I'm having a good writing day today. YAY! Anyways thats all I have to say...kukuku...
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters of Inuyasha or Inuyasha itself.(My initals are no where close to RT). I only own the characters Amarante and Daiki.
Chapter 4
After several hours of intense stomach pain (caused by Bankotsu's oddly shaped armor as well as the consistent change of terrain ) and constant teasing of eyes trying to look up her yukata from behind, the group of seven, plus captive, arrived at an explosively booming waterfall.
"Hey! What's that loud booming sound?" Amarante yelled at the top of her lungs, fearing that she already knew the answer. She tried to look over the back of Bankotsu's black silky hair and her own, but failed to do so as her shoulders cramped up from the odd position she had perched herself upon.
Bankotsu's strong voice rang through the loud rumbles, "Before we get to the lord's residents you should clean yourself up!" He yelled without trouble, unlike herself.
After he had said this she sniffed herself and a horrific smell entered her nose. She really did need a bath. Being in that cell for god knows how long more than likely caused this stomach grab of a smell. She probably just looked horrible in general. The idea of a bath wasn't so bad after she thought more into it.
"Fine! I'll take a bath! But not here! I don't want to be swept away by the under-toe of the crashing falls!" She thought her demands were very reasonable.
"Whatever pleases you, little mouse!" Bankotsu replied as one of his many smirks crawled from one corner to the other.
The group moved away from the waterfall and found one that was just on the other side not to far away from the first one. This waterfall was much quieter, hotter, and deeper. The shore of the waterfall was only about 3 feet with the water coming up to the ankles before a sudden straight drop of around 17 feet, and across it was only 21 feet or so. The water, crystal clear except for the areas where water crashed with water, creating a light, but humid misty cover. Lining the waterfall were rocks the shade of dark blues ranging and blending into a hue of a reddish pink.
When Bankotsu put her down she leaned against him with awe as she stared at this natural beauty.
"This is simply beautiful." She saw it as breathe taking in every way.
"Whatever." Bankotsu said emotionless. 'So easily wooed.' He thought to himself.
Once the words hit her ears her small happy feeling completely vanished. "I would like to take my bath now," she felt heavy stares on her back and briefly thought back to what she had just said "Alone." Being bluntly emotionless.
"Sorry little mouse, but thats not going to happen. One of us is staying here to watch you so you don't run away, and that one of us is me. Got that?" Bankotsu said as they both stared each other down.
After his remark, there were five voices cursing and swearing under their breathes. The only thing that broke the intense stare down was when Jakotsu said in relief, "Fine with me as long as I don't have to." Casually strolling away.
"All six of you look for food and meet back here in 3 hours." Bankotsu ordered.
"Don't you think thats a little long to be out for, Big Brother?" Renkotsu cautiously questioned.
"Not if your searching for food it's not." he snapped back, glaring at him.
"...Ah...Yes...I guess your right Big Brother." Renkotsu said braking away from Bankotsu's glare flustered. The six walked away with nothing else to say. Amarante stared at the back of Bankotsu's head wondering the same question Renkotsu had asked, knowing that the answer Bankotsu had given him was clearly covered from head to toe with a cherry on top of bullshit.
Bankotsu waited until he couldn't hear his comrades' footsteps and the moving vegetation. Once he was sure they were gone he turned to face Amarante, "Well are you going to take your bath or what?" That smirk of his was starting to piss her off.
"On one condition. You look. You die. Got it?" Mocking him justly.
He walked assertively towards her getting up close to her face, "Is that a threat?" He whispered with pleasure resonating in his voice.
"No," She responded spinning on her heel and hopping with her good foot to the water's edge, and with her back facing him she turned her head slightly cocked and added, "That's a promise." She smirked at him for once and resumed her hopping to a rock where she undid Suikotsu's experienced dressing and make-shift cast. Out of the corner of her eye she spotted Bankotsu watching her. 'The perv. Men will be men.'
She sighed and turned her head towards him,"Turn aroouunnd." twirling her index finger in a circle. He simply snickered and did as he was told. "And don't turn around until I tell you to, got that?" As she took off her yukata, she eyed Bankotsu with intensity to make sure he wasn't trying to sneak a peek. She folded up her yukata, laying it gently on the rock she had just been sitting on and bent down balancing on her good foot to grab a stick strong enough to support her while she hopped over to the water's edge. Once her foot was in the water she bent down carefully, making sure not to bend her bad ankle or hit it on the rock surface, and slipped into the deeper part of the serene waterfall. She sighed happily. The water was at a perfect temperature, not too hot that it would burn her skin, and not too body temperated where she wouldn't find any comfort. It was if a blanket had surrounded her from all sides and enveloped her in warmth.
With as much speed as her one leg could give her, she slowly but surely swam to the misty part of the waterfall.
"You can look!" She shouted trying to propel her voice over the crashing and tumbling of the waterfall.
"Well didn't you take the fun out of it all." Bankotsu disappointment slithered through his smirking mouth. "I can't see you when you're like that."
'That's the point dumbass.' Amarante rolled her eyes just before diving into the water and then resurfacing.
She scrubbed her hair while trying to keep afloat above the water with her only good foot. It frustrated her every time she would use her bad foot and be punished with pain. It took her a good amount of time to finish scrubbing herself and was about to start swimming for fun, when a small ripple of water lightly tapped her. Her hearing heightened as she closed her eyes. Another small ripple hit her again. 'These ripples are definitely not from the waterfall. Someone or something is taking a swim.' She thought of different possible things it could be. A water demon, an imp, a water creature of some sort, but the last possibility was the most likely, Bankotsu. ' Damn perv.' The ripples started to push more and more. Then, they stopped all together. Amarante looked frantically about. The seconds dragged on one by one.
All of a sudden two hands grasped her shoulders with unbreakable strength. There was a grimacing laughter from behind. "I've seemed to have caught a water nymph. Lucky me." The grip on her shoulders tightened and with it, the rest of her body. The hairs on the back on her neck rose. She had changed from a fish swimming to a statue made of cold empty stone in seconds. The hands spun her around to meet the face of her capturer. 'I knew it!' It was, to her disappointment and fear, Bankotsu.
"Let go of me!" Yelling and kicking with her good foot, trying to give him as much fuss as possible.
"Now now." Keeping a stead fast grip on her, "I thought water nymphs were peaceful creatures." His grin widening, "I'm not going to hurt you, so it would be in your best interest to stop squirming so much before you hurt yourself."
"Like hell I'll stop, you air headed, muscle bound, bimbo who can't do anything besides whack away at trees, people, and the empty sky!" She spat back still struggling to get away from his tightening grip.
"Ow. You know you could hurt someone's feelings saying something like that." He mocked in a hurt voice. "If that was supposed to hurt, you have a better chance with that bad foot of yours." Pulling her closer to him.
"You jackass!"
"Oh. Look who stepped it up. Try harder." He slithered out of his clenched teeth.
Adrenaline started to rush through her body, and to her surprise took the pain with it. Everything felt lighter and with this one chance, she propped both her feet on his upper abs, digging her nails into them, smirked, and said "Piss off." before back flipping away from Bankotsu's grip and pushing him under the crashing water.
Sorry that it took so long to get this chapter out. Schools finally done and I've got the summer to write some more of this story. I think i might have gone a little over board with the details in this one...Sorry about that as well. Its for good intentions though! But it doesn't make it much of a fast read. Oh well. On to the next chapter!
