Sango felt guilty. If only she'd… Well, what could she've done, really? She sighed, burrowing her face further into her pillow. She was so worried, but Kaede assured her it was just InuYasha's body purging the evil from his system. Miroku had put an exorcism sutra on InuYasha at Sango's request, now all they could do was wait. Sango, as a warrior, wasn't one to sit by and wait, so this was extremely nerve racking for her. She felt responsible, but when she thought about it, where was InuYasha her responsibility? Honestly, he could take care of himself. That didn't, however, quell her worry. She sighed as Miroku came in.

"How are you holding up with all the excitement, Lady Sango?" Asked Miroku kindly. Sango's heart suddenly had much less burden to bear. Miroku's voice soothed her greatly, though she'd never tell him that directly.

"I think I'm doing better than InuYasha, but not by much." She said with a smile. Miroku smiled back.

"I see." He said. Sango couldn't explain the feeling, but it was somewhat like emotions bubbling inside her, and sort of like digestion. Mentally, of course. She felt much better now that he was here keeping her company. "Lady Kagome has returned." He said. Sango snapped into a vertical position with breakneck speed.

"I need to talk to her!" She said, marching off before Miroku could say anything else. Sango walked on. She needed, really needed to figure out why Kagome was angry at InuYasha. Eventually she found her friend.

"Kagome-Chan?" She said. "How're you doing?" Kagome gave her a blank look, her eyelids slack as if Sango didn't matter enough for them to be all the way opened. Some could have called the expression a glare, but Sango knew what it was. She tapped Kagome on the shoulder. Kagome blinked, shook her head and yawned.

"Unnn, how long was I out, Sango-Chan?" She asked. Sango smiled.

"I just got here, I don't know. Late study night again?" She asked. Kagome nodded and took a sip of her drink – an energy drink – and then looking back to her friend.

"Waddaya need?" Asked Kagome.

"I need to know why you were so angry at InuYasha." Asked Sango. Kagome's smile became plastic. Sango was a bit worried by this. "Kagome-Chan?"

"You Harpie!" She screamed. Sango was confused. Kagome's outburst was quite random, she thought.

"Kagome-Chan? What's wrong?" She asked, letting the worry show in her features. Kagome strung her bow. Sango panicked. She looked side to side, and before she could think of more rational thing to do her instincts told her to push Kagome. Normally this wouldn't have helped much, but in this case Kagome was standing right in front of the Bone Eaters Well. There was a wisp of purple smoke at the bottom when Kagome went through.

"Oh, shoot…" Said Sango, making her way back to Kaede's village.

…

InuYasha opened his eyes. He looked over to Kaede and blinked.

"Sango…" He mumbled. He was aware that he was delirious, and he was also aware that was an Oxy-moron, though he wouldn't call it that. Kaede looked up from her herbs and checked his eyes. He was recovering, and he would be walking around in no time. She turned away to get yet another ointment, and when she turned back something amazingly rare made her drop it.

Tears! InuYasha swallowed, his eyes were no doubt leaking fluids. He tried to speak, but it came out very cracked.

"I'm… I'm so sorry… I want to…" He choked out. "Sango, I—

…

Sango made it back to town panting. She didn't know why she panicked, but she did. She knew Kagome was angry, but she'd panicked so much and all she wanted to do was get away from there. Her heart was beating rapidly. She pushed aside the bamboo curtain and dashed into the guest hut, leaning against the wall and panting. Somewhere along the line she'd lost her hair-tie and her hair was falling around her shoulders. She looked up and saw Miroku meditating, undisturbed by her panic. She calmed down as she gazed at him. Sango sighed. She headed to Kaede's hut to check on InuYasha. When she pulled aside the curtain she saw nasty black goo on the wall opposite InuYasha, and Kaede cleaning it up. InuYasha looked more comfortable than before. He mumbled something incoherent and turned onto his side. Kaede looked up.

"Ahh, Taijia-San." She said. "InuYasha was requesting to see you before…" She motioned to the wall. "…He sneezed." Sango blinked.

"That was a sneeze?" Asked Sango. Kaede nodded.

"Purged all at once…" she said. Sango nodded. InuYasha groaned and opened his eyes. Kaede nodded.

"I'll leave you to talk to him. Come get me again if anything goes badly." Said Kaede, walking out. Sango watched her leave and listened to her footsteps. Once she was a little bit away she looked back to InuYasha and sat down next to him. He looked much healthier.

"InuYasha, how are you feeling?" She asked. InuYasha, who'd turned back from his human form by now, twitched his ears.

"Still like shit, but more like shit that feels like me…" He said. Sango tried to puzzle this out, and concluded that he was not all there.

"You were telling me something before, you remember?" InuYasha swallowed. His throat must've been very dry, because it took forever, and it was noisy. Eventually he opened his mouth to speak, but his lips suck together. Sango handed him the water glass, waiting patently.

"Sango, you have to tell me you won't do anything differently once I tell you this, all right? I don't want Miroku to get hurt because of me." He said.

Really not all there…

"All right, I agree."

"Promise."

"I promise." Said Sango. InuYasha took a deep, shaky breath.

"Sango, you know that I'm blunt, you know that I don't pad my words, so here goes. I love you." Said InuYasha. Instantly Sango knew she couldn't keep the promise anymore.

End Chapter Six

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