A Mini-Ficlet for your enjoyment! Just to show you how close Sango and Kohaku really are. Enjoy!

Disclaimer:I don't own any of the songs that appear in the fic,and def. not the characters. Would I be here it I did?

Beginning of the Story/The opening Memoir

"Talking"

Song lyrics

Present,Characters Voicing memories,or something they learned

Memoir of Sango

The Beginning. It is so faint in my mind. The Beginning. I can remember parts of The Beginning,but can you Kohaku? Little brother,do you remember following me everywhere,wanting to help me any way that you could? Do you remember falling and scraping your knee,and then I carried you all the way back home? Do you remember The Beginning,Kohaku? The Beginning was the most important time of our lives. Evil did not exist to us then. We were innocent then,blissfully innocent. What I wouldn't give to go back,Kohaku. Back to where it all began,before everything important ended. Part of us died that one day. The part of The Beginning.

Bonds of a Lifetime

Ch.1

Go Back to the Beginning

A small figure could be seen running down a hallway. They cut a sharp left into a small room. Upon entering the room,the figure pounced on a smaller figure that appeared to be sleeping.

"Kohaku! Get up! It's the first day of summer! Let's go play!" A small Sango yelled gleefully to a small boy with black hair. She shook him a bit.

"Come on Kohaku! Let's go play!" She said shaking him a little harder.

"'Kay,I'm up..." Kohaku said throwing the covers off of his body. He stood up and watched as an excited Sango jumped up and down in front of him,her pony-tail swinging wildly.

"Come on! Come on! Let's Go! Let's Go!" Sango shouted ecstatically grabbing Kohaku's hand.

"In the running children's frolicking voices

They are wanting to chase after the light and shadows

Thinking that there is something in the sun

Shining through the leaves"

Sango ran,pulling Kohaku behind her. As she reached the opening to go outside from the hut,she stopped.

"Okay Kohaku,we're gonna play a game." She stated happily,letting go of his hand and facing him.

"The rules are,You can only move by staying in the shadows,if the sun touches you,you have to stop for ten seconds,you have to let me win also." Sango said.

"Nuh uh,your Cheating! I don't have to let you win! I'm smallest,you have ta let ME win" Kohaku replied. He stuck his tongue out at her.

"Whatever!" Sango said as she shot out the door,already beginning the game ."First one to the flower field wins! And you have to touch the big tree too!" Sango yelled back as she jumped and hopped from shadow to shadow.

"No fair!You cheater!" Kohaku yelled out as he too began jumping and hopping from shadow to shadow.

"From inside the hands picking,the emerald green flowers

Change their body to the sky,the wind,the ground.

Laying in that opulent place that opened it's eyes to that beauty,

Asking questions to the sky"

Sango panted as shemade the home stretch,across the field of oddly colored,green flowers. She could hear Kohaku somewhere not far behind her. She grinned gleefully when her hand touched the base of the tree first.

"HA!I won Kohaku!" She called back.

"You .:.Pant.:.Cheated! .:.Huff.:. You had to .:.Puff.:. Run through the .:.deep breath.:.through the sun.:.Pant.:. to get there" The small Kohaku stated between breaths. His short legs couldn't keep up with hers,and he was out of breath from the exertion of trying.

"Yeah,whatever. I still won! " Sango shouted happily. Sango flopped on her back out in the field.

"I wonder,if mom is watching us right now...Do you think mom is watching us?" Sanngo asked,looking up at the sky. Kohaku laid beside her.

"I think she is. She is prodably up on a cloud watching us right now."

"You mean probably." Sango said correcting him.

"Yeah. Why do some of my words come out wrong sometimes?" Kohaku said looking up at the sky also.

"Why is the sky blue?" Sango asked in return.

"I don't know." "Neither do I."

"Just how many large leaves and small rocks must we gather

To circle around to make that small fort

If the wind blows,seeming to break that dream,

But we still remember that world."

"I have an idea!" Sango said jumping up.

"What?" Kohaku asked siting up.

"Let's make a fort!" Sango said running around in a circle excitedly.

"How?" Came Kohaku's answer.

"We'll make it usin' leaves and...umm...Rocks!" Sango said picking up a rock.

"'Kay,I guess so." Kohaku said standing up and beginning to search through the flowers for rocks. Sango began searching around the tree for leaves to use. They began making piles for the rocks and leaves.

A fierce wind blew and made the leaves Sango had gathered scatter.

"Oh no! The leaves!" Sango yelled. Kohaku looked up.

"I guess...we can't make...a fort now.." Sango said sadly "There goes my idea."

"Let's do something different then" Kohaku said throwing the rocks he had in his hand down on the ground.

"From that song shaking the emerald green foliage

The voice of nature is wrapping my back

I wish,I can return here just one more time,

But now,it has become slightly brighter in front of my eyes"

A light wind whistled through the air,moving the flowers,and brushing Sango and Kohaku's backs.

"Let's go pick some flowers,Kohaku. We can go put them on mothers grave. Do you want to?" Sango asked him,already beginning to pick herself a handful of flowers.

"Sure." Kohaku said getting down on his knees and picking flowers.

By the time the flowers were to Sango's liking,both of their hands were stained green from the stems.

"Aren't these so pretty. Emerald green flowers,mother's favorite." Sango whispered.

I had once hoped to return to this place,the place of Emerald Green,as I now call it. But everything is different now. I finally see how everything was,and how it has changed. And dramatically so. I see everything clearer now. The truth became brighter to me. Even if it hurts.

"From inside the hands picking,the emerald green flowers

Change their body to the sky,the,the ground.

Laying in the opulent place that opened it's eyes to that beauty,

The future has become brighter"

We would stay in the flower field for as long as possible. We changed there,we lived there,we were happy there,in that quiet place. That place of open sky,and a green field of flowers. Where our ideas came and went,and the place never lost it's beauty,even in the fall and winter. It remained year round,always there for us. Maybe,it's one of the pure places. A place where even the most burdened can sleep peacefully. Even just thinking about it,my will to bring Kohaku back,is even greater. I want to get Kohaku back. And we'll visit that place together. Again,just like when we were innocent,blissfully innocent. I'll help him revive The Beginning. We'll find it together Kohaku,You and I.

Okay,next chapter is Kohaku's! So,leave me a review and I'll answer your questions next chappie,or w/e you might have! Tell me wat was good,and wat was bad,and I'll try to fix it! Just review review review!Ja ne Minna,

Suki Cho

5/30/05