Title: The Path of Supreme Conquest
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: PG-13
Prompt: Plan (inuyasha themes Prompt 8)
Word Count: 400
Warning: none
Summary: Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans
The Path of Supreme Conquest
1. Defeat Father
2. Use Father's Swords to Complete My Power
3. Become Inu no Taisho
4 Become Supreme Ruler of the World
He stared at the scroll in his hands. . He must have been five years old when he wrote this list. Once it had governed his life. Plans had changed.
Father had died without giving him the opportunity to defeat him. The easy path to surpassing his Father had been taken away from him. He had allowed the old man to go to save his human before he died. Something in him prevented him from killing his Father. One does not kill fools.
Father had left him Tenseiga. He had spent many years wandering the countryside looking for Tessaiga only to have lost it and his arm to Inuyasha as he found it. In the end the search for the swords had been an enormous waste of his time. Bakusaiga had been within him all along.
When Father died the title Inu no Taisho had died with him. Why would anyone want to be the Dog General? Only a fool like his Father fought for others. He had never needed anyone's help to fight anyone nor did he feel any desire to help anyone.
Once he had seen himself as the ruler of the world. All humans and youkai alike would bow down to him. Once Father died, he found that ruling the World itself had no interest to him. He cared only about the acquisition of power as an end in itself.
A year ago the list might have represented the path that he wanted to follow. But no more. He had learned compassion from Kaguira. His mother had tried to teach him fear and mercy, but he had gone to hell and back for Rin. Swords and power were not important. He had learned what was truly important: Rin's life.
He shredded the scroll. A sudden gust of wind wafted the pieces of paper into the clouds. The Path of Supreme Conquest was a road he no longer had any desire to tread. He had found his own power within him and had become a daiyoukai with daiyoukai's weapon. The day he had finally discarded his father's heirlooms, he had become a man and had put away childish dreams. He turned to the little girl at his side.
"Come, Rin"