Lost But Not Forgotten

Chapter 1: Prologue

(Also known as: Yet another evil teaser to scar my faithful readers with...)

Disclaimer: If I actually owned Inuyasha, do you think I'd be working at a menial summer job at a grocery store?

Author's Notes: Because I have an apparent penchant for pain, I have started yet another fic. -_- Yeah, yeah...I know this leaves like 4-5 stories still yet to be completed and all, but this idea will not go away. I tried...I really, really, tried.

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Do you suffer from long term memory loss?

I don't remember...

--Amnesia, Chumbawumba



Awareness flooded back to her slowly. Bringing with the heavy, weighted ache that seemed to pierce through all of her muscles. Wincing, she raised her tentative fingers to the small knot that had formed on the back of her head.

A soft groan slipped past her lips at stars shot past her eyes. "Why does my head hurt so much?"

A heavy weariness had settled over her eyes, making even the task of sliding one eyelid halfway open to take in her surroundings seem almost unbearable.

The warmth of the sunlight had slipped away, leaving only the orange haze of twilight and the chill of the drafty wind to keep her company.

...or perhaps not. She could hear soft voices passing through the open doorway.

"She's been asleep for the better part of the day."

"I hope the poor dear wakes up soon. It looks like she took quite a knock to the head."

Her eyebrows furrowed over her closed eyes. "I suppose they're talking about me then."

"I do hope her husband returns soon. I'm sure he would want to be here when she wakes up."

"HUSBAND!" She shot up in her bed, wrenching her eyes wide open. "I have a husband?"

The sound had apparently startled the women standing outside and brought them running into the small hut.

"Oh dear," the heavy set woman muttered, settling a thick arm behind her back to guide her back onto the futon. "You must take your time sitting up or you'll make yourself ill."

But she heard none of it. The shock of hearing she had a husband would not leave her mind in peace. It was bad enough that she could hardly remember her own name and who her family was, but now it seems she had a husband as well?

The shock proved to be all too overwhelming as her eyes sunk back into her head.