Inuyasha X
Chapter 8
"A fair fight"
By MEGAMANX411

The entire group was frozen in place from Sigma's attack.

"Damn! I can't move anything!" Inuyasha shouted.

Sigma drew closer, and a hatch on his chest opened. A laser cannon was preparing to fire that emerged from his chest. Iris ran over.

"Zero!" she shouted.

Zero looked at Iris.

"Iris?" he asked quizzically. "What are you doing?!"

Iris wasn't frozen in place from the attack! She ran over to Zero, and embraced him. Zero shook his head.

"Iris, get out of the way!!" he warned.

Iris defied his warning.

"No Zero! I..I.." she whispered.

Zero gritted his teeth.

"Iris, I can't let you die too! Run while you can!" he pleaded.

Iris stayed there.

"No Zero, I have to help you!" she insisted.

"Iris! You'll die!!" he shouted.

Sigma was preparing to fire, and Zero's rage grew.

"Iris!! I won't let you die!!"

Zero managed to break free of the stun because of his rage, and he grabbed Iris and the others and shoved them to the side.

Zero gave a hard look at Sigma.

"Sigma!!" he shouted. "Leave them out of this!!"

Inuyahsa looked at Zero with a concerned expression.

"Zero, what are you doing?" he asked dumbfounded. "You need us!"

Zero glanced back.

"Inuyasha," he whispered. "I'm going to buy some time for the stun effect to wear off..."

Sango gasped.

"But Zero..." she warned.

Zero cut her off.

"Enough. I have to do this."

Zero walked slowly up to Sigma, with confidence and pride.

"Sigma," Zero said slowly. "It's just you and me now. They way you wanted it."

Kagura then dropped in, once again to tip the scales in Naraku's favor.

"Not so fast!" she said arrogantly.

Zero shifted his gaze.

"You!" he shouted. Kagura smiled. "You can't expect Naraku to just abandon his colleague, now can you? I've been sent here to assist."

Zero gruntend. Of all the luck.

Fighting Sigma alone was going to be hard enough, now I have to deal with this two-on-one bullshit!? This is gonna be tough, Zero thought to himself.

Kagura eyed the rest of the group still struggling to move behind Zero. The effect had almost worn off, but not yet. Zero could sense her intention.

"Don't think of attacking them Kagura!" he threatened.

Just then, another stranger showed up for the fight.

"Kagura!!" the voice shouted. Koga dropped in.

Zero looked at Koga, looking thoroughly unimpressed.

"Why are you back here?" he asked.

Koga shrugged.

"I lost Naraku, so I thought I'd get some revenge on Kagura," he reasoned.

He then shifted his attention to Kagura.

"I'll avenge my comrades, you hear that you witch!?"

Kagura gave a superior smirk.

"Well Zero, it appears you have a partner."

Zero eyed Koga, and then gave the best piece of advice he could at the time.

"Don't die..." he warned.

Koga eyed Zero back, and all he could come up with was a sarcastic comeback.

"Who do you take me for?" he replied.

Kagura started things off, and used a wind attack that went past Zero and Koga. Zero quickly looked behind him.

"Iris! Kagome!" he shouted.

Zero quickly turned himself around, and dashed into the attack with his saber flying. He performed his Shippuga (where Zero performs a wide slash attack after dashing) technique to try to deflect the blast. Luckily for him, it worked.

Zero shifted his attention back to Kagura.

"I told you your fight doesn't concern them!" he shouted angrily.

Kagura only chuckled at Zero's shouts.

"Oh! I'll just make you dance for me then! she said calmly.

Zero was completely baffled.

"What??" he asked quietly.

Kagura made a huge tornado appear around Zero.

"And to make sure you don't escape..." she added.

Kagura used her wind powers to unearth hundreds of skeletons around Naraku's castle, and thrust them into the whirlwind. Koga looked at Kagura with a sense of pleasure on his face.

"It's just you and me now!" he observed.

"And me!" shouted a familiar voice.

Sigma surprised Koga, and grabbed him with his huge, clawed hands. The demon and reploid parts made his grip stronger than ever.

"Agh...damn it!" Koga shouted as he winced in pain. "I...got..careless..."

Inuyasha looked at Koga with contempt.

"Stupid wolf," he muttered. "I knew you couldn't handle it."

Koga looked back at Inuyasha, completely surprised at this turn of events.

"Inuyasha?!"

Inuyasha and the others had managed to break free of the stun effect, and were now back in the fight. Kagura brought her fan up to her face, and her face tightened a little.

"Well, it appears that the scales have tipped in your favor," she observed. "It seems I'll have to call in some reinforcements!"

Sigma tilted his head back.

"Come!" he commanded.

Some reploids approached behind Kagura and Sigma. Zero couldn't see, he was still trapped in the whirlwind.

"How am I supposed to get out of here?!" he thought aloud.

The skeletons threatened to injure Zero, but he could manage to avoid them for the most part. He just needed an escape.

Zero then looked straight above him, seeing an exit in the whirlwind.

"Up there!!" he exclaimed. He quickly performed a double jump, and rocketed himself out of the whirlwind with a Ryuenjin (a rising flame slash). He caught a glimpse of the other reploids that approached.

Slash Beast?! Frost Walrus?! AND Web Spider?! Zero thought.

Zero gave his attention back to the group.

"Watch out everyone!" he warned. "They've got reinforcements!"

Inuyasha gave a defiant smirk.

"Well then, it appears it's finally become a fair fight..." he said calmly.

Sigma smiled sadistically.

"I wouldn't say that..."

Sigma slowly aimed his gun at Iris.