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The Princess And The Pup Ch. 12
Traveling With The Enemy
"I'm not sure I heard you right." The awakened Sango started. "Are you suggesting we travel with the half-demon?"
Miroku nodded as the demon-slayer talked. The absurdity of the idea disgusted Sango.
"Why, again, would we travel with him in the first place?" Sango inquired, obviously not accepting the offer with open arms…not like they expected her to do that.
"Common enemy, my dear Sango." The monk explained, Sango nearly knocked him out for referring to her like that but she failed for her well-being if left with the half-demon.
"Oh? And who would this 'common enemy' be?" The demon-slayer still tried to sway the argument in her favor of not trekking with the so called 'Inuyasha.'
"A demon named Naraku, who has wronged both mine and Inuyasha's family." Miroku saw her expression that showed him that she was still not going to travel with the half-demon by choice. He then added. "Naraku is a powerful demon that the world would benefit from if he was slain. Imagine what could happen if people knew the demon-slayers can still do their work to perfection."
The monk saw something spark in Sango's eyes at the mention of such a challenge. By making this a matter of pride, Miroku may have just convinced the demon-slayer.
"Fine, we'll travel with the half-demon until we exterminate this Naraku." Sango was beginning to sound more and more like the stoic woman he had been talking to in the forest. "But, I still don't trust the half-demon."
"His name is Inuyasha."
"I refuse to refer to that perversion by name." Sango snapped viciously.
"Hey, I can here you!" A shout came from the outside of the stone home. A certain half-demon was obviously eavesdropping and displeased with hearing her insult him.
"What she say?" Kagome asked curiously. The princess sat next to Inuyasha, who had come back down from the tree.
"Good news: she agreed to come with us. Bad news: she's a bitch." Inuyasha answer honestly but sound much like a joke to the princess, who laughed. The half-demon raised an eyebrow, confused, but kept his comments to himself.
A was quiet again coming between Inuyasha and Kagome as they waited for Sango and Miroku to come out. Birds in the woods sang their morning songs to the newly raised sun.
"Tell me, do you hate demon-slayers or just her because she tried to kill you?" Kagome asked more as a conversation starter than her wanting to know.
Inuyasha's ears twitched upon his head. "I'm not particular fond of those who kill people just because their blood."
"True, but do you think Sango does it because she was raised that way or she just hates demons."
"Everyone hates demons; it's a fact of life." Inuyasha stated bitterly, crossing his arms.
"I don't hate demons, but I haven't known any demons beside you…then again you're only half-demon." Kagome replied truthfully.
"Do you have problem with that, wench!" Inuyasha barked immediately at the end of her remark.
The princess appeared unfazed by his sudden outburst. "You know, you really need to relax."
Relax, huh? You want me to relax when there's a woman who tried to kill me lying down in my house. Screw that. The half-demon thought to himself. Now that I think about, I could he really think to anyone beside himself?
"I'm done waiting." Inuyasha announced while he got to his feet. Kagome watched as he walked inside his home and quickly followed short behind.
Sango and Miroku stopped talking as soon as they saw the two come in.
"Ready to go?" Inuyasha inquired, trademark arrogance in his tone.
The monk and demon-slayer exchanged apprehensive looks before nodding cautiously.
"Then we're leaving." Inuyasha glanced at Sango then asked Miroku. "Can she walk?"
"Not yet."
Inuyasha made a complaining grunt and remained silent for a moment.
"Great more problems." Inuyasha mumbled and squatted next to Sango. She looked at him with a mix of confusion, revulsion, and resentment.
"What are you doing?" The demon-slayer questioned.
Inuyasha didn't answer but simply, and much to everyone's surprise, picked up Sango bridal style in his arms.
The demon-slayer flushed. "What the hell are you doing!"
"We all are leaving now." Was all Inuyasha offered and they followed him out the door, but not without a few shouts and insults from a very pissed Sango.
"Would you mind informing me while you requested my presence today, Roba?" A cold voice asked from the dark side of the room.
The king shifted uneasily in the unfamiliar chair that he sat in from a mixture of the man's icy voice and that the throne was the most comfortable chair.
"Well, something that might interest you has come to my attention." Roba began, still moving.
A pair of amber eyes appeared in the dark side of the room. The king stopped stirring instantly and stayed still as the eyes were focused on him.
"What do you think could possibly interest me? Are you forgetting who I am, Roba?" Said the piercing voice.
The king now fumbled with his words now that he felt he was being put on the spot.
"I h-h-have come to the kn-n-nowledge that the one you have been s-s-searching for has been l-l-located…"
This caught the amber-eyed man's attention.
"Where is he?"
The king caught the anticipation in his tone and knew he now had the advantage in the conversation.
"Then again, what might I gain by telling you?" Roba shrugged, cockily.
The man groaned at the annoyance that the king was.
"If you tell me then I won't kill you and place you head on a spike outside your own castle, Roba." The threat caused the king to start shifting again.
"Of course, I would ask of nothing more in return." Roba defended.
"Continuing."
"Right, right…anyway…I have reason to believe that Inuyasha is currently on the run with a demon-slayer and my daughter as captives…"
"Wait, with a demon-slayer and the princess?" Repeated and interrupted the man
Roba nodded quickly and multiple times. "That's right. To the point, I think he's in the forest right now. He couldn't have gotten far."
The man was quiet as he mulled over the information.
"If I go into the forest than Inuyasha had best be there…"
"Understood."
Roba was unnerved by the man's silence and when he further inspected the dark side of the room he discovered that the amber-eyed man had left…
The group of Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, and the now asleep Sango guided their way through the trees; the solitary noise was the sound of the demon-slayer breathing. Inuyasha gave Sango an annoyed look and was tempted to wake her but that would only succeed in making him hear more of her bitching about having to be carried by a half-demon.
"Damn, I hate the forest and, once again, am forced to trek through it." The monk complained loudly even if it was supposed to be a thought to himself.
"How can you hate the forest? It's so beautiful!" Kagome disagreed. "If you were cooped up in a stone castle all your life, you wouldn't be so pessimistic about having to come into the woods."
Miroku nodded, agreeing, then retorted. "But, if you were training to be a monk and had to spend all your time in a bug-infested forest, you would be begging to go into a stone castle."
"God, shut up!" Inuyasha barked. The bellow was more than enough needed to awaken the demon-slayer in his arms.
Sango opened her eyes groggily but they hastily widened when they woke only to see Inuyasha's face.
"What's your problem!" Sango scolded, her tone equaling Inuyasha's.
You and the damn monk are…Inuyasha thought bitterly. How was he going to keep his sanity when traveling with those two and a princess?
I'm sorry it's so short but I'm sorry to say that this chapter is more of a plot evolver. Next chapter up as quick as I can. Real quick, I would like to thank Keyo-Red Angel of Hope for his review of Chapter Three. If it wasn't for that review I would have never thought of putting Miroku and Sango in the story and TPATP would probably already be finished and half as long. Everyone who has read up to this point should thank Keyo-Red Angel of Hope, especially me! THANK YOU!
I had this finished on the 23rd but Rita caused the power to go out right after I was done. Yay, I survived the hurricane!
Grand total of eleven pages!
Give yourself a pat on the back, readers. TPATP finally has more reviews than any other stories of mine! Another milestone was reached with the last chapter as I finally have more than 100,000 words archived (100,247.)
Finished September 24, 2005 but I have no cable connection so I cannot update! Sorry that I couldn't get this up quicker!