A/N: Hi again… here's Chapter One! Please I insist you enjoy! Mwuhahahaha! Yeah, the evil thing USED to work for me, but whatever… I hope you enjoy this, even though all the chapters are pretty damn short!

Chapter One

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Dead… InuYasha could hardly believe it. Sango was dead. She was gone. She wasn't coming back. He kept repeating it to himself, but it still didn't seem real. He kept kicking himself mentally for not telling her how he felt. He always had hung around with Kagome, or had always ran off for Kikyo, but the truth was he had loved Sango.

He loved the way that when in battle he and Sango would compete against one another, trying to fight more than the other. He had loved the way she would always put Miroku in his place for being such a pervert, or how she always helped out Kagome when InuYasha couldn't. She also was so determined to save her brother, which showed how loving she could be, even if she put on the tough front like InuYasha.

But… Then, that night, Sango had taken off on her own, while everyone slept pleasantly. When everyone woke, they saw she was nowhere to be seen. They immediately started searching. Kirara flew into the sky in her large demon form. She returned to InuYasha, Miroku, Kagome, and Shippo, leading them to where Sango's corpse lay limply.

Kagome went off to her own time to take a breather and Miroku had went to Mushin's to clear his mind. InuYasha reckoned that both of them were secretly going off to cuddle with each other or something sentimental like that. Even though Sango had always had a thing for Miroku, Miroku didn't return the feelings, instead he turned to Kagome. It kind of figured, though, seeing how he was a pervert and she wore a skirt that hardly covered her up.

Shippo and Kirara danced around InuYasha playfully. They didn't really have anywhere to go, unlike Miroku and Kagome. InuYasha suddenly hit Shippo right on the noggin. "Ow! InuYasha, you big meany!" Shippo whined. Kirara stood her ground and hissed ferociously at InuYasha.

"Whatever…" InuYasha grunted. "Listen, both of you, don't follow me… Find someone else to bother! I don't want to hang around you dorks anymore!" He grunted again as he stood up and darted from treetop to treetop, escaping from the Musashi Domains. He knew he wouldn't have been able to stand it if he stayed where they had all once been together and gotten along. Things would never be the same without Sango and InuYasha knew that full well. He would never be quite the same…

; Doo dee doo… MOO!

"Ko…ha…ku…" She gasped, her throat itchy and dry. Something was hugging her so tightly she couldn't move. It was like a quilt of darkness plastered against her naked body, sculpting her figure. She clawed rather lamely at what surrounded her. It was too dark, it was too suffocating. What was happening to her? She licked her lips slowly as she closed her eyes. She began to cry. She had been crying a lot lately and couldn't seem to find an end to it. She tasted blood and dirt… A lot of it. She tasted a lot of blood and dirt. She gasped as she suddenly realized what was going on. She clawed forcefully at the blackness and coughed heavily as she felt her chest tight and drawn in, her skin pulling against her rib cage. She realized she had never really gasped, nor had she coughed. She had mentally, but not physically. She couldn't physically. After all, she was dead.

The weight of the earth was weighing down on her, practically breaking her body. She attempted crying out for help, but her chest tightened up into knots and she choked. She went silent for a moment, staring into the darkness. Was she even seeing this or did she simply have her eyes closed? The listened to see if she could hear anything, but only silence pounded within her ears. The silence bounced off the walls surrounding her and bounced into her ears, louder, and more ear-deafening than before.

She was struggling with all her might when someone dug into the earth, digging her up from underground. Someone was going to save her! She was smiling inwardly, until she wondered what the person was doing digging up a dead body? She froze in horror. She never thought death would be this confusing, but, unfortunately, it was.

Finally, all the earth that was above her was dug up and light flowed into her eyes, blinding her. A figure bent in front of her, blocking the sunlight, allowing her vision to come into focus again. She stared in bewilderment. "Na…ra…ku…" her raspy voice hissed out. Her throat squeezed shut and she coughed in pain. She stared at him, not quite understanding.

"My dear, Sango…" Naraku's red eyes stared back at her. He was wearing the clothing that he had worn when he pretended to be the young master of the castle that the Sango's brother was killed and taken under Naraku's powers. Naraku reached out for Sango, brushing his hand against her forehead. She nearly spat at him, but couldn't find the strength within herself. "My dear, Sango… You will be, by far, my most treasured warrior…" He brushed his hand past her eyes and the darkness resurfaced and she was swallowed into the darkness once again.

A/N: Well how did you like it? I know, I know… it's short, but hey, I'm working on it! It was just the perfect time to end the chapter I think! Well, I'm gonna warn you, this story is not intended for a younger youth audience… It's gonna have some major gory scenes yet to come and there may be some bad stuff between Naraku and Sango! Don't worry… no rape or sex! ; but beware!