Chapter 11

"You know, now that I know the truth" Inochi began to say "you know, the other side of the story, it's all rather anticlimactic, wouldn't you say, Sesshoumaru? I mean, we both sought the answers to the questions that has bothered us our whole lives, only to reject the truth once we heard it. We've rejected it, the terrible truth." He smirked. "Isn't it horrible?"

"Indeed it is. The thought of you is...revolting."

"And you are not, Sesshoumaru? You dare to assume that I am not disgusted with you?"

"You have no reason to be. You are the inferior creature. You are the pest. You are no better than the dirt beneath my feet. How dare you even stand in my presence and assume that you are my equal, with your dirty blood?"

"I am no fool, Sesshoumaru. I know that I am not as strong as you. I also know that I am not as fast, and cannot endure as much as you. I know the truth."

"Then why? Why do you progress? Why even try?"

"To prove that we're better. I'm going to prove that we mortals are better than you, Sesshoumaru." They gazed upon each other with pure hatred. Now that they knew the truth, they sought to ease the pain of it by focusing their hatred and disappointment on the other half of themselves. "We mortals are not as strong, but my will cannot be broken. You are a creature born from the depths of Hell. You are not my equal, and I admit that, Sesshoumaru. You are beneath me!"

"How dare you?"

"How dare you!" Inochi could see and understand things. They weren't things that he remembered or had even experienced, but the memories that he could begin to see and knew belonged to Sesshoumaru. He would us it to his advantage. "Your father must have believed that as well. He must have believed that we mortals were better." Inochi was able to find a smirk as he noticed the flare in Sesshoumaru's eyes. "That is why he chose a mortal female over a demon female. Not only was it once, but twice. He even gave his life for Inuyasha's mother." Inochi was satisfied that he was able to get under Sesshoumaru's skin, and he certainly was doing a good job at it. Sesshoumaru usually didn't let anyone get to him, but Inochi was able to anger him unlike anyone. "He must surely enjoy humans more than you foul demons. He gave me a very powerful sword and Inuyasha a very powerful sword as well. What did you get? You got a sword that can't even cut!"

Inochi had to jump out of the way, before Sesshoumaru's light whip struck him. He had to keep dodging for a long while, but Inochi just found pleasure in making him upset. "It must truly bother you, Sesshoumaru, that he in the end loved Inuyasha more than you." He grunted. "More than us. He could accept Inuyasha for who he was, but us, he was ashamed of us, ashamed of you." Inochi was silenced once Sesshoumaru hit him with the light whip. It didn't kill him, but it successful knocked him down.

"Silence yourself mortal."

Inochi still managed to smirk, even though Sesshoumaru had wounded his chest. "We must have inherited the gracefulness from our dear mother, our mortal mother."

"She is not my mother" Sesshoumaru said. "I denounce her for now and forever. I am a full fledged demon. I have been freed from mortal bondage, and I would much rather not like to be reminded of its poison."

Inochi stood up. He wasn't about to be defeated so easily. "Poison? It doesn't seem like we mortals are poisonous to you." He knew that this would surely upset Sesshoumaru, even more so. "You know, you and your demonic father are not that different. For example, he had a soft side for mortals. He had a weakness for us."

"I bare no such weakness."

"Oh really? I believe that you're lying. What of that mortal girl Rin that you keep around?"

Sesshoumaru hesitated for a second.

"Oh, you never realized it before? You never realized how much you and your father are alike?" Inochi's smirk left him. He wasn't used to smirking or anything related to smiling. "You see, I've read our mother's journal and according to her, Inutashio was much like you. He was a fierce and cruel demon, but then it all changed once he laid eyes on her. He saw her crying, and then he asked her why she was crying. Then he claimed that he didn't care and was only curious." Inochi couldn't help it. He had to smirk again. "Sound familiar?"

"Silence yourself, human!" Sesshoumaru flung his light whip at Inochi, but Inochi acted fast and drew his sword. He was able to keep himself from getting hurt.

"Do not get upset, Sesshoumaru. I only speak the truth. You have a love for your...adopted daughter. Of course, you haven't known her long enough for her to think of you as her father, but she does love you as a friend. Why protect her Sesshoumaru? Why indulge her? Why love her?"

Sesshoumaru knocked the sword out of Inochi's hand with his light whip, but right before Sesshoumaru hit him with it, Inochi was able to send a spiritual blast right towards Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru however was fast enough to dodge the white light of energy. "You are truly pathetic" Sesshoumaru began to say. "You're too slow to actually hit me. How sad?" Sesshoumaru began to walk to him again. "Do you still think that I am beneath you?"

"All demons are beneath me. You cannot be trusted! Your father loved my mother, and yet he betrayed her and slaughtered her."

Sesshoumaru was this time able to smirk. "I suppose he did do something right, after all."

Inochi was taken back by his words, but shock was replaced with anger. "How dare you spit on my mother's memory?"

"He murdered her with good reason. He spits on her as well."

"I'll kill you, demon!" Inochi ran to get his sword. "I'll slaughter you with your own father's fang!" He began running to Sesshoumaru at full speed, but stopped at the feel of Myouga on his nose. "Get off of me right now, Myouga."

"But you mustn't!"

Inochi stopped running and grunted. "I am rather tired of you Myouga. You keep the most important fact of my whole entire existence a secret and now you attempt to stop me? I'll get revenge for my mother, and I'll take it out on this demon."

"Take it out on this demon?" Myouga asked. He shook his head, feeling horrible. "Oh, I am very sorry for not telling you of your mother. I asked you, and you said that you knew, but I should have gone over the story once again."

"And what are you trying to say? My uncle told me that the strongest of dog demons slaughtered her" he said.

"Your father didn't kill your mother!" Myouga yelled. "She committed suicide!" Myouga put his head down in shame. It was a horrible story; one that he should have went over, even if Inochi claimed to know the truth. "Your uncle hated your father and didn't like the idea of you at all. He probably lied to you in hopes that you would one day kill your own father."

"I do not understand" Inochi admitted. For a moment, he felt empty and lost. What he believed about Inutashio the whole time was a lie. His hatred was misguided. "You could just be lying to me in order to stop my assault on Sesshoumaru."

"No, I am not" Myouga admitted sadly. "Your mother loved you two very much, but she was a very sad woman still. I can still remember the first and last time I saw her. Her name was Saikoubi and she was a picture of perfection. There was no one as beautiful as her. I was with Lord Inutashio when he went to her castle to see her. At this time, the villagers had caused a riot, so when Inutashio came, some of them wisely ran, and some of them foolishly tried to attack. He killed all those in his way and made his way to your mother."

Saikoubi gasped in fear as her door slide open, thinking that some of the rioters had gotten in, but relief came to her face once she realized that it was only Inutashio. "What happened to your hand?" she asked. His right hand was covered with blood, but once she got a good look at it, she realized that Inutashio had no wound. "Inutashio…you did not…" Your mother was still a priestess and your father was a demon, and a fierce one at that. He didn't really have much compassion for mortals until later on. The only mortal that he had so far showed any mercy to was your mother. I could see the problem between the two of them once I saw her reaction to the blood. They really were in two different worlds. "Oh, Inutashio, how could you do this?"

Saikoubi was just about to clean her young son, so a bucket of water large enough to hold her baby was in her room already, along with a washing cloth. She grabbed the washing cloth that was hanging on the side of the bucket and dipped it into the water and squeezed it out, so it wouldn't be dripping. "It is not that serious" he argued.

"You should not have killed any villagers, Inutashio. They already are afraid of you. You should not give them reason to fear you or our baby anymore than what they have." She walked over to him and began wiping the blood off of his hand. She was in so much shock and disappointment from what he had done that she wouldn't look him in the eye.

"You should leave this place. These humans do not trust you and cannot be trusted either. They seek to destroy you and the boy."

She walked back over to the bucket and dropped the wash cloth back inside. "Now I shall need new water" she spoke quietly to herself.

"Are you listening to me?"

"And where would you have us go, Inutashio? Should we go to your precious Western Lands where demons live? They do not know what you have been up to. If you brought a mortal woman and a half demon child with you, they would be more dangerous than these villagers." Inutashio was afraid for her safety because she would never be safe again. They wanted to stay in their own worlds and weren't so willing to compromise with each other. They didn't trust each others backgrounds and it only made their situation worse. The young baby soon began to cry, so his mother quickly but gently picked him up from off his crib made especially for him and rocked him back and forth. "Inutashio, our boy shall never be accepted among his human or demon brethren, and I fear that there is nothing we can do about it." She loved you very much, as well as Inutashio, but it was very hard for her.

"Why is he crying?" Inutashio asked.

"He is probably just hungry." She carefully placed her son into Inutashio's arms and she sat down on the floor. Unbeknownst to Saikoubi, Myouga was on Inutashio's shoulder the whole time. He had been observing their conversation and their actions the whole time. He still could not understand why Inutashio would love a mortal woman, but seeing her gentleness made all the difference in the world. She began to loosen her dress so that she could feed her son. "Hand him to me." Inutashio bent down on his knees and handed his son to Saikoubi. "Inutashio" she began to say, but stopped in the middle of her sentence once she felt a pain right above her bosom. She slapped her chest with one hand while holding her son with the other and looked in her hand. "It's a little flea."

"Myouga" Inutashio angrily grabbed Myouga. "And I thought you objected to me being with a mortal."

"Well" Myouga tried to sound innocent "well, she is a beauty indeed, Lord Inutashio." Myouga jumped back on Inutashio's shoulder. "I promise that it won't happen again."

"It had better not."

"I think it's nice" Saikoubi said "that you're jealous, Inutashio." She smiled gently at him. When she smiled, you could feel a warmth to her. She bares many resemblances to Inuyasha's mother, but in my opinion, she was much more beautiful. The similarities must have been what drew Inutashio to Inuyasha's mother in the first place.

Inutashio turned his head in embarrassment. "Is it not natural? You gave birth to my son. By right, doesn't that mean that you are mine alone?"

"Yes" she began to fix her clothes once she saw that her son was finished. He was still a little fussy though. "I wish to name him Inochi. What do you think?"

"That is the name of a mortal. I would rather name him Sesshoumaru."

"But…that is the name of a very fierce demon. I would rather not…" she trailed off as her son began to cry. She began to rock him and then she began humming to him until he had calmed down. She did have a beautiful voice. Once she began to sing, I thought that everything was going to be alright. I was wrong though, so very wrong. She turned her body until her back was facing Inutashio's chest and then leaned into him and rested upon him.

"He's stopped."

"I am glad." The baby went to sleep, but now Saikoubi was the one crying. "I love our son, but sometimes I wish things were different, somehow, someway…"

"I felt so sorry for her. She loved you two boys and Inutashio deeply, but there was an undeniable sadness in her eyes. She wished things were different somehow, someway. The next day when Inutashio came to visit her, he knew something was wrong, even before he got to her room, because of your screams. Inutashio was devastated once he saw her bloody body on the floor. He had thought for sure that all of the villagers had risen against her and slaughtered her. He had decided that he was going to kill every mortal that he saw, but then he noticed the dagger clasped in her hand. I had never seen Inutashio so torn up about anything, and at this time, the Tenseiga was not created, so he could not bring her back."

"But I don't…" Inochi grunted. "This whole time…"

"It must hurt" Sesshoumaru began to say. "It must hurt, knowing that this whole time you were living a lie, two of them."

Inochi grabbed a hold of Myouga and threw him off. "I wish to never see you again Myouga. If I do, I shall slaughter you. I know the truth about that dog, but that does not mean that I will spare Sesshoumaru!" Inochi ran with his sword, prepared to kill Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru drew out Tokijin and prepared for things to really get interesting. "Die!"

As their swords were clashing, Sesshoumaru began to speak. "You seek to kill me and yourself in the process. I suppose you cannot help but destroy yourself. Like mother, like son."

"Silence yourself!" Inochi began using more strength and Sesshoumaru knew what would soon happen.

'The Tokijin cannot stand against my father's fang, especially when used at its full potential. It shall soon break, if I am not careful.' "At least you now know the truth" Sesshoumaru began to say. "You know now that your mother couldn't go on with the thought of having to see a disgusting half breed child everyday. It disgusted her to the point where she ended her own life." He smirked. "It must hurt to know that she was ashamed of us, ashamed of you."

"I said be quiet!" Inochi raised his sword in the air and swung it forward until energy began ripping through the ground and headed straight for Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru was fast enough to jump out the way though.

"Calm down. It is not your fault that insolent wench committed suicide. Well, suppose that it is, but what do you expect? She is a mortal after all." Sesshoumaru put Tokijin back in its rightful place.

"So, you feared that I would destroy the Tokijin? That is the only reason to why you would take it out of battle."

"I do not need it to defeat you. You may be very powerful, but that does not keep someone from killing you off every fifty years or so. I always wondered, and now I know that my fate is in the hands of a foolish mortal."

"At least all of my defeats haven't been caused by my little brother."

"If he defeated me, then why haveI never been killed? To be defeated is to-"

"Be completely obliterated by the enemy. I know you're not defeated unless you are dead. I am very aware of your definition of defeat, Sesshoumaru."

"Now, prepare to be defeated." Sesshoumaru created a light whip, but this time it was different. He swung it forward to Inochi's sword and it wrapped around it. It caught Inochi off guard, so Sesshoumaru able to get it out of Inochi's hand and fling it a far distance from him. Inochi was about to go after it, but Sesshoumaru was very much faster than Inochi and before Inochi could react, Sesshoumaru had clawed Inochi in the chest and knocked him down.

Inochi cried out in pain. The poison in Sesshoumaru's claws could not affect him, but the cut was still deep, and Inochi is only a man. "You are wounded as well."

"I can endure far much more than you, mortal." Sesshoumaru grabbed a hold of Inochi with his fluffy boa and began to squeeze him tightly. "You are the weak part of us, and what is weak must be destroyed!" He unraveled Inochi and flung him straight into a tree. "Surely you cannot endure for much longer." Sesshoumaru was right. Sesshoumaru had the upper hand and it took Inochi a bit of time to stand up. His body collided with the tree pretty hard. It was a thick tree that now had a huge dent from where Inochi's body hit.

'I am going to at least make this a good fight' Inochi told himself. 'He shall not defeat me so easily.' Sesshoumaru grabbed Inochi by his neck and began to raise him up, but Inochi grabbed a hold of Tokijin that was on Sesshoumaru's sash. "Did you think it would be this easy?" Inochi asked. The sword soon exploded right in Inochi's hand, into thousands of pieces and Sesshoumaru's hand began to burn from the spiritual power coming from Inochi. Sesshoumaru let go of Inochi in a brief moment of shock. "I am not going to die without putting up a good fight, Sesshoumaru.

'The Tokijin, he destroyed the Tokijin.'

Inochi stood to his feet and jumped away from Sesshoumaru a far distance. 'I must catch my breath. I do not have much time.' Inochi began to hear and sense many demons approaching. 'The village is once again under attack.' While Inochi was distracted, Sesshoumaru used his light whip to grab a hold of Inochi's arms and fling him into his direction. Sesshoumaru grabbed Inochi by the neck and held him up in the air. "Your concern is with me. Forget your pitiful village."

'Kikahara' Inochi told himself. 'It has to be Kakihara.' "We shall finish this once I am done defending my people."

"No, we finish this here and now." Sesshoumaru was most upset that Inochi destroyed the Tokijin, but in all honesty, it did not really matter. They were both about to die. Sesshoumaru honestly didn't want to die, but he wasn't going to let Inochi get away with what he did. Inochi was a reflection of everything he hated. He deserved to die. "How long before you die?" Sesshoumaru's hand began smoking, but he couldn't burn through Inochi's flesh.

"My spiritual power exceeds your demonic power, Sesshoumaru. You had better find another way to kill me." Inochi grabbed a hold of the hand that Sesshoumaru was using to choke Inochi and began to burn his forearm. Inochi's forearm began to burn as well. 'Curse whatever binds us together!' Inochi soon had to stop just as Sesshoumaru let him go. Inochi dropped to his knees.

The demons had begun to approach closer to the village. "You worry so much for these mortals. They betrayed you, you, me, and your mother. Do you not think that they would betray you if they knew the truth about you?"

"They would" Inochi pointed out. "It is human nature. They cannot help it. I shall still-"

"It is the girl, right?"

"What girl?"

"The half demon girl. You could have killed her, but you decided to keep her alive, although you would have killed any other half demon. You took pity on her, and as she became older, you decided that you loved her."

"That is not true!" Inochi yelled. "I do not have feelings for her."

"You cannot help it. You think that she is beautiful. You have seen her many times, and you have kept a close eye on her, from a distance of course. I do not know what is worse, that you would like a demon or a half breed."

"I enjoy the company of neither."

"Try to lie all you like. It's fruitless. Are you concerned for the villagers, or are you concerned for the girl specifically?"

Inochi was still on his knees. 'If I try to get up, he'll strike me down. I've only got one chance to stop him.' "Take this, demon!" Inochi quickly placed his hand on Sesshoumaru's chest and blasted him away. Inochi couldn't see from the pure light, but once his sight returned, he was rendered helpless as his body began smoking. 'I should have saved that one for later. I am not sure I can stand.' He struggled to stand, and fell to his knees. 'It doesn't matter that he's a demon and can endure more. He should be hurting more right now than I. He cannot survive against my spiritual power.' "Are you finished, Sesshoumaru?"

Sesshoumaru had been knocked away a far distance and was lying on his back. He was in pain, but he wasn't going to let that stop him. 'Curse him.' Sesshoumaru lifted himself up, but Inochi was still on his knees. 'That pathetic mortal was able to inflict much damage to me with only one blow, but he was still much too weak from my earlier attacks to endure the after affect of hurting me.' "It would seem your tragic end is near, mortal."

'I cannot get up.' Inochi had burned through Sesshoumaru's armor. He could see the blood on Sesshoumaru's chest. 'Every time he hits me, he is affected as well, but I fear that he in the end shall have more strength than me.' "Our tragic end is near, demon, and I swear to you that you'll meet your end first."

"We shall see about that." Inochi's sword was near Sesshoumaru now. It was only a few feet to his left. "This sword was created to specifically help you, was it not?" Sesshoumaru walked to the sword. "But since we are one in the same, the sword should work for me as well, shouldn't it?" Sesshoumaru grabbed the handle and easily made the sword transform, as if it was always meant for him. "I thought so."

"No" Inochi muttered. "That sword belongs to me."

"No, my father left it to his son. I denounce your mother, you denounce our father. Therefore, I and Inuyasha are his only sons and this sword belongs to me." As Sesshoumaru began walking to Inochi with the fully transformed sword in his hand, all hope for him seemed lost. "This sword seems to have taken a liking to me." Sesshoumaru purposely took his time, knowing that Inochi was soon to be dead and could not escape. "It would seem that this is the end, pitiful human!" Inochi had nowhere to go, and nowhere to turn to. As the energy from his own sword ripped through the ground straight towards him, Inochi knew that now was the time for his end.

'At least I shall die a man's death, on my feet. Goodbye Sesshoumaru, it is time for us to die.'

"No!"

Inochi felt the force of someone from the side, pushing him and knocking him down, but out of the way of danger. The rough landing on his back hurt him, but at least he was not dead. He blinked, and everything became clear. Sesshoumaru's attack had missed him, only by a little bit, and he was regrettably saved by a woman. She was on top of him, their noses touching and their lips so close to one another. She was blushing, but he was embarrassed and angry, once he mentally got past the fact that he hadn't had felt that sort of skin to skin contact before. "You?"

"Sorry…" she got off of him and reached out her hand to help him up. "I was only trying to help."

He smacked her hand away and somehow found the strength to stand on his own. "I do not need your help, half breed."

Bijin had transformed into her demon state. She didn't look too different. She did have claws, fangs, and cat-like eyes though. She also did have various marks on her body, like a leopard. "But I was only trying to help. Once the village was under attack I...I sought you out and found you in battle."

"I do not need help from a half demon woman."

"How touching" Sesshoumaru replied sarcastically. "Now you two can die together."

"Leave me at once" Inochi told her. "Since you have transformed, you can stop some of the demons that have come to destroy the village."

"But what about you?"

"Do not worry of me. If you stay near me, you'll die anyway. I have enough spiritual power to kill this demon." She was worried and felt heartbroken, as if she knew this was the last time she would see him alive, but she nodded and began to run off. "Do not concern yourself with the girl; this is between you and me."

"Why concern yourself with her? You are about to die. Nothing should matter to you."

"Nothing does matter to me, but you, you're about to lose everything, including your chance to walk the path of conquest. You shall soon be dead, and thus the great dog demon Sesshoumaru, son of Inutashio shall be reduced to a tale told in my village: the last demon that Lord Inochi slew."

"You speak of many things, and yet you always lack meaning. Why don't you do the both of us a favor and hold your tongue."

"Well, well, well," came a voice from behind the two of them, walking out of the castle. The voice was very much unpleasant to hear. "If it isn't my two favorite half brothers" Inuyasha smiled. He was weak still, maybe about to collapse, but all of that didn't matter. "Sesshoumaru…" he said. "I know your secret…" he smirked.

"Inuyasha" Inochi yelled. "I would not be so foolish if I were you. He will kill you, and you do not have the strength to escape."

"I don't care. I don't care if he kills me. I don't even care if Naraku was out here and saw me as a half demon and figured out that I transform the night of the new moon. I don't care. I just wanted to see you before you two killed each other."

"Master Inuyasha" Myouga was tugging on Inuyasha's ear. "I told you to stop them from killing each other, not provoke them!"

Inuyasha threw Myouga off of him. "Shut up! I don't care if they kill each other." He smiled again. "I just wanted to see Sesshoumaru's face before he died. I wanted him to know that I know that he's a pathetic and worthless half breed, just like me."

Sesshoumaru grunted.

"This whole time, you were one too. I can't count all of the times you've disregarded my worth because I was a half human. You've even spoken about my mother, when yours as well was always a mortal!"

"Myouga told you" Inochi replied with frustration.

"No you idiot! If you don't want people in your room reading your things then you should put them away and certainly don't leave a crease in the page. I came to find you, and instead opened up right to the last entry. It didn't make sense to me, so I read a little ways back as well. That's when Myouga came and filled in all of the blanks. He just told me to stop you two from slaughtering each other, but I have no intention of doing that. It really sucks and pisses me off that you're immortal Sesshoumaru. It makes all of our battles so far in vain. If I can't kill you, then I suppose I don't have a problem with you killing yourself." Sesshoumaru had been listening to Inuyasha, letting all of his words boil up in the inside. Inuyasha was the last person who Sesshoumaru wanted to know the truth. "This whole time, you've been a half breed all along. You've been a worthless and disgusting half breed!"

Inochi was closer to Inuyasha than Sesshoumaru, but it was still a close race to Inuyasha. Sesshoumaru was dead set on ripping Inuyasha's face off. "You fool!" Inochi told Inuyasha. Inochi was luckily able to put up a barrier, but it would soon break. "You had to provoke him, Inuyasha?"

"I said I didn't care. I just wanted him to know that he's the real worthless one after all!"

Sesshoumaru heard him and started to break through Inochi's barrier. 'His strength has increased. His anger for Inuyasha has actually made him stronger and brought out more of his demonic power.' Inochi could feel his hands burning. 'He's not going to give up until all three of us are dead. I've got to stop him now, before he breaks through and kills me. I am going to kill him first. I must destroy him first.' Inochi had to reach in the depths of his very soul to bring out enough energy. He hadn't called on so much of his spiritual power at once before, but he did and Sesshoumaru was forced to back away, weakened.

'If I touch him, I shall be purified.'

Inochi did not have a lot of strength, but all it would take now was one touch. "I hope you enjoy death, demon" Inochi looked behind him to face Inuyasha. "You might want to leave, Inuyasha. You made your point."

"Keh, do you think that's all I've got to say?"

"That's all you're going to say. I am going to strike him down right now. Go ahead, and make your escape." Inochi then ran straight for Sesshoumaru. 'All he can do is dodge.'

Inuyasha looked on from afar. 'He thinks I'm just going to leave? I'm going to witness this.'

Inochi began to throw various punches to Sesshoumaru, but Sesshoumaru was much faster than Inochi. However, Inochi's spiritual power was beginning to weaken Sesshoumaru. 'He is slowing down.' Inochi was losing strength and fast. He didn't have much in the first place and dodging Sesshoumaru only made him physically and spiritually weaker. Sesshoumaru had been weakened so much by Inochi's power though, that Inochi was finally able to punch Sesshoumaru on the forehead, where his crescent moon was. Inochi felt his head burn, so he pulled his hand away before Sesshoumaru was killed. "Curse you…" Inochi noticed that on Sesshoumaru's forehead that the area surrounding the crescent moon was burned, but not where the crescent moon was. 'Strange…'

Sesshoumaru noticed something wrong with Inochi's head as well. There was a burn mark on his forehead, but there was a small portion of it that was not burned, and it was shaped like the crescent moon on Sesshoumaru's head. 'Strange…' The sacred jewel shards began to glow. "What is the purpose of the Shikon Jewel? Do you attempt to use its power to defeat me?"

"I have not used it, and do not intend on…" The crescent moon on Sesshoumaru's head began to glow. "What sort of trickery is this?"

"I could as you the same question, human." A crescent moon had formed on Inochi's head and began glowing in the same manner of Sesshoumaru's.

"What is happening?" With the combined light of the Sacred Shikon Jewel Shards and the light from their foreheads, Inuyasha had to shield his eyes. "What's going on?"

To Be Continued….

A/N: Uh oh! What happened? You'll have to find out next time! It shall be the last chapter! You must review me!