Chapter 23

Sango ripped away, her eyes wide. What was she doing? She was going completely crazy with the pervert of a monk. Stop. She ordered herself to stop as she fell back, her arms propping her up behind her.
"S-Sango?" Miroku muttered, surprised as well. He had a right. One minute she was hitting him and screaming at him and the next she was kissing him like she really loved him. Now, she was staring at him like he was completely crazy.
Both their chests heaved as they drew in deep breaths they weren't able to take before.
Miroku slumped back against the wall and blinked again and again. He tried to steady his heart but the rapid beat wouldn't slow.
"Are you alright? Sango...I thought you were going to bear my children. Why'd you stop now?" He asked, leaning forward, an innocent look on his face despite the perverted question.
Sango gritted her teeth as she raised a flat hand. Swiftly, the palm connected with his cheek. As Miroku placed his hand over Sango's red handprint, the slayer began to laugh.
Needless to say, Miroku was too confused for words. He raised his brows and looked at Sango, returning the stare as if she were crazy.
"Uh..." He murmured, rubbing his cheek as Sango laughed gleefully.
At first, he thought she had been possessed the entire time. How cruel for someone to do that. But then he caught the look in her eye as her laughing finally began to slow.
"..I...love you, Miroku, you perverted monk!" She said, shaking her head. He began to laugh as well. They laughed together over the whole thing.

Sango pressed gently against him, her cheek to his naked chest. Miroku wrapped his arms around her and held her tightly around her lower back. He kept his hands in respectable places. He didn't want to ruin the moment. They sat there as the laughing slowed.

"Do you really love me?" Miroku piped up a few minutes later, the silence beginning to be too much.

Moments passed without a reply, only adding to the silence that had mounted once more. It took awhile for the monk to glance down at the soundly sleeping slayer that rest in his arms.

He smiled, the widest smile he had ever before and the one with the most glee and pure happiness. This moment, if only for that night, he was so glad what path destiny had led them down.

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Again with the Sango-Miroku moment...alone...in a chapter.

That was odd.

ANYWAYZ!