The Demon Child Amaya

Chapter 5

Inuyasha and Amaya walk over to where the group is sitting around the fire pit where it is still burning from when Amaya burned the beads. Once they arrived Shippo flies into Inuyasha’s arms chanting ‘I’m sorry’ over and over again. “What are you sorry for runt?” Inuyasha asks looking down at the kit in his arms.

Shippo looks up at Inuyasha with teary eyes, “I’m sorry I have been mean to you, not listening to you when you try to train me and for disrespecting you, please don’t leave me!”

Inuyasha looks at the others confusion all over his face, then it clicked, “You think that just because I no longer have the beads that I will leave you?” Inuyasha asks. “Shippo I could have left even when the beads were on, I am not going anywhere runt. As for your apology you’re forgiven, but now that you realize what you did were wrong, what are you going to do about it?”

“I want you to train me; I want to be a good son!” Shippo yells.

Inuyasha’s eyes went wide, “Son?”

Shippo blushes when he found out that he slipped out the word son, “well, you see I… have always thought of you as a father and well…” Shippo hides his face in Inuyasha’s chest.

Inuyasha smiles, “Shippo I am honored that you think of me like that, but you have to understand that Kagome and I are never going to be together so if you want to be my son you have to listen to me and not run to Kagome whenever you don’t like something. I will train you and I will be your father but you have to learn that Kagome will not be in the picture.” Shippo smiles brightly up at Inuyasha and nods like a bobble head.

Amaya watches the scene play in front of her, ‘Inuyasha is taking the right path now. ‘She then lowers her head, ‘Shippo was such a great kid, when he attacked my family poor Shippo got caught in the blast, my adopted brother was the first in my family to get killed. It only makes my mission all the more important,’ Amaya is brought from her thoughts when Miroku says her name.

“Lady Aya are you alright? You look upset?”

“Yeah I’m fine, it’s just that watching Inuyasha and Shippo makes me miss my family, I know it has only been one day but I have never been away from home before. That’s all,” Amaya says and then smiles, “I’m happy for you Inuyasha you know have the first member of your family, a son.”

“Thank you Aya,” Inuyasha smiles.

“Inuyasha?” Sango speaks next.

“Yes Sango?”

“I too want to apologies to you.”

“Why?”

“Well I like you the way you are and when Kagome was sitting you for no reason, as a friend I should have stuck up for you, but I kept forgetting that as a half-demon you have your own way of doing things and expressing yourself, I kept thinking about the human part but not the demon part and I shouldn’t have. You didn’t deserve a lot of those sit commands and I’m sorry, I hope you can forgive me.”

“I too wish to apologies, Lady Aya has opened our eyes to the fact that you were being abused and as a friend I should have seen that Kagome was treating you like a slave and I should have stopped her, instead I too forgot about all you have been through and sided with Kagome to the reasons why you were being sat and I shouldn’t have, I know I would want my friends to stick up for me if I was in your position,” Miroku says.

“We have been terrible friends Inuyasha, can you ever forgive us?” Sango says.

“We are truly sorry Inuyasha,” Miroku says.

Inuyasha couldn’t believe what he was hearing, his friends were apologizing to him because they didn’t stop Kagome from sitting him, they are asking for his forgiveness because they feel like they betrayed him as a friend. ‘I guess as humans they didn’t understand what the sits did to me, but I can’t fault them for it, they are human after all.’ Inuyasha smiles, “of course I can forgive you all.”

“Really?” Miroku and Sango say together.

“Of course you apologized didn’t you?” Inuyasha says.

“Yes well we didn’t think you would forgive us like that,” Miroku says.

“Well you apologized so that natural thing to do is forgive,” Inuyasha explains.

“Thank you Inuyasha,” Sango says getting up and hugging him.

Miroku too gets up and pats Inuyasha on the back, “yes thank you my friend.”

“Keh whatever.”

Amaya sits down on a log by the fire and watches as Inuyasha’s friends hug him, and can’t help but smile, ‘Finally he is on his way to being happy.’

“Ye seem happy with everything,” Kaede says.

“Of course, Inuyasha deserves to be happy.”

Just then Kagome storms out of the hut and over to the fire pit and drops down onto the log bench and glares over at the hugging scene, “What the hell are they doing?”

“They apologized to Inuyasha for treating him so badly and Inuyasha forgave them,” Aya says. “Also Inuyasha has accepted Shippo as his son,” Aya smirks as Kagome’s face turns to shock.

“What?!”

“You heard me wench, Shippo is now Inuyasha’s son, and you are no longer in the picture as far as a parent figure is concerned. He is no longer going to listen to you,” Aya continues to smirk as the rage deepens on Kagome’s face. ‘Take that bitch!’

Inuyasha and the others come over and sit just as Aya finished telling Kagome; Kagome watches as Shippo sits with Inuyasha instead of coming over to her. “Inuyasha is what that child bitch says true?”

Inuyasha frowned at what Kagome called Aya, “Yes, Shippo is now my son.”

“Oh please Inuyasha you can’t be a father,” Kagome says crossing her arms over her chest.

“And why not?” Inuyasha says, trying to control his anger.

“Well let me see you have no manners, you have a bad temper, you don’t have a home of your own, for god’s sake Inuyasha I have seen you eating raw meat, and you hit Shippo all the time, you can barely take care of yourself you are reckless there is no way Shippo will be properly taken care of if he stays with you,” Kagome says.

“Kagome!” Sango yells.

“That is going to far Kagome,” Miroku says angrily.

Inuyasha growls and is about to yell at Kagome when a loud slap rings throughout the village. Everyone stares wide eyed as Aya walked over to Kagome and slapped her across the face hard enough to knock her off the log. Kagome turns her head to stare at Aya, who is growling down at her, a hand coming to touch her now red cheek. “You stupid bitch, you just don’t know when to just that fucking mouth of yours do you!” Aya growls, “Inuyasha is a great parent! He loves Shippo, as for your reasons they are fucking ludicrous, Inuyasha has manners, he just displays them differently, his temper is only because of you and your mistreat of him being consistently thrown to the ground for no reason would make anyone pissed off, as for not having a home, how can he get a home when he is always traveling with you fighting Naraku? Besides I don’t see Miroku and Sango having a perminate home yet?”

“They don’t have children!” Kagome yells.

“So? You all camp outside on your travels and when you are not travelling you are here and Kaede welcomes everyone inside her hut. Now as for the raw meat, demons need raw meat especially young demons, raw meat provides the nutrients needed to grow up strong and healthy, unlike you humans, no offence Sango, Miroku, lady Kaede, raw meat doesn’t harm us, it makes us stronger. Besides what they fuck do you know about the demon world, you are not even from this time, so who are you to talk about how to raise a demon child? So if I were you I would shut up about things you don’t understand because if you don’t I will not hesitate to hit you again,” Amaya finishes and then sits down again beside Kaede. When no one says anything Amaya looks up to see everyone staring at her eyes wide, “what?”

“Well said Lady Aya, I couldn’t have said it better myself,” Miroku smiles.

“I agree,” Sango says.

“It just pisses me off when someone starts thinking that they know everything when in turn they know nothing,” Aya says.

“Aya?” Inuyasha says.

“Yes Inuyasha,” Amaya looks at Inuyasha.

“Thank you.”

“No thanks is needed, it was my pleasure,” Amaya smiles. “Now I’m hungry, how about Inuyasha and I go hunt, and you guess can prepare something that will go with the meat.”

“Sounds good,” Everyone agrees. With that said, Inuyasha and Aya go into the forest to start hunting.

Half and hour later Inuyasha and Aya both come back with meat, Inuyasha brought down a boar and Aya caught rabbits for herself and Shippo. “Hey Shippo, come with me, I’ll teach you how to skin rabbits to eat,” Amaya shouts.

“Okay!” Shippo runs to Aya and together the go to a small stream to clean and cut the rabbits, while the adults dealt with the boar.

Another half and hour later everyone is around the fire pit eating, Shippo and Aya are eating the raw rabbits, while Inuyasha is having raw boar, and the humans are eating the boar but cooked. Once everyone was done Sango and Aya cleaned up and then they all sat around the fire telling stories and jokes about their travels to Kaede and Aya listened in while leaning against the log bench slowly petting Kirlala. Kirlala lies in Aya’s lap enjoying the petting until it slowed down and then the hand just lies on her back. Kirlala mews causing everyone to look over; when every one does they see that Aya is fast asleep.

“She must be very tired, she only got a little sleep since she came, and with the time travelling and the concealing spell, fighting the demon and training Inuyasha, she still must be exhausted,” Sango says.

“She just here today and already she has done so much, with all the excitement with Inuyasha being free and Shippo becoming his son we forgot that she must be exhausted,” Miroku says. “Who knows the last time she slept before she came to this time, with that evil spirit in her time and all.” Everyone nods, except Kagome who just huffs.

“I wonder who her parents are, and what they are like,” Shippo says.

“Well whoever they are they should be very proud, she is a beautiful young lady, a great fighter and wise beyond her years,” Miroku says.

“I can’t help but feel sorry for her,” Inuyasha says.

“Why?” Sango asks.

“Well she is about 7 in human years, and lives in a world surrounded by death and evil, now she is 8 years away from home and her parents in order to get Tenseiga and save her world, that’s a lot to put on a little girl. As she said before only a handful of people are left alive, can you just imagine if it was only us left, going to village after village and no one be there. She probably hasn’t seen any peace in a year or so,” Inuyasha explains.

“You’re right, right now in this time we have moments of peace,” Miroku says. Everyone nods as this, all thinking about what Aya must go through.

Everyone looks over when Aya moans in her sleep, “Mmmm… no…Pa…pa… fa…father…don’t lea…leave me!”

“Papa? Father?” Miroku asks.

“I wonder what she is talking about, calling out to her father twice but using two different names,” Shippo says.

Everyone is silent again when Aya begins to cry out, “She must be having a nightmare,” Inuyasha says. He leans down and picks her up cradling her in his arms, almost immediately Aya snuggles into Inuyasha’s chest and goes back to a peaceful sleep. “Huh?”

“Inuyasha you are very kind to offer her comfort,” Miroku says.

“But I don’t understand,” Inuyasha says confused.

“Remember you are Aya are friends in her time, right now you are the only person she is familiar with, so when you picked her up she remembers your scent and is thereby comforted by it,” Miroku explains.
“Oh,” Inuyasha says and looks down at Aya a small smile appearing on his lips.

Kagome gets up and storms into the hut not being able to watch Inuyasha cuddle the demon bitch that cost her control of Inuyasha. ‘I will find a way to make her pay,” Kagome thinks as she crawls into bed.

Meanwhile everyone outside are content in just sitting in silence, until Sango speaks, “She really is a cute kid, I wonder if she knows the future us.”

“Maybe,” Miroku says.

“Well children I believe we should all go to bed,” Kaede says, “ye all have a big journey ahead of you tomorrow.”

“I agree, let’s all go to bed,” Miroku says.

They all get up and head inside the hut, Inuyasha comes in carrying Aya, when he goes to place her down on her futon she holds on tighter to his kimono, sighing knowing she wasn’t going to let go unless she woke up, he lies down with her. Inuyasha looks at Shippo and motions him to come join them, smiling he does so. Once they are all settled in they all go to sleep with Inuyasha holding both Aya and Shippo protectively in his arms.

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