The Winter That Brought A Stray.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, all credit goes to Rumiko Takahashi.

Note: This story will start rather slow, and chapters will be short. However, please be patient and respect the adventure that is to come.

-Crows-

From the clouds, two tengu twins appeared. A female with short blue hair and glassy pink eyes glared at the dragon. She donned a loose short black fighting kimono with silver flames. A large red front bow held the kimono in place, though it exposed the sarashi over her petite breasts. Tiny anklets of green prayer beads dressed rested against the black cloth wrapped around her ankles.

She wielded an enchanted long katana, nodachi. The nodachi with the red hilt in her black clawed grasp was two times her size in hight and bore ancient markings of her clan. Next to her was a handsome male with small wings and blue full haired topknot. His right eye displayed long green lashes that held a tint of blue in them. He wore a black yukata with a silver khakkhara in his hand.

"Release her you overgrown lizard," demanded the spunky female.

"Oh look some pesky birds! Go away damned chickens, this does not concern you," Ranmaru growled down to them. The violet scales that made up his brows furrowed in annoyance.

"Silence your tongue! We are not chickens. We are Yoshie and Shizuka of the proud Tengu! We've come at the behest of the great Lord Byakuya! Surrender the princess to us!" The handsome male tengu ordered.

"Why would I care what Lord Byakuya wants? He's nothing but a gutless peacock," mocked Ranmaru.

"Shut your mouth! I will not allow you to speak ill of our great Lord Byakuya," Shizuka snapped defensively.

"I wonder, will you pidgeons scream as loud as your brethren did when my father and I burned them alive during the War of The Four Kingdoms?" Ranmaru taunted down to the female tengu.

"For that, you will suffer lizard," Shizuka swore as she left her brother's side and charged him. Ranmaru grinned viciously as the bird came toward him. He thrust his head forward, black mouth wide with the intention to eat the bird. Shizuka smirked, she drew her wings into herself and propelled herself to the far left. She heard the gnash of his jaw snapping close to her. He short hair and kimono rustled as she ducked and dropped from the air, swooping under the dragon's chin.

The dragon feared he had underestimated the little bird's skill when she dodged his teeth and dove under his jaw. Shizuka flipped forward in the air with her nodachi poised at her side for a strike. She thrust the sword out as she glided along the dragon's neck. She delivered a smooth slice across a patch of massive scales.

The mystic blade pierced Ranmaru's armored coverings leaving violet blood gushing into the air. The strike caused Ranmaru's hold on Kagome to slip, and she fell straight into a Shizuka's possession. The tengu pitied the pretty princess a moment, and then she glanced over her shoulder at her brother.

"Ne Yoshie! Catch," she called victoriously. Yoshie raised his arms high as his sister tossed the princess down to him. She then turned her attention back to the bleeding dragon in front of her.

"For that bitch, you die," Ranmaru roared puffing himself up for an attack. A glow started in his throat and electricity zipped through his sharp teeth. Frightening purple fire bubbled in his throat. Shizuka flapped her short wings glaring defiantly into the mouth of Hell. The beaded rosaries around her ankles glowed with her youkai as she focused her energy and charged her nodachi. Angling her sword, Shizuka smirked. She prepared to do the impossible. She was going to cut through a dragon's fire.

Yoshie flapped his wings moving to the right a bit, trying to align himself with the falling girl. He waited just as her body approached him, smirking as he knew they'd beat that dumb dragon. Suddenly a divine gust of wind from the North struck the young crow and altered his position. The wind acted in the guise of a demon and took hold of Yoshie's wings, immobilizing them. He dropped in the air struggling to remove his attacker.

He freed one of his wings from the wind demon's grasp and knocked him off with a charge from his khakkhara. The wind spirit screamed as its form turned black and sizzled away into emptiness. Yoshie's flapped his wings hurridly to reclaim his position in the sky. His arm extended out to save the approaching princess, but it proved futile. The young tengu's eyes widened as the princess's body fell right out of reach.

"Princess," Yoshie gaped.

Shizuka was too busy to notice Yoshie's blunder as she propelled herself forward into the line of fire. The crow brother watched his sister in awe. She grinned at how effortlessly her nodachi sliced through the enchanted violet fire.

All three of Ranmaru's eyes narrowed. He coiled back into himself like a snake, thrusting his tail forward toward the troublesome tengu. She made use of her short black wings, wrapping them around her body. She fell through the deadly barbs, swaying out of their way with ease.

"Yahoooo," she cheered as she thrust her wings out and spiraled up the dragon's tail. She twirled in the air beautifully and angled her blade to a strike. Ranmaru screamed as the little tengu bitch's nodachi broke through his armored obsidian scales, and sunk into his flesh.

"I will enjoy this," Shizuka grinned as she used her nodachi to hack a chunk of the great dragon's body away. It earned her another cry from Ranmaru's great maw.

Yoshie suddenly remembered his mission and dove for the princess. Just as his hand was about to grasp hers, she passed through a sizeable golden barrier. The young tengu's green eyes widened, and he scrambled flapping his juvenile wings, but he couldn't slow his speed quick enough. Yoshie crashed into it. The golden wall flexed against him and seared the flesh and feathers that touched it.

In the act of defense, the barrier ejected the crow far into the air. Yoshie cried out as he propelled upward uncontrollably. He shot across the sky with his skin, hair, and wings smoking. He tried to gain control by curling into himself as his wings drooped over him.

His speed slowed, and he thrust his singed black wings out to the air, catching on to a flowing current. Yoshie panted, sweeping his green eyes over his blistering red skin. The burns, though severe, would heal over time. He turned his head over his shoulder, looking at the land below.

The barrier covered all in its vastness, proving itself to be a symbol of grand power. Such a power could only belong to, Sesshomaru the Lord of The West. Yoshie frowned as he glanced up at the black clouds of dragon smoke obscuring the battle above. He knew he would be in great trouble for losing the princess with not only his sister and clan but his lord too.

End.

Notes: I know some of you are probably thinking right now, "You had one job Yoshie! ONE JOB!" Young Tengu, what can I say?

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Until next time, GR.