Title:Memory of Days Gone By

Author: landofthekwt

Universe: Canon

Genre: Introspective/Drama

Rating: G

Word Count: 249

Warning: None Issikiwa Exploit Theme.Spoiler for Chapter 2 and Chapter 512

Summary: Kagome struggles to remember the story of the jewel as she releases Inuyasha from

the spell.

Kagome felt coils of the centipede tightening. She was being drawn ever closer to the the tree

and the boy with the dog ears. It seemed like a dream. Like a forgotten memory of another time. Yet it seemed so familiar.

Just yesterday her grandfather had told her the story of the sacred jewel for the millionth time. She had been too busy asking about her birthday present to listen to ji-chan.. Yet something in that story struck a chord with her now. If only she could remember what it was.

There was cacophony of voices echoing in her ear. The boy was asking her to release him.

The woman in red and white was telling her not release the boy. The centipede taunting them .

It seemed she was standing outside of herself viewing all that was occurring through a fog.

Finally, the boy looked directly at her and said . " Do you want to die here ?" She might not know what she was supposed to do or what she was trying to remember, but she did know that she did not want to die.

The desire to live stirred something inside of her. A power awoke that had been dead for 500 years. A memory of a boy and girl and a jewel. The desire to revive the boy and live again with

him.

She knew what she had to do. She pulled the arrow out of the boy's chest, crying in a voice not

her own "Live again, Inuyasha."