Hey thank you to the people who read my last chapter! Anyway as requested I have some more action in this chapter between our other couple in the gang. Hehe like always after you read please review! Disclaimer: yeah, yeah....don't own Inuyasha

~* Collecting shards*~ Like expected it took Kagome some weeks to recover before the group could get out on their quest again. And all the weeks Kagome was recovering she had a guardian angel of shorts. Inuyasha never left her side; even if she didn't really know he was there he was always watching out for her. All the time he watched her the same questions kept running through his head, why did she take the arrow for me? Why would she risk death to save me? He was so completely wound up in it that nothing else seemed to matter to him then the mystery of Kagome. Now more then ever feelings of compassion and love were brewing inside him. He watched Kagome intently as she played with Shippou. She smiled and giggled as Shippou rolled around in the grass with Kirara. He sighed noticing that Miroku was coming up behind him. "What do you want?" he asked rudely as the monk stopped behind him. "I'm merely doing exactly what your doing" Miroku answered. Inuyasha looked at Miroku confusedly but when he turned back to Kagome, he saw Sango approach. "Hey Kag, I was just looking for you" Sango said. "Why is that?" Kagome asked. " I want to talk to you well about well...Miroku" "Oh, is he giving you more trouble than usual?" Kagome asked. "I'll tell you somewhere more private. Because incase you hadn't noticed were being watched." Sango said. Kagome looked over to the edge of the field she was in. She looked closely at the bush and sure enough, there were little doggie ears and a staff sticking out of the top. "Oh no they know were here, damn it Miroku if you hadn't come she wouldn't know I was here!" Inuyasha said Fiercely. "I'm sorry but lately I can't seem to keep Sango out of my head" Miroku said calmly. "Tell me about it..." Inuyasha said still staring at Kagome.

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Later that evening Shippou, Kirara and the girls made there was to the hot springs. Sango and Kagome were very anxious to talk about guys. That always seemed to come up when they were bathing; they always talked about fears, problems, but mostly guys. Once the two were settled in the everlasting topic came up yet again. "Ok Sango, so why did you need to talk to me about Miroku?" Kagome asked. "Well you see... I ... Um..." Sango started. 'What ever it is it must be very important.' Kagome thought to her self as she watched Sango struggle with her words. "Well...you see..." 'Might as well get it over with' she thought to her self. "I'm...well... I'minlovewithMiroku" she said quickly as to get it out. "Oh my god Sango you love him! As in your not in the petty feelings stage anymore, its down right love!?" Kagome said excitedly. "Yeah..." Sango said heavily blushing. Kagome squealed out with joy for her friend. "Oh wow you two make the perfect couple!" Kagome said smiling. "I'm not sure if he likes me like that, I think he just wants me for my body..." Sango said sadly. "Oh come on Sango lighten up, you know that's just not true. I mean come on, why would he keep bugging you if he didn't like you?" Kagome said reassuringly. "Well you could be right..." Sango said with a small smile.

~~~*~~~ Mean while back at camp:

"Come on the girls are bathing you know what that means..." Miroku said to Inuyasha smiling stupidly. "Miroku I'm not going with you. I don't want to be hit again because you insist on peeking at Sango." Inuyasha said turning his nose to the air and looking away from Miroku. "Are you saying that you don't like looking at Kagome?" Miroku said, as his smile grew larger. Inuyasha turned bright red and almost fell over from embarrassment. "What are you trying to say, that I'm a pervert like you?" Inuyasha yelled at Miroku. "I think you know the answer to that," Miroku said as he turned to the forest and started walking. Inuyasha was fuming, 'How dare he say that I'm no better than him peeking at naked girls, even if I do like it some what... that's besides the point!' Inuyasha picked up a log and threw it at the now retreating Miroku. "Ow that hurt" he heard from a distance. "Heh, got him" he said smirking.

**~*~** 'I wonder if what Kagome says is true. Could Miroku like me for me?' Sango thought to herself. Maybe I can let him in. just then Sango's "pervert" sense came to her. Sango instinctively picked up a large log and threw it at a tree. Sure enough Miroku fell out. 'Maybe not..." she though disappointedly. 'He definitely doesn't want me like that.'

==*=*== That night back at camp Sango was severely depressed. Everyone could see it especially Miroku. He felt very guilty and sad because of her. 'What's happened that would make her be like this?' he wondered. Miroku got up and walked over to Sango. "Can I talk to you?" he asked. Sango just stared up at him for a moment before getting up and fallowing him into the forest. Inuyasha, Kagome, and Shippou exchanged glances of confusion.

~~*~~ "Sango what's wrong?" Miroku asked. "I can't really tell you hoshi-sama" Sango said sighing. Miroku looked over at her sad expression. He didn't know what to do except try and comfort her as best he could. "Please Sango can you tell me?" He asked again. She sighed thinking hard on how to tell him this with out giving anything away. "I just...well, why is it that you peep and grope?" She asked him. "Well you see, if I didn't really get under people's skin they wouldn't notice me at all." He answered. 'I hope she can read the hidden meaning.' He thought hopefully. ' So this is Miroku's sweet side. And he... only dose that to get me to notice him...Maybe I actually can tell him how I feel.' Sango thought. "Miroku...how do you really feel about me?" She asked looking him in the eye. "Well...I...I..."

Well that's it for now! Hehe ^-^ I'll try and update more frequently but yeah, stupid school. Anyways please review!