A/N-Woo hoo! New chapter! Celebrate! Last chapter, I gave you all an interesting psychological look into Miroku's character and I liked the theory ^.^ I thought it explained why he was…well Miroku. I figured he had to have a reason for doing…what he does. Well, I suppose the trait could be hereditary but I didn't like that reason ^.^ Anyway, now he and Sango will probably be getting somewhere. Sorry for not updating sooner. I've had three research papers to do at once in two different classes and so I've been really busy.
Disclaimer-
Creepy Lawyer: Do you own these characters?
YoukaiTaiji-ya: Hah! Like I'd tell you…
Creepy Lawyer: Once more: do you own these characters?
YoukaiTaiji-ya: Maybe, maybe not…
Creepy Lawyer: Once more: do you own these characters?
YoukaiTaiji-ya: You said 'once more' twice now.
Creepy Lawyer: *Turns to Creepy Lawyer #2* I'm not getting anything out of her.
YoukaiTaiji-ya: *Makes faces at the back of Creepy Lawyer's head*
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Do You Remember Me?
Chapter VIII
Kagome looked around at them all in confusion. What was going on? Why were they getting all worked up over a whirlwind? Sure, it looked dangerous but they could easily avoid it right? It wasn't that big.
Kagome watched the whirlwind go right by Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, and Shippo to stop right in front of her. Then the dust cleared to reveal a young man standing before her, grinning wolfishly. He had fangs just like Inuyasha and was wearing wolf furs. His hair was long and dark colored, pulled back into a ponytail and his eyes were a blue.
"Uhh…hi…?" Kagome greeted uncertainly, wondering why this man was grinning at her like that.
"I was wandering around and I caught your scent so I decided to pay you a visit," he told her.
"Uhm…what's your name again?" Kagome asked politely.
The man's smile dropped in shock and he turned to glare at Inuyasha, who had come up behind the man, watching his every move.
"You fucking did something to my woman you insolent puppy!" the man shouted.
"Your…woman?" Kagome asked, glancing around behind her.
"Yes, you're my woman!" the man declared.
"Inuyasha, Kouga, maybe we should stop to talk about this," Miroku said reasonably, stepping between the two to cut off the death glares they were sending each other. This conversation wasn't exactly the best thing to hit Kagome with yet.
"Feh, outta the way monk!" Inuyasha shouted, pushing Miroku aside and pulling out his sword.
"I'm…your woman?" Kagome asked. "Why didn't anyone tell me?"
"I knew it! You did something to her dog turd!!" Kouga shouted accusingly. Then he turned towards Kagome. "You are my woman and he didn't tell you because he wants to take you from me but you should obviously choose the real man here, and that's me!"
Inuyasha growled slightly before leaping forward to slash at Kouga with the Tetsusaiga. "You're dead, bastard!"
Kagome scratched her head, completely confused. Who was telling the truth? Kouga or Inuyasha? She couldn't really be someone's woman though, right? Surely she was too young. Kagome sighed. What she really needed right about now was her memory. That would sure help a lot. And Miroku and Sango would've told her if she was anyone's "woman," right? Of course they would have.
Inuyasha swung the sword down on Kouga's head but Kouga leapt out of the way and Inuyasha's sword hit the ground. Pivoting, Inuyasha swung at Kouga's legs but he leapt up into the air again so that Inuyasha was slashing at nothing.
"Kagome-sama, I think now's a good time to use the 's' word so the fight'll stop," Miroku suggested to her and Kagome nodded. It sounded like a good idea…at the time anyway.
"SIT!" Kagome shouted as loud as she could and Inuyasha was hurtled to the ground face-first. Then he muttered curses into the ground while Kagome told Kouga that he had better leave.
"I will be back for you soon Kagome! I love you and I'm not going to leave you to that impudent pup," Kouga called before running off into the forest.
Soon, Inuyasha was on his feet again and glaring at Kagome. "You let him get away again damn it!" he fumed angrily.
"So what if I did? I wasn't sure what was going on!" Kagome explained patiently. She knew Inuyasha was angry and she was smart enough to not want to get him angrier. "I didn't even know who he was. I didn't think I should let you injure him or kill him until I figured out who he was."
"Feh!" Inuyasha scoffed, crossing his arms. "Women!"
" 'Women?!'" Kagome repeated incredulously. "What about men? And what has this Kikyo person got to do with me anyway?! Why won't anyone tell me?"
Inuyasha hesitated a moment and then glared at her. "She's got nothing to do with you!"
"Then why did you tell me that you didn't love her anymore, huh? Why me?" Kagome asked.
Inuyasha flushed bright scarlet but then he glared again. "I take it back because I didn't mean it! What do you care anyway? You don't remember shit so why do you give a damn?"
That was a painful blow for Kagome and she looked down at the ground. Inuyasha could smell the salt from the tears welling in her eyes. 'Shit…' he thought.
"Listen, Kagome…" he began to say as gently as he could. (A/N-Inuyasha? Gentle? Strange…)
"No! You listen!" she shouted, looking up at him and glaring fiercely though there were still tears in her eyes. "I'm not the only one here messed up alright? I didn't choose to lose my memory and you got a lot of nerve saying that I don't care just because I don't remember! I'm trying! I'm really trying here! And I know you're thinking that Kagome's all messed up right now but you got some messed up lives too! You love some dead priestess who's dirt now or something and you've the maturity of a child and you're half demon and…and…" Kagome listed and then let out a choked sob before turning off the dirt path and dashing into the forest.
Inuyasha, Sango, and Miroku stood in stunned silence while Shippo started wailing. And then Inuyasha cast his eyes down to the ground feeling as if the wind had been knocked out of him. She had said he was half demon as if it were a bad thing.
'Stupid!' Inuyasha scowled to the ground. 'Of course it's a bad thing! You already knew that! But…but…she had always been the one to not care that he was a hanyou…And now…'
"Inuyasha! You idiot! Look what you did to her! Why do you always have to be so mean?" he cried, pounding his little fists furiously against Inuyasha's head.
Inuyasha reached up and plucked the kitsune off his shoulder, tossing his listlessly into the bushes on the side of the road, his eyes still cast down. He didn't want anyone to see how much pain Kagome's comments had caused him. Then he walked into the forest on the opposite side of the road Kagome had gone.
Miroku sighed. "This can't be good…"
Sango nodded her agreement. "So, which on will you take? Kagome or Inuyasha?" she asked.
"I think I'll take Inuyasha. This should be a male talk I think," Miroku said and Sango nodded, walking into the forest, following the trail of trampled undergrowth Kagome had left in her wake.
Then Miroku went off in search of Inuyasha. As usual, Inuyasha was sulking up in a tree but now, his sulk wasn't a stubborn one: his ears drooped and he was hunched over to hang his head over his hands, which were sitting in his lap.
"Inuyasha?" Miroku asked.
Inuyasha looked up and then glared. "Go away."
Miroku sighed, leaning against the trunk of the tree, clearly showing that he wasn't leaving anytime soon. "Inuyasha, you know she was just angry. She didn't mean any of it."
"She sure as hell sounded like she meant it!" Inuyasha snapped.
"You did provoke her. She didn't understand what was happening. You need to have patience with her Inuyasha. Losing a memory is not an easy thing to handle and she's been dealing with it very well. You haven't been of much help so far you know. You could try to be a little more helpful," Miroku suggested.
"Feh!" Inuyasha scoffed, straightening into his stubborn position once more. "I'm not going to help that bitch!"
Miroku sighed. "Alright, whatever works for you Inuyasha but while we sit here arguing, Kagome is a young maiden running around a forest full of demons and thieves alone…all by herself…probably lost right now…just wandering unaccompanied…"
Inuyasha was about to scoff again when the weight of Miroku's words sank in and knocked the retort out of his mind. He fell forward slightly and then composed himself again. "Feh…don't give a damn…"
He finally caught her gentle scent of lilacs and vanilla and breathed a sigh of relief when the scent wasn't tainted with blood or the smell of another man. He followed her scent until he came to a small clearing, a small stream flowing through the center. Kagome sat on a rock beside the stream, her knees pulled up to her chest as she rested her chin upon her knees, her arms hugging her legs to her body.
Inuyasha sighed inwardly as he tentatively walked over to Kagome and sat down on the rock beside her. While searching for the words to tell her, Inuyasha silently asked himself if he had ever apologized to anyone in his life. Inuyasha really doubted it but when he thought about it really hard, he figured he had apologized perhaps twice but both were to his mother when he had done something wrong as a small child.
"Listen, Kagome I'm…I'm…s-" Inuyasha began but he could only hiss out the 's' sound. "I ap-Please for-"
Kagome smiled slightly. "You've never done this either have you? I'll just have to teach you again. You say 'I'm sorry.'"
"I'msorry…" Inuyasha mumbled incoherently, looking away.
"What?"
"I'm…damn it, I'm sorry!" Inuyasha finally said, getting frustrated.
Kagome smiled sadly. "I'm sorry too. I didn't mean to say those things and I'd take them back if I could. I'm sorry, I'm trying really hard, I really am," she said, her eyes widening in surprise when Inuyasha wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close to him. Then she relaxed, rubbing her face against his shoulder and clutching gently at the sleeves of his haori.
"I know you're trying," Inuyasha told her. "I'm…sorry I'm not much help."
"Your helping in your own way," she murmured into his chest.
"Yeah, but my own way isn't much help," Inuyasha muttered.
Kagome grinned.
"And…Kagome…?" Inuyasha began nervously. "You know when I said…that thing…about Kikyo…? Well you see…" 'Tell her! Tell her!'
Kagome glanced up expectantly, hoping he would explain to her what exactly it had to do with her.
"You see…before you lost your memory…we-I…"
"Yes?" Kagome prompted when he just trailed off.
Inuyasha took a deep breath and opened his mouth, ready to spill all his deepest feelings to Kagome when…
"Kagome-e-e-e-e-e-e!" a voice squealed as a small orange ball bounded into the clearing and Inuyasha scooted away slightly, dropping his arms and a light blush crept onto his cheeks.
"I'll save you!" Shippo cried, glancing around the clearing to find nothing to save Kagome from. "Hey, didn't Miroku say you were in danger?"
Inuyasha's left eye twitched in irritation as he cracked his knuckles menacingly. "You little brat! I'll have you know I was trying to tell her something that was damn important!" Inuyasha shouted, grabbing the small fox demon by the tail and smashing him against the ground.
Miroku and Sango entered the clearing and sweatdropped when they saw Inuyasha quite literally pounding Shippo into the ground.
"It-was-im-por-tant-damn-it!" Inuyasha shouted, shoving Shippo into the ground between each syllable to emphasize his point. "You-lit-tle-brat-mind-your-own-damn-bu-si-ness!"
"SIT!" Kagome shouted, finding no other way to stop the hanyou from beating on Shippo.
Shippo giggled and bounced around the Inuyasha-shaped crater chanting "Inuyasha's eating dirt, Inuyasha's eating dirt!" while Inuyasha muttered colorful curses into the ground.
When Inuyasha had gotten to his feet again, Kagome asked what he was going to say.
"Uhhh…" Inuyasha stuttered, flushing deep scarlet as he glanced at Shippo, Miroku, and Sango, who were all looking at him intently, apparently just as interested as Kagome was in what he was trying to tell her. "It was nothing…" Inuyasha mumbled.
Kagome blinked. "Alright…" 'That was strange…'
Shippo continued to giggle and point at Inuyasha.
Seeing that Inuyasha's eye was twitching again, Shippo squeaked and hid behind
Kagome.
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A/N-Kukukuku! I'm evil! *Hiss hiss* Poor Inuyasha. He tries to spill his feelings and bam! Either he's hit on the head with a pot or Shippo bounds in to save the day. ^_^ 'Poor Inuyasha?' More like poor Shippo! He gets pounded by Inuyasha too much. It's funny though ^.^ No time for review responses…Must get back to work…Will do next time…
