Author's Note: Well uh… thanks for my reviews. I really appreciate them. I guess I update faster than I thought I would, I've noticed I update around ever two to three days. But I haven't been very busy lately… next week the havoc starts with school, and in two weeks I have tests, but whatever, we'll see when I get there. Besides, I have lots of spare time on my hands, and if I'm not drawing I'm writing, if I'm not writing I'm making music videos, and so the list continues… and I have to write this thing before the plot runs out of my head. Well hope you enjoy this chapter.

Chapter Three

'Why is father always with Inuyasha?' Sesshōmaru thought and looked back to where he left his father with that hanyō. The wind blew through his hair, and then he turned around again and walked further. 'Doesn't matter.'

"Jaken-sama, why doesn't Sesshōmaru-sama stay with his dad?" Rin asked the little creature.

"Geez, Rin, he's with that Inuyasha brat!" Jaken said annoyed.

"But he's his dad."

"I know that!"

"So why doesn't he stay with him?"

"I just told you!"

'Sou'unga, what do you want with Takemaru' Inu no Taishō pondered, as he was kneeled at Takemaru's ruined grave.

"Dad…" Inuyasha began and Inu no Taishō looked up at him. "What are we gonna do now?"

"Simple," he replied and got up. "We follow Takemaru's corpse. Wherever he is, Sou'unga should be there."

"I actually meant regarding mom…"

"He should have her too."

Inuyasha's eyes widened. "What!"

A little bit further, behind Inuyasha, Kagome looked down at Myōga who was resting on Kirara's fur. "Myōga-jichan… who is this Takemaru, and how is he connected with Inuyasha?"

"Takemaru?" Myōga questioned as well as in thought, "Ah! Yes! Takemaru!" Myōga hopped about as he remembered.

"Wasn't he the one who sent Inuyasha's mother to her grave?" Saya questioned.

"This Takemaru killed Inuyasha's mother?" Miroku asked.

"Yes, Takemaru had killed Inuyasha-sama's mother…" Myōga said sadly, not hopping up and down anymore.

"How terrible…" Kagome said.

"But if he killed Inuyasha's mother, then… how does Inuyasha's dad know about him?" Sango asked.

"This happened when Inuyasha-sama was just a newborn!" Myōga informed them.

"But Inuyasha said that his mother died when he was a kid, not when he was just born," Kagome said.

"Yes, but Inuyasha-sama's father revived her with Tenseiga!" Myōga hopped once again.

Back in the front where Inuyasha and his dad were speaking…

"Takemaru was in love with your mother, Inuyasha," Inu no Taishō explained to his son, just to make it clearer to him of what was going on. "On the day of your birth, Takemaru's jealousy got the better of him and he ended up killing your mother…"

Inuyasha's eyes stretched.

"I revived her with Tenseiga, so that she can live together with you. To live happily with you. And stay strong. And survive."

Inuyasha looked down. Lots of emotions ran through him now, sadness, anger, happiness, hatred, love, and so the list continues. He was angry at Takemaru. He was happy because his dad saved his live and his mother's as well. He was sad because he just found out both of his parents actually died on the day he was born, and that he had lived with his mother who was dead. And last, he was sad because his father's wishes weren't fulfilled. His mother didn't live happily with him. She was unhappy because the villagers always picked on Inuyasha. And she didn't survive…

"Standing around here won't get any work done. Inuyasha, do you know how to defeat Sou'unga?" Inu no Taishō asked.

Inuyasha looked up and faced the back of his father once again. "If I knew I'd have done it long ago."

"Oi, Tōtōsai! Come here!" Inu no Taishō finally turned around and called the old man forward.

"Ahhhh, yes Oyakata-sama!" Tōtōsai walked over to them. Everyone's attention was on those three now.

"How can Sou'unga be destroyed?" He asked.

"Um… well you should know, I wielded it as you told me to," Tōtōsai replied.

Inu no Taishō sighed, "Well I asked you," he said and rested his hand on Tōtōsai's back. "Tell Inuyasha how to do it."

Tōtōsai looked up at Inu no Taishō whose eyes were closed. A moment of silence occurred.

"Why me?"

Inu no Taishō hit Tōtōsai over the head. "Just do it."

"Wow, I can actually see some resemblance in Inuyasha's personality and his dad's!" Kagome exclaimed.

Tōtōsai looked at Inuyasha. "Inuyasha…" He paused for a moment. "All three swords, Tessaiga, Tenseiga and Sou'unga have ultimate attacks. Tessaiga's being Bakuryuuha, Tenseiga's being Sōryuuha, and Sou'unga's being Gokuryuuha."

"Point?" Inuyasha asked getting annoyed.

Tōtōsai's head tilted a bit. Silence for a while.

"The only way to defeat Sou'unga's Gokuryuuha and Sou'unga itself is to use the Bakuryuuha and the Sōryuuha at the same time."

Inuyasha stared at Tōtōsai for a bit. At one point he seemed relaxed. And then he took Tessaiga which was still in its sheath. Then he hit Tōtōsai over the head with it. "Why on EARTH did you create a sword that can only be destroyed when Sesshōmaru and I work together!"

"Don't blame this one on me," Tōtōsai cried. "It was the Inu no Taishō's orders!"

Inuyasha's head popped up and looked at his dad. Annoyed.

"Inuyasha…" Inu no Taishō rested his hand on his son's shoulder. "Let's go find your mother." Then he turned around and took off. Obviously avoiding the subject.

Kagome grinned and ran to Inuyasha's side grabbing hold of his arm. "Your dad just wants you and Sesshōmaru to work together so you can set aside your differences," she smiled.

Inuyasha felt the corner of his mouth twitch. "You do know that this is an impossible task and at this rate we'll never destroy Sou'unga."

"I think you can manage to work together with Sesshōmaru. You guys are brothers after all… you are bonded through blood and that's strong stuff. In the end, it'll all work out, and your dad is trying too!" Kagome smiled cheerfully.

Inuyasha just looked forward, placed Tessaiga back and walked onwards with Kagome at his side. "Even so… Sesshōmaru isn't one to easily change. Even if we do manage to fight Sou'unga together… he'll still hate me… just because I'm a hanyō…"

Kagome looked at Inuyasha's sad face. She looked forward, at a loss for words. She can't tell him anything anymore… because she herself knows Sesshōmaru is hard to get to. The only person he seems to listen and obey is his own father… but seems like he lost his respect for his father due to him marrying a human and having a hanyō son.

Takemaru stood on dusty ground, in the middle of an old worn out castle. Dead bodies were everywhere.

"This shall be my castle, and these corpses shall be my army," Takemaru spoke, Izayoi's corpse in hand.

"Where shall we place the hime?" Sou'unga asked Takemaru. (A/N: Hime Princess, and Takemaru just attached some random other yōkai's arm to the arm that Inu no Taishō cut off…. Oo'' I know he attached Sesshōmaru's arm to himself in order to be able to wield Sou'unga… but yea… use your imagination… I'll probably figure something out by the end of the fic if I don't forget…)

"Inside of course. It shouldn't be long before Inuyasha and that mononoke (A/N: Vengeful ghost/spirit thing) show up," Takemaru smirked.

"And Sesshōmaru? How do you plan to get him here? He doesn't feel anything for this human," Sou'unga reminded him.

"Sesshōmaru wants his father's powerful sword. He'll show up for you," Takemaru started to walk into the castle. "Eventually."

Inu no Taishō stopped in his tracks. Inuyasha stopped right behind him with Kagome at his side. Sango stopped next to Kagome and Miroku next to her. Tōtōsai stopped behind them.

"Inuyasha," Inu no Taishō started, "Do you smell that?"

Inuyasha smelled the air. "Yōki."

Inu no Taishō looked in the direction the yōki came from. 'I think I'm picking up a pattern here…this is not good.'

Tessaiga began to pulse. Inuyasha rested his hand on Tessaiga's handle. "Tessaiga?" Inuyasha looked down at his sword. 'What's Tessaiga trying to tell me?'

"Is Tenseiga nearby?" Tōtōsai said.

Inu no Taishō turned around and saw Tessaiga pulsing. 'So he smelled it too?'

"That yōki must be from an yōkai Sou'unga set on us," Miroku pondered.

"No," Inu no Taishō replied.

Sesshōmaru stepped out from the trees. "What the hell are you doing here?"

"Now there's a way to greet your father," Inu no Taishō said sarcastically. "I take it you smelled the yōki too?"

"It's kind of hard to miss," Sesshōmaru replied, his eyes slightly twitching.

"Well go on after it," Inu no Taishō encouraged.

"You're encouraging me to go after it?" Sesshōmaru said surprised.

"Well she'd want to see you more than she'd want to see me," Inu no Taishō simply replied.

Inuyasha eyed his dad and brother. What the hell was going on?

"How sure can you be it's her? She's dead," Sesshōmaru said.

"I'm dead and I'm here."

"Or are you just trying to get me off of Sou'unga's trail?"

"Why would I want to do that?"

"Seems like you already chose whose side you're on. The side of a pathetic hanyō."

"Sesshōmaru. Take. That. Back."

Silence.

"No."

Myōga hid deeper in Kirara's fur. Kirara was in Sango's arms since they've been walking and not running. "This is bad…"

"How's this bad?" Sango asked.

'That yōki… could it possibly be?' Myōga thought. "Maybe it's time I had left. I still have… unfinished business to attend to…"

"Myōga-jichan, wait!" Kagome yelled after the flea but it was too late. He had already left.

"Maybe it is time I had left too," Tōtōsai spoke, fearing the same yōki Myōga feared.

Inu no Taishō's eyes glowed red, and the next thing Inuyasha's eyes caught made him stare in amazement. There, in Sesshōmaru's eyes, the only thing visible, the only emotion he's never seen in his brother's eyes in his entire life… was fear. Wind faintly started to blow around Inu no Taishō, and this started to scare everyone around him. Inuyasha backed up a bit from his father, staring in awe. Sesshōmaru took one step backwards.

"Sesshōmaru, do not make me speak again!" Inu no Taishō demanded in a deep, angry tone.

"Yes, time I'd get going!" Tōtōsai said and his three-eyed cow took off.

"Uh….!" Kagome looked at the old man fleeing.

"Wow, I guess they're all scared of Inuyasha's father then…" Sango spoke and stood closer to Kagome.

"Well I'm not surprised…" Miroku said. "Even Sesshōmaru is scared, and that's a big deal."

"So you noticed too?" Inuyasha asked them. They all looked at Inuyasha who was now a bit behind them.

"Sesshōmaru-sama… is… scared…." Jaken said amazed. Never in his life has he ever seen his master scared before.

"Sorry, father," Sesshōmaru said respectfully, but quickly.

Now there was a first to Inuyasha. Seeing Sesshōmaru scared was one thing, but hearing Sesshōmaru apologise was another.

The wind around Inu no Taishō started to calm down and his eyes turned back to their normal golden colour. "Not to me."

Sesshōmaru looked up with anger in his eyes. "How spiteful of you," he spoke in his normal tone with his eyes back to showing their normal emotion as well. He turned to Inuyasha from the distance he stood. "Sorry," he apologised through clenched teeth.

Inuyasha remained motionless and speechless. Sesshōmaru gave his father one last death glare and then went his own way again. Inu no Taishō sighed. "Inuyasha, isn't Tessaiga giving off any sign of which direction Sou'unga went?"

"No… nothing," he replied.

"This is useless," Inu no Taishō sighed again. "Let's go." He started to walk forward again. 'I have to get to Izayoi, and soon…'

Inuyasha walked forward once again following his father's tracks. Kagome ran forward, with a sleeping Saya on her back, up until she was next to Inuyasha again, then she slowed down to a walk. Miroku and Sango walked behind Inuyasha and Kagome.

"Inu no Taishō was revived," Takemaru started. "It shouldn't be long before it's Izayoi's turn…"

"Takemaru," Sou'unga spoke. "Aren't you just a bit curious of who's behind the revival of the three?"

"You should know…" Takemaru smirked. "It's partly your fault."

Silence.

"And what's that supposed to mean?" Sou'unga asked getting annoyed with the human.

Takemaru just grinned a grin that would send shivers down anyone's spine. "Sesshōmaru is about to find her. Let's go to Izayoi."

Sesshōmaru stopped in his tracks, doubting if he should go further or not.

"Sesshōmaru-sama?" Jaken asked stopping behind him, Rin behind him sleeping on Aun. (A/N: Or Ah and Uh, I'm not sure what they're called… though I like to work off that their real name's Aun but Rin calls them Ah and Uh) "Something wrong?"

Sesshōmaru turned around and looked at the sleeping Rin. "Jaken."

"Uh… yes!" Jaken said ready for his order.

"Take Rin away from here, to a safe place. Do not let her out of your sight," Sesshōmaru ordered.

"Yes sir!" Jaken said and grabbed Aun's reins and walked in the opposite direction with the sleeping girl.

Sesshōmaru waited until they were out of his sight, then he stepped forward into the trees. He looked around and saw a waterfall that led up to another cliff. At the end of the waterfall sat a woman. She had long silver hair, similar to Sesshōmaru's, her hair was in a braid, with loose hair in front of her ears. (A/N; Kind of like Inuyasha's…). Her bangs were the same as Sesshōmaru's. (A/N: Okay… I'm using US and UK English in a REAL mix…). Her eyes were a darker golden colour, more orange than yellow, as if there was fire in her orbs. The stripes on Sesshōmaru's face and wrists were found on hers as well, as well as the moon on his forehead, and the stripes on his eyes were on hers as well. (A/N: People call it makeup, but I think it's like those stripes they have on their faces… you know, marks… but in Sango's case it's make up because she's HUMAN and a woman, and normally women wear makeup). Her clothing existed out of a dark pink-reddish kimono with a white star pattern similar to Sesshōmaru's red flower pattern on his kimono. She had the same metal plate over her kimono as Sesshōmaru has over his. She wore gloves that didn't cover her fingers, but had dark pink-reddish leather around the wrist with silver spikes. And the obi (A/N: That's what it's called, right?) was blue at the top and purple at the bottom. Sesshōmaru stopped a few feet away from the woman. She opened her eyes and turned around to look at Sesshōmaru. She got up from the ground and walked towards him.

"Sesshōmaru…" She smiled at him and embraced him. (A/N: Well there's ANOTHER first that nobody witnessed)

"Mother…"

"The time has come…" Takemaru spoke and closed the door to the room he put Izayoi in, him being outside of the room.

"And what's your plan after the hime has been revived?" Sou'unga asked.

"Patience…" Takemaru spoke and rested his head against the door.

"Takemaru…" a soft fragile voice spoke.

"Izayoi-sama…" Takemaru spoke and lifted up his head.

"What am I doing here?" Izayoi asked him.

"I apologise for the inconvenience… I brought you here so that you resurrection wouldn't be in the middle of nowhere…"

"Takemaru… let me out…" Izayoi spoke in her soft voice.

"Izayoi-sama… please forgive me for killing you…"

"I have no regrets whatsoever, I would like for you to take me to my son."

No words escaped Takemaru's mouth, he just opened the door to the room where he kept Izayoi, letting her go on her own.

Rin was with Jaken in a valley of flowers. She was picking them and singing her usual cheery songs, while Jaken sat and sulked on the other side.

"Jaken-sama… do you think Sesshōmaru-sama will like these flowers?" She asked him and shoved the flowers under his nose.

Jaken glared at the little girl then turned around, trying to ignore her.

"Jaken-sama?"

"Go away, I'm busy!" He said.

Rin lowered the flowers then turned around and sat down on the ground. Two feet stepped next to her. She looked up and met a zombie's face. She blinked a few times in confusion. "Hmp. The zombie growled and picked Rin up, causing her to drop the flowers.

"Jaken-sama!" Rin cried for help.

"What's it now- uh-ahhhh!" Jaken yelled seeing the man with Rin.

Sesshōmaru heard Rin's faint cry for help and smelled the dead smell of the zombie corpse. He jumped up from where he was sitting with his mother.

"What is it?" his mother asked with his sudden actions.

Sesshōmaru said nothing then ran into the forest in the direction where Jaken took Rin. His mother followed him.

Without any hesitation, Tōkijin met the zombie's blade.

"Sesshōmaru-sama!" Rin cried.

Sesshōmaru's mother stopped a little further away from Sesshōmaru. "A… human… girl?" She gasped.

The zombie jumped backwards then started to run off with Rin in his arms and Sesshōmaru followed.

"Sesshōmaru! Wait!" His mother cried after him and ran the same path.

"Sesshōmaru-sama!" Jaken ran after the four.

The zombie made his way back into the forest. Sesshōmaru had a few attempts in trying to hit the zombie with an attack, but the zombie would just dodge it all, not to mention Sesshōmaru had to be careful to not hit Rin. The zombie ran into a cave.

"Wait, Sesshōmaru! Don't go into the cave!" His mother yelled.

Sesshōmaru paid no attention to his mother's words and ran into the cave after the zombie. Right after Sesshōmaru ran into the cave, he disappeared behind a barrier.

Author's note: Well… yea… okay… um… I'll say what I always say: comments are welcome, not fond of critique, flames accepted but not recommended.

Okay, and a little Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any characters, or the third movie, however I do own Sesshōmaru's mother seeing that they never said anything about her.

Inu no Taishō will remain nameless for my story, but I'll eventually get a name for Sesshōmaru's mom, which will be revealed in the next chapter.

Kiyoshi Kaiiki Rindō