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Hidden Memories

AN: New chapter! That's right it has finally come. Well anyways I want to get this straight for a second. Inuyasha wished for Kagome to forget the pain he caused her. He did not wish for her to forget him. Well anyways since that's cleared up, on to the story. Read and enjoy! Also thanks for the reviews! Loved them.

Chapter Seven: Time for the truth

" Are we really going to call the police mom?" Souta asked from where he stood in the living room.

Mrs. Higurashi walked down the couple steps of the stairs and shook her head. " No we are not."

" Then what are we going to do?" Souta asked.

" I don't know." But she did know that she can't have Kagome remember the hanyou.

Mrs. Higurashi paced back and forth in front of the two males in the living room. Her hands in front of her rubbing with each other due to her nervous state. She didn't know what to do, but she did know something--

" Inuyasha is here." She said to herself. " And he had come to visit Kagome."

She stopped in front of the coffee table. " And now she knows about him."

" I'm sorry mom." a tiny voice said from behind her.

Mrs. Higurashi turned around and was met with the sorry face of her son. He was the one that had said his name. The one who told Kagome that the man that was in her room was the known as Inuyasha, and was also the same man that was in the picture that she had told her was a 'celebrity'.

She gave Souta a smile. " It's alright."

" But I said he was her boyfriend," Souta said. " The guy that she liked."

Mrs. Higurashi winced. That was a problem.

" I--"

Mrs. Higurashi cut of her son by waving her hands at him, to stop him from keep going and smiled at him reassuringly. " It's still alright."

' It will be alright.' She thought.

" We can fix this situation." Mrs. Higurashi began pacing again. " We just need to make a believable story."

Souta nodded. Grandpa just glared at his daughter, a little disappointed and angry at her decision, but she was too busy to notice it.

" We can tell her that he was just the neighbors kid," She said facing the two males. " We can do that. The kid is known to be a jokester and known to not like Kagome."

" What about the boyfriend part?"

She paused in her pacing. That does pose a problem.

" We--we can tell her that you heard it from the kid." She answered. " That would be believable."

" Then why would she keep a picture of him?" Souta asked, " And why would you have said that it was a celebrity in the picture and not just the neighbor?"

Mrs. Higurashi was getting frustrated. She didn't like all the questions Souta was asking her. Was he not on her side on this? She shook that thought from her head. Souta was just reminding her of some details that she had ignored.

Mrs. Higurashi stopped pacing. What should she do? Kagome would certainly not believe the story about the guy just being the neighbor. Kagome had already found out about the guy being Inuyasha, and Souta had told her that he was the guy in the picture, the guy that had visited her, and her boyfriend. Her story wont work.

She threw her hands in the air and let out a frustrated growl. " I don't know! But we have to figure something out to tell her." She collapsed on the couch. " We can't have her finding out about him. All those memories might come back and Kagome would go through depression again."

She really didn't want her daughter to go through the grief she had just been freed from. It was just too painful. Kagome deserved the happiness she had been granted, seeing that her normal life had been taken from her because of that well. Kagome had to skip back and forth in time, having to fight demons and be sucked into a world of danger. Worst of all--

Kagome had to fall prey of the horrible side of love.

Her daughter had fallen in love with that hanyou, Inuyasha, but the feelings were not returned. He had loved another, but because of his constant jealousy, his possessiveness and his protectiveness of Kagome, it had made her daughter stay with him. Thinking and hoping that there was chance he would love her. Why else would he be all jealous right?

But that hope was shattered and--whatever he did or said to Kagome, before she showed up crying in the middle of the yard--tore her daughter apart, and sent her to the hands of misery.

Mrs. Higurashi suppressed the urge to cry. She would not have her daughter go through that again. " We can't have Kagome go through that pain again. We have to think of something to do."

" Tell her the truth." Mrs. Higurashi quickly snapped her head up to face her father. Shock etched into her face.

" What?"

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" We should tell her the truth." Jii-chan repeated.

" Have you not been listening to me?" his daughter asked.

" I have," Jii-chan answered. He had been listening to his daughter, all the lies she spewed out, every single thing, and he didn't like it.

" Then why say such a thing like that?"

" Because that is the right thing to do."

" Do you know how much your only granddaughter, Kagome, suffered?" his daughter raged, once again on her feet.

He knew what his granddaughter went through. All the pain she felt. He was there when she arrived from Feudal Japan for the last time. He heard her cries when she thought she was alone in the house. He had witnessed all the pain his granddaughter had gone through. He knew it well.

" Of course I do." He answered with anger in his tone. " I am in this house all day, never leaving it. I never had a break from her cries."

His daughter was going to put her own two cents in, but he stared at her hard, making her shut her mouth. " But I know the true reason why she cries every night."

" And you think I don't know?" His daughter snapped at him, " It's you who seems not to know what causes her pain."

His daughter advanced towards him. " So let me tell you," she pointed out the window. " It's Inuyasha! He is the one that makes my baby cry."

She fisted her hands. " And you want her to remember him? Make her remember all the pain and sadness she felt because of him?"

" He's also the only one that can make her happy!" His words froze his daughter in her spot.

" Have you forgotten that Inuyasha was the only one that could make her smile, when no one else could." His daughter kept quiet, and just listened to him. " He was the only one that got her looking forward to the day ahead."

He looked at his daughter. " He might have sent her home crying some of the time, but when he comes after her… he always brings that smile back on her face."

He looked out of the window, looking at the little shrine that sheltered the well. " And when she knew for certain that she couldn't go back, that she wont see him again--"

An image of Kagome, continuously jumping in the well, appeared in his mind. She was trying to go back to the Feudal Era. Every jump she took in that well, he would always see her come out of it, minutes later, with tears trailing down her face. She couldn't go back, the well was not working anymore, but she wouldn't give up. She kept at it, until night had come, and she was reduced to silence, holding on to the side of the well, motionless as tears slid down her face.

"--she was torn into pieces."

He looked at his daughter. " The reason for her depression was because she can't see Inuyasha anymore--can't be with him anymore. That girl, no matter what she said about that hanyou, adored him."

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Mrs. Higurashi thought back to her daughter. Her father was right. The reason behind Kagome's depression was because she missed the hanyou, and even though she was put into grief because of him, she still adored him. Every single thing about him, her daughter adored, even if he was aggressive, rude, arrogant, controlling and impatient, Kagome still liked him.

" She shouldn't." His daughter frowned. " He makes her cry."

Jii-chan shook his head. " Why do you only remember that?"

Mrs. Higurashi looked at her father.

" Inuyasha has made Kagome happy too, you know. More times than not." Jii-chan said. " Remembering Inuyasha would not be all bad memories for Kagome."

He was right. Inuyasha did make Kagome happy, more than he made her sad. Way more. She remembered Kagome telling her all about her adventure in the past. Most of them was about Inuyasha, of course, and through out the whole sharing of her experience in Feudal Era, she had a smile on her face. Remembering Inuyasha won't be that bad at all, her memories of Inuyasha was filled with more happiness than not.

" It would be a good thing if she remembers,"

Mrs. Higurashi looked up at her father. " How would you know that?"

" Because Inuyasha is here now,"

" She came home crying because of him," She answered. " What if he came here to repeat that again?"

" She did come home crying, and I don't know for sure if he would repeat it again." Jii-chan said. " But I do know that if she ends up remembering everything about Feudal Japan and Inuyasha from someone else, how do you think she will respond to the fact that we had told her lies?"

She knew Kagome wouldn't be too happy if she found out about their lying--well her lying. She didn't want Kagome to hate her. Even if she told her she did it for the right thing, Kagome wouldn't appreciate it. Better to tell her now, when the lies were still little and the damage was small.

Before she could answer her agreement to her father, footsteps could be heard coming down the stairs and an all too familiar face appeared before them.

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" I want answers now!" Kagome said as she walked over to her family, who were standing in the middle of the living room. " Who is this Inuyasha?"

She held up her hand signaling them not to answer yet. " And don't tell me any lies! I want the truth."

Kagome watched as everyone looked at each other first. Her mother and grandpa were looking at each other, while Souta was looking back and forth between the two adults. Kagome's mom nodded her head at her grandfather which made him and Souta smile.

She looked at them suspiciously. " What were you guys talking about when I was upstairs?"

They ignored her question as they all just looked at each other. Grandpa was looking happier than earlier and so was Souta. Her mother was still a little nervous but she held a smile on her face.

" Hello?" Kagome waved her hands in front of her, trying to get their attention. " Are you guys listening to me?"

Her family looked at her and she gave them an expectant look. " Well? I want answers."

She raised her hand with her index finger up, stopping her grandfather from answering for a moment. " I don't want any lies. I want the truth…" Kagome looked at her grandfather. " So, whose Inuyasha?"

" Inuyasha is a half dog demon who you met and freed from a tree when you were able to go through the past using the well in the shrine." Her grandfather paused to take a breath. " And the guy who you loved--well still love."

Kagome just stared at her grandfather.

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AN: Chapter 7 done! Well what do you guys think? Tell me by reviewing. I like them lots. LoL.