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Author's Notes—Sorry for the wait. I've had minor writer's block. Anyway… on with the story.

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Inuyasha slammed the door behind him and stormed down the hallway. A bubble of rage grew in his chest and he threw his fist to the wall.

"Damn girl!" He panted, "What's her problem? Why do I feel like I need to go back? Dammit!" He punched the wall again.

With what felt like his last sliver of energy, he hit the wall again and slid to his knees. "Hell… I feel so lost." He moaned in pain and frustration and brought his hands to his head.

It felt like something was fighting inside of him to come out. To unleash itself. He knew more than he either didn't realize or didn't want to realize.

All of this was too complicated. This girl shows up and claims to know him, saying that he died, when he's right there, looking at her. The pain in his head grew more and more by the second. Something wanted out.

Now.

"What the hell? Why does my head hurt… so bad?" A growl escaped his throat as his eyes clenched shut, and he balled his hands into fists, grabbing some of his hair. His form pulsated, and his growl deepened with his voice. "What… it's that Kagome girl… she's giving me a headache!" He groaned and started caving in on himself.

I- I can smell her tears…from way out here? The hell-?

The pain in his head worsened and he fell all the way to the floor and faced the ceiling. He wanted to scream in pain so badly, but his newly found pride just wouldn't let him.

"Dammit! What the hell is going on?" He wailed, tossing and turning on the floor. Something was poking him in the palm of his hand, and he peeked one eye open to see blood pouring out from beneath razor sharp claws. "What…? Those… weren't there… before."

More pain pulsed in his head and he gritted his teeth to only be poked again. A clawed hand reached up to his mouth and wiped off more blood from his lip, but the wound was re-opened again by the fangs that were now showing themselves.

"Fangs? What am I- Arrghh- a vamp? Dammit! It hurts… but it's like it's… fading- Arrghh!!" He growled again, the pain in his brain becoming too much. The golden orbs clenched shut and a low groan escaped from between his fangs.

His eyes reopened and a red veil had fallen over them. He couldn't help but feel relieved that whatever it was was finally coming out. A bright, tingling feeling fell in his chest and he felt like bursting out laughing on the spot. It was like he was his old self again. It felt so… natural.

All he smelt was blood. All he wanted was answers.

His mind engulfed itself and he lost all control.

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Kagome rolled over on her bed and faced the wall. She felt terrible but didn't know why. All she was doing was living her life as normal as she could and then they show up, making things complicated again.

She just couldn't shake this feeling that… that she could've done something. Something… that would have made it all better.

A few tears rolled down her cheeks and she wiped them off with the back of her hand and sighed.

Why do I feel so bad about this?

"Kagome?"

The raven-haired girl looked over her shoulder at Sango, who was looking at her with worried eyes.

"Sango… butt… I thought… you didn't remember…" Kagome mumbled.

Her heart sank as Sango shook her head, "I don't, but… I know… I know your name but not you and… I don't know." She held her head in confusion.

Kagome nodded and looked at Miroku. "Miroku…?"

He raised his eyebrows, "Hmn?"

She just shook her head and sat up on the bed, "Never mind…" Subconsciously, she glanced at the door with wet eyes. Sango noticed this and put a hand on the girl's shoulder.

"Don't worry about Inuyasha. He'll be fine." Kagome looked at Sango with a hopeful look and Sango gave her a small smile.

Miroku nodded, "Yes, Kagome. Don't worry yourself with Inuyasha's well being. He'll be fine, just like always."

Kagome glanced up at Miroku, who nodded, and Kagome immediately knew that Miroku knew something the others didn't. She opened her mouth to say something but she was cut short by the door bursting open.

All three pairs of eyes flew to the doorway and everyone gasped at Inuyasha standing there. He had a look about him that was a mix of severely ticked-off, worried, relieved, and struggling. Sango took a step back and Kagome backed into the corner on the bed. Miroku only stepped out of Inuyasha's way.

His clawed hand was brought up to his face and he made a fist. Behind the fist, a smirk pulled back his lips, showing off his fangs, and his triangular ears on top of his head twitched. There was a red veil over his eyes, but they still had that hint of gold in there. He was still in there. Somewhere…

His reddened eyes moved over to where Kagome was practically cowering. He knew. Somehow he had remembered, how he failed her. How he left her without a single word of comfort except "I'm sorry". Psh, what kind of comfort was that?

He was angry with himself… for leaving her alone.

Sango reached out her hand, "Inuyasha… what happened to you? You look like a… like a…"

"Demon?" He finished her sentence with a deep, sharp voice; making her jump.

Kagome cringed. His voice was laced with malice, but she didn't know whether it was towards her or not. "Inuyasha!" She screamed and he glanced at her. "Why…?"

He shook his head, "I don't know. Kagome… come here… please." His eyes were pleading, but his smirk made her second guess him. After all, you could never really trust him with red in his eyes.

Kagome pushed her back into the wall as Inuyasha got closer to her. She couldn't do anything to stop him, and he couldn't stop himself. All he wanted to do was talk to her, but she seemed to be panicking. Water formed at the edge of her eyes, threatening to spill over, and he grabbed her wrist gently. She tried to jump back but his grip only tightened and he yanked her out of the room.

They went down the hallway and she struggled to pry herself from his grasp but it was no use. He pulled her into the room with the vending machines and latched to door while letting her go and tumble to the floor.

Kagome clutched her abused wrist and glanced up at Inuyasha with tears forming in her eyes. He still look relatively pissed and took a step towards her; she drew back and shuffled to the wall. Nothing could be heard but the dull humming of the vending machines.

"Inuyasha…" She pleaded him. He was acting so strange and there wasn't anything she could do to stop it. Sure, she wanted to trust him and latch onto him, never letting go, but she just didn't trust the red in his eyes…

He reached towards her and she flinched, reeling back. Inuyasha looked at her, depression washing over his features.

"Kagome," She looked up at him and he helped her off the ground, "I'm sorry…" He stated and pulled her closer to him. She was taken aback, but soon melted into the embrace and a few tears found their way out of her eyes.

"Does this mean you remember now?" She was praying that he was going to say yes.

He nodded, "Yeah. I'm sorry for… leaving you like that." His grip tightened, "I'm so weak."

Kagome looked up at him, "You're not weak, Inuyasha."

"Yes I am. I died at the hands of my own attack. Who does that?" He grimaced.

"That's not the point. You protected me, just like you promised to." They both smiled and embraced each other tighter.

Kagome felt like everything would be all right. Like nothing could break this moment and it could last forever. Oh, how wrong she was. Inuyasha sighed and everything seemed to ease out of him. The red veil was removed and his claws and fangs retracted. The little dog-ears on his head disappeared into his silver hair. With a few blinks of his eyes his realized where he was and what was going on.

"What?" He mumbled, releasing Kagome a bit and looking down at her. She seemed as shocked to see him as he did her.

She quirked an eyebrow at him, "What's wrong…?"

He forcefully pushed her off and flew to the door, extremely shocked and embarrassed at the same time. A light red color dusted his cheeks and he stammered.

"What's going on? Girl- I mean, Kagome. What are you doing?" He accused her.

Kagome looked like she was going to die all over again, "What are you talking about? Are you okay?" She reached her hand towards him and he reeled back with a really pissed-off look on his face.

"What the hell? I don't know you!" He screamed and bolted out the door, leaving a confused and heartbroken Kagome in his wake.

She looked at her hands and made them into fists. Burying one of the fists into the carpet she broke into distressed sobs.

"Why, Inuyasha?" She whimpered, "Why don't you remember me!" Now she was yelling at herself. There was nothing she could do about it. He just didn't know. Then, why did he remember when he went back to his old self?

Sure, he looked the same, save for the ears, fangs, and claws, but he was human. When he turns back into a hanyou… he remembers.

But why?

Is there some sort of curse placed on her or something? Will he ever remember her and how much it hurt to lose him? She felt like she was loosing him all over again.

"But," She sniffled and looked at the fluorescent light hanging from the ceiling, "It's never too late to get him back… right?"

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Author's Notes- I know, it's a bit short but lots of things happened I guess. I'll try to update as soon as I can.

-Destiny