Disclaimer: I do not own any of theInuYasha characters. HoweverI do own Amaya as she is mycharacter and the plot of this story.
I woke up when the sky was still black with the night. The fire had probably long burnt out and now the only light came from the slit of moon. I looked around me and saw that everyone else was asleep, even Sesshoumaru. I got up, I had decided to leave and now I was going to go through with it. Before I went I knew I couldn't leave without saying good bye to Rin but I knew if I said it to her face I would never be able to bear leaving. So I tore a page out of my sketchpad and wrote on it 'goodbye' one of the few things I had ever actually learnt to write in Japanese.
I picked up my things-making sure I had my dagger with me- and walked out of the clearing determined to find a way back to my own time, if I had managed to get here then I was sure I could manage to find my way back. No matter what it took.
The first thing I heard when I woke up was Rin crying with Jaken shouting at her to stop. As a demon I only needed a few hours sleep, no where near as much as a human, but to my sensitive ears Rin's crying was unbearably loud. "Rin, stop crying." If there was one thing I really didn't like about humans it was that they showed too much emotion.
"Hai," she said through shaky breaths.
"Why are you crying?"
Rin walked over and handed me a piece of paper, on it was only one thing 'goodbye'. "Amaya left." She muttered this out before starting to cry again. It was then that I noticed the human girl was no longer there, 'she had left' and for some strange reason I was angry that she had left without permission. I decided the reason was that she had made Rin cry. Rin was still crying. "Rin, stop crying."
"Hai, Sesshoumaru-sama."
I turned to Jaken, "I'm leaving, look after Rin and if anything happens to her I will kill you." I threatened as I did every time I left Rin in Jaken's care, this was one of the reasons that I was going after the girl; she would be better for Rin than Jaken as I knew that when I left Jaken mistreated Rin.
I could still catch the girl's scent in the air; it was mingled with the stench of her blood most likely from the cut on her face. I began to follow it know she wouldn't have gotten that far from here.
I'd been walking for hours or so it seemed, I had seen the moon fade along with the night sky and the sun appear along with the blue skies of the day. All around me I saw trees; that was all I had seen for the past 3 or 4 hours, trees, trees and oh did I forget to mention trees. I was slightly regretting leaving but when I thought about Sesshoumaru it was only very slightly.
I decided to take a break, as well as being tired I did also want to write in my diary as I had been neglecting it the past couple of days.
13th August, 2005
Dear Diary,
A lot has happened to me in the past couple of days. I started travelling with Rin and Sesshoumaru which I thought before may have been alright but I was soon awoken to the stupidity of my thoughts. One of the first things Sesshoumaru did when he saw me the other morning was grab me by the throat, I still believe that the only reason I am still alive is because Rin woke up.
Yesterday I got into a fight with a spider demon, I had thought it just an over-grown spider but it wasn't like any of the things I had fought before. I got my face slashed, badly. It really wasn't how I had envisioned spending my birthday this year and I had never expected that I would spend it as miserably as I had every other year of my life.
Sesshoumaru is such a jerk, he acts like he's all Mr high and mighty it makes me so angry the way he treats people. I left this morning while I'm use to being with people I don't like this was just too much even for someone like me to handle. My only regret is that I had to say goodbye to Rin but she was too much of a reminder of my sister so maybe it was a good thing.
Signed,
Amaya.
I decided that would do for a rest and got up to continue walking; did I get a surprise. I looked ahead to find Sesshoumaru standing in front of me. 'Damn, now this I could so do without,' I thought, silently cursing Sesshoumaru in my head.
"Human, you will come back. You are to look after Rin." He ordered. The first thing he says to me and it's an order, 'well fuck you!' I thought 'I don't take order from anyone.'
"I'm not doing anything you say, want to know why. Firstly, my name is NOT human! It's Amaya. Secondly, I don't take order from anyone, certainly not someone like you anyway. Finally, there is nothing you can do to make me, you could kill me but I wouldn't care because I'm not afraid of anything especially not death." I shouted this at him with as much anger and hatred as I could muster. It wasn't exactly true as I was afraid of some things but he didn't know that.
I followed the humans scent and soon found her. She was just about to walk off when I stepped in front of her, she showed no fear. "Human, you will come back. You are to look after Rin." I ordered.
"I'm not doing anything you say, want to know why. Firstly, my name is NOT human! It's Amaya. Secondly, I don't take order from anyone, certainly not someone like you anyway. Finally, there is nothing you can do to make me, you could kill me but I wouldn't care because I'm not afraid of anything especially not death." She shouted back, I couldn't believe the nerve of this insolent human she didn't know when to quit.
"You will do as this Sesshoumaru says."
"Why, why should go on give me one good reason why I should? What just because you are the almighty Lord Sesshoumaru, well woop-ti-fricking-do. Guess what? I don't care." She replied her voice growing ever more mocking and sarcastic.
"Do not anger this Sesshoumaru." I said my voice calm but I was livid never had a human dared to address me in this way.
"Ooh! Don't anger the precious Sesshoumaru. Why what you going…." That was all I managed to say because the next thing I knew everything around me was fading and my world turned black. I thought maybe Sesshoumaru had finally hit me or something but I couldn't feel any of the pain that usually came from taking a blow. I was on the floor and I lost consciousness.
"We meet again, Suki." The voice that had visited me before had come to talk again.
"My name isn't Suki, its Amaya!" I hated it when people used that name, Suki meant 'beloved' yet I had never felt loved; that's the reason I changed it.
"But to me you will always be Suki for that is how I knew you."
"Oh please, you know I could really do without this."
"You need to listen; the one who you quarrel with is one who will later help you with the task you are here to perform."
"Are we talking about the Ice King here?"
"That is precisely who I mean, you mustn't anger him as you have, he is important and you will need his help."
"Who are you? And how is it that you know this stuff?" I had heard this voice before I knew it and it called me Suki rather than Amaya, I had changed my name 3 years ago so it had to be someone who hasn't known me for those years. But who?
"You will have to figure out who I am for yourself as for how I know this, it is your destiny to do this it has been foretold I am only the one who must help guide you"
"Fine, whatever! Then what is it I'm here to do?" I was getting annoyed at this all this thing seemed to do was give crypt clues.
"That you will also have to figure out for yourself, but for now I have to go. Goodbye."
"….."
One minute the human was shouting at me, the next she was out cold on the ground. She had fainted in mid sentence, shame really I was wondering how she would anger me further but I guess I would have to wait to find out.
I picked the human up and began to carry her back to where Rin and Jaken where, at least if she was like this she wouldn't put up a fight at me taking her back. Why I was doing this I had no idea but when I looked at her I had a feeling that she was important somehow.
It wasn't that far back and I arrived there within an hour or so, much to Rin's delight. I put the human on the ground and immediately Rin went over to her. She was smiling her wide-toothy grin. She then came up to me and I could tell she was going to ask something. "What is it Rin?"
"What's wrong with Amaya?"
"Nothing."
"Okay, Sesshoumaru-sama."
Rin went back over to the human, what had she said her name was, Amaya that was it. She sat down next to her and waited for her to wake up.
I came to as the voice went away once again; I was getting sick of this happening as it was always at a time that was highly inappropriate. This time was no different, I came to, and Rin was sitting next me, her face beaming as I opened my eyes. 'How did I get here?' I thought, 'Sesshoumaru, what the hell is your problem?' I got up and walked over to him to give him another mouthful of abuse but then the words the voice had spoken to me rang through my mind, 'the one you quarrel with is the one who will later help you with the task you are here to perform.' I decided to heed these words after all the voices in my head had never done me wrong before, maybe there were right here as well.
I had frozen in my tracks and Sesshoumaru who had noticed me coming over spoke, "Do you have a problem, human?"
"Nope, no problems, except one thing; my name is Amaya, not human. Address me as that again and I will not reply." I spoke keeping my voice for once calm.
When the human woke I had expected her to once again begin where she had left off but to my surprise she simply froze. "Do you have a problem, human?" I thought this would definitely make her lose it.
"Nope, no problems, except one thing; my name is Amaya, not human. Address me as that again and I will not reply." She replied her voice for once calm.
I had been thinking while the human was still out, I had remembered something I had heard a long time ago; a prophecy about a girl who came from her time to save ours I had began to wonder if maybe the human in my company was in fact the one the prophecy spoke of. If she was I knew this was the reason she was with me, the only reason I had heard of the prophecy was because they had said I was the one to help the human do this. At the time I had dismissed this as this Sesshoumaru would not degrade him self to help a human, now I had reconsidered.
Only one thing remained; it had been so long since I had heard the prophecy I couldn't be sure if this was the girl, there was only one way I could find out. I would have to seek out my half-breed brother; he was the only one beside myself who knew of the prophecy.
A/N: Okay, so thats chapter three. I want to thank Ayume 4 Sesshoumaru who reviewed. If you do read this can you please review. Just click that little button below.
In the next chapter: What exactly does the prophecy say? What does this have to do with Amaya? Will Sesshoumaru and Amaya ever stop fighting? Find out in the next chapter. I will try to update a.s.a.p.