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Parting at the beginning of the afternoon, Sesshoumaru traveled, by convenience, in the form of a sphere of light, reaching in just a few hours the place where Izayoi and Inuyasha had been received. There was no longer trace of the child, and about Izayoi he only heard that the pup had taken her body with him when he was… expelled after the princess' death.
Sesshoumaru had no way to know the details of how the disgusting feudal lord had ordered for the little hanyou to be beaten to death just a few hours after the princess' death. He couldn't know either how the man was filled with terror when the boy's instinct taught him how to use his sharp little claws to defend himself, leaving deep cuts in the arm of one of the agressors even when said claws were still far from maturing. Much less would he know that, out of fear, the despicable man had taken back his order, hiding it behind fake mercy, giving the small hanyou until nightfall to leave his feud with his mother's body if he didn't want the hounds to take care of them. No, Sesshoumaru didn't learn any of that, but cowards existed in all species, and the way the word "expelled" had been chosen by the pathetic human had been enough to reveal to the Inu no Taisho's firstborn that it hid violence. He knew it all too well.
Inuyasha had escaped to the West, he said. Smart boy. Surely Izayoi had told him about how his paternal side of the family ruled over the Western Lands.
When there was no more information to get from the feudal lord's very mouth, who was being held in the air by his throat, Sesshoumaru melted the despicable noble's throat between his claws, despite the cowardly begging for being spared, for "he had already said everything he knew".
Had they gone as far as to force such a small pup to take with him his mother's lifeless body to bury her?
Throwing what was left of the body, far from him so he wouln't be stained by blood or melted flesh, Sesshoumaru headed West then, back to his lands. Inuyasha was probably still very small, and he probably didn't know how to use his body's abilities to their fullest, so, going on foot, he probably hadn't gone too far in a little over a week.