For all those who wanted to find out the twist to the story and the reasons for the two weeks, here is just a little taste of what happened to her. Please read and review, I want to know if people really like this. I'm putting a lot of thought into it so that you can't predict anything. Thank you for all the reviews and all the dedicated readers.
Chapter 2:
Kagome woke with a startling scream, but when she awoke, she only found herself lying in Kaede's house before a warming fire. What a dream she had, had. But it felt so real to her consciousness almost as if it had happened seconds before. The sweat and smell wouldn't leave her mind as the vivid images of her dream came back to life.
Him, Sesshomaru, was… KISSING her! With a gasp she turned and looked at the fire, not really staring at it, but lost in deep thought. What had the dream meant? Why did she even have a dream about the strong and cold demon that had tried to kill her and Inuyasha on countless occasions? She just wanted to erase the non-existent memory from her mind, but something about it made it stick. Why?
When she finally looked around the room, she noticed that she was alone. Where had all her friends gone without her? But the sounds of soft whispering resonated from outside. "Aye, Inuyasha, I do sense something ominous in Kagome, but what you speak of is impossible…" What where they talking about?
"It has to be, I found her just west of her, near the castle…" Castle? What castle? What were they leaving her out of? She stood and wobbly legs and walked toward the entrance, but before she could get out the door, they became deathly silent. Inuyasha had smelt her, while the others must have sensed her.
She walked out to see the gloom faces of all her friends staring at her. It was as if someone had just died. "Hey guys, what's going on?" No one answered; they all just looked away except for Inuyasha who looked heartbroken. He stood with a huff and walked away. How strange, he hadn't acted like that toward her since they just met. He didn't say anything towards her. "What was that all about guys?" When no one would answer, she began to demand one. Only Kaede would give her such a blessing in the moment of awkward silence.
"My dear child, but something is strange in the air, and we know not what it is." What did that mean? Her confused, furrowed face made Kaede sigh and walked toward her. "Ye do not remember such happenings of the past three weeks?" What, three weeks, what about them?
"Kaede, I don't understand…" Miroku and Sango exchanged pathetic glances before joining the conversation. "What's happ—"She was cut off by Miroku's worried voice.
"You have been missing for the last two weeks Kagome." The news was startling, but why had she gone missing?
"Yes, Inuyasha found you." Sango added with a simple wave of her hand. "He never stopped looking for you."
She shook her head, was this another bad dream, like the one she had awoken from? "How had I disappeared?" That's when the silence got deeper. They looked at each other, but not her. "Come on you guys, what happened?"
"That's it Kagome, we really don't know. We woke up and you weren't there. Inuyasha went berserk trying to find you." Sango looked at Miroku and back at the ground. Why did they all look so guilty?
"What is that you guys aren't telling me?" They did it again, and boy was it unnerving her, that they looked only at each other and not her. "Stop it!" They jumped and finally looked at her. "Just tell me, I want to know. I can't remember anything, I didn't even know that, that much time had passed between then and now."
"Kagome, Inuyasha found just outside the Western Domain…" Miroku nodded to Sango's statement. But Kagome didn't understand, and just like that they read her mind. "That land belongs to Sesshomaru." She didn't seem to find what they were all referring to. Miroku sighed loudly, guessing what Kagome didn't get.
"When we found you, we found the Tenseiga in your hands." What?!
"Yes, and we found healing wounds on your neck and stomach, but they were, or had been, healing for a while." Kagome put her hand to her neck and felt like she was choking. But no scar was on her neck. She felt her stomach all over to neither feel, nor see anything either.
"But there is no scar of such a wound."
"We don't understand either…" Miroku picked up his staff and head back into the hut. Sango followed quickly behind.
"Kagome, stay close, okay?" She nodded as she watched her friend enter the hut.
Kaede gave her a grave stare as she followed the others. "Nothing is what it should be. Kagome, please think hard into your mind, find those lost and hidden memories. They are the key to figuring out who had taken you and what they wanted. And why Sesshomaru's Tenseiga was with you."
Kaede turned, but Kagome grabbed the sleeve of her Kimono. "Where's the sword?" She just had to see it with her own eyes. Did her dream have anything to do with it? Was Sesshomaru really around her when she was in that forest before Inuyasha had found her?
"Aye, this way…" She was led back into the hut, where the two were already a sleep on opposite sides of the hut, probably Sango's way of keeping the monks hands a safe distance from her body. In a room where Kaede slept, a dark blanket was bundled and wrapped together with white cloth. Kaede picked it up and handed it toward her. With a slow reaction, Kagome grabbed the warmth and paused. Was the famous fang really in this bundle of blanket, or was it another bad dream, within a dream?
She walked back to the fire, sat down, and stared some more. When she got her courage up, she unwrapped the first layer and paused. Second and paused. Third and paused, until she was at the fourth and final layer. She, with snail's pace, took off the last layer. And there before her was Sesshomaru's sword. It shined in the fire lighted and glowed with strength.
It was as if the sword was the key to unlocking the mysterious disappearance of her memories. And there was only one other person who would know what had happened to her; Sesshomaru.
Inuyasha flew into the entrance with a stern face, but he was thrown off by her, one, being away and two. the Tenseiga in her lap. He growled in disgust and headed back for the door, "Inuyasha, wait, please…" He was annoyed, why was he so annoyed by her presence? It was as if he had reverted to the way he was in the beginning.
"What do you want?" He snapped, but he wouldn't even turn to look at her. Why was he being so cold, she just heard he had been looking for her nonstop for the last two weeks and was worried to death, but now he was acting like it was nuisance that she was around? That maybe she was better off gone. After she didn't reply right away, he turned and looked at her with skeptical eyes.
"What's going on?" After all they had been through; he owed her an explanation why he was acting so strangely. She put the sword down and walked toward him; it seemed the closer she got the more crinkled and angry his face became.
"Why are you doing that?" His features softened for a second as he realized the faces he was making to her. "What's wrong with you?" He huffed as scratched his head.
"It's complicated and I—"But she wouldn't give him the chance to back out of this one.
"I don't want that excuse, I want answers…" And it was just like him to interrupt her back.
"Will you just shut up and let me finish!" When she silenced, he continued with his spill. "Kagome, things are going to be different between us." Her heart stopped. Why? "There are things that had happened that I can't undo. You are not ready to know and I have no heart to tell you. All I can say is I'm sorry…" That was all she was going to get; heartbreak from the one person she loved more than life? "You are now far more protected from evil than I could ever guarantee…"
What the hell was he babbling about? She didn't understand, but she did understand the pain she felt in her chest. Was he leaving her? And with that following silence and heartbreak, Inuyasha left the hut…
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