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Written by: Breezbox and Usagipegusus
Disclaimer: We don't own Inuyasha
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Inuyasha growled lowly when Kagome gave no reply. "I said who the fuck are you!?" He repeated vehemently giving her captive arm a slight shake.
Kagome's mouth opened uselessly only to close once again. He didn't recognize her!? How could that be!? Inuyasha's brow didn't feel nearly hot enough to make him hallucinate. Kagome swallowed the rising lump of fear that had started to generate itself in her chest. Calm down Kagome, she silently chided herself before speaking. "Y-you don't remember me?" Kagome stuttered dumbly.
The angry Hanyou was about to make a heated retort until he noticed that her scent was actually strangely familiar to him. He gave a mental shake of his head. He would never have made contact with some weak human! And a girl at that! "I don't know you!" Inuyasha said with false conviction, eyeing Kagome's slowly blanching face with mounting distrust.
Panic began to form slowly in her chest at the distrust in his hard amber eyes. "Inuyasha…" She started; to startled to say much else.
Anger flared in his eyes. How the hell did this girl know his name!? Her soft gasp broke into his thoughts. He released his firm grip on her arm as he swiftly rose to his feet, his intimidating form towering over her. "And how do you know my name!?" He demanded angrily, staring at the familiar smelling stranger.
Kagome gently rubbed her aching wrist as she silently assessed the angry half youkai. How could this have happened? What was she going to tell him? She thought frantically, her mind racing.
Her indecisiveness only made Inuyasha angrier. With an irate growl, he hauled her up by her arm until they were almost nose-to-nose.
"I don't even care anymore, just leave." He growled menacingly, already moving to haul her out of the door.
Kagome blinked in surprise. She had just taken care of him and he was going to throw her out!? She thought ironically, a rising surge of anger starting to rush through her.
To the hanyou's surprise, she snatched her trapped arm away for his seemingly unyielding grasp, putting her hands on her hips and turned on him angrily, her fearfulness momentarily forgotten. "How dare you say that after I spent my time here taking care of you when I could have been at home studying for my test!" She yelled into the startled hanyou's face.
After getting over his initial shock, Inuyasha's anger returned. "I don't know about you taking care of me or what the hell at "test" is but, if you don't leave," He started, baring his claws for effect, "you'll be sorry you didn't." He finished, believing that it would scare her away.
Kagome's bravado didn't seem to flatter one bit. "Oh really?" She drawled, her eyes narrowing slightly. "We'll see…Osuwari!" She yelled suddenly, watching the surprised look on the hanyou's face seconds before his quick descent to the dirt floor.
Inuyasha slowly lifted his face from its imprint on the ground. What had just happened? All she had said was sit and then he felt like something had roughly tugged him to the ground. He rose up a little bit more and noticed the slight weight of the necklace around his neck. He raised questioning eyes towards Kagome. "What the hell…" Inuyasha exclaimed, his gaze turning back to the rosary in question.
Kagome's pale hands rose to her mouth. With a slightly apologetic expression, she stepped closer to him. "It's a subduing spell." She explained slowly, still feeling a little regret at having sat him considering he was still probably sick.
At her explanation, Inuyasha abruptly sat up and gave a ruthless tug on the offending object to no avail.
"It's no use Inuyasha, only I can remove it." She deduced.
If looks could kill, she would have died a very horrible death.
Inuyasha continued to glare at the girl, unsure of what to do. How had the rosary gotten on him!? And she still hadn't answered any of his previous questions. Who was this girl?
Kagome gave a tired sigh as she sat on the floor right next to Inuyasha. "I can explain…" She started, silently waiting for him to accept.
Inuyasha glared at her for a long moment, staring into her brown depths. He finally broke eye contact with her, angrily crossing his arms and looking away with his usually 'Keh'.
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Sango looked down from her high perch on Kirara, looking down at the healer's small hut.
"That's the one!" Miroku affirmed over the loud snapping wind.
Sango gave a quick nod of agreement before spurring Kirara down to the ground near the hut.
The trio quickly jumped off of the youkai and started towards the hut. As they neared the hut, they noticed the door was slightly ajar. Both Sango and Miroku exchanged wary looks as they rushed into the small hut, the small Kitsune close behind them.
"Kaede-bachan!" They all cried simultaneously, none of them receiving their desired answer. They could all clearly see that the hut was unoccupied.
"Houshi-sama! Look!" Sango exclaimed, pointing to the trail off blood that led outside of the hut.
Both Miroku and Shippo rushed to her side. "Oh no!! What happened to Kaede!?" Shippo wailed; his emerald eyes welling up with unshed tears.
Sango picked up the little Kitsune, putting a comforting hand on his head to console him. "I'm sure Kaede's fine." She lied, for Shippo's benefit.
"Yes, I'm sure she is. We have to go find her though so we know what's going on." He professed as he walked past Sango and out of the small hut.
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"What!?!?" Inuyasha bellowed loudly, for the umpteenth time that hour while Kagome patiently filled him in on things that he seemed to have forgotten.
"So that's it." Kagome sighed, finally finishing up the story. It seemed as though he had forgotten a great deal too. Actually…weird as it might have seemed, it was almost like his memory was…distorted.
When it seemed as though she wasn't going to repeat herself all over again, Inuyasha because fraught with distrust. What she was telling him didn't really match with his memories. He recognized some of what she was telling him, but it was somehow different, almost as if someone or something was blocking the rest of him memories.
He didn't really know if he should and could trust the girl or not either. Her scent was familiar to him. But even if Naraku had done all this to him…why hadn't they found the bastard yet!?!? And why would he be hanging out with a bunch of humans to boot!?!?
"If all this is the way you say it is, then why am I hanging out with a bunch humans!? Why didn't I go by myself!?" He reasoned, still distrustful of the girl and her explanations.
"Inuyasha," Kagome began exasperatedly, "Stop yelling, you're going to make yourself sicker." She reasoned, unwilling to explain once again how they came to be a group.
"I'm not sick!!" He lied. "Well just wait until the rest of the group come so that I know your not lying to me." Inuyasha said vehemently, nearly spitting the word group. "We'll stay right here and wait for them." Inuyasha said in a tone that brooked no argument.
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Kagome gave a mental sigh as she saw the stubborn hanyou slowly start to doze off. What was happening to him!? Kagome questioned herself once again. Beneath all of her bravado, she had been scared, no terrified by the change in Inuyasha. She had almost been afraid that he would have killed her; and she wasn't waiting around until he did. She needed to go find Kaede and the rest fast.
That decided, she reached for her bag slowly, her eyes fixed on Inuyasha's now sleeping form. Okay so far so good, she thought as she made her way to the door, opening it slightly. She breathed a sigh of relief when he didn't waken.
She wasn't able to get very far though. "Oi, where are you going?" An angry voice growled from close behind her.
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