A/N: Inspired by Bill Withers' Ain't No Sunshine, and the events of FY vol. 15. Many thanks to KittyLynne and Appaku for reviewing me! And now, in an effort to get more of you to review. :pulls out her Bowel Disrupter and points it at Tamahome: If you all don't, the bishie gets it in the most embarrassing way possible.

5: Ain't No Sunshine

Tasuki couldn't feel the sun's warmth. It might as well have been winter, without Miaka there.

He rubbed his arms in an effort to bring warmth back into them. Nothing seemed right in his world anymore; it had been a long time since things had been right.

Two years, three weeks, five days. Not that he was counting.

'Damn that girl,' he thought as he waited for her to return.