Dedicated to my first two reviewers; many thanks to Firefly-Crystal Tears and sangoscourage.

Disclaimer: I do not own any character from InuYasha.

Ice and Feistiness

"OI! Kagome! Get on! We need to find those jewel shards!" InuYasha was outside throwing a tantrum as usual.

"What the hell is wrong with you! It's friggin' 6 in the morning!" Amaya threw a rock at InuYasha from the hut she shared with Kagome and Sango and it struck bulls eye. He fell backwards, surprised at her actions and tripped over a small figure as he staggered to regain his balance.

"Itai! You hurt Rin!" A small girl squealed from under InuYasha. The girls rushed out at the commotion and saw tiny arms and legs flailing from under an unconscious InuYasha (The stone hit his head and if you're asking where the rest are, Miroku and Shippo are catching fishes for breakfast).

Amaya walked towards the hanyou and unceremoniously kicked him aside, revealing a pretty much squashed Rin in bloody and tattered garments (Inu really has to lay off those ramen. It's making him fat.) Kagome recognized Rin as the ningen child that Sesshoumaru took care of.

"Rin-chan, what happened to you? Why are you covered in blood?"

Rin struggled to her feet, tugging on Kagome's hand urgently, "Sesshoumaru-sama is hurt and Rin came for help!"

Amaya straighten and tilted her head, as if tasting the air, "Miasma. To the north. 5 miles. I will take her there. Protect the village." She grabbed Rin and dashed off.

In less than a minute, they reached a clearing clouded with miasma Amaya raised a barrier to protect the small child and ventured forward into the swirling poisonous vapors. A blood splattered demon lay in the middle of the vapors unconscious and an unknown character in a baboon pelt stood a little distance away.

"Yo baboon ass! I'm guessing you did this! (Lol, I love feistiness.)"

Naraku swung round in shock. He had not noticed the newcomer. The fact that she had gone through the barrier and her insolent remark had stunned him. A girl dressed in strange clothes stood in the middle of his miasma, completely unaffected. She strode forwards and knelt beside the unconscious form with Naraku still stunned by her presence.

Amaya's P.O.V.

'Lol, that baboon guy's got a terrible fashion sense! I mean, who wears baboon pelts?' I was thinking as I approached the unconscious demon. He was obviously an inu youkai and a good looking one at that once all that blood and gore is washed off. He had silver hair and fine features as well as markings that defined him as a taiyoukai of sorts but heck! I've got a life to save and a baboon ass to kick!

I placed a healing barrier around him and faced the baboon guy who was still stunned by something but I have no idea why he's so spaced out. I took a bunch of flames and threw it on the hem of his horrible pelt. Lo and behold…it burst into flames (insert sarcasm here). Well that got him out of his daze and he extinguished the flames with not so little effort. When it finally got to him that I was attacking him, he put up a purplish pink barrier in an attempt to protect his sorry ass. Smirking 'cause barriers are my specialty, I turned it turquoise, my color, and burst his little bubble( no pun intended); making sure that what was left of his pathetic shield turned in to acid and contrived to make some splash on his repulsive pelt. Obviously, it was of low quality as it shriveled up to nothing and revealed a hanyou with gorgeous long curls and blood red eyes. A double take told me that he was a filthy combination of different demons and a stupid bandit led by lust, much more pathetic than that infuriating dog boy with Kagome. Apparently my healing barrier worked marvelously as usual because the demon woke up and I found out another plus point to his looks: his eyes.

Golden hues of amber were revealed under that eye-shadowed lids and thick lashes. He got up and used a light whip from his fingers to cut the moronic baboon to pieces. Sadly, it was a puppet not the real McCoy. I purified the air with a wave of my hand and heard a sound. The dog demon fell to his knees; the wound in his side had reopened. Rolling my eyes at his insufferable pride, I walked over and pushed him lightly down. Removing my beloved overcoat, I stretched my hands out and started healing him. He was staring at me with those amber eyes of his intently.

Sesshy's P.O.V.

That girl just destroyed Naraku's barrier and purified the miasma with almost no effort at all. I felt a sudden pain in my side and smelt the metallic tang of blood; MY blood to be specific. I sank to my knees, clutching the wound. I heard her sigh in exasperation and she pushed me down to lie on the ground. She removed her coat like thing and stretched her hands out towards me, healing me with warm beams of energy from her outstretched palms. I had used up too much energy and blackness shrouded my sight.

I just love her remarks and making her rescue Sesshy. Don't you agree?