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I Don't Own Inuyasha

"Talking"

15. Tetsusaiga

I tried not to barf as the scent of the dead and decomposing flesh hit my nose. It was horrible. The smell was like rotten meat, gym socks, and manure, all mixed together. The boy beside me seemed unaffected by the scent, but then again.. I had noticed it was easier to keep a straight face as a hanyou, and more so as a youkai.

"There's a treasure sword kept within your father remains.." Meoga spoke clearly, and calm. But his face showed that he was desperate to get Inuyasha interested in this sword of his father's. My mind wandered back to my two katana's in Kaede's hut. I still hadn't managed to use them since I was teennapped by Koga. I had been half-conscious along the way to Urasue's place, and I didn't think I needed it when I went for my walk a few hours ago.

We hadn't had time to relax since I had gotten here.. It was always go, go, go! I think we deserved a day off.. or at least I did anyway. I had barely enough time to think before we were off fighting something else. I was still in my night-gown for heaven's sake! It wasn't dirty thankfully, only wet, but that could only last for so long.

"Sesshoumaru-sama is after that sword, and intends to snatch it away.." Meoga continued. Inuyasha had a look of minimal interest on his face. Why he wouldn't be interested in a treasure sword, I couldn't be sure, especially if it's his father's. I'd give anything to have something of my parents.. but our parents had died a long time ago.

But then.. there was something else I had been wondering about lately. If I was a hanyou.. then shouldn't my sisters be one as well? It doesn't make any scene as to why I'm part youkai and they're not.. since we are all blood related after all..

Inuyasha jumped from the skeletal bird, and into the skeletal structure of his father. I grabbed Meoga and followed in after, hoping that the speed of the fall wouldn't make me freeze up like it usually did when I was human.

Actually I enjoyed the fall.. the speed, the adrenaline that rushed through my veins as I sped towards the ground. It was quite easy to see why Inuyasha was always complaining about how slow human's are in travel. I just didn't know how I could have disliked this before.

I reached the ground shortly after Inuyasha, and already they had broken out into a fight. The smell of rot was worse in here. Maybe it was because we were in the middle of a decaying monster's body, or maybe it was because the floor was made up of human and animal bones. In the middle of the area, was a round golden pedestal. Words were carved into the gold, and I found myself trying to decipher what they meant. But on top of this golden art was something that seemed out of place. A sword.. A rusty, dusty, thin sword, that looked at though it couldn't even cut paper.

"What's up, Inuyasha?" Sesshoumaru said casually, avoiding another of Inuyasha's attacks. "Did you come just to dig your own grave? Or could it be that.. you came for a chance at.. Chichi-ue's fang-sword Tetsusaiga?"

Inuyasha stopped attacking and looked at the rustic old sword. "Tetsusaiga..?"

"Draw it out, Inuyasha-sama!" Meoga shouted, jumping up and down eagerly, suddenly on Inuyasha's shoulder. "Sesshoumaru-sama.. it must be that.. you couldn't draw Tetsusaiga, could you!?"

Sesshoumaru stared at the flea unemotionally. "Are you suggesting Inuyasha can?"

I stepped closer to the sword, my curiosity getting the better of me. What was so special about this hunk o' junk? Why in the world would a great youkai like Inuyasha's father have such a sword? It would be embarrassing just to be seen with it.

"Of course." Meoga cried, answering the older brother's question. "That the tomb was entrusted to Inuyasha-sama is proof enough. Now, quickly, Inuyasha-sama.."

Inuyasha scoffed, and rolled his eyes at the sword. "Keh! I'm not interested in some worn-out old sword.. Sesshoumaru! You damn bastard.." He leaped forwards his claws flexed once again. "How dare you keep screwing with me like that!!"

Sesshoumaru avoided, yet again, his attack. "Where are you aiming?"

"Shit!" Inuyasha whipped around and sprinted forward again. "You asshole!"

Dodged.

"Crap!" Inuyasha cursed looking behind him, at his smirking older brother.

"Heh. Your fighting style is as childish as ever.." Sesshoumaru informed him, a hint of smugness to his tone.

"You can't win unarmed, Inuyasha-sama.." Meoga was really crying this time. "The sword.."

"Shut up!" Inuyasha barked. I gave an over exaggerated sigh and grabbed onto his ear pulling him towards the pedestal. "What the hell, Kaori!?"

"You shut up!" I snapped. "Now listen! If that egotistical jerk couldn't pull out this hunk of crap and you could don't you think he'd be crushed? Because his stupid younger brother-"

"Hey!" Inuyasha interrupted, glaring at me.

"Shut up!Because his brother can do something he can't!?"

He looked at the sword, and the corners of his mouth turned up into a smirk. "I get it.. It would be really annoying for him, huh.."

"I bet you can't do it." Sesshoumaru replied, emotionless.

"Heh.. This is your payback.. I want to see you weep, bastard!" Inuyasha shouted, grasping the sword in his hand.

"As I thought.." Meoga declared. "The Tetsusaiga is destined to be in the hands of Inuyasha-sama!!"

Suddenly yellow bolts of lightning appeared around the sword, crackling and spitting in all directions. The sword wouldn't budge. Inuyasha's face grew dark as he took his hand of the sword.

"Oi.." He said unemotionally. Meoga yelped and went to flee, but the glowering hanyou caught him between his fingers. "I.. can't.. pull.. it.. out.. can.. I!?" He hissed as he swished the cowardly bug in his hands.

"I.." Meoga gasped. "I don't get it!"

"The farce is over.." Sesshoumaru said monotonously. In the blink of an eye, he was inches away from Inuyasha. "It seems Tetsusaiga wasn't meant for you after all, bastard.." He flexed his claws. "Now be evaporated by my poison claws."

He swung his arm forward, attempting to hit Inuyasha, but he had avoided it at last second. Sesshoumaru's claws sunk into the bone behind his brother and it soon melted away..

Inuyasha sprinted to the other side of the room, but Sesshoumaru was inches away again. "You won't get away."

"Hiiii heh heh heh!" The green toad know as Jaken crackled, pulling out his wooden staff.. Cool. "I'll assist you Sesshoumaru-sam-!"

I jumped in front of him, and he yelped in surprise. "Hello.." I said in a innocent tone. "Remember me!?" I snatched the staff from his hand and smacked him across the head with it like earlier. He flew to the other side of the room, and hit one of the monster's ribs.

"Heh, Kaori 2, little green toad -2000." I tossed the staff to the side and ran back to Tetsusaiga. I waved my hand over the top. Nothing. What was it that made the sword so special? Something hard smashed against my head and I stumbled forwards, grasping the sword for balance.

I looked behind me to see the toad, with the staff in his hand, smirking at me. I growled and whipped around, tackling the toad to the ground, the sword inches from his nose. "Your gonna pay you stupid little.."

I heard gasps from around me and looked up. Everyone was staring at me in shock. Inuyasha was pinned the ground by Sesshoumaru, poison claws hanging over his face, but they seemed to be frozen. Their eyes transfixed on something in my hand.

"What..?" I looked at the sword.. then towards the pedestal, empty. I jumped back in surprise staring at the sword in my hand. "Um.. I can explain?"

"Im-im-impossible!" Jaken sputtered, staring at me, his large yellow eyes bulging. "Inuyasha's case is irrelevant.. as even Sesshoumaru-sama couldn't pull Tetsusaiga out.. How could that half-demon wenc-"

"Hey! You watch you mouth, or I'll kick your ass to china!" I shouted, kicking the toad across the room.

Sesshoumaru stared at me, his eyes hard and cold like ice. Inuyasha seemed to notice, for he glared at his brother. "Don't you go looking else where!" He shouted.

But as soon as his sentence left his mouth, Sesshoumaru was looming over me. I shrunk back against the wall, my tail was between my legs and I felt my ears pin back.. This person was scary up close. I held Tetsusaiga close to my chest as he continued to cast his icy gaze upon me.

"Who are you?" He asked, his icy voice sending shivers down my spine. "Why were you able to draw Tetsusaiga?"

"How am I supposed to know!?" I snapped. But then my courage vanished again as his gaze became colder and my body resumed the frightened position.

"Don't you touch her, Sesshoumaru!" Inuyasha shouted, racing towards us. "That girl has nothing to do with this!!"

Meoga sighed from his shoulder, something that I wouldn't have been able to pick up if I had been human. "Good thing he's after her now and not us, hey Inuyasha-sama?"

Stupid, ungrateful, jerk! Once we get out of this I'll make him wish he'd never said that!

"Shut up!" Inuyasha snapped. "Sesshoumaru! Leave her alone, she's not evolved in this!"

Sesshoumaru crackled his knuckles, the tips of his fingers glowing bright green "I disagree. For an unknown reason I was unable to touch Tetsusaiga, fortunately you were unable to draw it out either. It's obvious that she must die."

"You're right, it is strange that she could pull out the sword and we couldn't, but she's just a girl." He looked toward me. "Give him the damn sword, there's no other choice."

"What the hell!?" I snapped. "Why should I? I rather like the fact that he wants something he can't have! It might help his personality. Besides, where does it say he gets the sword!? He couldn't even touch it!"

"Don't be stupid! You're only a girl, so back off, shut up, and butt out!" He shouted.

My eyes narrow and I pointed the sword at him. "You fucking sexist jerk!! Why don't you shut the hell up! Your the one who's screaming your head off! If I was over there I'd shove this sword up your a-!"

"Inuyasha.. your patience with this girl is astonishing." Sesshoumaru sighed, interrupting my rant. I'd beat him up to if I wasn't so scared of him!! "You protect her, indulge her, and even seem to love her.."

I felt my face burn at these words. What did he know!? He didn't even know how to display his own feelings. How could he read others emotions, when he couldn't even read his own!!

"Certainly.." He continued, running his fingers trough his hair, "certainly these.. feelings of mercy, of yours.. isn't something I inherited from our great.. and terrible father.. It must have been that mother of yours.. that human mother. Who caused our father to meet his end in this ignoble place.. Her blood effects you as well. Is it that which so endears you to them?"

He glanced toward me. "I do happen to realize that this girl was the younger sister of that human woman you used to indulge yourself with. She had been human.. only until a few days ago. Her transformation seems to have effected you in a negative way, little brother. Maybe you had wished her to stay human.. for it seems you are attracted to them the most.. just like our father. But I, however.."

'Her transformation seems to have effected you in a negative way.. maybe you had wished her to stay human..' I knew that wasn't true. I knew Inuyasha had only worried about my lack of self-control, and probably was relieved that now I was a hanyou and wouldn't die as easily but.. the words Sesshoumaru had spoken still hurt.

He pointed his fingers towards me, and I felt the urge to flee, but I couldn't.. my body wouldn't move.. it wouldn't listen. I was like a deer in the headlights again, "bare no such weakness. Be annihilated.. by my dokkasou.. pathetic hanyou." He hissed.

Suddenly everything was dark. It was my calm cool darkness from before.. no pain. Not a single hint of pain like before. But.. It was like I was inside an air bubble under water. I heard the sound of crackling electricity, the everything was gone. The dark faded away. I found myself inside a blueish purple dome, staring at the claws of the youkai in front of me.

The mist poured from his hand, but it travelled over the dome, and I was unaffected from the inside. He stopped the poison mist, and my dome faded away. I quickly found my feet and sprinted past him, coming to a stop beside the shocked silver hanyou.

I pushed the sword into Inuyasha hands, and stood a few paces behind him, gasping. He blinked then whipped around, his face pale. "WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED!?"

I crushed Meoga in my hand for getting calm when I was going to die. "I can't believe you were relived when that guy went after me!" I muttered, ignoring him.

"Hey..uh.. how come you're still alive?" Inuyasha asked, dragging my attention away from the disloyal insect.

I blinked, then stared at my hands. "If I knew everything, then my life would be a lot easier."

"I see.." Sesshoumaru said calmly, facing us. "The girl can create barriers.."

"Inuyasha-sama! No need to hesitate.." Meoga called, squirming out from my hand. "You should test Tetsusaiga's blade.. on Sesshoumaru's body!"

Sesshoumaru chuckled, as the whites of his eyes grew blood red. "How daring of you to say that.. We shall see, if a hanyou bastard like you can master the Tetsusaiga.. This Sesshoumaru would see that with his own eyes.."

Oh yeah!? Well this Kaori would like him to shut the hell up!

Sesshoumaru's body was changing.. morphing into something more spectacular. Dark grey and white mist covered his body.. it cleared almost as fast and there stood and freaking HUGE dog! Like the size of a five story building!

"Oh my god.. Thats a whole lot of angry dog.." I muttered, staring at the growling creature.

Inuyasha scoffed. "Keh! That bastards just shown his true form." He leaped toward the creature. "I'll cover this with your own blood!!" He thrust the sword toward the monstrous dog, attempting to cut the flesh by it's ear. As soon as Tetsusaiga hit the scalp of the youkai it bounced back, not even leaving a mark behind.

"Oi Meoga-jijii.. What's the deal!? This sword can't even bruise him, let alone behead him!" Inuyasha asked, dodging Sesshoumaru's poison claws.

"Erm.."Meoga answered whipping sweat from his brow. "Anyway Inuyasha-sama.. this sword is a memento of your father.. Believe in the sword's spiritual power! You must never abandon it! Well then.. if you'll excuse me.." He leaped from his shoulder and disappeared somewhere among the bones.

"Why you.." Inuyasha growled. He turned toward me. "You go find a place to hide or something!"

"What!? Why should I!?" I snapped. "I'm just as capable as fighting as you are!"

"Yes, you maybe capable, but it doesn't mean you know how!" He shouted. "At this rate your probably gonna die here anyways, letting you fight would just speed it up!"

I felt like someone had just slapped me across the face. Me being a hanyou was only more troublesome for him. He still wouldn't let me defend myself, and he still wouldn't let me fight.. My reasonable protesting where just irrelevant, annoying to him. I felt the tears well up in my eyes, and this time I didn't try to hide them.

"D.. D.. Don't cry!" He barked. His face was panicky like he didn't know what to do. But then that was normal . Kikyou had never cried, and when I had when I was little one of the villagers helped me calm down. He had no experience, especially when it was him who made someone cry. "Shut up! I'm saying I'll protect you!"

Wrong. He was wrong. He thought I was upset over my death, but I wasn't. I didn't care if I died. I wasn't afraid. There could be nothing more painful then my transformation, so after that, death would be peaceful and painless to me, no matter how I died. But I stopped myself, just to give him that satisfaction. I'd go on a real crying spurt later, when there wasn't danger about.

"Jeez, just sit back and watch." He said, turning back toward his brother. Something pounded in my ears.. a heart beat. But it wasn't mine, nor any others in the room.. It came off Tetsusaiga.

I could hear it. Tetsusaiga's heartbeat. It beat just as strongly and steady as a youkai heart. Inuyasha stared at the sword in awe, he must've heard it too. This meant a change, a surge of power came from the sword, and even though I wasn't the one who held the sword in my hand, I could feel it too.

Inuyasha looked up toward Sesshoumaru, grasping the sword in two hands. He lept forward holding the sword horizontal. The rustic blade glowed as it sliced through the flesh of the dog form Sesshoumaru. I gasped in surprise. Only moments before the sword couldn't even cut a leaf, but now it had changed.. into a pearly white thick fang in Inuyasha's hand. Tetsusaiga surged with demonic power in it's true form.

Sesshoumaru stumbled in pain from his shoulder injury, and growled at his younger brother. I bet he's pretty messed up now, the transformation must have come as a surprise to him as it did to all of us.

"This is the end.. Sesshoumaru!" Inuyasha shouted lunging forward. The sword sliced through the monsters arm, and sent him back. He fell through the bone wall behind him, out of sight.

"Sesshoumaru-sama!" Jaken squeaked, jumping to his feet, and out the broken wall after his lord. "Sesshoumaru-sama please wait for me!!"

Inuyasha plummeted Tetsusaiga into the ground and chuckled to himself. "Thanks Oyaji.. You've left me quite a heirloom."

End Of Chapter 15

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