I Would Save Her

InuTaisho's POV

It was a cool night. I had battled with the demon Ryuukutsei just this morning, and my wounds were dripping with blood onto the sand on the beach we were in. I was only able to seal the demon, and not kill it.

I wasn't thinking of Ryuukutsei. I was thinking of my wife, Izayoi. She has gone into labor. I can smell it. And, I smell somthing else. Fire. Near my Izayoi. I have to get to her. She's in danger!

"Father, do you insist on going?" my son, Sesshomaru asked.

Not this again, I thought. "Do you intend to stop me, Sesshomaru?" I asked back.

"I will not stand in your way," he said to me. "Howerver, before you go, you must entrust the swords sounggs and tetsaiga to me."

"And if I refuse, will you kill me, your own father?" I asked him. "Do you desire power so much?"

"Why do you seek power, my son" I asked again.

"The path I walk is the path of supreme conquest," he explained to me. " And it is power that wil reveal the way for me"

"Supreme conquest? Tell me Sesshomaru, have you someone to protect?" I asked.

"Protect?" he asked me. After a little while to think, he answered. "The answer is no. I, Sesshomaru, have no need of such."

Enough talk, I thought. I need to go to Izayoi. I transformed into my more powerfull form, a giant dog demon. I ran frantically to he castle where Izayoi was.

"Please master, I beg you not to be so rash!" shouted Myogaji, my flea servant. "You must reconsider my lord. The wounds from your battle with ryuokutsei have not yeat healed! This is sheer madness!" He protested, shouting frantically as he was clinging o my fur as I ran.

"That doesn't matter, I canno afford to lose her!" I shouted back.

"Besides, I am not long for this world," I added silently.

I stopped on a cliff, a little way from the mansion. "Izayoi, I am coming for you," I said silently.

I ran down from the cliff, and to the mansion, where I transformed into my smaller form before entering. I took out Tatsaiga, the sword of earth, and attacked the guards standing guard.

"Windscar!" I shouted, crumpling the gate, and throwing the guarding men.

I ran straight to the birthing room, where I knew Izayoi was. I had to run a little way there, where I knew more soldiers would be waiting. Some fired arrows a me. But I kept running.

Arrows hit me a few times, but I didn't care. As long as I got to Izayoi.

"Windscar!" I shouted again, killing and throwing more men standing guard and attacking me. The mansion was up in smoke from the windscar.

"Izayoi!" I called out, hoping for an answer. But, it wasn't Izayoi that answered.

"At last you've come demon. A little late though", said Takimaru as he came out of the mansion in his red armour.

"WHAT?" I shouted back.

"Lady Izayoi is beyond your reach now," he told me. "I displatched her myself."

"Damn you fool!" I shouted, cursing him for killing my Izayoi.

He took out his sword, the sword of hell, Soungga, and ran at me, preparing to attack. I ran to him as well, and with the Tetsaiga I cut of his left arm, leaving him writhing in pain on he ground, bleeding heavily.

"Set the mansion on fire!" I heard him say as I kept running. "With that demon and everyone in it! Brun it to the ground!"

At once, fire-tipped arrows were shot, and the mansion was being burned. But I didn't care. I had o get to Izayoi.

I heard a baby crying, and it directed me to zayoi in the smoking mansion.

I ran to the birthing room, where the crying was coming from, and I lifted the cover, throwing it aside. "Izayoi," I gasped.

There she was. My Izayoi, in blankets covered with her blood, lying dead, and still.

But, I can still save here. I took out the Tenseiga, the sword of heaven, and it pulsed in my clawed hands. At once, I saw the about 4 ceartures of the netherworld. Ugly, bald, and crawling over my Izayoi.

"Carry out my will, Tenseiga," I said to my sword.

In 2 swipes, I killed the creatures. The blood on my dearest dissapeared, and she woke up. I put the Tenseiga back in i's sieve, and took out the red cloth made of the fur of the fire rat.

I put it over My Izayoi, so she will be protected from the flames around us.

Suddenly, Takimaru came in, with his left arm cut clean off, and bleeding. I took out Tetsaiga, the sword to protect man, and got ready for a fight.

"I have no regrets about fighting you to the death," he said, with Izayoi behind me. "Let us journey together to the netherworld."

"Move mon," I said to Izayoi, because I knew, he had the sword of hell, Soungga, and it was powerful, and dangerous, and i had the power to kill even me.

"My dearest!" she gasped, and she moved back a few steps, with the child in a bundle in her arms.

"InuYasha," I said.

"What is that?" Takimaru asked with a confused look.

"The infants name is InuYasha," I answered. "The child shall be called InuYasha," I said, this time to Izayoi.

"InuYasha," she muttered, to the bundle in her arms.

"Now go!" I told her. I didn't want her, and my child to die in this battle, like I possibly will.

"Huh? Yes!" she answered, and ran away at once.

At once, the bleeding foe in front of me, with us seperated by a line of flames, took out his sword of hell, Soungga, and the sword emitted a red, transparent dragon, which surrounded him and the sword.

We joined swords, and we were even. Both of us equally strong. I kept fighting against him, but he wasn't willing to give up.

Suddenly, the burning roof above us collapes, trapping us in flames.

"Izayoi, you must survive," I whispered quietly, nearing my death under the burning roof. "Live a long life. Live long and well, with InuYasha," I whispered to her.