Miroku wondered where the things he sucked up went. It seemed they disappeared.

It felt black.

This was disproved when things he sucked up poisoned him. It seemed that the void was connected to him somehow.

It felt green.

Miroku never lost much sleep over it either way.

He wondered what would happen if he sucked up a Shikon shard. The completed jewel would be out of reach forever.

So one day, he took one of Kagome's. No one noticed.

It felt pink.

He wondered when they would figure it out, that the last shard would never be the last.