InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Sweetest Sin ❯ Danger from One's Heart ( Chapter 23 )

I admit I am in a semi quasi happy go lucky good mood. Don't know why but I am....thinking of doing something special if I go past 500 reviews...

"Like talking to all of us!" Yuka pipes in with Simply'sbrother and the gang right behind her. Plopping right next to Simply as Kagome and the others surround her and peer over....They skin over the story as she types....

Hilo...-Yep you got it kinda right....Hojo is Hojo but he is Kikyo's descendant....and well her little curse is about to play its part...

babygrl2coo...-giggles I am glad that you are enjoying it and I will add some more Miroku and Sango moments all right....

saber-kon...-How old are Yuka and Akira? Well here are the ages for all of them actually in human terms I like to think of

Yuka and Eri 18, Ayume and Kagome are both 17, Akira and Tsukasa are 19, Jinto is 18, and Inuyasha I would hazard is 20. Tokaji is 19....maybe one more character who will be 16 might be added...debating on it right now so to speak.....

In the past Miroku is 22 and Sango is 19

In the present, Sesshomaru and Kagura look about 32 and 29 respectively...you know them being demons and all. Kouga and Ayame I would say are 30 and 26 whereas Tokaji's parents are 28 and 25 keep in mind the demon blood and the mating/ rituals

Sesshomaru4eva203...-Nope Hojo is Hojo...remember family tree...Hojo is Kikyo's descendant and I understand and thanks for enjoying it....

CriscoKittie, sesshomaru-luver...Thank you and I am glad that you like it....

DragonMistress704...-steps aside and lets you have at him....I would believe he is in the closet which is third door on the right......watches as reader chases after him....everyone stops talking and sits down with popcorn and soda....

foxylilraven...-true they should have known, but what is Hojo known for...as well as Kikyo? To be exceptionally sweet and charming when they want to be you know. I think they had their suspicions but they were like...naah he wouldn't hurt a flea....

kagoinuy...-Thank you

kyli the wolf hanyou...-you mean Tsubaki? Nope....he is Kikyo's

nm3...-I believe Yuka is flattered by your compliment and she says thank you. As to Hojo...they said the same thing about Ted Bundy. Bundy was executed in 1986 I think for up to 46 known murders spanning 16 states. The one thing most people said about him. Was that he was nice and helpful young man who would do anything for his fellow man.....Just because a person is nice...don't always believe it...

inu-lover2004...-Thank you and I shall see what I can do to please

NefCanuck...-Yep he is her descendant, and well they don't know yet....and as to Kouga...except in times of crisis he always seemed kind of mellow to me...but then again I saw later episodes it might be just my interpretation

Citrus-luvr...-Well we shall see what happens and if you look down that is what it was about

San_girl13...-I am glad you enjoyed and believe me when I say this chapter will be a eye opener for Sango....

Inuyashasgrl15...-Thank you and you get a cookie for being right....

Dragon Man 180...-Yep Hojo is Kikyo's descendant and is Inuyasha's mother reincarnated....to be honest...I shall have to think about that.

inufreak831...-Well thanks, I included her friends for the main reason being, my brother asked how come they always seemed to hang around...and it just took off. As to where the bit concerning Naraku and battle....gives you a cookie and winks...won't be for a while though. Sango and Miroku do play a role...for they have to get together because of Akira...and well they will have some trouble and tribulation, but they will have more important roles besides that later on.

As to spelling and grammar would you believe I do use the spell-check and grammar check? I just don't think it works on my computer. Sorry about the chapters, but what can I say I do have to go to work sometime. As to Hojo with powers...I don't know...I shall have to think about that but it is an idea....she muses.....as a couple of scenarios pop into her head.

Cindyve13, Miztucal Dragon, Goddess Hope, Inubunny...-Yep...and thanks

Eternal Serena...-Uh huh...but if you think about it Kikyo loved Inuyasha to death as well and considering Hojo is a guy...to have him love Inuyasha....well that would be just wrong...besides I like irony...irony sometimes is a good thing

sunshine161820...-Thanks and I won't....

akuma river...-family tree remember...I said unknown plus not telling would eventually have a child and so on and Hojo would be their descendant.

kag+inu=love...-they are related and Kikyo did die the first time, but a remember she was reborn and in an earlier chapter, I had also stated what little soul she had stolen from kagome had regenerated. Remember what happens when she gets a full living soul...Kikyo become human.....so he is NOT Kikyo's reincarnation. Hojo is Hojo...

Anyway folks, Hojo is Kikyo's descendant! So Hojo is Hojo...but he is like Kikyo's 6 greats grandson. But back to the story I don't own Inuyasha in any way shape or form.

Chapter 23

Danger from one's heart

Feudal Japan....

Miroku followed behind Sango as they tried to find their way back to the village. Holding his staff and some of their supplies hasn't allowed him to do what he usually does when he is alone with the beautiful slayer.

Watching her as she holds her boomerang, he watches as her kimono which she wears over her armor, hugs her in all the right places. Reaching out as if in a trance, Miroku aches to touch.....

"Don't even think about it monk..."

Withdrawing his hand he is amazed as she turns and gives him this glare of promised retribution.

He gulps silently, but stares at her eyes, which are expressive and wide set. So beautiful she is, he does something that he has done many times before, but not like this, he gives in to his instinct. He reaches for her arms....

Whirling around, she is about ready to slap hard; he presses his mouth to hers. He can tell by her stunned response that she was not expecting this and struggles against him. Still he refuses to let go of her arms. Squeezing them in his hands as she tenses a little he presses harder demanding her lips to open.

Breaking apart for but a second, Sango is about to yell when he does it again. This time his tongue dips into her mouth to explore and she stills as the sensations he is delivering go through her body like fire. She can't help but succumb to it. Her arms snake around his neck as her brings her closer to him. But still she is frightened and reluctant....and angry...

Finally gathering the strength to push him away, Sango just looks at him. His eyes are gazing into hers and her bruised lips from his kiss. Her temper in full flare now as she slaps him hard, she starts to cry.

"HOW DARE YOU!"

Having had enough of her temper as she slaps him again and again, for what he did, Miroku uses strength he didn't know he had and restrains her as she lashes out at him. All sense in her slender form having gone out the window, she struggles as he lifts her up and over his shoulders.

"MIROKU PUT ME DOWN THIS INSTANT!"

Miroku aggravated enough as is merely slaps her on the bottom this time as if in disapproval and her mouth just silent opens in closes in surprise.

"YOU JERK!" Sango yells using one of the expressions that Kagome frequently had used for a certain hanyou. She kicks against him and once again, he slaps her on the bottom harder this time. He turns around and heads back towards the grotto. Somehow finding the power, he gathers all the supplies and their weapons as he does so.

Walking back he keeps going with a mute and sullen demon slayer over his shoulder, who is counting the minutes until she can tear into him for this humiliation. Sure she enjoyed the kiss, which she will never admit, but this is a whole other matter entirely!

Reaching the remains of their campsite, he immediately drops their supplies and with both hands at her waist he drops her on the floor as well. He looks directly into her eyes and this time, he is going to dictate what is going to happen and not her!

"I have had it with your temper and your fear of me."

"I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU!"

Miroku looked at her straight in the eye. The cheerful Miroku is still there, but this one is different. His temper is flared, and eh looks like and angry lord, ready to strike...never has she so wanted to lose control....and to him...she realizes he is right...she is frightened, for with him....she does lose her ability to focus....

"Yes you are...."

Sango says nothing and looks away only to have her head turned towards his.

"So Sango, you and I will stay here for a while. During this time I will prove that I love only you and that you can trust me and that by the time we leave, you will have agreed to be my wife."

Sango glared at him and said the first thing that came to mind. "Bullshit!"

Miroku growled and proceeded to kiss her again. Sango reels and her senses go crazy at the feel of him once more upon her lips. As he parts, there is a sound of protest almost and she tries to hide it as she wipes her hand across her mouth as if to act disgusted.

It was the wrong move....

She watches as he is reaching for the rope, Sango screams in outrage moments later as she is now tied up and not him.

"LET ME GO MONK!"

"Say my name..."

"NO!"

"Fine then...you stay where you are...." Miroku simply gets up and leaves, his temper for the first in full force. But his mind reeling with the fact that Sango had responded to his kisses. She was stunned at first...but then she started to respond. When they had parted, he was hoping for a second chance. Instead he got yelled at it and well it triggered his own temper....

As he starts unpacking the supplies, he hears her struggling with the ties.

"It won't work Sango...."

"WHY NOT!"

Miroku turns around and gives her this look. "Do you honestly think that after all those times you and Kagome have tied me up to keep from following you to the hot springs I wouldn't have watched how you did it?"

Sango looks stupefied as she just stares at him. With those few words, she realizes that Miroku is more observant, than she has realized. Those thoughts in mind, Sango just looks away as he sets up camp.

Looking at him out of the corner of her eye, she catches him staring at her and she looks away. Hearing the painful sigh, but yet the steely determined tone, she point blank tries to ignore, the handsome man.. "Miroku..." She whispers softly so that he can't hear. "I do care...but it will take more than forcing me to stay here to convince me....."

Little does Sango know what Miroku has in mind for the shy yet stubborn demon slayer...

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Present day Japan....

Yuka is curled up on Akira's lap and she is content. He needed her to reassure him. Like him she is afraid. But she won't let it get the better of her. Her mother taught her that. Anyway after coaxing Akira out of the room long enough so that she can get dressed she watches as Kagome and Inuyasha snuggle one another outside as they chat with the others.

Watching as Akira joins them, she observes his friendly banter with the others. Approaching Inuyasha and Kagome for a moment she becomes puzzled as he gestures to the hanyou for a private moment. Glad for the fact that she is a demon and knows Kagome's house, she manages to get dressed and entering Mrs. Higurashi's room, she slowly opens the window so that she can listen in.

"Why do you have to be so brutal....?" Akira asks Inuyasha.

"I am showing her exactly what's going to happen when we find and take on Naraku. She is lucky that I am not doing what he will more than likely actually do.

"What do you mean?"

"Naraku doesn't pull any punches...."

"That's what Kagome told me, but still I don't understand."

Yuka listens as well. "Naraku won't pull any punches?"

"During the final battle, Miroku and Sango stayed in the back and worked together to fight the stragglers demons that Naraku released. To take on Naraku face to face Akira, it is better that you be at least part demon for one reason alone."

"Which is?"

"Naraku will punch through us."

"Punch through?"

Opening his haori and removing his undershirt, he shows Akira a scar. Large and going through both the front and back of his chest area, it is almost non existent, but you can tell that it is there.

"When demons fight one another it is often for keeps, the ones that you and the others have described to us are simply minor demons, can't do much of anything. This scar is one I have never allowed Kagome to treat...."

"Why not?"

"It serves as a reminder to never underestimate Naraku. Once battling his puppet...the tentacles of one went right through me...."

"Through you...." Akira says weakly and Inuyasha nods his head. "I can tell you this right now. We need Yuka to fight. A normal human will not be able to survive what Naraku can do."

"So how do we fight him...?"

"Myself, Yuka, and Jinto and any others who can help that are of demon blood take the front lines against Naraku. We are the ones more than likely going to be able to survive should he hurt us."

Reluctant to admit it, Akira nods his head and

"You and Kagome will have to provide us with cover. It is a pity that we left the runt of a fox, back in my time...." The hanyou sighs with a heavy heart...

"Why do you say that..."

"The illusions...he made illusions of all of us, throwing Naraku off balance and allowing us to fight and survive."

"So even he helped..."

Inuyasha nods his head ruefully. "If it wasn't for the brat, I don't think some of us would have made it out alive...."

Akira looks away. The fact that Shippo helped when eh was child, irked him, and he is about to say something when Inuyasha continues.

"Look Akira, I understand how you feel. I don't want Kagome to fight at all. But you know something, if I try to stop her, she will just find a way to go around me and do it anyway. Ask her to tell you about the time I tried to banish her from the well, for her own safety."

"You did that?"

"Yep and you know what happened. She simply went around me!"

Akira can't help but smile at that thought. "So went did you do?"

"I let her stay...as you know but back then....I didn't realize that it was because of her that I could fight like I did. She believed in me...for me and that gave me strength, that no matter what happened when or lose she would be there if I needed her."

Akira listens silently and he can sense the emotions of the hanyou's words. "I don't want her to fight at all, but if she is set on it she will. I would rather have her close by aiding me and helping to protect me rather than not be there at all and come at a time when she could get killed. Yuka needs that of you Akira. She needs you to believe not only in her with all your heart, but yourself as well. Together Kagome and I fight like a team now. You and Yuka have the potential to do the same....don't let your fear override your heart....It could prove fatal."

Akira listens as does Yuka from above. Inuyasha walks away to rejoin Kagome who smiles as he resumes the position on her lap, which gives him the greatest comfort. The words running through their minds.... as they watch the couple laugh and giggle for with a sound, in the meantime, Yuka looks out and spies a nervous Jinto approaching the shrine....

"Akira...."

Startled by her voice, Akira looks up to find Yuka pointing towards the steps, "Jinto is here...talk to him will you...."

"In a second how much did you hear?"

"Enough to agree with Inuyasha Akira, I wouldn't have been able to get as far as we did before he came without you, don't you know that...."

Akira smiles gently. "I think I did...I just always needed to hear it though....."

"Well now you have...Akira, I need you to believe in me....without you I'm scared. You give me the strength I need to do what I can Akira...I love you" Yuka smiles softly. "Anyway I will be down in a minute...please go and see what news he brings us?"

"I will...and Yuka."

"Yes?"

"I love you too..."

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Yes I know short, but I have to go to work or it would have been longer. Pending if my brother...glaring at him...isn't trying to fix it again I might be able to upload again, when I get off work. Till then read and review!