"Alright human, just what the hell do you want?" Inuyasha said looking down on the human bound to a tree by his magic chains. Inuyasha was extremely pissed, not only had this human monk interrupted his 'fun time' in the hot spring with Kagome, but he also had the nerve to ask a half demon for help with something.
"My name is Miroku and I would gladly tell you what I want if you would be so kind as to release me from your spell" the monk explained with a friendly smile. Inuyasha snapped his fingers and the chains faded away.
"Now start talking"
"Alright, you see I'm looking for a lovely young maiden to bear my child" he said then quickly moved passed a shocked Inuyasha to grab Kagome's hand. "My lovely lady would you do me the honor of bearing my child?"
"Uh…no…I" she began to say then suddenly gasped when she felt a hand on her rear end. She quickly hissed at him and jumped away clearly offended. Miroku suddenly felt a murderous aura behind him and tried to run, but found his feet were sinking into the earth.
"You just made the biggest mistake of your life!" Inuyasha shouted while flexing his hand that glowed with a green colored magic. Miroku looked at his face and began to sweat when he saw the amount of rage in the half demon's eyes. Inuyasha pulled his hand down and mumbled a quick enchantment which suddenly caused Miroku to be pulled down into the earth leaving only his head sticking out of the ground.
"Any last words before I bury you alive you bastard!" Inuyasha said ready to finish the job.
"Yeah no one touches Inuyasha's woman!" Shippo shouted when he jumped on Kagome's shoulder to watch.
"Don't you start with that again!" Inuyasha yelled pointing at the fox demon who quickly coward behind Kagome.
"All joking aside, what I really need is protection" Miroku said from the ground.
"From what?" Inuyasha asked somewhat curious.
"A demon called Naraku" the monk said hatefully.
"Why is he after you?" Kagome asked him.
"I'm currently on a quest to destroy him, and I recently discovered some information that could cause his down fall".
"And now he wants to kill you for it" Inuyasha finished for him.
"Yes, I've already had to deal with his demons twice this week and I really need someone to protect me until I can find the priestess Kikyo" the monk explained.
"Why do you need her?" Inuyasha asked.
"She is probably the only one who can put an end to Naraku"
"No" Inuyasha stated flatly.
"I can pay you" Miroku argued.
"I said no, I have no desire to get involved in your fight" Inuyasha began to walk away.
"Inuyasha can't we help him please" Kagome asked.
"No Kagome, we're not going to become targets for this Naraku guy, just to protect this pervert's ass" Inuyasha said hoping to end the discussion and continued to walk away.
"If you're scared of this demon then that's okay" she stated causing Inuyasha to immediately stop. Kagome smiled to herself, after spending so much time with Inuyasha she knew exactly which buttons to press to get him to do something.
"Whose says I'm scared?" Inuyasha yelled.
"You sound scared to me" she said back. Inuyasha fumed as he marched over to where Miroku was nearly buried in the dirt.
"Three things, first I want this sack filled with gold" Inuyasha said pulling a sack out of his magic pouch and throwing it down in front of the humans head.
"Of course" Miroku nodded to him.
"Second our business is done as soon as we find Kikyo" Inuyasha said down to him.
"Yes of course" Miroku agreed to the second set of terms.
"And thirdly if you ever touch Kagome again, then you're on your own" Kagome smiled at him happy her Inuyasha was looking out for her.
"But she's so beautiful" Miroku said looking back at the cat girl.
"Take it or leave it" Inuyasha said.
"Alright deal, now could you please get me out of this" Miroku asked gesturing to the dirt he was trapped in.
"I don't think so, consider this pay back for groping Kagome earlier" Inuyasha said with a smirk.
"I don't think that's fair my half demon friend, after all you were groping her much more in the hot spring" the monk said in a matter of fact way. Both Inuyasha's and Kagome's faces turned bright red in embarrassment.
"You want to be completely buried tonight!" Inuyasha shouted trying to hide his blush.
"Goodnight then" Miroku stated nervously trying to close his eyes and pretend to sleep. Shippo went over to sleep at the base of a tree with a blanket that Kagome gave him. Inuyasha went up high in a nearby tree and laid down on a large branch followed by Kagome who cuddled up next to him.
"So what was all that in the hot spring?" Kagome asked him.
"You tell me, you started it" he said back.
"You continued with it" she argued back. Inuyasha blushed at that and tried to turn his head away to hide it.
"I was just being nice and returning the massage you gave me" he said as an excuse when the truth was that he really enjoyed touching Kagome like that.
"Yes but I had an ulterior motive for it, did you?" she said. Kagome knew that she was trying to get a response out of him that showed he was attracted to her, so Inuyasha must have wanted to show her that he was, at least that what it looked like to her.
"If you won't admit I will. I love you alright" she said bluntly.
"Huh?"
"I said I love you" she restated. Inuyasha just stared at her shocked then smiled.
"Well thank you" he said, now Kagome was the one who stared at him looking mad. "What?"
"Say it back!" she said pulling on one of his dog ears.
"Alright, Alright I love you too, now let go!" he said quickly. Kagome let go and licked his ear as an apology.
"Do you mean that?" she asked.
"Yes of course" he said. Inuyasha decided to show how serious he was by kissing her. When he pulled away Kagome looked like someone stole her breath away.
"But let's take things slow alright, once we get this business done with that Miroku guy then we have all the time in the world to explore our relationship" he said, Kagome just nodded and laid her head down on his chest to sleep. Inuyasha stayed awake a little while longer and watched her sleep. In truth he couldn't be happier that she loves him, he had been feeling the same attraction for a while but wasn't sure how to approach her about it. He would have never thought that his magic ritual that was supposed to give him a companion would instead give him someone he could love forever.
The next morning Inuyasha released Miroku from the dirt and they began their journey to get him to Kikyo. The last he heard about her was when Shippo said that she killed the thunder brothers in the east, so that's where they were headed.
"So tell me about this Naraku guy we have to look out for" Inuyasha said as they walked along the path. Kagome walked beside him holding Shippo while Miroku stayed a few steps behind.
"Well he is an evil demon that uses manipulation and his minions to get what he wants" Miroku explained.
"So is that why you want to kill him" Inuyasha asked.
"It's one of the reasons" he said.
"Well I don't really care what your reasons are, I'm just hired protection" Inuyasha said coldly, "However I would like to know what to look out for".
"Naraku has the ability to shape shift and disguise himself as other people, he also is skilled in demonic magic" now that got Inuyasha's attention.
"I see, well don't you worry I know how to combat that kind of magic" Inuyasha said arrogantly.
"So I've heard" Miroku replied remembering he had seen a small bit of what Inuyasha was capable of last night.
"Don't worry you'll be safe with us" Kagome spoke up. Unknown to them a demon wasp was watching them from a distance.
Naraku's Castle
"So the monk decided to get himself some protection did he" the demon chuckled to himself as he watched the group through a small mirror. "It won't make a difference".
Naraku took notice that the leader was a half demon, he also noticed the girl that walked by his side was a half demon too, but not a natural one. It didn't take him long to figure out what she was and was impressed to say the least.
"Interesting, that half demon must be a very powerful sorcerer to create something like that" he wondered out loud.
"Kagura" he called to his servant.
"Yes master Naraku" she replied.
"I want you to bring me this girl" he said pointing to the cat eared girl in the mirror. "I wish to use her to get whatever secret magic that Inuyasha holds, now go", and with that she flew off to carry out his order. Naraku sat there and flipped through the ancient book that was the source of his power, thinking about what he could do when he had the secret of creating his own demons the same way that Inuyasha has instead of relying on this old dark book.
Happy Holidays readers here's your my gift to you. More characters being introduced, yes Naraku is up to his usually evil shit, I have to have some sort of antagonist in this story, but I made Inuyasha a badass magic user, so Naraku is not going to get away with much.
By the way I never wrote an ending for this story in my notes, so it can go on for a long time.
Thank you for reading.
