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Author's Note: Sorry for not updating for a while. It's been a busy weekend. I'll try to update again tonight or tomorrow. Hope you guys enjoy the chapter.

Chapter 8

"I take it you won't be leaving when the repairs on the village are done?" Sango asked in a questioning voice.

InuYasha turned his head to look at her and smile reassuringly. "I go where you go, and I stay where you stay."

"Hmm… Good," she murmured as they laid together on a large, warm boulder.

After their water fight and confessions of love, they had spent the rest of the afternoon cuddled up to each other, drying off. Sango's clothes were hanging on a nearby tree branch. In the bushes away from a certain possible set of prying eyes, she had changed into InuYasha's red kimono top that came down to her mid-thigh. InuYasha wore only his pants as Sango cuddled closer to him. He couldn't help but smile as Sango used his shoulder as a pillow. However, he couldn't stop but wonder one thing.

"Hey, Sango?"

"Hmmm?"

"What would your comrades think of us? Me being a hanyou and all…" InuYasha asked.

"Huh? Don't tell me you're still worried about that!" she chided, poking his shoulder.

InuYasha sighed and gazed up into the tree branches. "Well, you have to admit we haven't run into too many people who approve of half demons. Besides, slaying beings like me was how your kin made their living."

Sango rose herself onto her elbow to look down at his face. "Maybe so, but that doesn't matter anymore. And to answer your question, they would want to me to be happy with a man who loves me."

"Hmm… If only we really did live in a world like that," Inu mused, smiling up at Sango.

"It can be in our small corner of it," Sango murmured, taking his lips in a small kiss.

Inu smiled softly. "It can be, can't it," he agreed, taking her lips in his this time. He blinked suddenly and broke the kiss, sitting up abruptly with a look of thought on his face. "Why can't it be here?" he mumbled so quietly that Sango almost didn't hear him.

"InuYasha…" Sango inquired, sitting up next him. "What's wrong?"

InuYasha turned to look at her. "Sango, have you thought of how we would repopulate the village?"

Sango turned beet red at the question. "N-Not really! In mean…we just told each other how we feel…. Isn't it sort of early to be thinking of children? Even though I think it would be precious to have some freckled, dog-eared babies around-"

By this time, Inu's face had turned a red that competed with Sango's. "Not repopulate like that, Sango!" he interrupted, even though he had to admit the image Sango had created in his mind was intriguing. "I mean recruiting. Aren't there any villages around here with people who would volunteer to live here: men, women, children? Heck, are there any rumored hanyous around these parts?"

Sango blinked in surprise. "I'm… not sure. I mean there are plenty of villages around that we have worked with in the past, there might be a few who would want to be a demon exterminator."

"What about hanyous?" Inu asked.

"Not that I know of…" Sango admitted. "Why?"

InuYasha stood up and pulled Sango up with him, getting a yelp from her. "I'll explain on the way back! We have to get back to work!" he exclaimed, grabbing he semidry kimono and jumping boulder to boulder.

"Hey! What happened to taking the rest of the day off!?" Sango exclaimed.

"We'll relax all night, Sango! I've got a brainstorm!" Inu exclaimed, making their way to the village.