Chapter 7: I Think I Love You
Sango awoke in the late morning/ early afternoon in Miroku's arms. After several moments, Sango noticed it was in fact Miroku who was in her bed next to her. She delivered a devastating slap along with "perverted Houshi!" sending Miroku back into the ground. "What are you doing in my bed? How did you get in here?"
"Oh, I don't know, maybe because you invited me?" Miroku asked, slightly annoyed? The recollection of the previous night slowly dawned on Sango as she remembered how scary the thought The Ring 2 was.
"Oh, yeah." Sango said with a blush. "We didn't well…you know. Did we?" she asked nervously.
"No," Miroku began "but we can right now if you want." he finished with a lecherous grin as he pushed her back down into the soft mattress. Sango gave him 'the look' and he backed away. "All right, all right. It was just a suggestion." Miroku said in defeat.
"Whatever, you perv. Besides, even if I did want to, and trust me, I don't, Kagome is coming over soon, and I don't want her getting the wrong idea"
"Okay, seems fair." Miroku admitted as he made a move to the door, Sango grabbed his arm, turned him around and pulled him in for a kiss. When she broke it off, Miroku was perplexed. "What was that for?" Sango just gave him a grin.
"I think you know. I love you Miroku." Sango confessed before giving him another fervent, passionate kiss. Miroku kissed her back.
"I love you too. But what about Kura-" Miroku began to ask.
"We can talk about him later." Sango cut him off. "Go." Miroku turned around and opened the door to see a Kagome poised to knock. Kagome was surprised to see Miroku over at Sango's at such an early hour on the weekend, as was Miroku as surprised to have bad enough luck for Kagome to come just as he was leaving.
"H- h hey, K-k Kagome, funny seeing you her s-s-so early I have to uh, leave, bye Sango." Miroku stuttered as he hastily made his way. Kagome watched him leave with a perplexed expression, which changed into a grin, and finally into a look of malice.
"Well, well, well look who finally faced reality!" Kagome teased in a sing-song voice. Sango blushed her special vermillion red she always did.
"Look Kagome, this isn't what it seems! This is all a big misunderstanding!" Sango blustered in her own defense.
"Oh yeah, sure. So what was it like?" Kagome asked her eyes wide with anticipation.
"Kagome!" Sango yelled, obviously offended. "And from what exactly, do you deduce we did THAT!"
"Oh please!" Kagome moaned. "He's leaving your house at 10:00 a.m. on a Saturday in a stuttering episode, while you're both sweating, rather heavily might I add. Just admit it. I know where you were, what you were doing, and who you were doing it with. And most importantly, I know you liked it." Kagome smirked. Sango buried her head in her hands. She knew Kagome's assumption wasn't far from the truth. Luckily, the parts she got wrong were the important parts.
"Fine, your close, but no cigar. Let me set you straight." Sango said confidently. Sango related all the events that happened since she and Miroku left the movie together and now. Kagome kept mentally complimenting herself for successfully hooking them up, while also making sure she definitively understood the story.
"So, you invited Miroku, over here, and you two ended up sleeping together, but you didn't have sex?" Kagome asked, confused.
"DEFINETLY did not have sex?" Sango said sternly. Kagome looked of a hint of deceit in her voice, but didn't hear one."
"But you wanted to." Kagome confirmed.
"I never said that." Sango mumbled.
"Sango…" Kagome pressed.
"Okay, fine! Maybe I did want to, but at least I resisted. Humph!" Sango declared.
"Why didn't you?" Kagome inquired.
"What?" Sango replied, thinking she had misheard.
"If you wanted to do it, why didn't you do it?"
"Because were only sixteen. Besides I can wait until were eighteen." Sango replied.
"But what about him? I mean, its Miroku. And he already has a girlfriend." Kagome explained.
"I trust my Miroku, besides; Koharu won't be his girlfriend for much longer." Sango stated deftly.
"'Your Miroku'? How do you know Koharu won't stay his girlfriend for long?" Kagome asked, more perplexed than before.
"Well, before you arrived I sort of, well, I, err..." Sango began to say.
"What'd you tell him Sango?" Kagome wormed on Sango's confession.
"I sort of confessed. I told, I to- I told him, I, I love him." Sango spat out, glad to load off her chest.
"I knew it, I knew it, I knew it! I knew you loved him!" Kagome shrieked jumping up and down. Sango smiled ruefully and sighed.
"Fine, so you were right and I was too stubborn to admit it. Happy?" Sango said, easily looking at the bright side of Kagome's 'victory'.
"What did he say?" Kagome asked next, rather quickly. Sango was hoping she wouldn't have to answer this. She sighed again. Sango mumbled something inaudible. "What was that you said Sango?" Kagome taunted, having a fairly accurate guess at Sango's reply.
"He said he loved me too." Sango grinned. Kagome was right, but Miroku loved her, and in her opinion, was worth the ego injury.
"Ka-ching! Kagome; two, Sango; zero!" Kagome cried enthusiastically, pumping her left fist.
"Just promise me you'll keep it a secret for a while. Miroku and I promised each other we wouldn't tell until it was official and we had broken up with Kuranosuke and Koharu. We wouldn't want them to have thought we'd been cheating in them this whole time. Promise?" Sango pleaded. Kagome drew her index and middle finger across a mouth closed with a smile.
"Your secret is safe with me." Kagome reassured her.
"Thanks." Sango said gratefully. Now she needed to go find Kuranosuke.