Eyes to Life: Scroll 23

Sango rubbed her fist. She could feel the bruise begin to grow, but at least it wasn't as big as the one she had planted on Miroku's face. The morning had already started bad.

 

"Sango, Sango, you misunderstand me..."

 

"Stuff it houshi-sama." Sango huffed, "I never misunderstand that hand when it decides to wander."

 

"How can anyone misunderstand that?" Shippo muttered.

 

"But Sango, Kagome-sama lets InuYasha touch her in ways I can't imagine, I just wanted to do the same thing to you too." Before Sango could comprehend his words, Miroku pulled his arms around Sango's waist and nudged her shoulder with his nose.

 

"HOUSHI-SAMA!"

 

BONK! Sango felt her face burn bright red, and she pulled the Hiraikotsu away from unconscious body on the ground and stormed away. Just as she was about to enter the wood to get away from the hentai, Kagome came out and bumped into her.

 

"Oh sorry, Sango-chan." Kagome smiled, then she frowned when she looked Sango in the eye. "Are you okay Sango-chan? Your face is bright red."

 

"I'm fine, Kagome-chan." Sango huffed, "Well if you call having man's hands all over you then yea, I'm great!"

 

Kagome stopped and looked behind her, frowning at Miroku's slumped body. "Oh."

 

"Houshi-sama, is such a hentai, sometimes I can't stand it!" Sango huffed, throwing Hiraikotsu over her shoulder.

 

"What's with all the yelling?" Sango looked up at InuYasha who had just come out of the brush. He brushed off his sleeve and gave Sango a look. Sango had been irritated to no end.

 

"Men, that's why!" Sango huffed. InuYasha's ears dropped in confusion. "And that includes you!" Before InuYasha could react, Sango's Hiraikotsu slammed on the top of his head, leaving him dazed. With that Sango stormed off into the brush.

 

"Oy! What did I do do to deserve that!" InuYasha growled, rubbing his temple.

 

"You seemed to at the moment, a logical target." Kagome said.

 

"Damn woman, I'm not a punching bag." InuYasha snapped.

 

"Did it really hurt?" Kagome crossed her arms.

 

"No."

 

"Then stop complaining, apparently Miroku-sama got on her nerves this morning, she could hit you without seriously hurting you. It makes her feel like she accomplished something." Kagome sighed.

 

"Keh." InuYasha mumbled.

 

"Do you always surround yourself with such human foolishness, otouto?" InuYasha turned to Sesshomaru who was standing quietly under a tall tree.

 

"Keh, like its any of your business." InuYasha snorted. InuYasha noted Sesshomaru kept looking at his left arm once in awhile. "Don't like your new appendage yet? I'll be glad to cut if off again for you."

 

Sesshomaru's eyes snapped up and glared at him. "Try and you'll lose an appendage yourself."

 

InuYasha snorted, and turned his back on his onii, he could still feel the strange tingling sensation from his own left arm. Before he had completely gotten dressed from his mating with Kagome last night, he took noticed of the long scar running full circle around his shoulder. It was faded, but still noticeable.

 

"Ooh..." InuYasha turned to the noise to see Miroku slowly get off Kirara's back, rubbing his head.

 

"Your an idiot." InuYasha snorted, "You weren't the only one she hit on the head with that weapon of hers."

 

"She hit you too?" Miroku smiled sheepishly. "Now, now InuYasha, you got Kagome-sama, leave Sango's precious body to me alright?"

 

InuYasha's youki flared. "Like I have any interest in Sango fool!"

 

"Your blushing."

 

"Am not!" InuYasha growled. "I have a mate, its against youkai behavior to have two woman!"

 

"What about Kikyo-sama?" Miroku asked. InuYasha's face fell.

 

"She's not my mate Miroku, remember she wanted me human, and if she saw me now, she would have nothing to do with me. Kikyo wanted to have a normal life, and mated to youkai is the complete opposite of her vision of a normal life." InuYasha stated.

 

"That's a first you admitted such things about Kikyo-sama." Miroku arched an eyebrow.

 

"So what, I can never hate Kikyo, is that what you think I'm getting at?" InuYasha snapped.

 

"No, no." Miroku put up his hands. "It sounds as if you suddenly have no love for her. That's something rather quick to throw behind you."

 

"Its not behind me." InuYasha said. "But I'm a youkai now, for Kami-sama's sake how long, Kikyo won't want anything to do with me."

 

"You really think that?" Miroku asked.

 

"I don't know, but I have a feeling." InuYasha grumbled. "And besides, Kagome-koi is my mate, I just can't go to Kikyo right now. That's just asking for trouble."

 

"Well, she usually comes to you, doesn't she?" Miroku asked. He slowly sat on a boulder.

 

"Look, I'm not talking about this anymore." InuYasha snapped, "On the other hand you better go apologize to Sango for whatever you did, or we'll have to deal with her bad mood all day."

 

"I didn't do anything!" Miroku whined.

 

"Please, I bet our hands went somewhere they shouldn't have." InuYasha rolled his eyes.

 

"Your hands were all over Kagome-sama last night! Why can't I have some linage here?" Miroku grumbled.

 

"Why you..." InuYasha stormed over to the sitting houshi and hoisted him up by his collar. "We're mates, that's why." InuYasha spat.

 

"Can't you make me and Sango mates?" Miroku asked, his face now turning a red.

 

"No!"

 

"Why not?"

 

"Because neither one of you're are youkai fool!" InuYasha couldn't believe what Miroku was asking, was he completely out of it? "First of all, both of you have to agree on mating, and one side is not going with it. Just forget it tell you're married." InuYasha let go of Miroku's robe and he slumped to the ground.

 

"But that's so far away." Miroku sighed.

 

"Please." InuYasha rolled his eyes. "Where did Kagome-koi go?"

 

"She followed Sango." InuYasha looked down at Shippo.

 

"Great, I was hoping we could get going today." InuYasha groaned.

 

"Were exactly are we headed anyway?" Miroku asked.

 

"I'm looking for the answers for my transformations." InuYasha answered plainly. "I don't know about you, but I'm not wasting anytime trying to figure what's going on with me. Kagome-koi said I was possessed, and I don't want it happening again."

 

"I guess." Miroku scratched his head, "But unfortunately, where do we start?"

 

"I disappeared when Kagura attacked didn't I?" InuYasha questioned, "I'm going to head there and see if I can search for clues."

 

"Yea, but I don't see how that made you a youkai." Miroku frowned.

 

"No, I don't see it either, but it was the first sign of strange behavior, and the first time I scented that youkai that attacked me." InuYasha answered.

 

"About that youkai, otouto." InuYasha turned to see Sesshomaru strode over. Miroku slowly sat down again, why InuYasha guessed the houshi was giving some type of respect to his onii.

 

"Can't really give you anything about it that might interest you." InuYasha glared.

 

"Sesshomaru-sama, look at these flowers!" Both InuYasha and Sesshomaru glared down at Rin who had found some strange looking flowers.

 

"Wait..." Miroku stood up fast. "Rin, drop those!"

 

"Hue?" Rin asked instantly, Sesshomaru immediately grabbed the 'flowers' from the startled girls hand. Before Sesshomaru could throw the 'flowers' away they morphed into leeched latching onto Sesshomaru's hand.

 

With a quick sweep of his poison claws they were shredded and brushed into the brush.

 

"Youkai leeches." Miroku sighed.

 

"I didn't know they morphed." InuYasha frowned.

 

"They didn't." Sesshomaru answered, "They made themselves appear as if they were harmless to attack an unexpected victim." Sesshomaru tuned to his ward, who was now pale. "Rin, where did you find those?"

 

"In...the river." She pointed. InuYasha felt a small tug on his stomach, Sango and Kagome had headed in the direction of the river.

 

"I'll be back, I'm going to get the girls." InuYasha answered and he disappeared into the brush.

 

---

 

Sango threw a branch into the river. She was mad. Usually she didn't get mad over something as simply as Miroku groping her, but for some reason, she was furious.

 

Nothing had really sparked her bad mood until Miroku had decided to grab not on the rear, but get two handfuls of her chest, and it sent Sango's mind in a wheel. She had been so angry, even after knocking Miroku out, she hit InuYasha as well.

 

Sango pulled her knees to her chest and sighed. She heard a rustle in the brush behind her, instinctively she grabbed for her Hiraikotsu, but only Kagome's figure appeared. Sighing, Sango released her hold of the bone and leaned on her knees on closed her eyes.

 

"Sango-chan?"

 

"Yea?"

 

"You want to talk?" Kagome sat beside her.

 

"No, not really." Sango looked away. For the first time Sango felt jealous, and it was of Kagome's and InuYasha's relationship. It wasn't fair to have someone touch you like that and not get mad, or felt pushed away.

 

"Oh." Kagome sighed and picked up a rock throwing it into the river.

 

"Do you mind InuYasha touching you?" Sango suddenly asked.

 

Kagome jerked at the question and looked at Sango. "I...Ummmm." Kagome turned away, her face becoming bright red.

 

Sango could tell her miko friend was embarrassed by the question, but hopefully that wouldn't stop Sango from getting her answer.

 

"I...suppose." Kagome finally answered and looked at Sango again. "It was strange at first, but I trust him, I think that's what matters."

 

Sango felt her face grow hot, she did trust houshi-sama, but not that way, not yet.

 

"You trust him, hue?" Sango sighed.

 

"Is this about Miroku-sama being a hentai again?" Kagome asked.

 

"Sort of." Sango sighed. "I can't decide if he is a hentai or just doing that to say he's attracted to me and enjoys my presence."

 

"Ummmm," Kagome giggled, "I think its both." Sango looked at the miko who was giving her a big smile.

 

"Does InuYasha grope you in public?"

 

"No!" Kagome blushed.

 

"Then why does houshi-sama do it?" Sango grumbled, "Does he do it to embarrass me?"

 

"Well, InuYasha may not grope me in front of everyone, but he's very protective. He never leaves my side, and when someone like Kouga come up, he gets violent. I think groping you means for Miroku-sama is trying to claim you like InuYasha claimed me." Sango looked at Kagome as she revealed InuYasha's mating mark.

 

"He's claiming me?" Sango felt a gag come up her throat.

 

"Sango, I know how you feel about that word, I felt insulted by it too, but it goes both ways, you also are claiming him too. Why do you think you slap him back?" Kagome smiled. Sango felt her face get even more bright red.

 

"When did you get so knowledgeable on this?" Sango groaned.

 

"When I mated with a Inu youkai." Kagome sighed. "I don't know if it was still a good idea."

 

"Why do you think that?" Sango asked, suddenly worried about the miko.

 

"I'm still young, I still think I wasn't ready. But the heat of the moment, I couldn't leave him." Kagome sighed. "I try to tell myself he's still InuYasha, a youkai or hanyou, but sometimes I'm having second thoughts."

 

"What do you mean?" Sango asked, getting more worried.

 

"He's a youkai Sango." Kagome looked from the water to the taijiya's face. "I sometimes I fear I might lose him, or he'll become more like Sesshomaru."

 

"I don't think InuYasha can be like Sesshomaru." Sango shook her head, "They're complete opposites."

 

"Still..." Kagome sighed.

 

"How is he?"

 

"Hue?"

 

"How is he?" Sango felt a blush come up her face as she asked the question.

 

"InuYasha!" Kagome gasped, and collapsed on the ground, laughing. "He's rough."

 

"Really?"

 

"I...do you want me to in detail with this!" Kagome blushed and laughed again.

 

"What the hell is so funny?" Sango and Kagome immediately jerked up to see InuYasha coming out of the brush staring at the both of them. They both looked at each other and burst out laughing again. InuYasha shook his head, woman.

 

"Look, Rin found youkai leeches along the river, I wanted to make sure none got to you." InuYasha said.

 

"Youkai leeches?" Sango stropped laughing. "We haven't gone really that close to the river."

 

"I haven't seen any." Kagome sighed. "Are you here to take us back?"

 

"Yea," InuYasha suddenly gave Sango a look, "And yes, Kagome-koi is right I can be rough." With that he disappeared into the brush once more. Sango felt her face burn, InuYasha had heard what she had asked Kagome-chan!

 

Great, Sango thought, now he thinks I'm the hentai and I'm hitting on him. Oh brother.

 

"Sango-chan you okay?" Kagome asked.

 

"Can you please tell InuYasha I'm not attracted to him, please?" Sango begged.

 

"You better not be." Kagome huffed, puffing her chest out, "He's my man." That caused both of them to collapse on the ground in a fit of laughter. Regaining their composure the got everything and headed back to the others.

 

---

 

It was hot. That was all that could be said about the traveling conditions for the group of youkai and humans. InuYasha and Sesshomaru stayed near the front, they appeared to have a small conversation, but it had ended with a scold from InuYasha and the two Inu youkai had gone silent again.

 

Miroku kept glancing at Sango's back, rehearsing the words he desperately wanted to say to her in his head. Sango, I'm sorry, I'll let you grope me? No. Sango, I'm sorry, my cursed hand has a mind...no. Miroku sighed, he wished he could come up with something then his past excuses.

 

The injuries at the battle had been pretty small surprising since it was a hard battle to win. Miroku had noticed Sango's slight limp in her leg, but now it was barley noticeable, and he was glad.

 

Miroku had noticed Sango glancing at him more then once. For a while he thought she had been glaring at him, thinking that her stare would create a hole through his gut. But he met her eyes, and there was a light presence of anger, but most of her eyes showed...amusement.

 

Amusement? Miroku was flabbergasted. What was funny about this morning? She had been extremely angered and had hit him with good measure. It wasn't the usually slap or bump on the head, she had actually hurt him with the bone of hers. Miroku was trying his best to ignore the pounding headache that was causing him to walk slower then the rest of the group, but it was steadily getting harder to ignore.

 

Miroku sucked in a deep breathe. He had been tempted to go ask Kagome-sama for some medicine for the pain in his head, but decided against it. Sango would notice his pain and either be even more angry or hurt. He didn't want to really tell her that she had hurt him.

 

Walking a little faster to be next to Sango, he might as well take InuYasha's advice and apologize. It was the least he could do.

 

"Sango?" His voice sounded a bit off.

 

"What houshi-sama?" Her voice remained flat. But he swore she was trying not to laugh. I thought she was mad, Miroku thought. What could be funny, am I in trouble again?

 

"I...I'm sorry about this morning." Miroku sighed. "I just wanted to make your day a bit more brighter." Wrong thing to say. He knew it, but it was the best excuse he could come up with. The blow never came, nor the slap, he peeked an eye open to stare at Sango's face.

 

"Well..." Sango started, Miroku felt his stomach drop as he awaited his punishment. "You did."

 

Miroku froze, he almost dropped his staff in the shock her words had put him in.

 

"I...really?" Miroku felt like he had heard wrong.

 

"Yes, but I'm not telling you how." Sango smiled, and then she whispered something to Kagome. They both burst out giggling. Miroku blinked, now what had Kagome-sama said to Sango that had brought Sango's anger into laughter? He had to know, but it wasn't good, he felt InuYasha's stare, and decided to quit talking.

 

Miroku wiped the sweat on his forehead, it was hot and he felt like just jumping into a cool body of water. Somehow Kagome-sama had saved him from Sango's wrath, and he was glad.

 

"Skipped a beat did you?" Miroku looked up at InuYasha.

 

"What are you talking about?" Miroku groaned.

 

"Woman, when alone, talk about men in interesting ways." InuYasha smirked. Miroku's face placed, what on earth were those two talking about? Him?

 

"Were they talking about...me?" Miroku dared to ask the daiyoukai.

 

"Yea, me too." InuYasha sighed, "I think Sango is interested in you, but is too afraid to say so."

 

"Interested in my..."

 

"Keep that crap to yourself." InuYasha growled. "I don't think that was what she wants at the moment." Miroku hung his head in disappointment.

 

"Exactly where are we going Sesshomaru-sama?" Miroku looked at the little girl on Ah-Un's back.

 

"We are heading for answers Rin." Sesshomaru answered without looking at her.

 

"Oh." Rin frowned, confused by her Sama's answer.

 

"You can leave Sesshomaru." InuYasha growled at his onii. "You hate me, so I suggest you leave and go find the youkai that was giving Rin nightmares. You don't need us anymore."

 

"Your transformation is something this Sesshomaru is interesting in." Sesshomaru answered.

 

"It has nothing to do with you." InuYasha spat. "Unless your goal is to change me back, I suggest you leave before I think about killing you."

 

"InuYasha...that won't help matters." Miroku sighed.

 

"What exactly did we find in that graveyard anyway?" Miroku turned to Sango. He gave her a slight smile, she gave him a quizzical look, but didn't sneer at him.

 

"Well..." Miroku nearly jumped in surprise when he heard a small voice on his shoulder.

 

"Oh, Myoga-sama." Miroku said.

 

"Yes, I'm still here, I'm not leaving InuYasha-sama now." The flea bounded up and down.

 

"I'm not a walking chunk of food flea." InuYasha growled.

 

"What were you saying Myoga?" Sango asked.

 

"Well, we found out only very little." Myoga sighed, "We do know that InuYasha-sama possess something, what it is we don't know. What its purpose, we don't know either. But..."

 

"What do we know?" InuYasha griped.

 

"We know...nothing." Myoga sighed.

 

"We're heading to the place InuYasha disappeared in human form. You think we'll find anything?" Miroku asked.

 

"This Sesshomaru was there, there was nothing noticeable until InuYasha's human scent disappeared completely behind some trees." Sesshomaru said.

 

"So where do we start flea?" InuYasha griped. "I haven't the slightest clue on where we should go if that area has nothing to tell us."

 

"Well..." Myoga sighed.

 

Suddenly Kagome tensed up, "I sense two Shikon no Tama shards coming towards us, fast."

 

"Kouga." InuYasha growled the name with pure hatred. He cracked his claws menacingly, "Let's see, my claws needs something to practice on."

 

"InuYasha!" Kagome huffed.

 

The tornado stopped in front of them, and there stood Kouga of the wolf youkai tribe.

 

"Nice to see you again puppy to dog." Kouga smirked in InuYasha's direction.

 

"Kouga, I'll enjoy ripping you to shreds." InuYasha cracked his claws, "I've learned some new tricks want me to show them to you?"

 

"Osuwari!" Kagome snapped, the daiyoukai went into the crater his body created. "Kouga, please, I'm not into this fighting over me anymore. I'm with InuYasha, okay?"

 

"Keh." Kouga jumped off the boulder he had landed and walked up to her. Kagome pulled her hands behind her back so Kouga couldn't touch her hands.

 

"Kouga, please...what do you need?" Kagome asked.

 

"Get the fuck away from her wolf!" InuYasha hissed, and before Kagome could snap back at InuYasha, Kouga jumped away just as five golden streaks slashed the air he had been standing in.

 

"Whoa mutt." Kouga jumped back, looking at InuYasha's claws with a tad bit of fear, and amusement. InuYasha stood in front of Kagome hissing warningly.

 

"Leave now." InuYasha spat.

 

"Heh, I was hoping Kagome had some clue on where more Shikon no Tama shards." Kouga sighed, "But that would mean taking her away from you wouldn't it?"

 

"I'll kill you and eat your head if you try." InuYasha growled.

 

"InuYasha!" Kagome protested.

 

"Look wolf, I'm giving you a chance to run with your tail in-between your legs, or otherwise I'll kill you and take your shards got it?" InuYasha snapped.

 

"Try it mutt." Kouga smirked.

 

"Gladly." InuYasha smiled, cracking his metal claws, "Lets see how strong these things are on wolf flesh."

 

"You two better not..." Kagome started.

 

InuYasha stepped forward ignoring his mate's protesting. Kouga had tried to claim Kagome as his ever since they met. InuYasha had had enough of Kouga's pestering, Kagome was his, and he was going to prove it by killing the annoying wolf.

 

InuYasha slowly extended his claws, Kouga may be fast, but InuYasha felt an nerving advantage he had with these claws. The were like Naraku's tentacles able to snag and entrap prey. The were sharp and string so the prey couldn't break free, and he would have the chance to cut the wolf into little pieces.

 

InuYasha smiled, for once he was the strong one, no longer branded a hanyou that everyone, human and youkai, could pick on. He was a youkai, he was the dominate one. He was going to kill and beat Kouga.