The Demon Child Amaya

Chapter 16

Amaya wakes up to see Kagome sitting beside her, groaning she sits up, “what happened?”

“I don’t know you just blacked out, are you okay? How do you feel?” Kagome asks.

“I feel like shit,” Amaya says. ‘Something doesn’t feel right, but what?’

“I think this walk was a bad idea, we should get back so you can get some rest, and you don’t look to good.”

“I think your right, let’s head back.” Amaya gets up and Kagome helps her back to the camp.

As soon as Sesshomaru sees Aya he jumps up and picks her up, “Are you okay? What happened?”

“I’m fine, I blacked out and I must have hit my head,” Amaya says.

Sesshomaru frowns, and goes to sit next to Inuyasha with Aya in his lap, he wraps his tail around her and makes sure she is comfortable, “what happened Miko?” Sesshomaru growls.

“I don’t know we arrived at the lake and she blacked out, nothing attacked us and I didn’t sense anything so I don’t know, she woke up a few moments later do I don’t see what the big deal is,” Kagome says.

A groan of pain made everyone look at Aya, her face is flushed and everyone began to panic, “Lord Sesshomaru is she okay?” Rin asks.

Sesshomaru places his hand on Amaya’s forehead and then pulls back, “she has a fever,” Sesshomaru growls.
Sango bolts up, “I’ll go to the lake and get some cold water for her.”

Miroku gets up too, “I’ll go look for some herbs to help her.”

When both humans left, Shippo, Rin and Kirlala sat down in front of Sesshomaru who is still holding Aya. “What’s wrong with Lady Aya?” Rin asks.

“We don’t know Rin,” Sesshomaru says. He looks over when Inuyasha places a hand on his shoulder.

“She is tuff she will get through this,” Inuyasha says. “I want to know though, what happened, Kagome asks Aya to go for a walk they are gone for half and hour and then when they get back Aya is sick, do you think Kagome did something to her?” Inuyasha whispers.

“I don’t know, the miko hates Aya, but the question would then be what did she do and how did she do it?” Sango got back and placed the bowl of water near Sesshomaru and then gave him a cloth to wet and put on her forehead, “Thank you Sango,” Sesshomaru says.

“Your welcome Lord Sesshomaru,” Sango says and then goes to sit down across from them. She couldn’t help but notice how Inuyasha and Sesshomaru are acting together; both worried about Aya and the way the keep looking at each other.

Soon Miroku returned and got to work on the herb medicine for Aya. “Here Lord Sesshomaru, have her drink this, it may taste back but it will help bring her fever down,” Miroku says.

Sesshomaru nods and with the help of Inuyasha lifts up her head and began to force Aya to drink the medicine. Sesshomaru couldn’t help but notice how Inuyasha would pet Aya’s head and tell her she is a good girl when she took the drink, ‘just like a mother would,” Sesshomaru smiles.

Once Inuyasha finished giving Aya the entire drink he sits back down beside Sesshomaru and just watches Aya sleep, “She’ll be okay,” Inuyasha says more to comfort himself then anything.

“She’s a demon of course she’ll be fine, you all are over reacting,” Kagome says.

“Kagome demons normally do not get sick so this is odd that she has a fever,” Sango says, “So we have to do everything we can to help her.”

“What do you think caused it?” Miroku asks. “Do you think it could be caused by stress or exhaustion?”

“Could be, she has been working herself too hard, she is juggling a lot right now, she is helping us get jewel shards, she has Naraku after her, she needs to kill an evil witch so the future isn’t destroyed like her, she needs to get Tenseiga to save her future and bring back everyone who died, plus she has been helping us with our own lives making sure we are happy like removing Inuyasha’s beads, bringing Inuyasha and Sesshomaru together, helping myself and Miroku. She is also keeping Shippo, Rin, Ah-Un and Kirlala busy by playing games,” Sango says.

“I also hear Aya getting up at dawn to train,” Shippo says. “I sometime ask her to teach me some moves, do you think I was distracting her?” Shippo asks his eyes filled with tears.

“No Shippo, I’m sure I Aya didn’t want you around she would have asked you to watch instead of accepting to teach you some moves,” Inuyasha says. “But I agree with you Sango, she is just a pup and she has a big burden on her shoulder.”

“Don’t… worry about… me,” a tiny voice says. Everyone looks over to see Aya awake and looking at them. “This is… not any… of your guys… fault,” Aya says.

“You should be resting Aya not talking,” Sesshomaru says.

“No… I can’t… rest knowing… you all are… blaming yourselves… everything I did… was by choice… I do not… remember what… happened but I know… for sure that this… is not your fault… any of you… understand?” Aya says. “Say… it.”
Everyone looks at each other and nods, “we understand.”

“Good,” Aya says before falling back asleep.

Just then Jaken walks into the camp, “where have you been Jaken?” Sesshomaru asks.

“I decided to take the trail that the Miko and Aya took, I think I found what made Lady Aya black out and have a fever,” Jaken says.

Kagome tense, ‘I didn’t even see that he was gone, did he see?’

“I found a herb by the hot spring, it is a herb that is used by demon slayers to weaken demons that are strong so they can kill it, but because Lady Aya is a child it must have caused her to black out, the side effect to those who are not killed by it is having their senses overwhelmed and that is probably why she has a fever. However the plant I found it was dead but I did smell a small trace not enough to be affective but to confirm my suspicions after the miko and Aya left another demon must have used it’s acid or something to destroy it so it wouldn’t be affected,” Jaken explained. “That would also explain why the miko is not harmed by it, only a demons nose can pick it up to humans it doesn’t have smell.”

“Good work Jaken,” Sesshomaru praised.

“Thank you Jaken for going and finding put what happened,” Inuyasha says.

“Lord Sesshomaru cares for the child, when someone Lord Sesshomaru cares for is hurt I find out why, it is my job,” Jaken says.

“Oh you were worried about her too, just admit it you like her too,” Inuyasha teased.

“Hump I do not, she keeps Rin from bugging me so I am grateful that’s it.”

“Sure whatever you say Jaken,” Inuyasha smirks. Everyone laughs as Jaken just storms over to Ah-Un and sits down in a huff.

Kagome was just relieved, ‘good that stupid toad had be worried, I thought he saw what happened with Naraku, but he just found the plant I used to weaken Aya so Naraku could plant the tainted cursed jewel shard in her body.’
Soon everyone settled down and got ready for bed, Inuyasha stays up and sits beside Sesshomaru who is still nursing the fevered Aya. “How is she doing?”

“It is still high but I can feel a difference, it should break by morning,” Sesshomaru says.

“Good. Her and I talked after you left, she was on a walk and found me in the clearing.”

“Oh?” Sesshomaru raises and eyebrow.

“She told me she has a brother,” Inuyasha says.

Sesshomaru’s eyes grow in shock, ‘she has a brother? I thought she was the only one?’ “Does she now?”

“Yeah, and she told me that she is in love with him. He saved her life at birth, she was born with under developed lunch and she was extremely tiny for a pup but apparently he has the power to heal and healed her. I guess since then he has always protected her and she feel in love with him because of it, but he died protecting her from Kenchi, and she never got a chance to tell him and she regrets it even though she is young she gave me wise advice that I shouldn’t let my pride or stubbornness get in the way of me being happy and that I need to be selfish and not let what others think ruin my chance at happiness.”

“That is wise advice, yes she gave me similar advice but on how to open up and be more open with my feelings instead of just expecting people to know and hide behind my Lord mask.”

“Whoever her parents are they should be very proud of her she is very wise beyond her age and a wonderful pup,” Inuyasha says.

“I agree.”

“Sesshomaru… um… if I turn out to be a… well a uke… I would love… I mean I wouldn’t mind if… well you know… you and I…um…mate,” Inuyasha says not looking at Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru looks over at Inuyasha shock written all over his face, “really?”

“Yes and if I’m not… I would like to take you up on your offer, after Naraku is destroyed and all to live at the castle… with you… and help you run the lands, if you still want me to that is.”

Sesshomaru smiles, “I would love to have you at the castle with me even if we don’t mate it will be nice to have you at the castle, little brother,” Sesshomaru says and pulls him into an embrace careful not to disturb Aya.
Inuyasha leans into the embrace, ‘I love this side of Sesshomaru, if I am a uke, I guess it might not be so bad,’ Inuyasha smiles and closes his eyes to enjoy the warmth of Sesshomaru.

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Dawn came and Amaya wakes up to see Sesshomaru and Inuyasha asleep in each others arms. Amaya slowly gets up so she doesn’t wake them and heads towards the clearing he talked with Inuyasha, once they she stretched her mussels, ‘Man I feel good this morning, thank god I am no longer sick I didn’t like that one bit.’ Amaya then realized her hair is down, she shrugs and puts is in a high pony tail like she always does and began to train.

Sesshomaru wakes up to the warmth on his lap disappearing, he watches as Amaya walks into the woods, she places her hair in a pony tail once she gets to the clearing he and Inuyasha shared last night, and then begins to train. Sesshomaru watches her for a bit before walking out so Amaya knows he’s there.

Amaya lowers her sword when she sees Sesshomaru walk out of the forest, “Sesshomaru what are you doing up? It is only dawn,” Amaya says.

“I should be the one to ask you that, you had a bad fever you should still be resting,” Sesshomaru says.

“I’m fine, I feel better then I have in a long time, I normally get up at dawn to train we walk all day so there is barely anytime for me to train so I wake up early and do it then,” Amaya explains. “I am also use to it because since we started a war with Kenchi I rarely got any sleep and when I did I was always up early to fight again.”

“Fair enough, care for a sparing partner?”

“Sure,” Amaya smiles.

Sesshomaru takes out Tokijin and gets ready to attack but Amaya attacks first taking Sesshomaru by surprise; Amaya’s sword clashes with Sesshomaru’s, she smiles and continues to give a frontal attack. “Attacking first that is risky,” Sesshomaru says.

“Yes but you enemy never expects it so it catches them off guard when you attack head on it puts them on defense if you are fast enough,” Amaya says. “So you and Inuyasha were cuddling this morning.”

“He has agreed to be my mate if he is a uke,” Sesshomaru says, blocking one of Amaya’s attacks.

“Which we both know he is, but we’ll let him think otherwise until his heat starts,” Amaya smiles. “Your defense is good; I don’t see an opening anywhere except here!” Amaya yells and she dives down and whips Sesshomaru’s legs from beneath him, making him fall to the ground.

Sesshomaru is shocked he looks up at Amaya who is smiling, “you best me.”

“Don’t beat yourself up over it; it is my strategy that most never see coming. My full frontal attack catches them off guard, they focus only on defending themselves, I attack only there upper body then when I feel they are focusing on defending their upper body they get distracted thinking of a way to attack I then go lower and boom they are on the ground at my mercy,” Amaya smiles, and then frowns, “Sometimes it doesn’t work but I always prepare for that just in case.”

“A combination of swordsmanship and hand to hand combat, risky but if you train hard enough it works,” Sesshomaru says. He stands up, “shall we go again?”

“We have a few hours before the others wake up,” Amaya smiles but this time allows Sesshomaru to attack first, “I need work on my defense so if you see openings take it,” Amaya says. Sesshomaru nods and attacks and so they continue until they could smell food cooking, they wash up at the lake and then walk back to camp.

“And where have you two been?” Inuyasha asks.

“Training,” Amaya says sitting down.

“Who won?” Shippo asks.

“Actually we were pretty much even, I got Sesshomaru down a couple time and he got me down a couple times. Mostly he helped me work on my defenses and a couple attacks that I still need to work on,” Amaya explains.

“You are trained very well for someone so young,” Miroku says.

“Well my parents are strong themselves so I have to be in order to be just like them,” Amaya says.

“They must be very proud,” Sango smiles.

“I hope so,” Amaya says. Just then a scent hit Amaya’s nose, Kirlala, Shippo, Ah-Un, Sesshomaru and Amaya all look over at Inuyasha.

“What?” Inuyasha asks with a mouth full of food.

“You smell funny,” Shippo says.

“Shippo that is rude,” Amaya says.

“But he does,” Shippo says.

“What do you mean I smell funny?” Inuyasha asks as he smells himself.

“It is the sign that your heat is starting, it won’t take full effect until tomorrow but you will start feeling your body changing,” Sesshomaru says.

“Your scent is still not strong enough to say if you are an alpha or uke but we will know tomorrow,” Amaya says.

“Oh,” Inuyasha says and then continues eating while taking glances at Sesshomaru.

“Heat?” Kagome asks.

“Yes every demon goes through it, it means he is at the age of maturity and he is ready to have a mate,” Sango says, “All demons go through it.”

“What do you mean if he is an alpha or uke?” Kagome asks.

“A demon never really knows for sure if he will be alpha or a uke, or in simple terms, on top or on the bottom. Inuyasha will find out tomorrow if he is going to be an alpha meaning taking a mate or being a uke meaning he will be taken as a mate,” Sango explains.

“You mean there is chance that Inuyasha will be taking by someone as their mate?” Kagome paled.

“That’s right it is his youkai that decided what is best if he should be an alpha or uke.”

“Well of course Inuyasha is going to be an alpha,” Kagome says crossing her arms. “So how long does this heat thing last?”

“A week or until he is mated, he will seek out a mate and mate with them if he doesn’t find a suitable mate this heat he will continue to have heats one a month until he does,” Sango says.

“So Inuyasha have you thought of a mate?” Miroku asks.

Inuyasha blushes a bit and looks away, “kind of.”

“Oh now I have to know who is it?!” Miroku asks.

“Well if I’m a uke I already told Sesshomaru that I would mate with him,” Inuyasha says fearing their reactions.

“That’s great Inuyasha,” Miroku says.

“Really?” Inuyasha asks disbelieved.

“Of course Inuyasha,” Sango says. “You two would make a beautiful pair, there is so much you too could learn being together and I know you two will be very happy.”

“Sango is right, I am very happy for you Inuyasha,” Miroku says.

“So Sesshomaru will be my Father?” Shippo asks.

“Well if I am a uke then I guess so,” Inuyasha says.

“WHAT NO!” Kagome yells.

Everyone looks over at the enraged miko, “What’s wrong Kagome?” Sango asks.

“He can’t mate with Sesshomaru that’s sick and so wrong; he is not going to be a freak like Aya’s parents. He is going to be an alpha or whatever and mate with a female like he should!”

Everyone glares at Kagome’s comment, “there is nothing wrong with Inuyasha and Sesshomaru mating, Kagome, the demon world is different mating with siblings is normal,” Sango says.

“It’s sick and wrong and beyond gross!” Kagome yells.

“KAGOME SILENCE!” Amaya yells and Kagome slams to the ground very hard. “I have heard enough from you!” Every shies away from Aya never seeing this mad, “Inuyasha is not sick or whatever for wanting to mate with Sesshomaru, like I said you know nothing of this world so don’t open your mouth about something you don’t understand! Love is love Inuyasha deserves to be happy and if Sesshomaru makes him happy then I will kill you before you interfere. You want Inuyasha to mate a female well even if he does I bet you are hoping it will be you, well guess what YOUR WRONG! It will never happen, you blew your chance when he asked you to take off the beads and you didn’t. You don’t love him you just want to control him.”

Kagome stands up, “YOU DID THIS! You turned him into a freak just like your parents!” Kagome points a finger at Aya.

Suddenly a loud slap is heard echoing throughout the forest, everyone gasps as they see Inuyasha standing in front of Kagome whose head is turned from being slapped eyes wide. “Don’t say another fucking word!” Inuyasha growls, “Aya is right, love is love and I love Sesshomaru so if you got a fucking problem with it then you can just leave. I choose my mate not you and I don’t give two damns about what you think. Your opinion stopped counting when you refused to free me because of your own selfish desire to control me, all Aya did was open my eyes about what an immature bitch you are and how happy my life could be. You blew your chance now stop trying to ruin my happiness just because you can’t get over the fact that I want to be with my brother and not you.” Inuyasha’s face then heated up with embarrassment, “I mean if… I’m… a uke… that is…” Inuyasha looks over to see Sesshomaru staring at him shock written all over his face, but then it turns into a smile. “Anyways you will not say another word and you will leave Aya alone,” Inuyasha says and sits down not daring to look at Sesshomaru or anyone for that matter.

Nobody said anything as they cleaned up the camp site and started out, Kagome stayed in the back completely enraged. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru walk together in the front of Sango and Miroku are behind them and in between them is Shippo, Rin, Jaken with Ah-Un, while Amaya walks in front of everyone. As the day dragged on nothing happened, no demons attacked no jewel shards were found nothing. Inuyasha starts to feel the beginning of his heat as his body starts to feel weird, almost like a tightening heat is surrounding him; only Sesshomaru and Amaya new that it was because his body is preparing to carry pups.

Kagome glares as she watched Aya looking back at Inuyasha and Sesshomaru and smiling. ‘Stupid bitch I will make her pay!’ She then silently slows down at disappears in another direction. Kagome walks until a shadow falls over her, “Well miko this is a surprise,” Naraku says.

“Naraku I want Aya out of my way now, Inuyasha is going into heat and he is going to mate Sesshomaru!” Kagome growls. “Without Aya around his head will clear and he will see that I am the only one that will love him.”
Naraku smirks, “as you want Miko you just stay here tonight and by tomorrow she will no longer be in you way.”
“Good, and remember we never talked!” Kagome growls and goes off to get fire wood.

Naraku smirks as Kagome walks away, ‘stupid girl she has no idea what my plan is for Aya.’ Naraku says to himself before disappearing.

~*****~

With the rest of the group they all decided to set up camp when it started to get dark. “Hey where is Lady Kagome?” Rin asks.

“She is no lady, Rin, but that is a good question,” Aya says. “Where did that child go?” Everyone just looks at each other and shrugs, suddenly Aya sneezes, “I think someone is talking about me,” Aya says as she rubs her nose. Everyone laughs and then Sesshomaru and Aya go off and hunt for food.

Later that night everyone settled into bed, Aya decided to sleep with Rin, Shippo and Ah-un. A few hours after everyone falls asleep Inuyasha wakes up in a cold sweat; ‘my body feels like it is on fire,’ Inuyasha groans as he looks down to see his erection. ‘Fuck!’ Inuyasha gets up and walks deep into the wood, not aware of the shadow figure close behind him.

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