InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Time to Heal ❯ Reunion ( Chapter 5 )

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Chapter 5 - Reunion

Sesshoumaru froze as he felt the blade bite into his throat.

"Who are you that you believe that you can tell I, Sesshoumaru what to do?" Sesshoumaru demanded.

"Someone who knows exactly what you are capable of. Now let the girl go."

"And if I don't?"

"You may not be around long enough to find out more," The voice said as the blade pressed closer drawing a thin line of blood.

Inuyasha, who had frozen when the sword first appeared, finally found his voice. "Whoever you are, if Kagome gets hurt because of you I will tear you apart."

"Inuyasha relax. Sesshoumaru will be good and let her go. Won't you, Sesshoumaru?"

Sesshoumaru suddenly felt a very feminine body press against his back. "Woman, you have chosen the wrong opponent."

"Let the girl go and we shall see if I have or not." With that, he shoved Kagome away from him, but the sword did not move right away. "Inuyasha, whatever you do, stay within the perimeter of the tree."

"Why should I?" Inuyasha growled already looking for an escape route.

"Trust me, you two are in less danger here then out there, but I will explain later."

.

"If you live long enough."

"You have no idea who you are dealing with Sesshoumaru, so I suggest you keep your opinions to yourself for now." With that, the sword disappeared from against his throat, as did the figure pressed against his back.

"You shall pay for this with your life!" he yelled as he spun just in time to see the woman flip over his head. He turned and attacked in earnest then.

`What does this ningen think she is doing challenging me? I'll kill her easily then I'll take care of my actual business.'

Kagome and Inuyasha had quickly moved out of the way when Sesshoumaru attacked the woman.

Kagome knew they were most likely in her time due to the clothes the woman was wearing. She had on a black cami with two silver and electric blue dragons forming a ying-yang and blue jean hip hugger shorts. Kagome thought that she looked familiar but couldn't place her. She was obviously not Japanese even if she spoke the language flawlessly. Her skin was much too fair and her hair was a rich red-brown that fell in waves to her waist.

`Why do I feel like I should know who she is?"

Inuyasha was having his own thoughts on the mystery woman.

"She is definitely a huntress. She's too strong and confident not to be. How did she know our names? We've never met anyone like her before…" Inuyasha suddenly smelled something he had not in years. He looked hard at the woman, at her fighting style, and especially her sword.

`It's not possible. But she seems to have purposely moved upwind of me and is trying to stay downwind of Sesshoumaru. What is going on?'

Sesshoumaru could not believe it was taking this long. The woman should have weakened by now; after all, she was only a ningen. She was definitely skilled. Only one ningen had ever matched him and she was long dead. He would never allow another to come close.

Over her shoulder, he saw the hanyou tense.

It was the opening she had been looking for. The woman slid in and twisted Toukijin from Sesshoumaru's grasp at the same time as she brought her sword against his throat once again.

"Someone once told me that you should never let your guard down, seems some people just can't take their own advice," the woman taunted.

"Who are you?" Sesshoumaru was shocked, both for the fact that he had been disarmed by a ningen and by what she had just said.

The woman just shook her head. Inuyasha answered his question.

"Ume."