Sango woke to find herself in a hospital bed, in a nightgown that felt like there was an opening on her backside. She looked down at her bare legs with the covers at the bottom, Sango never really was keen to being covered all night long, she would usually kick them off. Sango turned to the side ready to get up when she winced, on her left hand she had an IV stuck in wrist not to mention her back felt like she had been stabbed with a knife or something. With her right hand, she felt a bandage on her back near her upper left shoulder. 'Great wonder what happened now'
Sango just sat gently back into bed looking around the room, it had seemed she had been the only patient sleeping in that room. She looked out the window to see a huge sign on the ground surrounded by two bushes and yellow daisies. It said Columbia Hospital.
Great so she was at the hospital she worked at, she was sure some of the higher doctors would have a laugh at this. They would say poor Sango, she fainted in a fire that was set off in her own apartment. Not to mention her back hurt like a motherfucker. She was almost positive people would give her piety. UHH piety the one thing she hated beyond all reason, she never wanted it and she was sure once the faculty got wind of what happened to her, they would treat her like the unfortunate girl who lived through something tragic.
OH NO! Sango thought to herself, her apartment what happened to it, had it been totally destroyed or whoever saved her, did they put out the fire? Were all her possessions gone? Was everything she had destroyed? Was a life she worked so hard to give herself and her brother destroyed? Oh and Kohaku, was he alright, did he die, or was he safe and sound?
So many questions and yet so little answers
Just as she thought she was going to explode with questions and no answers, Rin walked in, Rin that is Sango's trainer to become a full doctor.
"Sango how are you feeling today?" Said a perky Doc. Rin
"Well, I feel like I've been stabbed in the back numerous times and I have a stupid IV stuck in my left hand so if I were to turn on my right side it would pull my skin and hurt like hell, not to mention I believe I lost all my possessions in my apartment which I've been working to get in the first place for the last six months and moved non the less in two months ago! So as you can see I'm really not in happy mood."
"I can see that, well I can tell you right now you were very lucky that, that piece of glass you fell on didn't puncture you lung because if it had, I don't believe I would be talking to you right now." Said Doctor Rin with a little less sympathy for the girl, she may have lost everything, but that no reason to take it out on the girl who saved her life!
"Sorry… and thank you" Mumbled Sango like a little girl who couldn't get her way, she really didn't mean to snap like that at her, its just the fact that she lost so much in that fire, everything that her parents left them, everything that was meaningful was gone.
"Its alright, I understand how horrible you must feel right now, but on the upside someone is here to see you." Walking back to the door and calling Sango's brothers name Kohaku walked into the room.
"Kohaku!" Screamed Sango
"Sango, I'm so happy your not dead" well that was a kick in the ass for Sango and she stared at him blankly " Well that is to say I mean… I'm glad your okay." Walking to Sango's bed and giving her a small hug, he didn't want to crush her considering she hurt her back
"So am I, Kohaku, so am I, but how come you weren't in the apartment, I mean I'm glad your okay but that still doesn't make sense as to why I couldn't find you, also why was there a fire in the first place Kohaku?"
"Doctor Rin would you mind giving my sister and I a little time to talk?"
"Sure, just come to my office when your done, you have to sign some release forms that way your sister can leave."
Kohaku nodded as Doc. Rin walked out of the room "Sango, I'm going to start from the beginning okay, but you have to promise that you won't get too upset…"
"Okay, I'll try not to get too angry."
"Well here it goes, Sango, I don't know why, but a strange man of about mid thirties with very stringy black hair came to me in school three months ago and threatened me to help him kill somebody, Wait don't talk yet." Kohaku said noticing that Sango was opening her mouth to speak. "I'm not sure who because I refused to help kill anyone, then the bell rang and everyone was out of the halls, he pushed me up against a locker and held a knife to my throat. He said 'that's not a very wise decision, I know where you live and I also know that you have a sister, we wouldn't want anything to happen to her would we now?' Sango, I have to tell you the truth, I've been helping this man known as Narku kill several people… Finally I couldn't take it anymore," Kohaku said starting to shake and his breathing becoming more rapid. " Sango, I finally told him that I couldn't do it anymore, I was fed up. SANGO DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH BLOOD I'VE SEEN IN THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS? I may have killed 2 people but I've seen soooo many people shoot dead by this guy and his followers although I've never seen them because they always wore masks. But back on track, I said I wouldn't do it anymore and he just acted like everything was fine, then he pulled that little stunt with the fire, I'm almost positive. I had been out with a friend last night and figured it would be okay because I thought he wouldn't do this… Sango… you okay?" looking like she saw a ghost and went pale Kohaku, asked.
"Am I okay, KOHAKU WHY WOULDN'T YOU TELL ME ABOUT THIS FOR CRISTS SAKE I MEAN YOU COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED! We have to go to the police…" said Sango a tad bit more calmly
"No we cant, A. he the name Narku is his secret identity and I don't know the other and B. HOW THE HELL WOULD WE CONVINCE POLICE ITS HIS FAULT? I only was picked up from school with him I don't even know where his main hang out is…" whispered Kohaku
"Well…. What do we do Kohaku, I mean all we can do is get a new apartment and hide from this guy… I still say we should go to the police though," said a very scared Sango
"We could but… listen I'm telling you now, he has people all over that are undercover for this guy, he is one of the most powerful men in New York. So I know that he has contacts even in the FBI much less the police… so unless we get hard evidence and bring it to somebody trustworthy then we wont be able to get rid of this guy. Honestly it's like signing our death sentence if we even try…"
" Fine, but Kohaku, I'm buying a gun I don't care what happens to me but you have to live okay." Giving his hand a squeeze trying to show him show him she wasn't afraid.
"Okay… I think I'll go sign those release forms now," said Kohaku walking out of the room.
Later That Night…
Sango lay asleep in a bed Keade had lent her. She had let Kohaku and her stay the night along with as much time as they needed to recuperate and find a new place to stay. As soon as Sango was let out from the hospital that day, Kohaku and her went to her apartment or rather what was left of it.
Everything was burnt and destroyed. Not one thing survived this fire including the music box her mother had given her the day Kohaku was born. When she walked in to her bedroom, the room that was what she would have called a safe haven. Gone. She dropped to her knees and looked to see the remains of what was once what she called home. The blue paint that once made the walls look like the sky were peeling and at some points black. The bed that felt like a cloud from heaven looked like it had been through world war one and back. The nice furniture that Kagome and her had picked for her house all burnt. Her eyes started to well up when she walked over to her dresser where her music box once was. The light brown that once covered such a beautiful piece was no longer. The purple flower that was once on top was covered in what looked like soot. She tried to turn the little knob to play music but it came off in her hand.
She couldn't take it anymore, she ran out of the room and out of the apartment. She couldn't stand being in that place any longer. She ran down the stairs that she did the previous night except the other way and out of the building. Once Sango got through the door, she leaned against the brick building… clenching her shirt to where her heart was. She just closed her eyes and let the tears flow from them.
By the time Kohaku came out his sister had tear stricken cheeks. All he could do was stare at her. There was no way he could comfort her considering he was the one who caused her this pain. Kohaku had never seen her like this ever… When her parents died, he was really the only one mourned over there deaths but not Sango, if she was feeling pain she never showed it.
Suddenly realizing Kohaku presence, she wiped her tears and started to walk. They walked in silence the entire way on the subway ride to Keade's apartment. Even there they did not speak to each other. At the dinner table she would talk directly to Keade and stare at her food so she wouldn't have to look at her brother's face. She refused! Even if it was his fault though, she couldn't feel sorrier for herself and him.
That night, she woke up twice the first time was when her mother gave her the music box but then her mother waving goodbye to her. Sango trying so hard to catch up to her. When she awoke, she had already been crying. After all these years of not letting out her true feelings of her parent's deaths, she just cried into her pillow, drifting into another light sleep.
The second dream was with the man that had saved her. His blue eyes had haunted her. She imagined a man of mid twenties just like her. A man that had a really muscular chest and a really handsome face. Suddenly she felt this mans breath on her neck. He kissed it slowly, working his way up her neck to her face. When he finally turned her around, he kissed her passionately. She felt her body tense as he moved his fairly big hands over her body. He touched her in places that she didn't even knew existed, the whole time keeping that magical kiss going. He finally stopped and Sango looked up into his eyes.
His very blue eyes…
She awoke the second time that night to find herself breathing heavily and her body sweating like Whoa. She looked over at the clock to read 4:37 am. Sango realized something right then and there.
She had to find the man that saved her…