My heart breaks apart for saying this "Inuyasha or its characters don't belong to me"
Tsuki no Ai
By Youkai Huntress
EienSango stood up quickly and looked for Miroku with the eyes. She had decided to talk to him; it would be the only way to calm her. But the houshi wasn't at the camp.
"Where is Miroku?"
Shippo replied with an "Ehh?" then he only saw how a pink with green shadow passed by and stood next to Kagome.
"C'mon Inuyasha all I want to do is to brush your hair!
"Kagome-chan, do you know where is Miroku?"
"SANGO! I didn't see you. I think he went meditating"
" Probably he saw a woman and decided to follow her."
Sango just glared at Inuyasha while the other girl gave him the "keep your mouth shut" look.
"C'mon, It doesn't take a genius to figure it out!"
Inuyasha decided to keep quiet after the glare he earned from Sango; after all he could swear that look was worth of the most malevolent youkai. Without mentioning that Kagome hit him with the comb.
"Don't pay any attention to him, Sango. He's cranky because he's human!
Sango glared at him for the last time before turning to the forest and sighing (I can't leave them alone or they would be defenseless if a youkai attacked)
"Did she really call him Miroku?"
Said a delightful Kagome while thinking in what she would wear for the wedding, then giggled some more when she thought what she would make Inuyasha wear.
Meanwhile deep in the forest, Miroku was leaning against a tree, with sweat falling from his forehead.
"When it grows it's so damn painful. Someone would think that after one month of feeling this I would have got used to it by now"
He looked at his right hand at the same time he wished it belonged to another person. He had made the same wish every day of his life but it seemed as if the Universe wasn't willing to give him that.
"I'm afraid it's time to look at the face of my long time companion. What a short life I had!"
He chuckled while holding his arm. He didn't know from where the laughing came but neither could he stop it.
"I didn't even defeated Naraku."
He chuckled some more, thinking in all those battles when he was so sure they would defeat Naraku, and for one reason or other, it ended as the others, in failure. All the times he believed he had Naraku in his hands; he escaped as if he were made of sand. The daily torture of believing he'd get rid of the kazaana just to see how the plan failed and being defeated. He could picture the mocking smile on Naraku's lips.
"Neither did I get a heir."
He laughed at the remembrance of all the women who thought he was joking or the ones who felt offended, without forgetting those who actually accepted but that he hadn't wanted because they weren't Sango.
"Not to mention the fact that I'm losing Sango along with my life"
His smile disappeared at the time this thought sank in his heart. The source of his last chuckles came from frustration for the unjust of the situation, that's what it really bothered him of the other reasons, that it wasn't fair. But being without Sango was beyond unfair.
His thoughts were interrupted as he growled in pain, the torture of the Kazaana growing though the sacred beads sealed it. The kind of ache just two humans beside him knew, and none of them had defeated it. Not a very optimistic truth, obviously it left little space for any hope.
He couldn't describe how the pain felt, the closest portrayal it would be "empty" though, even that word couldn't help to explain why he hoped death would arrive soon.
The pain stopped for a minute so he laid his hand in the ground.
He had planned this would be a peaceful moment but it wasn't. There was so much he left behind undone. However, what it worried him was not the fact he didn't fulfill his tasks but that he would have to leave Sango behind.
Why did destiny keep on playing with his heart? Even as a child he had had death as his eternal company, due to this he decided he wouldn't love anyone, to not hurt them or him. Just when he had learned how to do so, when he no longer cursed the path he'd follow; she appeared in his life. She who looked more gorgeous than a goddess and acted more forceful than a tigress, but that inside had the same craving he had for affection and understanding. Thanks to her arrival, he found himself hating his hand and the fate he was destined to.
Even if it was wrong to say it, after all he was a houshi, Kami had a cruel sense of humor.
Suddenly, something called his attention to the cursed hand."Kirara"
Kirara was licking his hand; he smiled and started petting her. He accepted the little comfort the kitten could offer.
"What are you doing here? Are you here to make it easier for me? You have to leave soon; I don't want you to follow the same path as me…. That would really make your owner unhappy…. My death seems so close and I'm losing my Sango. Forget that, she was never mine and I was never hers…. If I had the chance Sango, if I had a future, I would kiss you as no one in this world could, I would love you with my body, my mind, my soul; I'd fight for your love and I would never stop until you were mine … but I can't… and that's the real curse.
"An unbearable sadness occupies my soul now that I'll lose you, especially when I think I didn't get you to understand what you mean to me. You never realized the real extent of the love you imprinted on my senses and my soul. You never figured out how vital you were for me, thanks to you I was able to know what being alive means. I wonder if you imagine how many nights I spent awake longing for being by your side. You don't know how strong my wish to be with you is."
"Neither did you know that my greatest sorrow came from the fact that I was losing you little by little, so slowly. Losing you to the time and to other persons. You'll never find out that my greatest fear is that the wind erases my image from your memory."
"Love, the cruel feeling that made my soul cried in silence, so no one would hear it. Love! I hate that word. I wish it would go far away from me as fast as it came."
He had to stop because the pain retuned ten times worse. Even if he didn't want to scare the fire cat, he screamed as loud as his throat allowed him.
He was surprised as he saw Kirara looked worried instead of scared.
"Go to Sango. Make sure she finds someone special, and make sure that the one who will take the place I longed for, loves her as much as a man is capable of doing it. He has to make her as happy as she made me, even more…It's time you go to your lovely owner… act as if there was nothing wrong… as I did my whole life."
Kirara gave him one last look before leaving. He smiled at the fire cat, as loyal as her owner. But he didn't want anyone else to share his future.
"Go.. I'll stay here dreaming about her… the dream that now it will never end… I will never see her again but in my soul she'll still be mine."
With that the cat left, the houshi prayed that for the first time in his life something went as he had planned it and that the kitten wouldn't return with her owner.
Sango (Why hasn't Houshi-sama returned? He should be back by now, I even sent Kirara to look for him)
Suddenly her senses warned her about the presence of a youkai. She made a serious face and stood up. She used her arm to wake Inuyasha up; after all, if she used her voice she would alert the creature. Kami knew that if she could avoid fighting right now, she would.
"There is a youkai, isn't it?"
Said Inuyasha while looking how Sango was reading her hiraikotsu.
The youkai made itself visible, they already knew how amusing Naraku found creating horrible beasts but this was too much. The beast had six legs as if it were an insect, the body resembled a reptile but the head was human and to complete the look, the tail of a serpent.
The youkai started attacking but instead of focusing on the taij-ya or the owner of the Tetsusaiga, he directed all his fury towards Kagome and the little demon she was holding.
"Hiraikotsu!"
Sango's attack was successful and damaged the menacing leg that was ready to cut Kagome in a half. But that didn't stop the monster, which just decided to end with the nuisance a.k.a. Sango, so he could carry on with the mission of Naraku-sama.
Inuyasha used the Tetsusaiga but to not avail because without its transformation it was impossible to cut through the rough skin of the youkai. Quickly the creature got rid of the hanyou by hitting him with its tail.
"INUYASHA!"
"DON'T COME NEAR KAGOME! LET SANGO AND I HANDLE THIS!"
Sango was about to recover her hiraikotsu but she was surprised by the youkai when it snatched her weapon from her using its tongue.
Sango (Where are you, Houshi-sama?)
After thinking this, she drew her katana ready to show the youkai why it shouldn't take what belonged to her.
"That's the presence of a monster, in the CAMP!"Miroku exclaimed, as he stood up and started staggering towards the battlefield.
Sango neared the youkai and aimed with her sword at the youkai's tongue. Meanwhile Inuyasha used the distraction to stick the Tetsusaiga in the creature's chest.
The falling beast let go off the Hiraikotsu, but Inuyasha's hit wasn't strong enough to kill the youkai.
"My Hiraikotsu is broken!"
"Why did it have to attack now? KAGOME, SHIPPO LEAVE!
Said the hanyou while he tried to avoid one of the youkai's legs that threaten with slashing him.
Suddenly, Kirara who had just appeared, tried to scratch the body of the beast, she even succeeded in cutting one of its legs, unfortunately Naraku has more than one surprise under his sleeve. The blood of the creature had a powerful toxin, which was capable of poisoning with the simple fact of touching it.
Since she was poisoned Kirara transformed back to her normal self, so Sango hurried to her side.
"Kirara!"
The monster saw this as the perfect opportunity because the taij-ya focused on her pet instead of reading the enemy's moves. Just when the beast was ready to attack her.
"SANGO! JUMP!
The demon exterminator did as she was told and with that save her life. She turned to her savior recognizing the man she had been waiting for the whole night.
"Houshi-sama"
She looked relief, now she knew they could defeat the youkai. But her security changed into doubts as soon as she heard this.
"Inuyasha take Kagome-sama and Sango with you and get away from here!"
"What are you going to do, bonzou?!"
"DON'T BE STUBBORN FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE AND LEAVE!"
Inuyasha glared at Miroku but went to where Kagome was. Without saying anything, he took Kagome's hand and put Shippo in his shoulder.
"Inuyasha"
Said a blushing Kagome; she couldn't help to fight the emotion she felt for the simple fact that he was holding her hand.
"I..I..did it….I can't carry you in my back if I'm human, it would slow us down"
"Can you leave the ROMANCE for another time? Don't you see the ugly youkai looking at us?!"
Shippo yelled, as the youkai was getting impatient by the way the entire group was ignoring him. While Inuyasha and Kagome talked, Sango stared at the houshi trying to guess what he planned to do. When their eyes met, her worries just got bigger. Something was definitely wrong.
"Houshi-sama"
"Go Sango I promise I'll be OK."
Sango (I have a bad feeling about this.. I will give Kirara to Kagome-chan and return to help Houshi-sama)
She started running as fast as her legs allowed her to, she didn't care about the branches scratching her body or the fact that she didn't breathe until she reunited with the rest of the group.
"Sango-chan, are you OK?"
"Take –breath- care –breathe- of Kirara"
With that, she was gone again. She wasn't going to leave him alone; she would be by his side even if it meant death.
"Sango-chan! We have to follow her"
"Damn it, Sango! Kagome, you stay here with Shippo. I'll go after her"
Kagome held Shippo closer to her. (Kami protect them)
Miroku unsealed his kazaana, which was bigger than ever. The houshi could feel the fear running through his column.
"My comfort comes from the fact that I'm taking you to hell with me, demon!"
Sango was a few meters away from the battlefield but she could see everything. (The kazaana! It has grown! Oh no! That's what you've been hiding from me!)
"MIROKU!"
The kazaana sucked the youkai with no effort but when Miroku was trying to seal it, it swallowed the beads, now the kazaana was too strong to be contained.
Sango (It's too late to seal the kazaana!)
The Kazaana kept on growing, most of the trees and the vegetation of the battlefield had disappeared. The great amount of things the kazaana was ingesting caused the monk a lot of pain.
"MIROKU!"
Sango was running towards him, she knew that she would be sucked too but her reason couldn't convince her heart and body to stop running.
Miroku was focused on the bigger kazaana, finally he was in front of his worst fear, the assassin of his Otousan, had finally come for him. He would never see his friends or Sango again. He had to admit that Naraku had defeated him.
"MIROKU!"
Inuyasha pinned Sango to the ground, the mortal wind was a few centimeters from them.
Inuyasha (If this keeps like this we're going to be sucked by the kazaana)
"MIROKU!"
The fact that her life was in danger didn't matter; she just wanted the nightmare to stop. She was screaming his name and crying, she couldn't do another thing.
Then she felt the wind, the wind that was ready to take her to him but not in a nice manner. Through the annoying sound the kazaana did, the houshi heard those familiar cries, he heard the voice he worshiped calling his name. He turned his eyes to see how the hair of the woman he loved was being caressed by the mortal wind.
He had already given his life to the kazaana but he wasn't going to sacrifice Sango's.
Miroku used all of his strength to put his hand in front of his face, he knew that by doing this, he would just leave this world sooner but those few seconds he gave up to, Inuyasha could use them to save the female.
The hanyou did as Miroku planned and taking the crying Sango, he went away. He missed his demoniac strength due to the resistance Sango put. When she kicked him in the eye, he let got off her. She returned running to where Miroku was just to see how the wind had formed a cage around him. She saw his face but he didn't see hers, his eyes remained tightly shut while the current of air scratched his clothes and face.
Suddenly, the cage turned into a tornado, now she couldn't even see him, she started running again just to be stopped by Inuyasha.
She saw how the tornado after whirling for a minute disappeared and with it, Miroku.
"MIROKU!"
I hope you won't hate me after this chapter.
Keep on reading! This is not over yet! (In fact it's far from over) Don't worry after all "Love Conquers All"
And now the "Must-Have" part of any fic, the part where Jaken is bashed!
Miroku: If any of you, young beautiful readers, want to bear my child, please contact me at youkai_huntess@yahoo.com.mx. Just specify how old you are and if you carry any giant weapon with you. ^_^
Youkai_Huntress: Miroku…. MY E-MAIL IS NOT FOR THAT! Besides I found out about that chain letter that ended with "You must bear my child within 24 hours or you'll have bad luck (and with bad I mean Jaken's kind of luck) for the rest of your life"
Miroku: But authoress-sama. Just think in how many girls will respond to it. I mean who wants to have a life like Jaken?
Youkai_Huntress: You're right people prefers death before being Jaken, but I'm still telling Sango on you.
Miroku: o_o Life was so short!
Something you want to tell the authoress? Find her at youkai_huntess@yahoo.com.mx
Domo Arigato for reading my fic!
Eien means Eternity