"Oi, wench, what's with you?"

Kagome had a strange expression on her face and her hand went to her dagger that not even Inuyasha knew about.

"I don't know. I feel weird."

Inuyasha rolled his eyes, "It's probably this place. Deal with it. We gotta go!"

Throwing her onto his back, he rushed into the enormous skeleton of his father. He couldn't help but be awed at the size of his father's true form. He had once seen Seshomaru's beast, a few years before he had been sealed and his half brother was nowhere near the size of his father.

His heard his brother's voice and rushed forward, just in time to see Seshomaru staring at his burning hand, dispassionately.

"Seshomaru!" He howled in fury.

His brother looked up, nonchalantly, "Hm?"

Even more enraged at the fact that his brother had a look in his eyes like one looking at an insect, he yelled, "We're not done yet!" And he swung his claws, crying out, "Sankon Tetsusou!"

Seshomaru moved within the blink of an eye and Inuyasha's attack fell on the countless skulls and bones lying on the base.

Seshomaru raised a brow, "What, Inuyasha? Did you come just to dig your own grave?"

Then he paused before saying, "Or could it be that you too are after Tetsusaiga?"

Inuyasha straightened up, casting a quick glance at the rusty sword, seemingly stuck in a pile of bones, "Tetsusaiga?" Looking at Seshomaru's almost bored expression, he snarled, "I'm not interested in some worn out old sword! You bastard! How dare you screw with me?!"

He once again jumped towards his brother, his claws out, only to have Seshomaru dance out of his reach and ask dryly, "Where are you aiming?"

Falling down again, Inuyasha growled, "Shit! You asshole!"

Seshomaru shrugged, elegantly, a small smirk on his lips, "Your fighting style is as childish as ever."

Kagome had had enough of watching Inuyasha get humiliated over and over again. Angry, she cried out to him, "Just grab the stupid sword already, Inuyasha!"

When she noticed that both the brother's attention was on her, she yelled, "Seshomaru couldn't pull it out, right? If you can pull it out easily, it would teach him a lesson! He'll have to eat his words!"

Seshomaru scowled at the impudent words of the human wench, whilst Inuyasha froze for a second, mulling over words. She was right. It would really annoy Seshomaru if he got to take the sword out.

Confident, Seshomaru tilted his head, "You will fail."

Inuyasha grabbed the hilt of the sword and smirked as the sword did not burn his hand or anything. Looking over at Seshomaru, he declared, "This is your payback, you bastard. Let's see you weep."

He pulled at the sword.

It didn't budge.

He pulled again.

Inuyasha glanced at Kagome, "It won't come out."

His companion shrugged, helplessly. "It was worth a try."

Seshomaru had had enough. Quietly, he murmured, "This farce is over."

Before Inuyasha could move, his brother was in his face, "It seems Tetsusaiga wasn't meant for you after all."

He raised his hand and Kagome was horrified to see the glowing green liquid shimmering on his claw. As he slashed at Inuyasha, who ducked just in time, the miko from the future was stunned to see the bone melt from where his claws had scratched. Poison?

Inuyasha jumped away, only to have Seshomaru follow him, frowning, "You won't get away."

The little toad that accompanied Seshomaru cackled and caught Kagome's attention, "Allow me to assist you, Lord Seshomaru!"

"Oh no you don't!" Kagome scowled and jumped down from where Inuyasha had placed her, landing squarely on to the toad youkai.

As she struggled with the annoying youkai who was furious at the gall of a human to touch him, Kagome grabbed his staff and he tried to pull it from her, succeeding and hitting her with it, making her fall. Kagome winced and took a hold of the first object near her as support as she tried to stand up and her eyes fell on Inuyasha lying on the ground with his brother rushing towards him, his poison claws out as he declared, "Dissolve."

Crying out Inuyasha's name in fear, Kagome stood up and dragged the item she had used as a support, only to realize what she had just done. With everyone, including Seshomaru staring at her, she held onto the sword and mumbled, apologetically, "Sorry... It slipped..."

"Impossible!" Jaken's cry roused everyone out their stupor, "Even Lord Seshomaru couldn't - How could -"

Inuyasha realized too late that Seshomaru's attention was on the wrong person. He raised his own claws, snarling, "Don't go looking elsewhere! We're not done yet!"

However, Seshomaru was not there. He was standing in front of a stunned Kagome.

"You- Who are you?" He studied her, impassively, "Why were you able to draw Tetsusaiga?"

Now that all the attention and focus of this deadly creature was on her, Kagome felt a flicker of fear. Raising the sword with both hands, she took a step back, "Don't - Don't come any closer. Or I'll slice you!"

Inuyasha was too far away to do anything and even as he tried to make his way towards her, he howled in anger, and a whole lot of fear, "Don't you touch her, Seshomaru! That girl has nothing to do with this!"

"Inuyasha." Seshomaru glanced at him, raising his claw, "I disagree."

His tone was completely casual as if they were discussing the weather, "Especially since she's your companion."

He raised his hands towards Kagome, "Die."

As his deadly poison enveloped Kagome, her dagger pulsed wildly and she screamed.

"Kagome!"

However, a strange aura surrounded Kagome, pushing away the poison. Kagome's hand reached inside her shirt to draw out that dagger and she clenched onto it.

Seshomaru's eyes widened as they fell on the dagger. He didn't get the chance to speak as his father's corpse started rattling wildly.

Something was wrong.

Feeling the aura to be familiar, he attacked the girl again and she stumbled back, crying out, as she fell against the distended bones cluttered there.

"Jaken. Let's go."

Seshomaru threw a look at the sword in the girl's hands and as he attempted to reach out and grab it, the strange aura repelled him, burning his hand, viciously.

He extracted his hand and raised a brow. Turning on his heel, he started leaving.

"My Lord, the sword!"

Seshomaru did not turn around, "It is worthless. Come."

The toad youkai followed after his Master as they rushed out. The bones were rumbling and were starting to dissolve.

Kagome cast a frightened look at Inuyasha who ran towards her but was pushed back.

"I-Inuyasha!"

"Don't worry, Kagome! I'll get you out of there."

Kagome tried to get up, but her knee was badly injured. And Inuyasha couldn't get close enough to touch her. Her eyes fell on the bones near her starting to dissolve and she tried to control her fear. She was going to die!

She watched Inuyasha try to get to her and knew she couldn't let him die for her.

Picking up the sword, she tossed it towards him, "Get out of here, Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha gave her a look wondering if she had gone insane, "Are you crazy, wench?! I'm not leaving you here!"

Kagome started crying, scared out of her wits, "But you'll die! You have to get out of here, Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha's eyes flashed red for a moment, startling Kagome, "I am not leaving you here!"

His roar was accompanied by a hissing sound and suddenly the boy was flung through the bone cage with such strength that he broke it and landed outside the skeleton. The aura around Kagome expanded and she clenched onto the dagger. The bones beneath her had also melted but she was fine, nothing was hurting her.

The aura which had surrounded her grew in strength and expanded. It's youki was so strong that her reiki started flaring, but for a moment. It just as quickly died down and the sense of danger Kagome had been feeling passed. However, as the aura surrounded the skeleton, she spied an enraged Inuyasha with a different sword in his hand and Seshomaru attempting to attack him.

Before, she could call out to him, she collapsed, her vision growing dark.

Outside, Inuyasha held a transformed Tetsusaiga in his hands and tried to attack the red aura surrounding his father's skeleton. Screaming Kagome's name, he tried to break this impregnable barrier but was thrown back.

Spying Seshomaru, he rushed towards him, shouting, "What did you do, you bastard!? "

Seshomaru side stepped his brother's grief stricken form and studied the blade in his hand. It was truly Tetsusaiga.

Curious, he asked, "How did you get it to transform?"

When Inuyasha refused to answer, just swinging the sword, wildly, the inuyoukai backhanded his brother, making him fly quite a distance and fall.

However, Jaken's cry took his attention and his eyes widened as he looked to where his faithful retainer was pointing. Their father's grave was no more. The huge skeleton that had lain there had vanished and instead.

He took a step back.

This aura that he was feeling.

He knew who it belonged to.

As the dust cleared, a masculine figure came into view.

Striding forward with a determined gait, those amber eyes, jagged brows that only Inuyasha had inherited, the top knot and silver hair swaying in the settling dust, the male carried in his arms the miko who had supposedly just perished inside the tomb.

Seshomaru's hand lowered as his mind was struck blank at what he was seeing in front of him.

"Father?"

A.N: Kagome's character is not developed properly because this is happening just a few days of her arrival in the feudal era. She is a teenage girl who is scared, uncomfortable and trying to survive. Thus, reading the manga, I have followed her character. Also, I am following the manga, literally. Like the fight scene with Seshomaru was the same, only slightly edited because of Myouga's lack of presence and this whole raising the Inu no Taisho from the dead part. Also, Seshomaru has a lot of informal speech in the manga.