Inu-Yasha
Disclaimer: No chance in Hell. I'm borrowing em' for a little bit. I promise I'll give them back Takahashi!
Author's Note: In just one hour, I get two reviews. I guess people plenty of people were looking through the Mir/Kag pairing fics. Long live it.
Session 2: Role play and Ramen(In which there is always a lesson to be learned)
Angered, the hanyou clenched his fist. His nails dug into his palm as he bled them. Before him were the slain bodies of sloth. Killing them just wasn't as satisfying as he thought; he really wanted to do the same to Miroku instead. Shippou ended up next to him dragging the Tetsusaiga with slightly blistered fingers. Closing his eyes, the hanyou let out a grunt as he quickly snatched his sword away. "You should have known by know that full demons, weak demons such as yourself cannot wield the Tetsusaiga without being injured."
Shippou played around with his thumbs, "Well, aren't you going to teach me?"
"Why the fuck should I?"
"'Cause Miroku said so,"
"Screw the monk, I'm not teaching you squat,"
InuYasha ignored him pathetically, he walked away, but Shippou intended to follow. "Pweese?" He said in a childish tone.
"You know what curiosity did to the cat?"
Shippou thought for a moment, he held his finger in the air for an answer, "Didn't curiosity kill the cat?"
"Exactly, would you like to role play? Here's an idea, you be the cat, and I'll be… well, a dog."
"But you already are a dog."
"Shit, but you are obviously not getting my point, the dog will kill the cat, and it's the same damn case with me to you!"
Shippou was silent.
InuYasha looked down at him.
Hmph!
A claw swept across the air, literally slicing the wind. InuYasha was easily tossed aside, and his well-built body bounced upon a stray tree. The leaves upon it fell gently to the ground in such a violent shake. Cataclysmic when his body had hit the ground as many branches fell atop of him. Shippou jumped back, he was so frightened. Yet another sloth youkai showed himself. It was clear that he was a daddy, and very clear, that he wanted to avenge his kind for what InuYasha had done to them. The damn sloth was standing on it's hind legs for Buddha's sake!
Hope seemed kindled when the hanyou picked himself up. His kimono was ripped as you can see the giant claw marks across his chest. A demonic laugh came from him as blood trickled from his lower lip to his chin. "Alright Shippou, lets begin our lesson."
"N---Now?" Shippou questioned, quite unsure of himself.
"Why the hell not? You wanted me to teach you!" InuYasha brought out his claws and reformed in a fighting position.
Did that sloth hit him too hard?
The two clashed, the sloth's fingers were placed in between InuYasha's as an original test of strength. A satanic smile had made way upon the hanyou's face. "Lesson number one: Chose a mate that you would spend the rest of your life with, make sure she doesn't take any shit from you, and make sure YOU don't take shit from her. At this point, you two begin a bond." InuYasha began to slide away from his position as the sloth gained advantage.
Outclassed, InuYasha retreated and did a flip towards the tree he was battered into, "Lesson number two: If you really love the bitch, protect her, make sure no harm, physical or emotional comes to her, just one damn mistake and you're screwed. Trust me; I've had that happen many times."
Shippou gulped and nodded.
The hanyou leaped into the air holding his hand in motion for an Iron Reaver, "LESSON NUMBER THREE!--,"
With the vicious swipe of InuYasha, the sloth's face was almost ripped off his skull. "I know this sounds strange coming from me, but don't fuck her right away, that'll prove that love is non-existing between you. Face it, if that happens, just call her and yourself a hoe."
The sloth quickly retaliated when he began using mindless fury swipes upon InuYasha thus stripping him of his red kimono top, the only clothing left was small tatters of white lining on his waistline. Vicious wounds could be seen upon his chest, including one claw mark from the upper to the lower spine. Nonetheless, it didn't faze the blood lusted hanyou. "And for fuck's sake Shippou, for lesson number four: Do not have another lover! How do you think I feel! I am just like one of those cookies Kagome brings from her time… Oreos, that's it. Let me tell you this---"
InuYasha tilted the scabbard of his Tetsusaiga. The sheath pulsated and had brought the sword to him, "Getting in between two women is like being the white cream in an Oreo. Do not make the same mistake I have, and do not tell Kagome this!" Gripping the hilt of his sword, the blade transformed.
"Kaze no Kizu!" Yelled a determined InuYasha. The particular force of the attack sent Shippou onto the ground as the earth trembled under the almighty Windscar. Every bit of the sloth was incinerated. InuYasha placed the sword upon his shoulders, his hand still wielded it. "Listen, if you love this girl, I'm not stopping ya', I already have problems of my own to deal with. Adding yours would just be a fucking pain in the ass. Understand?"
Shippou stood in amazement, his jaw dropped in awe. Yep, that sloth definitely knocked some weird sense into him.
Across from the Bone Eater's Well, Miroku and Kagome began to take their seats upon the hard ground. Miroku and her sat cross-legged seemingly waiting for each other's answer. Kagome began to bite her lip as a sinister grin appeared on her face. So Miroku thought. It wasn't long before she reverted to the aw-so-sweet Kagome. "What shall we do today Kagome-sama?" Beside him was an empty cup of Ramen.
"Well, you are a guy, and InuYasha is a guy, so you two must share man to man information right? I mean, has he mentioned me in a way that seems, um, well, romantic?"
Miroku massaged his temple with his beaded hand. "The only thing InuYasha shared with me is his lack of normal conversation. He had yet to mention you or Kikyo lately as I know of."
"I see, so lets begin with drama."
"Drama? If you ask me my lady, its already drama for me,"
"Let's just act this out, it'll be fun!"
Holy crap, Kagome!
"I don't exactly see your point of view of fun."
Kagome took his hand and guided him up, "Lets just say you're InuYasha, you have his attitude and everything, so give it a go with his signature, 'Feh' okay?"
Miroku seethed, he had to copy every damn mannerism the hanyou had laid out so far. "Feh, what do you want wench!" He tried in his best InuYasha accent
Sorry Kagome-sama.
"Perfect!"
"I feel like I'm harming your emotions… I'm Miroku not InuYasha." He spoke calmly while shaking his head.
They both chuckled.
Kagome began her role playing, "InuYasha… how much do you care for me?" Kagome took on a more serious expression. Miroku did the same.
"Kagome…" His InuYasha voice began to wither away.
It was suppose to be a role playing romantic stare down. They really focused on each other.
Miroku took Kagome to the ground, he kissed her passionately, and their lips were in synch with each other. They were warm, Kagome felt them, and they felt so damn warm. And--- and--- perfect.
Was she delirious? She was sweating like a pig!
Kagome gripped his tanned neck, Miroku took it harder and she loved it, every single second of it. Two minutes. Two minutes of intimacy that she thought she'd never reach in this day and time. Their breath mingled, Kagome nibbled at his lip, Miroku moaned.
God, if someone knows… if someone was watching.
She let go of his lip, "Miroku---"
Miroku nodded as they both arose from the ground. They looked around the area to make sure no one was watching their charade. Kagome's heart pounded, it slammed against her ribcage and her gut felt like a cage of butterflies. She traced her lips with her index finger and smiled to him.
The houshi simply held his head low, he felt kind of dirty, in a good way and in a bad way. He had actually kissed her! "I have a confession Kagome…"
"Yes? She straightened her clothes and checked for grass stains.
"You said you never had a first kiss… well, that was actually mine to… I mean, officially."
She was shocked.
They never knew what, or where that kiss came from. Hormones? Worst enemy of man as they say.
Miroku was quite shocked as well, for her to be so involved in it. If it were Kouga, she'd high tail it out of there. "So, was that your idea of role playing?"
"No--- nope, you completely caught me off guard," Kagome pointed her finger to the direction of Kaede's village, "I could order InuYasha to kill you." She joked.
Miroku however did take it seriously; he shuddered at the thought of his own death. HE would slit his stomach, take out HIS guts and put em' in a bowl.
He shook off all thought and smiled, "Oh but you enjoyed it. You never restrained yourself; you just let me onto you."
"So can we do it again? Next time I'll catch you off guard!" She winked.
He returned the wink back to her, "I bet you never though the real InuYasha would do such thing."
"That jerk." She gazed upon the ground. Miroku fell back, his hands prevented any injury. "Well, if it concludes today's test, you better get going," He rubbed the stiffened blades of grass.
"Actually, I don't feel like leaving yet."
"What else do you wish to know? Oh, I know, lets start with the prologue lesson yesterday, now, envision yourself with… Kouga. He's so lustful, he is so messy. He lays you down and kisses you."
"Sorry, but Kouga is not really what you would call a turn-on."
Miroku almost paced himself saying this; he just knew he was going to get slapped. "What if Sesshoumaru came to you, injured, he was half naked, and yet again he was dirty. His long silver hair demanded to be touched, much like InuYasha's ears. He traces his fingers down your cheek, you start feeling what?"
"Sess--- Sesshoumaru!" Kagome quivered.
"Why not? He could be so lovable, that being said, he has a human girl with her. Now, would you squeal if you were the human girl?"
"Isn't her name Rin? To change the subject, why are you testing me with all of these guys? Let me ask you this just to get a rise off you. What do you think about a naked Sango, or Kikyo? Oh, or even Ayame?"
"Sounds sexy… but you forgot to mention someone else in particular."
"Kagura? You like her?"
"No. I'd like to see you naked my lady." Get ready Miroku, brace yourself for the---
(Slap)
"God you are such a hentai," She managed to smile after that engrossing comment.
Miroku rubbed his cheek, "I was only speaking the truth!" They both laughed. Something over her shoulder caught his attention. He pointed over her as he began to pull himself up. He sat on the rim of the well. Kagome looked over her shoulder and then quickly took a seat on the hard grass starting a fake conversation with him, just to throw the nearing InuYasha off their tracks.
But as he came nearer, they saw that his chest, stomach and shoulder area was scarred and bloodied. His hair had small bits of leaves in them, even grains of dirt. There was dried blood from his lower lip. And to see Shippou's confused expression made it all a mystery.
The houshi looked from the hanyou to the miko. "It seems you don't have to envision a thing my lady." He snickered.
Kagome shushed him quickly and looked towards the other two.
"And just what are you guys doing out here?"
"Oh, don't mind us; we were just talking about stuff…"
"Stuff?"
"Yea, stuff," Miroku defended her, "Like those cursed exams dear Kagome has to take."
"Bleh, exams?"
Both Miroku and Kagome couldn't contain their laughter. This aggravated the hanyou. "Anyway, I did what you wanted monk, I taught Shippou some things."
Shippou jumped into Kagome's arms and snug to her breastplate, "He was very weird, he said---"
In a lightning fast motion, InuYasha turned the Tetsusaiga's on him, "What did I just explain to you earlier?"
"That being in between two women such as Kikyo and Kagome is like an Oreo. You said you were the cream and you also said you were pissed off about it."
Everybody looked at the poor kitsune, "So now he thinks he's old enough to say vulgar."
Kagome looked at Shippou straight in the eye, "You need to stop hanging out with InuYasha and Miroku much. Everyone can see they are brainwashing you."
"Bitch, what's that suppose to mean!"
"Osuwari!"
(Crash)
Concluding today's lesson, the four returned back to Kaede's hut. By InuYasha's standards, the horseshit will discontinue as they resume their quest tomorrow. Who elected him leader of the group anyway?
There was a slap and a holler. It was certainly safe to assume that a houshi was slapped. Again.
Kagome placed spread the iodine on his wounds, followed by bandages. She had to slap them on to be sure they stayed upon his skin when it didn't cooperate. Thankfully, it seemed as though InuYasha had an unlimited arsenal of blood. Not once had he even passed out in his hanyou form from it. Kaede was thankful to lend him only the white lining that had once appeared over his red top but that was all. He had to go without the red top kimono for a while.The bandages were firmly placed; InuYasha slid the white over his head. When it was placed on, he practiced non-existing Iron Reaver Soul Stealers in the air to get a better feel of things. Their whole day had been all about relaxing; after all, it would be a long time before they get a break like this again. Before nightfall, Miroku had taught Kagome one last lesson for the day.
They sat on that same hill watching the sun go down. It was quite romantic, which is why Miroku guided her here. "There always should be a romantic setting if you want even more affection. Under biased standards, InuYasha wouldn't share a moment like this unless he is calm and collected, or in his human form you should give it a go."
"This is a beautiful setting, but I'm starting to think this is more than just one of your tests and lessons. You guided me here for a reason. I saw that dumb expression on your face."
"Listen Kagome, I wasn't hoping to get too involved in these recent events, but if we don't end this quick, I am probably going to change my mind about a lot of things."
"You sound as though you are hoping for something from me, if we don't end this quick? By god, are we still friends? Because that kiss---,"
"Of course my lady, this is only confidential. So lets resume our journey tomorrow like nothing ever happened."
Kagome sighed, "Its just that I learned so much from you in just a short amount of time, because that kiss really brought your soul out to me… its like you're the only guy who cares enough for me. I mean Houjo is a little too caring…"
"Pardon, but who is Houjo? This is not the first time you mentioned his name. In fact you compared him to Akitoki a while ago, with Kaguya's return I mean." He squinted his eyes trying to think back.
"Oh, him? He's okay. He just has a minor crush on me is all."
"But he is caring so you say, so his love must not be minor. You ignore him?"
"He asks me to go out on dates, which I've shown up once or twice, but I always make up a lame excuse. You know, thanks to Grandpa making up my sicknesses for school, Houjo and everyone actually believes I'm sick. Can you believe the nerve of grandpa?"
Trying to follow along, he shook his head.
There was a long pause. Very eerily quite as well. Not one sound from the birds, from the whistling of the wind, the rattle of trees, or otherwise.
"…Hey Miroku?"
"Yes?"
"You think you can give me a review of today's lesson?"
….
They knocked heads together. Their foreheads connected as they looked into each other's eyes. "Just one more, and then we can all forget this all happened."
This wasn't Kagome.
Kagome recognized Shippou peeping at them through a tree. He was so confused. Noticing this, the two parted from each other as quickly as possible. Before Kagome had a chance to explain to the kitsune, Shippou took off.
"If he decides to tell InuYasha, it would truly be Armageddon for my sake," Miroku spoke with deep concern, "I'm sorry Kagome."
The two took a final look at each other before they departed their own separate ways to get rid of all evidence of them being in the area. A shaking feeling pounded Kagome's gut. If she knows Shippou like she does, its very possible that he would tell InuYasha.
Miroku entered the hut, took a look at everybody from Sango to InuYasha and sat down. The hanyou couldn't help but look at him devilishly. It was quite creepy because everyone in the room was given him a cold stare. Miroku grew uneasy as he knew Shippou has told them. God, that kitsune was fast. It must've been main priority to tattletale on poor him and Kagome.
God, Kagome and himself didn't make sensual contact, so what was with this? If they found about the kiss earlier, then, then---
"Step outside monk," The hanyou closed his eyes as he walked to the door. He halted and looked back at the stressed Miroku. With no other choice, he had to get up and try to fight his way to convince the hanyou that no contact was made between him and Kagome. Knowing InuYasha that would be one next to impossible.
Though he had been convinced before.
He took his staff as they exited and walked to a desolate area, which appeared less than a mile away. What a place for my grave.
InuYasha didn't hesitate to pull out Tetsusaiga. It was ready for the kill. He began his murder march and came toe to toe with the houshi. If he wanted a fight…
The houshi looked him square in the eye. With a sudden sweep of his sword, and a fast reflex by Miroku, they both jumped back. "InuYasha, I---"
"Just fight!"
Miroku started to back away.
"Don't be such a pussy, FIGHT!" The hanyou smashed the hilt into Miroku's chin. His jaw locked and went into shock from the blow. With InuYasha's swinging of the sword, the houshi tried to measure accurate parrying. It was successful, but his staff was cracked. Severely.
A last ditch effort, Miroku pulled out a packet of purification salt and threw it into the hanyou's eyes causing him to become blind at the moment. Quickly, with a moment like no other, he struck his staff into InuYasha's Adam's apple. Now InuYasha couldn't see or breathe. Miroku pinned him on the ground, using his staff to try to choke out InuYasha into submission. With tremendous force, the hanyou forced him off.
Miroku's mind was spinning, this was it.
No regrets. That one kiss was well worth this whole slaughter of two men.
"I'll never forgive you!" The hanyou recuperated.
"InuYasha, I'm sorry---"
"Bullshit! You ate the last of the ramen!"
"It wasn't my---" Wait a minute… ramen? What about Kagome?
"There were eight cups of ramen, and my bet on who did it was you. I saw an empty cup of ramen laying around, and it had your scent all on it, you are the fucking culprit."
"And--- that's it? Ramen? You were going to kill me over some damn chicken noodles?
"Uh huh,"
Miroku slapped his gloved hand upon his face, hiding his expression from InuYasha and the rest of the world. "I'm leaving now."
"Come on, we're just getting to the good part, it's the part where I dice you with my Kaze no---,"
"I'M LEAVING!" Miroku just threw his staff to the ground and walked away.
"Fine, you threw in the towel so I won!"
Twenty minutes passed at the least. Miroku made his return back to the hut. He needed sleep, he needed sake, LOT'S of sake. Sango seemed fairly disappointed because someone ate her meal made by Kagome's mom. She had eaten some and decided to save it for supper. At the end of the day, it was Shippou who took it upon himself to eat every last morsel of food. And he ran off to the cliff to hide from InuYasha, so there he saw a glimpse of Miroku and Kagome, he freaked out because he thought they were going to tell on him. He paid no mind to what they were doing. Thank Buddha.
Poetic justice. It had to be it.
Miroku and Kagome just laughed nervously at this. All that suspense lead to supreme anxiety, and it almost drew one of them suicidal. That single one was Miroku.
Such a burden.
InuYasha climaxed his anger towards Miroku. And to this, Kagome started to wonder; about what Yuka, Eri and Ayumi had said at that Wacdonalds table, "Bi-polar?"
Yes indeed. This hanyou had serious issues.
Before bedtime, Kagome noticed InuYasha's blood-red eyes. When Miroku told the story to her privately, she was quite shocked of how physical the fight had gotten. She even noticed the bruise under the houshi's chin. They simply counted their blessings and left the day at that.
Meanwhile, the sloth infestation was much worse with more than eight fatalities in just one day. Before they set out on their jewel hunting, and Naraku slaying tomorrow, Kaede brought up that they must slay the youkai as a first. Reluctantly, InuYasha had agreed to this after some thinking on the matter.
The day was a heartache. But it ended quickly.
Shippou acquired his beating from the hanyou as punishment, Miroku and InuYasha reached a mutual agreement and settled it by actually shaking hands, not InuYasha's style. The hanyou only shook his hand for the valiant effort he put up in that fight. The hanyou had given Miroku his props.
Miroku would have to wait in the morning to retrieve his staff. Nightfall was not the time to look for such simple thing, besides the killer sloth roaming the fields outside.
In compensation, Miroku gave a one minute prayer for the safety of his staff, as it had been passed down from generation to generation. If the sloth's curiosity grows upon the golden object, Miroku might as well just come equipped with the Kazanna and nothing more.
The last person Miroku saw that night was Naraku. Just that cursed name made everyone in the room cringe in disgust. Needless to say, he played a huge roll in their lives, and if not for the most ill and vile villain in Japan or possibly the world, everyone in that very exact hut would've never met each other.
Nonetheless, there was a lesson Miroku and Kagome learned today.
Do not jump to conclusions. Do not eat InuYasha's ramen, and do not count on everything to be alright at the end of all things, because if nothing else, that something is going to come back and bite you in the ass.
Miroku shook his head as he rubbed his bruised chin. He settled to bed after taking a look at Sango's buttocks.
(((Author's note: Scared? Just think of what they both had to go through. Today's lesson is for all, if you think you've done something, it's not always a consequence.)))