One more battle

As Inuyasha sat in the drop ship he remembered all the battles he had been in and unconsciously gripped his assault riffle tighter. The first battle, were they had taken the airfield, had gone over with out a problem for they had only lost three men. Were as the enemy had lost many times that number and more importantly the airfield and their main source of surface to air missiles. If what little information they had gotten about the battles in space was correct then there fight wasn't going quite as well as the ground war, however, slowly but surely they had one battle after battle and it was now clear that the army would beat the planets fighters. As Inuyasha checked over his gear to make sure he had every thing he could possibly need he felt the ship begin to descend.

In his gear he had an assault riffle semi automatic, the main weapon of the

Army. He had a handgun on each of his hips. As well as a close

action combat shot gun and all the ammo that he had been able to get his hands on. He also had with him a survival knife in case he was desperate for a weapon or needed to cut some thing. Most of this was pretty standard among the army's troops but one thing he and his soldiers each were given was a sword that was meant so soldiers on both sides would recognize them.

During battles Inuyasha, his father, and Sesshomaru had distinguished them selves enough that each of them were now in charge of there own squads not that it mattered much for this particular mission. For the planet's men knew

that they would lose and had decided that they would make one last attempt

To fight.

They were attaching the central command post with all the men they had left which was surprisingly high in numbers, some thousands strong at least. More importantly however was the fact that they had all of their artillery and the moderate amounts of air support that they had left. As he thought about this, Inuyasha glared slightly.

After all the military had very little success in bringing in their own tanks

and artillery because there were only a few ships that were not locked in battle within space large enough to fly any large amounts of it down and the few that were always the first targets for the enemies air and few remaining surface to air missiles.

He hated to admit it but who ever was in charge of this little rebellion really knew what they were doing. They had managed to fight much longer after losing there primary air fields than any one would have thought that they could have and with much more skill and deadly results.

As Inuyasha looked at his squad he thought about how each man had fought and been shafted by the military the man across from him Naraku he had said his name was, who had spider D.N.A. injected in him. He had proved very useful because with his seemingly all ready natural spying capabilities and the slyness of spiders he had often wove a web of deceit that enemies had often fallen into and not come out of alive. And just as important he was the squad's sergeant and sniper for he had pulled off some nice shots that had gotten them out of some very sticky situations. As he looked at other men he thought about just how different they were from the other men of the army not just in the D.N.A. that they had been injected with but also physical appearance and abilities. Some of them could run while carrying packs and their weapons at speeds up to thirty miles per hour and all of them could run for hours on end.

As well as the sword that each of them had been given as a sign of who they

Were, none of them had been required to cut their hair short so each man in Inuyasha's squad had decided to grow it very long to the point that each ones went down their back and when they ran it flew out behind them like

Banners announcing who they were to the world.

Some red some blue most black and in Inuyasha's case white. Most men thought they decided to dye their hair but they all only had the naturally colors of their hair.

In the beginning a lot of the other soldier's had been jealous about them not having to cut their hair but that had all changed when they saw them fight and when if any of them would bother one of Inuyasha's men they would learn not to do so a second time.

Inuyasha was so deep in thought that he didn't immediately notice that they

had landed until the man next to him yelled they had and it was his turn to

jump out of the drop ship.

As Inuyasha jumped out he looked around and saw to his irritation that in the distance smoke could all ready be seen from were the enemy tanks were coming.

"All right men here's the scoop there are twenty of us, well we have been assigned to hold these five bunkers and the trenches around them at all coasts. We each have another squad in there of men like us already, it's

a mark of how important this is that they have assigned this many men to

the area and even more so that each of them has under gone the 'oportion'. "

Taking a breath he continued. "Each bunker has two fifty caliber machine

guns in it. We will divide up into five groups in each group there is to be

A man with a R.P.G. and one of our own portable heavy machine guns in

it."

As the men divided into groups quickly and left Inuyasha noticed his group was the sniper Naraku, a R.P.G. man as well as a machine gun operator both of whom were roughly the size of elephants and all muscle on them.

As they entered the bunker what Inuyasha saw made him completely furious

there were two men in the bunker all ready but more importantly a woman

and a child.

The woman he could over look but a child! A child what the hell was a child doing out in the middle of a battlefield.

"What the HELL is there a kid in here for!" Inuyasha roared. Turning round the woman looked at him "Well you see our beloved scientists and generals

decided that since he was our son" she said pointing to one of the men "that

he could fight with us I mean 'after all each of you had an operation wear

you had fox D.N.A. injected into you and the tests come back saying he is as

much fox as either of you that we want to see how he will handle his first battle.'"

As the woman finished speaking, Inuyasha could tell that she had been in battles before and didn't want her son in one. It was then that Inuyasha made a decision.

"Every one hand me all the extra armor and bullet proof vests in this place

keep one for your self but give me the rest. We're going turn this kid into a

bullet proof pillow." As he finished speaking he looked to see the mother

looking at him gratefully.

"Thank you I wanted to do that but they said I couldn't give that order

or he would be sent to a different bunker because they wanted to see how

he would last…" as she said this a few tears came to her

eyes and Inuyasha hated it when women cried so he did the first thing

that came to mind he panicked.

"Ah well um…I gave the order and I'll shout any one who says other wise!

Yeah that's it I'll do that." As he turned around he found his men just standing there watching him. "What the hell are you waiting for! Get set up

and get this kid lots of body armor."

"The great Inuyasha who looks death in the eye and flips it off, the man who

has no fear…is terrified of crying women!" laughed Naraku. Before even Inuyasha could respond he was beaten to it by the angry fox woman.

"And any man who smart knows to be scared of an angry woman and any

man who is not a complete fool knows to be scared of

an angry mother!"

As she said this Naraku gulped and backed up while desperately nodding his

head. Inuyasha looked at the other two men who were desperately trying not to laugh and he suddenly knew that both he and Naraku were going to have

to bribe them very well or they would tell the other men and then neither of

them would ever hear the end of it from them and then they'd tell all the

men out side of the squad and then there would be no escaping the embarrassment.

Apparently Naraku thought the same because he was grimacing.

"Alright every one, you men too" Inuyasha said pointing to the men

woman and child of the other squad "what will it take to keep

you quiet?" There was a chorus of "smokes" "money" yer phone

numbers" and "candy!"

At the yer phone number one both Inuyasha and Naraku looked at each other in horror then at the man he was a huge man about six foot eight.

"I'm not sure which is worse," muttered Naraku "the embarrassment of being terrified of a woman or giving buba ray over there my phone number."

"I have an idea" said Inuyasha "you know who my brother Sesshomaru is?"

"Yeah"

"Well I think he's more yer type how about I give you his number in exchange for mine?"

"And mine!" said Naraku quickly.

"Fine"

As Inuyasha and Naraku passed out money and smokes they turned to the

Small child "You wouldn't really make us give you stuff would you?" asked

Inuyasha kindly.

"What do you think I am? Stupid? Of coarse you'll have to give me candy."

The little boy said childishly.

Both Naraku and Inuyasha went searching in their packs until "Yes I thought

I had these!" Naraku said as he pulled out a container of butter fingers.

"Those are from both of us" Inuyasha said.

"Says who?" grinned Naraku.

"Me your squad leader and more importantly I can tell him" Inuyasha pointed at the man who wanted there numbers "that that number only comes from me and you don't have a brother to give him the number of."

"You wouldn't dare." Hissed Naraku.

"Try me." Grinned Inuyasha.

"Fine these are from both of us." Muttered Naraku. As they were all getting even they had forgotten the enemy until they heard the first shots being fired. Cursing Inuyasha grabbed the mounted machine gun as Naraku took out his sniper riffle and began to pick out targets and end there lives. The other squad had also taken up the other mounted machine gun and were using it as well but they didn't have a tripod mounted combat machine gun or an R.P.G. so they took out their own weapons and began to fire at the enemy as they rushed forward.

As Inuyasha was trying to both make him self a hard target to hit and

Keep shooting enemies he saw that there was a tank coming right towards them.

"Concentrate fire on that tank, that thing could role over this whole bunker!"

As the tank was attacked by all the machine guns in the bunker Inuyasha noticed that there was no R.P.G. fire looking for the man he found him laying on the ground blood pooling beneath him a visible hole in his head.

"Some one grab that gun we need it to blow this bastard up." As one of the men from the other squad ran forward and grabbed it he quickly fired and hit the side of the tank. They were rewarded by the sound of it exploding sending metal into the men around it. As they kept fighting Inuyasha noticed that no matter how many they killed they did seem to be getting closer which meant either they had a lot more men than he had been told or more likely that bunkers were going down or worst of all both.

As the enemy we slowly but surely getting closer the dead were piled up so that they had to climb over them. As Inuyasha was beginning to hope they could use this advantage to keep them back his hopes were smashed when he saw that there tanks were moving forward as a group now and not enough of them were being destroyed to make him feel much better.

As he was putting in another belt of bullets into the machine gun he saw a tank point its large canon at them and fire. Hitting right in front of the bunker but the force of the shot combined with the bullet shells that were laying all around spread into the bunker each shell like a little rocket looking for a person to hit one grazed Inuyasha's ear as he stood there. Others however weren't so lucky; the woman who had scared Naraku so much was thrown back wards from the shock of the hit until she hit a wall and slowly slid down it like a little broken doll. And the man who wanted there phone numbers the machine gun shells flew into him because he was operating the machine gun closest to wear the tank had shot.

The other man of the squad ran over to the woman to look at her as he lowered his head to get a last catch of her scent Inuyasha realized some thing he was the man who was the young boys father. Speaking of the child

Inuyasha saw that he wasn't looking to good he had crawled over to the woman and was shaking her asking her to get up but she never did.

As the man looked up he said, "She's dead Shippo please go back were you were she wouldn't want you to get hurt."

"But…she can't be dead she promised she wouldn't die she promised that she would take me to meat all her family she's just playing with us." The little boy said as tears came down his face.

"I know but she promised can't now I'll take you, now please hide I don't want you to get hurt."

"Promise?" asked the small child in between tears. At the nod from his father he crawled back under all the vests.

Inuyasha looked at the man who had just seen his wife or I guess for

them it would be a mate die he felt very bad for him.

"You don't have to fight any more you can go back…and take your child."

Inuyasha offered. The man paused obviously considering the options.

"I have to do some thing first did you see witch tank killed her?"

Inuyasha nodded and pointed it out for the man he nodded and picked up the grenade launcher and took aim at it. As the rocket hit its side you could see the look of satisfaction in the mans face as it exploded.

"No if I take him out now some one's bound to shoot us and that's not what I want for him." The man said matter-of-factly.

"Alright well soldier I have orders for you they are to keep you son safe and to stay out of the line of fire of the enemy." Said Inuyasha.

"I know that that's important" yelled Naraku "but we need you back on the machine gun Inuyasha!"

"Right!" yelled Inuyasha; "Now let's show these scum sucking bastards what hell is like!" as he yelled this he began to hold the trigger of the mounted machine gun in one hand and steer with it while in the other he pulled up his assault riffle and began shouting both into the ranks of the

charging enemies.

Even as the enemies were shot down more and more of them came. Inuyasha

threw his riffle over his shoulder and grabbed the radio on the side of the wall next to him.

"We need air support or extraction A.S.A.P. me and my bunkers as well as the others can't take much more of this.

There was a moment's pause before he heard "Inuyasha listen to me this is you father yours are the only bunkers in that area still firing all the others have been destroyed."

"How many of mine our still firing and how close is the closest other one that's still firing?"

"Two of yours the ones to your right have both been destroyed on that side the battle has already left the bunkers and is now fighting at the command post its self. And to the other side it looks like we have one left…no it take it back yours are the last ones still working."

"Damned what are your orders?"

"Hold out as long as you can I'm going to lead a squad in there to get you try to consolidate every one into the bunker in the best condition and wait for us there."

"Yes sir." Inuyasha said smartly.

"Oh and I'm your father don't call me sir."

"Alright see ya when you get hear then." As Inuyasha turned around he saw his men looking at him.

"New orders our bunkers to the left have stopped

firing the ones to our right are still shooting but that only leave these three bunkers put of all of them in action we are to consolidate what men we have there and wait for extraction."

"Which bunker?" asked the young boy's father.

"Which ever one that's in the best shape and since we're down a machine gun I doubt that's us we have to get over to another one and give the order any way."

As they were all crawling out of the bunker into the trenches connecting them to the next one they heard some on yell "Grenade!" and a small piece of metal flew into the trench with them. The young boy's father who was closest to it looked at it for a moment then grabbed his son and yelled to Inuyasha "I leave him in your care!"

As he yelled this he dived on top of the grenade just as he landed on it the thing exploded but his body took the explosion for them. By the time they got to him to see if he would live he had already died with a small smile on what was left of his face.

'He died to save his son and to be with his mate again but I wish him the best where ever he has gone.'

As they reached the next bunker they saw that both machine guns were in operation and only one person was dead.

"I want two men to go to the next bunker and order them to come here and wait it out extraction is on its way. We are the only ones one the front line left all those other bastards left already!" Inuyasha yelled over the blare of the machine guns.

"Alright I want a heavy machine gun to watch the trench in the direction we just came from. Naraku I want you to help watch the trench if you see any one coming who you can't immediately tell is ours I want you to blow them to kingdom come. Got it?" he asked the two soldiers

"Yes sir!" they said simultaneously.

"Good. Now I want some one to tell me the second the rest of our men make it back" as Inuyasha pointed to one man he said "you that's your job, every one else I want you upfront and I want as many of those bastards dead as there are bastards out there who we can kill. Is that clear?"

"Yes sir!"

"Now who was the commanding officer of your squad?" Inuyasha asked one

of the men from the other squad assigned to the area.

"Him." The man said pointing to the man lying on the ground. "He's dead sir."

"couldn't have figured that one out" muttered Inuyasha.

"I guess you're in charge then." Said the man.

"Guess so." Inuyasha muttered as he looked for a way to save the men he

was commanding.

"Sir there almost here they only have a little trench left to go!" the man watching for what was left of the two squads to come back.

"Good now I want you to go shout some o these bastards out there."

As the man rushed forward to do as he was told Inuyasha felt some thing tugging on his shirt. Looking down he saw the young fox child from before.

Bending down on one knee he looked at the poor child in the eyes. "Yeah you need some thing?" he asked kindly.

"What do you want me to do? My mommy and daddy fought for you so I want to also." He said matter of factly.

Inuyasha was surprised at the kids determination looking into his eyes he couldn't tell him to sit back and wait but he couldn't put the kid in danger "Well…what's yer name kid?" he asked stalling for time.

"Shippo" the little boy told him.

"Hem…well Shippo…I've got it here" Inuyasha said handing him his

combat knife and a hand gun "here I want you to guard my back I don't want any one sneaking up on me." As he was saying this Inuyasha silently but fervently swore an oath on his honor that this kid would live to see the end of the battle even if Inuyasha him self must die and sacrifice the rest of the men with him. It wasn't the kids fault he was hear and he really shouldn't have been there so Inuyasha decided that no matter what the price the kid would come out of it alive.

"Sir." As Inuyasha turned around he was vaguely aware of Shippo moving with him to watch his back so no one would come behind him. "These are the rest of the men we have standing behind the two men he had sent were three more. "most of there men were killed when some Charlie's tried to over run their compound but they fought them off, they even had to use the swords at one point it happened right after we arrived."

"So let's see I have eleven men hear…twelve counting

Shippo but if I can do any thing he won't see combat." Muttered the irritated Inuyasha. "Alright does one of you have a sniper riffle?" at the nod of one man Inuyasha continued "good I want you and…you" Inuyasha pointed to a man who had a heavy machine gun "to guard this trench any one who can't immediately be identified as our I want them dead before they hit the ground."

"Yes sir." God he was getting tired of that. As they began there desperate wait for extraction Inuyasha noticed that more and more enemies seemed to take notice of this solitary bunker that would not fall. Men came down the trenches from both directions there was a particularly nerve wreaking moment when a man managed to throw a grenade before he was shot by the machine guns. Fortunately before it could go off one of the men operating a machine gun jumped out and kicked it as hard as he could in the other direction. It flew to were three trench took a turn and there was the sounds of first men trying to run from it and in one case kick it back but the man was shot down by Inuyasha before he could reach it. Then there was the sound of it going off and men dying.

As the battle continued Inuyasha really began to wonder were there extraction was it seemed that his father had promised it a very long time ago. He knew that each of the bunkers was well equipped with ammo, medical supplies and food and water witch they had long ago started to rely upon and thankfully some one had thought to bring all the supplies from both of the other bunkers so they were well equipped but that wouldn't do it all because already three of the twelve in side of the bunker had died.

Just as Inuyasha was beginning to wonder what would happen next he heard some one yell "To the Squad of Inuyasha do not shoot repeat do not shoot we are hear to extract you repeat we are hear to extract you."

"I want grenades and riffles ready" Inuyasha muttered "alright come forward." He yelled to who ever it was.

He was surprised when a couple men came forward "there are about forty

of us we have ammo if you need it but most of us are in the other bunker they figured that if you decided to blow us up then some could tell your father that you wouldn't come along oh and he says that he's sorry he can't come but the fighting back there is pretty fierce we'll have to hurry to get back before the enemy finds the spot were we crawled off with out there noticing us."

"Alright men I want all of you to have your weapons ready were going to leave this as quietly as possible but if some on sees us don't hesitate to blow there ass to hell."

As all of the men crossed the trenches Inuyasha thought about what he would do when this battle was over. 'Well I'll probably try and figure out to do with the kid' he looked at the child in front of him who had been all most impossible to get to stand between Inuyasha and the man in front of him saying he was supposed to watch Inuyasha's back but Inuyasha had put his foot down saying that now he had done his duty and was to stand there.

The real reason was because Inuyasha wanted a shield in front of the kid and if the shield went down Inuyasha wanted to shout who ever shot his shield.

"What is going to make it so we don't get our asses blown off as soon as we leave the trench?" he yelled up to the men in front of him.

"Luck." A man called back why shrugging his shoulders.

'We really need to get better plan makers' thought Inuyasha sadly.

As they continued on down trench they picked up the men sent to help them escape. They continued down the trenches to a spot were they were relatively close to the command center and there was little fighting turning around the leader of the extraction team addressed Inuyasha

"Alright we are going to radio in now and have the base know we're coming then we are going to throw some smoke grenades then we run like hell till we get back to the safety of the base. Now as we run we're going to be very vulnerable to attach smoke screens tend to draw people's attention if you now what I mean so odds are some people will die so if you want to know now is the time to make your piece with the god or gods of your choice."

"Well I'm as at piece as I'm going to be so I say lets go."

As they started out of the trench and began running the men in front threw the smoke grenades and every one began to run as fast as they possibly could. Almost as soon as the smoke screen was up bullets began firing into it and with the bullets came screams of pain but Inuyasha couldn't tell whom they came from and it wasn't his concern right now. Now he had to get Shippo out of this battlefield at any cost even if it was his own life.

As he ran he had long ago picked Shippo up so the small child wouldn't be run over he pulled out his hand gun and began firing on the general direction of were he thought the bullets were coming from following his example his men began to shoot also.

As they ran slowly a gate came into view and as they neared it he saw that it had began to enter for them right before they entered the gate the smoke lifted away and Inuyasha saw men standing there waiting for them.

"Sir if any of your men are hurt the med center is that way." One said while saluting briskly.

"That's great I have orders for you soldier go out into that smoke and if

there are any men alive who are wounded I want you to get them A.S.A.P."

"Yes sir." As they said this the men began to run off into the Smokey abyss were there could be wounded men for them to save or death from enemy fire.

As Inuyasha began to walk forward towards the central command post a man came and approached him "Sir I regret to inform you that your father has died." The man said very quietly.

That stopped Inuyasha dead "What do you mean I thought he was safely behind the wall and out of harms way."

"Well you see one of the attaches breached the wall and your father was in the counter attach but unfortunately he was caught in the open by an

SMG and he took most of the clip. He wanted me to give you this." As the man was talking he pulled out from behind his the sword of Inuyasha's father.

As the doctor began to walk away Inuyasha looked down at the child in his arms "Well you got any family left you can go to?"

"If I do I don't know them my mommy always said she had family but I don't know were they are." As he was saying this tears started to slide down

his face.

'Crap I hate it when little kids cry.' Thought Inuyasha "Well um…you could…stay with me if you want to."

As he was saying this the small child looked up at him with a face with as though sizing him up "You wouldn't have to call me dad or any thing but

I figured if you ain't got any were else to go I'd offer."

"What if I want you to be my new daddy though?" when he heard that Inuyasha almost dropped the kid.

'He wants me to be his dad either I just did the right thing or made the dumbest mistake of my life' "Sure it's up to you."

"Well I decided that I do daddy" said the small boy.

When Inuyasha looked down he saw the child smiling happily 'Dear gods in heaven what have I gotten my self into.'

Author's notes

Well that was fun to write I'm sorry for the wait to any body reading this story I hope you like the chapter. This is pretty much how a large part of the story will be about Inuyasha's war experiences and memories that's all I'll tell about it for now though. And hopefully my next update will be sooner lol.

And beta reader has been found I would like to take this time to say thank you to aphelion knight for her help in the betaing of this story. But also Lil'Inu-Yahsa thank you for all the beta reading you did for me it was a pleasure to have you as a beta.

Coming soon Inuyasha goes back to high school and Shippo starts elementary school.