InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Frog Houshi ❯ WHAT?! ( Chapter 3 )

AN: in case you were wondering, Sango still haven't discovered the identity of the frog yet.

III. WHAT?!

"Those are his clothes, and I have no idea where he could be naked," Sango pointed out the pile of robes that was still there to Shippo.

"What are we going to do?" Shippo asked.

Sango shrugged. "I dunno. But I'm not looking for him anymore. I wish Inuyasha was here, he could sniff him out. Hey wait! Shippo,"

"Yeah?"

"You're a demon, can you smell him?"

The little kitsune shook his head. "I tried, but I can't find any trail leading from his clothes."

"That's weird. It's not like he can fly or anything. Kirara," she turned to her cat, "Do you know anything?"

Kirara shook her head. But Sango noticed that Kirara kept giving strange looks at the frog on Sango's shoulder.

"Oh, do you want to play with Mr. Frog?" she asked as she set the frog down gently in front of the cat. Kirara sniffed him and mewed. Then she started purring.

"Boy, you really like frogs," Sango commented. "Just be careful with him."

Sango and Shippo started to walk away from the frog. But they had not gone far when Kirara jumped in front of them.

"What is it Kirara?" Sango asked as she bent down to pet the cat.

Kirara ran away before Sango's hand touched her, leaving the girl looking baffled. Then Kirara mewed and beckoned them to follow. The cat led them back to the heap of robes and the frog sitting happily on top.

"Shoo! Those are Houshi-sama's. I'm sure he doesn't want them to get all dirty." But the frog didn't move. In fact, he looked smug. Sango bent down to take him away when Kirara started mewing.

"What is it?" Shippo asked.

Kirara pointed her nose at the frog and mewed urgently. Through experience, Sango understood that her friend was pointing something important out to her. She squinted her eyes and saw that there was something odd about the frog. She saw in the sunlight that filtered through the canopy that there was a dark violet spot on his right front foot against its green skin. Upon closer examination, she discovered that it wasn't a dark spot but a piece of violet cloth wrapped around the webbed foot. Strange. But even stranger was the tiny string of blue prayer beads wound around the cloth. Since when do frogs wear prayer beads?

She pointed this out to Shippo, and the little fox demon was baffled too. He knitted his brow, then his eyes widened.

"Miroku?"

The frog croaked happily as if confirming Shippo's suspicion.

"WHAT?!" Sango was so shocked that she almost fell over backwards.

"It can't be! Can it?" She crept closer and looked at the frog's right foot again. Yep, the cloth and prayer beads looked exactly like Miroku's, except in miniature.

"Houshi-sama?" she asked softly, "Is that really you?"

The frog actually seemed to nod.

"How, how did you…a frog…what happened…" Sango stuttered, dazed.

Kirara mewed.

"You're right Kirara," Shippo said, straightening up. "He can't tell us. We'll have to change him back first. Come on Sango." He picked up the frog while Sango, still shocked, picked up Miroku's robes and staff. Then they headed back to camp.

Sango still couldn't believe that the frog might be Miroku. Her cheeks flamed as she remembered her "conversation" with the frog the previous night. What would she do if he heard her and understood her? She could only hope that he couldn't understand human speech as a frog.

"Okay, how do we change him back?" Shippo asked once they were back at the camp.

"Change him back?" Sango looked at Shippo then back at the frog. "I dunno Shippo, I kinda like him this way." If he stays being a frog, then she wouldn't have to confront him about what she said last night.

But just as she finished speaking, the frog leapt onto Sango and found his way down her kimono again. The girl screamed in surprise and anger and yanked him out, hard. This time, she purposely hurled him across the camp. She didn't even care where he landed or whether he was okay."On second thought Shippo, let's change him back."

sry, can't resist the temptation of putting on that ending!

next chapter: Kagome and Inuyasha come back and they try to figure out how to change Miroku back, and Sango may be having second thoughts about whether she wants to change him back. There are advantages of him being a frog...