The Demon Child Amaya

Chapter 6

Morning comes and Aya is the first to awaken, for a moment Amaya doesn’t remember where she is until she opens her eyes and sees that she is in a hut, ‘Right I am 8 years into the past,’ she looks over to see Inuyasha holding her and Shippo. Amaya allows herself to smile, before getting up without waking everyone and leaves the hut. ‘It has been so long since I woke up to peace,’ Amaya sighs and walks into the forest enjoying the beauty that is all around her. ‘I helped free Inuyasha from Kagome and I am training him to be free from his demon side. Now I just need to kill Yura and get Tenseiga and I will be able to go home and save my world.’ Amaya starts to run through the forest, ‘well everyone should be up soon so might as well catch breakfast.’

Inuyasha wakes up to see that Aya is not in bed, jumping up he looks around and then follows her scent outside of the hut and leading into the forest. ‘Where could she be going this early in the morning?’ Deciding to wait until she returns he starts a fire to cook breakfast, which he would catch in a bit. Soon everyone, one by one began to wake up, first Shippo, Miroku, Sango with Kirlala Kaede and then lastly Kagome.

“Where’s Lady Aya?” Miroku asks.

“I don’t know when I woke up she wasn’t here, her scent is leading into the forest so she must be out talking a walk or something,” Inuyasha says.

Just then Aya choose to exit out of the forest dragging a large male deer behind her, and she is covered in blood. “Aya what happened?” Inuyasha asks worried that she might be hurt.

Amaya sighs, “I woke up and decided to catch breakfast, I saw this deer and decided to kill it, it moved and instead of tackling it so I could break it’s neck I accidentally cut his jugular and his blood sprayed all over me,” Aya says. Everyone stares at her and then looks at each other and then begin to laugh, Amaya crosses her arms over her chest and sticks out her tongue at them. “Fine you want to laugh at me; you can cut and clean it by yourself!” Aya says as she walks away towards the lake where she can wash her clothes and clean off the blood.
Sango watches Aya leave and decided to bring her a pair of clothes she could borrow until hers are dry, when she reaches the lake, Aya is naked and bent down to wash her clothes. Sango walked out but not before a wind blows moving Aya’s long hair that is loose from her pony tail to reveal four long jagged scars along her back.

Amaya turns around when she hears a gasp, “Sango? What are you doing here?” Amaya asks but then notice that Sango is staring at her back, “Oh you see them do you.”

“What happened to you?”

“I was trying to protect a village and Kenchi; the evil spirit used his acid claws and caught my back.”

“What happened to the village?”

“Like all the rest, it was destroyed,” Aya says finished cleaning her clothes.

“Here you can borrow these until your clothes are dry,” Sango says giving her the clothes.

“Thanks.” Together they walked back to the camp just in time for breakfast to be done.

Inuyasha hands Aya and Shippo the raw meat and they both dig in, while the rest had cooked meat. Once they all finish eating they clean up and then the Inuyasha group started to gather things they would need on the journey to find Sesshomaru.

Amaya waits for them at the end of the village by the forest, ‘finally I am now on my way to completing my mission. Hold on Papa, Father, everyone, I’ll be coming home soon.’

Kaede walks up to the Inuyasha group as they finished packing what they would need. “So ye all are heading out now are ye?”

“Yeah, we need to find Sesshomaru the sooner we can do so the sooner Aya can get back home and save her world,” Sango says.

“Such a big burden for such a young child,” Kaede sighs. “Ye all be careful.”

“We will,” everyone says.

As Inuyasha walks by Kaede, Kaede says, “Take good care of her.”

Inuyasha looks at Kaede, “Huh?” but shrugs it off and catches up to the others.

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An hour later everyone has relaxed in the group; Kagome is still pissed so she is walking in the back of the group while Miroku and Sango talk and make jokes, Inuyasha and Shippo are also talking, mostly Inuyasha telling Shippo what he now expects from Shippo now that he is his son. Amaya walks in front of the group just minding her own business, enjoying her peaceful walk through the forest. After walking for another hour they all decide to stop for a break by a lake so the humans could rest. “Hey Aya?” Inuyasha shouts.

“Yes Inuyasha?” Aya walks over to lake where everyone is sitting.

“What’s Sesshomaru like in your time?” Inuyasha questions.

“Lord Sesshomaru? Well he is extremely strong, and in front of his council and other lords he doesn’t show any emotion or weakness, his voice stays stern, unless he is with his mate, then he lightens up a bit.”

“Sesshomaru mates to someone?!” Inuyasha asks disbelieving.

“Yes, Inuyasha,” Aya laughs. “When he is with his pup and mate his is so carefree, he laughs and rough houses with us he is also very protective of his family, Lord Sesshomaru is a great lord, and an even better mate and father.”

“How do you know all of this?” Sango asks.

“My parents are friends with Lord Sesshomaru and his mate so I get to play with his pup and sometimes Lord Sesshomaru will join in,” Aya smiles as she recalls memories of herself and her Father rough housing outside in the court yard. “My parents told me that when Lord Sesshomaru met his mate his heart warmed up and he became a better lord.”

“Wow this mate of his must really be something,” Inuyasha says.

“Yes, I will agree.”

“I’m his brother and he won’t even give me the time of day unless it is to try and steal my sword,” Inuyasha sighs.

“Inuyasha, whatever your brother may say he doesn’t hate you,” Aya says.

“Yeah and your on drugs,” Inuyasha says.

“No, you and I both know that if he really wanted to kill you, he would have long ago. Lord Sesshomaru is just angry, he is still young himself and the death of his own mother and then your father mating with your mother is still fresh in his mind, he hasn’t learned how to let go. He was still very young when he had to take over your Father’s lands; he had to fight to keep the position as Lord. Have you every thought what the death of your father has done to him? I’m not trying to justify they way he handled your birth or leaving you on your own, but you have to understand as well that he was young and being a brother didn’t enter his mind because he was too busy trying to keep greedy council hands off your fathers lands.”

Inuyasha looks away, “I never did think about it like that but still.”

“Yes Inuyasha I know, he still should have taken you in, however when you are swarmed with so many things at once you don’t tend to always do the right thing. Have you ever thought about showing him respect?” Aya says.

“What?” Inuyasha shouts. “Why would I show that bastard respect?”

“Let me put it this way, if someone disrespects you, do you respect them back?”

“Hell no,” Inuyasha growls.

“Then why do you think Lord Sesshomaru would learn to respect you when you are proving to him that all half-demons truly are uncouth and don’t know how to adapt to either society? Maybe if you tried being respectful, he will learn to respect you back. I’m not saying don’t be yourself, but so him good manners address him by his status, don’t swear so much and try asking him questions when he demands for your sword in a calm manner. He may try to make you angry by calling you names, but if you reply in a calm manner he will not win. It won’t hurt to try it and if it doesn’t work then go back to insulting him and attacking him,” Aya smiles.

“You may have a point, if I want to be a good father to Shippo; I should stop acting like a wild half-demon, and more like a father figure. It is no longer about me and I have to show Shippo how to act instead of just telling him.”

“Inuyasha you are growing up already,” Aya laughs

“Hey!” Inuyasha laughs and ruffles Aya’s hair, “Brat.” Aya just smiles.

The group decided to head out after a few more minutes of relaxing; the day went by uneventful, they fought a weak demon that tried to attack them for the jewel shards but Inuyasha and took care of the demon no problem. They are now stopped for the night, and Aya took Shippo to get fire wood, saying it will train him to use his mussels, while Inuyasha went hunting for some meat. “So Kagome are you going to talk to us at any point?” Sango asks.

“Why, you all hate me,” Kagome says.

“We don’t hate you,” Sango says.

“Yes lady Kagome we do not hate you, we just didn’t agree with you not understanding lady Aya’s reason for removing the beads,” Miroku says.

“Well I don’t agree with her, I don’t like her for some reason, but I guess there is nothing I can do now,” Kagome sighs, ‘at lease until I can remove Aya from the picture.’

Just then Aya and Shippo came back along with Inuyasha; they dropped the fire wood and began to make a fire, Aya using her fire power to light the wood. “Aya may I ask you something?” Sango asks.

“Sure,” Aya says as she takes a bit of her raw meat.

“Am I happy in the future?” Sango asks.

“Oh me too am I happy?” Shippo asks.

“Am I?” Miroku asks.

Aya sighs, “I knew you all would be too curious not to ask questions, but seeing as how it won’t hurt anything, as far as I was aware you all were happy. Inuyasha would tell me that he was going to visit friends and when he would come back he told me that you all were doing great all settled in with your own families. I never got to meet any of you, I was too young to remember you in the first place but you all died before I could meet you, I already knew Shippo because of Inuyasha but Kenchi kill you all before I could officially meet you all.”
“Oh,” everyone replies.

“Sorry,” Aya says.

“It’s not your fault Aya,” Sango says.

After they ate they relaxed for a bit and then everyone took turns going for a bath and then they all went to bed. Amaya stays awake by the fire as Inuyasha and Shippo sit up in a tree; Amaya just stares into the fire, ‘soon I will run into Sesshomaru, getting his sword will not be easy, I will have to think of a way to get the sword from him but how? Also I need to try and avoid getting Naraku’s attention,’ Aya sighs, ‘the jewel of four souls, should I tell them what I know about it? I shouldn’t but I could always lead them in the right direction to find out for themselves,’ Aya thinks she then feels something soft in her hands, she looks down and realizes she is playing with her tail. ‘Damn it, I’m not a baby, I thought I got out of this habit!’ she scolds herself but doesn’t stop petting her tail feeling it twitch slightly under her hand. Amaya sighs, ‘can I really do this? Am I strong enough? What if I fail? Everyone I love is counting on me,’ Amaya pulls her knees up to her chest and lays her head on top of them. ‘I just don’t know anymore, I was so confident when I came but now that I have time to think about what I have to do, I may not be able to do it.’

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