I know, I know. My grammer and typing skills suck on levels thet where never precedented before. I got some brand new pre-readers now, so maybe that will help out in the long run. Well, On with the next chapter.
As the day broke, Miroku was still awake from heartless, cold night. The fact that he had to spend the night in a towel and Inu-Yasha's coat was just too low of a jab to his pride to sleep that night. That, and the fact that he was stuck in the tree.
"Why did we have to spend the night up here? We could have slept on the ground, you know?" Miroku's question fell on deft ears as Inu-Yasha slept soundly on. "Hey! Wake up!" he was getting annoyed as his efforts where thrown away. "Fine then. I'll see you at the village." As Miroku started to climb down the tree, Inu-Yasha cracked one of his eyes open to see the half naked monk leaving him behind. "Hey, Monk. I wouldn't go down there just yet if I where you." Miroku's eyes shot up looking at the now awake Inu-Yasha. "Why's that? Are you afraid to be alone?"
From the bushes below, there was a growel of a near rabid wolf sizing up it's intended breakfast. It lept from it's stalking point to try to take a chunk of his ass from right under him. "GOOD GOD!" Miroku shouted as he struggled to get back up the tree, but his foot sliped under him as he dangled from a limb. The wolf was airborne for a while and practicly flew right for Miroku. "Well, this is it.' he thought to himself. "To think a wolf would be the one to take me out in such a dishonerable way."
"Man, why am I always saving you're ass?" Inu-Yasha lept from his branch, and with one sweep of his claws, dashed the wolf into chunks. "IRON REVER!!!" As Inu-Yasha landed on the ground, the dismembered parts of the beast fell all around the forest floor. Inu-Yasha stood up and looked at Miroku still hanging from the tree. "Hey, you coming or not?" Miroku was struggling to get himself back up. By the time he lifted himself up, though, the branch was already giving out to Miroku's weight.
There was a crack. Then two more. Miroku looked around. "What's making that sound?" he looked at the branch where it was barely connected to the trunk. Miroku's eyes simply narrowed as he knew what was next. "Today doesn't seem to be my day either."
The branch snapped under the weight. Miroku fell and landed with a gut-wrenching thud. Miroku tryed to pick himself up, but was knocked back down as the branch landed on the back of his neck. Inu-Yasha simply stood there and stared blankly at the comatose letch. Nudgeing him with his foot, Inu-Yasha tried to get him up. "C'mon, Miroku. We gotta see if we can find you some clothes."
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"Damn it." Inu-Yasha spat on the floor by Miroku's head. "Again, I have to haul his sorry ass around." Inu-Yasha picked him up and layed him on his back. Inu-Yasha speed as fast as he could to the village where he told Kagome and Sango to head towards. While running, he thought about what might happen when he returned. What if Kagome and Sango where to end up the way they did yesterday morning? And the other women in the village? The wives, the daughters, Kayede...
"Uugghh."
Inu-Yasha's stomach nearly gave away thinking about it. He locked that image away in his mind, and threw it in a fire of his worst nightmares. After a few hours of running, he finaly reached the village. Inu-Yasha, with the still out-cold Miroku on his shoulders, walked the rest of the way. The villegers didn't pay any special attention at him, but Inu-Yasha still felt like he was being stared at by all the villegers. Finaly, Kaede came out and looked with horror.
"What in ye's name have you done to him!?!?" Kaede tryed to take Miroku off his shoulders, but refused. "I don't think so, grandma!" Inu-Yasha called for some of the workers to take him in the hutt. "Hey, keep him away from the women. I mean it!" Inu-Yasha was already sharpening his claws. "YESSIR!" the men took him away and into the medical hutt.
"Inu-Yasha," Keade stated. "What where ye doing with poor Miroku to cause such injurys?" Inu-Yasha turned to adress the old woman. "IT WASN'T ME!!!" Inu-Yasha shouted. "IT WAS EVERY WOMAN IN THE VILLAGE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FORSEST!!!" Kaede nodded. "I see. I'm sure Miroku and ye have been banished from there, I bet." Inu-Yasha shook his head. "More like the complete opposite! Every woman there was begging for him! Even Kagome and Sango where acting like complete, brainless bimboaaAAAGHHH-!"
SIT!!!
As the dust cleared, Kaede saw a rather unpretty sight. Inu-Yasha was already two feet under with Kagome and Sango stomping all over his head. "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU WHERE DOING!?!?" Kagome shouted. "YOU LEFT US ON OUR OWN WITH NO ONE TO PROTECT US FROM ANY DEMONS EXCEPT KIRARA!"
Inu-Yasha was still being pummled when he tried to explain. "bft vvi vad gtoo" his words where muffled by the dirt lodged up his nose and stuffed in his mouth. "What was that?!?!" Sango asked.
Inu-Yasha picked his face up from the ground and spat out all the dirt. "I said I had know choice! You two where fondeling his hair, caressing his chest and grouping his AAGHH-"
SIT!!!
"Don't remind us!" Kagome shouted. She was still shudering at what he was bring up. Sango took her bone boomerange and proceeded to grind his skull into the ground. "The next time you run off like that, I swear I will hunt you down like the dog you are!" Kayede stood there and watched as Inu-Yasha was beeing lynched in front of the entire village.
After things cooled down, Inu-Yasha, Sango, Kagome, Shippo, and Kirara all sat around a fire eating the fine meal prepaired for them. Inu-Yasha explained what happened at the village and what Myoga explained what was happening.
"...and so he said the only way to break the curse is to wait for it to wear off, or to be skunked by a normal skunk." There was an uneasy pause as all his friends stared at him like he totaly lost it. "Suure." Kagome said with a mock tone. "And this "love bug" Myoga was talking about... do you believe what he was saying?" Sango sipped on her tea. "I personaly think you may have lost it." Inu-Yasha twitched his ears and raised his fist up to his face. "I'm telling you, this is the only possabilty we could think of. The only other one is that every woman he ran into just 'fell in love at first site.'"
The room once again fell into a deep silence and then burst into laughter at Inu-Yasha's hypothosis. "Yeah, right!" Kagome said, holding her splitting sides. Inu-Yasha sat there and held his head down and let everyone have their good laugh. After they calmed down, Inu-Yasha pointed out the next issue at hand.
"Kagome, we need some cloths to spare Miroku for the time being." Kagome looked up from her bowel and asked why. "Can't we just get him some clothes here in the village?" Kayede chose this moment as she entered the hutt. "I'm afraid the village has no spare clothes to spare ye at the moment." The room's attention shifted to Kagome. She only hanged her head down with a thousend thought of what would happen if they all went to Tokyo with her. One thing was for sure... she was going to have to do something about those ears.
As Kagome and Sango climbed out of the bone-eater's well, they made sure the cost was clear from anyone who didn't know of the situation. For their protection, Kagome and Sango wore masks to make sure they didn't lose it around Miroku. Kagome looked down and wondered what was going on.
"Hey, move you're butt, Inu-Yasha!" she demanded. Not far behind, Inu-Yasha proceeded to haul the stillcomatose Miroku around. "Okay, run this by me one more time!" Inu-Yasha was still nagging about what his role in the plan was. "Simple" Sango said. "You take Miroku out to find some cloths and we'll see you here around sunset. Have fun!" As the girls left them still in the well, Inu-Yasha thought about what he's going to do.
"Well, first things first." He tossed Miroku over his head and out of the well. Miroku fell limp on the shrine floor with a loud thud. "This might be more fun then I thought." He dragged Miroku by the foot alonge the floor towards Kagome's house where he stopped at the door. He proceeded to bang the door to see if anyone was home. "HELOOO!?!? ANY ONE HOME!?!? HEY MS. HIGURASHI!!!" The door opened with Kagome's grandpa to greet him. "Ahh, Inu-Yasha. What are you doing here? I thought you and Kagome where in the feudal times searching for the Shikon jewels?"
His attention was, however, drawn to the dirty, barely clothed Miroku as Inu-Yasha held on to his ankle. "AAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!!! YOU DEMON!!! HAVE YOU GROWN A TASTE FOR HUMAN BLOOD NOW?!?!?" Inu-Yasha ignored the old man and made his way into the house, where he passed by the kitchen. He caught a quick wiff of the air. "Hey, something smells gooooood." he said to himself. As he walked into the kitchen, he met Souta and Ms. Higurashi who was just taking out a roast from the oven.
Ms. Higurashi looked up and saw those dog ears twiching and his mouth watering at the sight of the hot, fresh, slab of meat before him. "Um... hello Inu-Yasha. Are you here for Kagome? I thought she was with you?" He didn't say anything, however. His eyes where fixaeted on the dish in her hands. She lifted the roast over her head and waved it around. Inu-Yasha sat there like a begging dog and followed her every action.
She smiled and took a plate out of the cuppord. "Fine, you can have some, but you'll have to put him somewhere else." she said eyeng Miroku. Inu-Yasha lept on his feet and sat at the table where Souta was finishing his homework. "Oh, thank you! I havn't had a hearty meal in a long time!" Before she set the plate down, though, she had to see him do a little 'trick.'
"Oh, Inu-Yasha, can you do me a small favor before you eat?" Inu-Yasha saw no harm in this. "Sure, anything. As long as I get to eat." She smiled and went to the closet and got her camera. "Ok, you two get together." She pointed to Souta and Inu-Yasha. Souta looked happily and wrapped his arms around his neck. Ms. Higurashi couldn't help but let out a chuckle at how cute a sight it was. Inu-Yasha, however, felt like a puppy with the little brat hanging off of him.
"Ok, now what was that word... Oh yeah! Ok, ready?" She thought of the word that Kagome was always using around him and set her camera ready. Inu-Yasha looked confused. "Hey, what word are you thinking oooaaaAAAHHHGGG-!!!"
Sit.
Souta felt a rush like he was going as fast as a car on the freeway, then a sudden stop. "Wow! That was great! Do that again, Inu-Yasha!" But his hero was face down in the wooden floor with his ears twitching like he was irritated about something. Ms. Higurashi looked at the picture as it developed and made out a face of utter fright and Souta right above him. "Well, i guess he's never seen a camera before." Inu-Yasha could only conclude that her mother had the power to subdue him as well.
At the table, Inu-Yasha explained what the situation at hand was. He locked Miroku up in Souta's room and warned her to stay out of there. "Oh, my!" she gasped. "I'm sorry, but the only cloths we have are grandpa's, and I don't think you're friend would appreciate smelling like a fibbing, old man." From outside, they could here the crys of gramps as they are sure he heard her every word. Souta stood up as he came up with an Idea. "I know, mom! How about I take him to the mall and get him some cloths?"
Miroku woke to the sound of a splash and saw, once again, endless blue. He sat up and looked around. He clearly was not in feudal Japan. He saw a chair with a hole and water in it, a large stand with a silver pipe dangling over a bowel-like cavity, and a mongral demon sitting on a bench. "Ok, where have you taken me now?" Inu-Yasha swatted him with a loofa. "Where at Kagome's place. Turns out there are no spare cloths at the village or here." Miroku let himself sink into the tubb thinking about what he was going to do. "So, in all of Japan, there are no spare sets of cloths?" Inu-Yasha scrathed his head. "Well, there is this 'mall' thing that Kagome's mother and brother where talking about."
Ok, I'm just setting the stage for the next chapter, which I garantee to be the best I can write. Untill then, I leave you with a quote of "wisdome."
"YOU TAKE TOO LONG TO TAKE A SHIT!"~*~*~ Spike Speigal from "Coboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin on Heaven's Door."