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Miroku's Achilles Heal
Chapter 1:
"I smell blood," InuYasha said as he took in a whiff of the surrounding air.
InuYasha, Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kagome were traveling around feudal Japan in search of shards of the Shikon Jewel. After InuYasha's winning fight with his brother Sesshoumaru he and the others felt confident that they would be successful in their next endeavor.
"*Human blood*?" Kagome asked with a tremor in her voice holding Shippo close to her chest.
"I'm afraid so Kagome," InuYasha admitted, "And it smells pretty recent. In fact, I think blood is being spilled even now."
"Kagome do you sense another shard of the Shikon Jewel nearby?" Questioned Miroku.
"Hold on let me check," Kagome responded closing her eyes and concentrating. "Yes, I do! It's faint but it's there. It's in that direction!" Kagome exclaimed pointing off in the direction of a trail leading into a dense forest.
"Well, you heard her let's go," InuYasha said picking up Kagome and starting off in the direction she had specified.
Miroku smirked at Sango before getting behind her on Kilala.
When they came to the edge of the dense forest they saw that it overlooked a valley were a small village was situated. And there circling above the tiny village was an enormous demon-dragon. The dragon was mercilessly sending blue flames down upon the village engulfing it in a blazing inferno.
The dragon was enormous and covered in shimmering blue scales. The travelers would have thought the dragon beautiful if it hadn't been for its bloodthirsty nature.
"Oh my god, InuYasha, we have to do something! That village it's going to be completely destroyed!" Kagome shrieked seeing the villagers run futilely towards the nearby river.
"Hold on a second Kagome," InuYasha warned, "Something doesn't smell right about this." InuYasha said while taking another whiff of the air. "There!" InuYasha pointed off in the direction of some trees and hovering above them were Naraku's insects.
"*Naraku*" Miroku said in a low voice. "Damn him! How am I supposed to help when Naraku keeps sending those things after me? I feel so useless."
"Don't worry about it Miroku I can take care of this on my own," InuYasha proclaimed with a confident smirk. He then whipped out Tetsusaiga and jumped off the cliff ready to do battle with the demon-dragon.
"InuYasha wait! I'm sensing more than one jewel shard!" Kagome called after him but it was too late.
"How many shards do you sense, Kagome?" Sango asked worry etched across her features.
"I'm sensing two but one of them is huge...it can't be they're the jewel shards that were stolen by Kikyou!"
"InuYasha is going to need my help then. Kilala!" Sango said before jumping onto Kilala's back.
"I'm coming with you," Miroku said.
"No, it's too dangerous with Naraku's insects. You stay here and look after Kagome and Shippo."
"All right but be careful," Miroku reluctantly agreed.
Meanwhile the dragon was swooping down over the village once more and InuYasha took the opportunity to jump onto its back as it flew past.
"Stupid demon-dragon will you stop torching the village already!" InuYasha yelled driving the Tetsusaiga into the dragon's back, but the blade only went down half way. 'Damn, these scales are hard to penetrate. This is going to be a lot harder than I thought. I don't think I can defeat this dragon on my own.' InuYasha thought to himself.
"InuYasha need a hand!" Came Sango's voice. She flew Kilala near the dragon and let lose her boomerang. The boomerang flew at the dragon at top speed but the jewel shards had increased the dragon's swiftness so much that it dodged Sango's attack easily. In the fast maneuver InuYasha found himself grabbing onto his imbedded sword with all his might just to stay on top of the dragon.
Sango caught her returning boomerang and saw InuYasha's predicament, "InuYasha are you ok?!"
"I'm fine but I can't seem to get the Tetsusaiga out of the dragon's back! It seems the power of the Shikon jewel healed the dragon's wound and the dragon scales have closed up around the Tetsusaiga!"
"InuYasha, you should just leave the sword and get off of there - it's too dangerous!"
"I'll never abandon my sword!" InuYasha stubbornly replied. 'Not after it just won a battle for me. I'm finally beginning to bring out the Tetsusaiga's true power so I won't give it up that easily.'
"Well, then you better hang on because I'm going to try attacking the dragon again!" Sango warned preparing for another throw. But this time the dragon had been anticipating an attack from her and wasn't going to let Sango get away with that so easily. The dragon waited for Sango to throw the boomerang and then caught it between its jaws. It then threw the boomerang back at Sango and Kilala with such force that when it hit them they were knocked to the ground unconscious with a sickening thud.
"Sango!" InuYasha yelled seeing what had befallen his friend. "Damn it! I have to remove my sword!" InuYasha tugged at the sword with all his might but that only seemed to enrage the dragon even more. The dragon began to fly in circles in the air and InuYasha was finding it harder than ever to stay on.
"InuYasha!" Kagome cried seeing InuYasha's struggle. "Please, let go InuYasha the dragon is just too powerful!"
"No, I won't! This dragon has shards of the Shikon jewel and the Tetsusaiga!"
"Stubborn isn't he," Miroku said shaking his head. "Guess I'll have to go help him." Miroku prepared to jump down and help InuYasha.
"But what about Naraku's insects?" Kagome asked worriedly.
"I don't care, he needs my help," Miroku said resolutely.
Miroku was about to jump down when the demon-dragon began to mutate because of the jewel. In a matter of seconds the dragon had sprouted a second head.
"Damn, I could really use the Tetsusaiga right about now," InuYasha said while still trying to get the Tetsusaiga out of the dragon's back. "Oh well, Iron Rever Soul Stealer!" InuYasha cried attacking the second dragonhead with his blood. But the attack wasn't powerful enough and the dragon managed to close its jaws around InuYasha.
"No! InuYasha!" Kagome screamed.
The second dragonhead shook InuYasha's body in its jaws back and forth fiercely before flinging InuYasha to the ground.
Kagome was already descending the hill to help InuYasha when Miroku stopped her. "No Kagome, you stay here. Now, it's my turn." Miroku said before jumping down between the ravenous demon-dragon and InuYasha.
Miroku quickly unsealed his wind tunnel and pointed it at the dragon that immediately began to get sucked in. But it didn't take long for Naraku's insects to seize this opportunity and begin their descent upon Miroku.
The insects were about to be sucked in Miroku's wind tunnel and he had only managed to suck in one dragonhead so far. Things looked pretty bad until someone suddenly covered up Miroku's wind tunnel with his prayer beads.
"What the-" Miroku began turning around to see who had done it expecting either Kagome or Sango. But whom he saw was a stranger - a girl with fiery red hair and amber eyes.
"What are you trying to do get yourself killed?!" The girl yelled at Miroku pushing him out of the way when the demon-dragon unleashed a fireball at them.
"Just stay out of my way! I can handle the dragon!" The girl proclaimed materializing a sorcerer's staff with a ball of golden amber on the end of it. She pointed it towards the dragon and blocked its next fire attack by creating a magical shield. The flame flew off of the shield and the girl watched how the dragon produced its fire closely. It's weak spot turned out to be its fire producing glands that were at the throat of the dragon.
The girl knew she couldn't defeat the dragon by use of her staff when what she really needed was a sword. Then the girl saw the Tetsusaiga that was still imbedded in the demon-dragon's back.
'All too easy,' She thought to herself dematerializing her staff and jumping onto the back of the dragon. She then used her magical energy to cause the dragon scales to move apart releasing the Tetsusaiga. The girl removed the Tetsusaiga and jumped to the ground.
The Dragon was enraged that the girl had managed to remove the sword so easily and so prepared to release another fire attack. The girl could see the dragon's heat producing glands swelling and knew that now was her chance. She ran at the dragon and rammed the Tetsusaiga into the dragon's throat. The glands burst and the dragon collapsed to the ground choking to death.
The girl, who also happened to be able to sense the Shikon jewel, went to pick up the fallen pieces before the dragon could pull itself back together.
The girl then walked over to the fallen InuYasha and tossed the Tetsusaiga down beside him. "Foolish dog-demon," she said before materializing her staff and pointing it at InuYasha.
"NO!" Kagome screamed from the top of the hill seeing what was happening, "Please don't kill him!" She said running down the hill.
"Don't worry," the girl smiled eerily, "I won't kill him." She activated her staff and sent a beam of shimmering magic towards the wounded InuYasha. The others watched mystified as InuYasha's wounds began to heal.
"InuYasha!" Kagome said happily coming to InuYasha's side.
Already Sango and Kilala were getting to their feet on their own as they regained consciousness.
"Wow, you really saved us," Miroku said coming up to the mysterious stranger.
"Here," the girl said handing the shards of the Shikon jewel to Miroku.
Miroku took them dumbfounded, "You're just giving them to me?"
"I don't do anything for free," the girl began, "I expect payment."
"Payment? What sort of payment?" Miroku asked curiously.
The girl walked up to Miroku and whispered hotly into his ear, "What I want is your seed."
Miroku stepped back in shock and almost fell over, "You can't be serious!"
"Oh, but I am Miroku," the girl smiled, "I know all about you and your curse. But for some your curse is really a blessing in disguise. You see, I'm a sorceress and so magic-blood flows within my veins - blood that is so powerful it can harness and control the power of the wind tunnel. I had a child taken from me Miroku and my child as any child is was helpless and had no way to defend itself. That's why I want your child. Your powerful wind tunnel would be passed down to my child, who would be able to control its power, and could use it to defend itself. I won't lose another child again."
"But how can I trust you? I've already let a beautiful woman trick me once before. And I have to say you are very beautiful and it pains me not to be able to agree to your proposal right away."
"How can you not trust the woman who just saved your life?" The girl questioned narrowing her gaze upon Miroku accusingly. "If you won't pay for my services then I want the shards of the Shikon jewel back - that's only fair."
Miroku looked at the shards of the jewel in his hand knowing that giving them up really wasn't his decision in the first place. 'And she's right about how she did save my life - all of our lives for that matter. And even if she does turn out to be some sort of demon I'll just use my wind tunnel on her. After all, how can I resist *helping* a damsel in distress? It would be wrong to turn her away after all she's done for us. Sleeping with her is really the right thing to do! So it's settled then; I'll help this girl and we'll get to keep the shards of the Shikon jewel.' Miroku smiled and complimented himself on his wise decision.
To be continued...
Next Chapter LEMON CHAPTER so you can skip it and go to chapter 3 when that's up if you don't want to read the lemon!
Miroku's Achilles Heal
Chapter 1:
"I smell blood," InuYasha said as he took in a whiff of the surrounding air.
InuYasha, Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kagome were traveling around feudal Japan in search of shards of the Shikon Jewel. After InuYasha's winning fight with his brother Sesshoumaru he and the others felt confident that they would be successful in their next endeavor.
"*Human blood*?" Kagome asked with a tremor in her voice holding Shippo close to her chest.
"I'm afraid so Kagome," InuYasha admitted, "And it smells pretty recent. In fact, I think blood is being spilled even now."
"Kagome do you sense another shard of the Shikon Jewel nearby?" Questioned Miroku.
"Hold on let me check," Kagome responded closing her eyes and concentrating. "Yes, I do! It's faint but it's there. It's in that direction!" Kagome exclaimed pointing off in the direction of a trail leading into a dense forest.
"Well, you heard her let's go," InuYasha said picking up Kagome and starting off in the direction she had specified.
Miroku smirked at Sango before getting behind her on Kilala.
When they came to the edge of the dense forest they saw that it overlooked a valley were a small village was situated. And there circling above the tiny village was an enormous demon-dragon. The dragon was mercilessly sending blue flames down upon the village engulfing it in a blazing inferno.
The dragon was enormous and covered in shimmering blue scales. The travelers would have thought the dragon beautiful if it hadn't been for its bloodthirsty nature.
"Oh my god, InuYasha, we have to do something! That village it's going to be completely destroyed!" Kagome shrieked seeing the villagers run futilely towards the nearby river.
"Hold on a second Kagome," InuYasha warned, "Something doesn't smell right about this." InuYasha said while taking another whiff of the air. "There!" InuYasha pointed off in the direction of some trees and hovering above them were Naraku's insects.
"*Naraku*" Miroku said in a low voice. "Damn him! How am I supposed to help when Naraku keeps sending those things after me? I feel so useless."
"Don't worry about it Miroku I can take care of this on my own," InuYasha proclaimed with a confident smirk. He then whipped out Tetsusaiga and jumped off the cliff ready to do battle with the demon-dragon.
"InuYasha wait! I'm sensing more than one jewel shard!" Kagome called after him but it was too late.
"How many shards do you sense, Kagome?" Sango asked worry etched across her features.
"I'm sensing two but one of them is huge...it can't be they're the jewel shards that were stolen by Kikyou!"
"InuYasha is going to need my help then. Kilala!" Sango said before jumping onto Kilala's back.
"I'm coming with you," Miroku said.
"No, it's too dangerous with Naraku's insects. You stay here and look after Kagome and Shippo."
"All right but be careful," Miroku reluctantly agreed.
Meanwhile the dragon was swooping down over the village once more and InuYasha took the opportunity to jump onto its back as it flew past.
"Stupid demon-dragon will you stop torching the village already!" InuYasha yelled driving the Tetsusaiga into the dragon's back, but the blade only went down half way. 'Damn, these scales are hard to penetrate. This is going to be a lot harder than I thought. I don't think I can defeat this dragon on my own.' InuYasha thought to himself.
"InuYasha need a hand!" Came Sango's voice. She flew Kilala near the dragon and let lose her boomerang. The boomerang flew at the dragon at top speed but the jewel shards had increased the dragon's swiftness so much that it dodged Sango's attack easily. In the fast maneuver InuYasha found himself grabbing onto his imbedded sword with all his might just to stay on top of the dragon.
Sango caught her returning boomerang and saw InuYasha's predicament, "InuYasha are you ok?!"
"I'm fine but I can't seem to get the Tetsusaiga out of the dragon's back! It seems the power of the Shikon jewel healed the dragon's wound and the dragon scales have closed up around the Tetsusaiga!"
"InuYasha, you should just leave the sword and get off of there - it's too dangerous!"
"I'll never abandon my sword!" InuYasha stubbornly replied. 'Not after it just won a battle for me. I'm finally beginning to bring out the Tetsusaiga's true power so I won't give it up that easily.'
"Well, then you better hang on because I'm going to try attacking the dragon again!" Sango warned preparing for another throw. But this time the dragon had been anticipating an attack from her and wasn't going to let Sango get away with that so easily. The dragon waited for Sango to throw the boomerang and then caught it between its jaws. It then threw the boomerang back at Sango and Kilala with such force that when it hit them they were knocked to the ground unconscious with a sickening thud.
"Sango!" InuYasha yelled seeing what had befallen his friend. "Damn it! I have to remove my sword!" InuYasha tugged at the sword with all his might but that only seemed to enrage the dragon even more. The dragon began to fly in circles in the air and InuYasha was finding it harder than ever to stay on.
"InuYasha!" Kagome cried seeing InuYasha's struggle. "Please, let go InuYasha the dragon is just too powerful!"
"No, I won't! This dragon has shards of the Shikon jewel and the Tetsusaiga!"
"Stubborn isn't he," Miroku said shaking his head. "Guess I'll have to go help him." Miroku prepared to jump down and help InuYasha.
"But what about Naraku's insects?" Kagome asked worriedly.
"I don't care, he needs my help," Miroku said resolutely.
Miroku was about to jump down when the demon-dragon began to mutate because of the jewel. In a matter of seconds the dragon had sprouted a second head.
"Damn, I could really use the Tetsusaiga right about now," InuYasha said while still trying to get the Tetsusaiga out of the dragon's back. "Oh well, Iron Rever Soul Stealer!" InuYasha cried attacking the second dragonhead with his blood. But the attack wasn't powerful enough and the dragon managed to close its jaws around InuYasha.
"No! InuYasha!" Kagome screamed.
The second dragonhead shook InuYasha's body in its jaws back and forth fiercely before flinging InuYasha to the ground.
Kagome was already descending the hill to help InuYasha when Miroku stopped her. "No Kagome, you stay here. Now, it's my turn." Miroku said before jumping down between the ravenous demon-dragon and InuYasha.
Miroku quickly unsealed his wind tunnel and pointed it at the dragon that immediately began to get sucked in. But it didn't take long for Naraku's insects to seize this opportunity and begin their descent upon Miroku.
The insects were about to be sucked in Miroku's wind tunnel and he had only managed to suck in one dragonhead so far. Things looked pretty bad until someone suddenly covered up Miroku's wind tunnel with his prayer beads.
"What the-" Miroku began turning around to see who had done it expecting either Kagome or Sango. But whom he saw was a stranger - a girl with fiery red hair and amber eyes.
"What are you trying to do get yourself killed?!" The girl yelled at Miroku pushing him out of the way when the demon-dragon unleashed a fireball at them.
"Just stay out of my way! I can handle the dragon!" The girl proclaimed materializing a sorcerer's staff with a ball of golden amber on the end of it. She pointed it towards the dragon and blocked its next fire attack by creating a magical shield. The flame flew off of the shield and the girl watched how the dragon produced its fire closely. It's weak spot turned out to be its fire producing glands that were at the throat of the dragon.
The girl knew she couldn't defeat the dragon by use of her staff when what she really needed was a sword. Then the girl saw the Tetsusaiga that was still imbedded in the demon-dragon's back.
'All too easy,' She thought to herself dematerializing her staff and jumping onto the back of the dragon. She then used her magical energy to cause the dragon scales to move apart releasing the Tetsusaiga. The girl removed the Tetsusaiga and jumped to the ground.
The Dragon was enraged that the girl had managed to remove the sword so easily and so prepared to release another fire attack. The girl could see the dragon's heat producing glands swelling and knew that now was her chance. She ran at the dragon and rammed the Tetsusaiga into the dragon's throat. The glands burst and the dragon collapsed to the ground choking to death.
The girl, who also happened to be able to sense the Shikon jewel, went to pick up the fallen pieces before the dragon could pull itself back together.
The girl then walked over to the fallen InuYasha and tossed the Tetsusaiga down beside him. "Foolish dog-demon," she said before materializing her staff and pointing it at InuYasha.
"NO!" Kagome screamed from the top of the hill seeing what was happening, "Please don't kill him!" She said running down the hill.
"Don't worry," the girl smiled eerily, "I won't kill him." She activated her staff and sent a beam of shimmering magic towards the wounded InuYasha. The others watched mystified as InuYasha's wounds began to heal.
"InuYasha!" Kagome said happily coming to InuYasha's side.
Already Sango and Kilala were getting to their feet on their own as they regained consciousness.
"Wow, you really saved us," Miroku said coming up to the mysterious stranger.
"Here," the girl said handing the shards of the Shikon jewel to Miroku.
Miroku took them dumbfounded, "You're just giving them to me?"
"I don't do anything for free," the girl began, "I expect payment."
"Payment? What sort of payment?" Miroku asked curiously.
The girl walked up to Miroku and whispered hotly into his ear, "What I want is your seed."
Miroku stepped back in shock and almost fell over, "You can't be serious!"
"Oh, but I am Miroku," the girl smiled, "I know all about you and your curse. But for some your curse is really a blessing in disguise. You see, I'm a sorceress and so magic-blood flows within my veins - blood that is so powerful it can harness and control the power of the wind tunnel. I had a child taken from me Miroku and my child as any child is was helpless and had no way to defend itself. That's why I want your child. Your powerful wind tunnel would be passed down to my child, who would be able to control its power, and could use it to defend itself. I won't lose another child again."
"But how can I trust you? I've already let a beautiful woman trick me once before. And I have to say you are very beautiful and it pains me not to be able to agree to your proposal right away."
"How can you not trust the woman who just saved your life?" The girl questioned narrowing her gaze upon Miroku accusingly. "If you won't pay for my services then I want the shards of the Shikon jewel back - that's only fair."
Miroku looked at the shards of the jewel in his hand knowing that giving them up really wasn't his decision in the first place. 'And she's right about how she did save my life - all of our lives for that matter. And even if she does turn out to be some sort of demon I'll just use my wind tunnel on her. After all, how can I resist *helping* a damsel in distress? It would be wrong to turn her away after all she's done for us. Sleeping with her is really the right thing to do! So it's settled then; I'll help this girl and we'll get to keep the shards of the Shikon jewel.' Miroku smiled and complimented himself on his wise decision.
To be continued...
Next Chapter LEMON CHAPTER so you can skip it and go to chapter 3 when that's up if you don't want to read the lemon!