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Hidden Memories

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Chapter three: Back To School

Kagome walked down the sidewalk, on her way to school. She was thinking back about her weird morning at home. It was very odd. Once she got to the kitchen for breakfast, everyone was tense, and got quiet as she stepped through the doorway. It was really weird.

" Good morning!" Kagome greeted everyone in a singsong voice as she walked through the doorway.

She looked at everyone around the table. They wore serious faces. Grandpa looked troubled and mom was giving him warning glances. Souta, well he was eating. But unlike his usual self, he was tense and quiet.

" What's wrong?" Kagome asked as she sat down on the empty chair. " Why is everyone so tense?"

They all looked at each other and then shook their heads at her. Well minus grandpa who just kept quiet. The look on his face still troubled, like he was in a conflict with himself.

" Grandpa, what's wrong?" Kagome asked. Grandpa looked up at her and then at her mom. Kagome looked over at her mom and she was looking at Grandpa with that look again. What were they keeping from her?

" Nothings wrong Kagome." Grandpa told her, giving him a small smile. " Everything is fine,"

Kagome gave her grandfather a disbelieving look. Her grandfather obviously was not okay.

" He is just worried about you sweety," Mrs. Higurashi said, Kagome looked at her mom, question in her eyes. " You know, for the past year you have gotten sick a lot and her was just worried that you might get sick at school."

Realization came over Kagome. Why didn't she think of that. Of course her grandfather was going to worry about her. For the past year she didn't exactly have perfect health. She looked at her grandpa and gave him a reassuring look. " I'm going to be fine grandpa! Nothing to worry about!"

Her grandfather just gave her a sad look and then nodded his head. Even though she had reassured him that she was alright, he still held that look on his face. She was beginning to wonder there was something more to it than what her mother said.

" Come on Kagome," Mrs. Higurashi said. " You got to eat or you'll be late for school."

Kagome nodded and started eating her food. She examined everyone on the table. They were still tense and she could feel the seriousness in the atmosphere. She looked at her brother and he gave her a stiff smile. She looked at her grandfather but he just kept his head down, engrossed in his eating, or he seemed like it. Something was going on behind her back.

She stole a glance at her mother and she gave her a smile. Her mom was looking a little nervous there. " I swear everything is fine," Mrs. Higurashi said, her hand making a waving motion, like she was trying to shoo away her thoughts.

" Ok…" Kagome finally said as she ate more of her food, everyone on the table was quiet again. No body looking up.

That's how her morning went. She suspected there was something they were not telling her, but she'll keep quiet for now. She knew that if there was really something wrong, her mom will tell her in her own time. She always did before, so she'll wait. Unless of course something really unexpected popped up in her life, then she'll ask questions. Well more like demand answers really.

Kagome was snapped out of her thoughts as she heard screams coming closer to her. She looked up and was greeted with darkness as she felt like she had just been rammed by a moose.

" KAGOME!!"

" Oh my god! You're back!"

" I can't believe its actually you!"

" I was so worried about you!"

" We all were worried about you!"

" I can't believe you're here!"

" Girl you got us so worried!"

" You're here and healthy!"

" And you're-"

" About to suffocate!" Kagome shouted in the middle of the of the huddled trio. She honestly couldn't breath. Her friends were hugging her like there was no tomorrow, and she was pretty sure that they made her crack her back.

" Oh…" Kagome's friends stopped their bone crushing and back cracking hug and she took in as much air as she could get in her deprived lungs. 'Air…' Kagome thought happily as she started breathing again.

Kagome looked at her friends. Eri, Ayumi and Yuka were looking at her a little embarrassed now. She gave them a smile and they smiled with her. Kagome opened her arms. " Okay… I'm ready for some more hugging!"

The girls squealed and charged at her. Kagome was starting to think that she might have just done something crazy. She was once again in the middle of the great big bear hug, which she was starting to think was illegal due to its effects on the person its done to.

" Oh girl! We missed you!" Eri exclaimed.

" You can't believe just how much we missed you!" Ayumi added.

" School was so dull when you don't got anyone to tease-" Yuka said.

" And no one to bug about their love life!" Kagome winced at that. She really didn't want to go through all those embarrassing things. Her friends meant well really.

" Oh and speaking about your love life!" Kagome looked up at Ayumi. " What's going on between you and Houjo?"

Kagome mentally rolled her eyes. There was nothing going between her and Houjo, and she seriously didn't want anything to go on between her and Houjo. He was just not… not… What was she trying to compare him with?

" Kagome are you-" Eri was cut short when the bell rang.

Kagome looked up, snapped out of her reverie by the ring of the bell. Kagome tried to register what that bell was suppose to mean.

" Kagome!" She looked at her friends walking in the school. " Come on! You don't wanna be late!"

Kagome mentally slapped herself on the head. 'Of course!' Kagome thought, finally remembering what the bell meant. She thought herself a fool for not knowing the bell was signaling them that school was starting. Thoughts of who she was comparing Houjo with was long forgotten.

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His green surroundings had now turned into that of asphalt ground and tall concrete buildings. Instead of hearing the stream and the chirp of the birds, he heard the honking of cars and the voices of the humans walking around him on the busy sidewalk.

Inuyasha looked at the people. He sighed. He may have made it to his destination, but he was looking for only one person out of the millions he could see moving around him. There were many girls that had the same luxurious black hair Kagome had, and there were many more women around him that had the same eyes as her. So he couldn't rely on his eyes, and with his sense of smell, he would be amazed if it would work, seeing that her smell would be mixed by all the other smells he could taste in the air.

He clutched tighter the jacket that was wrapped around him. He did not keep wearing his old feudal Japan robes. He didn't want to attract attention to himself, and wanted to change as the world and people around him changed as time went by. He though stayed looking the same as he was years ago. The only change in him was his attitude and his clothing.

Inuyasha looked up from the ground and stared at the his surroundings with determination in his eyes. He was going to find her, even in this crowded place. He would just have to really concentrate. He can still remember her voice and her scent and he knew those are the only things no one else can have. Unless she had a twin, but then again there would still be some difference in scent and voice in twins. And anyways she doesn't have one, so there is no way he can make that mistake.

Inuyasha adjusted his hat and started walking. Determination and hope grew as he repeated those thoughts in his head. Maybe he would finally be lucky and finally find her.

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Kagome walked out of her last class in relief. She couldn't believe that she was actually excited to go to school early this morning. What was she thinking? She scratched that thought. She was for sure not really thinking that morning, to even consider being excited to go to school.

Kagome stumbled a little when she felt the headache again. She cursed the kid who was sitting in front of her who gave her the headache. ' Did he know that someone invented deodorant?' thought Kagome as she walked down the hallway in the throng of students. She was glad though that she was relieved from that boy when he had gotten in trouble with the teacher. If he stayed sitting there in front of her for long she surely would have fainted.

All the bumping and pushing from the other people walking was making her headache worse. ' Curse the man who invented school!' Kagome thought as she finally made it to her locker. She was in a hurry to get home. She couldn't stand the smell and the shoving and pushing and her headache was getting bad and she wasn't happy anymore.

" Kagome!"

Kagome winced a little when it made her headache worse. She turned around and tried to smile at her friend. " Hey,"

" What's wrong?" Eri asked. " Are you feeling sick?"

At that question, Ayumi and Yuka turned worried eyes at her. Kagome shook her head as she placed all her books in the locker. " No, I'm fine," Kagome said. " I just got a little headache,"

She heard a gasp from her friends. She quickly added. " It was due to the stinky dude that sat in front of me," Her friends let out a breath she didn't think they were holding. " I swear, some people don't know that deodorant have been invented to prevent such stench,"

" Ewe!" Yuka said as she crinkled her nose in disgust.

" Poor you," Eri said.

" I know." Kagome agreed with them, she looked at her books and looked at the piles of worksheet that were everywhere.

" So, do you have homework?" Ayumi asked.

At that question Kagome groaned. Why oh why was someone up there torturing her like this? Didn't they know that she couldn't help being sick? And that it is really cruel to bombard a person with piles of homework on her first day of being healthy? That was just totally cruel!

" Yes.." Kagome grumbled as she placed piles and piles of homework in her back pack. She heard her friends wince behind her. Kagome let her head fall. " I know… please, oh please don't remind me that these piles upon piles of paper are my homework. I don't think my heart or my brain can take it."

" Kagome," Kagome looked up as a male voice rang through her ears. This was not good. She had tried avoiding this guy for ages and here he was, not being avoided by her. She looked up at him and gave him a smile.

" Hello," Kagome said trying to sound happy at seeing him. She really liked the boy, she did. She just didn't like him. Was she making sense here? Kagome snapped out of her confusing thoughts when she saw the boys lips move but no words were coming out.

" What?" Kagome asked, " I didn't hear you I'm sorry," She gave him an apologetic smile.

" I said you got a lot of homework there," Houjo said.

Kagome didn't really like this guy. Other than his constant begging for her to go out with him and the constant visits and presents from him while she was sick, though sweet, it was annoying. This guy was making her feel guilty all the time because his head just can't seem to grasp the meaning of "no". And now he had to remind her that she had a lot of homework. Homework that seemed to go on forever.

" Yes…" Kagome said slowly, " Yes I do,"

" Well anyways here," Kagome mentally groaned. 'Not another present that is healthy for me,' thought Kagome as she took the gift in her hands. It was juice. " Those are good for you,"

" Ya…" Kagome said. " Thanks,"

" Umm Kagome?" Kagome looked at Hojou and with the look in his eyes she was starting to regret ever coming back to this school, and in the deepest regions of her mind, she hoped that someone would come and take her away. But who was that?

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AN: There you have it! Chapter 3! Well what do you think?! Do you want more? Then review!!!