Amaya banged around the dark room, anywhere and everywhere. She tripped, twisted ankles, crashed variuos times, and fallen, not once ever finding an exit. Fustrated and sad, she let out the loudest scream that she had built up, and let herself fall to the floor once more, crying. How had she not seen this? WWhy didn't she spot the strange happyniess in Yuji when her brother and father died? Why wasn't she more careful? And then, Pirnce Sesshomaru, her firend, was probably now suffering lies from a demon that looked like her. She cried more, thinking how if she ever escpaed Yuji, Sesshomaru would no longer be her freind, let alone even want to know her. She vowed that if he said was true, with no doubt, she would escpae Yuji and run away from her village and...Sesshomaru. But first, the only thing that her mind could wrap around was to escpae the hut. Once more in the darkness, she stood up and ran around the dark room, tripping, trying to an exit as quickly as possible. She spent five minutes tripping in the darkness with no luck, and she leaned her head on one of the walls she stood by. She screamed again, and gave a punch to the dark unseen wall. Crack, light poured into the hut, making her blink and cover her eyes with a gasp.

Amaya, her eyes as dark as coal, peirced into Sesshomaru's golden eyes. He was shocked truly shocked, never expecting Amaya to ever slap him espiaclly with such force. But then, he was angry, very angry. How dare she hit him, let alone touch him? He was a Prince, A demon, far higher in status that in about 20 life times she will never be able to get that high. He wanted to kill her, now and slowly. He couldn't belive how he fell for this disgusting trash, how he could trust her, be her frined, and even love her. She was right when she said he couldn't trust any humans, even her. He hated her now, despised her, and didn't want to be even near her. In two days time, she will be leaving the academy in his orders; disqualified, and if lucky, undead. Prince Sesshomaru's cold glare made Amaya smirk, and she smiled at him, evilly. He turned around with a sharp turn, and stroded out angrily with heavy footseps. Miwa and Mizuki not knowing what to do, they gave Amaya one last look and walked out as well. Amaya laughed, low and in a demonic voice.

Amaya peered through the whole she had made in the hut, gasping. She knew where she was! Down by the river she saw, was her brother's grave, and possibly her father's too! The only thing she had to do now was get out of there, and go to Sesshomaru. Yes at first she consdiered turning away from him, but she had to tell him the truth. Whatever that demon did to him, she had to convince him that it wasn't her, and help her save her mother. As she set her hand on the egde of the crack and pulled back, it broke apart easily. She smiled, becuase the hut was old and rotting away; atleast on this wall. Now that Yuji wasn't there, this was her time only. With the thought of escpaing and seeing Sesshomaru once more, gave her the strength to rip the wall into shreds like a demon herself.

Uknowingly, Amaya's last day in the academy was spent ordering and hitting servants around. In that on single day, Kiko despised her, hated her, loathed her. Sesshomaru went from bad to worse, now thinking he was going to kill her for good. She had the nerve to sought him out, and verbally abuse him, mocking him, and retoring him. Prince Sesshomaru then saw what humans were really made up and were wrose than demons like himself. He now hated humans, loathed them to end, and vowed to kill every single one that the never to cross lines like Amaya. Finally, as if yesterday took 10 long years, Prince Sesshomaru was eager to disqualify the human, and killing her. It was the mid-day when Amaya recieved a notice from Prince Sesshomaru, wanting to see her. She stood from her seat, and confidently walked towards the front of the academy where he demadned to see her. As she walked out smirking, she noticed everyone was there, espiaclly the Stoic Demon Prince. She smirked at him, not even bowing as she had to do.

"What do you want now?" She asnwered in a harsh tone.

Lord Taisho threw an angry look towards Amaya, and Amaya simply returned a look of not caring.

"You are disqaulified from this acadmey." Prince Sesshomaru answered coldy. "Leave while you still have life." He hissed.

"What, without a carriage or anything?" Amaya replied angrily.

"You deserve no such thing, and I would very much prefer to see you die and rot on your way home." Sesshomaru said.

"But what about the love we had? I thought you loved me!" Amaya screamed, pretending to be sad. "I gave you my protection necklace becuase you said you would marry me!" Everyone gasped, but something rose in Sesshomaru that took his anger away.

"Its not everyday I say this, Sesshomaru, but sometimes I think I was better off dieng at birth."

"How can you say such a thing, Amaya? If you would have died, I would never have met you; my friend." Sesshomaru replied.

"Life is too hard, espically for me. A frienship means something to you, I know, becuase you had never had a human as a freind. But that never lasts; haven't you noticed that in the word friend there is an 'end' of it?" Amaya replied.

"That doesn't mean that our friendship as to end, Amaya." Sesshomaru said.

Amaya smiled warmly at him and had a teasing smile. "Everytime you say that to me Sesshomaru I will reply with a 'freinds till the end', even if you mate and have to move miles away from me."

Sesshomaru smiled, and Amaya leaned on the bench twoards him and embraced him. "Friends till the end..." Sesshomaru replied into her hair.

Amaya was crying, foricng tears out of her eyes. It hurt, but it was worth it. After all, they were paying him well to do the job.

"That doesn't mean our friendship has to end."

Amaya stopped crying and looked at him; everyone did. They were surprised to hear calmness in his voice.

"What?"

"That doesn't mean that our friendship has to end." Sesshomaru said again, his eyes going into slits.

Just as Amaya was going to reply with a nasty remark and more fake crying, a huffing and raspy voice caught her ears on her right. She twisted her head to look at the voice, her face no longer Amaya's. Everyone stared at the huffing boy, who stared back worrdily at Amaya, tears stained on his face.

"She's gone!"