I don't own Inuyasha or anything in this fic.
Inuyasha sat in the Goshinboku, waiting for Kagome to return from school. 'What is taking her so long? We're going to buy Ramen today. Stupid human probably forgot. I bet she's talking to her friend and has forgotten all about me.' Inuyasha's face scrunched up as he donned his infamous "disgruntled puppy" expression.
Just then, he heard a sound coming from the well house and tilted his head towards the disturbance. The dog hanyou used his canine senses and sniffed the air, searching for a strange scent to accompany the noise. . . and he wasn't disappointed.
"Demon?" A sense of foreboding washed over Inuyasha as he jumped down and walked toward the well house. Reaching out to open the door, he jumped back in surprise when it flew open and a monkey demon stood in the doorway. The two creatures momentarily stared at each other in shock before Inuyasha recovered his senses and swiped at the monkey demon, only to miss it as it jumped out of harm's way.
"Oh no you don't…Sankontessou!" Inuyasha swiped at the monkey again, this time cutting his side open. The demon yelped in pain and ran to the house. 'Kagome's family!' Inuyasha frantically jumped in front of the demon, putting himself between Kagome's home and it. "Die here or return to the well" he said, flashing his claws and fangs.
The demon yelped at him, turned and ran toward the well. In its haste, it actually tore off the shrine door and bounded into the well. Inuyasha quickly jumped in after it, intending to blow off some steam by killing the lesser foe, but instead arrived just in time to see Sango throw her boomerang at the monkey demon and kill it.
"Monk, explain. NOW!!!" Inuyasha yelled, glaring at the small guilty group. They quickly told Inuyasha everything that had happened and what they had done. "Where did the lizard demon go?"
"That way." Miroku pointed left. "Are you going to follow it?"
"Baka! If that lizard tells even one creature about the well, Kagome and her family will be in danger. If you told anyone what you guys were up to then tell them that it didn't work, ok? I won't have Kagome or her family in danger. And don't tell anyone about this, even Kagome."
Inuyasha then set out in search of his prey. Hopefully, he could kill the demon and return to Kagome's time to clean up the mess it had made before Kagome returned home from school.
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The first thing Inuyasha heard when he returned to Kagome's time was, "SIT." He looked up to see a very angry Kagome. 'Dammit, I thought I would be back sooner. It was too much to hope for. Better think of something quick.'
"I'm waiting Inuyasha." Kagome stamped her foot and glared at him.
"I fell off the roof."
"You're lying to me. Grandpa saw you chasing a monkey-like creature and he had a bad feeling. Now, what really happened?" Inuyasha remained silent. 'Should I tell her?…'
"SIT! SIT! SIT!!"
Inuyasha sat up once the spell wore off. "Bitch! Stop it already, I'll tell you." Inuyasha explained to her what everyone had been up to and what had happened as best he understood it. "I told the others to lie and say it didn't work. The last thing we want is people coming through the well. Others might find out about the tree….Souta or your grandfather are the type to slip through the well to see what it is like there…Hell, your mother might even try to go through. What if a demon found them before they reached the village?! It's just not safe for anyone to know about it."
"You're right." Kagome stared at Inuyasha. She knew he was smart. He hides it and often acts without thinking things through, but Inuyasha isn't dumb. Then something occurred to her and she had to ask, "Have you thought about this before?"
He hesitated a moment, then nodded and briskly walked toward the house, effectively ending the conversation. 'I don't want her to know that I always worry about her and the others. Then she'll know that I think of her a lot. Baka, I always worry about her. I caused one woman's death. I won't let anything bad happen to Kagome.'
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"Inuyasha was so mad. Is he going to kick our asses…er, ass-i?" Pagan asked.
"I don't understand why he would be mad." Angel got defensive, thinking that they were in trouble. Her tail began swishing around erratically and hitting her sister. "I mean, wouldn't you be happy? Everyone can go back and forth now, no more separations. Ugh, I don't know what that big overgrown puppy's problem is!"
"IF everyone is able to go through the well then that means that demons are also able to go through. This puts Kagome in danger. Inuyasha is very protective of her." Miroku said sagely, although more than a little distracted by the delectable sight of Sango leaning over to pick up Kirara. He was, as always, unable to resist temptation and reached a twitching hand out to squeeze her tantalizing posterior.
"Hentai!" Sango smacked the sometimes tactless monk for the umpteenth time, then huffed and sat down between the sisters. 'You'd think he would congratulate me on killing the monkey demon, or at least commend my battle skills. But no, he would rather grope my ass then talk to me. Always touching me, always watching me, always acting like he cares…until some girl comes along. Then it's so long, Sango!'
Both sisters were shocked. "He does that all the time." Shippo told them in a mature voice.
"He never did that to me." Angel stopped to wonder why. 'Is something wrong with my butt? Why doesn't he want to touch me? Lots of guys want to. …'
"What does hentai mean?" Pagan asked.
"It means pervert. You know, what old man Mick was." Angel decided to get even with Miroku for ignoring her butt. "The headman at the circus found a way to cure him. Yep, after that he sure wasn't a hentai anymore."
Miroku looked shocked while Sango looked pleased. "How?" she asked, her voice hopeful and eager. 'If Miroku weren't chasing after women all the time then…maybe…I could trust him.'
"The headman castrated him." Angel noticed Shippo's confusion. "We cut off Mick's balls. That is what we do to hentais in our time. Pagan, do you have a knife on you?"
Miroku looked positively apoplectic. He stared swirly-eyed at the two circus demons only for a split second before he jumped up and sprinted out of the hut, his footsteps taking him as far away as they could and not nearly fast enough for his taste. Shippo was unnerved, to say the least. "Are you really going to cut off his…?"
"No, Shippo. We just wanted to teach him a lesson." All three girls shared a look and then started to laugh. Soon Shippo's laughter joined theirs.
Sango laughed until tears ran down her face. She laid down and stared at the ceiling, trying to catch her breath. She was torn - part of her was happy since the look on Miroku's face and the way he hadn't been able to get out of that hut fast enough was something she would never forget. 'Serves that monk right.' But another other part of her was let down. 'If only there was a way to stop Miroku from being…Miroku.'
"What's wrong?" Pagan inquired. "Shippo went to find Miroku and tease him some more, so you can talk about it. We won't tell anyone. Are you mad at us for being mean to Miroku?"
"No, it's nothing. I should find Kirara, it's getting late." Sango quickly left the sisters' hut.
"Something is making her unhappy. Kagome too. I don't know what, but I can feel it. I bet you it's the boys. Boys can be huge assholes sometimes. We should help our sisters out, we're older and know more about these things then they do. And don't argue with me because you know that I will just nag you until you agree."
Angel threw a pillow at her sister's head. "Actually I was thinking the same thing, you baka. But we need to find out more information before we do anything, so let's wait until Kagome returns."