Clearing up
It was Thursday, and Sango was walking from her last lesson that day, Maths. She had been trying to decide whether to talk to Koga or let him go on being an idiot. She had just decided that she should at least say sorry for turning up her nose at him for the last couple of weeks or so, when she thought he'd actually done... well... that with Kagura. No sooner had she arrived at this mature and kind decision (Sango thought), than Kagome appeared by her side, beaming like a small sun.
"Got something to show you! Come on!"
Sango found that she was being led down to the school's cellars. She tried repetitively to ask Kagome what was going on, but the younger girl just laughed and evaded the question. Sango was getting rather a bad feeling from this.
"Here we are!" said Kagome cheerfully, after a long walk. "Go in before me!" She gestured towards an open door. Sango walked in and looked around her doubtfully. The room was rather small, and...
"But Kagome, this is just a storage room of some..."
BAM! The door slammed behind her and she could hear the lock turn.
"Kagome?" asked Sango, trying the handle and then hitting the door hard when she found it would not turn. "Kagome, what the hell are you thinking about?! Let me out right now! What do you think you're doing?!! Open the freaking door!"
"Whoa, take it easy darling. Wait for a while and you will see what we want with this."
Sango could hear Kagome whistling as she ran off, and cursed her friends. What were they scheming now? After a long while she thought she could hear footsteps nearing. She got up and walked to the door, ready to run out if it opened. They couldn't just lock her in like that, cocky little bastards!
The door opened but before she could get out someone was shoved onto her and the door was slammed behind them. Losing their balance, both she and the new "prisoner" fell helplessly, landing on the floor in a flurry of arms and legs.
"MIROKU YOU FUCKING GREAT IDIOT, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING??!!" yelled Koga, then noticed who he was on top off and scrambled off mighty fast. For a while he and Sango looked stupidly at each other, then both turned away and looked at something else. On the other side of the door someone giggled.
"They tricked you too, I take it?" asked Sango, feeling her cheeks heating up.
"Yeah," muttered Koga. "Miroku said he wanted to talk to me and then he led me here. Stupid as I am I did not see anything weird in that."
They were silent for a while, then Sango decided that she might as well get it over and done with.
"Sorry," she said. "I just wanted to say that. For being so cold to you after I heard the rumours about you and Kagura... you know... I talked to her today and she said you didn't do anything after all."
"We didn't?" Koga looked surprised.
"Don't you remember anything?"
"Er, no." Koga smiled sheepishly. "I only know she took my shirt. And I liked that shirt! But wait, that isn't important. Why were you so angry about it?"
"Um... Er... I guess because it was just such a goddamn stupid thing to do."
'COWARD!!!' shouted Sango's inner voice, but she ignored it. She damn well wasn't going to own up to how she felt before she could be sure he wouldn't laugh in her face. With the way he had been behaving for the last couple of weeks, that wouldn't surprise her.
"I guess I have to say sorry too..." Koga hesitated. "For how I've behaved to you. I was upset because I thought... uh... well... shit, I'm an idiot... Sango, are you and Snap a couple or not?"
"WHAT?!" said Sango, staring at him. "What on earth made you think that?"
"I thought... uh... well, I saw you coming out from behind the Sports hall together, and you were laughing and blushing, and then you told him to call you, so I just sort of assumed that..."
"People talk on the phone with each other without being a couple for chrissake! I call Kagome too!" Sango was getting rather irritated. Was this why he had avoided her for weeks?! "And the reason I met up with Snap there was that he had helped me find a birthday present for you! Bloody hell, you've been acting like I'm rabid for the last couple of weeks! And why? Because you thought I was together with Snap? What the hell is your problem?!"
"Don't you get it?"
Since when was Koga so close to her? Suddenly he was sitting right in front of her, his hands resting on either side of her hips, his face inches from hers. She could almost feel his breath on her face. Her heart was thumping, she was sure he could hear it.
"I was jealous," said Koga quietly, locking her gaze with his. "I wanted to be that person, to be to you what I thought Snap was. There's no one I care about as much as you. I think... that I love you."
Koga suddenly felt an overwhelming desire to kiss her. He realized that this was what he'd been wanting to do since the first time he saw her during P.E. – this girl who was so unlike anyone he'd known before. As he started to lean towards her, her eyelids slowly fluttered close. He had never seen her look more beautiful...
A resounding WHAP! echoed through the storage room. Koga jumped back as if he had been slapped, which in fact he had.
"Do you expect me to believe that?" asked Sango coolly.
On the other side of the door, Kagome and Miroku flinched as they heard the contact of hand against cheek.
"Whose idea was it to lock them in a small room and let nature run its course?" groaned Miroku, putting his hands over his face.
"I think it was yours."
