Warnings: Rated R for language and adult situations.
Disclaimer: I don't Inu-Yasha (like anyone really cares anyway)
Only They Know: Secrets and Revelations
By Gabreilla Moushigo (aka Aeki Muffinhands)
"And where the hell were you?" Inu-Yasha greeted as Kagome and Miroku walked up to the group just outside of town.
"Nice to see you too." Kagome grumbled. "We were at the inn… where were you?"
"Outside… camping." Sango said quickly, turning away.
"Ummm… ok." Kagome nodded. 'What was that all about?'
"Let's just get going… Naraku isn't just going to kill himself you know?" Inu-Yasha lead the way, Sango following close behind.
Miroku and Kagome sneaked a glace at each other, wondering what's the matter. They decided to take it as a lucky break and follow the two.
"Wait for us!" Kago-chan came rushing up, little Shippo clutched into her arms. He jumped at Kagome. Kago-chan gave a look that clearly said that she was stunned, but smiled anyway. Her husband walked past, calm face ever in place as he followed Inu-Yasha blindly… just like old times. Kago-chan paused for a moment, then followed after them… giving the little fox and his mother a little time together.
"Did you forget me Kagome?" Shippo asked very sadly. Kagome
"No! Of course not!" Kagome soothed, hugging him tightly. She felt so horrible… she was so worried over Miroku dying that she hadn't thought of the little boy at all. 'I'm terrible!' She thought silently, holding him just a little closer to her bosom. The little boy sighed in contentment.
Miroku rolled his eyes at the little kit… wondering how old he really was… 'I'm terrible!' He thought, 'I can't believe I was jealous of a little kid… and I'm supposed to be taking care of him.' "How have you been Shippo?"
"I've been fine Miroku." He leapt out of Kagome's arms and perched on his shoulder lightly. "I really missed you." He hugged around his neck, little droplets falling on his clothes.
"What's the matter?" He pat the little boy's back.
"W-well… no body has been paying a-attention to me… and I don't want to make Kago-chan sad… every time she looks at me she looks upset… like she wants to cry… a-and Kagome… she hasn't gotten me any candy in the past month and…" He hiccupped. "I-I thought she didn't want me anymore!"
"Is that why you've been so quiet?" Miroku asked, and the little boy nodded.
"Of course I still want you!" Kagome rushed him, squeezing the little boy between their bodies as the held him close. "We both want you."
"We're sorry that we haven't been paying attention to you little Shippo… it's just that we've been a little busy… and strange things have been happening." Miroku gave the little boy a comforting smile. "We promise we'll never make you feel left out again… ok?"
Shippo sniffled. "Ok!" He rubbed his little cheek to wipe at the tears. "Why are you guys hugging?" He blurted.
"Because we love each other… and we love you." Miroku said easily.
"Miroku!" Kagome chided. "It was supposed to be a secret!"
"Kagome," Miroku admonished. "How could we keep this from our son?" Shippo's eyes went wide with delight. "Won't you keep our secret for a little while Shippo?"
The little boy nodded eagerly, hanging onto both adults like a lifeline. He knew it was kind of corny… and they were talking funny… but in all honesty, this was probably the happiest he had been since the death of his parents. He couldn't believe that Miroku of all people was going to be his father… but he liked him a lot. He was always way nicer to him that Inu-Yasha was! He could get used to having a wise and hilarious dad… and a doting and beautiful mom. For them… he could keep any secret. "I swear not to tell!"
Sango and Inu-Yasha kept leveling looks at each other before they looked the other way quickly.
"Last night never happened." She said finally.
"I was about to say the same thing." Inu-Yasha agreed.
The both nodded in agreement, but why did they look so sad all of the sudden?
Inu-Yasha grumbled, thinking about what had happened… he couldn't believe that he did that… not in a million years!
They were throwing rocks into the river. "What do you suppose they are up to?" Sango asked.
"How the hell should I know?" He tossed a rock and it skipped twice. "It's not like I'm their keeper."
"You know what their doing." Sango said.
"Obviously."
"I guess we should've seen it coming a million miles away." Sango tossed a rock and it skipped three times.
"Hell… I saw it the moment the stupid Monk made his way into our little group… he's been stealing Kagome away from me ever since."
"It's just been more painfully obvious since Miro-sama and Kago-chan eh?"
"I think they just sped of the process… I think they would've ended up together anyway."
"Really?" Sango asked, amazed that Inu-Yasha was that observant. Especially since she totally missed all of this until just recently.
"I'm not an idiot you know?" He threw another rock and this one skipped an impressive four times.
"I never thought you were." She said. 'But I did.'
"Yeah." He agreed, then looked at her. She had such a soft expression on her face… it wasn't that disgusting pity that he thought Kagome always leveled on him… but… something else… something that said… 'I know how you feel… because I am there too.' Maybe it was pity…. well… sympathy? They were different right? Pity was where you would feel bad for something… sympathy was when you knew how someone felt… were they the same or different? He didn't know.
She reared back and sent a stone sailing across the water… skip… skip… skip… skip… skip. "Beat that." She challenged smugly.
"Don't make me put you to shame!" Inu-Yasha countered.
"I doubt that! You're just a weakling!" She stuck her tongue out at him and laughed.
Inu-Yasha stopped short… realizing that he had never heard her laugh before… not like this anyway. "You have a pretty voice." He said before he could stop himself.
"Um, thank you." Sango nodded her approval at him. She wasn't quite sure how to react to his compliment… but when everything else fails… she guessed that saying thank you couldn't hurt. She let a smile shine through and it touched her eyes.
Inu-Yasha was speechless. 'Did I just make her laugh… and smile like that?' Her hair… those expressions… they oddly reminded him of a time when he was young. Sango reminded him of her… how kind she was… how strong and silent at times. But Sango was different too… not exactly the same… Sango was so much more powerful than other women that he met… and quite frankly… he found that a huge turn on. But they were not meant to be… or so he thought.
"So what do you think we should do?"
"About what?" She asked.
"Them."
She shrugged, her happy expression dwindling at their mention. "I don't think we need to do anything… they are happy right?"
"I guess."
"Then let's let them be… the stupid Monk probably doesn't have that much longer anyway… he should be able to enjoy his time."
"Is that really fair to Kagome?" Inu-Yasha asked, expressing concern for her that he would never show the girl in question. He grinned, clenching a polished stone within his hand.
"That's for her to decide," Sango eyed him curiously. "She is a big girl and she can decide for herself."
"Your right I guess." He agreed begrudgingly, rearing back to throw his stone.
"I guess they got sick of waiting on us?"
He accidentally let his rock go and a weird angle, it just sank to the bottom. She eyed a quick look at his face and he looked defeated. "Yeah," He almost smiled at that. "I kinda feel bad about all the things I said… I guess… maybe I could've done things a little differently." He tried to find another suitable stone, and when he found none he just looked back at her. "At least I learned something anyway… don't take anything for granted… other wise it might be gone before you know it… y'know?" He grinned when she held out a rock him to throw and he took it from her, tossing it as far as he could… skip… skip… skip… skip… skip… and then he stared… skip. "I beat you!" He yelped childishly.
"Oh… so you did." Sango's eyes went wide in amazement.
"What's my prize?"
She gave him a quizzical stare. "Prize?"
"Kagome talked about it once… when you humans win at game you get a prize… so fork it over!" He held out his hand expectantly, obviously this human was holding out on him. If Kagome said that humans won prizes… well… he was going to get one too damnit! Just because he was a half demon didn't mean anything.
"I've never heard of that… well… not for this sort of thing that is… if you want to get a prize you might want to-"
"Oh forget it… the whole lot of you humans – Mffh?"
She kissed him… she was kissing him! His brain nearly shorted out for a moment as he realized what was happening. This was the first time he could remember being kissed by warm lips… as opposed to Kikyo's very cold ones. This was… pleasant… and suddenly he realized that he was kissing her back. They stayed like that for a few minutes before it was too much and he was holding her closely, tilting her head back and deepening their kiss.
Her eyes shot open when she realized he was groping her. 'I can't believe this… first Lord Monk and now… oh… wait a moment.' She began shivering, this was totally wrong… this was… wonderful. Whenever that stupid monk groped her backside she always felt a little revolution… but this… this was nice… relaxing. 'He is so warm.' She snuggled into him and he groaned.
Then… he realized, and pushed her albeit gently away from him. "S-Sango… I'm sorry… I don't know what came over me." He apologized. She just stared at him in stunned silence. 'Oh God… she hates me… now she is going to think I'm some pervert like the-'
"Don't be sorry." She flushed.
"But I-"
"I don't mind." Her blush deepened. "Do you think you could kiss me again?"
"Sango… you don't know what your saying… your all emotional right now… is it one of those women things? I'm sorry." He repeated.
"One of those women things?" She leveled a glare at him.
"Ugh?" Was he in trouble?
"I'll have you know that it wasn't one of those… "Woman things" as you put it… I was enjoying myself for once." She almost cried. "And damn it all… why can't I get something I want for once?! Huh?!" She poked him hard and it actually hurt him. "I've been groped for the past year or so and no one asked my permission… and now when I actually ask for something its 'A woman thing… or I'm emotional'!" She shrieked, making him flinch. "Well guess what?! I'm not emotional and I'm totally rational!" She stopped for a second, staring at him oddly. "Just for that I'm touching your ears!"
"Wait Sango!" Inu-Yasha screamed as she pinned him down effectively with her legs.
"No way… I never got to do it! And I want to… and it's the least you could do for putting me through so much emotional stress!" She began tweaking his ears. "Oh! They are little kitty ears!" She began to rub the soft fur.
"Sango!" He protested weakly. "I'm not a cat!"
"Puuuurrrr… sweet kitty ears!" She teased, tweak, tweak.
"Are you possessed or something?!" Then he said more calmly, "You never acted like this before."
"Maybe because I didn't feel comfortable acting like this before… you all are a bunch of depressed lunatics… do you think I want to show a strange side of me so you can ridicule me?"
"We wouldn't have ridiculed you Sango." Inu-Yasha was quiet. "Could you stop that… it's affecting me."
"How do you mean?"
He lifted his hips up until it met her backside and he blushed. "Like that."
"Oh!" Sango jumped off of him like he burned. "Well… I… sorry."
"It's ok… I've never told anyone… so you couldn't have known." He got up.
She fidgeted a little, poking her index fingers together. "Well… are you?"
"What?" He asked impatiently, his body humming with need.
"Going to kiss me?"
"Sango!" He almost whined. "I can't… your going to kill me."
"No I won't."
"Sango… look… I've never done this before." He blushed. "If you don't quit teasing me I might not be able to stop.
She was on him quickly. "Maybe I don't want you to stop." Her lips twined with his.
Yeah… Sango/Inu-Yasha… I never actually thought I would like the pairing until I just wrote that… and now that I think about it… they might not be so bad to read about. (Hmmm) I couldn't just leave those two hanging anyway… they've had such crappy lives… they need someone to comfort them a little.
Just to let you guys know, I am working on the story. I've just been working on parts that I couldn't post yet. But I do have some good news - the ending is officially… finished. I did all my tweaking that I think I needed… and I have a definite road I want to take while getting there. Sorry if I have said this before - I can't remember if mentioned it or not.
I'm working on other M/K projects as well – so this is not the end. I've got about three other stories that I want to write – and I've sent in a story to the Monk and Miko Yahoo group called "Obon with my Priestess". I'm not sure when/if they are putting it up – but I'll put them on my favorite author's list so you guys can check them out. If it doesn't go up on about a month or so I'll be posting it here on my page for you to read.
If you really love the M/K pairing I strongly suggest you join the Monk and Miko and Lustful Intent yahoo groups. They are lots of fun to read through and there are some fun pics too. I actually posted quite a few myself – even one with Miroku and Kagome holding his babies.
Speaking of pics… I'm starting on a M/K series of Kama Sutra poses… lol… sorry… I couldn't help but add that little bit. I might start an account with deviant art, media miner or elf town or whatever you call them. I'll be sure to post the link as my homepage when I'm finished – I promise. Oh yes... and I will have some other pics for those who are offended by such material. D