Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Inu characters. However I do own Amaya, as she is my characterand the plot of this story.

On with the second chapter, enjoy!

We'd been walking all day, the sun was setting below the treetops and we had finally stopped to rest for the night, I was tired but still went with Rin to collect firewood. We had almost collected enough firewood and were heading back to camp when Rin screamed. "What is it?" I asked.

"A youkai!" she said shakily pointing in to the gloom ahead. And so there was, in the forest in front of us was what looked like a giant spider; and it didn't look like it wanted a friendly chat.

I immediately sprang into action, I threw my wood down, dropped my holdall on top of it, reached down into my boot and drew my knife and was ready to defend myself, I turned round to Rin who was still just standing there in fear, "Rin, run back to camp!" I shouted at her.

"Demo..."

"Rin, just do it, go now!" I was practically screaming at her, I didn't care if I got hurt but I just knew I wouldn't be able to stand it if another person died because of me. Rin snapped out of her fear and took off back to where Sesshoumaru and Jaken were; running as fast as she could.

I turned back round to face the spider demon, who at that same moment lunged forward at me, reacting quickly I dodged the attack while at the same time ripping the sleeve of my t-shirt as it caught on a low tree branch. "Damn! That was my favourite t-shirt!" Giving the nastiest death glare of my life I whispered, "You are so going down."

Running forward I hacked my knife at its legs putting all my power behind it and slicing through it, the spider stumbled a bit. This gave me all the help I needed, I jumped in the air and landed on top of the spider I stabbed my knife into it over and over again about 15 times in all before it threw me forward.

I flew through the air, a tree branch slashing across my face before I hit the ground. The spider may have managed to do me some damage but not nearly as much damage as I had done it. It was now almost fully on the floor, blood pouring from the many stab wounds on it back, I launched myself for one final attack, I sensed this was all it needed to finish it off, and I leapt forward pulling my knife down the length of its body and slicing it literally in half. The spider fell to the ground; dead.

The adrenaline from the fight wore off and my body started to shake slightly from the pain that I could know feel stretching right across my face. I ignored it; I knew it would go away soon. I picked up my holdall and the wood I had dropped down and walked back in the direction of camp, my blood dripping off my face all the way.

I got back to where camp had been set up I dumped the firewood next to the fire and was about to walk over to sit in the darkest corner of the clearing when Sesshoumaru stood in front of me blocking my way.

"Still alive human," Sesshoumaru said almost taunting me.

"Of course I'm still alive, it takes more than a lousy over-grown spider to beat me," I was seething with anger and the slash on my face was searing with pain.

"Your face says differently"

"It's just a cut, scars only serve as a reminder of weaknesses," I don't know whether I actually meant this as if scars were a reminder of weaknesses then the amount I had most mean I had a lot of them, my body was covered with them.

I walked around Sesshoumaru; I wasn't in the mood to deal with anything at the moment so I headed towards the small stream I had spotted earlier. I knelt down, washed the blood off my face trying not to look at the reflection in the water. I failed. I caught sight of my face in the water; the cut ran from above my left eyebrow right across to the bottom of my right cheek, it had practically split my face in half and the cut was so deep I could pull the two flaps of skin apart slightly.

It was too much for one day, even I could only take so much and I had reached my breaking point. I leant down on my knees as tears began to run down my face mixing with the blood and causing red tears to pour down my face, soon I was crying my eyes out and I couldn't remember the last time I had felt this bad.

Rin came through the trees towards me I just saw her through blurry tears. She knelt down beside me and I felt her arms go round me as she hugged me.

"Amaya are you alright?" she said softly.

"Yeah, I'll be fine it's just this isn't the way I thought I would spend my birthday."

"Today was your birthday?"

"Yeah, but I don't usually celebrate it, I just never expected my present this year would be a slash across the face."

"Oh!"

"It doesn't matter"

I pulled away from her and routed through my bag for something to wear. Rin got up and walked back towards the trees.

"You coming?"

"In a minute"

"Happy Birthday Amaya," I just heard her whisper this before she left, I smiled slightly at her words.

I pulled out clean clothes- a black t-shirt with white writing saying 'Warning! This Bitch Bites!' and my pair of black jeans. I put them on, ran my fingers through my hair and ripping my already torn t-shirt, tore a strip from it and tied it round my head using it as a temporary bandage for my cut. I walked back to where we had set up camp, set down my stuff and curled up in a ball to sleep.

'Tomorrow, I'm leaving here; no matter what anyone says,' this was my last conscious thought before I feel asleep.

Sesshoumaru's POV

The human had come back, I was surprised at this. I would've thought the human would have been killed by that demon. When Rin had run back to camp screaming about a demon and how the human had stayed to fight it, I knew Rin wanted me to go and save the girl like I had her so many times before. But I stayed where I was, maybe this demon would do me a favour and kill the human. I hate all humans and this one was no exception.

I was slightly impressed that the human had been able to kill the demon; she must be strong for one of her kind.She had come back reeking of blood; her face was obviously the cause of that for she had a cut going right across it. This proved my point of humans, they were weak creatures and even if they could defend themselves they couldn't do it without getting hurt.

When the human walked directly passed me when I spoke to her, I couldn't believe the insolence of this retched girl. I should have just killed her and been done with it but Rin seemed to have developed a sort of attachment to the girl and since Jaken wasn't much of an example for her I decided it might be worth while keeping the human around. For now anyway.

A/N: This is the second chapter of my fanfic. I hope Sess isn't OOC as i tried really hard not to make him that way. At the moment Sess and Amaya don't get along but they will eventually. Plz review, just click that little button below i would really appreciate it as it lets me know what to improve.