Akushisu
Chapter the Fourth - Rebirth
"What?" Miroku asked.
"Make me evil."
"Sango, no..."
"Please, it's the only way I'll ever be with you..."
"No, you have too much to live for--what about Kohaku? What about your vengeance?"
"What about you, Miroku? What about us?"
"I'm not worth it, I can't hurt you, Sango!" He left the hut.
Sango ran out of the hut with a blanket wrapped around her nude body, tears starting to flow again. "Please Miroku! I want to be with you! ONLY YOU!"
"You two cannot possibly believe what she is asking," said Miroku, sounding a lot like himself.
"What?" Inuyasha asked.
"Miroku! Please!"
Miroku turned and looked into her deep dark brown eyes. "I love you, that is why I could never do it," said Miroku.
"What does she want?"
"And I love you, that's why I want you to do it!"
"I will not change you," he said firmly.
"Fine. Then I'll wait for your dark side and ask him!"
"What the Hell are you two talking about?"
Miroku smiled a malicious smile.
Sango smiled back. "Please?"
"Change you? Why, then I can't torture you. I love to hear you scream," he laughed.
"Feel free to do what ever the hell you want!" She spat out, then turning around and walking away.
"Almost as much as I love the scream of a dying hanyou." He turned to Inuyasha and Kagome.
Miroku cried "WIND TUNNEL". He unleashed it again on Inuyasha.
Inuyasha cried out as he used the same technique as last time. Not very effective, but it worked...for a while.
"Inuyasha!" cried Kagome. She ran to him and landed on top of Miroku. She was able to save Inuyasha.
"Kagome! Are you okay?"
"That is the seconded time you've done that..." Miroku whispered.
Kagome blushed. "I'm all right."
"Don't think of grabbing her this time!"
Miroku looked miserable, however. He lost the only girl he ever truly loved. He didn't respond to Inuyasha.
Sango was sitting on a stump, not ten feet away. "DAMN IT MIROKU!" And she stormed back.
Miroku sat there--what could he do?
"Either you make me evil or you'll just have to live with the fact you're evil!"
"Sango, I'm not coming back next time. Why do you want to become evil so badly?"
"SO I CAN BE WITH YOU WITHOUT YOU WORRYING ABOUT ANYTHING!"
"This is hell!" said Mirok.
Sango laughed, not knowing why.
"Sango?" Miroku didn't understand why she laughed.
"Sorry!" she said between laughs. "Just can't help it!"
"What?" he asked.
She stopped laughing. "Huh," she shrugged. "No idea what came over me."
"Sango stay for Kohaku and Kagome, Inuyasha kill me!"
"Damn it! I ain't killing you!"
"Miroku. I have nothing I want more than to be with you."
"You're asking me to drag you to hell. I love you Sango, even if I did agree I wouldn't know how, I don't even know how this has happened. Kill me or my evil side will kill you and Kagome!" said Miroku.
Sango didn't know what to do. Kill her one true love, or be killed along with her best friend?
"Come on, Inuyasha!" said Miroku.
Inuyasha was looking desperately around. "What the hell do I do?" he asked himself aloud.
"You destroy me!" said Miroku.
"DAMN IT, LET ME THINK!"
Miroku waited.
"Well Inuyasha?"
"Well what!" Inuyasha snapped back.
"Are you going to destroy me or not?" Miroku inquired.
"NO! I already told you that!"
"Miroku! You are so selfish!" Sango screamed at him.
"Selfish for wanting to save you all?"
"NO! FOR LEAVING ME!"
"Sango." Miroku put his hand on the side of her shoulders. "I don't want to leave you." His voice was so calm and yet loving.
"Then why are you?" She let out a pleading sob.
"I can't fight this, nor can I stop it."
"Damn it! Miroku!" She beat on his chest like it would help.
Miroku hugged her.
She cried quietly into his chest.
"I love you dearly Sango, my goddess."
"I love you too," she whispered.
Inuyasha felt kind of awkward, he had something he wanted to tell Miroku, but it's not something he says every day.
Miroku sighed. "I care for you, Kagome, Inuyasha as well." Miroku was talking as if he was about to die.
"Miroku," Inuyasha started, "I love you, you're like the brother I never had," he said awkwardly.
Miroku wrinkled his eyebrows at the fact Inuyasha made it sound like he had no brother, but smiled.
Inuyasha smiled back. "I'm there for you Miroku. What ever needs to be done, I...I'll help." Inuyasha had a hard time saying the last part, but he just wanted to help.
"Except kill me?" Miroku sighed.
"No." Inuyasha took a deep breath. "If it's what you want...I'll help."
"First tie my hands."
Sango kissed Miroku on the cheek and bound his hands. "I'm sorry Love, but I can't watch this." She started to walk off, brushing the tears off her face.
"I understand." Miroku knelt down before Inuyasha.
Inuyasha gave a stifled sniff and raised the Tetsusaiga. "You ready?" he asked in an unsteady voice.
"Yes, please avenge me when you meet Naraku."
"As you wish." Inuyasha clenched his eyes shut. "WIND SCAR!"
Miroku fell to the ground. His eyes were closed and he appeared dead, he had made no sound as the Wind Scar hit him.
Inuyasha had dropped the Tetsusaiga to the ground, ashamed of what he'd done. "K-Kagome? ..."
"Don't blame yourself, you did what Miroku begged you to do," she said, hardly able to talk.
Inuyasha nodded and slid down, back against a tree.
Sango came out into the clearing. She had heard the attack. Her face was blotchy from all the crying, still crying. Sango slowly made her way over to Miroku's still body. She lay herself down and wrapped Miroku's arm around her.
Suddenly she was forced down! Miroku was alive!
"Miroku! How are you alive!"
"The Wind Scar didn't even hit me, my slave, and as far as the man you love… he's dead, but now you are mine!"
Sango didn't have to energy to care; she just closed her eyes and tried to think of Miroku.
However, Miroku picked her up and took her inside/ "Now the fun begins!"
"No fun for me." Sango sighed and feebly tried to protest.
"Why should I care how you feel about it?"
"I don't know. You have no heart, no feelings, no...pain."
"I do have a heart, my dear, it is just an evil one!"
"Who wants an evil heart?" She spat out.
"Me, after all, I am like this because of you."
"Me? I didn't do anything!" she cried out.
"You changed me," said Miroku.
"No I didn't!"
Miroku just smiled.
"Why are you smiling!"
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"Inuyasha, we have to do something!" said Kagome.
"What're we supposed to do?" he mumbled, he was still getting over the face he'd killed his one true best friend, even if he'd asked him to. Now only an evil part of Miroku lived, his feeble attempts to help his friend failed.
"He's alive and he has Sango!" she said.
"Yeah, I can see that. But what am I supposed to do?"
Kagome's mouth fell open at Inuyasha.
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"Miroku! Let go! You're lying, I didn't DO anything!"
Miroku kissed her to shut her up.
Sango, on instinct that it was her love, not this evil thing, kissed back.
Miroku's evil heart washed over her, it began to change her as well. Sango could feel evilness creep through her, but she couldn't do anything to stop it.
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Miroku's kind sprit was in nothingness trying to meditate, as he opened his eyes. "Sango?" he asked surprised.
Miroku offered her his hand.
Without knowing, she took it.
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Sango could feel her heart turn cold, skin pale-feeling and she pulled away.
The evil Miroku smiled.
She clutched at her chest, over her heart. "S-so cold…" she murmured.
"What's happening?"
"I am a dragon demon now. and you are becoming a demon as well. When you insisted upon kissing me you became evil as well," he said in an approving tone.
Sango's eyes went wide. "What kind of demon AM I?"
"A Silver fox," he replied as her tail appeared.
Miroku's hands changed into a dragon's, covered in dark green scales with thick, sharp claws.
Sango's hand moved to her lower back and she felt a soft tail.
"K-Kagome!"
"Yes Inuyasha?"
"She has a tail..."
"And ears like yours, and Miroku has horns..."
Sango's eyes went wide, "I have dog ears!" She raised a hand to feel her ears.
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"Sango, what are you doing here?" Miroku asked.
"I don't know," she replied to Miroku.
"I'm dead now. Inuyasha killed me, but you, you were alive."
"I know that, but what am I doing here? Am I dead?"
"I wouldn't know."
Sango went over and sat next to him. "You don't look dead," she touched his face lightly.
"Perhaps this is in between heaven and hell?"
"Do you think we're in Limbo?" Sango asked.
"Do you even believe it's me?" he asked.
"No...I'm not sure what I believe anymore..."
Miroku, with a solemn face, began to grope her.
Sango's eyes went wide and slapped him lightly. "Okay, it's you."
"Perhaps it is too late for me Sango, but not for you. Perhaps together both of our sprits can save you," said Miroku.
"Save me from what? I just want to be with you, Miroku."
"From this fate. I will always be with you Sango."
"Miroku, what are we to do?"
"Go back to our realm."
"How? There's no direction to head! Can't you come with me? At least lead me to where I need to go!"
"Take my hands, Sango." He offered them to her. Miroku's wind tunnel was gone. She couldn't see his palm to prove it because of the prayer beads, but she knew.
Sango looked down at his hands and gave a smile, talking them in her own.
"Close your eyes." Miroku did the same. "Now open them." They were on the ground that was so familiar to the, though they couldn't be seen.
"We're back?" Sango kept her hands in his. They felt so good.
"DAMN IT! I want my NORMAL body! I CAN NOT get used to a tail!"
"Sango, we are demons now, it is time to kill them!" he said, pointing to Inuyasha and Kagome.
"What the hell!" Sango's ear twitched, then she laughed, it felt so funny.
"You're evil now, Sango--just like me."
"Evil, huh? Hmmm, do I have any special power-like things?"
"Inuyasha..." Kagome trailed off. She didn't know what to do. She was scared.
"She's...evil?"
"All the powers of a fox--your claws, your speed, your agility are now greatly enhanced! Your sense of smell and hearing are unsurpassed."
"Inuyasha, what's happening?" Kagome asked. She figured he knew.
"Perfect!" Sango could feel the evil surge inside her. Her tail swished with excitement.
"She's turned evil by the kiss," said Inuyasha.
"Yes, but she kissed me, and now it's time for you to die."
"Sango, let's go together to save your body, please?" begged Miroku.
Sango ran around, faster than she ever had. "This is the best!'' she cried.
"How do we save it? My body's turned into an evil youkai!"
"Together we will destroy the youkai sprit, after all, besides being a goddess you are a youkai slayer." He smiled.
"But am I supposed to slay myself? Will I die if I kill her?"
"No, your body is fine," he assured her.
Sango nodded and squeezed his hand gently as she carefully crept up on herself. It felt so weird.
"Evil Sango" was ripping things apart with her new claws.
Miroku pushed Sango into herself as he followed.
The real Sango drew her katana as the other flexed her claws.
Miroku was with her, his kazanna was coming back.
Sango slashed at the demon fox, but she dodged it, sending her own attack.
Miroku call upon his wind tunnel that had come back, though the fox sprit was only weakened. Sango had to kill it herself.
Sango got out of the way of the wind tunnel, managing to surprise the fox and getting a good hit in her stomach.
"Kill it Sango!" called Miroku.
"What wrong with her?" asked Kagome. Sango's body seemed in pain.
"I...don't know..." Neither could see the good spirits of Sango or Miroku.
Sango thrust her katana into the heart of the beast.
It let out a low cry and stumbled back. Its spirit had been slain; Sango's body fell to the ground as her tail and ears began to disappear.
"I am glad you are okay Sango, I guess this is good-bye."
"Miroku! NO! Go kill that creature that calls himself Miroku! GO ON! LIVE!"
"It was too late for me, Sango. I knew that when I left." Miroku kissed her cheek.
"Miroku! Please don't go!" she felt tears swell up in her eyes, both in sadness and in anger. She turned around and charged at the dragon youkai, her katana gleaming with the blood of the fox demon.
Miroku followed her. He called upon his wind tunnel once more and the demon was gone into the void.
"Miroku...can you stay? Please!"
"What the hell just happened?" Inuyasha had watched the two youkai DIE without a known cause!
"I will try, Sango, if my sprit is not too weak. Please go to your own body, now go, quickly!" he ordered her.
Sango nodded and walked over to the still body. "How the heck do I ... go back in?" Sango felt herself being brought in by a strong force.
"Inuyasha, what is happening?" Kagome asked.
"No idea..."
"Well, this is easy." Sango said as she was being pulled back into her own body.
Miroku's body didn't move.
Sango looked back at Miroku. "Miroku…?"
Miroku stayed motionless
Sango, now in her own body, walked over to Miroku and placed a solid hand on his shoulder. Miroku's skin was cold.
"It can't be… he can't be," whispered Kagome to Inuyasha.
"Miroku! Get your perverted ass back to life!" Sango screamed, beating on his chest.
"Ow, Sango?" Miroku whispered.
Sango stopped beating him and looked up. "Miroku?"
"Hey, only a goddess like you could bring me back to life." He gave weak smile.
Sango grinned and hugged him hard. "MIROKU! You're back!" Inuyasha's face broke out into a wide grin as he looked to Kagome.
Kagome laughed.
"Ow, please go a little easy on me Sango," pleaded Miroku.
Sango laughed nervously and released her hold on him. "Sorry, guess I don't know my own strength..."
"I know what happened now, and I know what I did Sango," sighed Miroku.
"Oh, Miroku, that's all behind us! You're back, alive and free of an evil counterpart!"
"I doubt I'll ever drink tea again, though."
Sango's face drooped. "I did do it, didn't I?"
"Did what?" he asked.
"I gave you the tainted tea. I killed you."
"It's not your fault."
"It is! I fed you right into death's hands!"
Miroku laughed, he didn't mean to but he found it funny.
"What's so funny!"
"You fed me into death's hand," he continued laughing.
"How is THAT funny!" Sango could kind of see how the phrase she'd said was funny, but not at a time like this.
"You saved my life twice Sango, nothing is your fault," he said.
"But I also KILLED you! You! Miroku! Mi-ro-ku!"
"You didn't make the tea Sango, all you are responsible is for saving me, and I will do whatever you wish of me to repay you."
"Repay me? Why would you repay me? I did it out of love, not for repayment."
"Please, Sango, ask whatever you will of me."
"That so sweet and romantic," said Kagome to Inuyasha.
Sango turned back to Miroku. "I know what I want."
"Yes Sango?"
Sang stood on the tips of her toes to whisper in his ear, "Let me bear your children."
"S-S-Sango ..."
"Miroku?" Sango pulled back. "If you d-don't want to I-I understand..."
"No, it's just no one as beautiful as you has ever offered, or ever wanted to. Then again, no one is a beautiful as you." Miroku was still in shock.
Sango gave a small smile. "No other woman has loved you as I do."
"Would you mind if I asked something in return?"
"Sure, Miroku. Anything."
"Please stand up first?" requested Miroku.
Sango nodded and stood up. "Yes..."
Miroku looked in so much pain as he forced himself up on his knees.
Sango's eyes widened.
Inuyasha leaned into Kagome, a smile on his face. They had front-row seats to the "show".
"Marry me Sango?" he asked. This was difficult. He had never asked a girl that.
Sango had a big grin, tears trickling down her cheeks. "Oh, Miroku, yes! I'll marry you!"
Miroku now fell to all fours, breathing hard.
"Miroku?" Sango bent down and looked at him. "You okay?"
"I'm all right. I just need to rest for a while...my love," he replied.
"All right, do you want to go into the hut and rest on a more comfortable surface? Get some sleep?"
"No, here is perfect, the way the sun shines in you hair and on your face. Could you please kneel down though?"
Sango smiled and nodded, kneeling down next to him.
He put his head on her lap
Sango continued to smile as she gently stroked his face.
"I do love you Sango and I will forever."
The End.
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