Standard disclaimers apply.

A/N: Alright, here's what you guys have been waiting for…Asami gets confronted in this chapter by Miroku and Sango, and you guys will get the answers you are waiting for! And thank you to Ru-Doragon, if it wasn't for you, I would have left Inuyasha out! They will make an appearance because of that, but I've yet decided when.

Enjoy!

Title: Rewind

Chapter 13: Two sides of the coin

(Miroku's POV)

Inserting the key into the keyhole and turning, I held the door open for Sango to enter before me.

After the discovery of the earring, we instantly changed the course of our direction and went straight to our place instead. The situation was too severe to call for any delay.

I watched Sango step into the house ever so slowly, looking around the interior of the house. Her eyed held a look which I couldn't fathom the meaning of.

"To the guestroom." I whispered, before walking ahead of Sango. If Asami saw Sango before I could get any answers out of her, all our efforts will go down the drain.

She nodded, and followed behind closely.

I approached the guestroom, and sure enough, the door was ajar. Asami had her back to me, and it was then I realized she was already eight months' pregnant. Her belly was so swollen, and it made me feel a tinge of guilt for what I was about to do.

But thoughts of the woman standing behind me and all the pain she went through, my friends who almost lost their lives, made me steel my heart. I will not forgive her if she was the one who did it.

Motioning for Sango to keep silent, I stood there without making a sound, watching as Asami frantically pulled out the drawers and flipped through the contents, throwing items on the bed as she continued her search. The side desk was messy, with bottles of her beauty products all strewn around. She must not have found what she was looking for, as she slowly went down on her knees and searched on the floor.

Her actions were frustrated, indicating her anxiety at finding whatever she was searching for.

"Looking for this?" I asked, lifting the earring up before she turned around and saw me. Her initially shocked eyes lit up at the sight of the single earring, before she hurriedly clambered to her feet and strode over to take it from my hands. She practically snatched it over, before holding it close to herself.

"Yes! I've been looking everywhere for this. Thank you, my dear!" She smiled joyfully, fingering the edges of the star before a wary edge crept into her voice. "Anyway, how did…"

I took a deep breath.

"Asami, what were you doing in my car?" I asked, keeping my voice level.

"Eh? What are you talking about, Miroku?" She sounded surprised, but her eyes said otherwise. They were darting around nervously, and she resembled a little child who was caught taking sweets from the refrigerator.

"I found this on the car, at the driver's seat."

She did not say anything for a moment.

"That's weird, how can that be? I haven't been near the car at all…" She said, her face a mask of puzzlement as she appeared to think about how her earring was found. "Could it have been with you and you dropped it on the car?"

"No." I said coldly. There was something about her attitude that annoyed me.

"What's wrong, Miroku? You've been acting weird ever since you got back from visiting Higurashi-san and her husband…" She started, before cold fury got better of me and I gripped her arm.

"Ow! Miroku, let go of me! You're hurting me!" She screamed, trying hard to wrench her hand free. I held on, refusing to budge. "What are you doing? Let go of me right now!"

"How do you know it was Kagome and Sesshoumaru I was visiting?" Every word was spoken with hate. "I am very sure I didn't tell you."

"I…I…" She stammered, her eyes wide with horror after she gave up struggling.

"Why? Why did you do it?"

"I don't know what you're talking about!" Asami screamed. "Why are you-"

"Don't bother with the denial, Kagome saw you in the car that night." I lied, watching her scream die to fade into incoherent mumbling. "Why did you do it?"

Asami's eyes widened, before her arm went limp in my grip. But it wasn't long before the strength returned, and she looked up at me with a challenging expression.

"She deserved it! She deserved it!" Asami's eyes were wild with fury, and her normally saccharine sweet voice had taken on a vile, cruel edge. "She dared to come and confront me…I only saw to it that she got what she deserved!"

I almost could not believe my own ears. Asami was the one who caused Sesshoumaru to lie in a coma?

"So it really was you!" Sango emerged abruptly from behind me, striding angrily towards an appalled Asami. Her tone was furious, before she asked, "How could you? How can you be so cruel? You tried to kill them just because of her confronting you?"

"No! She was interfering…she was getting in the way!" Asami shouted back, equally loud. She made a move to slap Sango. "You! It was precisely because of you! You caused your friend's plight!"

"Asami! Get a grip on yourself! What did Sango do?" I shouted, standing between them, shielding Sango from a hysterical Asami, even though I knew that Sango, having received police academy training, was more than capable of defending herself.

"It is all because of you! You bitch!" She pointed to Sango, over my shoulder. "Everything wouldn't have started if it wasn't for you!"

"What are you talking about?" Sango shouted back, pushing me slightly to the side so she could face Asami. "You slept with my husband and got pregnant, and now you almost killed my best friends. What do you have against me? Why are you doing all this?"

I cringed inwardly at hearing Sango speak of Asami sleeping with me.

Asami took a deep breath, before saying in a tone that was enough to freeze the air. "An eye for an eye…I want you to feel every bit of the pain you inflicted upon me."

"Me? What on earth did I do to you? I don't even know you!"

"Shut up! You deprived my baby of its father and me of my husband! I hate you!" Asami screamed, as I saw Sango's eyes widen in shock before she turned to look at me. "I want you to feel the pain of losing your husband!"

'My baby of its father'…Asami's child is not mine. I do not have a child with her!

"What…what did I do?" Sango was genuinely bewildered.

"You do remember the ecstasy pills distribution case a year ago?" Asami said slowly, tears welling up in her large doe eyes. "I am sure you remember Miwa Naohito?"

Miwa Naohito…wasn't that the young guy Sango arrested almost eight months ago? He had been on the run for a little more than four months before she caught him at a ramen shop at Shinjuku.

Sango nodded silently.

"Of course you do…You arrested him with your very own hands! You destroyed my happiness…You are the one who took Naohito away from me! I hate you, I hate you!" Asami cried, burying her face in her hands before glaring at Sango hatefully.

"He promised he would marry me when we found a place to settle down…but you wouldn't give us a chance! I love him so much, but you just had to take him away…I thought we were safe after hiding from the police for four months, but no! Naohito is my everything…I left home to come to Tokyo 3 years ago…all I had was him."

"He broke the law. I was only doing my job!" Sango said, trying to reason with Asami. "You can't run from the law forever…you have to understand that."

"No! It's easy for you to say so…but do you know how painful it was when I saw you rush in with the bloody cops and handcuff him at the ramen shop? I was lucky I just came out of the washroom then, or you would have arrested me too! But Kami-sama took pity on me…he didn't let you see me so I could take revenge."

"I would not have arrested you! You were not involved in the drugs distribution!"

"I don't care! I had just discovered my pregnancy…I haven't even had the chance to tell him. And I secretly followed the police car to the police station in a taxi, waiting desperately outside for so long…but he never came out…"

Sango and I remained silent, while Asami continued, sobbing bitterly.

"Instead, I only saw you coming out…and Miroku coming to pick you up in the car!" She said. "How can you deserve so much happiness, when you just single-handedly ruined mine? How can you enjoy your husband's love, when I was sitting alone outside the police station in the rain, waiting for someone who was never coming out?"

So that was why I found Asami so familiar initially…she was the girl I saw sitting outside the police station that night…

"And this is why you plotted to break us up?" I asked, finding the whirlwind of events that just hit us almost suffocating. "All that claim about the one night stand…"

"Yes! I set you up! We didn't do anything, much less get pregnant! Why should you be happy when Naohito is jailed for eight years? It is not fair!" She screamed, before pointing at Sango. "And when your interfering friend came along, she just had to tell me about how her husband and she were so in love! It made me think of Naohito, and how my entire life was ruined by selfish people like you!"

"Your boyfriend did commit a crime. Do you have any idea how many others' lives he ruined by distributing ecstasy pills at the nightclub?" Sango retorted, but her tone was a lot less angry.

"Naohito was forced to do it! He didn't want to do it, but he had no choice at all! He was used by the triad members…but all of you only arrested him! They threatened him that if he didn't work for them, they would make me sleep with the boss! You let the mastermind go scot-free and he became the scapegoat! You have no idea at all…and all you did was arrest whoever the pills were found on, just because you police couldn't find those who supplied him with the pills!" Asami's tone was filled with so much pain and helplessness.

Hearing those words brought a stab of sadness to my heart as well.

"All of you tend to point the finger at people like us…just because we didn't study as much as you did or were born into good, functional families like you! We are the 'vermin', 'delinquents' of the society, or whatever label they choose to give to us. You think I didn't wish to be born to a good life like you people? I didn't even have enough to eat!"

Sango, like me, could only stare at the floor, unsure of what to say.

"And two weeks ago, I secretly visited Naohito in jail." Asami said, drawing a shaky breath. Her face was deathly pale, and her lower lip quivered. "He wants to break up with me. He told me not to wait for him…that eight years was too long, and I should just move on."

The only sounds heard in the room were Asami's cries when Sango spoke up softly. "You know, he's right. You're still so young-"

"Shut up! That's easy for you to say! I won't let you have happiness when I have nothing left! All I have from Naohito is this pair of earrings and this baby…"

Asami faltered in her sentence, before doubling over in pain. Her hysterical sobs were turning into whimpers of pain and anguish.

"Asami-san-" Sango made a move towards her, reaching out.

"Don't touch me!" She cried, dropping down heavily onto the bed. Her hair was getting matted to her forehead with perspiration, and her breathing getting terribly labored. "I…I don't need your sympathy! I'll…I'll be going to jail for this…are you happy now?"

"Asami, you have to be responsible for what you've done, but for now, please let us help you!" I stepped forward, ignoring her protests and helped her up.

"Please, you'll be in grave danger if-" Sango added, only to be interrupted by Asami.

"No! Why…why are you helping me when I plotted against you? Let go of me…" She protested weakly, trying to wrench my hands off her. "Don't you hate me?"

"Enough!" I shouted, surprising even myself.

"I'm helping you because I know you're not evil! You were just misguided by your sadness!" I continued, loud enough for her to look at me with shock. "I don't hate you! I'm sure Sango, Kagome or Sesshoumaru will not either!"

Silence hung like a heavy blanket in the room.

"Miroku…" Sango whispered, as she watched me.

The tears in Asami's eyes were flowing freely once again as she looked at me. Behind those tears, were what I saw to be apologetic feelings.

"I really didn't want to do it…I don't know why I could be so evil…" She cried almost incoherently, before she passed out. Sango and I caught her before she could hit the ground, and without any delay, we rushed to the hospital as fast as we could.

To be continued…

A/N: There you go…what an emotion-laden chapter. By now, I don't know how many more people hate Asami, given that we heard her side of the story. Actually when I first started this, I held the intention of not making Asami completely evil (just like what you see here), since in real life, I don't believe such pure evil really exists. People act for reasons, don't they?

But on a happier note, yay for Miroku/Sango! Finally, the skies are clear.

Please tell me what you feel about this chapter! Thank you!