MERRY CHRISTMAS FELLOW READERS! I hope you all have an amazing and fun day and you got everything you asked for! I didn't have any expectations or whatever, but I've gotten money so far and I have gifts waiting. At a few family members houses lol Anyways, my gift to you guys is two new chapters! Happy reading!
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CHAPTER EIGHT
Sakura
I narrowed my red eyes at the monk in a questioning expression. I was in the middle of enjoying my tamagoyaki when he turned towards me and snaked his arms around my waist and pulled me close.
"What the…?" I froze along with everyone else inside Kaede's hut.
"Dear Sakura, I never had the chance to ask you this before…but, your beauty strikes me and I wanted to know if you would do me the honor of bearing my children."
I was speechless. This had never happened to me before so I had no idea how to respond or react. I looked to Kagome for help.
"Is…is he serious?"
"As serious as serious can get." She replied, looking at Miroku with disapproving eyes while she continued to eat her food.
I turned back to Miroku and peeled his hands off of my waist. "Uh, no thank you. Haha. I'm good."
Sango walked inside the hut with a pale of fresh water in her hands. Her bangs covered her eyes and she took a seat between me and Miroku. I gladly slid over closer to Kagome. Without warning, Sango punched Miroku in the back of his head.
"Serves you right, Miroku." Inuyasha said with his arms crossed inside of his shirt.
Shippo hopped onto Inuyasha's shoulder and shook his head. "He'll never learn."
"We'll see you later, Kaede!" Kagome bid farewell as we all prepared to head out on our journey to Naraku.
"Take care, children." Kaede smiled.
My ear twitched and I held up a fist at her. "Not a child, here."
"Please, be safe." Kaede waved and headed back inside of her hut to continue working on her potions.
"Well, which way should we go?" Sango questioned. She adjusted the green skirt she wore over her pink patterned kimono and made sure her boomerang was secure on her back.
"That Cyclops came from the north, so I think we should head that way to see where it takes us." I suggested. Ayame shouldered my backpack and I thanked her for carrying it, even though I could have.
"It better take us the right way because we don't have any more time to waste."
Since Inuyasha's foot was back to normal he'd gotten a bit arrogant. Kagome assured me that this was nothing new and he was just getting back to being his old self again. He and I had had a pretty interesting talk the night before. It felt good to have a normal conversation with someone who wasn't disgusted at what I was. At least he didn't seem disgusted. Maybe because he was a mix of two species himself. But to me, his mix seemed to be much more normal than mine and Ayame's. Needless to say, even with the little arguments, I still thought he was pretty cool so far.
"Hm, how about if your nose tells you otherwise then you take the lead?" I put my hands on my hips, looking up at him sitting in the Oak tree.
Inuyasha advanced towards me after hopping down from his tree and paused to look down on my 5'5" height as he closed the gap between us. "Gladly." His growl was playful and deep as he started to walk in the direction I suggested we take.
"I'll catch up with you guys. I have to go see someone in the next village over." I turned in the opposite direction, strongly fighting the urge to bite my bottom lip at what he just did.
"So, you tell us where to go then leave us? What if we have to fight?" Inuyasha complained.
I sighed. "Are you all of a sudden not capable of fighting without me?" I asked sarcastically, hoping I'd hit a nerve. I knew already that it annoyed him to hear any sort of hint of a woman being stronger than he was.
Just as I suspected, he growled but this time it wasn't playful. "Forget it! We don't need you!"
He was acting like a stubborn child. It was actually kind of cute. "Like I said, I'll catch up with you guys. Coming, Ayame?"
She shrugged. "Sure."
"The Tsuyotomi sisters are back!"
I smiled at Toka as he announced Ayame and I's presence to anyone who was listening. Mostly little kids came running up to us wanting to play. Ayame showed her true form for their amusement but didn't stay knelt down long enough for any of them to tug at her ears.
I, on the other hand, picked Toka up and sat him on my shoulders and let him play with mine. He wasn't rough like some of the other children so it didn't bother me. He mostly just laughed and lightly swat at them or tried to catch them when I would flick them from side-to-side.
"Has everything been okay since we left?" Ayame asked, walking in unison with me. The kids scattered away from us and continued to play with one another.
We walked around the small developing village to speak to some of the adults and make sure they were okay.
"Everything has been great! The shrine is finished and the gardens and animals are doing very well." Toka explained, finally catching my ears and scratching behind them.
A low purr escaped from my throat and I smiled. His tiny fingers felt so good scratching behind my ears that it almost tickled.
"Will you be staying the night?" He asked, hope filling his voice.
"No, not this time." I answered, noticing we were now alone as we walked. I felt some of his weight drop onto my shoulders and knew he was bummed about my answer. He also stopped scratching behind my ears.
He wrapped his arms around my head and leaned down on top of it. I laughed and put him down on the ground and sat beside him in front of one of the small crop fields growing vegetables.
"We just came to visit and make sure everything was okay before we left on our journey."
"Journey? Can I come with you?"
I shook my head. "No. I would hate for you to get hurt. This is a dangerous journey. You have to stay here."
"Oh," he said, sadly.
"I'm still going to write you, though." I said with a smile. He smiled back and I was glad he was satisfied with that.
"Sakura. We gotta get going." Ayame appeared from nowhere wearing a sky blue kimono with yellow flowers decorating it.
"What happened to your clothes?" I asked of her jeans and fitted t-shirt she returned to the Feudal Era wearing.
"I'm not messing my good clothes up in this time, girl, you crazy?" She rose an eyebrow and crossed her arms.
I laughed and shook my head. "We gotta go, Toka." I hated to leave this kid for the second time. He was so cute. "You wanna water the veggies?" I gestured towards the crops.
"Sure!" He grabbed a wooden pale with water in it and was confused when I told him he wouldn't need it. The village seamstress walked up to us and stood by, watching.
"Here." I took his hands and placed them on top of the dry dirt. "Now, repeat after me…" He nodded and prepared himself for whatever was about to happen. "Close your eyes and concentrate."
"Close your eyes and concentrate." He repeated. "Wait, what is that gonna do?"
I sweat-dropped. "I said that in the wrong order."
"Very smart." Ayame said to my right.
I ignored her and repeated my instructions to Toka. "Okay, I just want you to relax and concentrate and say 'tochi o yashinau'." I lightly gripped each of his wrists.
"Tochi o yashinau."
My hands gave off a light golden glow and Toka let out a short gasp as I know he felt water shoot from his hands and directly into the ground, turning the soil dark.
"What just happened?" He asked, standing. He looked at the dirt covering his palms and smacked his hands together to clean them off. "I feel strange."
"You watered the vegetables. I transferred some of my power to you." I explained. "Now you won't have to fetch water to water the gardens. You can do it all by yourself. Just say the words I just told you."
"Are you kidding me?" His eyes glistened with excitement. "Mom! I have water powers! Did you see what I did?" He ran over to the seamstress and tugged on her kimono, pointing at the ground.
"That's incredible!" She exclaimed.
"Thank you!" Toka ran over and hugged my legs. I knelt down and held him tight. "Now I'm special just like you and Ayame!"
I held my breath. Besides my parents, no one else had ever said Ayame and I were special before. A smile tugged at my lips and tears threatened to escape my eyes. He was the sweetest kid ever. He'd always have a place in my heart.
"You were already special, Toka."
He pulled at my ears and scratched behind them one more time. I purred and rubbed my face against his.
"I'll only water the lands. I'll be very responsible." He said into my hair and shoulder.
"Good job." I still held him, not wanting to let go.
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Small note: I've been informed that in the manga, Inuyasha is only 5'5". I never knew of that before and it's been such a long time since I've read the manga, but I decided to make him a little taller, around 5'11" and if I was going to have Sesshy make an appearance then I was going to make him like 6'2 or something lol Just so you guys know :)