Chapter 1
The Disappearance
A little girl sat on the edge the river with her bare feet dangling in the water. She sighed and then smiled. This girl was training to be a demon slayer by her father and she also had a little brother who was to one day train like her. The girl was ten, but she was mature for her age…well, sometimes.
"Hey Sango! Heads up!" An eleven year old boy's voice shouted. Sango turned around and saw her friend, Bankotsu, running towards her. Sango shrieked as he grabbed her and pulled her into the water. Sango emerged to the surface and filled her lungs with air. She waded in the water and looked around for Bankotsu. Sango began to panic when she didn't see him come out of the water.
"Bankotsu! Bankotsu! Where are you?" She screamed, but then something grabbed her ankle and pulled Sango back under water. She spun around and saw Bankotsu smirking. Sango rolled her eyes and pushed him playfully with her feet for a boost back up to the surface.
Sango turned around and saw Bankotsu's head poking out of the water. She rolled her eyes again and swam towards shore with the boy right behind her.
Sango and Bankotsu had dried off and changed clothes. They walked side by side on a gravel path with Sango's two tailed cat demon, Kirara. Bankotsu laughed a little, breaking the silence.
"What's so funny?" Sango asked as Bankotsu placed his hands behind his head to rest his neck.
"You actually thought I drowned." He answered still laughing a little. Sango punched him playfully in the arm. Bankotsu smirked and rubbed his arm.
Then they reached a hill. The grass swayed from side to side and it looked like a green sea. Birds chirped lightly as they flew across the blue sky.
Sango ran up the hill and sat down at the top and Kirara jumped onto her shoulder. Sango giggled. Bankotsu followed her and sat by her side.
"It's so beautiful out here." Sango said and Bankotsu nodded. Sometimes he did feel a little uncomfortable that his best friend was a girl. But the uncomfortable part wasn't that she was a girl it was that Bankotsu had a crush on her. He wanted to tell her, but Bankotsu was afraid it break their friendship. He bit his lip and Sango glanced over at him.
"Bankotsu, what's wrong?" Sango asked as she saw the worried expression on his face.
"Oh nothing!" He shouted out nervously. Sango could tell that she was lying, but she didn't want to force it out of him. Then the warning bell rang back in the demon slayers village. Bankotsu and Sango stood up quickly and ran towards the village.
The reached it and saw the people being attacked by a horde of demons. Sango ran to grab her sword out of her hut, but her father stopped her.
"No Sango, you can't go. This is to dangerous for you!" He ordered.
"But Father, I've been training for this. I'm ready!" Sango argued.
"No!" He ordered and Sango went back into the hut.
She watched as all the demon slayers hurried to get their weapons. Sango saw Bankotsu getting his sword and following behind his father. Sango wanted to get in the action too. She ran over to the corner of her hut and grabbed her sword and dashed out the door, before her mother could stop her.
The demons came closer and closer to the village and the slayers were ready. Sango ran up beside Bankotsu with Kirara at her heels. Then Kirara turned into a giant Saber tooth cat.
"Hey, what are you doing here!" He questioned.
"I know I'm ready for this!" She answered. Bankotsu hesitated for a moment, and then nodded.
The first demon flew down to Bankotsu. He slashed at the demon and struck it in the heart. It made a squealing sound and fell to the ground. The rest of the horde came after. It was demon slayer against demon and the slayers were winning. But then another demon came for Sango.
She screamed as the demon dug it's fang into her leg. Sango fell to the ground, unconscious from the loss of blood. Kirara let a loud growl and that got Bankotsu's attention.
"Sango!" Bankotsu yelled as he held off another demon. His legs began to tremble under the force of the demon pushing on his blocking sword. Bankotsu then pushed harder and forced the demon back. The monster flew at him again, but Bankotsu dodged the attack. The demon slid beside him and with a quick sweep, Bankotsu cut it's head off.
With the demon dead, Bankotsu ran up beside Sango and looked down at her blood-covered leg. He looked behind and saw the other demon slayers busy fighting off demons, so they couldn't help him and Kirara was dealing with another demon. Bankotsu quickly ripped off the arm of his kimono and wrapped it tightly around Sango's wound. Her eyes then fluttered open.
"Bankotsu…" She said wearily. But Bankotsu didn't answer, he was just so glad she was all right. He couldn't hold it in anymore. Bankotsu leaned over and locked lips with Sango. Her eyes widened in surprise, she didn't know Bankotsu felt this way about her. Sango pushed him off of her and he stared in confusion.
"What is it?" He asked and Sango bit her lip.
"I… I thought we were just friends…" She answered slowly. Bankotsu still stared at her with a puzzled look on his face.
"But…" He started, but Sango's father came running over to her.
"Sango, I told not to come out here! Now look what happened!" He shouted in anger. Sango was about to speak, but he father scooped her up in his arms and carried her back to the hut to be treated.
Bankotsu was still stunned at what she had said. I thought we were just friends. Those words hurt, like a knife stabbing into your back. Kirara had turned back to her small form and she rubbed against Bankotsu's leg, but he didn't notice her. I guess maybe it was a little to soon. Damnit Bankotsu, why did you have to make a move on her? Bankotsu wondered.
After a long time of arguing with himself he finally decided he would go apologize to her later that evening.
Bankotsu walked through the village just as the sun was going down. People were now hurrying into her homes to get ready to sleep. He sighed as he reached Sango's hut. He walked up to the door and hesitated before he knocked on the straw door. He pulled his hand back.
Bankotsu didn't know how to put it. What? Just say 'Oh I'm sorry for kissing you today, it's just I've had a crush on you since we were seven.' No, that sounded really pathetic. He wanted to be cool about it. Maybe something like, 'Hey Sango, can we talk?'
Bankotsu decided on that and reached to knock on the door. Then a hand covered his mouth. Bankotsu tried to shout, but he his voice was muffled out. Then something hard hit the back of Bankotsu's head and everything went black.
Sango sat by the fire and looked over at her sleeping parents and brother. She hugged her legs and touched her lips lightly. She reached over and petted the sleeping Kirara. Sango thought back to the kiss. She never knew that Bankotsu felt that way about her. Did she feel the same? Sango didn't know the answer to that question.
She always thought they were just friends, but after that… She didn't know what to think anymore.
Sango snapped out of daze when she heard rustling outside of her hut. She jumped up and limped outside. Sango gasped at what she saw. The man was standing there with Bankotsu's unconscious body over his shoulder.
"What are you doing with him!" Sango shouted, but then another man came up behind her and tied to cloth around her mouth and held onto her arms.
"No, we don't need her." The first man hissed. "She's injured, we'll just take the boy." He had just noticed her injured leg.
"What do you want me to do with her?" The second asked and the first smirked.
"Whatever you want." The first man began to walk away. The second looked down at Sango and an evil smirk spread across his face. He reached down to the ground and picked up a rock. She tried to get away, but the man just squeezed her arm harder. The man brought the rock down and it hit Sango in the back of the head.
She began to feel dizzy, but she stayed awake and ripped out of the man's grasped. She staggered away from him and pulled of the cloth around her mouth.
"Someone help me!" Sango screamed and the man dived for her, but Sango dodged him and he fell to the ground. Sango's father emerged from the hut with his weapon. He ran up to the man, who was still on the ground, and plunged his sword into the man's back. He immediately stopped moving and Sango's father was breathing heavily.
"Sango, are you okay?" He asked still panting, but Sango didn't answer. The dizziness came back to her and she fell to the ground.
Sango woke up cradled in her mother's arms. She felt something wrapped around her head and realized it was a bandage, from the hit. But Sango had splitting headache. Sango sat up quickly and looked at her mother's tear stained face. Kirara mewed in joy.
"Sango, you're awake!" She shouted, surprised, as she pulled her into a hug. Sango pushed away and stared up at her mother.
"Where's Bankotsu?" Sango shouted and her mother's eyes welled up with tears.
"Oh Sango." She said as she gave her another hug.
"No! Where is he?" Sango yelled again pulling away from her mother's grasp. She ran outside and looked around wildly for her friend.
"Bankotsu!" Sango screamed. She raced over to Bankotsu's hut. Sango flung the straw door out of the way. She saw Bankotsu's mother crying in the corner and her husband had his arms wrapped around her.
A little bit of tears was coming from his eyes too. Sango's eyes widened. She didn't want to think it, she knew it couldn't be true. Sango slowly backed out of the hut and felt a hand on her shoulder.
"Sango…" Her father started. "We never found Bankotsu…" Sango stood there stunned and a tear rolled down her cheek. Kirara came up beside her and mewed. Before Sango knew it tears poured out of her eyes and she buried her face in her father's chest, sobbing.
My 3rd story! yay! but i luv this 1! its so sad! well Please R&R!