Ametsuchi
By: lilsapphire2004
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. Just the movies and manga.
Author's Note: Sorry it has been so long. I've been dealing with a lot lately. We have added a new addition to the family in the form of a nephew. His name is David Aaron born on August 24, 2005. And I also lost interest in the stories for awhile because of school. I'm going to start adding and posting chapters again soon for all my stories and will hopefully complete them in the near future. But first I will begin with Ametsuchi and later on to Defy Not the Heart. As you also noticed, the story has dilineated from it's original summary. This story is following its own path in my mind.
Now onto the stories.
Chapter 12
The girls decided not to answer Cassie immediately, but instead tackled her to the ground and tickled her. Everybody looked at them with vague expressions of curiosity, confusion, and a few raised eyebrows. The girls acted as if they had not seen each other in years instead of a few days.
"Okay, Okay. I see that you two missed me, now would you please stop," breathed Cassie quite heavily.
They pulled away from her and all looked at each other. Leann looked over Cassie and noticed that she had taken on the slight features of a full youkai.
"When did you begin to change into your form Cassie?" she asked.
Cassie looked herself over. A look of confusion passed across her face.
"What do you mean?" she said.
Sesshoumaru stepped from behind the group and looked Cassie over closely. Her hair had grown straighter and her eyes had taken on a greener hue of their natural hazel color. She also seemed to have grown slightly taller from her natural height. As he looked at each of the girls, he also noticed that each of them still contained slight youkai features from their transformations. Each also carried the more fiercer colors of their auras.
"She means that each of you have slight changes left over from your youkai transformation," Sesshoumaru explained,"and each time you transform you will be left with more changes from it."
----Next Day----
"Stop it with those damn roots already!" screamed Inuyasha for the umpteenth time.
As he said that, one root popped up out of nowhere and he landed face first.
"I'm only doing that because we said we needed to rest nearly two hours ago. If you haven't noticed, then let me inform you that we have storm clouds overhead and it would be nice to get into shelter before they release their bundle," said Cassie.
Inuyasha took a quick glance at the quick moving rain clouds overhead. Light rain began to come down from the heavens as if it were an omen. Thunder clapped overhead and a heavy downpour began.
"Great! Just great! Not only do I get stuck in a god forsaken time that predates toothbrushes and Disturbed, but now I get rained on and have no nearby shelter," screamed Leann, "What else do you have for me? Shadow spirits that want to suck my blood!"
All of the sudden an arrow flew past her head. Leann ducked quick enough to not be impaled by it into the tree behind her. Everyone looked into the direction of which it came from. They could hear strings being pulled back, and all of the sudden a volley of arrows came into their direction. They all ducked to the ground, but not before one caught Leann in the chest. She fell to the ground with a gasp and a hard thud.
"Show yourselves!" Sesshoumaru screamed into the forest.
One man came from the treeline. He was a young man, small of build and stature. His eyes shown cruelly under their black heat. His dark hair hung limply in the rain to his shoulders.
"Drop your weapons, youkai. Or be killed," he said coolly.
"Why should we listen to you? You've already got one of our companions with one of your misplaced arrows," said Inuyasha pointing to Leann.
The man threw his head back in laughter.
"You better say your prayers and bless her body . She'll be dead by the end of the hour. Those arrows are laced with poison enough to kill a youkai," he said.
Everyone went silent with that news and all went to Leann's side.
"Who are you to be killing an innocent woman? A woman that is my sister," screamed Amber.
"I am, young lady, your superior. Tossa Butaniku at your service," he said in jest.
He made a motion with his hand and fifty men came out from the treeline. Each holding a bow and quiver of arrows.
Before anyone could say anything, a high pitched screech hit everyone with the force of a whirlwind. All of the men fell to the ground cringing, blood seeping from their ears. They passed out from the noise. All of the original group looked to see a gasping Leann clutching her chest with the arrow still portruding. She fell back down to her feet.
"You guys don't believe how much that just hurt, now could please kindly help me pull this arrow from my chest before I grow too fond of it," she said.
"You should be dying now," said Inuyasha.
"I see that I wasn't missed," she said simply.
Inuyasha did his usual 'Feh' and turned around from her. The rest of the group watched cautiously at the men laying unconscious around them.
"We need to head out before they wake back up," said Inuyasha back to everyone.
He began walking, and everyone soon fell into step. The only exception was Sesshoumaru flying on his transformation cloud. The rain from earlier had not let up and everyone was soon soaked over and over again.
"Guys we need to rest so I can get this arrowhead out of my chest," Leann said after about four hours of heavy walking.
Inuyasha just ignored her.
"Inuyasha! Leann is right. We need to stop and find shelter before we become sick," said Kagome.
"Fine! There's a cave two miles from here. Can you survive until then?" he said gruffly.
Nobody said anything and trudged through the now muddied up road. The sun was starting to set and dark ensued. The rain began to start getting heavier.
"Is there some place closer to here?" asked Cassie.
"If you wish, there is an old hut nearby to here. It's ten minutes walk to the east," Sesshoumaru said from up ahead.
Inuyasha opened up his mouth to say something, but quickly closed it. He knew subconsciously that there was no room for argument. Everyone was starting to look worse for wear.
----Two Hours Later----
Leann gritted her teeth as tears flowed down her cheeks and into her hair.
"How long does it take to pull a damn arrowhead out?" she seethed.
"Well, it seems that your skin has done started to heal over it. We are having to cut through it to pull it out," said Sango.
"I could have had it out myself nearly twenty minutes ago," Leann countered.
----Future Time----
"What do you mean you lost them" he screamed punching his fist through his newly lacquered cherry wood desk.
"Milord, please calm down. We don't know where they are. The last time they were sighted was at one Higurashi Kagome's residence," a short, gaunt man said.
His dull brown eyes bulged unconsciously. A rare smile began to grace his boss' usually unemotional countenance.
"Jaken, they are our one chance to defeat the mongrel that thinks he can compete with me. Get any relevant information you can on this Higurashi Kagome. Her likes, dislikes, everything. Do I need to make myself more clear?" the silver haired man seethed.
"N-No, sire. I'll get on it as soon as possible," bumbled Jaken.
Author's Notes Part II:
I still apologize greatly for the nearly two year wait. I hoped you enjoyed this chapter. I will try to have another one up within the next month. School begins again in a few days for my fourth semester. So I will try and update as soon as possible and when I have time. I'm sorry this seems so rushed after nearly two years on hiatus, but I will go through as soon as I can and try to redo each chapter to my readers' satisfaction.