Disclaimer, I do not own Inu-Yasha or any of the characters, so please don't sue me! I beg you pleeeeeease! This is based on the anime, I know that in the manga things are different, Kilala= Kirara as an example, but I've only read a few graphic novels and I feel more comfortable writing the style of the anime. Please no flames.Ok, enough groveling to people I don't even know, so here's the fic!
Naraku chuckled evilly as he watched the band of travelers walking forward through the forest. He was perched on a thick tree branch, downwind of Inu-Yasha's keen nose. He was still recovering from the wound Kagome had given him from her arrow, but he was still as cunning as ever. Naraku had his own evil plans for every one of the shard seekers. Inu-Yasha… the half demon, he would pay, and so would his love Kagome. Even though, they themselves hadn't expressed their feelings, Naraku as well as almost anyone else, could see that they clearly cared for one another deeply. Naraku relished in the thought of seeing the look on Inu-Yasha's face as Kagome lay dieing a slow torturous death in his arms. That death Naraku would see to, as well as Inu-Yasha's. Shippou and Kilala would both have shards of the sacred shikon jewel embedded in their bodies, and made his slaves. He would harness their power and use it for his evil purposes. Naraku turned his eyes toward the monk. Miroku. Naraku looked forward to the lecherous monk's death most of all. His bloodline would end, Naraku vowed to himself that he would see to it. Just then, Miroku reached over to grope Sango's but, before she herself slapped his hand away right before it would have touched her.
"Sango…" Naraku whispered. The beautiful demon exterminator. She's brave, loyal, kind and beautiful. Naraku thought to himself. "Think I'll keep her around, for my own lust and desires, and then when she's too worn out to be of any pleasure to me anymore, I'll imbed a shard in her, and make her my slave, just like her brother.
The wind blew against his face, raising his baboon skin up a bit, revealing the hidden little warrior under his robe.
"Well Kohaku, shall we have a little fun with your sister?" Naraku smirked. Kohaku nodded, his face expressionless and distant. His memories had been erased, so he felt nothing toward the stranger Sango, who looked a lot like him and seemed to know him. Kohaku didn't even seem to be alive. Just an empty shell devoid of thought or emotion. Only one thing ruled his actions, his master Naraku's orders. They both sat in silence as the band of shard seekers stopped to rest.
Miroku rubbed his now red hand in effort to stop the stinging. Sango had slapped him a bit hard this time and it was usually his face, he hadn't expected her to slap his hand.
"Well Miroku, if you didn't try to grope Sango every three minutes, she wouldn't have to hit you all the time!" Kagome scolded as she leaned her bike against a nearby tree.
"Yeah Miroku, what's so great about Sango's butt anyway?" Shippou put in, sitting atop Kagome's shoulder.
"That is not for children to know, and in my defense, it's not every three minutes." Miroku answered, casually leaning his staff against a tree and seating himself.
"Feh, more like every two minutes lecher." Inu-Yasha sneered.
Sango didn't say anything; she just had an angry expression on her face. Kilala perched on her shoulder and nuzzled Sango's cheek. She set her boomerang down and sighed. Sango's gaze softened as she looked toward Miroku.
Over the short time they had known each other, Sango had grown quite close to Miroku. She felt a sort of kindred spirit with him. Both of them had scores to settle with Naraku, and both of them felt a bit lonely, like something was missing from their lives. Sango had often seen Miroku looking at his right hand, contemplating his fate. How isolated and fearful he must feel with each new day. Never knowing if he would die the next day, or complete his mission in life.
She had been so terrified when the mantis demon had made the void in his hand wider. Sango couldn't bare the thought of losing the lecherous monk. Then she would really be alone in the world. No one understood how that felt except for Miroku. Even though he drove her crazy half the time. Though she could never tell him her feelings. Sango was sure that Miroku felt nothing for her but lust. Why does he have to do that to me? She thought to herself. Every time I think we start to get a little closer to each other, he always has to ruin the moment by grabbing me! Oh that pervert make's me so angry! The angry scowl on her face soon returned.
Miroku glanced over at Sango and winced at her furious expression. He hadn't meant to make her that angry. "If she only knew…" He murmured to himself. Miroku felt something when he was with Sango. Something that stirred within his heart and not in his loins. He used the groping to keep Sango from thinking he cared about her more deeply than she thought. And to keep her from letting her guard down and getting too attached. Miroku wished he could just take Sango into his arms. To hold her, kiss her, to tell Sango just how much he loved her. But… in reality, Miroku knew it could never be. For now anyway.
His mission had to come first, for everyone's sake. Miroku didn't know what the future would bring. Would the void in his right hand consume him? Or would he die by Naraku or some other hell spawned demon. He couldn't, no wouldn't let Sango suffer more grief than she had already. Miroku loved Sango too much to do that. If Naraku ended up being defeated, and the wind tunnel completely gone, then he would be free to share his feelings with Sango. Until then, if she grew tired of his antics and tried to move on with someone else…he would just have to accept that and try to move on with his own life…Without Sango. He shuddered even thinking about such a life. Sango meant so much to him. Miroku closed his eyes in deep thought.
Naraku raised an eyebrow. "So the monk and the demon exterminator have feelings for one another eh. How delightful it will be for me to steal the monk's lover. That will make him suffer far worse, and then I will kill him."
Naraku wrapped one arm tightly around the young boy and leapt into the sky. "Come Kohaku, you will help me prepare." He said. Kohaku nodded as they flew back to Naraku's castle.
"Come on lets get going!" Inu-Yasha cried out.
"Inu-Yasha, a moment to rest please. We are weary and in need of a longer break than you." Miroku answered.
"We're waisting time just sitting here! There are plenty more shikon shards to be found and we won't find them just laying around!" Inu-Yasha barked back.
"Look at me! I'm Inu-Yasha. I'm big and strong and I have a loud mouth! I like to watch Kagome bathe at the hotsprings!" Shippou cried transforming into Inu-Yasha and sticking out his tongue and howling.
Inu-Yasha wasn't amused in the slightest, so he hit the little kitsune over the head, making him transform back into his true form, with a huge bump on the head.
"SIT BOY!" Kagome cried angrily.
Inu-Yasha promptly fell face first to the ground. "What did you do that for! He started it!" Inu-Yasha growled, pointing at Shippou.
"He hit me on the head Kagome…!" Shippou whined/cried.
"Well Shippou, you shouldn't have made fun of him like that, you know how his temper gets." Kagome chided the little fox demon.
"I'm sorry." Shippou apologized.
"It's ok Shippou." Kagome smiled and hugged Shippou. Then she stood up and walked closely to Inu-Yasha. "And as for you Mr. Mind in the gutter, how dare you spy on me at the hot springs!" Kagome cried angrily.
"I didn't! There's nothing worth spying over!" Inu-Yasha yelled back.
"What does that mean?!" Kagome countered.
"I didn't mean it that way!" Inu-Yasha shouted back.
"SIT!" Kagome screamed. And once again Inu-Yasha found himself face first in the dirt.
"There is just no way to win with that girl…" Inu-Yasha growled to himself. Shippou grinned impishly and stuck out his tongue at Inu-Yasha, trying to goad him on. Inu-Yasha had eaten enough dirt that day, and knew better than to react to what Shippou was doing.
Miroku and Sango laughed quietly together.
"They never stop do they?" Sango asked the monk.
Miroku shrugged. "We would lose the entertainment if they did." He answered her, amusement lacing his voice. Miroku smiled warmly at Sango, who slowly returned it.
"Come on you two lets get a move on!" The angry Inu-Yasha ordered.
"Oh alright Inu-Yasha." Sango sighed, exasperated.
Miroku leaned against the tree and stood up. He frowned and narrowed his eyes. "I sense a fowl aura in the air."
"Yeah, and I smell Demon!" Inu-Yasha growled, putting his hand to the hilt of Tetsusaiga. Sango quickly changed into her demon slaying suit, away from Miroku's peaking eyes, and grabbed her boomerang. Kilala stood beside her, ready to transform if necessary.
"Dddo you think it's a really bad demon?" Shippou asked shakily.
"I don't know Shippou, when it comes out in the open, I'll see if it has a sacred jewel shard inside it." Kagome answered. She got out her bow and arrows from the bike basket.
A loud roar pierced through the forest as an enormous dragon demon made its way toward the shard seekers.
"Oh no!" Sango cried. "That's a dragon demon, their thick as metal scales practically make them invulnerable to attack!"
"So what, it still won't protect him from this!" Inu-Yasha smirked. "Tetsusaiga!" Inu-Yasha cried, leaping into the air as the sword transformed and slashing at the Dragon's arm. The dragon roared and began spewing fire left and right. "Inu-Yasha held onto the sword with all his might. It vibrated in his hand and hadn't even phased the dragon one bit. Didn't even scratch it! Inu-Yasha thought. I'll have to try using the wind scar...
Kagome looked all over the Dragon's body, searching for any sign of a jewel shard. "There, I see it! A jewel shard embedded in its forehead!" Kagome cried.
"Kilala!" Sango shouted. She and Kagome mounted the now transformed cat demon and soared high into the sky. "Let's hit the jewel shard together Kagome!" Sango cried out. Sango hurled the giant boomerang over her head just as Kagome took out one of her arrows and shot it with her bow. The shard was knocked out of the dragon's forehead by the force of the boomerang and the arrow. Shippou quickly caught it and ran away in terror.
The dragon roared in anger as it shrank down a third of the size that it just was, but it was still a formidable enemy.
Kagome saw that the fires were small, but spreading rapidly and they needed to be put out or else the whole forest would burn down to ash. "We have to put those fires out somehow!" Kagome exclaimed.
Sango nodded. "There's a village not far from here, they must have a well with buckets for us to use!" She suggested pointing to the west. "Kilala!"
Kilala roared in agreement and flew as fast as she could toward the west.
Inu-Yasha focused his thoughts on seeing the windscar and targeting the dragon. Meanwhile, Miroku was hastily undoing his rosary beads just in case that didn't work and he had to use the wind tunnel as a last resort.
Just then, the dragon made an ear piercing scream and fell over. It was pretty random, considering that neither Inu-Yasha nor Miroku had used their special attacks.
"What in seven hells happened here?" Miroku asked, putting the rosary beads back in place.
"I smell metel…" Inu-Yasha said, nose to the ground near the dragon. Suddenly, four Chinese throwing stars flew out of the dragon's body and began slicing it up.
"Are those things possessed or something?" Shippou asked, climbing onto Miroku's shoulder.
"I don't sense any demon possessing them… But… I sense something else…coming this way. And I don't like the feel of it." Miroku answered, tightening his grip on his staff. "Prepare yourself Inu-Yasha, something else is out there." Miroku warned.
"Feh, you just worry about yourself monk, I'll be fine." Inu-Yasha retorted.
"Ooooh, I wish Kagome, Kilala and Sango were back with us!" Shippou said with a shiver.
A lone figure came strolling down the path. He muttered a single word and the throwing stars flew out of the dragon's backside and came spinning back into the man's gloved hands.
"What new enemy is this?" Miroku murmured to himself.
Bum bum bum! Dramatic cliffhanger! Stay tuned for chappie 2!!