Rating: PG - PG-13 for Inuyasha's potty mouth and Miroku

Pairing: Inuyasha/Kagome, some Sango/Miroku

Genre: Humor/Romance

Summary: In a hurry to get back to Feudal Japan, Kagome knocks her head on the Bone Eater's Well and loses her memory. Will things ever be the same again? Get ready for a humorously bumpy ride. ^.^

A/N: New chappie! ^.^ *Does happy "new chapter" dance* wOOt! Took me a long time to write this chapter because I kept changing it. I didn't like it too much so I just re-wrote it over and over again. I still don't like it too much but I fancy it more than I did the first three times I wrote it . And wow I'm on a roll. I updated two fics, posted the prologue to a sequel of one of my finished fics, and even posted a new fic. Wow, I feel productive!

Disclaimer: I don't own the Inuyasha characters. *Gasp* *Shock* *Gasp*

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Do You Remember Me?

Chapter XI

To say that Inuyasha was in a horrible mood would be a BIG understatement. As the group walked down the road, Inuyasha would sometimes look over his shoulder to glare at Miroku, Shippo, or occasionally even Sango for no apparent reason at all. He sometimes even added a growl.

When Shippo attempted to talk to him, Inuyasha had raised his foot and tried to stomp on him, but Shippo had scurried away just in time. Even Miroku had tried to coax the angry hanyou into a better mood but Inuyasha had threatened to "beat his ass senseless." Seeing the monk's and the kitsune's failed attempts, Sango didn't even try to talk to Inuyasha.

The only person who didn't seem to be on the receiving end of one of Inuyasha's death glares and growls was Kagome, who was strangely silent. Ever since she had lost her memory, she had been quieter than she had used to be, but never this quiet.

"Kagome?" Shippo asked tentatively, as if he expected Kagome to try to stomp on him as Inuyasha had.

She glanced up from looking down at the ground and smiled. "Yes Shippo?"

Shippo almost sighed in relief and then hopped up onto Kagome's shoulder, knowing that he would be safe from the angry hanyou there. "Inuyasha's being a meanie. Are you thinking about something?"

"No, nothing," she lied. She had been thinking about things. It seemed that she couldn't go thirty seconds without drifting off into her thoughts. She wondered if she'd ever see or remember her family again; she wondered if she'd ever remember these people she was traveling with; she wondered if she'd ever remember who she was. She had a lot on her plate at the moment and, needless to say, it was overwhelming.

"Inuyasha…I think we should…stop for…lunch…" Miroku called tentatively, preparing to duck if the hanyou chucked something at him.

Inuyasha just growled and sat on a rock on the side of the road, and Miroku took that as a sign that they could stop to eat.

Kagome and Shippo went into the forest to search for a river or spring that they could get some water from.

"I hear something over this way," Shippo said, scurrying off into the bushes to Kagome's right. Glancing around the forest, Kagome continued to wander in search of water.

Kagome started when she heard a rustling in the bushes nearby.

"S-Shippo?" she called tentatively, clutching onto her pot as if it were a lifeline. When no one answered, Kagome calmed slightly and hadn't taken two steps forward when she was looking into the face of the wolf demon, Kouga, who was grinning wolfishly.

" 'Lo!" he greeted cheerfully.

"Uhm…hi," Kagome said nervously, glancing around for signs of Shippo, or anyone else for that matter.

"Come with me!" he declared frankly.

Kagome blinked at him. This guy was very frank. He was very simple, she decided. 'Unlike Inuyasha,' she thought sourly. She couldn't remember everyone she used to know but she was pretty sure that Inuyasha had been the most complicated out of the lot of them. He was high, he was low, he was here, he was there, he was up, he was down. She didn't know what to make of him.

"Come with me," he repeated, thinking that she hadn't heard him since she had been silent for so long.

"Huh?" Kagome asked, snapping out of her thoughts.

"My pack misses you! They all want to see you again!" he said.

"Oh…but I really don't think I should le…" Kagome began to explain hesitantly, glancing over her shoulder, looking for someone, anyone.

"It'd only be for a short while and I'll bring you right back," he assured her pleadingly.

"Well…" Kagome answered reluctantly, glancing up into his pleading face. "Only for a little while all right?"

Kouga grinned and nodded. Then he picked her up before running through the forest towards where his caves and pack were.

"Kagome-e-e-e-e-e! I found water! It's this-" Shippo announced excitedly but broke off when he looked around to find Kagome missing. Sniffing the air, Shippo smacked his head over and over again, shouting, "Bad!" with each smack.

"Inuyasha will kill me!" Shippo whined, running to Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango.

Kagome was just about to comment that they were going rather far away from Inuyasha and the others when Kouga finally set her down in front of a mouth of a huge cave. A man wearing wolf furs like Kouga's and holding a spear waved down to Kouga from the top of a cliff.

"Welcome back, Kagome-sama!" the wolf man called down to her and Kagome waved slightly.

Kouga showed her around the caves and reintroduced all of his pack members (he seemed to have finally believed that she really had lost her memory), he talked with many of the pack members in a sort of meeting. The sun was beginning to set when Kagome finally cleared her throat impatiently.

Kouga looked at her, cocking his head questioningly.

"Well…I should really be heading back to Inuyasha and the others…you know…" Kagome explained.

Kouga waved a hand towards the entrance of the cave dismissively. "Too dark to take you back now, you'll just have to stay the night."

Kagome's uncertain smile froze and she blinked at him. "But you said you'd bring me back and that it'd be only for a short while!"

"How dare you question Kouga-sama's words!" one of the pack members roared indignantly. "Let's kill her!"

Kagome recoiled in fear.

"No one's to lay a finger on her, understand?" Kouga shouted.

The wolf man who had shouted to kill her grumbled but reluctantly nodded.

Kagome relaxed slightly, but the fact that she had to spend the night with a bunch of wolf men who wanted to kill her kept her from being completely at ease.

Kagome sighed as she sat at the entrance of the cave, looking out at the stars blinking down at her in the cloudless skies. She supposed the wolf men were asleep but she could hardly sleep while surrounded by people she didn't remember and some of which wanted to kill her.

She wished she were back with Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku, and Shippo; she felt safe there. Somehow, she knew she could trust them, though she didn't know them very well. She especially felt safe with Inuyasha, though she couldn't exactly say why; she just knew she could count on him to help her when she needed it.

"You never will, will you?"

Kagome jumped slightly looked over her shoulder to see Kouga standing behind her. "Will what?" she asked.

"You'll never…you'll never love me as you do him."

" 'Him?' Him who?"

"That half demon," Kouga answered, a hint of bitterness in his voice.

"What? But we're not…he doesn't…he doesn't think of me like that," Kagome stuttered.

Kouga smiled sadly. "You protest that he doesn't love you but you don't say that you don't feel that way about him," he pointed out.

Kagome frowned thoughtfully. What Kouga said was true, her feelings should have been the first thing she protested, but she hadn't said anything about her feelings for Inuyasha. Did that mean that she cared for the irritable hanyou? Or that she had before she lost her memory?

At that moment, Shippo's words, Miroku's words, Inuyasha's words suddenly made sense. She finally understood why Shippo had said those things about Inuyasha being confused, why Miroku had said that she should ask herself how she was feeling every once in awhile, why Inuyasha had told her about his now nonexistent feelings for Kikyo.

She had loved him. And if she weren't mistaken, he felt something for her as well. The realization made her eyes widen and she forgot that Kouga was standing behind her until she could hear him shuffling his feet.

Standing and turning to him, she apologetically said, "I'm sorry, Kouga. I just…can't make myself feel something I don't, you know? I'm pretty sure that before I lost my memory, my heart belonged to Inuyasha and I think it still does now.  I'm sorry, but I have to go back. You understand right?"

 Kouga nodded. He looked up to tell her that he would take her back to her friends to find that she had already gone.

'Not good, not good, not good, not good,' was constantly running through Kagome's mind as she looked around her at the trees and undergrowth around her. She was lost and the entire forest all looked exactly the same so she could have been wandering around in circles and she wouldn't have known it.

'I should have stayed and asked Kouga to lead me back to them! Baka!'

Kagome was really beginning to panic when she turned and saw a man in a white baboon pelt. She knew it was a man beneath the baboon pelt since she could see his jaw beneath his baboon mask.

"Uhm…hi?" Kagome greeted, uncertain as to whether this man was her enemy or not.

"Ahh! Kagome, I'm glad I finally found you!" he said, sounding relieved.

Kagome felt relieved as well. This man knew her name; he knew who she was and could help her get back to her friends. "I'm so glad! Where's Inuyasha? And Miroku? And Sango and Shippo? And do I know you?"

"I'm a friend of yours of course! Naraku is my name, and I can help you get back to our friends."

"Oh good," Kagome said, sighing in relief. "And here I thought I was lost and would never find them!" Then she frowned. "Naraku…I've heard that name," she murmured to herself. Then she realized that Inuyasha, Sango, and Miroku must have told her that he was one of their friends. They told her something about him anyway…

"Right this way, Kagome," Naraku said, leading her through the trees and underbrush.

Kagome gladly followed. This man would lead her back to Shippo, Miroku, Sango, and most importantly, Inuyasha and she would be able to talk to him.

What Kagome didn't consider, however, was the fact that while friends would know her name, her enemies would know her name and the names of her friends as well.

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A/N:  DUN DUN DUN! Woohoo, story's finally picking up. I hafta tell y'all that this story's really winding down. I think there are probably only two or three more chapters left. That's just my estimate though. There might be more chapters than that and there might be less, but not much more or less. Yeah…so REVIEW! ^.^

Review Responses:

asheyiscool16: I'm almost there!

animegirl1234: And here it is! Hope you liked ^.^

SakuraYasha: Yeah, I forgot about Miroku. He does have it pretty bad right now doesn't he? Inuyasha beating him up and Sango thinking he's sick and all. I read the first chapter of one of your fics and I sent you that email since ff.net wouldn't let me review. I hope you got it and I hope it helped. I'm still trying to find the time to read the rest of your fics but I hope the comments I gave you so far helped.

inutikidudez: Well, from the way things are looking now, maybe there won't be a next time. *Insert evil laughter here* Wouldn't that suck though? I mean seriously, for all you to have read this far and then for me kill off Kagome before Inuyasha gets to tell her? That would suck…But that's not what I'm going to do, I promise!

youkai chick supreme: Hehehe, I wouldn't kill Shippo or Miroku! I think they should stay. They're good plot development ^.^

Ookami Fluffer-sama: I updated as soon as I could, which, unfortunately, wasn't very soon. I had computer problems for forever and then I had school. But I hope you enjoy this chapter!

hotaruartist-1986: AHHH! NOOO! You caught onto my evil scheme to steal people's lives and make them sit in front of the computer all day, waiting for me to update so they can find out what happens next! NOOO! I have been found out *Sobs softly*

WaterGoddess914: Like I said, it wasn't very soon but it was the 'soonest' I could get around to updating. Is 'soonest' a word? It sounds funny but Word didn't say it was misspelled…

Tiff: Thanks! I hope this chapter was good ^.^

Majel: Thanks! I'm glad you like it! Keep reading, you'll find out what Inuyasha has to say soon enough ^.^

 Vegetaslittleangel1: I continued! Points for Pam ^.^ Pam Points. Nice alliteration. More Pam Points for a nice alliteration. Yeah, I'm on a roll!

  Farren: Yes indeed, poor Shippo. Poor, poor Shippo.

Momentum: Shippo is very cute! I love him to death. *Hugs Shippo to death* Shippo: X.x

melody27: Thanks!

Keidochan: Thankies!

Jamfase: This chapter wasn't exactly up 'soon' per se, but it is up! And that's what counts, right? *Angry mob throws pointy objects at Pam* Apparently not. I'll try to update sooner next time, like…next weekend. I don't have time during the week, but I may find some spare time lying around to update during the week.

chichibean: Thanks!

Kittymui: I know, Shippo does mess up all the romantic scenes but that's good because I suck at fluff so he's helping me put off the fluff for awhile ^.^ Besides, couldn't exactly have the plot move too quickly, could I? ^.^

Friend of Shippou: Lol, oh no! I hope my story didn't make you want to change your pen name! Lol, just kidding. Anyway, I know, Shippo is a bad little kitsune for throwing rocks.

Dark Youkai: I know ^.^ Shippo's so naïve and innocent and clueless that it's amusing ^.^ I use that smiley face a lot. ^.^

Divine-Heart: Thanks! And while I didn't exactly update soon, I hope you still read and enjoy the story anyway ^.^

Kaze no Kagura: Yup, he will tell her eventually and I even know when eventually. Mwuahaha, but it's a secret.

Kitsune Akira: No worries, after last chapter, I have educated Shippo in the rules, one of which includes the 'no throwing rocks' rule. I know, Inuyasha was so close! Even as I was writing it, I was like, "No! SO CLOSE!" Well okay, I didn't really say that. I'm exaggerating now, but I would have shouted that if I were just reading the story and hadn't wrote it, but I did write it so I didn't exactly shout that. Can you tell I'm a babbler?

VicFan: I keep letting them get interrupted for 1) I suck at writing fluff and I'm putting it off as long as possible, which is bad, I know. I've already punished myself for it 2) I think it's really funny and 3) …There is no three.

omnitoad: *Nod nod* Shippo is very cool.

pruningshears: I am continuing indeed! ^.^ It's not quite over yet though it's getting closer to the end now.

Black Heart4: He is being a bit annoying, isn't he?

mattielover: I don't want things thrown at me! Wah! *Giggles* I love watching people fall over anime style…

Whew, that was a lotta reviews to answer. Now REVIEW so I get more reviews to answer next chapter ^.^