To Love an Enemy

Chapter 17 - Awakening

Disclaimer : I don't own Inuyasha and enough of disclaimers lets get on with the fic right ;)

Sango eyes fluttered open slowly, groaning at how bright the sun was. Sango struggled to push herself off Miroku's chest……….

"Why am I sleeping on someone's chest?" Sango thought confused. "And why are there arms wrapped around me waist! What in the world is going on!" Struggling to stay calm Sango tried to remember what had happened last night. She had gone out looking for Miroku, she had found him in the spiders' cave, then we escaped but we had to stop before we got to the village because Miroku hadn't been strong enough after his ordeal. Sango suddenly sighed in relief remembering how she had decided to sleep next to Miroku to keep him warm. "I must have fallen asleep and Miroku probably just put his arms around me in his sleep," Sango thought reassuring herself. "So everything's okay all I have to do is get out of this awkward position before he wakes up."

"Good morning Sango," Miroku said sound unusually cheery. "Or should I say Sleeping Beauty?"

"Damn it!" Sango thought. "Oh my gosh he's up and he knows I spent the night asleep on his chest. Oh this is so awful."

"Did you sleep well?" Miroku asked in a suspiciously perky voice that had Sango's eyes narrowing.

"Uh oh looks like someone's not much of a morning person," Miroku joked. "I would have thought you'd be quite well rested after sleeping so soundly on such a lovely pillow."

Sango blushing furiously hastened to explain. "You were cold, and I forgot to bring a blanket so I figured that I couldn't let you freeze to death so I lay down next to you and I must have fallen asleep!"

Miroku burst out laughing, causing Sango to blush even redder. "Well," he grinned evilly. "Considering how you took advantage of me last night, while I was is such a poor and weak position" Sango opened her mouth to object that this really wasn't what it looked like and she had done nothing other than sleep next to him, but Miroku continued, "I think it's only fair that you return the favour!" Sango blinked confused by what he had just said until she felt an all to familiar hand on her rear.

"YOU HENTAI!" Sango screeched slapping him as she pushed away and landed on her recently groped body part. "Just because I cared enough about you, to lay next o you so you wouldn't get hypothermia, does not give you permission to GROPE me!"

Grinning like he had just struck gold, as he rubbed his hand when Sango had just struck, he looked over at her and declared, "so you do care about me, I suspected as much."

Sango's eyes widened not wanting to believe that she had just admitted to this pervert that she cared about him. She struggled to form a sentence and ended up stuttering, "I- I-I didn't mean that way! I- I- mean as a f-friend." She knew it was lame but it was all her brain could think of in such a shocked state.

Sango's shriek alerted Kagome and Inuyasha who had come out searching the second they found that Sango was missing. "Sango!" Kagome called out. "Where are you!"

"I'm over here!" Sango called back, trying to ignore the semi-hurt expression on Miroku's face.

Kagome and Inuyasha moments later burst through the undergrowth, and Kagome squealed in joy and ran over to Miroku and hugged him. "Miroku! You're alive!"

Inuyasha immediately pulled her off claiming, that if she wasn't careful she would end up getting groped, but everyone knew that it was because he was jealous.

"So you're still alive idiot," Inuyasha said, clutching Kagome possessively.

Miroku grinned. "Yep you'll have to put up with me for a bit longer."

"You had us all worried, without you there'd be a civil war. Stupid baka didn't think of that before you went off to play hero did you!" Inuyasha retorted. While Inuyasha continued to insult Miroku for a good five minutes lecturing Miroku on how next time he wanted to play hero he would take Inuyasha with him because without him Miroku was irresponsible and reckless, Sango's blush began to fade. The argument before her had reminded her of her place in things. She and Miroku could never be, he was a Prince and she was only a captured Larovellian. Tuning back into the argument where Inuyasha had changed tactics, Sango began to laugh, because as far as Inuyasha was concerned Miroku was grounded. Kagome saw Sango laughing and instantly smiled, so she had been right in guessing that Sango did have feelings for Miroku. But the question was would that love ever be revealed?

Author's Note: Hmm…bit of a short chapter….not quite sure what's going to happen next…well hope you liked the fluffy stuff (I did .) Well please review because it actually does motivate me…thanks to sum1 who loved this story you actually lured me away from my song writing to update. thanks for the kind words.