Hanging on her word...

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha :(

Author Note: Thanks for all of the positive feedback. Sorry for taking so long. There has been a lot of chaos around me. Thanks for being patient with me. Oh and before you read, this is NOT the last chapter. There will be more, exactly i don't know. Thanks for reading. Let me know what you think.

"Come on Kagome,"

"I'm coming, I'm coming," she said as she slung her backpack into the well. "After you," she directed. I grumbled but jumped in first anyway.

"Kagome! Kagome!" Shippou yelled.

"Shippou, I missed you," she said bending down to hug the little fox demon.

"Yeah and I was alone most of the day, well I had Kilala, but Sango wasn't here to play with us," he complained.

"Where did she go?" Kagome asked rolling her eyes.

"I don't know, Miroku said he wanted to take her somewhere and they would be back by dinner. So did you get me any treats?"

"Wait Sango went off with Miroku? Like alone?"

"Yeah they didn't even bring Kilala. My treats!"

"Oh right, here Shippou," she said handing him a lollipop. "This is great, that means that Sango is…" she clapped her hands together, "oh goody, this is perfect," I didn't understand why she was so happy, nor did I care. I rolled my eyes and continued on towards Kayede's hut.

"Finally ye two are back?" Kayede said as Sango and Miroku entered the hut.

"Sorry, we lost track of time," he answered sheepishly.

"It's fine, sit down and eat what Inuyasha left," she said glaring at me.

"Feh, if they wanted to eat they should have come back sooner," I said sticking my nose in the air.

"Oh Inuyasha, don't be so mean, we deserve to eat too," Miroku said sitting down, Sango following behind him. I looked between the two, Miroku was smiling like he won the lottery, as Kagome called it, and Sango…well she looked sadder than ever. Feh, she was probably thinking of her damn brother. Granted I did feel bad for her, she had to realize that sulking around and always being sad wasn't going to solve the problem. "After all," he continued, "we were really busy today." He smugly added in. Sango's face turned bright red and Kagome giggled.

"You two…" she trailed off still giggling, this caught Sango's attention. "Sango, can we talk?" Sango looked up and nodded. Kagome smiled and stood up walking outside of the hut with Sango not too far behind.

Sango's POV

"Sango…" she began, but I cut her off before she could continue.

"Kagome I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I take back what I said, I just had a moment and I made a mistake. I even made up with Miroku," I said all at once. I needed her to understand the desperation I had to bring the group back together as one.

"Sango I know, and I'm sorry too. I shouldn't have reacted like that. Even if you still felt that way about…well you know who, I would understand. We can't always choose how we feel, sometimes we fall in love with people and we don't know why," she explained, but I knew she was lying. She was just happy that I recanted and things would return to normal. "I'm just so happy that you're back with Miroku, now things can get back to normal and we're all happy. She smiled, I smiled back. She hugged me and I hugged her back. However, I still couldn't shake the feeling of sadness I was experiencing. She said we were all happy and we were…right? Well at least everyone else was. If I had to bite my tongue so that the people closest to me were happy, then I would.

Inuyasha's POV

"We're leaving tomorrow morning; we need to get back on the hunt," I said when everyone was settling in.

"Ok, then I guess I'll be going to sleep," Kagome said covering her mouth because of her yawn, "goodnight everyone."

"Night," everyone replied. Miroku walked over to Sango and kissed her cheek. I was confused, since when were they kissing? I guess they made up.

"Good night love," I heard him whisper in her ear. She half smiled and layed down.

I woke up to a light sniffling sound. I looked around the room to investigate. Kagome and Shippou were laying together, no tears. Miroku was smiling, probably having a perverted dream. I rolled my eyes and walked over to Sango, of course it was her. Her eyes were closed; she was having a bad dream. I stood there for a few minutes contemplating whether I should wake her up or not. Finally I gently shook her shoulders.

"Sango," I whispered and shook her again. She awoke with a start. "It's ok it's just me," I said moving my hands off of her shoulders. She sat up and wiped her eyes.

"I didn't mean to wake you," she whispered. I nodded and motioned for her to follow me. I walked far away from the camp to not bother anyone.

"Why were you crying?" I asked.

"Don't worry Inuyasha, it was just a bad dream," she said quietly.

"What's wrong Sango, you've been really down since you came back."

"I…" she began as tears formed in her eyes. She quickly turned her back to me.

"What's wrong Sango…I want to know…" I trailed off. Pushing too hard would only make her shut down, and then I would get no answers.

"You don't, it's just a stupid girl problem," she insisted. I knew she learned the trick from Kagome. Usually I would happily take that as an answer, but tonight I wanted to know. For some odd reason I wanted to be a greater part of Sango's life and I didn't understand why.

"Sango you're lying, I'm just as much your friend as everyone else. You can tell me, you can trust me," and then she broke down.

"Inuyasha, it was terrible, he said it would make things better, that it would make us closer, it would fix everything. But it didn't, it made things worse. I feel awful and ashamed and dirty. I'm so lost," she said as tears fell from her eyes and gently landed on her chin, then ground. I took a step towards her.

"Dirty?" I repeated the word. She looked at me dejectedly.

"Filthy," she finished off. I took another step closer.

"Why do you feel…dirty? Nothing can make you dirty Sango," I looked deep into her eyes and she looked away.

"Well I am dirty, and no matter how much I blame him, it's all my fault. I'll be forever tainted."

"Who?" And then she looked at me, almost shocked that I asked.

"…when you left, Miroku took me somewhere beautiful. I…" she stopped took in a deep breath and continued, "…I didn't think much of it; I mean I should have, I should have put it together, but I didn't," and finally she took a step towards me.

"What are you getting at?" I asked impatiently.

"Miroku convinced me that in order for all bad blood to die between the group, I would have to prove my love to him."

"Prove your love? How?"

"Oh come on Inuyasha," by now the tears had dried up, "you can't be that dense." She looked at me expectantly; I stopped and thought about it, like really thought.

"You mean he made you…" I trailed off, eyes wide open.

"Yeah and I listened, because I'm a stupid girl who fell in love with the first man to pay me any attention. I just wanted things to be back to the way they were, and they're not…well not for me."

"You're not stupid and you shouldn't punish yourself for a mistake," she looked surprised, "look Sango, we all do dumb things, don't think life's gonna end because one bad thing happened."

"I know," she whispered.

"And Miroku is going to get it. I can't believe he thought you did something to mess up the group,"

"I did though."

"What did you do?"

"It doesn't matter anymore, everyone's happy, that's all that matters."

"Are you happy?" I asked. She looked at me for a long time, after a while I shifted uncomfortably. And at that moment I realized I've never been this close to Sango, hell I've never even looked at her for more than a second.

"That…doesn't matter. Not now anyway," she finally concluded.

"It does Sango, we all deserve to be happy. Besides Miroku might not be for you, I mean you're a beautiful girl, anyone would be lucky to have you," she blushed, and I could feel my own cheeks heat up. Finally she took a step back, looked at me smiled then made her way back to camp. I could still feel my face burning with heat, and suddenly I felt hot all over. I shook my head and walked back to camp as well. I jumped into my tree and found myself unable to sleep. My gaze rested on Miroku angrily, how could he use Sango like that? Of all people, Sango? She was the sweetest, genuine and most descent woman I've ever met, and besides hasn't she been hurt enough? And the more I thought about it, the angrier I became. How dare he!