InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Telling ❯ Advice Comes Too Late ( Chapter 25 )

Inuyasha had been in Edo, specifically in Kaede's hut with the others, when he had caught Miroku's eye. Giving his head a short nod in the direction of the door, he stood up and left the building. He needed advice on how to handle this, and the hentai monk was the only other male around to got to for help. Inuyasha didn't know how much help the monk's advice would be, but something was always better than nothing.

Miroku had understood his friend's request, and shortly after the hanyou had risen, he too stood up and went outside. Walking to the edge of the village, he found Inuyasha sitting on a fence post and staring up into the night sky.

Miroku was worried. Although he loved Inuyasha like a brother, the hanyou wasn't the type of person to get lost in his thoughts. Slowly approaching he asked his friend what was wrong.

With a sigh, Inuyasha had focused his attentions on the monk and began to tell him of all that had transpired after he had gone through the well and into Kagome's time. As the story unfolded, Miroku's mouth had begun to fall open until the hanyou had become worried that his lower jaw would fall off.

“So you're telling me that when you got there, Kagome was in.... ahem.... intimate relations.... with Sesshomaru. But not the Sesshomaru I know, a Sesshomaru from the future?” Miroku was a little lost.

“Yeah, that's what I'm telling you monk.” the hanyou groused out.

“So you're saying that he's going to live that long? I guess I never really thought that much about it. Will you live that long?”

“I don't know Miroku, damn! Can we stay on topic here? I might be losing Kagome to that bastard and you want to sit around discussing fucking demon life-spans!”

“Oh, I'm sorry Inuyasha. It's just... surprising I guess. To think that he will live so long.”

“Get off it.” Inuyasha growled out. He wanted advice, not a, awe-struck monk.

“So what should I do?” Inuyasha exclaimed after along silence had passed between the two. “How do I keep from losing her to Sesshomaru?”

The hanyou sounded so desperate, and Miroku wanted to soothe him, but he also couldn't lie to his friend. He hadn't really thought that Kagome would be intested in the cold taiyoukai, but if what Inuyasha had told him was true, then it might already be too late. “I don't know that there is anything that you can do Inuyasha.” Catching the death-glare that the hanyou sent his way, he continued “All you can really do is wait. You have told her how you feel, and Kagome has never been rash when it comes to important decisions. Besides, I just cannot see her ever actually mating Sess...” And he was cut off by a piercing howl.

It had come from the forest, and although it made the hair on his arm stand erect, Miroku wasn't frightened. Even a human such as he could tell that the howl was victorious rather than threatening.

“Inuyasha.... what was that?” Miroku asked. But when he looked over to his friend and saw the was that his ears drooped and his eyes narrowed, he knew that it was nothing good.

“It sounded like.... but it couldn't be.... she wouldn't....” Ad with those disjointed statements, Inuyasha was off the fence and gone in an instant.

Miroku only stared at the spot his friend had recently occupied before turning and heading back into the village.

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He had only just breasted the final hill into the town when Sango had come running up to him. Breathing hard she stopped when she saw him and asked “Did you hear that Miroku?”

So, maybe now she knew something that he did not. “Indeed I did hear it Sango, but I am at a loss as to what it was. Do you know something about that roar?”

The taijiya stared at the monk for a moment before a light blush began to spread across her cheeks. “Yeah, I know what that was.” she told him while focusing her attention on the ground. “It was the call of a youkai male.”

Her blush was lovely and endearing, but for once the monk was too concerned with what he was hearing to really notice. “What kind of call Sango?”

“A claiming call. Somewhere close by a youkai just claimed his mate. That was to ward off all others who would approach the two and to inform all other interested males that the female in question is now off the market, so to speak.”

Miroku thought that his eyes might fall right out of his head. Staring at Sango in shock, he could not believe what he was hearing. “Is there any way that you could know what type of youkai that was?” he asked her seriously.

“Ummm... well, before I left the hut, Shippo said it sounded like an Inuyoukai.” Pausing here, she looked into the face of the monk. “He actually told me that it sounded like Sesshomaru.”

“He said WHAT?”

“Yeah, so? If Sesshomaru has taken a mate, maybe it means that we won't have to deal with him so much anymore. This could be a good thing Miroku.”

The monk let out a loud groan. “Oh Sango, if only you understood what that means! There's only one person that Sesshomaru would have mated tonight!”

Understanding that something very important had been kept from her, the taijiya began to seethe in anger. “And what does it mean monk? Who EXACTLY would Sesshomaru be claiming, and why does it seem to worry you so?”

Miroku couldn't look at her. All he could do was mutter one name under his breath. “Kagome.”

“WHAT?” Sango screeched.

“Oh Kami! You said that the howl was to warn off intruders and other suitors correct? What would happen if the warning was ignored?” Miroku had almost forgotten about Inuyasha's flight.

“Well he'd probably be killed! But what are you talking about? Why would Kagome mate Sesshomaru?”

“I'll explain on the way, but if we don't leave, right now, Inuyasha may be in serious danger!” He grabbed her hand and began to pull her with him as he ran towards the forest, the well, and the location of the roar.

Miroku hoped they weren't too late.