Author's Note: Very sorry about taking a while to update. Been quite busy lately. *bows* Gomen (sorry). Please accept my gift *hands everyone a immunity potato* It shall keep away "Repost or Die" posts or anything that is threatening you...or annoying the shit outta you.

Note #2: Sometimes I put thru instead of through. That is due to me not thinking straight sometimes about which word I am actually using.

Chapter Nine: Sesshomaru and the Unmother

It became windy all of a sudden. Inuyasha and Kaori stood up. Kagome ran up to them.

"There you two are!" She noticed the sudden wind almost immediately. "When did it suddenly get windy?"

"Just about 3 seconds before you got here, Kagome," Kaori said.

"Get down!" Inuyasha dragged Kagome and Kaori to the ground with him. Kagome's face got scratched up a bit.

"OW!" Kagome shouted.

"Shh!" Kaori hushed her. "Something's coming."

"Huh?" Kagome stared at Kaori. "First, she runs fast. Next, she could use fire. Now, she can...sense things? Hear things? Smell things?" Kagome gasped in her head. "Why haven't I thought about this before! Kaori could be...a...half-demon too! That would explain so much!"

"Look!" Kaori exclaimed. Kagome was knocked out of her thoughts. The three of them looked up at the sky to see a floating carriage. A women was inside it and demons were around it.

Inuyasha stood up.

"Huh?" Kaori blinked.

"Inuyasha?" Kagome questioned.

"M-Mother?" Inuyasha wondered, staring up at the carriage.

"What?!" Kaori exclaimed.

"But, you said that your mother has been dead for years," Kagome stated.

A giant demon hand grabbed the carriage and crushed it, holding a grip on Inuyasha's mom: Izayoi.

"That's one ugly demon," Kaori commented.

"Oh no!" Kagome exclaimed, looking towards Inuyasha. "He's gonna hurt your mom!"

"Not if I can help it!" Inuyasha jumped into the air and towards the giant demon. Fire suddenly came towards him and he had to dodge several times, landing back on the ground. On the large demon are two other demons: Jaken and Sesshomaru.

"Jaken," Sesshomaru said.

"Yes, me lord?" Jaken asked.

"Once we're through, I want him dead," Sesshomaru stated.

"Yes, me lord," Jaken answered nervously.

"Is that you... Sesshomaru!?" Inuyasha yelled.

"You remember me. I am flattered, dear younger brother," Sesshomaru said, smirking a bit.

"Brother?" Kagome questioned. She ran up to stand behind Inuyasha.

"They must be half brothers," Kaori thought. She ran up to stand behind Inuyasha as well.

Inuyasha: Is that you Sesshomaru!?

Sesshomaru: U remember me. I am flattered. Dear younger brother.

"Hm?" Sesshomaru spotted Kaori and Kagome. "Two mortals. How interesting."

"Yeah, what of it?" Kagome asked, hiding behind Inuyasha.

"You got a problem with that?!" Kaori yelled.

"How fitting that you would be dallying with humans," Sesshomaru said. Jaken pulled on some chains that were linked with Izayoi's neck.

Inuyasha growled. "If you came all the way here just to insult me..."

"Be not a fool, silly half breed. Do you think I have so much time to waste? I want you to direct me to our father's tomb."

"I don't have any clue as to where it is!" Inuyasha yelled. "Even if I knew, like hell I'd tell you where it was!"

"I see," Sesshomaru replied. "Then it can't be helped. Your mother just has to suffer." A whip appeared in his hand and he hit at the demon he stood on. The giant demon tightened his grip on Inuyasha's mother as Sesshomaru made his whip vanish.

Inuyasha growled again, clenching his fists.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome exclaimed.

"Huh. You think I'm stupid?! Mother's been dead for years now! You can't fool me," Inuyasha said.

"Play the fool; be the fool. Don't you think, with all my power, that I can't bring back your mother's soul from the land of the dead? And even find her a physical body?" Sesshomaru questioned.

"No..." Inuyasha said.

"Inuyasha... Please don't trouble yourself. I've been dead once anyway..." Izayoi said.

The giant demon holding her started to crush her.

"Kaori, burn the demon!" Kagome yelled.

"Wha?! I can't!" Kaori yelled back.

"Why not?!" Kagome questioned angrily.

"Two reasons! One: I don't know how to use that power! Two: If I knew how to use it, I wouldn't use it because I could harm his mother!"

"Oh... Right..." Kagome mumbled.

"MOTHER!" Inuyasha jumped into the air again and clawed off the giant demon's arm. Izayoi fell to the ground with a thud.

Kagome and Kaori ran over to her. "Are you alright?" they both asked at once.

"Get her out of here!" Inuyasha yelled.

"I don't think so," Sesshomaru said. He sent the giant demon after Kaori, Kagome, and Izayoi.

'No!" Inuyasha jumped in front of them.

"Inuyasha!" Izayoi said. She held up her hands and a orb of light appeared. Everything went black for Kaori, Inuyasha, and Kagome.

Inuyasha woke up before the girls and sat up. They were in some kind of place. It looked quite beautiful with the pond, shrine, and the trees.

"What is this place?" he wondered.

Izayoi walked up to him. "We're at the crossroads between this world and the next. I shall return to the other world from here. Inuyasha, you have grown up splendidly."

"Yeah, well... I was pretty young when you died..." Inuyasha said.

"Forgive me," Izayoi said. "You must have suffered so."

"Not really," Inuyasha said. "It wasn't your fault anyway."

Kagome awoken. Kaori remained unconscious. She looked at Inuyasha and Izayoi. "Inuyasha and his mother. They are okay..." Kagome looked at Kaori who laid somewhat in front of her. "Kaori is still knocked out." Kagome looked at Izayoi's reflection in the pond. "Her face! There's no reflection! She isn't real! My throat, its paralyzed. I can't speak! I can't even move!"

Indeed, it wasn't Izayoi. It was the Unmother. "Now, I must return to the other world," the Unmother said.

"Oh, do you have to?" Inuyasha asked.

Unmother dropped petals into the water. "Look upon the water's surface." Inuyasha did as she said and he saw a younger version of himself. Unmother, still disguised as Izayoi, held onto Inuyasha.

"Mother..." Inuyasha said.

The illusion vanished, showing a dark place. Kagome was chained up. Kaori was not. Little demons were walking around.

"I guess they don't think she'll be waking up anytime soon..." Kagome thought.

Myoga jumped onto Kagome. He was about to start sucking her blood when Kaori, who was suddenly awake, flicked him off Kagome and sent him flying. She moved the chains.

"You're finally awake," Kagome said.

"What I miss?" Kaori asked.

"We were tricked! Everything was an illusion!" Kagome exclaimed.

The girls and Myoga hid and watched Jaken have a conversation with Unmother.

"That thing is so annoying," Kaori commented. She walked over to him and grabbed onto his staff while stepping on him.

Kagome ran over and kicked Jaken. "You stupid little worm!"

The girls both looked at the Unmother. "Let Inuyasha go!"

The Unmother tried sucking in Inuyasha.

"You bitch!" Kaori yelled. She tossed Jaken's staff into the pond. The illusion of Izayoi holding a small Inuyasha vanished and Inuyasha was thrown out of Unmother's body. He landed on top of Kagome and Kaori. "I wasn't expecting that to happen. I am so glad I did it," Kaori said. "Are you alright, Inuyasha?"

"It... It was all a lie!" Inuyasha was angry.

"All for the best, dear brother. Now, I know where the tomb lies." Sesshomaru was in front of all of them in seconds and he gripped Inuyasha's neck. "I never imagined that it would be in such a place."

"Sesshomaru..." Inuyasha grunted.

"That must of taken a powerful bit of magic," Sesshomaru said.

"What are you babbling about?" Inuyasha grunted. Sesshomaru shoved two fingers in Inuyasha's left eye.

"INUYASHA!" Kaori, Kagome, and Myoga shouted. Sesshomaru pulled out a little pearl from Inuyasha's eye...

Note: Another chapter done! Woohoo! HIGH FIVE! *high fives my laptop screen lightly so I don't break it* Yea, I actually did that, btw. / Don't judge meh...