The clouds moved to reveal the whole ogre. Inuyasha, Kae, and Kagome noticed two people on the arm of the ogre. One of them was a toad-like demon and the other had a more human appearance, aside from the pointed ears, the clawed hands, and the crescent blue moon on his forehead.
Inuyasha and the human-like man stared at each other. Inuyasha and Kae both recognized him.
"Is that you…Sesshomaru?" asked Inuyasha.
"That it is, Inuyasha. I am flattered to see that you remember me, and am surprised to see that you are still among the living," said the man.
"Kae, who is that?" asked Kagome, who was hiding behind Inuyasha.
"He's Sesshomaru. Inuyasha's older, full demon, half brother. I actually used to live with him, before he found out that I was Inuyasha's friend," explained Kae, as she stood up and stood beside Inuyasha.
"Ah, Kae. Your face brings back so many memories," said Sesshomaru, as he averted his gaze towards Kae. He was sitting, so he put his elbow on his knee and put his chin in his hand. He spotted Kagome hiding behind Inuyasha. "I'm disappointed though. I never imagined that you would defend a human or for that matter, half-breeds, like my brother. What ever should I do with her Jaken?" Sesshomaru turned to the toad-like demon.
"I say we kill her with Inuyasha, Milord. After all, she did desert you for the half-breed whelp," said Jaken. "I never did like her, anyways."
"Fine, but first, this woman." Sesshomaru pulled on the chain, which was still wrapped around Inuyasha's mother. The part of the chain that he had pulled on was under her chin, so her head was pulled back. "What's wrong little brother? Don't you want to save her?"
"You think I'm an idiot, Sesshomaru? Mother died many years ago. That couldn't be her," yelled Inuyasha.
"Wouldn't you think that with all my power, I could bring her soul back from the land of the dead, and even find a physical body to put it in?" asked Sesshomaru.
"Then she is real!" yelled Kae.
"Inuyasha! You have to save her!" said Kagome.
"Inuyasha, don't worry about me. I have died once before," said Inuyasha's mother. She smiled at Inuyasha, but her smile turned to an agonizing moan of pain. The ogre was squeezing her. Her bones were cracking loudly and her face was distorted with pain. "Inu…ya…sha."
"Mother!" yelled Inuyasha, as he leapt into the air, ready to strike the ogre with his clawed hands. He swiped at the ogre's arm. "Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!" He made a deep gash in the arm that was holding his mother. His mother was released from the ogre's hand. She tumbled to the ground and was caught by Mizu and Kagome. "Get her away from here, Kae!" he yelled to them, but it was to late.
The ogre pushed Inuyasha towards the earth. Seeing this, Inuyasha's mother held her hands up and a white lotus blossom appeared. The petals spread and Inuyasha, his mother, Kae, and Kagome all disappeared.
"Where are we?" Kae asked herself when she woke up. All around her there were trees, flowers, and other beautiful plants. She spotted a small lake, which she saw Inuyasha and his mother standing together by. "Good, they're both okay." She spotted Kagome sleeping beside her. "And Kagome too." She looked back to Inuyasha and his mother. They were talking, so Kae listened in with her sensitive fox ears.
"Look into the water Inuyasha. Remember what it was like when I held you in my arms," said his mother, as she wrapped her arms around Inuyasha. "I held you always close to my heart."
Inuyasha looked into the water and saw his reflection. "It's me, but as a small child."
Kae looked into the water as well, but what she noticed wasn't Inuyasha. Her focus was on his mother's reflection. "She has no face!" she yelled, but nothing came out of her mouth. She tried to stand up, but found that she couldn't move. "Inuyasha! She doesn't have a face!" she tried to yell again, but still with no success. " Inuyasha!? Still nothing.
Kagome had woken up and had noticed the mother had no face reflection as well. She to tried to move and speak, but had the same success as Kae.
Then Inuyasha noticed that his mother's face had no reflection. He pulled away from her. "Who the hell are you?"
"Come give your mother a hug, Inuyasha," said his mother, ignoring her son's question. She grabbed Inuyasha and pulled him close. "I shall never let you go again, my son." Her body started to engulf Inuyasha's, as he relaxed against her and went into a trance.
"Ah, poor things," said Myouga, as he hopped between Kae and Kagome. "Bound hand and foot."
Kae and Kagome both looked and saw that the Hell Guard Trolls had the two of them chained to the ground.
"Allow me to free you," he said. He hopped onto Kae's face and bit into her cheek, and started to drink her blood.
Kae reached up and slapped him. "I think I can move now." She slashed the Hell Guard Trolls that were around her. She undid herself from the chains and slashed the Trolls that were around Kagome. She undid Kagome's chains and helped her stand up.
Kae and Kagome started to run towards Inuyasha's mother, when they saw Jaken pull up to her in a small boat. Kae grabbed Kagome by the arm and pulled her behind a rock.
"Still squeezin' that poor laddie, are ye?" he asked the mother.
"Lord Jaken," replied the mother.
"Get the information we be seekin', or it will be me facin' Lord Sesshomaru's cold wrath."
"Show your mother the inside of your soul," said the mother to Inuyasha. "Where is your father's tomb?"
"I don't know," murmured Inuyasha. His body was nearly engulfed by the mother.
His mother reached into his soul. A ghastly form of himself was hanging in silence inside Inuyasha's soul. A mist spread from his left eye, and a black pearl hovered in the middle.
"The left black pearl," said the mother to Jaken.
"Left black pearl? That doesn't make sence. Get me more."
"But, Lord Jaken, if I probe any deeper, his soul will shatter."
"Then shatter it…" Jaken began to say but Kagome grabbed his Staff of Skulls and hit him into the water with it.
"Let him go!" yelled Kae, as she grabbed Inuyasha by the hair and tried to pull him out of his mother's body.
"Never!" yelled the mother as she pulled Inuyasha in deeper, but Kae held fast.
Kagome looked into the water and saw the reflection of the mother. She was holding a small sleeping boy in her arms. "Is that Inuyasha? This must be part of the trance. I have to destroy it!" Kagome hit the reflection on the water with the Staff of Skulls. The reflection rippled and Inuyasha was thrown out of his mother's body. Kagome set down the staff and ran over to him.
Kae and Kagome both kneeled beside him, as he got to his knees. He clenched his fist in front of his face.
"Are you okay?" asked Kae.
"It was all a lie…She pretended to be…I can't believe that she…" Inuyasha muttered.
"Inuyasha," said Sesshomaru as he appeared out of nowhere. He picked Inuyasha off the ground by his neck. "Trust father to hide his grave in such an odd place," he laughed.
"What lunacy are you spouting now?" choked Inuyasha.
"Was the secret entrusted to you without your knowledge? It is the black pearl that he conjured into your left eye. I had but one clue to the grave's whereabouts. It is hidden in a place that can be seen, but yet cannot be seen. A place it's own guardian can never look upon."
Inuyasha looked confused and was enraged at the same time.
Come brother, let us visit out father's grave together." Sesshomaru held up his free hand, and plunged two fingers deep into Inuyasha's left eye. Inuyasha's blood ran down his hand and dripped onto the ground. He pulled his fingers out and between then was a small bloody black pearl. Sesshomaru dropped Inuyasha. "I no longer have any need for you, brother. I bid you farewell." Sesshomaru slashed at Inuyasha with his claws.
Kae and Kagome gasped. It wasn't Inuyasha who had been hit, it was his faceless mother.
"She was a no mother. She is made up of vengeful mother's souls who lost their children to war and famine. If she sees Lord Inuyasha as a child in danger, what else can she do, but try to protect him," explained Kae.
"My…boy…" stuttered the head of the no mother.
Inuyasha watched in horror, as Sesshomaru stepped on the head and crushed it.
Jaken ran through the grass and up to Sesshomaru. He held up the staff that Kagome had taken from him before. "Lord Sesshomaru, the Staff of Skulls is ours once more."
Sesshomaru grabbed the staff from Jaken. "Lose it again and you will lose your head along with it." He dropped the black pearl to the ground and brought the bottom of the staff down on top of it.
The head of the old man on the top of the staff began laughing wildly.
"The old man's a-laughin'. That means the seals a-crackin'," said Jaken.
"Black light?" asked Kae, as a black portal appeared in front of them.
Sesshomaru smiled, as he and Jaken walked in. They disappeared into the black portal.
"Bound after them, Lord Inuyasha, or Sesshomaru will get your fathers treasure," yelled Myouga, as he hopped onto Inuyasha's shoulder.
"You think I care about some stupid treasure?" snapped Inuyasha, as he grasped a piece of the no mother's clothes, which fell onto his other shoulder.
"But, M'lord…" said Myouga. "Such a waste…"
"I never said I wasn't going in there," said Inuyasha, as he stood up and threw the piece of cloth. He turned to Kagome and Kae with his eyes closed. "Kae, Kagome. It's going to be dangerous, so you two will stay…" He opened his eyes to see that he was talking to nothing but grass. He turned to the portal and saw the two girls half way through.
"C'mon, Inuyasha," said Kae, as she and Kagome disappeared into the portal.
Inuyasha ran in after them. "Fools. You know Sesshomaru's in there."
"Well, we'll have to be there if we're going to pound him," said Kagome.
They fell out of the other end of the portal, and into a giant graveyard. Inuyasha grabbed the two girls and landed on a skull bird.
"Father," said Inuyasha, as they flew towards the largest skeleton, which was in the shape of a giant dog demon.
"That's your father?" asked Kagome, as she looked at the skeleton.
"Don't you see the resemblance?" asked Inuyasha.
"But it's huge!"
"His father was very large in stature. This is his true form free of all spells," said Kae, as they got closer.
Kagome blinked in confusion, as they landed in the open mouth of Inuyasha's father. The three of them got off the skull bird and went into the head on the large demon. They walked silently till they came to a bony ledge. They peered over the edge and saw Sesshomaru and Jaken standing next to a platform, which had a sword sticking out of it. Kagome couldn't hear what they were saying, but Inuyasha and Kae listened into their conversation.