Chapter 2: A Deadly Weapon

Sango and Kagome talked only in the safety of Sango's room. "Who was that man?" Kagome asked with a curious look on her face.

The princess began to blush furiously. "H-he-he-he's just a friend!" Sango exclaimed.

"I only asked a question…." Kagome said. She knew her friend wasn't open with her feelings about others.

After a while of hanging out, Sango asked Kagome what she had meant to ask her a while ago. "Kagome, do you believe that InuYasha will really come to rescue us?" she asked. Sometimes she didn't understand Kagome's dreams, because she was 16 and anything but a dreamer.

"Of course I do! Have faith, Sango." Kagome exclaimed. She was confident that her prince would come for her.

About a few hours later, Sango's door was thrown open. A monk with his hair in a ponytail walked into the room. His name was Miroku. "Fear not, my Sango, I have come to rescue you!" he said valiantly.

Sango started blushing again. "Miroku, please! Not now!" she exclaimed. She ran up to the monk. "What is it?" she whispered so her friend couldn't hear.

"The Western Lands is attacking. InuTaisho's forces are invading us." He whispered back. Their faces were very close. He watched his love's face turn red. "Well, let's get out of here." Miroku said. The three of them ran out of the room.

"Argh! Take that, damn ningens!" InuYasha yelled as he parried a human's sword with his tetsusaiga. They were invading the Eastern Lands, and he was fighting along side Sesshomaru and his father, InuTaisho. InuYasha's father was using only his claws, fangs, and his other youkai ((A/N: demon)) abilities. He had given InuYasha his tetsusaiga.

"Sesshomaru! Don't kill too many of them!" InuYasha shouted across the battlefield. The noise of the dog demons and the humans all together was overwhelming. The humans were more numerous than the dog demons, but their power made up for it.

"I have no feelings for ningens." Sesshomaru said in his usual tone of voice. He extended his right arm in front of him. About one hundred humans surrounded him with their sword and various demon slayer weapons. With the flick of his index finger, the glowing whip of light extended from his finger. Sesshomaru spun around in two circles. The whip of light took out almost every one of them. Those that weren't dead fled.

Everyone's attention was drawn to the noise of the opening of the Eastern Lands' main gate. Their captain and Sango's father, Satoshi, was on the back of a weapon that nobody recognized. "I imported this weapon from an outside land!" Satoshi shouted to the warriors in the battlefield. "It cannot be defeated!" The weapon was known as a cannon. The captain lit the wick at the end of the cannon on fire. A huge cannon ball flew out of the cannon as soon as the wick was burned to ashes. At the time that it was shot, a certain dog demon wasn't looking in that direction.

A cry of pain and terror was heard throughout Japan. "Lord InuTaisho!" the dog demons shouted. "Dad!" InuYasha cried as he and Sesshomaru lunged over to catch their fallen father. The cannon ball had hit him right in the mid section of the taiyoukai's body.

"Father!" Sesshomaru said in alarm as his father's blood soaked into his own clothes. "You're bleeding everywhere."

InuTaisho was breathing heavily. Blood covered him everywhere. "Sons… this is my end." He said.

"Shut up!" InuYasha screamed. "You're not dying! You're the Lord of the Western Lands! Dog demons don't die that easily!"

"You're right. They don't die easily. But that is… a terrible weapon. Many of my bones are broken… including my ribs." InuTaisho said to his son. "I want you boys to end this war for me. Win it somehow. But let the ningens live. Kill that leader, Satoshi and the tai-ningen of the Eastern Lands. Let your friend, Sango-san, into power. She's intelligent. She'll lead her kingdom down the right path." The tai-youkai gasped for air, which he couldn't get because his lungs were smashed by the cannon ball. "Sesshomaru, you are the new Lord of the Western Lands. And InuYasha… help him if he needs it." InuTaisho said. Before anyone else could say anything, the dog lord had died.

InuYasha immediately became filled with rage. "You bastard ningens! You took my father away from me!" he growled as he lifted up tetsusaiga and aimed it at the humans. "Take this! Kaze no Kizu ((Wind Scar))!" he shouted as the attack flew at them from his sword. It wiped out all except for Satoshi, who was hiding behind the cannon. InuYasha and Sesshomaru picked up their fallen father and carried him back to their castle. The rest of their army followed them.

A/N: Thanks for the reviews! I'll update as much as I can. Even during the summer I'm busy.