"At last my precious, I have found you," beamed Sesshomaru, as he looked at the rickety old blade before him. "My dear Tetsusaiga. My steel-cleaving fang." He grabbed the handle and before he could even try to pull, he felt a tingle in his hand. He took his hand from the sword and looked at it. It had turned blue and was smoking.
"It's not stuck…is it?" asked Jaken.
"How very like father. He put a shield spell on it to keep it 'safe'." His hand went back to normal.
"You two stay up here. I'm going to kill that son of a demon," Inuyasha told the two girls. "Myouga!"
"Y-yes, Lord Inuyasha?" said Myouga, as he poked his head out of Kae's silver and black hair.
"You're coming with me."
"Y-y-yes, M'lord," said Myouga, as he hopped onto Inuyasha's shoulder.
Inuyasha jumped off the ledge and towards Sesshomaru. "Sesshomaru!" he yelled, as he poised his claws to strike.
"What?" asked Sesshomaru. He sounded annoyed.
"Prepare to die!" Inuyasha swiped at Sesshomaru with his claws but hit nothing but the skulls on the ground. He looked up to see his brother sitting on a flame-like structure behind the sword.
"Was that meant for me?" asked Sesshomaru, as he put his hands in his very large sleeves.
Inuyasha growled and jumped at Sesshomaru again, slashed, and missed yet again.
"Lord Inuyasha, your father's sword. Pull it out, and us it to beat Sesshomaru," said Myouga.
"I don't need that old blade to beat him," argued Inuyasha.
"Sesshomaru, you couldn't pull it out could you?" Myouga asked the full demon.
"Do you mean to tell me, Inuyasha can?" asked Sesshomaru.
"Well, yes. The grave was entrusted to him, so therefore he should inherit it."
"I don't need the sword to beat him! I told you!" yelled Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha!" yelled Kae from the ledge.
Inuyasha looked up at the girls.
"Get the stupid sword!" yelled Kagome. "Sesshomaru couldn't pull it out right?"
"If you can't hit him in the body, hit him in the ego! Hurt his pride!" added Kae. "You going to pass that up, or do I have to come down there and help you fight?" Kae knew the last thing that she said would make him try, because Inuyasha would never ask for or accept help unless he was on the verge of death.
"You stay up there! The last thing I need is you to worry about while I'm fighting. I care to much about you to let him hurt you, Kae," Inuyasha thought. "No! I neither want or need your help! I can beat him alone, but I will do it with my father's sword," he yelled out loud. He turned to Sesshomaru, who was now standing next to the Tetsusaiga. I'm going to take the sword, if only to see the look on your face." Inuyasha grabbed the handle of the sword and started to pull.
Jaken's jaw dropped open. "Inuyasha is immune to the spell that thwarted Lord Sesshomaru!"
Inuyasha pulled on the handle of the sword as hard as he could, but it wouldn't come loose. He let go of the handle and put his hand up as if to grab Myouga. "Yo!"
"Whoops!" said Myouga, as Inuyasha grabbed him and squeezed him between his index finger and thumb.
"I couldn't pull it out, could I?" asked Inuyasha.
Sesshomaru appeared about two inches in front of Inuyasha's face and said, "What an amusing interlude. I grow tired of this, it's over." He held up one of his clawed hands, ready to strike. "Allow my poison claws to end this." He thrust his hand towards Inuyasha, and poisonous vapors shot out of his nails.
Inuyasha moved, but not quickly enough. The poisonous vapors melted the shoulder of his red cloak. Luckily the vapors never made it past his second shirt. The wall behind him melted to the ground.
"Inuyasha, I'm not going to just sit up here and watch Sesshomaru play around with your life like a toy. I'm going to help whether you want me to or not!" Kae yelled down, as she jumped off the ledge and landed behind Sesshomaru.
Sesshomaru turned half way around so he was facing neither Kae nor Inuyasha. Kae bared her fangs and growled when Sesshomaru looked her way.
"You get out of here, Kae! He'll kill you!" yelled Inuyasha.
"No! This is my fight too," Kae told Inuyasha.
"You really should heed his warning, Kae," said Sesshomaru. Kae shook her head. "Fine, then I'll deal with you first, traitor." Sesshomaru ran at Kae and started aiming claw jabs at her face.
Kae dodged each jab with amazing skill and accuracy. She flipped out of the way, landed on her feet and hands, and growled.
"I shall grant me lord some help," said Jaken, as he twirled the head staff above his head, but was stopped short, when he was smashed beneath Kagome's feet.
"No you don't, you stinking toad," said Kagome, as she and Jaken fought over the head staff.
"You stinking human! I shan't lose this time!" Jaken threw Kagome over by the Tetsusaiga.
Kagome sat up and grabbed the handle of the sword to pull her up. She looked over when she heard Kae grunt loudly, and heard Inuyasha yelling Kae's name.
Sesshomaru had caught Kae off guard. He pinned her to the ground with one hand, and held the other poised to strike. He cracked the knuckles on his free hand, as it glowed green with poison.
"You know, Kae," said Sesshomaru, "I would have taken you back, had you not defended my brother. You were a powerful demon, but now, your demon heart has grown soft. To me, you are no more than a mere half-breed." Kae struggled the whole time. "Good bye, half-breed." He started to bring his green hand down on Kae.
"No! Kae!" yelled Inuyasha, as he ran towards Sesshomaru.
"Kae!" screamed Kagome. She started to run towards the demons, but pulled the Tetsusaiga out of the bone slab it was in. She looked at the sword in her hands. "Whoops! Now what?"
Sesshomaru's hand stopped glowing and he turned his head towards Kagome. "What?"
"Never take your eyes off me!" yelled Kae, as she slashed at him and missed.
"Silence, half-breed!" said Sesshomaru, as he picked Kae up by her throat and threw her against the bone wall, where she fell to the ground and struggled weakly to stand.
Sesshomaru appeared about six inches in front of Kagome. "What are you, that you were able to draw the Tetsusaiga?"
"Stay back or I'll cut you!" Kagome stuttered.
"Sesshomaru! Leave her alone, she's not involved in this!" yelled Inuyasha.
"I'm afraid she is, merely by being yours and Kae's companion," said Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru put some loose hairs behind his pointed ear.
"Kagome, give him the sword!"
"No way! Why should he automatically get to keep it? If he couldn't pull it out, it means he's not supposed to have it!" yelled Kagome.
"What do you know? You're just a human so why don't you back off, shut up, and butt out!"
"Butt out? What do you know? You're just a…" argued Kagome.
"Inuyasha, you're patience with this creature is astonishing to me. You protect her, indulge her, even seem to love her. Surely these feelings of mercy of yours are not something that I inherited from our great and terrible father. I, of course, bear no such weakness," interrupted Sesshomaru. He put his hand up and turned to Kagome. "It's obvious that she must die." He shot poisonous, green vapors at Kagome. The bone behind her melted and consumed her. She vanished from sight, along with the Tetsusaiga, under the melted bone. Sesshomaru turned back to Inuyasha, who had helped Kae stand up. "So fragile, don't you think, little brother? And not just humans, half-breeds, too. Isn't that which so endures you to them?" He made his hand into a yellow energy whip and started whipping at Inuyasha and Kae.