I do not own Inuyasha (but I wish I did), though I do own Amily.

Chapter 7. Acceptance.

Fear gripped Amily the last thing she ever wanted was to be found out with out explaining what she was first. A great sense of defeat washed over Amily and she lowered her head waiting to hear the word, waiting to be called a freak. When it didn't come Amily looked up at Kagome, who only just stared at her.

"I know, I'm a freak, its okay you can say it"

Amily said beating Kagome to it so it would hurt less, Kagome's eyes opened wide in shock.

"What? No, your not a freak, what are you talking about?"

Amily looked at Kagome, hoping she had heard her right.

"You don't think I'm a freak?"

Kagome smiled at her and walked up to her.

"No of course I don't, why would I think that?

Amily looked down sadly and mumbled while hugging herself tightly.

"Because everyone else does"

Kagome looked at Amily feeling sorry for her. Then she remembered something from a few days ago before the attack from Naraku, when Inuyasha and Amily were fighting, when Inuyasha had called Amily a freak, she had gotten really angry and now that Kagome thought about it, Amily had been really hurt by it too, Kagome walked closer to Amily and hugged her tightly, Kagome felt her stiffen for a second before relaxing, and hugging her back,

"Amily, I'm not like Inuyasha, I don't call people names, and I would never call you a freak"

Amily stiffened up again and moved away, she looked at Kagome with angry tear filled eyes.

"This has nothing to do with that stupid baka! When I say its what every calls me, that's because it's what EVERYONE calls me, my sisters, my step father, people from the town where I live… EVERYONE!"

Amily practically screamed the last word.

"But why would they do that Amily? There's nothing freakish about you"

Amily sighed in frustration and ran her fingers threw her hair.

"Because of my wings, because of what I am"

Kagome looked at her confused, and Amily sighed again.

"One night I heard you talking to the others, and I heard one of you say that you didn't think I was human but that I wasn't a demon either, that you weren't quite sure what I was. Well let me tell you what I am. I am human but I'm also a mystery, a genetic accident, and a fucking freak of nature. A long time ago a doctor did some tests on me, my step father insisted… anyways the doctor told my mother that some how I had both human DNA and the DNA of a hawk. The doctor was astounded he wanted to do further tests but my mother refused. All my life I have been called a freak"

Amily looked down crying silently, Kagome hugged her once more, squeezing her tightly and rubbing her back. Kagome whispered softly.

"Your not a freak Amily, your beautiful and so are your wings, your not a freak of nature but a gift and anyone who thinks other wise is a dumb baka and doesn't deserve to know you"

At this Amily only cried harder, Kagome continued to rub her back and sooth her, eventually Amily stopped crying and pulled away wiping her eyes, she sat down against a tree and Kagome joined her, she looked at Amily.

"Is this part of what you weren't ready to tell me"

Amily nodded but said nothing else.

"Will you tell me how you got here? Or are you still not ready to tell me

Kagome said softly stilling looking at the girl before her.

"I'm not ready, and even if I where, you'd never believe me"

The girl said looked at Kagome, who only nodded and left it at that not wanting to push Amily even though she was extremely curious about what else Amily was hiding, but she said something else.

"You know Amily you can let your wings out around me and the others, they won't think any differently of you"

"I… don't know Kagome, maybe, I guess I could give it a try, I just don't want to be called a freak again"

"They wont Amily and if they do, I will deal with them personal okay"

"Alight, I'll give them a chance"

Kagome smiled brightly and hugged her new friend tightly.

"Now, can I see them?"

Amily smiled brightly and nodded.

"Sure, why not"

Back at the village Miroku, Songo and Shippo were talking quietly to them selves while Inuyasha was on top of the old miko's hut pouting. They were both snickering about what Amily had done to Inuyasha.

"I can't believe that Amily can hit that hard, it only took one hit from her and Inuyasha was sleeping"

Laughed Shippo as he bounced around excitedly his little tail bobbing as he jumps. Songo chuckled softly and nodded in agreement.

"She certainly is strong, possibly even stronger then Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha's brother"

She said giggling, Miroku beside her was laughing at the site of his friend being taking out by a girl, and one who wasn't even a demon.

"You are quite right my dear Songo, and she is not even a demon"

He said grinning. They stopped when they heard the flap at the entrance of the hut move they turned and there smiles fell except that of Shippo's, as they say Inuyasha standing there growling angrily.

"You know I cant here you up on the roof!"

He said angrily. Shippo only laughed harder and said

"Aww, your still cranky maybe we need to get Amily so she can put you down for another nap"

Inuyasha growled out, as he was really pissed now and he ran at the little kitsune, Shippo's eyes became huge, he eepped before screaming out.

"Ahh! He's going to kill me! Help!"

"Your fucking right I'm going to kill you, you little runt!"

Shippo ran out side screaming, but skidded to a halt when he saw Kagome and another girl walking to wards them, the girl looked familiar but the little kitsune couldn't put a finger on who she was. He yelped as Inuyasha caught him and picked him up by the tail and help him there.

"Laugh at me, will you"

Growled Inuyasha, but stopped when he saw Kagome and the other girl.

'Who is that?'

He thought to himself until it hit him in the gut, that was Amily. She had wings, Inuyasha did a double take, and yep she defiantly had wings. She seemed to be lagging behind as if the slower she was the longer it would take for her to get to the hut, people from the village gawked at her, he could tell that it really bothered her. Kagome and Amily finally reached them, with Amily standing a few feet behind Kagome looking at the ground, Inuyasha smirked, he knew there had been something about her, his smirk faded away.

'Damn it now I cant use it against her, stupid bitch'

He thought to himself. And then he noticed something and his face turned crimson, Amily was only wearing something that Kagome called a bra, it didn't look like any of the ones he accidentally seen in Kagome's burrow drawer though, but he still knew what it was. He quickly looked away his face still crimson with embarrassment.

"Inuyasha? What's wrong?"

Asked Kagome curiously as she noticed his face going bright red and him looking away from Amily, she turned and looked at her curiously and just realized what might have caused his embarrassment and Kagome blushed.

"Tell her to put on some fucking cloths!"

Growled Inuyasha loudly, not realizing that a certain monk could hear him yell from inside the hut, there was a rustling noise before Miroku came out side looking as innocent as possible.

"Inuyasha what seems to be the trouble?"

He asked as he slowly moved to wards Amily. Inuyasha growled at him.

"None of your damn business Monk"

Miroku nodded before turning to Amily and took her hands into his, and pulled her to wards him in such away that her 'twins' where slightly more perky then they should have been Miroku's eyes staring at them for a second before looking back at her.

"My lovely Amily, you grow more radiant every day I see you, your eyes glowing like a bright beautiful green flame and your red hair so wild, not even the brightest start in the heavens could compare to your beauty, may I ask you a question?"

'Here it comes' thought Kagome wearily.

"Ummm… sure I guess"

Amily said cautiously, her eyes narrowing slightly.

"Will you bare my child?"

Kagome glared at Miroku.

"Miroku your such a pervert!"

Amily looked at Kagome and smiled brightly.

"Its okay Kagome I can handle this"

Kagome looked at her weirdly, but then she noticed a twinkle it Amily's eyes and she almost felt sorry for Miroku. Almost. Amily turned to the Monk and put on her sweetest smile she moved in close to him, letting her 'twins' get acquainted with his chest, she batted her eye lashed and ran a finger down his cheek seductively, while resting her other arm on his shoulder, Miroku blushed slightly and couldn't believe his luck. Amily licked her lips slowly and Miroku couldn't help but watch the movement, he swallowed hard. All the while he never noticed that Amily was placing her nee in just the right position to nail him. She leaned up close against him, making her face look all pouty.

"My dear Miroku"

She purred softly batting her lashes once again and slightly rustling her wings as she moved slightly closer to him.

"I wouldn't have a child with you if you where the last man on this earth, and if you ever hit on me again I'll do more then just this"

Amily brought her nee up quickly, and made contact with his groin. Miroku's eyes crossed and he let out a whimper before falling to the ground and curling up into a fetal position while holding him self, Kagome winced and Inuyasha had to fight the erg to either place his hands in front of himself, or cross his legs.

"Serves you right Miroku. You pervert"

All of them except for Miroku who was still on the ground whimpering like a little baby, turned to see Songo standing in the door way glaring angrily, she turned and went back in side.

Inuyasha watched as Songo came back out a second later her eyes opened as she saw Amily, she stopped and did the impersonation of a fish wish her mouth opening and closing, he noticed an emotional mask slip over Amily's face as if she were waiting to be hurt.

"You have wings? How is that possible, you're not a demon."

Amily shrugged hesitantly.

"Yes I have wings… I'll explain later"

Inuyasha growled low in his throat and glared at Kagome.

"You trust her?"

Kagome looked at him weirdly as if he had gone crazy.

"What are you Talking about? Why shouldn't I trust her?"

He growled even louder and stalked up to Amily he grabbed her wing not to gently causing Amily to yelp in pain.

"Because she hasn't been honest to us, she did tell us about these"

He gave her wing a hard shake. Kagome glared at Inuyasha.

"She had her reasons for not tell us until now, she didn't know us when she first met us, she didn't know what we would do if we found out"

"Keh, what ever wench."

Inuyasha let go of Amily's wing harshly and stalked off muttering under his breath.

Songo looked at Amily as she opened her wing and brought it over her shoulder to see if Inuyasha had done any damage to it, Songo walked up to her hesitantly.

"Would you mind if… if I touched it?"

Songo watched as Amily looked up at her curiously, letting her wing go as it folded neatly against her back.

"They don't disgust you?"

Songo looked at her quizzically, then her eyes opened wide as she realized.

'She's self-cautious about her wings, as if I'm going to hurt her or something because of them'

Songo thought to her self. She moved closer to Amily kicking Miroku in the butt on the way by, she gave Amily a tight hug before stepping back.

"No my friend, they do not disgust me, I think they are very beautiful"

Amily smiled at her brightly, and nodded.

"Yes, you can touch them"

Amily turned around presenting her wings to Songo. She opened the out as wide as they could go showing Songo and Kagome the full expanse and the pattern of her wings, Songo smiled and gently placed her hand against you Amily's wing, and gasped as she felt it shudder under her touch, the feathers making a soft ruffling sounds that reminded Songo of a soft breeze rustling the leaves of a tree.

"There so soft, Amily. Softer then any feather I have ever felt"

Songo said softly.

"It's true Amily they are very soft"

Songo looked over and saw Kagome running her hand over Amily's other wing as well. After a few minutes Amily stepped away and flapped her wings gently a couple times to settle the feathers on her wings before folding them neatly against her back, when she turned around Songo noticed her bright smile and the sparkle of unshed tears in her eyes.

"Why don't we go in side, it is getting late"

Said Kagome and the other two girls nodded and headed in for supper and then bed.