InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Prologue - A Test of Memory (The Coming of Rinkatsu) ❯ Kohaku ( Chapter 14 )

Sango began seeing light as her eyes slowly opened. When she regained consciousness she realized it was nighttime and she was in a hut and she was lying on a little makeshift bed. Sitting next to her was Kagome who was tending to the fire.

"Ugh...." groaned Sango. "What happened?"

"I stabbed you very close to your heart. Luckily I was able to stop the bleeding before you died," said Kagome.

"You saved me... but why? I tried to kill you," said Sango.

"I can see that you're a mercenary," said Kagome holding up a crumbled and detailed drawing of herself which was one a mercenary would use to identify a target. "You needed money, I'm guessing."

"And I still do," said Sango as she slowly regained her strength. "Thanks for your hospitality, but mercenaries are heartless... I've been starving for days and I've been living in poverty." She walked to her things while holding her wound in pain. She bent over and picked up her katana.

"Then you would kill me..." said Kagome.

"Money is a necessity, friends are not," replied Sango as she walked towards Kagome with her katana.

Kagome could only stare at Sango at who she was now. Kagome could only say one thing.

"Is this how Kohaku would want you to live?" asked Kagome.

Sango stopped in her tracks. The sound of Kohaku's name gave her nightmarish thoughts of killing him... terrible thoughts. All's she could do was fall to her knees, cover her face and cry.

Kagome walked over to Sango and bent down to her knees.

"Kagome!" yelled Sango as she leaned to her in tears for a hug.