InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Mind Reader ❯ That Darn Monk ( Chapter 3 )

Mind Reader

 

Chapter 2: That Darn Monk

 

 

When Shippo realized the battle was over, there was no more grunting or yelling, he came out of the bush he was hiding in. And what he saw before his eyes shocked him. When he had run off only Inuyasha was hurt and everyone else was getting ready to help him. He had figured that once Inuyasha had help from the rest of the gang the battle would go quickly and easily (yeah, that's exactly what he thought-that's why he ran off). How wrong he was. The battlefield, and his friends, were a wreck.

 

The first thing Shippo saw as he was surveying the battlefield was the dead youkai. He gasped when he saw the arrow had gone all the way through the youkai's head. The end was sticking out of the youkai's mouth, which was still turned upwards in its sinister grin. And the point was coming out the back of its head. All in all it was a pretty bloody mess, as the youkai's head was almost split open. Even with the arrow going through its head

the blood red eyes were still open. And even though the youkai was dead the eyes still looked very much alive. They glistened in the sun and still managed to hold an expression of pure evil. Shippo shivered when he saw the youkai's eyes and quickly turned away. `I need to find everyone else.'

 

The first of his friend's that he came across was Miroku. He was slowly coming around, and when he was finally able to move his head away from the tree it was leaning against Shippo gasped. The back of his head was drenched in blood. There was a huge gash in the back of his head and it was seeping blood everywhere. Shippo watched Miroku struggle to his feet and then fall to his knees in pain. Shippo took off a second later to help him.

 

“Miroku! Miroku! Are you alright? What happened?”

 

“He… hey Shippo.” Miroku managed to gasp out. His head was killing him. It felt like someone had taken a katana and started to cut his head open like a melon. He had no idea that just a little flicker of the youkai's ears could cause him to fly backwards with so much force. “Do me a favor will ya? Go see if Sango is alright.”

 

“But Miroku! You head is bleeding. You need help too!” insisted Shippo.

 

“I'll be fine once I know that Sango is alright.”

 

Shippo realized that resistance would be futile, so he looked around to find Sango. When he did find her he was pleased to see that she was leaning against Kirara. He quickly ran over to her to see if she needed any help.

 

“Hey Sango, you ok?”

 

“Yeah, I'll be fine. I just have a few broken ribs from hiraikotsu slamming into me. I'm more worried about everyone else. I was the first one to get knocked out so I don't know what happened.”

 

“Umm, well I think that Kagome killed the youkai since there is currently an arrow sticking through its head. Miroku is alright. Well, he head is bleeding pretty bad but he's moving at least. And I haven't found Kagome or Inuyasha yet.” As Shippo filled her in Sango looked around her. When she saw the dead youkai she grinned wryly. `Wonder if Kagome was a little pissed at something today?' She then saw Miroku, and when she saw the gash in his head she gasped.

 

“Thanks Shippo, Kirara can you carry me over to Miroku?”

 

Kirara was happy to help and knelt down so that Sango could easily crawl onto her back. Soon Sango was by Miroku's side.

 

As Sango bandaged Miroku's head, Shippo looked for the remaining two members of the group. They weren't anywhere in the clearing, so Shippo started scanning the surrounding woods. He finally caught a glimpse of Inuyasha a few feet into the trees. `He must have moved her into the woods thinking it was safer.' He quickly ran to Inuyasha, but upon arriving he slid to an abrupt stop and started crying. Inuyasha was cradling an unconscious Kagome who looked deathly pale.

 

Inuyasha slowly raised his head when he heard Shippo crying. Now under any normal circumstance he would have been annoyed with the crying kitsune, but this time he couldn't because he felt like crying too. When he had seen Kagome look the youkai in the eyes he felt like screaming. Miroku had said that to look this creature in the eyes was fatal. However, Kagome was still alive so Inuyasha fervently hoped that Miroku was mistaken. Kagome was still alive for now, but her breathing was becoming shallower and she was growing colder by the minute.

 

“Inu… Inuyasha? Is Kagome gonna live?”

 

Inuyasha growled when he heard Shippo ask that question, “of course she is baka. Kagome is stronger that that youkai. It couldn't have defeated her!”

 

Shippo sighed in relief, if only he had known that Inuyasha was reassuring himself as much as he reassuring was Shippo. Shippo walked up to Kagome and placed a small hand on her cheek. He jumped when he felt how cold she was. “Inuyasha! She's freezing!”

 

Inuyasha sighed in response to Shippo stating the obvious. He was about to respond when Kirara walked up, carrying both Sango and Miroku. Miroku had a crude bandage wrapped around his head and seemed to be struggling to stay atop Kirara. Of course this couldn't be considered a consequence of his head wound. Rather, it was because Sango had demanded that he sit as far back on Kirara as he possibly could, so he was practically sitting on her haunches and he had nothing to hold on to. And you really couldn't blame her, when she was helping the pervert out he had copped a feel of her butt. So she had retaliated by adding another bruise to his already injured head.

 

Sango, knowing that Miroku was just fine, left him struggling atop Kirara and walked up to see her friend. Upon seeing Kagome lying unconscious in Inuyasha's arms she quietly asked, “Will she be alright?”

 

Inuyasha shrugged his shoulders and replied, “I truthfully don't know, she looked the youkai in its eyes.”

 

Upon hearing this Sango gasped and Miroku fell from his precarious perch on Kirara in shock. As Miroku stood back up he said the first thing that came to mind, “shit.”

 

Luckily for Kagome, Sango had a little bit of a better response, “oh crap.” Never mind, but at least she was able to get out two words.

 

Inuyasha groaned at his two extremely helpful friends. `I guess it's all up to me to help Kagome.' Inuyasha stood up with Kagome still cradled in his arms and started barking out orders.

 

“Miroku! Go find Kagome's backpack!”

 

Make that an order

 

Miroku took off at once and soon came back dragging Kagome's enormous backpack behind him. Inuyasha quickly rummaged through it til he found her sleeping bag. He promptly wrapped the unconscious girl in it and prepared to leave.

 

“Sango, Miroku, and Shippo, ride back to Kaede's village on Kirara. I'm going to take Kagome to her and see if that old hag can finally prove herself useful.” And with that Inuyasha took off, careful not to jar the girl in his arms.

 

Miroku stared after the disappearing hanyou for a few seconds before turning to Sango with a grin. “My lady Sango, would you care to…”

 

WHACK!!

 

And poor Miroku was knocked out the second time, this time by the hands of a demon exterminator.

 

“Umm, Sango? How do you know what Miroku was going to say? What if it wasn't something perverted?” Shippo tentatively asked.

 

Sango grinned at the confused kitsune, “It didn't really matter what he said, I was going to knock him out anyways.”

 

Shippo was speechless. He never thought Sango would do something so cruel. He laughed nervously and began backing up, prepared to run at that slightest clue that Sango was about to attack him.

 

Sango laughed at Shippo's reaction and quickly comforted the kitsune, “It's alright Shippo. I did it for his own good. Knowing the brilliant ideas Miroku gets he most likely would have tried to grope me when Kirara was flying pretty high. And since he would grope me I would be forced to slap him. And that would probably send Miroku falling to his death. So I knocked him out to save him the trouble of dying.”

 

Shippo thought for a moment and came to the conclusion that Sango was in fact not losing her mind. “Ok.”

 

Sango stared at Shippo, astounded that he would accept that explanation so easily. She was telling the truth, but she wasn't sure she would believe someone if they gave her that reasoning. “That's it? Ok? No arguments? No Sango you're going insane? Nothing?”

 

“Nope!”

 

“Well, alright.” Sango than bent over and started to pick up Miroku. However, pain shot through her before she could get Miroku on Kirara and she dropped the monk who landed unceremoniously on the ground, his head bouncing a few times before coming to a rest. `Damn my broken ribs. I guess I should have waited to knock him out until after he was on Kirara.'

 

Sango was thinking how she was gonna get Miroku on Kirara's back when Kirara solved her problem. Kirara picked up Miroku by her teeth and threw him over her head, where he did a back flip before landing on Kirara's back.

 

“Wow Kirara, I don't know how you did that…but wow!” Sango was quite impressed with her cat demon, she never knew Kirara had talent like that. She didn't know how to react to Kirara's little stunt. Shippo, however know exactly what to do.

 

“Ooooh! Awesome Kirara! Hey, can you do that to me? Huh? Can you can you can you?” Shippo was jumping up and down in anticipation of being thrown through the air like Miroku.

 

Kirara glared at Shippo, but she soon realized that the only way to shut him up was to throw him. So she grabbed Shippo and threw him 10x's higher than Miroku went.

 

“WHEEEE!!”

 

As Shippo somersaulted through the air Kirara checked to make sure Sango wasn't looking, and than quickly stepped to the side. She than watched innocently as Shippo fell to the ground and landed none to gently on his head.

 

“Ow.”

 

When Shippo missed Kirara Sango looked at Kirara suspiciously, but Kirara pulled off the innocent act so good (much better than Miroku) that Sango figured it was the wind that pushed Shippo off course.

 

“Ok, enough fooling around, let's get back to Kaede's.” Sango ordered, preventing Shippo from asking Kirara to throw him again.

 

Sango jumped on Kirara's back and positioned Miroku so that he was in front of her with his head hanging on one side and his feet hanging on the other. Shippo crawled into Sango's lap and Kirara flew off.

 

~ 30 min later ~

 

Miroku groggily opened his eyes and looked around. He was really high off the ground, no, he better rephrase that, he was really really high. He looked up and saw Sango. He opened his mouth to speak and…

 

WHACK!!

 

* * * * *

 

Inuyasha arrived at the village and quickly went into Kaede's house.

 

Kaede looked up from where she was preparing some herbs and saw Inuyasha walk in with an unconscious Kagome. She jumped up quickly, well quickly for an old woman, and walked over to where Inuyasha was.

 

“Inuyasha, what happened?”

 

“She looked into some strange squirrel youkai's eyes and than fainted.”

 

Kaede rubbed her chin thoughtfully, “Hmm, squirrel youkai? I never heard of that one.”

 

“Miroku said that if you made eye contact with it you would die.”

 

“Nope, doesn't ring any bells, but in my humble opinion I believe that Kagome is still alive.”

 

Inuyasha growled, “No shit you worthless hag. If she weren't alive than I wouldn't be having this conversation with you right now. Can you do anything at all for her?”

 

Kaede looked at Inuyasha hesitantly before responding, “Uh…no?”

 

“What the hell do you mean no?”

 

“I mean exactly what the word no connotates. I will not give Kagome anything.”

 

Inuyasha was absolutely livid at this point. “Kagome could be dying and you're just gonna sit there and do nothing?”

 

“Actually, I will stand here and do nothing. I don't know what it is ailing Kagome, so to give her something now could prove fatal. Until I know what kind of youkai attacked Kagome I will not put her life in any more danger then it already is.”

 

Inuyasha was about to respond, but than lowered his head in defeat. He sighed as he sat down, still holding Kagome.

 

“That damn monk better get here soon.”