Hey all you reviewers, thanks for reviewing! ^__^ Well here's another chapter. Hope you enjoy.

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Chapter 7: Identity Revealed in the Heat of Battle

"Grr." the man glared at Sesshoumaru. He then snapped his fingers and over 20 assassins appeared, surrounding Sesshoumaru. They began to attack him while the masked man watched and laughed.
Sesshoumaru pulled out his whip and started hitting them back. He destroyed some of them but suffered some injures in the process. He was bleeding from scores of places where chains ad swords had hit him.
"My turn," the masked man said and the remaining assassins jumped out of the way.

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Akeena slowly came to.
"Bree?" she called sitting up. Bree purred and nuzzled Akeena's head making her smile. Akeena painfully got to her feet and saw Sesshoumaru get thrown to the ground. He was covered with blood from scores of serious wounds.
"It's time to finish you off then the wench," the masked man pointing his sword at Sesshoumaru.
"NO!!" Akeena shouted and ran in front of him, Bree right beside her roaring. Akeena was clutching her ribs in pain.
"Akeena your ribs," Sesshoumaru said sitting up.
"They don't hurt," she lied quickly, despite the fact that she was holding them.
"Long time no see Akeena," the masked man said smirking.
"Marth," she said back while Bree growled menacingly. One of the remaining assassins lunged and attacked Akeena, making her jump out of the way. He attacked again and she dodged; he was slowly moving her away from Bree and Sesshoumaru. Another assassin attacked Bree making her jump out of the way. Marth seeing both out of the way turned his attention back to Sesshoumaru. He redrew his sword and lunged at Sesshoumaru.
"NO! Sesshoumaru!" Akeena screamed as the blade pierced through his stomach. It would have hit his chest but he tried to dodge.
"You will pay for hurting him. You will pay dearly," Akeena growled dangerously. She started to glow gold and gold energy burst from her changing her into a youkai of the dog variety. Her eyes turned gold to match her still gold hair, her nails turned into claws, her teeth into fangs, her ears turned elfish looking (A/N: like sess's) and two marks appeared under her left eye, one was black while the other was red.
Sesshoumaru opened his eyes seeing Akeena change. That's the same energy and smell I sensed when we fought that plant demon. So it was her he thought before passing out. Akeena growled menacingly and with one swipe from her clawed hand killed the assassin that had attacked her.
"Bree, take care of the others," she commanded and Bree changed her form. Her claws grew longer, two saber-like teeth came down on either side over jaws, huge black wings appeared on her back, and she grew slightly bigger. Bree roared and attacked the remaining assassins.
"Your mine Marth. You will pay for hurting him," Akeena growled and started to advance on him. She lunged and slashed him across his chest.
Sesshoumaru opened his eyes again and saw Bree's new form. He then changed his gaze to Akeena who was attacking Marth. Her personality has changed. Instead of happy-don't really care, she's cold and merciless he thought Yeah, but she's also really angry. That's why she seems different a voice in his head told him. Akeena was about o finish Marth off when,
"Akeena-chan, Sesshoumaru-sama!" Rin shouted as she walked on to the battlefield.
"Akeena-chan what happened to you? You look different," Rin asked looking at Akeena's new form. Marth took the opportunity to escape Akeena's grasp and dart towards Rin, grabbing her.
"You baka, Akeena. You're so careless, so easily distracted. You've softened since you left," Marth said evilly. Sesshoumaru tried to get up but couldn't move, he felt so helpless and he didn't like it one bit.
"Marth leave Rin be," Akeena growled menacingly. He laughed.
"Bree get him," Akeena yelled as Bree lunged at Marth from behind. Marth dodged and laughed.
"Fine if you want your daughter go catch her," he said and threw Rin high in to the air. Rin screamed.
"You bastard," she growled and darted towards Rin. Sesshoumaru watched in horror as Rin fell through the air; he didn't even notice Akeena jump for her as he passed out again because of blood loss. Akeena caught Rin and landed on her feet. When she looked around for Marth he was gone.
"Damn. That bastard got away. He'll pay dearly next time," Akeena growled, still holding Rin in her arms.
"Akeena-chan are you mad at Rin for making you lose your battle?" Rin asked timidly as Bree walked up to Akeena.
"Of course not. I could never be mad at you," Akeena said softly making Rin smile.
"Come on Bree, help me carry Sesshoumaru," Akeena said walking over to him. She had forgotten about her ribs.
"Okay Rin, hold onto Bree's neck; you'll be safe," she said placing Rin on Bree's back. Akeena turned and bent down next to Sesshoumaru. He was bleeding severely. She pulled him to his feet and pulled him onto Bree's back, then she climbed on.
She held onto Sesshoumaru (his back was in her lap) so that he wouldn't fall off as Bree took off towards the castle. What is that smell? It smells rather nice Sesshoumaru thought painfully inhaling Akeena's scent; his eyes were still closed tightly.
Once inside Akeena handed Rin to the servants telling them to take care of her. Akeena then took Sesshoumaru to his room, with the help of Bree. She laid him down on his bed and proceeded to take his kimono off, revealing a severely wounded back, chest and arms. She carefully cleaned and bandaged them.

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