InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Broken Vow ❯ Finally Understanding ( Chapter 12 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Hi ya'll! What's up? nothing here. Lot's of homework little time. Well yes that was an interesting chapter, not to mention I had total writers block on it but then it came free flowing after that Shippo/hiroaki discussion magically made it's way out of my subconscious. Basically you all loved the flirting, and being the flirt that I am there will most DIFFENTLY be more! Hey it's amazing! . thank you very much on the facts about 'the art of the sword.' As for the spellings; Yes I know i spelt Tenseiga wrong but remember I wrote this a while ago. If anymore of you have small questions that wouldn't leave you alone(NOT BIG ONES LIKE WHO BROKE THEM UP OR WHY!!) then feel free to ask.
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DISCLAIMER: I'm getting sick of writing these... Me&Inuyasha=lots of lawyers and Miroku's jealousy(hehe I wish)
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BROKEN VOW
chapter twelve: Finally Understanding
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Kagome sighed into her pillow. She lay her back facing the fire staring at the door that led to Miroku and Sango's bedroom. It was a little past dawn and the slowly the pinks from the dawn broke into a beautiful gold light. Kami, was she exhasted. She wasn't even the one who had the child and she felt drained. Kagome pulled the blanket around her shoulders and rolled over facing the slowly dying flames. A stiff lump bumped into her stomach and Kagome looked down to see the small form of Hitomi huddled next to her. Kagome smiled and wraped an arm around the innocent girl. Her small pig tails were free from their bonds and flowed down to the girls shoulder, much like how Yuta's used to before it grew longer than her mothe's. Kagome ran a hand through the girl's hair, softly. -CREAK- Kagome looked up to see a fatigued looking Miroku stepping cautiously out of his chamber. He smiled to Kagome and gave a silent chuckle about his daughter.

"I can get rid of her if you want," he said after slowly and silently closing the door behind him. Kagome shook her head and then looked back to the eight year old.

"It's fine, Hitomi is quite sweet. How's Sango?"

Miroku smiled and blinked slowly. "She's fine just tired. She's sleeping right now. I don't blame her. Poor woman kept coming back for more and then look where she ended up...practically our own village."

Kagome chuckled as Miroku sat down on the floor next to her. "But isn't that what you wanted?" she asked him.

Miroku looked into Kagome's eyes. "I would've been happy with only one child from Sango, than ten villages worth from any other." he confessed to her. Kagome was lost for words. She felt herself want to wrap her arms around the monk. He was so sweet. She had never thought that he would say something like that, to her, or anybody, well with the exception of Sango herself. Kagome only gave him a small smile and stared back down at Hitomi.

Miroku watched his friend intently. 'Was that a tear forming in her eyes?' he asked himself, pondering the fact about why Kagome would look so heavy hearted. He had an idea though...but did she really miss Inuyasha? It had to be. He had yet to talk to his wife about the conversation last night(A/N i wonder why?) but he could sense the heavy gloom that had hung in the air when he had ran down the stairs. It was back now. He reached forward and placed a hand on Kagome's shoulder.

Kagome smiled and chuckled lightly in her mind. 'he really has changed' she thought, her eyes still on the girl. "I still can't believe you had so many. Sango's a very brave woman to go through two prenancies in one year,(A/N ok yes it is possible because Hiroaki was born in late January/early febuary and the twins were concieved a month later) and she was only a first time mother too. I was so scared having Yuta."

Miroku smiled and slid over next to her. "I was scared when Sango first gave birth to Hiroaki," he confessed quietly. Kagome's eyes widened slightly.

"Really?" she asked him.

Miroku nodded slowly.

"Why?"

He smiled and leaned his head against the wall. "The first time, I wasn't allowed in the room with Sango. Kaede forced me out where I had to wait and listen to all of her screams..." Miroku gave an involentary shutter. "I was practically scared to death, Inuyasha had to hold me back from barging in and holding Sango....But what I was really scared of was..." Miroku looked down to his right hand. Kagome looked to him pitifuly, even if it no longer held the curse. She placed a hand on the monk's shoulder. He smiled and looked up to her. "But luckily the curse passed the on boy. Hiroaki only had a small birth mark where the tunnel would be, nothing else, thank Buddha. Nothing else on any of the others but still I was scared, for me and Sango. She was the first woman to actually live after giving birth to a decendent from my family. My mother and grandmother both died giving birth. I wouldn't know what to do if I ever lost Sango."

After a moment's silence Kagome said,"I really like how you turned out Miroku, you've grown up."

Miroku shook his head, "No, I am still the way I was before, I just display it openly now. Yes I was and still am a hentai but, once I figured that I really loved Sango I realized I couldn't live without her. She's my air."

Once again Kagome's words were lost within her throat. All she could do was smile and try desprately to keep Inuyasha off her mind. "Miroku, don't you wonder where Hiroaki is?"

Miroku shook his head and pulled out a piece of parchment from his robes. He unfolded it and read:

'Father, Don't worry about me. I am perfectly safe and am in the presence of Yuta and her father, wether or not that is a good thing is beyond me. Yuta was kidnapped yesterday by that evil, pompous, egotistical, thick headed, Koshiro of the wolf demon tribe, and I had helped her to escape. Inuyasha grudgingly decided to give me comidations for the night but only because of Shippo's help. I also recieved help from Yuta, in keeping Inuyasha from pouncing me and sliting my throat on the spot. I would rather not mention the details but let me just state that nothing happened. Well I hope that everyone is fine and I guess since mother did say that you were coming to visit, that I'll be staying here till then. Goodbye,

-Hiroaki'

Miroku folded it back up and replaced it within his robes. "He's a good boy. Sent it to me late afternoon yesterday when you and Sango were talking. It seems like Inuyasha isn't going to go easy on the boy." He sighed and then gave a feeble shrug.

Kagome pondered this for a second. 'Keeping Inuyasha from pouncing me and sliting my throat' 'You don't think that Hiroaki may have had tried something on Yuta, now would he?' It's not as if she really knew the boy but....Miroku's hieratage, well it wasn't the greatest. But then yet again, didn't it just say that He had saved her? From Koshiro of the wolf demon tribe?...Something about this rang all too fimilar in Kagome's mind. Mostly the words 'pompous,' 'egotsistical,' and 'thick headed'

"Miroku?" she asked. "Koshiro, from the letter, don't tell me that's-"

"Kouga's son? Unfortantly yes. And it seems even his offspring is chasing your's in a love triangle."

Kagome sighed shaking her head and rubbed her temples. "She's WAY too young to got caught up in one of those. Oh I hope she turns both guys down rather than go through what I went through with Inuyasha, Kouga, Hojo, Mouso, and every other man that suddenly fell in love with me.(A/N giggling uncontrolably...It might happen, might not...)"

Miroku looked at her a little hurt. "So you would rather have Yuta alone, than with my son?"

>Kagome blushed for a second and then shook her head. "I don't know the boy. But hey if he's acting like you are right now then I give him my full blessings...except..."

Miroku raised an eye brow. "Except what?"

>"Well, once I get Yuta I had planned on taking her home for good, but I don't know now... Maybe it was supposed to be like this. Maybe Yuta was supposed to meet her father and you guys. But maybe she wasn't, maybe it was just some horrible acciddent..."

Kagome's voice cutt-off and Miroku placed a hand on her shoulder. Kagome looked up into her friend's sincere violet eyes. "Or maybe," he started. "Maybe there are no acciddents, That everything has happened for a reason. I may not know the reasons but, as we all learned 16 years ago when you first came to us, everything was meant to happen. You were meant to meet Inuyasha, to free him. You were meant to meet and mother Shippo. You were meant to meet me and help free me from my hand. We were all meant to be the one group that stood against Naraku and live. Kagome you should know by now that you can't change destiny, you can only live it."

A loud high pitched cry came from the room across from them and Miroku hurridly sat up to comfort the infant before his wife woke up. Kagome sighed and watched him go. She looked back down to the sleeping Hitomi and smiled a weak little smile, as she thought over Miroku's words. 'You can't change destiny, you can only live it.' SHe was really starting to get sick of all of her friend's words of wisdom. How was it that they all know what she thinks or feels? Why are they the only ones to make her see that she had made a horrible mistake? She could see it now. 'I never should have left Inuyasha...' She had been living so long with only herself, no advice only listening to her harsh jealous brain. She should have sought help long ago, from people who knew her and could relate. But if Miroku's words were true, than what was the reason for the Gods to seperate herself and Inuyasha? Why would they want something as horrible as that to happen?

A soft snap from behind her made Kagome turn around and face the ancient round form of Kaede, now 78. Kagome slid Hitomi off of her and hurrid over to help the old woman. Kaede smiled at the arm as she took it and sat down next slowly next to Kagome. She panted deeply and Kagome smiled at the old grandmother-like priestess. "Kagome it has been too long." she said slowly.

Kagome smiled and felt the horrible guilt in the bottom of her stomach start to rise. "I'm so sorry that I wasn't there for you Kaede. I should've been there to assist you-" Kaede held up a finger to silence the woman.

"Kagome, I need ye to take over as village priestess." Kagome's eyes widened. She had most certainly not been expecting that. Kagome stammered for words.

"But Kaede, you-I can't-I mean-"

Once again Kaede held up a finger. "Kagome, I am dying. I will not make it to see the next autumm. I have known that I could not stand much longer, so I only waited till thou returned and her ye are." Kagome started to ramble on again.

"But Kaede isn't there anyone else-?"

"There are no other priestesses." intterupted Kaede, her voice rather raspy. "Ye are the only one who knows the ways. And Now you are back and may teach that daughter of thou's the same. Thou are the only apprentice I ever trusted in. I trust ye Kagome..." Kagome was speechless as Kaede soon passed out where she sat. Kagome rushed to her checking her pulse to see that she was still alive. She was. The old priestess had just fallen into a deep slumber after the exhasting events of last night. Kagome tried to blink the words away as they came to her in shock. She slowly leaned away from the woman to standup and walked out of the front door. She placed her hand on the collum of the patio and watched the sun finish its peak over the hill and rise into the early morning sky. She looked to the heavens that were still a dark hue of blue and thought of all the words that she had been told in the past twenty-four hours.

-"I was scared..."

"You were the string that held us together"

-"I trust ye Kagome.."

"The heart break You went through Kagome, not Yuta. You can't shelter her from life."

-"You can't change destiny you can only live it."

"Give Inuyasha the chance to he a husband and a father. Don't live with the loss I have lived with."

Kagome gave the skies a small smile and then whispered. "I think I finally understand..." and then she turned her back on the skies and scurried back into the house to pack.
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-KNOCK- Yuta pulled herself out of her bed to anwser the door. Her feet slunk across the floor like dead weitght. Gods she was tired. Every muscle ached and just this little bit of moving was enough to make her scream. She opened the door slowly and looked at Hiroaki's smiling face. If she had had the strength she would have punched him for disturbing her but instead just grunted and walked back to the bed where she collapsed face first.

"It hurts that bad huh?" he asked sympathtically. He sat down next to her on the edge of the bed. Yuta just nodded and rolled herself over, soon wishing that she hadn't.

Yuta grimaced and then shifted to get comfortable. "More than you'll ever know. Who knew that demon techniques take so much out of you?" she asked closing her eyes. Hiroaki nodded sympathtically.

"Well maybe that's the reason it's called 'demon' technique. Only demons are able to use it because they recharge faster."

Yuta just groaned. "Well I aint re-charging here. My arms and legs hurt like hell. I think I pulled like 700 different muscles doing that 'Iron reaver' thing. Not to metion I didn't even get to try that 'blades of blood' and lets just say that the aspect of digging my hand into a bleeding wound does not sound to appealing."

Hiroaki chuckled. "Yuta you know there are only 600 muscles in the body." he informed her.

Yuta was silent for a second.".....Shuttup...." She didn't know how the hell Hiroaki knew that, but he was probably right. "Maybe I pulled a hundred of them twice or something."

Hiroaki was laughing now. "So how did you pull your tounge?"

Yuta raised an eyebrow. "What?"

Hiroaki just laughed again. "The tounge is a muscle, How'd you pull that? Get too caught up in the words 'Iron Reaver Soul Stealer?'"

"If you don't shuttup then I'll steal your soul right now." she growled to him. Hiroaki leaned down next to her.

"Oh really?"

"Yep"

"Really?"

"Yep"

"Really?

"Shuttup," she told him as he started to chuckle at her annoyence, his violet eyes alight with mirth. He could tell that this really annoyed her so he stopped.

"Sorry. Couldn't help it. You look so cute when your angry."

Yuta couldn't help but smile at his own gorgous one. Her face started to grow red when she realized how close they were. She scooted herself over as if to stretch and then looked back to Hiroaki. "So, what are you doing here?" she asked.

Hiroaki smiled and reached into his his haori. He pulled out a small leather bag and took a cup of water next to her bed. He tipped the bag over and out came a thin white powder. He swirled the water and then handed it to Yuta who sat up and leaned against the backboard. "Drink it" he ordered.

Yuta looked down to the concation, and then back up to Hiroaki. "What is it?" she asked uncertainly.

Hiroaki smiled a sincere smile. "It's a herbal remedy for minor aches and pains. It will help sooth your muscles so you can move quicker. Demon slayers use it so that when they're injured they can move without their minor pains to restrain them. Now stop talking and drink up."

Yuta looked back down at the mixture and Gulped. She slowly brought it to her mouth and drank it. It tasted somewhat like mushroom broth, like from mouson soup(A/N that's what I think it's called. EEEEWWW HATE THAT STUFF!! ACK! I CAN TASTE IT RIGHT NOW!! for those of you who don't know that's a japanese mushroom/tofu soup) rather bitter and left a strange after taste. She drank all of it and then quickly started rub her mouth dry to get rid of the after taste. Hiroaki watched her disgusted faces with a smile. Only she could make a face like that and pull it off as cute. "Well," Yuta stated. "That was a rather an unpleasant experience."

Hiroaki smirked "Either that or you could have stayed in your room for the next day crying to yourself. So how do you feel?" After thinking it over for a second Yuta realized she could move without having to freeze and let her muscles get used to it. She slid herself back to the opposite side of the bed and then got up. After taking five steps of no pain, Yuta jumped up into the air and did a little victory dance. 'I can't feel a thing!!'

"Are you ok?" came Hiroaki's voice through all of her victory. Yuta realized what she had just done and then turned beet red as she straightened herself up. "I was happy," she mumbled modestly. Hiroaki stared at her for a couple seconds and then cracked up in hysterical laugter, rolling around on the bed. Yuta blushed even darker and crossed her arms.

"It's not that funny." she mumbled.

"Oh-yes-haha-it is!" Hiroaki gasped out. Yuta frowned. 'Talk about embarressing.' Yuta looked down to the ground and then noticed a pillow lying on the floor about two feet away. A devilish grin spread across her face as she ran for the pillow and then beat Hiroaki over the head with it. "Now thanks to that little potion I can do this!" she yelled at him. Hiroaki cried out and reached for his own pillow before trying to block the hanyou's attacks. After what seemed like forever, and many thrown sheets later, Hiroaki finally managed to rid Yuta of her weapon and lay above her triumphantly.(a/N no he's no stradling her, sickos!) He grinned widely. "I win." he told her panting slightly.

Yuta panted heavily from their fight as well. She kept on her battle face, but inside her stomach gave another lurch. Hiroaki was so close. "Only the battle my dear friend, not the war." she retorted. Hiroaki smiled at her comment and the light flush filling her face. Hiroaki then slowly realized the postion they were in. He blushed as he noticed he was almost on top of her. 'She looks so beautiful,' he thought. Then daringly he balanced his weight on one hand and reached out the other hand and slid it down her cheek.

"I shall win that too," he whispered, sending shudders down her spine. "Ahem," cleared a voice behind them. Hiroaki turned around to face a slightly red faced Rin and Shippo standing behind them. Both Hiroaki and Yuta pulled apart, Hiroaki so fast that he actually fell off the bed and on to the floor. Yuta sustained a giggle but both were inwardly cursing about how every time they seemed to be alone that someone would intrude. "Um well we were just, um coming to see how Yuta was, but I can see that your busy" stammered Rin who turned around and faced the door starting out into the hall. Shippo just smirked.

"If your going to do that, then first off wait till night fall and then try closing the door." Shippo informed causing Hiroaki to blush and Yuta to cover her eyes in embarressment. She pulled them away and then looked back to Hiroaki. She couldn't stay here any longer or who know's what might happen? Maybe this time they would actually kiss and Inuyasha might walk in on them. -SHUDDER- she didn't want to know what might happen to poor Hiroaki then. "Rin! Wait up! I'm coming with you !" she called running over to the door. She paused for a second and then turned back around to Hiroaki. Yuta leaned over and gave him a quick chaste kiss on the cheek. Hiroaki looked to her in shock to which she just smiled and headed out after Rin.

Hiroaki ignored the looks Shippo kept giving him and his hand slowly reached up to touch the spot her lips had graced. The tingle spread through to his finger tips as he remebered the conversation from earlier.

"You think Yuta likes me?"

Shippo laughed shaking his head, "And more some"

Hiroaki stood frozen to the spot even though his gutt was boiling. Shippo's hand patting him hard on the back broke him out of his reverie. "Next time just get it over with and kiss the girl" he told him.

>Hiroaki scowled at the kitsune. "Well maybe next time you'll admit to Rin that you fancy her and then you can go make out with her!" he stormed out of the room and after Yuta, leaving a pale Shippo in his wake. One question played over the kitsune's mind. 'How'd he know'

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Poor Hiroaki. I would start getting pissed off too. Yep much shorter chapter than last time but oh well. I gave you whatca wanted: flirting and a Kagome scene. I was really starting to get pissed at myself for writting ANOTHER sequence in which they don't kiss because someone breaks them up. Damn that's one unlucky couple! as for the flirting, certain aspects are real conversations between me and the opposite sex, but as for which are which...I'm not telling. as for the comment on Inuyasha getting Totosai to forge Yuta her own sword....I don't know...not just about the idea, I still haven't decided on if Totosai is still alive...hate to see him at that age though...-SHUDDER- ok well g2g soooo tired! thank god it's a 3 day weekend! But I do have to go finish the stupid book...ARRRGH!! high school is still pretty normal though...still tons of hotties....((grins)) don't forget to R&R you guys!
-HPangel589