Title: The Day of Decision

Author: landofthekwt

Rating: PG-13

Prompt: Decision (Miroku/Sango #34)

Word Count: 687

Genre: butt rubbing + Hiraikotsu = love

Warning: none

Summary: Miroku ponders Sango's question about when he fell in love with her

As he stared at his beloved who waited by the altar for him, he pondered a question that Sango had asked him. "When did you first know that you loved me?" The question still stumped him. He really could not honestly remember when he first knew that he loved her.

Did he love her when he first saw her hurling Hiraikotsu at Inuyasha at Naraku's direction? Even though he found her lovely and deadly, he could not honestly say that he fell in love with her at first sight. At the time he had been too busy pursuing Naraku to notice Sango.

Although he sympathized with her as she recovered from her injuries that surely was not love. He was impressed with her knowledge of the four souls which made up the Sacred Jewel, but he had never made love to a girl's mind.

Oddly enough it was her attitude that attracted him. She would not allow him to grope her legs When he tried to revive her with mouth-to-mouth, she hit him. She hit him when he took advantage of her sympathy at Mushin's to rub her bottom.

Could that really be it? Was their love based on the pain that she inflicted when he tried to touch her body? Or was it that despite the pain he continued to return to his pursuit of her?

It was obvious that she had sympathy for him. She had come to his bedside when he was injured at Mushin's. After Naraku's castle she had been the one to care for him when he had been overcome from the miasma. Both of these times he had used the opportunity to rub her butt and both times he had been repelled.

Koharu had brought her feelings to his attention. She was angry about his relationship with Koharu. It bothered that he asked every woman, but her to bear his child. Most of all it bothered her that he did not treat her like other women because she was able to protect herself.

It was only then that he began to realize that she was unique among women. Maybe that is why he never asked her to bear his child until he asked her to marry him. Because of her fighting skills, she did not seem to need to be protected from harm like Kagome and Koharu.

It was only when they were forced to fight for each other against the Coyote Woman that their feelings came out into the open. Sango showed her jealousy by following him and not trusting him with other women. He actually tried to protect her by concealing her from the youkai.

Although he took advantage of the way she was sitting, their discussion after the fight revealed their feelings. Sango's confession that she was worried about him made him happy. Their feelings were out in the open.

Only Inuyasha denied them. He did not see that Sango's response to Miroku's butt rubbing as her anger that he did not respond in the romantic way she desired. Maybe Kagome was right all along that he needed to worry about Sango's heart instead of her butt.

He had long since atoned for those days. His proposal of marriage had resulted from his realization that he needed to protect Sango's heart from himself by committing to her and showing her that she was unique among all women.

They had tried to die for each other at Mount Hakurei. Even their experience with the potion master proved that they would do anything for the other person. Inside of Naraku they realized that it was not enough to die for each other. They had to be willing to live for each other.

They had survived so much to reach this point. Soon Sango would be his wife and after that the mother of his children. In the end it really did not matter when he first knew that he loved Sango. He loved her now and for the rest of her life he would make sure that she knew she was the one he loved.