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Hidden Memories

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Chapter Two: Lying can be a good thing

Kagome fell on her bed in exhaustion. Reason: She was brought to different hospitals for a check up all day. She was perfectly fine and she knew that. But no! Her mother had to drag her to get checked up. She even had a CAT scan for crying out loud! She hasn't even told her why she did that. She just let her question go unanswered. Just like her question of the identity of the boy in that picture.

Kagome turned on her side and looked out the open window. It was already dark. She didn't even get to go to school. She groaned at the thought. That pile of homework on her desk definitely would get higher. How was she going to catch up now?

Kagome sighed and opened her eyes to find her sights landing on the picture. She glared at it for a while. If she hadn't shown that picture to her mom, with all her questions, she would not have missed school today and definitely she wouldn't have been dragged to all those hospitals.

She sat up on her bed and took the picture in her hands. ' Who are you?' Kagome thought as she looked at the photo closer. She knew who he was. She was sure of it, for if she didn't she wouldn't have his picture here. But there was no memory of him that she can remember.

She touched the face of the white haired boy. Her eyes widened at the realization that he had no ears. Well not normal ones that is. Kagome stared at the ears for a while before her eyes dropped to gaze at the golden orbs, filled with confidence and raw arrogance.

She set the photo down on the nightstand and looked at it from afar. He was cute. She had to admit that. Really, really cute! And those ears. They are a little strange but she found them adorable.

" Just like a puppy!" Kagome said with a smile as she laid her head on the pillow. " Too bad I can't remember you. You are so cute!"

Kagome looked on at the photo, admiring the smirking teen. But the longer she stared at the photo, the more she came to realize the slow rise of an unknown emotion inside her. Kagome looked down as she heard a distant noise and spotted a wet dot on her pillow. She brought up a hand to her face and felt tears on her cheek. She was crying. Kagome looked on at her wet finger tips, wondering why she was crying.

Hearing a knock on her door, Kagome quickly wiped the tears away. She sat up on her bed, the emotion long forgotten, like they were never felt, and answered: " Yes?"

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He looked up at the sky. He watched shooting stars run across the sky. Years back he would have wished upon it. Wishing the same wish he has been asking for, on every star he saw shoot by across the night sky. Now, seeing them race across the sky, he wouldn't waste his breath. He knew better.

He threw a stick at the slowly dying flame of his bonfire in front of him. The flames livened a little, and continued its dance up towards the sky. Trying to reach it. ' Never happen,' he thought, hope already dead, when all his wishes were never fulfilled. He threw more wood at it. Wanting the fire to stay alive a little longer.

A strong wind came blowing, killing the only source of heat he had. " Shit!" Inuyasha muttered as he tried to go against the wind. He should have looked for a cave. The wind gave mercy and InuYasha dusted himself off. Coughing here and there due to the dust that was blown his way. He looked at the dead bonfire, smoke was the only thing that came from it. No more heat, nor light.

He leaned back on the tree, just wanting to forget of his failures for the day. He still hasn't found her. How many years has it been? Better yet how many centuries has he been searching for her? Inuyasha shifted his position. It has been many, many years. He has noticed the change of the lands, and the change of the aura's around him. Demons were withering away, there were barely anymore pure youkai's left in the world.

Inuyasha opened his eyes as he felt something cold and metallic on his chest. He reached for it and admired the locket. This was the only thing left he has to remind him of her. Opening it, he looked at the pictures inside. They were both angry. He reminisced on the day the pictures were taken. He wanted to take Kagome back to his time, and she pushed him into the 'photo booth' as she told him it was, and continued their argument there. He was shocked by the sudden light that enveloped the room. He was going to protect her from it thinking it was some demon but ended up getting 'sit'.

He admired the worn and torn picture of the angry female girl. Long time ago, she had told him she liked him as a hanyou. Nothing else. Inuyasha loosened his grip on the locket when harsh words that were said by her a years ago resurfaced in his mind. She said he was a disgrace… being a hanyou. He willed himself to not think of those things. That was just because he got her angry. He started it. She couldn't have meant it.

He closed the locket and placed it back in his shirt. Meant it or not… he was still going to find her. He promised to protect her, and this time he would succeed, unlike before. Inuyasha shut his eyes tight, as guilt washed over him. Memories of her always in pain because of him. He promised to protect her but couldn't protect her from himself. He needed to find her, if it was the last thing he did, he had to find her.

With all those thoughts racing in his head, Inuyasha couldn't sleep. He got up on his two feet and dusted himself off. He might as well start walking and continue to search. He got his back pack on, and started walking on the direction he hoped would be where he would find her.

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Mrs. Higurashi closed the door of her daughters room. She felt guilty for what she had just done. She had lied to her daughter. Gave her false memories. She looked at the closed door, and remembering the tears she had shed just last night, she wasn't feeling so bad for what she had done. Her daughter wasn't in pain anymore, and wouldn't it be a good thing if she just helped her daughter keep her happiness even if she had to lie?

Mrs. Higurashi walked to her own room. Her daughter had really forgotten all of her days in Feudal Japan. But the cause of it was still unknown. The doctors she had taken her daughter too, said that she was perfectly healthy. Was it suppose to be like this? Was her daughter suppose to forget the days when she was able to jump between times? If that was so, why weren't her memories erased too?

She closed the door of her room and looked at her surroundings with distant eyes. Whatever may have happened. She was happy for her daughter. Kagome would be better off this way. She wouldn't have any more pain. She will be able to live her life with her heart intact. She would feel good as long as no one triggers her memory back to all those hard times she had. This was a blessing, at least to her, and she won't let anyone come and take her daughter's happiness away. She had made sure of that.

Mrs. Higurashi watched as her daughter went up to her room, to finally get her needed rest out of the tiring day. She looked at the other occupants of the living room.

" What happened to her mom?" Souta asked worried about his sister, " Why couldn't she remember anything?"

" She is fine. Her memories just got erased that's all." Mrs. Higurashi answered.

" Her memories erased? How?" her father asked as he looked up at her, worry in his eyes for his granddaughter.

" I don't know…" Mrs. Higurashi answered, clueless to as to how it came to be. " But she is much better this way."

" How can not having memories be good?" Souta asked.

" Do you want her to be depressed?" Mrs. Higurashi asked as she looked at her son.

" No…" Souta answered. " But what about Inuyasha?"

Mrs. Higurashi frowned a little at that name. He was the cause after all for her daughters depression. Whatever he did… she will never know but she knows he made her cry, and she wont have any of that. " We won't bring him up… It might make her remember."

" This isn't right," Mrs. Higurashi quickly turned to face her father, surprise written on her face. " We should tell her the truth."

" Don't you want her to be better?" Mrs. Higurashi asked.

" Yes I do. But-" Mrs. Higurashi cut him off.

" Then let us make her feel better. She may have done this unto herself anyway. This sort of amnesia she has." Mrs. Higurashi hypothesized. " For her happiness."

She held up her hand, stopping Souta from telling her what she knew would come out of his mouth. Seeing as he had always adored that hanyou. " We won't speak about him… And if the picture question come up… just say he was some singer or actor that she had liked."

She looked at both of them in the eye. First Jii-chan, her father, and then Souta. Making sure they got what she was saying. " Just don't do anything that will make her remember." She said, " And if she remembers… Let's just pray that she'll be forgiving, and cured of her depression if possible."

She sat on the bed and turned towards the picture of her husband. She picked it up and looked at it, wanting to find an answer. " What do you think?" Mrs. Higurashi asked the man in the picture. " Make her happy…" She answered herself as she set down the picture, knowing that those words would have come out of her husbands mouth.

She can't do what can make her child happy. But she can keep the pain away. With those in mind she turned the lights off. Wishing the days ahead would be good, and wishing that all her lies would be forgiven.

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" Ok… That was weird." Kagome said to herself a few minutes after her mom had left the room. She looked at the picture on her nightstand and shook her head, a disbelieving expression on her face.

She had just found out the reason why her mother had taken her to all those hospitals, for check ups. She thought she was sick! And the reason why? Because she forgotten who the person was in that picture. Kagome didn't really know why forgetting the person in the picture would lead her mom to think she was ill. Then she found out.

He was some celebrity that she had been crazy for months, and she was so obsessed by him that her mom was so shocked about it. Kagome shook her head in disbelief. Her mom was getting strange. She looked at the picture, she had asked for his name, but her mom just gave her a shrug. Telling her she couldn't really remember, seeing that he faded away from fame.

She laid herself down on her bed, turning on her side with her eyes closed. This had been a strange day. A very strange day. There was peace and quiet in the room for a moment, before a laugh broke the spell.

Kagome turned on her back and looked at the ceiling laughter in her eyes and tiny giggles escaping her lips. Finding the past events really entertaining. Weird too, but very entertaining.

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Souta walked down the hall to his room and stopped when he heard laughter coming from his sisters room. It had been a really long time since he had heard laughter come from his sisters room. He was starting to wonder if it would be right to actually keep the truth from his sister. To not tell her what was real. To tell her all about what she had forgotten. To tell her that she wasn't okay like what she thought she was and what the doctors thought also. That he should tell her that she had forgotten her memories of the days she loved and hated.

The laughter in the room grew louder. Hearing it, he didn't think that keeping the truth from his sister was so wrong. If it could make her laugh like that, make her that happy, it surely can't be a wrong thing. Wrong deeds make people sad, not happy, right? So not telling her about Inuyasha shouldn't be a bad thing. Because remembering him makes her sad.

Souta looked at the door to his sisters room. He wanted to know ask her something. Opening the door he looked at her sisters laughing form on her bed.

" Kagome?" Souta called out. Kagome looked at her and gave him a smile.

" Hey Souta!" Kagome greeted him, " What is it?"

" Are you happy?" Souta asked.

Kagome looked at him a little weird. Wondering why he would ask such a question. " Yes I am," Kagome answered, " why?"

" Just asking…" Souta made a motion to close the door, he paused for a moment and said, " Goodnight,"

" Goodnight," Kagome smiled back up at him.

Souta closed the door and walked to his room. He was going to keep her sister happy.

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