Chapter 6: What's a 'Miroku'?
Author: Sesshomaru's Goddess
Email: yelloweyes_blackwolf@yahoo.com
Rating: PG/PG-13
Genre: Action/Adventure, Humor
Author's Notes: Wanted to try something new. Here's the next chapter for the long wait.
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'Wow' was all he could think of as they reached the village. It sure was small. The villagers were bustling around trying to get their work done. They only glanced up once before going back to work, muttering something about the demon being with 'Kikyo's reincarnation'. They didn't even seem to notice the blazing red contrasting with his pale cheek. The swelling had yet to go down and he felt shameful, but the villagers paid no mind…that is, except for one.
"Oh no! Another Miroku!" she complained under her breath. 'What's a 'Miroku'?' he turned to Kagome almost as if expecting her to answer his unasked question but she just kept walking. His eye twitched.
It was currently around mid noon. He was irked about how hard it had been to get the stubborn girl up from where she lay upon the ground that morning. He thought it had been worse then being stuck in a cave.
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"Hey, Kagome?" Kage stood over her watching as she rolled over and continued to mutter.
"…Elevator…roaches…tacos..and.burritos…gum!" he looked curiously at her when he heard the last one. Sure, he had never heard of 'roaches' or 'elevators' but 'gum'? What kind of object was that?! Who would name such a thing… 'gum'?!
'…Ridiculous…' he sighed and leaned further to poke her shoulder, "Kagome? Kagome it's time to-*WHACK*!" Kage jumped back, startled. He unconsciously raised a hand to sooth the red mark on his check. Kagome just rolled over still talking about how much she wanted gum.
'She…' his eyebrow twitched, 'she just hit me…' and sure enough, she had.
'…Okay! Note to self…don't poke Kagome while she's sleeping' he filed away the important information in a 'Kagome' folder before getting back to work. He walked back over to Kagome to awake her again when he thought better of it.
'I'm not getting hit again' and with that he walked off. Kagome continued to snore peacefully not aware of what was going on around her.
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A bird sat upon one of the tallest trees in Inuyasha's Forest (besides the Goshinboku). It pulled small sticks and dirt off of its coat of feathers. A squirrel ran by on a branch slightly above it, its bushy tail waving around. A rustle of leaves was heard. Soon after, the bird flew off chirping and the squirrel jumped off its branch to land on another on a different tree. Then, the tree fell down. Moments later, a figure could be seen carrying a twig off of that very tree that the bird had sat and the squirrel had occupied. All he took…was a twig.
His eyebrow twitched as he watched the guy leave with a twig smaller than the ones that occupied the forest floor. He was going to tell the guy what he had done wrong when he thought about exactly why he was out here in the first place. With a plan he strolled along after the currently slinking man.
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His plan was sure to work! He had set everything up perfectly. He had had only one error…the tree. He cut down a tree when he realized that there was the perfect twig on the ground next to his foot. He continued to slink towards where he left Kagome.
When he arrived, he found her face first into the ground. This was going to be easier than he had thought! He smiled widely.
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He slide up behind a tree and watched the man grin madly.
'Psycho' he thought before watching the man set up a weird 'contraption'. It was sure to fail.
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His plan was ingenious! He hid behind a tree to watch at a safe distance and out of her reaching capability. He pulled the string and watched it all play into action.
The string pulled the twig that he had found earlier which was connected to another string on a tree branch causing it to tip a bucket while it moved up. The bucket tipped pouring out sap from a near by tree. The results were exactly as he predicted.
She shot up punching in the air where he would have been had he poured that bucket on her himself. She screeched before screaming his name and also death threats, which he ignored as he calmly, appeared before her.
"Why did you do that?!" she yelled as she looked at the sap seeping through her fingers giving her hands the look of webbed hands.
"I couldn't wake you any other way, Kagome" Kage replied calmly pointing at the mark on his cheek. Kagome looked like she was about to apologize when she thought better because of his little stunt. Out of the corner of his vision he saw movement and a man stepped out of the tree line.
"Kagome?" He called cautiously causing Kagome to turn and Kage to growl.
"We have been looking every where for you, Kagome-sama!" Miroku exclaimed as he ran towards her.
"How did you get out here?" Kagome asked him.
"Oh, yes" he turned to Kage, "You really shouldn't cut down trees if all you wanted was a twig."
"Huh?" Kage asked dumb founded but Miroku continued, "but I really must thank you! You just made my job easier!" seeing Kagome and the other's odd looks he further explained himself, "Lady Sango sent me for wood. She told me that I had better bring a tree back with me at the least. Now, please come help me carry it back."
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Kagome had had a long bath to get all of the sap out and Kage didn't like the way that that priest kept trying to sneak over. He was suppose to be holy for crying out loud!!!! He kept asking Kage why he was stopping him. Later, Kage found out why.
Kagome entered the biggest hut in the village so he followed after her causing several turned heads and an argument. A hanyou immediately demanded that he be removed and Kagome came to his aid even though he didn't need help to fight his own battles.
"Sit!" Kagome yelled, getting fed up with arguing. Then she plopped down on the floor and motioned for him to do the same. He did so in awe, fearing that if he angered her she would send him to the floor with a single word.
"This is Sango and Kilala" she pointed at a girl and a neko demon on her knee.
"This is Kage" she said to Sango and the others who weren't glued to the floor.
"Shippo and Inuyasha" she first pointed at Shippo who was drawing a picture and only glanced up to give him a toothful grin. Then, she looked flatly at the hanyou implanted into the floor.
"And this is…Miroku" she answered in a fierce voice when he got to close to her rear.
"Why, dear Kagome-sama! I had no intentions of doing anything…unholy. I merely wanted to remove the…*ahem* the grass from your skirt." He recovered skillfully…right~. Kage stared at him in horror as the woman's words from earlier came back to him.
"I'm not a Miroku!" Kage exclaimed suddenly.
A couple of huts down he heard a snort and a "yeah right" from the residence. It was the lady from earlier!
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Okay, I think that should make up for the long wait and short updates. Now, on to my other fics! *sigh*
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