Sorry that it took so long to get this chapter up. You see I had the whole chapter typed up Sunday, but it some how got erased right before I could submit it. So I had to retype the whole thing. Well on to the disclamers: I don't own any characters in this chapter. (that should be good enough) Now as for you all start reading!

Revenge of the Forgotten Love

Chapter 4 New Alliances and Odd Arguments

Kikyou turned around to face the cold, amber eyes of the youkia lord Sesshomaru. His eyes stared into her as to find out who she was and why she had been spying on him and his traveling party.

"What is it that you want so badly as to intrude upon my traveling group and myself, Kikyou," he asked. He indeed knew who she was for they had met once, some time ago. He also knew that she was the same priestess who had fallen in love with his younger brother and later sealed him to a tree. Sesshomaru was surprised that this woman would approach him in such a manner.

"Well, Lord Sesshomaru, I have a proposition that you might find interesting if you care to listen," Kikyou stated. She didn't like to have to address someone in such a way, but decided to get on his good side at first. That is, assuming he had a good side.

Sesshomaru replied, "A proposition?"

Kikyou nodded and continued, "I have a plan to get revenge on Inuyasha for choosing another over me."

"What is your idea of revenge, for I believe we have different meanings of revenge," he interrupted.

"I don't aim to kill him, if that's what you mean. I merely wish to win him back from that wretch, Kagome," She replied.

Sesshomaru then asked, "And why do you require my assistance for such a feat?"

"Well I'm sure that your aware that I'm dead so first I need to return to life. I do believe that you hold the power to do such a thing. Also I ask permission to join your traveling party. After all your Inuyasha's older brother and a full youkia, would he not be jealous to see me with you," the priestess explained.

The youkia lord was impressed that she would come out with such a request, so he asked, "Assuming that I assist you in your plan what would I receive in return, save the satisfaction of playing with Inuyasha's human emotion's?"

"I can regenerate your arm if you so desire, and I have the sword of Lord Shokaru, first lord of the Western Lands," Kikyou stated. She was pleased to see that his cold eyes slightly widened at the mentioning of the sword.

Sesshomaru was indeed impressed that she held the sword in her possession. Then he thought, 'I would consider such a favor since the reward is so great. However, the mere thought of I, the great youkia lord Sesshomaru, with a mortal for a mate is a disgrace. It is only for pretend though, and for a short while so perhaps I will oblige.'

"I have a simpler solution to your dilemma," he offered.

Kikyou asked, "What would that be?"

"Eliminate your competition," he said coldly.

Kikyou was taken by surprise that time, and wore a shocked expression on her face. After a moment she regained herself, and said, "I may hate her but I can't kill her, especially if she's with Inuyasha, he'd never forgive me."

"Your right, then I'll kill her for you," Sesshomaru offered.

Kikyou frowned and replied, "What would be the fun in killing her if I can make her suffer the loss of Inuyasha's love? So, Sesshomaru, do we have a deal?"

"Very well, you can travel with us and I shall pretend as though you're my woman when Inuyasha's around. However, don't expect me to do anything that you and Inuyasha would have when you twowere alone," he said.

"I wouldn't expect you to," she replied rather coolly.

Sesshomaru added, "I would like to receive my payment now."

Kikyou nodded and handed him the sword of Lord Shokaru. After he had placed the sword where the Tokijin had once resided she said, "Uncover your arm." Sesshomaru obeyed, even though he hated to be told what to do.

Kikyou placed her hands on what was left of his arm. She then closed her eyes and the form of Sesshomaru's arm appeared glowing in a pale blue light. When the light faded his arm was there, looking as good as new. Sesshomaru raised his hand in front of his face and flexed his fingers for a second before replacing his sleeve over his arm.

"I believe that it is time to put the first phase of your plan into action," he said as he drew the Tensaiga from its sheath. Sesshomaru then raised the sword above his head and swiftly brought it down the horizontal length of her body. Kikyou had half expected it to cause her pain as any normal sword would, however she felt warmth spread through her as she was lifted off the ground.

The maiden was lifted a few inches off the ground and became encased in a white light as she hovered in the air. After a few seconds the light faded and she lowered to the ground. Kikyou felt a happiness that she had never felt before now that she had the gift of life again. However, it was not just knowing that she was alive that made her so joyful, she could feel warmth again, not the coldness that she had felt while in her death.

Kikyou looked at Sesshomaru and said, "Sesshomaru, thank you so much. You don't know what it's like to return to life after so much time of being dead."

His voice held no emotion as he responded, "I suppose I don't." He then made his way toward Jaken and Rin, having already sheathed the Tensaiga. Kikyou followed behind him as they made their was back to camp.

"Jaken, were leaving, get Au-Un ready. You too, Rin," Sesshomaru ordered his servants.

Jaken looked puzzled as he spotted Kikyou standing behind his master. "What is that woman doing here, my Lord," Jaken asked, slightly angry.

"She will be traveling with us for a while," he said. They had met her before and Jaken hadn't liked her then and his likes and dislikes had not changed a bit since they had last met. Rin was overjoyed to hear the news. She had taken a liking to her the last time they had met and had always hoped that one day she would return.

"But- but, my lord-," Jaken was cut off by Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru's voice had gotten even sterner then it had been as he said, "Silence. Get ready to move out, as I told you to do before." Luckily this time the toad obeyed and did his duties along with the young human. Before long they set out once again, heading for an unknown destination.

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Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and Kirara we're waiting for Kagome to return from her anger earlier that day. Of course everyone blamed Inuyasha for it.

"Get off my back! I was simple stating that maybe she wasn't recovered enough to sense the jewel, okay," Inuyasha yelled.

"Yeah, but you said it in such a rude way which is the reason that Kagome left. So it is your fault," Shippo shot back. Inuyasha took his chance and knocked Shippo over the head.

Kagome appeared from behind the trees a second after that. Luckily for Inuyasha she didn't see the little fiasco. She then took a seat between Sango and Shippo, and look that she had cooled down quite a bit.

To break the silence Miroku spoke, "So then, shall we continue to track down Kikyou since Kagome is back now?"

"Yeah, we need to at least find her scent before tomorrow or her trail might fade," Inuyasha said while standing up. The others followed this suit and began to follow Inuyasha toward the battlefield.

After a few minutes they arrived at the battlefield where they had battled with Naraku only a few days ago. The entire event seemed like nothing more than a distant memory now. But now was not the time to take a stroll down memory lane, and Inuyasha knew it because he was already on all fours searching for Kikyou's scent.

Soon enough he had found it and was practically running to follow it. The others couldn't keep up and Kagome cried after him, "Inuyasha, slow down!" Inuyasha either didn't hear her or ignored her as he jumped over a hill out of sight. He did how ever hear her when she yelled, "Sit, boy!"

Kagome got over the hill first and witnessed the sight of Inuyasha laying face down on the ground. "Incase you didn't notice, I had stopped before you yelled sit," he yelled after he had jumped up off the ground to face her.

She wore one of her seemingly innocent grins as she said, "Oops, sorry Inuyasha. You were behind the hill and I couldn't see you." Inuyasha looked at her with one of his own faces, the exasperated one.

"Sure, you did," he said in a mocking tone. "Let's just go."

They then continued on, with Inuyasha walking this time, but walking very quickly. After a while the others lagged behind enough that they were out of earshot, that's when Kagome took her chance and sped up to walk beside him.

Kagome finally decided to say something, "Umm, Inuyasha, I'm sorry for all of the sit commands that I gave you today. You aren't too mad are you?"

Inuyasha looked at her for a moment, he was surprised that she had actually apologized. He responded by saying, "Well, seeing how you apologized this time, I guess I won't be. Just lay off with the sit commands next time, okay?"

"Thanks, Inuyasha," she said. "If you do become a full youkia, then will that be the end of our journeys together? I mean since Naraku's gone and the Shikon no Tama will soon be in the other world again, will there be any reason for us to be together?"

He had been expecting her to give him that lecture about how he didn't need to be a full youkia. Inuyasha responded by crossing his arms in front of his chest and saying, "Don't be stupid. Just because Naraku's dead and gone doesn't mean that another youkia like him won't take his place. Just because I'll be a full youkia won't mean that people won't still try to cause trouble for us. There will be plenty of things for us to do together."

Kagome smiled at that, she never wanted to leave Inuyasha. They had been so busy with Naraku that she never gave much thought to what would happen after he was defeated. Now that he was gone she had given it more thought and she doubted a happy ending with Inuyasha. But now that she had heard Inuyasha say what he did she was freed from her doubts.

Inuyasha then stopped abruptly, " Hey what did you stop for, Inuyasha," the girl asked.

Inuyasha dropped to all fours and began sniffing. He stopped and answered, "Kikyou's scent stops here and Sesshomaru's appears." The hanyuo crawled a little ways while sniffing, then he stood up. "And they leave together," he finished.

"You're sure, Inuyasha," Miroku asked as he and the other three arrived.

Inuyasha merely nodded. "If Sesshomaru did anything to Kikyou then I'll kill him myself," Inuyasha muttered in a barely audible voice.

"Don't worry, I'm sure that she's fine and we'll find her soon enough," Kagome said.

Inuyasha looked at her and said, "I hope that you're right, Kagome." They once again set off to follow Kikyou and Sesshomaru.

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It was twilight, and Rin was beginning to fall asleep on Au-Un's back. 'She must have worn herself out from talking with that woman all day. We should stop before she falls off Au-Un's back,' Sesshomaru thought as he glanced at her from the corner of his eye.

"We'll stop here for the night," the youkia said.

The others did not complain as they each settled down. They had stopped in a meadow so the two lesser youkia and Rin settled down in the center of it. Sesshomaru gracefully leapt into a tree at the edge of the clearing, and Kikyou took a seat at the bottom of the tree next to Sesshomaru's.

Soon enough only Kikyou and Sesshomaru were awake. Kikyou had been waiting for a chance to tell Sesshomaru of Naraku's survival. She hesitated, however, for she felt bad about not telling Inuyasha first. But that was the price that he was paying for choosing that half-wit girl over her. Kikyou looked up to where Sesshomaru was sitting, and saw that he was unmoving, as though he was asleep. She knew better though, he was wide awake, as was she.

"Sesshomaru," she called, saying his name softly in a whisper as to not wake the others. All that she got as an answer was a shift of his head and a hmm.

"I wanted to thank you again for this favor," she said.

Sesshomaru answer after a moment, "Is that all that you disturbed me for?"

Kikyou was angered by that, but thought it best not to anger him. "No, I wanted to also tell you that Naraku is still alive. I met him in a village not far from here. He is very weak and has no body. I was also able to injure him further so he should be out of commission for a while. I thought that this information might be useful to you."

'She never ceases to amaze me,' he thought. "I appreciate the information. It will be useful, and if you have anymore information on you should share it now. The more information we have, the easier that it will be for us to find Naraku," he said. She noticed the use of "us" in his words, and wondered if that meant her.

She was brought out of her wondering when Sesshomaru said, " Get some sleep." She was startled by the softness in his words, but nonetheless took his advice.

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"Damn it! If you all don't hurry up then I'll leave you behind," Inuyasha said, or rather yelled, at the other members of the group. It was after daybreak and the others were moving slowly.

Kagome yawned and said, "Calm down, Inuyasha, its not like you only have an hour to find her. Besides what are you going to do when you find her."

Inuyasha turned away and said, "Kill Sesshomaru, and take Kikyou back, duh."

"Well you do that when we get there, so lets go," Kagome said, still half asleep.

They walk for a while in silence, until Inuyasha stopped. It seemed that Sesshomaru was close by and Inuyasha had no intentions of bringing the others with him.

"You all wait here. I'm going alone," he said.

Kagome was the first to reply, "You mean he's close by?" He nodded. Then leapt off before she could say another word. He was going to do this alone no matter what she or anyone else said, besides sit.

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Sesshomaru and his group were just about to start off when he sensed Inuyasha coming. "Jaken stay here with Rin and Au-Un. Kikyou come with me," he said. Kikyou and him started to walk off through the forest, ignoring the toad that was shouting in frustration. They were headed in the direction that Inuyasha was coming.

Kikyou had also sensed him so she said nothing as they walked. She wondered if Sesshomaru would play his part as he had said, but believed that he would keep his word. This was going to be a dramatic encounter.

I hope to get the next chapter up in a few days but who knows, I have school now and the eighth grade teachers aren't laying off on homework! So it may take me a while to get the next one up. Oh and by the way Sesshomaru meant kissing, not anything else.

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