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Insomnia Chapter 2
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Insomnia
Chapter 2
By moonsilver
Miroku had propped himself up beside a tree. His eyes were not closed this night and he wondered why. Was something going to happen and he had to be alert?
A presence was felt to the left side of him and he turned. “What are you doing up?” Inu-Yasha growled at him.
Miroku shrugged. “I cannot sleep.”
Inu-Yasha sighed and ducked his head. “Kagome didn’t tell me that insomnia was catching.”
“What’s insomnia?” Miroku asked interested.
“It’s where you humans can’t sleep at night and you don’t know why.” Inu-Yasha informed him.
Miroku nodded sagely. “Ah, yes. It would be normal that Kagome’s time would have a word for such behavior. You discussed this with her last night?” Inu-Yasha nodded. “You were up all last night with Kagome?” he said mildly.
“It wasn’t what you think!” Inu-Yasha said hurriedly. “She just couldn’t sleep. She was going to wake everyone up!”
“Inu-Yasha, I think it’s well that you and Kagome are getting along better.” Miroku teased. His eyes drifted to Sango. When he looked back, Inu-Yasha was smirking at him.
“Wishing you and Sango had caught insomnia together?” he asked.
Miroku looked up at the stars. “A man, a maiden, together on a night such as this? A wondrous thing.”
Inu-Yasha snorted. “I was wrong, wasn’t I? You and Sango do like each other.”
Miroku didn’t glance his way. “The way you and Kagome do.”
Inu-Yasha blushed and turned away but didn’t say anything to the contrary. Miroku got up from his place of sleep and went for a walk. Inu-Yasha walked with him in silence. Just two people walking through the forest at night.
When they returned, Miroku said that he felt ready for sleep now. Inu-Yasha thought and came up with the answer of worry. Kagome had said that sometimes you got a thought stuck in your head and maybe that’s what had kept Miroku awake.
Miroku bedded down and Inu-Yasha climbed back up in his tree. He peeked down at Sango sleeping with Kirara. Women cause so much trouble, he thought.
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