Disclaimer~ I don't own Inuyasha or any related characters.
Dialog~ "Meep meep meep."
Thoughts~ 'Meep meep meep.'
Authors note~ I've been getting a few reviews wondering why Miroku isn't dead yet or is seriously hurt. I realize it's not especially realistic on that part but I'll do my best to change that. Arigato to all of those who have reviewed for my last chapter, you all kick ass!
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Chapter 9
Miroku wearily opened his eyes his head hurt and his whole body ached. He looked around the room in confusion. "This isn't my room. This is..."
"Oh you're conscious are you?"
Miroku turned to the door seeing a tall woman with fair brown hair and hazel eyes. She was wearing a white uniform and a stethoscope hung around her neck. "Who are you?"
The woman smiled sweetly at him. "I'm your doctor, Kikai Okashii."
Miroku blinked his eyes a moment seeing the young not to mention fairly attractive woman enter the room. "Doctor... Then I must be in the hospital."
She nodded. "Very good, we now know you still have your comprehension skills intact. That's right, you are in a hospital where you're being treated for severe blood loss. Your guardian found you unconscious and covered in blood this morning. He called 911 and that's how you ended up here."
Miroku didn't say anything; a sinking feeling was beginning to take over him. 'Shit, so Kenji knows now. This isn't good.'
The doctor noticed Miroku's silence and grew concerned. "Is something the matter?"
Miroku opened his mouth to say something but stopped himself. 'What should I say to her? She's not a big enough idiot to not know what I must have been doing. She's probably going to want to put me in some help program or something.' He sighed and turned attention back to Kikai. "I have to get out of here."
Kikai frowned. "What do you mean get out? You have some severe injuries you need to get treated... Not to mention you aren't exactly stable. Who knows what you could do to yourself."
Miroku sneered. "Thanks for the advice but I can't accept that as an answer. I can't stay here and I don't need your help."
Kikai stared at Miroku in sheer disbelief. 'What's this kid trying to pull? He's really headstrong.' "Well, you don't have a choice. We do have methods of keeping people here, by force if necessary."
Miroku smirked. "I bet you do. Listen to me, regardless of what sort of maniac you may think I am, but I'm telling you have to get out of here."
She shook her head fiercely. "Why, why should I let you leave in this condition? Why do you want to leave so bad?"
"I don't want..." Miroku paused a moment thinking of how he should reason with the woman. "I don't want others to know that I'm here. And they wont know I'm here if I'm not here."
"Huh?" -_-;
"I'm assuming that you aren't a complete idiot and that you know where those cuts on my wrist and face came from."
Her face saddened, suddenly getting his meaning. "Yeah I do, and I take it you don't want others to know what you do to yourself."
Miroku let out a deep breath. "Yes, that's why I have to go."
"I can understand your predicament but there's no way I can let you leave. Your wounds still need to be treated further, and you need to get some other help..." Her voice trailed off knowing that Miroku knew what she was talking about and that he wasn't happy about it.
"No you don't understand, and I don't need a bunch of god damn counselors evaluating me and telling me how fucked up I am." Miroku's anger was starting to rise within him. All his suppressed rage was starting to spill over. "You people are all alike! Trying to take control of me and tell me what I am and how I need to be! Just leave me alone!"
Kikai's frown intensified on her face. She walked over to his bedside slapping him hard in the face. "Just who do you think you are? It's not all about you and what you want. What about your guardian, huh? How do you think he feels?"
Miroku touched the red slap mark on his face, his expression full of surprise quickly turned into anger. "I don't give a damn how my guardian feels! He doesn't care what happens to me either! He's the one who..." Miroku stopped realizing what he was saying.
"He's the one who what, Miroku?"
He turned his gaze from her all knowing eyes over at the wall. "It's nothing. You didn't hear anything."
She grabbed his shoulder turning his head towards her. "You said something and I want to know damnit!"
Miroku broke her grasp over him; his eyes staring back coldly at her. "It's none of your business what I said. None of this is, nothing I do is anyone else's business but my own."
Her deep eyes met with his, she sighed and nodded her head. "I see, so that's how were going to play it. Well, fine. I can't help someone who doesn't want help."
Miroku shook his head. "I didn't say that I didn't want help. I just said not from you..." The image of Sango reappeared in Miroku's mind.
She stared at him curiously for a moment and then walked out of the room.
Another woman entered the room; this time it was a nurse. She took a seat next to Miroku's bedside not saying anything to him.
He stared at her with hard eyes full of anger. "What do you want?"
"I'm here to watch over you and make sure you don't try to do anything crazy."
"I see... Where are my clothes?"
Her expression looked totally dumbfounded. "Excuse me?'
Miroku scowled. "My clothes damnit! Where are the clothes I came in with!?"
She pointed to a chair sitting across the room.
"Good." Miroku sat up and jumped off his bed. He ripped the IV's from his wrist and walked over to the chair.
"Wait! What in the hell are you doing!?" She was beginning to shake, panic had taken over her body.
"You think I'm going to stay here and let all you doctors have your way with me?" He slipped off his ground revealing more cuts and bruises covered about his body. He quickly slipped on his pants and reached for his shirt when the nurse's screaming suddenly stopped him. "What the hell are you screaming for!?"
"I can't let you go! You must stay here! Security! Security!"
Miroku ran to her covering up her mouth. "Just shut your big trap. I don't want to hurt you, but I will if you jeopardize my escape."
She nodded, too scared to say anything.
Miroku let go of his hold on the nurse and sighed in relief. "Good, now just stay quiet till I can get out here." He left her side and went back over to the chair where his garments still hang.
The nurse caught a glimpse of the large bruise on his chest before he slipped the shirt over it. "Does it hurt?"
"Does what hurt?"
"That bruise I saw on your chest. It looks very painful... What happened?"
Miroku didn't say anything. He slipped on his shoes and clipped on his chain to his pants and left the room. The nurse doing nothing to stop him for fear of getting hurt.
She ran out of the room looking for Kikai Okashii. "Doctor Okashii! Doctor Okashii!"
Kikai heard the nurse's screams and grew genuinely concerned when she saw the terrified expression on her face as she ran down the halls looking for her. "What? What is it?"
The nurse drew in quick breaths as she grew more nervous by the second. "It's the patient you assigned me to watch. He's gone! He got up put on his clothes and left the room."
"WHAT!"
"I'm sorry but there wasn't anything I could do to stop him. He threatened me if I tried screaming out for help again."
Her expression softened but not by much. She was still furious that Miroku was able to get away. "Just calm down, it'll be fine. I'll send out an alert and we'll find him and bring him back."
She nodded. "Thank god. I was just so scared. The way he looked at me was just so desperate. I knew he'd do anything to get away." "Oh?" Kikai crossed her arms signifying she wanted to hear more. "What do you mean?"
"The way he went about trying to escape. He was so calm but frantic at the same time. He didn't waste any time. He pulled out the IV's in his arms and immediately put on his clothes. I started screaming and he just about jumped out of his skin." She stopped a moment catching her breath. "He covered my mouth and told me he'd hurt me if I tried yelling out for help."
Kikai frowned. "And you believed him!?"
"Yes. I did, at that moment I feared desperately for my life."
"What makes you so sure that he'd do it?"
"I told you before, all he wanted was to get away and he'd do anything necessary to do so. Even if that meant hurting me. But I do feel sorry for that boy."
"What do you mean?"
The nurse's face saddened severely. "When he was putting his shirt on I noticed a huge bruise covering most of his chest. It looked extremely painful."
Kikai nodded. "I see. Interesting." 'It's just as I thought. There's something going on between Mr. Hatsaharu and his guardian and I intend to get to the bottom of it.' "Well, lets search the grounds and see if we can't find him."
The nurse nodded quickly. "Right."
Miroku was far away from the hospital grounds by now. He had been running non-stop after he had left his room not wanting to be caught and brought back. He stopped running and caught his breath now that the hospital was only a dot behind him.
"Damn. Now where do I go from here? This is so hopeless. If I go back home Kenji is going to beat me to a pulp, but I can't go back to the hospital either. That's the last thing I want is to evaluating by some assholes who don't even know me." He shook his head. "No, that'd be the last thing I want."
He continued walking away from the hospital unsure of where he was going to go. There weren't many options open to him at the time, so his only option was to keep running till he did know.
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Sango sighed as she sat with the rest of her friends at lunch an empty seat next to her. 'Where is Miroku? I haven't seen him all day. I wonder if he's sick or something.'
Kagome stared at her friend with mild concern. She had been staring at Miroku's empty seat for nearly the whole lunch period now and hadn't touched anything on her trey, not that she would want to or anything, but she could still attempt to try to look slightly interested in her food.
"Uh Sango. Is there something bothering you? You've been staring at Miroku's seat for most of the lunch period."
Kagome's words brought Sango out of her daze. "I'm sorry Kagome. I'm just worried about him."
"Keh." Inuyasha crossed his arms defiantly. "You worry too much over an idiot like Miroku, Sango. He's just fine, he's plenty strong to take care of himself."
Kagome tweaked her eyebrow anime style in disbelief of the comment Inuyasha had just made. 'Is he really that stupid? Please tell me I'm not in love with an idiot like him. Eeep! What am I saying!?'
"Inuyasha just do yourself a favor and shut up before you make yourself look like more of an idiot than you've already have."
Inuyasha stared at her strangely but didn't say anything. 'What did I say wrong now?'
Kagome quickly turned her attention back to her worried friend. "Sango why are so worried about Miroku. He's probably just sick or something like that. You shouldn't let it bother you."
Sango nodded slowly understanding what her friend was saying, but still couldn't help but feel worried for Miroku. "I know I shouldn't worry like this but for someone reason I just can't help it. I just have a feeling something bad happened to him."
Kagome smiled evilly at her friend "I'm surprised at your behavior Sango. From the sounds of things you and Miroku are getting a lot closer to each other."
A light blush quickly spread across Sango's face. She wasn't expecting her friend to be so quick to ask about their relationship. "Well. I. That is to say we." Sango cut herself off not knowing what to tell her friend.
"So are you two going out then?" Kagome moved a little closer to Sango getting in her face.
Sango's face grew redder by the second. "Not exactly."
"Then what?" Kagome was now right in Sango's face giving her no way out.
"Kagome just leave her the hell alone. If Sango doesn't want to talk about it don't force her to. You can be such a bitch sometimes."
Sango smiled at Inuyasha's sudden aid to her situation. "Thanks Inuyasha."
"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just don't get any ideas of me being a nice guy all the time or anything dumb like that. I'm still a stupid asshole!" '.What am I saying!?'
Inuyasha growled and turned his attention away from the girls' stupid conversatioin not wanting to make himself look like a bigger idiot than he already had.
Kagome scooted away from Sango and pouted. 'Damn Inuyasha, he ruins all the fun.'
Sango sighed, happy her friend's interrogation was over. Her eyes wandered over to the empty chair beside her, her face was dull and full of concern. 'Miroku I really do hope that you're alright.'
Miroku had been walking for a good while now and still had no clear idea of where to go. His main thought at the moment was to go somewhere to get something to eat. The only problem was that he didn't have any money. He sighed realizing how bad things were looking for him.
"Well, since I don't have any money and I'm desperate for food I guess there's only one choice. I'll have to go back home. At least for a little while, Kenji should be at work so I wont have to deal with him." Miroku gulped. "I hope."
Time passed slowly as he got closer and closer back to the house. He was dreading going back at the possibility of Kenji being there. The house came into clear view as every step he took drew him closer to the doom that possibly awaited him. He stood at the front door staring at the knob.
'Is this the right thing to do? What if Kenji is here? What's going to happen to me? This is awful. I'm so fucked.' He shook the thoughts of his head and rested his hand on the knob, hesitating to turn it. 'Should I really do this?' He sighed knowing the answer. 'It can't be helped.'
He turned the knob and walked in the front door. He noticed Kenji's shoes and immediately panicked. 'What the hell is he doing home!? He shouldn't be here! He should be at work!' "Gaaaaah!"
Kenji sat quietly at the kitchen table reading the paper and drinking coffee. He heard Miroku's voice and became extremely upset and confused. He got up and walked out of the kitchen to the main entrance. "Miroku is that you?"
Miroku sighed realizing he had been discovered. "Yeah, it's me Kenji."
Kenji's face nearly melted off his face. "What the hell are you doing here!? You should be in the hospital not at home! Why? Why are you here!?"
"Just calm down Kenji. I'm fine now and I left the hospital because I didn't want to nor needed to be there."
Kenji took another step towards Miroku his frustration beginning to rise within him. "Are you fucking crazy!? When I brought you in you had cuts and lacerations all over your body. You should be resting not walking around! Don't you have any consideration for your health!?"
Miroku sneered. "It doesn't help when I get the shit beaten out of me by my guardian."
Kenji walked over to Miroku and picked him by the shirt. "What did you just say!?"
Miroku fastened his hands over Kenji's hands in attempts to loosen his grip over him. "You heard me! Now let me go right now, or else!"
Kenji smiled, he was enjoying himself. "Or else what?"
"Or else I'll do this." Miroku broke free of Kenji's grip and landed a hard blow to in his face. "I'm not some beaten down dog. I'll fight back if I have to!"
Kenji winced in pain. Miroku's blow had really done him in. "Get the hell out of my house! I never want to see you here again!" Kenji pointed over to the door.
Miroku smirked at his sudden victory, if you want to call it that. "Gladly. But first I'll leave you a going away present." He kicked Kenji right in the stomach sending him reeling. "Sayonara, asshole." Miroku walked out the door slamming it behind him.
He walked down off the front steps and mentally cursed himself. 'I should have taken his money or grabbed some food or something before I left. Stupid, stupid, stupid.'
He groaned but continued walking away not wanting to even look back. He looked up at the sky and sighed. "Now what? Where do I go from here?"
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Adios Amigos,
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Dialog~ "Meep meep meep."
Thoughts~ 'Meep meep meep.'
Authors note~ I've been getting a few reviews wondering why Miroku isn't dead yet or is seriously hurt. I realize it's not especially realistic on that part but I'll do my best to change that. Arigato to all of those who have reviewed for my last chapter, you all kick ass!
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Chapter 9
Miroku wearily opened his eyes his head hurt and his whole body ached. He looked around the room in confusion. "This isn't my room. This is..."
"Oh you're conscious are you?"
Miroku turned to the door seeing a tall woman with fair brown hair and hazel eyes. She was wearing a white uniform and a stethoscope hung around her neck. "Who are you?"
The woman smiled sweetly at him. "I'm your doctor, Kikai Okashii."
Miroku blinked his eyes a moment seeing the young not to mention fairly attractive woman enter the room. "Doctor... Then I must be in the hospital."
She nodded. "Very good, we now know you still have your comprehension skills intact. That's right, you are in a hospital where you're being treated for severe blood loss. Your guardian found you unconscious and covered in blood this morning. He called 911 and that's how you ended up here."
Miroku didn't say anything; a sinking feeling was beginning to take over him. 'Shit, so Kenji knows now. This isn't good.'
The doctor noticed Miroku's silence and grew concerned. "Is something the matter?"
Miroku opened his mouth to say something but stopped himself. 'What should I say to her? She's not a big enough idiot to not know what I must have been doing. She's probably going to want to put me in some help program or something.' He sighed and turned attention back to Kikai. "I have to get out of here."
Kikai frowned. "What do you mean get out? You have some severe injuries you need to get treated... Not to mention you aren't exactly stable. Who knows what you could do to yourself."
Miroku sneered. "Thanks for the advice but I can't accept that as an answer. I can't stay here and I don't need your help."
Kikai stared at Miroku in sheer disbelief. 'What's this kid trying to pull? He's really headstrong.' "Well, you don't have a choice. We do have methods of keeping people here, by force if necessary."
Miroku smirked. "I bet you do. Listen to me, regardless of what sort of maniac you may think I am, but I'm telling you have to get out of here."
She shook her head fiercely. "Why, why should I let you leave in this condition? Why do you want to leave so bad?"
"I don't want..." Miroku paused a moment thinking of how he should reason with the woman. "I don't want others to know that I'm here. And they wont know I'm here if I'm not here."
"Huh?" -_-;
"I'm assuming that you aren't a complete idiot and that you know where those cuts on my wrist and face came from."
Her face saddened, suddenly getting his meaning. "Yeah I do, and I take it you don't want others to know what you do to yourself."
Miroku let out a deep breath. "Yes, that's why I have to go."
"I can understand your predicament but there's no way I can let you leave. Your wounds still need to be treated further, and you need to get some other help..." Her voice trailed off knowing that Miroku knew what she was talking about and that he wasn't happy about it.
"No you don't understand, and I don't need a bunch of god damn counselors evaluating me and telling me how fucked up I am." Miroku's anger was starting to rise within him. All his suppressed rage was starting to spill over. "You people are all alike! Trying to take control of me and tell me what I am and how I need to be! Just leave me alone!"
Kikai's frown intensified on her face. She walked over to his bedside slapping him hard in the face. "Just who do you think you are? It's not all about you and what you want. What about your guardian, huh? How do you think he feels?"
Miroku touched the red slap mark on his face, his expression full of surprise quickly turned into anger. "I don't give a damn how my guardian feels! He doesn't care what happens to me either! He's the one who..." Miroku stopped realizing what he was saying.
"He's the one who what, Miroku?"
He turned his gaze from her all knowing eyes over at the wall. "It's nothing. You didn't hear anything."
She grabbed his shoulder turning his head towards her. "You said something and I want to know damnit!"
Miroku broke her grasp over him; his eyes staring back coldly at her. "It's none of your business what I said. None of this is, nothing I do is anyone else's business but my own."
Her deep eyes met with his, she sighed and nodded her head. "I see, so that's how were going to play it. Well, fine. I can't help someone who doesn't want help."
Miroku shook his head. "I didn't say that I didn't want help. I just said not from you..." The image of Sango reappeared in Miroku's mind.
She stared at him curiously for a moment and then walked out of the room.
Another woman entered the room; this time it was a nurse. She took a seat next to Miroku's bedside not saying anything to him.
He stared at her with hard eyes full of anger. "What do you want?"
"I'm here to watch over you and make sure you don't try to do anything crazy."
"I see... Where are my clothes?"
Her expression looked totally dumbfounded. "Excuse me?'
Miroku scowled. "My clothes damnit! Where are the clothes I came in with!?"
She pointed to a chair sitting across the room.
"Good." Miroku sat up and jumped off his bed. He ripped the IV's from his wrist and walked over to the chair.
"Wait! What in the hell are you doing!?" She was beginning to shake, panic had taken over her body.
"You think I'm going to stay here and let all you doctors have your way with me?" He slipped off his ground revealing more cuts and bruises covered about his body. He quickly slipped on his pants and reached for his shirt when the nurse's screaming suddenly stopped him. "What the hell are you screaming for!?"
"I can't let you go! You must stay here! Security! Security!"
Miroku ran to her covering up her mouth. "Just shut your big trap. I don't want to hurt you, but I will if you jeopardize my escape."
She nodded, too scared to say anything.
Miroku let go of his hold on the nurse and sighed in relief. "Good, now just stay quiet till I can get out here." He left her side and went back over to the chair where his garments still hang.
The nurse caught a glimpse of the large bruise on his chest before he slipped the shirt over it. "Does it hurt?"
"Does what hurt?"
"That bruise I saw on your chest. It looks very painful... What happened?"
Miroku didn't say anything. He slipped on his shoes and clipped on his chain to his pants and left the room. The nurse doing nothing to stop him for fear of getting hurt.
She ran out of the room looking for Kikai Okashii. "Doctor Okashii! Doctor Okashii!"
Kikai heard the nurse's screams and grew genuinely concerned when she saw the terrified expression on her face as she ran down the halls looking for her. "What? What is it?"
The nurse drew in quick breaths as she grew more nervous by the second. "It's the patient you assigned me to watch. He's gone! He got up put on his clothes and left the room."
"WHAT!"
"I'm sorry but there wasn't anything I could do to stop him. He threatened me if I tried screaming out for help again."
Her expression softened but not by much. She was still furious that Miroku was able to get away. "Just calm down, it'll be fine. I'll send out an alert and we'll find him and bring him back."
She nodded. "Thank god. I was just so scared. The way he looked at me was just so desperate. I knew he'd do anything to get away." "Oh?" Kikai crossed her arms signifying she wanted to hear more. "What do you mean?"
"The way he went about trying to escape. He was so calm but frantic at the same time. He didn't waste any time. He pulled out the IV's in his arms and immediately put on his clothes. I started screaming and he just about jumped out of his skin." She stopped a moment catching her breath. "He covered my mouth and told me he'd hurt me if I tried yelling out for help."
Kikai frowned. "And you believed him!?"
"Yes. I did, at that moment I feared desperately for my life."
"What makes you so sure that he'd do it?"
"I told you before, all he wanted was to get away and he'd do anything necessary to do so. Even if that meant hurting me. But I do feel sorry for that boy."
"What do you mean?"
The nurse's face saddened severely. "When he was putting his shirt on I noticed a huge bruise covering most of his chest. It looked extremely painful."
Kikai nodded. "I see. Interesting." 'It's just as I thought. There's something going on between Mr. Hatsaharu and his guardian and I intend to get to the bottom of it.' "Well, lets search the grounds and see if we can't find him."
The nurse nodded quickly. "Right."
Miroku was far away from the hospital grounds by now. He had been running non-stop after he had left his room not wanting to be caught and brought back. He stopped running and caught his breath now that the hospital was only a dot behind him.
"Damn. Now where do I go from here? This is so hopeless. If I go back home Kenji is going to beat me to a pulp, but I can't go back to the hospital either. That's the last thing I want is to evaluating by some assholes who don't even know me." He shook his head. "No, that'd be the last thing I want."
He continued walking away from the hospital unsure of where he was going to go. There weren't many options open to him at the time, so his only option was to keep running till he did know.
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Sango sighed as she sat with the rest of her friends at lunch an empty seat next to her. 'Where is Miroku? I haven't seen him all day. I wonder if he's sick or something.'
Kagome stared at her friend with mild concern. She had been staring at Miroku's empty seat for nearly the whole lunch period now and hadn't touched anything on her trey, not that she would want to or anything, but she could still attempt to try to look slightly interested in her food.
"Uh Sango. Is there something bothering you? You've been staring at Miroku's seat for most of the lunch period."
Kagome's words brought Sango out of her daze. "I'm sorry Kagome. I'm just worried about him."
"Keh." Inuyasha crossed his arms defiantly. "You worry too much over an idiot like Miroku, Sango. He's just fine, he's plenty strong to take care of himself."
Kagome tweaked her eyebrow anime style in disbelief of the comment Inuyasha had just made. 'Is he really that stupid? Please tell me I'm not in love with an idiot like him. Eeep! What am I saying!?'
"Inuyasha just do yourself a favor and shut up before you make yourself look like more of an idiot than you've already have."
Inuyasha stared at her strangely but didn't say anything. 'What did I say wrong now?'
Kagome quickly turned her attention back to her worried friend. "Sango why are so worried about Miroku. He's probably just sick or something like that. You shouldn't let it bother you."
Sango nodded slowly understanding what her friend was saying, but still couldn't help but feel worried for Miroku. "I know I shouldn't worry like this but for someone reason I just can't help it. I just have a feeling something bad happened to him."
Kagome smiled evilly at her friend "I'm surprised at your behavior Sango. From the sounds of things you and Miroku are getting a lot closer to each other."
A light blush quickly spread across Sango's face. She wasn't expecting her friend to be so quick to ask about their relationship. "Well. I. That is to say we." Sango cut herself off not knowing what to tell her friend.
"So are you two going out then?" Kagome moved a little closer to Sango getting in her face.
Sango's face grew redder by the second. "Not exactly."
"Then what?" Kagome was now right in Sango's face giving her no way out.
"Kagome just leave her the hell alone. If Sango doesn't want to talk about it don't force her to. You can be such a bitch sometimes."
Sango smiled at Inuyasha's sudden aid to her situation. "Thanks Inuyasha."
"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just don't get any ideas of me being a nice guy all the time or anything dumb like that. I'm still a stupid asshole!" '.What am I saying!?'
Inuyasha growled and turned his attention away from the girls' stupid conversatioin not wanting to make himself look like a bigger idiot than he already had.
Kagome scooted away from Sango and pouted. 'Damn Inuyasha, he ruins all the fun.'
Sango sighed, happy her friend's interrogation was over. Her eyes wandered over to the empty chair beside her, her face was dull and full of concern. 'Miroku I really do hope that you're alright.'
Miroku had been walking for a good while now and still had no clear idea of where to go. His main thought at the moment was to go somewhere to get something to eat. The only problem was that he didn't have any money. He sighed realizing how bad things were looking for him.
"Well, since I don't have any money and I'm desperate for food I guess there's only one choice. I'll have to go back home. At least for a little while, Kenji should be at work so I wont have to deal with him." Miroku gulped. "I hope."
Time passed slowly as he got closer and closer back to the house. He was dreading going back at the possibility of Kenji being there. The house came into clear view as every step he took drew him closer to the doom that possibly awaited him. He stood at the front door staring at the knob.
'Is this the right thing to do? What if Kenji is here? What's going to happen to me? This is awful. I'm so fucked.' He shook the thoughts of his head and rested his hand on the knob, hesitating to turn it. 'Should I really do this?' He sighed knowing the answer. 'It can't be helped.'
He turned the knob and walked in the front door. He noticed Kenji's shoes and immediately panicked. 'What the hell is he doing home!? He shouldn't be here! He should be at work!' "Gaaaaah!"
Kenji sat quietly at the kitchen table reading the paper and drinking coffee. He heard Miroku's voice and became extremely upset and confused. He got up and walked out of the kitchen to the main entrance. "Miroku is that you?"
Miroku sighed realizing he had been discovered. "Yeah, it's me Kenji."
Kenji's face nearly melted off his face. "What the hell are you doing here!? You should be in the hospital not at home! Why? Why are you here!?"
"Just calm down Kenji. I'm fine now and I left the hospital because I didn't want to nor needed to be there."
Kenji took another step towards Miroku his frustration beginning to rise within him. "Are you fucking crazy!? When I brought you in you had cuts and lacerations all over your body. You should be resting not walking around! Don't you have any consideration for your health!?"
Miroku sneered. "It doesn't help when I get the shit beaten out of me by my guardian."
Kenji walked over to Miroku and picked him by the shirt. "What did you just say!?"
Miroku fastened his hands over Kenji's hands in attempts to loosen his grip over him. "You heard me! Now let me go right now, or else!"
Kenji smiled, he was enjoying himself. "Or else what?"
"Or else I'll do this." Miroku broke free of Kenji's grip and landed a hard blow to in his face. "I'm not some beaten down dog. I'll fight back if I have to!"
Kenji winced in pain. Miroku's blow had really done him in. "Get the hell out of my house! I never want to see you here again!" Kenji pointed over to the door.
Miroku smirked at his sudden victory, if you want to call it that. "Gladly. But first I'll leave you a going away present." He kicked Kenji right in the stomach sending him reeling. "Sayonara, asshole." Miroku walked out the door slamming it behind him.
He walked down off the front steps and mentally cursed himself. 'I should have taken his money or grabbed some food or something before I left. Stupid, stupid, stupid.'
He groaned but continued walking away not wanting to even look back. He looked up at the sky and sighed. "Now what? Where do I go from here?"
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Great news! The Comcast man was able to fix our Internet connection so now I wont have to mooch off of my buddy! Which means I can update a lot sooner now. Aren't you just so glad!? Any way I was glad to finish this chapter so quickly and have it up for you guys to read and review. I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions.
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Well that's all the kick ass reviews I got from people for chapter 8. I'm really happy with the turn out for this fic and it's really been fueling me to write. Thanks a whole lot to all you reviewers out there. You guys rock!
Next chapter~ We find out what happens to our poor boy after he has no where to go and is sooooooo hungry. Wow I'm a mean bitch. Any way look out for the chapter it's gonna be a good one, or I hope it is.
Expect an update around Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. Depends on school.
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Adios Amigos,
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