't. Running her hands through her hair, she got up and went to the living room.

"Good morning, Kagome" said Sango, sipping a cup of hot chocolate. ' I would've thought that Kagome would've slept in. . . O well, it's not like I don't like her company or anything.'

"Good morning," mumbled Kagome as she flopped down next to Sango, yawning.

"Still sleepy Kagome? Why don't you go and sleep for another couple of hours?"

"'Cause I can't . . ." groaned Kagome as yawned again. "How are you able to be up so early . . .?"

"'Cause I just can. Do want a cup of hot chocolate?" asked Sango as she got up.

"Please and thank you," said Kagome sitting up, smiling. ' I wonder what we're going to do today. We're probably going to watch the other two movies that Sango had picked out the night before. Last night was fun, picking out all of those clothes and diving through the whole pile and all.' Kagome gave a small giggle at remembering when she had dived into the pile of clothes looking for an outfit.

Sango smiled back and made another cup gave it to Kagome and then she sat back down on her own seat. "What were you giggling at?"

"Last night, when I was diving through the pile of clothes," giggled Kagome. Sango laughed as she remembered it as well.

"So, what are you up for today?" asked Sango. ' Too bad that it's raining . . . It would've been awesome if I took her to a park or something.'

Kagome shrugged, as she sipped her chocolate. " I don't know. You pick what we do today, my brain is still half asleep so I'd probably suggest something stupid."

"Hahahaha. Do you still want to watch the other two movies from last night? " Said Sango as she got up and headed towards the coffee table. Pulling out the two dvds out of the little drawer there.

"Sure, which ones were they again?" asked Kagome, she then got up and flopped down onto the couch in front of the tv.

Sango giggled, "Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2. And another thing, I bet you're a bit hungry so we'll eat breakfast while watching the movie." And as if on cue, Kagome's stomach gave a light rumble. Kagome smiled sheepishly and Sango dug around the kitchen cupboards. ' Heh, guess I was right.'

"What do you want for breakfast, Kagome?"

Kagome once again channel surfed and stopped on a music video, "Well, what do you want for breakfast?" She then was nodding her head to the music and softy humming along in tune. ' I wonder who this is . . .? She has a nice voice.'

"I asked your first," said Sango turning around to face where Kagome was sitting. Seeing the music video on the tv, Sango squealed and ran and jumped into the couch beside Kagome, startling her. "I love this song! It's ' Spark ' by BoA."

Kagome's heartbeat began to go back into its steady pace as she calmed down. ' Now THAT was freak-ish . . .' "Man, you nearly gave me a heart attack when you squealed like that and jumped beside me, you could've at least given me a warning or something."

Sango on the other hand wasn't listening, she was singing along and was smiling widely. Obviously the thoughts of breakfast were already out of her mind for the moment. As the music video came to an end Sango turned back to Kagome, "Did you say something?"

Kagome sighed exasperatedly and rolled her eyes, "Never mind." 'Hehe, she certainly has a one-track mind sometimes.'

Sango stuck her tongue out at Kagome and hopped her way back to the kitchen. "Now about breakfast . . . What say a sandwich?"

"Sounds good to me, I'll help make it," Kagome popped up behind Sango and smiled.

Then both Kagome and Sango rummaged through everything in the kitchen for the ingredients that they're going to put into their sandwiches.

Soon they had an assortment of different vegetables and different types of meat, and the choice of either white or brown bread.

"Let's see who can make the best one," laughed Kagome as she sliced herself a couple pieces of white bread.

"Good idea, and in under . . . 2 minutes!" suggested Sango, giggling herself.

Kagome nodded and looked at the clock on the wall, " Okay, in, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!"

As soon as Kagome had said ' one ' both of the girls hands went flying towards all the ingredients laid out.

"Okay, done!" yelled out Sango, looking at the time she saw that she had another half a minute to go. Being creative she grabbed an olive and a toothpick and poked it into her sandwich. "And the 2 minutes are done!"

Kagome laughed as she leaned back up, "So, let's taste out little masterpieces."

Sango's sandwich had tomatoes, lettuce, ham, onions and some more lettuce, 2 slices of white bread on either side. And not to mention the little olive on a toothpick, that held it together. Kagome's sandwich had lettuce, ham, some more lettuce and a bit of canned tune to top it off, and with 2 slices of white bread as well.

Sango cut both sandwiches diagonally and switched one half so that both of them have a half of their sandwich and a half of the other persons.

Kagome smiled happily and bit into Sango sandwich, "Hmmm . . . It'fs verry goood." Then she nodded and took another bite.

Sango giggled at Kagome's childishness. She then bit into the sandwich that Kagome had made. Unlike Kagome though, Sango was a woman of manners and swallowed her bite before talking.

"Good tasting sandwich Kagome. I say, next breakfast we have another contest like this is was fun."

Kagome nodded happily, "I agree. Next breakfast it's all about . . . Eggs!"

Sango laughed and continued to eat Kagome's sandwich. "So, do you want to watch Kill Bill now?"

Kagome nodded, "Sure."

Pretty soon both girls were on the couch, pillows everywhere for their comfort.

"Alright, now . . . Where are those dvds?" asked Sango, turning the tv on.

Kagome got up and headed for the dvd rack. "They aren't here."

Sango groaned, "Please don't tell me that we lost them!"

Kagome shrugged. "Fine, we didn't lose them."

Sango rolled her eyes exasperatedly, "You know what I meant."

Kagome laughed, "Of course I did. Then again, you said that you didn't want to know that you lost them so I just said that."

"Argghh, never mind. Let's just go and look for them, 'cause I'm sure that you'd still want to see them." Sango sighed and got up grudgingly. "I'll start looking underneath the pillows."

"I'll help. We piled loads of pillows around here, so it's bound to be under here somewhere." Kagome then dived into the pile of pillows and started searching.

Sango giggled and searched as well. ' Kagome acts like such a child sometimes . . . Then again, I don't mind that at all. She's probably acting like this because she had lost her childhood and grew up too fast . . .' Sango shook her head and continued to search around.

After a couple of minutes of searching, Kagome and Sango just lay over the pillows.

"I seriously thought that searching through pillows wouldn't be hard. Now, I'll reconsider that."

Kagome giggled, "The same goes for me." All of a sudden Kagome had a mischievous smirk on her face.

Sango raised an eyebrow, "What are you smirking about . . .?" Then her vision went all black and she heard giggling. She took her free hand and grabbed the pillow on her face, and there was Kagome, trying to look innocent. ' So that's how she wants to play, eh? '

Grinning Sango took a pillow in each hand and threw then at Kagome. And that's when it all started . . . The full-out pillow war! Soon Kagome and Sango were chasing each other or running away, either way pillows flying everywhere. As juvenile as it seems, Kagome and Sango were still having fun.

After a few minutes had past by, both of the girls were on the floor, giggling.

' Ow . . . What's poking me . . .?' Sango reached down to her back and felt the tip of something; grabbing a hold on it she tugged it out and found that it was the first volume of Kill Bill.

"Hey, check it out Kagome. Look what I found at the expense of my back."

Kagome looked over to Sango and laughed. "I guess we did manage to at least one of them after all."

"Should we look for the other one or just look for it later after we've watched this one?" asked Sango as she sat up, rubbing the part where the tip of the case had poked her.

Kagome crawled over to Sango and rubbed the palm of her hand into Sango's back gently. "I doubt that there's going to be a bruise."

Sango nodded, "Yah, I know. I'm glad that I didn't fall on it or anything like that, 'cause then I would've really gotten a bruise."

"Want me to take a look to check?" asked Kagome politely.

Sango slightly red shook her head, "No, no, it's alright. I'll be fine." ' Why am I acting like this? Kagome just asked to look 'cause she wanted to see that I'm okay. Arrgghh . . .Why am I blushing?' Sango rubbed her cheeks and quickly crawled over to the dvd player so that Kagome wouldn't have seen that she was blushing.

' Eh? What's with Sango? O well, must be something that she's thinking about, cause she froze for a split second. . . It's probably not my business.'

Sango turned off all of the lights and closed the curtains so that they could see the movie better, then came back and sat down beside Kagome.

"You won't mind if I use you as a pillow, right?" asked Kagome.

Sango shook her head, too flustered to say anything. ' Crap, I think I'm blushing again . . . Thank kami that it's so dark right now.'

# 2 and a half hours later . . . #

"That was a good movie," said Kagome as she stretched. "The anime parts where awesome."

"Knew that you'd like that part," giggled Sango. "So do you still want to watch the second volume?"

Kagome nodded, "Wait. I don't think we found the other dvd."

"O yah . . . Right . . . Erm, so you wanna go and look for it or what?"

"Sure, I want to see what happens." Said Kagome as she searched around the room.

"Of course you do," said Sango stretching like a cat, but standing.

"Now . . . If I was a dvd, where would I hide?" thought Kagome, out loud. She continued walking around the room and then all of a sudden she tripped on a snag and fell.

"Ow . . ." groaned Kagome. 'Great . . . I just had to trip . . . And I thought that today would be a good day too.'

Sango rushed right over to Kagome's side, "Are you alright?"

Kagome sat up slowly, "Yah, I'm alright. Tripping and falling down wasn't exactly on my ' Things To Do ' list today."

Sango giggled and helped Kagome to her feet. As Kagome got up, Sango saw something familiar near the place where Kagome had fell. She then walked over and pulled out the second volume of Kill Bill.

Sango laughed, "Hahahaha, how ironic." Kagome turned around and when she had seen the dvd in Sango's hand and where Sango was, Kagome laughed as well.

Soon both girls were in their usual spots and the movie had started.

# After the movie was over . . . #

"That was a good ending, I wish there were more anime parts though," said Kagome. She got up and twisted her neck; she winced as her neck gave a few cracks.

"Same here, I was disappointed at that as well when I had first watched it." Looking at the time, Sango read that it was 2:54 pm.

"Hungry, Kagome?" asked Sango. Kagome smiled sheepishly at her and nodded. Sango giggled, ' Some how I knew that she'd be hungry . . . Now the question is, what to cook?'

Kagome sat back down on the couch and like normal in times like these she flipped through channels, not really paying attention to what was on. Soon how ever Kagome's eyelids became heavy. She rubbed her eyes, ' Why am I so sleepy all of a sudden . . .?' She yawned once and continued to flip through the channels.

"Hey, Kagome? What do you want for lunch?" asked Sango, over her shoulder. "Kagome?" She asked again, after hearing no answer from the other girl.

She then walked to the couch and found Kagome, sleeping. ' This really is something, I turn my back for less then a minute, and she's already asleep. Might as well take her to her bed, don't want her to wake up sore.'

Gently Sango hooked one arm under Kagome's knees and the other around her back, and lifted her. She then walked into Kagome's room and placed Kagome in her bed, tucking her in.

Outta the blue, Sango just leans over and kisses Kagome's forehead. Pulling away rather quickly, Sango placed her hands on her cheeks, feeling slightly warm. ' Why did I do that for . . .? I'm just lucky that Kagome was asleep . . .'

Walking out of Kagome's room and into her own, Sango just flopped down onto her bed, no longer feeling hungry at all.

Kagome sighed and rolled onto her back. ' I wonder why Sango had kissed me on the forehead? Maybe it was out of habit if she had a younger sibling. . . Yah . . . Probably . . .' Raising a hand, she touched the spot on her forehead where Sango had kissed her. ' That reminded me so much of . . . Mom . . . She used to do that every time before I went to bed . . .' A single tear escaped Kagome's eye. ' I miss you, mom.'


Flaming Soul: And there we have the third chapter! I apologize for taking slightly longer to post this up; my internet connection had failed me whenever I tried to go on . . . Stupid Shaw Cable . . .

Heh, I certainly liked that last little bit I wrote there. Anyway, onto the reviews!

yekoms-who-is-a-lazy-non-signer-iner: Dude, its only going to take you like a couple of seconds to sign on! Hehehe, was that you screaming " Kiss, kiss, kiss!" Man, if I actually did make a reader scream that when they're reading, I think that I had done a good job.

Enshrouded in darkness: So it was going too fast . . . I'll make sure it goes slower in the future then. All right, thanks for the heads-up by the way.