Inu: This is great. Now he has a viscous dog.

Hiei: Come on out. I want you to meet Fluffy.

Inu: That's not Fluffy. That's Fluffy. ( points to distant figure ) See, that's Fluffy.

Sesshomaru: Inuyasha, prepare yourself ( points Tokijin at me )

Inu: I'm not Inuyasha. I'm Inu the Stampede.

Sesshomaru. Prepare to die.

( Hiei, Fluffy, and Fluffy run at me)

Inu: Hey look I'm over there.

( everyone runs that direction)

Hiei: Come back here.

Inu: Youkais never learn.

The Meeting Of Two Deity Hanyous

Taisho walks through thick foliage.

" Come on. They couldn't have gotten this far." Taisho complains. Taisho examines his surroundings.

" Wait, where did their scent though?" Taisho sniffs the air. " Blasted thing."

" Everyone loses their touch." Says a voice from behind him.

Taisho turns to the sound of the voice.

" Your doing your job well." says the person.

The source of the voice is Inuyasha; who is leaning against a tree comfortably.

" I should have known." Taisho smiles at the hanyou. " What do you want now?"

" To talk about your recent action. The transformation was not needed." Inuyasha says irritated.

" Well you're one to talk. I just saw a feather float to the ground off your back." Taisho retaliates.

" Let's talk somewhere else." Inuyasha says motioning to a nearby cave.

A Dirt Path

" Where Taisho go? I thought he'd follow us." Sango asks.

" He'll catch up, but one thing troubles me. How does a villager take on one of Naraku's incarnation and come back not harmed or even sweating?" Miroku interjects.

" Maybe he has a special ability. I have Hiraikotsu, you have the kazaana, And Kagome has the sacred arrow." Sango states.

" But that flash, a demon of darkness wouldn't escape in a very, very bright light." Miroku argues.

" Maybe he's a demon." Kagome says from behind them.

" That's always a possibility, but his aura is not demon nor human. Maybe he can be a hanyou? He seems so different." Miroku adds.

" Perhaps he has a bad past." Sango puts in.

" Why are we worrying? He's saved us, who cares if we don't know his exact history." Shippo speaks up.

" You're right, Shippo." Kagome says to the kitsune.

" But one thing bothers me more than that." Miroku begins. " His sword, it gives off a more evil aura than Tokijin. If anything we should be more worried about his sword than him."

Cave

" Taisho, you must control yourself. I want you to protect them, but they need not know of our new transformation." Inuyasha complains.

" Inuyasha, the only way to hurt darkness is light. What is more holy than a deity?" Taisho argues.

" Half deity." Inuyasha explains. " Listen, and listen well. If they know what that moonlight did to us imagine the questions! The requests! What do people think of hanyous that have the powers of demi-gods?"

" Inuyasha! I know you liked being a hanyou, but I didn't! I was ridiculed all my life! I didn't have a miko lover; they tried to kill me! I didn't befriend demon-slayers; they thought of me as a hunt! I didn't have monks beside me; I was cursed by them! You were feared because you were the son of the great Inutaisho! I was a servant named after him! Do I make myself clear?!" Taisho shouts at the top of his lungs.

Inuyasha kept a straight face and didn't flinch at all.

" I know your past." Inuyasha says casually " You've been a friend all my life. I'm sorry you thought I considered you an enemy too, because of my disappearance for fifty years. Now is not the time to argue. Naraku is a hanyou so he has our powers now. Anything could happens in a battle of demi- gods."

" Inuyasha, how can you be so calm? You lost Tetsusaiga. The Blaze Phoenix can't destroy Naraku by itself. It might be made from the feather of a phoenix but it only has half of the power of one. You need a weapon." Taisho says defiantly.

" I have an idea." Inuyasha puts a hand in the ground a pulls out a feather and a fang.

" What are you thinking?"

Inuyasha lifts the feather.

" One of my own feathers and," lifts the fang " the last of my father's fangs. It's an inheritance I forgot about, and recently found. Meant to fix Tetsusaiga if it ever to break." Inuyasha explains.

" A fang of Inutaisho?! Do you plan to forge a sword of these two items?" Taisho infers.

" No." Inuyasha answers bluntly " I plan to improve an already good sword. Observe."

Inuyasha searches with his hand behind him and grabs something. He pulls in front of him a rusted, old sword.

" Tetsusaiga is in my possession. The one Zarcunai has is a counterfeit. The next ten days I will be at Toutousai's. No one is to come by there. Make sure my friends don't end up there either. They needn't know of my current location." Inuyasha informs him.

" I will, but how will you control a sword of such power?" Taisho asks curiously.

Inuyasha gets up and walks to the exit of the cave. He turns and grins.

" I don't plan to." With that Inuyasha jumps away.

" What does he mean?" Taisho asks no one inparticular.

Dirt Path

" Wait up!" Taisho yells from behind them.

" There you are." Miroku says " We were worried about you."

" I had some business to attend to. It's nothing to worry about." Taisho explains.

" Where do you think we should go now?" Sango asks. " We don't have a rumor of any shards."

' I must keep my promise with Inuyasha.' Taisho muses

" I believe that there's a demon back near your village that has shards." Taisho lies.

" If you are so sure than why wait until now to tell us?" Miroku asks.

" I did not know our direction until I caught up with you." Taisho stutters nervously.

" If you are positive." Miroku says.

" Let's go." Kagome says very unenthusiastically

Taisho looks at Kagome concerned.

' Inuaysha will kill me if he sees Kagome like this.'

Later

' ....I really do. Please remember that. And if you see Koga while I'm gone he won't live to tell his life story. ....' Kagome recites some of Inuyasha's message in her head.

" Kagome, what troubles you?" Taisho asks the depressed girl.

" I'm just worried about Inuyasha. Why won't he return? What's he doing that's so important that he won't return to me." Kagome looks up to the sky " What is Inuyasha doing."

' This poor girl. Inuyasha cant come back yet, he's doing this to protect you.'

" All Inuyasha said to you was that message then why do you remind me so much of him?" Kagome asks.

" All right, listen. I have known Inuyasha for a long time; before his mother's death, even before he knew Kikyo."

Kagome looks at Taisho confused.

" Are you speaking the truth?" Kagome asks.

" Hai."

Kagome slaps him.

" Why didn't us tell me sooner? Why did you lie to us? We have a right to know if our friend is actually keeping such secrets from us. You know where Inuyasha is exactly, don't you?" Kagome screams angrily.

" Kagome don't alert the others. I made a promise to Inuyasha to protect you. I already broke one by telling you, but Inuyasha would kill me if he saw you like that." Taisho says.

" What do you mean?" Kagome asks.

" Do you swear you wont scream at me again?" Taisho makes sure

" Yes, I swear."

" When I was gone today I met with Inuyasha. He told me that he cannot comw back for at least another eleven days. If you tell the others they will try to force more out of me." Taisho explains.

" So Inuyasha is alive?" Kagome asks hopefully.

" Yes, but the others must not know of this conversation."

" Hai."

Woods

" What is wrong today, milord?" Jaken asks Sesshomaru

Sesshomaru turns to Jaken with a fierce look on his face.

" Sorry, milord. That was most bold of me." Jaken apologizes.

" Jaken, it's Inuyasha. He bested me, made me frustrated. I can't understand what happened to Inuyasha. He has changed drastically. I could sense it in his voice." Sesshomaru explains.

" Inuyasha? Why worry about your worthless hanyou brother?" Jaken quickly covers his head.

" It's not what I'm worried about. His scent, the one time I caught it, was not of half demon but stronger; not half demon, not full demon. Stronger than both. He has another I could be concerned about. He had a bit of my father's scent on him."

" You father? Might he have a part of his skeleton?" Jaken asks.

" No, that is in his eye. Whatever he has he received before the demise of my father. It could be coming off Tetsusaiga, but it is now made of Inuyasha's fang." Sesshomaru starts. " Of course. A fang."

Sesshomaru turns a different direction.

" Rin, Jaken we are taking a trip to Toutousai's."

Dirt Path

Kagome watches the sunset in front of them as they try to find a spot to rest.

" What a sight. The sunset is always beautiful." Kagome states cheerfully.

" Observe." Miroku points to a clearing.

" At least there's no towering evil spirit." Plays Sango.

Minutes later everyone is conversing.

" Then she slapped me for the twelfth time and it wasn't me who did it that time." Miroku laughs along with everyone else.

" Miroku, you hentai." Laughs Taisho but then he tenses.

Kagome stands up quickly.

" I sense to jewel shards coming in quick. But that could only mean, Koga." Kagome lets known.

In a tornado of dust Koga appears before them.

He raises one hand.

"Yo."

"What do you want, Koga?" Kagome asks

" Do I need a reason to see my woman?" Koga asks

" Koga, I am NOT your woman." Kagome says defiantly.

" Whatever you say." Koga puts an arm around.

Kagome glares daggers at Koga.

" If you want to keep your arm than you'd better NEVER touch me again." Kagome threatens fiercely.

Koga looks at Kagome as if she's nuts.

" Has mutt-face brainwashed you?"

Kagome slaps him just like Taisho, but harder and fiercer

" How dare you!" Kagome emphasized every word. " How dare you insult Inuyasha when he's not here!"

Koga takes back his arm and faces Taisho.

" You aren't Inuyasha." Koga realizes

" No, but that doesn't mean you should be cocky right now." Taisho says calmly.

" What did you say?" Koga gets in his face.

' He's just like Inuyasha said.'

" I'm saying you're not the strongest one here."

" I'm stronger than you." Koga growls.

Taisho casually says two words.

" Prove it."

This seems to upset Koga.

" Human!" Koga brings his fist back and punches Taisho in the face.

Taisho turns his head back to Koga smirking.

" What are you?" Koga asks nervously.

" I am stronger than you." Taisho smiles and puts his hand on the handle of the Blaze Phoenix.

Koga backs away.

" You're a freak! A human and I punched you in the face as strong as I can. Yet you stand unscathed." Koga stutters.

Taisho sheaths Blaze Phoenix. Everyone gasps at the blood-red color of the blade.

" You are a freak!!!" Koga turns and runs.

Taisho resheaths the Blaze Phoenix.

' I think that'll make it up to you, Inuyasha.'

" So that's your sword." Miroku says.

" Yes."

" May I ask how you got that sword?" Miroku asks.

" It was given to me by a father figure." Taisho answers.

' A father figure named, Inutaisho.'

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Inu: Hiei, Fluffy, and Fluffy are gone for now. Love and peace. ~_^ ^_^