Chapter 4

Almost Losses

"MIROKU!" Sango screamed at the now flame-engulfed building. She took one step forward, sank to her knees and sobbed.

Rene turned to Shippo and cried against his chest as he held her. "No…"

Kagome just stood there and stared, with a look of horror in her eyes. "Holy shit…" she said, mainly to herself.

Then, realizing what she should do, she mentally damned herself for being so dense.

Kagome closed her eyes and stood still for a few seconds. Sango noticed this and got a bright look on her face.

"Kagome! Is he there? Oh, please let him be there…please?" Sango got up and stood close to Kagome, searching her face. "Please…"

"Ah-ha!" Kagome said abruptly. The movement was so sudden it scared Sango and she stepped back, tripped over herself, and once again ended up on the ground. She undeterred by the clumsy act as she hurriedly got to her feet once more and stared at Kagome.

Had the whole area not been in an uproar, Kagome would've laughed at Sango's utter klutziness, but being at it was in an uproar, she decided to keep it too herself.

"He's there, behind that car. We need to hurry," Kagome said to her anxious friends.

Sango took off running, a look of pure seriousness on her face.

The rest of them followed closely.

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"Oh, my god Miroku…" Sango said as she cradled his head in her arms, happy tears streaming down her face. "We thought you were so dead."

"You mean I'm not dead?" Miroku said, trying to make the atmosphere a little less tense.

Miroku was indeed alive, though it was hard to tell. He had deep, long gashes running all over him and his breathing was strained.

"Wait…do I know you all?" He asked, a little disgruntled.

Sango stopped smiling instantly. "Hehe, you're joking, right? Miroku?" Desperate tears ran down her face. "Miroku…"

"Umm, I don't seem to remember you. In fact, I don't know any of you three. Why are you holding me? What do you want from me!" He said, getting upset and confused. He tried getting up, but winced when he put wait on his arms.

Sango looked up at Kagome and cringed. The look on Kagome's face was furious.

She walked calmly over to Miroku and gave him a slap that echoed throughout the area.

"OW! Kagome! What did I do now? Sango, save me…" He exclaimed as he attempted to cower behind Sango.

"Oi, Miroku." Kagome said to him in an eerily calm voice. "How dare you lose your memory and make us worry like that. Shame on you." She walked over to him and put her index fingers on either side of his head.

"He's lost the memory of everything before he joined our gang…" she reported as she closed her eyes and concentrated on what she saw with her hands. "But he remembers everything about you and I, Sango. Hunh. I've never seen such selective amnesia…"

"I don't care, as long as he's still the same old Miroku!" exclaimed Sango as once again happy tears poured down her face.

Well, she got her wish. He was indeed the same old Miroku.

"PERVERT!"

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Okay! So! You've got your next chapter. Lol, I never knew my writing could inspire such…colorful…language. Ah, well, now you're all happy right? Sorry about the short chapters, but I'm not about to tempt you all into death threats. My cousin gets them all the time because she too doesn't update very quickly…

Any way, sorry about the wait, I was gonna update last week but an assload of family came to visit from Wednesday to Sunday. Then this whole mess started when my dad came down to visit me and my brother and give my brother his long awaited car. My bro's in college and has been complaining for a while now… anyway, so my dad comes to visit us ('rents are divorced, btw, if you hadn't figured that out) on Sunday which is the stupidest thing in the world because we only see him about a week and a half in one year. So he's here and we stay out late, going to dinner at Joes Crab Shack (yumm.) and stay out until about 10:30. well when we get home, my mom throws a major BF and starts going off on my brother and then tells me I cant go to lunch with my dad because "I blew it" Can you believe that? I barely see my dad 2 weeks out of a year and she tells me I can't see him? She eventually let me go to lunch with my dad, but do you see my dramas?

So I was feeling a bit suicidal last night and couldn't make this chapter very long. Sorry.

Kawaiikame

(Yeah, I wasn't really feeling suicidal, I was exaggerating, but you see my point)