InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Miko's Instincts ❯ A Miko's Instincts Chapter 19 ( Chapter 19 )

A Miko's Instincts Chapter 19

By Majicman

 

 

Disclaimer: No, I certainly do not own any of the characters in InuYasha. I do enjoy playing with `em, though.

 

 

“So, Kagome. How do you think the boys are doing?” asked Sango as she lay back in the relaxing waters of the hot spring.

 

“I'm sure they're doing fine,” Kagome answered.

 

Sango giggled. “That was kind of a dirty trick to leave them with all those babies.” The taijiya turned serious for a moment. “Aren't you the least bit worried about InuYasha losing his temper with them?”

 

“InuYasha would never hurt a real baby. Although,” Kagome mused, “he might try to teach Miroku a lesson.”

 

Sango smiled, then started to laugh.

 

“Imagining InuYasha chasing Miroku around the village, Sango?”

 

“No. I just had this image of Miroku sucking up the dirty diapers with his Kazaana.”

 

Both girls giggled.

 

“You know,” said Kagome, “that's not a bad idea. I wonder if Miroku could keep just a little bit of the Kazaana after we defeat Naraku. We'd sure invite you guys over more often.”

 

Both girls snorted.

 

 

 

“That's the last of it, InuYasha,” said Miroku, sealing up his Kazaana.

 

“Keh! It had better be, monk. What were those stupid mothers feeding these children, anyway?”

 

“Indeed, I have never smelled anything like it, InuYasha,” replied the monk. “However, if you really want to know, I suspect that Kagome and Sango could tell us.”

 

“Wait'll I get my hands on that bitch.”

 

“Now, now, InuYasha. We probably deserved it.”

 

“We, bouzu?” growled InuYasha. “As I recall, you suggested hanging out my haori as a signal.”

 

“I suggest we stop this bickering and get some new diapers on our young charges.”

 

“And why is that?” sneered InuYasha.

 

“Because the one you're holding just…”

 

“Mi-ro-kuuuuuu!”

 

“Right. We'll just clean that up right now,” said Miroku as, once again, he opened his Kazaana just the smallest amount. “At least it's not Naraku's Saimyoushou,” he thought. An unbidden image of baby Saimyoushou in dirty diapers flying at him menacingly came to mind.

 

 

 

Bathing in a hot spring mostly surrounded by trees and other foliage was a two-edged katana. While the girls had some privacy from passing eyes, they were not safe from prying eyes.

 

“We have found them,” rumbled Akushuu. “You have had three of those…seizures...and here they are. Father Naraku is clever.”

 

“Shut up,” hissed Kikyo. “Now, let me get away from that…uuuhhhh!”

 

“That's four.”

 

“Shut up!” Kikyo started edging away.

 

“No, miko. You must stay close to the shield stone.”

 

“Let…me…go.”

 

 

 

“Did you see that, Sango?”

 

“Yes, I did, Kagome. There's no wind, yet that branch moved.”

 

“I don't sense any youkai nearby other than InuYasha and Shippo, so it must be Miroku.”

 

“What? Why that…he's supposed to be watching those babies.” Sango growled. “I'm going to teach that hentai a lesson.”

 

Kagome was hunkered down. “But Sango! You're naked! Get back into the water!”

 

“Hiraikotsu!”

 

There was a satisfying thud along the opposite bank, followed by the sound of a body falling among the foliage.

 

“I can't see him. He must have fallen in the bushes,” said Kagome.

 

“Well, he can just stay there till we're dressed and ready to leave,” Sango replied. “Then he's gonna get a piece of my mind.”

 

“I think you'd better get back in. You need to relax some more.”

 

 

 

“Get off me, you spawn of Naraku,” whispered Kikyo.

 

Akushuu just groaned.

 

Kikyo looked around. At least the shield stone hadn't fallen far from them, so they couldn't be seen, heard or smelled. Nor could Kagome detect them with her miko powers.

 

Another shudder ran through her body. That made five. Ninety more to go. She had to get away. Just her luck. Pinned under a walking pile of…her eyes widened in horror. Bits of Akushuu were sloughing off again and were rolling down the bank into the hot spring. Worse, they floated.

 

 

 

“Kagome?”

 

“Yes, Sango?”

 

“What's that floating towards us?”

 

“What's what floating towards us?”

 

“It looks like…”

 

Both girls sat up and stared at the object floating towards them.

 

“EEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!”

 

Sango got out of the water fast. Kagome was faster. Both girls got dressed in record time.

 

“If InuYasha and Miroku think this is funny...”

 

 

 

By this time, Kikyo had struggled out from under Akushuu. “Uuuuhhhhhhhhhh.” That was seven, twelve in all, she thought. Kikyo looked back sourly at Akushuu. “You're on your own now, youkai,” she thought as she picked up the shield stone and snuck off.

 

 

 

“Sango, stop.”

 

“Huh?”

 

“I sense a jewel shard. And what is that horrible smell?”

 

The two girls looked across the hot spring to see a youkai rising to its feet while rubbing its head.

 

“What is that thing?” said Kagome.

 

“You can see me?” rumbled Akushuu. The latest incarnation of Naraku looked around quickly. Both Kikyo and the shield stone were gone. “Naraku has sent me to kill you.”

 

Sango ran to get her Hiraikotsu. “You don't look so tough to me!”

 

“I don't know, Sango,” said Kagome. “He smells pretty strong to me. Wish I had brought my bow.”

 

“I'll take care of him, Kagome!” shouted Sango. “Hiraikotsu!”

 

Akushuu ducked out of the way. “Nice try, taijiya, but you hit me once and you won't hit me again!”

 

“Sango! That means it wasn't Miroku!”

 

“Yeah.” Sango caught her Hiraikotsu. “If we survive, I owe him an apology. Right?”

 

The jewel shard in Akushuu pulsed and the youkai grew to at least five times its former size.

 

“Look out, Kagome! That's one big pile of…”

 

“InuYasha!” Kagome screamed. “InuYasha!” Kagome began rubbing the mark on her neck. “InuYasha!”

 

 

 

Back in the hut, InuYasha sat bolt upright.

 

“What is it, InuYasha?” asked the monk as he finished diapering the last baby.

 

“It's…It's Kagome. I think she's in trouble.”

 

“You think? You mean you don't know?”

 

InuYasha didn't really want to reveal the embarrassing information about how his and Kagome's marks were so intimately connected. All he knew was that he was getting some extremely erotic feelings tinged with fear.

 

“InuYasha?”

 

“I've gotta go, monk! Find Kaede to babysit and follow as soon as you can, okay?”

 

“Right!”

 

 

 

“InuYasha!” screamed Kagome once more.

 

“Oi, Kagome, I'm here!” InuYasha landed next to Kagome. “What is that thing supposed to be?”

 

“Naraku sent it to kill me.”

 

“Naraku,” Inuyasha hissed. “That bastard!” InuYasha drew Tetsusaiga and prepared to use Kaze no Kizu.

 

“Wait, InuYasha! It has a jewel shard!”

 

“Where is it?”

 

Kagome concentrated on the youkai. “In its stomach.”

 

“Right! Kaze…no..”

 

“Wait, InuYasha.”

 

“What?”

 

A large, stinky hand came down and swept InuYasha away. The hanyou came down with a thud. While Sango kept the youkai busy, Kagome ran up to her mate.

 

“Are you okay?”

 

“Yeah. That was nothing. Now, what did you want?”

 

“I…ummm…I…uhhh…wondered if you could lure it away from the hot spring before killing it.”

 

“What?”

 

“It's our favorite hot spring, InuYasha!”

 

“What?”

 

“Pleeease.”

 

“Feh! What I do for you.” InuYasha hopped away from Kagome and the hot spring, where Sango was having a hard time with the huge youkai. “Here, youkai! I'm your enemy! You will fight me!”

 

Akushuu started detaching and throwing great chunks of himself at the hanyou. Fortunately, InuYasha was able to dodge them easily.

“Hold still, hanyou, so Akushuu can kill you!”

 

“Gotta do better than that, Akushuu!” yelled InuYasha as he leaped towards the rampaging youkai.

 

Akushuu launched one last great piece of himself at InuYasha, missing the hanyou, as InuYasha got off his Kaze no Kizu. Akushuu was broken into several pieces which flew in all directions. After the pieces landed, they quivered and started moving back together.

 

“Quick, Kagome,” yelled InuYasha, “where's the jewel shard? We must find it before Akushuu pulls himself back together!”

 

“It's in that piece that seems to be running towards us!”

 

“Kaze…no…”

 

“InuYasha! Wait!”

 

“It talks?” said Kagome.

 

“Sounds kind of like Miroku, too,” said InuYasha.

 

“It's waving at us. I don't think a piece of that thing would be waving at us.”

 

Sango ran up to the shape, then walked with it back to InuYasha and Kagome. “It's Miroku.”

 

Miroku went to hug the taijiya. “Sango.”

 

“Back off…at least till you get a bath.”

 

“I finally got Kaede to babysit and came as fast as I could. Then this fell on me. It smells almost as bad as those diapers.”

 

“InuYasha. The shard is in that…stuff…on Miroku.”

 

“Get it, Kagome.”

 

“You get it.”

 

“I'm not getting it.”

 

“Sango?” said Miroku.

 

“I told you. Not till you take a bath.”

 

“You asked for it.” Miroku turned away from the group and towards the hot spring. “Kazaana!”

 

Immediately a great water spout was sucked out of the spring and towards the group. Just before it arrived, Miroku closed his Kazaana.

 

<SPLAAAASSSHHHHHHH>

 

“Miroku!”

 

“Here's your clean shard, Lady Kagome.”

 

 

 

Not that far away, but hidden by the shield stone, Kikyo slowly made her escape. “Eighty-eight more,” she thought. “Eighty-eight more and I will cease to…” The miko looked up. Something that was blocking the sun was falling rapidly towards her. “What's…”

 

<SPLAPPPPP>

 

“…that?” Kikyo looked around. She was buried in a remnant of Akushuu up to her neck. Besides her head, only her hands stuck out. Flies began to gather. One landed on her nose.

 

A purple light emanated from her nose and surrounded the fly.

 

<ZZZZAAAAAPPPPPP?>

 

Kikyo smiled. “Can't purify a fly, huh?”

 

 

 

A/N: That Akushuu sure didn't last long. Oh well. I'm sure Naraku has more tricks up his…sleeve.

 

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. Although Kagome's delivery won't be for at least eight more chapters, I'm having a small contest: Name Kagome's Babies. There are two boys and one girl. Just send me three Japanese names with English translations. I will be the judge, and I reserve the right to use all three names from one person or even one name from each of three persons. Winners will be given credit at the end of the chapter Kagome delivers. Good luck to all entrants.

 

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