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Hidden Memories

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Chapter Five: Midnight Visitor

Kagome leaned against the tiled walls of the bathroom, and let out a content sigh. To her, the bathroom had to be the second best place to be in. It was peaceful, quiet and gave you a lot of privacy to think.

Kagome thought of how her day went and a picture of a brown haired boy popped up in her head. What was she thinking? How could she allow herself to say yes? Kagome gave an indignant sigh. She was stupid. She was really stupid for even saying yes. Curse her humanity for making her agree.

Kagome turned to face the shower, her head down. She really didn't want to think about Houjo right now. She didn't want to think of him ever, so she let the water wash it away. An image of the white haired man appeared in her mind. She felt like she knew that man, or have seen him before that is. But she couldn't recall anything, just a feeling -which she couldn't name. Was she suppose to know that guy?

A knock on the door pulled her from her reverie and she turned to face the door through the slightly see through shower curtains.

" Kagome!" it was Souta. " I need to use the bathroom ya know!"

Kagome rolled her eyes and quickly washed away the conditioner in her hair. " Almost done!" Kagome exclaimed as she washed away the soap from her body.

" Kagome!" She let out a frustrated groan and turned the water off. Her brother needed to learn patience. She stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around her body and wrapped another one around for her hair. She picked up her clothes and straightened the towel on her head when it started to tip. The banging on the door proceeded again. " Kagome!"

" I'm coming you little brat!" Kagome shouted as she tightened the towel around her. Giving her brother an annoyed look when she opened the door.

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He was in heaven. Inuyasha inhaled the scent that overwhelmed him, and made him forget of all his troubles. It was her aroma that surrounded him, and that made it paradise. Inuyasha surveyed the room, that was lit by a single lamp on the nightstand and could see that it was just as he remembered it a long time ago.

There was a pile of homework on the desk and he had to smirk at that. She seemed to always homework on that table, piles and piles of it. When he came to get her, she would always be sitting on that chair, her head on her folded arms on the desk, asleep. He turned his gaze elsewhere and caught sight of the ever familiar bag. It was at the foot of the bed, on the floor, for easy reach. He recalled that that bag had always been over packed. Filled with those delicious instant noodle soup, clothes, a first aid kit and sometimes homework.

Her clothes, that was strongly emitting her scent, was hanged on the hooks on her door. Her vanity was still only occupied with a brush, some lip glosses, nail paint and hair dryer. He caught something interesting in the mirror. He turned around and picked up the picture that was on the nightstand. It was a picture of him.

Inuyasha smiled at the memory of the time when Kagome took a picture of him. The flash of the camera had startled him, and made him fall off from the branch her was sitting on. He was really mad at her, but her sincere apology and the look on his face made it all go away. He had asked her what the thing was, and she had explained it to him. When she asked if she could take a picture of him, he of course being a jerk then, said no.

" Inuyasha, I'm going to take a picture of you alright?" Kagome said as she positioned herself to capture the scene.

" No!" Inuyasha jumped out of the way.

" Come on Inuyasha!" Kagome ran after him.

" No!" Inuyasha jumped to a tree branch and hid from her sight.

Kagome was getting really frustrated. She just wanted to take a picture of him for memories. She didn't want to end up forgetting him when she couldn't come back to this place anymore. A veil of fear covered Kagome. She did not want to be unable to come back to this paradise. Other than the occasional attacks of demons, this place was beautiful and peaceful, and she loved it.

" Inuyasha! Don't be such a baby!" Kagome hoped that would do the trick, and she smiled when she saw Inuyasha's angry and insulted face pop out from the leaves.

" I am not a baby!" Inuyasha protested.

" Well then what are you so afraid of?" Kagome asked, hands on her hips, looking up at him.

Inuyasha jumped down from the tree and landed in front of her. " Why do you want to take a picture of me anyways?"

Kagome blushed at that and looked down at the ground, fiddling with her camera. " Well for memories."

" Memories?" Inuyasha asked.

" Ya…" Kagome looked up at him. " I don't want to forget you, when I can't return to this world anymore. So I want to capture you in camera, so I'll remember you always."

Inuyasha agreed after she told him that. She had wasted a whole film on him, and complained at him for not doing what she said. She told him to smile, but he just frowned, or when he did smile, it did not turn out to be the way she wanted it to be.

She finally got what she wanted though, when he asked her what he was going to do after he became a full youkai. He had smirked cockily at the thought of his plans when he was full youkai and he was blinded by a flash again. She was happy, because she finally got the shot she wanted, and he was mad because he could see colorful spots everywhere he looked.

He set the picture back where it belonged, and smiled at the fact that he was the first thing she saw every time she woke up. A hopeful feeling rose inside him. Did that mean that she wasn't angry at him anymore? That all those things she said the last time they were together did not hold any truth? Has she forgiven him?

Inuyasha wished it was true. Wished that he was really forgiven by Kagome. That she did not hate him and still like him. He heard a familiar voice shout out, and he stood up from where he sat, and looked at the door. The footsteps were coming closer and closer till it stopped right in front of the room. The doorknob turned and Inuyasha held his breath.

" Kagome…" he whispered.

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Kagome walked past her brother and gave him a raspberry before he closed the bathroom door behind him. She gave a puff of annoyance and started walking to her room on the other side of the hall.

She opened the door and locked it behind her, she felt a cold breeze. She looked at the window and wondered if it was always open. She shrugged her shoulders and dumped the clothes in her arms in the laundry basked beside her vanity. She looked in the mirror and then dipped her head to take the towel down before snapping it back up again. Was it her imagination?

She looked in her mirror and indeed saw a man. He was wearing a long trench coat and under it she could see red clothing peaking through the opening at the top. A black baseball hat adorned his head and long thick white hair framed his face. Golden eyes peaked through the bangs, almost undetectable due to the hat that was tipped down at the front to cover his face a little.

Those golden eyes were staring at her and she couldn't seem to avert her eyes. She was like in a spell, held captive by those golden pools. She knew that man…

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Inuyasha watched the goddess in front of him. She was still oblivious of his presence, and walked across the room, closing the window that he had used to enter, to stop the wind from chilling her to the bone. She was only wearing a towel that was wrapped tightly around her lithe form. Her hair was bundled up in a white towel on her head and she stopped in front of the vanity. Giving him a glance of her face.

Since the moment she arrived in her room he was only able to see the profile of her face, and now he was given the chance to see it all. She was still as gorgeous as ever. Flawless tanned skin, cute nose, perfectly shaped eye brows. Full red lips, expressive brown eyes and -Inuyasha sniffed the air- smelling like heaven as always.

She had ducked her head down before whipping it back up to stare at him in the mirror. He was held captivated, locked in a spell. After all these years he had finally found her. He was finally able to see her in the flesh, instead of seeing her in a weathering picture. She was real and standing right in front of him. She was not an illusion. No illusion could smell as good as she does.

At first, when he watched her walk in the room, he thought he was just dreaming. That he would wake up in the middle of the forest, park or alley way, any minute and find out that this was all just a dream. But the pain that he received when he fisted his hands tight, cutting his hand, he knew that he wasn't.

He reached out to her with his clawed hand, walking towards her slowly. " Kagome, I found you,"

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" Kagome, I found you,"

Kagome awoke from the spell she was in and stared in horror at the clawed and bloody hand reaching out to her. She turned around and the whole situation of her seeing a strange man with bloody hands registered in her mind as danger. She screamed.

The man backed away from her in shock. " Why are you screaming?" He made a motion to come near her again. Kagome panicked and picked up the closest object big enough to hurt the man. Which was a hair dryer.

" Stay away from me!" Kagome warned holding up the hair dryer. The man looked up at her a little weird and she glared at him. He saw her make a move on him again. " Stay away!"

" Kagome-"

She cut the guy off when she screamed and threw the blow dryer at him. When the guy just swatted the gadget away she picked up the other objects on her vanity and threw them at him. He was backing up,

" Kagome!" With that the man grabbed her arms and shook her lightly. " Stop it! What are you doing?! Don't you remember me?!"

Kagome looked up at the man with fear. " Don't touch me!" She screamed and kicked him. The man let go of her and she continued with her throwing things at him. Anything that would cause pain and chase the guy out. " GET OUT!! GET OUT!!"

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Inuyasha stared at the screaming Kagome in front of him, he didn't make any move to dodge the things she threw at him anymore. Was he mistaken? Did she really hate him?

He felt something solid collide with his head and Inuyasha was brought back to the present. He watched as Kagome, looking scared and angry, throw everything that she could reach at him. He felt the hand of despair squeeze his heart.

Kagome screamed again and Inuyasha could hear the footsteps of her family coming up to check on her. Inuyasha looked at Kagome with sorrow in his eyes, before stepping out of her room through the window that he had opened once again. She wanted her to leave, and he was going to do just that.

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Kagome placed a hand above her racing heart. The man had finally left, meaning she was safe, she went to sit on her bed. That was scary. And to think that she spent minutes just staring at that white haired man with bloody claws -wait! White haired man?!

Kagome looked at the window where the man exited from. That man had white hair. That means the man was the one that she saw earlier in the morning. And he knew her name! Was he a stalker?

The door opened and in came her family. Worry etched on their face, and when seeing the condition of her room, fear was mixed in.

" What happened?!" Her mother came and hugged her. " Are you alright? We heard the screams! Are you hurt?!"

Kagome didn't get to answer when something caught her eye. She picked up the picture and looked at it with confusion. White hair? Golden eyes? Red clothing? That was the man that was in her room.

" Kagome," she heard her mother speak, " What happened?"

She looked at her mother and then towards the picture in her hand. She showed the picture to her mom. " He was here…" Everyone in the room froze. Kagome didn't notice it, she was still stuck in her own little world. Wondering why the man in the picture was in her room. " Mom why was a celebrity in my room?"

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AN: End of chapter 5! Did you like it?! Huh?! Did you?! Did you?! Well anyways review!!!