Authoress: okay...this, I must say...is cool...yesterday, I put up chappie eight...like, late at
night...^___^...and I got reviews in a few minutes...PEOPLE ARE SOOO NICE!!!!!
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Sesshomaru: *eye twitches* grrrr
Inuyasha: *stares at Sesshomaru* grrrrrr
Sesshomaru: GRRRRRRRR
Inuyasha: GRRRRRRRRRRRR
Sesshomaru: RAWR!!!!
Inuyasha: *lowers ears* fine...
Sesshomaru: *momentarily grins proudly*
Miroku: Oo...
Authoress: *raises eyebrow* Aight...well...anyways...on to the story...
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha...this is the ninth time...this story...aight?
Chapter Nine
"Inuyasha...what is it?" Kagome asked, glancing over at the white haired youkai. Inuyasha sniffed
the air again, and this time was sure of it. "What is it, Inuyasha?"
"Sesshomaru..." 'What is he doing around here? We're in the Southern Lands...' Inuyasha asked
himself, smelling his brother's distinct scent, now stronger than before. 'He was
heading...towards Miroku's place...grrr...what does he want with that houshi now? If he hurts
him again...I'll kill him, no matter what Kagome or Miroku say...'
"Sesshomaru? Do you think he's at Miroku's?" Kagome asked, a hint of worry in her voice.
'Shippou's still at Miroku's...and if Sesshomaru was in a bad mood...Miroku couldn't beat him...'
"Feh...most likely..." 'Why is it his scent...it's different...filled with...' Inuyasha thought for a
moment, trying to think of a name for the emotion that was mixed with Sesshomaru's scent.
'Fear...'
Miroku opened one eye and took a deep breath when he saw the inu-youkai sleeping on top of
him. 'He...he's so beautiful...' Miroku thought, unconsciously running his fingers though
Sesshomaru's silky hair. 'What...what happened to him?' Miroku asked inwardly, placing his left
hand on the youkai's forehead, instantly relieved when he felt that his fever was gone.
'He...he was...purring before...' Miroku thought, smiling slightly as he stared at the youkai's face.
"Miroku?" Shippou's voice wrenched the houshi out of his daydreaming. Miroku looked up and
saw that both the kitsune and the small ningen were sitting on the side of the futon, snickering.
"Nani?" Miroku replied quietly, trying not to wake Sesshomaru as he turned his body slightly so
he could look at the two children.
"Is Sesshomaru-sama okay?" Rin asked, inching closer to the houshi and her 'father.'
"I think so...why don't you two go outside and play for a while?" Miroku suggested, slowly
sitting up and shifting Sesshomaru into his arms. The youkai grumbled softly, nuzzling his cheek
against Miroku's chest, which made the two children giggle.
"Okay..." Shippou replied, standing up and pulling the human girl outside of the hut. Miroku
watched them leave, and once they were no longer in view, he sighed heavily.
"Sesshomaru?" Miroku said quietly, shaking the youkai gently.
"N...nani?" Sesshomaru asked, yawning slightly, as he opened his eyes. He inwardly growled
when he saw the houshi. 'Why is it he has to annoy me so...'
"Are you alright?" Miroku questioned, concern in his voice. "You didn't look too good last
night..."
"Fine..." Sesshomaru replied, sitting up. 'I...I transformed too quickly...my energy didn't have
enough time to settle...that must be the reason why I felt nauseous...' Sesshomaru thought to
himself, pushing the doubtful thoughts from his mind.
"Are you sure?" Miroku asked, watching Sesshomaru stand up. 'How could I have ever thought
that such a...beautiful creature could fall in love with me?' Miroku asked inwardly, sighing
quietly.
"Hai."
'If he's hurt Miroku or Shippou...I'll kill him...' Inuyasha promised inwardly, clenching his fists as
he raced towards the houshi's home, Kagome clinging to his back.
"Inuyasha...slow down...I'm sure Sesshomaru wouldn't have done anything to Miroku or
Shippou..." Kagome said loudly, but her husband ignored her, the only change he made was to
run faster. 'He's really worried about them...how sweet...' Kagome thought to herself, smiling.
"Why are you so worried, Inuyasha?"
"Huh?" Inuyasha slowed down slightly and turned his head to look at the miko. "They're
friends...shouldn't I be worried about them?" He sighed, his eye twitching, when he saw the
amused expression on Kagome's face. "Nani?"
"You're so cute sometimes..." Kagome replied, kissing the youkai's cheek. Inuyasha blushed
furiously as he began running again.
"Do you think that Sesshomaru-sama and Miroku will get back together?" Rin asked Shippou as
she picked another blue flower, adding it to her growing pile.
"I don't know...Miroku still likes him...but I'm not sure about Sesshomaru..." Shippou replied
truthfully, throwing a rock into the nearby brook and watching it land in the water with a
satisfying splash.
"Sesshomaru-sama doesn't admit it...but he's missed Miroku..." Rin stated, handing the bouquet
of flowers to the kitsune, smiling.
"He...missed Miroku?" Shippou repeated questioningly. 'I thought Sesshomaru didn't like
Miroku at all...' the small kitsune thought to himself.
"Hai...Sesshomaru-sama hasn't been feeling well lately either...I think it is because he's been so
lonely without Miroku..." Rin said, sitting down on the bank next to Shippou.
"Miroku's been really quietly for a while...and he doesn't grab anyone anymore...I don't know if
that's a good or bad thing, though..." Shippou replied.
"We should do something to get them back together..." Rin thought outloud, grinning at the
kitsune. Shippou nodded his head eagerly, thinking along the same lines. "What should we do?"
Shippou, smiling deviously, whispered into Rin's ear, telling her of his perfect, fool-proof, plan to
get the houshi and the youkai lord together (A/N: bad, conniving children...^___^).
"Kagome?" Koga stared at the miko as she and the mutt flew by, raising an eyebrow. 'What are
they doing here?' the wolf youkai thought to himself.
"Koga!" Kagome, 'sitting' Inuyasha, ran over to the youkai who, once, had a crush on her.
"What are you doing here?"
"I was about to ask you the same question..." Koga replied, smiling. "I was just checking on a
tribe in this area...they were telling me that there was a fight between two youkai last night..."
"Oh?" Kagome said questioningly. 'A fight...could one of them been Sesshomaru?' Kagome
asked inwardly, shaking her head. 'No...who would he have been fighting?' "We were coming to
visit Miroku...he lives around here..."
'That houshi lives in this area? There aren't any villages around here for almost a day's travel...so
why would he live this far away from women?' Koga asked inwardly, glancing at Kagome. The
look in the miko's eyes and understood immediately why the houshi lived so far from civilization.
'A broken heart...wonder who he fell for...'
"Do you know who was in the fight?" Inuyasha asked, sitting up from the crater in the ground.
'Think that she wouldn't sit me...I'm her husband...grrr....'
"A neko and an inu-youkai are the only things I know..."
'An...inu-youkai...then, that might be why Sesshomaru is around here...but why would he pick a
fight so far from his lands?' Kagome asked inwardly. She glanced over at her husband and could
tell that he was thinking the same thing.
'If Sesshomaru was in a fight...then at least he's not near Miroku...' Inuyasha thought, sighing in
relief inwardly. He sat back down, glad that he didn't have to worry about his friend.
"Are you sure this is going to work?" Rin asked curiously, peeking around the corner of the hut.
"They're still inside..."
"I hope it does...I don't know what else we could do..." Shippou replied quietly, sneaking
towards the door of Miroku's home. He leaned his back against the wood when he heard voices,
that were getting louder.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Miroku's voice asked, closely followed by a growl and a mumble
that sounded like a negative response.
"Shippou...Sesshomaru-sama won't like this..." Rin whispered, hiding behind the hut as the two
men walked out of the door. Shippou winked as he raced out from the side of the house and,
obviously, surprising the houshi and youkai, grabbed Sesshomaru's sword and raced off in
another, random, direction.
"Shippou!!" Miroku sighed, watching the kitsune flit off. 'What is he up to? And where is Rin?'
the houshi asked himself as he surveyed the area, not finding the ningen girl anywhere.
Rin, seeing her chance, walked up to Miroku and Sesshomaru, the most innocent of expressions
on her face.
"Rin...what are you two up to?" Sesshomaru asked the child, trying his hardest to sound angry,
but he couldn't when he saw the girl's face.
"Rin's doing nothing, Otosan..." Rin replied, making the houshi and the youkai raise an eyebrow.
'Otosan?' Miroku thought, now sure that the two children were planning something. "Rin..." he
said warningly. "Where is Shippou?"
"Rin doesn't know, Papa..."
'Okay...they really are trying to do something...' Miroku thought inwardly, trying to figure out
what Rin and Shippou were going to do to him and Sesshomaru.
"Hey Sesshomaru!!!" Sesshomaru and the two ningens looked in the direction of Shippou's voice.
The youkai sighed inwardly, seeing the kitsune waving his Tensuiga in the air, then racing back
into the forest.
"Gomen...Sesshomaru...he's never acted like this before..." Miroku said quietly. 'What does
Shippou think he's going to accomplish by stealing Sesshomaru's sword?'
"You'll have to catch him, Otosan...Shippou's going to throw it into the waterfall if you don't get
it back..." Rin stated cooly, running into the forest.
'They're conspiring...those demonic little brats...' Miroku cursed inwardly, watching Sesshomaru
follow the small ningen into the forest. He sighed, walking behind the inu-youkai, as he wondered
what they thought getting rid of Sesshomaru's sword would do.
Authoress: UBER SILKY!!!!! *laughs insanely*
Sesshomaru: *eye twitching, leaves room*
Authoress: NANI!?
Sesshomaru: (from other side of house) I don't know you!
Authoress: just cuz' you're jealous of the uber silkiness of my boxers means nothing! *grins*
Miroku: they ARE very silky...I'd be jealous if I was Fluffy...*stares as shiny black (with silver
dragons ^____^) boxers*
Sesshomaru: *comes back into room and glares* I am NOT jealous...AND MY NAME ISN'T
FLUFFY!!!!!
Authoress: okay, Furry...
Sesshomaru: *eye twitches furiously* damn you...
Authoress: ooo...damn me...I'd love to spend the rest of eternity in hell with you, my demon...
Miroku: MINE!!! *grabs Sesshomaru and pets possessively* my precious
Sesshomaru: -_____-;;;;;;;
Shippou: *grins* ^______^
Authoress: and you, you thieving, conniving lil' fox! What were you thinking, stealing Sesshy's
sword! *sniffle* a man's not a man without his sword...
Miroku, Shippou, Sesshomaru: O.O;;;;;;
Authoress: WHAT?!
Miroku: um...yeah...okay...
Authoress: fine...then...I'll update, if I get (as if you couldn't guess) five reviews...and I'll
(hopefully) make the next chappie longer...with less of my rants...unless people like to read these
wonderful pieces of insanity...O___o....kay....well, until then, SAYONARA!!!!!
night...^___^...and I got reviews in a few minutes...PEOPLE ARE SOOO NICE!!!!!
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Sesshomaru: *eye twitches* grrrr
Inuyasha: *stares at Sesshomaru* grrrrrr
Sesshomaru: GRRRRRRRR
Inuyasha: GRRRRRRRRRRRR
Sesshomaru: RAWR!!!!
Inuyasha: *lowers ears* fine...
Sesshomaru: *momentarily grins proudly*
Miroku: Oo...
Authoress: *raises eyebrow* Aight...well...anyways...on to the story...
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha...this is the ninth time...this story...aight?
Chapter Nine
"Inuyasha...what is it?" Kagome asked, glancing over at the white haired youkai. Inuyasha sniffed
the air again, and this time was sure of it. "What is it, Inuyasha?"
"Sesshomaru..." 'What is he doing around here? We're in the Southern Lands...' Inuyasha asked
himself, smelling his brother's distinct scent, now stronger than before. 'He was
heading...towards Miroku's place...grrr...what does he want with that houshi now? If he hurts
him again...I'll kill him, no matter what Kagome or Miroku say...'
"Sesshomaru? Do you think he's at Miroku's?" Kagome asked, a hint of worry in her voice.
'Shippou's still at Miroku's...and if Sesshomaru was in a bad mood...Miroku couldn't beat him...'
"Feh...most likely..." 'Why is it his scent...it's different...filled with...' Inuyasha thought for a
moment, trying to think of a name for the emotion that was mixed with Sesshomaru's scent.
'Fear...'
Miroku opened one eye and took a deep breath when he saw the inu-youkai sleeping on top of
him. 'He...he's so beautiful...' Miroku thought, unconsciously running his fingers though
Sesshomaru's silky hair. 'What...what happened to him?' Miroku asked inwardly, placing his left
hand on the youkai's forehead, instantly relieved when he felt that his fever was gone.
'He...he was...purring before...' Miroku thought, smiling slightly as he stared at the youkai's face.
"Miroku?" Shippou's voice wrenched the houshi out of his daydreaming. Miroku looked up and
saw that both the kitsune and the small ningen were sitting on the side of the futon, snickering.
"Nani?" Miroku replied quietly, trying not to wake Sesshomaru as he turned his body slightly so
he could look at the two children.
"Is Sesshomaru-sama okay?" Rin asked, inching closer to the houshi and her 'father.'
"I think so...why don't you two go outside and play for a while?" Miroku suggested, slowly
sitting up and shifting Sesshomaru into his arms. The youkai grumbled softly, nuzzling his cheek
against Miroku's chest, which made the two children giggle.
"Okay..." Shippou replied, standing up and pulling the human girl outside of the hut. Miroku
watched them leave, and once they were no longer in view, he sighed heavily.
"Sesshomaru?" Miroku said quietly, shaking the youkai gently.
"N...nani?" Sesshomaru asked, yawning slightly, as he opened his eyes. He inwardly growled
when he saw the houshi. 'Why is it he has to annoy me so...'
"Are you alright?" Miroku questioned, concern in his voice. "You didn't look too good last
night..."
"Fine..." Sesshomaru replied, sitting up. 'I...I transformed too quickly...my energy didn't have
enough time to settle...that must be the reason why I felt nauseous...' Sesshomaru thought to
himself, pushing the doubtful thoughts from his mind.
"Are you sure?" Miroku asked, watching Sesshomaru stand up. 'How could I have ever thought
that such a...beautiful creature could fall in love with me?' Miroku asked inwardly, sighing
quietly.
"Hai."
'If he's hurt Miroku or Shippou...I'll kill him...' Inuyasha promised inwardly, clenching his fists as
he raced towards the houshi's home, Kagome clinging to his back.
"Inuyasha...slow down...I'm sure Sesshomaru wouldn't have done anything to Miroku or
Shippou..." Kagome said loudly, but her husband ignored her, the only change he made was to
run faster. 'He's really worried about them...how sweet...' Kagome thought to herself, smiling.
"Why are you so worried, Inuyasha?"
"Huh?" Inuyasha slowed down slightly and turned his head to look at the miko. "They're
friends...shouldn't I be worried about them?" He sighed, his eye twitching, when he saw the
amused expression on Kagome's face. "Nani?"
"You're so cute sometimes..." Kagome replied, kissing the youkai's cheek. Inuyasha blushed
furiously as he began running again.
"Do you think that Sesshomaru-sama and Miroku will get back together?" Rin asked Shippou as
she picked another blue flower, adding it to her growing pile.
"I don't know...Miroku still likes him...but I'm not sure about Sesshomaru..." Shippou replied
truthfully, throwing a rock into the nearby brook and watching it land in the water with a
satisfying splash.
"Sesshomaru-sama doesn't admit it...but he's missed Miroku..." Rin stated, handing the bouquet
of flowers to the kitsune, smiling.
"He...missed Miroku?" Shippou repeated questioningly. 'I thought Sesshomaru didn't like
Miroku at all...' the small kitsune thought to himself.
"Hai...Sesshomaru-sama hasn't been feeling well lately either...I think it is because he's been so
lonely without Miroku..." Rin said, sitting down on the bank next to Shippou.
"Miroku's been really quietly for a while...and he doesn't grab anyone anymore...I don't know if
that's a good or bad thing, though..." Shippou replied.
"We should do something to get them back together..." Rin thought outloud, grinning at the
kitsune. Shippou nodded his head eagerly, thinking along the same lines. "What should we do?"
Shippou, smiling deviously, whispered into Rin's ear, telling her of his perfect, fool-proof, plan to
get the houshi and the youkai lord together (A/N: bad, conniving children...^___^).
"Kagome?" Koga stared at the miko as she and the mutt flew by, raising an eyebrow. 'What are
they doing here?' the wolf youkai thought to himself.
"Koga!" Kagome, 'sitting' Inuyasha, ran over to the youkai who, once, had a crush on her.
"What are you doing here?"
"I was about to ask you the same question..." Koga replied, smiling. "I was just checking on a
tribe in this area...they were telling me that there was a fight between two youkai last night..."
"Oh?" Kagome said questioningly. 'A fight...could one of them been Sesshomaru?' Kagome
asked inwardly, shaking her head. 'No...who would he have been fighting?' "We were coming to
visit Miroku...he lives around here..."
'That houshi lives in this area? There aren't any villages around here for almost a day's travel...so
why would he live this far away from women?' Koga asked inwardly, glancing at Kagome. The
look in the miko's eyes and understood immediately why the houshi lived so far from civilization.
'A broken heart...wonder who he fell for...'
"Do you know who was in the fight?" Inuyasha asked, sitting up from the crater in the ground.
'Think that she wouldn't sit me...I'm her husband...grrr....'
"A neko and an inu-youkai are the only things I know..."
'An...inu-youkai...then, that might be why Sesshomaru is around here...but why would he pick a
fight so far from his lands?' Kagome asked inwardly. She glanced over at her husband and could
tell that he was thinking the same thing.
'If Sesshomaru was in a fight...then at least he's not near Miroku...' Inuyasha thought, sighing in
relief inwardly. He sat back down, glad that he didn't have to worry about his friend.
"Are you sure this is going to work?" Rin asked curiously, peeking around the corner of the hut.
"They're still inside..."
"I hope it does...I don't know what else we could do..." Shippou replied quietly, sneaking
towards the door of Miroku's home. He leaned his back against the wood when he heard voices,
that were getting louder.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Miroku's voice asked, closely followed by a growl and a mumble
that sounded like a negative response.
"Shippou...Sesshomaru-sama won't like this..." Rin whispered, hiding behind the hut as the two
men walked out of the door. Shippou winked as he raced out from the side of the house and,
obviously, surprising the houshi and youkai, grabbed Sesshomaru's sword and raced off in
another, random, direction.
"Shippou!!" Miroku sighed, watching the kitsune flit off. 'What is he up to? And where is Rin?'
the houshi asked himself as he surveyed the area, not finding the ningen girl anywhere.
Rin, seeing her chance, walked up to Miroku and Sesshomaru, the most innocent of expressions
on her face.
"Rin...what are you two up to?" Sesshomaru asked the child, trying his hardest to sound angry,
but he couldn't when he saw the girl's face.
"Rin's doing nothing, Otosan..." Rin replied, making the houshi and the youkai raise an eyebrow.
'Otosan?' Miroku thought, now sure that the two children were planning something. "Rin..." he
said warningly. "Where is Shippou?"
"Rin doesn't know, Papa..."
'Okay...they really are trying to do something...' Miroku thought inwardly, trying to figure out
what Rin and Shippou were going to do to him and Sesshomaru.
"Hey Sesshomaru!!!" Sesshomaru and the two ningens looked in the direction of Shippou's voice.
The youkai sighed inwardly, seeing the kitsune waving his Tensuiga in the air, then racing back
into the forest.
"Gomen...Sesshomaru...he's never acted like this before..." Miroku said quietly. 'What does
Shippou think he's going to accomplish by stealing Sesshomaru's sword?'
"You'll have to catch him, Otosan...Shippou's going to throw it into the waterfall if you don't get
it back..." Rin stated cooly, running into the forest.
'They're conspiring...those demonic little brats...' Miroku cursed inwardly, watching Sesshomaru
follow the small ningen into the forest. He sighed, walking behind the inu-youkai, as he wondered
what they thought getting rid of Sesshomaru's sword would do.
Authoress: UBER SILKY!!!!! *laughs insanely*
Sesshomaru: *eye twitching, leaves room*
Authoress: NANI!?
Sesshomaru: (from other side of house) I don't know you!
Authoress: just cuz' you're jealous of the uber silkiness of my boxers means nothing! *grins*
Miroku: they ARE very silky...I'd be jealous if I was Fluffy...*stares as shiny black (with silver
dragons ^____^) boxers*
Sesshomaru: *comes back into room and glares* I am NOT jealous...AND MY NAME ISN'T
FLUFFY!!!!!
Authoress: okay, Furry...
Sesshomaru: *eye twitches furiously* damn you...
Authoress: ooo...damn me...I'd love to spend the rest of eternity in hell with you, my demon...
Miroku: MINE!!! *grabs Sesshomaru and pets possessively* my precious
Sesshomaru: -_____-;;;;;;;
Shippou: *grins* ^______^
Authoress: and you, you thieving, conniving lil' fox! What were you thinking, stealing Sesshy's
sword! *sniffle* a man's not a man without his sword...
Miroku, Shippou, Sesshomaru: O.O;;;;;;
Authoress: WHAT?!
Miroku: um...yeah...okay...
Authoress: fine...then...I'll update, if I get (as if you couldn't guess) five reviews...and I'll
(hopefully) make the next chappie longer...with less of my rants...unless people like to read these
wonderful pieces of insanity...O___o....kay....well, until then, SAYONARA!!!!!