AN: Here is the new and improved I Won't Forget!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha but I am plotting! laughs evilly
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I Won't Forget
By Hentai no Ai
Meet The Guys
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No, they couldn't have left yet, the thoughts came from a 7 year old girl. Her blue eyes were wide and moist as she ran towards the biggest house in the neighborhood. Her long black hair was wild and damp from the rain pounding down on her. She ignored the cold weather and continued to run towards her destination.
"Kagome!" Her eyes snapped towards the little boy calling her name. He was dry and sheltered under the umbrella of one of his parents' many workers.
"Inuyasha!" She ran over to her friend immediately, pulling him into a tight embrace. "I thought you already left!"
"Well, I'm here now, ain't I?" He said while returning her hug.
She hit him on his arm lightly, "Stop being such a jerk, I won't ever see you again and you can't even be nice to me?"
"No, stupid." He pulled away from her to look her in the eyes, "We'll see each other soon, why should I act nice if I'm going to see you again?"
Kagome stared back into his eyes to find the answer herself, she knew the chances of them seeing each other again were slim to none. But if he had hope, then she would too.
She put her arms around him again and felt him do the same, "I'm gonna miss you."
She simply nodded against his chest, too worried that she'd say something wrong if she spoke.
"Come on, Inuyasha. It's time to go." They both turned towards his father before stepping back out of the embrace.
"Goodbye, Inuyasha." Kagome's gaze shifted down, to the hard concrete ground.
"Bye Kagome." Inuyasha leaned over and placed a small kiss on her cheek. Kagome looked up, out of shock, but before she could say anything he was in the car, staring at her with melancholy eyes.
She barely registered the sound of the car starting and hadn't realized it was moving and Inuyasha's face was in the back window. Soon she was running after the black, expensive town car, yelling, "Don't forget me Inuyasha!" She stopped, realizing wasting her energy wasn't going to get him to stay with her, and began the long walk to her house with tears running down her face.
Inuyasha watched all this and finally turned back around in his spot next to his mother. He felt her trying to comfort him, rubbing on his furry ears to get him to sleep. And her plan was working, but before he fell into a sleep he didn't wake up from until they reached their destination hours and hours away, one thought entered his mind, I won't, Kagome...
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Kagome woke up with her pillow wet from her tears. I've been having that same dream ever since we moved to the shrine, She blew out an aggravated breath and wiped her face angrily. Her family had decided to move into the shrine with her grandfather a month earlier.
Kagome slowly got out of bed and went to the bathroom to get in the shower. After she dressed, she slowly trudged down the stairs to get some breakfast.
She finished her bowl of cereal after silently pondering why her brother was riding on their extremely obese cat in nothing but his whitey tighties and a cowboy hat. She watched as they both stuggled across the kitchen floor, Souta trying to keep his balance and Buyo trying not to experience cardiac arrest while carrying the extra ninety pounds. She shook her head before yelling out, "Later mom! I'm going out!"
Kagome had wandered into the forest of the shrine lands and was lost in her own world. The mix of large and almost identical trees that were evenly spaced out and off of the path made for tourists should have left her astray but everytime she walked through,she'd somehow find herself in front of the Goshinboku without fail. She sighed to herself and continued walking.
"You know, they say everytime you sigh, you shrink a little." Kagome nearly jumped out of her skin as a deep male voice protruded her thoughts with the strange statement.
"What?" She turned to the source of the voice and raised her eyebrows at the sight of a young man leaning against a tree with his tanned arms crossed. She noticed a string of dark purple beads on his wrist, the same color of his shirt and eyes. "Who are you?"
"I am Miroku Houshi, and I was merely stating that some believe when you let out a deep breathe, also known as a sigh, you become smaller in size, also known as shrinking."
Kagome clenched her teeth in annoyance when he began talking to her like she were a child, giving out the definitions as if she'd asked him out of naivete. "Whatever." She began walking away, her back stiff from the encounter.
"Wait!" He called out to her, making her quicken her pace. But to no avail, he was soon walking just as quickly next to her. "You didn't tell me your name." He said with a smile showing off his white teeth.
She turned to give him a glare, "And I don't plan t-"
Kagome soon found herself on the ground, rubbing the side of her head. "Ow..." She looked up to see what exactly she had run into. Golden eyes and long silver hair greeted her vision and her jaw dropped in shock.
"Watch where you're going, wench!" He immediately turned his attention to the man that had been irritating her. Kagome was still in awe when she registered his words, she snapped her mouth shut and jumped up to berate him.
"Excuse me if you're walking around on private property and ignoring two people walking in your direction, you asshole!"
"Listen, little girl..." He looked at her and his eyes widened,the disbelief showing on his face. "Kagome?"
Miroku looked at his hanyou friend and then to the girl, "You know her already?"
"Yeah, she-"
"Refuses to be in the presence of a damn prick such as yourself." Kagome cut him off and turned around, a scowl still on her face as she walked away.
"Kagome, wait!"
"No!" She continued to stomp her way back to her home, her eyes watering and blurring her vision, "Oof!" She wiped her eyes to stare at the boy turned man that she'd dreamed about seeing again since the day of his departure in her youth. "Get out of my way.""I don't think so. Why are you crying?"
"Why wouldn't I be!" She punched his chest, not caring that he didn't even flinch. "The boy that I knew since I was born moved away from me ten years ago, forgot about me, and insults me when he sees me again while I've been dreaming about this moment, never forgetting his promise that we'd meet again while it's glaringly obvious that he most definitely has!"
Inuyasha's face had considerably tightened while she continued to scream at him and beat her small fists onto his body. "Kagome..."
"And here I am, bawling just because I thought an idiot like you would remember the girl that was a huge part of the first seven years of your life!"
"Kagome." He said her name a little louder this time, a twitch developing in his left eye as the onslaught continued.
"But of course I'm wro-"
"Kagome!"
"What!" She switched her gaze to his own, throughout the entire ordeal she had been glaring at a tree.
"If all those things you're saying is true, why the hell do I know your name?" He smirked when her eyes dropped to the ground. "I couldn't forget you if I tried, so stop acting so-" He stopped short when he felt her arms wrap around his torso, effectively squeezing him so tightly he was having trouble breathing.
Miroku, not to be left out, latched on to him too, sandwiching Kagome between them, "This is a kodak moment! Either one of you have a camera?"
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"If you two don't shut up I swear you'll have to talk around tree trunks in your throats." Miroku had been leading them through the forest, growing agitated with each passing moment as the two long lost friends literally went through their life stories with such detail and expression that he was ready to stuff the various leaves on the ground into his ears if only to drown out them out.
The pair looked at him, their faces expressed their doubt, but decided to tone it down. "How long have you been here?" Inuyasha asked her, mindful of Miroku's continuous shifting of his beaded bracelet, a sure sign of his annoyance.
"Only a couple of weeks, Grandpa was sick and he needed help so we sold our old house and then moved out here. But I kind of wish we hadn't actually moved since there's nothing to do but listen to him make up stories about everything in the house and walk around and count trees."
"I'm surprised we've only just seen you, Inuyasha and I are always in here." Miroku interjected, getting into their conversation.
"Why?"
"Uh... no reason." Inuyasha said before Miroku could say anything.
"Actually, there is." Miroku figured it was time to get back at his friend for making him have to listen to their prolonged chat for a good 20 minutes straight. "You see, Inuyasha and I have this little game going where we alternate our roles as players."
"What do you do?" Kagome asked, curious about what they'd be doing sneaking around the shrine lands. She didn't notice how Inuyasha's face began to take on a pink tint.
"Well, first we lure a lovely girl like yourself off the trail but since you were already off it we didn't have to. But anyway, I strike up a conversation with her and soon either annoy her or scare her, so much that she's basically sprinting to get away from me."
"So, your great skills at harassing females comes from practice, not naturally?"
"Please, refrain from injuring me so with your biting words. But yes, as you so eloquently put it, my ability of frustrating the female pysche has been perfected from constant habituating."
"I love your vocabulary," She said with a laugh.
"Why thank you, Kagome-sama." He gave her a smile. "But allow me to continue. While the young woman's attention is on me, Inuyasha steps from his hiding place and 'rescues' her and then hopefully she gives him something in return to show her gratitude."
"Like what?" She asked, her brows slightly furrowed, making her cunfusion obvious.
"Like... How should I put this?" Miroku stroked his chin in a thoughtful gesture. "She allows him to check over her anatomy, to make sure she's unscathed."
Kagome's mind was in overdrive as she realized exactly what it was that they'd hope he was getting as reciprocation for his 'chivalrousness'. Her eyes nearly popped out of her head as she turned to Inuyasha, Miroku cackled as he watched this. "You... I... sex! Ugh!"
Inuyasha turned to her quickly, his face close to the shade of a ripe tomato, "As soon as I realized it was you that was the last thing to cross my mind!"
"What! Are you trying to say that I'm so ugly you couldn't imagine seeing yourself in that kind of position with me?"
"No, that's not what I'm saying!"
"Yes you are, you... Who the fuck are you!" Kagome, being so intent on getting a reason to give Inuyasha a beat down, hadn't noticed the pair of blue eyes following her every move. She didn't know the holder of the bright cruelean eyes had decided that she was going to be his woman. Whether she liked it or not. And to prove this, he jumped out of his spot from a tree that rivaled the size of the Goshinboku to pull her into a tight embrace.
"I am Kouga, your future mate." He grinned at her as he said this.
"Uh, I don't think so." She pushed him away, only to have him replaced by another boy that looked exactly like Miroku except for his hazel eyes and blonde hair.
She was about to push him away when he grabbed both her arms and stared straight into her eyes. "Will you do me the honor of bearing my child?"
"What? No!" She pulled her hands out of his grip as responded, completely ignoring Miroku's proclamtion of "That's my line, you damn copycat!"
"But your beauty, mixed with my devilish good looks would surely have an outcome of children so good looking that parents would travel from near and far only to be blessed with such sights and hope that their hertitage could be carried on with our offspring."
Kagome raised her eyebrows, surprised that she'd actually met someone with a bigger ego than Inuyasha's older brother.
"Do you ever cease further disgracing your kind by opening your mouth and spewing out your idiotic ramblings?"
Speak of the devil.
She turned towards the source of the stoic voice, a smile breaking onto her face. "Sesshoumaru!"
He turned to her, one elegant eyebrow raised in question. "Kagome?"
"Yeah," She nodded confirming what he already knew. "Its 'the annoying Higurashi girl' that was always 'pestering you with her constant rough housing' with your little brother."
He allowed a small smile at her recitation of one of his many pleadings to keep her and Inuyasha out of the house. She took a step towards him and was promptly thrown down to the ground by what looked like a dark red furball. Her head landed on one extremely hard patch of ground, knocking her unconscious.
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When she opened her eyes again she saw a white ceiling and a head covered with a bush of auburn hair tied into a ponytail. The head popped up, bright green eyes capturing her own with their raw emotion, "I'm sorry!"
"Do I know you?" She sat up in the tan colored couch and took in her surroundings. There was a giant TV being obscured by the head that was sobbing out apologies in front of her. The walls of the room were a light cream color with darker horizontal stripes that matched the soft carpet.
"I'm the one that tackled you." He recieved her complete attention after that and looked away from her piercing stare. "I'm really sorry I thought you put Sesshoumaru under a spell and was going to eat his heart before you killed the rest of us."
"What?"
"He was smiling and he never smiles so I thought you put him under a spell..."
She laughed, the sound ringing through the entire room, "I think you watch too much TV."
"That's what Inuyasha says." He said, a frown on his small face.
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AN: Yay! I actually did what I said I'd do! I've accomplished the impossible!
Inu-chan: Again, advertising your shortcomings to the masses is not a good idea.
HnA: Neither is showing your face to them but that doesn't stop you now does it?
If you've read this story and haven't reviewed (SHAME ON YOU!), please review and tell me what you think about this as compared to the old version. If you do I'll give you some candy.