Just the Two of Us
Chapter Eight
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but hey, I have to have plot at some point, right?
challenge for me. I really felt like
end, definitely. Miroku
has to be the one to ‘save him’ or it’s no fun!
But there will be lots of fun drama on the way, I’m sure!
to think of it, that chapter DID take longer than usual!
use. For JTTOU I’ll stick to the names I
used in the last chapter just for sake of consistency, and because it really
doesn’t matter who they are, for all intents and purposes, but
couldn’t remember their names at all, but I recognize “Ginta
and Hakkaku” so I must have known them at some
point. Ah well, I know them now, and
that’s all that matters.
hooked though. Read more! It feels good
to know I’m not wasting my breath with the word-weaving.
sweet, but don’t let him hear you say that!
He’ll get all indignant and huffy.
And wait no more! It’s here. Woot
“Hoshi-samaa!”
the girl cried out, her vaginal walls clamping hard onto the monk’s swollen
shaft, sending ripples of pleasure through his body.
between his pistoning hips flooded through him and he
moaned out his pleasure as his seed spilled deep into his temporary lover’s
body before collapsing beside her.
In the morning, he would
leave her with sweet words and promises that both knew would never bulfiulfilled. She’d told him her name, but
he didn’t remember it, neither did she know his.
As she curled into his side
to sleep, he promised himself, just this once, he would stay until
morning. He tried to be a good man, an
honest man, but he was only a man, and he needed release—release from his body,
the hard road he traveled, the guilt on his shoulders, the curse on his right
hand.
He lifted
gaping hole he knew lay beyond the prayer beads and dark cloth.
always, and the road to Naraku was long and tedious.
He brushed a few strands of
hair gently from the beautiful woman’s face.
‘Maybe this time,’ he thought, soul weary, ‘maybe
this woman will be the one to bear my child, surely he would be a beautiful
man.’ Miroku
sighed softly. He was desperate for a
son. He needed a son to defeat
to love, not the temporary love he felt for the women who made room for him in
their beds, but a deep love that was daily, traveling from moment to moment,
growing larger and larger until it was too much to bear—a burning love.
it, a love that wasn’t about the body.
*~*~*
Shi’en
hurt from sobbing. He’d been exiled; if
he ran into any of his people out here, he would probably be killed.
for that dirty human, his father had disowned him, all
he had now was Ananda, his cobra, and his two jewel
shards, which he kept getting attacked for.
And the kicker, the real bitch thing about it, was that if
Silent tears streamed down
his face, burning venom patches into the wild grasses beneath him.
out. Kouga was
with that human, being touched by that dirty human, fucked by that dirty,
gods-forsaken human, and he was liking it, probably
begging for it. He choked, nearly
vomiting every time he got a mental image of the two, of Kouga
showing the human a passion Shi’en never got to
see. ‘Yes, do it to me
good Miroku.
Fuck me harder, Miroku.
you. Miroku
imagine it and couldn’t stand it.
“Kouga,”
he cried. “I loved you, you
I sstill…Why aren’t you with me?
It had been ninety years ago,
a short time for many youkai, and Shi’en
had still been a youngling, Kouga no more than a
cub. The viper, at that time was small,
without much courage, and a bit clumsy.
He’d fallen into a ditch and was being picked on by a pair of cat
was knocked right back inside by his tormentors.
‘ssomeone pleasse
It was then that he first met
Kouga of the wolf tribe.
“What at the hell do you think
you’re doing?!” he heard a voice demand, and he peeked slowly up.
no longer at the lip of the ditch, and he heard some sounds like a fight,
scampering , bu, but couldn’t see over that accursed lip.
There were a few moments of
silence before a shadow, and then a grinning wolf club peeked over at him.
Shi’en
kindness, his heart beating a bit erratically.
Sig ong on the ground outside
the ditch then, Shi’en started to stutter out, “m-m
name iss…” but didn’t get to finish as
Kouga, future King of the Wolf tribe and Lord of the
Northern Lands. Who’re you?”
“I’m Sshi—“
“Sshi’en!
his brother calling and looked over his shoulder.
“Trin’da.
At the same time,
“Kouga, you little whelp, where are you?!
“Oh.
said, rushing off to rejoin his pack.
Trin’da
from view.
that?” he asked the youngling.
“That person…is prince
going to be my mate ssomeday, Trin’da.
met him, brother.
sstrong and brave and…beautiful.
*~*~*
“
maiden called after the young woman, running to catch up to her.
“Oh,” she turned a charming
girl. “Atsuki,
were you calling me? I’m sorry.”
“You forgot your shoes again!”
Atsuki said in exasperation.
Maio
Atsuki
off in your own little world all the time these days.
praying for? You never showed much
interest before now.”
Maio
ago when the monk and his friends had come into town.
it was nothing that she could put her finger on.
dark. She was perhaps a hair taller than
the average woman, neither thin nor chunky, with just a bit of meat on
her. In short, she didn’t have a single
peculiar trait, and yet, she was beautiful.
So, she had not been surprised when the monk picked her out of the
crowd. She had been taken by the sadness
in his gentle eyes.
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“A baby,” she answered
now. “I’m praying for a child,
Atsuki
“You—you didn’t actually let that perverted monk bed you, did you?
didn’t let him take you!”
“He didn’t take anything I
wasn’t willing to give.”
“But
“Hush.
man as that.”
“But he doesn’t love
you! He won’t marry you!”
“Learn to take things for
what they are, Atsuki.
else. But…for a moment, in the dark, we
were in love. That’s enough for me.
and I highly doubt that I will be the last, but I would still like to give him
a child.”
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“Because it
would make him happy.
“YES!” Atsuki
protested.
Maio
“You’re only a year older,”
do you intend to do
woman. A woman without a man can’t get
far in this world.”
“Only a woman,”
playful smile. “Well, we’ll see.”
*~*~*
Miroku
looking…well?” Actually, he was looking
a little rabid, only a little. Seemingly
out of nowhere, the wolf youkai had stormed up and
tackled him to the ground. Now the demon
was basically on all fours over the startled monk with his equally started
friends staring on. They thought the
wolf had lost his mind.
In truth Kouga
was a little crazy right now.
scent he had an instant fight or flight reaction; he knew it was either ‘gun it’
or ‘chicken out’, so he’d gunned it, and, hovering over the monk, one thought
crossed his mind: ‘what now?’
“Er…sorry…”
he muttered, getting up.
Miroku
said, “but we need to talk,” and grabbed his wrist,
dragging him off. He stopped a moment
and smiled at Kagome and the others, saying,” don’t worry,
I’m not nuts, just ticked off. I’ll
return him in one piec,e I
swear,” and then…back to dragging Miroku after
him.
“Ah…uhm…”
Miroku stuttered.
He couldn’t form a coherent thought for some reason.
situation, or his brain had been knocked out of his head when
When they were out of sight,
Sango’s
softly. ‘I understand,’ she
thought. ‘He hasn’t finished saving you
yet, has he Kouga?
Poor guy.
You worked so hard to be strong, and it still wasn’t enough.’
righteous indignation.
they finally ran into that damn viper again to get his n cln class=GramE>shards,
she was going to enjoy putting him out of his misery.
miserable he truly was.
*~*~*
A/N:
this chapter, but I wanted to save Kouga’s
much-awaited confrontation with Mu for the next
chapter. And now I have another OC to,
knowing me, complicate things even more.
I dunno though, Maio,
I kind of like her! And
around a shrine pushing her glasses up her nose and chasing Maio
around with a broom, but falling flat on her face all the time…
real clutz! And the Shi’en
memory scene, it came out just how I wanted it to, but now I don’t know how to
feel, because I totally despise Shi’en, but seeing
him as this helpless little youkai trapped in a
ditch, I’m like “aww, you poor thing.”
as much as they deserve to be hated, damnit!
Well, the next chapter should
be fun to write though!
happen after that. Bah, I’m sure I’ll
think of something interesting. There’s
still so much to do! I hope you enjoyed
this chapter and I will try to write more soon!