Chapter Two: A New Arm

"Stop it!" she yelled, "You're both brothers, grow up the pair of you, and start acting like it. Plus you're disturbing my long earned rest."

Inuyasha jumped up, anger etched on his face, "Who the hell do u think you are?!" he spat, "Hitting people you don't know and sticking your nose in where it ain't wanted?!" He yelled waving Tessaiga in the woman's face.

"How dare you strike Sesshomaru-sama?!" Jaken waddled over standing between a shocked Sesshomaru and the strange woman.

Ignoring the hanyou, she spun and dropped to the floor in a stoop, looking Jaken straight in the eyes. Unease crept through Jaken slowly as she held him in her gaze. Then she was gone.

She'd jumped into the air, avoiding Sesshomaru's EnergyWhip, flipping to the side. The EnergyWhip crashed into the ground, with a flick of his wrist Sesshomaru changed its course lashing out for her neck. She intercepted the attack with her hand, the EnergyWhip wrapping around it. Jaken took this opportunity to make his exit and ran back to the trees lining the clearing.

"You will regret striking this Sesshomaru" he hissed through clenched teeth.

"And I'm gonna kick the crap outa' ya" somewhat pissed for being ignored by her.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled "Just leave it alone, we have to go find the rest of the shards. We don't have time for you to be playing with your brother. She's done what someone should have done a long time ago!"

"You should listen to your girlfriend, she's speaking sense" the woman replied.

"She is NOT my girlfriend!" Inuyasha screamed at the woman.

"Oh? Is that why both of you are blushing?"

"Inuyasha" an emotionless voice rang in the clearing, "This woman is my prey, don't get involved" Sesshomaru order.

"Feh! Since when have I listened to you?" the hanyou retorted.

The woman smiled "So you two can work together. In a manner of speaking anyways" clipping the EnergyWhip with her free hand, breaking Sesshomaru's hold on her. The smile never leaving her lips "Then." lowering herself into a fighting stance, "Let the battle commence"

Both jumped at her with a flurry of slashes, each going for a vital stop. She dodged and ducked, neither landing a blow. She caught Sesshomaru's sword between her hands, ready to wrench it out of his grasp with the momentum or her side.

Inuyasha took this opportunity to finish both the woman and Sesshomaru with Tessaiga. He jumped back raising his sword.

"Kaze no Kizu!"

Everything slowed down, her eyes widening as a yellow wave of energy roared towards her. She released Sesshomaru's sword and kicked him in the chest, using this push to force them both apart enough so that the energy wave missed. She misjudged the distance barely escaping to have her top torn to shreds, revealing her naked chest. Her hand shot up to cover herself and save some of what was left of her dignity as she fell into a stoop, turning her back on Inuyasha.

"Feh! Stupid woman, you shouldn't pick fights with men or people stronger than you" said the now amused hanyou.

'Damn it! Not now!' were her only thoughts.

Sesshomaru watched as her eyes changed colour from turquoise to red and the markings on her forehead changed from green to red (dots) and black (lines). Black and red liquid surrounded her then leapt at her body, clinging to it covering her in a skin tight cat suit. Her head dropped as she slowly stood and faced Inuyasha, with a grimace that showed too many teeth. A strange sound started to emanate from her lips. Laughter.

"Something's happened" Kagome whispered "The air, it's changed" she said louder, the group taking notice of her now. "Inuyasha! Run! Get away from there!" she screamed. He looked towards her puzzled.

"So" she finished laughing, Inuyasha returned his attention to the strange woman noticing the change of her appearance for the first time. "You think I'm weak, just because I'm a woman?" laughter again. Abruptly the laughter stopped "You don't know how wrong you are little man. I'm going to enjoy crushing you"

A grin broke onto her face as her hands started to glow white. She disappeared. Red eyes piercing gold ones. Inuyasha felt his feet leave the floor as her fist connected with his jaw in an upper cut. She followed his flight with a jump and began to strike at him with her fists. She struck him with her foot sending him at high speeds crashing into the ground.

She slowly floated to the ground. And stood a goodly distance from the crater she'd made with Inuyasha. She stood there with no expression on her face, waiting for the hanyou.

"Inuyasha! INUYASHA!" wailed Kagome as she ran towards him

"Kagome! Stay back!" he replied as the stood shaking from the battering he'd just received. 'I got to think of something, before I get killed, that bastard Sesshomaru ain't gonna start helping me anytime soon. Think Inuyasha! Think!'

But it was too late; the woman had closed the distance. She stood in front of him her head next to his and her hand clawed and pressed against his stomach. "Don't get up" he'd heard her at the same time as he felt his stomach being crushed.

He screamed and she smiled. She turned her hand and blasted him into the forest, where his screams grew more distant.

Sesshomaru had been watching it all with a growing grimace on his face. 'She moved to fast for even my eyes, this may prove difficult'.

She was breathing hard, her hands grasping the air as though she was losing control. She grabbed her head shaking it from side to side. She then punched herself in the face and visibly relaxed.

Kagome took this as her chance and shot as arrow at the woman.

"Hiraikotsu!" Sango had also seen the opening. Both watched as she caught the purifying arrow flipped it and stopped the huge bone boomerang with its head. The woman hand dropped to her side with the arrow held in her fist, her other hand holding her face. The red and black liquids slid off her body, seeping into the ground, leaving behind her tattered clothes. The front of her top was totally torn away showing her breasts and a fresh and very ugly looking scar running diagonally between them.

"Why are you attacking me?" she asked through her hand.

"Why?!" Kagome blurted, "You just beat the living crap out of Inuyasha!"

"It's not like he's dead" the woman said as she turned around to face Sesshomaru.

Something caught Kagome's eye. That woman's shadow. was. moving, part of it broke off following the new path through the tree's Inuyasha made. Kagome didn't even think about what she was doing and ran after it, the gang not far behind her, trying to get to Inuyasha before it did.

'Damn it, I let it get the better of me, I wasn't meant to hurt him that bad. Now there's the problem of his brother who's obviously been watching. I have to find a way to disable him without hurting him and before I lose consciousness'

Just then a small child popped out of the bushes, "Found you SesshomaAhhh!" Rin exclaimed "Nami-san where's your clothes?"

The woman mouthed the child's name, and then shrugged at her question.

"Rin"

"Yes Sesshomaru-sama?"

"Stay where you are and don't move"

"But."

"Rin"

"Yes, Sesshomaru-sama"

'So he's the one then, one armed, seems like this is going to be easier than I thought'

Sesshomaru made his attack whilst the woman was distracted with the girls' antics. He ran and slashed with Toukijin, but the blade only met air. His eyes widened a fraction in shock, as he felt the air move next to him, 'How did she.' He couldn't move.

She grimaced, 'I don't know how long I'll be able to hold him, I should disarm him. though that won't help me much, but it will make me feel safer' she mused.

Holding his wrist she gingerly took Toukijin out of his hand, and replaced it at his waist. 'She wasn't blown back or taken over by the blade' His eyes followed her hands as she removed his armour and pulled back the top of his haori, giving her access to his arm stump. She walked in close, to close for his liking; a deep rumble began in his chest and left his mouth in a growl. She backed off some, an annoyed expression on her face. Her hands began to move for his face. Try as he might he still couldn't move. She pried his mouth open, and then started to look around. She looked him straight in the eyes and grimaced throwing her hands into the air. She closed his mouth on the flesh between her shoulder and her neck. One hand on his stump the other already clenched in a fist

"This is going to hurt the both of us" she whispered in his ear as white hot sheering pain shot up his stump. He bit into her flesh, breaking the skin, to stop from screaming in pain. The pain ebbed leaving behind a dull throb. She was panting in his ear. Her hold on him broke and he released her neck. He watched as she fell backwards holding where he'd bitten her.

"Stupid woman, you should have kept me bound" even as he said this, he careered towards the ground only to encounter flesh.

A muffled grunt escaped her as Sesshomaru's head connected with her stomach. She groaned trying to roll him off her, but she was too weak, so she settled with thumping him in the head. "Shut up, your in worse condition than me", he growled in response.

'Help me Jenova' were the woman's last thoughts before she succumbed to the darkness.

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