Settling Down
"With your parents?! Are you insane? You've known her for, what, a week?"
"Technically more, since I first met her when I dropped off flowers for you at Sango's—"
"Still!" Miroku paced back and forth in his room, hands ripping at his hair. "You can't just invite a girl to meet your parents after a single date! You'll be stuck with her forever! You'd be settled!"
"Yeah? So?"
Miroku paused his steps, then looked his best friend in the eye. "You're not upset," he observed.
Inuyasha shrugged. "Not really," he said nonchalantly.
"Whatever happened to 'I'm never settling down, that ain't for me'?"
"I've changed."
"Wow." Miroku sat down at his desk chair and stared at his friend in shock. "Did Kagome give you a potion or something? Since when did you get so calm about settling down?"
"Since I met Kagome, and no, she didn't poison me, you dumbfuck."
Miroku studied Inuyasha closely. "You're seriously settling down, then?"
"For the last time, yes. Now ask me that question one more time and I'll make sure you never ask another question in your life."
Miroku winced. "You sound like Sango," he muttered.
"Hm. Oh, speaking of, how's it going with her?"
"It's wonderful," Miroku responded immediately. "I feel so at ease when I'm with her, it's like we belong together—"
"So would you settle down with her?"
"Yes," he said automatically. He blinked. "Oh, shit, did I just—?"
Inuyasha was too busy laughing at him to answer.