InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Inuyasha's unknown heritage (Yes boring title I know!) ❯ Miroku ( Chapter 25 )

Chapter 25) Miroku

Everyone was now resting before Kaede's hut. Lina had announced to all that she had some things to tell and discuss with them. This was a slight shock since they had already had a talk to them earlier.

Kouga and his pack were just about to set down behind the circle of people sitting before her and Joseph as she made her first announcement.

"First I would like to tell you all a little bit of information that I and my mate have just recently confirmed and would like to share with you." Sharing a look with her mate and a nod, Lina continued. "We have just recently had the fact that Inuyasha and Sesshomaru are not the only grandchildren in the area we need to teach. Now this grandchild of ours has taken some time to confirm because the youkai he is related to is very hard to detect since they are almost undetectable from a regular human."

To this, Inuyasha and Sesshomaru shared a look. They had no idea they had a cousin in the area. As far as they had known, their family line had little if no variation in it, since most siblings died or moved away.

Focusing back on Lina they waited as she made her dramatic pause.

Smiling warmly, Lina shocked Inuyasha again as she focused her gaze intently on the hoshi.

Jaw dropped and worried a little, he focused on Lina a little more intently before he had his fears confirmed.

"Miroku. If you would, please stand up for the crowd." Lina said as she kept her focus on the hoshi and all gaped at him.

Worriedly, Miroku stood and faced Inuyasha's grandmother.

"Apparently you have no idea who your mother really was? Do you monk?" Lina questioned softly.

"I only know that she died when I was born. Everyone said it was due to the curse of the family that did it." Miroku answered with his monk face as he worried about the information that he felt he would hear.

"Well from what I have heard through the family. There is a genetic defect most Windworkers have that can affect them during childbirth if the normal youkai precautions are not taken. That is probably why she died during your birth, but I am here to tell you "grandson" that she did not die from the curse from Naraku." Lina said with a serine face as she emphasized the grandson in her statement and shocked all in attendance.

"No way am I related to that lecherous hoshi!!!!" Inuyasha stated from his position near Kagome as he scowled at Lina.

"Tragic case of denial." Lina said with a smile and thoughtful face as she looked at her lifemate, nodding she refocused.

Sesshomaru after hearing this just raised a speculative brow at his brother before focusing his eyes intently on Miroku.

"On to my next announcement." Lina said with a wide smile as Miroku sat down hard in shock. Raising her hand with a finger pointed, Lina went to her next joyously announced sentence. "I can lift the curse that Naraku put on your hand little one. Also, I am going to teach you a little of using that tunnel of yours and a little magic along with Kagome. You will need it in our upcoming fight with that resurrected annoyance."

Smiling so wide that most thought she would break something, she continued with her little tirade.

"The "Wind tunnel" you have on your palm Miroku, is a youkai trait. Most Windworkers have one, along with the ability to use air to float or wield in many different forms." Lina then looked out over the brief assembly as she let that soak in. "The tunnel in your hand is only slightly affected by the curse Naraku put on your family." Lina focused intently on Miroku now, since this was mainly information for him. "Naraku's curse mainly just makes the tunnel unclosable. In any regular Windworker it would just look like a black circle on the palm, that opens when needed, but on you it isn't controllable."

Looking thoughtfully over the group for a moment of speculation again, she refocused back on the hoshi. "I speculate that your mother thought your father was a Windworker when they first met. When they had you though, the curse was weakened since the wind tunnel is a normal thing for them. "

Suddenly the implications of what Lina was telling him came to the forefront of his mind and Miroku couldn't stop his outburst. "I'm a hanyou?"

Chuckling softly, Lina and Joseph both shook their heads at the dense group before them.

"I will break the curse for you tomorrow my grandson, since you need to rest up for the procedure. You need to be fresh and at full power since it pulls a little energy from you to complete." Lina said to the still dazed monk. "Then I will begin your and Kagome's training in magics. "

Now focused on Kouga she decided to make another announcement. "Next on the agenda." Lina said with a still happy sound. "Will you be staying Kouga? I can teach you some things so that you will no longer need the shards imbedded in your legs. Consider this carefully though," Lina said with a raised finger and warning look, "you will not have those shards forever. Kagome will need them sooner or later if the jewel is to be completed."

Kouga mesmerized for a moment, shook it off and considered her statement carefully. He knew he needed further training if he was to help defeat Naraku and soon he would have to give the shards over. Looking speculatively at the two youkai before him, he remembered briefly the display of earlier. In only a week, Inuyasha had improved immensely under her tillage.

"Yes I will stay." Kouga announced and grinned at her.

Nodding over the group, Lina decided to put her plan into action and closed her eyes and looked to be thinking. Feeling briefly for her son's mind, she told him to send Corba to them. Her granddaughter would know better how to train him in things specific to wolves, since she was training four people already, she needed the help.

Looking over the group once more, she studied their faces intently.

Miroku was still slightly dazed, she didn't blame him though, not many found out that you were a hanyou and your curse could be simply lifted all in one day.

Inuyasha was still scowling at her, and then looking at Miroku with a speculative look. Apparently he wasn't totally against the fact that he now had a cousin, though a lecherous one at that.

Sesshomaru was once again focused on her. She searched his eyes and lightly touched his mind, and felt only acceptance. She guessed since she had already told him that he had more relatives, that he was kind of open to the possibility.

Looking over at Sango, she noted that Miroku wasn't the only one who was kinda dazed. She guessed that having another relative of Inuyasha around was kind weird for her, even if she had been traveling for two years with him.

Kagome seemed to be taking this well Lina noted next. She was just smiling, happy as can be, seemingly looking for similarities between Inuyasha and Miroku. To no surprise, Inuyasha was beginning to get annoyed at this when he noticed.

Kouga was still smiling, Lina noted as she turned her head at his intent stare. Looking at him briefly, she noticed the intelligence locked behind his naiveté.

Sharing a knowing look with Kateru and Zera, she smirked; they knew exactly what she was doing. They knew meddling was a pastime of hers.

Looking over at her mate, she noted his tiredness, it was near noon and he was hungry and a nap sounded good to her. Kissing him gently before looking at everyone with a small smile, she decided to let everyone relax for the evening.

"Since there was nothing really else I wanted to discuss with you. I suggest we take a lunch break and you can do whatever you like until dusk. I wanted to show you all something before we get ready for tomorrow." With that said, Lina and Joseph rose and walked a short distance to a shady place under some trees not far away.

Joining their hands together, all watched as some magic pulled off of them to create a large thin bamboo table of approximate ten by ten in size. None but Kouga blinked at this act since they had seen much magic from the two.

Although when Lina brought two capsules out of her pocket and showed Inuyasha and Sesshomaru, everyone was puzzled at the extra glint in Inuyasha's eyes.

Kagome laughed a moment later when Lina and Joseph took one each and tapped them at opposite sides of the table. A poof sounded and a dark smoke erupted from each capsule, when the smoke cleared though, the table was filled to almost brimming with food.

Everyone also watched as a green light started glowing between her hands as she held them horizontally. Suddenly several wooden plate/bowls (they are deep plates) appeared in her grasp. Enough for them all.

Putting them on the table next to the chopsticks that had appeared from the capsule, Inuyasha reacted first, since he knew the drill pretty much, and took one. Going first to the ramen, he was the first to set down a short distance from them and began eating.

After this delayed reaction, it was no time before the table was cleared of all the food and everyone had found something to do or somewhere to hide.

Some moments later.

Lina and Joseph watched from their blankets sleepily as Inuyasha deftly hid Kagome with him after asking Lina about the Invisibility spell. Lina laughed softly as she noted that Kouga walked past their sleeping/sunning spot in some deep grass, not thirty yards from Lina. They were so cute curled around one another on Kagome's sleeping bag.

Snuggling up to her mate, Lina sighed in contentment as she sunned herself from their bedding. After a time, the whistling of the wind through the trees and the soft chirp of the birds lulled her to sleep with a happy grin on her face.