InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Youkai and A Hanyou Walk Into A Bar ❯ Start Talking ( Chapter 4 )

Title: Start Talking

Original Posting: 9/19/05 at inu comedy on Live Journal
Theme: Calling Miroku's Bluff
Word Count: 247
Warnings: *sweatdrop*
Summary: Somebody's got some `splainin to do…

 

 

Author's Note: This was originally done as a piece for the theme “Calling Miroku's Bluff,” but it didn't quite fit the parameters. I decided to inflict it upon the masses instead.

 

Start Talking

 

 

She came to him in her hour of need, and Miroku didn't have it in him to refuse her. He knew that she was using him, but he didn't mind. After all, his own heart had long ago been given to another, so this encounter would be nothing more than the scratching of an itch.

 

He accepted her advances and dealt with his conscience in the morning. After all, the tiny part of his soul that wasn't completely corrupt did feel some discomfort over the matter. True, she had been the one to initiate the contact, but Miroku couldn't help but remember that she was also Sango's closest friend.

 

The inevitable fall-out eventually arrived. Miroku had spent the evening outside Kaede's tiny hut, listening to the pained sounds of childbirth and suppressing the desire to run as far away as possible. The monk stayed, for he would not abandon the mother of his child, but he couldn't help but tremble at the pending discovery of his paternity.

 

Any hope Miroku might have held that the child would not bear his mark was dashed by the appearance of an extremely irate hanyou, followed closely behind by an enraged taijiya. Inu-Yasha and Sango both looked ready to gut him, slowly and painfully.

 

“You've got a hell of a lot of explaining to do,” Inu-Yasha growled. He held up a violet-eyed fire-cat hanyou by the scruff of her neck and dangled her in front of Miroku's face. “Start talking, monk.”