A/N: This is my first InuYasha fic, well technically second, the first-first was a parody, but this isn't a spoof fic, it's an actual one, so my first actual Inu fic... anyways, enough talk, enjoy!
Miroku was very sick with a bad cold, all the others could do was watch him lay in bed. Kagome was too far from the well to go back home and get any medicine, so they resorted to the herbs that Kaede had told them about. Sango sat down next to the sleeping monk, Kirara sitting in her lap. She sighed sadly, it pained her to see him like that. I mean sure he was a lecher and did plenty of bad things, but nobody likes to see others get sick.
"Hey, Sango?" Kagome opened the door flap, Shippo on her shoulder. "Is it alright if we come in?"
"Oh, Kagome." Sango turned from in her thoughts. "Yeah, sure, that's fine." Kirara cooed and jumped off her lap and jumped up into Kagome's arms as she sat down next to the demon slayer. "So how's he doing?"
"Well his fever is maintaining, so that's a good sign." Sango sighed.
Shippo jumped down off Kagome's back, "When do you think he'll be able to get up again?"
"Who knows?" They all looked up to see InuYasha standing with his arms folded in the doorway. "I mean really that's all up to Miroku, you know?"
"But InuYasha." Shippo spoke up. "He's been sick for days and he's not getting any better. How can you possibly expect…"
"Sh, Shippo!" Kagome shushed quietly and covered his mouth, motioning to Sango.
"Oh." Shippo gasped and became quiet as Sango's eyes began to quiver with fear.
"Please, get well soon." She closed her eyes, her worried face deepened with sorrow. All he did was sleep and have bad dreams, this may have been the only time she ever wanted Miroku go become feisty and make a move on her, just to know that he was well enough to have it in him to be himself.
"Maybe we should try to go back to Kaede's village." Kagome sighed up at InuYasha.
"It's risky." InuYasha sat down, eyes shut in thought. "It's pretty far, and we could be attacked along the way."
"I know, but…" Kagome stopped herself and sighed. Later, Sango went to go change the water in the bowl for Miroku's forehead cloth. Kagome took out the thermometer and shook it. "It's still pretty high."
"What's that Kagome?" Shippo asked.
"It's something from back home called a thermometer, when you get sick it tells you what kind of fever you have."
"Oh! What did it say about Miroku, anything good?"
"No, I'm afraid not." Kagome frowned. "I don't want to tell Sango, but there might not be anything we can do for him…"
Sango was listening from outside, she sighed and closed her eyes, then turned and looked up at the night sky full of stars and her eyes shook with tears, "Please Miroku, you can't die…. I never told you that… I just want you to know what, I….." She began to cry. Kirara meowed sweetly up at her, but she continued to weep and Kirara sat down sadly.
Kagome sighed as she watched the fire, she turned to see InuYasha and Shippo and Kirara sleeping, she looked over and saw that Sango had passed out too in the corner and she sighed, "Poor Sango…"
"Sango…"
"Huh?" Kagome turned to the faint whisper and looked down to see Miroku talking in his sleep, his voice was raspy and sounded terrible, not his usual tone. "Is he dreaming?"
"Sango…" He muttered again.
Kagome's eyes went wide, "Is he dreaming about Sango?"
The next morning…
"Kagome, did you stay up all night?" InuYasha asked.
Kagome yawned, "It's no big deal."
"Yeah it is, you look terrible."
"Hey."
"Oh come off it, you know what I mean." InuYasha scoffed. "Get some rest. Shippo and I are going to look for something to eat for lunch."
"Alright." Kagome sighed and went to lay back against the wall.
"We'll be back later." Shippo waved and the boys left.
"If Miroku wakes up, he needs to take two aspirin." Kagome dug into her backpack. "It could bring his fever down." She set them down, and then she turned to Sango, "Hey."
"Yeah?" Sango glanced back.
"You sure you're gonna be okay?"
"Yeah, fine." Sango forced a convincing smile, but Kagome saw through it.
"Okay." Kagome gave into the lie and closed her eyes. She sighed to herself, how could she tell Sango that Miroku was dreaming about her? She knew Sango had feelings for Miroku, and Miroku did for Sango, but neither could be convinced. Could Miroku die and never tell Sango that he loved her and know that Sango loved him?
An hour later…
Sango looked down at the bottle and picked it up, "So if he takes two, it might help his fever…"
"Is that some of Kagome's future medicine?"
"Huh?" Sango gasped, she whirled around to see Miroku smiling weakly up at her. Her eyes shook with tears, "Miroku?" He was actually awake!
"Will that help me?"
"She said two might help your fever." Sango opened it and poured two pills out.
"They're small." Miroku coughed as Sango placed them in his hand. "Maybe I should take more."
"I'm glad, Miroku…"
"Huh?" He looked meekly back up at her, his eyes heavy again.
Sango smiled behind the pain, "I'm glad, that you're going to be okay."
Miroku smiled back, "I'm glad too." He went back to sleep.
Sango smiled to herself, her eyes shaking with tears, "Miroku…" He looked to be sleeping a little more peacefully now. She looked up happily, "Maybe, maybe he will get better after all."
Later…
"We're back." InuYasha opened the door.
"Hey, finally." Kagome looked up from teaching Sango how to play solitaire with her pack of cards.
"How's Miroku?"
"He woke up!" Sango beamed.
"Oh, that's good." InuYasha blinked, frankly he was surprised, he was just asking to be nice.
"See he is going to get better!" Shippo cheered.
"That's right." Sango smiled, and Kirara let out another small meow.
"I feel a little better after taking those two small capsules."
"Miroku?" Sango turned around quickly to see him awake and smiling again.
"Hey."
"Miroku!" Kagome wore a big grin.
"Hey there guys." He began to cough.
"How are you?"
"I'm feeling a bit better…"
"Hey Miroku if you're feeling better, do you want to come outside and play?" Shippo asked.
"No, heh. I'm still feeling really tired, I don't think I can move." Miroku blinked slowly, still hurting from the fever.
"Take it easy Shippo, he's not out of the Tiger Woods yet."
"The what woods? Is that by the forest of InuYasha?"
"Oh." Kagome caught herself and laughed. "Never mind…"
"Aw…" Shippo sighed.
"Maybe tomorrow." Miroku smiled.
"That's alright, but you should take it easy so you don't get any worse or catch a relapse." Kagome told him.
"Do you want to eat?"
"I don't think I could stomach it." Miroku laughed slightly but coughed.
"I'm glad to see you awake, but you should go back to sleep." Sango smiled.
"I agree." Miroku closed his eyes and fell back to sleep. Sango smiled down at him.
Kagome nudged InuYasha as he ate, "Ow, hey what gives!"
"See that?" She motioned at them. "I told you so."
That night….
Everyone slept by the fire in the small hut along the path, the river moved quietly not too far from them. Miroku opened his eyes and looked around, he saw everyone asleep, he looked over at Sango. He smiled to himself, even in her worried sleep she was beautiful. He groaned, he still felt terrible. He noticed the bottle still near him.
"If two helped me to wake up from the fever…" He reached over to grab it, then opened it and poured out about eight more. "Maybe some more will help me get better period." He opened his mouth and ate them all. He tapped on his chest as they went down. "Wow, that's rough on the throat." He yawned and went back down, looking at Sango. "Tomorrow, Sango, I'll be better, and then I can tell you…" His eyes became heavy. "How I feel…" Little did he know of the huge mistake he had just made.
That morning…
"Fish for breakfast!" Shippo cheered.
"Again?" Kagome sighed. "We had fish for dinner."
"Choosers can't be picky." InuYasha wolfed them down. "What about you Sango?" No reply. "Sango?" InuYasha stopped and opened his eyes at her direction.
Kagome turned around to face Sango, "What is it?"
"It's Miroku, he seems to be breathing funny." Sango was watching him closely.
"Huh?" Kagome crawled over to see him sweating and breathing very tense and shallow. "Uh oh." Kagome began to think, she gasped and looked around, finding the bottle and opening it. "Oh no!" She cried and turned it upside down, and nothing fell out. "It's empty!"
"What is it?" InuYasha asked.
"Miroku just did something very bad, and very stupid!"
"Did he knock Sango up?"
"What, no!"
"Did he eat your bottle?"
"Yes!"
"But Sango is okay."
"…I guess…" Kagome was baffled.
"Alright then." InuYasha went back to eating.
"Aren't you worried about Miroku?" Kagome yelled. "The bottle is empty!"
"Wait, so there's no more to help him?" Sango frowned worriedly.
"No, that's not what I mean!" Kagome whirled around. "He must've taken them all last night!"
"So?"
"So that's very bad!"
"But, they were helping him." Sango grew fearful in her confusion.
"Yes, two at a time can be good, but a handful can kill a person!"
"What!" Sango yelled.
"Oh this is all my fault!" Kagome's eyes began to tear up.
"What do we do?" Shippo cried.
"What can we do?" InuYasha asked, a little angry.
"Miroku, please no, you can't die!" Sango turned around quickly, tears coming from her eyes. "You can't leave us, what about Naraku, what about Master Mushin and Hachi, what about the ladies, what about your friends." She chocked, "What about me?" Miroku began to sputter in his sleep and he keeled at the waist. "Huh? Miroku?"
"Sango?" Miroku opened his eyes.
"What is it?"
"What's going on, with my body?"
"Miroku, you did a bad thing by eating all of those pills." Kagome went over.
"But, those were medicine to help me, I thought…"
"Yes, but only two at a time."
"That's weird…" Miroku clenched the sheet tightly.
"Miroku are you alright?" Shippo asked.
"No." Miroku whined painfully, usually he would roll everything off his back, but for him to cry out and admit he was hurt, this was serious. He grabbed onto Sango's leg, who was the closets, "Sango…!" He looked up at her with weak pleading eyes. "You have to help me."
Sango stared back down at him in shock, her eyes welling up, "Miroku…"
"Please." He passed out before he could say, "And I promise, I will only go after only you from this day on after, forever and ever more…"
"What am I going to do?" Sango asked herself as her eyes shook.
"We have to hurry." Shippo became serious. "But how do we help him?"
"I don't know… but taking all those pills made it worse." Kagome began to think. "It's too late to get them out of his system, if there was only a way to counteract them…."
"But it's not his fault, only you really know about this medicine." InuYasha stated.
"InuYasha, did Kikyo ever teach you of any herbs that might be able to help us here?"
"Hm?" He blinked and began to think. "Hm, I dunno…." He folded his arms.
"Hurry InuYasha." Kagome clenched a fist in haste and looked at Miroku. "I don't know how much time we might have left…"