InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Raiden no Ai ❯ Aida ( Chapter 4 )

Raiden no Ai

Chapter 4: Aida

The sun shown brightly outside and the sky was adorn with puffy white clouds. It's UV rays peering through the window of the drab structure, seeming to illuminate the once dark room. Hiten put a hand on Akina's shoulder and shook her lightly.

"Wake up."

"Stop..." Akina mumbled subconsciously.

"What!? Wake the hell up!" Hiten shook her violently. Akina let out a small scream.

"AH! Leave me alone! Stop it! I don't want to be with you!"

Hiten made a momentarily puzzled face as he grabbed her shoulders and shook her making her head rock back and fourth.

"What the hell is wrong with you, woman?"

Akina cracked her eyes open as she could see a blurred image of Hiten's face. Crimson eyes staring her. The image cleared and she soon realized who is was and shrunk back in fear. Hiten was slightly annoyed at let go of her shoulders.

"Well, good morning love."

She heard another voice. This was not the voice of any person she's heard so far. It was very feminine and almost seductive sounding. A beautiful woman strolled into the room. She was a youkai as well. She wore what seemed to be a long skirt. Her hair was long, slightly wavy and black as a raven's feather, adorned with a pink ribbon. She wore much jewelry, a necklace and many bracelets. She wore a dark mulberry colored eye shadow and had very pale skin. She wore no top, the only thing that was there was a live snake who wrapped itself around her full, perky breasts.

She crossed her arms and leaned up against the door as she opened her golden eyes and looked at the fire haired maiden.

"I see you have a capture." She purred.

She calmly walked over and knelt down to Akina.

"What might your name be?" She cocked her head.

"My name is Akina..." She trailed, staring into her mesmerizing eyes.

"I'm Aida." She responded as she gently stroked her pet snake's head.

Aida sits at the table beside of Hiten, with her hand on his shoulder. Hiten smiled happily at her.

"How are you this morning, Hiten-sempai?" She asked, as she rested her head on Hiten's shoulder and closed her eyes as she sighed to herself.

Manten sat at the table.

"Well, wench?" Manten said, slamming his fist down on the hard table top, making the surface of the table vibrate and shake under his blow. There was a small cracking noise that the old table top made. "I'm hungry! Get to it!"

Akina went into the kitchen once more and began to go to work. This time she was more efficient in her actions making her human dishes. She was surprised that the youkai like her human food. She should be happy that they had not feasted upon her....Shouldn't she? She sighed to herself again, as she chopped up the herbs to put in the soup she was making.

She walks into the room where Hiten, Aida and Manten were all laughing at what seemed to be a friendly joke. She looked at Aida and Hiten, she made a small sigh to herself and looked sad as she saw Hiten with his arm around Aida as they looked so happy together. She walked solemnly into the room carrying three small glasses of tea. She sits one infront of each youkai.

"What is this?" Aida asked, as she picked up the cup and stared into it, examining the mahogany liquid that swirled around in the cup in an aura of shades and tones of color.

"It's tea." Akina replied shyly. "It's really good, I promise. "

"You should drink it Aida-chan. " Manten said as he took a sip. "She makes excellent food."

She had been happy for that instant. At least someone liked her cooking. She was glad to hear a compliment, if even a small one. Manten seemed to be the only one who ever did compliment her. It was he who had told her cooking was magnificent last time.

**Thanks Manten..** She thought to herself with a sad smile.

She returned to the room and gathered the plates she had prepared. She brought them in to the three youkai, who were sipping the tea she had made. She set the table again with the abundance of food. The four of them ate, the youkai ate the special dishes she had created for them, and she sat a few feet from Manten eating a small bowl of rice. She would occasionally glance over and see the three of them laughing maliciously to one another, and sometimes it seemed they were having great fun.

"Manten, you have curry on your face." Aida giggled.

"Huh?" Manten stopped eating and wiped his face, smearing it instead of ridding his face from it. "There."

Aida and Hiten were cracking up. Akina glanced over and gave a light chuckle, then went back to eating her rice. As she finished she could hear their voices of laughter. Manten was confused at what they had been laughing at and Aida and Hiten seemed to think it was hilarious that Manten wiped soy sauce all over his face. At times, the three of them seemed to get along like family, at others they were at each others throats. Youkai will be youkai, she supposed as she picked up the plates and went to wash them.

As she was cleaning the dishes, she could hear them talking amongst themselves. She picked up parts of conversations, but she seemed to mostly hear Manten, because of his deep voice. Hiten and Aida seemed like they were whispering most of the time, until they audibly said something. It seemed that they were taking a reprieve today. That was always a good sign for her. No villages would be blasted to the ground, no one would be hurt. This also meant she had the whole day to spend with the three of them. How she dreaded that. She would walk around aimlessly and be called wench all day. She'd also have to listen to her life being threatened if she blinked wrong. She put the last dish up and walked back into the room where the others stared at her.

"Manten was right." Aida said, breaking the silence. " You cook human food quite well."

"Thank you." Akina replied smally.

"We're not doing anything today, you can all relax." Hiten told Akina.

What a relief that was!

"Can I go outside and sit on the porch?" She asked.

"Do what you want, but you'd better come back." Hiten snarled.

"Ok, I promise I will."

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Tadaa, there is chapter 4. As always R&R! *Wonders if anyone will read this or if she is just wasting her time*