What the deaf mute heard

By: Lunagirl2001

Chapter 11: Say what!

"I don't understand."

"Understand what Sango?"

Sango groaned. "You said 'it's an emergency.' and 'We need to help Kagome'."

Miroku nodded. "Yes, and I meant it too."

"So if our friend is in danger..." Sango said glaring, "WHAT ARE WE DOING IN A MANGA STORE!"

Miroku sweatdroped. "Well, it couldn't really be helped!"

"You think buying a comic book is more important than-"

"It's called a Manga. and for your information, I get my best excuses from manga!"

"Miroku...you're an idiot."

Miroku grinned sheepishly. "Aw come on, you're not going to leave are you?"

Sango glowered. "hmp."

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"Hello? Higurashi household."

An annoyed voice answered. "Hello, Ms. Higurashi? This is Kagome's homeroom teacher, miss Haruna."

Kagome's mom smiled at the phone. "Oh hello! how have you been this week?"

Miss. Haruna made a sound that very much resembled a growl.

"Well, I WAS having a wonderful and well deserved vacation. I mean it's quite a difference from working non-stop all week-and living on a teacher salary!"

"Um, Ms. Haruna, I'm nurse, not a psychiatrist."

"OH! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to say so much-let's see, oh yes, school will be starting up again next Monday."

"But what about that investigation?"

"It appears that some stupid person got in the middle of a fight between some kind of dog and a wolf. Everything's safe again, the animal control has searched, and they can't locate any dangerous creatures."

"Well I suppose that everyone's going to have to savor these last hours of free vacation!"

Miss Haruna sighed. "I'm sure they are."

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"Puppy-kun! let me out!"

Kouga sat on top of a washing machine holding a long piece of brown fur-with singed edges-in his hands.

"You're lucky it didn't get far!" Kouga yelled at the machine, "If you set my whole tail on fire, I would have killed you. You should feel grateful that I went easy on you!"

"help! I'm sorry! let me out!" Shippou cried banging on the inside of the machine.

Kouga jumped off and opened the lid. "Already? It's only on spin cycle!"

A small redhead climbed out just enough so that his of completely soaked head was outside the machine .

"Puppy-kun, it was just a joke!" Shippou shouted.

Kouga laughed. "Oh really? Well in that case, I'm just joking about how I'm going to let you out of this!" he said getting a grip on his cousin's hair.

"No! Wait!"

Kouga smirked. "you're right. You should go to the dryer!"

"Come on puppy-kun!"

"Shippou, this isn't helping you!"

"I'm sorry!"

Kouga grinned. he threw Shippou in and closed his eyes, grinning. "Don't call me 'puppy-kun' anymore."

Shippou was gone.

"Shippou!"

His voice echoed in the empty building.

"If pop wasn't so busy working non-stop, he'd know what a brat I have for a cousin!"

Kouga looked different than he usually did. His hair looked the same, long and in a high ponytail, but everything else was different. the headband he always wore was gone and revealed a pair of elf-like ears. But the biggest difference was that there was a long brown tail sticking out of a hole in his jeans.

"Shippou you brat! get back here!"

"No chance!" A voice shouted from a nearby closet.

'Works like a charm. Is he ever stupid.' Kouga thought nearing the closet. He ripped open the door to find a girl with long black hair, brown eyes and wearing a really short green school uniform.

"Ka...gome?"

"Oh Kouga, I'm sorry to drop in like this..." She said hugging him, "I just needed to see you!"

"Really Kagome?"

'Kagome' smirked. 'Sheesh, is he ever stupid.'

A light bulb appeared above Kouga's head. Scowling he put his hand along the girl's skirt.

"EEP!"

"Shippou I knew it! I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!"

Kouga had a firm grip on a fluffy foxtail. With a poof of smoke, a small red head appeared trying to escape from the death grip on his tail.

"Puppy-kun, that really hurts!"

"NO KIDDING! Maybe I should set YOURS on fire and see what you think about it!"

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

A Cheshire grin spread across Kouga's face. "I know what I'll do... I'll shove you down the garbage disposal!"

"What about your dad!" Shippou shouted, terrified.

"That's the best part... he never comes home. So there's no one to find that you're missing!"

Shippou started crying. Kouga held his small cousin above the kitchen sink when the phone rang.

"Oh great." Kouga loosened his grip on Shippou's tail. "Guess this is your lucky day. You live to see tomorrow."

After freeing his cousin, Kouga answered the phone. "Yeah? School. Joy." he hung up.

Shippou spoke up. "Not much of a talker are ya?"

"Why bother? It was my teacher."

Shippou jumped on his shoulder. "So puppy-kun, we're going to school soon?"

"Get off. and yeah monda-hey wait! what do you mean 'we'?"

"Mom and dad are going to be gone for a year, so they set it up so I could go to your school!"

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"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTT!"

"Say, did you hear that?" Miroku asked.

Sango nodded. "I wonder where it came from..."

An eight-year-old boy answered the door. "I remember you!"

Miroku nodded. "Yes, may I please speak with Kagome?"

"Sure." The boy started walking away. "Sis! The guy who screams like a five-year old girl is here to see you!" Miroku whacked him over the head with his staff.

"Thank you Mushin, this actually is kind of helpful."

A laughing Sango patted him on the back. "Screams like a little girl huh? Been a while since I heard that!"

"ha. ha. So funny. Why'd you stay with me anyway?"

Sango sighed. "Isn't it obvious? Your hormones are stronger than your brain. I had to protect her from you."

"Where's the trust!"

"There is none."

The raven-haired girl they had been waiting on came down from the stairs.

"Souta! Can you be any more rude!"

Souta smirked. "meh-be..."

Sango laughed. "Little bothers are a gift from hell aren't they?"

"So true!"

"Sis! Wait till I leave the room why don't ya?"

Kagome answered by sticking out her tongue.

"Um... Kagome?" Miroku (an only child) was beginning to feel left out.

Kagome sweatdroped. "Oh! Sorry! what is it Miroku?"

Miroku sighed. "Is your boyfriend here?"

As if on cue, both Kagome's mother and Grandfather poked their heads into the room.

"KAGOME HAS A BOYFIREND!"

"No mom, no grandpa. They're talking about one of my friends that is a guy. RIGHT Miroku?"

Miroku tried to not show the fear he had of Kagome's death glare.

"Right..."

"Oh! In that case, have fun." The two adults said in unison while leaving.

Miroku cleared his throat. "Let my try that again... is your friend Inuyahsa here?"

"No... why would he?"

"No reason-ow."

Sango whacked him over the head with his own staff.

"Miroku, if you're not going to tell her what you said you would-"

Miroku grinned sheepishly. "Well to be honest, I forgot what I came here for in the first place!"

Sango whacked him over the head again, this time harder than ever. She stormed out the door, dropping the staff on the ground before she left.

"Miroku, what's wrong with Sango-chan?"

Miroku's voice was almost monotone. "It's about time. I spent most the day trying to get rid of her."

Kagome was shocked. "Miroku what are you talking about! I thought you two were friends!"

"We are..." Miroku answered, still in serious mode, "It's just that, I figured that it would be easier to tell you this if we didn't have an audience."

He looked directly in Kagome's eyes saying, "Kagome, your life is in danger."

"What?" Kagome said with a gasp.

"Do you have a living room? I think it would be less likely for people to hear if we went there."

Kagome nodded and they both left to the other room.

once they were in the room, Miroku finally explained what he meant.

"Kagome, how much do you know about your friend Inuyasha?" he asked.

Kagome thought hard not wanting to tell to much. "Uh... he's deaf and... um... uh..."

"Thought so." Miroku interrupted, "I'm not surprised he never told you anything. He's not human."

Kagome put on a fake laugh. "That's funny Miroku, and where did you get that idea? Some extra time in area 61?"

"Not quite." Miroku didn't get out of serious mode. Kagome gulped.

"You know that I am in training to become a monk, right?"

"yes..."

"The reason why is because I was born with spiritual powers. I can look at a person and I can see their aura. And I passed by Inuyasha the other day. He has the aura of a demon, and pure evil dwells deep inside him."

Kagome was silent for a moment, but then she smiled. "I have to break it to you Shinichi Kudo but I can't help but say that you have to be wrong."

"Kagome, please believe me. My teacher and I both know about it."

"But there's no such thing-"

"That's because of exorcisims. They make the demons die and their spirits stay away... but I suppose that there was one that was missed... although, not for much longer."

"What!"

"More than likley Inuyasha will be taken care of-"

"YOU CAN'T DO THAT!"

Miroku was suprised by the sudden outburst. "Kagome? What are you talking about?"

'There's no choice, I've got to tell him I know.' Kagome thought.

"I mean, sure it's easy to say that now, but I've met him. He can't be evil. And.. even thought he's part demon, I trust him."

Miroku sighed, "Kagome, you don't understand. demons aren't good. Espically him."

"He saved my life twice."

"You said he tried to kill you."

"I was confused. and he trusts me enough to take the risk of confiding in me he wasn't human-"

"You mean he told you! And you're still hanging out with him?"

That wasn't Miroku. Quite the contrary, it was a woman's voice.

Standing outside of the room's window, Sango stood with a ear-shaped print on the window.

"Sango? what are you doing here? I thought you were going to leave." Miroku said, in his usual carefree tone.

"Stop the act sukebe!"

"Why Sango, how cruel."

Sango opened the window and climbed in. "Sorry Kagome. Curiosity got the best of me. Miroku wouldn't get so worried over something he forgot."

Kagome laughed. "It's ok. I can tell I can trust you both as well." 'what is it with people in tokyo and windows?'

"Well you can, but-wait a minute! you mean he can talk?"

"Yeah a little too well. I could REALLY live without the cussing..."

Miroku spoke up again. "But... how can he? he has no ears, so he can't correct himself if he messes up, right?"

Kagome snickered. "Well let's just say he's got it covered."

"Pardon?"

"Think about it. You'll get it eventually."

"Kagome-chan..." Sango said worried, "Aren't you afraid for you safety?"

Kagome thought for a moment. "...Actually, I'm not."

Miroku looked worried. "Kagome, he's a demon!"

"A half-demon." Kagome corrected. "And I don't even understand it."

Miroku moved over to Sango's ear. "She's been hypnotized or something."

Sango nodded. "Should I get a bucket of ice water?"

Miroku shook his head. "I probably should try using my staff on her head."

"You guys!"

Both friends looked over at their friend in question.

"I can understand why you're worried, and I appreciate it. Really!"

Miroku's eyes widened. His eyes revealed something he hadn't seen in her before.

"But if you actually talk to him, you'll see it. He's good!"

To Miroku, the area surrounding Kagome seemed to fade away, and around her a pale purple light seemed to surround her. But unlike the pain and sorrow that seemed to emit from Inuyasha, her light seemed to be surrounded with peace, and instead of the heat of fire she was surrounded by the coolness of a spring breeze.

"I don't understand it, but when I talk to him, I feel like I've always known him. And I can trust him and anything he says."

'Either one of two things is happening.' Miroku thought, 'Either the smell of Mushin's booze has gotten me high, or I'm reading Kagome-san's aura.'

"Please don't worry. I'm alright."

"Kagome, that doesn't prove anything, you don't know what may go through his mind-"

"Sango." Miroku turned to her a serious look in his cobalt eyes. "I think Kagome knows what she is talking about. Never seeing a person in your life, and then when you meet you feel as though you were destined to meet."

As he spoke, his expression softened into a smile. After a few moments of silence, Sango nodded.

"Yeah I understand... I know I was destined to find Kilala under my front deck."

"Who's Kilala?" Kagome whispered.

"Kilala's her cat." Miroku answered, "But that wasn't the answer I was expecting..."

Sango nodded. "Ok. I believe you. But if I find out he's done anything to you, I swear he's going to regret it!" she said pulling out Miroku's staff again.

"Be careful Sago-sama! That's really old! And get your own weapon!"

Sango whacked him. "I told you don't call me 'lady Sango', it doesn't wor..."

Sango whacked him over the head harder.

"Curse my involuntary muscle spasms!" Miroku said to his wandering hand.

"You're pathetic sukebe!"

Kagome smiled. 'It looks like they're fine about it.' "um.. guys?"

"yes?" the feuding friends said in unison.

"If it's ok, can you not tell anyone about this?" Kagome asked, "Especially anyone at school... please?"

Sango smiled sweetly. "Sure thing."

Miroku put his hand up as though he were praying. "You have my word, no one will learn anything new about Mr. Yamatashe."

Kagome grinned so sweetly you could almost see the flowery background around her.

"Thank you, you guys!"

She ran up and hugged Sango.

"Hey, don't I get a hug?"

Both girls answered in unison.

"...no."

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Inuyasha groaned and held his stomach.

"Please...no more..." he said.

"Come now... you should be able to handle at least three more..."

"No... I cant." He answered, trying to get up without throwing up.

"You mean... you don't like them?" Rin said, her eyes watering.

"N-no! it's not that Rin!" Inuyasha said, "I love your cookies!...it's...just...um...I work as a janitor and I haven't cleaned myself up yet!"

Rin sniffed. "But you don't smell bad Mister Inuyasha."

"Um...I used deodorant!"

"Huh? What's that?"

"Um... it makes people smell good." Inuyasha said edging away, "But it wears off over time... so I have to go clean myself up."

"But... there's six cookies left!"

Inuyasha took off running. "Save 'em for later!" with that, the green-faced hanyou ran into a bathroom and slammed the door.

Rin wondered why she didn't hear any water running, but the toilet kept flushing.

"Boys sure take funny baths." she said taking the plate of leftover cookies to the kitchen. As she passed a window she noticed someone standing outside. The person had it's back to the building, and was standing in the large flower garden.

Figuring she lived here too, Rin ran outside to greet this person. It was a beautiful woman. She pure white skin, long black hair that reached her ankles, and the bluest eyes Rin had ever seen.

"Excuse me, do you live here too?" Rin asked.

The woman smiled. "No, I don't. I came to visit Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru. They're old friends of mine. Who are you young lady?"

"Oh! Rin's name is Rin! Mr. Sesshoumaru and Mr. Inuyasha are taking care of Rin."

As soon as she said this, even though she kept her smile on the woman's eyes seemed to fill with rage.

"And where are they?" she asked.

"Rin doesn't know where Mr. Sesshoumaru is, but Mr. Inuyasha is taking a bath in the toilet."

"So he is here? how wonderful. I was worried I had missed him."

Rin noticed the woman's clothing. "What happened to your pretty dress?" she asked pointing to the white dress with blue designs that the woman was wearing. The very bottom was singed up and torn.

"The result of being surrounded by flames." she said.

Rin just looked up confused.

"But Rin-chan," she said, "Since the boys are busy right now, why don't we get better acquainted. After all..." she said taking Rin's hand. "...you just gave me a wonderful idea."

Rin smiled ear to ear. "Okay! Besides I bet they'll be happy to see one of their friends!"

"Oh yes... most definitely."