Luna: Ah we have arrived to chapter 11
Veron: Someone else comes into play this chapter.
Luna: YAY! Now we shall discover the reason as to why Inuyasha and Sesshomaru still hate one another!
Veron: But don't try to hack each other's head clean off.
Luna: nods Well sort of anyway.
Veron: Enjoy
Disclaimer: I have to do this AGAIN? Do you think a 14-year-old pocky addict with an obsession with black shirts and fake flower clips would own Inuyasha?
If you say yes…
You poor idiotic soul…
Chapter 11: Never steal manga
{-- Two weeks later --}
Kagome yawned and stretched, wincing slightly as the familiar throbbing pain of her injury appeared once more. She was dressed in her familiar red hakama pants, but her top was a green color with spagetthi straps, her cloth bandages apparent on the back of the garment. In her hands, was a manga, her stormy eyes were glowing with mirth as she flipped through the pages.
" Poor Keichii-kun…never gets a break around Peorth does he?" The miko chuckled as she shook her head, a few strands of her raven hair freeing themselves from her ponytail.
Without looking over her shoulder she smiled as she flipped another page, bringing her knees up closer to herself.
" Ohayo Miroku-kun."
Miroku blinked his violet irises wide in surprise. She was being nice to him? Ever since she had discovered the groups true purpose of her being with them, she had done naught but give him the silent treatment and some bone chilling glares.
" Hai, Kagome-sama." He maneuvered around the coffee table and sat across from her. Draping himself over the arm of the couch behind her, his eyes reading over her shoulder.
" Sneaking some of Sango-san's manga's away ne?"
Kagome blushed and abruptly hid the said book underneath one of the many cushions. Her guilty gaze rising up to meet his. Miroku smiled reassuringly at her and placed a hand over his heart.
" Your secret is safe with me."
Kagome smiled before looking guilty again as she gestured to the seat beside her. Miroku nodded and leapt over the back of the sofa, landing neatly a few feet away from her, his legs tucked underneath him in a neat pretzel shape.
" I can only trust you with my secret if you tell me one thing."
" Anything Kagome-sama. Take it as my plea of forgiveness for my previous actions regarding the Shikon jewel." The boy replied his face serious and regret flashing in his pained purple eyes.
Kagome smiled and nodded making the boy smile brightly again as he nodded for her to continue her inquiry.
" Why do you want the jewel for?"
Miroku nodded sagely, his eyes closing as his fingers tapped against his chin. He wondered when she would finally come about in asking him this. His eyebrows furrowed in concentration on how to exactly phrase his answer when he opened his eye and gave her an uneasy half smile.
" I have a dire disease Kagome-sama."
" But this era can surely cure you can it not?"
The boy sighed heavily and nodded.
" But the procedure only has a 50/50 chance of curing the disease. All my forefathers had this same curse. Legend has it one of my great grandfathers angered a powerful priestess by…his unholy actions."
" Meaning he groped her?"
"Hai..." Miroku admitted, shaking his head.
" She told him that she would forever curse his bloodline with it and he had no hope in curing it. But goddamned if he didn't try. My ancestors were all monks and I was no exception. I loved the history to be sure, but not all the rules. But a restraining collar around the unfortunate gene that curses us as well."
" You mean lechery?"
" Hai…" He chuckled humorlessly before continuing on. " The cure has a 50/50 chance of working as I mentioned before, but it's not worth the trouble for all the money the medical professionals demand for it. A year's pay from Sesshomaru-san couldn't even begin to pay it. That is how much it costs and I have a fairly large paycheck for someone in this profession."
Kagome nodded.
" I am only 22 years old, rather young to be having such a cloud hanging over my shoulders. On record, most of my forefathers died at age 35, the longest was 37. We lose our memory a bit more each year. First it is just little things and doesn't come into play for the most part until you are at least 15 for me anyway. But slowly you lose more and more until you become a vegetable. The last thing you forget…is how to breathe. And you die. End of story. I wish to use the jewel to cure my descendants and myself should I have any. I don't want this mistake of my ancestor to plague my family anymore."
Kagome's eyes widened and she stood up, sitting behind Miroku. He may be a pervert and wandering hands but he had good intentions for his friends and for his wish. And to see the normally jovial man looking so forlorn made Kagome's heart break.
She rested her head on his shoulder and hugged him reassuringly.
" I'm sorry."
Miroku sighed and nodded patting her shoulder before standing and giving her a knowing grin.
"For shame Kagome-sama. Embracing me from behind."
"For shame Miroku-sama," She replied, happy that she had made him feel better, " to be thinking such inappropriate thoughts of a miko."
Miroku smiled and nodded before making his way out the door.
She sighed and retrieved the manga back from its hiding place, placing the reality of her world behind her and delving back in someone else's.
" Now where was I…" Kagome murmured, flipping through the pages once more.
Sango sighed and entered her room, flopping on the bed and rolling over, staring at the ceiling. She sighed; this was a fine paycheck she received to be sure. Archaeologists aren't normally paid as much as her. But seeing as how successful Sesshomaru was on other various branches of commerce he dabbled in, it made perfect sense. But it still didn't pay for all her brother's medical bills. Ever since seeing his entire neighborhood slaughtered by a few drunken red necks with machine guns during an overseas trip in America for a demon, he never was the same. In truth he went mad.
And Sango wanted to use the jewel to fix her brother, make him regain his sanity and become the boy she remembered. The sweet tempered gentle boy with the kind brown eyes and the easygoing smile. All she wished is for her brother to be well. That was her hearts desire.
Speaking of hearts desire…she could use a manga fix about then, along with a big helping of strawberry pocky. Rolling over and off of the bed, she crawled over to her bookcase, filled with her various manga.
" Heeey." One of her manga's was gone! Her magenta eyes narrowed as she dashed out the door, slamming it behind her.
" KAGOME-CHAAAAAAAAAN!"
Kagome blinked as she heard her name being yelled by an incredibly angry ex taijya. Gulping, she shoved the book back under the sofa covers and ran for the hills.
Sango was hot on the trail behind her when a chain reaction occurred.
The doorbell rang.
Sesshomaru appeared right in front of Kagome.
Kagome screamed and veered out of the way.
Slamming right into a shirtless Inuyasha.
Sango spotted Sesshomaru before Kagome and veered to the left.
Tripping over a napping Kirara and falling face first in front of Miroku's bedroom door.
Just as Miroku decided to walk out.
And all hell broke loose.
" Sango! Have you finally accepted my offer and are begging for me?" The pervert asked, his eyes twinkling as she stood up. Her very eyes flaming with anger as she gave a warrior cry.
Kirara transformed and slid underneath her mistress as they both ran after a hysterical Miroku. Slamming right through the door and into the front lawn.
Kagome's eyes widened as she looked down. Her face turned beet red and the flush ran all the way to her neck and up to her hairline. She was straddling Inuyasha.
A very wet and shirtless Inuyasha.
Inuyasha blushed in return and she screamed.
"AIEEEEEE!" Blushing she slapped him and ran off following the angry taijya and scared shitless pervert.
" KAGOMEEEEEEE!" Inuyasha growled, running after the embarrassed miko into the backyard.
Sesshomaru merely surveyed the chaos with a raised brow and pinched his nose as if to ward off a headache. When he heard a bright female voice.
" SESSHOMARU-SAMA! I'M HOME!" His eyes widened as she screeched to a stop, her wide brown eyes taking in the sight before her and she bit her lip to keep from laughing when she stood in front of her guardian.
" Sesshomaru-sama…how about you explain all this over some tea ne?" The young girl offered quietly, taking his hand and leading him inside to the kitchen.
' Saved by Rin' Sesshomaru thought, thanking the heavens for someone sane to finally enter his home. She bustled around before setting a cup of steaming hot green tea in front of him.
" No sugar right Oto-chan?" She asked, smiling softly at his half smile as he nodded wearily.
" Enjoying boarding school?"
"No. It sucks. But the social part is fun. I'm spending Spring break here. It's only for a few months."
Sesshomaru nodded.
" And I promise not to call you Oto-chan with them around." She teased as she finished her tea and stood behind him. Massaging his shoulders he sighed and let his eyes close.
" Rin…are you sure you're human?"
" Smell me and tell me yourself."
Sesshomaru chuckled.
" You are. But you are the only human I know who can massage this Sesshomaru."
" I'm the only human you allow to massage you." The 15-year-old commented dryly.
Sesshomaru nodded as he cracked an eye open. Watching a giant bone boomerang whiz by the kitchen window and an irate Sango follow after.
Rin sighed happily; " It's good to be home." She chuckled as her surrogate father grumbled something in audible.
Yup everything was exactly as she remembered.
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