A/N: Ahhh..another installment…o yeh and the Inu-clan isn't mine…sadly..o, but if they were! EVIL CHUCKLE Thanks to all those who have reviwed..i :HEART: YOU!
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"KAGOME!"
"Sango…" Kagome all but whispered and reached a pale hand out to her friend, a hopeful shimmer in her big brown eyes.
Come on, she thought, we were friends before, why should this change that.
The look on Sangos face was a perfect reflection of what Kagome was thinking. Only it was tainted with confusion and small traces of fear. The door slammed shut ungraciously and Kagome snatched her hand back quickly before it could get caught. The sharp sound of the wood-on-wood contact made Kagome jump. It echoed throughout the hall, like a distant gun shot, getting softer with each reverberation until it ceased completely.
A muffled barely audible GO AWAY! Came from behind the door.
Kagome knocked on the door harder, five times, as always, if only to convince her best friend that it was really her.
"Come on Sango! I need help! YOUR help!" There was no answer, but when Kagome put her ear against the door a faint shuffling sound could be heard. She obviously had the brown haired woman's attention.
" Sango, PLEASE!" A broken sob cracked the silence that ensued.
"Sango?" Kagome knocked furiously, worried for her friend, trying the knob, looking like an amateur break in.
"Go…away…" A thin, breaking voice, heavy with sorrow, hit Kagome like a baseball bat to the skull. She'd never heard Sango that broken up before. She could imagine her, again, curled up on the couch, crying, crying, her eyes red and blood shot, refusing to hear, to listen, to see.
" Sango, please. We can help each other. I need you, you need me. We can get through this." Then came the clicking sound. Kagome smiled gleefully at the thought of having Sangos much needed advice.
No such thing. It turned out Sango had pulled the bolt, to add in tighter security.
" Sango! I AM SERIOUS!" Kagome shrieked at the door as she punched it repeatedly until she exhausted herself and slid down it. She felt very bad for the door now. It has been through hell in the past few five to ten minutes, being slammed and yelled at, bolted and bruised.
Now she felt alone. Utterly alone. It was like a spotlight made of shadows was beating down on her, chilling her skin, her eyes, her thoughts. Sango was all she had left. And now…
Kagome mustered up all her anger and shouted:
"WELL.THEN! I GUESS WE WERE NEVER THAT GOO DOF FRIENDS ANYHOW, HUH?"
Kagome shook herself. Wow. She took herself by surprise, but all that strain has made her tired, and she was still slumped up against the door. However, she refused to leave. Sango really was all she had right now. Not only that but they were bound by friendship. Four years together. FOUR. That surely can't be erased so easily. Can it?
Kagome sighed. She was waiting for some kind of reaction. A sigh, a swear, a scream, a shout, ANYTHING! Her silent prayers, however, went unanswered for ten minutes. Kagome rested her face on the splintery surface of the door, not really caring about the harsh abrasion against her smooth skin. This door and a year was the only thing in between her and Sango. The raven haired woman sighed sadly. She'd just have to go it alone.
Her body refused to leave though. Actaully it refused to do anything. Those ten minutes seemed like an eternity, where she was too down fallen to do anything. She couldn't get up, couldn't walk away. She stayed propped up against the door like an abandoned ladder, and it seemed she attracted as much notoriety as one too. Not even her best friend.
She just couldn't fit in her head. How could she? The solitary shadow spotlight cooled by degrees. Well…
Kagome was about to get up, when all of the sudden, the door disappeared…WHAT!
Kagome fell over and looked up to see a shivering Sango looking down at her. Her head hurt from falling into a tiled floor.
"Kagome….?…" Sango shakily whispered, looking deep into her honey eyes.
"Yes?" she whispered in response.
Sango opened her mouth to say something but Kagome interrupted.
"I know this is totally ruining the moment, and I love you and all, but um…can you gelp em up?"
Sango looked at her, perplexed for a second, an almost sorrowful confusion marring her beautiful face, until all of the sudden she just started cracking up. Kagome suffered a chuckle, and Sango held out a tan hand to help her best friend up. And stil she was laughing. If Kagoem didn't know any better, she was hysterical.
"Sango?" she ventured, concerned. Sango just shook her head enthusiastically, still giggling madly, and gestured her heartily to come in, come in. Once she closed the door, she slid against it, tears welling in her eyes, holding her belly, as she continued to laugh, a parody of Kagome only a few seconds ago.
"Sango?" Kagome tried again. This time, the brown haired lady stopped and wiped a tear from her dark brown eyes, but they still clung wetly to her lashes. She smiled at her old-no-her ALWAYS best friend and fresh tears welled up in her eyes.
"Oh, Kami!" Sango exclaimed uncharacteristically and all but gathered Kagome into her strong, muscle-toned arms, and squeezed her like a teddy bear. " My best friend!" she exclaimed tearfully, and Kagome felt she was being showered in her buddy's tears, washing away all the prior doubt and depression. Although she would do anything for this woman, and she had done so before, she wasn't quite sure how to take this sudden change in attitude. So Kagome went with her instincts. She hugged Sango back, just as tight, if not tighter, even if it meant she was almost suffocating.
Sango sniffed before she ventured "Where were you all this time?"
There was along pause before Kagome responded, "Dead-half alive?-umm-oh-I don't know!"
Sango pulled back to look her in the face, skepticism evident in her own, and then stroked her affectionately. She then laid a kiss on her cheek and pulled her back into a tight embrace.
"Screw it: I don't care!"
Kagome laughed, tears falling out of her own eyes. Now this was the Sango she knew! And missed also. Sango joined her once again in laughter. Best friends reunited. All of the sudden thing were starting to look so much brighter.
Sango pulled out and took her by the hand and led her to the couch.
"Now come in, come in, sit down, my house is your house, as always."
Kagome chuckled at her adament friendliness and did not decline a mug of steaming tea that Sango offered her.
Sango pulled up a chair and sat across from her, an excited light brightening her face, making her look more like the Sango that she new when she was alive. Gone was the Sango, down and barely living, from her flashback in her memories. This was definitely what she needed.
"So…" her friend began, and she felt almost sorry for her. What to talk about?
" Sango," Kagome laid down her mug and straightened up, looking at her friend.
The latter also scooted up in her chair, feeling a long narrative coming on.
And so the tale of Kagome waking up, all her flashbacks, everything, ensued. Sango listened without interrupting, occasionally nodding her head, and making understanding noises, such as "uh-huh' and "mmhhmm."
But when Kagome got to her theory of who killed her, Sango, who also had her own mug of tea, stood up and threw her mug against the wall of her apartment.
Kagome jumped at the harsh glass sound. The tea dripped down the wall, leaving a trail of clear brown down the otherwise impeccable white, and it started to run faster down the wall as Sango began pacing wildly.
" Oh, just wait until I get my hand on that goddamned Hanyou shit!" Sango fumed and started tearing at her hair, and commenced to further reap havoc on her apartment.
Kagome gulped and sat frozen, listening to the muttered chorus of curses strung together, grumbled under her friends labored breath. But she knew she had to do something but what. Kagome wracked her brains.
"Sango!" she shot up and met her friend, grabbing her by the arms, trying to hold her back, even though she was no match for her friends strength.
"Oh, no! He'll get his, just you wait…" Sango continued, until something caught her eyes. Kagome followed her gaze an noticed the door.
Uh-oh Kagome thought, and tried to outrun Sango to the door. This wasn't the right way to go about it. Besides her best friend could go to jail trying to get to Inu-Yasha, and she definitely didn't want that.
"Get out-of-my-WAY-KAGS!" Sango shouted trying to pus past the smaller woman towards the door.
"Wait," Kagome tried to puch back, equally harder, "S-Sango! I-I think that's why I was brought back…Sango!"
Sango let go and Kagome slumped tiredly against the door.
"What?"
"I think that's why I was brought back," Kagome managed to push past her panting lips.
"Huh?" Sango was panting just as hard.
" Ok…" Kagome heaved a tired sigh, "Just give me second-to-to relax.."
Sango looked sheepish and a blush spread across her cheek, over her nose, and to her other cheek, like a bridge.
"Sorry.." she mumbled, abashed.
Kagome smiled, still trying to catch her breath.
"Don't worry about it."
They smiled at each other and made their way back to the sitting area. This time Sango sat next to Kagome on the couch.
"So tell me this again," Sango asked as she patted her friends back, trying to calm her down.
"Oh, yes! Umm…well…after having my flashback at my apartment, you know…the vision…it just kinda, gathered up like this huge wad of bad memories.." Kagome paused, reminiscing, "Until I said 'That's why I was broguth back..to right the wrong only I can right.' And then it all just…Vanished…" Kagome looked staright ahead, her eyes glassy from remembering.
"Poof!" she turned and exclaimed to her friend, making her jump and laugh nervously.
"So I guess…that's what I came back for…" Kagoem settled back down in the couch, very very very tired from the days occurrences. Still she needed to know one more thing. "Will you help me?"
Sangos eyes swam the depths of her own eyes, and they looked straight at eachother, one set of eyes pleading, the other, deciding, weighing, deciding.
Sango smiled and nodded her head.
"Of course…what are friends for?"
Kagome was soo happy that she squeaked gleefully and hugged her friend violently while Sango laughed.
It was good to have a friend.
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Later, after Kagome had washed up ( Sango said she smelled like a morgue, and Kagome answered, "no shit!") they sat down and talked quietly of the past year, what Kagome had missed, anything, besides Inu-Yasha.
But Kagome needed to know.
"Sango," said the latter after a long pause in the conversation, " is there any way that you know of that I can get to Inu-Yasha. Just to kind of…you know…introduce myself."
Sango looked over at her friend seriously, a protective look on her face.
" I do," Kagome brightened, "but..are you sure you want to do this? I mean-"
Kagome covered Sangos hand with her own, loving the warmth and comfort she got form it.
"Sango…I have to…"
"Kags-"
"No really…" Kags returned her friends gaze just as seriously, until Sango looked away and sighed in defeat. Inside Kagome did a WOOT! Of victory, but outside she was just as calm and collected.
"Inu is having some kind of party a week from today…some celebration, I dunno…I have an invitation…I'll give it to you."
Kagome bounced up and down on the couch happily. Revenge was yummy.
"But." Kagome deflated. She hated it when her friend did that. "You have to promise me you'll be careful…and I'll promise you to help you, every step of the way.
Sango smiled sincerely, and Kagome found herself returning the gesture. Sango Pulled her into another hug, probably the thousandth one in the day, but Kagome loved it.
"I'm just happy you're back…things have been so shitty without you…" Sango admitted quietly. Kagome hugged her back.
She was going to avenge not only herself, but her friend too. This is all Inu-Yashas fault, she thought as she stroked Sangos hair as she whimpered quietly, he's gonna pay real bad.
"Hey Sango?" Kagome whispered into the long, soft, dark brown hair.
"Yes?"
"Do you still have your samurai sword?"
Snago pulled back and grinned evilly through her tears.
"Are you thinking what I think you're thinking?"
Kagome smiled. Oh, yes, revenge was SWEET!
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A/N: I really hope you're enjoying this story as much as I am enjoying writing it . Constructuve criticism would be nice. I plan on starting another fic after this one . Leave a comment after the beep, yo! BEEP!