Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, Rumiko Takahashi does, but I do own Yukato.

Chapter 14: The Scent of Souta

Back with Kagome, she is walking down a grassy path in the forest, kicking a rock as she walked. She then looked up, she spotted a young boy. She looked closer, it was her brother, Souta, standing there at the end of the path. "Eh...Souta?!" she ran to him, "How in the world did you get here?" She is very surprised, last time he tried to go through the well, he wasn't strong enough, maybe he was now? "Souta, did you come to tell me something, is there anything wrong?" "No, nothing is wrong, just come here, I wanna show you something." he said with a blank look on his face as she then turned around and ran off. Kagome hesitated, "What is he doing here, and what would he need to show me?..." but she decided to follow her little brother.

As Kagome was busy with that, Inuyasha was busy with beating up Shippou. Hey, he hasn't had a beating in 2 years and he needed one. But then he stops..."That scent...I know it, so familiar...but whose is it?" He drops Shippou and races off into the forest. Shippou sits on the ground, dazed yet a bit relieved that his punishment ended so soon. The scent had brought Inuyasha to the well, "Eh...it's open? But Miroku cast a spell..." He then jumps in the well..."Maybe Kagome went back home..."

As the blue lights and such pass, he jumps out of the well in present- day Tokyo. He runs into the house, scary Mrs. Higurashi half to death. Ji- chan picked up a broom and began to hit Inuyasha over the head. Inuyasha just stood there, "Eh...stop! It's Inuyasha" Mrs. Higurashi said as she ran over to Ji-chan, "Oh...but he is a demon" Inuyasha sniffed the air, "Is Kagome here?" "Eh...no, I thought that you her were visiting your friends in Sengoku Jidai." Mrs. Higurashi exclaimed, for she had crossed over and talked to them. "Hmm...well...eh...wait" He sniffed the air one last time, something was missing..."Where is Souta?" Mrs. Higurashi looked around, "Oh, he is outside playing in the yard." "He's outside?" Inuyasha then turned around and walked outside, but Souta was nowhere to be found..."Huh...that must've been who I smelled, it was Souta, but what is he doing in Sengoku Jidai?!" He quickly ran towards the well and jumped in.

As Kagome followed Souta, he ran into a hut, she then followed. When she entered, Souta was standing in the corner, looking at her with the happy face that he always had on. "Souta, what is it?" Kagome asked. "This...its Inuyasha's sword..." Souta said happily as he turned around and picked up Tessaiga from the floor then faced Kagome again. "Eh...Tessaiga? But what is it doing here? When Inuyasha came back with me, he brought it with him, never to be used, but he made sure that it would never fall into the wrong hands...Did Souta bring it for Inuyasha?" As she examined the sword held by Souta, Inuyasha came to the scene outside of the hut, "This is were the scent ends, he must be in there." Inuyasha then walks in the hut, seeing Kagome and Souta there...and Tessaiga? He looks at Kagome, then to Souta, "Tessaiga? Oh, Souta, you must've brought it here to me, thanks." He reached for the sword, but just then Souta thrusts the dull sword at him, stabbing him in the stomach. He kneels down. Kagome then runs to Inuyasha's side, "Souta?! What do you think your doing?!...eh..." she then noticed his eyes, blank, like that of Kohaku's...no, Naraku... Inuyasha then gets up and pushes Kagome to the wall, he then runs out of the hut, Souta follows, Kagome sits there in the hut, watching the battle through the open door.

Inuyasha raised his claws, but then we hear Kagome, "Inuyasha! Don't hurt him, remember, that is still Souta in there! He's just being controlled!" Inuyasha looks to Kagome and nods, he would never hurt Souta. The boy then charges at Inuyasha with the sword, but Inuyasha just grabs the old dull sword. "What's so good about a sword that you can't transform?" Inuyasha says, as if he was talking to Naraku himself. But then, Souta gets an evil grin, the Tessaiga then transformed to its full state! But how can Souta, a mere human boy, transform the legendary sword? Inuyasha was forced to let go of the huge fang. Souta again thrusts the sword at Inuyasha, stabbing him in the shoulder, he falls to the ground. But then, out of nowhere, Kagome comes and grabs Souta from behind, pinning his arms and the sword, "Souta! Come on, don't let him control you! Come back Souta!" But the puppet just gets an evil grin, he quickly turns the huge sword around and pushed it through his chest, stabbing Kagome in the stomach as she held onto him. "Eh...Souta..." Kagome then looks up, "Inuyasha...I...lo..." Inuyasha then looked up, seeing both fall to the ground...dead. "Eh.... Kagome? Souta?" He gets up and runs over to them and they are truly dead.