Blah, I have MAJOR writers block, so it will take me awhile to finish this
chapter, so just to run to home plate, I do NOT own Inuyasha or any other
characters that appear in my fanfic (but I do own the idea so BOOYAH{RC's
fav saying he said})
Chapter 8: Side effects
Miroku woke to darkness. Where was he? He looked around, as his vision started to clear. He seemed to be in a sort of hut. He sat up, but had to lie back down. His head throbbed like ten people taking a hammer and ramming them against his skull. Memories started to flood back into his injured head of the past days. This was day three since he had been there but he did not know that. All he knew was waking up in a cave then fainting again. He closed his eyes again and fell back asleep.
"He's going to be all right, right? I mean he hasn't woken in like three days!" exclaimed someone very near to Miroku. He was awake again and there were now people around him. "He's not in coma is he?" said the same voice. "Course he's not, he'll wake up," said a much deeper voice than the first. "And how do YOU know Inuyasha?"
"I know"
"I'm sure you do," said yet another voice. He opened his eyes and the discussion between the three ceased. "Oh my god! Miroku you're okay!" exclaimed Kagome as she got up and ran over to him. "See told you," scuffed Inuyasha. Kagome looked back with her death stare and shut Inuyasha up. They all got up and went over to Miroku's side. "So how yah doin Miroku, had us worried for three days," said Inuyasha in his usual voice, having a hint of sarcasm. "Thre..three days? Where am I?" stammered Miroku. He tried to sit up but Kagome pushed him back down. "You shouldn't sit up yet, and you're in Kaede's village. After the scare you put us through at Kouga's den, we rushed you over here because you hit your head hard on the ground," explained Kagome. "Is that why it feels like ten people are dancing on my head?" joked Miroku. He chuckled a bit and stopped. Maybe laughing wasn't such a good idea. "Well, we're just glad you're all right. Maybe you should rest a bit more if your head still hurts," suggested Sango. "Yah," mumbled Miroku as he drifted off into sleep again. "Well that's a relief knowing he's ok," said Kagome with a big sigh. "Told you," said Inuyasha again. "Yes you don't have to repeat yourself, but this time it was a good thing you were right"
"Whadda yah mean this time!?"
"I mean this time," said Kagome as she walked outside. Inuyasha gave a 'pfft' and walked outside as well. Sango sat there for a second beside Miroku and then followed. It was bright outside and there were birds singing. "It's so nice outside!" said Kagome. "Where did Shippou and Kaede go?" asked Sango. "I think Kaede went with Shippou to pick flowers or something like that"
"O, just wondering"
"Feh, who cares," interrupted Inuyasha. Kagome snapped a comment back at him and they started another fight. Sango sighed and walked off. It was a nice day and she was able to enjoy it today, knowing that Miroku was going to be alright. She came to the forest line and walked in. After a couple of minutes walking idly she came to a clearing. Being the nice day that it was, she decided to sit down. After awhile, she heard people calling her name. She looked up and realized it was Kagome and Shippou. She got up and walked in the direction they sounded to be going in. They quickly found each other. "Hey Sango we didn't know where you went," said Kagome as she came up to her. "O I was fine, just fed up with you and Inuyasha fighting," replied Sango. "Yah don't they get annoying? Anyways lets go for a walk!" said Shippou as he ran off. When it started to get dark they made a U-turn back to the village.
Back in Kaede's hut Miroku woke again and sat up. Kaede was in there at the time and said, "I see you're finally awake. Feeling better?"
"Yes much, thank you"
"Yes, but there is something I have to tell you," she said as she paused for a second. It seemed she didn't know what to say. "Miroku from what I heard about this stone from Kagome, there might be side effects. What I mean is by breaking the stone you may have broken the curse, but since the limit was passed I guess that you would revert back to being a wolf demon at least once a month. Now this is just a guess, I could be wrong but there is a very strong possibility, just to warn you." Miroku looked down.
At that Kagome, Sango and Shippou came walking in. "O Miroku you're awake! Said Kagome as she came running over to him, Sango and Shippou followed. He gave a smile to hide what he was thinking. "What if she is right? But what would it matter at least I'm back to normal right?.." he thought as he started to listen to Kagome about what had been happening since he was asleep.
After a time Inuyasha came in. "Where were you?" asked Kagome. "Around." replied Inuyasha. Kagome was about to say something back and remembered what Sango had said. She decided to not start something with him again.
The next morning they decided, since Miroku was feeling much better, they would set out again. It was early in the morning and none of them showed signs of liking the early part. A week after they left had gone by and still there was no sign of Naraku. "He'll show up eventually," said Kagome to Inuyasha; he seemed to becoming a bit impatient. "Yah, yah it's just taking too long." He was right, Naraku always showed up.
Each night Miroku had thought about what Kaede had said. Was it true, did she guess right? But it was only a guess, there was a chance she could be wrong, and in any case if it was it was better than being stuck like that. "Mm yah I guess." he mumbled to himself as he fell asleep. Miroku awoke the next day, opening his eyes slightly. It must have been late because Kagome, Inuyasha, Sango, and Shippou were all looking at him oddly. He opened his eyes all the way and pushed his back hard against the tree. He gave a yelp and jumped forward a bit. Miroku looked behind him and saw why they were looking oddly at him. He had a tail. "So I guess Lady Kaede spoke correctly," Miroku said with a sigh. "What? Is there something you didn't tell us Miroku?" said Inuyasha impatiently. "Yah, there is," Miroku said hesitantly. "Kaede told me before we left that there might be some side effects."
"Permanent?" asked Kagome. "I don't know."
"Well in any case we're coming up on a village Miroku, just to tell you," said Sango as she got up and made ready to leave. "Want to use my nail clipper?" asked Kagome as she dug through her backpack. "Nail.Clipper? What is that?"
"It does exactly what the name is, it clips nails," she said. He looked down at his nails. He was going to need them. Kagome gave an 'aha' as she pulled them out. She handed them to Miroku and showed him how to use it. After he had clipped his nails (and doing a poor job at it ^_^ give him a break it was his first time XD) he covered the majority of his ears with his hair then wrapped his robe over his tail. "Sessh took long enough," commented Inuyasha. As Miroku passed Inuyasha, he whacked him on the head. "Jeeze that hurt"
"Good," Miroku said as he came to the road. They walked down the road in silence for a bit until they came to a small farm. As they were approaching it, they stopped. There was a loud noise coming from the house. At that what looked to be two demons ran out of the house and ran down the road, then into the forest. An old lady came out yelling, then stopped. She looked down then back. She caught the site of them then yelled out, "What do you want?"
"Nothing we were just passing by miss," replied Miroku. He walked up to the lady and asked, "Are you having trouble?"
"Yah and what's it to you?"
"Nothing, but would you like our assistance?"
"What could you do?"
"I could put up scrolls for you if you would like." The woman looked him up and down for a second and invited him in. The rest followed. They silently sat down as the old lady and an old man sat at the opposite side of the room. After a moment of silence the old lady explained, "It wasn't too long ago that they started. Why I don't know, probably just because we are so defenseless"
"We could help mam, it would be no problem," said Kagome in reply. "How much do you want, we don't have much," asked the old woman.
"Maybe a." Miroku started, Kagome pressed hard on his tail. "Eep, nothing we could do it for free," finished Miroku. The old lady eyed them suspiciously, "Free?"
"Feh," Inuyasha said as he looked away. "Yes mam, we would like to help," commented Kagome again (as if she didn't hear the first time that they could help). "We would be most grateful if you could," said the old man. Kagome gave a smile.
Outside Miroku was putting up scrolls around the small house. When he finished he stood outside and called in, "We should be leaving." Kagome came out. "You are welcome to stay the night for helping us," said the old woman as she followed Kagome outside. Miroku looked down. He knew he couldn't even if he wanted to, he had already put up the scrolls, so he wouldn't be able to enter today anyways. How long? How long would this last, she guessed once a month but she never mentioned the length it would last. "No we really should be leaving," said Kagome, seeing the expression Miroku wore. She knew what he was thinking about. "Yes thank you for the hospitality," said Sango cheerfully as she came out as well. Inuyasha and Shippou were already outside. As they were about to walk away, the old man came up to Miroku. He turned around to face him. "Son, thank you for helping us, even in your condition." Miroku looked at him oddly for a second. Did he? No. The old man winked and walked back to where his wife was standing. Miroku shrugged and turned to catch up with the others.
By the time they reached the town, it was past noon. Miroku decided he wanted to go through it quickly and not stop. They all agreed on this and walked through. The whole time Miroku couldn't stop thinking about what the old man had said. How could he have known if he did? "No one else around here seems to notice," he thought to himself as he looked to his right. A young woman watching them pass by smiled a bit at him. "No, he couldn't have." They came to the edge of the forest that bordered the town. It was already around four. Sango had been watching Miroku the whole day and she seemed to notice his abnormal silence. She knew she better not say anything.
By the time night came they had come a good distance from the town. They made camp and started a fire. Miroku sat down and pulled up his hair. "I don't care what it is for, I'm never leaving my hair down again, it's way too annoying," he thought to himself. He touched his ears half hoping they would be back to normal. They weren't. He gave a sigh. Shippou came running over to him, followed by Inuyasha. "When I catch you rat," Inuyasha started to yell as Shippou ran right up to Miroku and hid behind him. "Help me Miroku." said Shippou shaking a little. "Hey Inuyasha leave him alone!" Kagome yelled as she ran over to him to try and stop him from tackling Miroku as well. Shippou popped his head from behind Miroku again. "I didn't do anything I swear I didn't!!!" he squealed as Inuyasha tried to get closer to him. He pushed out of Kagome's grasp and ran towards Shippou again. "SIT!" yelled Kagome as Inuyasha fell to the ground. "You are all against me aren't you!" he yelled. "You're over reacting Inuyasha," sighed Kagome as she walked back over to Sango, Shippou tagged along not too far behind her. "What were you trying to do to Shippou this time," said Miroku as he helped Inuyasha out of his indented hole. "Trying to hurt him severely," Inuyasha said as he brushed himself off, then sat down beside Miroku. Shippou stuck out his tongue at Inuyasha. Inuyasha did the same back to Shippou. Miroku couldn't help but laugh a little. "Wow he can act like such a child sometimes," he thought to himself. "What are you laughing about wolf boy," said Inuyasha. Miroku rolled his eyes and looked towards the fire. Maybe this wasn't so bad. He looked up and saw Kagome and Sango talking. He was with the only people that could accept him. He.. was home.
Blah ok was that a bad ending? I am SO SORRY but I am so bad at endings (not that neone was reading this anywayz .) I also wanted to finish this up because I just was hit with a new idea... weeeeeeeeeeee its gunna be goooooooood, well I hope. Anywayz what did you think of my story, bad good ok???? Well can yah review and tell me??? I think I'll make my next story a little bit more humorous, I make too many serious stories. ^_^ ski yah for nowz!
Chapter 8: Side effects
Miroku woke to darkness. Where was he? He looked around, as his vision started to clear. He seemed to be in a sort of hut. He sat up, but had to lie back down. His head throbbed like ten people taking a hammer and ramming them against his skull. Memories started to flood back into his injured head of the past days. This was day three since he had been there but he did not know that. All he knew was waking up in a cave then fainting again. He closed his eyes again and fell back asleep.
"He's going to be all right, right? I mean he hasn't woken in like three days!" exclaimed someone very near to Miroku. He was awake again and there were now people around him. "He's not in coma is he?" said the same voice. "Course he's not, he'll wake up," said a much deeper voice than the first. "And how do YOU know Inuyasha?"
"I know"
"I'm sure you do," said yet another voice. He opened his eyes and the discussion between the three ceased. "Oh my god! Miroku you're okay!" exclaimed Kagome as she got up and ran over to him. "See told you," scuffed Inuyasha. Kagome looked back with her death stare and shut Inuyasha up. They all got up and went over to Miroku's side. "So how yah doin Miroku, had us worried for three days," said Inuyasha in his usual voice, having a hint of sarcasm. "Thre..three days? Where am I?" stammered Miroku. He tried to sit up but Kagome pushed him back down. "You shouldn't sit up yet, and you're in Kaede's village. After the scare you put us through at Kouga's den, we rushed you over here because you hit your head hard on the ground," explained Kagome. "Is that why it feels like ten people are dancing on my head?" joked Miroku. He chuckled a bit and stopped. Maybe laughing wasn't such a good idea. "Well, we're just glad you're all right. Maybe you should rest a bit more if your head still hurts," suggested Sango. "Yah," mumbled Miroku as he drifted off into sleep again. "Well that's a relief knowing he's ok," said Kagome with a big sigh. "Told you," said Inuyasha again. "Yes you don't have to repeat yourself, but this time it was a good thing you were right"
"Whadda yah mean this time!?"
"I mean this time," said Kagome as she walked outside. Inuyasha gave a 'pfft' and walked outside as well. Sango sat there for a second beside Miroku and then followed. It was bright outside and there were birds singing. "It's so nice outside!" said Kagome. "Where did Shippou and Kaede go?" asked Sango. "I think Kaede went with Shippou to pick flowers or something like that"
"O, just wondering"
"Feh, who cares," interrupted Inuyasha. Kagome snapped a comment back at him and they started another fight. Sango sighed and walked off. It was a nice day and she was able to enjoy it today, knowing that Miroku was going to be alright. She came to the forest line and walked in. After a couple of minutes walking idly she came to a clearing. Being the nice day that it was, she decided to sit down. After awhile, she heard people calling her name. She looked up and realized it was Kagome and Shippou. She got up and walked in the direction they sounded to be going in. They quickly found each other. "Hey Sango we didn't know where you went," said Kagome as she came up to her. "O I was fine, just fed up with you and Inuyasha fighting," replied Sango. "Yah don't they get annoying? Anyways lets go for a walk!" said Shippou as he ran off. When it started to get dark they made a U-turn back to the village.
Back in Kaede's hut Miroku woke again and sat up. Kaede was in there at the time and said, "I see you're finally awake. Feeling better?"
"Yes much, thank you"
"Yes, but there is something I have to tell you," she said as she paused for a second. It seemed she didn't know what to say. "Miroku from what I heard about this stone from Kagome, there might be side effects. What I mean is by breaking the stone you may have broken the curse, but since the limit was passed I guess that you would revert back to being a wolf demon at least once a month. Now this is just a guess, I could be wrong but there is a very strong possibility, just to warn you." Miroku looked down.
At that Kagome, Sango and Shippou came walking in. "O Miroku you're awake! Said Kagome as she came running over to him, Sango and Shippou followed. He gave a smile to hide what he was thinking. "What if she is right? But what would it matter at least I'm back to normal right?.." he thought as he started to listen to Kagome about what had been happening since he was asleep.
After a time Inuyasha came in. "Where were you?" asked Kagome. "Around." replied Inuyasha. Kagome was about to say something back and remembered what Sango had said. She decided to not start something with him again.
The next morning they decided, since Miroku was feeling much better, they would set out again. It was early in the morning and none of them showed signs of liking the early part. A week after they left had gone by and still there was no sign of Naraku. "He'll show up eventually," said Kagome to Inuyasha; he seemed to becoming a bit impatient. "Yah, yah it's just taking too long." He was right, Naraku always showed up.
Each night Miroku had thought about what Kaede had said. Was it true, did she guess right? But it was only a guess, there was a chance she could be wrong, and in any case if it was it was better than being stuck like that. "Mm yah I guess." he mumbled to himself as he fell asleep. Miroku awoke the next day, opening his eyes slightly. It must have been late because Kagome, Inuyasha, Sango, and Shippou were all looking at him oddly. He opened his eyes all the way and pushed his back hard against the tree. He gave a yelp and jumped forward a bit. Miroku looked behind him and saw why they were looking oddly at him. He had a tail. "So I guess Lady Kaede spoke correctly," Miroku said with a sigh. "What? Is there something you didn't tell us Miroku?" said Inuyasha impatiently. "Yah, there is," Miroku said hesitantly. "Kaede told me before we left that there might be some side effects."
"Permanent?" asked Kagome. "I don't know."
"Well in any case we're coming up on a village Miroku, just to tell you," said Sango as she got up and made ready to leave. "Want to use my nail clipper?" asked Kagome as she dug through her backpack. "Nail.Clipper? What is that?"
"It does exactly what the name is, it clips nails," she said. He looked down at his nails. He was going to need them. Kagome gave an 'aha' as she pulled them out. She handed them to Miroku and showed him how to use it. After he had clipped his nails (and doing a poor job at it ^_^ give him a break it was his first time XD) he covered the majority of his ears with his hair then wrapped his robe over his tail. "Sessh took long enough," commented Inuyasha. As Miroku passed Inuyasha, he whacked him on the head. "Jeeze that hurt"
"Good," Miroku said as he came to the road. They walked down the road in silence for a bit until they came to a small farm. As they were approaching it, they stopped. There was a loud noise coming from the house. At that what looked to be two demons ran out of the house and ran down the road, then into the forest. An old lady came out yelling, then stopped. She looked down then back. She caught the site of them then yelled out, "What do you want?"
"Nothing we were just passing by miss," replied Miroku. He walked up to the lady and asked, "Are you having trouble?"
"Yah and what's it to you?"
"Nothing, but would you like our assistance?"
"What could you do?"
"I could put up scrolls for you if you would like." The woman looked him up and down for a second and invited him in. The rest followed. They silently sat down as the old lady and an old man sat at the opposite side of the room. After a moment of silence the old lady explained, "It wasn't too long ago that they started. Why I don't know, probably just because we are so defenseless"
"We could help mam, it would be no problem," said Kagome in reply. "How much do you want, we don't have much," asked the old woman.
"Maybe a." Miroku started, Kagome pressed hard on his tail. "Eep, nothing we could do it for free," finished Miroku. The old lady eyed them suspiciously, "Free?"
"Feh," Inuyasha said as he looked away. "Yes mam, we would like to help," commented Kagome again (as if she didn't hear the first time that they could help). "We would be most grateful if you could," said the old man. Kagome gave a smile.
Outside Miroku was putting up scrolls around the small house. When he finished he stood outside and called in, "We should be leaving." Kagome came out. "You are welcome to stay the night for helping us," said the old woman as she followed Kagome outside. Miroku looked down. He knew he couldn't even if he wanted to, he had already put up the scrolls, so he wouldn't be able to enter today anyways. How long? How long would this last, she guessed once a month but she never mentioned the length it would last. "No we really should be leaving," said Kagome, seeing the expression Miroku wore. She knew what he was thinking about. "Yes thank you for the hospitality," said Sango cheerfully as she came out as well. Inuyasha and Shippou were already outside. As they were about to walk away, the old man came up to Miroku. He turned around to face him. "Son, thank you for helping us, even in your condition." Miroku looked at him oddly for a second. Did he? No. The old man winked and walked back to where his wife was standing. Miroku shrugged and turned to catch up with the others.
By the time they reached the town, it was past noon. Miroku decided he wanted to go through it quickly and not stop. They all agreed on this and walked through. The whole time Miroku couldn't stop thinking about what the old man had said. How could he have known if he did? "No one else around here seems to notice," he thought to himself as he looked to his right. A young woman watching them pass by smiled a bit at him. "No, he couldn't have." They came to the edge of the forest that bordered the town. It was already around four. Sango had been watching Miroku the whole day and she seemed to notice his abnormal silence. She knew she better not say anything.
By the time night came they had come a good distance from the town. They made camp and started a fire. Miroku sat down and pulled up his hair. "I don't care what it is for, I'm never leaving my hair down again, it's way too annoying," he thought to himself. He touched his ears half hoping they would be back to normal. They weren't. He gave a sigh. Shippou came running over to him, followed by Inuyasha. "When I catch you rat," Inuyasha started to yell as Shippou ran right up to Miroku and hid behind him. "Help me Miroku." said Shippou shaking a little. "Hey Inuyasha leave him alone!" Kagome yelled as she ran over to him to try and stop him from tackling Miroku as well. Shippou popped his head from behind Miroku again. "I didn't do anything I swear I didn't!!!" he squealed as Inuyasha tried to get closer to him. He pushed out of Kagome's grasp and ran towards Shippou again. "SIT!" yelled Kagome as Inuyasha fell to the ground. "You are all against me aren't you!" he yelled. "You're over reacting Inuyasha," sighed Kagome as she walked back over to Sango, Shippou tagged along not too far behind her. "What were you trying to do to Shippou this time," said Miroku as he helped Inuyasha out of his indented hole. "Trying to hurt him severely," Inuyasha said as he brushed himself off, then sat down beside Miroku. Shippou stuck out his tongue at Inuyasha. Inuyasha did the same back to Shippou. Miroku couldn't help but laugh a little. "Wow he can act like such a child sometimes," he thought to himself. "What are you laughing about wolf boy," said Inuyasha. Miroku rolled his eyes and looked towards the fire. Maybe this wasn't so bad. He looked up and saw Kagome and Sango talking. He was with the only people that could accept him. He.. was home.
Blah ok was that a bad ending? I am SO SORRY but I am so bad at endings (not that neone was reading this anywayz .) I also wanted to finish this up because I just was hit with a new idea... weeeeeeeeeeee its gunna be goooooooood, well I hope. Anywayz what did you think of my story, bad good ok???? Well can yah review and tell me??? I think I'll make my next story a little bit more humorous, I make too many serious stories. ^_^ ski yah for nowz!
