A/N-I am so pissed off at computers right now. For one of my other fics, all my future chapters that I had typed up are gone! They're just gone. Anywho, I still have this chapter so that's good. I don't feel like doing review responses because, frankly, I'm in a very sour mood so yeah.
Disclaimer-I don't own the Inuyasha characters.
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Do You Remember Me?
Chapter IV
Miroku sighed as he walked beside Sango down the dirt path. "It's just not the same…With Kagome-sama's memory lost."
Sango looked over her shoulder to where Kagome was walking a little bit behind them, her eyes on the ground as Shippo bounced along beside her, trying to get her to talk to him. Then Sango's gaze returned forward to see Inuyasha walking ahead of them and she could have sworn that he was slouching with his head just slightly more tilted towards the ground than usual. It was so minute a difference though that she couldn't be too sure. "I know what you mean."
They had left right after Inuyasha's "ramen incident," which Sango and Miroku had agreed to call it whereas Shippo and Kagome insisted on calling it the "ramen catastrophe." As soon as they had set out, Kagome had fallen behind to walk in the rear of the group, not talking to anyone unless they spoke to her first, and even then, she gave an answer using the smallest amount of words possible.
Miroku watched Shippo run up towards Inuyasha, and Miroku supposed he was whining about Kagome. Miroku and Sango sweatdropped when Inuyasha picked Shippo up by the tail and swung him around a bit before knocking him on the head.
"Hey! Stop it!" Kagome shouted, running up to Inuyasha and grabbing Shippo.
"He started it!" Inuyasha protested.
"You should be mature enough to finish it! He's a child and you're supposed to be a man!" Kagome retorted.
Miroku shook his head, chuckling. "Some things never change…"
"He's the one who never fucking learns!" Inuyasha shouted, pointing a finger accusingly at Shippo.
"Watch your mouth!" Kagome rebuked, covering Shippo's ears.
"Well when he bugs me, I'm gonna hit him. I do that every time but he never learns!"
Kagome sighed. "Let's sit down and re-"
The rosary around Inuyasha's neck glowed purple before he smashed into the ground face first, muttering curses to the ground.
Kaogme blinked at him, bewildered.
"Lady Kagome, the rosary around Inuyasha's neck allows you to-" Miroku began to explain but Inuyasha hurled himself at the monk and covered his mouth.
"The rosary allows you to do nothing!" Inuyasha told her, his hand still over Miroku's mouth. Miroku tried to protest but Inuyasha hit him on the head.
Sango grinned mischievously. "Kagome-chan! That's an enchanted rosary and it gives you one special power over Inuyasha. You see-"
Inuyasha growled and ran over to Sango, covering her mouth.
"The rosary lets you-" Miroku said, grinning as Inuyasha ran back over to him and covered his mouth again, whacking him on the head.
"You see-" Sango began again, laughing.
Kagome covered her mouth to stifle her giggles. It was quite amusing to see Inuyasha running from person to person to stop them from saying something. Apparently this something was a secret Inuyasha didn't want her to know about.
"Say 'sit' Kagome-sama!" Miroku called, enjoying this immensely.
" 'Sit?'" Kagome asked, confused. "Why si-?"
Inuyasha was pulled down to the ground again, his hands twitching slightly.
"Kaede enchanted that rosary so that if you say 'sit,' Kagome-sama, Inuyasha is restrained," Miroku explained.
Kagome walked over to where Inuyasha was still muttering curses into the ground. She grabbed his arm and helped him up. "I'm sorry, I didn't know."
"Feh…" Inuyasha muttered, trying so hard to salvage his dignity by strutting to the head of the group and continuing down the road. It was hard to act dignified when you had dirt all over the front of you though… "Idiot…" he muttered to himself when he remembered that he was supposed to be trying to be nicer to her. Inuyasha sighed inwardly. Why was that so hard?
"Don't worry about him, Kagome," Shippo told her as they both fell behind again. "I've known him for awhile now and I think he's reluctant to express any deep feelings in fear that he will face rejection or that he will be hurt."
Kagome glanced down at him in surprise.
"I have no idea what that means. Miroku said that," Shippo said cheerfully. "So what does it mean?"
Kagome didn't answer and instead glanced up and stared at Inuyasha's back thoughtfully. So that's why he acted the way he did. Did he really fear rejection and hurt so much? Well, it was normal to fear those things, Kagome guessed. Had she feared those things before? Surely she had, but she couldn't remember. Did she fear them now? No, she guessed that she didn't since she didn't know these people anyway.
"Miroku also told me that that was why Inuyasha was too afraid to tell you how he really feels about you," Shippo said, yawning slightly.
" 'How he…really…feels?'" Kagome repeated questioningly, looking down at the kitsune.
"Yup," Shippo murmured drowsily. "Miroku said that Inuyasha was just afraid of him or you being hurt and he said something about earlier obligations that he had to take care of first. Miroku told me that he was just confused and had to sort out all his feelings first. Miroku's pretty smart when he's not asking random women to bear his child. Miroku always asks if someone would bear his child. What does that mean? Do you know? Well anyway, he sounds pretty smart except I don't really understand everything he says but it sure sounds smart…"
Shippo continued to talk but Kagome drowned him out as she glanced up at Inuyasha again. 'Earlier obligations?' What did that mean? And what did Shippo mean by 'how he really feels?' Did that mean that…? Could he really…?
Kagome was so involved in her thoughts that she didn't notice when Inuyasha glanced back at her, his eyes narrowing suspiciously. He jumped over Miroku and Sango to land in front of Kagome still holding Shippo in her arms. Kagome jumped when a pair of deep amber eyes came into her field of vision.
"What are you guys talking about back here?" Inuyasha asked suspiciously.
"U-uh…N-n-nothing! We were just…Uhh…You know…Catching up…On stuff…" Kagome stuttered awkwardly.
"We were talking about how Miroku said that you-" Shippo began to explain.
Now it was Miroku's turn to dash forward and cover someone's mouth. He grabbed Shippo and placed his hand over the loquacious kitsune's mouth, laughing nervously. "Well, you know, they were just talking about the usual."
"And what's the usual?" Inuyasha asked, his eyes narrowed.
"You know, hair and uhh…children and erhm…food…and demons…" Miroku listed.
"Half demons?"
"Yes-no! No half demons. Why would they talk about half demons?" Miroku asked. "Even if they did, it would all…you know…be good stuff…"
Inuyasha paused for a moment and sniffed the air. "Shit…" he muttered, looking up into the sky. The rest of the group looked up as well, wondering what he was looking at. Sango and Miroku groaned as they saw Sesshoumaru's two-headed dragon coming towards them.
Kagome glanced at them all, confused. "What is it?"
"Who is it is more like it. Inuyasha's older brother," Miroku told her.
"His…brother?" Kagome repeated.
The two-headed dragon landed before them and Kagome saw that a little toad thing holding a staff with two heads on it was driving the beast. Kagome glanced up at the person riding behind the toad thing and gasped.
"She's so pretty!" she cooed, sighing and wishing she was as lovely.
Inuyasha sweatdropped and Miroku chuckled.
"What?" Kagome asked, perplexed. Had she said something wrong? "What'd I say?"
"She is a he," Sango told her, trying hard not to laugh.
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A/N-I hope I didn't insult any of you Sesshoumaru fans. Hey, the first time I saw him, I thought he was a girl…
