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anyway...
ON WITH THE FIC!
Miruko and Kagome and Miruko stopped running, completely out of breath, laughing hysterically.
"So Miruko, still depressed?"
He thought for a moment before replying.
"A little but I'll live."
he smiled at her gratefully.
She nodded and the two walked in content and silence to the camp.
Kagome put a finger over her mouth and pointed to Inuyasha and Shippo sleeping against a tree together. Miruko smiled as his eyes scanned the area, the smile turned to a frown and blush as his eyes fell on Sango shifting uncomfortably in her sleep.
He looked down in embarrassment.
Kagome observed this and was quick to distract the monk's attention.
"Hey you didn't eat earlier, are you hungry? I brought lunches from home."
"Uh, yes, thank you…"
He began to walk towards the bag that had become known as 'Kagome's public supply closet'.
"Don't worry Miruko, I'll get it."
"Thank you but you don't have to be so nice to me today."
"I choose to."
She brought him a tray and a set of chop sticks and smiled. He obliged and smiled back at her He walked over near the fire, even tough it was put out, and sat to eat his meal. Kagome brushed her teeth with water from a water bottle from her bag and grabbed an oversized tee shirt and pair of boxers from her bag and began to walk to the cover of a tree. She turned to a silent Miruko.
"No peaking!"
She joked.
Several minutes later she emerged and put her other cloths in her bag.
She quietly walked over and sat a little more than two feet across from Miruko, you wanna talk about it?
He looked over at a sleeping Sango and sighed.
"I had no idea she had even had sex before… apparently it isn't something her clan keeps in reserve. I don't think any less of her as a person, I just… I don't know."
Kagome looked at him with an unreadable look on her face, a mixture of surprise and interest.
They sat in silence for almost a minute. Kagome looked at the waxing crescent moon.
"I had no idea, in my time that's the rules almost everyone lives by… parents don't approve of course but people our age do it anyway.."
Miruko looked surprised.
"You mean you're not…"
She huffed and spoke with discontent in her voice.
"No… it was a few weeks before I discovered the well. He wasn't my first boyfriend, there wasn't anything special about him or the relationship. We were together one day and he didn't slow down, so I didn't make him."
Miruko nodded and looked into the darkness of the trees at nothing in particular.
"You're going to have to talk to tomorrow, you know that right?"
He sighed..
'I know. It's just going to be one very embarrassing conversation."
Kagome looked surprised.
"For you?"
"Well yes, for both of us I suppose."
"What reason should you have to be embarrassed? Self restraint is not something to be ashamed of, it's really… commendable."
He looked at her with puzzlement and intrigue.
"You think so?"
"Absolutely."
He looked down with saddened eyes.
Kagome leaned forward and put her hand on Miruko's shoulder and leaned towards him.
"Sango and I are good friends but she doesn't know what she messed up, you understand me?
Miruko looked at her with a somewhat hopeful face and protested.
"But…"
"You done with that?"
She pointed to the empty trey on his lap.
"Uh yea…"
She picked up the trey, one of her knuckles accidentally rubbed ageist Miruko's thigh without her knowledge.
He lightly blushed
"I'm going to bed. Try to get some sleep."
She put he try up and crawled into her sleeping bag.
"goodnight Kagome he said in dull reaction.
A longer chapter in response to the meager stature of chapter two.
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