Chapter One: Moving In

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha and crew. Just Amaya:)

Amaya grunted as she lifted the heavy box down from the back of the moving truck. The box was surprisingly heavy, and she realized that the reason was because it had her fathers armor inside. Moaning, she headed towards the house at the center of the shrine.

InuYasha met her halfway up the great cement steps. He relieved her of the box, smirking.

"You didn't think it was heavy, did you?" Amaya bit back a retort. Seeing InuYasha struggle up the last of the steps before setting it down was enough to tide her over.

Kagome came up the steps behind her carrying a box of clothing. Her large brown eyes fell on InuYasha and she frowned. "InuYasha, quite fooling around. We need to get these boxes inside." She glanced over at her new step-sister as she heard the young demoness giggle. Her purple eyes danced with mirth, and the wind gently tussled the black bits of hair that had fallen free from her loose bun during her struggle up the stairs. Kagome was amazed by the young things beauty. Her hair was thick and black, falling down to her waist, and her skin was like snow in the meadows. But the thing about her that made most people look twice were her eyes. The deep purple, always filled with kindness or sincerity. They were eyes that made you think there was nothing lovelier. She was tall and majestic in manner, standing out even in a room full of thousands.

"Is that everything?" Salazar stood tall above them all. His normally menacing physique was toned down by the Hawaiian shirt and shorts he was wearing.

"No." Amaya moved past her father and stood at one end of InuYasha's box, lifting it up. InuYasha brought up the other end and they started to shuffle towards the house." And dad?"

"Yeah?" Salazar stopped halfway down the steps.

"I think you should save the shirt for when you get to Hawaii."

Amaya slumped down in the armchair, wiping her forehead free of sweat. several boxes lay all around her, ready to be unpacked. There were boxes labeled clothes, CD's, feminine products, more Cd's. Her eyes fell on her guitar case. Smiling slightly, she sat it upright in the corner.

Moving to the bed, she grabbed the box labeled 'Bed clothing' and pulled out her mattress cover, her pillow cases, and her enormous comforter. The yellow of the fabric matched the yellow of her bedroom walls, which she had painted the week before. She covered the mattress and spread the blanket out across the double bed. Her pillows were yellow with tiny white clouds on them. Still smiling, she placed them out on her bed, resting her tiny brown teddy against their fluffiness.

Amaya turned to her dresser, which she pushed to that it was against the wall behind the door. She moved the armchair she had been sitting in earlier so that it was caddy-corner on the other side of the wooden door. Behind it she placed a tall reading lamp that had yellow beads dangling from its shade. She shoved her bookshelf, which reached nearly to the ceiling, against another wall. She frowned, and gazed around. Her computer desk was missing.

Moving across the hall, she found Kagome sitting on her bed with InuYasha and Souta. Her computer desk was in the middle of the room. Kagome instructed InuYasha to give Amaya a hand with the desk, and they dragged it back across the hall together. She placed it on the other side of her bed, opposite of her bookshelf. Sighing, she let her head rest against the bedpost of her canopied bed.

"That's it for the furniture. Now all I've gotta do is the boxes." Brushing the loose hair from her face, she sat on the floor and pulled the box labeled 'Clothing' towards her.

"You want some help?" Kagome asked from the doorway.

"Yeah, that'd be nice." Kagome and InuYasha settle down on the floor beside her, Kagome with the 'Books' box and InuYasha with the 'Feminine products' box. Kagome shuffled off towards the bookcase and InuYasha towards Amaya's bathroom. InuYasha couldn't help but grin when he seen that it was done in yellow.

It didn't take long before everything was unpacked and Amaya had hooked up the computer. They were all drenched in sweat, and Kagome was the first to retreat to the bathroom downstairs. Amaya snuck into her bathroom, and where Kagome was done first, InuYasha took the downstairs one.

They reunited in Amaya's room some half-an-hour later. All three of them collapsed on the bed, glad to give their sore muscles a rest. Amaya turned on the radio and started to sing along to Vitamin C.

"As we go on, we remember, all the times we, Had together, And as our lives change, come Whatever, We will still be, Friends Forever." As the song ended, her voice faded away. Both InuYasha and Kagome were staring at her.

"I didn't know you could sing." Kagome said quietly, eyeing her sister.

"No one but my mother knew. And as far as I or anyone else is concerned, neither do you." Amaya turned away, turning off the radio. The urge to sing along was to much. As she turned back, both Kagome and InuYasha had exited the room. Sighing, Amaya plopped herself down on her bed, pulling her teddy to her chest.

No one knew about her mother. She figured her father has told Aiko, and Amaya didn't mind her knowing. But she didn't feel the urge to tell anyone else. Maybe someday she would tell someone she felt close to, but until then... well... Amaya planned on keeping it her little secret.

A shout from downstairs told her father and newly-registered step-mother was ready to leave. They were catching a plane to Hawaii in 3 hours, and because her father had a habit of taking 'long-cuts', Aiko wanted to leave in plenty of time. Kagome, InuYasha, Sota and Amaya were taking Amaya's car to the bus depot on the other side of the city to drop Sota off. He was heading down to Kyoto to spend his summer break with family friends.

Amaya entered the kitchen to find the most comical site before her. Her father stood there in his Hawaiian shirt and matching shorts and her step-mother wore a matching sundress with an oversized lightning bolt bag. They each had about four suitcases sitting on the floor around them. Sota stood some feet away dressed quite normal, except he, too, had some four bags.

"Well, we're off. Make sure to get Sota to the bus depot in an hour, Amaya. If you decide to accompany InuYasha and Kagome to the feudal Era, lock the doors and make sure everything is turned off. And if you don't no parties!"

As Salazar and Aiko pulled out of the driveway, Amaya snorted. "You'd think I was 14 the way he talks to me. No parties! Lock the doors! Make sure everything's turned off!" She mocked her father all the way to the car.

They shoved Sota's trunks into the car and hopped in. Kagome complained to Amaya and wouldn't let her start the car until she had on her seatbelt. The car ride was long and silent. Kagome had formerly warned InuYasha that Amaya didn't like to talk while she was driving. Her number one rule was, don't touch the radio.

InuYasha did it on purpose, of course. He sat forward in his seat and blew in Amaya's ear. She swore and swerved, narrowly missing another car. Next, he reached forward and switched the channel on the radio. Amaya ignored him, but her knuckles turned white on the steering wheel. Then he turned it up full blast, causing Amaya to scream in pain. Finally, she pulled into the parking lot of the bus depot. She wasn't very happy.

"What the hell were you doing? We could've run off the road, you dumb ass. You would've killed us all, half-breed!" Her ranting went on the whole way to the bus, where she loaded Sota's bags. "See ya kiddo. Be good. We'll see you when you get back."

"Bye Amaya, Kagome, Inuyasha." He got on the bus and, as it drove off, waved at them from the back window.

"Let's go home, ok?" Kagome asked, heading back towards the car.

They drove home with InuYasha tied up in the back seat.

First published: 06-27-06

This was going to be a remake of my fic Rein of the Demons. It hasn't been worked on in FOREVER.

To new readers: This story isn't my first priority. I have no idea where I'm going with it, and until I do, it probably won't be updated. Review anyways, please, if you like it!

-sl.smith