Chapter 2: Surpassing the Great Dog

"Lord Inuyasha! You should only pierce Ryūkotsusei's heart! What ever you do, don't remove your father's seal!" Myōga yelled as he barely held on to Inuyasha as he went in speeds that the flea only knew his late master could go.

"That is not my style Myōga. It is like killing someone during their sleep." Inuyasha countered calmly as he gracefully made his way through the forest. At the moment he was seeing the whole world in a different view. It was absurd to say the least, after all three hundred years of his life has already embedded a firm picture in his mind on how the world felt and what it showed. But this was different, the adrenalin wasn't the only thing that rushed in. Power and peace, those were the two things, the latter of the two new elements being even more bizarre, after all who would think the half demon will ever have inner peace?

But the flea, as usual did not believe in the hanyō and was taking no chance. "No Lord Inuyasha! Ryūkotsusei is a demon that not even your father was able to defeat! He will kill you with ease!" Myōga warned the transformed hanyō.

"Do not worry. My new strength will be more than enough to destroy this demon." Inuyasha confidently said as he jumped over the trees and continued to make his way.

"Hmph! If you don't do as I say, I will not show you his location!" Myōga huffed.

"Tell me Myōga, what is it that you wish me to accomplish from doing this?" Inuyasha asked curiously.

"Well it should be obvious! I am trying to help you regain control over Tessaiga! Your fang is very weak compared to my late master and you need to kill your father's old enemy to prove that you are worthy to Tessaiga." Inuyasha smirked in amusement.

"Is that so? Then alright." 'I am weak huh? Well you guys just have to find out.' Inuyasha smirked and continued his rush.

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"There he is Lord Inuyasha, Ryūkotsusei, the dragon that gravely injured your father.." Inuyasha too was quite awed by the sight. There on the walls of a canyon was a giant dragon with a claw sticking into it's chest and appeared to be sleeping. Myōga began to explain what he needed to do. "Now Lord Inuyasha the heart is-"

"Kukuku.." The laughter alerted the hanyō as he saw the baboon pelted demon appeared on the claw and touched it. The miasma quickly disintegrated the claw and Naraku jumped over to the top of the canyon as Ryūkotsusei slowly woke up, completely healed and powered as if the demon never fought Inu no Taisho. "Ryūkotsusei, that is the son of the demon that sealed you." Naraku informed the dragon before being encased by his miasma and be taken away.

The dragon yokai stared down at Inuyasha. "Inu no Taisho..so you sired a demon..or are you a hanyō?" There was curiosity in the daiyokai's voice.

"Run for your life! Inuyasha we need to leave!" Myōga urged as he stared horrified at the giant demon. But Inuyasha kept his cool and stared back at Ryūkotsusei. Myōga knowing what dog demon was going to do, jumped of and sped away, but not before delivering an insult. "Foolish child! You are going into your own death!"

Not at all bothered by the coward flea's antics, Inuyasha took a step forward. "I came here to test my strength, demon, in the process kill you."

"Hahahaha the flea was right, you are indeed foolish, to think you, a mere abomination will be able togahhhh!" The dragon Daiyōkai crashed back into the canyon wall he was sealed, leveling the rock mass as Inuyasha delivered a solid punch to Ryūkotsusei's dragon head.

"For a slimy lizard who slept for centuries, you talk too much." Inuyasha softly landed on the canyon floor, giving the dragon Daiyōkai the height advantage or at least that was the general thought that went through the spectators, who included the dog demon's gang, Totosai, a newly braved Myōga and Naraku's poisonous wasp, all except the latter failing to take account of Inuyasha's single blow that downed the powerful Daiyōkai.

"We must help him! He will be torn to shreds!" Miroku began to unwound his prayer beads on the wind tunnel, but hated after seeing the poison wasps lining up in front of him. "Damn that Naraku!" He cursed at his helplessness.

"Master Miroku, you shouldn't interfere, Inuyasha has to do this alone using Tessaiga to finish Ryūkotsusei! Otherwise he will never master the Tessaiga! You have to believe in him!" Myōga's words made the hanyō laugh in amusement, seemingly ignoring the giant dragon that was slowly raising back to it's familiar position.

"And here I thought I was too weak to fight, eh Myōga.." The flea hid behind Tatosai in embarrassment.

"How dare you turn around and mock me you insolent brat! Rargh!" Ryūkotsusei gave a roar and discharged a giant ball of energy at the unmoving hanyō, who without any form of difficulty, raised his arms and slashed his claws down. Five streaks of red colored yokai energy emerged from the tips of the hanyō's claws flew at the incoming attack and neutralized the dragon Daiyōkai's attack. A huge cloud of dust and debris erupted from the collision between the two massive attacks, clouding everyone's vision.

"You are really not the silent type, are you?" Inuyasha's amused voice reached the humans and demons ears as their vision became clearer. There was a huge crater between the two Daiyōkais that was ripped up in appearance rather than the bowl shape, this happened mainly due to the clawed attack the hanyō Daiyōkai sent that cancelled Ryūkotsusei's attack.

Without another word, the giant dragon Daiyōkai swung his tail down at Inuyasha, who immediately unsheathed Tessaiga and swung an ark on the reptile's tail but was caught off guard by the sudden weight that staggered him a little and the unexpected ineffectiveness of the fang on Ryūkotsusei's hard body. As a result he was thrown off onto another canyon wall, creating a deep impact on the red soil.

"Oh no! The Tessaiga is not strong enough to cut Ryūkotsusei's body! Inuyasha's gonna lose!" Shippo cried in fear as he his behind Sango. Miroku and Sango were having the same thoughts as that of the kit, but both were grounded and knew their interference will only be a problem than doing any help.

Kagome's heart clenched lightly as she saw no movement coming from the canyon that Inuyasha was sent to, but she continued to put her faith in her hanyō..or whatever he is now. "No. Tessaiga is strong enough to cut Ryūkotsusei! But it won't accept Inuyasha unless he proves that he is strong enough to handle the blade, and only then can he truly surpass his father." Myōga explained from his spot with Totosai while the latter was staring off to space. This caught Sango's attention who was listening to the flea.

"Master Totosai is their something wrong?" The others too turned to the zoned out old demon and none of them except Myōga seem to recognize what he was doing.

"Is he sleeping?" Shippo questioned as he waved a hand in front of the forge demon's eyes, but received no response.

"No! He's watching Tessaiga!" Myōga jumped up and down. "Move away! Don't disturb him! He maybe able to find what has happened to my lord!" The others grew confused at this.

"But the fightings down their. Why is he looking over there?" Shippo being the kit he is looked at the weird demons confusedly, trying to receive an answer from the current dilemma.

"He doesn't need to see the sword physically! He can watch the battles if the sword is created by him!" Myōga anxiously answered as he along with the others waited for Totosai to speak on what he was seeing. But all of a sudden Totosai's bug eyes widened in shock as he fell off his bull.

"Totosai, what did you see?" Kagome asked worriedly as Ryūkotsusei slowly made his way towards where Inuyasha crashed. The air was tense and the feeling of helplessness ran through them as they awaited for Totosai to speak.

The old forger was at a loss, his face represented many emotions along with shock. Amazement, respect and concern being the other. "Inuyasha..he is..of..Tessaiga..submitting it..I can feel his demonic aura..Tessaiga is slowly succumbing.." Totosai said as he now looked down towards the battle zone.

Inuyasha, although having better control over the Tessaiga now, with the help of his new found demon strength, but that didn't mean the weight did not annoy him. "Tessaiga..you will submit..I will make you submit to my will!" He growled as he clenched the sword's handle. He could feel the mighty fang pulsing under his grip, trying to push his demonic aura from it's body, but the dog demon wasn't having any of that.

"Having trouble with your sword, brat?" Ryūkotsusei taunted as he observed what Inuyasha was doing. The hanyō seemed to have no effect of the massive weight, but he kept on clenching the handle with great force, as if in pain. Not wasting the opportunity to finish of this strange demon, Ryūkotsusei charged up another ball of energy. "This seems to be your end. Be honored that you were killed by the great Ryūkotsusei."

The discharged attack ball flew towards the still struggling Inuyasha. 'Grrr..you are not the boss here old man much less your fang!' "Rargh!" With a loud roar Inuyasha raised the Tessaiga, who's power was slowly blending with his own. 'That aura..what does it mean?' It was a strange feeling, like a small scar in the wind, but not the same one that he felt while using the wind scar, no, this was different and it was coming solely off Ryūkotsusei rather than both of them. 'Here goes..' With a wild slash, he aimed it for that particular feeling and what came out startled him lightly.

Wind twirled around the dog demon and his sword as the brownish colored wind took the appearance of a twister and engulfed the incoming demonic blast from Ryūkotsusei and without any form of difficulty, pushed the spherical attack back into it's creater.

The combined power of the Backlash Wave and Ryūkotsusei's own power engulfed the dragon Daiyōkai, shredded his body to pieces gradually as the offensive reflective attack Inuyasha sent made it's way through. Ryūkotsusei's once adamantium hard body tore like paper and only a part of his neck and giant head remained and it fell to the ground. "What! No! I am Ryūkotsusei! I am the most powerful demon-gahhhahhhhhraraghhhh!" Inuyasha's mutated Iron Reaver Soul Stealer ripped apart the remaining of the dragon Daiyōkai.

"Geez..you just don't know when to stop talking do you?" Inuyasha huffed as he sheathed Tessaiga as the chunks of flesh that used to be a Daiyōkai slowly disintegrated into nothingness and with a single effortless jump, he landed next to his friends, two hundred feet high, who were gaping at the new development their hanyō friend gained. Slightly shaken by their gazes, Inuyasha asked gruffly, his old voice once again resurfacing. "What?" But fortunately it only snapped them to reality and did not question him immediately.

The first one to speak was Kagome. "Inu..yasha, are you okay?" And that did a one eighty on the dog demon's mood as he appeared next to her and slid his arm on her hip, his clawed hand loosely placed over her ass, much to the priestess's embarrassment as she was in a dilemma on whether to dig a hole and burry herself to escape this embarrassment or to lean into him and enjoy the affectionate gesture.

"Why are you so tense?" Inuyasha's husky voice whispered into her ears, in a way that promised so many dark fantasies for the innocent priestess. His hands slowly roamed around her back sensually and was slowly reaching around towards her bosom.

"L-lord Inuyasha?" The said person sighed in annoyance at the call of the flea.

"What is it Myōga?" He didn't snap, but was not entirely in his best mood either. Nonetheless the flea flinched.

"Maybe..you could..uh..explain what happened..to you..my Lord?" Myōga gulped, now recognizing the thickness of the blood was not just a thought and in fact Inuyasha's blood was similar to his late master.

Sighing, Inuyasha ran his free hand through his silver locks. "Hmm. Let's just say that I surpassed my old man." A small smirk lined up his features.

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"Bokusenō." Sesshomaru's emotionless voice halted the silence in the forest and caused the giant tree to open it's eyes and see the intruder. Seeing the dog Daiyōkai, the tree grew confused. Sesshomaru wasn't one to leave anything behind, and will only come to him in a decade or two, the sudden arrival after yesterday confused the tree a little.

"What brings you back to me so early, Sesshomaru?" The tree demon asked the demon lord curiously. Sesshomaru came to a stop three feet away from the tree, his face, as usual, unreadable.

"Is there anything you haven't revealed to me about my halfbreed brother?" There was no looming threat, just a simple enquiry.

"I don't understand why you ask me this now, Sesshomaru, but, as for your answer, yes, I have given you all the information about a Inu hanyō. Why do you ask? Have you found something new?" The tree too was curious, being a motionless entity, Bokusenō's only interest was in new knowledge, and soon enough it became his main purpose of living.

"Indeed. I found him in a village, a day's journey from here, he was as you told, an uncontrollable untamed demon that only lived to fight, when I found him. The reason was the same as you told, he let the Tessaiga out of his grasp and his demon blood took over..but then.." Bokusenō listened with all his attention, solely positioned to the do Daiyōkai as the latter explained newfound phenomenon that happened on the second son of the Great Dog.

"Fascinating. He was able to communicate with his demon and human halves..or as he said, one being, this a really odd thing that has happened till date. From my two thousand years of life, this is the first time I am hearing such a thing." Sesshomaru waited for the tree to absorb the information and think about a possible explanation. "Hmm. Will it be too much to ask to bring the young lord here?"

"Yes. It will be." Sesshomaru curtly replied, his face didn't waver, but his eyes flicked in annoyance, although in a really unnoticeable scale, only a demon could see it, and Bokusenō saw.

"Sesshomaru, it will be better of you to bring him here rather than waiting for my birds and fellow flora and fauna to pass the message to me." Bokusenō stated the truth and saw the demon lord turn around and walk away without a single word, but knew he will be seeing the Inu no Taisho's youngest son soon.

Jaken and A-Un stood up upon seeing their master walk back into the clearing, the latter although a little slow to get up due to the little cargo on his back that was meant to be protected. "My Lord! You came back!" Jaken had his forehead on the floor and was completely ignored, while A-Un just gave a quick bow and moved it's head to the side so that his Lord may see Rin who was snoring lightly on his back.

Sesshomaru's gaze lingered on the child for a while before he turned his head to the other direction. "We are leaving." He stated, his voice thick and smooth, leaving no space for argument..well only amongst the two demons as the tiny human girl jumped up with energy that rivaled the Daiyōkai's.

"Lord Sesshomaru! Rin's so glad you are safe my lord! And she's also sorry for not able to greet her lord!" Rin's mood suddenly changed to that of sadness at her own self disappointment.

"Well too late child! Lord Sesshomaru has already decided where we are going and is not going to tell you." Jaken, angry at the girl's behavior of talking too much scolded the already saddened one.

"Jaken.." The imp was on the ground immediately, touching his forehead repeatedly on the ground. An annoyed Sesshomaru is death for small creatures like him and bowing down seemed to be working.

"Where are we going my lord?" Seemingly in a new good mood, Rin cheerfully enquired the dog lord. Jaken was surprisingly happy that she asked the question that only she had the authority to ask and get away without being harmed.

"To see my half brother." His voice although emotionless as always, lacked the coldness and authority while answering the question. Rin seemed to be content with the answer and climbed down the herbivore and tagged directly behind Sesshomaru.

'You will not be a curiosity in my thoughts any longer, Inuyasha.' Sesshomaru confirmed himself on his new objective before walking towards Inuyasha's forest.

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After Inuyasha's explanation, the group set their journey back to Kaede's village and without any form of complaint, Inuyasha complied. "This is really strange..Inuyasha and Kagome are laughing together and Inuyasha's making jokes! Why can't we go with them?" As the Kit complained, the hanyō and the priestess were walking in the front and in between, Inuyasha will lean to Kagome's ear and say something, earning a giggle or a nudge from her.

The monk slowly reached around for the demon slayer, but. "Well Shippo, if you want I could always ask my dear-" Miroku never got to finish as he received a thick slap from her.

"What an idiot." Shippo shook his head as he walked beside Sango and Kirara.

"Mhmm Kagome..you smell nice.." The priestess blushed again as Inuyasha's hand once again travelled to her bottom. "You know..I was thinking.."

Curiously, Kagome looked up. "About what?"

"What is going to happen after we kill Naraku and complete the jewel?" The question completely froze her mind and fear began to fill her up, what if this new Inuyasha didn't want her anymore. "Will you still be here?"

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