The Nine Reasons for Reincarnation
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Inuyasha - nor the idea of reincarnation. Or Henry Miller and his qoute.
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"Ooooo, Miroku!" a voice growled out, Sango balling up her fist as she grabbed him by the back of his robes and dragged him away from the young woman he'd just been propositioning – just like the one before her, and the one before her, and the one before her... well, you get the idea.
"You disgusting pervert! Can't you lay off for once? No one wants to hear it! Maybe you should go meditate on reincarnation, since you are supposed to be a monk!" She raised Hiraikotsu threateningly, and Miroku scooted away from the angry taijiya with an ingratiating smile.
Kagome, holding a sighing Shippo, was standing next to Inuyasha, whose arms were crossed into his sleeves as he rolled his eyes. "Keh... that lecher ain't ever gonna quit, you know that, Sango, so I don't know why you even bother," he said in disgust as he began to turn back to the road from the village they had just passed through.
"But Sango's right," Kagome whispered to Inuyasha as she walked beside him, peeking back over her shoulder at a fuming taijiya and an oddly grinning Miroku. "He's a monk, but... I don't think he's going to be meeting the Buddha anytime soon – he's too perverted. I think he's got a lot of incarnations to get through before he'll be finding Nirvana."
"Keh!" Inuyasha snorted. "Once a pervert, always a pervert. Might be a good thing he won't be meeting Buddha anytime soon – he'd probably try to grope him or somethin'. And since reincarnation is supposed to be about us learning to be all 'happy and holy', Miroku's totally screwed. The only 'holy' thing on him is his hand – and his head."
Kagome couldn't help the muffled giggle at his words, as Sango glared at the lecher and stuck her nose in the air, walking past him and ignoring him.
But Miroku certainly wasn't down and out, and he proved it with his next words.
"But ladies," he said urbanely, "and Inuyasha," he scowled a little as the hanyou scowled back, "I already know about the path of reincarnation – I do not need to meditate on it," he nodded to himself with a totally false scholarly mien, trying to pull of the 'holy monk' routine to people who knew better and were looking at him dubiously as he spoke. "There are nine reasons for reincarnation. Sex is the first one – the other eight are unimportant."
A loud thud punctuated the monk's announcement as he allowed his hand to wander into no man's land with a bright smile, and Miroku hit the ground unconscious, a loud scream of, "Lecher!" scaring the nearby birds out of the trees.
"Keh... it ain't that the other eight are unimportant," Inuyasha muttered snidely, "it's just that pervert never got past the first one, so he don't know about them. He never will, either – he's too happy right where's he's at, stuck on number one."
From the big smile on a sleeping Miroku's face, Inuyasha wasn't far wrong.
Kagome sighed.
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A/N: Just a little funny short that came to me after reading a quote on just that by Henry Miller. I changed it a bit – the original goes: "Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant." When I read that, all I could see was that same thing coming out of Miroku's mouth! ~giggles~ By the way, is it just me, or is FF screwed up again? I haven't received any of my notices or reviews – at all.
Amber
