Title: Kiss of Life
Category: Drabble
Author: Megami
Rating: PG ( K+ ) – for enough angst to give you mild heartburn.
Challenge: Unsaid
Words: 500 exactly
"Say something, Kagome-chan!" Sango cried, shaking the unresponsive miko by the shoulders. After another long moment of silence, the Taijia began to shake harder. "Kagome-chan!"
"Is she breathing?" Miroku asked, kneeling down to press his ear to Kagome's chest. Surprisingly, InuYasha didn't intervene to stop him; Sango even moved out of his way.
Kagome was spread out along the riverbank, her hair spread in a sticky web around her face and shoulders, soaked in the water that may have killed her.
Tha-thump...tha-thump.
"Her heart is beating," the monk announced, partly in awe of the sound of his companion's life beating in his ear.
"She's alive!" Shippou squealed, clinging to Sango's neck. The Taijia was silent in her joy; the tears streaming from her cheeks testimony enough.
InuYasha scuffed at the ground awkwardly with his toes. "So...when will she wake up? I...we need to keep hunting for shards."
It seemed that none but Shippou could express themselves freely.
"I don't know," the monk admitted honestly. "It may not be for a long while."
"Kagome-chan mentioned something once," Sango offered. "If someone drowns in her time, then they are given something called 'mouth-to-mouth re-sus-shu-tay-shon.'"
Shippou bounced happily on her shoulder. "Yeah! She told me something like that, too. That's how the prince woke up Sleeping Beauty. I think that means that her 'knight-in-shining-armor' has to do it."
All conscious parties looked, in unison, to InuYasha.
The hanyou's ears flattened to his skull and his face flushed brightly. "Keh!" he snorted, brushing off the responsibility with a shy glance in the opposite direction.
"Very well," Miroku frowned in annoyance, lifting his face away from Kagome's bosom.
With gentle, trembling hands he cupped the miko's face and barely managed to hold it steady, feeling unusually awkward in his task. He licked his own lips and bent down at a slow, reverent pace...
"Get it over with, Houshi!" InuYasha snarled. His back was turned on them all.
Paused millimeters from her mouth, Miroku could feel Kagome's soft breath on his face. The startled flutter of his heart evened out to the same easy tempo and, with a sublime feeling swelling in his chest, Miroku brought their lips together finally.
Under the gentle massage of his veteran kiss, Miroku could feel Kagome beginning to stir. A mere twitch of the muscles at first, then meek participation, and finally a hungry whimper deep in her throat. Miroku swallowed it, scooping it up with his tongue, and hoped that no one else had heard; they would tear him away at the slightest signal of Kagome's consciousness.
Eventually, however, he was forced to pull back for fear of smothering her. His own breath burned in his lungs from the strain, but he didn't mind. "Kagome-sama?"
Kagome blinked in the noon sunlight, dazed. "Inu...Miroku-sama?"
The monk forced his deflated and wounded heart back down his throat with a hearty gulp and a false smile. "Kagome-sama...how are you feeling?"
Kagome's grin was genuine. "Really good, actually."
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Authors Notes: I don't normally do angst since I'm so bad at it, but here you go. Thus, this isn't my best work ever, but it's something. And I did try, really I did! Angst just isn't my element...sigh.
I actually thought of this one out on the lake last weekend. I mean, water drowning, drowning mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation kissing (sorta). I figured that "mouth-to-mouth" would be a vague term considering the time period, so I figured it really would be more like kissing.
Anyway...I would've worked on this yesterday or the day before (what with having nothing particularly constructive to do), but I've been battling pharyngitis (according to the doctor I saw this morning) so I haven't really been feeling up to speed. I'm on antibiotic's now, though, (thank GOD this is a bacterial infection) so I got to finish it up before the deadline tomorrow. Whee!
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Thanks to those who participated this week. Sorry I haven't been around.
Next Week's Theme...Naughty. (Don't you just ACHE to know what will come of this one...?)
Megami