A/N-Whew, this is a long chapter! I'm so proud ^_^ The next chapter will be shorter though, just to tell you now. Anywho, I'm so surprised I got so many reviews for the first chapter! I danced! This chapter gets pretty funny sometimes. And then it's sad sometimes too. Oh, and I've got one vote in favor of changing amnesia to the Sleeping Memory illness! Well, it's unanimous! The name of the illness that makes you lose your memory is now the Sleeping Memory illness!

Disclaimer-I do not own the Inuyasha characters.

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Do You Remember Me?

Chapter II

Kagome glanced around her. Where…was she? Was this…where she lived? Now that she thought about it, who was she? Kagome looked up to where light was coming from. It looked like she was in some sort of big wooden box.

'What am I doing in here?' Kagome asked herself as she tried to find a way to climb up the wooden walls. First she tried to scale the wall in front of her but she didn't get higher than a few feet. After a few feet, Kagome's footing slipped and she fell down, landing on her back, looking up at the opening of the box where she could see the blue sky.

Kagome sighed in vexation and then saw some vines growing up the side of the wooden box. "Aha!" Kagome cried triumphantly, grabbing the vines and pulling herself up until she could grab the sides of the box. As she placed her forearms on the rim of the box to push herself up, she looked around and wondered where she was. She was in a large clearing. A butterfly fluttered by lazily as Kagome took in her surroundings. She could hear birds chirping in the trees surrounding the clearing and the light gurgle of a stream nearby.

"Kagome…" Inuyasha murmured as he caught her scent. He jumped out of the tree he had been sitting (sulking) in and ran towards the clearing the well was in. He slowed down as he neared the meadow since he didn't want to seem to eager to see her. He entered the clearing just as she was climbing out of the well, rubbing her head as she glanced around her. "Oi, Kagome, what took so long?" he demanded sharply, walking towards her.

Kagome glanced in his direction and looked him up and down and then glanced around behind her as if expecting this Kagome person to be behind her somewhere. "Who? Me?"

"Yes you, baka!"

"Hey, who are you to call me a-" Kagome began but then noticed his ears and claws. "Aiiyyyyeeeeee!!!" Kagome cried shrilly, making Inuyasha wince and cover his sensitive ears. She jumped back and fell backwards into the well, but he rushed forward despite the painful ringing in his ears and grabbed her arm, pulling her back up.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Inuyasha asked in irritation. His ears were killing him!

Kagome said nothing and began to take slow, cautious steps backward. Then she just turned and ran as fast as she could into the forest, shoving aside low branches and crashing through the undergrowth.

"Hey! What the hell?" Inuyasha asked, running after her, the branches Kagome shoved out of her way swaying back to knock him in the face.

Kagome ran straight for the village and the villagers working in the fields or walking along the road looked up as they saw Inuyasha and Kagome coming.

"Lady Kagome! Welcome back!" a villager called cheerfully, waving to her.

"AAAAIIIIYEEEE!! A monster is chasing me!!" Kagome shouted, running through the village. "Help me!! Please! Somebody! Anybody!"

"A mononoke?" the villagers murmured frightfully. Was a demon attacking the village again so soon? But then they breathed a sigh of relief when they realized the "monster" she was talking about was only Inuyasha.

"Damn it! What is wrong with you?!" Inuyasha shouted as he ran after her, the women covering their children's ears from Inuyasha's colorful language. Kagome was acting like she didn't even know him! He was no monster! Was this her idea of a joke? If it was, Inuyasha sure as hell did not find it funny.

"Kagome-sama!" Miroku said cheerfully as he walked towards her. He embraced her and when his hands went lower than they were supposed to, Inuyasha shouted, "Take your hands off her!"

Kagome jumped back and pressed herself against the wall of a hut. "What the hell is wrong with you people?!" she cried, her eyes wide and frightened. Then she took a long, shuddering breath and just fell to the ground. (A/N-Well, that sure was a frightful experience…First a guy with ears and claws and then some pervert…)

Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, and Shippo (Both Sango and Shippo had come to see the last bit of the little event) just stood there and looked down at her, shocked into speechlessness.

"What was that?" Sango finally asked slowly.

"That…was…odd…" Miroku commented, rubbing the back of his neck with a hand.

"Is Kagome okay?" Shippo asked, tugging on Inuyasha's sleeve.

Inuyasha jerked his sleeve away and shrugged. "How should I know?" Then he picked her up and started to carry her towards Kaede's hut but Kagome woke up he had gotten to Kaede's.

"Wha?" Kagome mumbled as she tried to figure out where she was. It took her many moments to realize she was looking at the ground. White hair…and dog ears… "Aiyyee!!" she screamed, knocking the side of his head and causing Inuyasha to wince in pain again. "Put me down!! Put me down!"

Inuyasha ignored her and continued towards Kaede's.

She began to pound on his back. "Put me down! Help! Help me! Somebody! He's kidnapping me! He's kidnapping me! Help!" she shouted as loud as she possibly could.

"I'm not fucking kidnapping you damn it!" Inuyasha said, the pain in his ears driving him insane. He couldn't believe she was afraid of him! And her screaming was making his head pound. All he heard was ringing…more ringing…Kagome shouting…more ringing…

Miroku leaned towards Sango and whispered, "Ehh…Do you know why Kagome thinks Inuyasha's kidnapping her?"

"I have no idea…Maybe it's a joke?" Sango asked. They both found it strange that Kagome should fear Inuyasha when they both knew that Inuyasha would never harm a hair on her head and he wouldn't let anyone else harm a hair on her head either.

"But it's not funny!" Shippo said, and then ran after Inuyasha and Kagome to bounce along behind them. "Kagome! Hi Kagome!"

"Ahh! It has a tail!" Kagome cried, squirming in Inuyasha's grasp.

"Damn it! Hold still! Of course he has a damn tail! He's only had a tail for as long as the little brat's been alive," Inuyasha told her irritably, moving his head aside just before her elbow would have collided with his nose. He lost his grip on her and she fell to the ground.

"Oww!"

At that moment, Kaede stepped out of her hut to see what all the commotion was about. "Ah, Lady Kagome, ye have returned I see."

Kagome just continued to sit on the ground, searching for an escape route as if she hadn't heard Kaede.

"Kagome?" Kaede asked gently as Kagome continued to look around her, bewildered. She placed a hand on her shoulder. "Kagome?"

"Who, me?" Kagome asked, confused. "Is that my name?"

Inuyasha's mouth dropped open and Sango and Miroku blinked, their mouths opening and closing as they searched for words, looking much like fish out of water except that they weren't flopping around.

"You're kidding, right?" Sango asked.

"No, I don't think so…" Kagome said uncertainly. Was she kidding? No, surely not.

"Do ye know where ye are child?" Kaede asked gently.

Kagome looked around and then shook her head. "No…"

"What do you mean you don't know where you are, you stupid girl?" Inuyasha shouted.

Kagome glared at him and stood up, jabbing her forefinger into his chest. "Who are you to call me stupid, huh?"

Inuyasha's mouth shut. She didn't know who he was? For some reason that Inuyasha couldn't explain, that was a painful blow for him.

"Do ye know who any of these people are?" Kaede asked her then.

Kagome glanced at them all one by one, her gaze lingering on each of their faces. "No."

Kaede thought for a moment and then she sighed, motioning for them all to come inside. The group filed inside and took a seat around a fire. Kagome sat a little apart from the group, hugging her knees to her chest.

"Kagome, what is the last thing ye remember?" Kaede asked. At first, Kagome seemed oblivious to the fact that someone was talking to her.

"Oh, that's me huh? I just woke up in the bottom of that well thing," Kagome told her.

"Do ye remember anything before that?"

Kagome thought for a moment and then shook her head. The small group looked surprised and Kaede sighed.

"I have seen this before. They call it the Sleeping Memory illness. It normally occurs when one hits their head upon something," Kaede explained. "Sometimes the memory returns…and other times…it just doesn't."

The group was silent. There was a chance Kagome would never have her memory back? There was a chance she'd never remember them again? The thought saddened the small close-knit group. They had only been traveling together for almost two months and they already felt so close, but there was a chance that Kagome would never be the same. This thought shocked the group, and, even though he'd as soon cut off his own right arm than admit it, even Inuyasha was saddened by the thought.

"Well, your name is Higurashi Kagome. Your home is beyond the Bone Eaters well, the well ye climbed out of today. This well takes ye to this time and to your world. For the past two months, ye have been traveling back and forth between these two worlds to collect shards of the Shikon no Tama. The first time, ye were pulled into the well from your home by a centipede demon and there ye saw Inuyasha pinned to a tree," Kaede explained. It felt awkward to explain everything that Kagome was already supposed to know.

"Why was he pinned to a tree? With what?" Kagome asked.

"He was pinned to a tree by my elder sister, Kikyo with an enchanted arrow," Kaede told her. "You are her reincarnation."

Kagome glanced over at him and noticed that Inuyasha was scowling as Kikyo was mentioned. Kagome frowned. Her? The reincarnation of a priestess with enchanted arrows? The old lady must have been talking about the wrong person,l Kagome concluded.

"She protected the Shikon no Tama but Onigumo, a thief she was caring for, had his soul devoured by demons and became Naraku, an evil, powerful demon. He tricked Kikyo and Inuyasha into thinking the other betrayed them and Kikyo pinned Inuyasha to the tree. Kikyo had the jewel burned with her body but the jewel was in your body and it came out after the centipede monster cut your side. Then, ye broke the seal and freed Inuyasha. After that, ye shot an arrow at a crow demon that stole the jewel from ye and it shattered the jewel, which is why ye are now searching from and gathering the jewel shards. You can sense the jewel shards. The jewel can grant demon great powers and is very dangerous in evil hands. Even a single shard can cause much trouble. Yesterday, ye went back to your world to take one of your 'tests' and ye have only now returned," Kaede told her. "Do ye remember any of this?"

Kagome bit her lip and shook her head, but she felt at her neck, grabbing the collected jewel shards and wrapping her fingers around them.

"Well, maybe ye just need things to trigger your memory or perhaps let it return on its own," Kaede said.

Inuyasha stood up having gotten an idea of how to trigger her memory. "Come with me," he told her, walking out of the hut, Kagome hesitantly following him. She didn't even know this person. Where was he taking her? When they were outside, he kneeled down in front of her. "Climb onto my back," he told her when she just stood there.

"Oh…Uhm, okay…" Kagome said, uncertainly climbing onto his back and holding onto his shoulders.

As soon as he was sure she was holding on tightly, he jumped up over the treetops. Kagome squealed and buried her face in his hair. Then she cautiously looked down at the ground.

"It feels like I'm flying!" Kagome cried, laughing and closing her eyes, savoring the feel of the wind through her hair.

Inuyasha smiled, turning back to look at her. He liked making her happy. It made him feel good somehow. Maybe her losing her memory could be good for something. Maybe he could do some things different; a sort of new beginning. But, at the same time, her memory loss made her fear him and he didn't like that feeling. He didn't like having her afraid of him. But, it would be nice to be able to do a few things differently. But how would he do them differently? He didn't know how to be anything than what he already was. Well, it probably wouldn't hurt to be a little nicer to her, he'd admit as much. He told himself he'd figure it out later.

He continued to leap through the forest until he came to land on a dirt path in the side of a mountain and he kneeled down to let her climb off.

"Where's this?" Kagome asked, looking around.

"This is where we first met Miroku. We were just walking along this path and a raccoon demon in the form of a boulder came down from right there, knocking me down this side of the road while Miroku kidnapped you. Then you escaped but he ran off with the jewel shards we had collected," Inuyasha explained.

"I…don't remember this," Kagome admitted quietly.

Inuyasha, slightly disappointed but not about to give up, kneeled down in front of her again and she climbed back onto his back. He set her down after they had come to stop in a pretty ordinary looking clearing. Kagome saw nothing special about this clearing and glanced at Inuyasha questioningly.

"This is where we first met Sango. She thought that I had destroyed her village because Naraku told her that I did. Naraku possessed her younger brother and made him kill their father and some other exterminators. Then he tried to kill Sango but she survived and Naraku told her I destroyed her village and she sought revenge by trying to kill me. When she found out that Naraku had tricked her, she joined us."

"That's…horrible…But I don't remember it…" Kagome said. Had all this stuff really happened? It seemed unbelievable. Was he just messing with her? He seemed so serious about it though. So had it all happened? Kagome couldn't be too sure.

He carried her back towards the village but before they reached it, he turned and ran into the forest and Kagome began to get frightened. It was getting dark and he was taking her into the forest. She didn't even know this person. Maybe coming with him wasn't such a good idea.

"Uhh…Where are we going now?" Kagome asked but he didn't answer.

Soon, they stopped in front of a huge tree with gnarled roots protruding from the ground that bent sharply in places to make it look old and tangled.

"This is where…where we first met," Inuyasha told her. He watched her walk over to the tree and climb up onto the gnarled roots to run her hand over the tree trunk. Then she looked up into its high branches. She sank to her knees, her forehead pressed against the trunk of the tree, shaking her head slowly.

"I don't remember," she said quietly.

"Over here is-" Inuyasha began to tell her.

"I don't remember damn it! I can't remember! I don't know who you are! I don't know where I am. Hell, I don't even know who I am! I don't know where I came from. I don't know what I did before know. I just can't remember!" she shouted, tears rolling down her cheeks as she pounded a fist against the tree. "I just can't alright?"

They were silent as they headed back to the village. Miroku, Sango, and Shippo came out of the hut, looking hopefully towards them but their hopes were dashed as they saw Kagome looking sadly at the ground and Inuyasha walking with his ears drooping and without his usual tough guy strut.

Kagome walked past them into the hut and sat in a corner, leaning against the wall with her eyes closed. Why couldn't she remember anything? What had she been doing before the well? Where had she been before she woke at the bottom of the well? She tried to remember but she couldn't. She supposed she'd just have to wait and pray that her memory came back.

Kagome sat up and opened her eyes. "Guys? Would you…? Could you…tell me…what it was like…before now I mean?" she asked Miroku, Sango, Inuyasha, and Shippo, who had all been watching her intently.

They all began to talk at once, launching into stories about when so-and-so did this or when he said that and then this happened and Kagome laughed. "So I can understand please?"

"Ooh! Me first! Me first!" Shippo said, waving his arms around and bouncing up and down. After that, they all took turns telling her little stories about their travels and their adventures. They all talked late into night hoping that some story, some memory, would make her remember, but none did. All these stories seemed unbelievable to Kagome. They all seemed to remember the stories though, so she figured they must have been true.

Finally, they decided that they needed their sleep and went to bed, all except for Inuyasha, who stayed awake, as usual. He glanced over at Kagome and found a strange sort of relief in watching the steady rise and fall of her chest as she slept. Would she ever remember them again? Would the group ever be the same? He felt like he was losing her and that he needed to do something before she was lost to him forever. He scooted closer to her sleeping form to inhale her scent and listen to her breathing. He leaned forward to look at her face.

'Uhh…' Inuyasha thought to himself when Kagome grabbed his arm, mumbling something. He tried to gently pull his arm away without waking her but she just tightened her hold on his arm. 'She's got an iron grip even in her sleep!'

Then Kagome rolled over so that Inuyasha fell forward with his arm around her. 'She's insane when she sleeps!' Inuyasha thought as he tried to pull his arm free without waking her up. He finally managed to lift up her arm gently and then free his arm. He sat up and looked down at her, glaring. 'Insane wench!'

Kagome bolted up into a sitting position and slapped him across the cheek. Then she yawned and stretched her arms toward the ceiling when she noticed Inuyasha.

"Oh, did I hit you? Ehehe…It was a relflex sorta thing, you know?" Kagome said apologetically.

"Feh," Inuyasha muttered, turning his head to the side so that she couldn't see the large red handprint on his cheek.

"Why weren't you asleep?"

"Demons aren't as weak as humans. We don't need as much sleep," Inuyasha explained shortly as if it were obvious.

"Oh…right, I knew that," Kagome said, and then she sighed. "Or at least I probably used to…"

Inuyasha instantly felt a pang of remorse about talking to her like that and was just about to apologize (something, as you know, he rarely or never did) when she looked up at him.

"Did we…?" Kagome began to ask and Inuyasha flushed. What was the girl going to ask now? "Well, did we…get along alright, before now I mean?" Kagome asked. She couldn't seem to shake the feeling that they had had something a bit more than just getting along alright. While she slept, she thought that she could feel his presence near her, though he was all the way on the other side of the room when she had fallen asleep, and her immediate inclination was to hold him. Why was that?

The blush on Inuyasha's cheeks disappeared and he inwardly sighed in relief. He had thought she was going to ask something else. He shrugged. "We got along alright I guess," he answered indifferently and silently cursed himself. He was supposed to try to be nicer! Why couldn't he be a bit kinder? Even just a little bit! It's not like it was an impossible task. Well, Inuyasha was beginning to think that for him, maybe it was impossible.

"Just alright, huh?" Kagome pressed, trying to get a better answer from him but he just shrugged again. Kagome sighed and then lay back down on her sleeping mat. "Well, good night then," she said, closing her eyes to try to get back to sleep, her thoughts chasing themselves around in little circles inside her head while Inuyasha's thoughts were more along the lines of, 'Baka baka baka baka baka baka baka!'

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A/N-Wee! New chappie! A long one too! The next one won't be nearly so long because I don't have time to write such long chapters all the time. Course, if the world were my way, we wouldn't have to go to school or study for tests because we wouldn't have any or practice for orchestra festivals or have any homework and everyone could stay home and write fanfictions all day long! All in favor of this new lifestyle say "Aye!" *Everyone says Aye!*

The President: We veto this idea.

YoukaiTaiji-ya: You can't do that! We voted! It's unanimous! Isn't this a democratic country?

The President: We veto this idea.

YoukaiTaiji-ya: You can't! We voted!

The President: That doesn't count.

YoukaiTaiji-ya: Why not? It should!

The President: You're not old enough to vote so it doesn't count.

YoukaiTaiji-ya: Says who?

The President: Me. I'm the President.

YoukaiTaiji-ya: Oh…damn…Oh well, review and I'll get the next chapter up soon. Just to give you a little peek ahead in this story, Kouga, Sesshoumaru, and Naraku will make appearances. Heh heh…But that's not in the next chapter, I don't think…But maybe…Now for the review responses. I was going to put them up at the top but there were too many and I didn't like all the responses up at the top.

 Review Responses: Wow! So many reviews to answer! *Dances*

Lady Sephiroth: The uhh…taiji of all things evil…uhh…demands that it be noticed that she updated. No! Not my toenails!

Majik: Ching ching ching! We have a winner! Yes, Monkeynucleosis is from Hey Arnold! I was writing this and I was going to come up with a strange sickness for Kagome to be suffering from but then I remembered Monkeynucleosis so I took that. I apologize for any spelling mistakes. I thought my spell check caught all of them, but maybe they didn't. I probably didn't catch all of them because my word processor underlines all the strange Japanese names in red too.

aleaha: It is like a soap isn't it? Now I've just gotta make Kaogme sleep with Inuyasha and Miroku and she gets pregnant and they don't know who's child it is and it tragically splits the group up and then Inuyasha's twin brother, Chibiyasha shows up and takes Kagome away and then…Well, I'm not going to do any of that, don't worry. ^_^

Crystal Twilight: Yes! Inuyasha and Kagome-ness rocks!

Bartender of New York: Well, he really doesn't do anything dramatically different. He just does little things different here and there.

Sammy: Yes! One vote for the Sleeping Memory illness over amnesia! You wanna know what it is that turns me off the word, amnesia? It sounds too much like ambrosia…

Laura: I'm sorry you hurt yourself on my cliffhanger. I'll make them smaller next time so you don't fall quite so far ^_~

Chibi: I'm glad you like it! I'm glad you know like Inuyasha too. It's an awesome show ^_^

Anime Goddess: I continued! Celebrate!

sakurablossoms: It was very motivating. Thank you ^_^

Shippo Yonochi: What does 'yonochi' mean? Ahk! Threats! I'm already getting threats! Not the terrible meter stick! Uhh…I mean sword!

Colleen: Yes! One in favor of living in caves and throwing rocks at saber-toothed tigers and having mammoth races! That makes it unanimous out of…ehh…one vote ^_^;;; I think I described stuff a bit more in this chapter.

Blue Dreamer: No! This was almost another vote in favor of going back to the cave man days! Gah! Oh well, I think I'd go crazy if I didn't have anime either ^_^

kyanos: I updated. Aren't you proud? And I usually only update once a week but this week, I updated twice! Wow!

kimiko doi: You just read more. Is it still great? I hope so.

DreamoftheHeart: Well, Kagome's kinda got to remember how she feels about him first.   

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