A/N: I'm gonna be off for 2 weeks (i'm going to the beach YEY!!) So i'll make you enjoy this chap while i'm off, i hope you enjoy it as much as i enjoyed writing it (i love this chapt i don't know why lol).

Anyway! ENJOY!!!

See ya!

White Plum

Between Lust and Love

Chapter 6: The Natural Fang vs The Steel-Cleaving Fang

"I can smell it." He declared to himself. He jumped from tree to tree nimbly and so fast normal people would describe it as a red blur jumping quickly over the top of the trees of the forest. He stopped and sniffed the air once again, turning left and now running skipping any tree in his way. He had his right hand over an old rusty sword. His hair flew like a cape over his head.

'I've reached it.' He stated as he came in front of a large iron gate, the gate towards Sesshoumaru's palace, he smirked arrogantly and took the sheathed sword in both his hands, took the handle and unsheathed it, a bright light flashed through the old steel and turning it into a huge fang with flames in the hilt. Inuyasha made a final "feh" before stepping closer to the gate. With a strong cry he jumped to the air and slashed down the gate into pieces, the heavy steel braking, alarmed youkais came close to the now destroyed gate and spat at InuYasha "How dare you break into Lord Sesshoumaru's palace!! The punishment for this insolence is death!!".

InuYasha smiled wickedly at the horde of demons in front of him, he took his sword in hand and lift it up, one of the demos recognizing the blade "It's Tetsusaiga! The Steel-Cleaving Fang!" Panicked they drew back but before they could run for their lives InuYasha cried out "KAZE NO KIZU!" and a strong wind blew and tore the demons bodies reducing them into ashes. Satisfied he walked calmly towards the palace in front of me. "How odd, only those insignificant demons where the ones guarding the entrance." He suspected something.

And he was right.

Before he could move a giant hand took a hold of his body, he looked up and saw his brother standing on the shoulder of a large beast youkai a defiant look in his eyes.

"So my half-brother, you have come pay me a visit?" he mocked.

InuYasha's eyes glittered with anger, he reached for Tetsusaiga and with a swing cut the giant's hand off. The beast started loosing control due to the pain, InuYasha smirked and ran his tongue along his bloody sword. He then jumped high in the sky and cut half of the giant with one swing of his sword. Sesshoumaru leaped away and landed gracefully on the ground, not even amazed by InuYasha's blade. "I see Tetsusaiga has great power, but in the hands of a mere half-breed it can do nothing but scratch." He mocked again, amused by the way his half-brother was so easily irritated.

InuYasha greet his teeth in annoyance.

"Why have you come?" he asked finally, finding this fight and massacre, unnecessary.

Inuyasha greeted his fangs "I have come for the woman." He said between growls, Sesshoumaru was for once surprise 'He wants Kagome?' but he didn't show it though, he wanted to know more about his brother's reason of being here, so he inquired "What issue do you have with her?" InuYasha laugh and barked "She has something I want, now brother, leave before I shred your body to pieces!!" that was the last warning.

Sesshoumaru laugh out loud sarcastically "My brother you're the one to leave my lands before I cut your throat with my Tokijin." He unsheathed Tokijin the sharp edge shone with the sun and emanate a strange energy, InuYasha could feel it, but his attention was now on the other sword on Sesshoumaru's waist "Sesshoumaru I can't believe you brought that useless sword with you!!" he mocked looking directly to Tenseiga. Sesshoumaru snapped "I suggest you concentrate on the unsheathed blade rather than the one standing by." InuYasha cursed under his breath and threw himself at his brother.

The battle had begun, Kagome could feel it in her bones. She held a frighten Rin near her, she was shaking with fear and uttered under her breath "Sesshoumaru-sama..." Yes, Kagome was also concerned about him, but now wasn't the time to be worried about him Jaken was also with them and also were a few more servants along with Shinobu. Kagome's concern grew every passing moment but deep in her heart she knew he would be safe.

'He promised.' She smiled at this, she had faith in him.

Kouga and his companions had being tracking InuYasha's smell, they had followed it through the woods and had finally located him, they stepped closer to the rumbles of the gate. Kouga growled at this "His already inside." He could feel InuYasha's youki burst battling another powerful youki. Kouga recognized "Sesshoumaru..." he whispered but before he could think any further one of his members ran up to him "Kouga! We have spotted a way into the palace without going through the main gate!" Kouga smiled widely it was time to take back what was his.

He followed the rest of the group and inside Sesshoumaru's palace.

Kagome gasped. Rin noticed "What is it Kagome?" then out of nowhere a purple beam illuminated the hole room, all of them panted in surprise, Kagome's chest was glowing. She reached and touched her chest not feeling anything weird about it, then she felt something, something tightening her breath, her mouth was cold, her eyes wide open as images of Kouga and his pack screened in her mind.

Kouga smiling at the gate of the palace.

Kouga entering a small fissure on the wall of the palace.

Her chest stopped glowing.

Almost instantly she grabbed her bow and motioned everyone to stay quiet Rin started whimpering, but Kagome kissed her forehead assuring her there was nothing to fear. She of course was lying.

After a while footsteps resounded on the palace, everyone gasped as voices started ringing through the halls, then Kagome realized 'Kouga knows my scent!' She had to part from everyone, she knew they were after her and so she turned around to Shinobu and instructed her to leave with the others through the back door of the room she looked at her puzzled "You need to go, all of you! They know my smell, if you stay with me they'll spot us all! Quick!" She pushed them towards the exit. Rin stayed behind, she looked at her, tears were starting to form in her eyes "Rin you need to leave!!" Without a word Rin through herself into Kagome's arms "No! Mama don't go!" was all she could utter due to the small gasps of air between sobs.

I took her in my arms and patted her head gently "It's ok, everything will be fine, don't worry." I said trying to calm her. She looked up, tears running freely on her cheeks and soaking the collar of her kimono, Kagome smiled at her, kissed her forehead and finally said "I promise I'll come back, but please, hurry and get out of here." Before Rin left Kagome, took out something out of her obi and placed in on Rin's hand. It was a rope necklace it looked old and worn out "My mother gave it to me when I was young." I explained silently Rin looked at it as if it was the most beautiful thing she had ever seeing "Take it with you, it will protect you." I lean forward and put it around her slim neck carefully. Rin smiled and hugged her mother once again before leaving. Kagome saw her leave and shouted "When I see you again soon I expect you took good care of it!" Rin smiled, nodded and left.

"Good bye Rin." Whispered Kagome before stepping out of the room her bow and arrows ready for anything.

Sesshoumaru swung backwards elegantly when InuYasha attacked him with his Sankon Tetsusou, the powerful claws reaping the trees and rocks near the place Sesshoumaru was standing. InuYasha looked irritated and stormed at him, again his claws prepared to cut off Sesshoumaru's head, this amused the taiyoukai and he blocked the attack his Tokijin and flew into the sky, watching his half-brother become an ant below him 'As it should be...' he added in his mind.

InuYasha shouted in annoyance "Sesshoumaru! You bastard, come down and fight!" he then smirked thinking exactly what would annoy his brother the most and then barked "COWARD!" Sesshoumaru twitched one of his eyebrows in irritation, he looked pissed. He flew down quickly at InuYasha. Before the hanyou could jump away, Sesshoumaru had his throat in his hand and had lifted him up in the air. InuYasha moaned and took his hand with both of his, trying to free himself from his brother's strong grasp, but before he could Sesshoumaru threw him to a nearby tree, the tree cracked and a cloud of dust appeared after InuYasha had taste the ground, Sesshoumaru smirked in content. He then heard his half-brother complaining.

After that he had a punch on his face, making him loose his balance but not making him fall to the floor, InuYasha was standing in front of him, his eyes shone dangerous red.

Sesshoumaru reached to touch his face and found he had his lips torn this angered him, never had a living being hurt him this much, he should teach his brother a lesson for this.

"What's wrong brother are you finally giving up and letting me take the girl?" InuYasha said sarcastically, as he now took Tetsusaiga with both hands. Sesshoumaru laugh at this "Never." InuYasha looked disappointed at his brother's foolish answer and finally declared "Then you shall taste the cold steel of our father's fang!" with that said, he raised his youki and both youkis touched each other making a fissure in the wind, InuYasha looked contentedly at the fissure and bawled "KAZE NO KIZU!" A blinding light and a strong wind rushed at Sesshoumaru, he quickly grabbed a hold on Tokijin and held it to stop InuYasha's attack, but the power was too strong and so he was sent to the rumblings of the gate, a huge explosion filling the place. InuYasha was now smiling widely.

"See brother? The power of this Fang knows no boundaries! Not even your filthy Tokijin could..." But before he could say no more, Sesshoumaru was already over him, he greeted his teeth when he felt a strong grip on his left hand the Sesshoumaru whispered in a cold voice "Dokkasou..." a green aura formed around his claws as he dig them into InuYasha's skin making him howled in pain. The poison was melting InuYasha's skin, before it completely wasted his arm he punched Sesshoumaru right in the stomach with his free hand, the taiyoukai swung back.

InuYasha held his arm in horror, he noticed the poison was already over his forearm, he greeted his teeth in pain, Sesshoumaru said vehemently "The poison won't stop spreading." InuYasha looked panicked at his arm, the skin had boiled and melted and he could see the muscle and bones burning as well, his hand was starting to melt and blood started dripping over his haori, he realized that what his brother was saying was true, the poison started spreading over his elbow and towards his shoulder, he could feel his bones crack and his skin sizzle at the heat of the venom. Bewildered and frighten he raised his claws in the air and then shut his eyes tightly before cutting his own arm off with his claws, preventing the poison to spread anymore.

He cried loudly seizing his shoulder, his blood soaked his haori. Sesshoumaru stared in disgust and came closer to him with his indifferent mask hiding any emotion. InuYasha was now on the floor groaning in pain, trying to control himself from bleeding and screaming, he didn't want to please Sesshoumaru with his pain. Sesshoumaru looked at him from above and raised his claws over his half-brother's head, ready to strike him and end the fight.

But before he could a loud screech echoed in the distance, he identified it 'Kagome!' he saw from the corner of his eye InuYasha move, he turned quickly at him ready to kill him and then follow Kagome's cry but then...

"Take this you filthy bastard!" InuYasha shouted and with his only hand threw his Hijin Ketsusou at Sesshoumaru: the blood of his wounded arm turned sharp like knives and tried to cut Sesshoumaru's face, he covered himself to avoid the hit and then saw InuYasha running away, his presence fading in the distance. As soon as Sesshoumaru regain his composure he thought about following his brother, but then remembered Kagome and in a dash ran towards the palace.

'Kagome... Rin.... please be safe.' Was all he could think of.

(Before InuYasha fled)

Kagome was standing in the hallway, and arrow ready to be shot, she could hear the quick pace of the youkai entering the palace, they were coming right straight at her, then finally, on the darkness of the corridor a pair of red eyes shone and glanced at her 'They're here!' she announced to herself. She tighten her hold on her bow and greet her teeth, never showing her fear.

She could see clearly, they were wolves, one in front of another, they were growling at her, she gulped and started to sweat, she knew how dangerous they could be. She started planning a strategy on how to take the 3 of them down without getting caught, but she was interrupted from her planning as a tall figure appeared in front of her, she recognize it and gasped.

"Kouga..." she said out loud, the figure stepped in a little more a wide evil smile on his features.

"Kagome-dear, I see you have being waiting for me." He pulled he locks away from his face shinny icy eyes venturing upon Kagome's body, she skipped in her place but never drew her bow away from her target.

"I see Lord Sesshoumaru is busy with someone else..." he informed, Kagome twitched her eyebrow 'Someone else?' she thought Kouga continued "I know InuYasha is quite a fighter." Her eyebrow twitched again as if asking who InuYasha was, he answered at the question as if reading her mind "You don't now InuYasha? Well he's Lord Sesshoumaru's younger brother, or should I say "half-brother"..." Kagome's eyes looked confuse, Kouga was suddenly amused.

"Anyway, Kagome you come with us!" realizing the chatter had ended Kagome again was on her guard and ready to kill anyone nearing her, Kouga scold "Don't try to look tough Kagome, we know you barely know how to use the bow and arrows!" Kagome spat back "I don't TRY to look tough Kouga!" he frown and spat.

"You are nothing but a weak slave! MY slave!"

"I'm no one's slave!!" she spat back but before she could say something more he added "You're mother was a slave, just like your father, you own our family your life and this is how you show your gratitude?" Of course all of this were lies, lies he had used to make Kagome forget about her true past, her freedom and of course her own potential. Something inside of her felt he was lying and so she sent him a determinant glare

"You're lying!! Now leave before I start killing every single one of you!" she declared Kouga frowned, 'Has she master her powers? Does she know she has that kind of power?' he asked himself. He ordered the 3 wolves to attack, he wanted to be sure about it, one of them threw himself at Kagome, she pulled her arrow aimed and...

The arrow went through the wolf's body, laying on the floor bleeding, this caused Kouga to smirk 'So she doesn't know about her own power yet... this will make things easier.' Then ordered the other two to attack her, she shot four more arrows and killed the beasts. She knew that if Kouga was to attack her, she would surely loose, she just needed to find a way to escape, she looked at the entrance of her room. And scanned the paper door leading to the garden, she then thought 'If I make them run a little then surely Sesshoumaru will come in time to help me out.' She didn't like the idea of depending on someone else to defend herself, but she knew she wasn't strong enough to put up a fight against Kouga.

She quickly ran into her room and opened the other door in a swift movement, running to the gardens, she hurried to the forest and hide behind a large tree, and then to another one, trying to make her scent draw a labyrinth for her opponent. She then stopped to regain her breath. Her heart was pounding hard in her chest, she took small gasps of air to try to calm herself.

"KAGOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she heard Kouga yell towards the woods, then she heard him order to the others "Find her. But don't kill her." 'Why doesn't he want to kill me?' I asked myself, then the purple light shone on my chest once again, I held my hand near my heart I could feel warmth and power fill my veins, I then heard them come closer to me I positioned another arrow on my bow, and turned to face them, they were 6 of them. I could feel my heart pound in my chest harder and harder and then noticed the tip of the arrow glowing with the purple aura that was now glowing brightly on my chest. I let the arrow flew away from my hands, the purple glow enveloping the arrow in it's aura and then when it reached it's objective, the bodies of the wolf-youkais had disappeared in the bright light.

Ashes remained, I was shocked to say the least 'Where did that come from?'

Kouga stared, his mouth wide open and whispered "What a tremendous power..." with only one shot of her bow Kagome had killed 6 of his youkais, he was now very, very worried. Then decided to take care of this by himself and in a huge whirl came closer to Kagome, who had already a new arrow on her bow, she aimed at the center of the whirl and shot.

The explosion made Kouga's body fly and crash into a nearby tree, his body covered in blood, but he could still move, for he quickly used the tree to jump at her, Kagome wanted to reload but noticed she had run out of arrows. She could only watch as Kouga went on top of her a wide smile on his face. She could only scream when she saw the glimpse of fury and insanity on Kouga's eyes.

A scream of panic escaped her mouth and then a silver hue held her, strong arms embracing her protectively as she whispered "Sesshoumaru..."

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CLIFFHANGER!! XD (Buahahahaha)

A/N: Ok the largest chapter EVER hope you liked it, I had to look on the net to find the names and meaning of Sesshoumaru's and Inuyasha's attacks. Sorry if anyone is disappointed bout the fact that Inu is one of the bad guys, I like him very very much but I needed someone with an excuse to attack Sesshoumaru and who could hate more the taiyoukai than his own half-brother?

Attacks:

Kaze no Kizu: This is Tetsusaiga's ultimate attack, normally InuYasha can only use it while protecting humans, but in my story I just let it master it, just to make his fight with Sesshoumaru a little more interesting.

Sankon Tetsusou: This is also another of InuYasha's attack. With his claws he can rip anything to shreads in one stroke.

Dokkasou: This is one of my favorite attack's, it's Sesshoumaru's poisoned claws that can melt anything. (o so cool!)

Hijin Ketsusou: Is one of InuYasha's coolest attacks (in my opinion). Inu-Yasha can throw his blood, which turns into sharp blades to cut his enemies, so think twice before making little Inu bleed lol.

Thanks to Rose Anime-fan, i love your fic "Melting a heart of ice" you should all read it!!(Sess/Kag)

Anyway that's all! Thanks for reading!