To Love an Enemy - Chapter 2

I do not own the Inuyasha characters so no sueing allowed

Sango was ready to scream with exasperation! It had been three days since she had left the palace, and still there was no sign of the enemy. It didn't help any that Sango knew she had been travelling in circles for the past few hours. She was beginning to wish that she had never left home. If she were there she would be eating lunch right about now, if she were at home she could have a hot bath and read for the rest of the afternoon, if she were at home right now...she wouldn't feel so lonely.

'Maybe I should head home,' Sango thought. 'Maybe I should just give this stupid plan.'

Sango was so occupied she didn't notice the men down by the stream she was walking by, men wearing enemy colors. If she had been paying attention she would have noticed that one of the men hissed at the others to be silent and then gave a large wink. But Sango was oblivious to all of this.

'Maybe if I had been more of the lady my father wanted maybe I wouldn't be in this position'.......... 'maybe if I hadn't have loved to practice with swords and bow and arrows and all the other weapons I was forbidden to touch I wouldn't have been scarred by that-'

Suddenly Sango found herself surrounded by five heavily armed men all grinning wickedly and bearing swords all pointed at her. Sango stopped in her tracks surprised and in shock. The shock soon faded to be replaced by fear. There was NO way she would be able to defeat all of these men! They were going to kill her without a second thought! As that thought became clear Sango realized she had to do something, an evil grin crossed her face.

'Well,' she thought to herself, 'you found the enemy.' Sango glanced around all along thinking that if they wanted a fight they sure as hell were going to get one. She cursed herself for not having brought a weapon. Spying a large branch near her foot that would serve well as a club she grimly thought 'well if I'm going to die then I'm going to take as many with me as I can!'

Then before the men could blink Sango dropped to her knees and grabbed the tree branch and with a fierce battle cry threw herself at the one who seemed to be the leader. The man's comrades stood in shock for a moment as the girl cubed their friend unconscious and then she turned on them and they snapped out of shock and began to fight her as well. This girl was not as helpless as she appeared, she was prepared to give up without a fight first. Within a few moments Sango had managed to knock three of the enemy unconscious and was to busy fighting for her life to notice how close the enemies camp had been and how they had drawn a crowd. All the men were shocked to see the miniature battle before their eyes and all unwilling to join in.

All of a sudden there was a man pushing his way through the crowds. "What in the WORLD is going on!?! If you men are fighting again over food I'm going to strangle you!" the man shouted angry. Whatever he had been expecting though the sight of a young girl his age fighting two of his fully armed warriors, a girl of the enemy by her clothes, was not it. He snapped out of his shock though when the girl's club – wait a sec - WAS THAT A TREE BRANCH!!! – was flung from her grasp by one of his men and the warrior grabbed the girl by the throat and put his sword tip at her throat.

Sango found herself suddenly short for air as the man held her by the throat. She was forced to stand on her tip toes if she wanted any air, but even that proved fruitless as the warrior with snow white hair only tightened his already iron grip on her. "Stupid wench, did you really think you could beat all of us," the warrior hissed, there was no mercy in his eyes.

It was then Sango knew that she was dead, so much for her dreams of bringing peace. "You may think that you'll win but Lorovel will triumph in the end," Sango managed to smile her vision darkened. As sad as she was at the fact she was going to die Sango had never expected that someone would save her.

"WHAT IN THE WORLD IN GOING ON!" a young man said behind her. All at once the warrior released his grip on Sango's throat. In spite though the man attempted to throw her to the ground but Sango found her rescuers arms around her and her face inches from his. She saw an evil smile cross his face before he roughly kissed her.

The rage that had disappeared when the warrior had grabbed her throat returned with a new reason to fuel her anger. 'HOW DARE HE KISS ME!' Sango thought. Roughly she pushed himself away slapping him in the same movement. To say that the man was shocked was an understatement. He couldn't ever remember being slapped by a woman before, never, not once! And he had kissed A LOT of women.

Sango within seconds picked up a sword, which one of the unconscious warriors had dropped and stood in the ready position with the large sword in front of her. Much to her shock the man smiled that same annoying smile again. Sango was panting heavily by this time, "how DARE you kiss me", she said her voice quivering with rage.

"We have a feisty one here lads," the man said as he unsheathed his sword with one smooth motion. "I don't want to fight you won't you please come quietly, I promise not to kill you," the man said softly.

"You expect me to trust an Etonet's word?" Sango panted. "NEVER!" And with that she flung herself into battle once more. The man was surprised with the skill she handled the sword, which was far to heavy for her slim frame and by the ease and speed by which she moved. She knew how to use a sword, he gave her that much. He settled into what he thought would be an easy match, he planned not to harm her, she was a pretty little thing after all, he would humor her for a while. After all he was much better that much he was certain of.

Sango was watching him closely and sensing that he planned to go easy on her attacked with a lightning fast technique, which she knew he would not expect from a girl. It was at the last moment that the man managed to block her attack and instead of chopping his head off like Sango had planned she only nicked his cheek, drawing a think line of blood. The man was in shock for a moment, feeling with his left hand the tiny drizzle of blood that was running down his cheek. He narrowed his eyes, this girl was much better than he had first thought, she was much more then met the eye. This girl, who ever she was, knew how to use a sword, and it was obvious that she meant business, that much was obvious. It had been a lucky block that had he made a second later and he would have resulted in his dead. It was time to end this before either of them got hurt. No longer did he hold back he put everything he had into fighting this nameless girl, it was necessary to beat her quickly. She may be fast he thought but she doesn't have my strength and whereas she is weak I am well rested and fit.

After a moment of fierce battle Sango realized with dread that this man was far better with the sword than she. She had no chance of beating him now as he let her know with a triumphant smile. Sango knew what she had to do and did it without a seconds thought. She would rather die than be taken hostage by the enemy. The man fighting Sango was now warming to fighting her and he looked up with a triumphant smile only to see her eyes suddenly go sad, with the knowledge that she would never win. Then much to his dismay she dropped her sword just as he came in for his attack.

Author's Note: Muwhahaha! Sorry I know that's an awfully cruel spot to end chapter 2, but I wanted to end with a cliff-hanger ending for once. Don't worry I won't do that again. I also know that the real Miroku wouldn't kiss Sango (or any woman for that matter) right off the bat, he would probably just grope their but or something like that, but please don't complain because as you will see soon it's very important to the story. Well that's all for now please e-mail me at with any reviews. THANX