Hi again! Here's another chapter for you to read and try to discern my stupidity. I'll leave ya to it!!

Ch. 5

The night didn't treat the taiyoukai well. His fever flared up again and he woke everyone up with his strangled yells. Inuyasha, forever the grouch, yelled at his brother to be quiet. Kagome was more sympathetic. She slept near him, being sure to change the cooling cloth on his head every once in a while so that he could rest. It didn't always work, for she fell asleep often, so when it was time for the gang to move out, Sesshoumaru was extremely fatigued and Kagome needed to be carried on Ah-Un so that she could rest. Sesshoumaru soon retrieved Jaken and Rin and had more than half a mind to leave his brother to his own devices when the said hanyou blocked his path.

"What do you want, half-breed?"

"You ain't going anywhere. After all that time we wasted on you, you aren't gonna go and chalk up your own death."

"I am quite capable of defending myself, Inu..."

Sesshoumaru's eyes flickered and he nearly passed out.

"Like I said, you're staying. Kagome wants you to, and she finally made me agree. I'll be damned if after all the torture I went through you just walk out!"

Inuyasha drew the Tetsusaiga.

"Pass here and I'll give your other side a matching stub of an arm."

Sesshoumaru made to pass Inuyasha defiantly. This was what the hanyou expected. He turned the Tetsusaiga broadside and hit Sesshoumaru squarely behind the head. The lord's eyes widened and blood flew from his lips (Inuyasha wasn't particularly gentle). He then collapsed into unconsciousness.

-You dirty half-breed!!- Ah roared. –How dare you assault our master, especially when he is ill!!-

Shove it up your ass. He ain't strong enough to leave, and you know it. All I'm doing is on account of Kagome, not him. I'm, unfortunately, trying to help him. So play on a little faith, eh? Inuyasha yipped in annoyance.

"Er...Miroku, did you catch that?" Sango whispered to the monk.

"No," Miroku replied. "It must be a special animal dialect."

Without further question, the group walked on.

"Now would be a splendid time to attack the brothers"

A strange voice pervaded the silence in the darkness.

Kiryu, Seiryu, take your leave and don't disappoint me."

Around midday, Kagome woke up. She noticed Sesshoumaru unconscious on Ah-Un's back and noted the blood.

"Inuyasha, sit."

THUMP!

"Oi, wench! What was that for?"

"You hit him, didn't you?"

"Sure as shit! I won't let him go after what you forced on me!"
Kagome gave him a look of reprove, and then turned away. The demon didn't look so bad anyway.

"Men. They act so macho..."

Suddenly, she sensed a presence closing in.

"Inuyasha..."

"I sense it too..." he replied.

Kagome readied her bow, Jaken tightened the grip on his staff, Sango gripped the Hiraikotsu, and Miroku got ready to remove the rosary from his hand if necessary. Inuyasha had already drawn the Tetsusaiga.

"Ah-Un, guard that little girl. I don't want to hear my brother gush over her."

Ah-Un nodded an affirmative.

"Hyah!!"

Inuyasha swung the Tetsusaiga at the trees. From the small layer of forest leapt two dragons in human-form. One wore a red haori and the other wore a green kimono.

"Who the hell are you."

"We are Kiryu and Seiryu of the dragon clan under the rule of Ryurikusanotsussei!"

"Ryurikusanotsussei? Sounds like he's related to Ryukotsussei...was anyway," Inuyasha said with a snicker.

"We've come to avenge Ryuriku's 'tousan!"

"Hn. So then Ryurikusanotsussei is Ryukotsussei's son? Feh. If Inuyasha was able to defeat him, I can certainly defeat the son."

"Huh?"

"Inuyasha, step aside."

Sesshoumaru was awake and battle ready. He flexed his claws, cracking the knuckles. Without hesitation, he leapt forward at Kiryu.

Just as his claws were about to hit, an invisible force field of some kind hit him in the stomach, pushing him away from his prey.

"Urgh!!"

It was Seiryu, specifically his tail.

Sesshoumaru clutched his stomach, unable to stop coughing.

"You...will...pay..."

Inuyasha smashed the Tetsusaiga against a rocky cliff edge, causing a landslide.

Kiryu and Seiryu easily dodged.

"Sesshoumaru, you okay?" he snarled.

The taiyoukai did not reply.

"Keh! Dragons, leave us! Can't your master fight fair?" Inuyasha spat.

"All's fair in love and war," Kiryu said. So saying, the brother dragons used their tails to constrict their dog enemies.

Unable to breathe, Inuyasha found it equally hard to fight. He tried to move his claws into a favorable position, but it was not to be so. Kiryu transformed and opened his jaws wide to rip Inuyasha in two.

He didn't quite make it.

Sesshoumaru had torn through Seiryu's tail after a few seconds, just in time to free his little brother. Any longer and he felt his head would have exploded. He was now in full transformation and despite his handicaps, he was doing very well for himself.

However, Seiryu still had his tail, however torn, to use. He lashed out with it, whipping Sesshoumaru heavily in the chest.

HROOWWWRRR!!!

Sesshoumaru collapsed for only a moment, but it gave his opponent ample time to lash at his only front leg, rendering it nearly useless as the bone split in half. Wracked with pain, the taiyoukai reared back on his haunches, hackles raised and exposing his enormous fangs. Using his remaining legs, he sprung forward and bit into Seiryu's neck, severing the jugular vein completely.

Before dying, Seiryu sunk his fangs into Sesshoumaru's shoulder. It wasn't a strong bite at all.

Inuyasha didn't get a chance to vanquish Kiryu. The dragon unfurled his hidden seventy foot wingspan and took to the air.

"We shall kill you, sons of the Inu no Taisho. The clan of Ryukotsussei will have its day!!!" he called, sneering.

In a flash, he was gone.

Sesshoumaru demorphed from his dog form and groaned. His chest hurt so that he could hardly breathe and his arm was badly broken. He knew that his youkai blood would heal him in a day or two, but the pain was still very real and very intense. What was more, white-hot pain had started to spread from the bite on his shoulder to the rest of his body.

"Sesshoumaru, are you all right?" Sango asked as he began to stumble drunkenly.

"That bite must have been to poison him," Miroku added.

Sesshoumaru's eyes rolled in his head and he had trouble keeping the latter from rolling as well. Still stumbling, the lord's hearing began to fade.

"...homaru....okay....ans....me, damn it..."

"Hn?"

"...op walking....stu....bastard..."

He fought to make sense of the jumbled words as he fell to his knees.

"Poison...damn....use Myoga...now..."

Sesshoumaru fainted, falling for an eternity in a graceful arc.

I know this chapter's a little on the stupid side. Now I have a question for all you reviewers. Should I make this story longer by adding Ryurikusanotsussei's battle, or should I skip it and use it in another story? Leave your answer in a review and I'll do it on a majority rules basis. Like a voting thingy...anyways, that's all.

R&R, please!