InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Looking For You ❯ Epilogue ( Chapter 3 )

I look back on the fleeing shadows along the road

The “I love you” I could not say that day

- A False I Love You, Utada Hikaru

“What are you thinking about?” Miroku asked, bringing a blanket out to Sango a month after Inu Yasha’s passing.

“Just what’s happened in the past month,” she replied. She gazed across the field, to the half-finished hut Kohaku, Shippo, and Miroku were building for Kohaku and Rin. The two were to be wed the day it was finished. Inside Miroku’s hut, Rin was busy getting the two children, Chidori and Tsubasa, to sleep. The two had really taken after Rin, especially Chidori though who followed the woman like a chick follows its mother.

Shippo was somewhere; he had wandered off after the group had eaten. Kohaku was over across the field, checking something or other. Kirara had long since fallen asleep. So, all that was left of the group living in the hut, only two of them, Sango and Miroku were around to witness the next event.

“Look, a shooting star,” Miroku pointed out. “Make a wish, Sango,” he suggested.

‘I wish I could be with him forever,’ Sango wished, meaning the man next to her.

‘I wish I could be with her forever,’ Miroku wished, meaning the woman next to him. Sango began to shiver, and Miroku scooted closer to her, letting their bodies share warmth. She yawned and leaned into his shoulder, feeling content and safe for the first time in such a long time.

“Sango,” he murmured, laying his head on top of hers. She turned her head and gazed into his eyes. It was then that he noted his breath was stolen from him as he looked into her eyes, her soul. And in that split second, he knew something very important. Which is why he knew that she wouldn’t slap him when he kissed her.

They kissed for what seemed an eternity, but too soon, Sango broke away from him. “It’s... too soon,” she told him. He didn’t let her see it, but he was crushed that even after all this time, she was still broken. Sango stood up, and went inside. Miroku sat outside, turning his gaze to the stars.

“Why can’t she trust me?” He asked the sky. He sat there for a long time. Just as he was about to get up, he heard a creak. Turning his head so he could see what had made the noise, he saw a tall shape stand over him. He wasn’t scared. On the contrary, he was grinning.

“What made you come back?” He asked. He couldn’t see her face, but he knew that she was smiling as well. She sat down right next to him and turned to him. The two sat together for the remainder of the night, lost in thought.

It took another month for Kohaku and Rin’s hut to be finished, but when it was, it was perfect for the four of them. The new couple had decided to adopt the two quarter demons. The day of their wedding was the best day though; at least it was in Sango’s opinion. Only a few beings were there, out in the field. Sango, Miroku, the twins, Shippo, Myouga, Kirara, and Kouga with his mate and two best friends, Ginta and Hakkaku.

The sky was a crystalline blue, birds were out and chirping, and the bride was stunning in her simple kimono and a crown of little pink flowers she had made earlier that morning. Miroku had married the two, keeping the ceremony small and simple, with no outsiders. Sango couldn’t help but feel her heart burst with happiness when the two kissed. But still, it also hurt her when she thought about the fact that her younger brother was already married when she herself wasn’t. It made the thoughts, like she was going to grow old and die alone, appear.

The twins stayed with Miroku and Sango the first night the couple was married. It took a lot of convincing on all their parts, but finally they agreed. A little under a year later, Rin was delivering her first child. Though Sango was happy for her sister-in-law, she still felt a pang when she first saw the child, knowing that she had once been a mother to a child slaughtered before its first breath. She had unknowingly placed her hand on her abdomen, a movement Miroku caught.

The two spent the night taking care of the twins. In fact, for a while, the twins moved back in with Miroku, Sango, Kirara, and Shippo. Unbeknownst to Sango, Miroku was watching her closely the entire time. Ever since she had told him that he was her dead child’s father, he had wondered what having her child killed had done to her.

One night, long after Tsubasa and Chidori had became adults, Miroku and Sango were still living together, never marrying, never feeling the need to, the two were once more sitting outside. Miroku gazed up at the stars and saw something he hadn’t seen in a long time.

“A shooting star,” Sango whispered. She laid her head on his shoulder, he did the same, laying his head on hers. She felt his arm snake around her waist and the two sat like that for a long time. They both looked at the sky, at the star, and made a wish.

‘Let me always love this person,’ they wished. He whispered something to her and she turned to him, grinning. “It’s because you’re an addiction. I’m addicted to you, and it’s an addiction I never want to quit,” she whispered in his ear. They kissed.

A/N: :D It’s an open ending. There’s nothing after this I’m afraid. Sorry about the long wait, I’ve been having troubles getting what I wanted to said to be said. Believe, it’s hard. Though, the addiction part at the end came from real life. Not quite in those same words, but the general meaning behind it. The person you love is something that you’re addicted to, like some people are to the internet. Err, maybe that’s a bad example. You can’t get enough of them, I guess is what I’m trying to say.

Disclaimer: I own nothing in this fic.