I'm back! (If you didn't know by now...) I thank you for the people who waited for my return! Ok, here are a few things...

For one, I'm am trying to correct the spelling mistakes on Curse of the Demon Lord before updating this one because, if i update this one and people don't know what is this story is about, they are going to read the first one. And i know people hate spelling mistakes... I think you get the rest...

Ok, i have said enough, on with the fanfic!

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha and neither do you...

Chapter 23: A Battle Fought Together

Mouko stood there trying to figure out why. But then again, he remembered that he was searching for her in the first place. He mentaly slapped himself for forgetting carried away easily. "Um Shida?"

"Yes?"

"I have a questiong to as. Well, it's more like a favor..."

"I can't make someone fall in love."

"I know that! I wasn't going to ask you that!" He stopped and itched his head. "You see, there is this person who..." Th ground started to shake. "Great! Right when I had a train of thought going too!"

"It's a snake youkai! Huge! It's right under you!" Mouko leaped just in time when the demon emerged. He was huge like she said. Shida floated higherin to the air to see Mouko safely on a branch. She sighed with relief. The sanke turned its head toward her and got ready to strike.

"Hey! Do you have any manners! It's rude to interupt when someone is trying to say something!" Mouko yelled from the branch. The snake simply whipped his tail his way. Mouko leaped to another tree safely. Shida watched as he distracted the snake. "Get out of here! I can take him! I'll deal with you later!"

She didn't want to leave him alon. She watched as the snake tried to bite him. "Watch out for his deadle venom!"

"I said get out of here!"

"No! I won't leave you!" Shida clapped her hands and a temporary shield appeared around him. Mouko swore he heard someone else say that, as if it was deja vu. He jumped and slashed at the snake. It's scales were rock hard. "Damn! My claws are no good." He dodged another blow but he didn't see the on coming tail creep up on him.

"Watch out!" It was too late. The snake managed to break the shield. The snake binded him. The snake started to smash him in to near by rocks. "Leave him alone!" Shida's palms started to glow and she blasted the snake in the head. The snake tossed him and started to advance on her. The snake came up from behind her but she teleported on his side and blasted him. Mouko got up and saw Shida take on the youkai by herself.

"Hey! I'm not done yet!" He sprang into the air and slanded on top of the snake's head. He clawed out one of the snake's eyes out. The snake hissed in agonyand violently shook Mouko off. The snake was mad. His scales turned in to spikes. Where ever he swatted at, it was reduced to tiny peices. Shida got a shield around herself in time before the snake batted her away. He slammed in to a tree and was knocked out cold. Mouko saw this and dodged the snake's attacks. He growled. "Hey! I need her alive!" The snake hissed and launched it's spikes at him. Mouko dodge most of them except one. It peirced through his upper leg. Mouko grunted and fell to his kees with sinister eyes. "I will not lose! Not now!" Mouko looked at his opponent and yanked out the spike. The snake encircled him and constricted him. Mouko screamed as the snake sqeezed him tighter. He manged to wiggle one hand free. It was the one which held the spike.. The snake opedned his mouth and hissed. At the right moment Mouko threw the point object and the snake accidenlty inhaled at the wrong moment. Pretty soon the snake was hacking and died. Mouko jumped out of the snake's grasp. He stumbled toward Shida to see if she was alright. Right before her got to her, he fainted.

Note: ok, here is another fight scene. (i can't write them!) but, on to the next chappie!

R&R!