AN: Well Bloody Chaos, I have the heart of a romantic, it sits in a jar on my work desk. ;) But you didn't expect it to end so soon did you?
Thanks to everyone else too, sorry it took so long… Writer's block is a mighty foe indeed, I had to buy 2 Inuyasha dvds just to finish this chapter.
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Inuyasha looked at his joyous expression, and whacked him on the head saying, "Don't think I forgot that look monk." Sango was confused for a moment, then she saw his left hand pointing to his head, and his right nearly implanted on her thigh. "Don't you think you can stop that now that your curse is gone?" Inuyasha said dissatisfied with his companion's actions.
"Eh, I guess you're right Inuyasha…" he looked at Sango and said, "Actually, I have to cancel our arrangement, Sango. Sorry but I haven't been the greatest monk so far have I? So, I've decided to take some time and finish my training at Mushin temple, to cleanse my soul. I hope that doesn't upset you too much. I'll be leaving in a few days."
He took leave of the hut.
"Hey, why don't you and your brother catch up for a while…" Inuyasha said leaving as well.
"Kohaku… I've missed you…" Sango said with tears in her eyes.
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Night had come quickly that day. "Perhaps I should leave now, before they notice I'm gone" Miroku said staring into his formerly cursed hand, something he did often.
"If I recall, monk, they were all quite angry last time you disappeared without a word…" Inuyasha said walking in.
"I guess so… but if I didn't come back, who would I have to have angry at me?" he said lowering his hand to stare at the hanyou. He was surprised when he noticed Inuyasha was in human form, as he normally didn't do much in that form, for fear of frailty. "Inuyasha, it's not like you to wander about in that form…"
"Keh, so what, I've been around you enough to know that I'm fine as long as I'm in running distance of one of you… And besides, you know as well as I do that Shippou and Sango would drag me to go find you…" but instead of staying to hear the rest he left. He walked through the village, and found himself outside Sango's hut, but he didn't want to bother them so he leaned against the wall and tried to get some sleep.
"Inuyasha, it's cold out there, in your state you could get sick, come in here." Sango said from inside. She had been keeping track of the days going by, she knew he was human tonight. He strode though the door somewhat lacking his usual cockiness. "Actually, Inuyasha, I have to ask you a question… Kohaku and I were going to rebuild the taijiya village, and try to start over." She said before he interrupted.
"Oh, well good luck then, and here take this," he said holding out the shikon no tama in his hand, "It belongs to your people right? It's not powerful anymore, but it might bring you luck…" He sighed slightly thinking, 'They're all leaving, I'll be stuck here alone soon enough…' She must have sensed his distress because Kirara jumped up and licked his face. "What in the—oh it's you…" he scratched the little nekomatta and sat on the floor.
"You're jumpy tonight, Inuyasha." Sango said taking Kirara. "But as I was saying, we're rebuilding the village, and I was going to ask if you wanted to come live there, with Kohaku and I. I mean, we need as many people as we can get to help out and well…" she was stuttering just a bit. She turned and walked over to the kitchen area and began preparing food, but she was really just hiding the red tinge on her face.
'Go live with them? Well I'd have company… I guess I could do that… Shippou probably wouldn't mind, and Kaede would just say Good luck to ye or something…' he thought to himself. He smelled the food being cooked saying, "Ah, it smells delicious Sango."
"Let's hope…" she said laughing a bit as she set the food down. 'He's so different in his human state… It is almost unnatural…' she thought to herself chewing on some of the fish she'd prepared. He was so deep in thought that he didn't seem to notice her staring at him as she ate. As he finished eating he leaned forward a little, as though he would say something, but he didn't. She leaned in as well to see what was going on, and she realized he was snoring. He'd fallen asleep, thinking about something…
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He walked through the door, only to see Sesshoumaru standing there on his step. "What do you want brother?" Inuyasha shouted with anger in his voice. He bared his claws and fangs at his youkai sibling.
"You know why I've come… To purge you of this family for taking a human mate" he said with his ever cool tone of voice. He pulled tokijin slowly out of his sash, pointing it past Inuyasha at the hut he'd come from.
"What are you talking about?" he replied, "I've done no such thing, but if it's a fight you want, you're on!" he said drawing tetsusaiga. But it did not transform. "Aah! What did you do to tetsusaiga? Sankon tessou!" he yelled as he sliced through the air with his claws, but he missed his brother completely.
"This ends here…" Sesshoumaru said as he slashed through Inuyasha easily with tokijin. Inuyasha could only stare up as his brother left silently. His vision was fading as he heard a voice saying something he couldn't understand. He saw two figures looking down at him, one crying and the other speechless.
He yelled, but no one heard him, his lips didn't move. Darkness engulfed him. "Why? Is that? S-Sango? Wait, don't go! Kohaku!" he yelled and screamed, but it was gone, everything.
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He sat up, and Sango was standing beside him, hiraikotsu in hand, saying, "Inuyasha, are you alright? I heard you yell!"
He looked bewildered up at her, he slowly began to grasp the situation. It was morning, he'd fallen asleep in her hut, and he'd had a nightmare. "I think I'm ok Sango… I had a bad dream is all…" He explained, as his heart continued to pound. "I think I'll go take a walk now…" he said leaving the hut behind. It wasn't often he had such specific nightmares, he began to ponder it as Miroku approached him.
"So, what did you two do this morning?" he said with his eyes closed, and a stupid grin on his face. That expression changed quickly as he took a, once again clawed, fist to the back of the head.
"Not what you're thinking, ya dirty monk." he said angrily.
"So you were in there the whole night yelling 'Sango' and you walk out covered in sweat, and you say you did nothing?" he said with his hand on his chin, looking upward in a thinking pose, "I didn't know you had it in you Inuyasha!"
"Yer lucky tetsusaiga doesn't work on humans…" he replied. "And what ever happened to 'cleansing your soul' huh?" he said with a sarcastic expression.
"I haven't left yet Inuyasha." he said, walking away whistling a happy tune.
"Lecherous monk…" Inuyasha pouted. He then began to think about the dream. Why had Sesshoumaru said what he had, why had he even attacked in the first place? Why had tetsusaiga not transformed? He thought about it wandering through the village. He finally dismissed it as a simple dream and left it in the back of his mind.
After a while, he ran into Kohaku. Who said, "Oh, did Sister ask you yet?" he said. He was carrying a stack of firewood. "Miroku told me you were speaking to her earlier…"
"I wouldn't take much stock in what that monk says, but yes I suppose she did." Inuyasha answered looking down at the boy.
"Did you give her an answer?" he asked staring back up at the hanyou.
"Nah… Not yet, but I think I might take her up on her offer…" he said stretching out some and cracking his back, "Yeah it sounds pretty good…"
"Oh ok… that's good to hear." Kohaku agreed, walking away to the hut. When he was out of earshot he said, "What offer was he talking about…? Maybe she didn't tell him…" He walked through the door and laid the firewood down, and confronted Sango. "Sister, I thought you said you were going to tell him. I asked him about it and he said something about an offer…"
"Eh, well…" she hesitated, "I guess I didn't quite get around to it." She had turned red. "Maybe I'll do it later today…" she said.
"Oh Sango…" Kohaku sighed, rolling his eyes.
"He was acting strange… but then I don't know him that well, so maybe he was acting normal." Inuyasha said passing out of the village. He walked to the tree, his tree. He'd been nailed to it like a sign, for 50 years, and yet he still sat in it when he wanted to think or be alone. 'Hmm now that I think about it, Sango was going to bury Kohaku here… Hey what's this? Oh yeah… I forgot to give this to Sango before I fell asleep…' he thought looking at the shikon no tama. "Wow… time goes by fast when you walk around this village it's dark again." He said staring into the sky through the branches of his tree. He leapt into his tree, still enjoying the sky. He fell into a dreamless sleep.
Morning came swiftly to Inuyasha, but Sango was a different case, she'd had strange dreams all night. She dreamt of Miroku giving a solemn piece of advice to Inuyasha, and of the shikon no tama turning blue. She dreamt of a black tetsusaiga, and of a powerful attack launched from it. And she dreamt of Inuyasha's demise at the hands of his brother. She pondered all of these things until she was interrupted promptly by a few pats to her hind end. "Miroku…" she said, her voice reeked of seduction, "Let me just give a parting gift…" A large smile grew from his typical grin. She leaned in to him, her face was as close to his as it could be without contacting it when she finally rammed her fist squarely into his lecherous gut. "I thought you'd have learned by now." she said simply.
"Well I had to, as this is my last chance to before I become pure." he said wincing slightly from the pain. "I just came to say goodbye," he said and walked out of the hut. He walked up to the tree where Inuyasha was undoubtedly residing. "Inuyasha, I want to talk to you!" he yelled up the trunk.
"Enjoy talking to trees monk?" Inuyasha said as he strode up to him from the village. He'd gotten a restful sleep and awoken early that day.
"Inuyasha, I'm leaving today, I just wanted to pass on a thought, a word of wisdom I had recently." he said lowering his voice with each word until it was just above a whisper. "I figure by now she's asked you to follow her to rebuild her village," Inuyasha nodded getting a sense of utmost seriousness from him, "Good. She's done well to let go of her torment from her family's passing. She's a strong girl, I'm sure you can appreciate that. I want you to go with her, protect her, and also… be good to her, you'll understand soon enough. But please Inuyasha heed me."
"Hey what are you guys talking about, Miroku I thought you were leaving." Sango said as Inuyasha jumped 20 feet in the air.
"GODS, Sango, you nearly scared the youkai out of blood!" he yelled as his face paled.
"Eha ha ha ha!" Miroku laughed as he began walking, "I am, just giving Inuyasha some advice on how to cop a feel…"
"He's kidding right…?"she looked at Inuyasha.
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AN: I had to cut it short because I need to work on a clean empty chapter to be objective, sorry.
Anyone know how to spell the backlash wave's Japanese word? (bakriuha or something?)
