Why am I posting this now? I have no idea, but I'm doing it! I'm at school in the library and need something else to do. So, I'm posting this. It's short, again, but that's two posts in two days so who's going to complain? Plus we're finally out on the road! Now, onward and outward!
Disclaimer-I've been forgetting this. I don't own Inuyasha or any of the other characters. I only own myself and my friends all belong to themselves.
"What are they doing back there?" Inuyasha wondered aloud quietly as he looked back at the new additions to the Jewel Shard Hunting group. They had all left early that morning so as to get some good mileage on their first day. The new girls were walking together and talking about something, but Kagome had 'Sat' him when he had tried to listen in during lunch, so he kept his ears tuned to the people around himself.
"You're being awfully quiet Miroku." Sango commented as she looked over at the monk.
"Yes, I have been thinking."
"About what?" Shippo asked as he jumped onto the purple clad shoulder.
"How to ask those beautiful young women who have joined us if one of them would like to---"
"Don't you dare finish that sentence." Sango said as she hit the perverted monk on the back of the head. As the sun started to set, the group reached a fork in the road. Inuyasha called back to the girls, "Which one of you has the map?"
There was some debate, ("I thought you had it." "No, I gave it to her." "You lie!" "Then who has it?" "Not me." "Don't look at me either." "Found it!") before Becky held up the map triumphantly.
"We need to go..." She looked over the map. "Where are we?"
"Well we started here right?" Kilana pointed to the town Kaede had pointed out as where they had stayed last night. "So if we went this way..." She traced a line that went away from Kaede's town. "We should be about here." Her finger stopped where the line branched in two.
Becky looked over the map for a moment longer before she pointed down the left path. "That way!" Happily the girls passed Inuyasha, Kagome, Sango, Miroku, and Shippo, all who either looked confused or had a sweat drop, and started down the indicated path.
Kagome quickly followed before the girls could get too far ahead.
(Abandon the search for truth! Settle for a good fantasy.)
"So what town does this lead to?" Claire asked looking over at Becky who still held the map out.
"Natsuko." Becky tried to pronounce the Japanese name properly and did quite well.
"Cool." They were all silent for a minute. "What were we talking about?"
"You forget?" Sarah asked. Claire nodded and Sarah let out a sigh of relief. "Good, I thought I was the only one."
"Sarah!" Clara mock scolded.
"What?" Everyone laughed. They hadn't really been talking about anything important, just whatever they could think of really. They continued on with another random topic until it started to get dark.
"We're going to stop for the night!" Kagome called up to the girls. They quickly walked back to join everyone else.
"Sango and I are going to find some firewood, why don't you guys set out the beds?" Kagome and Sango walked into a small forest nearby as the three guys and eight girls set up bedrolls for the night. They were done not long after the two women had left.
Miroku left Inuyasha and Shippo after they started to play Rock-Paper-Scissors; Inuyasha was determined to win and after a few losses it was better to be a couple feet away.
"Hello ladies." He said politely as he approached his next victims. (You can't really call them unsuspected since most of them knew what he was going to do.) He knelt down in front of Clara, who was closest to him. "Will you do me the honor of bearing my child?"
Whack! "Pervert!"
Unfortunately, even one of Clara's powerful slaps couldn't hinder Miroku too much. All those slaps from Sango must have made him immune or something. Moving over to Kilana, he opened his mouth but didn't get a chance to say anything.
"No." Kilana said in such a final tone that it almost seemed like if Miroku said anything at all, he would be hurt.
Slowly he made his way around the circle the girls had formed. Everyone gave him the same answer-"No." and generally a slap for good measure. However, when he got half way around things changed.
"Will you bear my child?" Miroku asked his face red from hand marks.
"Sure."
"You will?" He was unsure if he had heard correctly.
"Yep." Kanji smiled. She had liked Miroku when she had read the manga book, so this was sort of a happy thing for her. "I was wondering when you'd come and ask us."
"Are you serious?" Yuki asked, shocked.
"I'd like to, but maybe not now." Kanji looked at Miroku with a big smile. "Come see me in about a year or two and I'll sleep with you."
Miroku smiled and his brain whirled. Before he could straighten his thoughts out and respond to Kanji, he saw a shadow come over him.
"What are you doing?" turning around he saw Sango's eyes full of fire. She didn't give him time to answer and told him firmly. "The boys' side of the fire is over there. Go. Stay there."
While Miroku had been talking to Ashley, Kagome and Sango had returned and built a fire, which explained the shadow at night.
"I'm sorry. He didn't grope any of you or anything did he?" Sango apologized.
"It's ok." Sarah said. "It was fun watching him get slapped around."
Sango looked over her shoulder and noticed the hand marks on Miroku's cheeks for the first time. "That won't stop him, but it should help."
"I think we can handle it if he comes back." Clara said.
"Yeah, and if he does we can beat him to a bloody pulp right?" Erin asked hopefully.
"No!" Kanji objected.
Sango was confused but decided not to question the girl's reasonings. Leaving Erin and Kanji to argue over wither Miroku should become hamburger meat if he tried to do anything to them again or not, Sango went back to the fire side to talk with the rest of the original group.
"You never learn do you, Miroku?" Shippo sighed. Miroku said nothing and smiled to himself.
There. It took me five chapters but we're finally out on our journey! Wee!
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