SailorStar9: Chapter 34 goes up and only one review? Come on guys, you people were the ones who wanted me to continue this fic.

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Chapter 35: Magatsuhi's Evil Will

"The news is everywhere, Sesshomaru." Two low-level demons appeared before the group. "That's you've lost your weapon."

"Jaken-sama, these things have been happening a lot lately." Rin pointed out.

"Weaklings have been swarming in to challenge Sesshomaru-sama." Chie sighed. "They think they could beat him without his weapon and earn reputation."

"I always wondered how it would be to taste the flesh of a dog demon." One of the demons chuckled. "Moreover, if we defeat you, we'll be able to procure that boy's…"

"Shut up." Sesshomaru retorted, taking out both demons with his poison claws. "Let's go."

"Sesshomaru didn't use his sword?" Byakuya mused, watching the group on his paper crane. "I know that Inuyasha stole his Meido Zangetsuha and that junk sword that he has won't cut through anything."

"What's wrong, Sesshomaru-sama?" Jaken inquired when Sesshomaru stopped.

"Stand back." Sesshomaru warned as the sky darkened and a streak of purple lightning struck down before them. "Are you one of Naraku's incarnations?" he asked the figure before him.

"A-Un, go!" Chie barked, grabbing Kohaku before Magatsuhi's whip hit.

"You're weak." Magatsuhi smirked, Chie's energy shield blocking off his next strike, Sesshomaru taking the opening to cut off his limb. "I'll repeat it. You're weak."

Dodging past the next tendril strike, Sesshomaru sank his claw into Magatsuhi's stomach.

"Well, do you realize how weak you are?" Magatsuhi taunted, unfazed.

"Something's not right." Chie frowned. "Sesshomaru-sama's arm should've pierced right through his body, but look closely; it's being swallowed."

"Sesshomaru-sama's arm?" Rin gasped, Sesshomaru pulling back before he was trapped by Magatsuhi's claws.

"Rin, get down!" Kohaku shouted, tossing his chain-claw at Magatsuhi. "He's one of Naraku's incarnations, which means he can't touch me since Kikyo-sama purified my shard." My shard is getting defiled? He was stunned when Magatsuhi grabbed him, one of his tentacles touching the shard and tainting it immediately.

"I think it's over." Magatsuhi smirked, stopping Sesshomaru from saving Kohaku.

"You bastard!" Inuyasha roared, cutting through Magatsuhi's arm. "Aren't you one of Naraku's incarnations?"

"Don't count me under that hanyou." Magatsuhi scoffed.

"Bastard, what did you do to Kagome?" Inuyasha demanded, Magatsuhi having knocked Kagome out with a stare.

"Take Kohaku with you and leave." Sesshomaru instructed. "You're in my way."

"Sesshomaru, you should back off for now." Inuyasha warned, seeing the injuries on his older sibling. "This isn't a fight for someone who's injured."

"Looks like I'm being underestimated." Sesshomaru noted. "A hanyou is taking pity on me?"

"I guess I'm not done with you yet." Magatsuhi was intrigued when Sesshomaru healed his wounds.

"Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha gasped, the Daiyokai changing into his demon form in mid-air. Swooping down, the dog demon bit off Magatsuhi's head.

"Miroku, Sango, take Kagome with you." Inuyasha shouted, as a fog of miasma flooded out from Magatsuhi's body.

"He's after Kohaku's shard." Rin stated, Magatsuhi's tentacles extended out to catch the fleeing group.

"Cut through it how much you want." Magatsuhi mocked, Inuyasha slicing off the tendril horde. "I just borrowed his body."

"Who the hell are you? Inuyasha demanded, Magatsuhi's tentacles now entwining Sesshomaru.

"Since you've asked, let me tell you." Magatsuhi smirked. "My name is Magatsuhi."

"Magatsuhi?" Shippo echoed.

"It's the evil part of the Shikon Jewel." Chie explained. "It must have manifested itself as a demon."

"I understand that you don't want my help." Inuyasha snapped at his older brother, having freed him from Magatsuhi. "But for now, allow me to use Meido Zangetsuha."

"Make use of Meido Zangetsuha as well." Magatsuhi taunted, splitting up. "But where ever you point it, you'll end up killing your friends."

"Follow me." Sesshomaru advised and cut through a path for A-Un and Kirara to follow, with Inuyasha and Jaken following on the ground.

"Now I get it." Chie realized. "If we let ourselves get surrounded…"

"Won't you end up hurting your friends?" Magatsuhi mocked. "How long will you endure?"

"You'll have to defend yourselves from here." Sesshomaru stated.

"Saw that coming a mile away." Chie chuckled, Sesshomaru taking off after Magatsuhi's head.

"Isn't it a piece of junk that can't cut through anything?" Shippo wondered when Sesshomaru drew Tenseiga.

"No, it's something else." Chie frowned

"Curse you!" Magatsuhi hissed, seemingly injured by Sesshomaru's attack. "You bastard." He scowled, forming a wall of flesh to block out Sesshomaru's next assault. "Perhaps that blade can cut through souls, but it can't cut through Naraku's flesh, which belongs to this world." And stabbed the Daiyokai with two of his tendrils. "Allow me to say it one last time. You're weak." And engulfed the trapped demon with his tentacles. "What's wrong?" he taunted, ensnaring Inuyasha with his tendrils, the hanyou tried to free his sibling. "Why aren't you using your blade to cut yourself free from the appendages? Don't worry about the person inside. Even if you shatter him into pieces, he'll get revived soon as part of Naraku's body."

"Don't mess with me, you bastard." Inuyasha swore as Magatsuhi drew him into the ball of flesh. "What the…" he blinked when a silvery-white light beam shot out from Chie's pendent and into the cocoon. "Sesshomaru…" he muttered when the demon broke free.

"That's…" Sango noticed the cloud in the sky.

"Tōtōsai-sama?" Miroku mused.

"What's happening?" Inuyasha was stunned when Sesshomaru obliterated the flesh cocoon with a single strike.

"It finally appeared, Sesshomaru." Tōtōsai remarked, Sesshomaru's severed left arm regrew, along with a new sword. "Behold your own weapon, one that's not been gifted by your father, the Bakusaiga."

"This diversion has truly been a surprise." Magatsuhi admitted. "However, since I just borrowed this body, I feel no pain or agony."

"Where's Magatsuhi's true spirit?" Inuyasha inquired as the sky cleared.

"It fled." Sesshomaru replied.

"Let me see your Bakusaiga." Tōtōsai requested after the battle. "You've always had that sword in you, but it was hidden." He explained. "You just needed to stand on your own as a greater demon before you could wield it. You once lost your left arm in an attempt to procure Tetsusaiga. But now, you've gained a new arm along with a sword that's yours, which proves that you've surpassed your father and have been released from pursuing Tetsusaiga."

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