Chapter 6

I don't own Inuyasha

'They shouldn't be coming to this village' thought Inochi. 'These demons have come from the demonic forest not too far away. All of the demons know that I am too strong to be taken down by the likes of them, so I wonder, exactly why have they come seeking me.' "You all should leave" Inochi instructed. "This doesn't concern you."

"You can't expect us to leave you here!" Kagome said. "We should work together. There are tons of demons on the way!"

"I can take care of myself" Inochi said clutching on to his sword tightly. "I don't need anyone's assistance. I especially don't need any help from any sort of demon blood, no matter if it is just half. Nor do I intend on accepting the help from any creatures that would lower their standards enough to actually travel with the presence of demons."

"Well that was rude!" Kagome yelled. "We're just trying to help you!"

"Let him do what he wishes" Inuyasha said. "If he can battle on Sesshoumaru and me and hold his own for a few minutes, then I'm guessing he's not bluffing when he says he can take care of himself, especially when he's been doing a bang up job for the last five hundred years or so." Inuyasha crossed his arms. "You kill all the demons on your own if you wish. I won't interfere, but I will not be leaving any time soon. You've got answers, and I've got questions, and someone had better answer them."

"I have no answers to give you, half breed. If I had answers, then I wouldn't need you around to answer my questions. You had better leave. I am quite bored with your petty existence."

"How pleasant" Shippo said with sarcasm.

"There is one person who should have all the answers" Inuyasha said "and that's Myouga, Myouga the flea."

"Myouga?" Inochi questioned. 'Yes, I suppose that it would make sense. He has known me for longer than what I can remember.' He began to remember when he was a little boy, when he was hunting a demon.

"Master Inochi" Myouga said to Inochi as he was on his shoulder, watching the boy as he was stalking a small black demon cat. "What are you doing?"

Inochi was seven years old at the time. His appearance wasn't that much different, besides the fact that he was a little boy, and his hair was shorter. "Watch and learn, Myouga!" Inochi finally caught it. It looked so helpless. "You might want to jump off for but a moment." Myouga obeyed him. He knew not to question his master's methods. It was a good thing that Myouga jumped off, for a powerful spiritual aura surrounded Inochi and he reached forth his hand toward the small cat demon, and when his hand touched it, it slowly began to burn away. "These demons really are pathetic. I wish they'd learn not to come near our village."

Myouga was mortified at the boy's behavior, as well as shocked by his power. "You certainly are amazing, Master Inochi."

Inochi pulled his hand away, and the cat demon was dead, burned alive by Inochi's powers. Its body was still sizzling. "Yes, I know." His aura disappeared. "Alright, you may jump back on my shoulder, if you wish."

"Yes, Master Inochi." Inochi walked out of his village to a little garden, behind the village. Under a tree was a tombstone and Inochi got on his knees to rest his body right in front of it. "This is all I know of her, Myouga."

Myouga placed his head down in sorrow, remembering how she died. It was rather a tragic tale. "Yes, your father was quite heartbroken when it all happened."

Inochi tried to hide his emotions. "I heard she was beautiful."

"Beyond all compare! She was the most beautiful woman that your father had ever seen and his whole view of the world changed when he saw her."

"How interesting" Inochi studied her tombstone. "Myouga-"

"Master Inochi, do you know how your mother died?"

Inochi nodded. "My uncle told me the tale of her death, and I'd prefer not to review it again, Myouga, so please hold your tongue."

Myouga nodded his head. "Yes, Master Inochi."

Inochi grunted as forgot about the past and he saw the approaching demons. 'Myouga knows much of my past, probably even more than myself, besides all the times that he disappears. I wonder where that little flea is.' As the demons got closer, he knew it was time to strike. "Watch closely half demon. This is how all of your kind should be dealt with." He swung his sword forward, and a yellow energy shot up to the sky and devoured the demons, just like Inuyasha's wind scar. Instantly, one hundred demons were gone, but there were far more than one hundred, so he continuously attacked the demons, again, and again, and again, until they were gone. "They should know not to mess with me."

'What is that?' Inuyasha asked himself mentally. 'How is it possible that he has an attack like my wind scar?'

"Lord Sesshoumaru!" Rin screamed as demons flew from the sky towards her and Jaken. Ah-Un began blasting and so did Jaken, but there were far too many. She let out another scream and closed her eyes, but when she opened them, she heard the demons cry out in pain and saw her Lord standing before her with the Tokijin in his hand. "Lord Sesshoumaru, you saved me!"

"These demons were on their way to see Inochi. They were attempting to destroy him." Inochi was a mystery indeed. "Hmm…" 'Inochi is so strange already. The truth is though; there is no demon that would have the power to kill him, besides myself.'

"Will Inochi be alright?" Rin asked, full of concern. "Well, will he be, Lord Sesshoumaru?"

"If anyone is to kill Inochi, it will be me, and no other."

That wasn't what Rin was looking for, but she at least knew that Inochi was going to be safe. 'I don't want him to die. I don't want anyone I care about to die. He was so nice to me and saved me. He was just like Lord Sesshoumaru. I couldn't bear to see him die.' "Lord Sesshoumaru" Rin said. "I am hungry, may I go and seek food."

Sesshoumaru gave her a slight nod. "Do as you wish." Rin happily walked away humming a song. "Jaken, I want you to accompany her. I have business to attend to."

"Business, such as what, my Lord?"

'Inochi bares such a strong resemblance to me, and yet he is a mortal, a full blooded mortal. There must be a reason to this madness. There must be a connection, no matter how repulsive the thought of it is. I must find out how.' "I must seek out Myouga." 'He is the only one who knows the truth.'

"So where are we going?" Kagome asked Inuyasha, who seemed like he was in a great hurry. He had decided to leave Inochi's village and started looking for Myouga diligently. He needed to get the answers somehow.

"We need to find Myouga. He's the only one who knows the truth about Sesshoumaru and Inochi. If we find him, then he can tell us."

"But how do you find a flea?" asked Sango. "He's too small to just go out searching for, Inuyasha. We'll never find him."

"I agree" said Miroku. "He'll eventually come to us, once all the danger leaves."

"Then I suppose that we had better get to a safer place" Inuyasha said. "And maybe a place with women."

Miroku smiled. "I agree!"

Sango slapped him in the face. "You pervert! We want to find Myouga, not a woman for you to ask to bare your children!"

He took her arms and said "Yes Sango, you are right. Do not fear, for there is only one woman in this world, who is fit to bare my children." He stroked her hands over and over again, which led to another slapping.

"Get your head out of the clouds Miroku!"

"Idiot" Shippo said under his breath.

"Come on, let's search on for Myouga."

Inochi and Bijin were heading back to the village. He didn't really like saying anything to her, so he didn't. Instead, she was the first to respond. "Lord Inochi, I was wondering, why did you spare my life in the castle? I had believed before that in any other situation that you would…well that you would kill half breeds. You don't really take kind to anything that's not human. You don't even respect the gods."

"Gods you say?" He let out a sort lived chuckle. "Don't tell me that you believe that they are what they say. Why should they be worshiped when some demons, such as the one I just fought has just as much power? If people can worship gods, then they certainly could worship me for my greatness. I am after all the most powerful man in the world."

"I understand, but it still doesn't quite answer my question."

"Would you rather have me kill you now then?"

"No my Lord, it's just that-"

"Then silence yourself before I do kill you, and don't think that I won't either." She then silenced herself like he said. She didn't want him to kill her on the way back to the village. "Go back alone to your home" he said to her. "I am going to my castle, and I don't have time to keep protecting you, nor do I intend on doing so. You must fend for yourself."

She hesitantly nodded. "Alright, Lord Inochi, I shall try."

"I have unfinished business that I must attend to, and don't speak to anyone the things you have seen, or your life shall be short lived."

She nodded worriedly. 'Please stay safe, Lord Inochi. I don't want you to get hurt.'

'I must find Myouga, the flea.'

'This is where I left him' thought Sesshoumaru as he looked around. Myouga was nowhere in sight. 'He couldn't have gotten far. He was beaten up more than usual. He probably won't show up though. He doesn't like danger.' He grunted. Everything was beginning to get out of hand. If only his father would have told him years ago. 'Father, why is it that I die? Am I not immortal like all other demons? I am revived, but my death is unnatural. What is the matter with me?'

"What are you doing?" Kagome asked Inuyasha.

Inuyasha had just bit himself and was smirking while the blood began to pour out of his index finger. "What's the best way to catch a blood sucking flea?"

"Oh I get it" Kagome said.

"You bait it with blood, and not just any blood. According to him, the most delicious blood that there is, the blood inherited from my father. He always says stuff about how he loved the taste of my old man's. Now he's always after mine. Just wait. Sooner or later, he'll show up."

Inochi was in the dinning room, waiting for a meal to be served. Before he left his home to search for Inuyasha, he wanted to make sure he ate properly, for he was probably not going to return for a long time. 'I must find this Inuyasha. If I catch up with that Inuyasha' Inochi told himself 'then perhaps I shall have a better chance of finding Myouga. When I last found Myouga, he was with Inuyasha, strangely enough. I do wonder what that little flea has been doing all of this time while I've been busy ruling. Why does he know Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru? This isn't a coincidence.' He probably shouldn't have headed back home, but he had a bad feeling.

Unknown to Lord Inochi, Kakihara had not left the castle, and was planning on leaving after he left a present with his dear Lord Inochi. 'He'll pay. There's no way he can survive this.' He smirked to himself. 'Goodbye Lord Inochi' he thought as he prepared his tea.

'I must calm myself' he closed his eyes and tried to clear his mind. 'Yes, I must clear my head. There are so many questions rising because of that demon Sesshoumaru that I have not been able to even realize the truth of him. He looks exactly like me, but there is no possible way he can be my kin, so what is the relation, if there even is one at all?'

"Here you are, Lord Inochi" said one servant girl as she sat down his tea in front of him, while other's sat down more food in front of him.

"Leave" he told them, once they were done setting down all of the food. 'I will find out your secret, Sesshoumaru.'

"Ah ha!" A loud slap, louder than any slap against Myouga ever before, was heard echoing through the valley.

"Why?" he asked weakly. "Why Master Inuyasha?" his body was completely flattened by the slap and he began to fall to the ground, but Inuyasha picked him before he made contact. Myouga popped back into place.

"I knew it was all a matter of time before you showed up, Myouga. You love the taste of my blood."

"You shouldn't set traps for me, Master Inuyasha!"

"And you shouldn't be running away to all these places! We got questions to ask you, and you had better tell us, before I get really pissed off." Myouga began sweating. "Now I've got your attention. Good. Let's begin with a simple question. Alright, who is Inochi?" Myouga shrugged his shoulders and Inuyasha began squeezing Myouga.

"Hey, that's not very nice!" Kagome yelled.

"You're supposed to respect your elders" Shippo said.

"Ah, shut up! He's going to tell me what's going on, and that's it. I'm not going on anymore wild goose chases, nor am I going to have the patience to put up with hundreds of stupid riddles. I just want to know the truth." He loosened the grip on Myouga. "Mind explaining now?"

Myouga frowned. "Master Inuyasha…Lord Inochi is just a simple man with unique spiritual powers. To demons, he is known as a demon slayer, but to humans, he is known as their king. There is nothing more than that to say."

"How long have you known him?" When Inuyasha began to squeeze more, Myouga began to confess.

"I have known Lord Inochi ever since he was child. Other than that, I can't tell you much" he confessed. "Inochi was always an unusual child. I just decided to watch him from time to time."

"Why?" Inuyasha asked.

He didn't want to say anymore. He couldn't say anymore. If he did, he was a goner. 'Lord Inutashio, I could never betray you. I could never tell the secrets of what happened long ago.' Myouga recalled a time, very long ago when Inochi was just a small child when he was at Inochi's mother's grave sight...

"Excuse me, Master Inochi!" Myouga hopped away as far as he could, until he reached his destination. Far away in the demon's forest, there was his Lord waiting for him. "How are you doing my Lord?"

"Please spare me the introduction and explain how he's doing."

"Just fine my Lord!" He jumped on Inutashio's face and began sucking blood away. It was always delicious. He had never tasted blood so good. It wasn't long until Inutashio became angry and slapped Myouga.

"Give me a report Myouga."

Myouga popped back into place. "Yes my Lord. Inochi is doing well. His spiritual powers are very strong, unlike any other human that I've seen before."

"Interesting…" he looked saddened. "His mother would be proud if she was..."

"Lord Inutashio, it isn't your fault! Stop thinking that it is! You did nothing wrong. You've got to quit blaming yourself." Myouga felt bad for his Lord, since he believed that the death of Inochi's mother was his fault. "Lord Inutashio, Inochi's spiritual power is far greater than that of his mother's. Even though his mother was a priestess, she still wasn't as strong as Inochi's great power. They are completely different. His power is incomparable, and he's just a boy."

"What about that priestess, Priestess Midoriko who trained her? Is Inochi's power greater than hers?"

"I believe so my Lord. Inochi will probably grow to be the strongest human in the face of the whole entire world."

"I see."

Myouga sighed. "You've been watching him from afar. Why can't we reveal the truth to them about what happened many years ago? Don't they deserve to know the truth, Lord Inutashio? Shouldn't they know the truth about what happened?"

"They wouldn't understand."

"Master Sesshoumaru and Master Inochi are-" Myouga was slapped again.

"We shall speak of it no more. What's done is done, and it's probably for the best, Myouga. It's especially better that Inochi doesn't know the truth about me, or about what happened long ago."

"Yes my Lord."

Myouga put his head down. He couldn't betray his Lord's trust, even though he had been dead for many years. "Master Inuyasha, I am afraid that I made a promise to your father many years ago that I would not reveal the secret of Lord Inochi and that of Lord Sesshoumaru."

'He's coming.' "I knew it!" Inuyasha yelled. "I knew my father was hiding something. Now tell me the truth Myouga. It's important."

"I hear a horse" Sango said. They turned around and Inochi was coming.

"My loyalty to your father outweighs the loyalty I have towards you Master Inuyasha. I am sorry, but I cannot tell you the truth of Inochi!" Myouga yelled just loud enough for him to hear him.

"Tell me" Inochi said, stopping his horse right in front of them. "Tell me now, or die."

To be continued….

A/N: Will he learn the truth next chapter? I hope so! Review!