MoreTo Life (previously Moonlight Shadow)
Chapter 14 - The Plan
Don't own Inuyasha. Wish I did but I don't.
Soon after all the excitement Sango found herself in the kitchen fixing everyone a soothing mug of chamomile tea. Kagome was currently fast asleep; the blood loss had drained all her energy and she had gone out like a light according to Inuyasha.
As she was boiling the water Inuyasha and Miroku were sitting in the living room with and depressing silence hanging over everything like a large black thunder cloud. Once the tea was done seeping Sango carried the three mugs back into the living room and handed one to each Miroku and Inuyasha.
"Drink," she ordered to both of them when they looked up at her wondering what exactly this was for. "It will make you feel better," she explained taking a sip of her own mug. Without question both raised their mugs to their lips and drank deeply. After draining her mug completely Sango looked over at Miroku and asked, "How are your wounds healing?"
"They're doing fine," he replied lifting up the arm of the clean shirt he had just put on, revealing his almost completely healed wounds.
"That's good," Sango replied and instantly the silence sank back on them again. It was so stifling it made Sango feel like she was suffocating. Sighing she got to her feet and collected the now empty mugs of tea and walked over to the kitchen and placed them into the dishwasher. "I think," she said beginning to walk towards the room she had slept in the previous night, "that I'm going to lie down."
"No," Inuyasha said startling both her and Miroku. "No," Inuyasha repeated. "Not until we think of a plan to kill Naraku."
"Shouldn't we wait for Kagome though?" Sango asked.
"It's not necessary," Inuyasha replied in a monotone voice.
Sitting back down on the couch beside Miroku, Sango said, "Kagome told me you had an idea. Why don't you tell us?"
Sighing deeply Inuyasha said, "well actually Kagome thought of it. But it's impossible now. I won't let her put herself in that much danger, she'll still be too weak from the blood loss."
"What was Kagome's idea?" Miroku asked looking up.
"She wanted me to take her into Moonlight, under the guise of her being my….pet," Inuyasha struggled to let the foul word pass his lips. "She was going to request her mother to bind her magic so no one would sense she was a witch," Inuyasha replied.
"What!" Both Miroku and Sango exclaimed jolting out of their lifeless expressions but for different reasons.
"Go into Moonlight? Without her powers! They'd kill her in seconds!" Miroku yelled.
"Moonlight!" Sango exclaimed. "But that was destroyed a hundred years ago!"
"Common misconception," Miroku and Inuyasha sighed simultaneously.
"True the majority of the vampires living at the original Moonlight were killed when the slayers invaded. But one very powerful vampire escaped your detection and re-establish Moonlight. Only in a different location with much more security to prevent the same thing from reoccurring," Miroku explained.
"Three guesses on who the vampire was," Inuyasha said sarcastically.
"Naraku," Sango hissed. "So he re-established Moonlight and let me guess he's now using it as his personal household."
"Aren't you intelligent," Inuyasha said. "Yeah, and next weekend is our "conference" of sorts. It's like an attendance list, those that have been killed have their deaths recorded and those new ones are recorded and where they are currently residing. It happens once every 13 years."
"Hmm lucky number 13," Sango replied dryly. "So that's coming up, why didn't you tell me? That's valuable information; we could definitely use that in our plans."
"We didn't want to tell you because…." Miroku said hesitating.
"Because Slayers aren't supposed to know about Moonlight, and even though we're working with you that's not knowledge we want to be throwing around. Secondly because we were afraid that you'd just charge in there and kill off everyone you possible could," Inuyasha replied bluntly.
"Well why not!" Sango exclaimed. "That would get Naraku's attention, and then we could fight him."
"No no no no no," Miroku replied smoothly. "You see we're not going to be able to kill Naraku just by ourselves. We're going to need support."
"What?" Sango growled menacingly. "You mean to say I'm going to have to side with more vampires?"
Miroku winced at her apparent anger and nodded his heads ever so slightly.
"No way," Sango said crossing her arms over her chest defiantly. "Not a chance."
"I'm with Sango there," Inuyasha replied. "Why do we have to side with more people to defeat Naraku? I think we can take him by ourselves."
"Do you really want to take that chance?" Miroku asked pointedly.
Inuyasha opened his mouth to say something but then closed it and both Miroku and Sango saw him glance quickly towards the door which led to the room where Kagome was sleeping.
"Fine," he replied after a moment. "But who are we going to ask, we have to make sure they are definitely with us; because if Naraku so much as hears a whisper about our plan we're toast."
At that last comment Miroku suddenly smiled cheerfully and started to whistle looking away from Inuyasha to the clock on the mantelpiece that suddenly became quite interesting.
Inuyasha rose one eyebrow wondering just what the hell Miroku was doing when suddenly his eyes widened and he yelled, "NO WAY! NOT KOUGA! NOT A FUCKING CHANCE MIROKU! THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS WORD THAT WOULD CONVINCE ME TO AGREE TO WORK WITH THAT ARGANT -!"
He would of yelled some more but that exact moment Sango smacked him in the face with a pillow and hissed, "Idiot! Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Do you want to wake Kagome up!"
Instantly Inuyasha shut up and instead hissed in a whisper to Miroku, "no way!"
"But he's one of the strongest vampires out there. We need him to be on our side if not he'll be on Naraku's side and even though you hate to hear it you evenly matched. To fight him would drain you and then you'd never be able to win against Naraku," Miroku said explaining it to Inuyasha as if he were a child.
"There is no way I am going to ask that- that- MORON for help!" Inuyasha hissed.
"You won't have to." Miroku replied. "We'll get Kagome to ask him, you know how he'd do anything for her. I don't think he could say no to her even if he wanted to. After all he did want to turn her into his bride."
Sango looked curiously at Miroku but he mouthed "I'll tell you later."
"Don't I know it," Inuyasha muttered then in a normal voice he said, "fine. What ever, who else are we going to ask?"
"I have to think about that, Ayame would probably help us if Kouga will be. And then there's all of Kouga's friends, Hakkaku and Ginta especially, and then we could ask your brother Lord Sessho-"
"No!" Inuyasha roared once before quieting down when he saw the look Sango was giving him. "No," he said in a whisper voice again. "Not a chance! Kouga maybe but I sure as hell am not siding with Sesshomaru!"
"Why not he's even more powerful than you!" Miroku replied. "His aid would be invaluable."
"Yeah," Sango said. "Why not."
"Because- Because-"spluttered Inuyasha. "Because he's Sesshomaru! That's why."
"We'll see," Miroku said calmly. "We'll see."
"No," Inuyasha said flopping down. (A/N: You know what I mean like he does in the series he just sorts flops down into a cross legged position).
Miroku looked at Sango and rolled his eyes. "Okay maybe not Sesshomaru," Miroku replied and gave Sango a look and mouthed 'we'll let Kagome convince him.' Clearing his throat Miroku went on. "We back to the plan there are some definite flaws in it. Kagome obviously won't be able to, you're right. It's not even a possibility we can consider to dangerous. But that leaves us with who can be the pet?" Miroku said looking up in frustration. Looking over at Sango he raised an eyebrow, "any ideas?"
"Why not Sango?" Inuyasha asked.
"What!" Sango exclaimed. "No way, no I will not be someone's pet! NO! Never! I couldn't not even for even you Inuyasha, or you Miroku." Looking at their expression which clearly asked why not because she was the only other person they would be able to trust.
"NO!" she screamed getting up and walking to the front door. She needed air. Biting her lip as she quickly tied her shoes she walked out of the front door before either Miroku or Inuyasha saw how scared she was. Breaking into a run Sango tried to dislodge the feeling of fear that had settled in her throat. Never! Never! She would never return to that life. She couldn't. She wouldn't!
Sango kept running. "But you know you will," the little voice inside her head said. "You know you will. If it will bring about the revenge you so crave so desperately, you would do anything."
"No I wouldn't!" Sango thought. "I wouldn't do that. There's got to be another way. There's got to be because I won't do it."
"You were prepared to die," The voice whispered.
"No I wasn't."
"Yes you were. You went on suicidal missions every night. You didn't fear death then and you don't now. Or do you. Does having friends make you weak?"
"No!" Sango though back trying to block out the voice and focus only on the running. "I don't fear death any more than I did a month ago!"
"So then why do you fear this," the voice asked simply. "Why do you fear to trust those that you call friends? They would never endanger you; you know that, I know that. So what is there to fear? They will always be with you. It's a show, acting nothing more and you know if you ask Miroku not to drink your blood he won't."
"I know! I KNOW!" Sango thought back pausing to sit on a bench. "I know he wouldn't but, what if another vampire tries to?"
"Would Miroku ever let that happen?" the voice asked once again.
"No," Sango thought weakly.
"SANGO!" Miroku called. Sango looked up and saw Miroku running towards her. When he reached her he paused for a moment. "You've really got to stop doing that you know," he said sitting down next to her. It seems every time something bad happens boom the door's left open and all I see is you running down the street." He said trying to coax a smile out of her which he succeeded in doing. Putting his arm around her, he asked, "Don't worry you don't have to do it. If that's what this is all about…"
Sango was a little startled by the intimacy of the gesture but the shock dissolved a second or so later and she was left only with a feeling of comfort. Looking down at her hands which were clasped in front of her Sango whispered, "I'm afraid."
"Why, you know that I'd never let anything happen to you, don't you?" Miroku asked gently shaking her so that she'd look up into his eyes and see the truth of the statement.
"I know," Sango said. "That doesn't make me feel any less afraid though…"
"It's Naraku isn't it. That's why you don't want to be a pet anymore isn't it?" Miroku asked. "What did he do to you to make you this afraid?"
"It- It- He was horrible. He used to be so cruel," Sango said barely managing to utter the words she was shaking so hard. "He used to beat me if I struggled and it was – he made it- he made it so painful." She said ending in a whisper beginning to cry as she remembered the horrible things she had endured as Naraku's pet.
Pulling her into an embrace Miroku buried her head in his chest and held her close stroking her hair softly to comfort her. "Shhhhhh, it's going to be all right," he murmured. "Everything's going to be alright. I'll never let him hurt you again. I promise."
After a good cry Sango felt much better. Sitting up reluctantly from Miroku's embrace she noticed his shirt was soaked with her tears. "I'm sorry," she apologized. "You're shirt's all wet."
"It's nothing Sango, a wet shirt is worth getting to hold you without you slapping me anytime," Miroku replied flashing her a smile that made Sango glad she was sitting down if not her knees probably would have given out. "Now say 'thank you Miroku'."
Blushing furiously Sango murmured her thanks.
"Now that your done being upset and know that I won't let anything hurt you especially not Naraku. Let's go back to my house and figure out a proper plan." Miroku said in his calmly taking her hand to give her strength.
"I'll do it," Sango said looking up into Miroku's clear blue eyes after only the briefest moment of hesitation. "I will. I don't think I ever had a choice did I?"
"No," Miroku said. "I won't let you hurt yourself by going back there."
"I have to do it Miroku," Sango explained. "I may be afraid but I can't let Naraku have this sort of power over me. I need to put my past behind me and this is how it's got to be."
"No it isn't," Miroku said.
"Yes it is," Sango assured him moving a fraction closer. "I need to face my fears not run away. You're right, enough running away. I'm probably playing right into some sort of mind game of yours aren't I?"
"Not even my superior intelligence would be able to play tricks with your mind," Miroku said playfully. "You're too shrewd and observant."
"Ha," Sango scoffed. "Intelligence, you? I didn't know those words could even be used in the same sentence!"
"I will have you know Lady Sango I happen to possess great wit," Miroku replied in the same jaunty voice. Standing up he offered a hand in mock chivalry, "now Lady Sango I suggest we return to my castle before Sir Inuyasha throws a royal tanter-tantrum about where we have vanished off to."
Raising an eyebrow Sango decided to play along with his weird game and graciously put her hand in his replying, "thank you sir Miroku. I agree with your proposal. Shall we return together?"
"Why most certainly lady Sango," Miroku replied helping her to her feet and leading her back the way to his home.
"Why thank you Sir Miroku you really are quite-" but what Miroku was we will never find out because at that exact moment Sango felt and all too familiar hand on her rear.
"HENTAI!"
SMACK
"It wasn't me!"
BANG
"I couldn't resist Sango my dove."
THUD
To be continued…
Author's Notes: okay well there's that chapter written. I finally got around to their plan. You have no clue how long I've been meaning to put that in there. I think it was supposed to be in chapter 5! Oh well. So please review! I'm very seriously considering starting that whole I won't update until I get so and so many reviews. If you don't want that to happen there is a simple solution. REVIEW!