Chapter Two

"Sango-chan, so what happened in the forest?" Kagome looked at her between shovelling food in her mouth.

"Unh, not much, had a fell asleep, had a dream, then Houshi-sama found me." Sango looked at her straight in the eye. The only things she found good about that expedition were the fact, 1) Miroku didn't grope her, and 2) Miroku was there to comfort her.

"Mmf, so did anything happen between you, mmf, and Miroku?" Inuyasha mumbled between bites. Raising an eyebrow he looked to the lecherous monk.

"Nothing happened that Sango-chan wouldn't tell you about." He looked dreamily at Inuyasha, "Though, maybe you wouldn't have any worth knowing." Looking back at his food, he stole a glance at Sango.

"I had a bad dream. That's all. Houshi-sama was there to help me, and comfort me." Sango replied in a tone that really told him nothing.

"Alright, now we switch the topic." Kagome said all to eagerly. "Sango-chan, would you like to go to a nearby hot spring after we eat. Inuyasha said it was just up that hill." Her delicate hand pointed to a hill to her left.

Sango looked and nodded. "Now, Houshi-sama, no peaking. I mean it, or else." She glared a happy glare at him.

"But Sango-chan, the pain is worth it." He grinned at her and placed an arm around her shoulder.

'Oh my, what's happening. Then again, he's not groping me, so I guess it's ok.' She stared at his had, but she didn't shrug it off. Finishing her food, she stood up and walked to the spring. "Kagome-chan, just join me when your ready."

It was relaxing. All her pains seemingly disappeared. The warm touch of the spring's water on her skin. It was all too much for her. It overwhelmed her senses, and she fell into a dream state.

Sango sat within a cabin. It was cold, and yet, warming. The blood covering her hands. She looked at them, and frowned, this made her feel sick. Lying in front of her was a woman. Her kimono ripped off her shoulder, and a wound in it. The woman's brown hair stained with her own blood. Sango was shocked. 'Who was this woman, do I know here?' were the questions going through Sango's mind.

"Sango!"

'Who was that, Kagome-chan?'

"Sango, wake up!"

'Kagome-chan, I am awake, it is you who is sleeping.'

"Sango-chan!"

Kagome was frustrated; it wasn't like her to fall asleep in a hot spring. Not only was it unsafe, she didn't look happy in her sleep. A rock would do it though, throwing a rock at her head.

"Wake up sleepy." At that, Kagome threw the rock at Sango. It hit her right in the chest. Eyes slowly fluttering open.

"Kagome-chan? What is it?" She was staring straight into Kagome's eyes, the eyes sitting dead across from her in the hot spring.

"You were sleeping. That's not good, you must be tired." Kagome wadded over to sit beside Sango. "I hope you're okay though. We wouldn't want you to be sick."

"Uh, Kagome-chan. I'm fine, just tired. I am also still aching all over from the wounds that I got." Sango nodded and smiled as she said that. Silence soon came over the area around the hot spring. Sweet silence. Sango broke that though.

"Kagome-chan?"

"Yes, what would you like Sango-chan. Would you like shampoo? Conditioner?" She smiled sweetly and pretended to be unaware. Unaware that something was wrong with Sango. Something wrong with her spirit.

"No, none of that right now. Kagome-chan, when Houshi-sama found me asleep, I awoke and told him my dream in short form. I saw you, Houshi-sama, Shippou-kun and Inuyasha, dead. Houshi-sama's head lay in my lap. He tried to tell me something, but I wouldn't be able to hear it…" Sango looked at Kagome with saddened eyes.

"Sango-chan, you don't have to tell me all of it. If it pains you so."

"No, I must continue. You're like a sister to me, I felt like I lost everything all over again, after I gained so much. And now, I had a dream of a brown haired woman dead on the ground before of me. Her shoulder and hair bloodied, and my hands covered with it. I don't want this to happen." Sango looked down at her hands and put her head in them. 'Houshi-sama…'

"Sango-chan. why would you have such a dream?" Kagome looked worriedly at her friend, her sister. Placing a reassuring hand on her shoulder. Kagome looked at her sympathetically.

"Kagome-chan, I'd like the shampoo now, if you would please." Sango dunked her head under the water after that was said. 'Ah, now I can relax, don't know if I'll sleep tonight though.' Her head popping out of the water, she took the shampoo bottle from Kagome.

"Sango-chan, I hope you can sleep tonight." Kagome rubbed the shampoo into her hair. Leaning against the rocky ledge, she let it sit in, where as Sango just rinsed it out right after.

"I'm going to go for a walk. I'll take Kirara with me." She stepped out of the hot spring, and using a pink towel, she scrubbed herself dry. Putting her kimono on, she traveled back to the camp.

As Sango headed back to camp, she sighed. It was going to be tough if those things ever happened.