Miroku grumbled to himself he could not wait until his shift was over. Normally he did not mind being on the sauté station, he could manage his space wisely, he even shared a burner with the kid Shippo on sauces and stocks, and if he timed it properly when the runner shouted an order at him, he could even let the head Patisserie on one of his precious five remaining burners to make more pastry cream or use Shippo's stock as a double boiler for melting chocolate. But tonight he couldn't wait for it all to be over with because Jakostu was working, and when ever he was working Miroku wanted to cover his ass and hide. Jakostu had a bad tendency to grab Miroku's ass as he walked by running to and from the grill, and always seemed to let his fingers wander more then they should, as of currently Miroku had the biggest wedgie of his life. Miroku stopped for a moment maybe this was how the girls he groped felt….nah couldn't be he smiled and checked the clock once more, it read 10 just two more hours. He smiled maybe he would go to Kagome's tonight surprise her maybe he would 'accidentally' fall asleep on her couch with her again his smile broadened, it wasn't his fault after all, that she had some sort of vendetta against her bed and slept on the couch…

Walking down the street he was livid he hated the general public A LOT right now, Miroku detached himself from being apart of the general public after all he wasn't really apart of that normal click. He let a depressed sigh and looked at his watch as it illuminated itself down the narrow side street to Kagome's home 1:30 in the god damn morning. There was a last minuet call, at 11:45 of a party of 14 coming wishing for a full course meal, and like hell was the money grubbing owner going to turn them down, over time was a bitch when ten of the fourteen orders came in for his station. People sucked, really bad in his opinion right now, but he smiled as his feet climbed up the front steps of her house. He reached for his keys; she always locked and dead bolted the door after nine. Sliding his key into the slot the door pushed open with out him even turning the lock, cold blood ran through his veins, shoving the door open hearing bang against the rubber stopper, the lights were off but he didn't need them on to navigate through the house. Running fearfully into the living room he barley managed to flick the light on in his haste. His heart stopped and lodged itself in his throat.

Her figure was sprawled out over the couch, she looked deathly white, he couldn't tell if she was breathing or not his mind went into panic mode.

"Kagome!" as time seemed to resume itself he leapt over the vintage couch. Grabbing her body he placed her on his lap her body felt cold, quickly picking up her wrist he grabbed he pressed his fingers to her pulse, it was a slow rhythmic beat that made him sigh in relief. Looking down at her face he pressed his hand to her fore head, which was ice cold. Taking her hand in his he could feel her fingers moving he looked down at her what could possibly be going on…

'This is all your fault…' the words kept growing stronger, a pain was growing in her arm. Looking around the darkness of her mind felt like it was suffocating her, the darkness started to swirl as a memory came into view…

A woman was sitting at a bar a clear glass was filled with a dark amber liquid sitting next to her was a burly man, who seemed to have had one too many drinks. Kagome stepped closer to the bar, the woman looked identical to her except for some minor differences. She looked over to the man who had flushed blood vessel popped checks.

"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT," he managed to scream at the woman who just ignored him as he stormed out of the bar. She let out a sigh, and knocked back the amber liquid in one down, waving the bar keep over for another. Kagome sat down next to her and had to wonder what was her fault, the woman threw the paper that was on the bar against the wall. Looking over the papers head lines "Man Killed in Fire… Source of Fire Seem's to be Man Made," her eyes widened as she looked at the woman's arm with half healed burns. She watched the woman slap some bills on the counter, and walk out past her. Hurrying after her out the door, she ran after her into the alley she turned down. Kagome froze in her spot all the air left her as if some one knocked it out of her, looking down the alley she saw the woman get sucker punched, Kagome saw the burly man holding a box cutter her eyes widened her voice wouldn't work she couldn't scream! She couldn't look away as the man brought it down across the woman's throat in one swift motion. As time slowed down, the man looked up and seemed to look directly at her with a sadistic smile. She felt the suffocating dark consume her, "NO!" this couldn't be right "NOOOO!" this wasn't happening where did all of her other ghosts go...! The dark seemed to circle in on her as if to cut out the remaining air in her body…

"NOOOO!" Kagome shot up from her bed; her scream tore through her house making Miroku run into the room from the kitchen with his apron still on. Kagome looked at him and smiled until she started coughing, looking down at her hands were botches of blood. She frowned down into her hands before quickly twisting them into the sheets. Smiling up at Miroku, Kagome knew what was coming and she didn't feel like getting grilled for information right now, especially by Miroku, for one reason she could never lie to him… he could always tell when she did or was going to. Her smile left her face as she looked into his eyes for the first time, his violet eyes were frozen in time, the normal chipper perversion was gone, left with fear and worry... making him look ten years older. A tear slid its way down her cheek, before she could reach up to brush it off, he was at her side his thumb wiping it away, that was all it took for her to break down.

Miroku looked down at the sobbing girl in his arms, this was a first, he never saw Kagome break down like this before. Gently wrapping his arms around her he could hardly make out what she was saying between the sobs and the violent hiccupping.

"Miroku…sob… it was so…hiccup…bad, I just w-w-watched… sob…and and and and IT WAS MY FAULT…hiccup… I tried… I reallllly…hic…TRIED…but… but I COULDN'T …hic…speak" Miroku couldn't figure out what was wrong with the shattered sentence she could barley string together, she slumped further into his embrace and he held her tighter. He knew she was going to fall asleep again but that was ok she needed her rest. He tucked her back into bed smiling gently at her relaxed face no longer distraught as it had been in the past couple hours. Turning he got up from the bed, but a read stain on her normal pale blue sheets stood out like a sore thumb, he couldn't hold the dark frown that marred his features. He needed to know and the next time she woke up he was going to find out. Standing up with his manly resolve he left the room still wearing the frilly lacy pink '50s apron to tend to the soufflé he had abandoned to attend to Kagome when she screamed. He sighed as he entered the kitchen, he knew she was hiding things from him and she would tell him when the time came to it. But as he opened the oven door, he let another sigh out, her 'spells' had never been this bad before and he was getting to the end of a really, really long stick worth of patience over the years. Pulling out his pans he glanced over to her room once more, he would get her to tell him the next time she woke up.

Sorry for the wait but I had to attend graduation which was a waste if time x.x then I had huge work week and there are a lot more excuses I could put here but oh well… but I didn't mind puting this fic off cause no one has yet to review and I'm a little sad but I will continue this no matter what because I made a promise that I would finish something AND I WILL for all the none believers…. But any who enjoy there will be fluff A LOT of fluff next chapter I love fluff it will be so fluffy that I can put it in my pate a choux lmao that was lame but any who thank you once more for having faith in me and staying with me for this long I appreciate it with all my heart 3333 I wont make any more promises on when I will update cause when ever I do I never do so I wont jinx it amymore but sorry for the belatedness of the chapter it was summer and hey I had no motivation for anything…. But on with the show