Word Association: Miroku
"Hey, Miroku, are you busy?"
"Not at all, Kagome. What do you need?"
((rustling pages)) "It's for one of my classes. I say a word, and then you say the first word that comes into your head."
"Hmm. All right."
"Tree."
"Leaf."
"Green."
"Kagome."
((quiet voice)) "'Cause it's the color I always wear."
"Yes."
"O-K. Fox."
"Kitsune."
"Brother."
"Battle."
"Battle?"
"It seems like every time we see someone's brother, there's a battle."
"Arrow."
"Pure."
"Death."
((hard voice)) "Naraku."
"Mother."
"Unknown."
"You never knew your mother?"
"She died in childbirth. I don't know much of her, since my father didn't like to speak of her."
((pause)) "I'm sorry."
"Dear Kagome. That's so –"
"Don't even try it, buster."
"Kagome! Does this face look like it would think dirty thoughts?"
"Yes."
"…Oh."
"Sword."
"Battle."
"Dark."
"Void."
"Demon."
"Battle."
"Sit."
((muffled laughter.)) "Inuyasha."
"Yeah, he had a hard time with that one. Beads."
((pause))((sound of clenching fist)) "Wind Tunnel."
"Holy."
"Priestess."
"Huh. You actually agreed with Inuyasha on something."
((sly grin))
"Of course, that could be because you like my butt."
"My dear Kagome!"
"Save it, buster. Grandmother."
"Kaede." ((pause)) "Shippo always calls her Grandmother Kaede."
"Father."
"Cursed."
"Kill."
"Naraku."
"Well, that's sort of three you two agree on. Well, he said Koga and Sesshomaru, too. Red."
((pause)) "Sango."
"Iris."
"Ayame." ((pause)) "She always has an iris in her hair."
"I'm surprised you noticed her hair, considering how short her fur skirt is."
((embarrassed silence))
"That's what I thought. Pearl."
((embarrassed silence)) "We don't have to say the very first thing that pops into our heads, do we?"
"Yes."
((sigh)) "Sango."
"Awww."
((embarrassed shuffling))
((clears throat)) "Food."
"Future."
"This is going to look so weird. Water."
"Blue. Is that everything."
"Yeah. Thanks, Miroku. Hey, Sango?"
End
A/N – And he managed to keep his perversions to a minimum! Yay for Miroku!