Snickers – Part Twelve: Alphabet Soup

Not too much of my rambling this morning *-* I just want you to read the chapter. Today's my brother's birthday v.v *sigh* 17... We're having a 'surprise' bbq for him and invited his friends. Why the ' ''s you ask?... BECAUSE MY STUPID LITTLE BROTHER TOLD HIM! GAH! *I'm angry at the moment -.-;;* Anyway, I'm allowed to invite 2 ppl but I can't get through to one of them -.-; foo....

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Sango walked up to her neighbors door and took a deep breath before knocking.

'Deep breaths. Deep breaths. Deep breaths.'

"Inuyasha get the door!" she heard Sesshoumaru yell.

"Miroku get the door!" Inuyasha yelled.

"I can't!"

"Oh yeah... Rin, get the door!"

"Okay!"

"Inuyasha!"

"Rin!"

"I got it!" and with that, a small girl opened the door. "Hiya Sango."

"Hey there Rin. Where's-"

"Hey! Is Kohaku here too??"

Sango held back a laugh. She knew they had a crush on each other and Rin was always so excited. "No, he's still at home. Is-"

"Oh! What's that?" Rin asked, pointing to the thermos in Sango's hand.

"This is-"

"Sango, nice to see you again." Sesshoumaru said, coming up behind Rin. "Rin, go bother Inuyasha."

"Okay!" she chirped, "See you later Sango!" and with that, hopped off to the living room where Sango could see Inuyasha lounging.

"Hi Sesshoumaru. Is-"

"He's in the back room" Sesshoumaru interrupted, opening the door wider for her.

"Okay... Thank you." 'What a strange family...'

"Hey Inuyasha."

"Hey Sango" he muttered, not once taking his gaze off the TV Sango rolled her eyes, walking to the room Sesshoumaru had mention. She completely missed the smirk on Inuyasha's face.

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*knock knock*

"Come in" She heard Miroku say, and opened the door, peaking her head in.

"Sango!" he gasped. He heard the yelling for the door, but thought it was the pizza guy or something. He didn't think it would be her.

"Hey..." she smiled, "Mind if I come in?"

"oh... yeah! please." He said quickly, sitting up a bit.

"I just wanted to see how you were doing." Sango said, sitting on the side of Miroku's bed.

"I'm ok. It figures that I'd get sick though, right after a fight too." Miroku tried laughing.

"heh..."

There was a bit of uncomfortable silence between the two. Neither of them really wanted to talk about the fight or what it was about. Sango heard the rumors at school and tried her best not to think about it.

"What's that?" Miroku asked, breaking the silence. He didn't miss how red Sango got, but decided not to comment on it.

"Um..." Sango bit her lip and looked away, "I uh... I made you... soup."

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"You made me soup?" Miroku asked, blushing a bit.

"You don't have to eat it! It's just that-"

"No no! I'm glad. No one's made me soup for years. My father used to make me it when I was little."

"So did my mom." Sango smiled, pouring the soup out, "Kohaku gave me the idea, he was worried about."

"He's a nice kid." Miroku said, taking the cup.

"Yeah, he practically idolizes you."

"Alphabet!" Miroku exclaimed. Sango blushed a bit and looked at the wall.

"Yes... that's what my mom used to make Kohaku and I when we were sick."

"Did you spell stuff with the letter?" Miroku asked, moving the cup around. Sango nodded.

"Little messages like 'goodnight', 'feel better', 'sweet dreams', and 'I love you'. 'I just had this conversation with Kohaku...'

. . .

"Do you miss them?" Miroku asked quietly.

"...very much..."

Miroku took a sip of the soup. Sango looked really distressed, fumbling around with her 'Love Sucks' belt. (A/N: I saw one of those in Toilet Water in Ocean City, NJ I wanted it soooo bad! I LOVE that store! Sorry, I just had to put that in...)

"Sango...?"

"Miroku I'm sorry!" She burst out. "It's my fault. It's all my fault!"

"Sango what-"

"Naraku, the fight, I'm sorry! I heard about what happened, I heard about what was said and I'm sorry! It never should have happened! I'm just so sorry!" God's she'd been holding that in for a long time. Then, to Miroku's horror, she started to cry. Not loudly or hard. He couldn't hear her sniffling and her eyes were covered by her bangs, but not her cheeks. He could see a steady stream of tears running down her face and her shoulders were shaking a bit. So he did the only thing he could do, he hugged her, not once thinking about how soaked his shirt was going to get. Sango held onto the sides of Miroku's shirt and cried into it. She hadn't let anyone see her cry in a long time. Not Kagome or even Kohaku. But she couldn't help it now. She just felt like Miroku was hurt because of her and it was killing her from the inside out.

"I'm sorry, so-"

"Shh..." Miroku hushed, stroking her hair. "It's not you fault Sango... It's just not. I know what I'm getting myself into and it's not your fault." He whispered, rocking her.

A bit of time passed and Sango seemed to have calm down. The two were quiet.

"Hey Sango...? Would you like to-" Miroku stopped and looked down at the girl in his arms, only to find she had cried herself to sleep. Miroku sighed and rested his head on top of Sango's. Casting his gaze to his soup, Miroku almost laughed. The letters had rearranged themselves to read:

K - O - I

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*sniffle* *sniffle* so sweet. For those who don't know, Koi means love. I was trying to decide what the letters should spell. X.x Love seemed too.... Sappy? So I used it XD just in Jap. It was kinda short but well... It's hard to drag on fluff x.x for me atleast.