MCD: Getting mixed signals from my readers. Please hang in there! If you've listened to the music, then you know that this "Kikyo" phase will eventually pass, although it'll take a while. Please hang in there!

It took me a billion years to update, I know. I'm sorry ;-;

Year 11, Age 13 (Eighth Grade):

The eleventh year, her memories still didn't return. Doctor Kirkland said that she may never regain her memories back, which caused her mother much distress.

Kagome hadn't changed much, aside from the odd flickering of eye colors. Still quiet, solemn, and confused; Doctor Kirkland sometimes mistakenly called her Kagome. Why did he do that? Didn't he know that her name was Kikyo?

Kagome closed her eyes as a small headache throbbed in her temple. For some reason, whenever he called her "Kagome", her head would hurt. Sometimes it was worse than a little pain.

One time, Doctor Kirkland had set his clipboard down next to her bed while he left the room for a moment. Curious as to what he thought was so off about her and why she couldn't go home yet, her eyes quickly scanned the paper.

Obvious little things like her still being in rehab, her personal hospital-issued chiropractor Miss Katyusha, the odd case of what exactly was causing her eyes to change color, stuff like that was written on the white paper, but when she looked at the top of the page, her whole body went stiff.

Higurashi, Kagome (Alias, Kikyo)

Prominent affliction: Long-term amnesia

Cause of affliction: Blunt-force trauma (was hit by a school bus)

Details: Ran off after being confronted by Carriedo, Antonio, wasn't looking where she was going…

…confronted by Carriedo, Antonio…

…Antonio…

Suddenly she pulled away, clutching her head, the clipboard clattering to the ground, forgotten. A searing pain racked her mind and down her spine. Something about that name… Antonio… Antonio… Antonio!

Clenching her eyes shut and curling into a ball, she whimpered as pain rolled in waves through her throbbing head. A bright smile and green, almost-hazel eyes popped into her mind and she screamed outright. Something wasn't right…! Why was the thought of the person named Antonio causing her so much pain…!?

Right before she passed out, the image of a plain envelope with the name "Kikyo" written in cursive popped into her mind, right before a plain-script version, a typed one, and finally, the name "Kagome" being scribbled out before her world went a violent crimson, the name "Kikyo" replacing it, and then everything went black.

When she came to, Doctor Kirkland was hovering above her, dangling something that smelled funny in front of her nose. When he saw that she'd woken up, Doctor Kirkland breathed a sigh of relief and immediately demanded that she be put through a brain scan: for what purpose, she didn't know. But she did know that he had found minor scars in her brain tissue. He'd later then made it practically a law that everyone call her "Kikyo" from that point on, for her own safety, or something weird like that.

On a happier note, she'd had some new visitors recently. Since Doctor Kirkland had determined that her condition had been getting much better, he'd allowed her to see some old classmates that she couldn't even remember, but the sentiment was the same.

Teary-eyed faces and bright smiles were temporarily replaced with shocked expressions when she said she couldn't remember them, but they put on a brave front and made friends with her 'again'.

A few of the people that had come to see her had come in a trio, bearing gifts of different calligraphy pens and "Get Well Soon!" cards. One of them had wavy black hair, one of them had really short brown hair, and the last bore a nervous expression and a yellow headband in her shoulder-length black hair. She gave Kagome a bad feeling, and so she spent the majority of the afternoon conversing with the first two, who seemed nice enough.

Another day, Kikyo was visited by a group of boys. Two of them had bright silvery hair; the one with longer hair and gold eyes she took an immediate liking to, and the scratchy-voiced, red-eyed one she'd been a little wary of at first because of his eyes that reminded her slightly of a demon. Another one was a blue-eyed, wavy-haired blonde with a thick French accent and a freaky laugh. Yet another one had long black hair that was held back in a high ponytail and wore a brown headband (Kouga, his name was. He sure knew how to make an entrance, she would later note).

They had been sobbing all over the place when they saw her, immediately dog-piling her from all sides. Kikyo, confused and having no idea who they were but figuring that they must have been very close in the past, hugged them each back out of sheer politeness. They spent the whole day talking, reminiscing, and cracking inside jokes, a lot of which she didn't get, but then again, she thought that she hadn't been there to witness the cause for most of them.

"Hey, weren't the tomato-lover and his cousins supposed to come here with us?" the long-haired boy Inuyasha questioned at the end of the visit, leaving the rest of the group with confused frowns.

"Ah, zhat ees true, mon ami,but zhe two didn't show. Where did our friend go, anyways?" Francis' brow furrowed, but Kouga answered him.

"He got held back at Kag's door, didn't he? Something that weird British doctor said to keep him occupied when we came in," he speculated, and Gilbert nodded fervently, the small yellow bird bouncing on his head.

"Ja, that's right! Eyebrows pulled him from the door at the last second, right?" he concluded. The boys nodded to themselves, but Kikyo's head tilted to the side in question.

"That's odd," she murmured, catching the boys' attention, "Doctor Kirkland usually allows all of my guests to visit." she frowned. "I'll have to talk to him later about it and see what the matter was."

As they were being shushed out the door at the end of visiting hours, Inuyasha and Kouga had turned to wave back at Kagome at the same time and ended up scowling at each other, looking as if they were about to get into a fist-fight. Something about the image made something in the back of Kikyo's mind stir, but she ignored it, figuring it was just one of her headaches flaring up.

Later, Nurse Jinenji had come in with a present for her from the missing guest.

Dear Kagome,

I can't see you right now, but I used to know you, and I think you're really nice.

I want to be your friend again.

There wasn't any name to it, but it put a tingly feeling in her stomach. The words seemed familiar somehow.

It was especially nice to get a few flowers with the poem as well. It showed her how much the person cared, even if they got her name wrong.

Well… Doctor Kirkland's paper had said that she was called "Kagome"…it didn't sound like such a bad name now.