Disclaimer: Me no ownie Inuyasha!
Notes: I've never really tried to write action before, so sorry if this sucks butt.
Saisyo walked with her head held high and a confident aura about her. Sesshomaru was confused. Was this really the timid girl that he met not that long ago? "Saisyo?" he asked.
"Hm?"
"Are you feeling okay? You seem over-confident."
"I'm fine, really," she said. 'Except for the fact that I'm trying to NOT start freaking out!'
Suddenly, Saisyo stopped. "He's near. Everyone stay back. Especially Rin,"
She began running and Sesshomaru watched her go. He couldn't believe he was just letting her go alone. He would never forgive himself if she got killed. 'I shouldn't worry about her, I should be confident in her abilities... Which I am, and I can't help this feeling I get when I look at her. She is more powerful that she seems.'
Saisyo came into a clearing and stood stock still, trying to sense exactly where Kyora was. She took a deep intake of breath, both to calm herself and catch his scent, and opened her blue eyes. "Why don't don't you come out, coward? Why are you hiding from a mere woman such as myself?" she said the last question with sarcasm.
In answer, a cocky laugh was heard. "Do you truly believe that I am hiding from the likes of you? I am only trying to get an idea of how much power you have... Which apparently isn't much,"
"You underestimate me, and that's not smart."
Kyora finally showed himself and came out to fight. Their swords glinted in the sun as they were both drawn. Saisyo smiled as Kyora made the first move, which was dodged easily thanks to the power that she had discovered the night before. "What, are you blind?" she taunted.
That made him mad, and he came at her again.
Instead of dodging, she blocked his blow with a wall of fire and attacked before Kyora knew what had happened. His arm was bleeding, but that was about it.
Then Saisyo saw birds of fire racing at her. She remembered this... From when he first marked her. He was trying to do it the exact same way, but now she knew how to beat him. 'Please let this work!' she willed herself.
Saisyo made the motion with Fire Claw as if she was going to transport, but instead she held out her sword and spun, literally turning herself into a spiraling tunnel of fire. The part of her sword exposed finished off the birds, but she gathered speed, Kyora looking utterly confused.
Suddenly, she let go off her sword completely, sending it, scalding hot, into Kyora's chest. He fell to the ground laughing. "I would never die from that weak of a wound, wench!"
"Oh, really?" Saisyo asked walking over to him.
She took hold of the sword and set it on fire, the fire traveling down the sword and to his body, immediately incinerating him. "Damn you, wench!" were his last words.
She extracted her sword and walked back to her new family... Or at least, it felt like family. As soon as she came through the bushes, Rin ran to her and clung to her leg. "I was so scared! I thought you would be hurt!" she cried.
Tears began streaming down Rin's face. "Rin! Stop crying! I'm okay aren't I? I don't like to see you cry,"
She did her best to wipe away the tears. "I'm sorry,"
Saisyo pulled Rin close to her and said, "Don't be sorry, I shouldn't have yelled at you like that, it's not your fault you were scared, you just care about me... And that's something you don't need to be sorry for."
Sesshomaru walked over to them. Saisyo looked up and smiled. "I did it, it's over."
"You're not hurt, are you?" he asked concernedly.
"No," she replied standing to face him, with her hand still on Rin's shoulder, "But I'm a little tired, and I need to bathe."
He nodded. "You should rest, you haven't fought like that in a while."
"What's weird is that he wasn't able to hit me once,"
Sesshomaru allowed a smile to grace those beautiful lips of his. "I'm not surprised, you're more powerful than your beauty makes you appear."
Saisyo's face turned pink, but she didn't want him to notice, so she changed the subject. "Rin, are you going to take a bath with me?"
"Sure!" she replied happily.