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Darkness Always Has a Light

Chapter Three

Surprise!

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Sunlight shown through the branches of the forest as the morning dew dripped off of the luscious green leaves of trees and flowers from almost every colour of the rainbow bloomed, making the surrounding area look like paradise for humans and creatures of all kinds.

It was almost mid-morning when a pretty blue song bird tweeted and chirped away a song from a branch of an ancient tree, better known as the Goshinboku. Unseen at just a first glance, but if you looked closely at one of the branches, hidden behind many leaves was two twin pools of the exact same colour as blood with what looked like chipped fools gold around the slightly dilated pupils. The orbs belonged to a face once you ripped your eyes away from its gaze, and actually look at whom they belonged to. They were softened once they spied the little bird.

A small smile graced the lips of the young demon miko as she observed the little winged fellow, enjoying it's song. Adjusting her grip on the branch, she went to rest her deadly clawed hand on the smaller branch above her but rustled the branches instead by accident. The bird stopped singing immediately and it's beady black eyes panicked before it took off into the sky, fading into the distance in a frenzy.

Kagome pouted childishly from her perch high up in the branches and her shoulders slumped in disappointment. She was actually interested by the bird, but maybe the boring summer days were starting to get to her.

Her dim-mood was soon crushed only to be replaced with giddiness as a small blue and purple butterfly fluttered in front of her face and landed on her nose. Startled, she tried to look at the beautiful insect while going cross-eyed in the process.

"Ah-ah-ah-choo!" Rang through the forest, causing all the birds within a kilometre radius to fly off from they're perches. Kagome sneezed, making the butterfly disappear somewhere else in the branches of the God Tree. Scowling in disappointment she was about to shift her position when she lost her grip on the branch and fell backwards.

"Whoa, whoa!" She screeched, scratching at the branch within reach but failed miserably at her attempt to stay off of the ground.

She fell onto the hard earth in an ungraceful heap. So much for demon reflexes. Groaning, she rolled over onto her stomach and heard the crunching of feet a few feet away. There was muffled laughter and then the person decided to speak.

"Really, you're becoming more clumsier than a newborn cub of a sort. I could hear you from miles away." The feminine yet strong voice was filled with amusement and Kagome could practically feel the amused stare. The young demon-in-training bristled at these words.

"Shut it, Sango. In case you've forgotten, I'm the one who is being trained. And I can't help it if I didn't know I was a demon when I was little so I could train properly." She retorted, scowling up at the slayer. Sango just laughed and shrugged her shoulders.

"Anyway, I came to retrieve you because the tea and 'snack' as you call it is ready and I want to spar with you to find out how well you have improved." The young woman said blandly, obviously ignoring Kagome's last statement although she ruined the image when she rolled her eyes.

At this, Kagome quickly scrambled to her feet and quickly adjusted her blue and black kimono. "Good, because I'm starved!" Kagome grinned, already walking past Sango and down the path towards the village. They had left the old taijiya village about a week ago so they could start preparing to go back to Kagome's era.

The slayer sighed at her friend's mood swings but smiled none the less, and soon followed in suit. After about a ten minute walk, they arrived back in the village but all was silent. When Naraku had attacked the village, everyone had been killed but if there had been any survivors they would have abandoned the village a long time ago so Kagome and Sango were the only ones there.

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Inside one of the repaired huts, Kagome and Sango sat cross-legged opposite of each other around a small low table. Sango was sipping her tea casually, while Kagome had already finished hers and had just finished off her last bread biscuit. She licked the crumbs off of her lips, letting anyone who was watching, a glimpse of her sharp fangs.

"Kami, you take forever." The miko demon whined, resting her chin on the wooden table's ledge. "Well, rushing to spar so soon, huh?" Sango asked, breaking out into a sly smile.

Kagome's ruby and gold eyes narrowed in suspicion as alarm bells went off in her head. "Yeah, what of it?" She asked, watching the slayer carefully.

"Oh, nothing." Sango replied innocently, her grin widening as she set down her teacup.

Having almost no time to react, Kagome spied something silver in the sleeve of Sango's lavender and green kimono, and the split second before it could have sliced her neck, she caught it between two clawed fingers. Kagome's eyes had widened considerably as she gaped at the slayer that was looking at her, impressed.

"Very good! To be honest, I didn't know if you could block it or not." Sango chirped cheerfully, standing up from her sitting position.

"You didn't know if I could block it or not? You could have succeeded and sliced my neck open, slayer!" Kagome screeched, the sound shrill to the ears as Sango winced but continued to smile anyway. Kagome had only called her slayer a few times, usually when she was angry or annoyed. This time, she was definitely angry.

"Shall we spar?" The taijiya asked Kagome, with an amused look on her face. Kagome growled out a 'Yes' and she followed Sango out of the hut.

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It was about a half an hour into battle before "Hiraikotsu!" was shouted and an impressive sized boomerang sliced through the air, taking down trees in the process. The large weapon spun around and was aimed at the young miko demon who was in it's path.

Kagome's eyes widened before she threw herself onto the dry and cracked earth and the boomerang almost skimmed her back, making the dust-like dirt rise up. She coughed as she pulled herself back up to her feet and glared at the smirking taijiya who had caught the weapon gracefully, while skidding a few feet back.

"Not bad. But that was just a warm up." Sango grinned, just before she perfectly schooled her features into an emotionless mask and her brown eyes hardened.

With speed only a trained fighter could posess, her right hand flew to the handle of her katana at her side, unsheathing it in a blink of an eye before she launched herself at the red and golden eyed she-demon.

Having almost no time to react to this as well, Kagome leaned so far to the side that if she wasn't a demon, she'd fear she would fall over and just as this though crossed her mind, she gulped as she heard the sharp hiss the blade made as it almost caught her side. Growling, she narrowed her eyes at the slayer before she too, unsheathed her practice katana.

Sango spun around, and swung her blade towards Kagome but was met with the sound of steal clanging against steel as the two katana's met rather violently, the miko demon wincing slightly at the horrible sound the weapons made.

Kagome's eyes filled with determination as beads of sweat rolled down her forhead and temples, the summer sun finally starting to show it's unmerciful heat. Her knees buckled slightly as the apparition tried to dig her toes into the earth in an effort to gain any source of friction against her strong apponant.

Oh yes, Kagome was not ashamed to admit that the taijiya was stronger than her. On the contrary, the miko demon would still respect Sango if they were not friends to begin with

The demon slayer grinded her teeth together, tightening her jaw. Withdrawing her muscles, she suddenly gave a hard push against the katana which sent her friend stumbling back a few feet before she collapsed onto the ground, spread eagled. Kagome faught to calm her breathing that was coming out in short pants as she tilted her head backwards so that she viewed an upside down smirking Sango.

Kagome pouted at her best friend, waving a hand in the air lazily. "You officially beat me, mostly because of this blasted heat, I should remind you. I feel like I can drink a whole entire lake." She giggled, he cheeks flushed from the heat. Sango gave an unladylike snort.

"You really need to work on your stamina, I hope you know. You won't last five minutes with someone stronger than me." Sango stated, almost in a motherly tone so that Kagome would not get insulted.

"Yeah, yeah." The miko demon grunted as she rolled over onto her hands and knees, pulling herself off of the ground and began to brush off the dirt off of her already dirty kimono. She eyed her clothing and frowned. "So much for staying clean." She mumbled to herself, but then a blinding smile lit up her face as she started back to the hut, skipping happily.

Sango, meanwhile, looked at her best friend and comrad weirdly before shaking her head, a slightly amused smile on the slayers lips.

"We have to get ready things for the move to my era!" Kagome sang back over her shoulder giddily before she turned around and stopped her skipping only to start walking backwards. "Oh Sango! You'll love it there, I swear. There's lot's of cute boy's in my time too." Kagome grinned, winking at the Slayer who flushed bright red.

"Kagome! How indecent! Is everone in your time a-as, um, straightforward as you?" This was asked and Kagome smiled and told her about her time, and how her friends would drag her to places to go shopping and boy watching, and how there were tons of celebrities whose fans publicly showed their affection for them and so on.

Sango had loved Miroku, yes. But she also accepted that no matter how much she mourned for him, it wasn't going to bring him back, no matter how much she cried and screamed. She had accepted it and hoped to move on. Some day. Yes, she did miss him, but he was in the past and she needed to focus on the future. Literally.

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It was night fall now, and Kagome and Sango had spent the day gathering clothing and items, and some feudal herbs that they had grew over time, using Kagome's large yellow backpack that she hadn't used in a long time to pack the items.After everything was ready, the young miko demon hoisted the pack onto her shoulders, almost stumbling back in surprise, but she kept her balance with determination.

Sango had of course, her large boomerang strapped to her bag as usually and she was carrying a small sack with some of her personal items that she had wanted to bring to Kagome's time.

Once they had arrived at the clearing, they stopped at the old Bone Eaters well. Kagome sighed, plopping down onto the ledge of the well, glancing wearily into it's dark depths. Kaede had taught her a few simple spells for sealing houses and entries, so she practiced it on the well. It wasn't much differant from a house, she did afterall, use it to get home. She closed her eyes and muttered a few obscenities while she did a few signs with her two index fingers. As soon as she finished an odd whistle was heard as the spell was deactivated from the well, unsealing it. A bright smile flit accross Kagome's features as she turned to Sango.

"Are you ready?" The apparition inquired softly, noticing the solemn look on her best friend's face. She was leaving the only life she knew, so it was to be expected., Kagome knew

The slayer seemed to have snapped out of her thoughts because her chestnut coloured eyes cleared and she flashed a breif smile at Kagome. The miko nodded and motion with her hand for Sango to come closer to the well, which Sango nodded at walked forward until she was side by side, both of the girls sitting on the ledge of the well.

Kagome grasped Sango's tanned wrist tightly, casting a worried glance at the tejiya. "Are you sure you want to do this?"

"Positive." Sango responded, not missing a beat, her lips curving into a confident smile. 'Good bye Miroku.'

Kagome nodded and faced the inside of the well, her grip now tightening almost painfully on Sango's wrist. 'Please Kami-sama, let this work.' Raced through Kagome's head. The well had only let those with jewel shards and Inuyasha into the well, so she hoped Sango would be able to pass over to her time.

With that, they both pushed themselves off of the ledge, falling into the dark well, and a flash of blue light showed breifly before the well went normal again.

'I love you. I'll say it only once. Because it's my time to move on, koi.

'So, I'll see you when it's my time to leave, okay? Don't wait up for me.'

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A/N: Tada! Aren't you guys proud of me? D I had a writers locks but inspiration struck me to finish this chapter, so I hope you guys like it. ;D Oh, and the last though there...guess who it belonged to? It's easy, come on. XDD And I can't beleive it! You guys still stuck with me? O.o;; Thanks for not giving up on this story, my lovely reviewers! I hope you like it.

Tata for now! Xoxoxox

-Raini