Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha or any other characters except Yumi because I created her. Done!
InuYasha: (is so happy he's crying) Finally! She's normal again! It's a normal disclaimer and no more suffering for me!
Shel: It was normal until you came in…
InuYasha: (normal mood) Yeah that happens…
Poll Time: POLL TIME!
(La hits a huge gong thingy)
Okay in this poll, who shall I kill? Different characters have different endings, so basically you choose the endings! And death of characters…heh…LA! Tell them who they're voting for!
La: Right! These three characters will determine the ending of the story if you vote for them. Remember, you have to vote for two characters. May the best characters win! Heh…or maybe not…cause if they do they're dead…hmm. Here they are;
Shel: Hey, I'll give you guys' hints at what will happen if these guys die……
Kagome : 3 vote(s) (might be a fluffy, sad, miserable ending in whish I have plans for another character……)
Yumi : 1 vote(s) (Angry ending, might be fluff not sure yet)
Sesshomaru : 0 vote(s) (angry ending, Yumi and Rin will probably die also…oops)
Shel: La, ya know what?
La: What's that shel?
Shel: We made that into a cheesy game show thing…
La: Yeah I know…jeeze.
Miroku and Sango walked quietly next to each other, glancing back over their shoulders every now and then at Kagome and InuYasha. The both refused to look at each other, the same empty depressed look on their faces. Shippo walked along side Kirara in the middle of the four, wondering the same thing as Sango and Miroku; what happened between them?
"Miroku, what do you think happened?" Sango whispered to him. Miroku glimpsed back without turning his head. Kagome had her head slightly turned to the right, avoiding InuYasha all together. "I'm not sure but it doesn't look good." He replied back his voice the same desperate whisper as Sango's.
After the momentary silence and nothing but the sound of their walking, InuYasha finally spoke. "Hey Kagome."
Kagome didn't look at him but she did heave a slight shrug to let him know he was paying attention.
"I'm sorry." InuYasha continued saying. Kagome sighed. "So you say. But I have no way of knowing you mean it."
"I do mean it. I shouldn't have treated you like that." InuYasha snapped not caring if Miroku or Sango heard him. Kagome laughed lightly. "You know what? I'm used to it. So I don't care." That said and an empty glare ended the conversation.
Miroku sighed deeply. "I guess that's all they're going to say right now." Sango nodded in agreement. "It seems to me like InuYasha wants to talk to her about it but Kagome doesn't want to hear anything of it."
Miroku fell back into the middle of the two and put one arm around each of them. "C'mon you guys! We're so close to Naraku, no one needs to fight right now…" InuYasha glared at him strangely and Miroku took his arm back. Kagome smiled at him. "Thanks for trying Miroku." Miroku grinned back at her. Too bad for him that his hand wandered off her shoulder and down to her bottom. Kagome hit him upside the back of the head and he fell to the ground. "Yeah thanks a lot, letch!"
Yumi growled to herself. "Now what am I supposed to do?" The river in front of her was flowing very fast and was a bit higher than she had expected. But to get to Naraku's castle, she needed to cross it. The faint sound of some girl yelling at someone drifted her way and she ran towards it to investigate. A toad imp and a little girl about her age were knee high in the river obviously trying to catch something. The imp had angered the girl in someway and she was now very close to tears.
Yumi started to turn around but it was too late and the young girl had spotted her. "Hey wait a second!" Yumi stopped in her tracks and the little girl had dashed out of the water and ran up to her. "Hi, what's your name? I'm Rin. What are you doing out here?" Yumi thought for a second. "Um…I'm Yumi and I need to find someone out here. Why are you here?"
Rin thought the girl looked suspicious since her hair color wasn't that of a normal little girl's but her eight-year-old self got the better of her. "Who are you looking for?"
Yumi shrugged. "I dunno." She lied. "I just know I need to find someone that lives out here." A strange aura caught her attention and both girls looked down the path that Yumi had just come from.
Rin got all excited. "Lord Sesshomaru! You're back already?" Sesshomaru ignored the girl's question and narrowed his cold eyes at the girl next to Rin. "Rin, is this your friend?" He asked flatly. Rin nodded. "This is Yumi and she's looking for someone." Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow. "Who is it?"
Yumi froze. "N-N-N-Naraku…um, sir." Yumi thought that Sesshomaru looked a lot like someone she had seen before, who she didn't know and it bothered her a little. But being the eight year old she was, she forgot all about it and only worried what would happen to her if she said something that Sesshomaru didn't approve of.
"Why would a small girl like yourself be looking for Naraku?" Sesshomaru questioned. Yumi tried to back away but her legs wouldn't cooperate. "I uh…just need to um…" Sesshomaru sighed. "Fine. Rin, if your friend wishes to come, then she may." Sesshomaru pushed past the girls and kept walking on. Rin grabbed Yumi's hand and followed Sesshomaru giggling. "C'mon, Sesshomaru-sama will help you if you ask him to." Yumi didn't resist Rin dragging her along but she did try to make her stop. "I can handle this on my own, really."
Jaken crawled out of the river. "Lord Sesshomaru! Wait for me!"
Night had come sooner than they had all expected. Shippo was curled up on Kagome's sleeping bag with Kirara next to him on Sango's. Kagome was huddled against Sango and almost asleep. Miroku was sitting across from them with a fresh handprint on his face from something he had tried earlier. InuYasha was asleep on a branch in the tree that overlooked the whole campsite.
Once Sango really thought Kagome was asleep she looked up at Miroku. "They're not even arguing."
Miroku looked up at her. "What?" Sango huffed. Miroku could be so dense sometimes. "Usually when they have a fight they argue a lot until finally Kagome threatens to go home but they aren't even talking to each other."
Miroku bowed his head in deep thought. "Yes, you mean like earlier. They didn't even look at each other much less talk." Sango nodded. "So what do you thing happened?"
Miroku shrugged. "A bad run-in with Kikyou, they found Naraku, Yumi's dead…it could be anything."
Sango shook her head. "I wonder which one…" Miroku shrugged again. "When Kagome's ready, she'll tell you. Until then we can only guess that whatever happened wasn't good…"
Sango rolled her eyes. "Well of course it wasn't good, houshi-sama! We don't have to guess—."
Miroku looked back at up at his nickname. "What did you call me?"
A light blush swept over Sango's face. "I uh—well it isn't like I don't call you that…"
Miroku snickered. "You don't call me that much anymore." Sango's face reddened. "Just let it go." She grumbled more to herself than Miroku. Miroku laughed again. "Dear Sango, you don't have to be embarrassed…" What was he going to say? 'I love you Sango, and I wish you would just open up to me.' Yes that was perfect but he could never say it.
"Oh and Miroku…" desperate to get the last word in and to forget that whole embarrassing turn of conversation, Sango spoke again. "…every run-in with Kikyou is a bad one, now good night, Hou—Miroku." She cursed herself for almost calling him that again. She didn't know why it bothered her but every time she called him that, she felt like she could tell him everything that bothered her. But she would not want to burden him and he have to carry the heavy weight that something troubled her. Him, Shippo, Kagome, InuYasha, or anyone else, she could never tell them. She was quiet and if all of the sudden here came all these worries from her that it would devastate the group. And she wanted to stay more than anything. That and to get her brother back alive.
Kur0: Sorry if this chapter was a little pointless but I didn't exactly know what to do…but at least I got Sesshomaru in here. There might be a little MirSan fluff later…yep, I think I can work that out. Ja ne, later.