What's mine is yours, But what's mine is mine

Chapter 18: Enemy or Ally

Direct hit.

Only, it had been easily blocked by the silver haired lord. He pushed back with only one hand.

Such strength.

As he was pushed back, the intruder swung his weapon, Kusarigama, with the speed of light towards the lord.

This time he managed to rip Sesshomaru's haori. A huge rip at the red hem line of his right sleeve.

Sesshomaru smirked. He couldn't care less. But the enemy sure is interesting. His weapon, is a composite weapon. It consisted of a kama (sickle) attached to a long metal chain (manriki) with a heavy iron weight at the end.

"Who sent you?" Sesshomaru asked.

"That doesn't concern you." The man behind the black face mask answered.

He was wearing a black hunter's armor, green around the neck that ends on a line just above his right chest, tied on a knot. The same shade of green tied to both his shoulders to secure the armor pads he wore. He also wore an armor cover on his chest and abdominal area. His green sash swaying in his hips as he moved about. His brown hair and chocolate orbs, reminded sesshomaru of something else equally familiar.

The lord isn't one to idle. As he threw his questions to interrogate the intruder, he attacked at the same time.

He slashed bakusaiga against the enemy. The man managed to dodge the attack but didn't see a follow through coming. The lord managed to cut through the enemy's armor and into his left forearm, revealing his tattoo. One hit.

But that wound didn't stop the man. The slippery bastard moved to the lord's left backside.

He countered seeing how the lord got distracted for a mere second. Rotating Kusarigama, turning it upside down, he pushed its sharp end from beneath his left arm to jabbed through the lord's back.

He got Sesshomaru. But the lord backed away.

The one that was hit wasn't him, but his mokomoko.

That stupid white fur!

But he won't let the western lord get the upper hand.

The kusarigama was used to bludgeon opponents with the weighted end, or entangle them with the chain, allowing the user to rush forward and finish the opponent off with the sickle end. The long length of the chain (10 feet or more) allowed the user to keep opponents at a distance, which made it useful when facing more heavily armored opponents, like a the western lord for example.

And he did just that.

The moment the lord backed away he immediately swung his weapon after him.

The intruder managed to immobilize Sesshomaru's right arm that held bakusaiga. Chains wrapped around his arm. Dragging him closer to the insolent man a few feet across him.

Sesshomaru summoned tensaiga. He held up his left arm, palms open, in the sword's direction. And in a mere second it removed itself from the tree and flew back to Sesshomaru's grip.

In another split second he had pinned down the chain to the ground. Halting its pulling grip, freeing himself.

Sesshomaru may have pinned down the troublesome chain with tensaiga, but the intruder still had cards under his sleeves.

Unknown to many, the two weapons that make up the Kusari-Gama (the Kama scythe and the Kusari-Fundo chain) can be used separately as well.

The intruder jumped upwards detaching the kama scythe from the chain and flung himself attacking the lord head on.

Sesshomaru countered with a round house kick.

Hitting the enemy at the back.

He fell flat on his face to the ground but countered immediately after when Sesshomaru stepped forward. The lord received a rather full kick at the chest. Sending bakusaiga flying towards a tree. What damage, little if any, was waylaid by the protection he wore. His armor proved to be sturdy.

As he was forced back by the kick, Sesshomaru pulled tensaiga from the ground, along with the kusari. He grabbed hold of the chains and he used it against the owner.

He whipped at him, like lashing out punishment. Hitting the enemy's collar bone. The foe backed away near the trees. And as he did, Sesshomaru copied his signature move. Swinging the kusari, towards the enemy.

The long chain swung around the owner. He could not escape its grasp. It caught him, rendering him immobile.

The lord used tensaiga in the scythe's stead. Pinning him to the tree.

Sesshomaru picked up his other sword as he approached. He pointed bakusaiga against the man's throat.

"Do not make me repeat myself-"

"Sesshomaru?"

He was about to take the living daylights out of the man when he heard her call him at the same time.

The intruder smiled beneath his mask.

Rin had always the perfect timing.

He broke free of Sesshomaru's lock the moment he turned around to where the voice came. He wasn't the master of Kusarigama for nothing.

Sesshomaru cursed beneath his breath. He sheathed both his sword.

Then came Rin from behind the bushes.

"Here you are. Were you talking to someone just now?"

"No." He denied. Folding his haori as he did so his wife wouldn't see the torn sleeve.