A/N: It's ugly. Really, just skip over it and go read some other stuff.

The L Potion

All Sango could remember was the rush of biting cold air as she fell from Kara's back into the ice-cold water of the sea and the shattering force of hitting the water.

Now she felt like she was floating in the cold water, unable to move her tired, half-frozen muscles, unable to get warmer or stop the shivers running down her body.

In the numb haze of pain and cold she could hear voices drifting closer and further away. She knew they were familiar, but she could put any faces or names to them.

"-ango! San-!"

"Wrap my... -bag around her, quick!"

"Kirara!"

Dark silence lasted for a while, she didn't know how long.

"What..."

"...Fell to the wat-"

"-Gome, child... we need to warm her..."

"Can we help?"

Again, some time passed. She could feel slightly less cold and she was in less pain, but she couldn't move or open her eyes. She could feel a heavy weight of blankets over her body and gentle hands feeding her some stuff.

When she almost surfaced again she heard the voices but now she was able to determine who was speaking.

"It's no use," said Kaede, her voice tired.

"We must save her!" Miroku argued. "Can't you think about any other cure?"

"I did all I could," she replied sadly.

"I'll go... my time... bring some medicine," Kagome suggested.

Sago smiled inwardly at her friends. She just hoped she could get warmer again.

"Do... think... help?" worried Miroku.

"I have... idea... future..." Kaede's voice was waving, as if she was moving closer and away from Sango. The exterminator tried to focus on staying aware of the voices, unwilling to succumb to the darkness again.

"I think... -yasha... the l- potion."

'What's a l-potiion?' wondered Sango.

"Keh... it."

Sango opened her eyes after some time passed. She finally shook off the visions and the terrible coughing fits which came over her not long after the last bit of conversation she had heard. She felt so wonderfully warm, her muscles and lungs didn't ache, her head was clear.

She opened her eyes and took a deep breath of aromatic air in Kaede's hut, smelling all the herbs hanging from the ceiling.

"Sango!" Miroku leaned over her and at the same moment her eyes rested upon his smile of relief Sango realized how much she loved life, how much she loved this man.

"...Beloved..." she wasn't sure she actually said this word, or if she just thought it, but Miroku grabbed her hand and squeezed it gently.

'...L-Potion...'

"My love... She's awake!" Miroku said to the rest of their friends as they crowded behind him. Inuyasha crossed his arms.

"Feh, told ya the potion will work!" Shippou was sitting on his shoulder, chewing on a piece of liver held in his little hand.

"I guess we don't have to use the modern medicine." Kagome's smile was a bit forced. "Still, the potion..."

"...Potion," Sango whispered. She still felt weak, but it was not the overwhelming numbness. Suddenly she realized that, yes, she called Miroku 'beloved' out loud And with others listening! It was true, but she wouldn't ever say that!

"Love Potion!" she exclaimed, blushing fiercely and pulling her hand from Miroku's grasp to cover her mouth. "You fed me love potion! I would never..."

Miroku's surprised expression at her exclamation changed to amusement. Kaede coughed and smiled while Kagome gave Sango a strange look. Inuyasha shook his head.

"Feh!"

"You wish it was love potion," Kagome muttered, more to herself. Shippou just giggled as he jumped to a bowl of cut liver pieces to pic another leftover healing ingredient.