Chapter 27: Mistletoe Magic Strikes Again
Story by Aero Tendo

(Feudal Era)
(Elder's Home)

Sango got up from her futon and slowly peaks out the door only to see Kirara sleeping in front of it. She pulls the door open further and sighs as she thinks, "That Monk, why did he have to act that way?" before she slowly walks into the kitchen to make something for herself.

Miroku heard a noise and got up out a futon and slowly walks out to investigate. Walking down the hallway, he hears noises from the kitchen and pauses, moving into the dining room adjunct to it and waits to see who it might be.

Sango finishes her drink and walks out back towards her room and is passing the dining room when she hears a familiar voice say, "Sango…" and she turns quickly to see Miroku standing almost under the doorframe. She takes a half step towards him so that she too is almost under the doorframe where the mistletoe is.

Miroku looks at her with that serious look of his upon face and says, "I'm sorry Sango, I truly am." While Kirara wakes up down the hallway and slowly does a stretch.

Sango says, "It is all right Miroku, I forgive you. I just needed time to sort things out." She looks at him in the eyes and thinks, "Would you have really kissed me under the mistletoe?" but instead says, "Can you imagine Kagome? She was trying to get us to kiss."

Miroku nods and takes a small step forward so that he can look deeper into her eyes and says, "Yes, I know. And to be honest, I think it was one of Kagome's ideas as a Christmas present for the both of us."

Sango was shocked as that thought hadn't occurred to her and she blushed, "R-really? Why do you think she'd do that?" she says while looking up at his eyes, looking very dreamy at the moment while looking all the while very serious.

Miroku says, "Because she must think that we love each other. But I'm curious, do you Sango? I… love you Sango."

Sango couldn't believe her ears and blushed very redly. Sango could understand now how Aneko must have felt under the mistletoe. Then a thought occurs to her as she realizes where they are, and she looks up to see that she is standing under the mistletoe! She remembers Kagome's words about any two people meeting under the mistletoe having to kiss or else!

Sango gulps quietly and says, "M-Miroku, I… don't know what to say." Before she then tries to move back away from Miroku and the mistletoe but found that she couldn't! She was unable to move as Miroku moved closer and says to her, "I know that we're under the mistletoe Sango… but I won't force this. Will you kiss me Sango?"

Sango is unable to even break eye contact with Miroku and with her mouth feeling so dry from her nervousness all she can do is feel her head nodding a yes in answer before feeling Miroku reaching up with his left hand and touching her cheek very softly even as he lowered his head towards hers.

Sango thinks to herself, "I can't believe it! Miroku is REALLY going to kiss me!" without any bad feelings and she didn't feel that other hand of Miroku's messing up the moment for her either.

Miroku watches as Sango closes her eyes and her lips move to accept a kiss before he thinks, "Sango is so beautiful right now, and I love her." He gently presses his lips to hers for a long, tender kiss while Sango doesn't move as if she is frozen in time with the only exception being her lips pressing more in kind to his.

Kirara starts to walk down the hallway towards where Sango and Miroku are and sees them kissing under the mistletoe. Kirara pauses and just watches the two, wondering how long it'll last before Sango ends up slapping Miroku and when the kiss lingers longer than she thought it would, she wonders if she should do something and simply gives a soft, inquisitive Meow.

Miroku barely hears the soft meow by Kirara but it is enough to bring his awareness into the face that he is kissing Sango. He becomes aware that Kirara is there but he is still into the kiss with Sango that he drifts back into the kiss.

Sango was always aware of Kirara's every sound since it could mean the difference between success or defeat and became of the soft question, which sounded like Kirara was asking her name in a puzzled tone. This brought Sango into the realization that she was kissing Miroku and enjoying it! She blushes and immediately pushes herself away from Miroku!

Miroku looks surprised and says, "Sango…?" before he receives a big slap to the face and watches as Sango runs off down the hallway with a bright red face, holding her cheeks by her hands. Miroku looks down at Kirara and says, "What did I do?" with only a soft Meow from Kirara as his reply.

Sango runs down the hallway and into her room, closing the door hard and quickly while still blushing very bright red. She thinks to herself, "I can't BELIEVE that just happened! Miroku did NOT just kiss me!" and then brings a finger to her lips as the memory comes back of the kiss and all the feelings.

Sango traces her lower lip with her finger as she recalls the way Miroku looked just before she closed her eyes and her heart beats more quickly within her chest. She softly whispers, "Miroku…" just barely loud enough for her to hear it herself.

Snapping out of it, Sango hears footsteps and assumes that it is Miroku so she stays quiet and leans against the door to keep anyone from opening it but the footsteps just walk on by without even pausing but she does hear a soft sigh so she figures that she was right.

Sango slowly slides down until she's sitting and lets out a breath of relief before she glances at the door, wondering what tomorrow will bring after they kissed like that under the mistletoe.

(Kagome's Time)
(Tokyo, Japan – where Kagome's home is)

The city was going through very severe and cold weather and in a effort to keep the population warm the power stations were being pushed to the maximum. It was only good luck that the severe cold hadn't reached as far as the power stations, so it was able to keep up with the demands that the population was asking of it.

The reporter was standing inside a building where she could see through the window now that the cold snap had passed and saw that only a few of the more cold-resistant lights had survived which caused the city to look very eerie. She holds a microphone up and turns to face the camera guy before saying, "The weird cold snap that has affected much of Japan seems to have passed now and for any viewers out there, it is recommended that you stay inside where it is warm until official help can reach you. This is Kameko and I'll keep reporting on the weather every thirty minutes to keep everyone informed."

Kameko waits until the camera guy gives the signal that they're offline before she collapses to her knees and sighs, "Shima, what are we going to do? We're trapped here just like everyone else in this city.

(Kagome's Home)

From the outside, everything was still for everything had a good coating of ice covering it for the cold snap had frozen everything solid. Everything from the steps leading up to the shrine to the well that Kagome would travel through had a good coating of ice and snow with the exception of two little spots on the edge of the well which had frozen drops of water but nothing covered them. Even the sacred tree was frozen with a inch of ice covering every inch of it.

From out of Kagome's home the windows looked ice over but even still, somehow there seemed to be light flickering visibly, dancing in a soft glow of red. As the view shifts through the ice-covered windows and into the kitchen of Kagome's home, it is easy to see that the red glow was coming from the heaters that were still on and the blue flames of the oven were also still on fully even though the home's heating system had given out under the cold snap. Yet for all the light and heat, there was no detectable sound right away until one of the heavy blankets moves and a muffled voice is heard.

The view shifts to under the blankets where there were three people and a cat. The muffled voice had belonged to Sota where he asked his mother, "How long do you think we'll have to stay under here Mom?"

Kagome's mother wrapped Sota into her arms and looked at Grandpa before saying, "I don't know Sota. At least until this strange cold weather passes." To this the cat simply meows and turns onto its back while laying in Grandpa's lap so it could get a belly rub.

Sota says, "Mother, I'm scared! Where did this freaky weather come from?" and his mother simply runs her hand over his head as she softly says, "I don't know… I wish I knew Sota."

Grandpa looks up from the belly rubbing that he was giving the cat and pauses which makes the cat squirm unhappily while he says, "I'll tell you what this is! This is magic!" He resumes rubbing the cat's belly, which makes the cat settle down before he continues saying, "I'll wager that this cold weather has something to do with one of Kagome's enemies!"

Sota looks at his Grandpa, then his mother before saying, "Do you think Grandpa is right?" which got Grandpa to say, "Of course I'm right! How dare you think otherwise!" which was largely ignored by Sota as he continued saying, "Do you think Kagome's ok?" She looks down at her son and says, "I don't know Sota, but remember she has Inuyasha and her friends with her. I don't think they would let any harm come to Kagome."

Sota brightens at the mention of his hero Inuyasha and nods with his mother's hand still on his head, "Yeah! That's right! Inuyasha is with Kagome, so I'm sure she's all right!" His mother looks in the general direction of the well and thinks to herself, "I hope you're right Sota. Please come home soon Kagome." But says to Sota, "I am sure you're right Sota. Inuyasha has always come through for Kagome before."

Grandpa nods and says, "Of course Kagome is just fine! She's a tough girl and a priestess to boot!" while he stops rubbing the cat's belly again which had enough anyway and hops off his lap to stretch on the kitchen floor.

Sota smiles and says, "Yeah! You're right for once Grandpa! I'm sure Kagome's probably on her way to rescue us with Inuyasha!" Grandpa grumbles, "What do you mean for once?" and pouts a little but gets over it just as quickly.

So, the three of them stay cuddled under the heavy blankets which were already covered in a thin layer of ice, but was melting quickly enough due to the heat that the stove and electric heaters were putting out. It was only a matter of time before enough ice melted and made the floor wet.


Yes, I know... I just wrote NINE more pages of stuff very quickly! Where did I get nine? 4 for this story and 5 for the side story titled Koga and Aneko's Dream. You won't find the side story in Kagraku due to the fact that it just didn't fit with the regular flow of the Kagraku story. It is mostly a fluff piece anyway. Please read and review both this one and the other. If my side story is well liked, then I'll add it to Kagraku as a main piece as well. To find it, just click on my name at the top of the page, it should be in the lists of stories that I've written and posted. Oh, and I hope you all liked Miroku and Sango finally getting to kiss:) The cold snap for Kagome's time, I got as an idea from the movie titled "The day after tomorrow" (at least that's what I think it is titled) but unlike that movie, the effect was more local and not naturally caused.