InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kismet ❯ Kill It With Fire! ( Chapter 5 )

Kill It With Fire!

This is probably my favorite Miroku story – I tell it to everybody who calls moving to Miamifrom to get with a woman he’d never met “romantic.”

I like to think of it as stupid. Cute, and kind of endearing, but stupid.

It happened just over a week after Miroku moved in. He had graduated the year before, but Sango was still a senior and going to school… which meant Miroku stayed at her home – usually unsupervised – for several hours each weekday.

For a while, he did well. He cooked and cleaned – Sango’s dad was super-impressed. He meditated like the “good monk” that he is. He surfed the internet on his laptop and downloaded porn. You know, all the things you’d expect of him.

Then one day, he realized he’d only gotten a passing glimpse at Sango’s room.

I’m sure you all know where I’m going with this.

The house was quiet; Sango’s dad was on a hunt for a rogue demon, and Sango and Kohaku were at school. What could possibly go wrong?

So he snuck into the room. He said later that he was shocked to see how much pink there was; Sango’s not very girly but she does have an affinity for the color. He admired her Hiraikotsu, ogled her slaying uniform and dreamed about seeing her in the skin-tight outfit. He poked and prodded, looking at the books she had and studying the booklets to the colleges she’d applied to.

You know, no big deal, right? Espionage! The quickest way to your woman’s heart!

But even on top of the “breaking and entering” (okay, so he didn’t break anywhere, but the door was shut and Sango had the reasonable expectation of the privacy of her own room), he demonstrated a severe lack of self-control…

He dug into her underwear drawer.

Now, I’m not here to confirm or deny what may have been in there. He insists to this day that you can “learn a lot about a woman by what she wears underneath her clothes.”

Whatever. I’m not here to judge.

I’m here to tell you about the time Miroku met Kirara.

Kirara, being a cat, tends to spend much of her time asleep. Demon cats are still cats; she’s just smarter than the normal ones. You know, the ones that don’t turn into the size of a small pony wreathed in fire. I’m not sure how Miroku managed to miss seeing her in the first week or so he was there. And you’d think he’d feel her demonic aura or something… although Sango does have a collar to diminish that while they’re on hunts.

Anyway, Kirara has been Sango’s best friend since she was a baby; Kirara lived in the family for ages. In fact, Kirara knew Sango and Miroku back when were together when they weren’t who they are now. Back when the whole “soul mate” thing started.

But new incarnations are different: they look different, they smell different, and they act different. So Kirara didn’t recognize the man that was digging through her mistress’ unmentionables…

And not only was he being snoopy, but he was interrupting her nap. Interrupting a regular cat’s nap is a mistake – any cat owner knows that. Waking up a demon cat? Not a good idea.

I guess now would be a good time to add how Miroku had supposedly just gotten out of the shower. He was wrapped in a nice fluffy white cotton robe.

A nice flammable cotton robe.

According to Sango, he steered clear of her room for nearly a month after.

OoO**OoO**OoO

Disclaimers:
I have no legal rights to the InuYasha characters; that honor belongs to Rumiko Takahashi and a bunch of Japanese and English companies. I just abuse them for the giggles.

Anything from Power Rangers (like our beloved narrator) belongs to Saban.

“Kismet” is written for the LJ community mirsan_fics. This entry, 597 words long, was originally posted June 18, 2010.