InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bed Ridden ❯ Confessions of a Not-So-Broken Heart ( Chapter 23 )

General Info: Round Robin #1 for the Monk_and_Miko Yahoo! group.

Title: Bed Ridden

Summary: He's lived through a cursed hand, demons, and a hayou with an attitude- but can our sixteenth century houshi live through the stimulation of the twentieth century? [MK]

Rating: PG-13

Chapter Author: Crash

Chapter Summary: Miroku is mad, Kagome is sad, and Risa gets the biggest shock of her life. Too bad she doesn't know it's just a bad joke.

Disclaimer: I hold no rights to Inuyasha in any way.

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Author Note: Well, I was going for angst, but it didn't stay that way for long. Hope everyone enjoys anyway.

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Chapter 23: Confessions of a Not-So-Broken Heart

She was doing it again.

Well, she wasn't actually DOING anything. She was just sitting there, in the chair she'd pulled over to the bed side from her desk.

But he had thought that she would have gotten the point after three days of silence.

Then again, she didn't actually say anything. She just sat there. Staring at her hands folded neatly in her lap.

At meal times, she would fetch a tray with some food on it for him, help him sit up, and then just watch him eat, not saying a single
word. Afterwards, she would take the tray back downstairs and would leave him alone for a while. But she always came back.

She hadn't even left the room when Yoh had come again, earlier that day, to check on his wounds. She just stood in a corner while the bandages were removed, his wounds checked, and new bandages were put on. She had walked Yoh to the door of the room, and just before he left, Yoh had glanced at Miroku, then Kagome, a worried look in his eye. "Problems?" he had asked, but Kagome had only shook her head and flashed Yoh a fake smile when he ruffled her hair.

Miroku scoffed at himself. He was practically behaving as a child about all this. But she was the one that kept flip-flopping her
attentions from male to male.

He rolled to his side, his back facing the chair she would come in and occupy at any moment, and evened out his breathing. Maybe if she thought he was asleep, she might leave him to his thoughts for a while. He couldn't think straight with her around.

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Kagome poked her head in the door and saw that Miroku was asleep. With a sigh she walked into the room, closing the door behind her, and took up her seat by his bed.

There were so many things she wanted to tell him, but she just couldn't bring herself to say them when he was awake. So many things she wanted to ask him, but her throat wouldn't let the words out. Words that she could release in the safety of his slumber.

"I'd like to think we're worth it. I've had lots of time to think about it actually, and I know you're worth it," Kagome started out in
a quiet voice. "The question is, do you think I'm worth it? Even with all your silly little quirks, I can't help but feel that I'm
falling in love with you." Kagome snorted. "Who am I kidding? I'm already in love with you. You're just irresistible." She paused
again to sigh dejectedly. "I just hope I'm not wasting my time with you. I know I'll cherish all my memories with you. But I don't want to even think of what I would do if you went off with someone else after you go back to the past. I can't even stand the thought," she told him, tears streaking down her cheeks.

"I love you, and I don't think I could love anyone else after you. I've come to realize that my feelings for Inuyasha were just a silly
crush. He could never make me feel the way you do when you just look at me. And I've missed that over the last few days." Kagome paused to get her tears under control, not noticing that the lump of a person that she had been talking to had rolled over to look at her with concerned violet eyes.

"I'm sorry for whatever I did that upset you when Ayumi's older brother was here. I was just so happy to see him, `cause I haven't
seen him since I was ten years old," she sobbed out.

~*~

Miroku'sheart clenched and he wanted to beat himself over his head with his staff. The male nurse had been her friend's older brother. And now, he was making her cry.

Silently, he sat up and scooted over to the edge of the bed, wincing when sore muscles protested. When he was within reached, he wrapped his arms around Kagome's shoulders and pulled her closer, letting her cry on his shoulder. It was the least he could do after he made her cry. Miroku felt her wrap her arms around his waist as she cried into his chest, and he let her.

Miroku just brushed his fingers through her hair and rubbed her back, trying to soothe her internal aches, while his mind tried to wrap around what she had said.

She loved him.

The hentai monk.

"I love you," Miroku murmured into Kagome's hair as he tucked his nose into the crook of her neck.

"You were awake," Kagome squeaked out. She felt his nod against her neck and hugged him even tighter, careful of his wounds. "Good; means I don't have to say all that stuff again."

"There is one thing I'd like to hear on a regular basis," Miroku spoke from the mass that was her hair.

"What's that?" Kagome asked.

Miroku pulled back to look her in the eyes. "I love you," he whispered as he leaned in and kissed her on the lips.

Kagome smiled against his lips. "I love you," she vowed before she deepened the kiss.

Miroku pulled back, against his better judgment, or maybe it was his better judgment that made him pull back. "Good. I hope you'll keep that in mind when I tell you this. You need some sleep. You look like hell," he told her with a smile.

"That's because someone stole my bed, so I have to sleep on a very uncomfortable cot in the living room," Kagome said, sticking her tongue out at Miroku.

He couldn't resist. He just couldn't. Leaning forward, Miroku took her tongue into his mouth and sucked on it gently. His ego crowed in triumph when she leaned into him almost immediately and opened her mouth, giving him access. Knowing that Kagome needed rest, Miroku pulled back, reluctantly breaking the kiss. Scooting back on the bed, Miroku pulled her with him.

Understanding what he was trying to do, Kagome followed after him, sliding underneath the sheet with him. "My mother would kill me if she found us like this," she muttered as she snuggled up against his side, mindful of his injuries. "Or even worse, I'd get another `dangers of premarital sex' talk," she joked, slowly drifting off to sleep, the toll of her comfortable bed and a warm Miroku
besideher taking their effect on her.

Miroku looked down at a now sleeping Kagome and smiled. She loved him. And just then, that was all that mattered.

Naraku.

The wind tunnel.

Getting an heir.

None of that bothered him. He had all he'd ever want or need laying right beside him. And with her, he felt he could conquer the world.

"You're worth it," he whispered before allowing himself to drift to sleep as well.

~*~

Risastood outside her daughter's bedroom door. Kagome hadn't come down to get dinner for Miroku, and she hadn't reappeared anywhere. This was the only place she hadn't looked. Which is what she was afraid of. Considering some of the positions she had walked in on them in, she was afraid of what she would see when she opened the closed door.

She didn't know what the feudal monk wanted with her daughter, but whatever it was, it had better be honorable.

Steeling her resolve, Risa opened the door and looked into the room, her eyes instantly drawn to the two figures on the bed. Kagome was curled up against Miroku's side, sound asleep, while he sat there, just watching her sleep. All hands were clearly visible and in appropriate places.

She opened her mouth to say something, but Miroku's eyes flicked to her face, and he held a finger up to his lips. She watched as he carefully, silently, crawled from the bed, his face twisting into a wince once when his movements stressed the stitches a little too
much. Risa nearly smiled when he grabbed the blue fleece robe they had gotten for him, but noticed that he only loosely tied the belt. He grabbed his cane and hobbled towards her, and motioned to the hallway with his head.

Risaopened the door enough to let him out, and then closed it behind them, leaving Kagome asleep. She followed Miroku to the guest room and let him get seated before she started.

"What are you intentions with my daughter?" she asked, getting straight to the point.

"We love each other," Miroku responded calmly, almost as if he had been expecting this from her.

"That's nice. But what do you intend to do about that?" Risa asked.

"I want to marry her," he responded honestly.

"Oh."

"By the way, how do you feel about grandchildren?" Miroku asked with a smile as he got up and left the room.

A minute later, the house shook. "WHAT?!?!?!"

~*~

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Next Author: Crimson Demon

Due Date: July 26, 2004

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