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The Bargain of a Lifetime: Chapter 16 Return of Sesshoumaru, and what the healer did.

As the demon was approaching, they still didn't know where they were. Something rather annoying was happening. Inu-Yasha couldn't smell anything. Smirking he looked at the demon in the shades, "You think this illusion will keep us here? Then you are sorely mistaken!" With that he swung his Tetsusiaga, firing bolts of energy that turned the bottomless abyss into a room with corpses and illusion objects throughout the area. "How did you break through my illusion?" The demon cried out "It was so far my best!" Inu-Yasha now smirking, "I've destroyed illusions from a kitsune who was better than you. You expect this to keep me?"

There was a huge explosion outside, as everyone went to investigate, there was a very large hole in the ground. As everyone was arriving, Inu-Yasha was clashing with the demon; it was a half spider, half human. It was rare to find certain kinds of spider demons; this was one of the rarer species. It had the lower half of the spider, and at waist level, a human like entity emerged from the waist up. As Inu-Yasha kept swinging and missing, Sesshoumaru dropped behind it, pushed his hand through the demon's back, and injected huge amounts of poison into the back of the demon. Inu-Yasha seeing this put his sword away and started talking to Sesshoumaru.

As Inu-Yasha agreed, they both settled out to the healer, Inu-Yasha asked, "Why do you want your other arm back anyways? You're a good enough fighter as it is." Sesshoumaru looked at his brother and replied, "I wish to challenge you one on one, no weapons, poison, or interference. And not to the death, just to prove who is the stronger of us." Inu-Yasha, now looking at Sesshoumaru with a smirk, "I accept your challenge, this should be very interesting. So, where do you want to fight?" Sesshoumaru, looking with an emotionless face, "In front of everyone of your friends and Rin. We shall tell everyone what is going to happen and the rules so that we don't have an interference.

When the brothers arrived at the healer's hut, they both entered, Inu-Yasha right after Sesshoumaru. Rin was pleased to see them both come in, unharmed. They then went to the healer and Sesshoumaru said, "Cloud Vegeta Strife, this is my brother who took my arm." The healer looked mysteriously at Inu-Yasha, and then at his sword. "Is that the sword that took your arm Lord Sesshoumaru?" asked the healer, "Yes, it is." Replied Sesshoumaru. The healer, now interested, asked, "How did such a small blade cut off your arm? If you can prove it, show me." Inu-Yasha now bored pulled Tetsusiaga out, transforming it in the process. "Okay, that proves that that was the blade that cut off his arm, but why did you cut it off in the first place?" Inu-Yasha looked at Sesshoumaru, and Sesshoumaru looked at the healer, "Let's just say that we were really never on the best of terms until recently when we fought side by side."

Everyone was starting to get bored; Inu-Yasha and Sesshoumaru were gone for a long time. Miroku, sensing the tension, decided to release some of it. He then groped Sango, big mistake for the perverted monk. She was already ready for a battle after missing the chance to join in, and Miroku was her new target to release her frustrations on. "You pervert! Right after seeing that fight, don't you think I am on edge! I am going to kick you all around until I get it out of my system!" Miroku, now wishing he hadn't done that, took off in a sprint, running away from a fuming demon slayer. She gave chase and she was throwing her boomerang at him with full intent on doing what she said. This was a dark day for Miroku, good thing that she never caught him in the very long chase, or he probably wouldn't be alive. Shippo just watched as the two were at it, sweat dropping the whole time.

While this was happening, the healer was concocting a potion that would return his arm to his body. She said it would take a while, but it was hours. Sesshoumaru, talking with Rin in a corner, made Inu-Yasha wish that he had brought Kagome. Sesshoumaru, at seeing that, also thought that she should be present, she had removed the sword from the seal. This made her somewhat responsible for this happening. Cloud, now getting up spoke, "It is almost done, but I need a drop of blood from both of you, and your arm will be back as good as new, no different then when you lost it." They both then cut themselves a little bit and gave the healer the blood. The healer, now feeling ready added the final ingredients, chanted something that no one could understand accept for Dante Gemini, who was listening closely to learn the exact words and trying to remember what ingredients in which order at what times.

"Alright, Lord Sesshoumaru, drink this all. It may taste bad, but in five minutes you will see your arm growing back very rapidly." Sure enough five minutes later, his arm was growing back an inch a second, back where it was from such a long time ago. Sesshoumaru looked up and motioned to Rin that they were ready, and she followed, jumping up onto Sesshoumaru's shoulders. Inu-Yasha remembered how many times that him and Kagome did that and smirked on the inside, then they left back to where they left there friends, unaware of the was going on.

As they returned, they heard a battle going on. Inu-Yasha nearly lost his balance. Sesshoumaru noticed that, "What do you think is going on down there?" asked Sesshoumaru. "From the battle cries, Miroku Groped Sango. She was not in a very good mood. I hope she isn't to pissed at him, if she was, then you wouldn't be able to hold her." Sesshoumaru heard the sarcasm from his brother, but he didn't really think anything of it until they came closer. A boomerang was traveling all around them as a really pissed off Sango, kept launching it at the wind-tunnel less monk, who was forced to dodge that and her sword strikes. They were both tired, and Sango said, "Now that I got that out of my system I will be heading back." She smirked as the monk was following her. Her plan was working perfectly. Just as Miroku entered a very close perimeter, she swung her boomerang vertically knocking the monk out cold.