CHAPTER 9
CONFRONTATION
People says that time flies. Yep. It's true on some sorts, as a week of semester holidays for students in Malaysia had ended. Half of the year had passed, and it's the beginning of the 2nd semester. For Amar Ma'aruf, he'll have a big exam coming up.
His class in SMK Taman Rinting 2, 3A, was filled with girls than male students, only 7 out of 34 students. All of them were special in their own ways. For example, Chris Belmont is a vampire hunter (His brother is Julius Belmont, but he's gone after Demon Castle War in 1999) Amar Ma'aruf is a hanyou and the mysterious Evangeline AK McDowell is a blood-sucking vampire. She mainly spends her time loitering around, or skipping classes. Even the teachers are afraid of her.
Among all of the female students in the class, one remains a usual, normal girl. Her name is Sakura Asahina and her seat is next to Amar Ma'aruf. She is Amar's childhood friend, and she lives alone with her sister, Kurumi Asahina. Chris' dared Amar Ma'aruf to go out with her, and although they did go out, something did happen which made them closer.
One of their friends was Yurie Hasegawa, who works in her family's photo shop she named 'Angel's Wings'. She's also a tailor and most of the time, she made costumes for the school.
"Waah, you're so cute in the dress I made for you, Amar-chan!"
He blushed a bit when he saw a photo of him kissing Sakura's cheeks, that's one of the pictures that made the class go crazy. After that, Yurie took out a medium-sized plastic bag from her bag, and she handed the contents to Amar Ma'aruf and Sakura.
"Well, this is your present for being able to go out on a date and for Amar's belated birthday."
"Thanks."
She handed the clothes while filming on her 7mp (read: mega pixels) video camera.
"What's this?" Sakura asked, pointing at the strange clothes on Amar's desk
"It's a baby sweater. I made them, but the original design belongs to my sister. I made one for Amar Ma'aruf, so this'll be his signature clothes."
"Tottemo kawaii desu wa!" One of the students, who could only speak in Japanese exclaimed.
"Um, Yurie, is the baby sweater is durable enough?" Amar asked a quality-testing question.
The video camera totting girl blinked in surprise due to Amar's question.
"Of course it is. Why do you ask?"
"Err… nothing…"
After the school and the pre-PMR extra class, he returned home with the twins and Sakura. Upon arriving home, Reika was waiting at the door while working on the garden at the shrine.
"Amar, please meet me at the basement later."
"O…OK…"
The twins removed their shoes and they went to their room. Both loved to sleep on a futon rather than on a bed. After Amar Ma'aruf took a bath and changed his clothes to a pair of knee length shorts and a T-shirt bought during the Pulau Langkawi trip, he went to the basement. There, Reika was waiting for him.
"What are you looking for, mom?" Amar asked politely.
"This."
In Reika's hands was a katana wrapped in a fire rat cloth. It looked like Inuyasha's kimono for some reason…
"We found this sword in the remains of your house. I have met both Fuyuki and Myra before they died, and Myra said that she wanted me to give you her staff and infuse it with Fuyuki's fang to conceal the staff."
"…"
"I hope you can continue with Inuyasha in sword trainings. But for the sword, I can't think of its name yet."
"It's okay, mom. I'll think of one sooner or later."
After that, he brought the sword to his room. True enough, the cloth was the remains of Inuyasha's kimono, with the sleeves missing. Later, he kept the sword in his wardrobe. He then got changed to go out.
He wore the baby sweater over a long sleeved black T-shirt and a pair of olive green trousers (The olive green trousers were Malaysia's official secondary school uniform, but strangely enough, I've seen one in Shaman King…). To hide his vanilla white tail, he tied another long sleeved shirt, this time grey in color.
"Inu-no-nii-chan, are you going out?" Arikado asked when he saw Amar Ma'aruf walking out of the house.
"Yep."
"Don't forget to buy some comics!" He said, smiling. Arikado looked as adorable as a teddy bear when he did that.
From the different rows of stores, Amar Ma'aruf had bought some snacks for Shippo and also comics like Arikado asked. He had met his friends, along with the arrogant Evangeline and Chris. Along the way, he met Aslah, his friend who teaches at SMK Dato' Penggawa Timur. He's a tuition teacher there, and like his friend, Aslah is also a tactician.
Upon reaching back at the shrine, he kept his usual work until it's Friday. By then, Amar would leave to the Feudal era.
"Bye mom. I'll be off now."
"Be vigilant there Amar-chan. Don't hurt anyone unless you have to."
"I understand."
Amar picked up his backpack, and he jumped into the well.
Good luck…However, upon arriving at the feudal era, something seems not in its place. The sky is dark, but he didn't sense the presence of rain coming. Instead, the sky is filled with darkness. He quickly flexed his claws.
"Ah, if it isn't the hanyou who broke Kanna's mirror."
A man appeared from the dark clouds. He's wearing blue robes and a large, strange and spiky armor. Amar recalled Kagome description, and this is Naraku himself.
"So you're Naraku." Amar said, with his seriousness began to appear.
"I've been told that you're so strong, that you made Kagura and Kanna retreat."
"They got what they deserved!"
"Fine then, I'll absorb you to make your powers mine."
Angered by Naraku's statement, Amar started his attacks with his (usual) Item Crash. He used the boomerang item crash again, but this time, the boomerang turned 4 times bigger, and it circled him for a number of times before it ended with a bright light.
What?Amar aggressively continued attacking with throwing sets of dagger. Naraku avoided it easily, but then another set came after him, this time with a slight homing function.
To take out the young hanyou, Naraku used his miasma to poison Amar Ma'aruf. It seems to be working, as he got dizzy every second. Not sooner than said, Amar fainted.
"It was so easy."
However, before he could even absorb the hanyou, a grenade exploded right on him.
"Don't you dare touch him, Naraku!" A figure appeared, holding an assault rifle in his hands.
But, Naraku fled with Amar Ma'aruf's body.
"HEY!"
Amar…Amar-kun? Is that you?A/N: Another chapter, everyone. If you want to know who is this Amar-kun guy, go check my earlier fanfics, as I credited him with A-01. There's two chapter left before the end of this story, so continue reading. As for other readers of my fanfics (and Castlevania fans), I've decided to create another fanfics called 'Rin and Kohaku's Castlevania Adventure.) The draft is done on 9th of March 07, but it'll take some time to finish it. So read on and review. TQ.
