Hakumei gave me a look that told me that it wasn't my business and I rolled my eyes as I sat in the chair. "Well?"
Hakumei shifted looking at the window. "It's none of your business so why don't you just leave it at that?" She snapped at me as I rolled my eyes.
"It is my business because I want to take care of you." I pulled my sword from its sheath and began to polish it.
"I don't need to be taken care of, Have you even brought in the thought that since I ran into you and stayed around you I've been getting hurt, poisoned and some how learned I have a brother?"
"Well I admit your life has gotten complicated but think about this. You're not alone anymore, that counts for something right?" I lifted the sword up to my eye and ran my finger down its length.
"And yet I still fell alone..."
Hakumei barley said it loud enough that I caught it, shaking my head I looked at her. "And why do you fell alone? Hakumei you're a very nice person no matter how you try to hide it. But you don't act like you want us around. You snap at us and yell at us without trying to get to know us. You're pushing us away." I said touching her cheek.
"Do you blame me for cutting my self off!? Everyone I get close to leaves me! Or dies! Or gets killed! There is no point in being close to anyone!" Hakumei pushed my hand away and growled low in her throat.
"Its kind of hard to kill me if you haven't noticed and the people trying to be friends with you are hard to kill too. You can't be happy without risk." I headed out the door. "Risk is what makes life worth while." I closed the door and leaned against it for a moment.
Hakumei sighed and looked out the window "You just don't get the fact that I never got to know either of my mothers..." her ears dropped as she whined low in her throat like a lost pup. Sesshomaru walked down the hall slowly looking at Amaya. "One of my men has spotted Yayoi in the east, but something is amiss, get ready to go out since your the only one able to go currently."
I nodded and pushed off the door heading to my room. I changed quickly into my fighters outfit. Inuyasha and the others arrived as I was leaving. I gave them all hugs and kissed Kin on his forehead. "Be good." He gave me a big grin in return and I started toward the east. I met up with Sesshomaru's man and he said that there was a black Inu-demon in one of Yayois cocoons'. He didn't see who she was but she was alive and Yayoi was yelling at her tied up form for something.
Yayoi hissed as she wrapped her injured legs growling. "Damn her, I will kill her and that insolent pup Hakumei, They will all suffer but for now I have to come up with a new plan" she hissed again as she looked up at the silk cocoon "You still alive in there demon!" she purred licking her lips slowly.
I stepped into the clearing running my claws through my hair. "Yayoi my sweet spider...what have you been up to this time?"
Yayoi jerked quickly hissing at me. "Nothing much, fixing my injuries you caused and playing with my toy." the silk sack struggling to get out once again growling in a low feminine voice ,"Fuck you spider bitch!"
I froze at the voice and the sight of the black hair that fell from the sack. Mother...? I leapt into the air bringing my claws down in an arc, Yayoi dodged out of the way but they struck the sac and sliced it open sending a beautiful Inu demon tumbling to the ground.
Yayoi hissed. "Damn you! It took me months to make sure she couldn't escape!" I turned quickly drawing my sword as silk some Yaoyi's mouth came in my direction as I felt someone tackle me out of it's way. I looked up to see the demon I released from the cocoon. "I hate fucking spiders..." She muttered looking over her shoulder at Yayoi
I grinned, my eyes tearing over. The green eyes that were narrowed on Yayoi, the firm red mouth, the silver stripes on her cheeks. My mother! She leapt from me taking my sword and bringing it down on Yayoi chopping off another of her legs and landed on her feet her blue robes in tatters.
Yayoi hissed as she used one of her few remaining legs to try and swat my mother way. She easily jumped it slicing it with the sword smirking. "To slow bitch!"
I leapt as one of Yayois children came behind my mother and landed on its head feeling satisfaction as the bones broke beneath me. "We need to get home Mother." I said throwing the carcass at Yayoi and forcing her further away.
My mother stared at me tilting her head to the side. "Mother?" she looked over my shoulder jumping up and quickly pushing me out of the way of Yayoi's legs as she tried to stay standing hissing out in pain.
My chest felt heavy with pain. "You're my mother. I'm your daughter Amaya." I said flipping backwards onto another of the sub-spiders sneaking up. Did she not remember me?
She stared at me again as she jumped into the tree growling at the spider. She shook her head holding it groaning. "I don't even know my own name...how am I suppose to know you?"
I sighed and undid a braid in my hair sending the magic spiraling into Yayoi sending her flying. At the moment I was less concerned about killing Yayoi then I was about getting my mother home, especially if she had memory troubles.
She stared at me and scratched the back of her head jumping down. "So...Hi?' she was different from what I remembered."Sorry about the spider bitch...I've been trying to kill her for years..."
I stared at her and fingered my swords hilt thoughtfully and sadly. "I have been using her for information for a long time. She had calmed down the last few years, since Naraku and all, but lately she started attacking again. She's been going after me and mine."
My mother's eyes fastened on my sword. "I know that blade." She looked confused, "I know the name Amaya too. But I don't know what they mean."
She held her head wincing as I sighed. "Let's go back to our home, Maybe Kaede can help you with your memory, We'll deal with Yayoi later..." I started walking my mother following closely behind me.
"That's the spiders' name... I know it… but I don't..." my mother spoke softly sighing. "Who's Kaede?" She asked looking around at the scenery.
"She's the priestess that has been a friend of the family for many years now. You've been gone over four decades. You've missed...a lot." I said glancing back over my shoulder at her. "The spiders name was Yayoi."
"I knew that." She said startled.
I chuckled as we chatted back and forth the whole trip. We soon arrived at the castle to see Hakumei running out the door. "Freedom!" Inuyasha chasing right after her with Kagome on his back. "Get your ass back in that room before I kill you!"
Hakumei saw me and slid to a stop a look of horror coming over her face when I started to smile at her. "No...NO! I'll go back, I'll go!" She turned and ran back towards the house her ears down when I opened my mouth to say 'the words'. Inuyasha and Kagome laughed and kept coming until they stopped before me. They looked at the woman behind me and Inuyasha looked sucker punched when he caught her scent. His eyes widened and he stared at me. "Kagome, Inuyasha, this is my mother, Kei."
Kei stared and waved her hand softly. "Hi?" she looked like a child who wasn't scared of anything. Kagome smiled shaking my mother's hand as Inuyasha just stared looking at my and raising an eyebrow asking how and where and when.
I shrugged slightly and jerked my chin in the direction of Sesshomaru's house and he nodded hopping off after kissing Kagome on the cheek. "Come on inside, I'll introduce you to the others. Kagome you want a ride?" I asked smiling at her. She chuckled, "I still got a few weeks, and I'm not too concerned about walking around." Kei studied Kagome's stomach, "It'll be early." Kagome looked at her startled then began to smile. "I've been thinking the same thing lately. Don't tell Inuyasha though, he's cute when he's all worried."
Kei laughed as she followed behind her eyes glazing over as she stared at the castle. She froze in place as memories flashed through her mind. She soon jerked her head to the side panting softly. "Ow..." I looked back at her raising an eyebrow. "You ok?" she looked at me smiling. "Yea, I'm perfectly fine"
Kei headed toward the door, "I wonder where Kiyoshi..." She paused her face scrunching up as she thought then sadness fell over her features and a few tears began to fall.
"Dad died a long time ago. About 70 years." I said my own eyes tearing slightly. Masato came to the door and he smiled slowly as he saw me. The smile disappeared when he caught my sad scent and he headed toward me, he was close when he noticed Kei beside me and his eyebrows rose in shock.
"Lady Kei...I thought you were dead..." his words passed his lips slowly as Sesshomaru rounded the corner quickly stepping up to my mother and looking her over."Welcome home Lady Kei"
She stared around sadly, "What's been going on? I only remember a few things. I remember Kiyoshi, I remember you Sessy," She looked at me and Masato, "I recognize you two. But...everything else is a blur."
Sesshomaru nodded looking at me. "Take her to Kaede and see what she says, then deal with your ... daughter if that's what you want to call her... She's escaped 7 times since you left, Sango is too tired to chase her any more and Inuyasha can't do much when he's carrying Kagome"
I smiled widely at him. "DOWN GIRL!" I yelled and heard Hakumei scream as she slammed to the ground just inside the door. "Get in your room." I said to her, a small face poked out of the door then a body ran after it and leapt into my arms. Kin smiled at me and I returned his smile. "Go watch her for me. Count how many times she tries to get out. Each time she tries I'll slam her into the ground when I get back." I kissed his cheek as he grinned at me mischievously and Masato, Kei and I headed off toward Kaede's village
Masato chuckled looking at me raising an eyebrow. "When did Hakumei become your daughter?" Kei blinked and looked at me. "You have a daughter... but you don't smell mated..."
"I found two orphans recently, though through the same adventure in different ways. I decided to adopt them." I stuck my tongue out at Masato, "It just bugs you that your sister is my adopted daughter."
He grinned back at me. "A little but I still will win you over."
Kei looked at us interestedly. "Why aren't you two mated?"
Masato chuckled and grinned scratching the back of his head. "She wants to marry for love and not for honor or gain, Much to Sesshomaru's encouragement."
I rolled my eyes and shrugged it off. "Sucks to be him, I won't be a rock like him"
"Now now, he's not a complete rock." Kei said her forehead wrinkling as she thought. "He had a temper if I remember."
I laughed holding my stomach and bending over. "Oh yes he has a temper. I love to get him angry."
Masato smiled and shook his head. "This family just seems to get bigger and bigger by the day, Next thing you know my father will be knocking on the door" I looked at him and raised an eyebrow. "Between me, Sesshomaru and Hakumei he'll be luck to be in one piece and alive"
I shook my head when he gave me a look then winked at him. "I take care of my own." He opened his mouth to respond but we arrived at Kaede's and she came outside to see what the commotion was about.
"Ahh, Amaya, how nice to see ye. What brings ye to my home?" She said studying mother with her good eye.
I sighed and cleared my throat. "Kaede, Meet my mother Kei. She's lost most of her memory and we were hoping you would be able to help her get it back..." She looked me over and started to think to her self rubbing her chin.
Masato shimmied over to me while Kaede and Kei summed each other up. "Your own?"
I looked at him, smiled and opened my mouth, "La." I turned back to the others.
Kaede tilted her head to the side, "I think I may have some herbs to help ye."
I smiled as I heard someone yelling. "I'm telling Oka san you're out of your room!" I blinked looking over at Inuyasha's forest to see Hakumei bursting out of the woods Kin behind her shortly chasing her as fast as he could.
Hakumei slid to a stop beside me and punched at my face. I stared at her and she stopped an inch from my nose. "I don't like being locked up."
I raised an eyebrow at her. "Did you ask anyone if you could go outside?"
She stared at me for a moment as Kin came over and clamored up my back. "Ummm...no?"
"So why should we let you outside?" I asked tilting my head to the side.
"Because...umm..." she scratched the back of her head looking up at the sky as I smirked chuckling softly at the young pup's confusion."Cause you didn't tell me I had to ask to go outside."
"Try asking first always. Especially after the first try of escaping doesn't work." I said and patted her on the head.
Hakumei blinked and shrugged it off as Kin ran into her back leg. "Oka san! She got out again!"
I turned around smiling running my hand through his hair. "It's alright, just as long as she's with me and doesn't do it again I wont kill her." I turned to Kaede who returned from her hut with the herbs handing them to me. "Give her some of these every day till her memory comes back"
Kei glared at her. "I'm not a child!" Kaede looked at her. "You just acted like one. Besides, do you know if you're going to remember this tomorrow?"
Kin blinked and looked at the ground. "Yes! I will! Just to prove you wrong!"
Hakumei rolled her eyes as she moved picking Kin up by the back of his shirt putting him on her back. "Lets go back to the castle before Kagome notices I'm gone." Kin chuckled tugging on Hakumei's ear as she moved his hand away.
Masato looked at my with a wide stare. "Was she just nice?"
I chuckled tugging on his dark hair. "I guess I'm having a good effect on her."
Kaede chuckled, "Ye would." She turned her eye to Kei and frowned, "I maybe only in my 70s to a demon who is probably several hundred years old but I don't argue with someone giving me medicine."
Kei looked away a faint blush on her cheeks and we left not long after. Masato kept bugging me and finally I leapt into the trees to follow them from the treetops. Kei laughed at me, "This is much like Kiyoshi and I." Her face blanked as she remembered and finally a bitter-sweet smile crossed her face.
Masato smirked as she jumped into the trees behind me. "I just want to see how much I can bug her before she snaps, I want to see if she snaps, Thank god I'm not a cat or I'd be dead by now."
Kei chuckled softly rolling her eyes. "So, Amaya what I have I missed in your life over the years?"
I hung upside down for a moment looking her in the eyes. "I came into my powers and have tamed the sword. I became Sesshomaru's tracker in your place and he says that I am better than you though not by much. I saved Inuyasha's daughter from Yayoi, that's where I got Hakumei and Kin." I shrugged. "For a long time I simply trained with Sesshomaru. We are very close."
Kei blinked stopping right in front of my face blinking. "Least you were never board, I'm sorry I disappeared, But I want to kill Yayoi before she caused any more trouble" Kei sighed softly cracking her neck.
I dropped to the ground beside her. "Its alright, I knew if you could have come home you would have."
"What is it about the sword that makes me wonder?" Kei said staring at it. I drew the blade and her eyes dilated and refocused a few times on it.
"This is the blade you gave me a long time ago. It was a family heirloom but no one had been able to tame it enough to fully control it." I kissed the blade reverently. "It allowed me to go into its heart and now it and I are the same. I tamed it and it tamed me." I shrugged, "I don't know how to explain it any better than that."
"I could explain that to you, I remember when I was young my father was a blood thirsty demon. He's thirst transferred to that sword, It would seek would the blood of hundreds, His thirst went through me to you skipping a generation."
I shrugged, "The 'thirst' doesn't hunt for innocents so I'm not bothered by it." I smiled as Sesshomaru turned toward us when we arrived at the house. I charged at him aiming a kick for his head. He caught my foot and threw it to the side and I spun through the air landing a few feet from his side.
"You won't get me Amaya. No matter how many times you try."
Kagome came out the door smiling. "Amaya come quickly! You have to see this!"
I raised an eyebrow following Kagome as she led me to the back yard, everyone else following me. Kin and Inume were a sleep snuggled into Hakumei's large dog form who was also passed out. "They were all messing around a short time ago"
"What I wouldn't give for a camera." Kagome said, the others glanced at her confused but then shrugged and I felt my heart swell with pride and happiness seeing the children happy and comfortable together. I looked up at the darkening clouds and motioned for Inuyasha to get the children inside as quickly and quietly as possible. Something was coming.
Hakumei opened her eye looking at Inuyasha when he was coming closer as she moved the two latched onto her back. I smiled again as she moved helping them both on with out waking them as she walked inside. Kagome followed beside her to make sure neither of them fell off
Inuyasha nodded to us and went inside. Hakumei came out and sat on the ground near Masato, Kei and I while Sesshomaru and Inuyasha went inside to guard Kagome and the children, Sango and Miroku were still at Sesshomaru's watched over by his servants and Kagura. The four of us waited and watched while the presence came closer.
Oh snap...whats gonna happen now?
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