Seshomaru and gang are walking through the forest. Rin is annoying jaken as always. Jaken tells her to cut it out and they start fighting. Sesshomaru turns around and yells at them both to shut up.
"I wonder where Lord Seshomaru is taking us?"
Seshomaru hadn't said anything about where they were headed. In fact he had barely said anything since they left the mountain.
"He must know where he's going." Jaken thought. He didn't really have any other choice than to follow along.
"The idiots have stopped following us lord Sesshomaru." Jaken announced.
"Good, It was getting annoying."
"Um… my lord where are going?"
"We are following the aura that was in the village."
Jaken could tell that Sesshomaru knew more than he was telling.
"We are going to find the source of all this-excitement.
"What do you mean lord Sesshomaru?"
"Do you mena to say that you know what the cause of all of this is?"
"Yes."
Sesshomaru said agitated he always hated when Jaken asked questions like this.
"Is it a demon?"
"Yes." '
Sesshomaru sighed irritably. He figured he should just tell Jaken the whole story otherwise he wouldn't get him to shut up and stop asking questions.
"He's my brother."
Jaken stopped in his tracks his mouth hung open.
"Wha-What?" "Bro-Brother?" "Did you say brother?"
"Yes I have another brother he is full demon, however he does not have the same mother as I do. My father had an affair while he was with my mother. When it was found that she had become pregnant she was sent away somewhere to live somewhere with his mother. My father took care of them until he died. Inuyasha does not know any of this. I only know because members of my father's esteemed inner circle told me about it after he died.
Even though Inuyasha is half demon it still takes him a good week and a half to fully recover from his injuries and be able to travel again. While they are traveling they begin to hear tales of something-or someone that has been terrorizing several villages and slaughtering dozens of innocents
"Come on Kagome! We have to check this out it could lead to something to do about Naraku." "No Inuyasha! Your still too weak!
"I'm fine"
"Look, if it's not a demon and doesn't have any possible connection or leads to Naraku I promise we'll keep right on walking and won't get involved ok?" "I promise."
He gives Kagome a sympathetic puppy-dog look. Which makes her crumble almost immediately.
"Alright fine." "You know that I can't resist you when you give me that look." They kiss and then begin to move forward again. As they entered the village, Inuyasha decides to ask the villagers about the rumors he'd heard.
"Well, he didn't leave any witnesses so all we have are the rumors that are swirling around town."
"Great" muttered Inuyasha under his breath.
"No one is really sure what he looks like." Said one of the villagers.
"Some say that he was a monster 10 feet tall, with scales and long white hair." stated another.
"I heard another say that he was half-man half monster."
"The description varies from person to person."
"However, everyone seems to agree on one thing; he had a big sword that looked like a fang and shot fire." A bunch of villagers nodded their heads in agreement.
inuyasha's facial expressions had gone from astonished to confused to horrified in the span of a few seconds. After a few minutes of blank staring he managed to stammer
. "Shot flames?"
"Yes."
answered the villager standing in the forefront of the group. "They said it was a long fang shaped sword that shot flames when pointed. Is there anything else that you can tell us that might help?" asked Miroku. "Anything definitive or striking."
"There are some reports coming in about him having a crescent shaped moon on his forehead. But it's all rumors. "Nothing's been confirmed." "I'm sorry I wish I could be of more help to you." "But like I said we don't know anything for sure."
"That's alright." assured Miroku. "Thank you very much for all of your help." "If you would be so kind as to inform us of any new information that you receive it would be much appreciated." "Of course, it would be our pleasure."
"Again, our deepest thanks." Miroku said as he bowed.
As the gang moved on past the village they discussed the signifigance of the villager's words. They were walking as they always did Inuyasha and Kagome in front, Miroku and Sango walking together in back. Kirara is on Sango's shoulder and shippo is following close behind. "You look worried." said Kagome.
"I am." answered Inuyasha. "The sword the villagers described is practically identical to mine and Sesshomaru's sword.
"Except, neither of those swords can spew fire." Kagome pointed out.
"Right, which makes me think that there must be another sword out there that is just like ours." "As far as I know those are the only two swords that my father made, and they were the only ones like that that existed." "but I was kinda left in the dark concerning my family especially where my father is concerned." "I was never really told anything about him." "So this is the only conclusion I can draw based on the information we've received."
"Right, but we don't have any hard evidence to go on, just rumors Inuyasha." "So I wouldn't get too worked up."
"I'm sorry I can't do that." "I'm not gonna be able to relax until I investigate and get to the bottom of this." "It just makes me nervous to think that there is another sword like that; and it's in God knows whose hands."