Author's Note:
My be gorey of the revival of someone. Hope you like the chapter. I may put a major battle in the next chapter. Hope you enjoy.
Chapter Four: The Revival of Another
As Sesshoumaru woke that day he found himself around people he thought he never would accompany with, until he remembered that he had agreed to work with InuYasha, for the time being in order to defeat Inu Tatmaru. Sigh Sesshoumaru undid the left side of his kimono sleeve and looked at the bare stump on his arm… how he wished he could have his left arm back. At the same time InuYasha awoke only to find his brother looking at his arm.
"Sesshoumaru, what's wrong?" asked Inuyasha.
"A stupid half-breed like you wouldn't understand," said Sesshoumaru as he redid his kimono and tying is all back together. He started to walk off into the forest when he felt a hand rest on his left shoulder.
"Sesshoumaru… I may not know how it feels to lose an arm, but I will try to help you retrieve it… how's that sound?" asked InuYasha with a great big smirk on his face.
"How can you help me?" inquired Sesshoumaru.
"How else, I need you to do something, but you can't kill me," whispered InuYasha, as he put up his right hand, and pointed at his face.
"You don't mean… I have to retrieve the black pearl from your eye again?" assumed Sesshoumaru, as he rose his right hand towards InuYasha's right eye.
"How do you know my arm is still there?"asked Seshoumaru.
"Because when I went back to Kagome time after Sou'unga's attack in her time, everything was back to normal, so I thought the same would go here," spoke InuYasha.
"Now do it before I change my mind," cried InuYasha. At that moment though everyone heard that racket and came over to investigate. As Sesshoumaru's hand started glowing it drew the black pearl from InuYasha's eye. Kagome, who had seen this before and was about to fire an arrow when….
"Kagome stop…" yelled the hurting InuYasha.
"I'm doing a favor for Sesshoumaru, since he is doing one for all of us," said InuYasha as he fell to the ground rubbing at his right eye.
"Jaken… bring me the staff of two head," barked Sesshoumaru, as Jaken retrieved his staff of two heads and gave it to Sesshoumaru, he dropped the black pearl onto the ground. At that point he brought the staff down, right onto the pearl. Black light swirled around and around, finally revealing a portal.
"Everyone, jump through is," yelled InuYasha. Everybody leapt in, even, Ah Uhn and Kilala. As they exited the portal, and onto the other side they saw with their own eyes Sesshoumaru, and InuYasha's father. There he stood surrounded by pillars of rock. Skeleton birds flew up to retrieve the new comers. As the birds got closer they noticed how large the previous Lord of the Western Lands was. However… something was wrong. They could tell because as they landed they split up to look for something. Minutes later, a frightened Rin came screaming from a bush, and ran up to Sesshoumaru saying "an arm, and arm, oh my god is scared me Lord Sesshoumaru." Sesshoumaru on the other hand told Rin to go over to master Jaken and wait.
"InuYasha come over here," called Sesshoumaru as he headed towards the bush. InuYasha ran over to where his brother was a saw something that he wished he had never seen. The left arm of Sesshoumaru was still in one piece however, it still lay, bleeding, and insects of all sorts were trying to eat the arm, but with no success because it was a demon's arm.
"Well, little brother, I guess you were right" said Sesshoumaru, who then took the arm by where is was cut off and tried to connect it back onto his left arm's stump. However the arm would not connect.
"InuYasha I need something… maybe the blood of the one who took this arm to reconnect it," said Sesshoumaru as he placed the arm down, but then he raised his right arm. InuYasha on the other hand put his hands up for his brother to stop. Instead, Sesshoumaru pointed at Tetsaiga, and then at InuYasha himself. Then InuYasha understood. The blade that cut the limb and the blood of the one who used the weapon must be the only thing that can connect the arm back together. InuYasha unsheathed his sword and then took up his left arm and cut it where he approximately cut Sesshoumaru's arm off. Then he stabbed the Tetsaiga down into the shoulder armor of their fathers. InuYasha motioned for his brother to pass him the cut limb… he then squeezed the wound on his left arm, as drops of blood dripped into the limb.
"There," said InuYasha passing the limb back to Sesshoumaru.
"Now try it," said InuYasha.
Sesshoumaru merely took the limb, but as he made contact with the limb it grew bright with renewal. As Sesshoumaru rolled up his kimono sleeve he put the limb back onto the stump for a second time. Seconds, ticked by until… all of a sudden the light exploded and like invisible hands sewing, the skin reconnected as well as bone, muscle, and veins. As Sesshoumaru tried to flex his fingers, they wouldn't flex. Something was still missing, but then he knew what he had forgotten. The limb was still dead after such a period of time… he had to revive it, but with what….
"Sesshoumaru… your Tensaiga is pulsing," said InuYasha with his eyes wide open with awe. Sesshoumaru calmly drew Tensaiga from the sheath and slashed his own left arm. The pink light glowed for a while, but then all of a sudden Sesshoumaru could hear his arm come back to life, and at the same time flexed his fingers. Rin, and Jaken looked surprised as they watched their master has his arm back. They danced around him until he said stop… Kagome, Miroku, Shippo, and Sango were wondering why InuYasha would do something this nice, even for his brother. All of a sudden Sesshoumaru walked up to InuYasha and asked him something.
"InuYasha, I have your blood running though my left arm… do you know what this means?" asked Sesshoumaru eyeing the Tetsaiga still stabbed into the armor.
"No, why?" asked InuYasha with a look of "oh no" "OH HELL NO!" Too late… Sesshoumaru walked up to the Tetsaiga and gripped the hilt with his left hand. No barrier affected his hand this time, but when he tried to grip the sword with his right hand he felt a burning sensation as his right hand was burned from the Demon Shield on the Tetsaiga.
"Interesting," said the intrigued Sesshoumaru… as he put his right hand down to his side. InuYasha quickly ran over to the Tetsaiga and sheathed it.
"Not in the seven hells will you ever get your hand on this sword unless I die," yelled InuYasha hugging his Tetsaiga. Everyone, including Sesshoumaru merely laughed.
"InuYasha why would I need a powerful sword if I already have one like Tokijin," asked Sesshoumaru as he walked back to Rin, who was still scared from the arm. Sesshoumaru merely told Rin the story about how his first encounter had left him without one arm… Rin looked scare as he finished the story, and looked over at InuYasha, giving him a mean look. She then walked over to InuYasha and kicked him in the shins…This left one angered InuYasha yelling out a stream of swear words, and was about to go chase Rin down and knock some sense into her head when…
"SIT BOY!" yelled Kagome as she saw him trying to sneak past her and to Rin where he could tell her who was boss, but Kagome knew that even if InuYasha did get past her, then Sesshoumaru would most likely cut him in half with his sword.
"Interesting," spoke a laughing Sesshoumaru as he watched his half brother forced into the ground by just two words…
"Well, that is interesting," said Jaken…
"Would it work if I say it?" thought Jaken.
"Ahem… InuYasha… sit boy," yelled Jaken, but it didn't do anything and it left an angry InuYasha running after the toad demon. Minutes later, the toad demon was on the ground with at least a few bumps on his head. Sesshoumaru merely laughed knowing that his apprentice had it coming to him.
"Sesshoumaru, now that you have your arm back, could you tell us what the Tensaiga does?" asked Sango and she sat calmly down onto the floor.
"As you already know, thanks to Totosai, it is a sword of healing… and of course it may look sharp, but it can't even draw blood," spoke Sesshoumaru.
"Would you all like a demonstration?" asked Sesshoumaru, as he unsheathed his Tensaiga, and looked at the group. Everyone just nodded with eager looks on their faces.
"Master Sesshoumaru, how about you slash me again, but last time I thought it would have killed me but now I know," cried Jaken waving his staff around to show that he wanted to volunteer.
"You know Jaken, I think I will allow my dear brother to do the honors," said Sesshoumaru. Everyone looked at the surprised InuYasha, who then grudgily got up from where he was sitting and walked over to Sesshoumaru who nodded to his brother as a thanks for volunteering.
"InuYasha, you won't die or feel pain, but to you it may be funny at first," said Sesshoumaru. He positioned his sword so that he could swing downward.
"Ready?" asked Sesshoumaru, raising his sword above his head.
"Hell yes," said InuYasha, as he closed his eyes waiting for the unknown to happen. Sesshoumaru swung his sword down and pink light burst from the sharp looking blade. However the light accidentically missed and the light instead of engulfing InuYasha engulfed the remains of Inunotaisho, dog demon form. The light just kept swirling around the powerful being until the light became so bright that everyone had to shield their eyes from the light. After the light cleared, the bones were not bones anymore… like before there were invisible hands at work repairing and remaking. Flesh appeared out of nowhere as the flesh turned red, and was instantly covered by silver fur. The armor a dull tarnish returned to its original color of shining black. The fluffy thing reappeared and the gray teeth became white again. The chipped tooth inside Inunotaisho's mouth regrew into a full fang. Finally, the face fur came back, and the eyes at first were nothing, but globes of yellow until they turned red with a blue pupil inside of them. As the whole gang watched they realized that they were sitting on the left shoulder of the newly revived Inunotaisho, and to them… everytime he breathed, it was like an earthquake. The newly revived Inunotaisho glanced at the humans on his shoulder and growled, but he hushed his growling as he saw his sons with them. Inunotaisho barked orders to the skeleton birds to pick them up and place them on a nearby rock pillar.
"What did he say Sesshoumaru?" asked everyone, but InuYasha looked mad because he was half-demon meaning he could at least understand some parts of it.
"He is saying he wants those birds to put us onto a different place so then he can transform into his human form," said Sesshoumaru.
Minutes later, after they had landed onto another rock, they watched as Inunotaisho glowed a deep red, then the red shrunk. All of a sudden the Red light flew at an incredible speed to where they were at. There stood Inunotaisho, with a great big smirk on his face.
"Well, it seems that my prediction was wrong, my sons are getting along quite fine," said Inunotaisho placing a hand on both their shoulders. The sons merely glances at one another and tried to hide their snickering.
"Well I guess that means I'll have to catch up on what is happening in your lives, and then ask Totosai to forge me a new sword… seeing that one is in hell, and the other two are being used by my sons," said a laughing Inunotaisho, and led his sons back towards the group where InuYasha and Sesshoumaru introduced who everyone was from their group.
I hope you like this chapter… I'm running out of ideas so please give me something to work with people! Anyway here's another sneak peak of the next chapter.
Chapter Five Sneak Peak:
The Father and sons catch up, but what will the father do when he realizes that his brother is the new evil that is a foot? Finally, Naraku's body is finished, but how will he get his soul out of Inu Tatmaru? Tune in next time on…. New Enemies, Unexpected Allies.