The determined hanyou sat a top the neko youkai staring straight into the horizon in persuit of his brother. To be perfectly honest, he doubted Sesshomaru's reserecting device would be able to break the spell of the coursed wind tunnel. Such a curse which put a huge rift in his love life with Miroku and rndangered their only child. Anger wielded immensly within the pit of his soul. He wanted to destroy that monster Naraku once and for all, and have his koibito be alive to see it.
"And I'll get just that." Inuyasha said while Kilala flew his stressed body toward Sesshomaru's current location. This wasn't exactly his ideal way of saving Miroku's life, seeing as he ached all over and he was sick. Perhaps it wasn't such a good idea after all.
Inuyasha had half a mind to send Kilala back the other way, until suddenly a harsh impact collided with the flying neko causing Inuyasha in his weakened state to fall right off. With eyes shut tight, he darted straight to the ground, landing straight in the arms of another at the last second. After a moment or so of reccoperating, Inuyasha attempted to peek up at the one who held him only to have his body thrown harshly to the ground.
"Ow, fuck what was that for?" Standing tall right before him was a certain wolf with an extremly amused look on his face. He smirked and shook his head, swaying his tail up and down with his hands on his hips. "Grr... What do you want, Kouga?"
Through his laughter, he managed to calm himself long enough to state his peace. "Oh, Inuyasha. Do you have any idea how easy it would be for me to kill you right here and now?" The hanyou rubbed a blind hand over his swollen tummy and backed up against the closest tree.
No, I can't loose Miroku's baby. Please go away?
Knowing Kouga, he was the type that would fight and fight and fight until what he wanted was given. Inuyasha couldn't afford this. Something about carrying a child and being half ningen at the same time arosed strong maternal instincts within him. Though it took swallowing a hell of a lot of pride, he just couldn't loose his first child.
"What do you want from me?" Inuyasha asked protectivly while embracing a tree to shield his kin. "If it's Kagome go ahead and take her. She's your woman after all."
The wolf boy's hung agape at Inuyasha's declairation. Kouga's face went stern and his hands fell to his sides. "I take it there was more to your's and the monk's comsumation then a little youkai heat."
"Damn it, Kouga, I wasn't in heat. And how did you know it was Miroku?"
"You travel with no other man, dog breath. It was a mere guess." The wolf demon turned tail and began to walk away.
"Where the hell do you think you're going?"
Stupid, stupid!!!
Kouga turned around with yet another smirk on his face. "You said I could have the woman I love, I'm going to go get her."
"O-only if she want's you, got that?" Inuyasha couldn't believe he was struggling to sound concerned. Perhaps the reincarnation of the damned miko was meant to be with Kouga. The hanyou crossed his arms when Kouga fled. Good ridance he thought.
~*~*~*~
Miroku writed in pain while lying alone in the dark room. His hand glowwed slightly while hot tears streamed down his face. He wanted Inuyasha there with him through his final hours of living, yet he was off performing overly dramatic suicidal acts. "Damn you... Inuyasha."
Inuyasha could not die. Miroku cared for him. He also cared for the cub they were going to have in a month. The child couldn't die, it was the only thing Miroku had to offer his youkai. Sure he wanted to live, but it just wasn't possible. At least, he thought it wasn't. Perhaps the tenseiga would work.
"Miroku." Kagome entered the room witnessing Miroku's breakdown. Such painful tears that burned down his face at the thought of Inuyasha. Was this the real Miroku hiding behind the mask of the perverted priest? Just a scared little boy who didn't want the people he loved most to leave him. He worried so much for Inuyasha, Kagome saw that and admired him for it. He finally found love.
"Please leave, Kagome. You are in danger if you hang around me. You know my w... "
"I know." Kagome pulled one of her sacred arrows out of her carrying case. "That's why I'd like to try something." She positioned his hand so the palm was facing upward and she thrust the arrow into the hole. A luminous light surrounded the area and erupted in a powerful force.
From outside the hut, Sango and Shippou witnessed as daggers of sharp light bounced all over the place. In worry, they stood back until it all died down.
Wiping a sweat slicked brow, the youkai slayer dashed into the hut expecting the worse, only to hear the sounds of joy and laughter filling the air. And then she saw, for the first time ever, Miroku's right hand was bare and nothing was being sucked in.
~*~*~*~
Inuyasha and Kilala'd been at it for hours in search of his elder sibling. It was nearly dusk, and he felt as if the neko was flying him right into the sunset. A grin lined his face in spite of himself. Though cold, hungry, and extremly tired, the though of him and Miroku together with the baby got him through the day.
Ai-shiteru, Miro-chan.
"Hey Kilala. Wake me when you find Sesshomaru, will ya?" The beast nodded her head and the hanyou fell asleep while he and Kilala flew through the evening.
~*~*~*~
"Master Sesshomaru, you're fidgetting," Jaken pointed out to the elder hanyou. He couldn't care less what he was doing at the moment. Thoughts of little Rin in the hands of that notorious fiendish bastard Naraku was sickening. He was struggling not to break down in a fit of rambles. He thanked Kami how well he could control himself.
"I will not lie, Jaken. I am overwhelmed with the worry I feel for Rin. Naraku will get his when Inuyasha shows up."
The smaller demon stared up at his ruler in surprise. "Are you actually standing up for your brother my lord?"
He fought back the urge to grin at the remark. In a way he was standing up for Inuyasha. He knew that in the other demon's state he was only half as strong, but when Inuyasha had a solid reason and a strong will to fight, he strength nearly quadrupled. That alone would be enough to take Naraku down, Sesshomaru gauronteed it.
"Inuyasha will fight Naraku. From what I've been told he bares the monk's child, meaning he is weakened due to the brat eatting at his energy. He is half human though, meaning his maternal insticts will surpass all. He'll vanquish Naraku, and then I can vanquish him."
"You are a genious, lord Sesshomaru." Jaken bowwed at the other man's feet. Sure Sesshomaru talked big, but he worried he may be wrong, that this might just be another deception. Would Inuyasha really be so guillible to believe the Tenseiga could work on Miroku's hand? Perhaps it was just that human emotion called love screwing with his mind.