AN:: Sorry it took so long to update. I will finish this fic even if it takes me awhile. My betaer and I are very busy. I am going to be posting 5 in two weeks. I promise. Phaedra, my betaer is very, very busy so this chapter and 5 are only semi-betaed. In others words not as great as chapters 1-3. Sorry. Anyways, I hope that everyone likes it.

Again thank you so much for betaing this Phaedra

CHAPTER 4: CRYING AND QUESTIONS AND MORE CRYING AND QUESTIONS AND EVEN MORE

(I don't own Inuyasha or anything in this fic. )

"That is the saddest thing I have ever heard." Pagan cried, wrapping her arms around Sango. "Your whole family and your village gone. You poor, poor child - all alone in the world." Tears ran down her face as she hugged Sango harder. The taijiya's blouse became soaked with tears as she patted the other girl's shoulder. Sitting next to her sister, Angel wiped away silent tears.

Sango had been walking through the village waiting for Kagome and Inuyasha to return from the well when the sisters had invited her into their hut to 'get to know her.' When they had asked Sango how she had come to be traveling with the gang, she calmly told them. Sango had promised herself that the telling of her life would not make her cry or be upset.

After all nothing could be changed and she would one day help kill Naraku and avenge her village and family. But this resolution proved more difficult to adhere to than the slayer had counted on, for now with both of the other girls crying, she felt the first pricklings of tears gather in her eyes.

"No one to care about you or make you cookies. All alone, a victim of cruel fate. WWWAAAA." The sisters cried. Sango thought of her mother and how young she had been when she died. The faces of the villagers, her father and Kohaku ran through her mind. 'Never again will I see them or talk to them. I am the only one left.'

"You're right. I am all alone." At this realization, Sango could no longer resist the onslaught of the powerful emotions she'd kept at bay for so long. Although it was not generally in her nature to show weakness, the tortured girl begrudgingly began to cry. Angel joined the hug just as Miroku entered the hut. He started to say hello when he noticed the tearful eyes and angry faces.

"What!?!?" All three girls yelled at him.

'RUN AWAY, RUN FAR AWAY' Miroku's mind yelled. Keeping his eyes on the upset group, he slowly backed up out of the hut, turned and got the hell out of dodge.

"Stupid male." "BAKA" could be heard from inside the hut.

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The girls wiped away their tears. "Don't cry, Sango. Me and Angel...

"It's Angel and I.' Her little sister corrected.

"Angel and I are going to make you a member of our Family. In the circus everyone considered each other a family member. So from now on you and Kagome are going to be our sisters, Kaede our grandmother, and Shippo our nephew."

"What about Miroku and Inuyasha?"

"No dear, they are way too hot. You never claim hot guys as brothers or nephews or anything like that because if you did, then it would be bad and wrong to have hot dreams about them and watch them undress through your binoculars."

"Sisters?" Sango nodded, feeling happy. She had always thought of Kagome as a sister but had never come out and called her that. It would be nice to claim Kagome and Shippo as family. Sango planned to ask her two friends if it would be alright to call them her family.

"We're going to ask the blacksmith to make you guys a necklace like ours so everyone will know that we're family." Angel told her.

"Did everyone in your village hunt demons? And what kinds of demons did you hunt? Did you guys eat the demons?" The two sisters spent the day talking to Sango and asking her all kinds of questions about demons. They talked about Sango's village and her childhood and brother.

"That Bitch Naraku should be shot. I hope he dies a horrible death. Slowly and painfully and with a lot of screaming..."

"Clearly he suffered a traumatic childhood. Probably felt out of control and helpless."

"Oh no." Pagan leaned close to Sango and whispered in her ear. "Sometimes Angel gets like this. She took one of those online classes in psychology. When she gets started, just smile and nod, ok?"

Sango smiled and nodded at Pagan, having no idea what she was talking about. 'I wish that I could see Kagome's time. Just one visit couldn't hurt. Everything is so...different there.'

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"That is the saddest thing I have ever heard." Pagan cried, wrapping her arms around Shippo. "Your mom and dad dead – orphaned and taken in by two loving teenagers. You poor, poor child. All alone in the world. And poor Kagome; so young and already a mom." Tears ran down her face as she hugged Shippo harder. Sitting next to her sister, Angel wiped away silent tears.

"Kagome is a mom?" Shippo asked. He had come around asking for some candy when the sisters had invited him into their hut to 'get to know him.' When they had asked about why he was with Inuyasha and Kagome, Shippo told them about the Thunder Brothers and how he'd come to be traveling with the gang. Now he was upset and confused. 'Kagome has a kid?'

"She's your mom, silly." Angel took Shippo from her sister and started to rub his little head. "You have the cutest little kitty feet." She rubbed his paws. "Kagome takes care of you and loves you. Of course she's your mom. Don't you call her Mom?"

"No." Shippo had thought of Kagome as his mother but he never could bring himself to ask her if he could call her that. 'What if she said no?' Shippo worried.

"Have some candy little nephew. One of the women in the village gave me some cloth to get her son out of a tree. I'm going to make you a stuffed toy, ok? So no more tears, only happy smiles and happy little clouds...."

Deciding to ignore the 'happy little clouds' comment, Shippo asked why Pagan called him 'nephew'. He was shocked that they would think of him as family after knowing him for only a few days.

"Kagome is our say-sister...and you're like her son...so that makes you our nephew!" Pagan was looking through one of their trunks for the cloth.

"Pagan and I are going to make you a member of our Family. In the circus everyone considered each other a family member. So from now on, Sango and Kagome will be our sisters, Kaede our grandmother, and you our nephew. You are now officially a member of our say-family." At Shippo's confused look she explained, "We like you so we SAY you are a part of our family so therefore you are family. Say-Family."

"At the circus we always got a lot of runaways and people who either had no family or were running away from the family they did have. They were lost and alone. So by making them part of a family, they worked together and everyone belonged. It made everyone happy to be part of a lov...of a family." Pagan's tail wagged about knocking over a broom, which fell on Angel's tail.

"Oi!" Angel threw the pillow she had been sitting on at her sister. "Watch what you are doing klutz."

"You shouldn't throw things. It's rude and you are setting a bad example for Shippo." Pagan finally found the cloth and held it up for Shippo's inspection. "See, it's green. What kind of toy do you want me to make you Shippo?" Pagan placed a sewing basket on the floor next to her.

"A dog, please." Shippo couldn't wait to show Inuyasha his stuffed doggie.

"We're going to ask the blacksmith to make you guys a necklace like ours so everyone will know that we're family." Angel told him. The two sisters spent the day talking to Shippo and asking him all kinds of questions about demons and this time.

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"That is the saddest thing I have ever heard." Pagan cried, wrapping her arms around Miroku. "Spending your whole life waiting to be sucked into your hand. You poor, poor child. All alone in the world with death calling your name." Tears ran down her face. Sitting next to her sister, Angel wiped away silent tears.

"I can't stand to see such lovely women cry." Miroku wrapped an arm around Pagan, then he reached over and placed an arm around Angel. "As difficult as things are, I find comfort being around such pretty girls."

Miroku had been walking through the village waiting for Kagome and Inuyasha to get back from her time when the sisters had invited him into their hut to 'get to know him.' When they asked how he came to be traveling with the gang, the monk happily told them. Making sure, of course, to mention and stress things that would tug at any girl's heart. He slid his hands down to grab the girl's bottoms when...

"Angel!? Are you thinking about macking on my man?" Pagan shoved Angel out of Miroku's arms.

"I saw him first."

"Oh, no you did not. We saw him at the same time. As long as he doesn't have a girl then he's up for grabs. Miroku, you don't have a girlfriend or wife or anything like that do you?"

"Bitch!!!!" Pagan knocked Angel over, but not before she grabbed ahold of Pagan's hair.

"Uh, I hear Sango calling me." Miroku beat a hasty retreat from the hut. He had no desire for Sango or Kagome to hear of his causing a fight between the two sisters. 'I can just imagine it' A picture of him lying in the dirt while Kagome and Sango stood over him yelling flashed into his mind. He was so busy worrying about what would happen to him if the girls found out he was causing trouble again, that he didn't notice four eyes happily watching him dash away.