Chapter 3: Descendants of Kamiki

After the party Ammy was still fast asleep, suppose she over drank herself with that orange rich sake that kushi made, probably one of her secret recipes so far... along with the birds chirping their morning music outside, the air was cool and overcast Waka was busy cleaning up which he was almost done, Oki was drinking some orange juice reading a small old book everything was just a relevant sight to explain in details just an ordinary day with no problem..


Ataki sat down by a blossom tree which shaded him from sunlight as he drew a picture of a wolf shading with wings half his size, and looking directly at him, but he was actually drawing one of the wolves running around with joy that had a white spot on its eye so you could see its eye.
"Good morning Mr. Ataki-sama" said Waka walking by with a motivated smile on his face "Good morning Waka-san" Ataki greeted happily then he saw Issun hopping by, then he hopped onto Ataki's shoulder looking at his drawing "Wow.. I never knew you'd draw this good Ataki.. haha this will be great for my next new published art! presenting... Issun's Cultural art magazine!" he announced with pride flashing off a Not book.


"uh..that's very amazing Issun... but I'm drawing this picture for Amaterasu" he smiled happily "aha, Oki was right about lover boy.." Ataki grabbed Issun by his tiny neck "Ack, okay okay I'm sorry" he lets go dropping him on a leaf just as when Sakuya appears like a ghost in mid air "Good day fond boy who defends the one he loves, or who he must protect the people" he gazed up at the maiden "Oh, good morning Sakuya!" he spoke.

"I can see that Amaterasu is resting... I resume she drank a little too much Orange sake from last night.." she pronounced embarrassingly "Uh-yeah about that... just say she got a little bit over her head while taking a sip of that stuff..."
suddenly a arrow flew by hitting the tree, Ataki and Sakuya made a quick peak over the hill top and saw a man with a bow and arrow wearing his dark cloak, with red eyes piercing the visions.. wait did I just say no problem?
"Ataki Tokima Arui! the blood for you have spilled on my masters throne will be vowed against your crimes!" he presently announced
"Crimes? what the hell do you mean by crimes! who are you?!"
"Ataki.."
the man shot an arrow directly on Ataki's leg as he fell to his left knee on the ground "You slaughtered the innocent! betrayal against natures law!" he continued "Well the crap I give about your lectures!"
"Ataki..don't I sense something far more dangerous coming from this man.. its not human..." soon more men showed up with shields and one carried a Katana with his two hands "We are the Crimson Sun knights! we are here for Amaterasu the sun goddess!"

Ataki growled at them "Like hell I'm going to give her to the likes of you, I'm sending you guys straight back to hell!!"
"Then so be it..." the leader said in disappointment as he reached for his Katana slowly holstering his bow and arrow in the back of him.
Ataki got down turning into a wolf, who was black furred, a red mark on his right eye, his tail perked up, ears alert, his fangs bared at the enemy. it was a minute wait off then Ataki quickly rushed his way to the leader tackling him but the Leader was too quick dodging his attack and swayed his sword violently at Ataki's shoulder gashing his rear shoulder blade "Too slow mutt..." he angrily spoke, ignoring his painful cut Ataki quickly turned around as the other guard tried cutting him off by stabbing him, he jumped out of the way then bit the guard by his neck killing him then threw him at the leader but the leader sliced his dead comrade in half "I'm sorry... cousin.." he said to himself, he glared at Ataki when he jumped in the air about to bite the leader then suddenly "STOP!"
the two stopped the leader pointing his Katana at Ataki's throat, and Ataki about to swing his fang like claws at the leader, noticing Ammy was out of her bed just wearing her sleeping clothes which described as 'Bath clothes'

"Ammy...?"
"Please, Ataki, don't hurt him, he's never done anything wrong! Father listen to him"
"Father?" Ataki frantically said to himself
"A-Ammy?....my...my god its been ages, I-I was just received news you were at Kamiki village then suddenly this boy kidnapped you--"
"kidnap..me? Father he's the boy who protected me from ninetails attack at kushu shrine" Ammy's father sheathed his sword "I apologize for my actions Mr--"
"You can call me Ataki" he grumbled "Ataki... I am Izanagi father of Amaterasu descendant of Kamiki ...! its an honor to meet you"

(Izanagi-no-mikoto.)
"Izanagi?..but I thought you were dead!"
"Haha no, apparently it seems the underworld gave the upper hand and let me live for a long period of time until the year of the ox" he laughed, as everyone walked into the village.

mean while they had a little conversation as Ammy orderly set food on the tables for everyone as the guards chattered and thanked her.
"So, Ataki what's your side of the story?" Izanagi laughed because he was slightly drunk from drinking a powerful sake "Well.. since you don't remember, my father Nagi was a swordsmen, and my mother was....." he looked down at the cold perspiring glass of water because he didn't want to tell them his Mother was Shiranui "Well.. my mother left me a long time ago, so my grand parents took care of me, and my father left for war against the monsters.... he died shortly after the war from his illness"
"I see... well, I'm sorry to hear of your fathers death...... wait did you say 'Nagi'? that typically sounds like my name.. heh must be a carnation" he chuckled, Ataki took a deep breathe and let it out as Ammy walked over giving the food to him and her father kissing her father by his cheek, and kissed Ataki by the nose point.
"So, is this your boyfriend or something Ammy?" she blushed a little "No father he's just maybe a soul mate to me" she smiled while Waka was playing his flute, oki slept by the door way in his wolf form. "Oh boo, this one won't follow my orders... tsh might as well make him do what he is told to at night fall....!" said a female dark toned voice.
it was Late afternoon when the sun was starting to set turning into a red crimson like ball "and here's your rooms you'll be sleeping in" Waka introduced happily showing off a room fancy made as the guards rested on the bed some of them read magazines "Thank you Waka-san" Izanagi thanked "my pleasure" little while after Ataki sat by the window of his room with his bath towel around his waste and his shirt was off hanging on a racket close to the bathroom "...Mother....Father" he said quietly looking at his necklace shaped of a moon symbolize "harmony" in Japanese he then heard the door creak opening "Oh.. hey Ataki"
"Ammy? wait... what are you doing in my room I'm not even wearing any shirt just pants!" he furiously spoke, Ammy felt super embarrassed because she barely knows what humans do as she blushed with guilt "I'm sorry!" she cried closing the door.

he just stood there staring at the door "....you do know that's the closet, Ammy...?" she opens the door quickly and runs into the correct door "I noticed that.." he slowly slipped on his nicely made brown and blue shirt then heard Ammy's scream, running outside he can see her Father wielding his sword stained in blood with the Corpses of his men.... something wasn't right, he ran downstairs noticing everything was disorderly in a mess "...I won't let you do this!" he said to himself grabbing his Chinese sword running outside.

"Father put me down! this is not you!" Ammy cried punching and kicking him, but he ignored every pain and continued walking then suddenly... an arrow flew directly into his back as he stopped then looked "...boy..?" his eye's were pale red, as if he was dead but he could see Ataki standing off in the distant from afar with a bow and arrow pointing at Ammy's father who was consumed by some sort of evil..
"Put her down Izanagi!! you'll have to fight me" he commanded violently, the demon man just stood there a second after he threw Ammy at a tree as she hit her back on the thick lumber gasping with pain she was knocked out unconscious "Ammy!" Ataki shouted "...you bastard, your going to pay for that"
".......let's see it then, boy.." he said unsheathing his katana slowly, the sword starting to turn red and black
"This is not him.... it can't be......!" Ataki thought to himself, the demon made his move dashing at Ataki very fast with his sword pointing at him but Ataki jumped out of the way. Ammy slightly woke up "I need to stop him...!" she mumbled gripping her hands into a fist, the two fought each other then suddenly Ammy grabbed her father's short blade, instantly jabbing it into his heart... it was a moment of silence until Amaterasu had a tear drop forming on her cheeks "...I'm...sorry....Father" she said sobbing a little. nagi's red eyes reserved back into a normal state then his anger became a smile "Thank you... ammy...." he said, a second she took the blade out of her fathers chest as his body fell to the ground dead.

All could hear now was a scream of her voice "No....! Why would you do this nine? Why?! You sniffling bastard!" she cried out slamming her right fist into the grassy ground with anger and sadness, Ataki laid a hand on her shoulder "Amaterasu...You did the right thing...I'm sorry I didn't make it in time enough to save your fathers-" all of a sudden she turned around and swung her hand across his face "...I can't let this happen anymore...Ataki!" he just looked to the side but noticing he hard the wounds from nagi's Blade right by his ribs "Ataki..your hurt" he shook his head "Nah its nothing" he smiled, but he knew it wasn't nothing, the wound he had is becoming infected "urk!"
he fell to the ground in agony as his ribs felt like they were on fire, it was poison! Ammy was scared because she didn't know what to do, they were a few miles out and Ataki probably weighed about twice as much as she did (Note: he probably weighed about... 150 lbs due to his height)
she looked over spotted a Cave, the rain began to fall as she carefully dragged Ataki into shelter.. there was no time to loose! she quickly gathered herbs, but along the way she tripped on rocks that revealed themselves from the rain pushing the dirt away. when she got back to the gave, she was dirty,scratched and bruised on her body "A-Ammy.." Ataki groaned "I won't die.. this is just a scratch" he said slowly wobbling himself up but the pain was too much when he fell back onto the rock slamming his head accidentally "Ataki!" Ammy cried grabbing him.
she shaked him like a rag doll "Don't say you can handle it! even if its already worse-!" he grabbed onto her dress and pulled her tensely to him, pressing his lips against her moisturized lips from the rain then released her.

"I'm sorry.." he said softly, she blushed a little then collected herself gathering the herbs and fire wood.
a moment about 2 minutes she made a potion Issun taught her while they were traveling from the warehouse, handling it cautiously over to Ataki lifting his head up slowly "Drink this.." she slowly poured it in his mouth.
"Taste like, cherry and liver!" he jolted spitting out whatever was in his throat "I'm really sorry! its all I can find" she whined, The boy looked over to her and felt guilty for what he said "no..its alright Ammy.. I think its great, even if it did hick a punch" he grinned, he gently wiped the tears off her cheeks "well the weather's going to disappear" he gossiped suddenly the storming weather became sunny as the air slowly started to warm up they both walked out of the cave observing the area around them "Now what..." Ammy assumed, Ataki looked around hearing the sound of river flowing he followed the sound of the flowing water and saw a wide open pond looking around the water glistered from the sunlight over the hinged point of a cloud, making it easy to see the mountains clearly, the rainbow peering over the pine trees, a few bears came out to get some salmon or other natural food sources.

"...so...this is really like 'paradise'"
"its gorgeous..." Ammy said thoughtfully
Ataki looked at her then smiled and started to run down towards the pond over a large rock "Hey what are you doing?" Amaterasu chuckled "You'll see! just watch" he said with inspiration as he jumped up in the air doing a butterfly twist, ending it with a dive into the water, although there were rocks on the bottom Ammy quickly ran over to the edge looking around in worry but then ataki popped up from a few inches away "the waters great! you should jump in!" he laughed.
"No way I could drown!" because usually she could swim for only a few minutes
"its okay Ammy. I'll keep you from drowning just trust me.." he smiled
"Okay..."
she took a deep quick breathe jumping into the partial cold water then gasping for air by Ataki "whoa, its cold" she said. "it's not that bad" he murmured "Get on my back" he said turning his back around facing towards her as she wrapped her arms around his upper shoulders he then started swimming across seeing that there was a waterfall nearby. As they reached the water fall, They realized that there was a cave inside wondering what was in there Ataki swam inside.
it was a beautiful place must have been a home for someone because in there, there was a camp fire area, a few logs, and some drawings in the wall as if someone lived there.. well use to judging by the poor conditions of the wood and a mess of things which wasn't taken care of.
The two walked inside the house only to capture a glimpse of what was inside once they got in all they could see was rotting wood one room and one bathroom, they looked in the room first only to see what lies a human corpse but it was completely in bone... must've been years since they died the second corpse was an Orphan to their surprise a family; dead the teddy bear remained on the window frame partially covered in spider webs, a doll with its face fractionally cracked.

What Happened here? Ataki thought to himself

"Ataki...!" Ammy shouted as Ataki quickly glanced to see a picture of the family with a scroll with its end splotched with blood, he picks it up and reads it
"To Anumy..
My love... I'm deeply sorry, I miss you so much
the babies been crying all night the monsters, they took our son away

Please, please bring him back home to us--"
the whole sentence was covered in blood hard enough to understand what it means as Ataki slowly laid it down to where it belonged by the family photo in silence "Ataki?" Ammy asked looking at me from the side with a sad look
"No.. its nothing, just- just reminds me of my mother" he wiped the tears away from his eyes rubbing his nose quickly then marched over to the Skeletal remains to pick them up using a toy box big enough to fit the mother and baby perfectly he takes it outside to bury them close to a fireplace of their house, sticks a decent size stone on the pile of dirt placing a sign that says
"R.I.P
Family wife of Anumy"
along with a spell to keep evil spirits away from them so they could rest with ease.

Shortly after Ataki had walked out over to the edge close to the water fall looking out into the open view of the grassy plains as Ammy followed
they swam across to a spot where they could climb up too helping her up onto dry land he looks over to see an arrow fly directly at them without a moment to loose, Ataki quickly uses himself as a human shield to cover Ammy but gets pierced in his left shoulder

"Heh.. I knew the mut would come out" muttered a voice off in the distant