Chapter 9: The Great Tournament and The Strength Dagger

A/N: Look I almost decided not to continue this story, but I am a writer and even though this story has not gotten a lot of responses I want to finish what I have started. I hope that after the change in the style of writing and the advancement of the story, more people will read and review. Please readers read and respond. Thank you and enjoy!

Chapter 9

"Wait up Inumaru!" Inuyame says as she is pushing to try and keep up with her hyperactive brother who is running to get to Totosai's camp.

Inumaru runs with excitement written all over his face. He can't get over the thought he was chosen to gather these mystical items, and that he is also about to participate in a tournament where he can show off his fighting skills and challenge his father to a match.

"This is going to be great!" Inumaru shouts as he jumps into the air, clearing the tops of the tall and beautiful trees of the forest. Inumaru is so excited that he nor Inuyame notices the scent of a very powerful demon approaching them.

Focus changes to Sesshomaru and Jaken

"Lord Sesshomaru, why are we searching for the children of Inuyasha? What can we possible want with them?" Jaken asks Sesshomaru as he struggles to keep up with his master.

"Jaken when does this Sesshomaru need to explain himself to you!" Sesshomaru stops in his tracks and sends a hollow glare at his servant.

Jaken freezes in his tracks and quivers at his master's blank stare. "Forgive me mi Lord! I meant no disrespect. I apologize for questioning you!" Jaken says bowing before Sesshomaru and kissing his feet.

"Silence Jaken, Inuyasha's children are approaching! You will see soon enough why we are searching for them!" Sesshomaru says standing in the clearing of a meadow awaiting the arrival of the two Inu-twins.

"Shut the hell up Inuyame! No one told you to follow me anyway!" Inumaru says still ahead of his sister.

"Inumaru you shut up! Inu..." Inuyame stops in her tracks and the way she spoke just then made Inumaru stop running and turn back to her.

"What is wrong with you Inuyame! Why did you stop chasing me?" Inumaru asks his sister while his back is turned to the demon she is looking at.

"Inu...Inumar...ru...Inumaru turn around slowly! There's a very powerful yokai standing right behind you!" Inuyame says with her voice a little shaky. She hasn't seen her uncle Sesshomaru since they were about three years old so she doesn't recognize him, but she senses his awesome power!

"I ain't scared of no damn demon! I'll crush him with my bare claws!" Inumaru says cracking his claws and speaking in the brave jargon his father normally spoke in! He was brave up until the demon spoke.

"So this is want a half-breed's children grow up to look like! I will have no problem disposing of you two." Sesshomaru speaks and allows some of demonic aura to fill the air. Inumaru and Inuyame both quiver from the awesome power of Sesshomaru and Inumaru turns around to face his challenger.

"Mi Lord we came here to kill them, but those are your..." Jaken was unable to finish his sentence as Lord Sesshomaru kicked him and slowly advanced on the two Inu teens.

"Hey you demon what did we do to you! If you think we are going to back down, then you are sadly mistaken! Inuyame stay back I will take care of this!" Inumaru says preparing for an attack from the demon approaching.

"Young pup how do you suppose that you can defeat me? You are but a mere undeveloped half-breed and I am a full demon!" Sesshomaru says coldly staring at Inumaru. Inumaru and Inuyame looks and slight fear arises in both of them.

"Don't worry about us you bastard! We can take care of you!" Inumaru spits of while trying to be as brave as possible, but on the inside he is hoping that either this demon is bluffing or his dad is someone near by. This is power that he has never felt in any other demon before except his father!

"Then half-breed I will dispose of you quickly," says Sesshomaru as he rushes towards Inumaru. Sesshomaru moves so swiftly that to the untrained eyes of Inuyame and Inumaru, he seemed to have disappeared completely, but in all actuality he was heading straight towards the young Inu-hanyou.

Sesshomaru punches Inumaru sending him flying backwards. Inuyame does not hesitate an begins to send an all out attack of spiritual arrows, but Sesshomaru just step slightly to the side and they all went right past him.

"Amateurs! Both of you lack the ability to even keep up with me, let alone execute attacks that will even hit me. Weaklings!" Sesshomaru states calling forth his whip and knocking Inuyame down. He then wraps his whip around Inumaru's leg and sends him flying to the sky. Then Sesshomaru quickly jumps into the air and appears to the rapidly falling Inumaru.

"And you must not recklessly attack an opponent without accessing the power and skill of your opponent, or gathering the necessary power to take your opponent down. You're a fool throwing out threats that you can't back up!" Sesshomaru says this and kicks Inumaru sending him falling even faster to the ground. Inuyame sees this and calls out her power.

"HOLY DEFENSE!" Inuyame cries out (Holy defense allows her to put a protective barrier around herself, or her brother. The barrier can either act as a shield, a net, or a protect a perimeter she sets based on the amount of power she has. In this case she uses it to catch her falling brother) Sesshomaru instantly notices the power of Inuyame and lands gracefully on his feet to watch how she saves her brother from a potentially fatal fall.

"DAMN YOU INUYAME I TOLD YOU I DON"T NEED YOUR HELP!" Inumaru screams at his sister.

"I just saved your life you idiot! And that wasn't an easy task! That barrier takes me a lot out of me and I had to concentrate hard in order to turn it into a net to save you! You should be more grateful; you could've died!" Inuyame says as she walks up and slaps Inumaru upside his head!

Sesshomaru thinking to himself: "That girl has untapped power within her! The boy seems as useless as his father once was, but that girl has power that shouldn't be flowing from her human body. I can't explain how she is able to use such power and she isn't even half-demon! And yet her demonic power is pushing her spiritual powers to new heights."

Sesshomaru runs towards Inumaru and punches him in the face again! This time Inumaru recovers from the attack and tries to hit Sesshomaru with his claw, but Sesshomaru dodges and back smacks Inumaru sending him flying into a tree hard.

"Inumaru you have to stop getting hit like that! This demon is fast so we have to figure out a way to slow him down." Inuyame says to her brother, but he wipes the blood from his mouth and smirks.

"Shut up Inuyame I will handle him myself! Iron Claws" Inumaru runs towards Sesshomaru and begins slashing away, Sesshomaru dodges every attack, and then grabs Inumaru by the arm.

"You are a fool! You should listen to your sister!" Sesshomaru's claw begins to turn green and his poison begins to burn off the skin of Inumaru.

"AAAHH! What the hell are you doing!" Inumaru arm begins to bleed and Sesshomaru burns him even more with his poison.

Inuyame begins to think about the fight Inumaru has with the demon and it hits her that maybe her brother can use his acid to counter this demon's poison. But at the same time she did not want to alert the demon of the attack, so she was hoping her brother would figure it out on his own soon, or his arm would be burnt off!

"I don't know how you can possible be the son of Inuyasha! Even though he is a half-breed too; he was a much better opponent than you! I will crush you for your weakness! Half-breeds don't deserve to live!"

Inumaru smirks and looks directly at Sesshomaru...

"You know for someone that is trying to teach us a lesson in battle, you talk to damn much! I know one thing you should never give your opponent an opportunity to attack you while you are talking!" Inumaru says and his arm begins to glow red and it explodes with acid flowing from it.

Sesshomaru moves out the way from the spraying acid, but holds fast to Inumaru's arm. Sesshomaru is trying to burn Inumaru with his poison, but Inumaru is no longer burning.

"You think this is over well you are wrong demon! Acid bloodstream!" Inumaru screams.

Inumaru sends a stream of acid towards Sesshomaru and it gets on his armor and begins to burn it. Sesshomaru is surprised, but is unable to respond as Inumaru swiftly begins shooting streams of blood towards him that burns the ground around it. Inumaru gets a burst of speed and one of the blood streams was able to slice into Sesshomaru's face causing a burn on his right cheek.

"Lord Sesshomaru that boy burned your face allow me to punish him!" Jaken asks.

Sesshomaru stunned that the boy was able to withstand his poison and land an attack on him. Still focused though he nods at Jaken and allows him to enter the battle.

"Now for your insolence boy you will be punished!" Jaken says and points the staff of heads towards the boy and a burst of fire springs forth from the mouth of the man on the staff.

Inumaru dodges the rapidly approaching flame and goes in to attack Jaken with his razor sharp claws, but Jaken swings the staff and blocks Inumaru claws. Then Jaken trips him up with the staff and then hits Inumaru in the stomach with the staff and slams him to the ground. Inuyame doesn't waste time and sends her spiritual arrows towards Jaken who dodges them. Inuyame sends three more of her arrows towards the small demon, but Jaken spins the staff around and uses the woman on the staff to dissipate the arrows with the beam from the woman's mouth.

"Ha Ha! I the servant of the great Sesshomaru is stronger than the children on Inuyasha!" Jaken says this but misses the foot of Inumaru coming towards him. Jaken goes flying into the air! While Inuyame and Inumaru looks on trying to see how far he is going to go.

Sesshomaru wastes no time and runs so fast that Inumaru does not have time to react and finds Sesshomaru has punched him hard in his stomach.

"Next lesson always keep focus on your opponents. Everyone on the battlefield you need to be aware of especially your enemy." Sesshomaru says and begins to pummel Inumaru with a barrage of punches. The young Inu-teen is fighting to stay conscious.

Inuyame becomes angered and her claws begin to glow with blue/white spiritual energy.

"I normally don't use my demonic powers because I am not really that good with my demon powers, but no one beats up the bratty puppy brother of mine, but me. Claws of purification!" (Inuyame's claws are covered in purification energy, with allows her to do damage to anyone, but really burns demons to the core, if powered up it could even purify a demon!)

Inuyame runs towards Sesshomaru and slashes at him with her claws. Of course Sesshomaru dodges and grabs Inuyame's hand.

"Girl you think this small amount of demonic power can stop me! You are just as stupid human as your half-breed brother." Sesshomaru says, but then notices that his hand is burning!

Inuyame sees that the demon is distracted and grabs his arm with her other hand.

"The little green creep called you Sesshomaru. Then you must be the Lord of the Western Lands. And if you are him then you are our uncle and it explains why you haven't killed us. Unckie Sessho that would explain why a demon with such great power was toying with us." Inuyame says as she begins burning off the skin of her uncle with her purified claws.

Sesshomaru angered that this human girl has appeared to have bested him. Explodes in a wave of demonic aura sending the girl flying backwards. Inuyame lands on her back hard next to her brother.

"You remind me so much of your mother. A human to smart and too brave for her own good. I am intrigued though that you are much stronger than your brother; though you don't realize it yet. You are basically a human; aside from the small portion of demonic blood from my father flowing in you. You have claws and fangs, but you can retract them at will. You look human and you don't exude a demonic aura. But even still you are quite powerful. Even your spiritual powers are enough to do damage to me." Sesshomaru states as he turns around to walk away.

"Wait Sesshomaru, why did you do this? What was the point of you exposing our weaknesses. Teaching us lessons about battle? This doesn't sound like the Sesshomaru my father has told me about!" Inuyame states.

"You know that boy reminds me of his father. I knew that once he heard of the tournament he would make his way there to fight in it. I also knew that like his father he would rush into battle unprepared and very stupidly. In other words he would be beaten. Half-breeds are always trying to prove themselves; even if it may cost them their lives, but I since something is going wrong and you two are the center of it all. In other words this Sesshomaru needs to let these events play out and it can only be done if you two are unfolding the events. As for my behavior, I have a few people; including your father to blame for that, because it is true I would have killed you other wise. Oh and Inuyame I think that you should join the tournament as well." Sesshomaru says as he rises on his cloud and disappears in the air.

"Lord Sesshomaru wait for me!" Jaken screams as he runs after Sesshomaru.

Inuyame looks up at Sesshomaru and then looks down at her unconscious brother and thinks that she will enter the tournament as well.

Chapter to be continued...

A/N: Guys I wanted to finish this chapter in one sitting, but I am to excited to get this chapter updated. So I will continue the story as Chapter 9 Part II: The Great Tournament and The Strength Dagger.

And plus I am tired. So look guys please read and review. And let me know if you want me to continue, so suggestions on making the story better or anything. Just please review and give feedback. Feedback is so important.

Also Sesshomaru will not be to interested in the items except for one of them which would challenge his power, and he doesn't want to control Inuyame's powers, but help them grow. Yeah this Sesshomaru has a small heart. Just a small one.

Also please read my other two storys: Demon Origin and My Brother's Keeper: Sesshomaru and Inuyasha. Read and Review please.