The Brotherhood Battle

Chapter One

Off in the distance all you could hear was the crashing of buildings falling to the ground and the screams of people fleeing the town.

I looked over at Inuyasha who was picking up his sword in the cold night. "I'll be back in a couple minutes "he said with a slight smirk on his face.

I smiled at him and said "are you sure you will be okay without me there to protect you?" I don't think he liked my joke because he hurriedly jumped into the thick patch of forest without a reply.

An hour passed and I was getting a bit worried. I decided I should go to the town and check if everything was okay. I grabbed my bow along with my bundle of arrows.

When I arrived in the town what I saw horrified me. There I saw Inuyasha kneeling on the ground with his sword propped up supporting him. Around him were many dead bodies of humans and various breeds of demon.

His kimono had many rips and he was obviously wounded because I could see the blood running from his chest. The cuts looked deep and Inuyasha looked very weak. Beads of sweat rolled down his face and he was out of breath.

He was surrounded by four dragon-like demons. They were very tall and muscular, acidic saliva dripped from their long razor-like fangs. Slowly what looked to be the leader stepped up and kicked Inuyasha over.

As Inuyasha slammed against the cold ground he made eye contact with me. I was lunging myself from the thick forest when he nodded "no".

Inuyasha looked pathetic as the leader placed his foot on his neck. Immediately I picked up my bow and aimed at this demon. It took me only a split second to line up the shot and when I was just letting go I saw a shard of the shikon jewel embedded into one of the other demons' forearm.

My arrow flew swiftly through the air and struck the head of the demon who was strangling Inuyasha with his foot.

Time seemed to slow as the blood of the demon sprayed across the holder of the shikon jewels' face. He turned and looked in my direction but seemed to miss my location. He looked down at Inuyasha who was coughing up blood. "Finish him Kila" shouted the furious demon. He turned to the other demon and said "come on lets get the fuck outta here!" Then they ran off and disappeared into the north side of the forest.

I quickly aimed for the heart of the demon who was about to kill Inuyasha as he readied his axe. The arrow struck his chest and he fell to the ground as he held the wound. Blood poured from his body as he lay lifeless on the cold dirt.

I ran up to Inuyasha, who was quite weak. I helped him up and brought him back to camp to bandage the wounds. "So did ya see the demon that was shouting out orders, I think he was the leader" said Inuyasha in a weak but steady voice.

"Ya he had a very large shard of the shikon jewel embedded into his forearm" I said.

"We gotta get it, we needa find out more about him and quick" said Inuyasha.

"Well we could go see is lady Kaede knows anything about him, but you need to rest. Those cuts are deep" I said in an unenthusiastic tone.

"I'll be fine, come on lets go" said Inuyasha as he picked up his sword.

The wind was blowing hard as we walked along the silent and scary road. Inuyasha tripped over a stick sending him onto his knees. He had dropped his sword and when he looked up he saw Sesshoumaru picking it up.

"Hello brother….." he said with a smirk on his face.

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Amanda