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Hidden Memories

AN: Here it is! The long awaited chapter! LoL. Well anyways go read and enjoy! Thanks again for the reviews, by the way. They were greatly appreciated.

Chapter Six: Suspicious Behavior

Mrs. Higurashi held her breath as she stared at the picture in her daughter's hand. Her daughter's words still ringing clear in her head. She didn't want to believe it. It couldn't be true. Kagome said that the well was completely sealed off. No one can go in. Most definitely no one can come out.

" Mom?"

Mrs. Higuarshi was pulled from her thoughts and she looked at her daughter's questioning gaze.

" This man…" Kagome said, " He was here… wasn't he?"

Mrs. Higurashi didn't know what to say. She never expected this to happen. Never in her life did she think that Inuyasha would be able to come back. It was just impossible. The well was sealed and it has been 500 years. There was just no way.

Brown eyes landed on the dog ears in the picture and it didn't seem so impossible anymore. Inuyasha wasn't human--not full human anyways--, he was half demon. It is very possible for him to live for centuries or longer.

She looked around at her daughter's once neat room, and then took a look at the open window. It was very possible for him to find her daughter too. But she wouldn't let her daughter remember him. He was a demon--alright, half demon, but a demon nonetheless. She didn't have anything against him being such a creature. He had protected Kagome lots of times. But that was not the reason.

Her daughter has been hurt many times by him already. He may have come here to be forgiven, but there could never be a life between them. There just couldn't. He was a demon and her daughter was a mere human. Kagome cant live as long as Inuyasha. He would live for many more centuries, and her daughter would lead a miserable life--seeing the man she loves stays the same as always while she withered away.

She can't have that. That was too unfair. But her daughter already found out about him. She might not know him. Though she was certain that her daughter would find out she lied. She didn't know what to say anymore.

What can she say?

" Was I imagining it?"

Mrs. Higurashi looked at Kagome.

" Was I imagining it?" Kagome repeated, but the question seemed to not have been directed to anyone but at the picture.

" O--of course! Wh--why would a super star like h--him end up here." Mrs. Higurashi quickly said. She couldn't pass this chance. She can't let Kagome remember him.

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Souta was frozen in spot when he heard her sister say that the man in the photo was here. Inuyasha was here. Souta was feeling excited, sure the hanyou had caused her sister's depression. But he knew that he didn't mean it, he was Inuyasha for crying out loud. The guy who always seemed to be mean and tough, but when no one was looking, would soften up.

The hanyou liked his sister. Liked her a lot. Why else would he come and sneak into Kagome's room every night when no one was looking. Or would always cast a worried glance when he said something hurtful. Inuyasha liked his sister. He was sure of it. Sure he may be young, but he wasn't naïve to those sort of things.

Souta dashed towards the open window when he finally remembered he could move. The conversation between his mother and Kagome falling to deaf ears. He wanted to see for himself that Inuyasha was here. That the hanyou had somehow found his way back.

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His heart has just been ripped out. Ripped, stomped on and hacked up into pieces before his very eyes.

He looked up at the room he has just exited, and couldn't help but feel the tight squeeze around his heart again. Her words and the anger in her face was still as clear as day in his head. He was hoping to ask for forgiveness and be forgiven. Of course he knew that it would be easy, but he never thought it would turn out like this.

Kagome was really angry at him. He could still feel the angry, hateful gaze that was sent to him. He -even when he lashed her with harsh words- was never given that kind of look from Kagome before.

It was getting a little hard to breathe. Did Kagome mean what she said? It would explain her actions earlier.

Inuyasha was feeling queasy. He didn't want Kagome to be mad at him. He didn't want her to hate him. He could stand everyone else hating him. But not Kagome. He can't have Kagome hate him. He just cant. Kagome was the only one that accepted him for who he was. If she stopped that and started hating him, he would fall apart.

Had his words really crossed the line? Did she really take it to heart? Because he didn't mean them. He was a jerk and had the tendency to stick his foot in his mouth. That was his nature. Didn't she know that? They had spent a long time together, she should know that fact by now.

Kagome had said some harsh words too. He didn't hate her though. He had forgiven her, took a little time, but he had forgiven her. He came searching for her, didn't he?

But… does Kagome really keep grudges?

After all these years?

Inuyasha stopped at that thought. To him it had been a long time since that fateful day. Kagome on the other hand, it could have just been months. That bag of hers did still smell like the Feudal Era. So the memory of that day could still be fresh in her mind.

Glancing at the window once more before Inuyasha turned to leave.

The recollection of their last day together was painful. He would give her some time to let it heal, but he wont stay away for long. He would come back and tell her the truth of what he wanted to say then. He'll just give her some space for now.

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She had to be imagining things. She just had to. There was no way that what she could have seen was true. People didn't have claws. They just don't.

Kagome looked at the photo in front of her. The claws and the dog ears that the man in the picture sported was proving her wrong. But then again it was a celebrity in the picture. This could have been just a print out of some movie or something.

But then that man that was in her room. He looked exactly like the person in the photograph. He had the claws, the eyes, the hair, and the get up. They just had to be the same person.

" Mom?" Kagome looked up at her mom. " They look so alike though… the eyes, the hair, the claws and even the clothing."

Kagome waited for her mom patiently to answer her question. Her mom seemed to be a little jumpy. " Mom?"

" Umm…" Kagome's mom started. " Fan?"

" A fan?" Kagome was a little skeptical with that answer. Sure it was possible that it could have just been a fan. But then that man should really be obsessed because he looked so much like the one in the photograph. The claws and everything else seemed real, like they were not some stick on things.

" Yea, a fan…" her mom repeated.

" How'd he know my name?" Kagome asked.

" Your name?" Her mom was fidgeting now.

" Yea…" Kagome looked at her mom intensely. " Are you hiding something from me?"

" Of--" her mom didn't get to finish what she had to say for Souta's cry drowned her out.

" INUYASHA!"

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Souta was about to give up his search for the hanyou until he spotted white hair before it disappeared around the corner. He had seen it with his own eyes. It had to be Inuyasha. No one in the world had that kind of hair--well in the male species anyway.

So what his sister said was true then. Inuyasha. His hero. The guy who had saved him from that evil monster a year ago had finally found his way back to his sister. But he was walking away. He didn't know that Kagome lost his memories. Didn't know it at all.

Before Souta could think of the consequences of what he was going to say, the name slipped out from his mouth.

" INUYASHA!"

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" Inuyasha?" Kagome queried, " Who's Inuyasha?"

Before Mrs. Higurashi could say anything, Souta turned around from what he was looking at out the window. " The guy! The guy you said was in your room!"

" What?" Kagome asked. Her mom didn't seem to know the guy, why did her brother know him? Something was going on. " Who is he?"

" Don't you remember?" Souta asked. " He's the guy that you like!"

Kagome raised a brow.

Souta sighed. " Your boyfriend! Inuyasha!"

" What?" Now that was unexpected. She didn't remember having a boyfriend like him. Who got claws, and white hair. " Are you sure we are talking about the same person here?"

Souta nodded.

" This person?" Kagome asked pointing at the picture which she now faced to her brother.

Souta was about to speak when his mother stopped him. " SOUTA!"

Souta looked at his mother and automatically covered his mouth with both his hands. He has just realized what he had done.

" Oops." He looked at his mom apologetically. " I'm sorry,"

Kagome looked at the exchange between her mother and her brother. 'What's going on?' Kagome thought as she took note of her mom's glare.

" What is going on?" Kagome asked. " Who is this Inuyasha?"

Kagome just watched as her mother ignored her question. So she looked to her grandfather. He was pretty quiet the whole while. Actually her grandpa hadn't spoken a word to her at all.

" Grandpa?" He looked at her, " What is going on? Who is Inuyasha."

Her grandfather wasn't given the time to answer before her mother pushed him and her brother out of the door.

" Kagome keep your windows shut next time and get dressed already!" her mother said as she walked towards her open bedroom door, pushing the two males in the house ahead of her. " We will be downstairs and inform the police about this situation."

" But mom--" Mrs. Higurashi cut her off.

" No buts young lady! We need to think about your safety first!"

That was the end of their conversation as her mother locked the door. She stared at it with a determined look. She would get to the bottom of this. She knew they were hiding something from her.

She looked at the picture and set it back on the nightstand. She walked towards the window and gazed out, scanning the perimeter for any signs of this 'Inuyasha' person. Who, from what she had gathered so far, was a superstar, her ex-boyfriend and probably her psycho stalker as well--he was the guy she saw downtown.

She didn't know who to believe right now, but she was sure one of them was lying. She closed the window after seeing no sign of her 'ex-boyfriend' and receiving a chill from the night air. Once she was done changing, she would demand answers to her question. Especially about this 'Inuyasha'.

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AN: End of chapter 6! What do you guys think? Did you like it? Was this chapter good? Well review! I want to know what you think!