Here's what was happening in the end of Chapter 27:

"I never thought I'd say this before. But, now that the war is actually here, I'm scared." Kagome said, resting her head on his warm chest.

"I will never let anything happen to you." Sesshoumaru said, actually scared himself, not of getting hurt, but of losing his mate. "Let's go. The others are probably waiting." He said, beginning to pull away when suddenly Kagome pulled him back and began to kiss him.

"I love you." She said after kissing him and going back down off her tippy toes.

"Ashiteru." He replied and then led her outside where Kikyou, InuYasha, Kaede, and Oki were all waiting.

Kagome stepped outside. The noise could be heard much louder. And just on the horizon, through the mist of the rain, she could see the dark line of a massive cloud of men coming slowly towards the village.


Wow all my reviewers, I am so so so so so so so so so so so sorry that it has been so long since I have posted the next chapter. I guess it is annoying sometimes to hear excuses, but I had to be a leader at a camp this summer and then I had went away from home off to college, and then when I got there after five days I didn't like it, so now I'm home again and I have even the next chapter done for you, but of course I won't post it till I get some reviews for this one:) hehe. Once again I am so so sorry, and I hope you will still read this chapter, up above I put a tiny summary of what happened in the end of my last chapter in case some people can't remember. Alright I'll leave you to read now!

Disclaimer: Wow, do we have to do this everytime, lol.

Chapter 28- Velvet Light

Kagome and Sesshoumaru stood beside each other with InuYasha and Kikyou on Sesshoumaru's side, and Kaede and Oki on Kagome's side. All of them just waited; they waited for the army to get closer and closer to them. After a few minutes of waiting, the army just seemed to keep growing bigger as more and more men followed up the horizon.

Soon the army was close enough that the mikos knew it was time to create the barrier that would stop them from getting any further. Moving together, they merged their powers and formed an instant barrier. It was the largest one that they had made, which Kagome figured was about a 200 yards distance.

InuYasha and Sesshoumaru stood behind the women and watched as suddenly a whole line of men fell like they had just walked into a wall, which they basically did. If it weren't for it being a war, they would have found it quite a humorous scene.

A third and forth line of men hit the barrier and fell. Each time the army hit, the mikos flinched at the force of the crash. They could see some men getting back up and hitting the barrier with their weapons, trying to break through it.


"What kind of witchery is this!" A man hollered from on the ground.

Another man got up and tried to see who could be creating the barrier. "I think they're priestesses. Why are they defending a village that is run by a half demon?"

"They're traitors to their own kind!"

"Once we get through that barrier, they better not get in the way. If they do…kill them!" The Chief hollered from the front of his army.

"But Chief, how are we going to get through it?"

"I've dealt with demon barriers before, I can't see a miko's being any different. Most barriers will come down with the right amount of force. Alright men! This is what we'll do! On the count of three, all at once ram into the barrier!"

"Chief Sir, won't that hurt us?"

"This is a war, if you expect to come out unhurt then I suggest you leave now!" The Chief yelled with angry eyes. "Alright, ONE! TWO! THREE!" At once all the soldiers plowed themselves at the barrier.


"Ah!" Kagome squealed as the army dealt their barrier a strong blow. The four gritted their teeth and braced themselves for a second blow.

"InuYasha."

InuYasha glanced over at a drenching wet Sesshoumaru as the heavy rain continued to fall.

"It's time." Sesshoumaru said.

"Let's go!" InuYasha hollered and instantly ran at full speed toward the army.

Sesshoumaru glanced at Kagome and hated the look of pain on her face. 'Sorry Kagome, but I'm doing this for you.' He said to himself and then took off up beside InuYasha, running towards the humans.

"Hey! What are you doing?" Kikyou yelled over the thundering noise of the army.

"Sesshoumaru! InuYasha! Come back! Don't do this!" Kagome shouted at the top of her lungs. At that moment she almost lost control of her power, but regained herself again. All she could do was stand there and watch her mate run towards the hundreds, maybe thousands of men. Tears came to her eyes as she realized what Sesshoumaru and InuYasha were going to do.


"Demons! Demons are coming!" The men shouted. Some of them began to turn around and run the opposite way of the barrier.

"Hey! You cowards! Get back to your positions!" The Chief hollered.

"But Sir, th-th-that's the Lord of the Western Lands; Sesshoumaru."

"Yeah, and the other one is InuYasha, his brother." Another man spoke up.

"I don't care who they are. They're demons and we are here to kill them. With an army our size they have no chance." The Chief replied.

"I'm not so sure about that." The man muttered under his breath.

"Again; ONE! TWO! THREE!" All at once the army charged at the barrier.

"This barrier is strong Chi---- Ahhhh!"

To the Chief's surprise there were suddenly hundreds of his men struck dead, they all fell to the ground in a long line. He turned his head to the barrier just in time to see a massive sword raised and a voice shout, "WINDSCAR!" Thankfully for him it wasn't pointing straight at him, but about twenty feet to the right of him. Right before his eyes he saw hundreds of men fall dead, right in line. A second later he heard, "Dragon Strike!" And to his left an explosion of men flew into the air. 'I underestimated these two demons.'

"Come on guys! These two demons are killing our comrades. We must break through that barrier before they kill all of us!" A brave man said, motivating the army around him.


"I didn't think this was part of ye plan Kagome." Kaede said, watching as Sesshoumaru and InuYasha both sent deadly blows at the army.

"It's not. Sesshoumaru had talked about doing this before, but I had told him I didn't want him to. The whole point of stopping this war is to spare innocent lives." Kagome said, a hint of anger in her voice.

"Yes, but who is the innocent here? The ones that the army wants to destroy, or the humans that are bringing the war? If these men started a war to wipe out the demons, whether the demons are good or bad; then are they truly innocent? Do ye not think that they are the wicked hearted?" Kaede asked.

'Kaede always makes a lot of sense. All this army wants is bloodshed, but I bet there are many men in that army that were made to fight. There are probably men that didn't want to bring war on demons in the first place.' "Kaede, you're right. But I bet there are many men in that army that didn't want to kill the demons; who are innocent at heart."

"That is true too. Kagome sometimes sacrifices must be made. Our barrier isn't going to hold them forever." Kaede said, squinting as the men charged at their barrier again. "Sesshoumaru and InuYasha are doing as they feel they must. They are protecting their mates and defending their own existence."

Kagome winced as another few hundred men hit their powers. She began to breathe heavily, and sweatdrops rolled down her forehead.

"We should make the barrier a little smaller. I don't think I can hold this large one much longer." Priestess Oki said, looking over at Kagome, Kaede and Kikyou. They all looked like they were struggling as well.

"Okay, let's do it." Kagome said and focused on making the barrier smaller. "I hope Sesshoumaru and InuYasha know to move back."

"They'll know if the barrier touches them." Kikyou said.


"InuYasha, get back." Sesshoumaru ordered.

"Huh?"

"The barrier, they're shrinking it." Sesshoumaru explained, taking footsteps backwards while the barrier moved towards him. After it stopped, he figured they shrunk it about fifty yards.

"Here they come again." InuYasha said, poising his sword for attack." Haha, they must think the barrier's gone. They're gonna run right into it."

A second after he said that, men crashed into the barrier and then men crashed and tripped over men that fell to the ground.

"Haha! Idiots." InuYasha laughed.

Sesshoumaru turned to look back at Kagome. 'You're doing good Kagome, don't let go yet.' He thought and then turned back to the army. "Dragon Strike!"

"Windscar!"

"Everyone! Hit the barrier again, this time put your backs into it!" The Chief shouted.

"Oh no you don't!" InuYasha yelled and sent another deadly attack through.

Although his attack quickly killed another hundred or more, it did not stop the rest of the army from slamming against the barrier. This time the force was so strong that the barrier disappeared. All four mikos had lost their control from the pain of the attack, and for a moment their powers were gone.

"Oh no! We gotta get the barrier back up!" Kagome shouted, worried to death that the army would get to the village.

"Die you bastards!" InuYasha cursed and swung his sword around, slicing every human within his sword's reach.

Within seconds, hundreds of men came thundering toward the village. Sesshoumaru stood killing every man that he saw. But over two or three hundred men was even a lot just for them to hold back. Feeling like he was getting no where, Sesshoumaru held his sword out in front of him and shot another Dragon Strike out the blade.

"The barrier's back up." InuYasha said happily as he saw the rest of the soldiers stop behind it. "Blades of Blood!"

"Yes! We did it!" Kagome said cheerfully. Her smile quickly turned into a look of fright when she saw ten men coming towards her with their swords raised. She wanted to take Tensaiga out, but she couldn't if she wanted to keep the barrier up. "Sesshoumaru!" She screamed.

Sesshoumaru lashed out his aced whip at the men that were now merely ten feet away from the priestesses.

Kagome watched his acid whip kill everyone except one. The one man he missed walked right up to her. "You'll even kill humans?" Kagome asked, beginning to cower under the soldier's raised blade.

"You're betrayers to your own kind." The man's malicious voice said.

Kagome closed her eyes when his blade was about to come down. But nothing happened. She opened her eyes to see the man's eyes cloud over and blood dripping from his mouth. His sword dropped to the ground in front of her, and she recognized Sesshoumaru's clawed hand that pulled back out of the soldier's stomach.

Kagome smiled up at Sesshoumaru, all the while maintaining her focus on the barrier as best as she could.

Sesshoumaru turned back around just in time to kill another soldier who was about to lunge at him. He could see InuYasha out there still fighting off the rest of the humans. Getting back to InuYasha, he attacked more and more men. What began to worry him was that while he and InuYasha were busy killing the remaining soldiers that got inside the barrier, the rest of the army continued to ram into the barrier. And just as he raised his sword again, a shrilling scream hit his ears. He finished off the man in front of him and when he looked back, it was Priestess Oki.

"Get away from her!" Kagome shouted and drew out the Tensaiga. Priestess Oki grasped her shoulder and watched Kagome swing her large sword towards the raged man. The sword sent a deadly attack right through him.

Sesshoumaru was so relieved that the scream didn't come from Kagome and then proud of her when she killed the soldier. He had been pre-occupied for only a second, but just in that the second the entire barrier was gone and the whole army was heading toward him like a stampede. There were so many numbers that it could be described as a large back cloud moving over the hill and towards the village.

"Dammit!" InuYasha cursed. Lifting his sword, he sent another attack that killed a straight line of men. This time his attack seemed to do barely anything to their numbers. They just kept coming. "Here they come." InuYasha said, and then suddenly the army swept into him and around him like a wave. "Ah!" He grunted as men flew past the side of him their swords, daggers, and any other sharp weapons sliced his sides and arms. While most of them just fled by, some would stop to try and kill him.

Sesshoumaru could barely see InuYasha, but he could hear his grunts and smell his blood. There were so many smells at once, but one smell just made him furious, and that was the smell of his own blood. "Kagome! Get Oki and yourself away from here!" Sesshoumaru yelled as he swung and slashed in front of him.

"Oh—my—gosh!" Was all Kagome could say when she saw the cloud of men running towards the village. 'Sesshoumaru was right. Sesshoumaru was right!' She thought to herself. Fear, anger, sadness, and the feeling of death filled her all at once. For a moment she was almost in a daze watching the army getting closer. Sesshoumaru's voice shook her out of it and she bent down to help Oki. "Priestess Oki, you're going to have to help me help you. Do you think you can still use your arms a little?"

"Yes, why?"

"You can't fight with that deep a wound. The safest place for you is to hide up in a tree. Come on, I'll help you up that large oak over there."

"Okay." Oki replied and got up off the ground. As quickly as they could, they got to the tree and Kagome gave her a push up. Oki put both arms up over the large branch; each push to get herself up in a sitting position threw a sharp pain through her shoulder. When she sat up and looked down, the army was almost at the village. "They're almost here Kagome! Run!" Oki said, quivering worry in her voice.

"No, I'm not running." Kagome said, determination in her eyes.

"And neither are we." A bunch of voices said at once from behind Kagome.

Kagome turned around to a sight that made her smile and cry of joy. About two hundred people stood in front of her. Humans from the village and demons she had never seen before. They were all ready for battle. In front of the crowd were Kaede and Kikyou.

"You didn't think we'd leave defending the demon's existence all up to you, did you?" A familiar voice said.

Kagome looked up, and hovering in the air was Kirara, Miroku, and Sango.

"Now they're almost here! Let's go!" Sango hollered.

With a smile, Kagome ran out in front of her army and with her sword pointing at the on coming war she shouted, "CHAAAAARGE!"


"Sesshoumaru, look!" InuYasha said while swinging his sword.

Sesshoumaru looked to see what was going on, and was shocked at what he saw. There was Kagome running out in front of an army of humans and demons. When she stepped in the middle, she pointed her sword at the enemy. 'Kagome.'

"CHAAAAARGE!"

The youkai's stomach flipped. He felt like getting right to his mate and taking her far away from the battle so she couldn't get hurt, but he knew he couldn't do that. All he could do is try to keep one eye on her while he's fighting.

Kagome crashed right into the battle. Immediately she had cuts on her arms. She was so focused on fighting that she didn't even feel the cuts. Behind her, all her warriors ran into the battle as well, slicing and beheading. The demons would stomp, throw, slash, or burn any soldier in their path.

"Die!" Kagome screamed as she stabbed another man right through the heart. Backing up to give herself a few feet space, she swung Tensaiga and let a blast of purple light out at the battle in front of her.

There were a hundred screams at once as the men all fell dead.

"Kill them! Kill them all!" The Chief shouted so loud that almost all the battleground could hear him.

Sesshoumaru followed the voice with his eyes and found where the Chief was. He stood out a little more because of his extra armor and larger metal helmet. 'Stupid fool.' He thought. Because of the Chief's loud mouth he gave away his position.

Although Kagome had a large amount of people to her defense, her small army was nothing compared to the numbers of the enemy. Soon she noticed that her army was getting pushed back further and further. They had been pushed back so far that she was now fighting between some huts in the village.

She continued to swing Tensaiga and block her enemy's swings when she suddenly tripped over something and landed on her butt, and her sword flung from her grasp and hit the ground ahead of her. Quickly glancing at what she had tripped over, it was a man from the village. She hated knowing that the good people on her side were dying.

"Give up wench." The wet, grizzly man said and stepped on Tensaiga's blade just as Kagome went for it. "That's a nice blade you got there. Here, you can have this one." He said and thrust his bloodied, rusted sword at her.

Kagome rolled over to avoid the sword, but she didn't roll fast enough. The man's blade got her right through her left arm. Before she could cringe in pain, the man in front of her was dead. His head was cut clean off by Sango's Hiraikotsu.

"Kagome are you okay?" Sango asked from above her.

"Yeah, I just gotta pull this-

"Don't pull that out." Sesshoumaru said, landing right beside her.

"Sesshoumaru." Kagome said, staring at him like he was a miracle.

"Let me pull it so it comes out straight." He ordered and took hold of the blade sticking out at just below the handle. "This is going to hurt." He warned and then slowly brought the blade out of her flesh.

Kagome groaned as it slid out. Once out, the wound began to bleed even worse.

Sesshoumaru tore a piece of his white kimono off and wrapped it tightly around her arm. All the while Kirara, Miroku, and Sango kept soldiers off of them. "I don't want you to fight anymore. You shouldn't fight with that wound."

"Yes I can! I want to. I can still move the rest of my body. I think the sword got mostly flesh and muscle." She replied quickly.

Sesshoumaru gave her a long stare and then nodded a reluctant 'ok.' He knew Kagome wouldn't back down from her dicision. Getting up he turned away from Kagome and sent a strong Dragon Strike at the soldiers before him.

"Sesshoumaru, InuYasha needs help!" Kagome said, noticing InuYasha about a hundred yards away, he was screaming as thirty men crowded around him, slicing him all over.

Sesshoumaru knew InuYasha wasn't going to make it if he didn't help him. With a big leap he landed in front of InuYasha and began killing every soldier around him using his sword and driving his claws into chests.

InuYasha took in deep breaths while Sesshoumaru kept most of the men away from him. The occasional man got passed the youkai and InuYasha reached his hand out to tear him up. 'Why is he saving me?' InuYasha wondered. He figured Sesshoumaru had gotten a little softer since being with Kagome, but not this soft.

Kagome fought on, and was unknowingly getting pushed back passed the huts and now into the forest. Looking ahead she was devastated to see most of the huts and houses on fire. "Get a taste of this!" She said as she raised Tensaiga again and shot out her power. "I think I'll call it, 'Velvet Light,' since everyone else seems to have names for their attacks." She said more to herself than anyone else. 'Why does it seem this army's numbers are never decreasing?' She thought, looking out at the hill to still see hundreds of soldiers. She was getting so far away now that she couldn't see Sesshoumaru or InuYasha anymore.

Raising her sword again, this time a sharp pain went through her bandaged arm. Glancing at her arm, there was blood getting through the cloth. Swinging her sword she killed many. 'Where is Sango, Kaede, and Kikyou?' She wondered. She looked all around and couldn't see any of her friends. In the forest it got really dark, and all she could see was the constant rain coming down and the soldiers running throughout the trees.

Another group of men came running towards her. Scared, she backed away, tripped over a tree root and then got back up again. "Sesshoumaru? Sango? Miroku? Anyone!" She called, feeling completely alone.

"You're all alone sweetheart." A deep devilish voice said from the front of the group.

Getting a surge of courage, she pointed her sword at the men. "You aren't going to kill me that easily." She said and shot her Velvet Light out of the blade.

All the men screamed and fell dead. But not all of them, since the attack only shot in a straight line it missed the soldiers on the sides.

"Gotcha!"

Kagome screamed. Two big dirty hands grabbed her from behind. Onc hand laid on her mouth and the other on her waist. Fear struck her more than ever, sending adrenaline through her veins, she hit the man in the stomach with her elbow and then kicked back, luckily hitting him in the groin. As soon as the man let go, she put a barrier around herself. It was all she could do with all these men so close to her, and her arm was in so much pain that it was getting numb.


"Where's Kagome?" Sesshoumaru said, looking all around. He could see Kikyou and a few village men and the demons, but no sign of Kagome.

"I don't know." InuYasha said, beating another soldier off of him. After Sesshoumaru fended the humans off of him for a few minutes, he had been able to get back up and help fight again.

"I don't even pick up Kagome's scent through all of this." InuYasha said.

By now the army's numbers had gone down a lot. Sesshoumaru could actually see the ground, even though there was still a lot of men to kill. Around him and InuYasha had cleared and now all the men were by the houses and huts where Kikyou was.

Sesshoumaru ran up to what seemed the last of the army. While he was running he saw Oki still sitting in the tree, she had put a barrier around herself.

"Kikyou, let me handle them!" InuYasha shouted, landing in front of his mate and instantly battling again.

"Kikyou did you see where Kagome went?" Sesshoumaru asked.

"No, I haven't seen her for quite sometime." Kikyou replied.

'Damn. Why did I take my eye off her?' He thought, angry with himself. He hoped that Kagome had taken off to some place safe and wasn't hurt. For a millisecond he thought he caught Kagome's scent and then it was gone again. Quickly he was brought out of his thought when he saw a soldier come at him. Thrusting his hand out, it went right through the soldier's middle. Then pulling his hand back out, he looked to his left and there was the Chief. He looked to be cowering against one of the huts that weren't burnt down and talking to himself. Sesshoumaru walked over to the hut, as he got closer he could hear what the Chief was saying. He was mumbling, "I was wrong. I was wrong," over and over again.

The Chief lifted his eyes when he saw Sesshoumaru stop in front of him. His eyes grew wide with terror and he tried to run left, then right, but the youkai blocked him everytime.

"You should never have brought war against demons. Unfortunately, you're not going to live to learn from your mistake." Sesshoumaru said with a dangerously soft voice and a wicked smile.

"I was wrong men! Run for your lives!" The Chief hollered, his words full of fear and despair.

Holding his sword out, blood dripping down his hand from the last soldier he killed, Sesshoumaru swung his sword sideways right through the middle of the Chief.

All the soldiers stopped what they were doing for a moment to look over at their Chief. Their eyes almost burst out of their sockets when they saw the top half of their Chief's body slide off the bottom half and then onto the ground, followed by the bottom half which toppled over to the ground. Instead of fighting, they all turned and ran.

Sesshoumaru wasn't going to allow all of them to get away that easily. Once they were all running away from the village he sent one last Dragon Strike. Satisfying enough for him, it killed almost all of them. Only fifty or so men were left alive, and he let them continue running away.

Unfortunately, the men with Kagome were too far away to hear the cries of the rest of the army.


Tears came to Kagome's eyes. She was sitting with her arms wrapped around her legs, and her head tucked into her knees. She felt so alone as she sat, taking every hit to her barrier. The men had been standing there, beating at her barrier for what seemed like an hour to her, but was only twenty minutes.

Holding the barrier around herself was getting harder and harder as she lost more and more blood. Her arm was so numb that she couldn't feel it, and the more blood she lost the more dizzy she got. And why did she feel like throwing up? She knew she was gonna have to get away from these men before she gets so tired that her barrier would disappear. She could even faint, which would be the worst thing to happen.

Gaining up all her energy, she held Tensaiga firmly with her right hand and took a fast leap through two men. Without looking back, she ran.

"She's getting away!"

"No she's not." A man said and took out a dagger. Aiming as well as he could, he threw the dagger straight for Kagome. A second later it penetrated into the back of Kagome's right thigh.

"Ahh!" Kagome squealed and her body smacked into the ground. Reaching her arm down to her thigh, she grabbed the dagger and yanked it out. This was it! She had enough of these men and would kill them if it took the rest of her strength. Slowly she rose up using her good arm and then bending her upper body slowly, she stood up straight. Mud and leaves fell off of her wet hair.

The men stopped in their tracks, stunned to see her standing.

Kagome turned around. The men were twenty feet away. Glaring through her raven black bangs she said, "why do you insist on killing me?" Her voice was trembling with anger.

"You defend the youkai, which means you're no better than they are. And a Priestess too. I would think a Priestess would want all demons dead." The leader of the group replied.

"Priestesses protect the innocent and rid of evil, like you." She said, a murderous tone in her voice. Lifting Tensaiga, she thought of all the innocent lives that died in this battle and swung down the blade, sending Velvet Light into all of them.

Looking around, she didn't know where to go. All she knew was that she had to find a place to sit and try to bandage her leg now. Limping away from the dead bodies, she went far enough away that she couldn't see them anymore. Gazing to her left she saw a small dip in the ground covered with leaves like a blanket. At that time it looked like a great place to lie down. Slowly she crouched down into it and then laid her head on a root from the tree behind her. The dip seemed to hide her with the tall trees that encircled it like cage bars.


"Did you hear that?" Sesshoumaru asked.

"Yeah." InuYasha answered, his ears pinned towards the words.

'That sounded like Kagome's scream.' Sesshoumaru said to himself and took off the ground. He flew over the forest, looking down through the trees.

After a few minutes he saw a pile of men all dead on the ground. The smell of their blood was strong in the air, and the smell of Kagome's. Swooping down, he landed in front of the dead soldiers. There was no sign of Kagome being near them, but her scent was even stronger. He realized when he saw a trail of blood drips in the dirt ahead, that Kagome had gone that way, and she was wounded bad.


Kagome leaned over a tree and threw up. She didn't understand why she suddenly felt so sick. Was it because of her blood loss? She didn't know. After throwing up she felt so light-headed that her vision kept going blurry. She didn't even have the energy to tear off a piece of her clothing and wrap it around her leg.

Tensaiga lay by her side, one of her hands still in the handle. She had grown to like the sword without even realizing it. Her mind seemed to be everywhere. She was wondering if the war was over, if all her friends were alive, how many of her army died. But most of all she was thinking about Sesshoumaru. He would be devastated if she died, even worse than devastated. He was completely against her fighting in the first place. 'Oh Sesshoumaru, I'm sorry. I wish you were here.' She thought, looking up to the sky and letting the rain clean her face. Lightning flashed across the sky with a clap of thunder to follow. She began to think she would die there. She knew already that she wouldn't be able to get back up. 'Sesshoumaru will come. I know he will! We have to raise Rin together, and start a family. He'll come.' She said to herself. Closing her eyes she began to sing.

"In the mountain.

In the forest.

In the wind.

In a dream.

Where are you, Sesshoumaru-sama?

With an ally like Jaken-sama. (She giggled inside about the Jaken part.)

I will wait alone until you come.

Sesshoumaru-sama, please return."


Well, the war happened, and this is the first time I ever tried to describe a war, so I hope I didn't do it too badly. Anyways, next chapter will be up on September 26th ( if I get some reviews of course). I hope you enjoyed, all have a good day!