Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha and the rest of the Inuyasha characters, they belong to Rumiko Takahashi.
Prologue:
Her Fight
When they entered the organization and when they found out that they were to protect her, they never really knew how important she was to them until that moment that everything was about to be revealed. They never thought to ask their superiors on why they have to protect her and why they were the ones chosen for it, but now, as they stood in the sideline watching her. They finally realize how important her existence was and how mundane theirs were compared to hers. Then, why was it, that it was her that was in the midst of it all, fighting with everything she had to protect their mundane lives. Why was it that they, who were supposed to be the ones protecting her, were unable to move from their spot in the sideline as they watch her fight for her life and theirs? If they had only remained vigilant and if they had only trained harder, then perhaps, she would deem them worthy enough to fight beside her and protect her instead of the other way around. How could someone who was suppose to be the one being protected be the one protecting them?
Inuyasha looked down at the baby in his arms and could not help but to hug her closer to his person. His eyes traveled from the child to the woman in the battle field fighting him, he who had haunted them their entire lives and the person they thought they had gotten rid off. His anguished eyes lingered on the battered woman, who was fighting with everything she had to protect the future of the child within his arms. He only hoped that she would be successful for the child's sake and his.
He was startled out of his thoughts when he felt a hand on his shoulder, "everything will be fine," were the murmured words sent his way by the hand's owner.
He looked at the eyes of the woman comforting him with a hopeful look and sighed.
"I know you wish you could fight alongside her like we all do, but as long as I, the heiress, have this sword, the princess will be safe and so is the child you hold in your arms," she soothed, her hand tightening their hold on his shoulder. She broke eye contact with him as her head snapped to the center of the plaza and her eyes narrowing in concentration, "and it is time I join this battle, my princess needs me." With those final words, she disappeared from his side and joined the battle that would decide it all and finally end the war that lasted over several millennia.
It was at that moment that the group of friends understood what the Phoenix, the Heiress, and the Princess stood for and their role in everything that had ever taken place. With it came the understanding that their existence were only there to serve as her strength. They just hope that she would not be sacrificed at the end of it all for the child's sake and Inuyasha's.