Inuyasha and the Spirit
Chapter 7: I Know Her
Inuyasha stared at Sango playing with the somewhat familiar little girl. He knew her. 'But from where?' He thought.
Inuyasha looked at Kagome. She was staring at the little girl with an unreadable expression. However, she had the most incredible look in her eyes. Inuyasha being so dense didn't catch on. He looked back to the girls playing. They were so happy and joyful. And so very full of energy.
Inuyasha and Kagome watched on in silence, and then the two little girls exited the room and went somewhere else in the house.
Inuyasha and Kagome continued to stare at the space where the girls were playing before they left. Inuyasha finally asked, "Who was that?"
Kagome looked at him with a raised eye brow, "That was Sango."
Inuyasha turned to her with an irritated expression, "I know that!"
"Then why'd you ask?"
"I wasn't talking about her! I was talking about the other little girl!"
Kagome didn't speak and looked towards the ground. Inuyasha looked back at the room. "So you don't know either."
Kagome looked up and spoke quickly, "What? Yes I do! I was just trying to remember something."
"So then what's her name?"
"I'm not telling you."
"Why? I thought you were supposed to remind me of my past and stuff." He said with an annoying tone.
She matched his tone, "I am. But as you can see…"she motioned her hand in front of her "you're not around." He saw that he wasn't anywhere in the room.
It bugged him knowing that he's seen that girl before. "But…I've seen her somewhere. I'm sure of it."
"What do you mean?"
Inuyasha thought hard and came up with something. "I remember!"
"What!?!?!"
"I did meet her before. It was a day when Sango was busy with her grandparents in a town south from here. She was gone for a week. So the girl hung out with me. I remember, she was…special in a way." 'She actually made me feel happy. She actually treated me just like another friend. Not a hanyou though. She saw past that. She was great.'
Kagome was trying to remember. She thought for a really long time. "Oh yeah!" She showed excitement for a second then the next her face expression fell flat.
Inuyasha stared at her, "Shouldn't you be taking me to see that memory or something?"
Kagome snapped out of her current trance, "Um…yeah. I guess you…might…need to see it." Inuyasha grabbed her hand and waited, smiling. Kagome jumped them into a different scene.
In front of them was a little girl knocking on the door a couple times. No one was answering. She kept knocking while screaming out Sango's name. "Sango! Hey Sango!" Then little Inuyasha walked past her, "She's not going to be home today. Or the rest of the week."
The little girl turned around and saw the boy walking away. She tried to catch up to him. "Wait! Where did she go?"
Little Inuyasha walked along side her and said, "I don't know. She just said she was going to be with her grandma and grandpa all week."
The girl seemed to enjoy walking with him, "So where you going?"
"Going to play on the jungle gym."
"Oh." The girl looked down at the ground.
Little Inuyasha looked over at her, "Wanna come?"
"Ok!" They both pepped up.
They played on the gym for a couple of hours. They gave each other little nick names on the first day. Kagome sped up the scenes so the whole week could be played in a matter of seconds. Every day they did different activities. It was the last day of the week; they were once again on the jungle gym. Kagome let the scene play for about an hour.
The two were so happy and care free. Inuyasha felt warm inside watching his younger self with the girl. 'I was so happy playing with her.'Too bad he still didn't know her real name. Just that her nick name was Raven because of her hair and his was Reaver because that was his favorite attack. Actually it's 'Iron Reaver Soul Stealer' but she took the best word out of it.
Inuyasha looked behind him at Kagome. She was sitting on a bench while he was leaning on a tree a few feet away from her. She was smiling.
Then the kids talking got both their attentions. Inuyasha snapped his head around, and Kagome just stiffened.
'Raven' said, "Hey Reaver! What's your real name?"
Little Inuyasha, 'Reaver', said "You mean like in real life?"
"Yeah."
"It's Inuyasha. What's yours?" Inuyasha stood up straight and waited for her answer.
"My name is-" All of a sudden the scene vanished. Everything surrounding them turned into a black screen. So they were both standing nowhere. Just darkness with a hint of light from somewhere above.
"NO!" Inuyasha burst. Silently Kagome let out a breath. Inuyasha was still mad, 'No! No! No! Now how am I supposed to find out who she is!?' He turned around, "Kagome!"
"What!?!?" She jumped and asked rather quickly. 'Oh god! Did he make the connection?!?!'
"Where did the memory go!?"
She sighed, 'Thank God!', "We have to keep moving. We've been wasting too much time watching these memories."
"No. But she was about to…" He sighed with eyes very gentle.
"Come on Inuyasha." Kagome held out her hand for him. He walked over silently and took it. Kagome warped them into the present.
