Bleeeh blah. It's taken me forever to figure out how to start this x.X But here it is!

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Mutual Resolve
Distress
Everything was cold. A dank, throbbing filled Sango's body as she very slowly tried to move. Agony engulfed her side without mercy allowing her to cry out inaudibly as she moved her hands to feel what could cause such terrible pain.

Blood. Sticky, gooing blood. It forced her to open her eyes and look down to her side where she found a large gash spanning from lower hip to just below her left breast. "Nani-o…?" She touched her head while holding her side in a confused manner. "Naraku…"

Everything suddenly came back to her like a horrid flash of a nightmare. Naraku's attack, Kagome and Inu Yasha bleeding and Miroku protecting her…Everything. Her eyes opened wide as she tried to get free of the brush. "Inu Yasha?"

Half way to her feet she fell back to hands and knees, coughing up the blood that had collected in her mouth and throat. The taijiya felt weak and sickly yet began to crawl along by sheer will and fear. "Kagome-chan!"

With a final effort, Sango pushed out of the underbrush and landed heavily upon her front. She grimaced heavily, yet felt slight hope grip her wounded body as she felt the corner of a sleeping bag underhand. Very carefully she opened her eyes to rejoice.

Rejoice wasn't the word…

Everywhere there was blood. The fire pit, the sleeping bags and even Kagome's bicycle were all mangled and strewn with the dark crimson of drying blood.

"...Shippou?" She whispered as he mind flashed between this scene and the memory of her fellow demon hunters after being slain by Kohaku. The only difference now was…there were no bodies left for her to see.

She tried to get and run forward to search, yet hardly got very far before falling once more to the ground. The taijiya nearly screamed as her shoulder connected with something hard and her side nicked something sticking from the ground. Quickly she turned her head.

"Tesseiga…?" Sango uttered as she looked up in horror at the sword which loomed beside her. At seeing this she was afraid to look the other way…yet she did very reluctantly. There she discovered the Shakujou.

Tears began in her eyes slowly, never reaching the point of over flow. She touched the blood soaked staff as if it were unholy…then clasped it as though it were gold. "Houshi-sama…" Quietly the Taijiya bowed her head over the weapon and clenched her eyes tightly shut. "Iie…"

"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Sango screamed until her lungs could take no more. Her throat was hoarse and her eyes glazed as she stared mindlessly ahead in a distraught stupor. All of her friends were dead…just as all her family was. There was no saving grace, there was no Kirara or Kagome or perverted monk to break her sorrow…Naraku had killed them all…

Naraku…

The Taijiya's eyes hardened immediately. "Naraku caused all this." She whispered with a fury growing within her chest. She allowed her terrible sadness to boil into insuppressible anger as she grasped both Tesseiga and the Shakujou. "He caused Kohaku to kill Otousan and the others…and now he's killed all of you…I'll make him pay!"

Her voice was loud and coarse from the earlier screams as she forced his injured body up. With her wakizashi, she severed her Yukata, leaving her standing in the slayer uniform she had been wearing beneath. As anger-fueled adrenaline began to pump through her veins, she was able to forget her injuries and lift not only Hiraikotsu onto her back, but Tesseiga and Miroku's weapon as well. Her eyes narrowed into dismal slits filled with only vibrant, vengeful intentions.

"I won't let these wounds stop me! I'll kill you Naraku!" She exclaimed dangerously as she began to walk away from the brutal scene with nothing but hate to seal away her sorrow.

Well umm…chapter 2? Yes, I know, very short, and for that you may shoot me loves XD But I hope Chaoter three will be up sooner than two XD

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