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Sesshoumaru's POV

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Chapter Thirty-Nine: Wrath

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Unimaginable.

I tossed Kagutsuchi's limp body at my father's feet, and an anger I had never before felt took hold of me. "You're quite a selfish bastard, aren't you? Strange that it hadn't occurred to me earlier . . ." My voice was calm, my demeanor collected, but beneath the surface my emotions raged like the harsh waves of the sea.

Izanagi regarded me coldly. "And you would have acted any differently?"

Shrugging carelessly, I replied, "I suppose not. Though . . . I would like to think I am much more decent than you, Izanagi."

My father visibly bristled. "You would do well to mind how you speak with me, Sesshoumaru. I am still your parent, and you will respect me."

"Respect?" A malicious laugh escaped my lips. "Respect is earned, Izanagi, and you have yet to earn mine." Curling a fist, I looked on in satisfaction as my father flinched violently. "In fact, at this very moment, the only thing I'm inclined to give you . . . is death."

"By all means, son, go after her. I will not stop you. However, be warned that the Empress is not to be trifled with."

"The Empress," I repeated mockingly. "Nothing but a weak-willed figure head hiding behind legions of warriors. And she is the one who commissioned this?"

Izanagi nodded. "Indeed. It would seem she has quite the infatuation with you, and views your human wife as a . . . hindrance to her plans."

"What of her promises to you, then?" I questioned. "If you yourself do not have the power to retrieve Mother from the Underworld, how is it that the Empress will accomplish this?"

He turned from me, eyeing the unconscious form of Kagutsuchi. "She has her ways."

Silence reigned briefly before I asked the one question I was dreading. "And Kagome? What does she intend to do with her?"

At this, Izanagi blanched, resignation and fear clouding his face. "What do you think?"

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