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A portion of her felt sorry. The portion that was still sane. And yet, her resolve was like steel as she stood before him. Her face was dirty with blood and tears, but beneath it all, the blood laid a glare that could have killed. And it was focused on her brother.

Her enemy.

"Sister, do not make me hurt you" was all he said. But she couldn't hear him. All that she heard was her heartbeat throbbing in her ears as her hand reached for the Tokijin. The blade crackled as it was drawn, responding to the absolute malice in its wielder's heart.

She let it flow, all the anger, all the malice. It filled her totally in the split second that the sword was drawn. And that little portion that felt sorry vanished. All she was now was a swirling pit of anger.

She cut her hands again as she clasped the hilt, this time it was just a surface cut. Her nails were driven in to the flesh.

Finally, she stood in ready stance, with her eyes shut. From the outside it looked almost as if she were at peace. But to those who knew her, they could see she was merely focusing on the task at hand.

She began to rush at her twin; going so fast she was just a blur. Her eyes were still closed. She was using only her Hatred- it seemed like she could see even with her eyes closed.

Akaiinu dodged to the side, Careful in avoiding the attack. If he could, he wanted to end this without harming her. It didn't look like it would be easy, though.

" Kuroinu, think about what you're doing! It doesn't make sense!" he pleaded. She was unmoving. Her target had been set. She came around for another blow, and this one landed on Akaiinu's right arm. He clutched it with the other, and looked to his sister.

"I see that reasoning is useless..." he sighed. He let go of his wound, reaching for the Tetsusaiga.

The clash of the two siblings was extraordinary. Their movements were a blur. You were lucky to even see a glimpse at their battle, but you were able to hear the sound or metal against metal, and the sight of sparks flying everywhere. It seemed almost as if they were tiny fireworks and would have been beautiful, if the two dog demons weren't in battle with each other.

"This is going to take forever. Kuroinu would never stop until she has killed her prey, and I fear that prey is me." Akaiinu winched slightly. "But I don't think I can do this much longer. The wound she has inflicted on me, it's slowing me down and causing me to lose energy. I have to find a way to stop her, without killing her. If I can't, then I have no choice but to."

Akaiinu jumped back, dodging Kuroinu's attack. He jumped on a near-by tree and pushed off, causing him to gain more speed. He was aimed right towards Kuroinu. "Ever since we were little, she never blocked her chest and higher. Maybe I could knock her out." He thought to himself as he sped faster towards his sister. He turned the Tetsusaiga slightly ninety degrees so that the sword was horizontal. "I hope this works."

Kuroinu opened her eyes to see what her brother was doing. She stared intensely at him, trying to figure out what he was doing. Why was the Tetsusaiga in that position? Suddenly it came to her, she knew what he was doing and she wasn't going to fall for it. When he comes and try to attack, she'll have the upper hand. She raised the Tokijin ready for his attack.

There was a great sound of a clash that broke out and echoed through the forest. It was a though time stopped. The heavy tension in the air was unfathomable. All Akaiinu could do was stare wide-eyed. Kuroinu had a smug grin on her face.

There they stood, Kuroinu's sword blocking Akaiinu's attack, and surprisingly, her claws were deep inside of her twin's stomach. Blood slowly oozed out the corked wound. Hot pains came over the red-haired demon. It wasn't anything he couldn't take, but it was painful. Kuroinu slowly pulled her fingers out of his body. Soon the flood of blood grew more.

"Since when did you learn to block?" Akaiinu asked, as soon as he was unfazed.

"Since I realized you were turning against me." She replied.

Kuroinu pulled her sword away and jumped so that she was a good distance away from her brother.

"I'm trying to get you away from this monster that you call your love, and yet, you still don't see that he is causing you more pain than you need right now. Your little crush on him has blinded you. You're powerful in Strength, but he is even more powerful in verbally. Don't you remember when we worked for him, how cruel he was to us, how he cared for no one but himself." Akaiinu's eyes grew angry. "HOW COULD YOU ACUTALLY LOVE A PERSON WHO IS SET ON KILLING ALL OF US AND TURN AGAINST THE ONE PERSON WHO HAS ALWAYS BEEN STANDING NEXT TO YOU? HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?" He exclaimed. She stood there, silent.

There was a moment of silence until finally Kuroinu opened up her eyes; crimson orbs stared at him, the pit of hell shown inside of them. "Never talk about him like that again or that shall be the last time you ever talk again." She voice was low and deadly.

"You are unbelievable, sister. Fine if you wish to stay with your choice," his eyes were closed as he lifted the Tetsusaiga. "I have no choice but to kill him...and then you."

Kuroinu smirked. "I wouldn't have it any other way." She said and dashed towards her brother, Tokijin's sharp edge pointing straight towards him. She was almost to him, when she smelt her! She could also smell any person but had no time to think about that when a wall of Fire suddenly came their way. Luckily both demons got out of the way before it hit them. Kuroinu looked at the wall of fire. "Where did that come from?" She thought to herself. She looked into the direction in which the wall came from and gasped. "What the hell!"

A/N: Don't you just love cliffies. I felt we didn't have one in such a long time, what the heck. Please review.