Chapter 6
Inuyasha groaned as she woke up and found herself in an impossibly serene and beautiful field near a pond. A beautiful, serene, yet eerie and unsettling, glow emanated from everything, including her mother.
"This place…where is it?" The half demon girl asked aloud, noticing Kagome was unconscious beside her.
"At the border of the spirit world" replied Inuyasha's mother, causing the girl to turn around at her voice.
"I must be crossing over it very soon" she continued as she started walking over to the bridge.
"Crossing over? Oh yeah…it happened so long ago I forgot you're dead…" Inuyasha said with a hint of sadness as she followed.
"Inuyasha,it seems you've grown into a fine young woman" her mother commented.
"Well…yeah I was only a kid when you died" the hanyou said as painful memories of the past came back to her.
"I'm sorry…it must have been painful for you, and you all alone with no one to care for you"
Her mother apologized as they stopped before the bridge."How can you ever forgive me?" She asked.
"You don't need to apologize for anything" Inuyasha replied.
Kagome started to wake up and as his vision cleared he saw Inuyasha standing in front of her mother. 'Inuyasha's mother, she's okay' he thought as he tried to get up but found himself unable to move 'I can't move…im paralyzed!' He realized as no matter how hard he tried to move his body wouldn't budge. 'Wait, what's that?' He thought as he saw the reflection of Inuyasha and her mother on the pond 'Her face, she has no reflection!' Kagome realized as he tried to warn Inuyasha but as he tried to yell he found he couldn't speak either. 'Inuyasha snap out of it! Whoever she is, she isnt your mother!'
"Inuyasha, I must return to the netherworld"
"D-Do you have to?" Inuyasha asked to which her mother nodded and grabbed a flower in the ground, tossing it into the pond as the petals scattered in the water.
"The petals…look into the water" Inuyasha's mother told her and she obeyed and saw she sees herself as a kid chasing after her ball across a bridge. She then runs into her mother's arms. They are seen sitting together at the edge of a pond, and her mother hugs her tightly, reminding Inuyasha that was how she used to embrace her when she was little.
"That's me when I was just a kid" Inuyasha said, looking into the water.
"That's right I held you to my heart just as I am doing now" her mother replied embracing her.
"Mother…" the half demon girl said as she accepted her mother's embrace
"I'll never let you go, not now or ever" her mother replied as her hands went through Inuyasha's back.
'Huh…? Wait,there's no reflection in the water of her face.' Inuyasha thought as she saw but it was too late and Inuyasha was already starting to be absorbed.
'Dammit! I'm still stuck!' Kagome thought as all he could was watch helplessly "Huh?" he let out a puzzled sound,noticing chains around him and the illusion that had been built was dissapearing revealing that the beautiful scenery was nothing more than just a dark clearing. 'So it was an illusion this whole time' the boy thought as a small figure hopped on top of him.
"Kagome! Snap out of it! Its me Myoga the flea!" Myoga yelled at the boy shouting into his ear. "Who would have thought Sesshomaru, Inuyasha's older sister Seshomaru, would be the one seeking the tomb." The flea demon mused as he tried to somehow snap Kagome out of his trance. "And here's Kagome all chained up, in fact he wouldn't even swat a…" Myoga then gets an idea and begins to start sucking his blood and instinctively Kagome's hand moved to hit Myoga which snapped him out of his trance. "What'd you know, I'm less paralyzed than I thought, thanks Myoga" The boy said as Myoga was flattened
"You're welcome..."
.Jaken was rowing a boat and then ran up to the Inuyasha and who was pretending to be her mother. "Stop! What are you doing?!" The Imp yelled as he hit the her. "No soul-sucking til I tell you!"
"Sorry" replied the woman.
"You can have your way later, after she tells us how to find the tomb of Lady Sesshomaru and Inuyasha's father. Jaken said as Kagome and Myoga were listening from behind a rock.
"So that's Jaken, Seshomaru's evil henchman?" Kagome asked Myoga as they were hiding behind a rock.
"Yes, but keep your eye on his staff" the flea demon warned Kagome.
Inuyasha felt she was being submerged in water being held by her mothers arms
"Inuyasha, your father's tomb. Where is it?" Her "mother" asks her.
"I dont know"
"Then try harder show me what's in your heart" the woman said as she saw deeper into Inuyasha's heart "What's that" she said looking at a black pearl.
"Black pearl, on the right Inuyasha muttered"
"What black pearl? Where?" Jaken asked impatiently. "We need to go deeper than that! Go deeper!" Jaken ordered the Unmother.
"But if I go deeper her spirit will be broken" she warned.
"I dont care! Do it!" The Imp yelled as the Unmother nodded as Jakens staff was then taken and he was struck by Kagome sending the imp into the pond nearby.
"Let her go!" Kagome shouted as he chased the Unmother who had already absorbed Inuyasha half way as she was getting absorbed further into the Mu-onna as Kagome managed to grab on to Inuyasha's hair in an attempt to delay her being absorbed but tripped.
"She's going to absorbed! What am going to do?" Kagome asks himself panicked as Myoga jumped on his shoulder, "Awaken her spirit Kagome!" The old flea demon instructed him.
"But how?" The boy asked confused as he then saw the Unmother stop a few feet away from them.
"That is the Unmother, also known as a Mu-onna, born from the grief of losing children to famine and war, she seeks to fill the void within herself by taking the spirits of others." Myoga informed Kagome.
"That doesn't help at all" the boy stated as he saw the reflection of the Unmother and Inuyasha in the water but something was different Inuyasha was a child in the reflection.
"Is that Inuyasha...?" Kagome asked, looking at the reflection.
"An illusion, but yes that's how it works" Myoga explained.
"In that case, if I mess up the illusion, then Inuyasha will be freed from her" the boy said as he ran to the pond up and hit the reflection in the water with the staff causing the Unmother to release Inuyasha and sending her back a few feet.
"Inuyasha are you ok?" Kagome asked going to Inuyasha's side, dropping the staff.
"How dare she!" Inuyasha yelled angrily, having been deceived to think that her mother was truly alive once again. "I can't believe I fell for it and thought she was my mother" the hanyou girl continued.
"But it was Seshomaru and Jaken who planned this out." Kagome explained as Sesshomaru walked into view.
"I know where it is now" Sesshomaru stated calmly before running towards Kagome and Inuyasha and grabbing the latter by their neck before they had any time to react.
"You Bast-" Inuyasha choked out as Sesshomaru just looked at her with disdain.
"Of all the places for him to hide it, that even I failed to perceive it ." Sesshomaru said calmly.
"What are you talking about? You're making no sense at all!" Inuyasha said as she was still being held by the throat.
"Why don't I just show you" Seshomaru replied before stabbing two fingers into Inuyasha's right eye and pulling out a black pearl, tossing Inuyasha to the side once it had been extracted.
"Our father's tomb hidden inside a black pearl deep within your eye, who would have though." Seshomaru stated looking at it.
"All that for something like that? You pretended she was my mother! Inuyasha yelled angrily covering her eye with her hand as she stood up ready to attack Seshomaru, "You bastard!" She yelled as she swiped at Sesshomaru who easily jumped up and avoided the attack easily and went to strike Inuyasha but the Unmother jumps in front of Inuyasha and takes the blow instead, destroying her.
"She gave her life to protect her…" Kagome said surprised at this.
"Demon or not she still had a mother's heart, so isnt protecting her children what a mother can't help but do?" Myoga commented.
"Hey, you!" Kagome yelled at Sesshomaru as he approached closer to her knowing full well that he doesn't stand a chance.
"Kagome, don't, or she'll kill us both!" Myoga the flea demon yelled jumping on Kagome's shoulder as Jaken was looking through the tall grass he found his staff.
"Jaken." Sesshomaru called out to the imp who came running out of the grass.
"Lady Sesshomaru, the staff is ours once more!" The Imp exclaimed as Sesshomaru grabbed the staff from him and dropped the pearl on the ground, hitting it with the bottom of the staff causing the old man's head on the staff to start laughing, opening a black portal to the netherworld, both Sesshomaru and Jaken walk into it and disappear into the vortex.
"They're gone," Kagome said releasing the tension he had before.
"We must go inside the portal quickly before it's closed" Myoga intoned as he hopped on Inuyasha's shoulder "Don't you care if your sister takes possession of your father's treasure?.
"Why should I care about some old treasure?" Inuyasha scoffed "The only thing I care about is getting back at her for fooling me!" she says angrily getting up and running towards the portal.
"You're going after her? Well in that case I should help" Kagome said as he followed Inuyasha through the portal.
As they emerged on the other side of the portal they fell onto a skeletal birds that flew in the sky around a giant skeleton.
"Father…" Inuyasha was the first to speak as she looked at the giant skeleton
"Wow" Kagome said surprised as he first looked at Inuyasha and then the skeleton again, "So that giant skeleton is your father?"
"What else would they be?" Inuyasha said looking at Kagome oddly, "You can see that with your own eyes can't you?"
"How would I know if its him or not" Kagome replied back at Inuyasha, "I didn't expect him to be so big…"
"Inuyasha's father was a great demon that lived for many years, he was of uncomparable stature, here he is in his truest form, undisguised. The sword inside his bones is what Seshomaru is after" Myoga said resting on Kagome's shoulder as the bird flew them deeper inside the skeletal remains.
"I've finally arrived here," Sesshomaru said as she slowly approached the sword, "At last I shall take possession of the sacred sword…" slowly she held her hand out, reaching for the fabled sword, "A sword that can kill a hundred demons in one swing, the fang sword Tetsusaiga…" Sesshomaru continued as she slowly reached for the handle of the sword.
"I hear the Tetsusaiga was forged from the fang of your father," Jaken said as he walked to beside Sesshomaru, "That is to say, the one who wields Tetsusaiga in their hands… will wield the power your father once possessed." Jaken said as Sesshomaru gripped the sword.
As Sesshomaru's skin made contact with the sword a brilliant white flash erupted as sparks of electricity permeated the air shocking the elder of the dog demon's children. After a few seconds Sesshomaru removed her right hand, with the majority of the flesh temporarily burned away by the electricity.
"Father has done his work well, the blade has a barrier," Seshomaru stated looking at her burnt hand as it regenerated.
"Sesshomaru!" yelled Inuyasha as she leaped down to attack Seshomaru swiping at her but the elder sister just jumped out of the way leaving the hanyou to swipe at nothing but empty air, causing her to fall face first into the bones that littered the place."Where'd she go?" She questioned looking around before seeing Sesshomaru standing atop one of the bones.
"Be more respectful, it is father's tomb after all" the demon woman said scolding Inuyasha.
"Look who's talking, you're the one robbing his grave!" Inuyasha yelled, pointing out Sesshomaru's hypocrisy.
"Lady Inuyasha! Look over there!" Myoga said grabbing Inuyasha's attention as he pointed to the sword.
"What a piece of junk, I bet it can't even cut a piece of wet paper," the girl said inspecting the rusty katana.
"You must draw the sword!" The tiny flea demon exclaimed."You were chosen as the protector of the tomb so that must mean you're the one to draw it, Lady Inuyasha!" Myoga explained as he pleaded with her.
"I don't need it" she said with a hint of pride in her voice before attempting to attack Seshomaru again, but like last time it was dodged effortlessly.
"You're fighting style is as childish as ever." Sesshomaru remarked bored, dodging another attack.
"Just get the damn sword already." Kagome said, annoyed climbing down the bones of the deceased Inu no Taisho. "If Sesshomaru couldn't pull the sword, then maybe you can, it would hurt her pride if you did...maybe"
The female hanyou saw his point and walked over to the rusty sword. "If I can't hurt her physically then I can at least hurt her pride." She said placing her hand on the hilt of the katana, unlike when Sesshomaru grabbed ahold of it nothing stopped her no electricity or barrier, surprising Jaken as Inuyasha grunted, trying to pull the sword out a mist surrounding the area only for the sword to move slightly, despite Inuyasha's best efforts she wasn't able to pull the Tetsusaiga out, "Hey old man…I can't… pull it out… can I…?!" Inuyasha said squishing the flea demon angrily.
Sesshomaru chuckled at this before turning serious, "This little game is over, it seems the Tetsusaiga wasn't meant for you after all" the demoness stated. "Now be evaporated by my poison claws." The elder dog sibling said as she started to attack Inuyasha who barely dodged the attack as the claw hit the wall behind her melting the bone instantly.
"I will help, Lady Seshomaru!" Jaken said readying his staff but was jumped on by Kagome.
"Not a chance" the boy said trying to take the staff away from the imp who surprisingly managed to push him back "I should really start working out when I get back home" Kagome said after he landed on a pile of bones near the Tetsusaiga grabbing on the the handle of the katana to prop himself up as Sesshomaru managed to make Inuyasha trip and was about to strike her. "Inuyasha...!" The boy cried out as he saw his friend about to get killed and ran towards the two siblings, his hand was still on the blade accidentally pulling out the blade, stopping Sesshomaru in her tracks as the room went silent, Jakens mouth hung wide open.
"Umm...I guess it slipped" Kagome said still processing what had just happend holding the sword that both Inuyasha and Sesshomaru had failed to pull out.
End Chapter 6
