Chapter 5
An: this chapter doesn't have a title mainly because it's not supposed to be in this story… I wrote it in biology class and had nowhere to put it so it goes here. Don't worry it all makes sense… I think. DO NOT tell me that Sesshomaru is OOC. There is a reason and it will be made known later in the fic…
Chapter 5 (narrator pov.)
The two of them started back to the village once Amida lifted the timed spell in Sesshomaru.
"You have to admit, it wasn't that bad…" Amida said with a smirk.
Sesshomaru gave her a glare of bloody murder. Back at full strength, Sesshomaru's attitude reverted to the normal cold silently demanding, and stuck up-ness that it was known for. Despite this fact, Amida was still drawn to him. Just outside the village, Sesshomaru stopped and gazed off to the right.
'Inuyasha…" he thought to himself. The scent was unmistakable.
"What is it?" Amida asked looking back at him. He said nothing but walked ahead into the dark village…
Upon returning to the hut where Amida and Kalina resided, they found the old woman magically inscribing characters into the right side of a chest plate.
' That armor looks remarkably like my own.' Sesshomaru thought.
Kalina looked up at the pair and smiled warmly.
"Welcome home you two…" she said.
'Home?' Sesshomaru thought.
"There is warm stew in the pot. I'm almost finished here…' She said and put one last character in then she sighed and hefted the heavy looking armor up in the air.
"Is this right, Amida?" she asked.
"That's it exactly, minus the characters of command…" Amida said while handing Sesshomaru a bowl of stew.
"Do you like it, Lord Sesshomaru?" Kalina asked.
'I love it… so majestic.' Sesshomaru thought and nodded his answer.
"Good, because it's your new armor." Amida said between bites of stew.
"Your new kimono and sash are your room. The bathhouse is connected to every room so getting to it is easy. Just through this door is one of the entrances and just to be nice I'll tell you that our bathhouse is actually an underground cavern. Magically created of course. Once you've bathed, come to the watch room, the room with the scrying waters." Amida said and turned to Kalina. They spoke in whispers that Sesshomaru didn't care to overhear.
He went to retrieve the nightwears that Amida had fashioned for him then set off for the bathhouse/cavern.
He needed to think.
Candles that seemed to float in the air lighted the path down to the cavern. They burned with an unnatural glow. Their light was like that of the sun; bright and very had to look at. On his way down, Sesshomaru only passed six candles but counted a grand two hundred seventy-four steps.
The cavern was large and beautifully decorated. Beautiful silks and statues adorned the room. More candles, natural looking candles, sat in the corners, casting a romantic glow over the room. In the center of the floor was a large (pond/ lake sized) pool of water. Its surface mirrored the color of the black silk that hung from the ceiling. Steam settled in the room diffusing the light and adding to the cozily mystical feeling of the room. Across the black waters sat, a bed of pillows and on these plush pillows laid Amida. She was gazing into the depths of the black waters in a strange manner.
"Amidamari…" Sesshomaru called to her.
Her eyes lifted slowly to stare at him in a death like style and she smiled a mirthless smile.
"Sesshomaru, you know that everyone calls me 'Amida'." She said. Her voice was distant and empty of the happiness that Sesshomaru was accustomed to.
'There's something wrong here.' Sesshomaru thought and his eyes narrowed.
"How did you get here before me?" he asked opening the conversation. Amida pointed above her head.
"The short cut. A sheer drop." She said. Sesshomaru took a step to the left. Amida's blue eyes watched him carefully, almost piercingly.
Sesshomaru wanted her to stop looking at him like that. The pain and sadness in her gaze was making him extremely uncomfortable.
"Amida, why do you stare at me?" he said and a hollow giggle that made his skin crawl came as a response.
"In the watch room, I gazed into your past, then your recent future." She paused and Sesshomaru swore that he saw her entire body shudder. "Then something came into my sight. A crimson-eyed man with wavy ebony hair, dressed in a baboon pelt. His name was Naraku, and he has plans for you…" She paused again and stared at the flat surface of the water. "I wondered why such an evil man would be after you, so I intruded into his thoughts. All sorts of evil things came to me. Then I found his thoughts of you, horrible, most horrible. Using Taikashi's ability to leech demonic powers he…wanted your demonic aura, but then another idea came to his mind." Amida gave a violent shudder and abruptly stopped talking.
'So Naraku has plans for me...'Sesshomaru thought to himself. 'Plans that make Amida uncomfortable just being around me…'Sesshomaru thought.
"Show me this second plan, Amida." Sesshomaru said and fear filled Amida's eyes.
"No, I can't go through that again…I don't want to relive that…" she whispered. Sesshomaru crossed the pool of water and knelt before Amida. Sesshomaru gazed deep into her eyes, after a moment she sighed and looked away.
"Show me, Amida." Sesshomaru said gently and Amida looked at him then gently stroked his cheek. This scared Sesshomaru slightly.
"Look into the water…" she said and suddenly the undisturbed black surface became a window of colors. Things flashed before Sesshomaru's eyes. A field, a castle, and then Naraku's face appeared. The picture hovered there for a couple more seconds as if it felt the same as Amida. Then it zoomed in on his left eye and other things appeared. Evil things, disturbing things. Suddenly the picture stopped again. A black haired man was chained to a grand futon. He was naked and pale all over. His head hung and his hair covered his face. Sound came in and Sesshomaru heard a heavy stone door open and footfalls. The view changed and Sesshomaru could see both the man and Naraku, but Sesshomaru still wasn't sure what this had to do with him. So, what Naraku had a thing for human men? He was no human. Naraku sat on the futon with the man who cringed away pathetically. One of Naraku's hands slid up the man's leg and the other on the man's left shoulder, which was hidden by hair. The man's head shifted and his left shoulder was exposed showing that most of his left arm was missing. Naraku touched the man's cheek and the man pulled away. In this action, his face was shown. The human was Sesshomaru.
'But… how?' Sesshomaru thought to himself. Like an answer to his question, Amida's words came back to him
"Naraku plans to drain you of your demonic aura…" 'Without my demonic aura, I would become a human… that's not possible…' Sesshomaru thought to himself. The thought disgusted him but not half as much as what happened in the mirrored surface of the water. Screams echoed off the walls of the cavern. Pleas, broken cries, sobs all for Naraku to stop. When the water was again black, Sesshomaru felt sick to his stomach.
"I couldn't watch the entire thing, the first position was enough for me." Amida said in a broken whisper. Sesshomaru had seen at least twenty minutes of an accelerated idea that probably consumed a period of one to three hours.
"It goes on even longer than that, you fall unconscious from blood…loss…I would have showed you but, I couldn't… I…" Amida's voice began to break.
"How long?" Sesshomaru asked tasting the bile rising in his throat.
"Which? The segment or the original?" Amida said after regaining a little of her composure.
"Both…" Sesshomaru said.
"That segment was less than half of the original sped up… It contained eleven positions. Your body sustained severe back injuries, one head injury, and a marking…" Amida paused and took a couple deep breaths and then fell silent for a moment. Her head hung and her eyes held a glassy appearance. "In the original, there were twenty-three positions, only one being repeated. The entire fantasy lasts about three hours and some minutes, it's incredibly detailed… your body receives almost fatal injuries. Even more severe injuries to the back and head. A total of four markings, and teeth marks on your, ahmen… and by the sounds of the screams a torn rectum and sphincter. He murmurs something about you bearing his offspring and leaves you laying in a pool of your own blood." Amida finished and looked up to see a very pale Sesshomaru.
"You wish now that you hadn't seen that." She said and Sesshomaru nodded slightly.
"What happened to you?" Sesshomaru asked suddenly.
"I wasn't there at all. Naraku doesn't know of me yet and I hope that that will be enough to save you…" She said and stood.
'I do too…" Sesshomaru thought to himself.
"One more thing… Naraku now has Rin."
The next morning just before dawn, Amida and Sesshomaru left the village and started for the northeast, the last reported place where Taikashi was seen. Unfortunately, this was also the direction that Sesshomaru felt Inyuasha moving in. He kept moving to the left (the north) to keep from crossing paths with his half brother. Amida was silent and swift. They traveled several miles within an hour. They came to the foot of a mountain much before noon so they decided to rest under a tree for a while. Sesshomaru suddenly saw an all too familiar fire red kimono and the well-known bellow that followed.
"Sesshomaru!" the group of simpletons gasped.
'God, they act like I waving a sword around like a madman…' Sesshomaru thought as he stood.
"Who are they?" Amida asked as she stood with assistance from Sesshomaru.
"My half-brother, Inuyasha…"Sesshomaru said with disgust present in his voice.
"He's a hanyou…that girl, so interesting. Look at what she's wearing." Amida said as Kagome noticed her.
"Inuyasha, who's she? She's so pretty…" Kagome said and the hanyou shrugged.
"Hey, Sesshomaru, who's the girl? Your new plaything!" Inuyasha called and was shocked by the violent outburst that erupted from the girl.
"PLAYTHING! HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A PLAYTHING! I'LL KILL YOU!" Amida yelled in indignation.
'I thought I had a bad temper…' the two brothers mumbled in unison.
"I have more power than you in my pinky!" she cried.
"Oh really?" He said and drew the tetsusagia.
"OOO, big shiny piece of scrap!" She called and everyone gasped. (Sesshomaru silent gasp)
"My sword is not a piece of scrap!" It was Inuyasha's turn to be indignant.
"Yeah you're right… it's table ware!" Amida said smugly.
"Oh yeah then come and find out!" Before Inuyasha could finish his sentence, Amida had passed Sesshomaru and closed more than half the distance between them.
"Windscar!" Inuyasha cried and the attack tore forward.
"Return!" Amida's voice called over the roar of the windscar. The attack made a u-turn and screamed back to Inuyasha who just managed to jump out of the way.
"Hiraikotsu!" (spelling) Songo yelled and sent the giant boomerang sailing forward.
"Vanish!" Amida waved a hand toward it and it disappeared.
The sudden twang of a bow sting met Amida's ears. She heard the whistling of the arrow that sped toward her. She could see the spiritual power that made it special. The sudden force of impact, snapped her back into reality. It wasn't the arrow that hit her, but Sesshomaru had snatched her from the arrows path. She looked back to see the arrow hit a tree and put a considerably sized hole in it.
"thank you…" She muttered before Sesshomaru placed her on the ground and charged Inuyasha. The battle ended in a draw, each brother somehow out of weapons. Sesshomaru withdrew to Amida and offered her his hand. She took it and they flew away over to the mountain. Amida looked up to see that Sesshomaru had acquired a small cut on his cheek. When they touched down on the opposite side of the mountain range, she raised a hand to the cut and muttered a healing spell. Blue sparks flitted from her fingers and danced around the cut. The sparks rejected the cut and raced down Sesshomaru's neck and to his left shoulder. There was a sudden burst of light and a cry of pain was muted. When the light faded, Amida looked down to see a bloody hand protruding out of the once empty sleeve…