Tetsusaiga, the Phantom Sword
"Fighting Technique"
"Thoughts"
'Recap'
Flashbacks
"Speech"
'writing'
3rd POV:
'Half-Demon Inuyasha, born half Demon and half Human. Unable to come to terms with this circumstance, he tries to possess the Sacred Jewel in order to become a full-fledged Demon. Despising such a younger Brother, the cold-hearted Sesshomaru concocts an evil plan. In a cart appears Inuyasha's Human Mother, who is supposed to be dead. Seeing his Mother bound in chains, Inuyasha's feelings of anger reach the boiling point.' Myoga recaps what has happened so far.
"Are you stupid?! My Mother died a long time ago! As if I'd fall for such a trick!" Inuyasha snaps not wanting to believe that it is his Mother.
"Trick, huh?" Sesshomaru asks in confusion.
"Do you not understand? Bringing dead spirits from the netherworld is a simple task for someone as great as Lord Sesshomaru. He was so kind as to give her flesh! Her own son won't believe that it's her. How mortifying it must be for your Mother!" Jaken taunts him making the lie believable.
"Inuyasha!" She cries out in desperation for him to save her.
"I am returned from the dead…" She shouts, and the little demon imps tug on the chains around her, and she faints at the pain.
"Damn! Iron Reaver-Soul Stealer!" Inuyasha shouts as he leaps up clawing at the giant demon's hand, cutting it into two. The fist that was clenching Inuyasha's Mother falls to the ground, the beast growls out in pain, with Inuyasha landing on the ground. The little demons that were tugging on her flee once they land on the ground, Ren and Kagome run over to Inuyasha and his Mother.
"You hopeless imbecile!" Sesshomaru whips the demon harshly again, this time in the face, the demon growls reaching towards Inuyasha's Mother.
"Mother!" Inuyasha calls out as he runs towards her.
"Inuyasha!" She calls back, and Inuyasha blocks the demon's hand with his body, the hand stabs into his back instead, the three females gasp in horror at the sight, and Inuyasha's Mother holds out a white glowing orb between her hands, the light grows larger before engulfing all of them. Sesshomaru shields his face from the bright light, once it's gone he sees the empty space in front of him.
In the Feudal Era night has fallen, a group of villagers search the forest, holding torches in their hands. "Miss Kagome! Miss Ren! Miss Kagome! Miss Ren! Miss Kagome! Miss Ren!" The villagers shout out across the forest and further in two villagers find Kagome's bike under a tree and wave the others over.
"Hey! Look!" One shouts out.
"Over here!" The other shouts and more villagers gather around Kagome's bike.
In modern day Japan, nighttime outside the Higurashi House, Ren and Kagome's Mother twists the seat of a bike, causing it to make sharp creaking sounds, the sounds draw out Sota in his pyjamas as he comes outside. "What're you doing in the middle of the night?" He asks his Mother rubbing his eyes due to having woken up.
"Did I wake you? I'm sorry, I was just lowering the bike seat to Kagome's height. She took her own bike to the other dimension. I thought she'd have a hard time using this one when she returns." She explains.
"Sis won't be back for two or three days. She took so many clothes with her and Ren might not come back." Sota says glumly thinking of his older Sister.
"I know. But I just want to do what I can for them." She tells him thinking of her oldest Daughter.
"Sis is so lucky! You're so concerned about her." Sota says happily.
"Oh, but I'm just as concerned about you, Sota and Ren. concerned that you won't wet the bedding again." She says.
"How can you say that?! I'm already in the third grade! I won't do that!" He protests in embarrassment.
"I want you to help your Sisters out too, okay?" She giggles, and he nods in agreement.
"I know." He replies and looks up at the sky to see a shooting star. "A falling star!"
"Oh! Please let me win the lottery!" She wishes but secretly wishes the safety of her Daughters.
In the misty realm with Kagome, Ren, Inuyasha and his Mother, the reflection of his Mother seen from the pond water surface, shows her true colours as Ren and Kagome lie sideways on the grass away from them unable to move. "There's no face in the reflection" Inuyasha Inu- my voice… I can't speak. Please notice it, Inuyasha! She doesn't have a face! She's… not your Mother!" Ren screams inside her head.
"Inuyasha… I must return to the netherworld." The imposter informs Inuyasha.
"Oh… must you go?" He asks her and she holds up a lotus flower in hand letting it fall into the water. The petals fall away causing ripples to appear in the water.
!Inuyasha… look at the surface of the water." She tells him, Inuyasha kneels next to the pond as an image forms of his past.
A ball bounces across a wooden bridge, climbing over a pond, a small silver-haired toddler chases after the red ball, catching the small ball after running across the bridge. A beautiful raven haired woman stands among some flowers, looking over at the toddler, the boy notices her, throwing away the red ball, and runs into her comforting arms.
The same silver-haired toddler sits in front of the beautiful raven-haired woman as she hugs him safe and snug in her arms from behind.
"That's back when I was a kid…" Inuyasha comments looking down at the images.
"So you remember! When you were a child, I often embraced you like that." The imposter says as she hugs Inuyasha from behind, in the same way from his past. "Good boy..; let me hold you tight." He looks back in a dream-like state turning around, and they hug face to face. "I won't let go." She moves her hand slowly sinking her hand into Inuyasha's back. "Become one with me."
"Mother…" Inuyasha winces in pain losing consciousness.
"Wh-why can't I move?!" Kagome shouts in her head, when chains appear around the Sisters' bodies, with the little green imps from before, holding down the chains around the Sisters. Darkness begins to spread across the pond and slowly, the serene garden engulfs in darkness, skeletons of animals appear, and the once peaceful garden is now a desolate swamp.
"This is… all an illusion!" Ren screams inside her head when Myoga hops onto Kagome's cheek.
"Kagome! Snap out of it! It's me, Myoga the Flea!" He shouts her and hops onto the chains around her neck. "Who would have thought that the one looking for the tomb would be Master Sesshomaru. Master Inuyasha's older brother! Such a formidable foe! Poor thing, you're chained up and unable to move. I'll undo the spell in a moment." He looks down at Kagome's neck. "Hmm? Looks delicious!" He pounces and begins sucking the blood from KAgome's neck; Kagome reacts by slapping Myoga flat before getting up in sitting position.
"Thank you! I think I can move now." She says, and the little green imps around the girls flee in terror as the flattened version of Myoga slides away from her palm.
Jaken rolls a boat into the swamp, towards Inuyasha and his imposter Mother, Inuyasha is unconscious and both his face and body half sunk into the false Mother's body who shows her true nature.
"My boy… my dear Son…" The False Mother says in a soft voice as Jaken gets out of the boat.
"Hey, you! Un-Mother!" Jaken shouts at her clubbing her in the face with his staff, chipping some of the flesh from her face. "What's the use of sucking the breath out of him?!"
"Master Jaken!" She exclaims, looking at him.
"What you do to him later is no concern to us! But first, you must get the information out of him! The location of the tomb of Inuyasha and Lord Sesshomaru's Father!" Jaken tells her as Kagome drags the still chained Ren behind a boulder.
"That Jaken fellow is Sesshomaru's henchman?" Kagome asks as she sits her Sister beside her.
"The Human Head Staff… you must watch out for that," Myoga warns her.
"'Kay!" Kagome agrees with a nod and looks at her sister as she removes the chains from her body.
"Inuyasha! Inuyasha!" The Un-Mother calls out him as Inuyasha sinks deeper into the Un-Mother's body. Still, unconscious Inuyasha is thrust underwater, with the Un-Mother's long arms holding him. "Please remember… where is your Father's tomb?"
"I don't know…" Inuyasha thinks as he drifts.
"Think harder! Open your heart to me." The Un-Mother demands softly as her long arms curl down in the water, towards a black orb. "What's that?!" She asks as Inuyasha sinks further into the body of the Un-Mother.
"The black pearl in the right…" Inuyasha mumbles in his unconscious state.
"The black pearl in the right! That's not enough to go on! Find out more!" Jaken fiercely demands as he hops on the ground in front of the pair.
"Master Jaken, if I delve any deeper, this boy's spirit will be broken!" The Un-Mother warns him.
"So what? Just do it!" Jaken orders her.
"There, there… Inuyasha." She nods as she hugs Inuyasha tighter.
In Inuyasha's unconscious, he is immersed under water struggling slightly. "I can't breathe, Mother!" Inuyasha says, he opens his eyes, looking up to the surface of the water to find the Un-Mother holding him in the water. "The face…!" He gasps, and he hands around him curl tighter and begin to strangle him, he gasps for needed air.
Behind the rock hide Kagome, Ren and Myoga, Kagome looks at her big Sister as she takes the chains from around her body. "Myoga would you be able to help her?" She asks the small Flea, he nods his head and begins sucking her blood, Ren twitches before her body engulfs in blue flames scaring Myoga and Kagome.
"Don't do that again." Ren snaps as she looks down at the burnt Flea and walks out from the rock.
"Hey! Not yet! Hurry, or I will face the wrath of Lord Sesshomaru! Huh?!" Jaken exclaims at the Un-Mother as Ren and Kagome walk out to stop them from hurting Inuyasha, Kagome steps on Jaken from behind and takes his Staff.
"Why you… puny troublemaker!" Kagome snaps as she takes the Staff like a golf club and swings it hitting Jaken in the back, sending him flying into the water and she throws the staff with him. The Un-Mother gets up as Ren closes in on her and runs away, but Ren gives chase.
"Wait! Let Inuyasha go!" Ren shouts at the Un-Mother.
"No!" She shouts back as she runs backwards, as Inuyasha sinks deeper into her body until only his hair is visible, Ren grabs hold of Inuyasha's hair and pulls trying to get him loose.
"Inuyasha! Huh?!" Ren shouts as she trips on a random rock and loses her grip on Inuyasha's hair. "He's being sucked in! What'll I do?" She wonders when Myoga hops onto her shoulder.
"Ren! You must awaken Master Inuyasha's spirit!" Myoga tells her.
"Spirit?!" She questions, looking at her shoulder where he stands.
"The demon is the Un-Mother," Myoga explains. "She was created by the forlorn Spirits of Mothers who lost children to famine or war. If you reawaken the spirit that's under the spell of the Un-Mother, his body with be released!"
"Awaken the Spirit?! But how?" Ren asks him, and she gasps in horror as she sees Inuyasha almost completely absorbed by the Un-Mother with only his arm visible,
"Oh, joy… you and Mother will soon be one.." The Un-Mother says.
"I won't make it in time!" Ren shouts and looks down at the water to see the reflection of the Un-Mother holding a toddler version of Inuyasha. "That child… is Inuyasha?"
"Yes! That is the work of The Un-Mother's magic!" Myoga tells her.
"If I erase that image, then…" Ren ponders and steps forward hitting the water surface with the fallen staff, disturbing the image. "Inuyasha! Wake up!" The Un-Mother lets out a shriek, and Inuyasha falls out of her body onto the ground. "Inuyasha… are you all right?" She asks him holding Inuyasha up.
"Damn! Damn it to hell! How dare they… use my Mother like that?!" Inuyasha barks in disbelief as the Un-Mother falls to the ground, crying.
"It's all the work of Sesshomaru and Jaken," Ren tells him.
"What?!" Inuyasha shouts, and his older Brother appears from afar walking towards them.
"Inuyasha… I know where the tomb is." Sesshomaru announces.
"What?! Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha asks him in shock before they can move Sesshomaru races towards Inuyasha and grabs him by the neck lifting him off the ground. "Why you…!"
"I never imagined it would be there! Very clever… that Father would pick such a place. The black pearl in the right… Father didn't want anyone to disturb his resting place, so he hit his tomb there." Sesshomaru explains as he holds his younger Brother.
"You…" Inuyasha growls, holding onto Sesshomaru's hand as he hangs in the air. "What kind of nonsense are you talking about?!"
"You were entrusted with the tomb unknowing." Ren snaps and both Brothers look at her as she stands with her pink hair moving in the breeze and her Sister by her side.
"So you figured it out," Sesshomaru comments, looking at her. "Well then, would you like to visit Father's grave with me?" He holds up two fingers emitting a spark at Inuyasha's right eye, he groans in pain from the sparks, and Ren feels her Sister holding her back from doing anything.
"Master Inuyasha!" Myoga cries out from Ren's shoulder, as Sesshomaru pulls his fingers towards himself, and the black orb floats out of Inuyasha's right iris, he takes the orb and drops Inuyasha to the ground. Inuyasha holds a hand over his right eye in pain and Ren runs over to him and holds him up.
"Inuyasha!" Ren shouts as she holds him.
"No wonder it was useless looking underground. Visible, but invisible. The true protector of the grave cannot be seen. And… it is the black pearl embedded in your right eye." Sesshomaru scoffs, and Inuyasha lowers his hand, revealing his right iris is completely gone.
"And just for that… you tricked me with my dead Mother's image…!" Inuyasha shouts at his older Brother, the Un-Mother hearing this turns around looking at them.
"It was just a joke." Sesshomaru brushes it off.
"Why you…! Unforgivable!" Inuyasha growls clawing at Sesshomaru but he dodges every attempt, and he takes out his whip attacking Inuyasha.
"DIe!" Sesshomaru shouts attacking Inuyasha several times that Inuyasha manages to dodge, but one of the attacks hit him, throwing him on to the ground. Sesshomaru readies another attack but the Un-Mother rushes in front of Inuyasha, the whip hits her back instead shattering her body into pieces.
"Huh?!" Kagome gapes as the pieces and shreds of the Un-Mother's clothes fall onto the ground, one of the shreds of her clothes land on Inuyasha's shoulder.
"The Un-Mother?" Myoga questions in disbelief.
"She protected Inuyasha?" Kagome asks.
"The Un-Mother is a demon filled with Motherly love. It's in her nature to try to protect children." Myoga explains as they watch the scene in front of them.
"My Son…" The Un-Mother's voice cries out weakly from her remaining head, but Sesshomaru whips it into pieces after hearing her, Inuyasha clenches his teeth together in anger.
"Hey, you!" Ren snaps at Sesshomaru.
"Don't interfere! Or else we'll all be killed." Myoga warns her, and she looks at him as he stands on her shoulder.
"But-!" She tries arguing but knows she has to look out for her younger Sister.
"Jaken! Jaken!" Sesshomaru calls out for his faithful servant as he crawls among the grass running over to his Lord.
"Lord Sesshomaru! I have my Human Head Staff back!" Jaken gleams as he holds up his staff proudly, Sesshomaru takes the staff and looks at the black orb between his fingers.
"How I have waited for this moment!" Sesshomaru says and drops the glowing orb onto the ground; he lowers the end of the staff hitting the black orb, the old man head lets out a cackle.
"The old man laughs! The tomb will open!" Jaken announces, and light emits from the black orb, and a portal opens in the air, Sesshomaru and Jaken walkthrough.
"They've disappeared!" Kagome gasps next to her Sister.
"Want to see?" Ren asks her Sister with a smirk.
"Master Inuyasha, hurry and enter before the entrance closes up. Lord Sesshomaru intends to take sole possession of your Father's treasure!" Myoga exclaims as he crawls up Inuyasha's hair.
"I'm not interested in that!" Inuyasha snaps.
"Don't say such a thing!"Myoga shouts in despair.
"Shut up! Who said I wasn't going?!" Inuyasha snaps holding up the piece of the Un-Mother's clothes. "That Sesshomaru… I'll kill 'im!" He shreds the cloth into smaller pieces. "Kagome, Ren it's dangerous, so you stay here-" He turns around to see Kagome and Ren are both gone, "Huh?"
"Will you hurry up!" Ren snaps at him as they climb into the portal.
"Hey! Hey, Sesshomaru's inside!" Inuyasha shouts as he catches up with the girl in the portal.
"That's why we have to go teach him! Neither blood nor tears flow through him! He's unforgivable!" Kagome shouts furiously, and they reach the end of the vortex.
The three of them float in the sky above a rocky and desolate landscape, a gigantic animal skull stands in the middle of the land, below the skull armour of sorts lies. A skeletal bird flies towards the group, catching them and carries them on its back, the bird flies towards the skull. "Father…" Inuyasha mutters, but Ren hears him.
"Those bones are you Father's…?" She asks him.
"Can't you tell?" He asks her.
"Well, even if you say that… how was I to know?! It's so huge!" Ren snaps at him.
"His Father was a phantom of incomparable stature. And here he is in his truest form, undisguised." Myoga explains as the bird flies into the mouth of the skull. "The treasured sword embedded in his bones… that is what Master Sesshomaru is after."
Inside the ribcage of Inuyasha's Father, Sesshomaru stands gazing at a sword, the rusty and chipped sword standing upright, with its tip embedded in a golden pedestal. "I am finally here. To possess the sacred sword embedded in my Father's bones. The lethal fang sword… known to kill a hundred beasts in a single stroke! Known as Testsusaiga!" Sesshomaru says as he looks at the sword and grasps the hilt.
"Testsusaiga was forged from one of his Father's fangs. Being in possession of this sword empowers you with as much strength as your Father!" Jaken exclaims in excitement as Sesshomaru tries to pull the sword out but a static charge releases from the sword and he releases his hand from the hilt, he looks down at his hand to see its changed colour to a dark blue with static surrounding it.
"Can't pull it out?" Jaken questions, seeing his Master's hand return to its natural colour but still fumes.
"He was ever so cautious. There's a spell on it." Sesshomaru explains and the three land on one of the ribcage bones above them.
"Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha calls out to his older Brother, who looks up at him in question, he leaps down towards his older Brother. "I haven't finished with you yet!" Sesshomaru dodges out of the way causing Inuyasha to crash onto the ground. "Damn! Where'd he go?!" He looks around to find Sesshomaru high up in the air.
"This is our Father's resting place. Be respectful!" Sesshomaru scolds him.
"You hypocrite! You're the one trying to rob his grave! Now get out of here!" Inuyasha growls.
"Master Inuyasha! Look behind you!" Myoga orders him.
"Behind me? Why?" Inuyasha asks him.
"That's the sword… made from your Father's fang… that's Tetsusaiga!" Myoga exclaims looking at the rusty sword.
"Huh?!" Inuyasha questions as he goes over to the sword. "It's just an old, rusty sword! Tes-something-or-other? Hah! You can't even cut a turnip with this!"
"Master Inuyasha! Please draw the sword out. Lord Sesshomaru, you were unable to pull Tetsusaiga out. Isn't that so?" Myoga asks the older Inu.
"And you say that Inuyasha can?" Sesshomaru asks the Flea.
"But of course! Master Inuyasha was meant to inherit the Tetsusaiga! The fact that the tomb was entrusted to Inuyasha is proof of that!" Myoga exclaims but inches slowly to Inuyasha's neck in fear of Sesshomaru's wrath. Now hurry, Master Inuyasha! Draw the sword out!"
"What inheritance?! What treasured sword! I could care less about this rusty sword! But Sesshomaru! You've insulted me once too often! Now you'll die inside our Father's grave!" Inuyasha shouts and leaps over to his Brother ready to claw at him, but he dodges out of the way.
"Where are you aiming?" Sesshomaru asks in a mocking tone, he lands on the ground before leaping back into the air, Inuyasha chases after him and attacks, but Sesshomaru dodges effortlessly. Inuyasha goes to punch him sending Sesshomaru flying further up, Inuyasha hits into the ribcage instead and crashes down to the ground.
"Damn!" Inuyasha snaps as Sesshomaru lands behind him.
"Master Inuyasha! You cannot fight unarmed! Get the sword!" Myoga exclaims in a panic.
"Shut up!" Inuyasha snaps at the Flea.
"Inuyasha! Just go and draw the sword out!" Ren shouts down at him as she and Kagome stand from their position.
"Ren!" Inuyasha shouts up at her.
"Sesshomaru couldn't do it! Now, if you pull it out with ease, Sesshomaru's pride will be in shreds! How embarrassing for him!" Ren tells him.
"I see… all right That'll be really fun to watch." Inuyasha agrees and walks towards the sword, and Sesshomaru gives him the evil eye. "Hey, I can't wait to see your face!" He gets onto the pedestal and holds the hilt of the sword. Jaken appears from a pile of skulls.
"No…! Master Inuyasha is immune to the spell which cast off Lord Sesshomaru!" Jaken exclaims as Inuyasha tries pulling out the sword.
"I knew it! Tetsusaiga is destined to belong to Master Inuyasha!" Myoga exclaims as Inuyasha clenches his teeth pulling with all his strength, and a glow emits around the sword's pedestal.
"Draw it out Inuyasha!" Kagome shouts in encouragement, Inuyasha still tries hard to pull the sword out, and an orb of light surrounds the sword, Sesshomaru looks on, and slowly, the light disappears, but the sword remains embedded in the pedestal. "Huh?!" Both Kagome and Inuyasha question in disbelief.
"Oh dear!" Jaken exclaims.
"Hey…" Inuyasha says in a deadpan tone picking up Myoga and squeezes him with his fingers, his eyebrow twitching. "I couldn't pull it out!"
"Wh-why?!" Myoga exclaims in pain.
"Let's cut the comedy." Sesshomaru cuts in before suddenly, flying towards Inuyasha, who dodges sprinting away, but Sesshomaru catches up with him effortlessly pinning him onto the wall of made of bones. Sesshomaru holds out his other hand threateningly. "My poison claws will sublimate you!" A green glow comes from his hand and charges at Inuyasha, who breaks free from his older Brother's grip and the poison coated hand charges impacting the ribcage wall, which melts forming a hole that gets gradually bigger.
"Wanna turn me into slime, huh?!" Inuyasha thinks as he sprints away and Sesshomaru zooms next to him.
"You won't get away!" He snaps at his Brother.
"Why you-!" Inuyasha growls and claws at Sesshomaru who flies in the air to dodge the attack and takes out a whip, sending it towards Inuyasha, who falls back onto the ground.
"Lord Sesshomaru! Let me assist!" Jaken begs as he swings his staff around.
"Hey, you! Coward!" Kagome snaps as she jumps onto Jaken, making him fall flat on his face among the bones and steps off facing him.
"What?! Take that!" Jaken screams, getting up swinging his staff at Kagome.
"You puny troublemaker!" Kagome snaps grabbing the staff and pushes it forward, and Jaken pulls towards him as the play tug of war with each other.
"Why little wench!" He snaps.
"Even humans like me can fight!" She snaps back.
"I won't lose this time!" He pulls the staff forcefully sending Kagome falling near the pedestal. Ren walks over calmly and knocks Jaken away from her Sister as Inuyasha engages with Sesshomaru, he hears the commotion and looks over to see Ren and Kagome in a struggle with Jaken.
"Ren, Kagome!" Inuyasha yells out, getting distracted allowing Sesshomaru to slug him in the face, Ren pushes Kagome behind her as Jaken swings his staff around in front of them, Ren gets out her katana pointing it at the imp.
"What?! Is that all you can manage?!" Jaken exclaims, and the girls step back being wary of the Human Head Staff swinging in front of them, Ren pushes Kagome back to the pedestal and Ren finds her self subconsciously reaching back using the sword for support as Kagome hides behind her big Sister.
"Darn it! I'm not done yet!" Kagome shouts gasping as she looks over at Inuyasha as he lies on the ground, struggling to get up but get up flies towards Sesshomaru. He charges one hand at Inuyasha's stomach, stopping his kid Brother midair, he winces in pain from the blow, and his body curls up around his Brother's hold as he raises the other now glowing green.
"This is it! Disappear!" Sesshomaru shouts leaping into the air pinning Inuyasha onto the ground; he flexes his hand muscles menacingly as he prepares to move in for the kill. Ren backs up with her hand on the hilt of Tetsusaiga, and she goes running towards her friend Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha!" She calls out, and the tip of the sword dislodges from the pedestal, she realises and stares at the other sword in her hand. "Huh?!" She looks at her hand as Sesshomaru stops turning around to look at Ren as she holds the sword in her right hand with a look of disbelief and turns to the Brothers. "Sorry… I pulled it out." Jaken stands in front of her a stuttering mess as the Brother's stare at her more. "Sorry…" She looks down at the sword's blade. "What'll I do?" She wonders.