DS13: Okay, wow this one's sad too. And you know what? Neither of them were what I had in mind. This is my very close runner-up and 2nd place winner Oh, I don't own this, it's Chocobo888's story.
A/N- Hey Demon-Slayer13! Or rather Sango! I just read your contest thing and I thought that it'll be worth a try, so here comes nothing!
Sango's motherKagome and Sango were getting out of the hotspring, dressing and brushing their hair while chatting.
"Kagome-chan, what is this?" Sango reached for a beautifully decorated necklace with colors flashing here and there that Kagome had just put on. Kagome looked down at it with proud face.
"This? My mother made it for me just yesterday when I went to my time for food." She said with satisfaction. "Isn't it pretty?" She added, loving Sango's attention.
Sango smiled. "It's beautiful, you should keep it safe." She whispered with a sad look, but turned her face away when she saw Kagome glance at her with pity.
"We should, probably just, see what the guys are up to." Suggested Sango, changing the subject.
Kagome nodded without any objection. They started to walk to their hut (they found yet another oneâ the huts just seem to pop out of nowhere just for them, same as the hotspringâmmh) and at every step they heard the others voices clearly louder. Shippo was crying, Inu-Yasha complaining and Miroku was silent; he regretted not peeking at the girls. Sango seemed shaken, and Kagome just couldn't bear seeing that.
"What's wrong Sango?" When the demon exterminator didn't answer she took the risk and asked quietly:
"Is it Kohaku?"
Sango trembled at that name and trying to hold her tears back, she stopped and stared at the ground, her eyes seemed somewhere else, deep in thoughts.
"I'm all alone!" She suddenly burst out, her energy drained away, falling to her knees. "Everyone is gone, and my motherâ my mother was--" She had too much water in her eyes and let a few drops caress her cheeks. Kagome stood aghast at that sudden outburst but quickly recovered and tried to comfort her friend the best she could, without really knowing what was happening.
"Sango, let's talk about it inside." Said Kagome, eyeing the forest with fear and shivering a little.
"I can't, I don't- want to." Sango breathed in and out, trying to finish her sentence calmly, though tears were still leaking away. Kagome waited patiently.
"I don't want them to see me like this." Finished Sango. "I can't let Shippo, or Kirara, or Inu-Yasha or-or Houshi-sama." Her sentence fell in the dark. She sniffed a few times, still staring at the ground and avoiding Kagome's eyes. Kagome understood.
"They won't think you're a crybaby or whatever, we're all having a hard time, it's difficult for us too." Kagome tried to reassure Sango, but inside she knew that Sango was the person who suffered he most, out of all of them.
"Your necklace, keep it." Whispered Sango, her voice seemed to have left her, but her tears were quietly diminishing. "It's precious for you, it was for me." Sango was off in another world, her thoughts speaking for her.
"11 years ago, I had a mother." Started Sango, trembling as the memories passed on. "She was beautiful and kind, only a word of hers would calm us." Kagome guessed 'us' meant her and Kohaku. "And then she began to be sick, a sickness that was contagious only by a touch. My father told me and my-my brother to never touch her and to let the monks do the work. And I, I listened to him. I couldn't see my mother anymore; I couldn't do anything for her but ignore her. All I did was laughing and playing outside, watching my baby brother and never worrying about my own mother. I was young. I didn't know she would--- die. My father tried his best to appear happy, but deep inside he knew that mother was dying slowly. One day, as I was playing with Kirara, I spotted dim flowers, the rarest in the land. I thought about giving it to dad, but mom was sick so I decided to break father's rules about not seeing her and ran to her bedroom. I saw mom for the first time in months, and she wasn't beautiful at all. Her face was scabbed and thin, same as her whole body, and she was missing half of her hair. She was ugly, and I didn't recognize her at first. But when she spoke to me, I knew it was the lovely mother I had. Her voice was as sweet as usual, and she calmed me for I was scared. She told me that she was suffering and didn't want to live any longer. I handed out the flowers to her without any skin contact, and I saw the flowers that she held in her hands wither away, dying slowly and painfully. I understood for the first time that my mother was going to die. I wanted to hug her but I remembered the flowers and didn't want to be like that, so all I did was cry uselessly beside her. She told me not to cry and to listen. She said that it was too painful for her, that she couldn't bear this suffering any longer and that she wanted to die now. She asked me if I could help her and I said yes quickly, not wanting to deceive my dear mother. She handed me a hidden tanto Japanese dagger and told me to strike her in the head, because that was where it hurt her the most. The last thing she did was smile." Sango trembled, her eyes wide opened, she suddenly punched the ground with all her force.
"I killed her! I killed my mother! I killed my family! I made Kohaku suffer!" She glanced at Kagome who was surprised and speechless.
"Kagome! It's not Naraku who I hate most! It's me!" She choked on her endless tears, and her endless pain. Kagome took pity in her and wrapped her arms around her, Sango hugged her back.
"I never told anyone about this. Not even to my own father, who returned home with the cure for mother's sickness. I- it was me." She finally said, she stared straight forward, lost in an endless tunnel. Fog crawled on her and Kagome, the stars were covered with a sheet of dark clouds and only the moon had the courage to show on this dark night.
"Sango, look at that star." Kagome pointed upwards. Sango came back to reality and stared at the sky and at the spot where the star was supposed to be, but it was surrounded by clouds.
"I can't see it, it's wrapped in dark clouds." Said Sango indifferently.
"Yes, but watch when it is not." Kagome nodded at the sky again. Sango looked up and saw the clouds slowly part away from the star. The star shone with beauty, it's light seemed to pierce the clouds without efforts. Sango stared in awe.
"See, Sango?" Said the smiling Kagome. "That star, out of so many, shone through darkness, and, Sango, I think that if you open your heart, and accept your past, it will be just like that star. You did what you did, and none but you have to face it. And trust me, I know that you are strong enough." Smiled Kagome. "Come one." She grasped Sango's hands and lifted her up. Sango wasn't shaken anymore and actually smiled. 'She sounds just like my mother.'
"Let's make Naraku pay for all he's done." Said Kagome and walked towards the hut. Sango followed and felt joyful already. She glanced at the star one more time before entering the hut. 'Thank-you mother.'
There ya go! I hope it's good enough and that I didn't do any mistakes cuz I don't feel like rereading it so that'll have to do. Thank-you for your review Sango! -
peace, love, chocobo
San-chan
PS: oh and I don't own Inu-Yasha and all, in case you were wondering.
Ds13: I found a few mistakes, but that's all that kept you from tying with Lady Sango 7 for first. I corrected them though. Hope you don't mind Chocobo!