Author's Rant:

Konnichiwa! Konnichiwa! Konnichiwa! I just decided to try out this pairing, since my stupid twin was insisting I do something of this pairing. Hai, minna. This is Sango and Miroku. Of course, I find them really cute together! I think they are meant for each other! But... As far as I am concerned, I haven't tried anything of this. Since I was bored to death waiting for reviews from my other story "Three to Tango," which my idiotic twin posted in the Inuyasha category, not in the Slam Dunk [I got her tied up for that!] I decided to give in to her desires - I should write an S/M fic. Please take this easy on me!

I thank again those who reviewed. You don't know how much it means to me! *sobs*

~Shohoku no Miko~©

SnM: And before I forget... This story's rating is going to be R from now on, due to the later chapters that will involve... Okay, have to shut up. Though, this chapter is only rated for Inu-chan's potty-mouth attitude.

Inuyasha: Oi wench, what the fuck did you call me?

SnM: INU-CHAN... Have any problem with that? *holds up rosary beads and points to Inuyasha's beads* S--

Inuyasha: Yeah, yeah right. *walks away* *mumbles* Wench.

SnM: *sighs* Inu-chan, sit.

Inuyasha: *thwop*

SnM: Mwahahahahaha! *evil, diabolical laugh* You should know better than to call me that! Kagome-chan, thanks for the beads! *background: Kagome gives two thumbs up* Now to torture Miroku...

Inu-Yasha: A Medieval Pulp Fantasy -er- Inu-Yasha: A Feudal Fairy Tale ©Takahashi Rumiko.

Teach Me How To Love By Shohoku no Miko

Chapter Eleven: Juichi

'The longer I delay this move, the longer will Sango stay this way... I should leave now...' Miroku stood up and held the rings of his shakujo to keep it from making any sort of noise.

Glancing to check if someone is awake, he slowly made his way outside in silence. 'Now if Sango left without Kirara... She may have wanted time to be alone or went to take a bath, though that's impossible because she'd probably think I'd peek... But then... There's a possibility that she went to Toya by herself...'

"You won't run away again, won't you?"

Miroku stopped dead on his tracks as he looked up on the tree. A strand of Inuyasha's silver locks fell down from the tree he was sitting on, as if emphasizing his presence. Miroku opened his mouth to speak, but Inuyasha was first.

"Can it, bouzou. You should know better that Kagome would come after you. Besides, she'd bug the crap out of me so I'd have to give in eventually... Damn that wench..." Inuyasha murmured the last remark.

Miroku laughed. Inuyasha was always on his masochistic attitude. But however hard he attempts to hide it, he has a soft spot for his group.

"Oi, what in the fucking hell are you laughing at?"'

"Hm...? Nothing!" He smiled mischievously.

"And besides, you wouldn't want Sango to become sad when she comes back." Inuyasha said, jumping down from the tree as if he finished a youkai with a flourish.

"Relax, Inuyasha. I'm not going to run away. I'll be looking for Toya." Miroku dusted his robes after Inuyasha's flashy landing sent an ample amount of dirt on him. "Besides, leaving our group is the last thing on my mind."

Inuyasha snorted. "Yeah right, bouzou. Like you can beat the living daylights out of that fucking guy."

"Inuyasha! Miroku-sama!" Kagome ran out of the shack. "Sango-chan's missing!" She stopped in the middle of the two men conversing. She stared at the two, wondering why she didn't get any reaction from them. "Hey! Aren't you the least bit alarmed?" She turned to Miroku. "Aren't we even going to look for her?"

"Wench, we already know that."

"You do?" Kagome looked surprised.

Miroku nodded.

"Feh. You ningens are too weak to even notice." Inuyasha stated, as if matter-of-factly.

Kagome went red. "If YOU are strong as you claim yourself to be, then WHY DIDNT YOU TELL ME?!?" She shouted. "Why didn't you go after her?!"

Miroku nodded. "Why so, Inuyasha?" He had to admit, he did want to ask that question a while ago, and he has to thank Kagome for that.

Inuyasha could practically smell Miroku's determination as he exited that shack minutes ago. "Well," he started, "I was waiting for a certain bouzou to come into his senses and finally acknowledge his feelings."

Kagome knew at once what Inuyasha was pointing out. But Miroku refused to admit. "Ah, didh't know you had it in you, Inuyasha. I mean, girls flock around me everywhere we go and I didn't know you considered others' feelings too." He finished his supposed to have been heartwarming speech with a knowing look at Inuyasha.

Inuyasha knew what Miroku is leading to. He gave him a dirty look.

"Aw, Miroku-sama, Inuyasha's not a monster..." Kagome pointed out, which earned her the attention of a certain hanyou. "I mean, he IS a hanyou, but he isn't a monster... I mean..." Kagome tried to explain further.

"I perfectly understand you, Kagome-sama. Let's just hope Inuyasha here gets the message." Miroku grinned.

"Feh." Came Inuyasha's witty reply, accompanied by his signature cross-arm position. "Stupid onna."

"Well... Aren't WE going to start to LOOK for Sango-chan?" Kagome said pointedly, glancing at Miroku.

"I suppose..." Miroku replied. "Let's get going, then."

"Keh. About time..." Inuyasha huffed as he kicked some dirt. [a/n: Literally.]

Kagome went inside the hut to retrieve their provisions as Miroku tightened the knots on his sandals. 'Who knows when I'll be able to buy myself another pair...'

"What's going on?" Shippou asked drowsily, trudging behind Kagome as the miko carried her backpack, which, by the way, is smaller and lighter than before.

"You don't know yet brat?" Inuyasha snickered. "And you call yourself a youkai..."

Not a minute later Inuyasha had dust stuffed on his potty mouth as a shrill voice rang through the deep forest. [a/n: More like "Fukai Mori" by Do as Infinity... They sooo rock!]

Kagome put her palms together and dusted them. "You know, I should have done that five times already!"

"What the fuck did I do again, whore?"

Kagome had veins popping out of her temples. "Want me to enumerate? One. You called me a wench. Two. For referring to us as 'weak, baka ningens.'"

"I didn't say baka!" Inuyasha protested.

"Hmmm... True, but it doesn't make it any less. Three. For not telling us that Sango went away... Even if you were waiting for Miroku-sama to come into his senses."

Miroku cocked an eyebrow. "Hmm...?"

She glanced at Miroku, then looked away at once. "Four. You called me a stupid onna. And five, for insulting poor Shippou-chan..." She patted Shippou and the kitsune-youkai grinned.

"Oh, and six. You called me a whore!"

"Cut the crap, wench! Your voice sounds like that of a wailing youkai's." Inuyasha 'Feh'd again and stomped off.

"Ooooohhhh..." Kagome seethed.

"Ano... What's happening? Why are we leaving?" Shippou asked again.

'Calm down, calm down, calm down. You shouldn't mind his manners. He was born like that. He just--'

"Oi wench, aren't we going yet?"

It seems like Kagome's little 'pep talk' didn't work, for Inuyasha's figure cut six feet through the stinking soil.

"Where are we going? What happened? Why am I being ignored? And where is Sango-chan?" Shippou asked, this time making sure he was heard.

Miroku sighed. When will Inuyasha ever learn? "You see, Shippou, Sango-sama disappeared. And we're going to look for her. And you're not ignored because they really are just busy with each other. You see, Inuyasha here wants to dig his grave this early."

"When we find her, will you tell her how you feel?" Shippou asked innocently. (?) Okay, let's make that HALF-innocently.

Inuyasha and Kagome glanced at Shippou, then to Miroku.

Miroku played dumb. "Ah, of course." He sighed. "Its been so long since I copped a feel on her."

Inuyasha shook his head. Shippou sighed, Kirara just kind of sat there. But Kagome's hand remained in the air and Sango's handprint was replaced by hers.

"Stop trying to cover up your feelings! You're pushing her away! You're being unfair..." Kagome shouted at him.

Okay... That's a first...

"I know what you feel towards her and you don't have to hide it or even run from it! Stop being a coward, Miroku! You're losing her!" Kagome ran away from him, with Shippou trailing her.

Inuyasha, for once, didn't snicker or laugh at him as he had expected him to do. Instead, he treaded towards him, totally ignoring Kagome's scowl. "You know bouzou, I think she's right. If you're pushing her away then let me tell you that you're doing a nice job of it. Keh, stupid ningen feelings..." He walked away from him and towards Kagome, then positioned in front of her, obliging her to ride. And in an unusually calm voice, he spoke. "We must hurry and look for her before anything bad happens to her..."

Kagome hopped on his back, smiling. "Aw, Inuyasha, so you do care for Sango- chan. That's so sweet of you..."

Inuyasha tried hard to rescue his pride. "I don't! If we lose her we lose a fighter who could help us defeat that damn son of a bitch Naraku!" He yelled.

"Really..." Kagome's voice was dripping with sardonity as she looked at Inuyasha knowingly.

"What?!?" He snapped. "Or do you want us not to look for her?"

Kagome sighed. "Okay, okay, let's just go, and fast so we can save her and prove that you do car--" Kagome was not able to finish her words as Inuyasha sped off at a velocity of 2014 miles per hour, following Sango's scent, towards Toya. [a/n: Yeah, I kind of made that up since our Physics teacher assigned us to create a problem on velocity on the spot. And jeez, even if Physics was the subject I couldn't get Inuyasha (the tv show, mind you) off of my head... So that's the product, with matching direction -- a vector quantity... Hehehehe! *sweatdrop*]

Inuyasha smirked at his successful attempt of changing the mood by running off fast.

Kirara transformed into her huge form and walked towards Miroku, stopping in front of him, looking him straight in the eye. Miroku looked like he was about to cry.

He sighed. "Kirara, I know this sounds stupid, but. Gomen, for hurting your mistress' feelings." He patted Kirara on her head. He half-expected half- feared that the feline would growl at his actions or even jump at him for it.

But he was so wrong. For what the feline did was to succumb into his hands. Guess Kirara took a liking in him, after all.

"Oi, bouzou, you coming or not?"

He smiled inwardly, as he climbed up of Kirara's back. "Hai, hai. Coming." He leaned into Kirara's ear. "Ikuso, Kirara. Let's look for our Sango, ne?"

.tsuzuku.

Author's Rant:

Geh. Nothing much. I was just desperate to get this out, so that I'll get to upload a chapter and APOLOGIZE FOR MY GRAVE MISTAKE IN THE LAST CHAPTER. Geez, honestly, it was such a STUUUUUPID mistake! I knew all along that Kouga was a wolf, but I didn't know that I used "kitsune" there instead of "ookami!" (Argh, good grief!) You see, my PDA was always more INTELLIGENT than I am, that when I touch a letter accidentally, it sort of suggests a word and then. Argh! I just didn't know what happened back there! Thankies to those who pointed it out for me, and I really apologize for it. *sighs*

Thanks again to those who reviewed and gave me hope for me to continue with this fic! I am sooo touched.

Ah, before I sign off, gotta tell you all that I'm really in a good mood today because I just passed the entrance exams or my most-sought school! You see, I'm just a high school student, and I wanted to go to this certain college. And I did pass the exams! Weeeeee!!!!

Gomen, I just wanted to shae it with all of you peeps. Oh well. A lot of flashback involved in the next chapter. And just to tell you folks, I didn't spellcheck this one, so I'm apologizing in advance.

Kudos!

Ja, mata ne!!!

~Shohoku no Miko~©