A:N: .:sparkly-eyed with happy tears welling up:. I posted Saturday night. 48 hours later, I checked my reviews and the number had doubled!!!! ^___________________________^ I am so happay!! Wai! You guys really wanna see this thing happen, huh? Well, I'm not one to deny a fan what they want. The action starts in Chappie Three! ^___~ Seeya!
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40 Days and 40 Nights
Chapter 3
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Sango lay awake, staring at the blue-black sky. Technically Shippou was supposed to be keeping guard tonight, but he had been the first victim of sleep, drowsing off in Kagome's lap. And seeing as she was the only one up. She sighed and propped herself up. She might as well keep watch while she was awake. It was better than wishing for unfound sleep.
As she leaned closer to the fire to warm herself, she caught a glimpse of the sleeping Miroku's form. Sango smiled to herself. To think he called her "special"! It warmed her heart so to think about it. Maybe I should just tell him how I feel, she thought. It would be much easier on me, and Kami-sama knows that I'm not good at this.
But would it be easier on him?
Kagome's advice echoed in her ears: "Just play his game. He tries to come on to you sexually, so just do the same to him, and he'll be bound to admit it to you!"
She shrank back from the thought of her flirtatiously teasing the already badly-sex-driven houshi. "I can't!" she whispered hoarsely. "I'm I'm not good at that!" This had never been her expertise, to flirt with a man. Sango had always left that to the village wench, Sayoko. Sayoko would flirt and tease the men until they went half-crazy from lust. The taiji-ya had scorned her all of her life until Naraku had attacked the village; only then did Sango mourn her loss.
Oh, she could always follow Kagome's advice and take it to heart. But how, she asked herself, how could I accomplish such a goal? I, who have nothing to offer?
Instantaneously Miroku's voice rang out in her mind. "You were swinging your rear so so charmingly as you bent to get water. It beckoned to me."
A sly, Miroku-esque grin slowly crept onto her face. Sango then knew exactly how she would lure the lecherous houshi into her web.
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Miroku blinked sleepily as the sun's rays filtered through the trees and into his eyes. He yawned. Today I start, he thought, immediately alert. Today the bet begins. A grin flashed on his face. And today I prove my devotion to Sango.
He quickly looked over to where Sango was sleeping. She stirred slightly, but didn't awake. He smiled. Good, he thought. Quickly he jumped up and dashed into the forest. "She'll love this," he murmured, delighted. Along the way to collect the water for Kagome to start breakfast, he occasionally crouched down to pick a few lovely flowers that were blooming.
As Miroku headed back, he hummed a wordless tune. Sango and the others were just beginning to wake. He cheerfully set the water down next to a blinking Shippou and thrust something in Sango's face. "Good morning, Sango," he said, smiling.
Sango blinked and took the bouquet of flowers from the houshi. "Wha—wha good morning, houshi-sama," she replied, shocked. What was he up to now?
"Come, let me help you up, Sango." Miroku offered his arm to the taiji-ya. Kagome, sitting up and blinking the sleep out of her eyes, saw the scene and immediately jabbed Inuyasha with her elbow.
"Inuyasha!" she hissed. "Look at Miroku-sama!"
Inuyasha groaned. "What, did the bouzou already break his side of the—Kami-sama," he breathed, taking in the scene of Sango reluctantly taking Miroku's arm. "He's serious about this."
Kagome exhaled. "Yeah. Maybe we won't win after all."
Inuyasha snorted. "Yeah, right! Do you honestly think he can keep his perverted tendencies in for over a month?" he asked sarcastically.
A silence ensued, then "No," Kagome answered shortly, remembering her advice to Sango. Her heart ached for her friend. I'm sorry, Sango-chan, she cried to herself, but we need to teach him a lesson! Otherwise, he'll never admit it to you!
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Sango, looking over at Kagome, immediately realized that her chance had come. "Um, houshi-sama," she said, turning away so he wouldn't see her cheeks flushing at the embarrassment of what she was about to do, "let me go get adjusted." She privately thanked Kami that she tossed and turned in her sleep, because it made quite a believing sight.
"Oh! Of course, Sango," Miroku replied, not missing a beat and still unbearably courteous. Sango took a silent, deep breath and began to walk to the forest that, only five minutes ago, Miroku had collected her a beautiful bouquet from. She braced herself for a lunge at her waist and began to slightly sway her hips. As she took a few timid steps that way, she began to get the hang of it and swayed her hips a little more.
Sango began to full out switch her hips as she walked, discovering that the trick was to put more weight on the foot going down. Smiling sexily, she walked confidently out in front of Miroku, swinging her beautifully shaped rear in the air. That lech will never be able to resist this, she couldn't help thinking with a grin. A new idea formulated in her mind as she walked into the forest.
Miroku blinked as Sango began to swing her hips—and rear—as she walked. He had never truly noticed the curved shape of her hips, or her delectable body that was curvy in all the right places. Mesmerized by the swaying of her hips, he began to follow the taiji-ya into the forest. Without thinking, he reached his hand out to grab her charming bottom—
Miroku stopped himself.
What am I thinking? he berated himself. I can't do that! Otherwise, I'll lose this bet and Involuntarily, his shoulders drooped. Sango will never know how I really feel.
Little did our hentai houshi know what was in store for him.
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Once she reached the forest, Sango stopped swaying her hips and smiled. How exhilarating that was! What a rush! She suddenly had a glimpse of how Sayoko had felt every day of her life, though she was determined not to give up what she stood for. Immediately remembering her new idea, she adjusted her two-tone kimono to sit a little lower and more invitingly on her chest. Sango tucked the skirt of the kimono under a few times until she was satisfied with the short length. She relaxed
and the kimono readjusted to the usual positions it was used to.
Sango twitched. If only I had a shorter kimono, she thought irritably.
"Sango-chan!"
Sango blinked. "That's it!" she cried aloud, bringing her fist down into her open palm. "Kagome-chan," she called back, "may I borrow something?"
Kagome poked her head around a tree. "Sure, Sango. What do you need?"
Sango grinned. "Oh, just a little something"
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Miroku sat down—hard—on the ground. He wished desperately that the bulge in his robes weren't so blatantly obvious. Why did Sango have to pull a trick like that, anyway? What has gotten into her? he thought wondrously. Sango never acts that way.
Inuyasha plopped down next to him. "So, bouzou," he remarked, nodding to the houshi's nether regions, "having some problems?" He smirked.
Miroku cocked an eyebrow. "Who are you to talk, Inuyasha?" he replied acidly. "I've seen you in your sleep when you're muttering about Kagome-sama."
Inuyasha turned a bright shade of red. "Listen, bouzou," he snarled, "we're not addressing me here. It's all about you. You're the one with the bet on his lecherous ways, not me."
Miroku sighed. "True," he admitted. "But why is Sango-sama acting so so"
He never finished his sentence.
Kagome came out of the forest, leading a sexy young girl who was swaying her hips and wearing a fuku identical to her own. Miroku blinked a couple of times before he realized. "Sango?!" he cried, amazed—and wishing even more desperately that the bulge in his robes would go down instead of rising to meet its "challenge".
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A:N: Lady, I just had to end it there! I need you guys coming back for more, of course. I apologize a million times over, but you gotta admit—I do write decent cliffhangers, no? ^__^;;; I'm probably going to get killed for leaving you guys at the edge. .:grabs her assassin's weapons:. Be careful! I'm armed! .:braces herself for the multiple attacks:. Well, see y'all later! Don't forget to review on your way out! ^_~
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