Rewrite. I have no idea how long this will be but I am posting it as a taster… I hope that I can give you something interesting.

Song of the Chapter: Somebody That I Used to Know-Gotye

Kaminari's Halberd

Two months before the birth of InuYasha

Sesshomaru stood in the courtyard with his mother as they watched InuTashio disappear into the distance for the human village. With a snarl Sesshomaru watched his mother turn from her mate and glare at him. Snapping her jaw closed she glanced into the hall behind him as footfalls approached.

"It is because of the two of you that he goes to her." Her voice was stern and she filled her soul with hate for the two before her. Turning and walking across the courtyard she entered her chambers to grieve once more. Sesshomaru glanced to his left, where his twin stood silently. Both held their heads high as they felt the sting from their mother's words.

"I am going to meditate." She finally broke the silence, turning to look at her brother sadly. "She will forgive us one day." Resting a hand on his armored shoulder she turns, lifting her halberd onto her shoulder and walked from the courtyard. Sesshomaru turned his focus back to the direction his father had disappeared in, a pain starting in his heart that would last for hundreds of years.

She never returned…

Present Time

(Palace of the West)

The guard turned into the grand hall, passing all of the legendary weapons hanging on the marble walls. No one entered the grand hall except for Lord Sesshomaru, who could be found staring at the large crimson halberd hanging under a painting of the lost princess of the west. He would not talk or acknowledge anyone approaching in these times, only turn from the painting and the weapon and leave bitterly.

The guard stopped to admire the painting once more on this day, as he normally did. The halberd hung silently under the image like normal. Turning back to his path the guard moved two paintings down only to turn with the sound of metal ripping through stone. Running back he gasps when he finds the halberd gone, a large hole in the opposite wall where it had gone. Sounding the alarm the head guard dispatches a messenger to their lord, hoping that an explanation is possible.

(Under a great waterfall)

Her eyes opened, slowly as the curse wore away under the hammering of the waterfall. She stood from her rock stiffly, trying to get her muscles to unlock. Looking around she found great distress that her weapon had disappeared, giving a silent prayer she lifted her hand to call for her faithful halberd.

It sailed from the direction of the palace, receiving its comforting weight in her palm she advanced on the palace when a pain struck her full in the chest. Stopping the princess turned to find the cause of discomfort. Finding the battlefield she stopped in horror to find her brother fighting against a large decoy.

"Kagome now!" InuYasha called from across the battlefield. Sango swung low to retrieve Miroku from the danger zone as Kagome filled her arrow with holy powers. Naraku laughed viciously dodging the arrow easily before returning attacks on each of them.

Kagome looked to each of the members fighting against the evil hanyou only to notice Sesshomaru distracted by what looked like a guard of the Western Palace.

"Milord! Forgive this lowly guard for interrupting, but Kaminari's halberd had been stolen!" The guard cried bowing to the lord. Naraku struck taking the guard and enveloping him and his power before Sesshomaru could react.

"Oh, a stolen weapon, who is this Kaminari?"Naraku inquired with a dark smile coating his face. "Some dishonorable inu that you called family?" He chuckled as Sesshomaru felt his eyes bleed red. With a flash everyone covered their eyes, when they looked again the puppet was only a broken little doll. Where the copy had been a tall thin woman stood, her arm extended behind herself holding tightly on the halberd. Moko-moko hung around her waist and down her back.

Turning to look at the Lord of the west and letting her curled silver hair fall over her shoulder Kaminari smiled at Sesshomaru. "How long has it been?" She called up the hill to him as Kagome and the group stood watching. Sesshomaru was before her in the blink on an eye looking over her armor and her face deeply. "How long have I been kept from the field of battle beside my great brother?"

"Far too long." He groaned pulling her close. Kaminari dropped the halberd to wrap her arms around his broad chest.

Leaning away to take in the sight of him she cackled wildly at him. "Look at this, an injured lord, but you have filled out. Not the scrawny little pup anymore." She turned as Kagome gasped across the field. Kaminari advanced on them, stopping in front of InuYasha to take in his scent before looking him over.

"Who are you?" He snapped.

"Father really did take a human then…" She turned to look at Sesshomaru sadly. "Mother?"

"She lives in the palace of the moon." Sesshomaru walked to her lifting the halberd to his shoulder with his remaining arm. "Your weapon." He extended the metal and leather weight to his sibling.

"So, are you nice to him?" She looked between her brothers with a smile. "I wouldn't think so." Kagome stood at InuYasha's side as Sango and the others filled in behind them. Kaminari clapped Sesshomaru on the shoulder and laughed heartily. "Come let us go to the palace and you can fill me in on all that has happened."

Sesshomaru watched his sister, not wishing to tell her no ever again. Looking to the miko his eyes filled with pleasure. "Follow us InuYasha… you will enter the palace of the west for the first time." Kaminari stood at his side as they set out, making a stop some five hundred yards away to retrieve Sesshomaru's retainer and ward.

"You look a lot like milord." Rin giggled taking Kaminari's hand in hers as they walked.

"I am your lord's twin."

"Rin's name is Rin… Sesshomaru-sama saved me." She smiled toothily between the two.

The palace of the west was in frenzy, guards panicked as the group drew near. Sesshomaru lead Rin to the nanny as a servant lead Au-un to the stables. "Anju, prepare rooms for the women and men of my brother's companions. And turn down Kaminari's room, she has finally returned to us." Looking to the wandering princess the servant gives a low bow before running to fulfill the demands.

Kaminari walked to the courtyard where she and Sesshomaru had watched their father leave for the last time. Looking to her brother who hesitated to approach the spot she gave a smile. He joined her, looking to the dark room their mother once lived in then to the spot she had last seen her father standing.

"Did he come to look for me when I went missing?"

"Once," He sighed. "The night before he went for the human, he came to find that you had disappeared and he killed the dragon. Then word came that his human was in danger and he ran to her… he gave up on us and saved that hanyou." Kaminari pulled her brother close and let a tear fall from her eye.

"I do not blame him for his anger. We took the chance for more pups from mother." She sighed looking up at him. "What has made you seem so cold?"

"I did not allow myself to connect with the hanyou, knowing that everyone was dying off so quickly." They heard the servant bell announcing dinner and turned to enter the house. "What happened to you?"

"I was approached by three dragons, two the spawns of their lord. When I would not accept the advances for a mating treaty they cursed me to isolation for three hundred years." They entered the dining hall to find InuYasha and the group sitting and waiting for their arrival. Taking their seats servants began to bring dishes out for them to begin.

"No disrespect," The miko began with a smile. "But I thought that Sesshomaru and InuYasha were the only children of InuTashio?"

"I was cursed not two months before the birth of InuYasha." She sighed. "Sesshomaru and myself are litter mates." Kagome looked to the stoic demon lord she had come to know, looking for a sign of anything in his face. Sesshomaru looked at her silently, as his eyes glazed over and his mask frozen in place once more.

Kagome walked down the hall from dining hall with Shippou in her arms, they entered their quarters and she let him to the floor. Pulling the crayons from her bag and the paper she left Shippou to draw while she went for answers of her own. Turning the corner she ran into a hard body taking a step back with an embarrassed giggle she found Kaminari staring at her.

"Sorry Milady." She bowed gaining her own giggle from the princess.

"No wonder he likes you." She walked around the miko and continued down the hall as Kagome turned.

"Wait, who?"

"You'll figure it out." Kaminari called back waving over her armored shoulder. Kagome continued down the hall and stopped before the door she wanted. Steadying her nerves she scratched lightly to gain the occupants attention.

"Enter."

Oo I know they are never new plots… but it is something we all deal with. Enjoy!

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Addy Eli

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