Disclaimer: I don't own Inu-chan.... But hey....I'll own his kimono one day... One day.... .
A/N: I think I'm catching a cold...(Nodo-sissy, it's all -your- fault!!) So, I decided to update... I always write my best stuff when I'm sick... Like Crimson Snow... I plotted it and wrote most of it while I was really sick... And it's like my best fanfic. (and my fav of all the ones I wrote...though I don't remember much about it anymore... I need to re-read it...)
Spolier Warning for this chapt...
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She was still curled into his chest, a simple blanket around them. His chin rested on her head. She remembered... She remembered that she loved him... He didn't know that she loved him of course, but he was still happy to be remembered.
He looked down at the small girl in his arms and thought one thing.
'My Kagome is back.'
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Kagome groaned and tried to turn over, but was held down once again. Inuyasha still was holding her protectively. 'Inuyasha...So it wasn't a dream... He's really here...' Her eyes watered in tears of happiness for seeing him again, but she quickly brushed them away. After a lot of wiggling and prying, she was finally able to get out of Inuyasha's grasp. She decided she needed to take a shower, since she didn't get to take her bath yesterday. When she opened the bathroom door, however, she was greeted by a flying kitsune, now at his normal size too.
"Shippou-chan..." She whispered as he hugged her tightly.
"Good morning, Kagome!!" He greeted warmly.
"Good morning." She returned. "I take it you jumped into the water too?"
"Hai" he replied.
Kagome smiled and pushed him out the door. "I'm going to take a shower now. Go get some breakfast or watch TV until I get done."
"Okay!" He replied cheerfully. Then, his eyes lost their shine for a second. "Kagome.... You don't remember me yet do you?"
Her smile kind of faultered as she looked down into his sad eyes. "No... I'm sorry, Shippou-chan..."
He shook his head. "It's not your fault...But... You remember Inuyasha, ne?"
"How did you know?"
"I heard you guys talking last night..."
"Oh... Well, I've gotta take my shower, Shippou-chan..." She said as she softly smiled and closed the door.
Shippou just sighed and looked at the door with sad eyes. 'Even the way she says my name... I can tell she doesn't know me anymore..."
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Inuyasha awoke shortly after Kagome did. He followed her to the bathroom and watched Shippou and her converse. He smiled at the fact that she remembered him...
Sure, she didn't remember -everything- in graphic detail, but it's still the concept that she remembered. He watched Shippou walk by in such a daze, that he didn't see Inuyasha standing there.
Then he noticed his firerat kimono hanging on the doorframe of the hall closet. He picked it up and went into Kagome's room to change.
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Kagome laid back in the steaming hot water. She had decided to take a bath instead of a shower. Her dreams kept replaying in her head. Then the dream she had after she had awoken in Inuyasha's arms came back to her. When she had drifted back to sleep with her protector holding her.
The Dream (in Kagome's POV)
I was running...
From what I'm not sure... I just knew I had to get out of there...
His face...Those sad golden orbs searching my soul... His lips pursed together as if he wanted to say something... His ears alert, yet flat all in one... That sad look on his face as he looked at me, as if saying he was sorry...
I couldn't take that face so I ran!
That girl... That girl in the miko garb from my other dream was there... They were embracing... And I was hiding... He promised to protect her...
He seemed to love her...
But I was sure her had some kind of feeling for me...
Next thing I knew, everything went bright... I remember hating that girl... The woman in his arms... I hated her, and I hated myself for that.
Then I was standing in front of the Goshinboku... I saw memories of meeting Inuyasha there... My eyes watered and I fell to my knees crying.
It should've been me...It shold've been me in his arms...
I sobbed on the ground and remember faintly of somehow getting back to Inuyasha and asking to stay with him... It all was so...
Automatic...?
I did it because I loved him... I -needed- to be near him... I had to!
So we walked hand-in-hand along a path. We both smiled, yet I felt a pain in my heart over that woman... Inside myself, in a small portion of my mind, I heard a faint whisper/plea in my own voice...
'Don't leave me for Kikyo, Inuyasha.... Please don't leave me...'
End Dream (Return to normal POV)
"Kikyo....?" She whispered to herself as she got out of the water and began to dress.
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Kagome's mother had breakfast ready by the time Kagome got dressed. When she got there, she already saw Inuyasha and Shippou eating without her at the table. Inuyasha, of course, ate like it had been years since his last meal... Actually, it has... So maybe it was okay for him to act that way...
Kagome ate with more manners than the two youkai and looked over at Inuyasha when she was done. "We need to go shopping." She stated. He raised an eyebrow at her. "We need to find your friends and get you some more clothes too..."
"Keh." Inuyasha snorted as he got up and put a baseball cap over his ears.
"Kagome! Can I go too?" Shippou asked.
"I'm sorry, Shippou-chan... Just stay here and play with Souta, okay?"
'The Kagome I knew would've let me go...' He thought bitterly. "Okay, Kagome..." He sulked. 'I miss Kagome...'
Inuyasha and Kagome began to walk down the street to the store. Kagome's mind was filled with questions...
Such as:
'Who's Kikyo?'
'What does -she- have to do with Inuyasha?'
'What am I to Shippou?'
'Does Inuyasha care about me?'
'What were the others like...? And how many of them are there?'
She snapped from her thoughts as Inuyasha leaned down and looked her in the eye. "What is it?" She asked, surpised.
"Why do you keep zoning out? Are you okay?"
"Yeah... Just thinking..."
"Well...If you need to say something...I'm here..."
"Thank you, Inuyasha..."
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They soon made it to the store. Kagome drug Inuyasha through the isles and went to the toy section. "Let's see.. You were hanging over here...so maybe there's some more..."
They didn't find anymore in this store or the next two stores... So, they decided to look for Inuyasha some clothes. They looked through racks of clothes and shoes. When Inuyasha crouched to look through some jeans, his cap hit a self and came off. Kagome stared for a while at his furry, white dog-ears as they twitched and sprung from their flattened position to an alert one. They twitched again momentarilly as he bent down further to pick up the hat.
Kagome couldn't stop staring at them... They looked so adorable and kawaii... She zoned out as memories flooded into her head of the first time she met Inuyasha...The first time she felt his ears, too... Then, to many times when she would breifly tweak or pull them. She felt the urge to touch them now and lifted her hand slowly....
He put on the cap before she could touch them... She retracked her hand and shrugged to herself.... 'Some other time then...' She thought as she looked through some more t-shirts.
When they were done, they walked out with bags of clothes. There were about 12 t-shirts, 7 pairs of jeans, a few pairs of socks, and a pair of tennis shoes.
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They were back at the shrine now. Kagome looked over to Inuyasha, still in kimono, sitting alert on her bed and looking directly at her as she tried to study for the History test tomorrow.
"What?" He asked as he saw her look back at him.
'I can't study with you staring at me like that...' She thought to herself as she just shrugged and muttered, "Nothing.."
"Inuyasha...?"
"Yeah?"
"Who was....uhh.. Kikyo?"
Inuyasha stiffened. "You remember her?"
Kagome shook her head. "Not really... I just remember the name... What was she to you?"
"What do you mean by 'what was she to me'?"
"Friends? Enemies?"
"Uhh....Hard to say..."
"....Lovers...?" Kagome asked softly.
Inuyasha stiffened visably and opened his mouth to answer. "No... She was..."
Shippou appeared in the room suddenly. "Kikyo was once Inuyasha's lover...But she died with him and then she got brought back to life with gravesite soil and part of your soul, Kagome."
Inuyasha growled at the kit.
"Part of my soul..?" Kagome repeated.
"Yeah... you were her reincarnation... You two looked alot alike, except you have warm eyes and a good scent... She smelled of death and had cold, uncaring eyes." Shippou answered.
Inuyasha growled louder.
"I was her reincarnation?"
"Yeah."
"Oh..." Kagome gew silent as she mulled over the new peices of information carefully. Her eyes glazed over as another memory hit her.
Memory (Kagome's POV)
I was tied to a tree...
That woman was there... But she was just a faint shadow... I couldn't make her out very well and her voice sounded distant.
Inuyasha, however, was loud and clear... He didn't see me at all, though... No matter how much I called to him, he didn't see me...
The woman suddenly kissed him and I felt my heart wrench. They embraced... I called for him louder...
She tried to drag him to hell... She was pure evil... I tried to take back my soul somehow...
Then...
Inuyasha finally heard my voice... He severed the soul-snatchers and kneeled before me... But, I felt like crying... It felt as if he had been taken away from me...
Kikyo flew away via the soul-snatchers....
End Memory (Normal POV)
"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled, his face inches from hers. She jerked away as she came back into reality. "What is it?" He asked. Kagome looked around to see Shippou gone.
"Where's Shippou?" She asked.
"He went to sleep in Souta's room...Now, what's wrong? Why do you keep zoning out like that?"
"It's nothing..."
"Kagome..." he growled. "You know you can tell me anything... Now...What's wrong?"
"I remembered the time Kikyo kissed you...And I was tied up... She really was your lover, ne?"
"Once... But that Kikyo is dead now... That walking shell is not her..."
"Do you still love her?"
"...No... What's with the sudden questions like this?"
"Nothing..."
"Kagome... Are you sure you're okay?" For the first time in a while, Inuyasha seemed really worried... She wasn't acting right.
"Yeah... Just a bit tired right now.." She closed her history book.. History came naturally to her anyway, it was her best subject.
"Well, go to bed then..." Inuyasha said in a commanding, yet soft manner.
"I will..." She trailed off as she got up and grabbed her pajammas. "If you turn around so I can get ready for bed."
Inuyasha 'Keh'd' and turned around with his trademark scowl and his arms up his kimono sleeves.
"Okay." She said once she was ready. She walked over and sat beside him. The bed creaked under the extra weight and she watched Inuyasha's ears twitch. She reached a hand up and began to rub his ears. He almost backed away and told her to stop it...But...
It felt too good to tell her to stop. He slightly turned his head so she wouldn't she the ear-to-ear grin that was plastered on his face. He growled softly in a manner almost like a purr and closed his eyes contently as he drifted to sleep right there sitting up. She giggled softly and yawned as she slipped into bed and looked over at his face that held a goffy smile. She giggled again as she pulled him down beside her, pulling his legs up onto the bed and wrapping a blanket around him before she cuddled up into his back.
He rolled over and wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her closer. She smiled into his chest and drifted to sleep herself.
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A/N: Okay... It got a bit waffy and fluffy on me... I couldn't help it... My mind is like..On vacation or something... . I -had- to make happy moments...Before I bring in the angst... If you've read some of my stories... I'm a big fan of angst...But don't worry, all my fanfics always turn out okay in the end. ^.^;;
Til next time,
Ja matta!!!
P.S: By-the-way, I couldn't help the ear fluff scene... I love Inu-chan's ears... Just ask Nodo-sissy... . She'll tell you about my -very- unhealthy obsession with Inuyasha's ears... *coughs*
A/N: I think I'm catching a cold...(Nodo-sissy, it's all -your- fault!!) So, I decided to update... I always write my best stuff when I'm sick... Like Crimson Snow... I plotted it and wrote most of it while I was really sick... And it's like my best fanfic. (and my fav of all the ones I wrote...though I don't remember much about it anymore... I need to re-read it...)
Spolier Warning for this chapt...
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She was still curled into his chest, a simple blanket around them. His chin rested on her head. She remembered... She remembered that she loved him... He didn't know that she loved him of course, but he was still happy to be remembered.
He looked down at the small girl in his arms and thought one thing.
'My Kagome is back.'
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Kagome groaned and tried to turn over, but was held down once again. Inuyasha still was holding her protectively. 'Inuyasha...So it wasn't a dream... He's really here...' Her eyes watered in tears of happiness for seeing him again, but she quickly brushed them away. After a lot of wiggling and prying, she was finally able to get out of Inuyasha's grasp. She decided she needed to take a shower, since she didn't get to take her bath yesterday. When she opened the bathroom door, however, she was greeted by a flying kitsune, now at his normal size too.
"Shippou-chan..." She whispered as he hugged her tightly.
"Good morning, Kagome!!" He greeted warmly.
"Good morning." She returned. "I take it you jumped into the water too?"
"Hai" he replied.
Kagome smiled and pushed him out the door. "I'm going to take a shower now. Go get some breakfast or watch TV until I get done."
"Okay!" He replied cheerfully. Then, his eyes lost their shine for a second. "Kagome.... You don't remember me yet do you?"
Her smile kind of faultered as she looked down into his sad eyes. "No... I'm sorry, Shippou-chan..."
He shook his head. "It's not your fault...But... You remember Inuyasha, ne?"
"How did you know?"
"I heard you guys talking last night..."
"Oh... Well, I've gotta take my shower, Shippou-chan..." She said as she softly smiled and closed the door.
Shippou just sighed and looked at the door with sad eyes. 'Even the way she says my name... I can tell she doesn't know me anymore..."
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Inuyasha awoke shortly after Kagome did. He followed her to the bathroom and watched Shippou and her converse. He smiled at the fact that she remembered him...
Sure, she didn't remember -everything- in graphic detail, but it's still the concept that she remembered. He watched Shippou walk by in such a daze, that he didn't see Inuyasha standing there.
Then he noticed his firerat kimono hanging on the doorframe of the hall closet. He picked it up and went into Kagome's room to change.
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Kagome laid back in the steaming hot water. She had decided to take a bath instead of a shower. Her dreams kept replaying in her head. Then the dream she had after she had awoken in Inuyasha's arms came back to her. When she had drifted back to sleep with her protector holding her.
The Dream (in Kagome's POV)
I was running...
From what I'm not sure... I just knew I had to get out of there...
His face...Those sad golden orbs searching my soul... His lips pursed together as if he wanted to say something... His ears alert, yet flat all in one... That sad look on his face as he looked at me, as if saying he was sorry...
I couldn't take that face so I ran!
That girl... That girl in the miko garb from my other dream was there... They were embracing... And I was hiding... He promised to protect her...
He seemed to love her...
But I was sure her had some kind of feeling for me...
Next thing I knew, everything went bright... I remember hating that girl... The woman in his arms... I hated her, and I hated myself for that.
Then I was standing in front of the Goshinboku... I saw memories of meeting Inuyasha there... My eyes watered and I fell to my knees crying.
It should've been me...It shold've been me in his arms...
I sobbed on the ground and remember faintly of somehow getting back to Inuyasha and asking to stay with him... It all was so...
Automatic...?
I did it because I loved him... I -needed- to be near him... I had to!
So we walked hand-in-hand along a path. We both smiled, yet I felt a pain in my heart over that woman... Inside myself, in a small portion of my mind, I heard a faint whisper/plea in my own voice...
'Don't leave me for Kikyo, Inuyasha.... Please don't leave me...'
End Dream (Return to normal POV)
"Kikyo....?" She whispered to herself as she got out of the water and began to dress.
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Kagome's mother had breakfast ready by the time Kagome got dressed. When she got there, she already saw Inuyasha and Shippou eating without her at the table. Inuyasha, of course, ate like it had been years since his last meal... Actually, it has... So maybe it was okay for him to act that way...
Kagome ate with more manners than the two youkai and looked over at Inuyasha when she was done. "We need to go shopping." She stated. He raised an eyebrow at her. "We need to find your friends and get you some more clothes too..."
"Keh." Inuyasha snorted as he got up and put a baseball cap over his ears.
"Kagome! Can I go too?" Shippou asked.
"I'm sorry, Shippou-chan... Just stay here and play with Souta, okay?"
'The Kagome I knew would've let me go...' He thought bitterly. "Okay, Kagome..." He sulked. 'I miss Kagome...'
Inuyasha and Kagome began to walk down the street to the store. Kagome's mind was filled with questions...
Such as:
'Who's Kikyo?'
'What does -she- have to do with Inuyasha?'
'What am I to Shippou?'
'Does Inuyasha care about me?'
'What were the others like...? And how many of them are there?'
She snapped from her thoughts as Inuyasha leaned down and looked her in the eye. "What is it?" She asked, surpised.
"Why do you keep zoning out? Are you okay?"
"Yeah... Just thinking..."
"Well...If you need to say something...I'm here..."
"Thank you, Inuyasha..."
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They soon made it to the store. Kagome drug Inuyasha through the isles and went to the toy section. "Let's see.. You were hanging over here...so maybe there's some more..."
They didn't find anymore in this store or the next two stores... So, they decided to look for Inuyasha some clothes. They looked through racks of clothes and shoes. When Inuyasha crouched to look through some jeans, his cap hit a self and came off. Kagome stared for a while at his furry, white dog-ears as they twitched and sprung from their flattened position to an alert one. They twitched again momentarilly as he bent down further to pick up the hat.
Kagome couldn't stop staring at them... They looked so adorable and kawaii... She zoned out as memories flooded into her head of the first time she met Inuyasha...The first time she felt his ears, too... Then, to many times when she would breifly tweak or pull them. She felt the urge to touch them now and lifted her hand slowly....
He put on the cap before she could touch them... She retracked her hand and shrugged to herself.... 'Some other time then...' She thought as she looked through some more t-shirts.
When they were done, they walked out with bags of clothes. There were about 12 t-shirts, 7 pairs of jeans, a few pairs of socks, and a pair of tennis shoes.
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They were back at the shrine now. Kagome looked over to Inuyasha, still in kimono, sitting alert on her bed and looking directly at her as she tried to study for the History test tomorrow.
"What?" He asked as he saw her look back at him.
'I can't study with you staring at me like that...' She thought to herself as she just shrugged and muttered, "Nothing.."
"Inuyasha...?"
"Yeah?"
"Who was....uhh.. Kikyo?"
Inuyasha stiffened. "You remember her?"
Kagome shook her head. "Not really... I just remember the name... What was she to you?"
"What do you mean by 'what was she to me'?"
"Friends? Enemies?"
"Uhh....Hard to say..."
"....Lovers...?" Kagome asked softly.
Inuyasha stiffened visably and opened his mouth to answer. "No... She was..."
Shippou appeared in the room suddenly. "Kikyo was once Inuyasha's lover...But she died with him and then she got brought back to life with gravesite soil and part of your soul, Kagome."
Inuyasha growled at the kit.
"Part of my soul..?" Kagome repeated.
"Yeah... you were her reincarnation... You two looked alot alike, except you have warm eyes and a good scent... She smelled of death and had cold, uncaring eyes." Shippou answered.
Inuyasha growled louder.
"I was her reincarnation?"
"Yeah."
"Oh..." Kagome gew silent as she mulled over the new peices of information carefully. Her eyes glazed over as another memory hit her.
Memory (Kagome's POV)
I was tied to a tree...
That woman was there... But she was just a faint shadow... I couldn't make her out very well and her voice sounded distant.
Inuyasha, however, was loud and clear... He didn't see me at all, though... No matter how much I called to him, he didn't see me...
The woman suddenly kissed him and I felt my heart wrench. They embraced... I called for him louder...
She tried to drag him to hell... She was pure evil... I tried to take back my soul somehow...
Then...
Inuyasha finally heard my voice... He severed the soul-snatchers and kneeled before me... But, I felt like crying... It felt as if he had been taken away from me...
Kikyo flew away via the soul-snatchers....
End Memory (Normal POV)
"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled, his face inches from hers. She jerked away as she came back into reality. "What is it?" He asked. Kagome looked around to see Shippou gone.
"Where's Shippou?" She asked.
"He went to sleep in Souta's room...Now, what's wrong? Why do you keep zoning out like that?"
"It's nothing..."
"Kagome..." he growled. "You know you can tell me anything... Now...What's wrong?"
"I remembered the time Kikyo kissed you...And I was tied up... She really was your lover, ne?"
"Once... But that Kikyo is dead now... That walking shell is not her..."
"Do you still love her?"
"...No... What's with the sudden questions like this?"
"Nothing..."
"Kagome... Are you sure you're okay?" For the first time in a while, Inuyasha seemed really worried... She wasn't acting right.
"Yeah... Just a bit tired right now.." She closed her history book.. History came naturally to her anyway, it was her best subject.
"Well, go to bed then..." Inuyasha said in a commanding, yet soft manner.
"I will..." She trailed off as she got up and grabbed her pajammas. "If you turn around so I can get ready for bed."
Inuyasha 'Keh'd' and turned around with his trademark scowl and his arms up his kimono sleeves.
"Okay." She said once she was ready. She walked over and sat beside him. The bed creaked under the extra weight and she watched Inuyasha's ears twitch. She reached a hand up and began to rub his ears. He almost backed away and told her to stop it...But...
It felt too good to tell her to stop. He slightly turned his head so she wouldn't she the ear-to-ear grin that was plastered on his face. He growled softly in a manner almost like a purr and closed his eyes contently as he drifted to sleep right there sitting up. She giggled softly and yawned as she slipped into bed and looked over at his face that held a goffy smile. She giggled again as she pulled him down beside her, pulling his legs up onto the bed and wrapping a blanket around him before she cuddled up into his back.
He rolled over and wrapped an arm around her waist, pulling her closer. She smiled into his chest and drifted to sleep herself.
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A/N: Okay... It got a bit waffy and fluffy on me... I couldn't help it... My mind is like..On vacation or something... . I -had- to make happy moments...Before I bring in the angst... If you've read some of my stories... I'm a big fan of angst...But don't worry, all my fanfics always turn out okay in the end. ^.^;;
Til next time,
Ja matta!!!
P.S: By-the-way, I couldn't help the ear fluff scene... I love Inu-chan's ears... Just ask Nodo-sissy... . She'll tell you about my -very- unhealthy obsession with Inuyasha's ears... *coughs*