YAY! UPDATE!
Yes I threw in a kiss for all those people who are just starving for romance. Though it doesn't really mean anything until later on. What? Kikyo hasn't even been reborn yet. There can't be any serious romance yet!
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"Are you deaf human? I told you to give me that sword." Sesshomaru glared at her, his mask like face finally showing some of his anger. "It's not that difficult of a decision. Either you give it to me and live or I take it from you and you die."
"Or I give it to Inuyasha and he kicks your ass with it." Amber retorted. She'd had quite enough of this arrogant man.
"NO! Amber I don't need that sword. Just give it to him and get out of here." Inuyasha yelled at her, angry that she had suggested he had any need of Tetsusaiga.
"Shut up Inuyasha. You need all the help you can get, you can't even touch him and look at the pansy!" She ignored Jakens scandalized gasp and kicked away the piece of the staff of heads that lay by her feet.
"I'm telling you to just give him the damn sword." Inuyasha yelled, his handsome face streaked with sweat.
"And I'm ignoring you! What part of this are you having trouble understanding?" She turned back to the tall demon, Sesshomaru regarded her with his strange yellow eyes then faced his brother, a cruel smile on his lips.
"What is your fascination with these pathetic little creatures Inuyasha?" He asked. "Look at her, she's soft and weak as wet paper yet if I were to hurt her you'd try to kill me." His eyes gleamed, golden and bright under his white hair, the purple crescent on his brow dark and sinister against his pale skin.
"Does she remind you of your mother perhaps?"
Inuyasha's face darkened like the sky when a cloud passes over the sun. His eyes, two pools of molten gold shone with rage.
"Don't you DARE speak about my mother." He growled. "Amber is NOTHING like her do you hear me? NOTHING LIKE HER!"
Amber glared at him in rage. She still held Tetsusaiga in both hands, her brown eyes flashing with anger.
"Don't talk about his mother." She spat. Oh so valiant defending her little pet. "Don't you even fucking mention his mother."
"It is because of your mother our father finds himself like this." He ignored the angry human and gestured to the gigantic ribcage that formed Tetsusaiga's resting-place. "Perhaps this human will do the same to you." He smiled. "Can't have that now can we?"
He, his clothes billowing out around him as he pointed one long thin finger at her and a cloud of acid green fog shot towards the human girl. She ducked slamming her already damaged ribs against the hard skulls and the poison hit the wall, melting the giant bones like wet snow and pouring a deadly avalanche down on her. She struggled to get away, her hands skidding uselessly against the skulls. She ripped a nail from her finger and left a long trail of blood across the skulls as she struggled for a hold to push herself forwards. Her scream was cut short as the wave of green over took her.
"AMBER!" Inuyasha yelled. "NO! AMBER!"
"See what I mean?" Sesshomaru asked. "Your attachment to her makes you weak, like your attachment to your human mother made you weak. But no matter, you should be stronger now that BOTH of them are dead."
Inuyasha turned his back on the steaming puddle that had killed Amber Lote and attacked his brother, rage consuming him.
"SESSHOMARU!" He roared. "SHE WAS A GIRL! AN INNOCENT, HUMAN GIRL AND YOU MURDERED HER!"
"It was no less then she deserved." He replied. "She spoke as though she were walking with equals instead of beings a hundred times her better."
Skulls splintered under Inuyasha's ferocious attacks as Sesshomaru dodged and spun, slipping easily away. His feet were sure and nimble among the skulls and Inuyasha attacked again and again breaking anything his claws came in contact with.
"Give up Inuyasha." His brother laughed at him golden eyes flashing with cruel pleasure. "You are weak. You've always been weak, a hanyou can never hope to defeat a youkai like me. You're as soft and worthless as poor, pathetic Amber."
"INUYASHA!" The cry was angry and pained. For the third time that day all eyes turned to Amber as she struggled to free herself from the poisonous sludge that coated her. "YOU FUCK! WHY DIDN'T YOU SAVE ME?"
"What?" Inuyasha asked baffled. "How... why... what..."
"WHAT USE ARE YOU IF YOU CAN'T EVEN SAVE ME FROM THIS STUPID GIRLY MAN?" Amber roared, shaking the last bits of Sesshomaru's poison off her. "I'd be better off with a kitten protecting me." She muttered.
"HEY!" Inuyasha roared back. "WHY AREN'T YOU DEAD?"
"I suppose I should have known Tetsusaiga's magic would defend her." Sesshomaru muttered. "It has powerful warding magic Inuyasha, it would be child's play for a blade that magnificent to shield that tiny human."
"Here take this damn thing." Amber cursed running over to him. She slipped on a skull and Inuyasha caught her, staring at her confused.
"Are you going to take the stupid thing or am * I * going to have to kick your brothers ass with it?" Amber snarled pulling herself out of his arms.
Sesshomaru chuckled deep in his throat. "You? You couldn't even scratch my armor." He laughed again, a cold sound with no trace of mirth. His eyes had changed, no longer golden but scarlet and burning. The red flame of his glare rested in his adversaries and his hair fanned out lining his slender body in a silver cloak as he grew in size.
Even as they watched his face lengthened and became dark and canine, in seconds he was fifty times Amber's size and walking on four legs the size of tree trunks, sprouting soft silver hair all over his body, growling like an animal. Great white fangs lined his canine jaws huge and jagged, dripping saliva that burned holes through the domes of the skulls underfoot. Amber gasped and forced the sword into Inuyasha's hand.
"Well shit." She swore as the enormous dog towered over them, red eyes flashing with mocking fire.
"Any time you'd feel like killing the bastard would be fine with me!" Amber yelled. She groped for a second on her shoulder and pulled Myouga from where he was hiding behind her right ear.
Sesshomaru glared at them, his red eyes spitting sparks of crimson fire. He opened his mouth, his long three tipped tongue slippery with his venomous saliva, and breathed a long pillar of green fog at his brother. Inuyasha dodged and the wall behind him melted into water, letting the sun beyond peek through.
"Damn it, damn it, damn it." Amber cursed as the deadly fumes snaked across the field of skulls.
"AMBER GET TO HIGH GROUND!" Inuyasha yelled from where he was perched on one of the ribs, above his brothers' head.
"What about you?" Amber yelled back as she began to climb. Her side was on fire below her right breast, long tendrils of white-hot agony searing through her as she struggled up the ribs.
"I'll be fine! " He replied. "Just get out!"
"God damn him!" Amber cursed to herself as she struggled. "Stupid men, always got to play the fucking hero."
The going was hard and painful, and she could hear the crashing and sounds of breaking bones below her. She pulled herself up the tenth rib, right below the enormous staircase of the throat and looked down. The bottom of the ribcage was a huge mat of green fog, she could see the small quick form of Inuyasha, jumping around his lumbering brother with the Tetsusaiga in one hand.
"He won't survive in that fog much longer!" Myouga squeaked from her shoulder. "Even Sesshomaru can't last long in that kind of poison."
As they spoke Inuyasha came leaping up the ribs, his sleeve covering his mouth and nose. He was coughing as he landed next to Amber and tried to help her up.
"NO Inuyasha you god damn fool! Get up into the open air and..." She never finished her orders. At that moment Sesshomaru was there, clamping his jagged teeth around his brothers small body and pulling him up through the mouth of the skeleton.
"INUYASHA! NO INUYASHA!" Amber screamed, her fingers scrapping against the bones as she struggled to climb faster, the pain in her side slowed her to a crawl.
Somewhere above her Inuyasha screamed.
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Sesshomaru shook his head and Inuyasha felt the burst of sun on his face as they emerged from their fathers' mouth. Tetsusaiga was useless in his hand as the gigantic canine ran across the white bone of his fathers nose, he could smell the acidic smell of poison and feel the sharp grating of his bones as Sesshomaru shook him like a rag doll.
Where was Amber?
Was she back in the throat of the skeleton? Was she safe? Had she been knocked down when Sesshomaru had snatched him away? Down into the billowing clouds of poison gas that would kill her in seconds?
He struggled, punching at the teeth that held him and ripping at the gums and lips around him. Nothing worked, Tetsusaiga would not cut and Inuyasha could feel his brothers' glee as he tried to free himself. In instants he would crush him, and then poison him and there would be no way to find out what happened to Amber.
He twisted and saw Sesshomaru's huge red eye, slanted and evil the color of blood. There was no way to reach it. Unless...
Tetsusaiga plunged easily into the eye and Sesshomaru howled in pain and spat his brother onto the skull. Inuyasha was up in seconds as Sesshomaru shook his head, the air was thick with drops of his black blood. He shook himself and glared at his half human brother, a trickle of blood running through the rich silver fall of his fur.
"AMBER!" Inuyasha called. She was there, clambering up the side of the skull, her nail-less finger leaving angry smears of blood against the pristine white.
Sweat poured down her face and into her squinting eyes, a wide purple bruise was rising on her cheek among many scratched that bled and stung. She pulled herself over the edge, breathing explosively and staggered to her feet cupping her side where she'd hurt her ribs. She did not speak, she doubted that after all this she could muster the strength to say his name but lifted her hand and threw a tiny form towards him.
"Myouga?" He asked as he caught the flea.
"Lord Inuyasha, I'm afraid Lady Amber is in great pain." The flea squeaked leaping up on Inuyasha's shoulder.
She stood and pointed weakly to Sesshomaru.
"For the love... of god... KILL... him." She gasped.
Sesshomaru turned back, his blood smeared all across his nose and down his cheek, matting his phenomenal fur. He growled deep in his throat and Inuyasha held the Tetsusaiga in one hand.
"Damn it Myouga this sword doesn't DO anything." He snarled, remembering his brief stay in Sesshomaru's mouth. "It couldn't even cut grass!"
Myouga looked up at his lord nervously and ran a hand across his shiny bald head. "Uh well I..." He began shifting from foot to foot.
He didn't get to finish. Enraged Sesshomaru attacked, his lethal jaws snapping at Inuyasha's head and shoulders. The hanyou dodged and knocked the flea from his shoulder as he flipped across the broad field of the skull.
Sesshomaru attacked again, chips of bone flying everywhere as he lunged and snapped and clawed his eyes flashing with fury. His brother dodged each blow but he was tired and the attacks were far too close for comfort.
"Amber." He gasped as he landed. "I don't know how long I'll be able to keep this up."
"OH COME ON!" She yelled at him still panting. "If I can climb... that high then you... can kill this girl."
"Well even if I can't I haven't got anything to worry about! I'll survive, you haven't got a chance." He regretted saying that as the anger melted away from her face for a split second. Only a split second, for a moment she looked pale and scared the next she was a raging ball of fire.
"WHAT?!" She screamed.
"What are you getting mad at me for?" Inuyasha asked angrily.
"Well what do you expect from me Inuyasha? Do you want me to sing and dance around you in happy little circles perhaps?" She asked. Sesshomaru was watching his brother through his red eyes well aware of the situation unfolding before him. He was taking pleasure in her fear.
"No, I want you to SHUT UP AND LET ME PROTECT YOU!" He yelled back.
She glared at him for a moment and then bit her lip thinking about something. Inuyasha glared at her angrily waiting for her next snappy insult or filthy swear. She looked unsure for a moment and then she did the most unexpected thing she ever could have done. Inuyasha staggered back and looked at her blinking dully.
"What the hell was that about?" He squeaked.
"What you think I'd let myself die without my first sober kiss?" Amber asked, pulling away from him. "Now get out there and kick his ass." She gave him a little push blushing.
"Amber I..." He stuttered.
She cut him off briskly. "Listen don't get yourself worked up." She said shortly. "It was you or Myouga now hurry up, I want to put something cold on this." She touched her tender ribs with one hand.
He did turn, back to his brother who was growling deep in his throat. Tetsusaiga was light and worthless in one hand but he couldn't just walk away from her. He couldn't let Sesshomaru kill her without a fight.
At that thought he felt it. It was faint at first, so faint he ignored it but as the tremors rose through his hand making his very bones vibrate he looked down at the blade in his hand. Again it pulsed as though, encased in its chipped metal blade, a great heart was beating.
"What in the hell?" He asked himself quietly.
Tetsusaiga pulsed and as the tremor faded away the blade began to glow. Bright as white fire it blazed the leather of its handle cool and firm in his hand. The sword was composed of pure light as it grew and changed, the blade extending at least six feet in length, wide as Inuyasha's arm was long with a handle of clean soft leather with the hilt covered in luxurious silver fur. Inuyasha looked on in wonder the sword light and beautiful in his hands.
"Lord Sesshomaru!" Amber glared down at the toad, its pointy hat barely reached her hip and she frowned darkly as it hopped from foot to foot gripping the two pieces of the staff of heads. "Kill him!"
"Listen you slimy little freak." Amber snarled plucking him off the skull. "You need to shut up, or I'll throw you off this skeleton." She dangled him above the miles of empty air between him and the ground.
Jaken said nothing merely gazed at her with his huge yellow eyes shining in fear. He did not move at all as Inuyasha turned on his brother, the Tetsusaiga glowing with unearthly light.
"Time to die." He snarled, and leapt.
The blade was no heavier then the beaten up katana it had once been. Inuyasha sailed through the air, the sun shining off his blades' razor edge pink and golden sparkling like captured magic. It bit into his brothers' flesh fluidly, the sweep of Inuyasha's arm slicing through muscle, tendon and bone almost carelessly. A fountain of black blood surged forth splattering across the white, weather worn bone of the skull they stood on.
Sesshomaru howled in agony and slumped his lost leg flying away beyond the skull. His thick dark blood dripped from the severed stump of his arm and the dog glared at his two adversaries, his wounded eye crying tears of blood to mingle with the waterfall leaking from his leg.
"Want another try?" Inuyasha asked morbidly, brandishing the blood-smeared sword. Sesshomaru glared at his little brother and his crimson eyes snapped with scarlet flame.
He turned and ruffled his fur, sticky with blood and gore, flicked his long tail before leaping beyond the skeleton into the cast realm of trees and hills beyond.
"Take your toad with you!" Amber yelled hurling her captive after him. As Jaken disappeared over the edge of the skull Amber turned back to Inuyasha and the Tetsusaiga.
"Wow." She allowed herself as Inuyasha sheathed his sword. It was a katana again, battered and worthless.
"You okay?" He asked wiping a long trickle of sweat of his face.
"Yeah. I'm fine." Amber replied biting back a sarcastic comment about her painful ribs. Her hand cupped her side gently as she hobbled over to him. They stood in silence for a long moment.
"Thanks." She wasn't sure if he'd heard her or not, if he had he made no sign. The silence stretched on for another long second.
"Lord Inuyasha!" The cry came from the flea perched atop the giant skeletal bird that landed beside them. "Look what I have found! We can use it to get home."
Inuyasha turned to the flea and then back to Amber. She was smiling for the first time in a long time, her battered face suddenly brilliant and pretty behind the scratches and bruises.
"Home." She mumbled.
Inuyasha slung an arm around her waist as she began to limp towards the bird. She leaned heavily on him wincing at the pains of her own battles. The sun was setting at the edge of the world as the bird took flight with Amber Lote and Inuyasha on its back, far closer then before.
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Gah I go from a chapter I really liked to this!!! Eww!!! But I was trying to get this chappy out of the way for the next one. I'm skipping over the Toad who Would be Prince and going strait into the Shippo chapters which I think I'm going to shorten and combine into a long chapter like episodes 5 and 6.
Anywho, all of you must review, I shake my fist at you and all that and if anyone comments on that corny last phrase I'll take you off my worshipped reviewers list! Okay so I won't but I'll curse you quietly in my own pathetic little way.
Yes I threw in a kiss for all those people who are just starving for romance. Though it doesn't really mean anything until later on. What? Kikyo hasn't even been reborn yet. There can't be any serious romance yet!
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"Are you deaf human? I told you to give me that sword." Sesshomaru glared at her, his mask like face finally showing some of his anger. "It's not that difficult of a decision. Either you give it to me and live or I take it from you and you die."
"Or I give it to Inuyasha and he kicks your ass with it." Amber retorted. She'd had quite enough of this arrogant man.
"NO! Amber I don't need that sword. Just give it to him and get out of here." Inuyasha yelled at her, angry that she had suggested he had any need of Tetsusaiga.
"Shut up Inuyasha. You need all the help you can get, you can't even touch him and look at the pansy!" She ignored Jakens scandalized gasp and kicked away the piece of the staff of heads that lay by her feet.
"I'm telling you to just give him the damn sword." Inuyasha yelled, his handsome face streaked with sweat.
"And I'm ignoring you! What part of this are you having trouble understanding?" She turned back to the tall demon, Sesshomaru regarded her with his strange yellow eyes then faced his brother, a cruel smile on his lips.
"What is your fascination with these pathetic little creatures Inuyasha?" He asked. "Look at her, she's soft and weak as wet paper yet if I were to hurt her you'd try to kill me." His eyes gleamed, golden and bright under his white hair, the purple crescent on his brow dark and sinister against his pale skin.
"Does she remind you of your mother perhaps?"
Inuyasha's face darkened like the sky when a cloud passes over the sun. His eyes, two pools of molten gold shone with rage.
"Don't you DARE speak about my mother." He growled. "Amber is NOTHING like her do you hear me? NOTHING LIKE HER!"
Amber glared at him in rage. She still held Tetsusaiga in both hands, her brown eyes flashing with anger.
"Don't talk about his mother." She spat. Oh so valiant defending her little pet. "Don't you even fucking mention his mother."
"It is because of your mother our father finds himself like this." He ignored the angry human and gestured to the gigantic ribcage that formed Tetsusaiga's resting-place. "Perhaps this human will do the same to you." He smiled. "Can't have that now can we?"
He, his clothes billowing out around him as he pointed one long thin finger at her and a cloud of acid green fog shot towards the human girl. She ducked slamming her already damaged ribs against the hard skulls and the poison hit the wall, melting the giant bones like wet snow and pouring a deadly avalanche down on her. She struggled to get away, her hands skidding uselessly against the skulls. She ripped a nail from her finger and left a long trail of blood across the skulls as she struggled for a hold to push herself forwards. Her scream was cut short as the wave of green over took her.
"AMBER!" Inuyasha yelled. "NO! AMBER!"
"See what I mean?" Sesshomaru asked. "Your attachment to her makes you weak, like your attachment to your human mother made you weak. But no matter, you should be stronger now that BOTH of them are dead."
Inuyasha turned his back on the steaming puddle that had killed Amber Lote and attacked his brother, rage consuming him.
"SESSHOMARU!" He roared. "SHE WAS A GIRL! AN INNOCENT, HUMAN GIRL AND YOU MURDERED HER!"
"It was no less then she deserved." He replied. "She spoke as though she were walking with equals instead of beings a hundred times her better."
Skulls splintered under Inuyasha's ferocious attacks as Sesshomaru dodged and spun, slipping easily away. His feet were sure and nimble among the skulls and Inuyasha attacked again and again breaking anything his claws came in contact with.
"Give up Inuyasha." His brother laughed at him golden eyes flashing with cruel pleasure. "You are weak. You've always been weak, a hanyou can never hope to defeat a youkai like me. You're as soft and worthless as poor, pathetic Amber."
"INUYASHA!" The cry was angry and pained. For the third time that day all eyes turned to Amber as she struggled to free herself from the poisonous sludge that coated her. "YOU FUCK! WHY DIDN'T YOU SAVE ME?"
"What?" Inuyasha asked baffled. "How... why... what..."
"WHAT USE ARE YOU IF YOU CAN'T EVEN SAVE ME FROM THIS STUPID GIRLY MAN?" Amber roared, shaking the last bits of Sesshomaru's poison off her. "I'd be better off with a kitten protecting me." She muttered.
"HEY!" Inuyasha roared back. "WHY AREN'T YOU DEAD?"
"I suppose I should have known Tetsusaiga's magic would defend her." Sesshomaru muttered. "It has powerful warding magic Inuyasha, it would be child's play for a blade that magnificent to shield that tiny human."
"Here take this damn thing." Amber cursed running over to him. She slipped on a skull and Inuyasha caught her, staring at her confused.
"Are you going to take the stupid thing or am * I * going to have to kick your brothers ass with it?" Amber snarled pulling herself out of his arms.
Sesshomaru chuckled deep in his throat. "You? You couldn't even scratch my armor." He laughed again, a cold sound with no trace of mirth. His eyes had changed, no longer golden but scarlet and burning. The red flame of his glare rested in his adversaries and his hair fanned out lining his slender body in a silver cloak as he grew in size.
Even as they watched his face lengthened and became dark and canine, in seconds he was fifty times Amber's size and walking on four legs the size of tree trunks, sprouting soft silver hair all over his body, growling like an animal. Great white fangs lined his canine jaws huge and jagged, dripping saliva that burned holes through the domes of the skulls underfoot. Amber gasped and forced the sword into Inuyasha's hand.
"Well shit." She swore as the enormous dog towered over them, red eyes flashing with mocking fire.
"Any time you'd feel like killing the bastard would be fine with me!" Amber yelled. She groped for a second on her shoulder and pulled Myouga from where he was hiding behind her right ear.
Sesshomaru glared at them, his red eyes spitting sparks of crimson fire. He opened his mouth, his long three tipped tongue slippery with his venomous saliva, and breathed a long pillar of green fog at his brother. Inuyasha dodged and the wall behind him melted into water, letting the sun beyond peek through.
"Damn it, damn it, damn it." Amber cursed as the deadly fumes snaked across the field of skulls.
"AMBER GET TO HIGH GROUND!" Inuyasha yelled from where he was perched on one of the ribs, above his brothers' head.
"What about you?" Amber yelled back as she began to climb. Her side was on fire below her right breast, long tendrils of white-hot agony searing through her as she struggled up the ribs.
"I'll be fine! " He replied. "Just get out!"
"God damn him!" Amber cursed to herself as she struggled. "Stupid men, always got to play the fucking hero."
The going was hard and painful, and she could hear the crashing and sounds of breaking bones below her. She pulled herself up the tenth rib, right below the enormous staircase of the throat and looked down. The bottom of the ribcage was a huge mat of green fog, she could see the small quick form of Inuyasha, jumping around his lumbering brother with the Tetsusaiga in one hand.
"He won't survive in that fog much longer!" Myouga squeaked from her shoulder. "Even Sesshomaru can't last long in that kind of poison."
As they spoke Inuyasha came leaping up the ribs, his sleeve covering his mouth and nose. He was coughing as he landed next to Amber and tried to help her up.
"NO Inuyasha you god damn fool! Get up into the open air and..." She never finished her orders. At that moment Sesshomaru was there, clamping his jagged teeth around his brothers small body and pulling him up through the mouth of the skeleton.
"INUYASHA! NO INUYASHA!" Amber screamed, her fingers scrapping against the bones as she struggled to climb faster, the pain in her side slowed her to a crawl.
Somewhere above her Inuyasha screamed.
~IY~
Sesshomaru shook his head and Inuyasha felt the burst of sun on his face as they emerged from their fathers' mouth. Tetsusaiga was useless in his hand as the gigantic canine ran across the white bone of his fathers nose, he could smell the acidic smell of poison and feel the sharp grating of his bones as Sesshomaru shook him like a rag doll.
Where was Amber?
Was she back in the throat of the skeleton? Was she safe? Had she been knocked down when Sesshomaru had snatched him away? Down into the billowing clouds of poison gas that would kill her in seconds?
He struggled, punching at the teeth that held him and ripping at the gums and lips around him. Nothing worked, Tetsusaiga would not cut and Inuyasha could feel his brothers' glee as he tried to free himself. In instants he would crush him, and then poison him and there would be no way to find out what happened to Amber.
He twisted and saw Sesshomaru's huge red eye, slanted and evil the color of blood. There was no way to reach it. Unless...
Tetsusaiga plunged easily into the eye and Sesshomaru howled in pain and spat his brother onto the skull. Inuyasha was up in seconds as Sesshomaru shook his head, the air was thick with drops of his black blood. He shook himself and glared at his half human brother, a trickle of blood running through the rich silver fall of his fur.
"AMBER!" Inuyasha called. She was there, clambering up the side of the skull, her nail-less finger leaving angry smears of blood against the pristine white.
Sweat poured down her face and into her squinting eyes, a wide purple bruise was rising on her cheek among many scratched that bled and stung. She pulled herself over the edge, breathing explosively and staggered to her feet cupping her side where she'd hurt her ribs. She did not speak, she doubted that after all this she could muster the strength to say his name but lifted her hand and threw a tiny form towards him.
"Myouga?" He asked as he caught the flea.
"Lord Inuyasha, I'm afraid Lady Amber is in great pain." The flea squeaked leaping up on Inuyasha's shoulder.
She stood and pointed weakly to Sesshomaru.
"For the love... of god... KILL... him." She gasped.
Sesshomaru turned back, his blood smeared all across his nose and down his cheek, matting his phenomenal fur. He growled deep in his throat and Inuyasha held the Tetsusaiga in one hand.
"Damn it Myouga this sword doesn't DO anything." He snarled, remembering his brief stay in Sesshomaru's mouth. "It couldn't even cut grass!"
Myouga looked up at his lord nervously and ran a hand across his shiny bald head. "Uh well I..." He began shifting from foot to foot.
He didn't get to finish. Enraged Sesshomaru attacked, his lethal jaws snapping at Inuyasha's head and shoulders. The hanyou dodged and knocked the flea from his shoulder as he flipped across the broad field of the skull.
Sesshomaru attacked again, chips of bone flying everywhere as he lunged and snapped and clawed his eyes flashing with fury. His brother dodged each blow but he was tired and the attacks were far too close for comfort.
"Amber." He gasped as he landed. "I don't know how long I'll be able to keep this up."
"OH COME ON!" She yelled at him still panting. "If I can climb... that high then you... can kill this girl."
"Well even if I can't I haven't got anything to worry about! I'll survive, you haven't got a chance." He regretted saying that as the anger melted away from her face for a split second. Only a split second, for a moment she looked pale and scared the next she was a raging ball of fire.
"WHAT?!" She screamed.
"What are you getting mad at me for?" Inuyasha asked angrily.
"Well what do you expect from me Inuyasha? Do you want me to sing and dance around you in happy little circles perhaps?" She asked. Sesshomaru was watching his brother through his red eyes well aware of the situation unfolding before him. He was taking pleasure in her fear.
"No, I want you to SHUT UP AND LET ME PROTECT YOU!" He yelled back.
She glared at him for a moment and then bit her lip thinking about something. Inuyasha glared at her angrily waiting for her next snappy insult or filthy swear. She looked unsure for a moment and then she did the most unexpected thing she ever could have done. Inuyasha staggered back and looked at her blinking dully.
"What the hell was that about?" He squeaked.
"What you think I'd let myself die without my first sober kiss?" Amber asked, pulling away from him. "Now get out there and kick his ass." She gave him a little push blushing.
"Amber I..." He stuttered.
She cut him off briskly. "Listen don't get yourself worked up." She said shortly. "It was you or Myouga now hurry up, I want to put something cold on this." She touched her tender ribs with one hand.
He did turn, back to his brother who was growling deep in his throat. Tetsusaiga was light and worthless in one hand but he couldn't just walk away from her. He couldn't let Sesshomaru kill her without a fight.
At that thought he felt it. It was faint at first, so faint he ignored it but as the tremors rose through his hand making his very bones vibrate he looked down at the blade in his hand. Again it pulsed as though, encased in its chipped metal blade, a great heart was beating.
"What in the hell?" He asked himself quietly.
Tetsusaiga pulsed and as the tremor faded away the blade began to glow. Bright as white fire it blazed the leather of its handle cool and firm in his hand. The sword was composed of pure light as it grew and changed, the blade extending at least six feet in length, wide as Inuyasha's arm was long with a handle of clean soft leather with the hilt covered in luxurious silver fur. Inuyasha looked on in wonder the sword light and beautiful in his hands.
"Lord Sesshomaru!" Amber glared down at the toad, its pointy hat barely reached her hip and she frowned darkly as it hopped from foot to foot gripping the two pieces of the staff of heads. "Kill him!"
"Listen you slimy little freak." Amber snarled plucking him off the skull. "You need to shut up, or I'll throw you off this skeleton." She dangled him above the miles of empty air between him and the ground.
Jaken said nothing merely gazed at her with his huge yellow eyes shining in fear. He did not move at all as Inuyasha turned on his brother, the Tetsusaiga glowing with unearthly light.
"Time to die." He snarled, and leapt.
The blade was no heavier then the beaten up katana it had once been. Inuyasha sailed through the air, the sun shining off his blades' razor edge pink and golden sparkling like captured magic. It bit into his brothers' flesh fluidly, the sweep of Inuyasha's arm slicing through muscle, tendon and bone almost carelessly. A fountain of black blood surged forth splattering across the white, weather worn bone of the skull they stood on.
Sesshomaru howled in agony and slumped his lost leg flying away beyond the skull. His thick dark blood dripped from the severed stump of his arm and the dog glared at his two adversaries, his wounded eye crying tears of blood to mingle with the waterfall leaking from his leg.
"Want another try?" Inuyasha asked morbidly, brandishing the blood-smeared sword. Sesshomaru glared at his little brother and his crimson eyes snapped with scarlet flame.
He turned and ruffled his fur, sticky with blood and gore, flicked his long tail before leaping beyond the skeleton into the cast realm of trees and hills beyond.
"Take your toad with you!" Amber yelled hurling her captive after him. As Jaken disappeared over the edge of the skull Amber turned back to Inuyasha and the Tetsusaiga.
"Wow." She allowed herself as Inuyasha sheathed his sword. It was a katana again, battered and worthless.
"You okay?" He asked wiping a long trickle of sweat of his face.
"Yeah. I'm fine." Amber replied biting back a sarcastic comment about her painful ribs. Her hand cupped her side gently as she hobbled over to him. They stood in silence for a long moment.
"Thanks." She wasn't sure if he'd heard her or not, if he had he made no sign. The silence stretched on for another long second.
"Lord Inuyasha!" The cry came from the flea perched atop the giant skeletal bird that landed beside them. "Look what I have found! We can use it to get home."
Inuyasha turned to the flea and then back to Amber. She was smiling for the first time in a long time, her battered face suddenly brilliant and pretty behind the scratches and bruises.
"Home." She mumbled.
Inuyasha slung an arm around her waist as she began to limp towards the bird. She leaned heavily on him wincing at the pains of her own battles. The sun was setting at the edge of the world as the bird took flight with Amber Lote and Inuyasha on its back, far closer then before.
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Gah I go from a chapter I really liked to this!!! Eww!!! But I was trying to get this chappy out of the way for the next one. I'm skipping over the Toad who Would be Prince and going strait into the Shippo chapters which I think I'm going to shorten and combine into a long chapter like episodes 5 and 6.
Anywho, all of you must review, I shake my fist at you and all that and if anyone comments on that corny last phrase I'll take you off my worshipped reviewers list! Okay so I won't but I'll curse you quietly in my own pathetic little way.