Faces of the Past: Episode 2

Continues directly from Episode 2

"Cero", a red beam shot from the tip of Inuyasha's clawed finger destroying everything in its path. Sesshomaru moved out of the way sending a blast with his Bakusaiga at Inuyasha that he dodged. The two of them were battling in Urarara's underground facility, Inuyasha had jumped straight to his sword release in an effort to prove his strength to his brother.

"You seem much more formidable now, little brother", the dog demon commented.

"You haven't seen anything yet", Inuyasha's large fang shaped sword dispersed into black spirit energy which then wrapped around his body in a dark vortex. Kisuke watched from a safe distance excited by the turn of events, he had yet to witness a second stage release and was looking forward to the data he was about to collect.


FLASHBACK

"Yes I know the fox demon Shippou is indeed still alive", Sesshomaru said, Inuyasha sighed in relief as they stopped walking the streets of the sereite and headed back to the Kuchiki estate.

"So where is the brat these days?" Inuyasha asked.

"I'll tell you, but first I need something from you Inuyasha", Sesshomaru said seriously, he obviously didn't plan on giving something for nothing.

"What do you want?"

"I wish to see this new power you have first hand, I wish to spar with you so I can see it for myself", the demon stated his terms.

"Fine, but I want to meet Shippou and I know Kagome would like to see him again as well", Inuyasha was willing to fight Sesshomaru once again, but he didn't plan on having to fight his brother. "Meet me tomorrow; I know a place we can fight".


FLASHBACK END

So that's how they ended up in a fight, Inuyasha was fighting mostly to prove his power to his brother while Sesshomaru fought to satisfy his curiosity and to see how far has younger brother had come from being a living half demon.

"Resurreccion Segunda Etapa", Sesshomaru watched in fascination as the black energy dispersed revealing Inuyasha in his second release. It looked the same as always, furred limbs, wicked claws, a tale, and red eyes. The only difference than the last time he used this was that he already had the cape made from blood out and ready. Several whip like tendrils made from his red liquid spirit energy shot out to attack Sesshomaru. The dog demon tried to counter with his poison whip, but the streams of blood cut through it like string.

"Impressive, so this is your power", Sesshomaru commented standing at what he believed to be the maximum range the blood could reach, little did he know that there was no range, Inuyasha could control it no matter the distance.

"You've learned some new moves yourself, you old dog", Inuyasha mocked sending a crimson wave directly at a surprised Sesshomaru. The dog demon moved at incredible speed swinging his sword at Inuyasha's unprotected face. The white haired arrancar didn't even flinch as the blade was stopped inches from his eyes by his blood.

"You know I don't need to lift a finger to fight you", Inuyasha smirked as a giant red fist formed to knock Sesshomaru back.

Meanwhile outside a young man, who appeared to be eighteen with reddish orange hair and green eyes, wearing a white t-shirt and dark gray jeans approached the candy store. He received a call earlier that day from lord Sesshomaru to meet him here and he stood there looking at the sign wondering why the dog demon wanted to meet at a candy store. He knocked on the door a few times and after no one answered he let himself in.

"Can I help you?" the boy was startled and turned around to see a big guy wearing an apron and thick glasses.

"U-uh, yes my uh boss told me to meet him here", the red head stuttered out.

"Very well he's down stairs, I'll take you, come", the large man said leading the way. The young man thought they were going down into a basement when they came to a set of stairs, but was surprised to see a huge underground rocky plain complete with a fake sky.

"What is all this?" the boy asked looking around in amazement, suddenly a large explosion caught their attention.

"I believe the one you're looking for is over there", Tessai pointed towards the blast where the sounds of fighting were coming from. "I advise caution when approaching".

"Thanks", the said sarcastically rolling his eyes before going to see what Sesshomaru wanted with him today. As he approached he could see the dog demon, he could also see his opponent, but he couldn't get a good look at him with all what looked like blood floating around him. He watched thinking whoever this was probably didn't stand a chance against one of the most powerful demons in the world. He surprised to see the guy actually holding his own against the dog demon, using the blood as both a weapon and shield.

"I thought you said that you didn't need to lift a finger to fight?" Sesshomaru remarked blocking a red tendril with his Bakusaiga.

"Yes I did say that, but my blood moves faster when I actively control it with my hands", Inuyasha said back letting the crimson liquid swirl around his outstretched arms.

'Why does that voice sound so familiar', the red haired boy wondered watching the fight. He continued to watch as the mysterious white haired opponent pointed his clawed index finger at Sesshomaru and fired a large black beam of energy. The force of the blast knocked the boy off his feet.

"I believe I've seen enough", Sesshomaru said appearing out of the dust unharmed from Inuyasha's cero oscuros.

"Oh come on we're just getting started!" Inuyasha wined.

"Yes, but we have company, and it's fairly obvious that we're too strong, if the fight lasts any longer we will be endangering innocent lives", the dog demon explained.

"Wow you really are different then the Sesshomaru I used to know", Inuyasha commented. He finally noticed the audience they had, a red haired eighteen year old was watching them who looked somewhat familiar, but couldn't place his finger on it.

"Inuyasha?" the boy couldn't believe it, there standing in front of him was the half demon Inuyasha, very much alive and not dead like he knew.

"Wait a sec, Shippou is that you?" he finally noticed the similarities, and it has been about five hundred years of course the fox boy would grow in that time. The boy nearly fell over when Inuyasha took a step towards him, "Oops I forgot my spiritual pressure, hold on", he quickly dropped his second release along with his ressurrecion, returning to his normal arrancars form, only without the mask fragment or hollow hole, also the head captain had gifted him with a new outfit that would signify the alliance between Las Noches and Soul Society, just a pair of black hakama pants standard for any soul reaper, his white baggy top was left alone, but with an added black sash over it with the symbols of all the squad divisions of the Gotei thirteen printed in gold across. He was told he would need it to signify that he was an ambassador of sorts and allowed to travel to and from the soul society and Hueco Mundo; it was also a sign of trust from all the division captains.

"Wow you look all grown up kid", he commented walking up to the stunned fox demon.

"How is this possible?" the boy asked, so Inuyasha had to once again explain dying, hollows, soul reapers, Hueco Mundo, Soul Society and the events of the past few years. He also mentioned how Sesshomaru appeared a few days ago and why they were fighting.

"Sesshomaru wouldn't let me go see Kagome, he said he needed to go first before anyone else", Shippou explained.

"I originally wanted to explain to her Inuyasha's passing as your brother that is my duty, but it seems that was unnecessary", the dog demon said sheathing his sword.

"So what have you been doing with yourself kid?" Inuyasha asked sitting down with Shippou. The fox demon went on to explain that after Miroku and Sango passed away Sesshomaru decided to have Shippou come travel with him. Inuyasha looked surprised that his older brother would do such a generous thing.

"Well actually the truth was that he needed my help", Shippou smiled remembering. "He needed the assistance of a fox demon in making concealment charms, to make demons appear to be human".

"Really, so that's why you look like that", Inuyasha remarked, Shippou smiled and deactivated the charm he wore on his wrist and his ears became pointed along with a four long furry fox tails appearing behind him. His demonic aura also returned and Inuyasha could feel that Shippou had gotten much stronger than he remembered.

"Well this is interesting, I had a theory about what happened to all the demonic beings of old, but I never considered they were hiding amongst the humans", Kisuke said coming up to the group, Shippou paled seeing a human after he just blurted out all that info.

"Relax kid, this is guy can keep a secret and he isn't exactly human either", Inuyasha glared at the shopkeeper silently telling him to keep his mouth shut about demons disguised as humans.

"My name is Kisuke Urarara, it's a pleasure to meet you", he grinned while tipping his striped hat.

"I'm Shippou, fox demon", he bowing quickly. The ex-soul reaper and the fox seemed to get along well after that, both discussing ideas and inventions. While they were wrapped up in their conversations Inuyasha had enough with waiting and grabbed Shippou by the back of his shirt and lifted him off the ground.

"Alright egg heads that's enough for today", Inuyasha remarked carrying a flailing Shippou.

"Hey put me down, I'm not a kid anymore you can't still do this to me Inuyasha!" the fox yelled trying to squirm himself free.

"Save it, there's someone who really wants to see you", the arrancars said opening a garganta so the trip would be a surprise for his special someone.

"Alright bye mister Urarara!" Shippou called.

"See you around, oh and next time you have to show me how those charms work please", the shop keeper said back.

"I will, whoa what is this!" Shippou was a little freaked out when Inuyasha dragged him through a black void.

"A portal, be quiet for a bit I want to surprise someone", he said pulling him further into the garganta as it closed behind them.


BACK HOME

Kagome had just laid her six year old daughter to bed for a nap, and went to the kitchen for a snack. When she came back to the living room a black tear in space appeared before her, she wasn't startled after witnessing her husband's powers as an arrancars she knew a garganta when she saw one. Out walked Inuyasha in his true form without his gigai.

"Hey Kagome sweety, I brought something for you", Kagome rolled her eyes at his fake sweet tone, however her eyes nearly popped out of their sockets when Inuyasha reached in and pulled someone out of the black rift. Her eyes widened further when she got a good look at their guest, it was clearly Shippou almost like she remembered except older and taller.

"Uh…hi", Shippou blushed nervously when he saw Kagome, he kind of figured that's who Inuyasha was taking him to go see, but he wasn't expecting her to be so much more beautiful than he remembered her to be.

"Shippou!" she ran over and gave the young man a big hug. "Oh my gosh you've gotten so tall and handsome!" Kagome continued to gush over him while Inuyasha just snickered at Shippou's shock and embarrassment. A couple hours later Shippou was invited to stay for dinner and he also got the surprise of meeting their daughter Tsukiko, seeing the little girl made him realize why Kagome seemed to glow with beauty, being a mother only made her more amazing in his eyes.

"So have are you married Shippou?" Kagome asked.

"Ah no, I never got married", the fox said as his four tails flicked around while he thought.

"So what do you do?" Inuyasha asked while consuming his dinner.

"I'm in charge of demon concealment for Lord Sesshomaru's organization", Shippou said proudly, it was a prestigious and important position after all.

"What's this organization?" Kagome asked curious about what the dog demon had been up to in the past five hundred years.

"He basically helps other demons with blending in with the human society and gets them jobs, careers and educations", he explained.

"Wow that's impressive", Kagome commented.

"So you became my psycho brother's underling for his charity organization, has the world gone crazy in my absence", Inuyasha remarked.

"Maybe we just realized how alone we were when you died", Shippou said back solemnly, everyone grew quiet except for the little girl who suddenly found playing with the fox demon's tails the most interesting thing in the world. Shippou smiled at her and performed a little slight of hand trick making a shiny red top appear in his hand, to which he handed to Tsukiko to keep.

"Thanks red!" the girl beamed up at him while Shippou looked confused at the nickname.

"She's going through this faze right now where she calls everyone by the colors of their hair", Kagome supplied.

"She went through a whole month of calling me white, before she started calling me daddy", Inuyasha grumbled causing Shippou to bite his lip to keep from laughing aloud. "Although it was pretty funny when we had to all go to the sereite for an important meeting and she called Ichigo orange as soon as she saw him", he snickered. After a pleasant dinner and catching up it was time for Shippou to leave.

"Here take this", the fox demon handed them his card with his number on it, before activating the charm that made him appear human. "Let me know if you need help with concealing Tsukiko incase her powers alter her appearance".

"It's alright we haven't even seen what her soul form looks like, despite Kisuke Urarara's insisting that we should", Inuyasha commented taking the card.

"I'll see you around Inuyasha, it was nice seeing you again Kagome", he gave Kagome a big hug before departing.

"Come back and visit us anytime Shippou!" Kagome called.

"I will!"

"Oh and next time you see Sesshomaru, tell him if the fight went on longer I would have kicked his ass!" Inuyasha yelled at him from the front door.

"I will!" Shippou replied sarcastically, like he would dare say that to Lord Sesshomaru, his boss.


Sorry for the long wait, here's episode 2 of the faces from the past.

Episode three will come in later, I want to do a few other one shots about other things first. Some one messaged me about Inuyasha's gigai, I explained before that the reason he got in the first place was to be with Kagome and have a normal life amongst the humans, but now that she's seen and gotten used to his arrancar form and power he doesn't wear it in the house that often, he uses it just to go to work and for traveling about Karakura.

Thank you for reading until next time.