Showdown! Inuyasha Vs. Sesshoumaru!
We get a quick flashback on everything that's happened thus far, up to when Kagome drew Tetsusaiga.

Then we see Kagome looking at the sword, no doubt trying to figure everything out, while everyone stares at her.  Inuyasha notices Sesshoumaru looking at her, and tells him to look at him, trying to draw his attention.  But Sesshoumaru ignores him, and appears before a frightened Kagome.

Sesshoumaru asks her what she is and how she could draw the sword, but Inuyasha tries to get his attention again. Slightly bravened by Inuyasha's presence, Kagome threatens to cut Sesshoumaru if he comes any closer to her. 

Sesshoumaru turns to Inuyasha and declares that since Kagome was able to do what they both could not, she would have to die. Inuyasha tries to convince him otherwise, saying that she's just a human girl.  Then he tells Kagome to give the Tetsusaiga to Sesshoumaru. Kagome refuses, saying that since he couldn't pull it out, then it wasn't meant for him. They proceed to get into another arguement, only to be stopped mid-insult by Sesshoumaru, who seems to be... laughing?  (One laugh. Mostly just a 'hmph' sound.)

He then starts in on one of his speeches, talking about how Inuyasha feels for Kagome, and that his merciful emotions was something that was not inherited by the full-blood son, so it must have been Inuyasha's human mother who caused him to have such a 'weakness'.

Suddenly, he turns and sends his poison at Kagome, who tries to cover herself, only to end up being buried under the mass of melted demon bone around her.  Both brothers think she's dead, since if a demon's bone could not survive that, how could a mere human?

Inuyasha attacks Sesshoumaru, only to end up bound in Sesshoumaru's tail/furry whip thing. (I say it's a tail, got a pic to prove it! But in the anime, I guess they decided to change it...)

After flinging the hanyou to the ground, Sesshoumaru follows through with his youki whip, lashing at Inuyasha repeatedly while insulting him, finally calling him a worthless half-breed before knocking him against the wall/bones.

Inuyasha talks about a memory of his mother when he had asked her what a half-breed was, after some of the humans had called him that and teased him, laughing at him and throwing his ball across the stream.  He says that he remembered her crying, and that he now knew that it was because she knew what his life would be like.

Angry, not because of the insult to him, but to his mother, Inuyasha attacks again, this time managing to hit Sesshoumaru.  He attacks another time, declaring that it's for Kagome, actually causing the spike armor around the top of Sesshoumaru's chestplate to break and fall away. 

"All that for a memory and a dead mortal girl? If I'd've known that's what it took to make you fight, I'd've killed her sooner."

With that, Inuyasha turns away from staring at the pile of melted bone where Kagome is buried, and makes a wonderfully um... colorful threat to Sesshoumaru. But the moment he finishes his declaration, Kagome pops up from out of the dark liquid-bone goo!

NOW she has everyone's attention.  She survived what would normally kill a demon, and then stands up and starts yelling at Sesshoumaru.

"Hey you! You tried to kill me, didn't you?! Don't go thinking you're gonna get away with it, Mister!"

Inuyasha's just staring at Kagome with the FUNNIEST shocked look on his face, and she hands him the sword, telling him they underestimated it, and not to let her down.

"Hey, um, how come you're still alive?"

Sesshoumaru tells her that the sword protected her (sounding slightly awed/surprised), and is actually agreed with by Myouga. He tells Inuyasha to test the sword on Sesshoumaru, at which point the elder brother's eyes widen, and wind picks up around him.  Skulls begin to fly at Inuyasha, breaking against him with no effect.

He starts glowing faintly pink, and says that he will witness to see if a hanyou can wield Tetsusaiga.  His eyes widen slightly more, and turn blood-red, with blue pupils. Then his face begins to jut out, and he has this really messed-up grin.  Finally, his entire body turns pink, and he becomes a ball, and a streak of light, which flies around the tomb once before crashing back down to the ground.

A pink column of light shines around him, only to fade away and reveal a HUGE silvery-white DOG! Not a cute little puppy, neither.  He has red eyes, long, sharp teeth, lotsa muscles, and deadly claws.

Inuyasha calls this Sesshoumaru's 'Real Form', so we know that this is what a dog-demon looks like. We can also guess that Sesshoumaru is still not fully-grown, as they are inside their father's body, and Sesshoumaru is still small compared to it!

Anyway, Sesshoumaru barks at Inuyasha, who is certain that now that he has Tetsusaiga, he'll win easily.  He hits Sesshoumaru with it, but with no effect.

Sesshoumaru continues to attack Inuyasha, finally letting the poison drip from his mouth while Inuyasha tries to figure out what's wrong with the sword.

When Inuyasha notices the poison spreading around, he tells Kagome to climb up, away from it.  She calls down to him a few times, and he finally leaps to get away from the poisonous fumes. 

But Sesshoumaru jumps up and clamps his jaws on Inuyasha, bringing him back down the ground, basically trying to bite through him.  Inuyasha finally jabs the sword into Sesshoumaru's eye, causing him to fly up and out of the tomb.

Out in the open, on their father's shoulder, actually, Inuyasha continues to try and cut Sesshoumaru with the Tetsusaiga, but with no success.

Kagome tries to cheer him on, but Inuyasha gets annoyed with her, and says that while he'll live, she 'ain't got a chance.'  At this, Kagome asks if she should give up hope, and he turns around to see... Her crying!! Now this is a funny scene to me, merely because of all the facial expressions he uses. 

He tells her 'no crying', and she asks if she should laugh instead.  "No, you should shut up and let me protect you!" She's shocked, to say the least, and Sesshoumaru comes towards them again.  Inuyasha walks out to fight him while Kagome thinks about what happened.

"Yeah, yeah, rowr rowr to you, too, buddy."

When Inuyasha holds out Tetsusaiga, though, the sword begins to pulse, surprising Inuyasha.  Kagome starts to throw skulls at Jaken, who is telling Sesshoumaru to "bite his little head off!"

Sesshoumaru jumps into the air and lunges down at Inuyasha, who leaps up to meet him, the sword slicing easily into Sesshoumaru's left front leg/arm/paw, then cutting it off, leaving a trail of yellow light.

Inuyasha holds up Tetsusaiga and looks at the blade which is glowing yellow and smoking, saying that it looks like a fang. Then he realizes it's his father's fang.

"So here we are.  Two brothers fighting over father's sword. But compared to him, we're nothing."

Inuyasha goes on to say that while he doesn't have many memories of his father, it WAS him that the tomb was hidden in.  He yells at Sesshoumaru, saying "Maybe I'm not so worthless, then, am I?!"

At this, Sesshoumaru lunges at Inuyasha, only to be struck again by Tetsusaiga, this time in the chest.  We don't see any blood, but Sesshoumaru falls backwards, off of his father's shoulder. He turns into a ball of light and flies away, leaving Jaken behind.

Kagome asks Inuyasha if he's okay, and he chuckles, saying that maybe Tetsusaiga ISN'T such a piece of junk after all. Myouga reappears and starts the whole "I knew it all along, but you wouldn't listen to me" speech.

When Inuyasha goes to squash Myouga, the flea stops him, saying that he wasn't running away, but going to find them a ride home. Inuyasha believes him (kinda), and gives Myouga this really sweet, innocent, lovable smile and look. 

Myouga cracks under that, and says that he WAS running away, and begs forgiveness. Inuyasha, still giving him that look, picks him up and quickly changes his face to grin evilly and cruelly at the flea. (VERY scary. It's the only time he does this, that I know of.)

He then proceeds to squash Myouga, who merely says it's his lot in life.

A black hole appears in the sky and we see Inuyasha and Kagome falling from it, not really fast or anything, just floating back down to earth.  Then the hole/portal shrinks back down to a black pearl, and drops back into Inuyasha's right eye. Kagome asks how he's doing, and he says happily that he's actually pretty okay.

Later on, Kagome and Myouga are talking to Kaede, who asks how Kagome was able to draw the sword.

Myouga says that he believes that Kagome could draw the sword because she was a mortal, and the sword was forged by Inuyasha's father to protect the mortal mother, and that Inuyasha's feelings towards mortals is what enabled Tetsusaiga to transform. 

Kaede points out that while Inuyasha hates his humanity, and his feelings for his mother are tainted with shame, it's those feelings that made the father choose to hide his grave in Inuyasha's eye.  She states that "Maybe the one who most resembles the father is not Sesshoumaru, but Inuyasha."

During this discussion, Inuyasha's sitting in a tree, trying to figure out how to make Tetsusaiga transform, and is disappointed with the 'piece of junk.'

Kagome walks out to him and asks him if he wants her to tell him how to use Tetsusaiga, but then says that she'll tell him if he promises to protect her with it forever. 

He tells her that her "brain is broken or something." When she reminds him of his statement to protect her, he tells her that he didn't mean it like that, and that the sword SHOULD be used to collect jewel shards, and to make him more powerful, not to babysit "a helpless little human".

Kagome, annoyed with his attitude, pushes him out onto the middle of a wooden bridge, where he says he doesn't get it. She follows this with a "sit boy", making him plunge through the bridge and into the water below.

"Serves me right for thinking I could teach an old DOG a new trick!" "What do you mean, 'trick'? Wait! Where are you going? Come back here! You said you'd tell me how to use the sword!"
"Yeah, yeah, rowr rowr to you, too, buddy."
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"'Butt out'?! What do you know, you little -"
"You protect her, indulge her. You even seem to love her."
"You worthless half-breed!"
"Mommy? What's a 'Half-breed'?"
"She was crying. She knew how my life would be."
"I think we underestimated it."
"Tetsusaiga's pulsing."
(Right before he crushes him) "Myouga?"
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"Sit boy!"
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