Hanyo of Snow (Inuyasha harem x Male Reader)

Ch58: The Cursed Monk

(Inuko POV - Mountain Trail - Midmorning - Next Day)

After the incident with the macaques things had been quiet and uneventful last night. For the first time in what seemed like a long while...

Minus waking up to the kit kicking me in the face in his sleep.

Had no idea when he moved next to me, last I knew Shippō was curled up near Y/N.

Despite the rude awakening we managed to gather everything up and started the trek up the mountain. Mainly it has been quiet for the most part, especially from the kit.

After he apologized multiple times for kicking me awake.

Overall things have been calm for the most part...except for one thing...

"You still worried that something might happen?" I asked Y/N, getting him to sigh.

He had been hanging back during the trek along the mountain side. Looking at either side of the trail for any hiding spots or up ahead. Me and Yura had already been doing that already.

Guess he might be starting to jumping at shadows over these next few days. Don't blame him, but after last night I'm starting to get a little concerned for him.

"Yes, just had something on my mind since last night." Y/N said, shaking his head. "Besides the hot springs I couldn't get the sight of the lizard out of my mind even now."

Lizard?

Wait, the kit did chase one trying to sneak food before bed.

"How so?" I asked, frowning slightly.

"It looked like a common lizard, but...I don't know something about it just recognize it was immediately wrong about it. Like my mind was telling me that it was something else entirely." Y/N said, trying to figure out what it was.

Perhaps he was onto something.

But if it was a yokai I probably would have smelled it.

Y/N did say that it had left a tail behind, but that probably had gotten eaten during the night. Still aside from such a feeling, there wasn't that much to go on and I hadn't bothered to check up on it...

"Kit can you come here for a second." I called out, getting Yura and Kagome to stop up ahead as Shippō jumped out of her bike's basket.

Running forwards before clambering onto my kimono and looking between me and Y/N curiously.

"Shippō did you notice anything about the lizard last night?" He asked the kit before I could. Seems like we both had the same idea.

"No, but I did find it crawling out of Kagome's bag." Shippō said, getting the both of us to tense.

It could have been just looking for food like the kit tried to take, wouldn't be the first time. But her bag contained the shard we had gotten from Mittsume Jōrō inside. It was still there in the morning...

Either a hungry animal or some kind of scout. Wasn't a yokai, but Y/N could tell something was wrong...shit!

Really hope he is wrong about this.

"You have an idea of what it could be?" Y/N asked, breaking me out of my thoughts.

"Could be wrong, but we might have a nuisance to deal with coming up." I said as Kagome parked her bike as she and Yura came over to us.

If I was right and Kagome had probably seen the lizard too, she probably would have noticed something was wrong as well. Maybe less clearly than Y/N, but it could have been a toss up between the two.