Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha so please don't sue me! Currently I'm broke, so you wouldn't get anything off me anyway. Take that annoying lawyers!! :-P Just kiddin'. No offense to lawyers. ^^;;; (Jim Carrey made a good lawyer in Liar Liar . . .)
Original Character Descriptions: Sakura- black hair halfway down her back (also halfway straight and halfway wavy), white triangular dog ears, golden-amber eyes, short claws and fangs.
Shunusuke- short, dark brown hair that is usually in a small ponytail, and brown eyes. (Basically looks like a younger version of Miroku except with Sango's hair and eyes.)
Author's Note: Yay! New chapter! Umm . . . enjoy! ^_^
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"In the Crossfire" by: Jesia
Chapter 1: Typical Morning
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"Aiee!! SHUNUSUKE!" *BONNG-*
"Ow." *THUD*
Inuyasha walked into the kitchen to find a very pregnant Sango looking on a typical household scene. Sakura was still holding Sango's scalding hot frying pan, half-expecting the unconscious Shunusuke on the floor to jump up and grab her again.
"Put the frying pan down slowly, Sakura-chan," Sango told her. "It's okay, he's unconscious." Sakura obeyed cautiously.
"Well I'm sure he deserved that for whatever he did, eh?" Inuyasha smirked, making his presence known to the two young women.
"Ohayo [Good morning] Daddy!" Sakura exclaimed, quickly handing the abused pan to Sango and running up to hug her father.
"Ohayo Sakura-chan," Inuyasha murmured and accepted the affectionate father-daughter embrace. "As for you," Inuyasha growled at Shunusuke over his daughter's shoulder. "What do you have to say for yourself?" The body stirred slightly.
"Auuugh . . ." Shunusuke moaned as he tried to pick up his aching head, only to drop it back down to the hard floor again.
'Poor Shunusuke-kun,' Sakura thought to herself, concerned. 'I wonder if I hit him too hard?' She pulled away from her father to see if she could help Shunusuke over to a chair.
"HENTAI!!" Sakura shrieked as she slapped the lecherous teen. He dropped to the floor again, and then staggered over to a chair at the kitchen table. "Don't touch me again!"
"Ohayo every- . . ." Miroku entered the room and stopped mid-word. He quickly concluded that his son was being a lecher again. It was pretty obvious because of the big, red, hand-shaped mark on his face. Miroku sweatdropped. "-one," he gulped.
"Your son is reeeally starting to take after you, Miroku," Inuyasha sneered. "You need to teach him some control."
"Hai, I will," Miroku replied solemnly. As he sat down next to his son at the table, he winked at him and said, "Shunusuke, stop hitting on girls like that, okay? Don't you ever touch Sakura-san that way again! Do I make myself clear?" *Wink, wink*
"Yes sir! Crystal, sir!" Shunusuke nodded and winked back.
"Good! Now what's to eat this morning, my lovely wife?" Miroku asked Sango sweetly with a big smile on his face.
"Well, I managed to save the fried rice before Sakura-chan snatched up the pan to hit our lecherous son's head." Sango smiled back sarcastically at her husband.
Sakura-chan put on an 'I'm-sorry-I-almost-ruined-breakfast-and-killed-Shunusuke' look, hoping she wouldn't get in trouble. After all, her birthday was coming up in just seven days.
"Why don't we all just kiss-and-make-up so we can eat? I'm starving!" an irritated hanyou [half-demon, half-human] asked.
"Fine! Gomen [I'm sorry] Shunusuke-kun," Sakura huffed angrily.
"Gomen nasai [I'm very sorry] Sakura-san [Miss Sakura]. Please forgive me for my childishness," Shunusuke pretended to beg.
"Of course, let's just eat before Dad has a heart attack!" Sakura snapped.
'Wonder what's gotten into her?' was the general thought of everyone else in the room.
"Must be PMS," Shunusuke muttered under his breath.
"Ohayo minna [everyone]! Wow, did I get a good night's sleep!" Shippo came prancing in; everyone just stared at the unknowing kitsune [fox]. "Umm . . . was it something I said?"
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'My hair, it looks so . . . horrible!' Sakura thought as she gazed at herself in a mirror that had supposedly belonged to her mother. 'Just like the frying pan, the clothes . . . they all belonged to a girl named Kagome Higurashi, my mother.'
"I wonder if I'll ever meet her," she mused aloud.
'I'd better go to the stream to take a bath today while the guys are out. I'll get Shippo to watch over Sango this afternoon.'
"I wonder . . ." she whispered, "if he'll be there . . ." He usually only came around right before Sakura went to bathe in the river or when she would take walks alone in the forest. "Hmm."
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"Sango-sama [Lady Sango]?" Sakura called out. "Is it alright if Shippo looks after you today? I need to take a bath in the river and get some fresh air."
"Of course, just be back before dinner," Sango replied, smiling.
"Arigato [Thank you] Sango-sama, I'm a mess!"
"Iie, I should be thanking you Sakura-chan. You use a lot of your time helping to look after me," Sango said, patting her round stomach. "Thank you! You'll have your life back pretty soon, after the baby's born."
"No problem!" Sakura assured her. "I'll be back in a couple of hours. Have fun with Shippo!"
Sakura raced out the door and headed towards the forest with the backpack that had once belonged to Kagome. Once she got to the massive tangle of trees that had been named after her father, she froze, and used her enhanced hearing to pick out the sound of the running water.
"Ah, there it is," she said to herself as she began walking toward the faint sound.
Just then, another sound made itself known to the young quarter-demon. 'Footsteps, someone's coming!' Sakura automatically stopped and went into battle mode; preparing her claws for attack, if necessary. She could sense that there was indeed a powerful demon heading right for her.
Silence.
"Long time no see, Sakura-san."
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Author's note: MWAHAHA!! Cliffhanger! Who could it be? You'll just have to wait until the next chapter to find out. I know that it wasn't exactly an eventful chapter . . . but I tried to make it funny! Please tell me what you think, I even accept anonymous reviews.