"Inuyasha… Why would you do this?" Sesshoumaru growled at his younger brother.
"You killed Kagome you bastard." Inuyasha growled back.
"I didn't kill her. Naraku did." Sesshoumaru answered.
"It was your sword that dealt the death blow Sesshoumaru! I saw it, I saw everything!" Inuyasha screamed.
"Why would I kill her? She was of no importance to me alive or dead!" Sesshoumaru stoic voice relied.
"You're hatred of humans that's why!" Inuyasha yelled again.
"Do you not see the woman in my arms? Is she not human? Does she not bear my mark? I've changed since she entered my life." Sesshoumaru answered drawing his sword placing her body gently down before swinging at his brother. With lightening speed, Sesshoumaru's hand wrapped around Inuyasha's throat growling. His nails pinched into the skin of Inuyasha's neck. Inuyasha pulled away breaking off his brother's grasp.
"She taught me how to love! How to be a Father to Rin!" Sesshoumaru growled lunging again missing Inuyasha by far.
"Now was that aimed at me?" Inuyasha asked standing far behind Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru whipped around flinging his poison whip at Inuyasha catching him off guard. He knocked him down his fist flying into his brother's face over and over. Inuyasha began to chuckle.
"All that for a memory and a dead mortal girl?" Inuyasha growled. Sesshoumaru gasped at the memory that suddenly pulled from his mind.
i Kagome stood only a foot from Sesshoumaru holding his father's sword pointing it at his brother yelling at him. Sesshoumaru was slightly amused.
"Inuyasha, your patience for this creature is astonishing to me. You protect her, indulge her, even seem to love her." He said father running his left hand through his hair then walking a few feet away from Kagome. "Certainly these feelings of mercy of yours, are not something I inherited from our great and terrible father. It must have been that mother of yours. That human mother, who caused our father to meet his end in this God forsaken place. Her blood effects you as well. Is it that, that so endears you to them? When it comes to human, I of course, bear no such weakness." He finished turning around showering a frighten Kagome with the poison, melting her down to the ground still grasping the sword, with a flick of his wrist.
"So fragile, don't you agreed little brother?" He asked.
"Sesshoumaru…" Inuyasha growled. Inuyasha missed his attack against his brother, being thrown to the ground by his brother. Sesshoumaru whipped him repeatedly with his poison whip growling at him, calling him a half breed.
"Half breed or full breed, to me it don' t matter. But when you insult my mother, that's when I get angry. " Inuyasha began looking back to where Kagome had stood. "For her sake, if nothing else," Inuyasha said as he threw himself at Sesshoumaru, "I'm gonna make you pay!"
Inuyasha's claws ranked down the front of his brother's armor throwing sparks off it.
"That was for mother. And this, this is for Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled as he jumped into the air after the fleeing Sesshoumaru. His claws once again raked across Sesshoumaru's armor, causing large sparks to fly off it. Sesshoumaru noted the determination on his brother's face. The armor broke and fell to the ground at Sesshoumaru's feet. Sesshoumaru looked down on it, with a smirk on his face.
"All that for a memory and a dead mortal girl? If I'd known that was all it took to make you fight, I would have killed her sooner." Sesshoumaru said. i
That had cosseted him his arm which now was holding his brother in the air. Now he knew what Inuyasha had felt that day, felt the pain his brother had felt. He understood. He looked back at the form of his dead mate laying so peacefully on the ground. The only mother Rin had known since her own perished. Sesshoumaru dropped Inuyasha a shutter running through his body. He collapsed to his knees before his brother, the pin pricks of tears burning his eyes.
"Inuyasha…" He choked out. Inuyasha, even in his rage, look pity on his older brother collapsed. His revenge was washed away by what he saw. Sesshoumaru broken and seeming given up. "Take your sword, end my misery." Sesshoumaru spoke frankly.
Sesshoumaru let his mind return to the memories he had of his mate, of how he came to be, sitting at this place, willing for forfeit his life.