Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha and neither intend nor expect
any profit from this work other than the pleasure of writing and
sharing it.  Summary: What decisions do you make when time is
running out? Angst/Romance. Miroku/Kagome. Rated for language
and mature themes.  Author's Note: This story is posting in
parts, but the entire thing is already written out in rough.
I'll be posting the chapters as I find time to get each of them
polished.   by Elementary Magpie  Chapter 1  Later, he thought,
it had been too obvious. How many times was Naraku going to try
that old divide-and-conquer trick before he realized that it
wouldn't work? Just often enough until it did, as it turned out.
He should have guessed.  They were such simple diversions.
Kikyo's soul catchers, floating north, and Inuyasha was gone,
return date unspecified. A verbal message passed from pilgrim to
peddler to farmer to him: Mushin had fallen sick, and needed the
aid of his old student.  And that, Miroku realized just too
late, was where he sh