"No, Inuyasha. I won't let you." Miroku latched on tightly to the Hanyou's kimono. The month was up, quicker then it'd begun, and Inuyasha's plan was extremely bogus. Suicide in the monk's perspective. Try as he might though, Miroku grew weak trying to fight off his own demise. His hand just ached, burning the desire to suck him into the void. "You've got to be crazy. You have absolutely no guarantee that'll work. Even if it did, what makes you think he'd help you."
The half demon sneered at the comment and shoved Miroku back onto his futon. "That rat bastard will comply even if I have to beat it out of him."
"No," he screamed when Inuyasha attempted to leave their shelter again. Annoyed he turned around snarling in frustration. "Don't go, Inuyasha. I beg of you. You're in no condition to be beating anything out of anyone."
"What? Just cause I'm a little pregnant don't mean nothing. I'll still wipe the floor with him just to get him here."
"What are you two talking about?" Sango asked entering the shelter. "I heard Miroku scream and I got worried. Is something the matter?"
Inuyasha crossed his arms and turned his attentions toward the taiji. "I'll say something's the matter. Here I am about to save Miroku's sorry hide from certain death and just cause I'm carrying a kid he's going all nuts about it."
She turned her gaze toward Miroku and shot him a questioning look. "What's he planning to do, Miroku?"
He abruptly sprung to his feet matching Inuyasha's partially angered look. "I'll tell you what he's trying to do. He plans to bring Sesshomaru here to use the Tenseiga on my hand. You know that won't work."
Inuyasha exploded in massive furry. "God damn it, Miroku. You expect me just to sit on my ass and wait for you to die, you are horribly mistaken. I have to do something, just at the off chance it will work." Tenseiga was not at all a large possibility but it was something. Inuyasha had to do something. Perhaps he could do this, run into Naraku on the way, and slay his ass so it wouldn't be a problem anymore.
Ha, that's even more unlikely.
"Inuyasha, I'm shocked," Sango said almost at the brink of tears. "The devotion you hold toward Miroku is impressive. You're willing to risk your life for him." She smiled. "I can see you truly love him."
The Hanyou snorted. "Took you that long to figure that one out. Even Kagome knows." Miroku and Sango gasped.
"She knows," they said in unison.
The youkai nodded. Boy was that a night he could've done without.
~@~
"Inuyasha, have you been gaining weight," Kagome asked while Inuyasha picked her body up and threw it over his shoulder while he clawed at the spider demon.
He rolled his eyes and set her down, sticking another Shikon no Tama shard into his pocket. "Yes, I have been. Not that it's any business of yours." He was in a bad mood, again. Kagome noted his irritability levels have gone way up. She couldn't even say hi to him anymore without him freaking out. "No go on. Leave me the hell alone for awhile."
Kagome growled at him and humphed. "Why? So you can just go hug on Miroku again." She turned around sharply. "Don't think I haven't noticed, Inuyasha. I'm not as stupid as you think I am."
"Yeah, you're probably stupider then I think you are."
"Grrr, SIT BOY!!!" He face planted straight into the ground, letting out a huge howl of pain in the process. The impact it had on his stomach was most unnecessary.
"FUCK!!!!!" He screamed and clenched hard on his stomach. "Don't SIT ME LIKE THIS YOU SLUT," he spat venomously at Kikyo's reincarnation.
"Slut! I'm the slut. What about you being with me while being in love with Kikyo and flying into Miroku's arms when you have problems. Are you in love with him too?"
Inuyasha sprung to his feet and grabbed a fist full of her uniform. "As a matter of fact little miss loud mouth, yes I do. And for your information I'm not with you, I don't love Kikyo, I'm not a slut, and I'm pregnant. So show a little respect toward my kid will you."
Her mouth hung open like a gaping fish. Her eyes bugged out the same way. The Hanyou took this opportunity to run before she returned to a sane state. An angry Kagome was a Kagome hazardous to his baby's health.
~@~
"So... you told her." Miroku blushed slightly while he said that. "You didn't have to, it could've saved you a lot of trouble. I wouldn't have minded." His voice cracked a little. That was a lie, he felt extremely grateful Inuyasha told her. So it was the real deal then. Inuyasha had Miroku, and Miroku had Inuyasha. Their relationship was not in the least bit one sided.
Inuyasha shook his head. "Miroku, be the arrogant perverted son-of-a-bitch I fell in love with, alright. Quit whining, I'm pregnant, that's MY god damn job." Miroku snorted slightly and stood before the Hanyou.
The next thing Inuyasha knew, Miroku was embracing him for all he was worth. "You do not have to do this, Inuyasha. I strongly advise you not to." He sighed. "If you feel you must though, please, don't die."
"I won't, you can count on me." Inuyasha planted a soft kiss on the monks mouth before letting go of him and heading for the door.
"Inuyasha," Sango said, just before Inuyasha could leave again.
"Now what?" The youkai slayer called for her pet to come into the room.
She picked Kilala up and handed her to Inuyasha. "Will you at least let Kilala assist you? I promise to take good care of Miroku until your return."
The Hanyou took a moment to ponder about that one. He'd much rather find Sesshomaru on his own seeing as saving Miroku was nobody's business but his own. Had he not been smack dab in the middle of being pregnant perhaps this situation would suck less. Kilala would provide great help travel wise seeing as with the extra weight he had to carry he probably wouldn't be able to run as fast.
He sighed and took the neko youkai from Sango. "Fine, but don't think I'm going to let Kilala do any of the fighting. She can just travel with me."
The girl shrugged. "Whatever you feel is better. I'd just feel better with Kilala with you."
"I do to, Inuyasha. Be careful." Miroku rested himself in the futon buried deep under some covers including the inner layer of Inuyasha's kimono. Being on the brink of death felt cold, he would put it, and all Inuyasha could say was `Then I'll warm you up so you won't die.'
His declarations of saving Miroku flattered him greatly. He could never recall a time in his life where he actually felt important. Inuyasha's warmth gave him the will to live and fight off the oblivion in his right palm for as long as it took. "I love you," were his last words spoken lightly while slipping into a peaceful sleep.
While Kilala enlarged, Inuyasha's ears twitched at the declaration given by his mate.
Hang on, Miroku. This will work, it has to. The fates can't take you away, you're the third so you're supposed to live.
Or perhaps he was being entirely too superstitious
~*~*~*~
The half brother of the soon to come Hanyou walked along the plans searching for Rin. Though he managed to keep a straight face as so it appeared, in all out honesty he was terrified for the little girl's safety. He and Jaken searched high and low for little Rin, yet she was nowhere to be found.
Rin.
It seemed futile, being a youkai and searching for a mere mortal for hours unable to pick up her scent. "Jaken," he said in his cool stolid tone.
"Yes master Sesshomaru."
"Listen." He paused for a moment, listening into the wind hearing something approaching. Something that sounded like.... buzzing. "Insects, Naraku is near by."
"Indeed you are correct." Sesshomaru turned swiftly around and saw the demon in the baboon costume holding an unconscious Rin. "Were you looking for this?"
The silver haired youkai cringed in terror slightly, yet he wouldn�t allow fear to get the best of him. "If you value your life, Naraku, you'll let Rin go now. You don't want to regret being slain by the likes of me due to a mortal."
Naraku chuckled. "Now, if Rin were just some "mortal" to you, you would've already severed both our bodies. I know how ruthless you are, at least when it doesn't come to this little one."
Sesshomaru sighed and store down to the ground. He knew he couldn't let Rin die. In a way he loved that little girl. It was almost impossible for a demon to feel that way, yet his father did and that's how Inuyasha came about. Looks as if he were no different. "Name what you want and get out of my presence. My patience with you wears thin."
The evil being chuckled. "Oh, I'm so scared. But that's beside the point. I've had a few.... things, look after your dear brother for me. Seems he's a month pregnant and he's gotten close with the monk."
"What is your point? I am not interested in who Inuyasha is sleeping with."
"I don't care what you're interested in, Sesshomaru. The point is you want Rin back and I want Inuyasha dead. So here's what you are going to do."