Duty to Protect / Day 2 - Nightfall
Title: Duty to Protect
Author: kryss_delrhei
Fandom: Inuyasha
Type: Anime/Manga
Characters/Pairing: Inuyasha, Miroku
Word Count: 416
Genre: Friendship
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Inuyasha gives his word to Miroku that he'll protect them from Naraku.
Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha nor the characters, just borrowing them from Rumiko Takahashi for a little while.
Prompts: 52_challenge : #52 - Nightmare ( Table 52/55) / dailyfics : #2 - Nightfall ( Table D)
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“We’ll camp over there,” Inuyasha grumbled out to the group, nodding his head to the small clearing. The others stopped, before they went about setting up camp as Inuyasha grabbed his sheathed sword and sprung up onto a low hanging branch, finding a comfortable spot to rest.
By nightfall, only Miroku and Inuyasha were left awake, keeping watch over their sleeping group. The monk rose from his spot by the fire and walked to the base of the tree Inuyasha had barely moved from since earlier that afternoon.
“You didn’t eat Inuyasha,” Miroku called out, sitting amongst the roots of the tree.
“Keh.” Inuyasha snorted, “Wasn’t hungry.”
After a long pause, Miroku sighed, his hand rubbing the back of his neck. “When we finally go up against Naraku,” Miroku paused, his fingers massaging at the prayer beads wrapped around his wrist. He inhaled a sharp breath before closing his eyes, “I had a nightmare that we wouldn’t survive that this curse took everything that means something to me.”
Inuyasha stared down at him, dark brows knitted in worry before he snorted and tightened his fist around Tetsusaiga’s sheath, “It’s just a fear, don’t let it control you.”
Miroku glanced up, “Inuyasha?”
The hanyou sighed and leaned back against the tree, pulling his sword to his chest, “Don’t let fear be your weakness monk. Naraku already has too much against already.” Inuyasha looked up through the canopy of tree limbs, the moon shinning brightly in the night’s sky as he spoke, “We have to believe that we’ll defeat him. We can’t afford to lose.”
The worried lines of Miroku’s face faded as he began to smile up at the hanyou, before he glance back to their sleeping companions about the fire and to one in particular.
“It’s my duty to protect all of you,” Inuyasha said, his voice gruff with emotion, “I’ll make sure you and Sango get to have a life after Naraku, and I’ll make sure your kids will too.”
Miroku nodded, knowing that Inuyasha wasn’t so comfortable with feelings and emotions, but in that moment he understood the hanyou better than he had ever in the past. His eyes roamed from Sango to Kagome, who was cuddled up with the kitsune pup against her chest.
“And what of you and Kagome?”
“That’s a door we’ll have come to eventually.” Was all the hanyou’s response, and Miroku wanted to push for more, but he knew it would be wise to not anger a rabid dog.
Cross Posted to: 52_challenge, delrhei_writing
Author: kryss_delrhei
Fandom: Inuyasha
Type: Anime/Manga
Characters/Pairing: Inuyasha, Miroku
Word Count: 416
Genre: Friendship
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Inuyasha gives his word to Miroku that he'll protect them from Naraku.
Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha nor the characters, just borrowing them from Rumiko Takahashi for a little while.
Prompts: 52_challenge : #52 - Nightmare ( Table 52/55) / dailyfics : #2 - Nightfall ( Table D)
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“We’ll camp over there,” Inuyasha grumbled out to the group, nodding his head to the small clearing. The others stopped, before they went about setting up camp as Inuyasha grabbed his sheathed sword and sprung up onto a low hanging branch, finding a comfortable spot to rest.
By nightfall, only Miroku and Inuyasha were left awake, keeping watch over their sleeping group. The monk rose from his spot by the fire and walked to the base of the tree Inuyasha had barely moved from since earlier that afternoon.
“You didn’t eat Inuyasha,” Miroku called out, sitting amongst the roots of the tree.
“Keh.” Inuyasha snorted, “Wasn’t hungry.”
After a long pause, Miroku sighed, his hand rubbing the back of his neck. “When we finally go up against Naraku,” Miroku paused, his fingers massaging at the prayer beads wrapped around his wrist. He inhaled a sharp breath before closing his eyes, “I had a nightmare that we wouldn’t survive that this curse took everything that means something to me.”
Inuyasha stared down at him, dark brows knitted in worry before he snorted and tightened his fist around Tetsusaiga’s sheath, “It’s just a fear, don’t let it control you.”
Miroku glanced up, “Inuyasha?”
The hanyou sighed and leaned back against the tree, pulling his sword to his chest, “Don’t let fear be your weakness monk. Naraku already has too much against already.” Inuyasha looked up through the canopy of tree limbs, the moon shinning brightly in the night’s sky as he spoke, “We have to believe that we’ll defeat him. We can’t afford to lose.”
The worried lines of Miroku’s face faded as he began to smile up at the hanyou, before he glance back to their sleeping companions about the fire and to one in particular.
“It’s my duty to protect all of you,” Inuyasha said, his voice gruff with emotion, “I’ll make sure you and Sango get to have a life after Naraku, and I’ll make sure your kids will too.”
Miroku nodded, knowing that Inuyasha wasn’t so comfortable with feelings and emotions, but in that moment he understood the hanyou better than he had ever in the past. His eyes roamed from Sango to Kagome, who was cuddled up with the kitsune pup against her chest.
“And what of you and Kagome?”
“That’s a door we’ll have come to eventually.” Was all the hanyou’s response, and Miroku wanted to push for more, but he knew it would be wise to not anger a rabid dog.
Cross Posted to: 52_challenge, delrhei_writing