InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ For The Love of An Enemy ❯ Sesshoumaru: Tetsusagia's Master ( Chapter 2 )

Sesshoumaru: Tetsusagia's Master

He was dead. His worthless hanyou half brother was in hell with his dead miko bitch. The only emotion the Lord of The Western Lands felt over the death of his sibling was a slight irritation. After having spent the better of two years fighting Inu Yasha for the Tetsusagia and trying to rid the world of his annoying presence, he had finally died, and he, Sesshoumaru, had not been the one to deal the fatal blow.

As he patrolled the borders of his land, Sesshoumaru wondered if Inu Yasha had taken the sword to Hell with him. The thought angered the lord, even in death it seemed that Inu Yasha would hold the power to destroy while he, the most feared youkai in the land, was cursed with the power to heal. Indeed to him this miraculous ability to heal and bring the dead to life was a curse, he held a deep hatred for his sword, Tenesiga. Drawing the sword from the scabbard at his waist, Sesshoumaru examined it and questioned his dead father's reasons for giving him such a sword. Why give him the power to heal when he, Sesshoumaru, craved destruction and enjoyed the kill. Why give him the power to heal when what he needed was the power to destroy and protect the Western Lands that were vast and envied among the most powerful youkai. Why give such a gift to a lowly hanyou who was neither worthy nor capable of harnessing such a power.

Again failing to find answers to the questions that plagued his mind, Sesshoumaru sheathed his sword, unable to simply discard it as he had been tempted to do so many times before. The reasons which motivated his father to give him this sword, shrouded in mystery, greatly angered him, yes, but beneath the frustration and rage Sesshoumaru was intrigued and greatly curious. He told himself that he kept the sword because he was determined to uncover the mystery, but somewhere deep inside, in a place he refused to look, he sensed there was another reason he could not part with it.

His thoughts shifting back to the Tetsusagia, Sesshoumaru contemplated the best way to discover the location of the fated fang. With his half brother dead there was only one who could bring him to it, only one who could hold it, and only one who had power over it. Her name was not important; he would not lower himself to learn the name of a mere human. But her scent he had learned to recognize through their many battles, fresh rain and flowers. He would find the wench that traveled with is brother, he would get the Tetsusagia and he would kill the girl, and as the last remaining child of his great Inu demon father, he would be its master.