Chapter Four:

Memories of the Past

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"Kagome Son. A siayan-miko, warrior. Arise and stand before us."

"Wh-what's going on?" Kagome opened her eyes immediately to find herself in a completely white room with only three brings other than herself. One she recognized right of the bat. It was the mighty priestess Midoriko herself. Besides her were two others.

Instead of a silver and blue fighting kimono was a baggy fighting outfit. She had a slightly tight shirt that reached her elbows. Her sleeves were long and dragged on for four inches. On top of her white kimono like shirt was a dark blue sleeveless vest that had a v-neck. The vest like clothing she wore was really weights that helped train her.

She had baggy pants that gave her more freedom to move in. Her pants were also a dark blue color, matching her vest. She had a silver obi keeping her pants from falling. She had a pair of silver ninja like shoes on her feet. She also had arm bands that were really weights. A black monkey tail was wrapped around her waist hidden by her obi.

Tied to the obi was her precious sword. Her sword was the only thing that reminded her of her own world. No one except Goku has ever seen her sword. Its name was Shinkōshoku no Kōkai or Shokai as she often called it. No matter how much she wanted to deny it she found herself excited at the idea of a fight or challenge. The instinct ran deep within her sayain blood. Although, she didn't kill unless she had to she loved a good fight.

The other two beings seemed to be so alike yet very different at the same time. It looked like they were trying and not trying to match, contradicting each other.

One had long straight pink hair that fell to her knees with a couple of strands braided. A white flower was pinned into her hair. Her eyes were a midnight blue. She had a tan and looked calm and collected like a noble. She had a plain light pink summer dress with white ballet flats.

The other woman had short blue hair that was elegantly curled and reached her shoulder blades. A grey flower was weaved into her short strands of hair. Her eyes were bubblegum pink. She was a pale woman with a cheerful look on her face. The lady had a semi-dark blue dress with grey ballet flats.

"Midoriko-sama! Where am I?" she asked looking around only to find white. Then it hit her like a ton of bricks. "Where's Shippou and Kirara? How'd I get here? Am I dead again? I thought you said I'd get to see Goku befo-"

"Calm down Kagome-chan. Your son and daughter are with you in the ningenkai. Right now you are in the Rieki," Midoriko explained smiling gently at her.

She had waist long raven hair that flowed freely behind up to her waist. The great priestess had cheerful deep chocolate colored eyes with silver eye shadow on them.. On her forehead was four small shards that pointed in the four directions. She had the miko robes that was commonly worn by all miko. It consisted of a white top with long sleeves with wide sleeve openings. She also wore a long, ankle length red skirt that almost touched the floor. Around her neck was a necklace that had two green beads on either side of a white fang.

Midoriko also had armor to cover her body in an efficient manner. She had dark silver almost gray armor on the side of her shoulders that were held to the other armor by strong, red silk strings. The top part of her armor on the front of her body was black with red outlining and golden colored buckles. The rest of it up to her waist was a dark shade of silver. Around her wait was a black belt with bits of gold mixed in. On the center of the belt was a green circle. The rest of the dark silver armor reached her knees and had slits that only stopped an inch away from the belt. The tips of it was black with the edges gray.

"Huh? I don't get it why am I here? I need to be with my children! What is someone who uses ki attacks them? I haven't even taught them the basics of using their ki!" Kagome ranted glaring at what she assumed to be the ground. If some powerful demon came she was sure they could hold their own but if a warrior who used ki challenged them they would loose because they had no idea how to counter attack the ki for long.

"Do not worry Kagome Son. Both of the children are fine. A Namekian is watching over them. We are here to discuss something with you," the pink haired woman started off.

"It seems that there is a price to pay for the wish you made on the Shikon no Tama to allow you all to go home. The Kamis' seem think so," the blue haired woman finished, snorting.

"What do they want! Haven't they screwed up my life enough!" shouted Kagome glaring at them now. She had already had her home planet blown up, ripped away from her younger brother, thrown into a different dimension, forced to fit in only to be dragged back in time, and forced apart from what was her fourth "family".

"Please Kagome-chan calm down. We are doing all we can. We've managed to get them to lower their debt price but they gave us three options," Midoriko said solemnly. She sent out her aura to wrap around the younger miko's effectively managing to calm he emotions down. Kami knows how much they tried to lower the damn "payment" down.

Kagome could only stare back at them with tear filled sapphire eyes before they hardened. "Spill."

"You're a lucky little ningen, ya know. They had originally intended to-" started off the blue haired woman.

"Have your kids killed by a warrior once you arrived on your home planet," finished the pink haired woman.

"My k-kids," Kagome whispered her emotionless mask slipped for a second until she got control back. "They haven't done anything, dammit! If you're going go around punishing whoever you feel like punish me but no one else!"

"Kagome-chan please calm down. We've talked to the Kamis and have gathered three options for you," responded the high priestess.

"Fine. But first who are those two twins?" Kagome asked pointing to the other two woman in the 'room' with them. "They're creeping me out."

"She's Fate~," introduced the blue haired woman.

"And she's Destiny," finished off the pink lady.

"And we're not creepy!" they both shouted at the sane time. "Or twins!"

"The first is that you go and loose your memories of ever being in the other dimension. You won't remember stepping a foot in the Feudal Era or ever meeting the Higurashi family. You'll only remember from the day you died on the planet," listed off Fate grimacing. "The kids will still remember everything, though. Only you'll lose your memory."

"The second is that you keep your memories of everything that's happened. Down side is your kids get killed," said Destiny with a bittersweet smile. "The Kamis were going to have the Namekian watching over you and your children right now."

"And the last option is that you and you kids are safe but the person you grow to love as a mate has a painful illness that slowly kills him," Midoriko confessed. "You won't know until you start developing feelings for them but you'll see them die right in front of you without being able to do a thing."

"I-I... You," Kagome felt like she'd just gotten punched in the gut. She couldn't think properly. 'So either I forget, practically murder my kids, or have a tragic love ending.' Going over the three options in her head she immediately ruled out the last option thinking of the love triangle she was in. She'd kill herself before ever willingly agreeing to let her kids die. That only left her with one option. "I-I rather loose my memories than a life of someone close to me."

"Ok. You'll just have a slight change to you. You'll probably take on the attitude you had when-"

"Frieza was still ruling over your home planet."

"Oi! Will you two stop that it's getting annoying," Kagome grumbled glaring at the 'twins' who snickered in response. "Is there any way to get my memories back?"

"Yes. There is one way but it isn't going to be pleasant," Midoriko said with a mischievous smirk.

"You're going to-"

"Need to get someone to..."

The two woman leaned to both of her ears and whispered the same thing. They evenly laughed and chuckled at Kagome's twitching face that showed horror. A small yet still visible blush spread across her cheeks.

"I officially hate the Kamis now," the warrior complained clenching her fist at the very thought of the method she would need to use to regain her memories back.

"Well you better get going Kagome-chan," Midoriko laughed.

"Hai, hai. I know," Kagome responded preparing herself. She paused before she faced the three woman with a now serious face. "Tell my kids...," she paused sterling her resolve once more. "Tell them that no matter what I'll probably always love them and to never loose hope."

"Awww!" Destiny and Fate cooed.

"Sh-shut up!" Kagome shrieked glaring at them again. She threw her hand up in exasperation. "Miroki-sama please send me away now before I'm charged of murder."

"Hai Kagome-chan," Midoriko chuckled. "We'll tell the kids right girls?"

"Will do-"

"Kagone-chan~!"

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"Oi Okaa-san."

Poke

Ugh what the...? Who was that? I feel like I was hit by a train. Maybe if I roll over they'll leave me alone and realize all I want to do is imagine they're not here.

"Okaa-san wake up!"

Poke Poke

What am I? An animal? Stop poking me dammit! Whoever that was is going to get pounded six feet under if they don't stop. They better get the hint to leave me alone because I'm not smacking them away for no reason.

"Okaa-san! Okaa-san come on! You've been sleeping for three days already!"

Kick Poke

What the hell? If I could move right now I'd show these brats just what I could do! Whoever they are.

"Dammit onna get up before I blast your body to oblivion. Tch. Worthless woman."

Zap

"Try to fry me and I'll kick your ass to hell and back."

Tired sapphire eyes cracked open in irritation. The dark glare was currently directed to the man who dare to zap her. Looking up she saw a green colored alien with coal eyes glaring back at her. He had the strangest clothes she had ever seen! But then again she guessed that she also must seem strangely dressed to him.

She had a fighting kimono on herself after all. The dark blue kimono only reached her mid-thigh and was sleeveless. Underneath the kimono was a black shirt. She also had black tights that reached two inches past her fighting kimono. Around her waist was a black obi that was tied into a butterfly knot at her back. She had semi-tigh dark blue arm warmers that reached her wrist. The rest of the material that went a couple centimeters past her wrist was black. On her feet were black short boots. Strapped onto her back was a sword held by a black leather sheath that had a strap that crossed the from of her body.

"Okaa-san you're finally awake!" two voices cried out. The two small blurs tackled her body.

"What the...?" the woman glared at the little two blurs. The 'blurs' were in fact two brats. One had ginger hair with emerald eyes while the other had crimson eyes with blond hair. "Oi gaki get off of me. Shouldn't you be with your parents?"

"O-okaa-san?" the ginger haired boy fearfully as stared at her in concern. He held the girls hand when she started to panic.

"Don't you remember us? Its Kirara and Shippou! Your adopted kids!" the girl shouted at the brink of tears.

"What kinda sick joke is this!" the woman demanded. Dammit her head hurt like hell and now she had to deal with these brats and the Namekian. "Oi Namekian what planet am I on? The last damn thing I remember is getting away from Frieza-teme and then it's blank."

"Oh great. You're on planet earth, woman. I found you here three days ago when you appeared out of nowhere from the skies and fell on me. I've taken care of you and these gaki for the past three days," the Namekian sneered turning his head away.

"Now, now Namekian. Do respect those of higher power than you," the blue-eyed woman snapped mockingly. "Wouldn't want you missing a limb or two now would we?" When she got no response she only smirked before turning to the children. "Brats. Tell me do you know what the hell happened to me since I'm apparently suffering from amnesia?"

"Yo-you've," Shippou gulped not finding the words to express himself. Suddenly a voice was heard in the back of his mind. A very familiar and feminine voice of a certain warrior-priestess.

This is her wish. Her second chance at living without the Shikon. Her memories are locked away by a powerful spell, fox child. We will explain everything to you and the neko youkai later.

Shippou shared a shocked glance with Kirara who had also head the voice. They turned to look at the woman they called mother and decided that maybe her not knowing was for the best. They wouldn't ruin the second chance she had at life seeing as her first one was ruined by the Shikon quest.

"I what? Out with it brat!" she demanded quickly loosing her patience. She just wanted to know and she'd get her answers now. "I remember having a younger brother from this planet and then doing something stupid of me. But then it's all blank. You must know if you're calling me your haha-ue."

"You had been traveling with us and other people in a group for a couple of years. They were on a different planet though," Shippou continued. It wasn't exactly a lie because they did live in a different world." We were on a quest to find something that you lost in that world. It was a powerful artifact that increased the power of a warrior by ten-fold! A evil warrior heard of it and came to try and steal from you so it broke into pieces and we spent years looking for all of them. When we completed it we were sent to this world were he found us."

"On our last battle with our greatest enemy teleported us to another planet called Earth. You mentioned being here before," Kirara said sniffling over the fact her mother didn't remember her. "You were always talking about someone named Ka-something. You said that you didn't even want to leave him but that you left him on his own? You also mentioned a lizard named Frieza? You were never really clear on the names or the people or what happened. You told us stories of this place sometimes."

"How much do you know of this planet and of Frieza?" Piccolo demanded all of a sudden interested. He glared at the woman for answers but she only glared back flaring her aura in warning. His muscles tensed as he prepared himself to fight her if necessary.

"That's only my and apparently now the brats business you Pickle," Kagome sniffed in disgust turning away. She smirked when she heard him growl in irritation. When he disappeared she remained unfazed. A second later her eyes widened before she disappeared just before the place she once laid on was bare ground that was smoking. "You ungrateful prick!"

"Don't you dare call me that you cheeky monkey!" Piccolo retorted back sending a yellow ki blast in her direction with deadly accuracy.

Kabob back flipped out of the way and laded on her hands. As she used her hands to send her body into the air she decided to use her pointer finger and she shot a blue ki blast from her finger. "I'll do whatever I want Namekian!"

"This is going to be a long week," Shippou sighed taking a seat at the base of a near by tree.

"You said it!" Kirara agreed looking at the two warriors who were busy trying to kill each other exasperatedly.

"Let's just hope there's a way to get Okaa-san's memories back," Shippou said with clenched fists. Small crescent shaped cuts were left in the palm of his hand as small droplets of blood rolled down his hand. A smaller hand placed itself over his. Looking up emerald net crimson.

"It's ok Shippou We'll get Okaa-san's memories back one way or another!" Kirara promised smiling. Her eyes shifted from sad to pure determination as she gazed into her brother's.

CRASH

KA-BOOM

"You teme! You just cut my hair! I'm going to make you payyy!"

"Tch. Like you ever cou- What the hell! Damn it woman return my hat to me at once!"

RIIIIP

"Ha! Good luck finding a new one prick."

BOOOOM

"What are we going to do about them?" Kirara asked watching them in frightened awe. They had just blown up a mountain! In one shot too! It was like they weren't even trying to!

"I don't know Kira," the ginger haired boy replied looking at the supposed adults. The looked like blurs in the sky. He could only see them occasionally when they clashed. "I don't know."

"You damned prick you'll pay for even trying to touch my tail!"

BOOM

"Just try cheeky monkey. I'll make you regret ever taking me on!"

CRASH

KA-BOOOM

"Well at leas- Unholy...! Run Kirara! Run!" Shippou shrieked grabbing the fire cat demon's hand. They moved just in time. A huge six foot boulder dug into the earth were the previously were. Both panted and watched in fear as the two warriors fought on.

"Gyahhh! We have to get out of here Shippou!" the crimson eyed girl yelped in surprise. They both ran a good distance away hand in hand ignoring the shouts behind them.

"Green prick!"

"Cheeky monkey!"

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Author note – I want to thank Black Lily Angel for letting me adopt this story. It was a pleasure to take over for another good writer. Keep reading and reviewing...

~*Dragon*~