QJP: Well, here is Chapter 5 at last. Sorry for the long wait. I just had too many things on my mind.
BC: Yeah, weren't you going to re-write the chapters of Dating Miroku?
QJP: Yes, that's really what it taking up most of my time now. Oh that and I was busy getting my new computer all set up.
BC: You forgot to mention playing your Sims 2 game all the time and bragging to me about how AWSOME it is and how you stay up ALL NIGHT playing it.
QJP: HEY! It's not MY fault if it doesn't work on your PC…anyway, on another note, MY BROTHER'S HOME! oh and here's Chapter five, enjoy…
Chapter 5: The Burial
'I hope Inuyasha isn't mad at me for leaving and then coming back so late without telling him,' Kagome thought as she climbed out of the well. 'Wait, why should I care if he's mad or not? It IS my right after all to go back and forth whenever I feel like it.'
"KAGOME!"
She looked up just in time to see Shippo launch himself into her arms. "Hi Shippo. Where is everyone?"
"Inuyasha said something about having to check something out, and I was with Kaede gathering herbs when I heard you come back. I have no idea where Sango and Miroku are."
'He's probably seeing Kikyo.' Kagome thought as she bent to grab her bag from inside the well. "Wait, how can you be gathering herbs now? Its' nighttime."
"That's what I told Kaede. But she said that there's a very good herb that works best if it was gathered after night fall."
"Oh, well, lets just head back and wait for her at the hut." She re-adjusted the strap of her backpack on her shoulder. "Sango should be there and maybe Miroku is too." (A/N: oh, if only she knew how right she was. Oh, sorry. Back to the story…)
"Ok." Shippo jumped onto Kagome's shoulder and she started walking towards their destination.
Ten minutes later
Kagome stopped in her tracks to look up at the hut. It seemed like a much further walk then usual.
"Oof," Shippo stepped back and looked up to Kagome. "why did…?" he started to ask but stopped when Kagome looked at him. 'I bet you she misses everyone. She probably is thinking about them.'
With a deep sigh, Kagome walked on, and Shippo followed closely at her heels. She pushed the door aside. She regretted doing so immediately. Her eyes wandered to the sleeping couple. She saw Sango's head resting peacefully on Miroku's shoulder. It looked like she was in a pleasant dream. Kagome sighed deeply but then remembered Shippo was behind her. She turned around to face him and blocked his view of the inside.
"What are you doing?" Shippo asked, struggling to look around her legs.
"Uh…NOTHING! Nothing at all." Kagome said hastily, "Why don't you go tell Kaede that I'm back?" She added, shooing him off.
Shippo obviously wasn't buying it. "What's in the hut?"
"Uh, nothing, nothing. Don't worry about it."
"Alright…but I can't remember where Kaede was when I left her to see you."
Kagome shook her head. "Oh, well, let's walk together and try to find her." Shippo nodded his head in agreement.
'Miroku and Sango need to be alone. Especially Sango, seeing as she had just lost her last living relative, but she has no idea a new love is making it's way into her heart.' Kagome thought as they walked off into the woods in search of the old miko.
Half hour later: inside the hut
Sango stretched sleepily. "Good Morning…" a male voice stated. Sango's eyes shot open. She looked to her left to see Miroku looking at her with a smirk on his face. She screamed loudly.
"Calm down Sango…"
She slapped him. "CALM DOWN?" He nodded quickly, and then gulped as he received the famous evil glare that Sango gave. She shot up quickly from her resting spot and tried to get as far away from the monk as the small hut would allow. She looked outside, "what was that Inuyasha? Coming!" She ran outside.
"That's funny…" Miroku stated, staring at the hut door. "Inuyasha's no where near here."
In the woods
"Did you hear something?" Kagome asked, stopping in her tracks.
Shippo nodded, "Yeah. It sounded a lot like Sango." His glance slowly went up to looking the direction that Kagome was looking.
"KAGOME!"
Just then a very flustered-looking Sango appeared. "Kagome, you have no idea what the monk did this time."
'Oh, that's what you think," Kagome thought as she walked up to her friend. "It must have been something bad for you to act like this. What happened?"
"I'll tell you later. Where were you two headed?"
"We were on our way to find Kaede to see if she needed any help getting ready for the burial. Want to come with us?"
"Yeah. I just need to get away from Miroku for a while." With that, the trio made their way through the woods, looking for Kaede.
With Miroku
Miroku looks around the hut, a tad confused at what just happened with Sango. He shrugged it off and walked outside. As soon as he stepped out of the hut, he ran into no other than Inuyasha.
"Where have you been?"
"That, monk, is none of YOUR business!"
"I believe it is if I am to report back to Kagome."
"You are to say nothing to her," he held up his fist, "got it?"
"Whoa Inuyasha, no need to be hostile. I guess I'll just tell Kagome you were with Kikyo."
"No you won't, I guarantee it!"
"Okay, whatever, look we have to find the girls so we can do Sango a favor."
"Feh, whatever monk, let's go."
They walked away towards the woods.
Sango, Shippo, and Kagome
"There you are, Kaede. We've been looking all over for you." Kagome exclaimed as they came up to the old miko. "Have you found the herbs you need for the funeral?"
"I still have a few more to get, why don't ye help so we can be done with it sooner?"
"Okay,"
15 minutes later
Inuyasha and Miroku finally caught up with them and were just standing around doing nothing. Well, at least that's what Inuyasha was doing, but Miroku was also helping to gather herbs. That and also trying to get back on Sango's good side again.
"Sango, you are the one to fell asleep first! I just didn't want to wake you while trying to move! You have no reason to be mad."
"No reason to be mad! And I fell asleep, but not on you. Why the HELL would I fall asleep on YOU?"
"You did Sango, I remember you-" he got cut off when Sango's boomerang hit him upside the head. "I'll shut up."
"That's what I thought." And with that, the rest of for what seemed like 2 hours of gathering herbs went by quietly and fairly quickly.
Demon-Slayers Village: 2 ½ hours later
As soon as they arrived in the village, the memories started pouring in for Sango. Both sad and happy ones from when everyone she cared about and loved were still alive. Now all there was to be found were the remains of the different huts and buildings and the piles of dirt that now covered her comrades. "You can set him down over here," she said to Inuyasha, who did as she told him to.
(A/N: I've never actually been to a funeral since I'm lucky enough to not have any of my family members die so just bear with me if I say something wrong.)
Miroku and Inuyasha set about digging the grave next to what Sango said was her father's while Kagome and her prepared Kohaku's body with the herbs that Kaede and Shippo had gathered earlier.
"Sango, we're ready for him now" Inuyasha said, coming up to them.
Once Kohaku was in the grave, Kagome turned to Sango and said, "you know, in my world at one of these funerals, a relative or someone who knows a lot about the deceased gets up and says a few kind words about all the memories they shared with that person. Maybe you should do this too, it might make you feel better."
"The only thing that will make me feel better now is killing Naraku as soon as possible. He must pay for taking him from me with no hope of me ever having him back."
"Don't worry, he will pay for this," Inuyasha said, coming up to her and putting a reassuring hand on her shoulder.
"Thanks, Inuyasha."
"Feh," was all he said before turning and walking away.
Meanwhile, Miroku was just finishing up his prayers and thought to himself, 'I finally got Sango to open up and talk to me again. I can't let this little arrangement with Yukayla screw this up again. I have to go see her and break this thing off before Sango gets angry again.'
"Miroku, lets go." Inuyasha called out, eager as always to get back on the road.
"Coming!"
QJP: Well, finally chapter 5 is complete. And I'll bet some of you reviewers are getting impatient for when Kagome gets this plan of hers started. I assure you, it's going to come up extremely soon…I would say that in Chapter 7 or 8. Now then, here are the responses to last chapter's reviews…
Blackcat8610: yeah, that right there was my first attempt at writing something fluffy and now that I re-read it, I think I could have actually done better but oh well. And don't worry, I'll think of something really, really good to cause Sango to not talk to Miroku again. And I will try to make my chapters a little bit longer but I can't make any promises.
PLP: You can never have too much fluff! Fluff is good! The whole lemon thing was not for this story…it was for Dating Miroku. Kohaku? Well he's going to stay dead. Mostly because since he is hardly in the anime, I don't really know what his personality is. I don't really plan on having the final battle in this fic. Or have Naraku appear at all really. Technically, Kikyo's already dead but I get what you're saying. And no, I will not be killing her. Like Naraku, I wasn't really planning on having her in this fic either.
MyMotherToldMeNo: (Chapter 1) Yes, I did write this one but since PLP is my good friend and because of the fact that she always has such good ideas for all my stories I decided to let her add whatever she wanted to mine as long as it goes along with what I originally planned for the plot of the story. This story is no exception. (Chapter 2) San/Mir fics are what I mostly read and write and sorry, but I won't be putting in a lemon chappy because as I'm writing my chapters my mother will sometimes come up and read over my shoulder and I really don't want her or my father to see that stuff…but that doesn't really stop me from reading them all the time. (Chapter 4) thanks for letting me know about your upcoming lemon story; I'll be looking for it!
QJP: Thanx you three! For all others…please read and review!
