Here is the sixth chapter! Enjoy! Sorry it's taken a while to update.

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I sat down unluckily for me it was across from Sesshoumaru; I refused to look up and ate in silence the only noise coming from Rin's constant chatter. I was deep in thought trying to figure out what to do about this whole thing. I could hold a grudge against Sesshoumaru but then what would be the point in that. After all I had been thinking about the whole incident and if I was honest with myself, which I more often than not was, it had all been my fault.

I was a total bitch and had been for sometime now, I pushed people too far with my attitude and whereas my family had deserved this, Sesshoumaru didn't. While he acted cold he had never done anything to me. It was after some serious thought that I decided the best thing for me to do would be to apologise. That was it I had decided what to do and I was sticking with it. Maybe while I was doing that I should slightly change the way I act towards certain people. Maybe if I just kept my mouth shut around Sesshoumaru I could stop myself from being killed in the next year or so.

After dinner I went up to the room I had woken up it; I assumed this was to be my room while we were here which I can't say I had any complaints about except that it was right across from Sesshoumaru's. I sat down on the futon, how on earth was I going to apologise and actually mean it, this was something that was completely not my thing. I decided to leave it till morning, I reached a hand out to grab my diary then I remembered I didn't have it. Just when I needed it as well. I got undressed and then rolled over and went to sleep.

Morning, it was morning how I was not looking forward to today, something just told me it was going to be a bad day and not just because of apologising to Sesshoumaru. I got up and looked around, there was a closet. I opened it and found several more kimonos, I took out the only one that was black and put it on. It suited my mood. I walked down to the dining room for breakfast. Rin was already there.

"Morning Amaya," she said.

"Morning Rin," I said while trying not to yawn. I was still tired. I sat down, once again across from Sesshoumaru. I spent the whole time throughout breakfast psyching myself up.

I headed back to my study after making certain that Rin had eaten. A little while later there was a knock on the door. It was Amaya, what could that stupid human possibly want now. She came in and shut the door. "Sesshoumaru-sama?" she said, instead of just saying Sesshoumaru like the disrespectful human normally did.

"What is it?"

"Umm, well. I wanted to apologise for acting the way that I have been. I guess I'm just used to being that way with people. I've been a totally bitch and I just wanted to say that I'm sorry," she said, this was one human who never seemed to be consistant, one minute she was stubborn and rude as hell and the next she was apologising.

"Is that it?"

"Yeah, thanks for letting me apologise. Cya." she said and left the room.

'Annoying human,' I thought.

'Well,' I thought, 'that went a lot better than I thought it would.' It actually surprised me a little that while I enjoyed being sarcastic being nice hadn't been that bad either. Maybe becoming a slightly different person wouldn't be a bad thing after all I would still be me and if I was leaving my old life behind; it might be a good idea to ditch the attitude well somewhat anyway.

Things went fine for me until a few days later. By this time I had gotten my stuff back, turned out Rin had taken it to her room along with her stuff. I now had to carry my knife in my obi as I no longer wore my boots.

That morning Rin decided to ask me the one question that I had been dreading.

"Amaya, can you teach Rin to write?" she asked.

"No," I replied at this I got a death glare from Sesshoumaru and a pouting face from Rin.

"Why? Rin really wants to learn," she said.

"Sorry but it's just not going to happen, I can't read or write myself so there's no way I could teach you."

"You can't write?"

"No, I never learnt how to, well not in a language you'd understand." Rin looked at me questionably.

"Okay, so you know I don't come from this time right." Rin nodded. "well in my time I lived in a country called England so I can read and write in English but since Japanese is my second language I only learnt how to speak and understand it.

"Rin understands," She said.

Me and my big mouth. Most of the time we were at the castle, Rin and I spent learning how to read and write. For me it was bloody difficult, I had only written in letters now I had to learn a whole new way of writing. I hated it but I stuck at it. It would be worth it besides I had always wanted to learn how to read and write in Japanese. I picked it up easier than Rin and so would often help her as well as learning it myself.

Though that wasn't the only thing I had to learn during those few months. I spent several hours of the day improving on my fighting. Sesshoumaru wanted me to learn how to fight properly so that I could protect Rin when he wasn't there. I didn't have a problem with this as I had always enjoyed fighting and knew I still had a lot to learn. My knife while useful was immediately deemed worthless so I had to learn how to use a sword.

First I had to build up my strength, for this I had to hold the sword above my head for about 2 hours a day to get used to the weight. This lasted for about 3 weeks until I could hold the weight of the sword without getting tired. My muscles had never hurt so much in my entire life. But after a week it wasn't so bad and by the end of it I could even swing the sword comfortably.

The rest of the time was spent improving my defence and technique. I liked the guy who was teaching me. His name was Ryuu and unlike other people I could mention he treated me like an equal even though he was a demon and I was human.

"Your form is good but you need to improve your defence," he said, "I bet that why you got that scar."

"Yeah, but it was my first time fighting a demon," I replied, "and it was a tree branch that did that not the demon."

"Concentrate and use your sword to block." He told me.

Ryuu bought his sword down and I raised mine up to block it while moving backwards and swinging mine into position to strike.

"That's enough for today, just keep practising and you'll get better." He said.

"Sure thing." I replied. I sheathed my sword and place it on the wall of the dojo.

I walked back into the castle and went to take a bath. Afterwards I got dressed into a lilac kimono with a white obi, I always trained in my own clothes as it didn't matter if they got ruined. I sat on my futon and combed my hair, it had gotten pretty long now when I had first come here it had been just above my shoulders now it was a good few inches down my back. I put down the comb and reaching under the top of my futon pulled out my diary and pencil.

14th February 2006

Dear Diary,

Training was hard today but I'm getting better which is good. I like Ryuu he's nice and I am so glad it's him teaching me rather than Sesshoumaru. Things have gotten better with him lately but it's still a little icy between us, I've managed to keep my mouth shut around him and when I do have to speak I've been able to keep a civil tongue.

I'm doing really well with learning to read and write in Japanese but there is no way I would ever write my diary in that. I guess that's one brilliant thing about being able to write in another language, no one can read your diary.

Unlike back home I still remember some of the times that my brothers found my diary, the beatings after that time were the worst. My bruises are all gone now and the scars left by the cuts are fading but you can still see them. At least they haven't asked where they came from again. I want to be able to talk about my past but it's just too horrible for words.

Signed,

Amaya.

There was a knock on my door just as I finished writing. "You can come in," I shouted, it would be Rin. It was always Rin. The door opened and just as I had predicted Rin came in.

"Rin is bored will you play with me," she asked, it was mid afternoon and there was still a good few hours till dinner so I agreed. To tell the truth I was also quite bored.

"Okay, what do you want to play?" I said.

"Rin could do your hair," she replied.

"Do my hair? Uhh, if you want to." I told her she often wanted to do my hair, this was the first time I had ever agreed.

Rin picked up the comb and began to comb my hair. She pulled it into a ponytail and then coiled it round into a bun securing it with a lilac ribbon to match my kimono. Usually I kept my hair down to hide my face so I didn't have a clue what I looked like with my hair up.

When she was finished I told her I'd do her hair now. She always had it in the same style so I decided to do it differently. I pulled it out of the little ponytail and combed it straight. I split it into lots of little sections and began to braid it. It took me about an hour and a half to finish braiding it but when I was finished it was worth it. I saw Rin look in the mirror and her face broke out into a beaming smile.

"Rin looks pretty, just like Amaya," she said.

"Of course you look pretty, but I'm not pretty Rin," I replied. Rin drew me over to the mirror, now I never looked in the mirror so I didn't really know what I looked like. When I looked in I was surprised at the girl staring back at me. I was no longer pale and drawn looking. My face was full and Rin was right I did look somewhat pretty.

"Thanks Rin, I really like how you did my hair," I told her.

A/N: Ok to all the people who read my fanfic, I am really sorry for the late update but my computer broke and I had to wait a week to get it fixed. Luckily I backed up my fanfic so I can still continue where I left off. At the moment thisis just afiller chapter, the good stuff will be coming up soon, I just need to finalise what happens. Anyway if you enjoyed it then please review.

Chapter 7: Time has pasted quickly for Amaya, Sesshoumaru and Rin. Will they ever find out about Amaya's past? And what does Naraku have to do with all this? Read next time to find out.