Inuyasha VS Sanosuke
By: MJ23

It was a bright sunny day with birds singing and a squirrel going about its typical daily business. It suddenly perks up and makes a run for the nearest tree as just over a small hill comes a group of people traveling a path near the cliff of a canyon. Two of them are yelling at the top of their lungs at each other with their faces very close in a heated argument.
“Are you some kind of idiot? How could the Earth revolve around the Sun? We’d either suffer from motion sickness or fly off the Earth!” argued one of the two. He had silver hair, yellow eyes, and odd dog ears on the top of his head. He wore a very baggy outfit that is red in color, a beaded necklace, and a Katana on his hip.
“Inuyasha! It’s called gravity! It’s what keeps everything on the ground you numb skull!” yelled the girl he was arguing with. She wore a Japanese school outfit, a backpack, and bow with quiver of arrows. Her hair is black and her eyes brown.
“Ah! There you go again with that gravity crap, Kagome! You really are just a stupid little girl!” says Inuyasha in a flailing of his arms.
Ahead of the two of them the rest of the group tried to ignore them to the best of their abilities, but it wasn’t working.
“They bicker like little children,” states Miroku.
“How much longer do you think that they will keep this up?” asked Shippo.
“Well, they’ve been at it for the past 4 miles, who knows,” explained Sango.
“Why do you always have t- oops!” Kagome starts but she is interrupted as she drops a small bottle with some jewels in it. Inuyasha sees this and freaks out as the bottle starts to roll. “I’ll get it,” said Kagome as the bottle rolls away and then drops over the cliff. Everyone in the group drops their jaws in shock.
“KAGOME!” Yells Inuyasha as he runs out to the edge of the cliff and looks down the canyon to see where the bottle fell. “You really are a stupid girl! How could you let that happen? Where did it go…”
Kagome is now totally agitated and tired of Inuyasha insulting her for today. She clenches her fist and yells: “Go and find it then! SIT BOY!”
Suddenly Inuyasha feels his neck get heavy and he is pulled into the canyon as he screams out Kagome’s name before disappearing.

The river at the bottom of this canyon flowed nicely as a man sat with a fishing pole in hand and a large item next to him. The man wears white pants, a white coat, a red headband, and bandages on his torso and arms. He has a small twig in his mouth and a bored look on his face as he sits there watching the water whip past him.
“Aw man, this is so boring. Why did Kenshin have to do Laundry today? Why could the squirt come with me?” he sighs to himself as he leans back a bit.
Suddenly he perks up as he feels a small tug on the pole. Then again and again. He quickly whips the pole back and it becomes a frenzy of pulling and splashing as he begins to pull hard to bring in the fish on the other end.
“Wow! This must be some sucker of a fish, but I’m not going to let it get away from m-,“ he stops as he is pinked in the forehead by a small shiny object. The object rolls across the ground and stops as the man blinks a dazed confusion that he doesn’t see the huge red object land on him snapping the fishing pole and letting the mans dinner get away.
The red object got up. Go figure it was a man, he was looking up the side of the canyon as he starts to curse up at its edge at someone named Kagome. The other one on the ground rolls over and picks up the small bottle as he slowly stands up. The one in red looks over his shoulder and spots the bottle in the man’s hand.
“Hey you, Give me that bottle!” he yelled.
“No way,” he holds up his broken fishing pole as he explains, “you broke my pole and let dinner get away. I need to take something back to the Little Miss so she doesn’t pulverize me.”
“You stupid human, you don’t understand what those are, give them back to me now!” he screams as he charges at the man. He is stopped by a palm to his forehead as he blinks he then starts to flail his arms around trying to push the man back. “Who do you think you are?!”
“My name is Sanosuke, Sanosuke Sagara,” Sano blinks a few times at this things ears, “Who or what are you?”
“I am Inuyasha you half brained brawn bag! I’m a half-demon too, but that doesn’t matter! Give me that bottle before I destroy you!”
“D-demon…?” asks Sano as he suddenly freaks out grips Inuyasha’s head harder quickly lifting him and giving him a swift kick to the side to punt him across the river. He then runs over to his other large item to defend himself.
Inuyasha lands on his feet and spins around as he draws his weapon. He’s fully enraged as he summons the power of his weapon, The Tetsuaiga. He whips it behind him as he takes two quick running steps and jumps over the river at Sano. He brings his sword up over his head as the distance closes rapidly.
Sano reaches his item as he stuffs the bottle into the bandages around his torso and uncloaks it to reveal a weapon that could be considered a weapon of it’s day and age but as the revolution had ended it was used less and less because it’s large size and weight made it too difficult to wield and so it’s somewhat of a lost fighting style, the Zanbattou. Sano quickly picks it up and shields himself from Inuyasha’s vertical two-handed slash.
As Inuyasha flips over Sano he spins counter-clockwise to build up momentum and he gives it a mighty horizontal swing at Inuyasha just as he lands, but to Sano’s dismay Inuyasha is forced to duck underneath the blade. Being as persistent as he is, Sano let the stone weapon swing through as he put his arms above his head a finished another counter-clockwise spin but changing a horizontal strike into a vertical and using the momentum and weight of the weapon to attack Inuyasha.
Man he’s fast! Thought Inuyasha as he turned to block the attack but the force put him on one knee. And strong! Inuyasha shifted himself into a clockwise spin and used his foot to sweep low but Sano saw this easily and jumped back. To Sano’s surprise through Inuyasha was ready for him to as Tetsuaiga came around slashing at him as well. He nearly dodged as the sword put two slits into the front of his flailing coat. He landed and frowned at Inuyasha for putting another couple of hours in stitch work that would have to go into the coat again.
“You think you’re real funny, don’t you?” said Sano as he shifted Zanbattou behind his back holding it horizontal.
“What are you talking about puny human?” frowned Inuyasha as he holds Tetsuaiga out in front of him.
“Cutting my coat like that. After I beat the crap out of you I’m going to use your hair to fix it.”
“We’ll see about that mortal!”
“Here comes, ROUND 2!”
Sano quickly starts to whip Zanbattou around to his front and then up over his head. He then starts to spin it gaining speed and creating a vortex of wind around him as the weapon picks up in speed. Inuyasha frowns as he says: “I have no time for games!” He begins his charge to stab Sano right through with Tetsuaiga. Sano smirks and dodges to the left as Inuyasha slips by as he final spin catches Zanbattou behind him and uses the full force of its momentum, weight, and his own strength into one attack he calls the Centrifuge Attack. Inuyasha freaks but he doesn’t give up as he swings Tetsuaiga up at the weapon. A loud crash of metal on stone sends both warriors flying back and to the ground.
Sano is the first to get up, as he does though he notices something odd about Zanbattou. It’s lighter than it should be. He looks at it and goes into shock as it’s broken, again. He grits his teeth as it cost him a fortune to fix it after his battle with Kenshin who cut it in half. He drops it and cracks his knuckles as he readies himself to fight bare handed against Inuyasha.
Inuyasha staggers up as he glares at Sano. “You’re really ticking me off, mortal.”
“Shut up and bring it you mutt.”
“Grrr! I’ll show you who the dog is puny mort-,” Inuyasha goes cold as the sight of Tetsuaiga being held before him. It was broken just like Zanbattou. “How in the hell?! RAH!!! You’re going to pay for this you human!” He drops Tetsuaiga and charges with incredible speed as he rears his claw back, closes the distance, and thrusts out with it for Sano’s chest.
Sano has seen this speed once before and since then he’s grown used to it. Kenshin was this fast but he kept his cool much better that this short tempered fool. This time Sano dodges to the right of Inuyasha’s attack and rears back his right fist with his two lower knuckles extended. He thrusts it out aimed right at Inuyasha’s cheek as he screams: “Futtai ino Kiwami!”
As Inuyasha’s sight went black he thought in an instant about the attack he just got hit by. This is odd, I only got hit once but how could one punch possess so much power? Inuyasha lands in a corkscrew fashion as his vision returns from opening his eyes.
“How, how did you do that?” Inuyasha was too confused not to ask.
“The Futtai ino Kiwami is a little trade secret I learned from a friend. I will tell you however that what you just got hit by was the full extent of force behind that punch,” replies Sano as he rubs his right wrist. “If you’d like another demonstration, I’d be happy to show you again.”
“I have a few tricks of my own,” chuckles Inuyasha as he slowly gets up. “My tricks got a nifty name too, heh, it’s…” He charges in as he swipes his claw horizontally at Sano. “Soul Scattering Iron Claw!”
Sano was in shock as he saw this attack coming at him he quickly picked up speed and jumped right over the shockwave heading for him as he reared back his right fist again for another Futtai ino Kiwami. Inuyasha was quick to react and make a counter attack as he spins and lands a double heel drop kick right in Sano’s chest knocking the wind from his lungs and with the combined force on Inyasha’s spin, strength, and Sano’s momentum; Sano is knocked clear across the river head under heels with a half spin slamming Sano into the canyon wall and knocking Sano out.
Inuyasha slowly got up heavily breathing from being so tired of this battle. He turns around and looks at Sano lying in his crater. “Stupid human, I’ll kill you.” He starts to charge again as he jumps into the air crossing the river with his claw reared back as he aimed for Sano’s heart. His excitement rose as he began to descend and he begins to scream in anger.
“SIT BOY!”
Inuyasha suddenly face plants right infront of Sano as Kagome and the rest come into view from behind a pillar.
“Whew, got here just in time,” says Kagome as she walks up to the two fallen bodies.
“What was that for?! This moron attacked me! I was defending myself!”
“Yeah right Inuyasha, Sango and Miroku will mend this man’s wounds,” she grabs his ear and pulls him off to the side as they begin to argue again. After about 10 minutes and many sit commands the group leaves with the Shikkon Jewels and Inuyasha kicking and screaming as he begs to kill Sano.
A splash of cold water makes him jump and sit up in an instant he looks around to see a young boy with a bucket frowning at him. “Why you little-!“
“SANOSUKE!”
Sano stops and slowly looks over his shoulder at the one behind him holding the broken fishing pole.
“Um…Hi, Miss Kaoru,” says Sano as he blushes red and gives her a small wave.
“Don’t you ‘Miss Kaoru’ me!” Kaoru grabs his ear and starts off back to her dojo in the opposite direction as she demands an explanation from a crying Sano.

The End