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Sorry about the long update wait, but I was really busy this week (recital, tests, etc.)
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Fred the Mutant Pickle: Rofl, you need to lay off the sugar man. :D And enjoy the upcoming combat scenes featuring Naraku with: Elemental powers!!!!
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"M-Miroku?"
The reddened swamp continued bubble and boil as the young monk stood grinning before the shocked (and mud covered) group.
The first to react was Shippo, who sprang into the slightly surprised but pleased monk's arms. "Miroku!" His voice was somewhat muffled due to the fact that his face was buried in Miroku's chest. "I missed you so much!" With eyes brimming with tears, Shippo looked up briefly, then continued to squeeze Miroku.
Next was Kagome.
"Miroku! Oh Kami, you're alright!" Almost tackling the slightly dazed monk (Shippo's bear hug was beginning to asphyxiate him), she gave him a girlish grin of delight and began giggling and squeezing at the same time.
Then came Inuyasha.
Swiftly yanking the over-excited Kagome off of the perverted monk before he could take advantage of the situation, he gave Miroku a glare, a smack upside the head, and then quickly switched into a toothy grin.
He clapped a hand on his friend's shoulder while saying, "Heh, nice to see you up and about bouzo."
"The same to you, my friend."
And finally, Sango.
Sango stared with wide, shocked eyes at the man who she thought was dead. It couldn't be him, could it? But if it were an illusion, why weren't Kagome and the others affected?
The monk calmly smiled at his beloved and muttered, "Sango-" Unfortunately, his words were instantly cut off by a sobbing girl who smashed into him and began squeezing the life out of him.
"Miroku! Oh gods, y-you're alive! I knew it! I just knew it!" Then came the rain of blows. "You baka! How could you leave me alone like that! #Smack# Baka houshi!" Words began to fail her as her joy over took her thoughts. Smiling again, he stroked her hair and whispered, "What? You think an inter-dimensional portal and dozens of youkai out for my head would kill me?" Her face soaked with tears, she looked up from Miroku's chest and moaned, "Oh Miroku...when you didn't come back to our camp that night, I thought I lost you forever..."
She buried her face into his chest again. "This time, I'm not loosing you again." The happy couple slowly sank to the ground and simply held each other, sobbing with joy.
"Heh, looks like my son finally got his own woman to grope anytime!" Caught Completely off guard, Sango and Miroku both reddened and bolted up from the ground. Sango thought, 'This is Miroku's father?' Snorting, she continued to herself, 'He looks every bit the lech Miroku is, down to that glint in his eye-'
#Grope.#
"HENTAI!!" but when she pulled her hiraikotsu up to deliver a skull- crushing smackdown, Miroku had already pulled up his father by the collar and held him up into the air, his eyes stormy.
"You touch my Sango like that again, father, and I'll be forced to hurt you badly." He jerked his face up close to his father's. "Got it?" He casually tossed his comically trembling dad to Sango. "Do what you wish with him."
Miroshin looked up at Sango from the muddy ground, terror etched across his face.
"Sweet girl, you wouldn't hurt me that badly...would you?"
Grinning an evil grin that matched the Chesire Cat's, Sango picked up her boomerang once again. "Don't worry, it won't hurt...too much."
The remaining bystanders sweatdropped and sighed at the carnage that soon commenced.
"No! No!! Please, mercy!" #Twhack# #Crunch# "OW! Not the face! Oh please, not the fa-" #Smash#
'Pff, weakling'
-Later, at the hideout-"So let me get this straight: I couldn't use Tetsusaiga's powers because they're not my own?"
The half-demon's face contorted into that of confusion at the 40 minute lecture on elemental powers and how they work.
"That would be correct. Tetsusaiga merely converts your own elemental energy into that of Wind energy. The same goes for Miroku's ofuda and Kagome-sama's purifying arrows, except that their weapons convert their elemental powers into that of light."
After scratching his head in silence, Inuyasha "Keh,"d and replied, "Pff, this elemental stuff is crap. I mean, come on! An entire new plane of existence plopped down in who knows where? Elemental powers?! Youkai everywhere?! I don't know whether you guys have finally cracked or something, but I'm not staying in here and let Naraku run off." He stormed out grumbling words too tasteless to mention.
Too bad he didn't notice the trail of flame his feet produced.
Kagome opened her eyes wide in shock and shakily pointed her finger at Inuyasha's feet.
"Umm, Inuyasha?"
"What wench?"
"Y-y-your f-f-fee-"
"Come on, hurry up. I haven't got all day."
"F-f-feet-"
"My feet?! You interrupt me to comment about my feet? And what are all you idiots staring at- OH WHAT IN ALL THE SEVEN HELLS?!?!?!" He quickly scrambled back inside the hideout and clung like a frightened puppy, staring at the ground wit ha horrified look on his face.
"D-did I do that? What the hell's going on?"
Laughing heartily, Mirosuke slapped his thigh and and let out, "Looks like our little puppy friend is a fire elementalist!"
With wonder on her face, Kagome decided to see what she could do to get the now spreading fire out...
Which resulted in her summoning a huge globe of water out of nowhere and drenching the floor, the walls, and a certain hanyou. Sputtering, Inuyasha yelled at Kagome, "What was that for?! And how the hell did you do that?!" In annoyance, he threw a tiny flicker of flame at the young priestess, causing her to yelp in fright and summon a thin wall of water to consume the offending fire.
"Very impressive Kagome-sama!" Cried Miroshin. "You summoned a Wall of Water without the use of incantations!" Blushing in modesty, Kagome simply giggled.
A thought came to the silent taijya's head. 'Hmm, if Houshi-sama's Wind, Kagome's Water, and Inuyasha's Fire, then am I...'
With curiosity written all over her face, Sango flickered her hand at Miroku, who stared back perplexed.
His look of confusion was soon replaced with a blank one when a pillar or rock rose out of the ground just behind and brained him in the cerebellum. He swayed slightly, then fell face forward like a cut tree onto the ground.
"Houshi-sama!" cried Sango. Turing him over quickly, she was a bit relieved (but mostly exasperated) when Miroku had swirly eyes and had an extremely goofy expression on his face. 'Maybe I should "experiment" like this more often,' she sighed to herself.
Miroshin stood up with an impressed look on his face. "Well, now that everyone knows their corresponding element, the time has come for you to develop your skills. Each of you should go by yourselves into through the land to train, but be wary of patrolling demons: they are much stronger, faster and tougher than the youkai you are used to. If you ever get cornered, read off of this scroll." He tossed the five of them a scroll each. "This is a scroll of Teleport. Read off of it if you ever need to escape. Now I would have recommended you to stick together and train nearby, but I'm afraid that you may hurt yourselves. Now go!"
Everyone packed up their belongings and headed out the door, but not before Shippo complained, "Aww, it's not fair! I don't get an elemental power just because I'm a full-youkai!"
"Yeah, you'll always stay a little runt."
"Shaddap!" The little fox jumped up into the air and whapped Inuyasha downwards, sending the now highly surprised hanyou into the earth.
Everyone stared.
"Shippo, how..?"
"Oh hey, I forgot! Youkai like me are much stronger now!" He stuck a tongue out at the fallen dog-demon, who growled dangerously from the floor, flames emanating from his eyes.
Fortunately Kagome quickly dumped another globe of water on Inuyasha, soaking him once more.
"Wench, STOP THAT!!"
Everyone laughed and fled from Inuyasha, who had the wet-puppy look with his hair matted down and drooping face.
"Sigh Youngsters..."
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