Memories of You
Chapter One :
Dark clouds slowly rolled across the sky, bringing the smell of mist and rain into the dense air. Though, it was not the upcoming storm that had the forest silent. The only sound that could be heard was the soul shattering sobs coming from a young woman as she fought hard not to let any more tears stream across her pale face. Across from her, a full blooded demon stood. Across his face was splattered with the same blood that was slowly dripped from his claws. His golden eyes never left her's as he watched her silently, his face showing completely emotionless.
Chocking back another sob, the eighteen year old girl raised her bow and arrow shakily, pointing it directly at the demon's chest. Her wavy black hair blew back as a gust of wind crossed the invisible wall between the two. Her hands visibly shook as she kept her weapon level with the demon. Lifting her chin, tears still rolling down her face, she raised her voice so she could hear it over the howling wind, knowing he would be able to hear it even if she had been whispering.
"How could you? How could you, Inuyasha?!" she gasped out between sobs. "I would have forgiven you anything...but not this...I...had never even imagined you capable of this!" looking away for a second, she took a deep breath, her eyes hardening. "Why? Why Inuyasha?"
"Dose it really matter anymore Kagome?" Never taking his eyes off her face, he let her see the pain he had been hiding from even himself, letting his numb shell fall away. "What's done is done. Even if I explain myself, it wont bring her back. And it wont ease the pain any..." taking a few steps forward, he raised his hand as if to touch her, but then quickly withdrew it, knowing now was not the time. "Are you really going to kill me Kagome? Can you really kill the father of your child?"
Closing her eyes tightly against the pain his words caused, she slowly shook her head no. chocking back yet another sob, she opened her normally soft chocolate brown eyes and clenched her teeth, eyes as hard and cold as stone. "No. I could never kill the man I love. But I am fully capable of killing the man who just slaughtered our daughter!"
Closing her eyes once again, she let the arrow fly through the air to hit it's target. "The man I fell in love with has been gone for a long time now..." She whispered softly, falling to the ground as the blood of her lover splattered onto her. Dropping her bow, she covered her blood stained face with her hands and began crying uncontrollably just as the sky opened up and let the rain that had building spill free.
"I'm sorry...I'm so sorry..." as she cried out those words over and over, no one, not even herself, knew if it was for the child, slain by it's own father; the man who had lost himself to the power he had gained; or for herself...
00
000
00
Kagome's whole body jerked forward as she awakened from the dream, her tear stained face pale and tant with pain. Blinking a few times, as if confused by her surroundings she took a deep calming breath and looked around the room. As she took in the poster covered walls, the piles of clothing on the floor, and the poor lighting, she let her eyes close again and leaned back onto the wall behind her. "Stupid nightmare. You would think that a nineteen year old would be having nice, hot, steamy dreams about Gackt or Miyavi...or both..at the same time...in my bed"
Wiping the drool that the thought had created off, she glanced over at her alarm clock, and frowned, doing a double take. "Wha?! I don't have class for another two hours!" sliding back down onto her bad, she pulled the covers over hear head and sighed heavily. Reaching up, she pulled on one of her many earrings lightly as she tried to think. She had been having similar dreams since she had been a small child. Though not all of them so...unpleasant. She had been having one every night recently though, not the once a month as they had been before.
As a child, she had been fascinated by the dreams that only occurred on the night of the new moon. They had felt so real. So right. They felt as is she was living it. As if her real life had been the dream.
As if that was the life she was supposed to be leading...like they were memories, and not just dreams. But that was impossible...right?
Scoffing at her train of thought, Kagome tossed the covers off her face and rolled her eyes at the ceiling. "Of course it's just a dream...nightmare really since that dick is always in them!"
"You know 'Gome, you really shouldn't yell at yourself like that. Do we really need people knowing how crazy we truly are? Though...a trip to the padded room again might be fun..." a bodiless voice mused loudly, causing Kagome to scream bloody murder and jump back so fast she smashed her head into the wall. She screamed again when the owner of said voice slide out from under her bed.
"Damn it Edward! what the hell is wrong with you?!" She shouted at her roommate, moving to the other end of the bed so she could pull her crazy friend out from under it, taking a quickly look under to see if anyone else was there. With Edward, you never knew... "And why the hell are you under my bed?"
Edward Faye had a tendency to do the unexpected and the unimaginable. The twenty year old demon was...odd, even by demon standards. Though with parents like her's, it really came as no surprise. Her fox demon mother, and dog demon father had both been born and raised in the united states. They had refused to watch any cartoons other then Japanese ones – known in the USA as Anime. When they were teens, they had started going to conventions and buying costumes like a 'normal' human anime freak.
That was actually how they had found one another. He had been dressed as Ramna, she as Akana, and when she had hit him with her giant mallet, it had been love at first sight. They had decided to name each of their pups after their favorite anime characters. Each litter they switched off on who got to name the pups. And because of the types of demon they were, they did have a lot of pups.
Blinking her dark green eyes that had promoted her father to add the 'Faye' to her name, Edward tilted her head to the side and frowned. "What? It's cooler down there...heat rises you know...besides, it's fun to scare you like that...you always make me giggle 'Gome..."
Smiling brightly, she pushed her red 'Edward' trait out of her face and behind her pointed ears. Rushing forward she pushed Kagome over the side of the bed so she could jump on it, bouncing on her knees much like a child on Christmas morning, looking down at Kagome, now laying face flat on the ground. "What..are you doing 'Gome? Your so weird!"
Lifting one brow, Kagome slowly moves so she was sitting on the floor. "If I am weird, what, pry tell, are you?" sighing, she closed her eyes and leaned back on the bed. It was way too early for anyone to be that damned energetic. "You get into the coffee already or something?"
"Coffee? Naw, I don't touch that crap, causes cancer and jittery nerves...but I did find some jelly filled doughnuts in the kitchen. Mmmm, doughnuts..I would have brought you one...but..." looking off to the side slightly, Edward smiled sheepishly then turned to glare down at her stomach. "...Well, Ed's tummy gave the growl of death, demanding Ed feed it more. So of course I had to do what it wanted me to..."
Kagome rolled her eyes, still groggy from being up at such an ungodly hour. Who ever heard of a college student waking up at five in the morning?! Moving to her dresser, she started to get ready for what already seemed like a long day. "What ever. I can always grab one from the kitchen myself. My legs not being broken and all..."
"Ahh, yeah...you could...try that..."
Pausing suddenly, clean clothing draped over one arm, towel on the other, Kagome very slowly turned to face her friend. Her sugar sweet smile freaking the demon before her out slightly. "Edward, there are still sugary goodies for Kagome, yes?"
"If...by sugary goodies you mean actual sugar, then yes!" as she spoke, Ed backed up slowly toward the door. Sometimes you didn't even need demon senses to know that it was dangerous to stick around...besides, she knew that Kagome voice very well. "I've left you a whole cube!"
"...Mutt, you have exactly five seconds to start running. And Edward, you had better be running fast, because if I get my hands on you, I'm going to wring your scrawny neck!"
Turning the handle to the door, Ed smiled and pushed the door open, sticking her tong out. "Two steps ahead of you 'Gome. And I'm not scrawny! I'm svelte..."
Tossing a rolled up shirt at her retreating back, Kagome waved her fist at her friend in mock anger, a smile on her face. "Stop stealing lines from animes you freak! And Code Lyoko sucks in dubbed English!"
When she was sure she was gone, Kagome smiled brightly and closed the door quietly. Walking over to her closet, she shoved the piles of dirty clothing out of the way, she reached deep inside it and pulled out what looked like a toolbox and sat it before her.
Grabbing the chain around her neck, she pulled it out of her shirt and smiled down at the little gold key that dangled before her. Leaning forward, she started to unlock the box, drool already starting to form in her mouth. It was a special cooling box her grandfather had gotten for her special chocolate glazed doughnuts. She had told him of her sugar hungry demon friend, and he had quickly made some warding spells to add to the box. Since it was steal, even her keen sense of smell should not pick up the smell of chocolate. And with the added bonus of the charms! Well, they were completely...no longer in the box...
Kagome's eyes filled with angry tears as she quickly stood up and screamed. "Edward Faye Mou! When I get my hands on you, you are so dead!" and with that bellowed declaration, the sugar deprived college student made a mad dash to the door to hunt down her 'friend'.
The fact that she was running after one of the top track stars on campus never even crossed her mind. Nor did the fact that she also had at least a ten minute head start on her. And though she might not have noticed, the fact that she only had on a tank top and adidas boxers certainly did not escape anyone else notice.
The one thought that continued to work through her mind as she ran aimlessly through campuses was how the hell had she gotten the key when it was always around my neck?!