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Chapter 8

I own an Inuyasha plushy! But I unfortunately do not own the show.

"What do you mean?" Inuyasha asked. It's not that he didn't hear, but he wasn't sure that he understood what exactly he was asking. He heard the words loud and clear, with the super hearing and all, but why would he ask something so stupid? Surely his memory couldn't be lost. That was impossible. "Are you telling me that you don't remember who you are?"

"Why else would I be asking, you insolent fool?"

That didn't sit too well with Inuyasha and he immediately began growling. "Well, it certainly does seem like you remember who you are. You act the same."

Myouga began yelling in Inuyasha's ear. "You had best get away, Master Inuyasha!"

"For what?" he asked Myouga. "He's no threat to me and I still want to know how this happened!"

"Now that Lord Sesshoumaru has died and been reborn, he has become twice as strong as before! Every time it occurs, his power increases. You'll be no match for him, and once his memory returns, he'll want to destroy you for knowing his secret!"

"For knowing his secret? I don't know anything! You haven't told me why any of this has happened."

Sesshoumaru stood to his feet and began to observe everything and everyone around him. He paid close attention to Myouga and Inuyasha arguing about him apparently. He also observed the barely moving man on the ground. 'A human. I am surrounded by humans and a half breed.' Slowly things began to come back to him…

Inochi slowly began to sit up, and he couldn't remember who he was at all. He just had the feeling that he had somehow died, like when he first met Rin, not that he could remember that anyway. Somehow, something was wrong. 'Who are these people? Why am I surrounded by demons?' He was cautious of Sesshoumaru standing in front of him and the other demons, but he knew that Inuyasha was a half demon. 'I must be in danger.' He slowly stood to his feet, but he was much weaker than Sesshoumaru. He couldn't heal himself as fast as Sesshoumaru could, even though they shared so many other similarities.

"Can you remember anything?" Miroku asked Inochi.

Inochi thought about avoiding his question, but it was obvious that Miroku was a monk, so he answered him. "I cannot remember anything. I am not sure who I am."

"They've both lost their memory?" Inuyasha asked. He then suddenly felt his stomach being slashed and fell to the ground before he could even realize what happened. "What just…?" he looked above him, and there was an angry Sesshoumaru, whose memory had quickly returned to him. Inochi's might have taken longer, but Sesshoumaru was after all a demon, and a powerful one at that. "Alright, you've got some things to explain!" Inuyasha held his bleeding gut. He couldn't believe Sesshoumaru got him so well after being so injured.

"You must flee!" yelled Myouga.

"I want some answers!"

"You may seek answers, but to think that you will actually succeed in finding them out from me is rather irrational, Inuyasha!" He didn't raise his voice, but everyone knew that he was angry. There was an undeniable fierceness in his eyes, unlike what anyone had ever seen before. He was going to kill every single last one of them, starting with Inuyasha, and nothing could stop him from succeeding. "You will perish this day, Inuyasha."

"And for what? All because I found out that you have some kind of a connection to a mortal?" He stood to his feet, even though he was wounded and in severe pain. "Come on, Sesshoumaru! You might as well confess everything now. I don't think it's a coincidence that the mortal died and then you did. So, what's the connection? What is it? Well Sesshoumaru, tell-" He was silenced when Sesshoumaru's light whip hit him and knocked him back. "Stop avoiding me!" Sesshoumaru continued hitting him over and over.

"I have nothing to say to you, Inuyasha. You do not deserve to have an audience with me. Do not attempt to forget your station, Inuyasha. You are a worthless half breed, and your friends are weak mortals. To gaze upon the knowledge that you have, is too much a weight to bear. For this, you shall die!" He continued to hit him over and over again, until Inuyasha was knocked off his feet. "Perish!"

"Don't do it!" Kagome yelled. "Please don't do it, Sesshoumaru! He didn't mean to stumble on your secret!" Kagome knew she was lying and considered rephrasing her words. "Well, he was curious, but none of us would say anything of it, honestly. Besides, we don't really know anything at all. We just-"

"Do you think that only Inuyasha will die this day? All of you will, including that mortal, Inochi."

'Inochi?' he asked himself. 'Inochi is my name. Why does he seek to kill me?'

Inuyasha got back on his feet and unsheathed the Tetsusaiga. "You're not touching Kagome or any of my friends. You'll have to get through me first!"

"Right through you?" Sesshoumaru moved quicker than what anyone could see and the next time Inuyasha could see Sesshoumaru clearly, Sesshoumaru forced his hand right through Inuyasha's stomach. Inuyasha let out a cry of pain and he stumbled back when Sesshoumaru retrieved his hand. Sesshoumaru hit Inuyasha with his light whip again and knocked him down. "Now little brother, it is time for you to die." Right before Sesshoumaru could give Inuyasha the finishing blow, he felt an arrow fly right past his cheek. He turned around to see that it was the mortal girl Kagome that Inuyasha was so fond of.

"Leave Inuyasha alone, or next time I won't miss!" It wasn't just Kagome, who was ready to fight, but Kirara had transformed, Sango was ready to fire her weapon, and Miroku was ready to open his wind tunnel. The only ones not ready to fight was Shippo, who was terrified of the situation, Myouga, who was hiding on Shippo's shoulder, and Inochi who still didn't understand who he was still, or what was going on.

"You are all going to die; I have no problem executing all of you at once." His left hand started to glow as a green smoke began to surround it. "Let your futile attempt to survive begin." Kagome was going to shoot an arrow, but Sesshoumaru moved quicker than what she could shoot.

"Where'd he go…?" Kagome squealed a little when she felt Sesshoumaru behind her.

"Are you looking for me, mortal?" Kirara wouldn't let Kagome be hurt though. Kirara quickly ran to Sesshoumaru and tried to sink her fangs into him, but he clawed her before she could claw him, and Kirara was instantly badly poisoned.

"Kirara!" Sango yelled.

Inuyasha struggled to get back on his feet. "Sesshoumaru, leave them out of this, or I swear I'll make you wish you were still dead!"

"Inuyasha" a very powerful aura began to surround Sesshoumaru and a mighty pinkish rush of wind began to surround Sesshoumaru. "Do you actually believe that you can stand a chance against me, when you can barely stand?"

'He's got a point, even though I'd hate to admit it. Things are starting to go blurry. I'm going to eventually black out.' Sango was holding Kirara, who had transformed back to her normal state. Kirara was officially out of the fight. "You guys get out of here" Inuyasha commanded. "I'll handle this. You'll only be killed."

"No!" Kagome surprisingly yelled. "Hey, he's trying to kill all of us, and especially you! I'm not going to abandon you! We're in this together!"

"Stop being so stupid Kagome and just leave!" Sesshoumaru's eye's widened and his facial features began to become dog like. His eyes became red and the purple marks on his cheeks began to widen. "You can try that again Sesshoumaru and I swear I'll chop off another arm!" Inuyasha held his Tetsusaiga fully transformed, but in reality, he probably didn't have the strength to take Sesshoumaru down again. "Let's go!" Sesshoumaru flew up into the air completely consumed by the pink wind that surrounded him. "Here he comes." Myouga was shaking, knowing what was coming. When Sesshoumaru landed, the aura disappeared and he emerged a great dog demon with toxins dripping out from his mouth. He was so large that Inuyasha barely went up to Sesshoumaru's knees. Sesshoumaru's eyes were red and the purple markings on his cheeks had wrapped around his mouth. His ears were large and floppy and his aura had increased greatly.

"Ahh!" Shippo jumped on Miroku's back. "How are we gonna defeat him now?"

"Inuyasha cut off his arm when he was in this form" Kagome said with a smile. "He may be big, but he's not as fast as before." Sesshoumaru began barking and even with Kagome's words, everyone started to lose confidence. "Then again, Sesshoumaru really underestimated Inuyasha. He didn't know he could use the Tetsusaiga." 'Sesshoumaru admitted that he usually went easy on Inuyasha. Maybe his intentions were never truly to kill Inuyasha, and he's always been toying with us. He seems pretty serious about killing us now.' "This looks bad."

'Oh great' Inuyasha thought sarcastically. 'At least he's slower than before now maybe I can finish him off faster.' "You're not going to kill anyone today. The only one who's going to die is you!"

Inochi was watching the battle trying to remember who he was. 'That demon said that he would kill me. Should I help those people? Can I?' He looked at his hands and just somehow knew that he had the power to stop the demon. 'Then what should I do?'

Rin was laying on Ah-Un, waiting for her Lord to return. Jaken was waiting impatiently. Rin could hum happily to herself and wait, but she didn't understand to the full extent of what was going on. 'What if someone found out Lord Sesshoumaru's secret? Rin now knows and she has a big mouth. She never shuts up.' Jaken and Rin were able to pick up the sound of Sesshoumaru barking. He made the very ground beneath them shake.

"What's that Master Jaken?"

Jaken's mouth dropped slightly. "Lord Sesshoumaru must be fighting in his true form! It's a glorious sight to see! I have to see the battle at hand!" Jaken began to run off without Rin.

"Wait for me Master Jaken!" Rin yelled.

"Let's go Sesshoumaru!" Inuyasha still had the strength for the wind scar. It wouldn't be a very powerful hit, nor would it probably be direct, but there was little he could do. "Have a taste of my wind scar!" Inuyasha was able to successfully use the wind scar, but Sesshoumaru was much faster than what Inuyasha could remember and before Inuyasha could realize that he missed, Sesshoumaru had jumped behind Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru smacked Inuyasha with his paw. Inuyasha was hurt from it, and had already lost so much blood that he was feeling dizzy. 'Man, he's much faster than before. I don't get it.'

"We've got to stay away from the poison" Kagome said "his drool could melt right through your bones."

"It shouldn't affect my wind tunnel, should it?" Miroku asked.

"I'm not sure" Kagome said. "I wouldn't risk it. Myouga said that Sesshoumaru is stronger than before. His poison is probably more effective as well."

Sesshoumaru began walking over to Inuyasha. The ground shook every time his paw hit the ground. "If Sesshoumaru is this big" Sango said "then can you imagine how large Inuyasha's father must have been?" Sango rubbed Kirara gently. 'Poor Kirara.' "You had better not risk it, Miroku."

Sesshoumaru was walking over to Inuyasha to finish him off, but Kagome prepared to fire one of her sacred arrows. "Leave him alone!" Kagome yelled. "One step closer and I'll shoot!" Kagome yelled. With Sesshoumaru's large and floppy dog ears, he could obviously hear, but he wasn't listening. He didn't care. "Alright, you left me no choice!" Kagome let go of her arrow, but just as she did, a demon aura surrounded Sesshoumaru like a giant barrier. When her arrow approached, it was thrown off its course by the aura's power and her arrow missed him. "How'd he do that?"

"Kagome's arrows have never failed to do harm to any demon. Even the most powerful ones" Miroku stated. "I fear that we can't stop him, not if he can generate so much power at once like that."

"So are we all gonna die?" Shippo tried to be strong, but he started to cry. "Oh, why did that Inuyasha have to be so curious? This is all his fault!"

"Don't say such things" Sango said. "Sesshoumaru is formidable, but we slay demons all of the time. We can do this!" Sesshoumaru reached his destination and Inuyasha couldn't move. He couldn't get up to fight. Sesshoumaru placed one of his paws on top of Inuyasha and began to crush him with pleasure. Inuyasha began to scream, and that's when Sango decided that she had enough. "Hold Kirara" she handed her to Miroku and Sango began to twirl her weapon. "I'm not going to let you kill Inuyasha!" She threw it as hard as she could, hoping that it would stop him somehow. Sesshoumaru however wasn't going to be defeated so easily and caught her boomerang with his mouth as if it was a Frisbee. "No way!"

"Well, he'd win at a dog show" Kagome tried to lighten the mood, only because she was so shocked. A full realization of how doomed they all were came to mind when he crushed it with his fangs. He opened his mouth and let the pieces fall.

"Not my Hiraikotsu!" she dropped to her knees. "But…that's impossible. It's killed countless of demons and Sesshoumaru just made it his chew toy."

"Myouga, do you have any bright ideas?" Miroku asked, but Myouga was no longer on Shippo. "He ran away."

'This demon will slaughter all of them, and he will then attempt to take my life.' Inochi slapped his face, feeling Myouga beginning to suck his blood. "What are you doing?" Myouga fell gently back into the palm of Inochi's hand. "Who are you?"

"There is no time to explain all of that. Just listen to me Inochi. Your memory will be restored, just as always. Your memory just takes longer than that of Lord Sesshoumaru."

"How do you know these things?"

"Just promise me that you'll look behind your mother's tombstone!"

"I don't even know who she is, or where she's buried!"

"You'll remember everything in a while. Just give it time." Myouga jumped out of his hand, and out of sight. "Where did you go?"

Sesshoumaru began squeezing Inuyasha with his paw until his claws began to cut into his body. Inuyasha was completely defenseless and he had dropped the Tetsusaiga, not that he could use it in that position anyway. 'He's going to rip my whole body apart if I don't do something quick.' Sesshoumaru was completely enjoying tutoring his little brother. He shouldn't have been so nosey. Some of Sesshoumaru's drool began to drip onto Inuyasha's shoulder, and he cried out in pain as it began to burn his body.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled. "Hold on!" Kagome began to run to Inuyasha, not knowing what else to do. An arrow from far away wouldn't work. She had to get closer. 'I'm not going to let you die. I won't let you die!' She ran to Inuyasha in a panic. She had to stop Sesshoumaru somehow. She ran in front of Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha, thinking that she could get a better shot at them. "Alright, let him go!" Kagome's vision had begun to blur. The poison started to get to her and she had only been exposed for a few seconds. Miroku and Sango began to feel the affects of it as well, and Kagome collapsed to the ground. "I'm sorry, Inuyasha." She lost consciousness and it wasn't long until Miroku and Sango couldn't stand.

'What can I do?' "Stop this, Sesshoumaru!"

Sesshoumaru continued barking at Inuyasha. He was about to end all of it for him, and it would be sweet. Inuyasha was a bloody mess, just like Sesshoumaru wanted. No one could know the secret and live.

'What should I do?' Inochi stretched his hands forward towards Sesshoumaru's direction. 'I can stop him. I know that I can, somehow.' Inochi's spiritual power began to surround him. "I won't let you get away with this, dog demon!" A white bright light began to shoot out of his hands until it reached Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru sounded like any other dog when it was struck out in pain. The attack was powerful enough to knock Sesshoumaru off of Inuyasha. 'I've got to get to them.' Inochi whence, feeling a fire on his left side. 'I'm not on fire. How come I'm burning?' He didn't let it plague his mind for too long. He began to run to Inuyasha, just as Sesshoumaru began to get up. 'I've got to stop him. I've got to stop him!' He was luckily able to get to Inuyasha before Sesshoumaru could, but just as Sesshoumaru was jumping in the air, ready to pounce on Inochi and Inuyasha, Inochi held his hands up in the air and made a barrier with his spiritual power. When Sesshoumaru hit it, it started to electrocute him, but he was determined not to let them go. "I can't hold it for very long!"

Even though Inuyasha was almost dead, he was able to make out the burn marks on Inochi's hands. 'Why is it that they affect each other? What's the connection? What is my old man hiding?' "Just hold on" Inuyasha told him weakly, but with confidence "he's not stronger than you. If he can last than so can you.'

Inochi found comfort in his words. 'I fear that we are both about to be done in.'

"SSSSSSSSSSSSTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP IT!" Sesshoumaru cried out in pain, hearing something screaming in his ear. There was literally something inside of it. "Lord Sesshoumaru" Myouga yelled. "If you kill Lord Inochi, then you too will die!"

With that warning, Sesshoumaru jumped off of the barrier, and Inochi struggled not to pass out. A trickle of blood came from out his nose. 'What should I do? I can't stop him like this.' Inochi was almost tapped out or energy and Inuyasha had just passed out. Kagome had passed out, and so had Miroku and Sango. Shippo was going to faint pretty soon as well.

Although killing Inochi was now not an option, killing Inuyasha was still fresh on Sesshoumaru's mind. He growled as he prepared himself for the finish.

"Don't touch that Rin! Get away!"

The sound was unmistakable. 'Jaken?'

"What is it Master Jaken?"

"Rin get away!"

The thought of killing Inuyasha and all of his companions left Sesshoumaru's mind. Rin wouldn't survive his poisonous gases, if she inhaled. The same aura that surrounded him once before returned and consumed him until he was once again in his hidden state, the one that almost resembled a mortal. He ran to Rin as fast as he could and grabbed her before any of the poisons could enter her body. Everything had happened so fast that Rin didn't even realize that Sesshoumaru had picked her up until he put her down, right where they had made camp. "Lord Sesshoumaru?" She asked. He looked pretty angry. It was often that Sesshoumaru looked at people with the look of I'm gong to kill you but it might have been towards her and Jaken. "Uh…I'm sorry…" She was quick to find an excuse. "It was Master Jaken's fault!"

If Jaken was in sight, then Sesshoumaru would have struck him, but Sesshoumaru had forgotten about him, so Jaken was probably still trying to catch up to them. Sesshoumaru stood up straight and tried to contain his anger, but luck had been on Inuyasha's side, and Rin and Jaken had just happened to be there. 'Why do I even bother?' Sesshoumaru pulled Myouga from off his ear. "And here I thought you fled from Inuyasha."

"I had to warn you." He was horrified. 'Sesshoumaru will surely kill me now.' "If you would have killed Inochi then-"

"I would have died, but why?"

"Not only that" Myouga said "you wouldn't be resurrected."

'I would not be resurrected?' He was going to question him further, but Myouga possibly might have been trying to draw time for Inuyasha. "Make no mistake, Myouga. We will finish this conversation, after Inuyasha is dead."

"Lord Inochi?" Many demons slayers came riding on horses to Inochi. Inochi did not remember their faces, but he was beginning to remember his home. "Are you alright?" one of them asked.

"Don't just help me. Get everyone. Help all of them, even the demons." They were surprised by the orders, but they obeyed. "Hurry along. We are being pursued, and I am too weak to fight."

"Yes Lord Inochi."

"They have escaped" Sesshoumaru seethed once he returned to the battlefield. His poisonous gases was still everywhere. 'The mortals will surely perish.' He opened his hand and looked at the barely alive Myouga. Sesshoumaru made sure that Myouga wasn't going to get away. "Now explain the story to me Myouga. Tell me everything."

Myouga couldn't keep it all a secret forever. Regardless of the promise that he made to his Lord many years ago, he had to tell Sesshoumaru and Inochi the truth. They deserved to know. "Alright, I'll tell you everything."

To Be Continued…

A/N: Oooops! Did I stop at a very important part? Me so sorry! You'll have to review, and then I'll put in a nice update for you!