Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.
In the Beginning
By Angel Kamiya

Chapter 21

Inuyasha knew that they were close. He could smell the scent of another dog demon nearby. Narrowing his eyes, he started running faster. He could hear the clanging of swords as people fought in the distance. Inuyasha leaped over the wall and landed inside the place that was his next battleground. After putting Kagome down, he pulled out the Tessaiga and ran to where Sesshomaru and Kagura were at.

At that moment he saw Sesshomaru's mother for the first time. At first he couldn't believe what he was actually seeing, a female dog demon.

He had not believed that she had really existed until that moment.

The mother looked very young, and more like Sesshomaru's sister than mother

"So you're still alive, Sesshomaru? I can't say that I'm surprised," Inuyasha uttered.

"Inuyasha! You... you're here," Kagura said, surprised.

"We would have come sooner if Inuyasha hadn't made things so difficult!" Kagome interrupted, shaking her head in embarrassment.

"What does Kagome mean by that?" Kagura asked suspiciously.

"I'm here, damn it! Isn't that all that matters?" he growled, shaking his head.

"I don't need your help," Sesshomaru interrupted, stepped over to Inuyasha.

"Shut up! I'm don't care if you want my help or not. If you and Kagura die then I'll never hear the end of it from Kagome!"

"Why do you always making me out to be the nagging wife?!" Kagome screamed, loudly.

Jaken sighed.

"Do you two do anything besides argue?" the imp whispered, rolling his eyes.

Sesshomaru's mother lunged towards Sesshomaru to cut him to pieces with the sword that she held, but he was able to get up Tenseiga in time and parry the attack.

Sesshomaru turned to his right and saw Inuyasha jump up and swung the Tessaiga at the attacker. Instead of hitting anyone, she was able to move out of the way.

"Wind Scar!" Inuyasha yelled.

The Tessaiga hit the ground, sending a powerful wave of energy forward.

The lady jumped and evaded the attack. As she floated over them, she glanced around and saw the new people that had arrived onto the scene. They wouldn't be a problem for her.

While running towards his opponent, Inuyasha jumped and tried to stop her without killing her. He wanted to end this quickly. He was just about to reach her when she backed away a little and ripped at him with her claws. Inuyasha got up the sword in time to block the attack, which felt like a large boulder smashing against the blade. His arms hurt from impact.

Sesshomaru thought about what he needed to do.

"What are you doing?" Kagura yelled, turning to Sesshomaru. "Stop trying to protect me! You can't win this fight if you can't concentrate solely on your mother!"

"You might die..." Sesshomaru muttered.

"We will die if you don't find a way to stop your mother! Now help Inuyasha!"

Sesshomaru didn't say a word. Instead he flew to where the battle was taking place.

...

Jaken stared at the sky at the three dog demons that were fighting. What was he going to do now? There was no way he could actually save his master from the mother! The only person that they could depend on now was Inuyasha.

He turned and saw that Kagome was still holding the bow. She was trying to be accurate for once!

"What are you waiting for?" Jaken demanded. "Shoot!"

"I can't!"

"What do you mean you can't?" Jaken yelled, jumping.

"I don't want to miss."

"You have to take the shot. I know that it is horrible that you must kill Lord Sesshomaru's mother, but you have no choice. My master's life is on the line."

"Be quiet, Jaken!" Kagome yelled, glaring at him. "Interrupt me one more time and I'll shoot this arrow at you!"

Jaken yelp in terror and ran to hide behind a large rock. He wasn't going to die that day. Not like that.

Jaken stared at Kagura. All of their problems were because of her! He hated how all the demons had started attacking them because of the wind sorceress, but what could he do? His master had decided to protect Kagura.

He grumbled while trying to find a way to help his master.

...

Sesshomaru was watching his mother carefully, trying to come up with a plan to take her down.

"You take her on the left, I'll take her on the right," Sesshomaru ordered.

"Wait! What?" Inuyasha yelled, not believing Sesshomaru had some kind of plan.

There was a flash of movement as Sesshomaru made his way around his mother. He had to do this fast.

Inuyasha started moving quickly, jumping over the buildings of the castle, towards the woman floating there. They were going try attacking the women from two different sides.

The closer that he got, the more that he began to realize that something was wrong. Why wasn't she moving? The mother was acting like she knew what they were going to do, but she was doing nothing to get herself to safety.

Inuyasha clenched his teeth as he jumped at her.

"Adamant Barrage!"

Diamond spears shot forth. The mother knocked the spears away with the sword, just as Sesshomaru appeared from out of nowhere behind her. Sesshomaru swung the Tenseiga hard and knocked the Bakusaiga away from his mother's hand, and went to take his mother by the neck with his left hand, intending to restrain her.

At the very last moment she stopping him by grasping his left wrist and grabbing Tenseiga's blade.

The two floated there for a moment.

The mother reached forth and snapped Tenseiga in half with her hand and drove her claws hard into Sesshomaru's chest. Sesshomaru felt a staggering pain below his right shoulder. When she pulled her bloody hands away, he felt himself falling.

"SESSHOMARU!" Inuyasha yelled, in horror

...

Not knowing what he was going to do now, Inuyasha made one last attempt to end the fight. He flung himself at the mother, but she grabbed him in the neck before he could get to her. As he felt his throat being squeezed, he suddenly felt her gasp like she had been struck.

Inuyasha pulled himself away and saw that the mother had been hit in the back by an arrow. Kagome must have finally attacked when she had gotten the opportunity.

As they fell, Inuyasha made sure to catch the mother. The woman was now unconscious.

...

Kagome couldn't believe her arrow had hit her mark! She was happy about that, but also very worried about her brother-in-law. It looked like Sesshomaru had been badly injured in the fight.

When she was about to run to where her friends were, she felt someone grabbing her arm. Someone put a hand over her mouth before Kagome could scream for help.

After Inuyasha finally landed, he started searching for Kagome. She had been standing there one minute and then she was gone.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled, putting the mother down onto the ground. "Kagome! Where are you?"

Inuyasha knew that the arrow had been a sealing arrow, exactly like the one Kikyo used on you to pin him to the tree. It was important to Kagome that didn't hurt Sesshomaru's mother

"Kagome!"

After looking around, Inuyasha finally found Jaken lying there on the ground under the tree.

"Where is she?" Inuyasha demanded, grabbing the imp.

"Another demon took Kagome right after she fired the arrow! I couldn't stop him!" Jaken said, loudly.

Kagome had been taken.

At that moment Inuyasha badly wanted to go after the person that had taken the one he loved. The two of them quickly rushed over to Kagura and Sesshomaru first. Kagura was kneeling there beside the dog demon, still holding him in her arms like he was a child.

"How is he?" Inuyasha asked, putting hand gently on Kagura's shoulder.

"Sesshomaru's dead," Kagura uttered, tears in her eyes.

...

A/N: I hope you liked this chapter! Please Review!

Is Sesshomaru really dead? What will Kagura do now?

Ria Everwood: Kagura can be very sweet, when she isn't trying to always be tough.

DinosaursgoRawr101: Yeah, Jaken is right! Kagome is scary.

Drakthul: Naraku with a frying pan would scare me. I'd be thinking that he was trying to eat me.

Keeper: Yeah, some things never change.

nequam-tenshi; Where is Rin? Probably hanging out with Kohaku in Inuyasha's village. I'm probably going to bring her back in a later chapter.