Chapter 5
- The Missing Piece -
They walked in silence throughout the day, stopping only at sunset to set up camp; whether it was out of grief or shock, nobody knew. While Kagome and Inuyasha discussed Jewel Shards until they went to sleep, Miroku and Sango were silent and contemplating through the night, staring at the crackling fire. Finally, someone decided to speak up.
"Houshi-sama?" said Sango meekly. Miroku looked up slightly.
"I...I'm sorry," said Sango. "that you had to lose Kuromi..."
Miroku said nothing.
"I mean, she was just perfect for you! You were alike in every way!" she went on. "But then again...she was your double and everything, and...it would be rather...strange, you know..."
Miroku returned to looking at the fire.
Sango sighed.
'What's with him?' she thought. 'He's usually not that quiet...'
"Listen..." she said. "I was being really immature, and I...was really confused..."
Miroku did not respond.
"I mean, seeing you with her made me feel strangely happy for you," she continued. "I mean, I've seen you try and fail so many times at trying to get to know a woman, and when you finally got someone to like you, in a strange sort of way, it made me feel happy that you were happy..."
She looked at her feet.
"But I was also jealous every time I saw you two together...because...because..."
She gulped, then looked at him.
"I love you, Miroku,"
There was silence as she waited for his reply.
Then, noiselessly, he got up and sat next to Sango, pulling her close to him.
"Sango, I knew from the beginning that Kuromi might have been too good to be true," he said, a melancholy tone in his voice. "For years I had been searching for my other half, so I might become stronger and whole again,"
He looked at the stars.
"The hiragana for 'Kuromi' is 'Miroku' spelled backwards," he said. "It was the first sign that she was...something more than just an ordinary girl,"
He looked towards Sango, who gasped when she realised the words he spoke were true.
"True, I did find a little happiness, when I first met her and got to know her," he continued. "but what I felt for her was not real love, but an inner connection between our souls,"
He smiled.
"Besides, there is only room in my heart for one woman, Sango: you,"
Sango looked at him, her eyes on the verge of bursting with tears.
"Oh, Miroku!" she cried, and collapsed into his arms, tears flowing from her eyes. "I'm so sorry..."
"It's all right, Sango," he replied. "It's all right..."
With the pleasant warmth of his newly completed soul inside him, he hugged her tenderly.
That was how Inuyasha and Kagome found them the next morning; locked in each other's embrace.
Needless to say, once Kagome had the pictures developed, neither of them were really that eager to admit to their midnight confessions of love.
OWARI
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