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Poet, I apparently missed a step when uploading. So you get three chapters today. sorry!
If anyone had told him that someone would survive a full assault of his dokkasou without a scratch, he would have laughed and then killed them.
When the melting pile moved, he expected to see the human melting as she tried to rise. Skin and tissue becoming a liquid that runs down her body into a puddle of slime.
But this girl, -no, woman- she rose from the pile of melted bones without so much as a hair out of place. The dokkasou running down her body like water, and doing as much damage. He could only say one thing.
"What are you?"
In his confusion and anger his instinctual side broke free and had roared to life changing him into his true form. All rational thought giving way to the beast he truly is.
Acidic saliva pours from his jaw like deadly rain causing a poisonous fog to rise around his feet, turning the bones within his father's skeleton to nothing more than caustic sludge. He bursts out the side of the skeleton, taking the fight out into the open.
"I'll protect you Kagome!!" Inuyasha yells and the rusty blade transforms into the glorious fang he remembers his father using to rend his foes to nothing more than pieces strewn across battlefields of his youth.
A miscalculation and underestimation causes the loss of his left arm and he retreats in shame.
His brother had become stronger than he could have imagined. Perhaps the years away before his imprisonment had brought forth strength. Perhaps it is because of that Woman. He will not use her name so he won't think about her.
As his arm heals he reflects.
His brother had found the sword that will protect his mind and soul if he loses to the beast inside. His quest to find it has ended, yet he feels empty. Empty and so alone.
The plan that Jaken had come up with had made it so that his brother would never again trust him. He realized by allowing Jaken to use Izayoi's memory he had created a rift that he knew would be too difficult to fix.
As much as she and his father had hurt him, the unmother taking her form had been too much and seeing her in distress had pained him. Possibly more than it had his brother.
Something had darkened his lands. He could smell the miasma, feel the encroaching decay.
All youki were connected to the earth and all living things. The miasma was like a creeping slime that sucked the life from all it touched.
A false half demon wearing the skin of a creature he had never seen had approached him with a shard of the Shikon jewel. The pelt looked like a creature similar to a macaque but larger. He gave him the shard in return to destroy his brother and the girl he travels with.
He accepts and uses it to bind an arm from another creature to his stump. This creature is sneaky, and a strong opponent. He scents of a human and many lesser demons. This creature must have sold its soul.
This fight is not Sesshoumarus, so he will not help this false half demon, he will, however, need to help Inuyasha become stronger to defeat his own foes.
The pup will need to learn how to use the Tessaiga.