+Don't Forget Me+
By Velvet
Chapter One: The Last Time
Kagome gently pulled away from the kiss looking at the dirty ground of the feudal era. Her eyes were brimming with tears. A hand reached up just as the first drop slipped down her cheek and wiped it away softly. She looked upwards in to the eyes of InuYasha.
"Don't cry, it'll only make this harder" he spoke softly putting his arms around her
"I don't want you to leave InuYasha, I only just got you" said Kagome burying her face in his chest and beginning to sob.
"I have to do this, for you and for me- I want to be with you for as long as I live Kagome, but if I live longer because I'm half demon- I'll die alone" said InuYasha feeling tears come to his own honey coloured eyes. He brushed them away quickly so Kagome wouldn't see.
"Becoming human isn't all it's cracked up to be you know" Kagome said her voice breaking a little from crying.
Inuyasha pulled away from her and took her hands in his. He looked deep in to her beautiful eyes and smiled.
"Yes it is, I'll be like you"
"Oh InuYasha!" Kagome wailed bursting in to tears and hugging him. InuYasha hugged back quickly then pulled away feeling hot tears surging in his eyes again.
"I'll come back for you Kagome, this may be the last time we kissed, the last time we hugged, the last time we saw each other's true feelings; But it's only the last time for a little while" he paused "I promise"
"Don't forget me" Kagome whispered silent tears still sliding down her face
"Never" InuYasha replied. Then he was gone.
-Two Years Later-
"Come on Kagome! Don't be a chicken!"
"Yeah! Come on, follow us!"
"It's easy!" said Kagome's friends dragging a bewildered Goth Kagome through the doors of "The Broken Glass" a nightclub they visited a lot. Kagome- being in the feudal era a lot- never went, but since InuYasha left, she couldn't go near the shrine without bursting in to tears. Neither of them was old enough to come in here, but hey- 17 year old girls! It's what they do. Kagome blinked as they stepped past security guards in to an entirely new world. The room was filled with shimmering floors, mirror covered walls, disco lights, really loud music, fake smoke and glitter.
"Hey Kagome, do you see who I see?" exclaimed an excited Eri pointing to a boy coming towards them.
"Oh my god- you guys have no idea how much I hate you right now" hissed Kagome as they pushed her right next to the boy. It was Hojo.
"Hi Kagome, how are you?" he asked politely. Poor, predictable, Hojo. Thought Kagome. I bet it was him who asked my friend to bring me in here! Damn him!
"I'm okay" replied Kagome trying to think of a god way to get rid of him.
"That's good to know. Listen I was thinking on Friday night…" said Hojo
Dammit! He's going to ask me out again! La la la la… not listening…
"…Maybe we could go for some food afterwards too…"
is he STILL talking? God- I should give him a parrot
"…Unless you don't like that sort of thing, in which case I think…"
I'm not going out with him- im still waiting for InuYasha!
"So how about it Kagome? I'll pick you up at seve-"
"NO!" Kagome screamed. Several people stopped and stared at her "I'm with someone else! PERMANENTLY" then she turned on her heel and stormed out of the club angrily. Her friends apologized to Hojo then scurried after her as she walked up the dark and empty street.
"Kagome, you really should give Hojo a chance he's a really nice guy-" started one of them.
"Shut up!" Kagome retorted walking faster. Her friends ran to keep up.
"Who's this guy you're with anyway? Not that rogue guy is it because-"
"Shut up!"
"Kagome you're being totally unreasonable and-"
"SHUT YOUR FACE!" she screamed turning around to face them with a look not unlike InuYasha's face when in demon form. She caught sight of her face in a window and burst in to tears. Her friends cowered.
"Kagome- if you just let us meet this guy, we'd understand. All we've got to go on is that he's a murdering rogue who likes girls who are WAY younger than him!" shouted one of her friends as Kagome started running, and crying.
Their voices grew faint as she kept up her quick pace- which wasn't easy considering her shoes. They were massive knee high black boots with four buckles on each. She tripped on some stairs and fell down heavily.
"Oh holy shit" she cursed as blood dripped from a cut on her elbow. She sat up on the stairs and pulled off her boots. She thrust them aside and buried her face in her hands sobbing. She was crying so much she didn't hear the footsteps approach and stop just inches from her. It was only when the figure belonging to the footsteps sat down next to her and placed an arm around her shoulders that she looked up. A man was sitting there with her.
"Tissue?" he said taking one from his pocket and offering it to her. She nodded and took it from him. Her face was streaked with black mascara from the crying.
"Hey, who are you?" said Kagome after she finished wiping her face. She was usually blunt with questions like this now. Being with InuYasha had given her a new sense of something that can only be described as, rudeness.
"My name doesn't matter right now, I want to know why you're crying" he replied shifting his feet in to a more comfortable position and taking his arm off Kagome. His face was difficult to see because it was so dark.
"You wouldn't understand it's a long story- two years in fact" Kagome said resting her head on her hands.
"Two years huh? Let me guess… You're lover went away promising to come back- but they haven't come back or made contact with you all this time and you just got asked out by someone you don't particularly care about" he said accurately. Too right… actually. Kagome looked taken aback- that's almost exactly what happened.
"How did you know?" she asked
"Not difficult to figure out really. I saw you yelling at that guy back in The Broken Glass and when you said Two Years... I just put 2 and 2 together" he shrugged "Also I figured from experience"
"Wow, you're pretty quick isn't you?" said Kagome in a mock American accent. The man laughed.
"Aye miss, I know lots of things ye don't normally see today" he said in a terrible English accent. They both fell about laughing.
"Please, tell me who are you?" giggled Kagome.
"I'm just a memory Kagome" he said his voice fading "nothing more…"
Kagome looked around wildly and found nothing but a white mist. She put up her arm and looked at the cut on her arm. Except it wasn't there.
"Did I even fall over?" she asked herself. She saw droplets of blood on the ground next to her. She wrinkled her forehead and then shrugged. "I have been meaning to get a cat scan anyway…"
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Kagome sat on the floor of her room plucking at the strings on her guitar. She didn't know what she was playing- nor did she care, her mind was on the unknown stranger that she had met earlier that night. He had said he was a memory. But a memory of what, or who? It made no sense; there was no-one that she ever got along with so well anymore except for…
"InuYasha…" Kagome whispered to herself and picking up her guitar properly. She began to play a soft, sad tune. Then she added words:
The last time, we kissed.
The last time I miss,
Your smile, your face,
I miss that place
The place where I felt safe
The place I called home
The place I want to be
The place I'd never known
But you took my hands showed me everything
The trees, the animals, now I sing
I want you to be, with me
One last time
I want us to be, completely free
One last time
I want to say sorry for letting you go
One last time
I just want to be sure you know
For the last time
Sleeping on the ground
Stars and animals all around
I loved it, when we
Helped and saved others, completely free
Your eyes, your stare, injected me
With a feeling I've never known
Back then it was so frightening
Now I call this feeling home
I want you to be, with me
One last time
I want us to be, completely free
One last time
I want to say sorry for letting you go
One last time
I just want to be sure you know
For the last time
Promise you won't leave me
Promise that you'll come
Promise everything to me
Promises can't be undone
I want you to be, with me
One last time
I want us to be, completely free
One last time
I want to say sorry for letting you go
One last time
I just want to be sure that you know
For the last time…
Oh oh oh oh…
The last time…
Oh oh oh oh…
Last time…
"I love you InuYasha, never forget it" said Kagome to no-one in particular
"He won't" said a familiar voice