Chapter 6: Good Morning!
"Please, please let it have been real. Please don't let me open my eyes only to realize it was a wonderful, yet at the same time sick and twisted dream. I swear on the graves of my family and companions that if last night really happened that I will be a better Shinto." Sango silently prayed. It was mid-morning, and Sango feared that the previous night's occurrences had all been a dream. She often had dreams of Miroku confessing a secret love for her, so she had prepared herself for disappointment. However, when she opened her eyes she found herself in the same position she had fallen asleep in. She didn't want to get up, and since everyone else still seemed to be sleeping, she just buried her head deeper into Miroku's robes and sighed contentedly. Then, what usually happened when Sango was within an arm's length of Miroku happened. What usually followed happened as well. SMACK.
"Ow…" Miroku said rather groggily, not being entirely awakened yet. He looked up to see the source of the pain on his left cheek. "Well, good morning to you too sunshine. Fine time to wake me up though. I was in the middle of a good dream!" he complained.
"Believe me, I noticed." Sango grumbled. "You are so shallow. Even in your sleep you can't control yourself!"
"Oh did I do that? That explains why my face hurts. But it isn't my fault I tell you! It's the hand! The things possessed, cursed!" he protested.
"Save it."
"Of course I'm sure there are those who wouldn't mind appreciation of their body. Such as, oh, dare I say our fair Lady Kagome?" Miroku replied with a mischievous grin. Sango humphed in response. "Not really a morning person, are you?" Miroku continued to joke.
"I never am when I wake up next to a perverted monk who gropes me in his sleep." Sango said, Miroku's jokes not improving her mood.
"Allow me to apologize then." Miroku offered as he pulled her closer. Sango rolled her eyes and returned his kiss, seeing as there was no harm in it.
"Heh. I'd like to see how that skivey bitch would react to that." Sango said after they broke the kiss.
"Sango, such harsh words! Can you really blame Lady Kagome for succumbing to my relentless charm and stunning good looks?" Miroku asked pompously.
"I suppose not." she admitted. "But don't you think it's kind of odd, Kagome just coming on to you out of nowhere? Especially considering this whole time we both thought she was in love with Inuyasha. Not to mention her ecstatic little outbreak last night."
"I guess it is rather irregular, but if I were you I wouldn't be complaining." Miroku advised.
"I'm not complaining, it's just confusing."
"When's breakfast? I'm hungry." Inuyasha cut in announcing he had woken up. "Oi wench! Wake up!" Inuyasha said, poking Kagome's still form.
"Sit." Kagome retorted, sending Inuyasha to the dirt. "Let Sango and Miroku rest a while longer. I'm sure they're both worn out from last night." she added with a small grin. Sango blushed furiously.
"Contrary to what you may believe we did nothing of that sort!" Sango corrected her.
"Whatever. If you don't think you need it I guess we can head back to the village again." Kagome said.
"What about breakfast? I'm hungry!" complained Inuyasha who had managed to pry himself off the ground.
"There is no breakfast. We need supplies, that's why were going back." Kagome explained.
"But I wanna eat NOW!" the hanyou complained much like a child would.
"The faster we go, the sooner you get to eat." Kagome told him, hopping on his back.
"Fine but you better bring back something real good!" Inuyasha replied as he took off. Sango and Miroku mounted Kirara.
"Now I'm confused and disturbed. First Kagome is all peppy and happy that we're together, and now she's making sex jokes!" Sango said, baffled.
"I think she was serious."
"That's not the point! She's supposed to be angry and devastated!" Sango said a little too loudly.
"You make it sound like you want her to be miserable." Miroku commented.
"I do! It's all she deserves after what she did!"
Miroku let out an exasperated sigh. "Why can't you accept that she's happy for us?"
"Because it's just not right! She always perky and glad. It sickens me." Sango growled, narrowing her eyes.
Kagome returned from present day with extra cargo. In addition to her yellow sack she had a smaller blue one. "What's in the blue bag?" Shippo asked.
"Instant ramen noodles. I thought I'd bring more, since Inuyasha's never satisfied."
"This is all?" Inuyasha whined. "You should've brought like, six or eight bags. That might've been enough."
"Every time I do something nice, all I get is criticism. Why do I even bother?" Kagome wondered out loud.
"Because I love you?" Inuyasha guessed, noticing his mistake a second too late. Kagome gave him a quizzical look.
"Uhh…I didn't mean that. I meant because I wouldn't love you anymore if you didn't. Nice save asshole." Inuyasha's mind added after he had spoken. "Uhhh, I mean because uh…" Inuyasha broke out in a sweat as he racked his brain for something believable. "…race you back to the hut!" Inuyasha challenged at lack of anything better to say. He sprinted off at a break neck speed.
"He couldn't have really said that. And if he did, he must've misspoke. He doesn't love me, he loves Kikyo. Doesn't he?" Kagome asked no one in particular.
"Who are you talking to?" Shippo asked innocently, licking a lollipop he had gotten out of Kagome's bag. He was to busy searching for his loot to notice Inuyasha's folly. "What happened?"
"It's nothing." Kagome reassured him. "I'm guess I'm just hearing things."