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Circling Paths	By : Cepheus Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 7346 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha, nor make money from this story.

Chapter List
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NOTE= seems like somehow the word ‘mandala’ in previous chapter turned to ‘mandela’ who knows when. I wanted not to refer to the president but to the beads around Inu’s neck. ^_^ Sorry for the mistake!

Cepheus: well, I want to thank the reviewers and hope there will be more in the future... make my fic known around, please! ^_^ However *smiles* I know the first chapter was a little confusing about Inu’s youkai blood, but since this is my fanfiction and I didn’t like the whole thing, I’ll mess it all up like only I can do.

I had to create a OC female since I needed her, but don’t worry, unless you want her to stay, she’ll be gone in a few chapters. She has nothing to say with the romance plot line, she’s here just because I needed her.

Hope you enjoy!

ONE MORE NOTE= hee hee hee, anyone who wants scans of inuYasha yaoi doujinshi? I have six: Gekkoh, Giza, Kin-nokoshi, Kokon Touzai, Yashaemaki and Wonderful. Some are MiroInu, others are SesshInu, random from R to PG-13, some humor, and they are all great.

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Thanks to you all, people reading this fic!!!!!!!

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Rating= T.

Summary= Naraku isn’t the only problem InuYasha is going to have. A stronger youkai, coming from an old rivalry between clans, is now up to have his revenge on them… Sesshomaru/InuYasha/Kouga threesome YAOI Probably Kagome bashing

Disclaimer= I will never own InuYasha. But I like it a lot, and I like to think stories for the charas -plus, I like bashing the ones I hate and hurt the ones I love.

Warning= this is going to be YAOI, that means boy x boy relationship so don’t like don’t read. This will be INCEST too, between half brothers. This will be threesome, that means menàge a trois. Flames about that will be used to power up my fireplace.

“talking”
‘thinking’
-Flashbacks, memories, dreams-

Circling Paths

Chapter 01: Curse of Honor

Peaceful was the only word that could express what one could see around Sesshomaru’s palace -or should I say, manor- as a soft and cool breeze graced the treetops. The manor stood against the light blue sky, silence all around, so quiet it could seem no one lived in there. By the looks of it, it appeared as if it was the house of a great powerful lord, and in fact, it was.

Wild flowers blossomed in the giant garden that spread all around the place, standing above the grass lightening the oppressive grey and brown of the manor, and the small crystalline pond reflected the sun brightly.

No one was anywhere in sight.

Once, many years before -one would say decades, or centuries- the garden had been filled with cheering people, both human and demon, but now it was empty, no voice to warm up the coldness, no lights during the nights, no one to take care of the flowers.

The few that still lived here were silent and hidden in the many rooms of the manour, doing their work without being noticed.

It was that way ever since lady Izayoi’s death, the ningen Inu Taisho chose as his mate, at after that the manor fell silent, cheerful and happiness vanishing as if they never existed. One would say it could have been foreseen -humans died way earlier than youkai- but Inu no Taisho loved her.

For a youkai, true love was rare to find, but for the western lands’ lord, the true love had been Izayoi.

When the great Inu lord followed his mate in death, the corrosion and the decay of the manor doubled, with Lord Sesshomaru succeeding to his father as the new lead, but he did nothing to return the place to its lost glory -as if he was disgusted by it, never staying there for too much, always leaving, wandering alone or lately in the company of the youkai-wanna be Jaken, his most loyal retainer.

Obviously Sesshomaru-sama was still respected, and he was way too feared and worshipped, many tried to have him as ally -but he was known as cold, loner, evil, no comparison with his father. He was powerful, but he couldn’t care less about it all.

He looked like he was missing something he did not know what, but was too proud to search for.

It was known too that Lord Sesshomaru hated ningens, many thought it was because his father loved one, and he could kill entire villages on his bad days -whenever it could be village on his own lands or outside, it didn’t matter.

He also liked to get rid of lesser demons, weaker and not worthy the privilege of living. No one was at his level, no one could stand up against him. Cold, heartless, beautiful but lethal, as strong as a diamond.

And alone.

As a cold breeze swept on the manor, a dark shape appeared from above a hill, shining amber eyes looking down at the palace, emotionless as the breeze made the bronze hair shift in the air.

Something was going to change. The silent ‘peacefulness’ was going to be broken, but it was for good...

With a swift and graceful leap, the shape flew down and fell on its legs right in front of the wooden bridge that lead to the manor, eyes brightening up at the sight of the flowers.

Her bronze hair fell gracefully on her shoulders -her, because the shape was a she, a female youkai. She was tall, and was dressed with a short skirt and a top made of light brown fur, her feet were covered with sort of dark furred moccasins, and at her neck there was a short necklace in clear pearls and teeth.

Her long hair reached her scapulas, and it was tied with a short thread at the end of it, leaving two tussocks to grace her face. On the top of her head there were two cat-like ears, and she looked like she wasn’t much older than InuYasha -but a glint in her eyes told she was older than she appeared.

A long and cuddly tail swept behind her as her ears twitched just barely, attentive and perceptive of all the little noises around her.

She knew Lord Sesshomaru already knew of her arrival, he must’ve heard her coming, but she expected no less from him. As she looked around, stepping on the bridge, she thought it was a shame no one was taking care of the garden -sure, there were beautiful flowers, but they were full of weeds, messy and wild. It would have been a wonderful garden, if taken care of better.

“Who are you, and what are you doing in Lord Sesshomaru-sama’s garden without stating your presence?!” a squeaking voice almost startled her, but not because she hadn’t heard the toad come, just because it was like a loud shriek and she hated the sound of his voice.

The Youkai turned at the toad and lowered her eyes on him, large amber eyes having trouble in hiding her amusement at the small creature. It sure amused her how a strong and proud Youkai like Sesshomaru was could keep with him such a disgraceful -and ugly- toad like this one was.

Jaken tightened his hold on his Ninto wood whilst he looked angered at the taller female demon, eyes flashing as he attempted -key word, ‘attempted’- to look imposing and instead acting like a big fool.

The female merely kept herself at check -this was Lord Sesshomaru-sama’s loyal retainer, and for how much it would be funny to mock him, she couldn’t show disrespect to the Inu Lord.

“I’m here to spoke privately to Lord Sesshomaru,” she quietly spoke, her voice musical and low. “I believe I have news he’ll be interested in know”.

The toad did not look the least impressed by her calm acting, he just glared at her -it didn’t matter she was stronger than him, and he could feel that pretty well, but he was under the protection of Lord Sesshomaru-sama, and he was in his house, so she’d better show respect.

“Present yourself then,” he demanded.

“My name is Chiyoo,” she replied sternly, her voice giving away the aversion she had towards the little youkai. “I am one of the heirs of the Northern Land’s lord of the Neko clan, Lord Kuneru”.

Jaken’s face turned as pale as it could -no matter the Neko clan disappeared long ago, if this was the heir of the lord, that not only meant that he was dead, but that he had to show himself respect to the young youkai.

“You may follow me then to the room we keep for important guests, I’ll go and ask Lord Sesshomaru-sama if he feels like receiving you today,” with that Jaken pointed with his wood to the palace, and headed there, Chiyoo on his heels.

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Rin looked around in boredom -she hated being left alone when Sesshomaru-sama had to meet important youkai -she hated more to be left with the toad however, but this was unpleasant all the same.

Ever since Sesshomaru saved her life, calling her back from the death -which was something nor Sesshomaru neither Jaken understood- she decided to stay with him in order to repay her debt to the demon, knowing at once she wanted to stay with him because he had been so nice with her and this was the very first time someone had been nice with her. The village she lived in wasn’t friendly, but this demon was and Rin was so happy about it she didn’t want to lose him.

Sesshomaru wasn’t nice in the real meaning of the word, he never spoke to her apart from calling her name here and there, or saying she would have to leave since he needed to speak with someone important, but she could see how he acted towards other people and she was glad he was so different with her.

She wasn’t that young not to know he was called by others cruel and ruthless, but he had never being bad with her, and she knew she was very special and lucky.

If just Sesshomaru-sama could act a little nicer with others, people would stop saying he was a bad demon, Rin thought idly as she looked around.

The young girl loved to live in this palace, it was way huge, and there were so many rooms to explore around she never get bored, but sometimes, when the mysteries of the secret rooms were not enough to keep her busy, she felt like having a little walk outside of the palace.

Sesshomaru-sama didn’t like her to wander alone, even if he never spoke aloud why -Rin guessed it was because this way she could be attacked by wild demons without him protecting her as he was usual to- but she was so bored right now she would stand any scolding after, if only she could enjoy a walk around.

As she stood up from her comfy futon -which once was owned by someone really big because it was four times her size- she looked around to see if the toad was anywhere in sight, and happy to find out he wasn’t, she sneaked outside her room.

Walking merrily down the corridor, which was a piece of art itself, with carved war scenes in now faded colours, she heard a musical voice coming from the big room Sesshomaru used to speak with other youkai, but she paid no attention to it -the toad often scolded her when she peered at the meetings.

Rin giggled as she succeeded in leaving the manor, breathing the cool air outside, enjoying the warm sun on her face and arms as she capered away from the manor, giggling again in happiness and excitement.

The garden was filled with flowers and it looked stunning in its beautifulness, but there was something even more intriguing than the flowers blossoming around.

The woods.

The forest was friendly and she loved to feel the grass under her bare feet, plus she could find something to eat -Sesshomaru-sama said she had to look for her food alone- such as wild strawberries... she absolutely loved strawberries!

Singing some childish song she continued her trip, not noticing about the manor disappearing behind the trees, too caught up in her games to really care.

Then a bush at her right shook, and as she took a step forwards, a small fox pup appeared from behind it. It wasn’t a youkai kitsune, just a wild pup fox, looking both scared and curious about the strange thing squealing at his sight.

Taking a wary step forwards, the fox sniffed her scent, but find nothing that would scare him, so when Rin jumped towards him, in the attempt to catch him, the small fox yipped and ran away.

“Wait foxi-chan!” Rin giggled, and started chasing the pup.

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Sesshomaru’s cold golden eyes glared at the neko youkai before him, his face emotionless as the female sat down in front of him, calm and stead as her amber eyes stared at him, “ Lord Sesshomaru-sama,” she said with her musical voice. “I am pleased you accepted to receive me so soon…”

He lifted his arm slightly to stop her speech, his eyes briefly closing as he bowed his head ever so slightly, losing none of his composure with the greeting. His glare however did not falter.

This was the worst time to receive someone, he thought sternly, but nothing passed through his steel façade. ‘If she hadn’t been a neko heir, I would have already had her away from here, or killed’.

He was very well aware of the past between their clans, but it wasn’t a secret he didn’t like the least neko youkai.

He wanted to ask her what brought her here, but there was an etiquette and he was still a great lord, so he couldn’t do anything uncouth, “my pleasure to receive the daughter of Lord Kuneru-sama, so am I right in stating he’s now deceased?”

Chiyoo’s eyes flashed with slight hurt but her face remained calm and relaxed as she nodded slightly, “hai, he’s dead” she replied softly.

Sesshomaru cared nothing -he’d never met that Lord. But etiquette...

“Would you appreciate a cup of tea?” the Inu Lord raised his hand, calling one of his few servants. For how much he despised the place, he was the Lord of the Western Lands, he had to own servants to look up to the manour.

Luckily enough all the weaklings were silent and never made themselves known. He surely was respected between them, but he was most of all feared. Some of them were still serving him honoring his father’s memory, others were there because he’d known them when he was young, and they wanted to serve him alone.

Most of them though were respecting and loving him even if he did nothing to gain their respect and love. They acted as if they knew him better than anyone else, and maybe they saw something nice deep deep inside him.

Sesshomaru felt somewhat honored of this, but is was a slight feeling and he used to push it away when he thought about it. He was a great lord and couldn’t care less about such weaklings.

A young-looking snake-like youkai appeared from behind one slid door, bowing at them, before taking off. Chiyoo nodded briefly, then she decided to cut off the acting.

“Lord Sesshomaru-sama, I am here because something bad happened in our Lands, something that does involve the Inu Clan,” she stared up fiercely at the male’s eyes with no fear. “You surely know about the great war our clans -all the four- had been involved into centuries ago, before the Kitsune scattered away, before the Neko disappeared, before Inu and Ookami started that fight”.

Sesshomaru said nothing, he merely looked at her, no curiosity on his face -no nothing.

He knew what she was talking about, even if he was not there at the time, it happened when Inu no Taisho’s father was as young as Sesshomaru himself was now, when the Lord of the Western lands was Inu no Taisho’s grandfather.

It had been a ferocious war in which the four clans fought together against the army of dragons, a powerful specie of youkai that wanted to rule the countries. They were under the power of a very strong demon, a black dragon, and it took all the power of the four clan Lords to seal him away -not kill. He was a dragon, way too powerful to kill, as he was a demi-god.

He had been sealed deep in a mountain, with all their powers and seals, spells and prayers, they even had to ask the help of a human powerful miko and a monk to win. In that battle Inu no Taisho’s grandfather and grandmother died, and Inu no Taisho’s father became the new lord.

“Well, something really bad happened,” Chiyoo shuddered. “Two of the weaker spells wore off, and someone destroyed the third... so the other seals, together with the spells and the cages of power, started to waver.”

Sesshomaru knew what this meant -the dragon was going to be freed from his prison, and obviously he would go haunt the four clans, no matter what happened meanwhile he was under the spell.

Dragons’ thirst of revenge was greater than neko’s own.

He would rise up again, and the many youkai waiting for his awakening would unite under his renewed power to start again their ruthless havoc.

Sesshomaru pressed his lips together until they turned white, but apart from this, nothing showed his care or his concern -or anything else than indifference.

“Lord Sesshomaru-sama, you do know what this mean,” Chiyoo gritted her teeth as she tightened her hands into fists. She was angry and really desperate. “He’s too strong to be defeated by any of us alone, we need to gather all the four Clan’s Lords in order to try and destroy the Dragon before it’s too late! His army is strong, the many dragon demons under him are so strong and ruthless no one can beat them without straining himself”.

Sesshomaru was still silent.

“The Neko heir me and my twin brother, now new Lords of the Southern lands, formally ask you, great Lord of the Western lands, to accept an alliance with us in order to defeat the dragon once for all!” Chiyoo looked up at him with fiery eyes. “And we will need the help of the Lord of the Ookami clan too, and your half brother’s help”.

At the mention of the Ookami clan Sesshomaru’s eyes turned into slits, but the last strand was when Chiyoo mentioned his brother.

It was still a taboo to speak about InuYasha, and things got complicated after what had happened less than a week before, when following his brother’s scent -he had being attracted by the fact that it was again shifting to full youkai blood- and had found his half brother speaking with the ookami youkai.

Their speech made Sesshomaru feel rather distressed and something inside him tried to attract his attention. He couldn’t place the sensations he was feeling deep inside, it wasn’t a good time to come and ask for alliance with these two.

Chiyoo had noticed Sesshomaru’s reaction and stiffened, but decided to explain herself. She was wondering what could possibly be wrong in having a hanyou relative, but maybe this youkai thought differently than her.

“Hanyou can be just as powerful as full demons can be, some even more, and we’ll need as much power as we can...” she stopped when Sesshomaru stood up.

“I won’t be accepting an alliance with your clan, or the ookami’s, neither one with my brother,” the last part was stressed with a disgusted tone, but Chiyoo could feel the disgust was stressed too, as if the lord wasn’t too sure about being disgusted or not.

Strange.

“I am strong enough to overcome any opponent who’s going to come my way,” Sesshomaru’s voice turned cold as ice, not even trying to hide a sneer as he continued. “You are dismissed, for how much I care, you can go and ask the ookami clan to help you”.

Chiyoo looked like she was going to say something, but then she sighed at the sight of Sesshomaru’s determination and stood up her too, shaking her head in defeat.

“I thank you Lord Sesshomaru-sama, for the kindness you showed in allowing me an oyer,” she turned and left.

“Lord Sesshomaru,” Jaken was slightly trembling since the toad was hesitant in voicing his opinion, but he did nonetheless. “are you sure, forgive my rudeness, but wasn’t better to accept the alliance with the neko clan? All old youkai know of the power of the Dragon Lord, Yaryudoku!”

Sesshomaru glared at him, eyes turned into slits, and Jaken squealed running away scared.

The Daiyoukai walked out of the room, lost in his thoughts.

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Sesshomaru was feeling rather on edge, he himself not knowing why, but the last thing he wanted to do was to worry about some demon who, to Jaken’s words, was even more powerful than Inu no Taisho.

As he walked slowly to Rin’s room, he replayed in his mind what happened less than a week before. He was going to visit some youkai from his domain, because the said youkai was causing troubles too big to let him go on, when he felt it.

InuYasha’s scent came to his senses, together with the one of his human fellows. He wasn’t going to go and have another pointless fight with his useless relative in the present moment, so he simply shook off the scent, until something happened.

The scent changed.

Just like many times before, InuYasha’s blood turned to more youkai-like. At first he hadn’t been able to feel InuYasha’s blood unless it was outside his body, but lately he could recognize the small differences even when InuYasha was far away.

Something was awakening his youkai blood.

He had always been rather curious about his relative’s transformation, more after what the giant Magnolia tree told him InuYasha’s fate -he would become lost in his youkai blood and instincts until he could no longer distinguish friends from foes.

The sword was helping him in controlling the blood, but as the scent of InuYasha moved away from the one of the ningens, there was the scent of the sword too, and Sesshomaru wondered what was happening.

So he had followed the scent and had found his brother fighting against the ookami demon, who was having a hard time. InuYasha was lost in his youkai blood instincts, but surprisingly enough he’d the sword at his side.

This had been very strange, but as Sesshomaru stared the two stopped fighting and InuYasha regained the control of his body. Then they started to speak.

He’d never heard his brother speak like this, his voice full of regret and pain -but he convinced himself he cared nothing.

It was inuYasha’s fault his father grew weak and died, that would have never happened before mating with the human wench.

‘Is it?’ a part of him, a small, forgotten part of him asked.

Sesshomaru gritted his teeth, he didn’t like the last bit what he saw.

And it still bugged him greatly.

Even after a week, instead after assisting to the fight and the speech, something in him continued coming back up, torturing him with stupid pointless thoughts, such as, ‘is it really InuYasha’s fault? Maybe Chichi-ue knew what he was doing when he gave you and InuYasha the two swords’, or ‘Without the sword, InuYasha would have been dead and Chichi-ue loved him as much as he loved you’ or even ‘you feel betrayed by Chichi-ue, that’s why you want revenge on InuYasha, but you have to admit he’s strong and he’s just like Chichi-ue’.

Sesshomaru hated this.

So he despised InuYasha even more.

“Rin,” he called.

The girl was like an anti stress, even if he would never admit it out aloud. She could calm him down and she was always nice, no matter how cold he could act with her.

She was a strange little human, and the great Daiyoukai couldn’t understand why he called her back from death, nor why he was keeping her with him.

He surely wasn’t fond of her.

But as he looked around and found to trace of the little girl, the little voice appeared again, dripping sarcasm, ‘then why are you worried about her not being here?’

Sesshomaru growled, he was not worried.

But he left as fast as his pride could muster, searching in the air the scent of the little girl, mildly wondering if she was in danger.

Picking up a trace heading towards the forest, Sesshomaru wondered with himself again why he was going to search for her.

He could easily get rid of her forever, a youkai would kill her and he would be freed of her presence.

A sudden image of the little girl smiling up at him fondly appeared in his mind, and he moved in the woods too, trying to find traces of Rin. All the while assuring himself he was not going to help her because he cared for her or was actually worried for her.

He could smell the human girl and he could smell her fear as another scent passed through his senses, the one of a youkai. Not just any youkai, but a powerful one.

A very powerful Ryu youkai -a dragon.

That girl from the Southern Lands was right, the dragon demons were wandering again in the territories and they were fairly powerful. He wasn’t going to defeat this one too easily, but he never underestimated nor his own strength neither his opponent’s.

But as he approached the place in which Rin and the youkai stood, he could sense another scent that made his eyes widen in surprise.

A third scent, coming from nowhere, and it was known...

It was InuYasha’s.

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When Rin looked up from the fox kitten and glanced around, she found with slight indignation that she didn’t know where she was.

The grass was of a different shade of green than she remembered it to be, there were no flowers but little brownish ones, and the trees looked all similar around her, she couldn’t recognize the way she came from.

She was lost in the forest, and suddenly the thought of the little kitten disappeared from her mind as she started to feel afraid.

She tried to find her way back to the manour, knowing sesshomaru-sama would be rather angry at her if he didn’t found her home, but she was so deep haunting the fox that she didn’t pay attention to her surroundings and she couldn’t find her way back to the manour.

“Lord Sesshomaru-sama will be really angry at me... Lord Sesshomaru-sama, please, come...” she wailed, sitting down.

Rin was sure he would come and pick her again, she just needed to wait a little more. But as she was sitting there, singing again some childish song to keep herself busy, the danger came.

From behind a giant tree a horrible demon appeared and it was looking down at her with hunger filled eyes.

She screamed at the top of her lungs, scared by his appearance, and she backed away, tears forming in her eyes, but the strange looking youkai, with a snake-like body, clawed arms and a horn on his forehead, wasn’t the last bit impressed or compassion as he lunged for her, eager to taste human blood.

“Lord Sesshomaru-sama!” she cried loudly.

Something akin to a white and red blur appeared in a flash before the crying kid and punched the giant ryu youkai, sending him few feet away. Rin opened her eyes tentatively and was met with the sight of Sesshomaru-sama’s brother, the half demon with beautiful silver hair and cuddly dog ears -InuYasha.

The hanyou was glaring hard at the ryu demon, claws ready to strike again on him.

“You ok?” he asked without turning to see the girl. Rin gulped but a shaky grin appeared on her face -InuYasha was strong, he would surely defeat the bad youkai!

“Go InuYasha-san!” she cheered, tumbling clumsily as she hid herself behind a large bush.

InuYasha and the ryu demon confronted each other with glares that could rival with one of Sesshomaru’s own, as they studied the opponent closely. InuYasha was looking for some kind of weakness on the waiting enemy, wondering why on heart he was helping Sesshomaru’s little kid.

The answer was, she was just a human young girl. And she had been in danger.

Now, for the demon, this was a kind of youkai InuYasha never saw before. It looked almost like a snake, but there were differences, he could tell. Plus, the smell was different somehow.

Snakes smelt of ground and blood, mixed with the smell of decomposing, but this one smelt of trees and something that reminded InuYasha of a wet cave -as if that demon lived for ages in the depths of a cavern.

Maybe it was a dragon, InuYasha thought. He heard about them but never fought or saw one -they lived in the borderlines and were usually quiet, almost all of them.

He knew there were clans that were cruel and ruthless, opposite to the normal clans who lived quietly without harming anyone, this must be one of those who liked to kill, InuYasha was sure of that -he’d attacked Rin.

“Let’s see how strong you are, then!” with that InuYasha launched himself towards the enemy, who was ready to welcome him. InuYasha slashed with his claws, but the other demon easily stopped the blow with one arm and countered quickly by snapping his fangs at the hanyou.

“Do you really think some useless wit as you are may be able to beat me, one of the most loyal of Yaryudoku’s soldiers?” the dragon spoke with a low and plummy voice.

InuYasha merely glared at him, wondering who was the ‘Yaryudoku’ he mentioned. He’d never heard of him before, but the name sounded strangely familiar to his ears...

He had no time to think about it because the demon attacked again and InuYasha had to concentrate on the battle to prevent himself from being hurt. He had to admit to himself the youkai was pretty strong, just as strong as Kagura could be -but in a different way. Kagura used his fan to send winds to attack instead of using her own power, this demon used physical strength to fight, none to mention his claws and fangs.

InuYasha’s perceptive eyes saw something dark seeping through the teeth, and he knew the instant the dragon’s fangs were poisoned. A quick look at the demon’s hands made the hanyou realize the claws were, too.

He ducked a blow and decided to search for the weak point of the youkai as he countered the attacks, and he decided he would try for the obvious -the eyes. A blind youkai was far less dangerous than one still seeing.

Jumping backwards as he fell hard on his feet, InuYasha prepared his attack, “Sankon tessou!” he yelled, his claws heading for the brown eyes of his opponent.

The blow was effective and the giant youkai fell on his back, apparently out of play. InuYasha smirked in self satisfaction as he turned to the little girl, “are you ok?” he asked again, making a step towards the girl behind the bush.

But then the youkai behind his back rose up again, blood seeping down his face as he growled, teeth shining predator like. One of his eyes was cut deeply and blood was seeping from it profusely, but the other was was still intact and its pupil was constricted so much the eye was almost all white. And with a speed that could rival with Kouga’s, he hit InuYasha in the middle of his stomach, penetrating through his chest like nothing, blood falling from the deep cut and InuYasha’s mouth. The silver haired hanyou coughed in pain and astonishment as he fell face flat on the ground, unmoving.

“Look who’s stronger now,” the ryu demon growled in satisfaction.

Rin squeaked in fear as she retreated again, nothing to stop the youkai from tasting her blood.

Sesshomaru was ready to intervene. He’d arrived in time to hear Rin call out for him, and to see InuYasha come in help of the girl. He had watched the fight with emotionless eyes, slightly amazed at the Ryu youkai’s strength -the Neko female was right, the ryu soldiers were valid opponents.

As InuYasha was hit Sesshomaru felt a strange urge to step forward and stop the battle himself, the sight of his half brother laying on the ground bugged him somehow. He was ready to make himself known, but something happened -again.

Tenseiga at his side echoed with a low sound, as if it was beating like a heart. Tetsusaiga answered beating on its own, unseen and unnoticed by all of them, and Sesshomaru could sense InuYasha’s blood beat in rhythm with Tenseiga, as it changed again, from half demon to full demon.

An aura surrounded InuYasha’s limp body as he shuddered and stood up slowly, and the ryu youkai felt it and turned.

The sight was so stunning Sesshomaru stopped dead, eyes glued to InuYasha’s form rising from the ground. Tetsusaiga was still at his side, and he had changed. His eyes however looked different from the ones he had when the youkai blood possessed him -they were still looking normal, but the pupils were constricted and of a crimson colour, just like the blood seeping out from the gash in his chest. His teeth elongated out of his mouth as InuYasha grinned in a somewhat twisted way, claws twitching as if in need to strike.

“Let’s see who’s really stronger, then,” he said huskily, his voice harsh and rough, “but I think we both know who it is...”

The ryu youkai backed away, sensing the dark and strong aura around InuYasha, feeling for the first time in his life really afraid. Only one other living being could make him feel this scared and it was his master Yaryudoku.

How could a wimpy creature like this hanyou look so imposing and scary all the same?!

Sesshomaru’s eyes widened slightly -which was just how much his face could allow with showing his emotions- as InuYasha flung towards his opponent, claws stretching in anticipation, eyes flashing with content as they dug into the flesh of the dragon’s forehead, cutting the horn away.

In his current state InuYasha could feel as if it was the clearest thing in the world that the horn was the dragon’s weakness. Cutting it would mean kill the dragon, and that’s what happened.

His claws dig into the flesh easily, taking away part of the dragon’s skin together with the horn, and looking into the terrified eyes InuYasha simply smirked, before finishing the dragon off.

Rin was trembling like a feather as she stared at InuYasha walking towards her, claws stretching again. But as he reached her hiding place, his eyes turned back to their warm gold, teeth shrinking and slightly insane look vanishing as if it never existed.

“Now who was the stronger one?” InuYasha mocked the dead youkai, smirking back at Rin.

“Thanks! Thanks InuYasha-san!” Rin jumped towards him, hugging his left arm, but InuYasha pulled her away, his arms tentatively testing the gash on his chest. It was poisoned, he could feel the venom run in his veins like fire, lowering his strength. He needed to go back to the group, but he left because... and he didn’t want to go back, not now.

What had happened with Kagome at that village was just too bad, he couldn’t forgive her, not in the present moment.

“You’re hurt! You need help!” Rin’s voice shook InuYasha out of his thoughts.

“I do not,” he replied harshly. “Don’t ever tell Sesshomaru about this” he warned her roughly.

“Wha? But Sesshomaru-sama is a nice person!” she countered back.

InuYasha snickered in faint amusement, “he’s just a full youkai, if he doesn’t care about his brother who’s a hanyou, how can you think he’ll care about you, a ningen girl?”

Rin pouted, stepping forwards, “Sesshomaru-sama does not hate you, or he wouldn’t always go looking for you!”

InuYasha’s snicker turned into a weak laugh, due to the increasing pain of his chest. He found it amusing how the little girl could be so trusty and loyal to his brother.

“He’s just...” he winced as a twinge hit him painfully, lifting his hand to the deep wound. “He’s just waiting for the perfect chance to kill me... and get rid of my embarrassing presence...”

Rin shook her head, the pout still there, “you are strong just as Sesshomaru-sama is! Sesshomaru-sama is not dumb headed, he can’t hate his brother just because his blood is not as pure as his own! He’s too wise and smart to think something so stupid!” she looked sure about her words and she looked sincerely convinced about it.

InuYasha looked at her in mild surprise. She believed in what she was saying, and if it was so, she was a hopeless cause. Sesshomaru was just too cold, he cared nothing in the world.

“Family is more important than blood, right InuYasha-san?” Rin looked up at him with bright eyes, and InuYasha couldn’t tell her she was far too blind for her own good.

Sesshomaru all the while stood there, feeling rather ashamed as he heard Rin’s speech. He thought it would never come the day in which a little girl would embarrass him like this.

InuYasha... Sesshomaru couldn’t but recall every time they fought. His half brother had been strong and never retired from a fight, he fought clean and was stubborn never to give up, something Sesshomaru despised -but it was just because he recalled the same in their father.

It was a hopeless case, but all the same, Sesshomaru couldn’t but appreciate his brother antics as he vowed to take his revenge on the bastard youkai known as Naraku, who tricked Sesshomaru himself not once but twice.

InuYasha was...

Strong.

And determined. Why he still continued this useless fight against him?

His face still emotionless Sesshomaru walked out of his hiding spot, making himself known as he appeared in front of the two. He knew how to mask his scent so not to be sensed, and it worked greatly one more time.

Rin turned and squeaked in delight, going to hug Sesshomaru’s hakama, whilst InuYasha merely tensed and clutched his wound still bleeding, eyes shifting in and out of focus over and over.

Sesshomaru stood there for a long time, simply staring at his half brother in contemplation, noticing how he was tense and how he was slightly trembling, partially because of the poison but partially because he learnt how to fear his brother.

Did he deserve to be treated like this?

Wasn’t their fight pointless?

“Sesshomaru-sama!” Rin looked up at him with big watery eyes, “InuYasha-san helped me, he saved Rin’s life!” she then hesitated, and added, “do you really hate him because he is half human? Does that mean you hate me as well?”

The Daiyoukai didn’t reply as he stepped towards InuYasha, who tensed even more, his hand grabbing Tetsusaiga. InuYasha knew he was too weak to even think about winning a fight against his brother, he knew in his current state he would be killed in less than five seconds, but he was ready to fight like hell.

He wasn’t going to fall without fighting.

“I don’t need your useless sword, I have mine now,” Sesshomaru spoke quietly. He looked at his younger relative some more, then, “follow me, InuYasha”.

The silver haired hanyou growled deeply, “I won’t!” he stated, taking a defensive pose.

“Don’t be that stupid, you need your wound to be taken care of,” Sesshomaru replied, his voice still quiet but sounding imposing now. In the background there could be heard Rin giggling in delight -Sesshomaru-sama was not as bad as his brother pictured him!

“Oh, what now? Is the world going to burn out?” InuYasha scowled, mocking him. “Are you really acting brotherly over me? Me? A hanyou, a dirty half youkai? A -”

Sesshomaru moved quickly, punching InuYasha in the stomach with his fist. InuYasha’s eyes widened briefly as pain shot through his already weakened body before the hanyou fell unconscious in his brother’s arm. Rin gasped in shock, but Sesshomaru merely picked him up and turned to walk away.

“Rin, follow,” he ordered.

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Cepheus: well, second chapter finished. The name of the enemy in this story is Yaryudoku, ‘Yami Ryu no doku’ which in english means ‘Poison of the Dark Dragon’. More or less. Hope I did it good enough. Kuneru’s name, the former lord of the Northern Lands and father of Chiyoo, means ‘yoru kuro neko’ black night cat.

*Shrugs*

Read and review then! ^_^ And by the way, when I thought about this fic I didn’t knew about that part of the anime in which Inu and Sess fight against the panther clan... I only read the manga and saw some episodes so let’s just forget that part ok?

And, what happened with Kagome and the others to make InuYasha go away again? You’ll find out next chapter, if you review! ^_^

ENDING NOTE= this chapter wasn’t BETAed. I heard nothing from my BETA, even if she is still updating her fic -which I can’t seem to review. Onyxlight if you’re reading this, please, forgive me but I wanted to update. And I loved your new chapter!
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