Without further ado...
Chapter 5: The meaning of Phileo
Inuyasha was in a bad mood as he and Kagome faced this new foe of Sesshomaru. Having no idea as to what Sesshomaru was in this timeline, Inuyasha could only guess why Sesshomaru held another Tetsusaiga and the ability to use the Wind Scar. He had both his Tenseiga and his Tokigin with him, and his many weapons and the absense of his usual traveling entourage was peculiar in itself.
"What is going on Sesshomaru?" Inuyasha was screaming to the thousands of demons still hanging around. "I have no idea what you're doing! Why are we doing this?"
"Because, Inuyasha, you have sided yourself with Litera, the girl of another realm. I don't trust her and I don't trust you. And you found some way to bring Kagome back."
"She isn't back," Inuyasha explained. "I am from another timeline which Litera brought us from."
The look that crossed Sesshomaru's face was baffling. Suddenly, he pulled his sword, the other Tetsusaiga, back in anticipation for a strike. "Stop playing games Inuyasha!" And with that, he threw a mighty Wind Scar.
Inuyasha contemplated a backlash wave, but immediately realized the folly of that idea when he realized that the Wind Scar was not really demon energy. Thinking quickly, he picked up Kagome and dodged the scene as fast as he could, and as usual, landed with no one the wiser.
Kagome was surprised by this whole ordeal. She could understand why there were two Tetsusaiga's, in this world obviously Sesshomaru held one. But how? Sesshomaru was a demon, and demons can't touch the Tetsusaiga, unless...
"Inuyasha! Sit Boy!" The crack of the spell sent him hurtling down, but his anger was immediately pushed aside as she yelled at Sesshomaru, "Sesshomaru! Who is your mate?"
That got the glare of both Sesshomaru and Inuyasha. She continued, despite the looks, "You are able to wield the Tetsusaiga, which usually doesn't allow a demon to touch it, unless it protects humans! who is your human Sesshomaru?"
Inuyasha was slowly rising at this point, began to see her point. Sesshomaru lowered his sword and sheathed it. Kagome had her bow raised and pointed at the demons, and Kagome stated flatly, "Inuyasha, I am going to distract Litera's opponent with a sacred arrow. You throw a Wind Scar right when I let fly. Maybe that will give Litera time to hit both at the same time."
Inuyasha nodded at the plan, and Kagome pulled her trusty bow up with a certain type of precision. After several agonizing moments of aiming just right, she shot her arrow with almost deadly purpose. Inuyasha, obeying orders, swung his almighty sword with a deadly storm of rage, letting fly one of the biggest Wind Scars he had ever seen.
The shock was blinding to the naked eye. And Kagome's strategy worked even better then she had hoped. Litera, having seen the arrow first, had suddenly stopped her offensive and lent her power to Inuyasha's blade, giving it the deadly power it output. Judor, having seen Litera lowering her guard, he was about to attack with a wave when he saw the arrow. Being put firmly on the defensive allowed Litera to put her full force into that Wind scar, and in one might swing of his sword, Inuyasha fell every demon in the area, with the lone exceptions of Inuyasha and Sesshomaru.
Seeing the carnage all about him, Judor saw that he was surrounded by many enemies, and he flew off. Kagome let fly another arrow, but this one could not possibly have hit the target, and even if it had, they were sure that it would have been deflected, for they saw no sparks of light in the sky following the arrows flight.
And with that the battle was finished. Sesshomaru approached Litera and said quite simply, "I still despise you."
"I have no idea why that would be so, brother of Inuyasha."
"You very well know why, girl of darkness."
Litera gave a little smile at that, "Why, thats a bad way to describe someone who can't even use demon energy."
Sesshomaru, however, refused to relent, "Yes you can use demon energy, you gave that Wind Scar all the power it needed."
"The Tetsusaiga does not have any demon energy. The reason why it can cause such a destruction, wards to demons, and turn back demon energy is because it is forged of K-mech energy. Its a wide-spread attack, and it happens to be one of my specialties."
"Is that true?" Kagome asked.
"Why of course."
"Well then," Inuyasha cut in. "We seem to all be on the same side then."
"Wait," Kagome begged. "Why, Sesshomaru, do you hate Litera so?"
"I could have sworn," he whispered. "That she was the one who kidnapped my wife."
"You have a wife?" Kagome and Inuyasha gasped in unison.
"Of course, didn't you know? I married Rin several years ago."
"Oh."
Litera turned to Inuyasha and Sesshomaru, "Well, now that we have that misunderstanding out of the way, you two probably have different ideas of how the other is. Sesshomaru, Inuyasha is from back from a long time ago, right around when he was revived from the tree by the girl Kagome, obviously she is from around that time too, long before you defeated Naraku. Inuyasha, as you know Sesshomaru married a human, and inherited your Tetsusaiga after Kagome's death."
Sesshomaru looked to them all and said, "And now we are four."
Inuyasha's extreme ego seemed to be mellowed out somewhat, but in the end he had to decide on some course of action.
"The problem here is our enemy is completely unknown, and we might need some items to find it."
"Items?" Litera asked.
Sesshomaru whistled, "Yes quite a few. It is a hidden location, and hopefully if we find enough of the sacred items of 10, we should be able to find their location."
"What about the Shikon Jewel?" Inuyasha interrupted.
"Oh I forgot to tell you," Litera mused. "You destroyed it not long after defeating Naraku."
His expression was one of absolute shock. "How did I do that?"
Sesshomaru chuckled, "You wanted to be a full-fledged human."