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Chapter 11: Ouch! Love Hurts!
"YOU PERVERTS!" Mikomi screamed angrily at Mijin and Rekka, whom she had found both behind a tree as she was bathing. "SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT!" She decked Mijin and left him with a black eye.
"Mi… komi…" Rekka muttered, his feelings hurt. He was trying to stop that perverted fiancée of Sanhi's from peeking on HIS Mikomi! She turned around and gave him a hurt look of her own and went off to cry.
"Mikomi, are you all right?" Sanhi asked worriedly.
"If I never see either of those two perverts… it'll be too soon!" Mikomi ran the rest of the way to the room she had decided to share with Sanhi and Tora.
Tora took one look at Mikomi's face and rushed to her like a younger sibling. "Mikomi, what happen? Why you cry? Don't cry… I'll kill the person that makes you cry…" Tora stated innocently.
"Oh, Tora," Mikomi sobbed, "I don't want him dead, I want him to apologize… and to forgive me… I never want him dead…"
"Did Rekka do this? Did he make you cry?" Tora asked.
"No, no, I did that on my own," Mikomi replied softly and hugged the younger girl tightly. "I told him to… well, the 's' word. I've never felt so awful in my life, but he spied on me in my bath…"
"It's okay, Mikomi. I won't kill Rekka, but can I kill Mijin? I don't like him," Tora frowned.
"No, but you can hit him, if Sanhi says you can," Mikomi smiled though her tears at her little friend.
"YOU TWO ARE DEAD MEN!" Sanhi yelled angrily at Mijin and Rekka.
"Sanhi…" Mijin began. He saw her scary face and backed away quickly. "I just was taking a walk over by the baths and I followed him here…"
"YOU'RE LYING TO ME!" Sanhi yelled. She pointed angrily at Rekka, "AND YOU! YOU CAUSED HER TO CRY! THIS IS INTOLERABLE!" Sanhi let out one last flame of anger and punched Mijin's other eye and slapped Rekka.
"Sanhi…" Mijin backed away from his fiancée, and looked actually ashamed, as she walked away, turning her back to both of them.
"I've hurt Mikomi…" Rekka's heart almost broke.
"THE NERVE OF THOSE TWO! MIJIN I CAN AT LEAST PUNCH! I THOUGHT REKKA KNEW BETTER!" Sanhi growled angrily back in her room.
"It's okay, Sanhi," Tora smiled at her other friend. "Can I hit Mijin? Mikomi said I could if you said it was okay!"
"You can hit him as often as you like!" Sanhi grumbled.
"Sanhi, you didn't… you didn't…" Mikomi's eyes began to water.
"DIDN'T WHAT? HIT REKKA? OF COURSE I DID!" Sanhi yelled, "WHAT KIND OF FRIEND WOULD I BE IF I DIDN'T DO SOMETHING!"
"Thank you for that, Sanhi, but… I can't stand him… to be hurt," Mikomi felt a lump in her throat.
"WHAT!" Sanhi blinked in shock.
"I…" Mikomi stood up and walked away and jumped out the window, and whispered, "I love him too much."
"I'm an idiot! An idiot! A complete baka!" Rekka announced to the trees and let out a roar of pain and hurt.
"Rekka…" Mikomi whispered softly and tried to find him. She searched desperately and finally found his scent. It took her a bit to find him, but when she did, she ran to him. Then she hugged him from behind and began to cry.
"… Mi… komi…" Rekka stuttered in shock.
"I'm sorry, Rekka! I'm sorry I hurt you…" Mikomi cried, "I'm so sorry…"
"Will you let me explain?" Rekka asked her softly.
"I don't care! Sanhi slapped you and she had no right to!" Mikomi hugged him tighter.
"You hit Mijin…" Rekka replied softly and turned to face her.
"…"
"He was watching you and I was trying to keep him away from you…" Rekka told her.
"I'm…" Rekka's finger was over her lips.
"No, I want to protect you," Rekka slightly managed a smile.
"You can, but I want to protect you, too," Mikomi kissed his finger, and told him, "Sorry about all those 's' words, I thought you were peeking…"
"Why would I do that to you?"
"I guess I was being very silly, huh?" Mikomi smiled slightly at Rekka.
"I would definitely say that," Rekka pulled Mikomi around and kissed her passionately.
"Mijin, I'm sorry I hit you," Sanhi sighed as she patched up her fiancée, who seemed to be unconscious.
"If he really loves you, he would stop being such a lecher and a pervert," Sango muttered.
"NO! I don't want him to make that commitment until he's ready!" Sanhi glared at her mother. "I thought you of all people would understand me!" Sango left the room.
"You really don't want me to make a commitment to you?" Mijin asked.
"Not until you're ready to…" Sanhi sighed and began to walk away.
"… Sanhi…" Mijin called her, "I love you."
The three words that cost him the most… "Mijin!" …and gained him even more! Sanhi ran back to him and kissed him right then and there. "I love you, too."
"Then, will you stop hitting me all the time?" Mijin asked smiling at her with soft eyes.
"I'll only do that when you need a reminder," Sanhi smiled back at Mijin.
"Who would have thought I'd actually fall in love with my violent fiancée?" Mijin laughed.
"Who would have thought I'd fall for a perverted warrior?" Sanhi grinned as he pulled her closer for a deep kiss.
"Sounds like everyone has someone but us, little one," Shippo smiled at Tora, who was asleep in his arms.
"Father, who's that?" Shippo's son, Aoi-Metsuki (blue-eyes) asked him.
"This, my son, is Tora and she is asleep," Shippo smiled at his own flesh and blood; for where Rekka was only his son in heart and mind, Aoi-Metsuki was his real son.
"Is she human, father?" Aoi-Metsuki asked curiously.
"Yes," Shippo smiled as his son looked on in curiosity.
Aoi-Metsuki smiled at his father and was surprised when his father moved over and handed him the girl. "Father?"
"You'll protect her, and be her friend," Shippo smiled. He smiled as he saw Mikomi and Rekka, "You both would be greatly pleased, Inuyasha and Kagome, very pleased."
