Disclaimer: I do not own Inuaysha *sigh* but in this their personalities are MINE!
A/N: This now takes place ten years after both Kagome and Inuyasha get amnesia. And I'm sorry
for all of you who are Shippo lovers, Shippo is going to be a dog in this, SORRY!
~*~Mel~*~
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Forgotten Lives
By Golden Mooncat
Chapter One: The Plans
Inuyasha walked around for a while before finding the person he was looking for in the empty
palace that had been deserted for ten years. Going over to Miroku, his best and only friend for
the moment, he tapped him on the shoulder disturbing him from reading his letter. Miroku looked
up and growled in anger from being interupted from reading from his girlfriend, Sango.
"What is it Inuyasha? I was busy." Miroku indicated who the letter was from and Inuyasha just
shrugged his shoulders in annoyance.
"Have you heard what that woman in Tokyo is offering for the return of her granddaughter?" Inuyasha
asked.
"Yea, 100,000 yen for her. Sango just informed me in the letter, remember she is that woman's
friend's granddaughter. She adores the woman as if she were her own grandmother." Miroku said,
again indicating the letter he had been interrupted from.
"Well, I was thinking. If we get a woman from here to pose as this...What's the granddaughter's
name again?" Inuyasha asked.
"Kagome, Kagome Higurashi. You remember, she was the princess here? Don't you? Or is she part
of your past that you've forgotten as well?" Miroku asked, his tone changing to concern.
Inuyasha concentrated for a while, and he felt the box, in which he thought was a music box, in
his haori for a bit of remembrance. His amber eyes flashed with dissappointment and he shook his
head full of silver-white hair.
"I don't remember anything about my past. I just remember waking up in the palace a few days
after the Higurashi family was killed and holding the music box. I remembered my name and was
able to remember the promise I made about the music box, thats it." Inuyasha said.
"Well, anyways. You were saying?" Miroku asked, his short black hair in its ponytail gleaming
in the light, along with his dark brown eyes.
"I was saying if we can get a woman to pose as Princess Kagome than we can convince the old woman
that she is Kagome, get the money and take off." Inuyasha said, a small spark coming into his eyes.
"Are you sure this will work?" Miroku asked, his eyes gleaming with mischef.
"Of course. Have I ever been wrong?" Inuyasha asked.
"Well...Lets see the time you-" Miroku was cut off by a smack upside the head.
"That was retorhical." Inuyasha said and stormed out of the room and headed for the room he had
claimed as his own, the one he had woken up in.
~*~Meanwhile~*~
"Good bye Gome!" came the calls of the children at the orphanage as Gome was pulled from the
building by the old woman who had found her ten years before.
"Gome, come on. I got you a job at the local seamstresses. Go straight until you get to a fork
in the road and then go left. Understand?" the old woman asked.
"Yes, ma'am. Thank you." Gome said and bowed her head.
Gome stood straight again and fixed her ponytail. Her blue-grey eyes filling with tears as she
left the place she thought of as home for ten years. Tugging on a loose strand of her long raven
colored hair she had in a twisted ponytail making it short, Gome walked the road to the fork.
"Why did I end up being an orphan? And why can't I remember anything before the orphanage? All
I can remember is this necklace and a pair of amber eyes, pleading with me." Gome asked herself.
When Gome reached the fork in the road she started to head to the left but stopped when a thought
came to her. Who said she *had* to go to the seamstress job? Why couldn't she just go to the
right? What was to the right? Gome sat down on a boulder where she considered going which way.
"Send me a sign for heaven's sake! Tell me where to go!" Gome called out to the sky.
*Woof!* *Woof!*
Gome lifted her head from her hands and came face to face with a small red puppy. Staring into
the hunter green eyes of the dog Gome decided that she liked the animal. When the dog grabbed
a hold of her hat which had fallen out of her kimono and started to take off with it to the right
side of the fork Gome took off after it.
"Here boy. Come here boy! Give me back my hat!" Gome called out and then stopped realizing she
was heading right of the fork. "Do you want me to go to Northern Japan?" Gome asked the dog.
The dog barked happily and walked back up to Gome dropping her hat at her feet. Taking that as
a yes Gome took her hat and put it back into her kimono folds she started walking to Northern
Japan. Putting her hand on the necklace and pulling it out Gome noticed something different about
the key charm on it. It had writing on it and she had never noticed it before.
"Always in Tokyo." Gome said aloud as she read. "Am I to go to Tokyo, Shippo?" she asked her dog
companion who merely barked and gave his tail a wag. "Okay, then lets go!" she said picking up
the dog and walking to the town nearest her, the same one where a palace was, deserted.
Gome walked around for a while in the town before heading to the train station where she asked for
a ticket to Tokyo.
"1000 yen." the man behind the ticket window said.
"1000 yen? But I don't have any money..." Gome said and had the window promptly slammed shut in
front of her face.
"Pst. Pst. You want to go to the old palace in the middle of the villiage. Look for Inuyasha,
but don't say you heard it from me." the old woman behind her said.
"Inuyasha? Thank you." Gome said and left the train station searching for the palace.
~*~Meanwhile~*~
"NEXT!" Miroku shouted as yet another girl came onto the small platform infront of him and Inuyasha
for the auditions for there scheme of the Kagome.
"Grandmother, its me, Kagome!" the woman on the platform said. The woman looked to be about the
age of 29.
"Sorry, Kagome would be about 18 right now." Miroku said and the woman got off the platform
muttering curses.
Inuyasha was getting mad, not one girl they had auditioned for the day was able to make him think
that they were Kagome. The 'music' box infront of him gleamed almost mockingly at him. Inuyasha
began crossing out all the names on the list infront of him getting stopped by Miroku only after
he crossed out the third to last name.
"Inuyasha, one of these girls might actually be able to pull it off. Just none of the ones we've
seen today." he said taking the list from him.
"Miroku, we aren't going to find her, not from this list." he retaliated and got up. "No more
auditions today. You can all go home!" he called out to those women who were still in line.
Miroku and Inuyasha cleaned up their papers and went to the kitchens where they cooked a small
meal for the two of them to begin eatting. Inuyasha was beginning to have second thoughts about
this plan to find a woman to pose as Kagome, he would be better off if he found the actual one,
but knew he never would. Miroku went back to reading the letter Sango had sent him and choked
on his food when he saw what part of it said.
"What?" Inuyasha asked looking at his friend.
"Inuyasha, we have a problem. Not only do we have to find a girl who looks like Kagome, we have
to find one that knows all about her, or we have to teach her what to say and do." Miroku said
and then went into the explanation that Sango would be giving an interview with each of the
women who came. Sango would be asking questions like 'where would you go if you were mad?' and
such.
Inuyasha stared in disbelief at Miroku, thinking he had read the letter wrong. But when he took
the letter and read it himself he found that he wasn't lying. Growling in anger Inuyasha punched
the countertop for a while before his knuckles started to bleed so Miroku had to fix them up.
~*~Meanwhile~*~
Gome and Shippo walked around the palace for a while before finding an opening to get into. When
Shippo ran to a boarded up opening and dissappeared from Gome's view she sighed and went to the
opening looking through a crack to see Shippo standing behind it. She slipped her fingers into
the crack and jerked the boards out, losing her balance as she did so she fell backwards and
caused a loud crash sound.
Inuyasha who had very sensitive hearing heard the crash and put his hand on Miroku's shoulder.
"Did you hear that?" he asked his eyes flicking to the doorway.
"Hear what?" Miroku asked raising his eyebrows.
"Nothing, maybe it was my imagination." Inuyasha said and went back to eatting what was left of
his dinner.
"Ow...Shippo, come here." Gome said as she stood up and dusted off her kimono. When she looked
to where the red puppy had been standing she saw that he was running around what looked to be a
ballroom.
"Deja vu..." Gome said walking around the room and picking up delicate little tea cups. "This is
like a dream, I remember some of this, is that possible?" she asked herself as images flashed
before her eyes as she held a tea cup with a cherry blossom flower on it.
Images of drinking tea with a sister about the age of 18, a mother who looked vagly looked like
her two daughters and holding a small baby boy close. A father and her dancing around the ballroom
on nights when she couldn't sleep. Gome saw an elderly woman with a kind face standing beside
herself holding her hand.
Gome suddenly got dizzy and grabbed ahold of her head falling to her knees and crying out. Shippo
ran over to her and rubbed against her legs whining as she felt tears falling down her pale milk
white skin. Gome continued crying out in pain as flashes of memories came slamming into her so
hard that she felt like she would fall through the floor.
"There, did you hear that?" Inuaysha asked as Miroku lifted his head suddenly as the sound of
someone crying out reached his ears.
"Yes, but, who could be here? Its just us." Miroku said as they left the kitchens and walked down
the long hallway to where the sounds began getting louder, to the ballroom.
Gome had finally stopped crying out but heard echos of the cries lasted in the empty room. Standing
up shakily she took a deep breath and started for a hallway away from where Inuyasha and Miroku
were coming. When they reached the ballroom Gome had walked to a portrait of a family who looked
a bit familiar to her was.
"HEY! What are you doing here?!" Inuyasha called out scaring Gome enough so that she whipped
around and stared at the young man who had scared her.
Miroku who had been looking at the portrait behind Gome and at the woman herself stared. She
looked a lot like the young child in the picture, but to be around the age of eightteen not eight.
Nudging Inuyasha Miroku pointed to the portrait behind Gome and he too stared.
"Don't move." they both said and ran to where she was causing Shippo to start growling at his
companion's whimpers of fear.
"What are you doing here?" Inuyasha asked when he was close enough, Gome closed her eyes in fear.
"I was told that if I want to get to Tokyo to find a man named Inuyasha. Are you h-" Gome cut
herself off when she opened her eyes to see the same amber eyes from her memory.
"I'm Inuyasha yes. This is Miroku. Do I know you?" Inuyasha asked staring at her face, she
seemed familiar, almost like he knew her at one point.
"I don't know. I haven't been able to remember anything for 10 years. Just my name." Gome said,
staring into Inuyasha's eyes, trying to find out why they seemed so familiar to her.
"And what is your name?" Miroku asked from behind Inuyasha.
"Gome. Thats all I remember, my name is Gome." she said and Miroku stared.
"Is it short for Kagome? As in Kagome Higurashi?" he asked, getting a snort from her.
"No, Gome is all I remember of my name. And besides, why would an orphan like me be royalty?"
she asked indicating her plain brown kimono which made her look dark compared to the young men's
outfits before her.
Miroku dressed like that of a monk from the 16th century in a black robe with a purple robe over
top of it. His hair was pulled into a small ponytail behind his head and he held a staff for
protection. He also wore an earring in his left ear that glinted in what little light there was
left in the room.
Inuyasha however had his silver-white hair pushed off his shoulders so it layed on his back in
the middle of it. He wore a red haori, white under shirt below it, and a red pair of pants. No
shoes, unlike Miroku and Gome. He had a sword at his hip, and looked like if you were to cross
him you would not like the outcome.
Gome, unlike the other two, wore a putrid brown kimono. The kimono ended just at her ankles and
she wore a thin pair of shoes she had been given at the orphanage. In the folds of her kimono was
a dark green hat, used for when it rained to keep her head dry. Around her neck was a delicate
gold chain that dissappeared behind her kimono, keeping whatever was on the end of it hidden.
"Princess Kagome became an orphan 10 years ago. And we are searching for her to return her to her
grandmother, Kaede in Tokyo. We would love to help you but we only have three tickets for the
train and that third ticket is for the Princess." Inuyasha said tearing his eyes from Gome's
blue-grey eyes that reminded him of the promise he had.
"Ah, but Inuyasha, does she not resemble the Princess in every way? The likeness is so close that
with one glance Kaede would have to admit that she is Princess Kagome." Miroku said, catching onto
Inuyasha's plan.
"Yes she does, but it seems that Gome doesn't think so. And even though she doesn't remember her
past life, it doesn't mean that she couldn't be the Princess. And if she doesn't want to find
out then we will just have to forget about helping her and go to Tokyo on our own." Inuyasha said
and with that said he and Miroku left walking away slowly, Inuyasha counting from five to one
for her response.
"Five...Four...Three...Two...One!" he whispered to Miroku throwing his hand up into the air when
Gome shouted his name.
"Inuyasha!" Gome called out and ran towards him. "Inuyasha wait!" she cried out and stopped behind
him as he slowly turned.
"Hm? Did you call my name Gome?" he asked as Shippo continued to growl at him from beside Gome.
"Yes, I did. Maybe this Kaede woman is my grandmother. And if she is, then she has to recognize
me. If I'm not this Princess Kagome Higurashi then I can say it was all a mistake and she can't
be mad at me, right?" Gome asked looking between the two men infront of her.
"Right, so your going to do this?" Miroku asked getting a strange smile on his face.
"Yea, I guess so. So, when does our train leave?" Gome asked.
"First thing tomorrow morning." Inuyasha said. "Your Highness." he said giving her a bow.
"You call me that again and you'll regret it." Gome said glaring at him.
"Okay, Kagome." he said and caused her to start. "Kagome, are you okay?" he asked his eyes actually
filled with worry for the woman.
"Yes, I'm fine. Just call me Gome until we meet Kaede, please." Gome said biting her bottom lip
in fear.
"Okay, are you sure your okay? You look pale," Miroku said putting his hand on her shoulder.
"I'm always pale. Can you tell me where I'll be staying tonight?" she asked shrugging his hand
off of her shoulder.
"Find a room. Doesn't matter which." Inuyasha said dismissively, not really caring.
"Okay, thanks. Come on Shippo, we have a train to catch in the morning." she called out to the
dog walking down a hallway which seemed too familiar to her.
"The dog does not go!" Inuyasha shouted after her.
"Oh yes he does! He's going and if he doesn't, neither do I!" Gome called back causing Inuyasha
to growl in annoyance.
"Relax Inuyasha, she's just going to be with us for a few days until we get to Tokyo, remember?"
Miroku said as he went towards the room he was staying in, the King's room.
"Oh yeah. Well good night Miroku." Inuyasha called out and went to the room he had claimed as his,
the one Gome had chosen for hers for it seemed familiar in a pleasant way.
Gome had layed down on the bed with Shippo in her arms when Inuyasha came in. She sat up straight
an glared at him and he glared back, he wasn't going to let her stay in this room, not if his life
depended on it.
"Get out, this room is mine." Inuyasha said glaring death at her.
"And where am I supposed to stay?!" she asked, her voice dripping with venom.
"Any other room besides this one! I woke up in this room 10 years ago, therefore this room is
mine!" he shouted back at her, crossing his arms over his chest defiantly.
"Inuyasha, its for one night. Go find yourself another room!" Gome yelled her blue-grey eyes
smoldering.
"Fine!" he shouted and left the room slamming the door shut, then he did a double take on what
just happened. "WHAT AM I DOING?!" he screamed slamming the door open again as Gome had just
settled under the blankets in the bed.
"Giving into her compromising." Miroku said, he had come from the room he had after hearing all
the yelling. "Its just one night. Then you get it back, remember? Besides, I'm sure she could
use the rest, this room seems like it was built for her." he said pulling Inuyasha from the room
and quietly closing the door behind him.
"I hate her." was all Inuyasha said before he went into the room next to Gome's which turned out
to be the room the eldest sister, Kikyo, had used before she was killed.
Miroku just chuckled and went down the hall to where his room was. Each of the people in the
palace fell asleep with ease, but for one woman, whom none of the others noticed. The woman
glared silently at the doors of each of the people lay sleeping before going down a secret staircase
to the room where Naraku had devised his evil plots against the Higurashi family.
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Thats it for this chapter. Hmm, who could this evil woman be? Duh.
~*~Mel~*~
A/N: This now takes place ten years after both Kagome and Inuyasha get amnesia. And I'm sorry
for all of you who are Shippo lovers, Shippo is going to be a dog in this, SORRY!
~*~Mel~*~
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Forgotten Lives
By Golden Mooncat
Chapter One: The Plans
Inuyasha walked around for a while before finding the person he was looking for in the empty
palace that had been deserted for ten years. Going over to Miroku, his best and only friend for
the moment, he tapped him on the shoulder disturbing him from reading his letter. Miroku looked
up and growled in anger from being interupted from reading from his girlfriend, Sango.
"What is it Inuyasha? I was busy." Miroku indicated who the letter was from and Inuyasha just
shrugged his shoulders in annoyance.
"Have you heard what that woman in Tokyo is offering for the return of her granddaughter?" Inuyasha
asked.
"Yea, 100,000 yen for her. Sango just informed me in the letter, remember she is that woman's
friend's granddaughter. She adores the woman as if she were her own grandmother." Miroku said,
again indicating the letter he had been interrupted from.
"Well, I was thinking. If we get a woman from here to pose as this...What's the granddaughter's
name again?" Inuyasha asked.
"Kagome, Kagome Higurashi. You remember, she was the princess here? Don't you? Or is she part
of your past that you've forgotten as well?" Miroku asked, his tone changing to concern.
Inuyasha concentrated for a while, and he felt the box, in which he thought was a music box, in
his haori for a bit of remembrance. His amber eyes flashed with dissappointment and he shook his
head full of silver-white hair.
"I don't remember anything about my past. I just remember waking up in the palace a few days
after the Higurashi family was killed and holding the music box. I remembered my name and was
able to remember the promise I made about the music box, thats it." Inuyasha said.
"Well, anyways. You were saying?" Miroku asked, his short black hair in its ponytail gleaming
in the light, along with his dark brown eyes.
"I was saying if we can get a woman to pose as Princess Kagome than we can convince the old woman
that she is Kagome, get the money and take off." Inuyasha said, a small spark coming into his eyes.
"Are you sure this will work?" Miroku asked, his eyes gleaming with mischef.
"Of course. Have I ever been wrong?" Inuyasha asked.
"Well...Lets see the time you-" Miroku was cut off by a smack upside the head.
"That was retorhical." Inuyasha said and stormed out of the room and headed for the room he had
claimed as his own, the one he had woken up in.
~*~Meanwhile~*~
"Good bye Gome!" came the calls of the children at the orphanage as Gome was pulled from the
building by the old woman who had found her ten years before.
"Gome, come on. I got you a job at the local seamstresses. Go straight until you get to a fork
in the road and then go left. Understand?" the old woman asked.
"Yes, ma'am. Thank you." Gome said and bowed her head.
Gome stood straight again and fixed her ponytail. Her blue-grey eyes filling with tears as she
left the place she thought of as home for ten years. Tugging on a loose strand of her long raven
colored hair she had in a twisted ponytail making it short, Gome walked the road to the fork.
"Why did I end up being an orphan? And why can't I remember anything before the orphanage? All
I can remember is this necklace and a pair of amber eyes, pleading with me." Gome asked herself.
When Gome reached the fork in the road she started to head to the left but stopped when a thought
came to her. Who said she *had* to go to the seamstress job? Why couldn't she just go to the
right? What was to the right? Gome sat down on a boulder where she considered going which way.
"Send me a sign for heaven's sake! Tell me where to go!" Gome called out to the sky.
*Woof!* *Woof!*
Gome lifted her head from her hands and came face to face with a small red puppy. Staring into
the hunter green eyes of the dog Gome decided that she liked the animal. When the dog grabbed
a hold of her hat which had fallen out of her kimono and started to take off with it to the right
side of the fork Gome took off after it.
"Here boy. Come here boy! Give me back my hat!" Gome called out and then stopped realizing she
was heading right of the fork. "Do you want me to go to Northern Japan?" Gome asked the dog.
The dog barked happily and walked back up to Gome dropping her hat at her feet. Taking that as
a yes Gome took her hat and put it back into her kimono folds she started walking to Northern
Japan. Putting her hand on the necklace and pulling it out Gome noticed something different about
the key charm on it. It had writing on it and she had never noticed it before.
"Always in Tokyo." Gome said aloud as she read. "Am I to go to Tokyo, Shippo?" she asked her dog
companion who merely barked and gave his tail a wag. "Okay, then lets go!" she said picking up
the dog and walking to the town nearest her, the same one where a palace was, deserted.
Gome walked around for a while in the town before heading to the train station where she asked for
a ticket to Tokyo.
"1000 yen." the man behind the ticket window said.
"1000 yen? But I don't have any money..." Gome said and had the window promptly slammed shut in
front of her face.
"Pst. Pst. You want to go to the old palace in the middle of the villiage. Look for Inuyasha,
but don't say you heard it from me." the old woman behind her said.
"Inuyasha? Thank you." Gome said and left the train station searching for the palace.
~*~Meanwhile~*~
"NEXT!" Miroku shouted as yet another girl came onto the small platform infront of him and Inuyasha
for the auditions for there scheme of the Kagome.
"Grandmother, its me, Kagome!" the woman on the platform said. The woman looked to be about the
age of 29.
"Sorry, Kagome would be about 18 right now." Miroku said and the woman got off the platform
muttering curses.
Inuyasha was getting mad, not one girl they had auditioned for the day was able to make him think
that they were Kagome. The 'music' box infront of him gleamed almost mockingly at him. Inuyasha
began crossing out all the names on the list infront of him getting stopped by Miroku only after
he crossed out the third to last name.
"Inuyasha, one of these girls might actually be able to pull it off. Just none of the ones we've
seen today." he said taking the list from him.
"Miroku, we aren't going to find her, not from this list." he retaliated and got up. "No more
auditions today. You can all go home!" he called out to those women who were still in line.
Miroku and Inuyasha cleaned up their papers and went to the kitchens where they cooked a small
meal for the two of them to begin eatting. Inuyasha was beginning to have second thoughts about
this plan to find a woman to pose as Kagome, he would be better off if he found the actual one,
but knew he never would. Miroku went back to reading the letter Sango had sent him and choked
on his food when he saw what part of it said.
"What?" Inuyasha asked looking at his friend.
"Inuyasha, we have a problem. Not only do we have to find a girl who looks like Kagome, we have
to find one that knows all about her, or we have to teach her what to say and do." Miroku said
and then went into the explanation that Sango would be giving an interview with each of the
women who came. Sango would be asking questions like 'where would you go if you were mad?' and
such.
Inuyasha stared in disbelief at Miroku, thinking he had read the letter wrong. But when he took
the letter and read it himself he found that he wasn't lying. Growling in anger Inuyasha punched
the countertop for a while before his knuckles started to bleed so Miroku had to fix them up.
~*~Meanwhile~*~
Gome and Shippo walked around the palace for a while before finding an opening to get into. When
Shippo ran to a boarded up opening and dissappeared from Gome's view she sighed and went to the
opening looking through a crack to see Shippo standing behind it. She slipped her fingers into
the crack and jerked the boards out, losing her balance as she did so she fell backwards and
caused a loud crash sound.
Inuyasha who had very sensitive hearing heard the crash and put his hand on Miroku's shoulder.
"Did you hear that?" he asked his eyes flicking to the doorway.
"Hear what?" Miroku asked raising his eyebrows.
"Nothing, maybe it was my imagination." Inuyasha said and went back to eatting what was left of
his dinner.
"Ow...Shippo, come here." Gome said as she stood up and dusted off her kimono. When she looked
to where the red puppy had been standing she saw that he was running around what looked to be a
ballroom.
"Deja vu..." Gome said walking around the room and picking up delicate little tea cups. "This is
like a dream, I remember some of this, is that possible?" she asked herself as images flashed
before her eyes as she held a tea cup with a cherry blossom flower on it.
Images of drinking tea with a sister about the age of 18, a mother who looked vagly looked like
her two daughters and holding a small baby boy close. A father and her dancing around the ballroom
on nights when she couldn't sleep. Gome saw an elderly woman with a kind face standing beside
herself holding her hand.
Gome suddenly got dizzy and grabbed ahold of her head falling to her knees and crying out. Shippo
ran over to her and rubbed against her legs whining as she felt tears falling down her pale milk
white skin. Gome continued crying out in pain as flashes of memories came slamming into her so
hard that she felt like she would fall through the floor.
"There, did you hear that?" Inuaysha asked as Miroku lifted his head suddenly as the sound of
someone crying out reached his ears.
"Yes, but, who could be here? Its just us." Miroku said as they left the kitchens and walked down
the long hallway to where the sounds began getting louder, to the ballroom.
Gome had finally stopped crying out but heard echos of the cries lasted in the empty room. Standing
up shakily she took a deep breath and started for a hallway away from where Inuyasha and Miroku
were coming. When they reached the ballroom Gome had walked to a portrait of a family who looked
a bit familiar to her was.
"HEY! What are you doing here?!" Inuyasha called out scaring Gome enough so that she whipped
around and stared at the young man who had scared her.
Miroku who had been looking at the portrait behind Gome and at the woman herself stared. She
looked a lot like the young child in the picture, but to be around the age of eightteen not eight.
Nudging Inuyasha Miroku pointed to the portrait behind Gome and he too stared.
"Don't move." they both said and ran to where she was causing Shippo to start growling at his
companion's whimpers of fear.
"What are you doing here?" Inuyasha asked when he was close enough, Gome closed her eyes in fear.
"I was told that if I want to get to Tokyo to find a man named Inuyasha. Are you h-" Gome cut
herself off when she opened her eyes to see the same amber eyes from her memory.
"I'm Inuyasha yes. This is Miroku. Do I know you?" Inuyasha asked staring at her face, she
seemed familiar, almost like he knew her at one point.
"I don't know. I haven't been able to remember anything for 10 years. Just my name." Gome said,
staring into Inuyasha's eyes, trying to find out why they seemed so familiar to her.
"And what is your name?" Miroku asked from behind Inuyasha.
"Gome. Thats all I remember, my name is Gome." she said and Miroku stared.
"Is it short for Kagome? As in Kagome Higurashi?" he asked, getting a snort from her.
"No, Gome is all I remember of my name. And besides, why would an orphan like me be royalty?"
she asked indicating her plain brown kimono which made her look dark compared to the young men's
outfits before her.
Miroku dressed like that of a monk from the 16th century in a black robe with a purple robe over
top of it. His hair was pulled into a small ponytail behind his head and he held a staff for
protection. He also wore an earring in his left ear that glinted in what little light there was
left in the room.
Inuyasha however had his silver-white hair pushed off his shoulders so it layed on his back in
the middle of it. He wore a red haori, white under shirt below it, and a red pair of pants. No
shoes, unlike Miroku and Gome. He had a sword at his hip, and looked like if you were to cross
him you would not like the outcome.
Gome, unlike the other two, wore a putrid brown kimono. The kimono ended just at her ankles and
she wore a thin pair of shoes she had been given at the orphanage. In the folds of her kimono was
a dark green hat, used for when it rained to keep her head dry. Around her neck was a delicate
gold chain that dissappeared behind her kimono, keeping whatever was on the end of it hidden.
"Princess Kagome became an orphan 10 years ago. And we are searching for her to return her to her
grandmother, Kaede in Tokyo. We would love to help you but we only have three tickets for the
train and that third ticket is for the Princess." Inuyasha said tearing his eyes from Gome's
blue-grey eyes that reminded him of the promise he had.
"Ah, but Inuyasha, does she not resemble the Princess in every way? The likeness is so close that
with one glance Kaede would have to admit that she is Princess Kagome." Miroku said, catching onto
Inuyasha's plan.
"Yes she does, but it seems that Gome doesn't think so. And even though she doesn't remember her
past life, it doesn't mean that she couldn't be the Princess. And if she doesn't want to find
out then we will just have to forget about helping her and go to Tokyo on our own." Inuyasha said
and with that said he and Miroku left walking away slowly, Inuyasha counting from five to one
for her response.
"Five...Four...Three...Two...One!" he whispered to Miroku throwing his hand up into the air when
Gome shouted his name.
"Inuyasha!" Gome called out and ran towards him. "Inuyasha wait!" she cried out and stopped behind
him as he slowly turned.
"Hm? Did you call my name Gome?" he asked as Shippo continued to growl at him from beside Gome.
"Yes, I did. Maybe this Kaede woman is my grandmother. And if she is, then she has to recognize
me. If I'm not this Princess Kagome Higurashi then I can say it was all a mistake and she can't
be mad at me, right?" Gome asked looking between the two men infront of her.
"Right, so your going to do this?" Miroku asked getting a strange smile on his face.
"Yea, I guess so. So, when does our train leave?" Gome asked.
"First thing tomorrow morning." Inuyasha said. "Your Highness." he said giving her a bow.
"You call me that again and you'll regret it." Gome said glaring at him.
"Okay, Kagome." he said and caused her to start. "Kagome, are you okay?" he asked his eyes actually
filled with worry for the woman.
"Yes, I'm fine. Just call me Gome until we meet Kaede, please." Gome said biting her bottom lip
in fear.
"Okay, are you sure your okay? You look pale," Miroku said putting his hand on her shoulder.
"I'm always pale. Can you tell me where I'll be staying tonight?" she asked shrugging his hand
off of her shoulder.
"Find a room. Doesn't matter which." Inuyasha said dismissively, not really caring.
"Okay, thanks. Come on Shippo, we have a train to catch in the morning." she called out to the
dog walking down a hallway which seemed too familiar to her.
"The dog does not go!" Inuyasha shouted after her.
"Oh yes he does! He's going and if he doesn't, neither do I!" Gome called back causing Inuyasha
to growl in annoyance.
"Relax Inuyasha, she's just going to be with us for a few days until we get to Tokyo, remember?"
Miroku said as he went towards the room he was staying in, the King's room.
"Oh yeah. Well good night Miroku." Inuyasha called out and went to the room he had claimed as his,
the one Gome had chosen for hers for it seemed familiar in a pleasant way.
Gome had layed down on the bed with Shippo in her arms when Inuyasha came in. She sat up straight
an glared at him and he glared back, he wasn't going to let her stay in this room, not if his life
depended on it.
"Get out, this room is mine." Inuyasha said glaring death at her.
"And where am I supposed to stay?!" she asked, her voice dripping with venom.
"Any other room besides this one! I woke up in this room 10 years ago, therefore this room is
mine!" he shouted back at her, crossing his arms over his chest defiantly.
"Inuyasha, its for one night. Go find yourself another room!" Gome yelled her blue-grey eyes
smoldering.
"Fine!" he shouted and left the room slamming the door shut, then he did a double take on what
just happened. "WHAT AM I DOING?!" he screamed slamming the door open again as Gome had just
settled under the blankets in the bed.
"Giving into her compromising." Miroku said, he had come from the room he had after hearing all
the yelling. "Its just one night. Then you get it back, remember? Besides, I'm sure she could
use the rest, this room seems like it was built for her." he said pulling Inuyasha from the room
and quietly closing the door behind him.
"I hate her." was all Inuyasha said before he went into the room next to Gome's which turned out
to be the room the eldest sister, Kikyo, had used before she was killed.
Miroku just chuckled and went down the hall to where his room was. Each of the people in the
palace fell asleep with ease, but for one woman, whom none of the others noticed. The woman
glared silently at the doors of each of the people lay sleeping before going down a secret staircase
to the room where Naraku had devised his evil plots against the Higurashi family.
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Thats it for this chapter. Hmm, who could this evil woman be? Duh.
~*~Mel~*~