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Chapter 15
To trust or not to Trust?
Sango woke to the smell of bacon and eggs. The night before had been one of the most amazing nights she's had in a long time. She wanted so much that it would never end though she couldn't wait to go see how well Miroku was on the slopes. She was just dieing to beat him in snow boarding. She rubbed her eyes to see that it was ten o'clock in the morning. Last night had been wonderful. They ate dinner and danced, it was just a special night that she would never forget.
Miroku moved away from the kitchen into the bedroom. He leaned against the door rim and watched Sango slowly lean up to see Miroku staring at her. "Nice hair." He said laughing throwing her a rub to put over her shorts and t-shirt.
"Hardy har har, what are we having for breakfast captain?"
"Well, I felt like making omelets, hope you don't mind, its cheese and ham."
"Sounds good, so then we hit the slopes right?"
"Yup, but I have to warn you, I' am, I dare say, extraordinarily good, so good luck."
"Yeah, yeah we'll see on the slopes, actions speak louder than words." Grabbing her robe and putting on. She followed him towards the kitchen, which was rather big for a cabin she thought. It was after all just a vacation spot. They ate there food quickly and then Sango ran into the bathroom to wash up. She came out to see Miroku already all puffed up with his coat and boots on.
"Ready to go?"
"Give me a second, I haven't even been able to get dressed yet."
"That's okay, I'll just sit down on the bed and wait."
"Pervert! Get out of here, I need to change."
"Okay, okay" laughing at her face. "I'll go but you have to give me a kiss."
"Fine, close your eyes and slowly walk with me, I'll guide your arms and hands." He did just that and before he knew it, he stopped moving and his lips puckered up to find that the only thing that would be kissing him would be the door. His lips touched the door and he opened his eyes to see the carvings of the door. "Sango," he knocked on the door, "you'll give me that kiss later!"
"Yeah, yeah, but I need to get dressed, we already missing daylight!" she screamed so he could from the other side of the door.
He nodded and leaned his back so he was facing the hall against the door. She opened it figuring he would be doing that and let him fall onto the ground and walked over him saying "Now snow boarding I believe is all about balance so if you can't keep your balance now, I wonder how you keep it outside on the slopes." Laughing Sango walked towards the front door.
Miroku watched that cute butt of hers walk out the front door. He was so tempted just to keep her here instead of letting her out; he could have his own fun here.
They walked up to the ski lift, though snow boarding, there was no way that they were going to walk up the mountain twenty times over.
Miroku lifted Sango onto the seat, where she blushed deeply. She felt like a little kid, with a father picking her up because she was too short, Miroku then got on and off they went.
Miroku looked over at Sango who was staring straight ahead, almost dreading looking down. "Does our little doctor have a fear of heights?" Miroku asked as if waiting to get punched. "Yes, majorly, I'd rather be doing open heart surgery with blood squirting me in the face then look down right now."
"Its not that bad," he looked down, then again, it had been a while since he'd been on the slopes and right about now, it was getting pretty high. Sango gripped the seat with hope that she wouldn't fall off. Miroku saw this and put his arm around her waist. "Don't worry, I would never let you fall." Giving her a sincere look, she nodded but sat a little closer to him. He smiled knowingly that this would be the only time she would willingly give into cuddling with him.
By the time they got up to the top, Sango looked as though she could faint. She got off on wobbly legs and Miroku luckily held her steady. They walked to a quiet place compared to the rest of this mountain. Apparently, it had to have been winter break because it seemed like everyone they saw was families with little kids.
They sat down and buckled there feet into the snow board. "Okay, I'm going to attempt to lift you up and then we will try to go down the little bunny hill, okay."
"Geez, you sound like I'm handicapped or something. Go and I'll follow."
"You sure."
"Yes, I'm sure; I need to see what I'm up against here." He smirked if that's what she wanted that's what she'll get. He flew into the air as he moved over a steep cliff and took off into the distance.
"Well this should be a good challenge" Sango mumbled to herself. She hoped up and started slowly moving down the hill. She picked up speed and went over a tiny cliff. Miroku had been waiting halfway from where he saw Sango. She moved down the mountain with grace and surprisingly, not falling. She went down the hill making a curve, trying to show off her skills. She stopped not even a centimeter in front of Miroku.
"I thought you said you couldn't snow board."
"Oh did I say that," looking at him with an innocent look.
"Oh I'll get you for this!"
"Well now that you know my little secret how bout we make this a bet and say if I beat you down the mountain first, you have to sleep on the couch tonight."
"And if I win?"
"If you win, I'll literally give one of the best nights of your life."
"Well in that case, I'll take that bet." But before he could even stick out his hand Sango was off.
Laughing, Sango took off into the distance with a certain gleam in her eyes. She couldn't wait to see the look on his face when she beat him.
He was right behind her though very close but then she hit a small hill and flew ahead. She went faster and faster, he slowly was falling behind. When she went down one of the higher cliffs, he saw the last whip of brown hair in the distance. He gained speed and saw Sango not so far ahead after he jumped the previous slope. She swerved in and out, around rocks and trees. Suddenly the edge of the mountain where they were supposed to end was in the distance. Miroku jumped off a hill and was now right next to her. She squinted her eyes, determined to beat him.
She only looked at him for a second, or so she thought. She went off another hill and wasn't able to keep herself from falling. The next things she knew was that she was on her back sliding down the remainder of the hill, and felt extreme pain in her ankle. Miroku had already seen her starting to fall. He went down the hill already and took off his buckles and ran back to the spot where she lay.
He heard her moaning in pain in the distance and all he could say was that really must have hurt. He got to her, and she looked as though she was trying to hold back tears. "Miroku, I think I sprained my ankle."
"Okay, I'm going to look, but I don't know how much I will do, you are after all the doctor." He took off her buckles and moved her black pants up, noticing that her foot was indeed starting to swell.
"Yeah, I think you did sprain it, so okay here, I'm going to lift you up and you're going to lean your weight on me okay." She nodded, noticing when she started to get up, she felt some pain in her back as well. She must have bruised from the impact of falling. Miroku noticed her slight wince, telling that she was trying to hold it back. He lifted up her shirt to see a couple scrapes and noticing some bruising as well. He also noted the scar of where she had fallen on glass the first time they met.
He then decided there was only one way he would be able to get them back down the hill. He would leave the boards and carry her. At the moment she was more important, plus on the way back, he'd let the emergency aid come and get them. Sango was a little shocked when he swung her legs up and she held onto his neck for dear life. Going back down the hill was just as bad as going up. At least on the snow board she felt like she had control, the fact that someone was carrying her and could easily drop her if he tripped only made her worry more.
On the way back, they met up with a rather odd character. He was bundled up in a lot of clothing. You really couldn't even see his face. He wore a ski hat, shades, and a scarf that surrounded his face.
Miroku told the man to retrieve the snow boards and drop them off at the cabin.
Miroku rushed into the cabin and set Sango onto the couch. "So where does it hurt?"
"In my ankle I think, my foot frozen right now so I can't really feel anything."
"It most likely would have helped if I put your sock and shoe back on huh" Sango nodded but giggled a bit too. He must have been too worried to actually think of that because they kind of just left it there.
Miroku left the room and came back with a bowl of hot water and a towel.
"Okay, you should most likely put your foot in hot water for about a half an hour or so, it will help you get the feeling back into your foot."
"So now you're the doctor huh, interesting." Smiling she put her foot into the hot water, which of course was weird at first because her foot was so cold she couldn't even feel the water at first, but slowly the feeling in her foot was coming back. Looking at her with a sense of worry, Miroku started to pace. "You know this wasn't supposed to happen, I mean this entire day kinda just went from bad to worse. This week was supposed to be a fun fulfilled week. Not break your leg."
"Miroku don't worry honestly, it's just a sprain, if anything it will be gone soon."
"Fine I guess… I'll make us some lunch I guess although it is near three or so. So how bout this meal will be both dinner and lunch."
"Sure, here let me get up and..."
"No, sit take a nap if you want. I owe you."
"Miroku, I have a sprained ankle, I'm not handicapped."
"Doesn't matter, you should take a nap, here I'll help you to the bedroom."
"Fine, but no moves or else this foot will be going places you don't want it to, and trust me, I do have a tendency to do something like that."
"Don't worry Sango, how could you think I would do something like that." Giving her a puppy dog face, he lifted her up and they started walking towards the bedroom.
She smiled knowingly that he would take care of her though if she honestly wanted to, she could do it herself.
"Alright, I'm going to start lunch." Miroku said walking out of the room down the hall and towards the kitchen. He walked all the way down to realize in the fridge there wasn't enough food to cook a full meal. "This is great," he muttered to himself. He originally planned that he was going to go shopping for food. Since this was kind of a splurge vacation, he meant to buy food after they went snow boarding, they were suppose to go to a restaurant to get lunch then go food shopping but apparently that wasn't going to happen.
He walked back and forth, deciding he would have to leave and go back to the nearest town to get food. Miroku walked into the bedroom. Sango had her eyes opened and was looking around the curious bedroom. If definitely in a way felt like one of the secret hideouts that someone like a diamond thief would hide or something. Kind of spooky thinking about it, Sango thought.
"Sango, I have to go to the nearest town for food, I was originally planning to go after we went boarding, so instead I have a can of soup so I'll give you that then, I'll be going to the nearest town to get food for the week I guess." Miroku said regretfully, knowing that had he brought food when he was supposed to, this wouldn't have happened. Sure this was planned event, but he just happened to be lazy with some of the details.
"Sure, you want me to go with you, I think I can stand and walk now. It's really not that bad of a sprain." Remembering very well, Miroku hated supermarkets because of his parent's killings. Raising herself off the bed, Miroku walked over and pushed her back down. "No, you stay in bed and I'll go. I shouldn't be long. The soup should be almost done anyway and then I'll go after giving it to you." Miroku said giving her temple and feather light kiss. Sango blushed and could only nod, sure she thought he would take care of her but this, this was like she had her own private servant that was also a lover.
He left the room and then soon returned with chicken noodle soup on a tray. Sango sat up straight and he put it on her lap. "I should only be an hour if not a little more." Giving her a chaste kiss.
Miroku soon left and she couldn't eat her soup fast enough. Sure she may have had a sprained ankle, but that wouldn't keep her from exploring the cabin. It seemed like it was very old and that there had a lot to it. Maybe even secret passages and things like that. Of course, even if she were to find something like this, she wouldn't tell Miroku. He wouldn't approve of her looking around on a sore ankle. She hopped along out of the bed room and the first thing she noticed was the door to the left of her bedroom, here she thought that was the only bedroom and Miroku had to sleep next her. She hopped over and opened the door. The way it creaked you could tell that it wasn't exactly being used everyday.
She hopped inside, and hit the switch. And what was inside shocked her.
She was amazed to find a library. A library for Christ's sake. Although this cabin seemed to be average, it may have looked a bit dusty, but was a lot more fancy compared to the rest of the cabin. It seemed who ever built it, must have taken pride in reading because this room looked amazing. Rich hard wood shelves and a small but eloquent chandler hung from the ceiling.
When she was younger, she always loved to read; in fact she read any book she could in her spare time now days, a little known fact about her that rarely anyone knew. Reading was one of her favorite things.
She browsed and browsed. These books looked ancient. Hmm, Pride and Prejudice. She read that book years ago, and what a good read it was. Of course, romance wasn't her favorite books; it was more fantasy and fiction. She couldn't help herself. When she was younger, life just became too intense for her, so she would get caught up in a book that was in another world or something to that extent. She decided that any book in here was most likely some of the finest books ever written. She pulled a random book of the shelf that had a rather dark color compared to the rest. Behind it was a small door. It seemed that it opened to something.
At first, it wouldn't budge, so Sango went to the downstairs, hopping the entire way, and found a screw driver in the kitchen. She hopped back up the stairs and into the room again. She stuck into the slit down the side and pushed towards the wall. It popped open and inside was what a surprise, another book.
She gave a skeptical type of look and took it out. On the front cover, there was no title. It had a gold looking half of a ball at the top and had golden crossing all around it so it looked like the side of a basket. The background was a deep reddish brownish color. It wasn't that thick, maybe the size of a two hundred page novel or something. She couldn't decide what type of book this was. Maybe witch craft, though she's not one to believe in it, though she may read it, she really didn't want to believe it. She set the book down in the middle of the room on a grey colored table. The table compared to the room wasn't rich nor was looking like an antique instead it looked like it was something out of a horror novel. It looked like the table that people sit at when there being interrogated in jail on like a law and order show.
Since she really couldn't pace with her ankle hurting her, she leaned against the table, tapping her fingernails against the cement-ish table. She couldn't help herself, curiosity may have killed the cat, but hey this couldn't be that bad… right? She opened it…
With Miroku
Miroku drove down to the supermarket, regardless of what Sango may have thought happened to his parents, it was only he who knew the truth, and truth was, he didn't want to think about it. It was just a cover up story. Truth will come out slowly and he knew that too. Just right now, he didn't need to deal with that. His parents… were in his past. Right now he needed to focus on the present.
He picked up the spaghetti down the next isle along with sauce and a lot of vegetables. Not to mention some meats. Steak, chicken, fish, and shrimp, he was a seafood lover. When he got to the bread section, he noticed there was barely any left. He walked over and grabbed the last couple of loafs. He went down the next isle to get water and noticed there was none left. Strange he thought, he went down to the dairy section with milk and eggs. Barely anything was left, so he took what he could find.
A man with a green apron walked past him and Miroku asked "Why is there barely any food left, I mean I can barely find anything that I wanted to buy."
The man in the apron stared at him as if he was from another planet, and then realized he must be from out of town.
"Well, I guess you didn't hear, there's going to be a huge blizzard, its going to begin anytime now, so I suggest you get back to where ever you came from as soon as possible. Here, I'll take you up at register so you don't have to wait for all the locals to finish up there paying."
"Thank you, I really feel bad that you didn't know, say where you from anyway."
"Me, oh from New York, me and my… girlfriend came up here for a vacation, but I guess its not going to be one now. I'm surprised I didn't hear anything about this on the news."
"Well you were probably looking at New York's weather, and not the weather for Vermont. We'll be getting anything from over the Michigan lakes. So yeah, this blizzard is suppose to be worst we've had in years." Finishing the last of Miroku's groceries, which he was bagging.
"Well, good luck sir, hope you find your way back alright. Best of luck to you."
"Thanks." That last part was really like, thanks as if I don't have enough worries, you have to shove the fact that this blizzard is almost here and I have to get back to Sango. Great
With Sango
Inside, she couldn't really decipher the words within the book; they looked like they had been written in another language, like Latin or something. Being that she took Latin for a semester in college because it was suppose to help her with the medical field, she studied it, but that was years ago in her first year of college. The only words she could decipher were love, minds and destruction. None of which made any sense to her. She flipped through a couple more pages, quickly but then something caught her eye. She turned back to that page and noticed something very odd. There was a picture.
A picture of a jewel, her jewel to be exact. The one that her mother had given to her.
Flashback:
Exactly a week before her parent's death, Sango was given a jewel by her mother. "Honey, I have something very, special for you. It's going to be our secret though okay."
"Sango nodded, knowing fully well, that this was what her mother had wanted to tell her for the past month. Both her father and mother were arguing over what ever this secret was and the fact that she was only sixteen, should she know, or shouldn't she. Her mother decided the early she knows the better and went against her husbands wishes and told Sango, at least partially. "Sango, what I'm holding in my hand is so powerful and secrete that if you were to ever lose this, it would be hard to ever forgive you. What I hold within the palm of my hand is a jewel. Not just any jewel though, the powers within it could destroy a person and any person who possesses it, could be horrible danger if they do not know the contents of this. I can't tell you much more then that, but for now, that's a beginning. As you get older, and you start your training, the secrets of this jewel will be revealed to you." She hugged her daughter and tied the jewel around her neck. Her mother fought back tears, and decided to leave the room soon after. Leaving a questioning Sango, her being the type of person not to bug her parents, because she thought they would tell her, but unfortunately, her parents death left her with questions, and no answers.
End of Flashback
Sango stared at the picture with great interest and below it, it read
Mei substantia potior incompertus. Simul, per gens quisnam potior pravus per-in, volo capio plenus oportunitas. Gens are polleo! Gens quisnam servo are tutela-ians. Incontaminatus amor volo quasso hic the specialis de the infinitus
Perditio de alius vel multi volo evenio. Solus temporis volo loquor…
Amor, conserve-ing amor.
She read it over and over again, realizing she wouldn't be able to figure it out in ten minutes, Miroku was suppose to come back any minute. She quickly wrote down the sentences quickly then put the book back in its secret cubby hole and put the bigger book that was in front of it. She took the piece of paper that had the copied version of the Latin with her. She hopped all the way back to her bed making sure she closed the library door and that Miroku wasn't there yet. She was a bit sweaty from the heating and the fact that she had been hopping all over the house.
Although she wanted to trust Miroku, she had a feeling, these couple of facts she should keep from him. He didn't know all of her past and she wanted to tell him, but truth was it was going to be hard to tell him everything that she had been through. She heard a car pull up along with something she didn't notice before. It was snowing, heavily, in fact.
She peeked out the window seeing Miroku backing into the garage. She climbed back in bed and put the little piece of paper she had copied the paragraph on into her pillow sock. It took fifteen minutes or so, but Miroku finally came up the stairs to see her lying in bed watching TV.
"Hey," walking over to her and giving her cheek a kiss. "I have some not so good news. It turns out, pretty much our week of fun snow boarding, is pretty much stuck in a cabin. There's a blizzard outside and I'm pretty sure we won't be able to get out of Vermont until it slows, and unfortunately, I believe that this blizzard may be lasting quite a few days. I stocked up on pretty much all the food I could, and though this really does suck for snow boarding, at least we'll be safe… I hope that's okay?" moving a couple of strand of her bangs away from her face.
"Yeah, that's okay, I mean I do have a sprained ankle so it's not like I can go snow boarding anyway. I wouldn't want to twist more then it already is."
"Hey let me see your foot anyway." He got off the bed where he had been sitting near her face and moved down to the bottom of the bed. He lifted the sheet to see her left ankle had swelled a little bit more then the last time he saw it and decided it could have been worse.
"Well the good news is that this could have been worse, the bad thing is that I think you may have to get crutches when we get back to New York."
"Well, I guess it could be worse, I could have lost to you." Oh how Sango knew she was bringing that on herself. She smiled in her head knowingly that Miroku would most likely say something perverted.
"Oh but you did," climbing to lay on his belly right next to her, putting his hand on her stomach and rubbing it slowly.
"HA! If I didn't fall, I would have beat your ass and you know it. And plus, right now I can't do anything like that considering my sprained ankle." Giving him an angelic face.
"I guess your right." Turning away like he was going to get off the bed, he turned back and climbed right atop of Sango. Now this was scary, she didn't think he would rape her, but even so.
She had a look of fear in her eyes, and her breathing was harsh. He didn't even touch her intimately for her to be acting this way. He looked right into her eyes and noted the scared-ness he saw within her. "Please Miroku…" her voice came at a raspy type voice, a voice he'd never heard her speak before.
He backed off her and then stood in front of her. "Sango… I don't know what you would think I would do to you, but I would never… I mean I may be a pervert but I would honestly never force myself on you." Sango raised herself to look him straight in the eye when he said this, she knew for once, out of there entire meeting/relationship he wasn't lying.
"I'm sorry; I'm just… not ready for that. Please understand, I want to trust you, but the men that have been in my life… no ones ever treated me right, and I'd rather leave it at that if you don't mind." Sango said in a low, shaky voice. "I want to trust you, but understand, there's more to my past then you know and it can't be easily given to you. Right now, I feel that were getting to the trust I want but, it takes a long time for me to put all of my faith in you, so please, just give me time."
He walked over and caressed her face with his hand and kissed her lightly. Tears started to come down her face and he wiped away the ones that he could. He rested his head against hers and she his. In a low voice, "I'm going to make dinner so you rest her and I'll come back when I'm done, okay?"
She could only nod.
What she failed to notice was that he didn't say he would give her time, nor would he be able to give her back the same trust she would put in him.
Downstairs with Miroku
He paced back and forth. The groceries long forgotten on the counter. He couldn't stop thinking. What happened to Sango, as far as he knew, there wasn't a lot of men in her life. Maybe her father did something that was harmful to her or her family or both. Or maybe even her brother, but he just had the oddest feeling it wasn't either. He decided that he needed to talk to somebody so, when in doubt, call Inuyasha.
With Inuyasha
"Hey Kagome, are you almost ready, I think our dinner reservations are going to expire soon, this is Rome!"
"Give me fifteen minutes. It's not so easy to go to the bathroom with this large belly ya know."
Though Inuyasha could have been mad that she was taking so long, he couldn't help but smile that he was having a pup with Kagome. His own little pup. He was going to be the best damn father he could be, that is he was going to try. Most likely spoil them to the hilt. Of course he wouldn't have just one; no… he would have many. Maybe four or five. As much as he didn't exactly like that orphan Shippou, he was someone he could imagine to be his son. Who knows, maybe his kid would be something like Shippou, that would have course be interesting. Any kid though he had; he wanted them to look like Kagome in some ways but in others, like him too. He was knocked out of his baby fantasies, when his cell started to ring.
"Hello…"
"Hey Yasha, what's up man, how's the honeymoon going." Miroku said only too soon.
"Well, nothing, me and Kag are going out to dinner in a couple of minutes. What's up?" Inuyasha said looking at the phone realizing Miroku would have only called if it was something really important.
"Me… oh nothing much, I mean… well… me and Sango are up at the cabin."
"Oh I see, well hey that's good then I mean you can totally get to know her more, if you get my meaning."
"Hey, that's just it. She… seems to be scared. But I don't get it, she's already had sex, so I'm not really sure what the hell is her problem. Maybe something in her past made her not want to do it, but regardless, she's… well I don't know man, I'm just wondering, do you think you could find out anything from Kagome, I mean she is her best friend. I'm sure she would have some answers."
"Me… I guess man, but maybe it's something she'd better tell you. For all we know it could be something really bad."
"Wait, you don't know anything, right Yasha?"
"Me, of course not, who knows, there women, but I mean it could be something bad, but hey I have no clue. I'll talk to Kag's, see if she knows anything, but I don't know, women's minds are something no man will ever figure out and personally I'm not going to start anytime soon. Anyway, she's coming out of the bathroom so I'll call you back tonight to tell you if I found out anything."
"Alright, have a good time, talk to you later man."
"Later." Inuyasha said hanging up the phone and looking at Kagome with aww. Regardless if she was pregnant, she looked beautiful.
"Ready my lady."
"Yes I' am my good sir."
With Miroku
Miroku paced back and forth, now what to make for dinner. Well, he did want to make seafood; he was after all in a seafood-ish mood. He put all the food away and decided that salmon with crab cakes that had shrimp and rice on it, would be good to eat. He would make rice as a side dish; with he supposed some type of sauce. He had made some hot chocolate for Sango and brought it up to her, but unfortunately, she was sleeping when he got up there, so he'd bring it back to her later.
With Kohaku
"Kohaku, tare up this place from top to bottom, I want it and I will have my way."
"Yes master."
An hour later, with clothing, boxes and so much more all over the entire apartment, Kohaku couldn't find what his master wanted.
"I'm sorry master, I can't find what you're looking for, it seems my sister was smart and hid it away from me. I guess she doesn't trust me like she once did."
With Sango
When Miroku came up, all she wanted was for her to say sorry, she didn't mean not to trust him, and as the hour passed she realized something, he was nor could he ever be the bastard that raped her or anything similar to him. But he would be someone that she could trust, it was just a matter of being able to let go. Let's face it he's a person that could show her the love that she's never had from the opposite sex.
She decided that this may be her only chance at love and that she would use it. She would give it her all, love; she believed was once in a life time, no other time. Sure there may have been those little crushes, but full blown out love was only there once. And for whatever reason, it seemed like Miroku was her soul-mate.
Sango went into the bathroom, brushed her hair, and even put a spot of blush on. She hopped her way down the stairs, and as she came, she could see the once kitchen table that had been covered with a rather awful covering, was now not covered with anything but bare with the wood it was once made with. It had a single large candle in the center, along with two plates, and two of every utensil. She looked down at her clothes, with a plad bottom and a grey long sleeve shirt, she really didn't feel fit for sitting at the table, but she was sure Miroku wouldn't have cared.
"Hey, I would have carried you down so you didn't have to hop all the way down, I wouldn't have minded."
"Oh, its fine, wow you really did out do yourself again, Mr. Chef."
"Not really, it wasn't too bad. You know me, cooking would be my life if I didn't have another job to do."
Sitting at the table he started putting food on her plate, which of course everything really did look mouth watering.
As he sat, Sango asked "Well, wait a second, how come you didn't pursue going into the culinary arts. I mean you would do wonderfully at it, anyone who has ever tasted any of your creations could tell you that."
"Me, well… I guess being a lawyer was just something I wanted to do because its what my father wanted to do. I think he did pressure me when I was younger to going into it, but then I guess after he died, it made me want to do it even more then I had. I did everything possible in high school, took any history or any related classes to it and decided that I really could do it if I wanted, so I did. I guess cooking has been more of an outlet for stress rather than something I wanted to do professionally, though I could tell you, in all honesty, I really wanted to have my own restaurant. That would be something to behold for sure. I could just see the look on my fathers face now, happy that I actually did something I wanted. As much as he wanted me to follow his path he wanted me to go down, I think he would have preferred me doing something that I really wanted to do."
"Then why not do it? I mean in all rationality, you have enough money to start one, and as you've said, you not even sure if you're permanently with the firm you're with. I think if it's honestly something you want to pursue, you should. You only live life once, why do you think that I've worked so hard to become a doctor, its been my dream since before I can remember."
"It's not that easy, though I wish it would be, my boss as you know thinks of me as a son and I can't just turn my back on him. I would love to own a restaurant, but I don't think right now is the best timing for it." Taking a bit of his salmon, he spoke again, "You know, I've never told anyone that, I mean not even Yasha, I've always wanted a restaurant, but I suppose I thought it was a stupid idea. And trust me; Inuyasha would certainly make fun of me for life."
"Aha, I can see that happening very easily, as much as I like the guy, sometimes he can be a little… "
"Pain in the ass." Miroku said finishing her sentence.
"Yeah, well at least you said it, not me."
Laughing they continued there meal.
"So now its your turn." Miroku said having high hopes to discovering something about her she kept secret.
"My turn… my turn to what." Sango gave him a quizzical look.
"Well, to tell me something about yourself that no one else knows, you know one of my darkest secrets your turn."
"Okay… hmm… this is harder then it looks ya know. Umm… I guess. Okay I have one, but it's more embarrassing rather that like yours a dream. When I was in middle school, I suppose twelve or thirteen, I got my period. Now it was in the middle of gym and it was so… hot out. It must have been in the nineties, anyway, I went to the bathroom before we went out to the field and saw like jelly stuff in my… panties. So when I went outside, I didn't realize I got my period because, lets face it, you hear the stories of it coming out blood not jelly so I went up to my gym teacher and said to him "Hey, can I go to the nurse, I have jelly in my underwear, and I could have sworn I didn't have peanut butter and jelly today."
Miroku started to laugh and so did she. This was so embarrassing, but at least the conversation about trust they had earlier was long forgotten.
"So it gets worse, unfortunately. I don't believe I've ever gone to the nurse in middle school, so I didn't really know where it was. I went to through this one hall and well, there's the bathroom. I suddenly start cramping like crazy and just my luck, the girl's bathroom is closed because that one happened to be flooded. So what do I do, I run into the boy's bathroom. Luckily no ones in there, but then after I do go to the bathroom and actually get my period, I come out and it really sucks. Standing before me is two of the most popular boys in my grade and there going to the bathroom. That was the first time I've ever seen the male anatomy and let me tell you, that was not the friendliest experience. Though I suppose the funniest thing was that both of the boys screamed like girls and ran out of the bathroom. I may have gotten my period that day but those two wimps running out of the bathroom was certainly something I'll never forget."
Miroku was nearly on the floor from laughing so hard and Sango though laughing was blushing like crazy as well.
They finished there food sat down to watch a movie. They may have been snowed in, but Sango was lucky enough to have brought the junk food along. They made popcorn and plopped down on the couch to watch Along Came Polly. It seemed that the movie best described there taste for a good laugh that night.
Back in Italy with Kagome and Inuyasha
"Kagome, come on you can tell me."
"Inu, I promised to Sango I wouldn't say a word. She's my best friend."
"But I'm your husband you should be able to tell me," scooping her up to sit in his lap on there couch in there hotel room.
"Yes that may be true, but your helping out you best friend as well, Sango should be able to tell him, not you. Its really personal, I can't tell you, I'm sorry." Trying to get up, she was pulled gently back down into his lap.
"Babe I understand, but how about this, I guess and you nod yes or no. So it's not coming straight out of your mouth…"
"I don't know, I guess, you're not going to stop bugging me until I tell you."
"Well we could do something else but, I know you're not really in the mood right now, so yes I will keep bugging you until you do."
"Fine. But just a nod I'm not giving you details."
"Okay… was she hurt by her father? Was she molested by someone? Was she sexually assaulted?" Kagome finally nodded. "Was she… raped?" Kagome turned away but nodded yes slowly.
"Oh god."
"You see why she should have told him, its not for you tell him, its her decision. I think you should lie to him, she didn't even tell me until recently. I mean you really should tell him later on after they even do that. I don't think she'll be doing anything of a sort soon, at least I don't think she will."
A couple hours later
"Hey Yasha, did you find out anything?" Eagerly awaiting his answer Miroku paced the bottom floor. Since Sango sprained her ankle he didn't want to sleep next to her because he may hit the sore foot in the middle of the night, so he's sleeping on the couch for a couple nights.
"No, Kagome wouldn't tell me anything, sorry man. I think you should just forget it. Whatever it is, she'll most likely tell you on her own. She is after all her own person; anyway I have eh… things to do. Talk to you later man."
"Thanks, alright I guess I'll talk to you when you get back, hey let me know if you find out anything… okay."
"Okay… I will. Bye."
Hanging up, Miroku walked over to his couch and cursed the fact that Sango had to be so secretive about everything. He punched his pillow a couple of times, then laid down. In less then an hour, he fell asleep.
Little did he know, Sango was keeping yet another secret of her own right at that moment, in the bedroom.
Sango scribbled out a lot of words but finally figured out the Latin meanings that were below the picture. She had such a strong feeling that, that book had something to do with her and she was determined to figure it out.
My essence holds unknowns. Together with people who hold evil within will take advantage. They are powerful. Those who protect it are guardians. Pure love will break the secrets from the infinite return. Destruction from another or many will happen, only time will tell…
Love keep loving
Authors Note:So what did you think? Let me know! Btw, hopefully now that summer has officially started, I will get more chapters out, let me tell you, I'm sooo tempted to actually start another story, but I want to finish this one first. I think there may be another five or so chapters less, depending on how I go about with it, anyway REVIEW!