Disclaimer: I still don't own Inuyasha but if I did then …I don't know but it would be cool.
Author's Notes: ….um….I don't have anything to say….
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When Good Mikos Go Bad
Chapter 2 Shared Greif
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"KAGOME!!"
"Miroku, doesn't that sound like Inuyasha?" Sango yelled, while smashing a demon to bits with a mighty swing of the hiroksu. She raised her weapon above her head preparing for another swing when she realized, the demons were leaving the general was pulling back with his troops.
"The demons are retreating," Miroku stated what Sango already had noticed ignoring her earlier question. The two snapped out of their confused musings when they heard Inuyasha's frantic voice.
"Kagome, hold on, I'm comin' don't do anything stupid!" To most it would have seemed like weak denial on the hanyou's part, but to Miroku and Sango it was a bright alarm warning of future recklessness.
The two companions ran toward their friend, praying he wouldn't do anything stupid to try and save Kagome. Sango signaled to Kiara who flew down gracefully with Shippou clinging to her back. "Are the d-demons g-gone, d-did w-we w-win?" stuttered the tiny kitsune.
From the sound Inuyasha's making I doubt it," replied Sango.
"Sango," Miroku thought aloud, "Doesn't it seem odd that they would suddenly retreat when they were clearly at the advantage? What do you suppose their target was?"
"Kagome!" the shriek/growl made it clear, and answered the monk's question, worry for their miko friend urged the others to move faster toward the hanyou, fueling their limited energy.
When the rest of the gang caught up to Inuyasha he was attempting to scale down the side of the cliff, muttering under his breath something that sounded strangely like "gotta' hurry…clumsy wench…baka cliff…damn youkai…"
"Inuyasha…?" Sango didn't quite know how to voice her suspicions about the whereabouts of her friend, so instead she glanced at Miroku expectantly.
"Where is Lady Kagome?" he finished for her simply, he too weary of an outburst.
"She'll be fine!" the hanyou snapped violently from his place on the cliff, "Damn women falling like that…" then softer so that the humans couldn't hear, "my fault gotta' hurry."
Connecting the muttered dots the kitsune jumped to conclusions as always, "You dropped her!" Shippou accused, jumping off Kiara and alerting his friends to his presence.
"I didn't drop her damn bitch let go of hand!" Inuyasha was struggling to find a foot hold on the rocky summit, desperately trying to reach Kagome, despite his rapid blood loss.
"Inuyasha you cannot assist Lady Kagome, she never would have survived the fall." Miroku broke the news they were all unwilling to accept with a somber voice.
"Feh! I'm not just gonna leave her down there!"
"Even if she's still alive, you shall be of no use to her in your condition; you must rest and treat your wounds." Miroku's logic was lost on the hanyou but each word cut deep into Sango and Shippou, as the reality of what Miroku was implying snuck in. Kagome, the women they had come to love as a sister and mother, was gone.
"We will search for her in the morning, now your injuries are the most pressing concern." The monk continued in an attempt to coach the hanyou away from the cliff.
"It'll be too late then, we have to get Kagome now!" he insisted, losing his already shaky footing in frustration, and falling away from the ledge.
"Kiara," Sango ordered, jumping onto the feline's back, refusing to lose another friend that day, Instead of crying like she so desperately wished to, she sprang into action, catching the plummeting hanyou as kiara swept under him. He struggled against her, insisting he needed to save Kagome, which only brought tears to the slayer's eyes.
When they landed next to Miroku, Inuyasha lurched forward towards the cliff again, when Miroku's staff hit him squarely on the head, hard, rendering him unconscious. "We will tend to his wounds, he would never had seen reason."
Sango just nodded, moving over to Shippou's hunched frame on the ledge. She heard a distinct sniffle from the kitsune, and could've sworn she heard a soft cry of 'mama'. Kneeling down slightly, Sango wrapped her arms around the crying boy, letting her own tears fall, as he buried his face in her lap. Miroku approached and placed his arms around them both lending them strength, he did not cry but wore a deeply grieved expression, and in an uncharacteristic show of somberness, did not once try to stroke Sango's backside. Kiara approached nuzzling her mistress and friend, as she too grieved for the fallen priestess.
The picture was complete, Shippou, sobbing into Sango's lap, Sango crying into Miroku's shoulder, Miroku, holding them both, Kiara, howling in sorrow to the blue sky as she hovers over her friends protectively, and Inuyasha, unconscious three feet away, his slumbering mind plagued with guiltily thoughts of the women whom had gone over the edge.
Author's note: Okay sorry for not updating when I said I would I won't make excuses but if you have to blame someone blame my cousin. Tell me if the chapter length is okay cause it seemed a bit short but I had to end it here for presentational reasons, I've already written the next two chapters so I'll have those posted once they're all typed up which since it's a school week and I type like a snail should be by next weekend. Still looking for suggestions on the story's title as this one's temporary, and the next chapter's called Broken Promise so I will now leave with in suspense(ok not really) but review anyway you may or may not make me update faster.