A/N: First off, thank you for all the reviews that you have sent me; I appreciate it very much and am in your debt. Secondly, what the hell is with all the crappy fics getting posted these days? I mean, over half of Inuyasha are stupid ones where the gang is in high school and it's all about romance, love and pointless banter that's been done a million times before. Has my generation gone down the tube so quickly that they can't use their heads and think of an actual original plot? And when you do find a story with a good plot, it's littered with bad grammar, now I can put up with some, but most just get to the point of being absolutely ridiculous. You have spell check, use it! And if you don't, then just take five extra minutes to read through it and catch all of those obvious grammar errors, or send it to an editor to do it for you. If you're writing a high school fic right now and reading this, then finish it as quickly as you can, and try to write something that has never been done before, you will see just how truly rewarding it can be. This just makes me want to write a column on the different ways of coming up with plot ideas, and turning it into an enjoyable, fun story. Sorry for the rant, but had to get that off my chest, so enjoy the next chapter.

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"Bring me my army,"

Deus stared at his master for a moment before replying. "You don't have an army, master. Remember, you wanted to increase our science budget so you cut our military one to practically nothing. All we have left is a pile of old armor and a bunch of wandering souls from the dead followers that your keep in that giant birdcage thing of yours."

Techbu let these things register in his head for a moment, "No…" A slight smile spread across his face. "Very well," He began in a booming voice, "You shall herd the souls into the bodies of armor to create undefeatable super minions!"

Deus backed up knowing what this would mean for him, "Ah hell no, you know what happened last time I tried to do that. I was almost castrated!"

Techbu sighed, "That's just because you were waving it in their faces making fun of them for the fact that they weren't even real flesh."

"Hey, that's just because they needed to learn their place." He snapped back.

"The army is still technically higher ranked than servants, even if they are just ghosts." Deus started mumbling things under his breath before Techbu decided to finally silence him once and for all. "Would you like me to finish the job?" The servant started slowly backing up towards the door. "Go and do my bidding now!"

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"He couldn't just send me some help huh? I have to spend my entire day sorting out a bunch of rusty old tin cans that are covered in at least three inches of dust for what? He doesn't even show me a little gratitude for this; he just pushes me around like I'm a nobody. Someday I'll show him, just wait, he'll feel what it's like to do such demeaning work…"

Three hours later he had finished separating the armor into their proper categories and laid them out for each of the 'soldiers.' Deus then released the lock that barred the souls from their destinations. They quickly and quietly floated over the pieces of armor and dropped in.

The armor began to glow a sickening pale green and they all stood up slowly, letting out a singular roar that emanated throughout the entire castles grounds. They all turned to Deus waiting for their instructions, "All of you are to report to your outposts with absolutely NO delays whatsoever. Kill anything that gets in your way that you don't recognize as workers or your master. Understood?"

They grunted in response and Deus dismissed them immediately, I could get use to this, he thought to himself as he returned to Techbu to discuss the matters at hand.

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For three days now they had trudged on without stopping, Inuyasha had predicted that at their current pace the castle itself would come into view within a few hours. The group was noticeably tired and disoriented having not eaten or slept in so long. But Inuyasha refused to let them stop for anything.

Dawn had broken only moments before, though to the weary travelers it was hardly noticeable. The days themselves seemed to blur together into one big disgruntled mess.

For the last hour by Miroku's count, Inuyasha and Sango had been arguing back and forth over practically nothing, almost like he used to do with Kagome, though his nerves were now shot from having to listen to these two bumbling idiots. He figured it was about time to intervene. "So Inuyasha, you must really miss Kagome?"

The monks' comment snapped him out of his pointless argument with Sango and back into the real world. "And what would make you think that?"

"Well you're obviously trying to substitute for her absence by attempting to make Sango your new insult bag."

Inuyasha quickly tried to come up with some snappy comeback but nothing was seemingly coming to mind. "Well five years of pent up anger and regret will do that to you."

"Hey, I missed Sangos' ass for the last five years but you don't see me complaining about it, lately we've been doing some all important 'catching up.'"

That comment earned him a roll of a partners eyes and a smack in the back of the head. Miroku just sighed and decided to get serious after rubbing the small bump on the back of his head. "You know Inuyasha; you can't let this eat away at you. We all knew how you truly felt about her from the beginning; the only uncertain one was you. In the end it was that very feeling that doomed you, fate's given you a second chance so you better not screw this one up too."

"Feh," As long as fate doesn't stand in my way this time it shouldn't be a problem…Then again, it can always try to hit me indirectly through one of the others, though I guess it's best not to dwell on such things for too long.

Before they knew it, they could see the castle in the distance, it seemed Techbu never made much of an effort to try and hide himself from the outside world. Now that they were so close, they could set up camp and rest for the day. Tomorrow would prove to be very interesting indeed.

But when Inuyasha resided himself in the branches of a nearby tree as usual, something strange hit him, a sense of temporal displacement. As if something was seriously wrong, but he couldn't figure out what it was. Though it seemed to be resonating from the nearby castle; they would have to tread carefully if they wanted to live through this. For him, death waited around every corner and within every shadow, he would not risk the lives of anyone else for his own petty ends. This was much more than just a grudge match between Techbu and him.

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A/N: Well, there's chapter eleven. I've got a lot of work to do in this upcoming school week, so my next update might take a little while, so I hope you don't mind. Either way, have a nice week and I hope you're enjoying my story as much as I am writing it. See you next update!