InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Ninja ❯ A Little Bit Of Romance ( Chapter 11 )

Warning! Mild yaoi - Mir X Inu // Gin X Hakk

 

CHAPTER 11: A Little Bit Of Romance

 

Everyone started the long walk back to the village with Kouga and Inuyasha walking one on each side of a frustrated Kagome as they traded barbs back and forth. Kouga's two subordinate wolf demons were just behind them chatting with Sango and Miroku, the four grinning at the two demons ahead of them who were trying to outdo each other to gain Kagome's attention. Sesshoumaru was just behind them trying to ignore the whole thing, wondering if he had made the right choice to join this circus. Kai brought up the rear as she was getting really tired of Kouga and Inuyasha. She just wanted to get away from the two of them for awhile before she got a migraine from all their bickering.

 

Sesshoumaru glanced back at Kai slowing his pace so she could catch up with him. “I have not thanked you for helping me”, he said when he figured no one else was paying attention to them.

 

“That's ok”, replied Kai with a smile.

 

Sesshoumaru really began to notice her for the first time. She was not a raving beauty but she was pretty, shorter than Kagome and Sango but well proportioned. Sesshoumaru thought her eyes were her most lovely feature, green and cool like the sea and always bright and cheerful. He hadn't seen hair her color before, sort of a dark honey shade he decided also finding her scent quite pleasant. He looked ahead at the others and tried to keep his thoughts off his face. I will not be like my father, he thought. I may be honour bound to help these humans and my brother but I will not fall for one. Even as he thought this he still did not move to increase his pace or walk away.

 

Kai thought Sesshoumaru was gorgeous, long white hair gently waving behind him as he walked. She wondered what it would be like to touch that hair, run her fingers through it. Those markings on his face are so beautiful she really wanted to touch those as well. Such a quiet demeanour that left one to wonder what was going on in that head of his; and those eyes, she thought dreamily. She had absolutely no fear of him even though Kagome and Sango had told her stories of how vicious and deadly he could be when the girls had spent the afternoon together at the springs. She had reached out her aura to his and had felt no evil; he was lonely, angry and there was a great sadness about him, but no evil. Kai hoped she would get a chance to know him better as they continued to walk quietly together.

 

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By the time they got back to the village everyone was ready to strangle Inuyasha and Kouga. Kagome had yelled at the both of them to leave her alone and she had wished vehemently that she could put prayer beads around Kouga's neck so she could sit the both of them into next week. Ginta and Hakkaku dragged Kouga off while Miroku ran interference with Inuyasha.

 

Kagome had decided to wait until morning to head back home as she went into the hut with Sango following. She had a splitting headache from all the posturing the two males had done and was too tired to head out again.

 

Shippo, Rin and a very exhausted Jaken greeted Sesshoumaru and Kai. Kai had to laugh at Jaken; the two kids had run him ragged the whole morning. “Why don't you go take a break”, she said to him “I'll play with the kids for awhile.”

 

Jaken bowed his thanks, heading towards the woods to get away and lie down for awhile. He did not like being around so many humans, refusing to stay in any of the huts.

 

Sesshoumaru sat on the step of Kaede's hut, watching Kai play with the two children. Rin ran up to him and with pleading brown eyes asked him to join them. Sesshoumaru, not able to refuse the small girl, went towards Kai and Shippo who were coloring on some paper Kagome had given him. Sesshoumaru was intrigued by the crayons, not having seen such writing implements before and wondered where they had come from. He sat beside Kai with Rin in his lap as she drew and colored noticing proudly that Rin was the better artist of the two youngsters.

 

Sango exited the hut to come upon the little scene and thought it was the most precious thing she had ever seen. She wished Kagome could see it as well, but she had fallen asleep inside and Sango did not want to wake her.

 

Sesshoumaru just kept surprising her to no end. She had been against him joining them at first, not trusting the demon lord but now she was seeing new sides to him and was beginning to change her mind. Maybe he's not so bad after all she thought as she moved off to go find where Miroku had disappeared to with Inuyasha.

 

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As Miroku pulled Inuyasha away into the forest from the retreating forms of Ginta, Hakkaku and Kouga he said, “Give lady Kagome a break”. Just give it a rest for awhile.”

 

Out in the forest Inuyasha turned on Miroku. “Why in the hell did you pull me away? I'm going to kick his ass, he deserves it”, said an angry Inuyasha.

 

“You're driving Kagome crazy, is that what you want?” Miroku asked sternly.

 

“No” sulked Inuyasha. “He's such an ass though”, Inuyasha immediately began to grouch, complain and curse about Kouga some more.

 

Miroku had had enough, grabbing Inuyasha and throwing him to the ground with himself on top of the hanyou, his staff held under Inuyasha's chin he yelled “Just stop it!!”

 

“What the fuck”, Inuyasha yelled back at him. “What's your problem Miroku?!”

 

“Just stop and shut-up!” Miroku was extremely frustrated by now.

 

“You can't tell me to shut-up. You just try and make me. I'll kick your ass, just who the hell do you humph” Inuyasha's last words being cut off by Miroku's lips.

 

His eyes grew as large as saucers as he felt Miroku's lips on his own. He…He's kissing me, thought a confused Inuyasha not knowing what to do. Miroku's kiss was causing a warm feeling to start in his stomach and rise up in the rest of his body. Before he had a chance to respond Miroku drew his lips away and sat up from Inuyasha, turning his back to him. “Go on Inuyasha. If you and Kouga want to beat the crap out of each other, be my guest.”

 

The furthest thing from Inuyasha's mind right now was Kouga. He sat up and crawled around so he was in front of Miroku's downcast head, his bangs hiding his eyes. “Why did you do that?” asked Inuyasha almost in a whisper.

 

Shit, I've really done it now, Miroku thought fearfully. “I'm sorry, Inuyasha, I don't know what came over me”, he answered sorrowfully instead. I'm probably going to lose my best friend, if he doesn't kill me first. He was expecting a tirade, Inuyasha to hit him but instead he felt him put his hand under his chin and gently lift his head so he was looking into Inuyasha's golden eyes. They sat, staring at each other, confusion, want, curiosity and other unknown emotions playing across their faces.

 

Inuyasha started to lean in towards Miroku when Sango cried out “Miroku, Inuyasha, hey where are you guys?”

 

Inuyasha and Miroku quickly scrambled backwards on their butts away from each other blushing hotly, both standing as Sango appeared.

 

“There you guys are. What are you doing?” Sango asked innocently.

 

“Nothing”, said Miroku looking away from both Sango and Inuyasha so they wouldn't see his reddening face.

 

“Just talking, can't two guys just go and talk”, Inuyasha said grumpily.

 

Sango looked at both of them a little oddly but then shrugged her shoulders “We should head back and get some supper.”

 

“Ok” both boys agreed wanting to distance themselves from each other. “Is Kagome still mad?” asked Inuyasha. He was feeling badly for upsetting Kagome; now felling worse thinking that he had almost betrayed her. Was I really just about to kiss Miroku? Damn monk, this is all his fault he started it. Inuyasha thought angrily as he smashed down the little voice in his head that said, you wanted to kiss him, you've always wanted to kiss him.

 

“Well she's not happy, but I'm sure she'll forgive you. Just don't go picking anymore fights with Kouga.”

 

“Feh”, Inuyasha said sulkily.

 

They started back down the path towards the village, Inuyasha and Miroku not looking at each other. Sango sensed the tenseness between them but figured it was because Miroku had stopped Inuyasha from hitting Kouga.

 

Inuyasha looked up as he heard a slap seeing Miroku with a very red handprint on his face, Sango giving him a death glare. Inuyasha smiled. Things were back to normal.

 

Inuyasha heard the clang of swords as they returned to the village. “Someone's fighting”, he cried taking off quickly drawing Tetsaiga; Sango and Miroku right behind him.

 

When they entered, Inuyasha saw Sesshoumaru with a small katana, Kai with another. They were circling around each other; Shippo, Rin, Jaken and Kaede were sitting calmly watching.

 

“What are they doing?” asked a confused Inuyasha.

 

“They're training”, Rin said happily.

 

“Foolish girl”, returned Jaken. “Our master needs no training he's giving that girl a lesson in humility.”

 

Kai leapt forward, blade extended. Sesshoumaru sidestepped and brought his blade horizontal just in front of his chest. At the last possible second Kai dropped to the ground, rolling over on her back and brought her katana up. Sesshoumaru's eyes widened and a small grin appeared on his face. He brought his sword down upon hers as he bent over. It was then that Kai lifted her legs, as she slid between Sesshoumaru's, connecting with his butt and sending him flying. Sesshoumaru did an almost impossible flip and landed gracefully on his feet a few yards away.

 

“Well done”, he complimented.

 

“Thanks”, said Kai breathing hard with a huge smile on her face. Sesshoumaru was not even breaking a sweat.

 

Jaken was flabbergasted. How dare she strike his lordship! “Get her my Lord, get her”, he cheered hoping his Sesshoumaru-sama would cut her in two. Another lump was soon forming on his head, this time from Sesshoumaru. “Ohhh my lord Sesshoumaru, what did I do?” asked Jaken, his eyes swimming in spirals.

 

Rin giggled then her stomach growled so loudly that everyone heard it.

 

“Rin, it is time to eat”, said Sesshoumaru. He bowed slightly to Kai who bowed deeply in return. “Thank you my lord demon”, Kai said politely as Sesshoumaru returned her small katana.

 

Kagome popped her head out of the hut saying “Suppers ready everyone” just as Kouga, Ginta and Hakkaku came out of the forest following the smell of the food.

 

They all sat down outside the hut sharing in the meal, Inuyasha quite surprised to see Sesshoumaru eating human food although he did notice that he sniffed it a bit first. The only one not eating was Jaken who was sitting just outside the circle sulking.

 

Everyone was having a nice time until Kouga got up to sit beside Kagome. Inuyasha's face started turning red as he physically tried to push himself between Kouga and Kagome, Kouga pushing back. Soon the two of them were swearing and insulting each other again. Kagome's eyebrow twitched and she was just about to sit Inuyasha when a loud “ENOUGH!!” was heard.

 

Everything went completely still, not even a cricket dared to chirp after Sesshoumaru's outburst. “If you two do not stop this foolishness, I will tear you both apart with my bare hands”, Sesshoumaru said menacingly in a low and dangerous voice.

 

Both Kouga and Inuyasha could see he was deadly serious and stepped back from each other, warily watching the angry demon.

 

“Now, both of you do not go near Kagome again this evening. Rin we are leaving.” With that Sesshoumaru headed off into the forest with Rin and Jaken following.

 

Inuyasha ran up to his brother but did not get too close as Sesshoumaru turned and glared at him then continued walking forward. “Hey, you're coming back right? You swore to help us.”

 

Sesshoumaru stopped and turned again, Inuyasha took a step back nervously putting his hand on the hilt of Tetsaiga. Sesshoumaru noticed this and smirked.

 

“We'll be back in the morning, Rin needs to sleep”, he said emotionlessly as he turned and again continued to walk away.

 

Even though Sesshoumaru was no longer there to police the two demons, peace reined around the fire that had been lit. Everyone, except Inuyasha and Kouga, were quite grateful for the demon lord's interference in the matter, especially Kagome as neither one approached her for the rest of the evening.

 

Soon everyone headed off in their respective directions to go to bed, Kouga going into the forest but choosing to head in the opposite direction of where Sesshoumaru had gone.

 

Ginta and Hakkaku decided to sleep in Inuyasha's hut to take advantage of a warm bed as they were getting pretty tired of sleeping outside or in caves all the time. Miroku followed them in yawning hugely

 

Inuyasha leapt into a tree outside of Kaede's hut wanting to keep a watch over Kagome as she, Sango, Kai, Shippo and Kirara went in. He wanted to make sure that Kouga didn't approach. Kaede also went in saying goodnight to everyone. It sure will be exciting here with those children around thought Kaede. She hoped she was up to the challenge.

 

Sesshoumaru sat down under a tree with his back to the trunk facing Rin who was snuggled up by the fire. Sesshoumaru knew that Rin was happy to be with everyone and that she had taken quite a shine to Kai. She had spoken of little else before falling asleep. How nice Kai was, how pretty she was; didn't Sesshoumaru-sama think so; and on and on.

 

Sesshoumaru-sama did think Kai was pretty but did not volunteer the information to Rin. He was quite impressed with her fighting technique as well. He had asked for the match to gauge how she would do in battle and could see she had been well trained. She moved faster than he would have thought for a human. Perhaps I will continue her training he thought. Not to be close to her or anything but to have her better able to fight Naraku. At least that's what he told himself.

 

He had actually, for the first time in his life, been rather enjoying himself. He found Kai quite interesting to talk to. She had answered all of his questions politely and truthfully and knew when to stay silent when he did not wish to talk. He felt quite comfortable around her and had learned more of who she was. He was also pleased that she seemed to like Rin as much as Rin liked her. Now why does that matter, he questioned himself. Sesshoumaru shook his head and then closed his eyes, drifting off into a light sleep.

 

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Miroku was awakened later in the night by the sounds of heavy breathing and soft moaning coming from beneath the blanket on the futon across the room from him.

 

“Shhh” Hakkaku said quietly, “You'll wake the human.”

 

“Naw, humans can't hear that well, keep doing that - that feels wonderful”, groaned out Ginta.

 

It's going to be a long night thought Miroku closing his eyes and trying to close his ears.