A/N how was chapter 9? Hope you liked it. Well here's chapter 10, and here's the disclaimer… I dun own Inuyasha or anyone from the show…
Recap: "Because it was my lightening who caused you to become blind…" came a very familiar voice behind her.
"Bankotsu!" Ayame turned and saw the leader of the Shinshitais standing behind her looking into her eyes.
"Bankotsu please, I'm not blaming you for anything." Ayame said as she stared in to his jet black eyes.
"You are right, you should be angry at me for making you blind… But you could have just said it out in the beginning…" Bankotsu replied staring in to Ayame's emerald green eyes.
Ayame searched longingly trying desperately to find a way to tell Bankotsu how she felt, but to her dismay, Bankotsu turned and walked off without saying a word.
"That's what you get for upsetting o-annekin Bankotsu… you wretch!" Jakotsu said as he followed Bankotsu.
Tears swelled up in her eyes, watching Bankotsu walk away from her was just like Kouga walking away from her.
"Why is everyone hating me?" Ayame asked as she fell down on to the cold wet surface of the forest.
Tears made her eyes go blur and she could not see anything properly.
"Well, well, well… A young female wolf youkai, this must be my lucky day." Came a perverse voice from behind.
Ayame turned around and saw that it was a youkai who was armed with two swords. Behind him was a group of youkais who looked at her with smirks on their faces.
"What the hell do you want?" Ayame asked angrily as she stood up.
"A feisty one we got here…" the demon that had the two swords said.
"This must be the leader… two swords, full battle armor, scars on his face, must be a solider, the others must be his troops… eight of them plus the leader makes nine…" Ayame thought as she studied the strangers carefully from head to toe.
"I could take out at least three of them, but they are well-trained by the looks of their body size, well armed… they could overpower me easily…" Ayame thought inside her head.
"What are you doing?" came a voice behind her.
Suddenly, an arm caught her hand and twisted it behind Ayame's back making Ayame wince in pain.
"I thought you were out hunting." The demon with the two swords said.
"Well you thought wrong. What were you doing near this girl? I thought I asked you people to train for out next battle." The demon behind said.
"And I thought I place you in charge, Tesuma, my brother." The demon said.
"Temasu, you can't control me when father is not around. I don't care if you are older, I will take over father when he passes on." Tesuma said.
"I warned you about cursing father Tesuma! I don't care about father's throne… I don't want to be ruler of this land! Now get your skinny ass out of here and go back and train!" Temasu commanded.
"If you two brothers had enough, will you please let my arm go, it hurts a lot…" Ayame asked through her teeth.
"We are taking you back for custody miss." Temasu answered tightening his grip on Ayame's arm.
"Ouch! For what reason?" Ayame wince again.
"You hanging around outside our kingdom and you hanging out with the Shinshitais." A solider said.
"Good job, Shin, you have been observing." Temasu said as he begin pulling Ayame towards some bushes.
"Wait! Where are you taking me? Let me go!" Ayame screamed as she tried to wretched herself free.
"No little missy, you are coming with us." Tesuma said as he gave Ayame a wink before letting out a scowl towards his brother.
Ayame gave Tesuma a disgusted look before he disappeared in to the trees.
"Eww! I can't believe you have a brother like him!" Ayame said as she tried to pull away again.
Letting go of Ayame's arm, Temasu sighed.
"What's wrong?" Ayame asked sitting down beside him.
"Temasu is my half brother," the demon continued.
"I was found by his parents and they took me in. I was older than him by at least two years… But something terrible happened. At the age of six, a war was waged between this country and the wolves of the south mountain… Tesuma's mother was killed in battle protecting me… since then, he had been hating me." Temasu said sadly.
"Oh, I'm sorry…" Ayame said.
"For what?" Temasu asked.
"For bringing this up…" Ayame replied.
"It's ok… anyway, where are you from?" Temasu asked Ayame.
"I'm the granddaughter of the elder in wolf clan of the North Mountains…" Ayame answered.
"Oh… I kind of thought so… the wolves from the south wear brown skins not white…" Temasu said.
"Erm, can ask you a question?" Ayame asked.
"Yeah go on." Temasu said as his unusual purple eyes looked at her green ones.
"What kind of demons are you and brother? You guys look a little like humans." Ayame said.
"My brother is a hanyou… I'm a shape shifter…" Temasu said.
"Oh, but why is your brother a hanyou?" Ayame asked.
"Oh, our grandfather was a full demon but he married a human so our grandmother gave birth to a hanyou son. And so it was past down to my brother." Temasu answered.
"Ok, enough of me, why are you looking so troubled?" Temasu asked.
"I-I I just fought with someone I like…" Ayame said sadly.
"And I guess he is Bankotsu?" Temasu asked.
"Erm, yeah, it is Bankotsu…" Ayame said shifting her graze onto the ground.
"Allow me to say this, but even if this fight had not happen, you can't be with him can you." Temasu said.
Ayame sighed and looked up in to the sky… it was setting already.
"I know, but he was the one who help me through some bad memories… H-He and his brother were the only ones I trusted…" Ayame said.
"I guess love has no boundaries… Love between a demon and an undead zombie is rare…" Temasu said.
"Have you ever like someone who you won't mind dying for?" Ayame asked.
"Yeah…" Temasu answered shyly.
"Who was the lucky girl?" Ayame asked.
"She was the most beautiful girl I ever seen. She is a fire demon… Rinrei, that's her name… She has brown waist-length hair, a beautiful smile and a kind personality…" Temasu said as he looked in to a small puddle of water.
"Where is she now?" Ayame asked.
"Who knows, her father hated me as I was not from any royal family nor was I rich… Her father was one of the biggest demon clan's leader. A lot of demons respected him… To get away from me, Rinrei and her father moved to who knows where… I still remember the day we parted, she was crying and I was speechless. I didn't know how to tell her I loved her and wanted to be with her… I just didn't had the guts…" Temasu continued.
"Oh, haven you heard anything about her?" Ayame asked.
"No, at first, we would meet at the waterfall not far from here, but I think her father found out about it and stopped her from going there or maybe she forgot… Since then, I never heard from her again." Temasu said sadly.
"It must have really hurt." Ayame said.
"Yeah it did, I could not get over her up till today… I still love her… She is every thing to me…" Temasu said as he stood up.
Standing up too, Ayame walked to the clearing. There, she could see almost the whole land including human villages.
"Wow, it's beautiful up here…" Ayame exclaimed.
"Yup, when I was young, I use to love coming here when I felt sad… Oh man, it's getting late, come on in to our castle… Stay for a night then at dawn you may set off to search for your lover." Temasu said, as he looked ay Ayame.
Hearing what Temasu said, Ayame sighed then nodded.
"But what about that pervert brother of yours?" Ayame suddenly asked.
"Don't worry, when father is around, he's a complete different man…" Temasu said.
With that, Ayame let out a sign of relief then nodded again to tell Temasu to bring her to his castle. Temasu brought Ayame through a few tunnels, which were heavily guarded and finally after five minutes, they saw a huge castle come into sight…
A/N ok here it is, chapter 10… anyway, I got a flame saying this is not a fanfic about Ayame and Bankotsu… it is ok so don't get me wrong… the next chapter is Ayame in the castle and then meeting a certain people she doesn't want to see… below is a quick preview but, I dun guarantee it that you would like it… Haha.
PREVIEW…
Walking through the big double doors, inside, was a whole town… Demons, both young and old were seen moving about. This was just like a normal human village but instead it was populated with demons. Walking through the crowd, Ayame could hear demons talking about her…
"Don't mind them, just keep walking. It'll be fine." Temasu said.
Just then, Ayame smelled a very familiar smell of someone she used to know.
"Ayame!" came a voice through the crowd…