Gomen! My chapters are short, but I will make it up to you by making the next few chapters longer.

Battleheart, chapter 5: enter, FLUFFY!!

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Inuyasha gasped at who stood in the doorway, while Koga just glared and stood at

attention, along with everyone else. Inuyasha came to attention, saluted, and said, "Please

sir, may I ask a question?"



The man in the doorway stepped into the Conset, adjusted his tail, saluted as well,

and smiled at Inuyasha. "I suppose so."



Inuyasha walked up to his brother and yelled, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU

DOING HERE??"

Sesshomaru sighed, looked around at the crowd, and said, "I got drafted, oh over-reactant one. Don't worry, Mikai and Rin are taking care of everything back home. Since I'm here, you will have to behave."

"Not a chance in hell."

"Quite vulgar, how very much like you. Please tell me, why are you and this wolf youkai fighting?"

"He offended my nose and gave me heartburn." said Koga.

"He called me dog shit." growled Inuyasha, his fists clenched.

"HE made the first strike."

"Enough!" Sesshomaru interjected. "Now, I want you two to clean up this place, and money will be reduced from your payment to replace furniture, dishes, and whatever else you broke."

The culprits looked guiltily to the balltable, smashed to bits. "Yes Mom." Inuyasha sighed as he started to work. Koga growled then followed suit. He dared not treat Sessomaru with such direspect, for the calm general wouldn't tolerate THAT from anyone but his brother.



When the morning shift came into the Conset to find it in disrepair, Inuyasha and Koga became extremely unpopular. They practically fled when they had to get ready for their E-shift.

Mid evening came. Inuyasha and his E-line were re-loading their GCs, when the drum of wingers could be heard. They came into sight. There were five, each bearing the Meccan crest.

"TAKE COVER!" A commanding officer roared. Everyone ducked behind or beneath something. The ground shook as the bombshells hit, and several screams peirced the cold air. Everything was over in a few seconds. The drone of the wingers faded, and the uninjured got up to look at the casualties. Inuyasha's sensitive dog ears searched for sounds of those he knew. He heard shallow breathing that sounded familiar over by a kamo. He ran to the kamo and gasped.

Sesshomaru looked like he had gotten the worst of the attack. His right arm was gone (unless being shredded and scattered over a 30ft radius counts as still being presesnt.) His face was burnt and bloodied, and his tail was missing some fur.

"Uh, Major, may I ask a question sir?" said Inuyasha as he sat down beside his brother.

Sesshomaru grinned weakly and said "ask away."

"WHAT IN THE SEVEN HELLS WERE YOU THINKING?!?!"

"Um, about stuff back home." Sesshomaru coughed.

"Arrgh! And YOU worry about ME? I'm gonna have to babysit you wherever you go!"

"I didn't feel the situation was life threatening. They were only 100 lb bombs anyway. And as you can see, I'm just fine."

Inuyasha sighed turned away from his brother, growled, then in a flash he was shaking a very angry finger at him, screaming at the top of his lungs "BAKA!! BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA!!!" Finally, out of breath, Inuyasha pulled Sesshomaru up by his hair and marched him to the medical tent, which was still intact. (thank God!) As they left, a group of men quietly dicussed the thought of a young ex-lueteniant bad mouthing a major.

Inside the medical tent, Inuyasha cursed and muttered under his breath as Maro, with a new medicine girl, tended to the remnants of Sessomaru's arm. Then, the medicine girl caught his eye. His breath caught in his throat as he saw an exact replica of Kikyo standing in front of him. Then the girl hurried out of view, and Inuyasha let out the breath he'd been holding. Who was that girl?