As the waves gently breathed in and out about the shore, a young man began to sloppily carve a name into the moist sand.
S…a…n…g… And as he started on the last letter, the waves came forth as always, fed upon his scribbling, and retreated back into the blue.
Undeterred by this tragic event, he resumed his nonsensical writings, and, yet again, the ocean grabbed it and gobbled it up.
The woman beside him let out a sigh and sat up, shaking sand out of her long, brown hair. "What are you doing, Miroku?" she asked, slightly annoyed by his foolish attempts.
"I'm just writing your name…" he stated, not even looking up from his continued efforts. As the sea marched forward, the woman of his musings swiped her hand across the surface of the beach, eliminating the unfinished name.
"That's silly. You just keep on writing my name even though you know it's going to get washed away…" She wiped her hands clean and looked at the shining water.
"Sango, this isn't silly!" he told her, feigning hurt. "I'm trying to immortalize your lovely name."
"But Miroku," this Sango began. "You can't 'immortalize' something that's…well, mortal." She lay back down upon the sand. "Eventually, I'm going to die, like anything that can't live forever, and my name will be forgotten," she said, a melancholy tone in her voice.
"Ah, but that is where you're wrong, Sango," Miroku told her, "For I can make your name last forever, whether in a poem, a song, or just about anything." He flopped down beside her and resumed his speech. "And when everything else decomposes into the earth, your name and our love will be read in poems and songs and such."
Sango had to scoff at this mushy statement. After all, Miroku could be such a romantic, and what kind of people would want to read about them?
Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha, which belongs to the wonderful Rumiko Takahashi. I also based this disgustingly sweet story on the poem "One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Sand" by Edmund Spenser
A/N: Ack, rather fluffy for my taste, but since it's about Miroku and Sango, I'll deal with it.