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Hidden Memories

AN: First ever Inuyasha fic! *smiles* So happy that I actually got around to making this! Well anyways go on and read!

Chapter One: Who's he?

" Kagome?" came a small voice from the other side of the door. Kagome instantly wiped her tears away, and willed herself to stop crying. " Are you alright?"

Kagome swallowed the lump in her throat and wished that her voice wouldn't be too broken to answer. " Yes,"

" Sweety-" Kagome interrupted her mother. Tears flowing freely once again.

" I'm alright mom!"

Kagome didn't bother to wait for her mom to be out of ear shot before breaking down again in tears. She held her pillow against her faces, tears wetting the pink pillow case, as she sobbed against it. Her voice no longer being quieted to not make the others worry as she cried. The door opened and in came her mom. She hugged her daughter as she too came into tears, trying to take her pain away.

" Oh Kagome," her mother whispered in her ear as she was rocked back and forth in her mothers arms. " It'll be okay, the pain will go away."

She cried harder as she remembered the harsh words that were exchanged between them. At the beginning, everything was great between them. But she had to bring him up, and that started it all.

" And now I won't have anymore excuses to turn Hojou down." Kagome said. Inuyasha's eyes darkened at the thought and Kagome wondered why and was about to say something when he cut her off.

" Like you'll mind it, you little slut!" Inuyasha said anger in his eyes, " I bet you'll just throw yourself all over him, you little bitch."

Kagome could feel the anger in her rise, and all hell broke loose. " Oh shut your trap half-breed!" He growled and she smiled in triumph, " He is a better man than you! Atleast he's not a worthless hanyou! A disgrace to humans and demons!"

After saying all that Kagome automatically turned her head away, not believing she actually said that. She looked over at Inuyasha wanting to say she was sorry. She didn't know why she said such a thing. Why did she anyway? Kagome didn't get to ponder on that thought when she saw Inuyasha's face.

" Inu-" Kagome shut up when she saw Inuyasha glare at her.

" Why would you even think I would want a woman like you?" Inuyasha asked, with such disgust in his tone of voice that Kagome felt her throat well up. " What even made you think that? After seeing Kikyou, you still think that I would want you?"

Kagome stilled in her spot. She couldn't believe that Inuyasha was saying all this. She looked up at him with tears in her eyes. Why was he hurting her? Is he saying these things because of what she said? Or was this for real? Did he really think so low of her?

Inuyasha just glared at her as she cried. " Did you actually believe that I liked you? Well think again bitch, the only reason I wanted you here was for the Shikon Jewel." He held up the Jewel at her, looked at the jewel and back at her. " Infact, why are you still here? I don't need you anymore."

Kagome fisted her hands and looked at Inuyasha with anger and hate, tears still flowing down her face. " I hate you!"

Inuyasha smirked and then glared at her again when she didn't make any move of leaving, but ckept crying instead. " Leave or I'll tear ya up!"

She looked up at him through blurry eyes, she thought she could see his eyes sadden a little but he continued shouting at her. " LEA-"

Kagome didn't see Inuyasha in front of her anymore. Infact, she didn't see anything that shouted Feudal Japan. She looked around and noticed that she was home. She was home. She dropped down on the ground and cried. Her thoughts only of Inuyasha.

Kagome held onto her mother tighter. A week after her argument with Inuyasha and her sudden departure from Feudal Japan, she had tried countless times on going back. But every time she went in the well, nothing happened. No more blue void at the bottom of the well when she jumped in. She couldn't go back.

" I can't go back!" Kagome cried out as she hugged her mom, crying. " I can't go back…" she said weaker than before as all those hours of crying got to her. The world around her started to get blurry. ' I can't go back,' she thought as the last of her tears ran down her cheeks.

" Inuyasha…" Mrs. Higurashi heard her daughter whisper, before Kagome fell asleep due to exhaustion. She tucked her daughter in, and looked at her sleeping child. For many nights Kagome had always come home, crying, due to either hate, sadness or memories of happy times, and all that was for one person. Inuyasha.

She likes that hanyou, she really does. He was the only one that can make Kagome laugh and smile like the way she does when thinking of him. But she also hated him for the fact that he was the only one that could cause her daughter to cry like she has been for all these months. Even when Kagome was able to go back and forth in the different era's, she could still remember Kagome crying in some of those nights. He was still the cause. Why did he have to push her away?

Mrs. Higurashi touched her daughters cheek before walking over to the open door. She looked back in the room before slowly closing the door. She was going to help Kagome forget about him. She doesn't want to see her daughter cry over a man who wouldn't act on his emotions and return the love.

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Kaede walked towards the direction of the Bone-Eaters well. She smiled sadly when she saw the familiar form of the hanyou. He had not moved from that spot since the day she had left. She walked till she was behind the hanyou.

" Inuyasha, you n-" Kaede was interrupted by the hanyou.

" Can it hag, I know what you are going to say and I gave you the same answer over and over again!" Inuyasha said without even looking at her. " I am not moving."

" She is not coming back." Kaede said.

Inuyasha took in a sharp breath, trying to keep the pain down. He had been told that painful truth for many months now, but he was still not moving from this spot. He needed to tell her. He remembered the sad look on her face, the tears flowing from her eyes. She left crying. Inuyasha mentally cursed himself as he remembered the argument they had before she suddenly disappeared. Why did he have to be a jerk? Why did he always make her cry? Inuyasha suppressed the pain he felt, not wanting the old woman to notice.

Kaede stood there in silence watching Inuyasha staring at the well. " Inu-"

" Leave," Inuyasha whispered.

Hearing the broken tone of his voice, Kaede turned and walked away. Sad for the hanyou.

Inuyasha listened to Kaede's retreating footsteps as they slowly sounded farther and farther away until he couldn't hear them. Knowing Kaede was definitely out of earshot, Inuyasha let the pain flow free. His strong and uncaring façade disappeared and he sat there broken. Hands in fists as he stared at the well. He wanted her to come back. Even if it will only be a short time. He wanted to say sorry. He needed to say sorry, for all the times he made her cry. For all the things he said. And for not saying the things he should have said.

He clasped his hand around the Shikon Jewel. He still has not made a wish yet. He tore it from his neck and looked at it. Back then he would have wished on it instantly to become a full youkai, or he would have wished to become full human to be with Kikyou. But those wish didn't seem so important now. He just wanted to get rid of the thoughts of her tears. He just wanted to take her pain away. To forget about the pain he had always made her feel. He just wanted to wish for her to forget the pain.

Right hand fisted around the jewel, and with his eyes closed. He did.

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" Kagome!" Kagome looked at her mom, wondering why she looked so surprised seeing her. " What are you doing up?"

Kagome walked over to the table and looked at her mom as if she had grown another head. " im getting ready for school." Kagome said as she looked around at the table. It seemed that her grandpa and brother had already finished theirs seeing that their plates were both empty. " Why didn't you wake me up? If I didn't wake up when I did I would have ended up being late."

Mrs. Higurashi gave Kagome her breakfast, still wondering why she was up so early and looking as if nothing happened yesterday. Looking like nothing bad happened at all. " I thought you wouldn't be going to school."

" I can't miss school! I have been absent way too much!" Kagome said as she ate her pancakes, " And I feel really healthy! Better than ever, I don't think you have anything to worry about me getting sick." Kagome's eyes then widened as she realized what she had just said. She swallowed the pancakes and knocked on the table. " Knock on wood! Don't wanna fall ill with whatever disease now!"

Kagome's mother just looked at her daughter as if she wasn't herself. Heck she wasn't herself. She hasn't been this high spirited for months!

" What?" Kagome asked as she caught her mother staring at her. Did she have anything on her face? Kagome subconsciously drew up her hand on her face.

Mrs. Higurashi shook out of her reverie and smiled at her daughter. " No there is nothing on your face… I… I was just thinking."

" Ok…" Kagome answered, her mother had been weird ever since she saw her. Was she this surprised that she wasn't sick. Well she couldn't blame her mom for being surprised. She is surprised herself, seeing that she has been sick almost always, for the past year for unknown reasons.

Kagome swallowed the last of her pancakes and looked at the clock. She looked at it with surprise. She couldn't believe that she lost track of time. " Oh no! I'm going to be late!"

With that said Kagome rushed up the stairs into her room to get her school bag. She spotted it beside her bed and picked it up. She stopped when she noticed a picture of unfamiliar person on her nightstand.

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" Mom?" Mrs. Higurashi was woken up from her thoughts of what was up with Kagome. She looked up and was greeted by the sight of her daughter walking up to her.

" Yes Kagome?" Kagome's mom wondered what she was holding in her hands. " What is it?" Mrs. Higurashi asked as she picked up the dirty plates.

" Who is he?" Kagome asked as she turned the photo over to her mom. Mrs. Higurashi looked at the photo in surprise. " Who is he?"

Mrs. Higurasha shook her head a little. She had to have misheard her daughter. Like how can she not know who he is? " Kagome stop fooling around, you'll be late."

At the bewildered look on her daughter's face, Mrs. Higurashi had think again. " Are you serious?"

" I really don't know who he is, I just found this picture on my night stand." Kagome said with confused eyes, " Who is he mom? Am I supposed to know him?"

Mrs. Higurasha was frozen in her spot, just staring at her daughter. She studied Kagome's face, looking for any sign of her joking around. But all she could see was clear bewilderment. She didn't seem to know who it was in the picture, no idea at all. She gasped.

" Mom?"

Mrs. Higurashi looked at Kagome and then the picture, and back at Kagome again. Is it possible? Is the reason why she was up so early and in a happy mood was because she forgot? Is she all happy and back to her normal self because she had no recollection of that man in the picture?

" Mom?" Kagome asked worried, " Are you okay?"

" Ya…" Mrs. Higurashi answered slowly. She pointed at the picture and Kagome looked at it. " You don't know?"

Kagome furrowed her brows in deep concentration trying to remember, but ended up with nothing. She didn't know who this man was. She looked up at her mother, " No, I don't… Who is he?"

Mrs. Higurasha had to keep herself from dropping the plates. It is true then. She looked at her daughter and then at the picture. ' Inuyasha…' she thought as she stared at the smirking hanyou in the picture.

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