An old hag looked from the darkness of the forest at the two demons who stood in her vision.
She made sure she was well hidden behind the trees. The one across the river in red was shouting at the other one in white on her side of the river.
She knew that she shouldn't be here watching the two, but she was a curious old fool, she would admitted that to herself.
She wondered how the argument would turn out to be like; would the one in red walk away or would the one in white?
She heard the one in red shout at the one in white, "What are you doing here?!" She looked at the one in white for some kind of response. He replied, "For Naraku, of course." His voice was icy cold and totally ridden of emotion. It scared her slightly, a demon like that was usually bad news, however, the other seemed more reckless and ignorant. That was how it usually was with ones like him. She shook her head slightly then turned her head back to the action.
"Well you might as well get lost! Because I'm the one who's gonna kill that bastard!" The one in white just looked at him with a blank expression. She allowed herself to note that the two seemed to be brothers, according to the white one who addressed the red one as 'little brother'. It almost seemed outrageous and logical at the same time; they both looked alike in one or more ways but the way they acted around each other so far did not indicate some sort of brotherhood to her. She was really confused.
Sesshoumaru looked over at his brother with distinct boredom as usual. That human was still there, he could smell it, prickling his sensitive nose with it's bitter scent, especially the old one's, they seemed to have a more stinging scent to him. He just wished for it to go away. He never did like the smell of humans, that besides Rin's, her scent was...different, it actually smelt nice
All the others smelt plain, pungent, bitter and unpleasant. Whenever they passed though a human village, it made his stomach roil with the anticipation to just get out of there before his senses were overwhelmed with the smell of a huge group of humans all in one place.
"It's useless Inuyasha. You will not be the one to vanquish that vermin, no one but myself," Sesshoumaru said to Inuyasha. "Keh! Whatever," was Inuyashas retort. Sesshoumaru snorted at Inuyasha.
"And I'm also here to take care you you for good," Inuyasha pointed a clawed finger at Sesshoumaru.
'And even after three years,' Sesshoumaru thought. He never thought that Inuyasha would ever be able to kill him, though once, he nearly did so. That one day, when he had challenged him with a dragon's arm, that time he had nearly killed him with the Kaze no Kizu, but Tenseiga had saved his life, and he had not even asked for it to do so, the sword acted on its own. From then on, Tenseiga had been more responsive. He usually did as it willed him to, but he noted to not make it a good habit.
Inuyasha un-sheathed Tetsusaiga from his side and got ready to fight.
Sesshoumaru wasn't really in the mood to fight Inuyasha, but it had been a while since he had fought someone who wouldn't die on spot. He cracked his knuckles at his side and showed that he was ready for him. Inuyasha let out a warriors cry before he charged and jumped the short distance across the river. "Get back," he said calmly to Rin and Jaken. They both ran out of the way before Inuyasha made a down stroke towards Sesshoumaru's head.
He dodged with unmatchable speed and moved away from Rin and Jaken. Inuyasha turned to face him, his sword ready to strike at any time. Sesshoumaru charged forward towards him, his claws ready and dripping with poison.
He struck Inuyasha right across his cheek, the skin separated and immediately started to melt away exposing his flesh. He imagined it to sting immensely for him.
Inuyasha flew a couple feet back before steadying himself with his sword. He growled at Sesshoumaru who just stood there, still unscathed.
He brought his sword up above his head before once again charging at Sesshoumaru. He swung as hard and fast as he could, but each time he missed, Sesshoumaru dodged too fast for him to properly keep up with his movements. He snarled with frustration every time he missed. But, no matter how hard he tired, he could just not strike his brother.
Sesshoumaru jumped away from Inuyasha and onto the other side of the river where he jumped to a tree branch and looked down at Inuyasha with nothing more that complete and utter boredom.
Inuyasha quickly turned around to look at him and started to run after him, sword at his side. "Where the hell do you think your going?!" Inuyasha ran though the water and jumped up towards Sesshoumaru who jumped at the last second out of Tetsusaiga's path leaving a severed tree branch in it's wake.
Sesshoumaru jumped to the next tree and to the next, Inuyasha hot on this tail. No matter what age Rin was, Sesshoumaru didn't desire her to see him kill Inuyasha, so he lead the battle away from her. He only hoped that that human would leave his group alone while he was gone.
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The old woman watched as the white demon and the red demon jumped into the forest on the opposite side of the river. She was eager to see what would happen. Nothing interesting ever happened in her journey though Japan, making fortunes, charms, spells and what not for the local villager's.
Her practice she has been doing was of great experience and money. She had grown quite rich from her occupation. But, it had it's downsides too, some of the villages she had visited were kind of "anti-magical", and she was accused of being a witch, but when you think of it, she sort of was one, and it had nearly gotten her killed on more than one occasion.
Luckily, she always managed to escape with her spells and magic.
She still wanted to know what was going to happen, since seeing two demons duke it out in a peaceful territory such as this one was rare.
So she walked out of the forest and started to jog at her best to the other side of the river. However, it didn't go unnoticed; the little girl and toad looked at her in a funny way.
"Uh...ma'am? I don't think you should go that way!" she heard the girl say through cupped hands. The woman ignored the little girl's warnings and kept on running towards where the two demons ran to.
She crossed the river and into the forest, hoping she could catch up to the two before one of them died. 'I really am an old fool,' the woman thought to herself with humour and continued on.
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Inuyasha tried his best to keep up with Sesshoumaru, leaving a bunch of severed tree branches in his path. But he just kept on dodging his attacks every time.
Within the span of three years or so, he imagined he would be a better swordsman to at least take down Sesshoumaru, but, he guessed not, unless he just couldn't keep up with Sesshoumaru's strength and progress. But he still tried his best.
When Inuyasha was small, he always looked up at his bigger brother with awe and admiration. It usually had been that way until he had grown up into a man. All his life, he wished to surpass Sesshoumaru --since he didn't have a father to do so to-- only his big brother was left of their family now, no one else remained.
It seemed that the two were the last of the Inu youkai. One of them would have to reproduce if they wished to keep the line going. Inuyasha didn't really plan on doing so and he imagined Sesshoumaru wouldn't neither.
The two finally arrived at a large clearing filled with nothing but dead grass and dirt. The high sun still above their heads.
Sesshoumaru didn't plan on exerting himself to much, it was too hot for that today, if Inuyasha had choosen a different day to attack him either than this one, he would have obliged.
Inuyasha jumped from the trees to the hard ground, his forehead covered in a sheet of sweat, it dripped down his face, running over the wound Sesshoumaru had gave him earlier. Stung like hell. And then rolled off his chin.
Sesshoumaru landed gracefully a couple feet away.
Inuyasha had to catch his breath, the thin air was hard to take in and the stupid sun was hot as hell itself. The very least that could happen was to have a cloud block out the sun for at least a few minutes. Inuyasha didn't know how Sesshoumaru was feeling, but when this battle was done, he would make sure to take a bath or something to get rid of all the sweat and the dust that stuck to it. He just hoped hed get though the battle.
After he had caught his breath, he once again ran at Sesshoumaru, Tetsusaiga ready to strike him.
Sesshoumaru dodged with ease, he jumped out of the way and behind Inuyasha.
Inuyasha quickly turned around and released his Kaze no Kizu on him, but, as always, Sesshoumaru jumped out of it's way. While he was in the air he drew out his Tokijin, wanting to finish the battle fast as to get out of the sun's rays and maybe sit down for a moment.
The two clashed in the air, kenatsu flying everywhere. They pushed each other away and landed on opposite sides of the clearing. Both determined to end the battle. Inuyasha gripped his sword tightly with both hands and ran at his opponent, Sesshoumaru doing the same.
The two once again clashed, more kenatsu. The other trying to pry the other of their ground and push them back. But, both failed as they both stood their ground.
"Why don't you stop this senseless battle Inuyasha?"
Inuyasha snapped, "Keh! As if! I said that I'm here to finish you off! And today I mean it!" Both put more force into their swords.
Sesshoumaru finally began to push Inuyasha backwards towards the edge of the clearing. Inuyasha struggled to keep his feet but he continued his path towards the trees. Sesshoumaru gave it one last push and Inuyasha flew right into the trunk a tree, his back hitting hard, so much that Sesshoumaru could hear it snap a little at the impact.
He had no intention of killing Inuyasha today, Naraku came first, if he had the desire to kill Inuyasha, he would have done it a long time ago and he would have done it now, but decided against it.
Inuyasha struggled to get up off the ground, his face matted with dirt. Once he had gotten to his feet he wiped his face clean of it and grasped his sword with both hands and glared at Sesshoumaru.
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The woman began to tire so she started to walk with a fast stride. After she had followed the trail of branches most likely created by the red demon, she arrived in a large clearing where the two were still fighting with each other. They seemed to be clashing their swords against the other, the kenatsu the two demon swords created sprayed everywhere.
After the white demon had flung the red one into a tree trunk, you would be certain that the two could not be brothers! Their behaviour was shameful and totally unaccountable for brothers to be sharing with each other!
She wondered if she could do anything. The one in white seemed to be fairly strong, the one in red seemed to not be as strong, but fairly matched to take on a lesser youkai.
She could always use one of her spells.
She thought about it for a moment, 'Even youkai such as these two should at least try to behave like brothers! You could never tell from looks alone. I know that I shouldn't be meddling with youkai matters...but...maybe it would help the unstable relationship the two seem to have between each other.'
So, with that settled, she decided that she would either place a curse on the two or a spell. 'Hm...which one? A curse usually last longer and usually keeps its effects for a few generations until the curse is broken. However a spell would only go away if the one who placed it takes it away. If these two siblings don't learn their lesson, the spell would have been a waste of my magic. But would if they do? Then the curse would be a waste of my magic. Hard decision here. And, since they're youkai, they'll live way longer than I ever will so, if they learn their lesson after I'm dead and I placed a spell on them I won't be able to take it away. If I put a curse on them, and they kill me before they learn the lesson, the entire thing would have been a waste. So...I guess the only thing left to do would to place a spell on them. It uses less magic anyways.'
So with that finally decided, she would place a spell on them. But would make sure to not make it an immensely, terrible and punishable spell for they probably didn't deserve the awesome might of her magic. She smiled at the thought. 'Now...what spell?'
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Sesshoumaru watched as Inuyasha got up from his place on the ground.
Inuyasha squared his sword above his head and wrung out his attack upon Sesshoumaru. He once again easily dodged. He jumped high in the air ready to hit Inuyasha from above, it would be an easy hit.
He looked up, the sun immediately blinded him, he had to cover his eyes with the sleeve of his haori and waited for Sesshoumaru's hit.
But, to his immense surprise, it didn't come.
He looked around for Sesshoumaru and found him stock-still, wide-eyed and surprised on the ground a couple yards away from Inuyasha, Tokijin rested lazily in his hand and his other hand lay to his side.
He tilted his head and raised an eyebrow at Sesshoumaru as to say "What the hell are you doing?".
'This is the perfect time to hit him,' thought Inuyasha. He brought his sword high above his head and started to charge at Sesshoumaru, and surprisingly, Sesshoumaru didn't move an inch. Just stood there.
