A/N: Well I decided to come back with another chapter. Yeah I'm nice right? Okay well thanks for people who reviewed. It's nice to get a few of those every once in a while. Anyways here is chapter 9 read and review Okay?

Family Tree

Chapter 9: Shippo, Ayame, and Micah

Ayame handed Kaede the teacup and went for the door.

"Where are ye headed to child?"

"Uhh…I don't know, for a small walk and then back to the hut I suppose. I won't run away." Ayame said and watched as Shippo stood.

"What?"

"You can't go out alone, and without a weapon…I'll go with you."

Ayame sighed but allowed it, it would be nice to have someone to talk to anyways.

"Is it okay if I leave this here for now?" Ayame asked pointing out the backpack in the corner.

"Why yes child it is fine, just don't forget it when ye come back around."

Ayame nodded and went lifted up the bamboo-like curtain to leave with the redheaded demon behind her. Ayame walked in silence while Shippo just stayed a few feet behind her. She found her way to the scared tree. It seemed she was always coming here, probably because it was the only thing that hadn't changed in the future so she was familiar with it. She took a seat under in and began to subconsciously dig into the ground.

"So Shippo, what was my mom like when she was younger?" Ayame asked.

"She was really nice to me, she always brought me pokey, and other treats, oh and all the ninja snacks."

Ayame laughed what in the world was a ninja snack?

"That sounds awesome…but I mean how was her personality? What was she like?"

"Oh." Shippo said and took a seat next to Ayame, whose hand was covered in dirt now.

"She was most of the time happy and cheerful, she was sad only a few times and that was because of the dope of a father you have. He never thought about anything he said. But she would usually 'sit' him and then everything would be fine again."

"Sit him?"

"You don't know what that means do you?"

Ayame shook her head no.

"Wow, Kagome's mind must be somewhere else if she hasn't sat him in this long."

Ayame turned her gold eyes on him and waited for an explanation.

"Oh! Well you know the necklace your dad wears?"

Ayame nodded.

"Well those are subjugation beads, or payer beads. Old lady Kaede put them on Inuyasha when he first met you're mom cuz' he was trying to take the Shikon no tama from her or something like that anyways Kagome said that after they were magically put on Inuyasha's neck that all she had to do was say 'sit' and boom down he went."

"Wow…I wish I had something like that I wouldn't mind sitting a few people back home." Ayame said and thought about Sukie and Tetsu.

Shippo nodded and Ayame sighed.

"So what about my dad?"

"What about him?" Shippo asked.

"Tell me about him, I really don't know much about my parents if you don't remember."

"Oh, well he's always been a bone head, and if you're mom didn't become pregnant with you he still probably wouldn't have admitted his feelings for her."

Ayame laughed as she tried to imagine her parents before she was born. What she saw was her mother looking much like Sukie and Sora combined and her father maybe a bit younger but not much yelling at each other and then her mom yelling "Sit" and her father falling face first into the dirt. Ayame burst out laughing.

"Whats so funny?" came a voice from up in the tree.

Both Ayame and Shippo looked up to see a black-haired blue-eyed wolf demon. He jumped down and landed right in front of Ayame perfectly.

"Why if it isn't the fox-brat and the newly arrived Ayame."

"I'm not a brat! And I'm older then you Micah." Shippo retorted.

"What do you want?" Ayame asked coldly folding her arms across her chest.

"Nothing, just seeing what you were doing down here."

"Just talking. Shippo was telling me about my parents before I was born." Ayame said to the demon.

His blue eyes turned on Shippo who sat still at the base of the tree with his eyes on the ground. Without a word, he took a seat in front of them and smiled.

"So is this why you didn't show up again? To be with her?" Micah asked.

Ayame looked at him utterly confused. Show up where?

"No, I was helping Kaede."

"Where were you supposed to show up?" Ayame asked Shippo but got a response from Micah instead.

"We practice fighting Shippo here is my sparing partner has been ever since we were kids, but lately…well ever since you showed up he hasn't shown his face."

"I've been busy Micah I told you Kaede needs my help she's not going to live much longer." Shippo said.

Ayame nodded but her eyes fell to the wolf-demon's long untamed hair. She wanted to brush it out it looked so dirty. Without realizing it she reached her clawed hand out and started brushing though it with her hand.

A little irked by her sudden movement Micah yelled at her. "Oi what are you doing."

"Why do you let it get so bad?" Ayame asked not taking her hand away, but instead she brushed the other one off and crawled around to his back so she could brush his hair a bit better.

"I don't know what you mean, my hair is fine woman."

"No, It's messy." Ayame said and finished brushing his hair.

When she was done it looked a bit better, however she let it hang down untamed because she knew if she put it up it would make him look a bit too much like Tetsu. When she looked back to the tree, she noticed Shippo's absence.

"Hey where did he go?" Ayame asked Micah as she made her way back to where she could see his face.

"He left, mumbling something about you liked me better."

Ayame laughed. "No, but his hair was already nice and neat."

Micah huffed at her comment.

"So what do you think about Sora?" Ayame asked as she laid down in the grass to look up at the multi-colored sky, as the sun was going down.

Ayame didn't really get a response; instead, she got a noise that sounded like an "I hate her" noise.

"She's really that bad huh?"

"She won't leave me alone, let me tell you I know how you're mom felt when my father wouldn't leave her to herself."

Ayame laughed again. She remembered her mom telling her about 'Uncle Koga' after their little run in with him. That was one of the many ways her and her mother were so unalike, if it was her who Koga wouldn't leave alone she would have hit him a few times.

"Yeah she told me, she was too nice for her own good." Ayame replied.

Micah nodded and stood up. "You should get back, the sun's going down."

Ayame sat in an upright position and nodded reaching her hand out for his, he pulled her up and the two started to walk back to the village.

Sora walked back to the hut with a frown on her face. She had looked everywhere for Ayame, she knew she hadn't left though. Shippo had said she was over by the tree, but Sora felt like just letting her be for a while. Ayame just got a bucket load of crap dumped on her.

"So did you find her." Kagome asked as Sora entered the hut.

"She's over by the tree, but I thought I would let her be alone." Sora replied.

Kagome nodded. Inuyasha sat in the corner looking out one of the small windows at the last light of the sun. He held onto his sword as if it was a lifeline and because of that, she knew he was worried about her.

"Aya's fine daddy, she's a great fighter."

Inuyasha passed off Sora's remark with a "feh" and continued to look out the window. However, everyone looked to the door when Ayame came tumbling through with a black backpack and a black-haired demon.

A/N: well I know I ended that chapter a bit odd. I laughed when I made Ayame brush Micah's hair…I think I've actually done that before. Brushing the hair of a stranger just cuz it was messy…okay anyways I have had people tell me to put a romance thing in here so I will try…who should Ayame's boyfriend be? And what about Sora? Oh well If you have a pick please tell me otherwise it will just end up however I put it. Well reviews please and I will update.