Well... at least that means they're not trying to kill Inuyasha anymore??

"Master Inuyasha!" says Myoga, hopping from her and back to him. "Hurry and enter the portal before it closes! Lord Sesshomaru intends to take sole possession of your father's treasure!"

"You think I care about the treasure?" he says, picking himself up.

"But it's your birthright, Master Inuyasha! Please don't give it up!"

"Shut up, Myoga!" He'd like to death-glare the flea but the flea is, alas, on his shoulder. "I'm going through to go kill Sesshomaru!"

He'll spare a glance for Kagome. "Kagome, it's too dangerous, so you'll need to stay behind."

"Oh, yeah, I'll just stay here, alone, in the inescapable nightmare wasteland, and wait for you to get yourself killed," she snaps, which she's pretty sure is not what she meant to say at all. " - if you're going, then I'm going."

"Fine!"

Then he'll grab her and CHAAAAAAARGE!

- okay, you know what, this is better, this is better than having to actually work up the courage to charge through the portal behind him before it closes.

And on the other side of the portal is....?

A vast, sweeping expanse of desolate bone and rock and sand! Giant vultures (skeletal except for their wings, but large enough to carry a person) fly around, crying their unearthly cries.

The main visible thing is the skeletal corpse of a gigantic approximately-humanoid monster with fangs and a canine skull, about the size of a mountain but wearing ancient samurai armor sized to fit it. There's plants, growing on the corpse.

They are presently in midair.

(Inuyasha will, as if all this is perfectly normal, land on a vulture and allow it to carry them onwards.)

"Father..."

You know, it's really very disrespectful, but other than the awe - and there is awe - Kagome is mostly wondering how something that size produces a baby with a human. She'll just go ahead and accept that she's never going to ask that one.

If she survives, she will maybe ask Myoga how you hide your mountain-sized corpse and a bunch of skeletal vultures inside a pearl inside your son's eye. There really seem like there should be logistical problems there on multiple fronts.

"Your father's treasured sword will be inside. Whether you want it or not, that is what Lord Sesshomaru will be after."

"Well, then I guess I know where to find him."

... And, as they glide into the great skeleton of the demon dog (the ground beneath them is made up of the bones and rotted armor of thousands or hundreds of thousands of warriors, and the grounds outside are overgrown with dry trees), they see an ornate pedestal with, embedded into it, a...

... battered old katana. The sword is notched, the tsuba dirty, and the grip has started to give. There's also a scabbard that looks sized to fit (and otherwise fairly unremarkable) resting in front of it on the pedastal.

Sesshomaru is standing on the pedastal, looking at his hand (which a keen eye might notice is slightly... on fire... though the flames flicker and disappear as soon as they arrive), and Jaken is lurking by his master's side with the staff.

She's gonna hang out on one of these ribs. That seems safer than heading all the way down to the ground, such as it is, with Sesshomaru.

"I'm gonna hang back like with Yura, okay? Good luck."

Inuyasha is too distracted by MURDERING HIS BROTHER to have a comment about this more complicated than "Mmm," but he'll dump her before he gets to work.

"SESSHOMARU! THIS FIGHT'S NOT OVER YET!"

Sesshomaru will dodge.

"What is it, Inuyasha? Come to dig your own grave, or -" a miniscule change of expression "- have you too come to try for our father's steel fang?"

"You couldn't pull the Tetsusaiga out, could you, Lord Sesshomaru," says Myoga, from Inuyasha's shoulder. 

"Master Inuyasha, please draw out the Tetsusaiga. The fact that the grave was entrusted to you is proof that it was intended only for you."

"What do I care about some rusted hunk of metal?"

He glares. "Sesshomaru!"

He rushes straight at his brother. "I'm sick of you walking all over me like you think I'm dirt!"

This is not exactly more accurate than it was last time, though it does hit the bone walls hard enough to crack them.

"Your blows are wild, brother."

"I'LL KILL YOU!"