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*Hey guys Hakuorofan7 here and welcome back to another chapter of Hanyo of Snow.*

*Anyway I am tired, just got a new job and figured I would upload this before falling asleep*

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Tessaiga


(Touma POV)

A minute later we found Inuko and Kagome running away from some swampland with the later carrying the Nintōjō.

Should have figured she was the one who sent Jaken flying towards us.

A moment later I didn't get the chance to greet them when a screaming projectile came flying into me.

Seems like Sesshōmaru used Jaken as a projectile, I kind of feel sorry for him.

"Master!" Yura called out as I plummeted to the ground, only to be caught by Inuko.

Jaken wasn't so lucky as he crashed into a tree.

"Glad to see that you are alright Touma, well mostly anyway." She said while looking at my right arm. "But where is my frigid bitch of a sister?"

"Trapped her in ice, but it didn't last long." I said, getting her to nod.

"Please tell me that you at least got a good hit in?" Inuko questioned.

"More then you could ever achieve Inuko."

I didn't have time to react as Sesshōmaru shot through the clearing and grabbed Inuko by her throat dropping me to the ground and landing on my right arm, causing me to scream out in pain.

"Sorry about that Touma." Sesshōmaru said emotionlessly before eyeing Kagome who had notched an arrow in her direction. She simply swung Inuko in her direction. "If anyone of you try anything I will simply kill Inuko."

Kagome still kept the arrow notched, backing off but still waiting for the perfect shot.

"Good. Now then Inuko-" She was cut off when Inuko kicked her in straight into her opened wound. This losened her grip on Inuko who kicked herself away from her and proceeded to grab me and run away. Sesshōnaru tried to close the distance, but Kagome took her shot. It missed, but Yura grabbed it with her hairs and jabbed it into the open wound.

"Take that you bitch!" Inuko called out before Sesshōmaru ripped out the arrow and formed her yoki whip.

She wrapped it around myself and Inuko and with a tug sent us flying towards her. With her free hand she caught me and simply dropped me to the ground before pulling Inuko towards her.

And immediately gorging her right eye out much to everyone's horror.

She callously tossed the screaming Inuko into Kagome and Yura before crushing the eye, revealing a black pearl.

That's it! I may be exhausted, out of power, and can't use my right arm that well, but Sesshōmaru needs to pay!

I drew Shūsui out and tried to strike her, but she gracefully dodged and pried the sword from my hand and tossed it to the ground.

Okay I was now weaponless, but that didn't mean I was defenseless. I tried to hit or kick her only for her to hold me away from here body.

Seeing no other option, I did the only thing I could do.

I bit her hand, hard enough to draw blood.

Surprised, she let me go and barely dodged Yura trying to strike at her with Benigasumi and slammed her into the ground.

She looked between her hand and myself for a few seconds before advancing towards me.

Before she could do anything however, Inuko appeared and tackled her to the ground.

"This is for my eye you bitch!" She roared out as she tried to tear out Sesshōmaru's throat with her claws. She only managed to scratch at her throat before Sesshōmaru used her whip to fling Inuko away.

"That is quite enough." The daiyokai said as Yura came at her with Benigasumi. With a quick flick of her whip she severed Yura's sword arm and sent her flying away. "I am on the cusp of claiming what is rightfully mine so if you all just walk away right now, I will not hunt down anyone of you unless we cross paths again." She said coldly, causing Inuko to laugh coldly in turn.

"You think after all the shit you put us through that we would just let you pass, then you are dead wrong you cold hearted bitch!" Inuko spat out. "You kidnapped Touma, used the very image of my own mother to trick me, probably tried to kill Touma if that injury is of any indication, and you gorged my fucking eye out! It will take at least a day for that to grow back if at all! So for those reasons I'm not going to let you pass, in fact I'll take that pearl and find our father's tomb. So I can use the Tessaiga to gourg your own eyes out or my personal preference shove the whole thing up your ass!" She declared, stunning everyone.

...well damn, I honestly did not expect that. Neither did Sesshōmaru of here expression was of any indication.

A moment later she just sighed out and whipped Inuko in the face sending her crashing to the ground.

Before anyone could react she speed of and slammed Yura and Kagome in a nearby tree and knocking the later out. I tried to rush to them, but she caught me and slammed me into the ground. Although the way she did it was a bit more gently the what she did for the other two.

Inuko tried to get up, but Sesshōmaru pounded onto her and cratered the ground.

She stood on top of her and opened her claws with a familiar miasma leaking from them.

Oh no.

I bolted towards Sesshōmaru as she unleashed her poison on Inuko, who could only glare at her older sister with open defiance in her one eye.

I was too late to have reached her, but someone else had interfined.

Much to the surprise of everyone, the faux Izayoi which I guess was a Mu-on'na jumped in between the blow and took the poison head on. She sent Inuko one last loving glance at Inuko despite being faceless before disintegrating. Leaving nothing but a few scraps of cloth floating in the wind.

The Mu-on'na, a type of yokai created from the amalgamation of the souls of mothers who have lost their children to war and famine. They have the the ability to take the forms of the mother of their victims as they asorb them into themselves in order to temporarily feel the unconditional love between parent and child once again before going into a period grieving before moving on.

Such a yokai would be perfect for Sesshōmaru's and Jaken's plan, but there was one flaw that they didn't seem to consider.

The motherly love they have for their victims can sometimes over comes their instincts to the point where they raise their victims for the rest of their lives or they fade away or in cases like what just happened sacrifice themselves for their victims.

Inuko could only look on in shock as Sesshōmaru just sighed out and walked away from her.

"Jaken." She snapped before the bruised imp came running towards her with the Nintōjō.

"I'm here Lady Sesshōmaru!" He squawked our before presenting her with the staff.

She snatched it away from her and placed the black pearl at the bottom of it. After it twitched for a minute the old man head started to laugh and she smiled.

"Perfect after all these years I will finally claim the Tessaiga." She said before facing me. "If you wish to follow me to see my father's tomb you are more then welcomed to see it Touma. However if anyone else comes with you I will be more then willing to kill them except for you." She said with a small, chilling smile.

Shocking Jaken and causing Yura glare at her.

I don't know if I should be flattered or disturbed by such a notion.

Sesshōmaru slammed the Nintōjō onto the black pearl and shattered it. A glow of purple occurred before rip in space appeared before us. Sesshōmaru and Jaken entered into it, only for the former to disappear into it with a howl of pain as an arrow embedded square into her back.

"Nice shot Kagome." I said to the now awake Kagome as she lowered her bow.

"Thank you, but considering what how fast she can heal I think I only irritated her." Kagome sighed out as she looked over her quiver and noticed only one arrow left.

"Don't sell yourself short Kagome, you did manage to hit her where me and Yura impaled her. So it will no doubt do more then irritate her." I said getting Kagome to nod.

"Well that is great and all, I think we should head inside the portal master." Yura said as she handed back Shūsui.

"She is right." Myōga said as he appeared on Inuko's shoulder. "If it closes then Sesshōmaru will claim sole possession of the Tessaiga."

"Like I care about that." Inuko said while brushing dirt and some of the Mu-on'na's kimono off of her robe, surprising Myōga. "As I said before I could care less if it was my father's sword or not and frankly I'm quite pissed that he placed that pearl in my eye. But I will get the Tessaiga if only to spite Sesshōmaru and to us it to teach that bitch a lesson."

"That does sound like a good idea." Yura said while nodding.

"If it means making that flat chested bitch to feel any kind of pain then count me in." Kagome said venomously, causing me to shudder.

She was pissed.

I knew once Kagome gets this she could be terrifying, but add in the fact that she has a bow, an arrow, and I swear I saw a flicker of reiryoku she was possibly even more frightening.

"Normally I would have told you to stay behind Kagome along with Touma, but being defeated by myself and you girl she would be so humiliated." Inuko said with a small chuckle.

"I can definitely see that happening." Yura said with a small smirk.

"Well whatever we do we better do it soon." I said upon noticing the portal starting to close a little. Looks like we only have so much time until things close down and leave us stranded on the other side.

"Shit your right." Inuko groaned out. "If you really wish to give that bitch a lesson then jump in." With that said she jumped in with Myōga clinging onto for dear life.

Without any hesitation Kagome and I soon followed suite with Yura not that far behind.

Despite Inuko missing an eye, Kagome only having an arrow, and myself being powerless at the moment each and everyone one of us were ready to give Sesshōmaru some payback for what she has done.

And nothing can stop us.


(Sesshōmaru POV)

Father picked the perfect place to hide an his remains and the Tessaiga. All this time I thought that it would have been somewhere within Nippon or somewhere over the sea separating us from the lands of the Mongols.

Instead it was in a place where no mortal could find.

A place where the only the dead rule.

The perfect destination to hide something that he wished for me not to posses, but after all these years the Tessaiga will soon be mine.

"Lady Sasshōmaru, I know it isn't my place to question your methods." Jaken said before I sent him a quick glance, causing him to freeze.

"Continue." I said, interested in what he had to say.

Usually I could care less of what he had to say at times especially with how his advice sometimes went against my honor. But as his latest scheme resulted in me accomplishing a goal that I have been waiting to accomplish for nearly the last third of my life so far. So I am willing to listen to what he has to say.

Though I can't guarantee he won't make it out unharmed if he oversteps his boundaries.

"Well Lady Sesshōmaru it's just that I seem to gather although for a fleeting moments you held some sort of respect for that accursed yuki-onna hanyo who left such a horrid scar on you." Jaken said nervously.

"Of course, no one has ever scarred me before and from such an interesting opponent as well." I said with a small smile.

No one had ever scarred before, the ones of my back caused by that faux god was a seal so it didn't count. Besides it was on the back, making the dishonourable. I've tried every known way to break such a seal and nothing worked. It was useless, but the seal was more of a brand so I wished for to be removed. The only way was probably to kill that daiyokai, but I was not going out of my way to look for him when I had more important things to do.

But Touma, he was interesting. He was intelligent, held some potential if him being able to wield Shūsui was of any indication, and had to potential to be strong minus that accursed shard imbedded in his chest.

"Lady Sesshōmaru." Jaken said breaking my musings. "If I may say it, I have also noticed that you seem to have developed an interest in that hanyo. Although I can respect his intelligence and can understand your decision with your scar, but why someone like a half-!" He silenced himself when I unsteathed my claws.

"Jaken, I believe it is time to drop this conversation for now. I can see the Tessaiga and I wish to claim it after all these years so do not bring up that hanyo again unless I tell you to or he follows us. Do I make myself clear?" I said while putting away my claws.

"O-Of course Lady Sesshōmaru." He squawked our nerviously before trudging on ahead, causing me to sigh.

While he is my retainer, sometimes he was a pain to deal with. Something my father has confided with me about Myōga and his cowardice a few times, but still both of them are as loyal to their masters.

Though I would take Jaken over that flea anytime. He sided with Inuko then myself after all.

On the matter of Touma, Jaken was right about the interest but for the wrong reasons.

I have to see how strong he can grow before I can make a choice.

While our meeting was a bit similar to how father and mother met nearly 1,500 years ago there was a few thing that were different. Y/N was already marked by Inuko abiet unknowingly as I doubt she knows anything about our father's culture. Me and my mother were some of the last inugami daiyokai around after all.

Still he has marked me twice over and he has yet to prove his strength.

So there was only one solution.

See how well he deals with the Tessaiga and kill Inuko.

It is as simple as that.


(Touma POV)

When we emerged from the portal Kagome and I barely held in the urge to scream as we plummeted to the ground far below us.

Inuko caught Kagome and Yura wrapped me in her hairs and put us on somekind of skeletal bird yokai...wait I think I recognize these creatures from one of my father's notes.

Oh shit, I know where we are now.

"Tōga certainly picked the perfect place to have hidden his tomb." I said to myself.

"I can certainly agree Master." Yura said while looking at the surroundings below us.

"So you two know where we are?" Inuko hollored at us.

"Yes, I recognize these birds from my father's notes. While they don't have a name they do have one thing I know about them. That they are only found on the border between the world of the living and Yomi." I said, shocking both Inuko and Kagome.

I couldn't blame them, I never thought that I would be this close to Yomi until the day I died but here I am.

"You have got to be kidding me!" Kagome said.

"I'm afraid not, smashing the black pearl leads to the boarder between the land of the living and the land of the dead. Thankfully we will not be effected by the properties of Yomi in this place, but we must hurry before the portal closes and we are trapped here." Myōga said, getting all of us to nod.

Thankfully this place was shielded from Yomi, because I've heard that place had worse pollution then most places on Earth in some areas and don't get me started on the management. While I was uncertain on if the kamis really exist or not but I am not looking forward to meeting the likes of Emma or kami forbide Izanami herself.

"So I take it all we need to do is find the tomb, well then I think I found it." Inuko said while pointing in front of us.

Holy shit.

We were flying to a gigantic skeleton covered in worn armor similar to that of samurai. And judging from the dog like skull, this was Tōga himself.

I knew that Tōga was big, but not that big!

He was the size of a fucking mountain!

"So that's Inuko's and Sesshōmaru's father then?" Kagome ask a little weakly, not that I blame her though.

"Yes this is Lord Tōga." Myōga said while rubbing away a few tears and I couldn't help but feel a little sad for him.

He hadn't seen his master before he died and that was over 200 years ago after all.

"Isn't it glourious Master, the sight of the last remains of probably the strongest yokai to have ever lived?" Yura asked in astonishment as she looked over the remains of Tōga.

"It sure is Yura." I said with a small smile, agreeing with her statement.

"Well get over it, I can smell my bitch of a sister and she is inside our old man." Inuko said, getting us to nod as the birds flew inside of Tōga's maw. We flew through his skull until we were directly above his throat.

We jumped off the birds with Yura lowering myself and Kagome down with her hair and Inuko hopping along the ribs.

Eventually we reached Sesshōmaru and Jaken at the base of Tōga's spin, removing her burning hand away from I can only guess was the Tessaiga.

"It seems like father was as cautious as ever, a barrier to block a yokai possess the Tessaiga." Sesshōmaru said through gritted teeth.

"Well that is what you get you overgrown bitch." Inuko said as she jumped down in front of her sister. "I guess what Myōga said was true after all, I'm the one who will possess the Tessaiga if only to spit you."

"I see that you all have followed me then." Sesshōmaru said while noticing us. "Jaken if anyone besides Touma go for the Tessaiga kill them. For Toums just knock him out."

"Of course Lady Sesshōmaru." Jaken said before flames began to emit from the old man head of the Nintōjō.

Looks like we might have some trouble getting the Tessaiga.

"You all hang back for now, I'll handle my bitch of a sister!" Inuko growled out as she lunged at Sesshōmaru. She simply jumped onto a rib bone and Inuko cracked the skeletons beneath her feet.

"I would rather not fight in our father's resting place Inuko, but if you insist." Sesshōmaru said while summoning the whip and sending Inuko crashing into a rib.

Jaken tried blast her with flames, but a crack from Sesshōmaru's whip silenced him.

"Stay out of this Jaken, this is between me and Inuko alone." Sesshōmaru said, getting the imp to nod.

"Lady Inuko I believe that if you wish to defeat Sesshōmaru then you must claim the Tessaiga." Myōga said as Inuko pulled herself out of the rib.

"Hate to admit it but your right." Inuko groaned out. "Touma, can you and that hairy bitch handle my sister."

"No problem." I said to her. "Ready Yura?"

"If it means I get a chance to stab that over grown bitch again then count on it master!" Yura said gleefully, a little to gleeful for my tastes.

"What about me?" Kagome asks.

"How about you handle Jaken, you seemed to have handled him last time?" I asked getting her to nod.

"Fair enough, just give that flat chested bitch a piece of my mind." Kagome said with a grin.

"No problem." I said before noticing Sesshōmaru lunging towards Inuko.

I drew my blade and jumped down. Yura used her hairs to help slow down my fall. We landed in front of Sesshōmaru and used our blades to block her claws while Inuko ran towards the Tessaiga.

I gritted my teeth as my right arm flared up in pain. This was a bad idea.

"Toums, Yura stay out of my way." Sesshōmaru said.

"Not a chance." I said, getting her to nod.

"Very well then." Sesshōmaru said before forming her whip. She swung it at us, but I barely managed to block it while Yura went underneath it.

The daiyokai pulled the whip back and used it to try to bisect Yura. She barely dodged it and had lost her sword arm, but that did not deter her. She used her free hand to launch the detached limb at breakneck speeds and impaled Sesshōmaru's left arm with Benigasumi, causing her to howl out in pain.

Yura pulled her arm back and began to reattach it.

"Got to say that I am impressed you two, but is this sword really the Tessaiga?" Inuko questioned while pointing at the rusted katana embedded in the altair.

"It is, but it is in a sealed state I believe." I said, getting her to nod.

"Well that makes sense." Inuko said before she tried to pulled the sword out and light began to emit for the base. But no fire appeared on Inuko.

"I knew that you were the one that was intended for the Tessaiga Lady Inuko!" Myōga cried out joyfully as the light intensified and the sword budged from its resting place.

But a few moments later the light died down and the sword refused to budge. Much to the shock of everyone.

...eh?

Well that was anticlimactic, though if the sword was intended for Inuko then why didn't it budge for her?

"What just happened?" Kagome asked as she final reached the bottom.

"What happened is that Myōga lied to me!" Inuko growled out before squashing said flea between her fingers and flicked him away. "I'll just kill my sister the old fashioned way."

"For once we are in agreement." Sesshōmaru said before rushing forward and slamming Inuko into another rib.

Why couldn't Inuko pull the Tessaiga out of she truly was able to inherit it...unless it corinates with Tōga beliefs himself. He valued the lives of both yokai and humans within his territory, as long as they were loyal to him or don't cause that much trouble in his territory.

So the seal must corinate with his beliefs.

If what happen to Sesshōmaru was of any indication then a yokai would be harmed severely trying to pull it out. So Yura was out of the question.

It didn't harm Inuko, but the sword didn't budge. So it didn't budge or harm for hanyos so I was out of the question.

So that left only one option...Tōga you crafty devil.

"Yura can you please help Inuko with Sesshōmaru, I'll go help Kagome." I said, getting her to look conceringly.

"Are you sure about that Master?" She questioned.

"Despite being injured and powerless at the moment I am confident that I can handle the imp, but thank you for you concern Yura." I said getting her to smile.

"No problem master." She said before leaping into join Inuko in fighting off Sesshōmaru.

Looking for Kagome I saw that she was ducking underneath a torrent of flames form the Nintōjō.

Rushing forward I simply clocked him over the head with Shūsui, breaking his concentration.

With the flames gone Kagome rushed forward and punted him into a rib bone.

"Kagome I'm going to need you to pull out the Tessaiga." I said, shocking her. "I figured that Tōga would have hoped that Inuko must've inherited his fondness for humans so he must've put that seal so that only a human could have remove it."

"I see, I will try to get it out. Just focus on helping out the others." She said before running off to the altair.

Speaking which, I just noticed that Yura was embedded into a rib and that Inuko was embedded into the ground with Sesshōmaru standing over top of her.

I rushed over to Inuko before Sesshōmaru's claws began to leak miasma and stood between the two.

"Touma step aside." Sesshōmaru demanded as she fixed her gaze at me.

"Sorry, but I can't let you kill my friend." I said as I stood my ground. I knew that she wouldn't kill me due to what she said earlier.

"I will only ask you this one more time, move aside or you will be moved." She once again demanded.

My only response was to draw Shūsui and prepare to be face Sesshōmaru.

She dispelled her poison and drew her claws out, but a small ringing sound resounded through the chamber. All of us looked in shock at the sight before us while I could only smile.

I was right.

"Looks like I really could do it." Kagome said while taking some practice swings with the Tessaiga before looking smug at Sesshōmaru. "So how does it feel that you an all powerful daiyokai wasn't worthy of pulling out your father's sword, but a lowly human like myself could. I bet it upsetting that you have waited for this moment for 200 years and only to be stolen from you by a human. It's what you deserve you flat chested bitch!"

Okay that has me shocked as well now, and Inuko laughing too.

And as well Sesshōmaru, well her expression was completely serene. But her aura and eyes showed only one thing.

A murderous desire aimed squarely at Kagome.

This is not going to end well.


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*Hey guys Hakuorofan7 here and I hope that you all enjoyed this chapter.*

*Next chapter will be the final one in the Tessaiga arc and I hope that you all will enjoy that when it comes out on April 11th.*

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