Yaoi: Ello again my loves just wrapping up this trilogy chapter, I've been asked to finish it and so here it is. I case some of you don't know I will be going by most of the anime series, not all of it but mainly the main and important secondary character parts will be addressed so yeah. Enjoy ^_^


Running had always been one of Inuyasha's strong suits, having been chased around since a young pup by numerous types of demons finding him as deliciously edible as he was beautiful was a great help in honing his athletic skill. Though for a hundred years or so that skill had been used to evade being eaten it recently had been used to stalk and capture jewel infused demons Kagome could point him in the direction to. He may not be as agile or as nimble, in running as his dear brother of any of the cat or snake demons, but he sure could give them a run for their money when it comes to running for long periods of time.

Chasing this monk, however, seemed to be a bit of an issue, just as Inuyasha had him in his sights almost completely in his grasp, he loses him in a crowd of humans in a random village they'd come to in while in the grand chase of theirs.

"Ugh,…Where the fuck did he go?!"

The number of humans, no more than six yards from him, had all but completely masked the scent of the monk in question.

"Calm yourself, Otouto, we will find him."

Looking behind him at the tall demon, that was his brother, Inuyasha couldn't help but huff and fold his hands into his haori. Walking into the crowd of humans, that quickly parted ways of the three demons, muttered frightfully to one another as they made their way into the little town, the two dog demons put their noses to use, Sesshoumaru more subtly than Inuyasha of course.

Meanwhile, Shippo pulling up the lead couldn't help but feel completely useless at this point. Sure his sense of smell was nothing to scoff at, it wasn't as keen as the noses of the dog demon variety. Still sulking somewhat over having lost the jewel in the first place, he was almost startled out of his skin when the smell of the monk smacked itself into his nose.

"Inuyasha!, Sesshoumaru! He's over here."

Walking to a tea house the three were all assaulted but the smell of the monk. Inuyasha quickly barged into the establishment followed by Sesshoumaru and Shippo, ignoring the cries of a slimy looking fat man and a few frightened girls, and marched down one hallway after another following his nose in pursuit of the monk. The trio coming to the last door of the hall he was in, Inuyasha slammed open the door and quickly spotted the monk sitting between two, not so attractive looking, geishas.

"Ha Gotcha!", exclaimed Inuyasha.

"Busted Jewel Stealer!", huffed Shippo.

Not even looking fazed the, monk got up from his visibly uncomfortable position between the two mentioned geishas, and marched straight for Shippo, ignoring the women's cries as he did so.

"I'm so glad you're here", coming face to face with Shippo and clasping his hands in his, "It's too good to be true, you're a real sight for sore eyes…"

Inuyasha instantly jealous cracks his knuckles, "Heh, I'll give you Sore EYES!" swiping at the monk, only for said monk to dodge out of the way from the furious Inuyasha.

Grumbling at the now noticed Inuyasha, "Ah you again, I should have figured as much!"

Stepping more into the room, Inuyasha glowers at the monk, "Yeah you should have, funny that's just what I was thinking, but I guess not all of us are blessed with good looks and brains. Don't suppose you'd be interested in just handing over that jewel fragment you stole from us?!"

The monk just smirks, "A gem such as this, does not belong in the hands of a demon."

Almost sneering evilly at the monk, Inuyasha lunges at him, "Heh we'll see ABOUT THAT!"

Dodging the blow almost barely, the monk leaps off the balcony of the tea room and runs down an alley, with Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru and Shippo hot on his tail.

"Hey, get back here!"

Chasing the monk almost towards the edge of the village, Inuyasha and the monk trading banter in between.

"Come back here and fight like a man!"

"I will not fight a senseless battle."

"All a matter of opinion."

Making close to the edge of the town, Inuyasha draws Tetsusaiga, leaping into the air and slashing the sword at the monk. Said monk quickly turns to deflect the attack. Sparks leap off the monks staff and the Tetsusaiga as the weapons energies clash with one another, even Sesshoumaru is a little curious at the interaction.

"You'll be punished if that's what you insist." States the monk as the two leap away from each other.

Scoffing Inuyasha rests Tessaiga against his shoulder, "Humph, I don't know who you are but you're no monk."

"I go by the name Miroku, and yes I am a monk, who works to aid the common man."

Inuyasha scoffs again ignoring the loud humans as they watched the fight unfold in front of them.

"Work to aid the common man, humph, you're nothing more than a petty robber, now give us back our shard of the Shikon Jewel! We went through a lot of trouble to get it and we're not gonna lose it now!"

"Touching speech" ,Miroku pulls out the necklace with the jewel shard, "I know you went through great pains to get this gem, but trust me, it's in better hands with me. Inuyasha."

"So you knew who I was all along eh?"

"Not at all, I do believe that lovely fox companion of yours or that tall man that called out to you at the spring last night."

Nearly falling flat on his face of both rage and embarrassment Inuyasha stammers as he brandishes the Tessaiga, "Enough talking, let me at you."

Thus commenced the fighting, back and forth it went, Inuyasha and Miroku trading blows only to be blocked as the other moves to try to get the upper hand. A few more blows were traded before Miroku slipped up and tripped going backwards on a pile of logs, which gave Inuyasha lead to knock Miroku's staff from his hands.

Falling on his ass, Miroku looks up to the sharp edge of Inuyasha's sword almost pushed into his face.

"I'll have that jewel shard back from you now, unless you'd rather die that is."

Miroku, almost glaring at the demon in front of him quickly flips back and takes off running out of the town while yelling out a warning to the villagers.

"Villagers take heed, distance yourself from this place I warn you, it's for your own safety."

Making it out of the village a ways the monk turns to face Inuyasha.

"It's the end of the line monk, hand over the jewel shard."

Chuckling Miroku retorts, "It may come as a shock to you but I am a sore loser." Unwrapping his right hand he yells, "WIND TUNNEL!"

Everything around him gets sucked into his right hand, trying desperately not to get sucked in Inuyasha thrusts Tessaiga into the ground staking him in place as the tunnels onslaught continues to suck into the nearest building and animals.

"Surrender while you can, if you get sucked into my Wind Tunnel you will never come out alive."

"Keh, No chance, I'll be too busy hacking off that right hand of yours off to surrender."

"hmm, My hand will pull you in sword and all!"

Nearby Sesshoumaru and Shippo watch a little taken back at the development, Sesshoumaru not sure what else to do unleashes his poison whip hoping to have the monks hand try to draw it in as thusly poison the monk and either destroy the hand or at the very least get him to close it. Moving closer to monk Sesshoumaru watches relieved when his whip is sucked into the tunnel, pumping more poison into the whip he notices the monk looking towards him as the signs of the poison starts taking effect.

Slowly but steadily Miroku fell ill to the poison, sweating heavily he was forced to with draw the wind tunnel, falling to his knees he didn't see the rock flying at his head, attached to the rock was a sutra. Being knocked onto his back the rock in a puff of smoke turns into a boulder and thusly knocks the monk out as it knocks the wind out of him.

Sheathing Tessaiga; Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru and Shippo walk to the now unconscious monk and stare down at him. Sesshoumaru carefully scanned the body.

"I see it takes the wrapping and unwrapping of the prayer beads to unleash that attack of his."

"Keh, Like I care I should gut the bastard anyways."

Shippo while listening to the brothers' talk moved over to Miroku, taking the sutra off the boulder returning it to its normal size, found the jewel shard necklace. Taking it back and placing it back on his neck he looked at the monk, not really sensing any evil intent from the man, he couldn't help but feel he should hear the monks side as to why the jewel shard was worth all this trouble.

"I think we should hear him out."

That captured the brothers' attention, particularly Inuyasha's.

"What?! Why!?"

Both sets of golden eyes looked down at him waiting for his answer.

"Well think about it, with a hand that powerful he could have tried to kill us a long time ago instead he took the trouble of trying not to really hurt us and just steal the jewel, from what I've known of both humans and demons wanting the jewel they have no problem killing people to get to it. So as much of a crappy monk it makes this guy, he can't be all bad, besides with a power like his it would be good to have him as an ally should we need him to be."

Silence came upon the brothers as they mulled over Shippo's words, Sesshoumaru was the first to speak.

"Very astute of you Shippo, I agree that does seem like the more appropriate choice for the situation."

Looking to his brother for confirmation, said half-demon just sulked and jumped up into the nearest tree. The other two demons took it as his agreement to the idea. Wrapping the monk in Mokomoko-sama they awaited the monks' regained consciousness, which wasn't that long. Instantly the monk was struggling.

"Unhand me demon!"

"Silence and explain yourself monk, this Lord Sesshoumaru has no patience for unnecessary loudness or movement."

Now recognizing the name of the Demon Lord of the West, Miroku stopped his thrashing and sighed as he began his tale of woe.

"I too have been seeking the shards of the Shikon Jewel, my purpose is to find and eliminate a demon, a terrible demon that goes by the name of Naraku."

"Naraku?", asked Shippo, whom was sitting too close to the monk for Inuyasha's comfort.

"Yes, and it was this same demon, who left me with this accursed hole in my right hand."

"What sort of demon is this Naraku?" inquired a curious Sesshoumaru.

"I know little of him my lord, all I know is that he is very wicked, and said to devour people. "

"That's a common practice upon demons nothing out of the ordinary." stated Sesshoumaru.

"You misunderstand me my lord, I mean he absorbs an entire person alive and whole into his body."

The lord was silent for a spell before a near silent, "interesting", fell from his lips.

Releasing the monk of Mokomoko-sama he ordered, "Continue."

"According to my father, my grandfather battled Naraku in his youth over fifty years ago. Their battle ensued for several years and each time Naraku faced my grandfather he took on the form of a different human. They say he last appeared before my grandfather, he took on the form of a beautiful woman. Though my grandfather had magnificent spiritual powers he had an unbecoming habit of lechery."

Inuyasha scoffs, "Says the guy we find hiding in a tea house."

Coughing subtly Miroku continues, "Naraku pierced my grandfather's right hand with his sacred sutras and cursing it. Each person born of my grandfather's line is cursed with the wind tunnel in their right hand. The wind tunnel can suck in almost anything in its path, however, with every passing year the hole gets bigger and bigger until it eventually sucks in the user as well, thus how my grandfather and father died and now I am all that is left of my grandfather's line. I have to defeat Naraku and break the curse or bare into the world another of my line in hopes that they would be able to do what I could not.

The sacred jewel of the four souls disappeared fifty years ago only to reappear and to be broken and scattered in many tiny shards about the lands. Knowing Naraku, it is certain he attempts to gather the shards to fuel his own malicious power. I'm sure of it. I know because Naraku came close to getting the jewel fifty years ago, in doing so he slew the priestess protecting it."

A gasp from Inuyasha drew everyone's' attention as he jumped up.

"You say he killed a priestess?"

"That's right."

"So he's the one that caused us to part and made my life go black for fifty years…"

"Inuyasha", called a slightly distraught Shippo, only to be ignored.

"Miroku you say that this Naraku takes on all kinds of different forms right? What about now what does he look like now?"

"Calm down, if I knew what he looked like now Inuyasha I would have slain him myself a long time ago."

Visibly shaking with rage, the one that had caused all of this strife and sadness to envelope his heart now has a name, Naraku. Inuyasha will find this demon and destroy him and avenging Kikyo's death.

While still swarming in his own world of rage and sadness Inuyasha almost missed the feeling of total despair flowing into him coming from his mating mark. Looking towards his mate, still sitting on the grass with a glassy look to his eyes as he looked anywhere but towards Inuyasha, Inuyasha knew he'd screwed up haven't been mated for more than a month and already they were falling apart.

"Shippo, mate, I'm sorry, Kikyo was my first love, got me to believe in myself and gave me comfort that I hadn't felt since I was a pup. I loved her true but that was then and I only wish to avenge her, you are my mate my love no one can replace you."

Bending down and crawling towards his mate that still wouldn't look at him, slowly getting closer, Inuyasha slowly nuzzled his mate's neck and chin lightly giving it a lick in apology. Still feeling the hesitance and foreboding in his mate, Inuyasha moved his nuzzling over to his mating mark lapping gently over it to soothe his Shippo.

"Shippo. You are my very heart and soul, more precious to me than any sword, prince title, or sacred jewel. If not for you and now Sesshoumaru, I'd soon have become a shell of a demon with Kagome. I want to avenge Kikyo yes, but you are still the most important thing in my life."

After a bout of silence Inuyasha was wrapped up in the arms of his love, sighing contentedly while returning the loving embrace. Looking over to his brother, seeing the regal stoned replaced with a almost kind face with a slight smile. Holding out a hand towards the towering demon, whom walked over and entwined his fingers with Inuyasha's. Everything seemed right in the world at that moment, and then it was shattered at the monk, not truly comfortable with so much male affection decided to cough loudly at that moment.

"Well it's been fun but I see that we should part ways and hopefully never run into each other on such bad terms again."

Not missing a beat, Miroku tried to edge away from the still together males, only to be held still as Mokomoko-sama wrapped around his waist and pulled him back towards the group.

"Monk can you sense the jewel shards?" came the smooth question from Sesshoumaru.

"Yyyes, my lord I can, not as good as a miko can, but I fair better than most spiritually sensitive demons do."

"Good then you'll travel with us, I could care less for the jewel, but if what you say is true, then my Otouto's vengeance can't be met until he faces this Naraku, until we flush him out you must stay and guide us to the jewel shards."

"Hai, my lord."

Abundant spiritual powers or no, you don't argue with one such as Lord Sesshoumaru, Miroku may be a rouge-ish man but a dumb one he was not, If a Daiyoukai tells you to do something you do it no questions asked.

Resigning to his fate Miroku just hopes that everything wont turn out so bad as the pit of his stomach is telling him it will.

Turning back to his brother, the Daiyoukai slightly leans down to nuzzle a fluffy ear.

"Are you ready to head out Otouto or should we set up camp for the night?"

Seeing how affectionate his Aniki was being Inuyasha couldn't help the twitch in his hakamas. Voice dropping a few levels and eyes dilating just a bit, the arousal levels reached sky high as Shippo, feeling the vibes both brothers were shooting at each other, couldn't help but crawl into Inuyasha's lap mewling as he did so.

"Camping seems like a good idea Sessh."

"Indeed it is Otouto."

Cough…COUGH!

Three sets of eyes turn to the monk.

"As…loving as this is…can we not have a male mating ball in the middle of the forest please?"

Inuyasha looked to his brother, then down to his mate, then looking back at Miroku just plastered a large smirk on his face as he retorted, "I can't make any promises monk."

Sighing, while turning away from the group as the sound of clothes and slight kissing sounds could be heard, the monk moved a ways from the group as the "mating ball" commenced.


Yaoi: And there it is another chapter done.

Inuyasha: So I'm guessing I'm going to be with this Sesshoumaru too in this.

Yaoi: Maybe, anyways I hope you guys enjoyed, I hope to write more soon. ^_^ laters!