Sango walked into Kaede's guest hut. She saw Miroku and InuYasha playing some sort of board game that Kagome'd brought back, and, to her surprise, InuYasha was winning. Miroku looked up, but it was InuYasha's turn, so he delayed a little, but followed suit. Miroku stood up and looked sternly at Sango, who blushed under his gaze. He smiled, and sat back down, taking his turn.

"What made you do that?" He asked, biting one of his pieces as he thought.

"Honestly I don't know. I was just really… I don't know." She said. "But I really do feel better now." She said. There was a silence while Miroku cursed in his mind as InuYasha took another one of his pieces. "What are you playing?" Sango asked.

"Chi-su." Said InuYasha, grinning manically.

"You mean that smelly stuff that Kagome brings back sometimes?" She asked.

"No," Said Miroku. "Su, not Zu." Miroku moved the big bricky thing, which instantly InuYasha knocked of the board with some crownie piece. Sango thought she could make out a soft 'poot' from Miroku. Sango began to stand, and found that there was no objection to this. Kirara jumped onto her shoulder and mewed at her, and it sounded like she was scolding Sango. Sango smiled and scratched the little demon idly, watching the game progress. Nothing really happened for a while, so Sango decided to go out and straighten her thoughts.

…

First off, how did she feel? Good. She felt good.

Next, did she love anyone? …That was harder to answer. She gave up. She didn't really want to think, she wanted to do. She wasn't good at sitting back. She leaned over the well. She could've sworn she saw something white glitter down there. She hopped down, snatching the thing. A Shikon Shard. Well, that was odd. She looked up. She was confused, because she remembered it being daytime, but it was dark. She climbed up the ladder that Kagome'd brought through. It seemed a little different, but to be honest, Sango'd never been this close to it. When she got to the top a lot of things about the well were explained, and a lot of other things weren't…

…

InuYasha was sitting in a tree. It looked like he was moping, but in reality we was working out the location of the rest of the Shikon jewel, but not doing it very well. He hopped down heading over to the hut. Miroku was re-reading the rules of 'Chi-su'. InuYasha jerked the curtain aside.

"Miroku, we're going to find the last of the jewel." He said. Miroku looked a little confused, then nodded.

"Let's find Lady Sango." Said Miroku.

…

Sango stood in amazement at the straightness of all the little bricks, and how long that must've taken people. She hadn't even gotten to marvel at cars yet. She looked up to see Kagome was on her way to this enormous yellow thing. Then…

"It ate her!" She squealed. She panicked and began to run over when she nearly hit a little boy.

"Wyaaha!" He said, dropping books everywhere. Sango'd managed to stop before actually hitting him. "Who're you?" He asked, not seeming at all disturbed by her old style clothing. "One of Kagome's well friends?" Sango opened her mouth stupidly.

"Yes." She managed lamely. "I'm Sango." The boy seemed to become extremely exited, then bounced.

"Taijia-Sango-San!" He said, jumping up and down. Sango was confused. "I'm Souta!" Said Souta. "Kagome is my older sister." Souta grabbed her hand and dragged her inside. "You must be hungry!"

"I just ate…"

"You must be thirsty!"

"No, not--"

"You must be something!"

…

InuYasha trusted his senses. He knew they were never wrong; he just misread them sometimes. In this case, they were right, as always, and there was no way this could be him misreading. Sango'd gone down the well, and she hadn't come back up… Miroku crossed his arms.

"Well?" He said. InuYasha blinked.

"What? You want me to go through there when Kagome wants my head attached to a tree that's separate from my body?" He asked hotly.

"Yes, that was the plan." Said Miroku. InuYasha glowered, but it didn't work as well when Miroku wasn't angry back.

"Fine!" He said, hopping into the darkness and disappearing with a little pop and purple smoke.

…

Sango felt spoiled. This was amazing! They had little magic things that made things hot quickly, and they had a wand attached to the wall that would make water, and they had couches… Sango found she liked couches… She didn't want to leave, but she didn't want to stay either. The place smelled funny, and smoky. It wasn't a big thing, but the air wasn't as fresh as she was used to it. She was getting up to leave when she saw the most amazing thing ever…

"What is that?"

"A Television." Said Souta.

"It's like… A window to things that aren't there!" She said, staring at it. Souta smiled.

"Oh, that's right!" He said, springing up and going to a room that had 'Kagome' on the door. When he came back he handed her something that was surprisingly heavy for its size. She thought she could feel a tingle in her hand as she gripped it. When she opened her hand…

"The Shikon no Kakera!" She said. Souta nodded.

"Kagome said she didn't want them anymore. She said she wanted them gone, and that InuYasha might as well have them." Said Souta. Sango looked sad.

"Souta-Kun, will you get me some writing implements?" Souta nodded and disappeared into one of the many doors in the house, then re-appeared with some really smooth paper, and a mechanical pencil. Sango stared at it quizzically.

"How… How do you make this work?" She asked. Quickly Souta showed her enough to write a note with it, and Sango did so, leaving Kagome one shard along with the note. With that she began back to the well when Souta zoomed past her towards… InuYasha. Sango watched the way Souta hit. It was interesting. Souta dashed quickly, then his arms wrapped InuYasha tightly, and the rest of his body was like a rag doll, flopping about. InuYasha smiled to Sango. Sango smiled back, forgetting many of her troubles.

"Hey. Did you come to get me?" She asked. InuYasha nodded. They went back through the well, saying a quick goodbye to Souta, then leaving.

…

But in the spirit realm something was clawing it's way out… Something small, insignificant, and over all, feared. It found a small opening again and made it out. If it had a body, it would be grinning.

So, this is what priestesses see the world as… Said Naraku.

End Chapter Nine

All right, that was an amazingly boring chapter, I know… Er, um, anyway, next chapter will be better… It'll come out Monday or Tuesday… Bye all.