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A/N: Hey everyone! Here's the next chapter, finally! Sorry for the delay, it took awhile for my lazy-ass beta reader to get around to it. Ha, I'm just kidding girl. So...read and don't forget to review!

Ch5: The Truth Hurts Pt.2

He didn't know how much time had passed from the time his brother told him that it was time for him to die to right at that moment. It could've been five minutes or two hours; he didn't know. What he did know was that he was getting his ass beaten. Of course, he fought back only out of instinct and pure spite because Sesshoumaru thought he would have him done in easily, in not time at all.

'If that basterd thinks that he is going to win this so easy he's wrong, dead wrong!' Inuyasha thought as he was pulling his arm back to deliver his Claws of Steel attack.

(AN: Sorry if battle scenes are not as long as u like but they are a pain to write. There is a battle or two that will probably be long and detailed but it will be the most important one(s) so you'll just have to deal but please keep reading the story!) Sesshoumaru dodged his brother's attack and delivered one of his own with his Whip of Light. It wrapped itself tightly around Inuyasha; slicing both clothes and skin. Inuyasha didn't even struggle to free himself from the deadly whip but by god Sesshoumaru was going to make him fight harder than he was doing now. With the whip still around Inuyasha , Sesshoumaru did some sort of cowboy lasso thing and threw Inuyasha to the ground. Sesshoumaru pulled his whip back and waited till Inuyasha got up.

"Why won't you use the Tetsusaiga on me Inuyasha? Are you afraid that if you use it than you would be proving that you want to live?" Sesshoumaru evilly laughed at his brother and everything that he was going through. "Tell me Inuyasha, why do you want to die? Is it because you have finally realized that you are nothing but a pathetic half breed?"

Inuyasha didn't look at his brother at first but just started to do something that Sesshoumaru could swear was shaking. Sesshoumaru couldn't believe what the idiot was doing when he realized that Inuyasha was shaking- but not from fear. He was laughing so hard that it caused his body to shake. He was laughing at Sesshoumaru! He couldn't believe that the little puss was laughing at him and certainly couldn't believe what came out of his mouth right then.

"You know what, Sesshoumaru? I may be pathetic but so are you because there isn't one thing you can do that will hurt me more than Kagome's weakest sit command."

Sesshoumaru was so struck by the insult that Inuyasha could strike him dead and he wouldn't even notice it. Sesshoumaru seethed at the thought of that girl's command being more painful on his brother then his attacks were being.

"You think you're a big shot since you're a lord and that after almost a decade you've finally managed to restore your arm but you're still second best next to me! You dare question me about not using Tetsusaiga to protect myself when you yourself have not used Tokijin to try and kill me! Are you afraid that not even your sword can defeat me?" Sesshoumaru was moving to unsheathe Tokijin and show his brother that he wasn't afraid of what his sword could or couldn't do but then something stopped him from pulling it out.

No, he wasn't afraid, but why use his sword when there was a much more painful way to wound someone and not have to dirty yourself with their tainted blood? Everyone, humans mostly, had their weak spots and Inuyasha was no different from them. His weakness was his heart.

'No, it is that woman that is his weakness. What was her name again? Kagome? Yes that was it! She claimed that she was from the future and the reincarnation of some priestess! Inuyasha was in love with her, I believe. How stupid is that? Love!'

He suddenly felt a deep rage burning in his head, making it hurt worse than it already was. /'It was love that Rin felt for you, baka! You, who see the matters of the heart as a weakness instead of strength.'

Sesshoumaru was starting to get really annoyed with the little spirit's intrusions on his thoughts. 'No, it was love that killed Rin!'

The soul sighed as if he had the burdens of the world resting on his shoulders. /'You are wrong, Sesshoumaru- sama. It was not love that killed our beautiful Rin. Something so beautiful as that couldn't have killed her. It was a monster that killed her. It was a monster that ripped her heart out as it would any other demon who dared cross his path. It was you! You are the one who killed Rin! Her blood is on your hands!'

Sesshoumaru was shaking with red fury and would like nothing more than to kill someone. He knew he couldn't kill his soul but that didn't rule out his brother. It was time to hurt his brother and after he did that, then he would kill him once and for all! Inuyasha felt his brother leave him again like he did early on and once again look as if he was fighting a battle with himself.

'What is going on with him? Is he going crazy? First, he gives me tenseiga and now he is making me fight him for my life when I want to die!'

The sudden feel of air stirring above his head shook him out of his reverie and he looked up in time to see Sesshoumaru aiming a pretty powerful right hook at him. He barely missed his brother's punch in the face and caught it in the shoulder. The hit dug Inuyasha into the ground and he was positive that it broke his left collarbone.

Sesshoumaru looked down at the dirty, bloody mess that was his brother. Of course, he himself didn't look so hot either at the moment. "No, I'm not afraid to use Tokijin. I just choose not to waste its strength on a weakling like you. I just want to know before I kill you, where is Kagome at?" he asked as if he was seriously interested in knowing.

When all Inuyasha did was wince it fueled Sesshoumaru to continue with his torment on Inuyasha. "That's right! She left didn't she? Had something to do with you and another woman, right? Or was it that she just didn't want to be seen in the presence of a hanyou? Maybe it was both reasons. Or it could have been that she wasn't getting what she wanted and left. You know how fickle those human women can be."

It was a statement instead of a question. A statement that had Inuyasha's blood boiling to an eruption. He realized then that he had to live if only to see Sesshoumaru destroyed by his hand. He would make his brother fall to his knees because Sesshoumaru's personal life wasn't a clean slate either. Slowly he made his way to his feet and had his hand over Tetsusaiga. He doubted he could do much with it because of his collarbone and his arm feeling as if a thousand knives were stabbing through it but maybe it would intimidate his brother; which he also doubted.

"Yeah, she left me because I couldn't let go of Kikyo but that is nothing compared to Rin killing herself over you! Tell me Sesshoumaru, did you grieve- weep?"

/'Oh look! We think alike, Inuyasha and I!' the little spirit said. /'We both think you had a way in killing Rin.' Sesshoumaru didn't pay any attention to the little annoyance. All of his attention was focused on Inuyasha.

Sesshoumaru felt the hatred he had for Inuyasha grow into something much more dangerous and much more deadly than a powerful yokai at his full power potential as he listened to his brother. He hadn't expected him to turn the tables on him.

"No, you didn't do anything like that! You just acted like the cold hearted bastard that you are. You just stood there while a young innocent girl confessed her undying love for you and then you gave her the coldest rejection you could ever give."

Sesshoumaru wasn't about to admit that what his brother was saying was true and he also wasn't going to admit that ever since he had found Rin lying in a pool of her own blood that he actually grieved over her death. He would be damned if he admitted to both of those and more. Besides, who the hell did Inuyasha think he was, telling him things that he himself doesn't understand?

"No I didn't love Rin, but I did look after her. I felt a sort of caring ownership over the girl and she was in debt to me. Did you really think that I would let her go off and marry whatever filthy human she wanted after all that I had done for her? No Inuyasha I didn't really reject her I just snuffed out any feelings she had for me while they were still in bloom."

Inuyasha was confused at his brothers confession on Rin. 'If he didn't love her then why keep her around? What debt did someone like her have to pay? Hell, I still don't get why he kept her around in the first place. Could it be that he did so much for her that he thought no one could have her but him? That she was his and only his even though he didn't love her?'

"Okay Sesshoumaru I get that you wanted her for yourself and no one could touch her. I get that even though you hate humans she was an exception because you had molded her into what you wanted her to be. It all makes perfect sense and your not the only male in a high position that has done that. The only thing I want to know now is what were you going to do when you got tired of her? When she got old and gray, unable to be any use to you anymore. Were you going to parade your mistresses around in front of her? Have her feel belittled by them?" Inuyasha asked.

He could see now that Sesshoumaru was just about to lose his full youkai temper. Inuyasha had decided that he wanted to live only just to see his brother wallow in pain and to hurt Sesshoumaru by his own hand. Sesshoumaru was in a murderous fury now and he was ready to erupt. He had let Inuyasha go a little far over the line sometimes just give him a big head but this was way beyond that. That little bastard was going to die for his insolence towards the Lord of the Western Lands.

He growled letting Inuyasha that he had gone way over the limit and that he was now treading on dangerous ground. Inuyasha heard the warning but didn't care what it meant because he had to get this out. "You were going to take her as mate but when you tired of her body or she had borne too many pups what were going to do with her?" Sesshoumaru kept remarkably silent but his eyes were starting to turn their demon red color. Seeing this happening Inuyasha foolishly persisted to harass Sesshoumaru, "I know what you would do Sesshoumaru! You would leave her to raise the children and never come back to her bed, right? To your way of thinking she should be content with that but she didn't like the sound of that happening to her, did she?" Inuyasha shook his head sadly.

Sesshoumaru could feel his claws lengthen to a much deadlier length and point. He would let Inuyasha finish his little tirade for the moment and when Inuyasha least expected it Sesshoumaru would kill him. "She wanted more than that didn't she, Sesshoumaru? She wanted more than children and a home. What she wanted was love. What she deserved was love."

Sesshoumaru could feel the acidic poison coming out of the pores of his fingers, swirling in a green smoke around his claws. He began to flex them, readying them for the kill. "Hell she deserved a lot more than that and the heartless bastard that you are, didn't deserve her!"

That was it! That was his cue to attack Inuyasha. Inuyasha didn't even feel the deadly acidic claws insert themselves into and out of his body because they had come from such a short distance and fast speed. Inuyasha saw everything in front of him go bright then black and back to bright again. There was this intense burning in his right eye and he couldn't open it.

"You sneaky bastard." He said to Sesshoumaru who was standing above him.

"Get up! I am done talking with you."

'Easy for him to say! He isn't in as bad off as I am,' Inuyasha thought. He began to push himself up when his body began to feel has if it had been ripped to shreds. He knew what attack his brother had used on him. He used the Poison Flower Claws attack; ( A.N. Don't laugh that is the actual name of the attack in English. I don't think Fluffy ever said what it was in the anime but they call it that in my book) it was Sesshoumaru's deadliest weapon besides his sword.

'Even now I can feel the poison running in my blood stream. I guess one good thing comes from us being related. His attacks have different effects on me I suppose,' Inuyasha thought as he was finally able to stand up but was a little shaky. He gave Sesshoumaru a look over, noticing the lack of many injuries and feeling every one of his many. There was no doubt about it, Sesshoumaru was going to win this battle once and for all.

Inuyasha gave his brother his most arrogant smirk and said in a equally arrogant tone, "Lets dance." They were at each other with everything they had to give. The poison attacking Inuyasha on the inside was an excruciating torture on him but it didn't stop him from hurting Sesshoumaru badly either. The sun was beginning to rise and both were fighting on pure stubbornness and will. Neither one of them wanted to be the first to fall.

The fight was mostly punches, kicks, body slamming and head banging. Since it was now morning and there were two demons fighting in close distance to the village and the head demon hunter was recovering from giving birth, the frightened villagers thought it best to send for their Miko and Monk to save them.

Sesshoumaru caught the scent of the two holy ones and knowing that they would probably help Inuyasha rather than him, he thought it better to finish the fight. Besides he was ashamed to admit that he was in no condition to take on a Monk and a Miko at the same time, even if one is old and the other a pervert. Inuyasha was laid flat under Sesshoumaru's poison claws that were poised over his heart.

Miroku and Kaede were just breaching the edge of the wood, wondering where Inuyasha was, when they saw him and Sesshoumaru in a death match. Sesshoumaru was just moving his claws in for the attack on Inuyasha heart when he felt that annoying little prickle again. He tried to ignore it but that only made his migraine which had surprisingly disappeared sometime during the battle to come back full force.

'Ugh…What do you want you bastard? I'm not in the mood for you right now!' Sesshoumaru growled in his head, which made it hurt worse.

/'Tsk, Tsk, Sesshoumaru- sama, such language!' the little spirit said with a laugh.

'Your going to hear even more vulgar ones if you don't tell me what you want. If you haven't noticed yet I'm a little busy.'

The little spirit immediately sobered into a serious tone. /'You can't kill him my Lord Self. He needs to be alive for the future.'

Now Sesshoumaru was even more angry. 'Why can't I?'

The Spirit just sighed. /'Just trust me Sesshoumaru-sama! I would never lie to you but if you need some reassurance than I will tell you. If you were to kill Inuyasha than you would have an angry mob after you and your in no condition for that.'

Sesshoumaru had to agree with the soul and slowly withdrew his claws from lingering above his brother's heart. He then moved as fast as his injured body would allow into the safety of the forest and leaving his brother with the Miko and Monk.

Inuyasha wasn't sure what was going on. First, Sesshoumaru had his claws ready to plunge in his chest and then he was facing Kaede and Miroku. 'Why are they here? It's in the middle of the night!' Inuyasha thought and then looked to the sky and noticed that it was morning not night.

He could barely hear Kaede speaking to him about his injuries. He doesn't have to tell her where they were at, just look at him! He was beginning to feel cold and he just wanted to close his eyes and sleep. As his eyes were beginning to droop he could hear Kaeda give orders to Miroku to take him to her hut while she went to find herbs for the poison.

One last thought passed through his mind before he passed out into the inky blackness and he hoped it would reach Sesshomaru, 'You know we are more alike than we think we are. You didn't deserve your woman and I sure as hell didn't deserve mine. So I guess we're both bastards when come to love.'

Sesshoumaru received his brother's message before he felt him pass out. He would probably live if they found an antidote fast enough. 'They probably will with my luck the way it is' he thought as he made his way inside the cave and onto the pallet of furs.

When he got comfortable and was just about to fall asleep, he said aloud, " No Inuyasha, only you are the bastard when it comes to love. Because this Sesshoumaru doesn't love." He shifted a little more and than preceded to drop off into a deep sleep unaware of the danger- the new evil lurking out in the forest beyond.

Seductively Yours,
Dream-Toxin