Discoveries

by: Raven110

Raven: Yo Peeps!.

Y.R: After much discussion with Raven's Boyfriend. Raven has decided to add something to the story.

Raven: And I will explain it at the end of the chapter. After I have written it in. Anyways. I'm going to try my hand at summaries again....................no....no......never mind. sheepish chuckle

Y.R: I would hope not.

Amaya: peeks over couch. Looking sleepy what is all the ruckus about?

Raven.: Nothing...

Amaya: Okay goes back to sleep curled up on couch. With a sesshoumaru plushie.

Y.R: giggles and snaps a pic, Too Good snickers

Raven: shakes head with a sigh Oh Well. I do not own inuyasha, but I do own Amaya and all those that I created with my vastly wandering imagination.

PS: I do refer to the things they sleep on as beds, until I learn more about what you would find in ancient Japanese homes . And I do not own the few first sentences in Amaya's dream that I got from the song evanescence "lies" which I do not own either.

Amaya tossed and turned in her bed, her eyes were scrunched shut. Occasionally she whimpered and a ratty tail slipped out of her sleep kimono. Her bed was a mess, blankets strewn all over, showing hours of trouble sleep. In her dreams, voices plagued her. Ill sent words made her whimper pathetically as she tried to reach peaceful oblivion.

"You'll never be strong enough," a voice sneered.

"No..." Amaya moaned softly.

"You'll never be good enough," the voice hissed.

"Your wrong." she whimpered softly.

"You'll never find love." the voice jeered.

"Leave me alone." Amaya stated.

"We'll kill him." the voice, now joined with others, replied.

"no.." Amaya said softly.

"You know it's true."

"You keep him out of this."

"We'll hunt him down you know."

"Leave him alone."

"He'll die because of you,"

"No." Amaya whispered.

"Yes. Yes." the voices chanted.

"No!" Amaya said more confidently.

"Yes!" they voices stated loudly.

"NO!!"

Amaya sat up straight in her bed. Her breathing was heavy, a few tiny drops of sweat had started to show on her brow. Her gold and azure eyes scanned the area around her quickly for her father. Her head turning in all directions, searching for any signs of her step father and his grizzly demon warriors. He wasn't in the room, he wasn't even aware she had this dream. Her soft sky blue blanket was at her feet. Her sleep kimono was askew and her hair a mess. Absently she noticed that her tail had fallen out of her kimono, but she wasn't going to go through the pains of fixing it. She reached out and slipped a hand under the long, at one time silken, tail. It was about three feet in length, the bottom foot was nothing but broken bones. the once long and flowing hairs of her tail were missing in large patches. It was an old injury, one she never completely got over. So she had been hiding the tail wrapped around her waist. So few knew she had it anyways. Kikala did, faintly, for Amaya had seen her glance for the once beautiful tail when she had entered the room upon Amaya's awakening. Amaya wasn't willing to share this painful and ugly secret with anyone. What would some one think, seeing this ugly tail attached to one such as her.

Still breathing a bit heavily she looked around the room again. The room was dark but she could see clearly. The elegantly decorated jewelry box on a low table over next to the wall to her right. The paintings on the walls and the beautifully crystal pendant that hung from a beautifully crafted mirror. Sesshoumaru had stated that she should have things that reflected her beauty. He was even going through the pains of getting her more than one kimono. Her current one was mended from her recent battle, but sesshoumaru stated that even he had more than one just in case. So of course, he had sent jakken out yesterday to the weaver's and was instructed to not return until the kimono's were made. Amaya wanted dearly to blush hotly and shy from it all. But in sesshoumaru's castle, there was no reason to be shy around the one that held her so dear to his heart. She was still adapting to this new situation, and he understood this. He would brush her cheek with the back of his hand, run a hand through her hair. Or just place a hand at the small of her back. He never touched her when he sensed she didn't want to be touched. He never encroached on her space. She had a feeling he was learning about her boundaries as she was learning about his. she was learning. At the far left corner of the room was a large soft burgundy pillow. On this pillow lay snow white azize. Azize was awake, looking at Amaya thought not speaking. The wolf never spoke during the night, she used wolf speech at this hour, something that could be soft and understandable only to the one she wished to hear it. After a moment of watching azize watch her, azize rose and padded over to Amaya. The wolf lay down beside Amaya with a sigh and went back to sleep. It was the wolf's way of comforting her mistress. Only Amaya didn't want comfort, she just wanted to be alone. she glanced down at her kimono and straightened it to present ability. Flicking her ears around, Amaya listened to her surroundings. Sesshoumaru was in the room next to her's to her left, she couldn't tell by his breathing if he was asleep or not. To her right and down the hall a ways was Rin's room, recently kikala had been moved from the room next to Amaya's to the right, down to rin's room. It had been rin's suggestion and Amaya thought it rather nice of rin to be willing to share a room with her scraggly half sister. They were both asleep, kikala was out like a light sleeping soundly, rin was also sleeping soundly and occasionally talking softly in her sleep. Then a crossed the hall from sesshoumaru one of the servant rooms was jakken's room. Amaya had heard sesshoumaru grumbling faintly about needing to get more servants and was a bit sad at the loss of kata. Kata might have been a human, but she was fast, obedient and loyal. Slowly and quietly Amaya rose and ran a hand through her hair a couple times before heading towards the sliding panel of a door to her room. Glancing back at azize to make sure the wolf was not following, Amaya opened the door then crept out, closing the door behind her. She glanced down the hall to her right, kikala had shifted in her sleep. Then after an other thought, Amaya turned left and walked passed sesshoumaru's quarters. She paused a second to listen, only hearing the occasionally quiet breath, then she moved on.

Sesshoumaru was sitting up in his own bed, listening to Amaya as she whimpered. He had awoken upon her first soft whimper. If his senses were not so keen, he would have missed the slight sound of distress. Upon instinct he had listened for the sounds of an other in her room and heard nothing. Which meant that she was probably dreaming something. Suddenly her exclamation rang through her room and his, she probably had no idea she had actually said anything. She was sitting up now, breathing heavily and trying to calm her racing heart. Faintly he heard the brush of something against her own bed, an odd sound for when she was sitting up like she was. After several moments, he heard Amaya rise and open her door. He could barely hear the pad of her slippered feet a crossed the floor. She paused in front of his door and he was about to call to her, when she continued on. Thoroughly curious, sesshoumaru got up and got dressed quickly. No use staying in his sleeping attire. He would not be going back to bed. He only needed a couple hours sleep, if that, anyways. He left toukijin and tensaiga behind as he opened the door and left the room. He could hear jakken sleeping in his quarters a crossed the hall from his own room. The stupid toad needed almost as much sleep as young rin did. Pathetic. Turning quickly he went down the hall, following Amaya's delicate scent. A faint breeze wafted down the hall and brought a tell tale sign of where she was. In the gardens, and she didn't bother closing the door, or just forgot to. Now that he know where she was he moved easily through his castle, assured of her location, and finding the exact door she went through to the gardens. It was indeed open, but not much. He raised a brow some, then opened it slowly. after he stepped outside, he glanced around for Amaya.

Amaya was standing by one of the ponds, one that had a cleverly made water fall at the back end of it. She was gazing at it and seemed lost in thought. A beam of moonlight had chosen this spot to rest, painting the she demon in a shimmering white glow. Sesshoumaru sighed despite himself, and moved over to talk to her. When something made him stop. There, drooping behind her, was a limp and rather horrid looking tail. It was partially hidden by her sleep kimono, which he was amused to see she didn't bother to change out of. He guessed at one point it had been a beautiful and elegant part of her, but something had happened that had made it only a hindrance. After giving it an other skeptical look, sesshoumaru moved forward.

"Amaya?"

A snow white ear flicked towards him, after a moment, she turned and looked at him with her calm and rather bland gold and blue eyes.

"Yes M'lord sesshoumaru?"

Sesshoumaru glanced down, his curiosity for what had been wrong could wait, he wanted to know about the tail first. Amaya's gaze followed his, and he could have sworn he saw her blush a very charming shade of rose pink. If she had, she hid it well as she promptly moved to hide the tail. She acted as if he had been offended by it. Or she was just being difficult, he sighed.

"I didn't realize you had a tail..."

"Is there a point M'lord"

"Why didn't you reveal it before hand."

"I'd rather keep it hidden M'lord."

Amaya would not meet his gaze as she shifted almost guiltily. It occurred to him how strange it would be to have such a disgraceful tail when the rest of you seems so perfect. She had been hiding it because she was embarrassed of it. Slowly he moved around her, circling her, his face not showing his curiosity.

"Who ever ruined it?"

She just cleared her throat and looked away. Of course, sesshoumaru thought dryly, her step father. With out so much as a minuets thought, sesshoumaru reached out and snagged the tail in his hand. It was amazing how still she became once he had hold of it. He raised a brow at her tense figure, then looked down at the tail. He ran a finger over the bare skin, the long silken hairs were trying to come back, but something was preventing it. He noted that the end foot to foot and a half was broken and it was the only part that had lost hair. This had probably been one of her step father's favorite play things. Grab the tail and pull all the hair out after breaking it. Well, he could do something about the break.

"Amaya.."

Amaya looked up at him curiously as he let go of the tail.

"Follow me."

She nodded "yes M'lord sesshoumaru," and fell into step slightly behind him. She had been rather, taken aback, by his study of her rather disgraceful tail. She glanced back at it and sighed in slight annoyance. What she would give to just lose that hindrance. With a flick of her ears, she caught the sound of sesshoumaru coming to a stop in front of her. She to stopped, while sesshoumaru opened the door to the room. He went into the room, then called out to her.

"Amaya..."

"Oh... Sorry M'lord." she rushed into the room. Thoroughly embarrassed.

Sesshoumaru shook his head, though he was not really annoyed. Carefully he took tensaiga in hand. It occurred to Amaya exactly where they were. In sesshoumaru's quarters. A little uneasy for a moment, she looked to the ground.

"Amaya, do you know what this does?"

Amaya looked at the sword, "yes m'lord. It is the sword your father gave you, the sword of healing. It's purpose is blatant, it can heal."

Though her statement was a bit blunt, sesshoumaru nodded "yes. Now I want you to hold perfectly still."

"Might I ask what M'lord?" Amaya asked.

"No." Amaya was taken aback when he said this and drew tensaiga.

He could feel tensaiga pulse in his hand once. So it wanted to help Amaya huh? Good, that was just what he was going to do. With a smooth swing he sliced down a crossed Amaya's waist. The light that came from the sash suddenly spread to cover the tail. What happened next stunned them both. The tail grew, not only hair, but in length. Suddenly the tail had gained a good foot in length, and long shimmering hairs grew back. The tail waved behind her once or twice before the light died. Both sesshoumaru and Amaya looked at the tail, it was no longer ratty in appearance, instead it could be compared to the same beauty of Amaya's long snowy hair. Amaya stared at her fixed, and improved, tail before looking up at sesshoumaru.

"Thank you M'lord...."

Sesshoumaru nodded, though he would not smile. He was pleased. Tensaiga had out did it's self. Her beauty had not been diminished by the tail at all, instead she seemed to radiate more elegance and refinery than before. Sesshoumaru then moved, placing tensaiga back, and went to go sit by one fo the windows of the room. Glancing at Amaya, he motion for her to join him. Amaya, though normally a little stubborn, moved eagerly over to sit near sesshoumaru. They both gazed out the window at the garden. A single white lily was floating on the pond nearest them. A flower from one of the trees above floated down and landed on the water beside the lily. It wasn't as beautiful, but it was like a mini replica of the flower. Both flowers moved into the moon light and shown like white fire, as the moon left it's spot in the sky, slowly making it's way to the horizon. (A.N: kinda wish I could draw that.....Vv'. Now I have an idea for art next semester). The forest was shrouded in shadows, but something about how the light of the moon danced over the closed flowers and dew covered grass gave it a mystical look.

Sesshoumaru didn't know how long they sat there, just looking at the area around them. Seeing animals pass in the shadows of the forest, watching breezes send flowers dancing to the water. It was quiet sudden that they noticed the tops of the trees growing lighter, signaling the dawn was upon them. The golden rays spread over the tops of the trees, some even found their way to the forest floor. Faintly both demons heard the stirring of Kikala and Rin a few rooms down the hall. Something suddenly dawned on sesshoumaru, who was going to make those two breakfast. Before he could speak his thoughts to Amaya, she spoke softly.

"If I may, M'lord, I should go get dressed in proper attire then head down to the kitchen and start making Kikala and Rin something to eat."

Sesshoumaru looked at her, mildly amazed.

"You cook Amaya?"

Amaya looked a bit sheepish, "had to learn sometime. It's not that bad, especially if you need some thinking time. It's my equivalent of you going to the armory or something. You just need to get away."

With a nod sesshoumaru let her go, watching Amaya leave the room with fluid grace and head to her room. He could hear azize yawn then ask something softly of Amaya. She was answered with a growl. A rather disgruntled growl at that. He chuckled and got up, might as well, as everyone else was up already. Rin was getting dressed and talking to kikala softly. He heard kikala reply softly, and then the sound of Amaya combing her hair quickly, before heading out of her room. A call from outside signaled that Jakken had returned, and he heard a rather well pronounced yowl of rage. Not a yell, not a scream, but a yowl. He frowned and was about to go see what was going on, when he heard kikala bound passed the door, saying loudly.

"Jakken's Stepped on Amaya's TAIL!!"

"Amaya's WHAT?" rin asked as she ran to catch up with kikala.

"Her TAIL." kikala answered as they ran down the hall.

Sesshoumaru shook his head, refraining from laughing though it took a lot of control. He left the room, grabbing his boa in passing, and went after the two pups, and their icy baby-sitter. Jakken was pinned against the wall down one hall, looking scared out of his mind, and sporting a few bumps. At his side was several packs. Sesshoumaru raised a brow of questioning at jakken. Once jakken saw him, he started to sputter.

"L-Lord Sesshoumaru! I am terribly sorry it took so long m'lord. Arania wanted to make sure that the kimono's were just right. And I figured I would also ask for some clothes for the demon pup, since it seems she will be with us for a while. I hope that you may forgive me for my boldness."

Sesshoumaru frowned, slightly annoyed, "I am not bothered by it at all. Take them to the proper quarters. I will be with the other's, eating the morning meal. If you want any, you best hurry up."

Sesshoumaru ground out crossly. He'd rather just smack the toad, but jakken was useful. Watching jakken scurry off quickly, sesshoumaru continued on his way down to where Amaya, kikala and rin were seated. Amaya had gotten the two pups bowls of cut up fruit, some juice drink, and even a little porridge. He sat down at his end of the table, and was slightly surprised when Amaya sat down next to him. Normally she would sit down next to kikala and make sure the child ate. Right now she was nibbling thoughtfully on a piece of fruit and had an ear turned towards him. After several minuets, jakken came scurrying in and sat down behind sesshoumaru, ready for orders. There really wouldn't be any today. Sesshoumaru planned on staying at the castle one more day. Then they would be off again.

R: this is NOT only six pages Vv'

Y.R: you worry to much. Next chapter you get to write about Amaya bringing up some interesting points.

A: what about me?

R.: Nothing 'maya

A: glares at yami raven you sure is apparent that Amaya found out about the picture.

R.: Quite. Now I must get into what I was going to discuss. Amaya having a TAIL!!! it turns out I am in the process of writing two other inuyasha fics (well three actually but one is kinda of not set in a normal way so I aint really counting it as one XP). In both these fics Amaya has a tail. For some reason, and my boyfriend and friends agree, the tail seems to complete her picture. It just seems to make her seem complete to have the tail. There will be no more surprises with Amaya. No big changes (besides personality. You will notice it ). But now Amaya has got a tail.

A: Read and Review please.