A young four year old Sango ran up to her Uncle Mikey who was watching T.V. and eating pizza as always, but near him was a bag of chocolate. Sango was wearing a pink dress with a matching pink headband that had flowers on it. Her hair was chin-length. Shyly, Sango tapped on his shoulder, shifting her feet a big. Mikey turned, ruffling her hair.

"Hey, little dudette!" Mikey said.

"Uncle Mikey, can I have some chocolate?" Sango asked.

Mikey paused as Sango gave him the signature puppy-dog eyes. She always saw her uncle do that to her father all the time and she thought maybe she could do the same. Ever since she ate chocolate for the first time, she couldn't get enough of it. She always asked Mikey to give her some cause it was easy, but after Leo found out, he forbid anyone giving any sweets unless it's after lunch and dinner.

"Aw, you want some?" Mikey cooed.

Sango nodded. "Yeah! Can I have some, please? I love chocolate like how I love Uncle Mikey!"

Mikey clenched onto his chest as if he was attacked by cuteness. He hugged her, it too tightly wailing out. Sango giggled at her uncle's antics. When he finally let go, Mikey looked around and smirked. Sango knew her father was taking a run in the sewers at the time being, so Sango had enough time to get some sweets out of her uncle. As Mikey was about to reach for the bag of chocolates, Raph popped out of nowhere and whacked him across the head.

"We're not supposed to be giving her sweets before dinner, stupid!" Raph snapped.

"It's only three p.m., Raph!" Mikey exclaimed. "Besides, having one piece wouldn't hurt."

Raph let out a sigh and Sango pursed her lips. As much as she was glad that her father wanted her to eat healthy, but would be several hours before dinner, so she has time to have some sweets before then. She walked up to her red clad uncle and tugged his hand. As Raph glanced down, Sango tried her puppy-dog eyes again.

"Please Uncle Raphie, can I have some chocolate?" Sango asked again.

Raph crossed his arms. "No, Sango you can't. Leo said, no."

"Please!" Sango held her uncle's hand. "Chichiue's not the boss of you."

Raph blinked a few times as if he was thinking about what she just said. It looked like he was trying to fight off the urge of giving her chocolate or not. With a defeated sigh, Raph grabbed the chocolate, only giving her four pieces.

"Don't tell your father," Raph said.

"I won't!" Sango kissed her uncle's cheek. "Thank you, Uncle Raphie!"

Mikey gasped. "That was supposed to be my kiss! I was supposed to be her favorite uncle!"

Raph smirked. "Oh well, looks like I'm the new favorite! Ha!"

Giggling, Sango ate her chocolate. The taste of the rich and creamy sweet filled in her mouth. It didn't took long for her to finish her chocolate. Sango walked over to her Uncle Donnie's lab and peered inside. At the corner was books, ranging from fiction to historical. Sango pressed her lips. Ever since she learned to read, she wanted to find out if anything happened at the Sengoku Era or at least what happened to the Shikon Jewel.

With a deep breath, Sango walked over to the bookshelf and looked up. There were so many books about Japan. The history, mythology, and culture. Sango wasn't sure which one to start first.

"What are you doing over here, little lady?" a voice spoke.

Gasping, Sango jumped. Looming over her was her uncle Donnie. Chuckling, Donnie ruffled her hair and crouch down to her level. Sango put her hands behind her and shifted her feet a bit.

"I just want to read," Sango said.

"What do you want to read?" Donnie asked.

"I want to read about magic jewels, adventure, demons, and time travel in Japan."

"I don't know any story like that, but I do know a Japanese fairytale that's similar to what you're describing."

Sango frowned. "A fairytale?"

Donnie nodded. He scooped Sango into his arms and sat on his seat. Sango stared at her uncle with wide eyes. A fairytale, huh? she thought. She never thought that the story of the Shikon Jewel would be a fairytale, but then again, it does make sense. From what she knew being raised in this modern era that demons and magical things are a fairytale.

"Yes, the story of the Shikon no Tama or Shikon Jewel," Donnie explained. "There was a fairytale that a girl who was the reincarnation of a miko. She was from the modern era traveled through time, teaming up with a half dog demon, a perverted monk, a kitsune child, and a demon slayer to find the broken shards of the jewel and kill the enemy."

"Did they defeated the enemy?" Sango asked.

"Yeah, they did and destroyed the jewel, but they did lost their demon slayer friend before that, though."

Sango pursed her lips. As much as she wanted to be surprised that her death was in the myth, but at the same time, she wasn't. Sango made her decision when she sacrificed herself to save her friends. She was glad that Naraku and the Shikon Jewel was destroyed. That meant her death wasn't in vain after all.

"What happened to everyone, Uncle Donnie?" Sango questioned.

Donnie sighed. "From what the sources said after the enemy and jewel were destroyed, everyone live normally."

"Oh," Sango spoke sadly.

She was hoping for something in detailed like if Inuyasha and Kagome got married or if Kohaku lived and became chief. Anything would be fine. She just wanted know what happened to everyone. Then she remembered when she stayed at Kaede's hut at times, she would be looking at the Sacred Tree. Sango's eyes widened. Of course! How culd she forgot that! The Sacred Tree was the tree that Kikyo shot Inuyasha into an eternal slumber and Kagome was the one who pulled him out. From what Kagome told her, her family owned a shrine that had the Sacred Tree and the Bone-Eaters Well.

"Are there any holy trees?" Sango asked.

"Yeah, there is the Sacred Tree of Ages in Tokyo," Donnie replied. "The only real thing that was in the myth. It's still alive to this day and there is a shrine that takes care of it called Higurashi Shrine."

"Are there any pictures of it online?"

"I think so. Let's see."

Donnie brought his laptop over and went online. It didn't took him long enough to find the images of the shrine as well as the Sacred Tree on a website. On the picture was a family; an old man, a young adult man, and a woman possibly in her late thirties or mid thirties. She looked like an older version of Kagome. The same hairstyle and everything. Next to her was another woman who looked similar to her, but older and has short hair. Sango was sure that this was Kagome's family, who owned the shrine as well as the Bone-Eaters Well. However, that Kagome look alike...Sango was sure that she was Kagome. If Kagome was living in this era...what happened after they defeated Naraku then? Was Inuyasha moved to live in the modern era? Did the well still worked?

The thought of the well made Sango clenched her fists. Since the well was at Kagome's residence, could it possibly work for her? Was it possible for her to travel through time like Kagome or does it only work for Kagome and Inuyasha? Sango wasn't sure, but she had a lot of things in mind. However, the only thing she knew right now was that she needed to go to Japan and see Higurashi Shrine. She needed to know what happened. First thing first was that she needed to find a way to get to Japan.

"Sango, you okay?" Donnie asked.

Sango gasped and giggled. "I'm fine, Uncle Donnie. It's just the tree looks cool!"

Donnie chuckled and ruffled her hair. "Well, I'm glad you like it. Now, run along Sango. I need to work on something."

Nodding, Sango gave her uncle a quick hug and slid off of his lap as she ran out of the lab. As hurried passed Raph and Mikey, who were playing video games against each other, while Chompy and Ice-Cream Kitty watched. As Sango went into her room, she closed the door behind her and sighed, walking over to her bed. She couldn't help, but hug the plush of her father. Sango's room had white walls with a flowing cherry blossom tree. She had a pink bed with frills that was against the wall, a beige desk with figurines from Space Heroes, a pink rug, plush toys of her father and uncles, Japanese antique swords on her wall, and next to her bed was Japanese masks of the four elements-water, fire, earth, and magic. The masks she got was a present from her Aunt Shinigami. Her Aunt Karai was the one who gave her the swords when she was at Japan.

Sango frowned and out her hand on her back, where she still had the scar from her Kohaku. She grimaced. Even when she was reincarnated, she still had the scar and her family just thought it was a birthmark.

"What am I going to do?" Sango muttered.

As much as she wanted to ask her aunts if she could go to Japan with them, but she knew they only go there for ninja business. The only time they'll go for vacation to visit Shinigami's family. Besides, Sango had a feeling that her father would refuse to let her go unless her aunts convinced him. The only thing Sango could think was to rely on her timing. Even though it might take a while, maybe years, but it was the only plan she could think of right now and the only thing she could do was to be patient. There was no way she could tell her family about her past life! It's best if she said it was dreams. It was believable enough.

Then Sango put her plush down and walked out of her room. Her Uncle Mikey and Raph weren't in the living area. Probably, they were either in their rooms, at the dojo, or at the kitchen. It looked like her father wasn't back from his run. Sango took the remote and turned on the T.V. She was hoping to find a show to watch while waiting for Space Heroes. She chuckled at the thought when she remembered her Uncle Raph found out she actually liked the show. Sango never thought she'll have a fondness of the sci-fi genre. It was probably because of the time period she lived at the time. Besides, she loved how everything was so advanced and easy. She didn't even need to worry about her health cause of the advancements and knowledge doctors had! As much as Sango does missed living in the Sengoku Era, she does admit that she would rather live in the modern era. She didn't had to worry about fighting demons all the time, trying to survive, and illnesses. Sure she had to deal with evil mutants, aliens, and other ninjas, but over all those are things that weren't hard to fight. Unlike the demons from her time, at least evil mutants are easy to kill. No need to rely on special weapons or spiritual abilities to fight them off.

As Sango was flipping through the channels, in the corner of her eyes, she saw Chompy climbing onto the sofa and cuddled next to her. Smiling, Sango patted his head. When Sango finally settled on a show, it was an anime. The anime was a fantasy show that a group of people were trap in a video game and they only way they could get out was to complete the game, but the thing was that if you loose all of your life points, you die in real life.

"I'm home!" a voice called out.

"Chichiue!" Sango gasped. Right away, Sango got off of the couch and raced over to her father, and leaped into his arms. Leo laughed and kissed her cheek.

"Ah, how's my little hime?" Leo ruffled her hair. "Is Space Heroes on, yet?"

Sango shook and pointed to the T.V. "No, not another hour. I'm watching an anime."

Leo looked where she was pointing. "Oh, I heard of that anime! Mikey said it was really good. Let me take a quick shower and I'll watch with you. Why not you heat up some tea, while you wait?"

Nodding, Sango gave Leo a quick hug on his leg and ran off into the kitchen. She pulled up a chair to the stove, put the kettle on it, and turned it on. Sango was taught how to turn on the stove by Mikey. Leo was fine with it as long as she wasn't cooking anything, except water. Everything else, she had to learn and watch what her family was doing.

While the water was heating up, Sango pulled the chair to the cabinets. She wondered what tea she should give her father. Leo didn't had any particular favorites as long as it's tea. He'll drink coffee if he needed, but he was mainly a tea turtle. Pursing her lips, Sango took a bag of green tea, putting it in a teapot, along with a tray. When the water was ready, Sango poured the water in and turned off the stove. She set two empty tea cups on the tray. She held the tray and slowly got off the chair, heading back into the living area. Sango set the tray on the seat and put two pillows between it. She sat down as she continued to watch the anime.

It didn't took long for Leo to finish and sat with her. The two drank their tea together. Sango couldn't help, but smile. She remembered in her past life that her father would just watched her and Kohaku play. He was busy with his chief duties, so he never spent time with them unless he's training them. Leo, on the other hand actually took time to spend time with her. Even when he was busy with training, patrolling, or on his missions, he would spend time with her right away, even when he's tired.

Her old father would want her to live a good life. He even mentioned how he wanted her to take over his duty as chief. Sango did dreamt of being chief one day, but Sango wondered if he only said that to make motivate her to be a strong demon slayer. From what she remembered, he was always focus more on Kohaku than her. At the time, Sango thought it was because Kohaku was younger and fearful of everything, but looking back now, it was obvious that he wanted Kohaku to be chief. So that dream quickly died. Sango wondered what would happen if Kohaku became chief if she was still alive at her old era. What would happen to her? Would she still be a demon slayer or retired as one?

Leo, was a different story. He wanted to train her to be a kunoichi, but wasn't sure of he should make her leader because of how stressful it was and didn't want to put the pressure on her. Sango had seen Leo lead before and from what she saw, it did looked stressful, but Leo was always calm about it. She even remembered how Leo said that he wanted her to be heir by her choice, not because she's his daughter and she had to. Sango wasn't sure if she should succeed the Hamato Clan. She didn't want to have false hope of something that was probably not meant for her, like what her old father did to her.

Then Sango felt Leo lifted her up and put her on his lap. Sango giggled and snuggled up as Leo put a blanket over them. The two drank their tea as they watch the anime. On the screen, there was a scene where one of the character groped one of the character's butt and she slapped him. Then he goes off asking marriage proposals to other women, despite being engage. Sango grimaced, remembering how Miroku would do that to her, every chance he got.

"Nope!" Leo changed the channel.

"Why you change it?" Sango asked.

"It's inappropriate," Leo answered. "What that guy did was bad. He's a pervert and you shouldn't hang out with guys like that."

"But he's still a good guy. Didn't he did that cause he liked her? What if he only did that as a coping mechanism?"

Leo stared at her as if she grew another head. He looked a bit worried. Sango wasn't sure what was wrong what she said. She knew from personal experienced because of Miroku.

"Sango, even if he's still a good person, he knows what's he's doing is wrong," Leo explained. "It doesn't matter if it's a coping mechanism. It's actually a bad way to cope cause he's using that to disrespect people. He's hurting his fiancé with his antics and she has to worry if he's going to cheat on her. If he truly love her, he would stop what he's doing and find another way to cope with his trauma, but he didn't. He should already know how to respect people, but he didn't. No matter how much the fiancé stops him from going after woman after another, he still does it. A person like that is a manipulative scum. He's only using her. The fiancé deserves better than that!"

The only thing Sango could do was to stare at her father. She never really thought of that. From her past life and after their engagement, Miroku would always touch village women and asked them to bare his child. Even though he always told her it's just a coping mechanism cause he was going to die and how she didn't really need to worry that he'll cheat on her, but in reality, she did worried. She did thought that he'll cheat on her and thought if he was only using her just to bare his child. Sango wouldn't be surprised if Miroku did cheated on her and never got caught. Sango did hoped that Miroku would change. Was she willingly to put up with Miroku's disloyalties for the rest of her life? Miroku only wanted children so he could passed on his kazaana onto his son, so he could avenge him cause Naraku was the one who put the cursed on his family. Now Sango thought about it, wouldn't it make sense if he stop his bloodline by not passing on the curse? Wouldn't that be selfish of him to curse his own children?

"Oh," Sango finally said. "I didn't know. I'm sorry, Chichiue."

It was the only thing she could say. Sango wasn't sure what to think anymore. There were deep thoughts that she kept hidden from herself and believed that everything would turn out alright. She never questioned anything from her past life and now. Her friends and family...Sango was sure there were many things she didn't realized. She wondered how many deep thoughts she had tried to stop from thinking.

Leo smiled. "Hey, you didn't know. Just make sure you don't fall for someone like him."

Whoopsies! Sango thought. Now Sango had another reason to hid the fact she remembered her past life. She wasn't sure what would happen if Leo found out that she had a leaches monk for a fiancé, but as long as he didn't find out, she would be fine. Sango could imagine that if Leo did met Miroku, she was sure her father and her uncles wouldn't hesitate to beat the living daylights out of him.

When the episode of Space Heroes came on, Leo and Sango watched it with glee! Sango couldn't help, but be at awed of what was happening on screen. Even though the show was a bit cheesy, but it was still a good show. Behind her, she could hear footsteps approaching them.

"I still can't believe you got her into that show," Raph hopped over the seat and sat next to Leo.

Leo smirked. "She's like her old man!"

"Chichiue, you're not that old," Sango pointed out. "You're twenty-two."

"It's a figure of speech," Leo explained.

Raph shook his head and patted Sango's head. "I can't wait for the day you grow up and realize how stupid Space Heroes is."

Leo scoffed. "Like that will ever happen."

"Oh just wait and see brother, cause it will."

"Will not!"

"Will too!"

Then the two argued. Sango giggled, ignoring the silly bickering between her father and uncle. As she watched her favorite show, Sango couldn't help, but questioned everything in her past life.