Act 9 Tessaiga's Memories


As Seina examines the rusty sword, Jaken breaks out of his stupor first.

"Im...Impossible! Inuyasha, let alone Sesshomaru-sama could not budge the Tessaiga...How could a mere mortal?"

Seeing Sesshomaru's distraction Inuyasha takes the opportunity to claw at him. "Don't look at her! Look at me!"

Sesshomaru dodges the attack and appears right in front of Seina, who yelps at his sudden appearance.

"Just who are you? Why were you able to draw out the sword?" Sesshomaru questioned scrutinizing Seina coldly.

Inuyasha turns to where Sesshomaru rushed over to, and Myoga looks over too sighing in relief.

"I guess he's no longer paying attention to you and your life's been spared...How lucky you are…"

"You moron!" Inuyasha barks at the flea, before yelling, "Sesshomaru! Leave her alone! She has nothing to do with this!"

"I disagree." Sesshomaru said looking back at Inuyasha. "Especially since she's your companion."

Sesshomaru looks back at Seina who shifts the sword defensively in front of her.

"Come near me and I'll run you through." Seina said trying to sound braver than she was actually feeling.

Sesshomaru turns back to Inuyasha, "Neither you nor I were able to draw out Tessaiga. Yet she had no trouble against the barrier. You expect me to let her go? When in fact, it's quite obvious that she must die."

"You're right. I don't know why the barrier had no effect on her, but she's still only a human girl! Seina! Hand over the sword to Sesshomaru! There's no choice!"

"No!" Seina said in defiance. "Why the hell should he get it! He is obviously going to murder us with it! Besides, the sword rejected him, therefore he isn't the rightful owner! I WILL NOT hand it over willingly! If he wants it he'll have to come and get it!"

"Don't be stupid! Back off, shut up and butt out!" Inuyasha ordered angrily though beneath his anger he was worried. 'Stop being so stubborn, just hand over the sword and save yourself.'

"Why you…"

Sesshomaru smiled mirthlessly running his fingers through his silver locks as he turned to face Inuyasha.

"Heh. Inuyasha your patience with this creature is astonishing. You protect her, indulge her, even seem to lover her."

Inuyasha had no words and Seina stared at Sesshomaru dumbfounded not understanding where he was getting the love part.

"I certainly did not inherit from our great and terrible father these feelings of compassion and mercy towards humans that you have. It was those feelings for that mother of yours, that human mother of yours that caused our father to meet his end in this ignoble place. Tainted blood courses through your body. Is it that blood which so endears you to them? Well, I don't pay any heed to such infinitely vulgar beings."

"Hmph, look who's talking about being a vulgar being."

"What are you insinuating human?"

Seina looked Sesshomaru straight in the eye and said, " You heard me. I'm saying you're the one who's a vulgar being and Tessaiga knows it as well.

Sesshomaru bristled at Seina's harsh words.

"It's obvious to me Tessaiga is sentient, able to judge any potential user's heart, and it clearly knows about the lowly methods you used to get here and about your prejudice and hatred towards your own brother and humans. As for why it didn't let Inuyasha draw it I can only guess that it's because his heart is closed off, not that I can blame him for that, after meeting you and seeing the shit you've put him through!"

Inuyasha just stared at Seina unable to say anything else, but whisper, "...Seina…"

"As for why I was able to draw it I can't really explain it, since I'll be the first to admit that I have my own issues. But there is one thing I can say with absolute confidence and that is that the reason your father didn't bestow his sword to you is because he saw that you Sesshomaru are unworthy of wielding whatever power Tessaiga holds!"

Seina's last words cause something in Sesshomaru to snap, because before she could even blink, he released a torrent of his poison straight at her! Seina flinched from the stinging sensation of the attack screaming Inuyasha's name.

"Inuyashaaa!"

As she's being buried under melted bone no one notices the Tessaiga pulsate and emit a glow.


Seina slowly blinks her eyes open she is surprised to find herself on a snowy beach with snowflakes falling all around her.

"Where in the world..?" Seina wondered aloud.

She holds out her hand and blinks in surprise when a snowflake goes through her hand.

"Am I dead?"

Seina is snapped out of her thoughts by a very familiar voice,

"Before you go I ask that you entrust the swords So'unga and Tessaiga to me."

"Sesshomaru!"

Sure enough Seina sees Sesshomaru standing behind a man wearing a parted pelt like a cape. The two figures didn't seem to have heard Seina's yell as they carried on with their conversation.

"And if I don't? Do you intend to kill me, your own father?"

Seina blinks in surprise at the word father and takes a closer look at both figures. Immediately Seina sees that Sesshomaru looks different than when she saw him last in the giant skeleton, he looked younger, his hair was shorter, and even the outfit he was wearing was slightly different. Seina turned to the man he was talking to and saw a very striking similarity between him, Sesshomaru, and Inuyasha. The older demon had the same distinctive silver hair and gold eyes with the exception of the single jagged blue-purple stripe on the cheeks.

"Wow...they look so much alike." Seina said in awe as everything about their father's presence emanated power.

Her awe is cut short when she sees bright red splashes staining the pure white snow. Looking closely at those bright red splotches against the snow Seina quickly realizes that it's blood. When Seina looks for the source of the blood she finds that it's coming from Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's father. The blood was trailing down his left arm.

'He's hurt.'

Tuning back to the conversation their father asked "Why do you seek power my son?"

"The path I walk is the one of Supreme Conquest and it is power that will reveal the way."

"Supreme Conquest…" The older silver haired demon scoffed.

"Sesshomaru, do you have someone to protect?"

"I Sesshomaru have no need of someone to protect."

A gust of wind comes out of nowhere and a giant monstrous dog appears.

The scene begins to ripple and Seina closes her eyes as the current scene becomes more distorted.

When Seina blinks her eyes open, she sees herself in a room that was being engulfed by fire. Immediately Seina recoils and backs away forgetting that this maybe a vision like the beach scene, it's only when she realizes that she can't feel the heat of the fire or smell the smoke that she tentatively reaches her hand out and waves it through the flames confirming that the fire wasn't real.

"Okay...I'm in another vision."

Seina's snapped out of her wonder by a loud booming voice.

"IZAYOI!"

Seina sees someone come running into the room. The figure that comes running in is none other than Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's father. As the older demon looks around searching frantically for something or someone. A high pitched wail that couldn't come from a grown person echoes throughout the room.

"Don't tell me there's a baby in here!" Seina yelled as she looked around for where the baby could be.

The man rushes forward to a four poster curtain and tosses it aside, revealing a black haired woman who's kimono was stained red with blood in her arms was the wailing baby.

"Oh no…" Seina said looking at the woman in sadness.

"Izayoi…" The man said in a heart broken voice before pulling a sword from his waist.

"Hey what are you doing!?" Seina yelled even though he wouldn't hear her.

He slashes at something nobody but he can see and just like that the black haired woman begins stirring.

"The fuck! She's alive!"

When she sits up it's then that Seina gets a good look at her face that she realizes who this woman is.

'This is Inuyasha's mother!'

As the silver haired man went over to Izayoi, Seina went over to the pair and looked at the baby and sure enough there were a pair of droopy puppy ears perched atop head full of silver hair.

"I have no regrets about fighting you to the death…"

The three occupants in the room turn to see a bloodied man wearing crimson samurai walking into the room. At the sight of the samurai Inuyasha's father let out a growl and drew a sword from his back and positioned himself in front of Izayoi and his newborn son.

"Let us journey together to the netherworld…"

"Live long." Inuyasha's father said not looking back at Izayoi

"My dearest." Izayoi said with sadness and worry.

The bloodied samurai starts coming closer and Izayoi backs away as pieces of the roof start collapsing.

"Inuyasha."

"What's that?" The samurai snapped.

"The infant's name, the child shall be named Inuyasha."

Izayoi looks at her newborn baby tenderly as she says his new name. "Inuyasha."

"Now Go!" He said with more force as he tightened his grip on his sword.

Izayoi with some hesitance nodded and ran away to safety leaving the two men to clash fiercely as the room began collapsing all around them.

The burning room suddenly started to ripple and Seina found herself in a dark expanse with Tessaiga floating right in front of her ringing. The ringing Tessaiga was emitting sounded like it was crying.

"I was right. Tessaiga you are sentient, and these were your memories of what actually happened to Inuyasha's father. Sure he died to save Inuyasha and his mother, but he did it willingly because he loved them both." Seina said sadly before her expression turned to one of anger. "And that bastard Sesshomaru rather than worrying about his father's injury was more worried about being left a couple of swords."

Feeling a strong tug on her being, Seina found herself in a dark suffocating enclosed space. A familiar muffled voice reached her ears.

"Bastard...I'll tear your bowels out next…"

With all the might Seina could muster she thrusted herself upwards through the mass of melted bone.


"SEINA!" Inuyasha cried out running to the mass of melted bones.

He thrusts his hand into the mass in a desperate attempt to maybe save Seina from the corrosive poison, but it was futile as he quickly recoiled his hand that was covered in burns.

"So fragile and totally useless, don't you agree, little brother."

"Not just humans; half-demons as well.

"Sesshomaru…" Inuyasha snarled biting his lower lip hard enough to draw blood and clenching his fist tightly before lunging at his older half brother.

Sesshomaru easily avoids the attack and then uses his boa to bind Inuyasha.

"Wake up! With that tainted blood of yours, how can you even think that you are my equal?"

He slams Inuyasha to the ground and the force sends him skidding into the bone. He struggles to get up.

"Damn…"

He barely has time to react as Sesshomaru begins whipping him.

"Remember your station, worthless half-breed."

As Sesshomaru whips Inuyasha one of the attacks slams the half-demon into the wall again. Inuyasha is barely able to defend himself from the merciless whip attacks.

"What can a worthless half-breed do?"

"A half-breed am I?" Inuyasha mutters as he does his best to shield himself from the relentless attacks.

The word 'half-breed' triggers an unpleasant memory from Inuyasha's childhood.


A large crowd of men and women are laughing as they watch another group of men playing a ball game. A young Inuyasha comes up, as the ball lands in the hands of one of the men. He runs up to the man and reaches his hands out, wanting to join in on the game. The men laugh at his antics, but it is not a kind laugh. The man then tosses the ball away, letting it bounce across a nearby bridge.

Inuyasha chases the ball and when he catches it, he turns to see the crowd dispersing calling him something insulting.

He looks at the empty courtyard wondering about the word they called him.

"Half-breed?"

He sees his mother watching him from the garden and he runs toward her waiting arms.

"Mother, what's a half-breed?"

His mother doesn't answer and instead hugs him tightly as tears stream down her face.

"That's right, I remember...My mother she was crying. Crying for me, she knew what it meant. What my life would be like."


Inuyasha picks himself up off the ground, the memory still fresh in his mind as he stares at the spot where Seina once stood.

"Half-breed or full breed, to me it don't matter. But when you insult my mother and play with her memory, that when I get angry."

He turns and gives Sesshomaru a harsh glare.

"For her sake then, if nothing else, I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU PAY!"

He lunges at his older half-brother, hitting him in his right side.

"That was for my mother!"

Inuyasha lunges at Sesshomaru again as the elder demon leaps away.

"And this one is for...Seina!"

Inuyasha strikes Sesshomaru right in the chest.

Jaken looks on in surprise. "Wh-Why!? A moment ago, he couldn't even scratch him!"

The second hit that Inuyasha lands causes Sesshomaru's armor to break, though Sesshomaru looks unfazed as he stares at the pieces of his broken armor and then he smiles.

"All that anger for a memory and a dead human girl? If I had known that's what it took to make you fight I would have killed her sooner."

Those words only serve to make Inuyasha even more furious.

"Bastard...I'll tear your bowels out next…" Inuyasha vowed cracking his knuckles threateningly. 'For Seina who died a senseless death.'

The melted mass of bone begins to move and Seina bursts out taking a huge breath of air.

"Hey…" She wheezes.

"Wha..?" Inuyasha says stunned, but inwardly he is relieved to see Seina alive.

Seina turns and levels Sesshomaru with a glare raising the sword in his direction. "Hey you bastard! Just because you can't handle the truth is no reason for you to throw a shit fit and try to kill somebody!"

Keeping her eye on Sesshomaru, Seina slowly walked over to Inuyasha and hands Tessaiga over to him.

"Here. Tessaiga is more special than you realize. Don't let go of it okay."

Ignoring the sword in his hands Inuyasha focuses on the girl in front of him. "H-How are you still alive?"

"I dunno...one minute I'm having the trippiest vision and the next here I am."

"I see...the sword protected you." Sesshomaru said in a deceptively calm voice though on the inside he was seething, seeing Tessaiga allow a mere human to draw it and then protect them when it rejected him a daiyoukai was a personal affront to him and the skulls beneath him began to rattle in response to his anger.

"It's true! Those claws of his dripped lethal poison! The sword protected her and prevented the effects of the poison!" Myoga exclaimed.

"Yeah, thanks for the reminder." Seina said dully while scowling at the flea.

"I-I only meant that you should now test out Tessaiga's blade on Sesshomaru-sama's body!" Myoga hastily explained.

"Heh. Big words coming from such small vermin." Sesshomaru scoffed as his body emitted a glow conjuring demonic winds that swirled furiously around him, whipping his long silver hair upwards.

Inuyasha pulled Seina behind him as skulls were flung at them. The skulls rebounded off Inuyasha's head and shoulders, but not a one touch Seina.

'What a jerk! Throwing another shit fit just because things aren't going his way!' Seina thought before ducking further behind Inuyasha.

"Let's see if a bastard half-breed like you can even master the Tessaiga…I myself shall be the witness."

The wind picks up more speed as Sesshomaru's eyes become red with blue irises and his face takes on a more canine appearance. His body becomes engulfed in a pink glow which shoots up before crashing back down. When glow fades it reveals Sesshomaru's true demon form: a massive silver dog with massive teeth and claws bared at the pair.

"Oh, we are so fucking screwed."


Alright that's it for now, until the next chapter!

Fyi: The battle will take place in the next chapter, since I wanted this one to focus more on Tessaiga being a sentient sword.