Chapter 3
Mitsuhide quickly threw up his naginata to ward off the attack from the hanyou, who now seemed to have transformed into a full demon. He slashed the blade in a diagonal motion, creating a large sonic wave which ripped from the air and launched itself at the hanyou. He smirked as it crashed into him, shredding his haori and knocking him to the ground but scowled as the hanyou almost instantly rebounded, his companions now gathered around his side but watching him warily. It seemed that he could not control that form from turning against his companions. Mitsuhide jumped down to the ground but kept close attention to the monk, who seemed to have an aura radiating from his hand as he swung his naginata's earth end into the ground, creating a large fissure that split the ground from underneath them, separating them into two groups as the rift continued to expand. The dead kitsune fell into the void the fissure created, as the monk and miko were forced to the left, and the tajiya and hanyou to the right. His next strategy was to keep them in a stationary position where he could pick them off one by one. He began to swing again to the ground but stopped when he spotted that demon from before, Sesshomarou lowering to the ground in front of him.
"So we meet again, Mitsuhide…" Sesshomarou stated plainly as he rested his hand on the sword strapped at his waist.
"You! You're the one who slaughtered those conscripts back near where we met."
"Indeed l am, but that is beside the point, l am going to be the one to kill Inuyasha, you would do best to leave right now."
"And lf l don't?" he rejoined defiantly, propping a fist on his hip.
"Then you will die right here."
Mitsuhide chuckled slightly as his face became serious, turning around to face his new challenger. Sparks seemed to flow between their eyes as Sesshomarou simply flicked his wrist, creating a long green whip of energy and charged forward towards him, whipping at him in a horizontal motion. Mitsuhide threw his naginata up across his chest, deflecting the attack, then slamming the weapon into the ground, watching as a large earth column shot up around them, trapping them inside it's middle preventing any help from the ones outside. Sprinting forward, he slid the naginata along the ground causing clay spikes to jut out from the ground.
Sesshomarou easily jumped from left to right, evading the spikes as he came to a decision to finish this quickly. Leaping into the air, he quickly unsheathed his sword Tokijin as he sailed towards Mitsuhide from the right, using the advantage to attack him while he is off balance.
Mitsuhide glanced over to his left and pivoted on his back foot, rolling to the left just as Sesshomarou swung his blade towards Mitsuhide's jugular. He swung one end of his own weapon into Sesshomarou's torso, the blood splattering from the wound and across his face before flipping it around and thrusting the other end into his back, smirking as it drives clear through him, the tip of the blade sticking out of the Youkai's stomach. Normally, against a demon of this caliber, this would have no effect, but seeing as how this is one of the rare elemental weapons, he hears wind shooting from inside the skewered Sesshomarou, causing ripples from his blade to cut through various places in his body, severing vessels and causing blood to gush internally. Twisting the weapon around some inside of him, Mitsuhide removed it abruptly and slid it back into it's sheath. Clicking the blade back into place, the sound of Sesshomarou hitting the ground reached his ears, and he turned around once more to face him, smirking as he slips onto his knees.
"l told you demon, I'm not that easy to kill."
"Pathetic human. This Sesshomarou will exact revenge that most befits a person of your station."
"See you then demon," Mitsuhide replies, smirking slightly as he walked off, watching the clay column recede back into the ground, exposing Sesshomarou's body to the people who had just been relying on sound to determine the fight. He chuckled as they all gaped at him before running over to Sesshomarou. Mitsuhide then walked off into the village, determined to get some well deserved food and rest there.