Disclaimer: I do not own Inu-chan.... *runs off crying*
A/N: Okay, I got reviews, so I decided to write another chapter... And as for why Kagome lost her memories.... Well, you'll just have to wait.... I have lots of plans for this fic!
^_^() Oh, and by-the-way, this isn't AU anymore... I changed my mind in the last chapter... I think it's more fun to continue off the original story line! ^.^;
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The Figure Curse
:: Ch. 3 ::
"K-k-kagome...." Shippou breathed out as he looked up at her with teary, disbeliveing eyes. "I thought I'd never see you again...."
Kagome blinked down at her hand and the tiny kitsune figure that just spoke. "Do I know you...?" she asked.
"Kagome...How could you forget me after all the time we spent together!? You were like a mother to me!" Shippou wailed, but Inuyasha put a stop to this with a bonk on the head. "Inuyasha! What was that for!"
Inuyasha growled...He didn't want to reveil to Kagome that she had a past life... He knew it would be hard for her to understand and she'd probably think he was lying.
"Take your seats, class." The teacher's monotone voice rang through the room as everyone sat down in silence. Kagome put Inuyasha and Shippou back into her bag.
"We'll talk later..." She softly whispered and turned her attention on the teacher.
~~~~~~Inside her bag....
"Inuyasha! What happened to Kagome!?" Shippou harshly whispered.
"I don't know! She's forgotten the past! She's forgotten us!" Inuyasha harshly whispered back.
"H-how...? H-h-how could s-she forget...me...?" Shippou seemed to ask himself as his voice cracked. Shippou turned away from Inuyasha, his eyes full of tears at the thought of loosing his mother again. "When we finally meet again....She forgets everything..." Shippou whispered under his breath as the tears made their way down his face.
"Stop crying... I'll find a way to make her remember if it kills me." Inuyasha stated.
"Really? How...?" Shippou asked curiously as he began to wipe his tears away.
"I'll find a way!" Inuyasha snapped as he sat down cross-legged and stuck his arms in his sleeves. 'I have to find a way... Kagome... I'll find a way that you'll remember me... I promise when I get to my own size I'll protect you like before... I promise, Kagome..' Inuyasha thought to himself.
Inuyasha was pulled from his thoughts when Shippou grabbed his hair. "It's so hard and stiff..." he stated as he pulled on it.
Inuyasha reached over and felt his own hair. Shippou was right.. It felt like plastic... His kimono was stiff too. Inuyasha licked his hand and smoothed out a piece of hair to test his new theory. Sure enough, as soon as water came in contact with it, it went back to it's usual state.
"So, it was the magic powder and mist that made everything so stiff... It washes out easily..." Inuyasha said more to himself than to Shippou.
"We'll just find a stream later then." Shippou said. Inuyasha just shrugged and nodded as he yawn boredly and waited for Kagome to be done with school, as his thoughts of the last battle ran in overdrive in his head.
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At lunch Kagome had managed to slip some tiny bites of food into her bag for her two "new" friends. Soon afterwards, school was out and she walked along to the shrine. Inuyasha and Shippou looked out of her bag and began to climb up her shortly after. The got on her shoulders and hid in her hair from the people walking by.
Soon, Kagome's three friends were at her side. "Hey Kagome-chan!" They all greeted her at once.
"Hey guys!" she returned with a smile.
"You seem to be catching up quite well." Eri stated. "You feeling better?"
"I told you guys, I don't remember being sick..." Kagome said.
"I know, Kagome-chan... You were always out of school so much suddenly for being sick... Then the last illness you caught had you knocked out for days..." Yuka reminded her.
"But, I still don't see how I could have been sick! I mean, I must had been attacked, cuz I had a concusion and straches all over my body!" Kagome exclaimed. "It's just so confusing! I wish I knew what happened!"
"You fell down the well house stairs and into the Bone Eater's Well, that's what happened!" Yuka yelled to Kagome. "I still don't know what you were doing going into that place in your condition either!"
Kagome just shook her head... The people had been telling her this for weeks...But, it didn't feel right... It felt as if she should remember something important... As if her heart was being pulled into two and emptied out. She needed to find the piece to fill the void... She needed to complete her heart... But she didn't know how to do this when she didn't know what was missing in the first place.
"...and you lost most of your memories of what had happened in like the last year!" Yuka finished. It seems that's the only part Kagome heard of Yuka's rambalings since she had zoned out.
"Kagome-chan...?" Eri began, " Are you okay...?"
"I'm fine..." She tiredly stated. "Just...fine..."
She finsihed her walk back to the shrine and flopped down on the bed, forgetting all about Inuyasha and Shippou in her hair. When she hit the bed, they flew out and landed beside her head. "What's your problem, wench!?" Inuyasha shouted irratably at her.
"Sorry..." came the muffled reply.
Shippou pulled on a strand of her hair. "Kagome...? What did the girls mean by you lost your memories? What happened...?"
Kagome pulled herself slightly off the bed, so that her head was cradled in her arms and she was lying on her stomach. "I'm not really sure myself... You see, they say I was really sick and walked into the well house in a delerious state. Then, I fell down the stairs and into the dry well. I'm not really sure myself, but somehow I don't believe this... Something in my mind tells me it's not true. I was found kinda beat up in the bottom of the well."
"Why don't you believe it?" Inuyasha asked.
"Well... It feels like something's missing... More like someone... It feels as if I'm missing a piece of my heart. Like I left it behind somewhere..." Kagome said sadly.
Shippou fell asleep, curled up in Kagome's hair as she talked... Her scent had calmed him and her gentle voice was a lullaby he had greatly missed.
"Why did you say that you always cry at night?" Inuyasha asked Kagome.
"Well... You'll think I'm weird of something... But I have these dreams of being somewhere else... By someone's side, with them protecting me... But I usually cry at night because the person seems so real, even if I never clearly see them in my dreams... It feels as if I once knew them... As if I'm suppose to be somewhere, and remember something..."
Inuyasha looked at her sadly... He knew the only person like that was him... Kagome just didn't remember him... And he wondered what would happen if she never did...
"Now, if you excuse me... I have to be studying..." Kagome trailed off as her brother tackled open her door.
"Where's my Inuyasha figure!?" he yelled out as he looked around her room. "I know you have him!"
"Hey!! Get out of my room!" Kagome screamed out, but Souta saw Inuyasha on the bed and ran to him.
"So you did have him! I knew it!" Souta exclaimed as he picked Inuyasha up by the waist and ran out of the room to play with him. Kagome watched him go and sighed. At least this way she'd get some studying done. She smiled breifly down at the sleeping kitsune and picked him gently up. She wasn't really sure about what was going on...She even thought she might had gotten so sick that she started to hallucinate. But this all seemed so familliar... It seemed just so right. She picked Shippou gently up and began to wod some tissues into a ball. Then, she placed him on top of them like a makeshift bed and smiled warmly one last time down at him before she began her studying.
That night at dinner she got a little bit for her new youkai companions and brought it to them in her room. Souta went to bed early and Inuyasha was able to sneak out of his room. Now, both youkai stayed in her room as she waited for her bath water to finish running. Inuyasha seemed deep in thought as he replayed what Souta had said when he left to play with him.
*~*~*~*~*~*~* Flashback...
Souta looked into the face of his former hero. "Hi there, Inuyasha-no-nichan... I haven't seen you in so long... You look so real... Like you did before..." At this point Inuyasha was confused. "I remember you....Even though Kagome doesn't... I never forgot... Though I'm not really sure how she did. All I know is that she's always depressed and sad... We found her in that well... Something must've happened to her on the other side. But, something must've happened to you too, cuz you never came back for her... I miss her smile; it's always a forced one now...Never a true one... Even I can see something's wrong... I just wish you were here to help her..."
*~*~*~*~*~*~* End Flashback...
Inuyasha shook his head to clear it. Then Shippou jumped on his head. "Since Kagome's running a bath, why not do the water thing to get her hair and clothes soft?"
Inuyasha smirked. "Yeah." he said quietly as he ran towards the bathroom. Kagome got up when she saw him move and ran after him.
"Where are you going, Inuyasha?" She asked softly, so as not to wake the family and have them think she was crazy. There was no school tomorrow since it was a Sunday, so she didn't have to go to bed early. When she got to the bathroom,Shippou on the shoulder, Inuyasha was standing on the edge of the bath tub, about to jump in. "Don't drown yourself!" she called to him as he jumped in. A strange light shone from the water as nothing could prepare her for what happened next. In the tub, sat Inuyasha... Only... He was at his normal size. He smirked and looked down at himself and then to Kagome's shocked expression. Her eyes were wide and her mouth wide open. Then her eyes rolled back into her head as she fainted. Inuyasha jumped from the tub, dripping wet, and caught Kagome against his chest before her head hit the ground.
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A/N: yay! Inuyasha's at full size again! ^___________^ review and I'll update sooner! You saw how fast I got this one out just because I got a few reviews!
A/N: Okay, I got reviews, so I decided to write another chapter... And as for why Kagome lost her memories.... Well, you'll just have to wait.... I have lots of plans for this fic!
^_^() Oh, and by-the-way, this isn't AU anymore... I changed my mind in the last chapter... I think it's more fun to continue off the original story line! ^.^;
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The Figure Curse
:: Ch. 3 ::
"K-k-kagome...." Shippou breathed out as he looked up at her with teary, disbeliveing eyes. "I thought I'd never see you again...."
Kagome blinked down at her hand and the tiny kitsune figure that just spoke. "Do I know you...?" she asked.
"Kagome...How could you forget me after all the time we spent together!? You were like a mother to me!" Shippou wailed, but Inuyasha put a stop to this with a bonk on the head. "Inuyasha! What was that for!"
Inuyasha growled...He didn't want to reveil to Kagome that she had a past life... He knew it would be hard for her to understand and she'd probably think he was lying.
"Take your seats, class." The teacher's monotone voice rang through the room as everyone sat down in silence. Kagome put Inuyasha and Shippou back into her bag.
"We'll talk later..." She softly whispered and turned her attention on the teacher.
~~~~~~Inside her bag....
"Inuyasha! What happened to Kagome!?" Shippou harshly whispered.
"I don't know! She's forgotten the past! She's forgotten us!" Inuyasha harshly whispered back.
"H-how...? H-h-how could s-she forget...me...?" Shippou seemed to ask himself as his voice cracked. Shippou turned away from Inuyasha, his eyes full of tears at the thought of loosing his mother again. "When we finally meet again....She forgets everything..." Shippou whispered under his breath as the tears made their way down his face.
"Stop crying... I'll find a way to make her remember if it kills me." Inuyasha stated.
"Really? How...?" Shippou asked curiously as he began to wipe his tears away.
"I'll find a way!" Inuyasha snapped as he sat down cross-legged and stuck his arms in his sleeves. 'I have to find a way... Kagome... I'll find a way that you'll remember me... I promise when I get to my own size I'll protect you like before... I promise, Kagome..' Inuyasha thought to himself.
Inuyasha was pulled from his thoughts when Shippou grabbed his hair. "It's so hard and stiff..." he stated as he pulled on it.
Inuyasha reached over and felt his own hair. Shippou was right.. It felt like plastic... His kimono was stiff too. Inuyasha licked his hand and smoothed out a piece of hair to test his new theory. Sure enough, as soon as water came in contact with it, it went back to it's usual state.
"So, it was the magic powder and mist that made everything so stiff... It washes out easily..." Inuyasha said more to himself than to Shippou.
"We'll just find a stream later then." Shippou said. Inuyasha just shrugged and nodded as he yawn boredly and waited for Kagome to be done with school, as his thoughts of the last battle ran in overdrive in his head.
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At lunch Kagome had managed to slip some tiny bites of food into her bag for her two "new" friends. Soon afterwards, school was out and she walked along to the shrine. Inuyasha and Shippou looked out of her bag and began to climb up her shortly after. The got on her shoulders and hid in her hair from the people walking by.
Soon, Kagome's three friends were at her side. "Hey Kagome-chan!" They all greeted her at once.
"Hey guys!" she returned with a smile.
"You seem to be catching up quite well." Eri stated. "You feeling better?"
"I told you guys, I don't remember being sick..." Kagome said.
"I know, Kagome-chan... You were always out of school so much suddenly for being sick... Then the last illness you caught had you knocked out for days..." Yuka reminded her.
"But, I still don't see how I could have been sick! I mean, I must had been attacked, cuz I had a concusion and straches all over my body!" Kagome exclaimed. "It's just so confusing! I wish I knew what happened!"
"You fell down the well house stairs and into the Bone Eater's Well, that's what happened!" Yuka yelled to Kagome. "I still don't know what you were doing going into that place in your condition either!"
Kagome just shook her head... The people had been telling her this for weeks...But, it didn't feel right... It felt as if she should remember something important... As if her heart was being pulled into two and emptied out. She needed to find the piece to fill the void... She needed to complete her heart... But she didn't know how to do this when she didn't know what was missing in the first place.
"...and you lost most of your memories of what had happened in like the last year!" Yuka finished. It seems that's the only part Kagome heard of Yuka's rambalings since she had zoned out.
"Kagome-chan...?" Eri began, " Are you okay...?"
"I'm fine..." She tiredly stated. "Just...fine..."
She finsihed her walk back to the shrine and flopped down on the bed, forgetting all about Inuyasha and Shippou in her hair. When she hit the bed, they flew out and landed beside her head. "What's your problem, wench!?" Inuyasha shouted irratably at her.
"Sorry..." came the muffled reply.
Shippou pulled on a strand of her hair. "Kagome...? What did the girls mean by you lost your memories? What happened...?"
Kagome pulled herself slightly off the bed, so that her head was cradled in her arms and she was lying on her stomach. "I'm not really sure myself... You see, they say I was really sick and walked into the well house in a delerious state. Then, I fell down the stairs and into the dry well. I'm not really sure myself, but somehow I don't believe this... Something in my mind tells me it's not true. I was found kinda beat up in the bottom of the well."
"Why don't you believe it?" Inuyasha asked.
"Well... It feels like something's missing... More like someone... It feels as if I'm missing a piece of my heart. Like I left it behind somewhere..." Kagome said sadly.
Shippou fell asleep, curled up in Kagome's hair as she talked... Her scent had calmed him and her gentle voice was a lullaby he had greatly missed.
"Why did you say that you always cry at night?" Inuyasha asked Kagome.
"Well... You'll think I'm weird of something... But I have these dreams of being somewhere else... By someone's side, with them protecting me... But I usually cry at night because the person seems so real, even if I never clearly see them in my dreams... It feels as if I once knew them... As if I'm suppose to be somewhere, and remember something..."
Inuyasha looked at her sadly... He knew the only person like that was him... Kagome just didn't remember him... And he wondered what would happen if she never did...
"Now, if you excuse me... I have to be studying..." Kagome trailed off as her brother tackled open her door.
"Where's my Inuyasha figure!?" he yelled out as he looked around her room. "I know you have him!"
"Hey!! Get out of my room!" Kagome screamed out, but Souta saw Inuyasha on the bed and ran to him.
"So you did have him! I knew it!" Souta exclaimed as he picked Inuyasha up by the waist and ran out of the room to play with him. Kagome watched him go and sighed. At least this way she'd get some studying done. She smiled breifly down at the sleeping kitsune and picked him gently up. She wasn't really sure about what was going on...She even thought she might had gotten so sick that she started to hallucinate. But this all seemed so familliar... It seemed just so right. She picked Shippou gently up and began to wod some tissues into a ball. Then, she placed him on top of them like a makeshift bed and smiled warmly one last time down at him before she began her studying.
That night at dinner she got a little bit for her new youkai companions and brought it to them in her room. Souta went to bed early and Inuyasha was able to sneak out of his room. Now, both youkai stayed in her room as she waited for her bath water to finish running. Inuyasha seemed deep in thought as he replayed what Souta had said when he left to play with him.
*~*~*~*~*~*~* Flashback...
Souta looked into the face of his former hero. "Hi there, Inuyasha-no-nichan... I haven't seen you in so long... You look so real... Like you did before..." At this point Inuyasha was confused. "I remember you....Even though Kagome doesn't... I never forgot... Though I'm not really sure how she did. All I know is that she's always depressed and sad... We found her in that well... Something must've happened to her on the other side. But, something must've happened to you too, cuz you never came back for her... I miss her smile; it's always a forced one now...Never a true one... Even I can see something's wrong... I just wish you were here to help her..."
*~*~*~*~*~*~* End Flashback...
Inuyasha shook his head to clear it. Then Shippou jumped on his head. "Since Kagome's running a bath, why not do the water thing to get her hair and clothes soft?"
Inuyasha smirked. "Yeah." he said quietly as he ran towards the bathroom. Kagome got up when she saw him move and ran after him.
"Where are you going, Inuyasha?" She asked softly, so as not to wake the family and have them think she was crazy. There was no school tomorrow since it was a Sunday, so she didn't have to go to bed early. When she got to the bathroom,Shippou on the shoulder, Inuyasha was standing on the edge of the bath tub, about to jump in. "Don't drown yourself!" she called to him as he jumped in. A strange light shone from the water as nothing could prepare her for what happened next. In the tub, sat Inuyasha... Only... He was at his normal size. He smirked and looked down at himself and then to Kagome's shocked expression. Her eyes were wide and her mouth wide open. Then her eyes rolled back into her head as she fainted. Inuyasha jumped from the tub, dripping wet, and caught Kagome against his chest before her head hit the ground.
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A/N: yay! Inuyasha's at full size again! ^___________^ review and I'll update sooner! You saw how fast I got this one out just because I got a few reviews!