Chapter 4

I don't own Inuyasha

Inuyasha drew out the Tetsusaiga and his sword clashed with the Tokijin. Sesshoumaru only used one hand while handling his sword, so he held the other up towards Inuyasha's face. Inuyasha knew what was coming. He hadn't seen Sesshoumaru really do it in a long time, but he still knew it was coming. Inochi gave him an unpleasant reminder during their fight. 'They really do resemble each other when they do that.' "So," Inuyasha said with a grunt in his voice, since he was struggling to keep Sesshoumaru from cutting him in half "how'd you get the arm back?"

"I grew it back." Sesshoumaru's hand started smoking as a green toxic gas began to surround his hand. Sesshoumaru smirked as he reached his hand forward. Inuyasha needed both hands to wield the Tetsusaiga, another reason why he wasn't fit to have it. Inuyasha jumped back before Sesshoumaru managed to touch his face. That didn't stop Sesshoumaru from coming though. Their swords kept clashing with each other and even though neither of them were struck each time, it was clear to Sesshoumaru that he was winning.

'How did his arm grow back? They don't just grow back on any kind of demon, and if it could grow back on him, then why would he try so hard to replace it at first?' When their sword clashed again, Sesshoumaru reached his free hand to strike Inuyasha with his poison and succeeded. His hand managed to punch Inuyasha in the head. Blood trickled down his head and the poison began to take effect and Inuyasha began to lose his sight. 'Darn, I can't see!' He backed away, but Sesshoumaru slashed Tokijin and a blue wave of energy hit Inuyasha and knocked him to the ground.

As Sesshoumaru took each step towards Inuyasha, he relished in the fact that his revenge was going so well. When he got to Inuyasha, he held his sword close to Inuyasha's neck. "You really are pathetic Inuyasha. I win again."

Inuyasha was angry with himself, and above all, confused. "Go ahead and kill me!"

"Indeed."

"Wait Lord Sesshoumaru!" Rin yelled running towards him. "Please don't…" Rin trailed off. He knew what she was going to ask, and whatever decision he was going to make towards Inuyasha's demise made coming into battle wasn't going to change. If he was going to kill Inuyasha from the beginning, there was nothing she could do. If he only believed that he was going to kill him and had no real intention deep inside too kill Inuyasha then he wouldn't now. It all depended on his true feelings.

Inuyasha still wanted his questions answered. "The girl said you were sick. What did she mean by that? You obviously didn't catch a cold. She had even claimed you died."

Sesshoumaru didn't mean to lose his regular composure, but he couldn't help but let a quick look of shock take over his eyes, knowing that his secret was partly revealed to his half breed nuisance. He quickly recovered, only letting it show for a half second. The only problem, Inuyasha noticed it.

'Wait a second…the girl can't be right.' "So what was the matter, Sesshoumaru?"

Sesshoumaru couldn't let him leave after that. No one was to know his secret, not that secret. "She speaks of nonsense."

As Sesshoumaru was about to finish Inuyasha off, he noticed Myouga hiding behind Inuyasha's ear, trembling. "Myouga, I'm surprised you're still here. Aren't you aware of the danger Inuyasha faces?" The green toxic smoke left his hand and he reached to pick up Myouga. Myouga would have run away, but Inuyasha had hurt him so baldly.

"What are you doing?" Inuyasha barked.

Sesshoumaru decided that he would keep Inuyasha alive for now. He didn't really know anything, but there is someone who would know. "I'm borrowing him." So Sesshoumaru spared Inuyasha and Rin's feeling for a brief moment as he walked away with Myouga tightly in his hands.

'I don't get it…' Inuyasha thought to himself. 'He didn't finish taking me out and he got Myouga. Why would he want Myouga?' Inuyasha's curiosity only had begun to rise! 'What does he know or…what doesn't he know?'

"Well" Inochi said to his advisor. He didn't know why he had one. He was so much wiser than anyone that he knew. "Explain to me why you would invite demons into this village, Kakihara, without my permission?"

"You were believed to be dead, Lord Inochi" he was practically begging for his life. Inochi would have gotten rid of him, but he was supposed to be a distant relative somehow. Inochi and Kakihara were distant cousins. Kakihara's family had always been close to Inochi and observed as he reigned the land. Kakihara had been serving for a very long time. "Master Inochi, I promise to you, this will never happen again."

"Get out of my sight" he said disgustedly.

Kakihara bowed to his Lord and walked away until he was out of the throne room. When he left, he began cursing quietly and hoped Inochi couldn't hear him. Inochi's hearing was also supposed to be unnatural. 'This is absurd. How is it possible?'

When Sesshoumaru met up with Jaken again, he commanded Jaken to stay with Rin. Sesshoumaru didn't want Rin and Jaken to hear all of the secrets that Myouga obviously had been hiding. Rin had told enough and Jaken could usually be persuaded when forced. When they were far away enough and completely alone, Sesshoumaru began to question him. "Tell me Myouga."

"Tell you what?" he asked nervously.

"It's obvious what I am going to ask of you, so stop being so pathetic. Tell me what you know." Sesshoumaru was on the border line of anger. He was right now only on the line of tolerance. "It happened again."

Suddenly, everything began to come together once Sesshoumaru had said that. Myouga knew what was going on, and he was the only one who knew why it had happened. He shared the secret with his Lord such a long time ago, when he was alive. Now Myouga had to bare the burden of the truth. Should he tell Sesshoumaru the dark secret of his past? Should he betray the words of his Lord and the promise that he had made so long ago? Did Sesshoumaru deserve to know? Yes, of course he did, but how could he tell him? How could he explain it? Myouga couldn't go back on his word. Sesshoumaru wouldn't understand it anyway. "I can't say…what happened to you Lord Sesshoumaru. I am very sorry!"

Sesshoumaru began to squeeze him tighter. "Myouga, my patience is thin. You are on the border line of death as we speak. Tell me the truth."

"I promised your father that I wouldn't tell!"

Sesshoumaru hated that answer. If Myouga held loyalties with anyone else, he would command Myouga to break them, but his father was the greatest among demons. "Myouga-"

Myouga recalled once when Sesshoumaru was a boy, just a small boy. He had always wanted great power and desired to get stronger than what he was. He worked hard every day, but he knew that if he had possession of the Tetsusaiga then he would be invincible. He admired his father sword from afar. He wasn't allowed to touch it without his father's permission, but one day, he had decided to see if he could wield it. "You shouldn't be doing this!" Myouga said nervously on Sesshoumaru's shoulder. "Your father will punish us."

"Silence Myouga" he commanded. He hadn't changed ever since he was a boy. He made commands, and expected others to follow orders. Those who didn't were killed. "If you dare speak a word of this, I'll kill you." As he entered his father's room, he saw that he wasn't in sight. His Tetsusaiga was placed in a large room only a door away from his bedroom, as big as a one house, where he kept all of his armor and weapons. The Tetsusaiga was sitting on a golden pedestal. "The Tetsusaiga" he whispered quietly as he stretched forth his hand towards it. He had desired it ever since he saw the wind scar for the first time.

Before he had gotten the chance to grasp it, his chest began to burn. He tried to ignore it and grasp the sword, but the pain began to be too much. He fell to his knees and held his chest.

"Master Sesshoumaru?" Myouga yelled. "What's the matter?"

Sesshoumaru wasn't able to answer. He had never felt such pain before. He began to lose his sight and had trouble breathing, until he couldn't breathe at all. It wasn't until a few seconds later, that he died.

"Master Sesshoumaru?" When he wouldn't answer, Myouga rushed to find his Lord. Once he had found Inutaisho, they went directly back to Sesshoumaru to confirm what Myouga had just seen, but when they had entered, Sesshoumaru just sat up. Inutaisho gave Myouga a scolding look, but Myouga pleaded with his Lord and told him that Sesshoumaru's heart had stopped.

"What happened?" asked Inutaisho.

Sesshoumaru's memory, all of it, went sketchy for a short while. He barely knew the face of his father. "I think…I think I died…"

Inutaisho had not seen any side affects from what had happened to his son from years ago until that day. He knew it had to do something with that incident, because it had happened several times after. It had never happened to any other demon before.

"Should we tell him?" Myouga asked one day.

"Tell him?" Inutaisho asked. "He shouldn't know. He wouldn't understand. He's just a boy."

Sesshoumaru had confronted his father many times after that day, even when he was older, and even though Sesshoumaru had always been mature; his father always argued that he wouldn't understand. Of course he wouldn't understand. Inutaisho didn't really understand. So Sesshoumaru lived his life without knowing the secret to his spontaneous deaths. Now only Myouga knew the secret of what happened long ago. If he were to die, then Sesshoumaru would never know. He was old enough and deserved to know what had happened long ago. "Lord Sesshoumaru, there is a village that I had just come from. Ask for Lord Inochi."

"And what will this human have to do with me?"

"He has the answers that you seek. I can't explain anything, but I believe you will know once you see." They were still close to the village and Myouga figured that Sesshoumaru would go. He was wise enough to figure it out.

Sesshoumaru still had Myouga tightly grasped in his hand. He wasn't going to let him go until all of his questions were answered. He wasn't happy with the answer Myouga had given to him.

"Ahhhhh!" Sesshoumaru heard Rin screaming, and rushed to her as fast as he could. When he had reached her, there was a snake demon about to devour her and Jaken. Sesshoumaru drew out Tokijin, but didn't even need to do that to stop the snake demon. The demon was befuddled by just the sight of Sesshoumaru. "Inochi?" he asked. He was so petrified he was practically shaking. "But you're supposed to be dead!"

Sesshoumaru had just heard that name spoken by Myouga and grew curious. He was planning on forcing Myouga to tell the answers that he had been searching for, but this was much more amusing. To go to the village would be a much better idea to see why this demon had mistaken him for a human that Myouga had just mentioned. "To mistake me for a human" he ran forward to slash the snake demon in half "is the greatest insult that one could say." He effortlessly killed the demon, and Jaken and Rin were quick to make praise.

"Nice work Lord Sesshoumaru!" Rin yelled excitedly.

"That was brilliant my Lord!" Jaken ran to him, along with Rin. "That was amazing Lord Sesshoumaru!"

"Thank you for saving me Lord Sesshoumaru."

He began to question why he let the two of them travel with him. Jaken had some use sometimes, but Rin served no purpose. Sesshoumaru could easily manage without Jaken, so why did he keep them around? Now Rin knew his secret and mentioned it to Inuyasha. That was the worst thing she possibly could have done and yet, he started walking towards the village, and allowed Rin and Jaken to follow him as always. 'Inochi? That demon mistook him for me.' Sesshoumaru realized that he had let Myouga go when he had killed the snake demon. 'That pathetic coward. Nonetheless, I will find out what's going on.'

Kakihara was shaking as he went into the closest demonic forest, the one that Sesshoumaru, Rin, Jaken, and even Inochi had passed through earlier. Many of the demons were going to strike him, until they had found out who they were. "Is that you, Kakihara?" asked one demon. It was a green ogre demon. "Lord Inochi has been killed."

"With no help from you demons! Inochi took most of you out. You only distracted him so I could finish him off." He sighed. "He didn't see me, nor does he really remember what happened when he was attacked. He does not suspect me at all."

"What do you mean suspect? He is still dead, is he not?"

"He is not dead. He has risen from the grave! I don't know how this is possible, but he has."

The demon began to become afraid. There was no human like Inochi. Inochi had progressed his territory further and was about to clear the forest of any demons. He had destroyed many demons that lived in the forest, and Kakihara decided to make a pact with the demons in a plot to destroy Inochi. Inochi proved to be too much for them, many had fallen. Kakihara was forced to enter battle and while Inochi was distracted, he stabbed him with his sword and killed him. Kakihara's only fear was that Inochi would find out what really happened that day. "We must band together once again and destroy him."

The ogre demon growled. "You must keep your end of the bargain! We did our part, now you destroy him or we'll destroy you!"

Kakihara backed away frightened. "I have an idea. There have been strangers here. I can convince them to kill Inochi. Just wait and you'll see. Inochi will be dead before the next time you see me."

"He had better be."

TO BE CONTINUED….

A/N: Plot against Inochi? I bet everyone saw that coming. Will he survive? Will he meet Sesshoumaru? Will Sesshoumaru learn the truth? REVIEW! REVIEW!