Chapter 14

Miroku pushed through the brush, fighting his way to the hoard of demons coming down from the sky. 'I must get there in time! InuYasha won't survive in his human form! Sango and Kagome can't kill all of them by themselves either!'

He finally broke through to find himself face to face with a bloody battlefield. InuYasha was distracting the demons so Kagome and Sango could kill them. Kagome shot one of her arrows and the demon it hit disintegrated.

He was horrified to see that all three of them had major wounds that needed to be treated. Unfortunately for them, there was no sight of the end of the demons. Miroku made a split second decision and ran onto the battlefield.

"Get behind me! Quickly!" he yelled as he hit a demon on the head with his staff. Kagome grabbed Sango and InuYasha and dragged them behind Miroku. They were both unwilling to trust Miroku.

"He won't help us! He probably is setting us up in a trap!" InuYasha yelled. Miroku turned around.

"I know you don't trust me but stay behind me anyway. I can't control it once I let it go!" He turned to face the demons once more and Kagura saw him.

She smiled evilly. "So, Miroku. Decided to show up? Well, are you going to follow Naraku's order's?"

Sango gasped. "Naraku?" She looked at Miroku.

Miroku had a grimace on his face. "No, I will not follow his orders! I have done his evil for too long!" He grabbed the prayer beads on his right arm and his left hand turned white at the knuckles because of his squeezing.

Sango saw the fleeting glimpse of fear dart across Kaugra's face before she turned her giant feather and fled. 'I wonder why she ran away? All Miroku did was grab some prayer beads.'

Miroku braced himself and pulled off the beads. "Wind Tunnel!" he yelled. The black vacuum of his wind tunnel blew open and started sucking in all of the demons.

Sango, Kagome, and InuYasha stood in shock as they watched the powerful vacuum suck in hundreds of demons.

Once the sky was cleared of demons, Miroku wrapped the prayer beads around his hand and sunk down on his knees. 'That took more energy than I thought. Naraku must have sent more demons so he could wear me out.'

Before he had time to recover his breath, InuYasha grabbed him by his shirt and lifted him off the ground. Even in his human form, InuYasha was strong and no human could overcome him.

"Where did you learn that trick? Did Naraku give it to you as a present so you could earn back our trust?" InuYasha glared at Miroku.

Kagome went over and put her hand on the hanyou's arm. "Calm down. Let him go and give him a chance to explain himself!"

InuYasha snorted, but let Miroku go. He sat down and crossed his arms. "Well, let's hear your story."

Miroku sighed. He waited until Kagome and Sango sat down, his gaze lingering on Sango, before beginning his story.

"It all began when I was about six. My guardian at the time saw an ad for a summer camp for the 'Unusual Kids in Your Family.' Of course, they couldn't wait to get rid of me for the summer so they signed me up.

"I got on a train, and then a bus and then a car came to pick me up. I was about two hundred miles from the city and I was scared stiff. I almost told the driver of the car to take me back home when the castle came into sight.

"I was in awe of the castle. It was the biggest thing I had ever seen and had a cool purple shield around it. As a curious six-year-old, I was too excited to explore to remember that I wanted to go home."

FLASHBACK

"Wow! This is a big place mister!" a small child of six said to a large man driving the black BMW.

"What is your name? Mines Miroku! Will you play with me?" Miroku asked in his squeaky voice.

The driver grunted, then smiled. "I'm Shippo. I might be able to play with you later if the boss says I can."

Miroku jumped up and down, clapping. "Yea!"

The BMW stopped and Shippo and Miroku got out. A woman stepped out of the shadows, waving a big fan around.

END FLASHBACK

"That is when I met Kagura. She brought me in to begin my training. I was training to become one of Naraku's assassins. I had two months of continuous training before I actually met Naraku himself.

"He told me that I was not to tell anyone about what I did in the castle. Told me that it was a big secret. I told him that I always kept secrets well."

FLASHBACK

"Do you understand that no one can know about this camp?" Naraku asked Miroku.

Miroku nodded. "I am good at keeping secrets! Can I come back next summer?"

Naraku smiled a smile that chilled Miroku to the bone. "Of course you can, little Miroku."

Naraku looked in his drawer for a moment before pulling out a string of prayer beads. "Just to make sure that you will keep the secret . . ."

Naraku said an incantation and a hole opened in Miroku's hand. Miroku screamed out in pain before Naraku covered the hole with a piece of cloth and wrapped the prayer beads around it.

Miroku whimpered and clutched his hand to his chest. Naraku leaned down to face Miroku. "Do not, under any circumstances, remove the prayer beads. If you keep the secret, I will remove the Wind Tunnel. Agreed?"

END FLASHBACK

"And so, Naraku cursed me with the Wind Tunnel to keep my mouth shut. Little did I know that Naraku didn't plan on removing it at all. I wanted to quit the camp after that, but my guardians saw it as a way to get rid of me for the summer so they made me go back year after year.

"It was the summer when I turned eleven when Naraku brought in the family for entertainment. It was a family of a mother, a father, a little boy, and a older girl."

Miroku paused in his story to look up at Sango with sad eyes. She shook her head, fearing his next words. "It was my first kill, and it was your family, Sango."

A/N: I am again sorry for not updating. I am so bad! I get into reading a story, then I have nothing else to do so I start another one. After I get into it, I realize that I need to work on my story! I am such an idiot! Anywho, I wrote this chapter before Chapter 13, so that is why the dialect is different. I know I already mention this but oh well! Happy reading!

Special Shout-out and A Big Cyber Cookie to Nessa03 who has reviewed for every single chapter! Thank you, I look forward to your reviews!