Title Flee In Terror
Author landofthekwt
Rating K
Prompt Fly (At First Tweak)
Word Count 658
Warning none
Summary Miroku reveals the fifth month blessing at the Temple of Inu Hime
A continuation of Forgotten Anniversary
Inuyasha had been dreading this day forever. Ever since he visited the Temple of Inu Hime, he dreaded the return trip. Mostly he dreaded telling Kagome While he had not lied to Kagome about the trip, he had not told her the truth. It was only when the trip became imminent and unavoidable that Miroku forced the issue.
"Inuyasha, We are coming up on the fifth month of Kagome's pregnancy. Time to return to the Temple of Inu Hime where we will be able to cash in on the visit by the Inu Hime and her Inugami. Why aren't you ready?"
Inuyasha stammered and sauntered. Kagome stared at him like he was crazy. Things were going well. The problems of the first trimester were over. No more morning sickness. No more nausea and bloating. Her baby bump was showing, but it was still not the beach ball she would be when the youkai inside her was ready to emerge.
"What is this about you going back with Miroku to the Temple of Inu Hime? I need your help now more than ever. You can go back after the baby is born?"
Miroku could not resist poking the bear " Lady Kagome you are the reason we must return to the Temple of Inu Hime. We promised the monks that we would return for the fifth month blessing of your child. The Temple is dedicated to Inu Hime. She is the kami who makes sure that child birth is safe. The most important ceremony is the fifth month blessing of the unborn child."
"I understand the significance of the blessing. We sold safe child birth charms at my shrine. What does that have to do with me?"
Miroku smirked. The shit was about to hit the fan "Lady Kagome. You are reason we are returning to the Temple of Inu Hime. Those gifts we brought you were intended for the living incarnation of Inu Hime. The mate of the Inugami. The Temple will pull out all the stops for you and Inuyasha when we return for the fifth month blessing of the child of Inu Hime and her Inugami. They made us an offer we simply could not refuse."
Kagome looked confused. " I am not Inu Hime, her avatar or her incarnation. I went through this with Kikyou and I don't want to pretend again. I am Kagome and no one else."
Miroku knew that he was going to have to sweeten the deal. " What could be the harm? You could be Inu Hime for all we know. Who else but a kami can travel through time and have a child five hundred years before she was born? Destroy great evil and rid the world of the Jewel.? As for your Inugami, Inuyasha is an Inu youkai whom you have collared like a common house pet One word from you and he eats dirt. Yet he fights strongest when protecting you. Because you are the one he loves"
Kagome was stewing. So much trouble. She thought of all the bad that could come of this. She had seen too many Indiana Jones movies about women being sacrificed to gods. What if they discovered that she was not Inu Hime. Would the mobs throw her off a bridge like "The Man Who Would Be King?"
She turned to Inuyasha with a look that could kill "Well, what do you have to say for yourself?"
Inuyasha was frozen in place. Kagome's voice froze him in place. He should have flown at the first sign of trouble No. It was too late. He was at Kagome's mercy. Just when Kagome seemed to recovering from the worst part of pregnancy, he was faced with any angry Kagome. Knowing nothing he did or said would make any difference he managed to squeak out his all purpose response and prepared to take his punishment for hiding the fifth month blessing from Kagome All he had wanted to do was make Kagome forget the Forgotten Anniversary. Instead, his chickens had come home to roost with a vengeance.
"Keh"