Moving onward:

The Courtship of Kikyou
A Seasonal Story of Love

yeah. I get to these about once a season all right. :)

By Mandy Lever


Chapter 3: Autumn


He wouldn't raid this village because she was in it.

A good enough reason.

Having not set his eyes on the miko in a full lunar month had been a mixed
blessing; he had seen his weakest night come and go, and still not even
caught her scent in his woods. Ever since that night in his den, her hand
on his cheek, her lips warming under his.

He'd run from her and she'd let him go. And he was fine with it being like
that! Just peachy! That damned miko was nothing but trouble; this was
probably some twisted version of playing with her prey, he decided.
Eventually she'd go back to

she'd return (you use back and forth a moment later)

 >

Sitting atop the cliff that over-looked

overlooked (I think)

He only heard the arrow whiz past his side when it ripped through his
fire-rat haori and pinned his sleeve to a tree trunk.

Hmm

Kikyou lowered her bow at her side; there was no arrow in hand, so he did
not expect a sealing anytime soon. She merely looked at him impassively,
her silence infuriating.

I do believe she is honked off. :)

Then and there, he swore he'd make her realize that she was never going to
have him as a man.

So, he realizes that she wants him that way? I bit perceptive of him.

"You can't have both," Inu-Yasha said. "You'll either be a miko or you'll
just be a brood mare for your village men." He rose to his full height

now,

leaning over her to make sure she understood he was the same as the men of
her village. "If you want to be a damn birthing sow, then, go for it! I'm
sure a few men will be pleased that the woman that defends them will fall
on her back like a any other dirty bitch!"

He stopped there for a moment, just to catch his breath -- but the crack

of

her hand across his cheek definitely put him into stunned silence.

He had it coming.

"I see," he finally said, drawing away. "You just want a dream. You don't
want the truth."

"I thought wanted you,"

....I wanted you

A few months; he could return in the winter when the humans  their miko
included  were

humans, their...included, were

 weak and tired, starving and poor. Then he could easily

capture his prize. and forget the miko of the Shikon no Tama.

Once the boat had been secured to the dock, he sprinted up to his cave,
ducking within it's

its

Even then, she had been ready incase

in case

He wouldn't stay here, a ghost of some miko's weak, human desires! He

would

remind the world that he was here! He would rot in this stupid wood,
outside that pitiful village!

He would never come back, he promised.

Never.

Heh. But we know otherwise. Nice work.Right touch of emotion in it. Look
forward to seeing more.

D.B. Sommer



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