"Come quickly you two. We must find Inuyasha before it's too late." Miroku plunged through the forest following Shippou while he pointed toward the direction Inuyasha went. His senses weren't even half as accurate as the Hanyou's but it's all the group had to work with.
"We don't have to plunge our way through, Miroku. I more then anyone knows that Inuyasha can tough out his brother, pregnant or not." Kagome's revolution was not unknown to Miroku, yet he ran anyway. He finally had someone baring his child and would stand for no less then to see it's bright smiling face each time when he woke up in the morning. Now that he knew for sure he was going to live thanks to Kagome's sacred arrow breaking the spell, he would have no less then to start a family with the Hanyou and love and raise their child together.
Kagome was lost for breath and mistakenly tripped over a thick branch. With their heads in the clouds, Shippou and Miroku continued on their pursuit. Sango came to an abrupt hault once the body of her comrade hit the ground. "Kagome, are you alright?"
She brought her hand to her side and slowly attempted to lift herself. "Don't worry about me. Go on, I'll catch up."
"You sure?"
"Yes, now please, hurry. I'm worried about Inuyasha. He could use all the help he can get." Sango hesitated then nodded once she confirmed the kitsune and houshi were well ahead of them.
"Damn, if only I had Kilala. Just go back to the village and wait for us, Kagome. It could use a bit of protection seeing as Inuyasha was there and demons do have a nasty habbit of tracking us down."
"Right." Sango turned around sharply and headed off into the deep forest while Kagome started heading back toward the village. One of her ribs hurt really badly and she clutched her side grimacing at the immense pain she was feeling. It was probably cracked seeing as that was a harsh fall she endured.
Then from behind her, she heard someone sigh in exasperation, startling her from her current thoughts. "Tsk tsk tsk, flee bag's buddies sure don't know how to take care of a REAL woman."
She turned around sharply, looking toward the one who'd said that. "Kouga?!"
~*~*~*~
"Sesshomaru," Inuyasha called from a distance in the sky. Golden eyes that matched his own shot a glance toward the approching figure. As usual, the elder youkai's face remained emotionless as well as the tone of his voice.
"You sure have a lot of nerve coming to me in this state, Inuyasha. I take it you and the monk are mates. Or, is it the kitsune."
The Hanyou snorted and hopped off the neko demon. "It certainly not the later bro. Nice to see you again."
"As always, it's a pleasure. So, how would you like to die today?"
Inuyasha crossed his arms and shook his head. "Kami, I never knew the great Sesshomaru was a coward. I expected better of you. Kill a demon while they're pregnant, especially if they have half ningen blood flowing through them." A smirk grazed his features while he mockingly raised his nose into the air. "I don't know whose worse now, you, or Naraku."
Sesshomaru blinked once while the intense anger he felt when Inuyasha said just that one name started eatting him on the inside. He wanted Naraku dead for even thinking of kidnaping Rin from him. For a long time, he needed motivation to fight and stay on top of his game. Stay stronger then Inuyasha. Having Rin around was perfect, and now that she was kidnapped, he only felt he wanted to kill Naraku. Inuyasha could wait.
"So little brother, I'm curious as to why you've shown up just out of nowhere. If you want to spred the news about you being an uke to that whorish monk I'm not interested."
He bared his teeth together and kicked dirt at his brother. "How dare you? Miroku's NOT whorish."
"So then it is you then, charming." To surpress the urge to grind the youkai's face into the ground was starting to become a challenge. Anything was better then Miroku being insulted though. He wasn't even one hundred percent sure his lover still lived.
He wouldn't give up, though. If Miroku was still alive then there was hope. "You're coming with me, got that."
"Now Inuyasha, why on earth should I take orders from a submissive little slut such as yourself? Why don't you just leave before I do decide to kill you."
Inuyasha would waste no time. He grabbed Sesshomaru by the wrist and yanked him toward Kilala, shoving his arm down as soon as they reached her. His fists were clenched, and his eyes flared in fury. "LOOK HERE, BRO. I need your help, GOT THAT!!! I couldn't give a fucking god damn rats ass shit if YOU don't want to, BUT. YOU'RE. COMING. WITH. ME!!!" He took a breath and pointed toward his ride's back. "Now GET ON!!!!"
Sesshomaru wanted to knock his teeth out for that little outburst but remembered all that Naraku'd told him. To lead himself to their current base so he could kill them all once and for all. It was the only way so far he could get Rin back. Though it hurt his pride, Inuyasha'd not really had much of a sense as to what he was doing. It was coming from the parent inside of him no doubt. A child always made a demon ten times as bold. It was no wonder he'd lashed out the way he did. So without argument, Sesshomaru took his seat on Kilala quickly followed by Inuyasha.
For the hell of it, about five minutes into the ride Inuyasha just had to ask,"Where's Jaken? Isn't he always around kissing your ass?"
The elder of the two shugged. "Who knows? I don't really care."
Inuyasha looked down to the ground hugging his arms to his chest. It was cold, and he'd forgotten to put all of his kimono on. Well, hadn't really forgotten. The inner one was stained from a spontaneous puke attack that morning and Miroku's body was wrapped in the red one before hand. He didn't think he'd need it, yet now he regretted not putting something on to cover the top.
"Sesshomaru." His brother sensed a bit of want in the hanyou's voice. What was it this time?
"Well."
"Would it be alright with you, if I, you know.... leaned against you for awhile?"
He didn't know what to say. It was certainly a strange thing to ask, at least until he heard the sound of his brother's teeth chattering. "You should've worn that hidious red jacket. Why did you not?"
"Miroku needed it. He was cold. Drawing nearer to death'll do that to you." There was a lot of saddness and hurt put into that last sentence. So this was no whore thing after all. Inuyasha really loved his houshi.
"Sure, I don't care."
"Thank you."
If only you were Miroku though. Oh, please be alive, koibito.
On the ground not even a hundred yards from Kilala, Miroku, Sango, and Shippou stopped to breathe for a moment. "We must... press on."
"Oh, come off it, Miroku. Inuyasha's fine and you know it," Sango snapped at him. Shippou would've freaked out from the scent of hanyou blood if he wasn't. Or at least that's what Miroku was trying to assure himself of.
"Hey, they're coming this way. Kilala and Inuyasha and.... Sesshomaru?" Miroku and Sango's eyes widened hugely. The Hanyou ACTUALLY got his brother to co-operate. "I'm not kiddning. And there's no blood either."
They were over come in immense joy when they'd heard the news. Inuyasha was still alive, that's all that mattered. Especially to Miroku. Happiness fluttered in his heart warmly while the sun started to shine through the clouds that blocked it.
"Ahem." From behind them, an angry wolf demon held Kagome on his back similar to the way Inuyasha used to. "Forget someone."
"Kagome." Sango walked forth to greet her freind, surprised to see that she was in the protective arms of the wolf man. "I thought you were going to wait back at the village."
"It's kind of HARD to walk with a fractured rib," she snapped pointing toward her blood stained shirt.
Sango jumped back, shocked by the sudden outburst. She had a sinking feeling that now along with Sesshomaru they now had Kouga to deal with for leaving his woman in a weakened state. "B-but, you said to go on ahead. If I would've known you were hurt I.. "
"Spare her, she's been through enough as it is," Kouga blurted out. Sango stood down, knowing she was indeed in no possition to argue. Kagome was hurt, she should've been there.
We all should've been there.
"And just what do you have to say about this, monk." Miroku completely ignored Kouga. He ignored everything, and everyone. All he could see was the sky right where Inuyasha was.
And too, Inuyasha could feel Miroku looking to him. He didn't know how, but he lifted himself from his brother's back and streched out his muscles. "Head down Kilala, right where you can smell Miroku."
Sesshomaru raised his brow slightly. "Are you sure he is down there, brother? That is a pretty dangerous forest to set camp."
"We didn't set camp there, moron."
What the hell is he doing though? Isn't he too weak to walk, or even move now?