Bella sat daintily on a fluffy white cloud while she watched the inu-youkai come closer together. Sesshomaru and Inuyasha were their names. Both traveled in their own little groups, harboring their own little humans. A temporarily fallen angel, she was able to talk her way into retaining her powers in exchange for watching the two odd groups of demons. Not that she'd ever do anything with either one, but the two were both rather attractive, the youkai more. She sank down into the center of her refuge as Sesshomaru looked up, and she blended into the shadow of the cloud in her black tight hakamas and haori. Abstract silver swirls wrapped around her legs and her right side.

Bella glanced down at her wrist. One silver star remaining meant that she only had about ten minutes until she had to go down to the ground. Looking down, the two half-brothers exchanged some insults and began to fight. How typical and tiresome, she observed dully. They follow the exact same routine every time they meet. Let's switch it up since we only have seven-odd minutes left anyways… Drawing her sword, she traced circles in the air around the two groups. Silver fire erupted from the ground around them. She sighed through her nose as the little girl Rin began to choke on the white smoke. The stupid girl Kagome tried to test if the fire was real and blacked out from the fumes after approaching ten feet too close. Bella shook her head in disbelief.

Standing near the sun on the cloud so that her face was in shadow, she watched Sesshomaru and Inuyasha stop and look up. The girl had maybe five more minutes. The useless creature was just going to be killed by a demon when she was ten if she did not die now. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were unable to escape or extinguish the flames. Good. She felt herself begin to descend as the final star began to fade. Spiraling her sword, she pulled them out of the circle with a rope of wind. And she ran. So amusing to be chased by a demon, Bella mused as Inuyasha fell behind and Sesshomaru continued to pursue her. He lashed his acidic whip at her and managed to graze her arm.

The burl was disgusting and left a bruise on her otherwise perfect, golden-toned arm. Bella began to form a fire whip to strike him in the same place when she remembered that it was not there. Instead, she pulled a cherry blossom from a passing tree and hurled it forward as she would a throwing star. It formed a pure, pink barrier around his body. It was likely that it stung at first from its purity, but reduced to the size of his missing arm. He was momentarily distracted from attempting to slaughter her, and watched as it materialized into his arm and left a stinging cut where he had given one to Bella. She drew her sword and dashed at him before he could attack her. He drew Tokijin, and their swords collided. Smooth lines defined her toned muscles as she wrenched her sword from his. Only absolute opposites in aura could have achieved that effect!

She pointed her katana at Tenseiga, who promptly switched places with Tokijin. The fight continued for nearly half an hour before Inuyasha arrived. Both pulled back into a resting but defensive stance. "What the hell do you think you're doing trappin' my friends in a fire, you crazy wench?!" Shouted Inuyasha, drawing Tetsuiga.

Bella narrowed her eyes dangerously at him, baring pearly white teeth. "Wench?" She hissed. "You must really wish for me to pull the fire together and burn your friends alive! I'm here to inform you that the angels are declaring war. They'll be dropping in randomly and attacking, as I have done today. But they won't spare your lives as I did. The fire has dissipated now. I'll be following you in your search for Naraku, because my current assignment is to kill him. So you know now to expect that."

"Tell me who your leader is," commanded Sesshomaru.

"I am not a common human that you can control because you have power over me," she told him as she poured powder over a deep wound Sesshomaru had slashed into her left bicep.

"Perhaps you have not taken notice that you are tending a wound that I have inflicted." He answered coldly, ignoring the one on his back.

"If you do not apply this, the wound that I have imposed onto you will not heal either. You know the effects of dragon fire- need I say more?" She threw the bottle at him. Inuyasha had departed the moment she dispelled the fire. "You still have yet to thank me for returning your arm to you."

"You provided me with something useless."

"Well there is only one way to completely restore it. Give me a reason to do it."

"So you know I can easily defeat you with both arms."

"Good enough. But you're wrong." Bella hesitated, then pulled a single sakura petal from a tree. She gently waved her hand over it in circles until it vaporized into energy. It entered her heart and ascended steadily into her mouth with a small shard of her soul. She closed the several yards distance between them and pressed her soft, full lips to his thin firm ones, transferring the energy. A square-nailed hand involuntarily slid into silken silver tresses. His arm glowed an eerie magenta, and the markings returned as the light traveled to his heart and disappeared. She stepped back. "Try it."

Sesshomaru flexed his fingers, then snapped his whip from his new arm and cut down a tree; it had a metallic silver sheen that was not present before. I hope he knows that I only did it because I gave my word indirectly when I told him to name I reason…I think.

Well, I wrote this back in May or June, but never had the chance to post it. Please read and review with tips, comments, and suggestions. Thank you for your time. Enjoy!

~passion assassin