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Hidden Memories

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Chapter Eight: Smile and nod

Kagome blinked. Did she just hear him say hanyou and going to the past? Or did she hear him wrong? Yes, it had to be the latter. Grandpa was not that nutty.

" Can you repeat that again?"

Grandpa took a deep breath before repeating to her what he had said. " 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, and the guy who you loved or still love."

Ok… so she did hear him correctly the first try.

She should have known that her grandfather would say something outrageous such as that, but at a time like this? He just cant be serious for once can he?

Kagome waited for her grandfather to become serious, and notice that she was serious about this topic. She didn't like being kept in the dark for too long, especially when it dealt with her and her safety against psychotic fans of celebrities who stalk her. She looked at her grandfather for a long time, waiting for him to crack a smile and tell her he was joking.

Nothing.

Her patience was wearing thin and her grandfather still has not confessed he was joking. So Kagome decided to talk.

" Umm, grandpa?" Kagome clasped her hands together in front of her. " I don't know if you heard me before, but I said no lies."

Grandpa just looked at her.

" So I am going to ask again…" Kagome made a gesture with her hand. " Who is Inuyasha?"

Her grandfather looked at her with a look that asked 'are you serious?' and she gave him a firm look of her own, that should answer his.

" As I said before Kagome," her grandfather said, seeming a little tired for having to repeat himself--again. " Inuyasha is the half demon that you had met and freed from a tree when you were able to go to the past through the well."

Kagome sighed, he wouldn't give up. " Grandpa--"

" Kagome! It's true!" This time she turned to look at her little brother. " Inuyasha is a half demon--"

" Who I met and freed from a tree when I was able to go to the past through the well?" Kagome finished.

" Yea!" Souta.

Kagome crossed her arms. " Right… and I'm going to date Ho--" Kagome cut herself off. She was going to date Houjo, she needed to say something else. " I mean… a--and I hate oden."

" Kagome it's the truth!" her brother insisted.

" That is not possible." Kagome said. She looked at her mother, expecting to get the truth from her. " Mom?"

Her mother turned to face her. " It's the truth honey."

" Umm… what?" Kagome asked. She must have heard her mother wrong. Just had to. She was a sane person. She wasn't like grandpa at all.

" What your grandfather said is the truth." her mother answered.

Kagome stared at her mother like she had grown another head--or just turned into her grandfather. Her mother was suppose to be sane, and her brother too. They weren't suppose to say things or even agree with her grandfather about hanyou's and demons and time travel.

" Ok! What's going on? Why don't you guys want me to know the truth?" Kagome said, a little angry. Who wouldn't be angry? She was being lied to, and it was clear that she was being lied to. They didn't even put effort in making their fib sound plausible. " What's so wrong about telling me who Inuyasha is?"

" We are not lying!" Grandpa said.

" No one can go to the past by using a well grandpa." Kagome said firmly. " And there definitely are no such creatures as demons and hanyou's."

Her grandfather was getting frustrated. Kagome was a little surprised at that. She was suppose to be the one getting frustrated.

" Wasn't seeing Inuyasha with the claws real enough for you?"

" We're in the 20th century." Kagome explained. " We sell those kind of things at Hallowe'en stores. Heck you gave me one for my 15th birthday!"

" He is a hanyou!" grandpa exclaimed. " It's the truth!"

" Liar!"

" I'm not lying!"

" Yes you are!"

" I'm not!"

" You are!"

" Not!"

" Are!"

" Not!"

" Are!"

Kagome couldn't believe that she was having such a childish argument with her grandfather. She looked at him and remembered how he was in the past years she had known him, and sighed. It was very believable.

" NOT!" her grandfather argued.

Kagome stared down at her grandfather and crossed in front of her. " Then lets go to the past using the well."

Her grandfather grew quiet. Kagome smirked. Got him. But seriously, he should have known that she would find out he was lying. Time traveling using a well? Please! She made up lies better than that.

" We can't," Kagome quirked a brow. " The well was sealed after you had completed the Shikon Jewel."

Kagome twitched. He was still at it? " Grandpa… just give it up!" the old man looked at her. " I know you are lying okay? It's not hard to tell, you know? Your lying skills are pretty bad. Worse than mine!"

" He's not lying Kagome." her mother said.

" It's the truth!" Souta spoke up.

Kagome let out a irritated growl. Her family was really getting to her nerves. How dare they keep lying to her? " Stop joking around and tell me the truth."

Her mother slowly made her way towards Kagome, and held her in her arm. " We are telling you the truth."

Kagome snorted and muttered a 'yeah right' under her breath.

" Really." her mother whispered.

Kagome eyed each member of her family. They all had sincere looks on their faces. They were very dedicated to the story, and they sounded they believed in it. Fine… they worked hard to sound that convincing, she will play along. " So I went to the past?"

" Yes…" her mother answered.

" And that's where I met this Inuyasha guy and fell in love with him?"

" Yes."

" How long have I been 'time traveling'?"

" Almost a year now."

Almost a year? " What about my school?"

" You missed them."

" What about my sickness?"

" Well that was just made up as an excuse why you weren't showing up in school."

Kagome lifted a brow. Now they were saying her small pox and lime disease were just made up? " What have I been doing there that seemed so important to miss school?"

" Looking for shards of this jewel that you have lost," her mother's face paled slightly. " and fighting demons."

Kagome's eyes widened. " Demons?"

" Yea… Demons." her mother said tight lipped. " I never did like having you go to the past and fight the demons to just look for shards of a jewel…" She looked at her daughter. " But I knew you were in safe hands."

" With Inuyasha…" Kagome said.

Her mother nodded.

" Who is also a demon?"

" But he was a good demon!" Souta piped up.

" Oh right…" Kagome said caressing her head, which was starting to develop a headache. " Because he is not really full demon, he is half and half."

" Yea!" Souta said happily.

" If what you all are saying is true," Kagome said, though she knew without a doubt they were lying. Like really. The only things where time travel and demons exist were in movies and cartoons. " Why don't I remember it then?"

Everyone was silent.

Kagome watched her family looked at each other before, finally, setting their gazes at her. She didn't like how they were looking at her. " What?"

" You have amnesia."

Kagome blinked and stared at her mom disbelieving. " Right… amnesia…" Kagome pried off her moms arms that were wrapped around her and turned towards the stairs. She really didn't want to listen to them and their lies.

" Kagome--"

Kagome cut her grandfather off. " Look. I don't really want to listen to you guys anymore." She took a step up on the stairs. " I asked for one simple thing about someone's identity, and I get an answer dealing with monsters--"

" Because that is the answer to your question!" Her mother answered.

Kagome turned to look at her mother. " Then you tell me that the reason I don't remember is because of amnesia--"

" Well that's the only conclusion I can come up with, for your sudden memory loss of the past year." her mother defended herself.

Kagome just shook her head, not wanting to listen to them anymore. " Look I'm tired, and I'm getting a headache." She marched up the stairs. " I'm going to bed now."

Kagome walked in her bedroom and closed the doors behind her, locking it. She plopped down on her bed and crawled under the comforter. She opened her eyes and met face to face with the picture of Inuyasha, and the earlier talk with her family came rushing into her head.

A well that can transport people to another time. Demon--well half demon--stuck in a tree and she freeing him from it, then having fallen in love with him. Finding jewel shards and fighting demons for a good amount of time. Kagome shook her head, that was just too--crazy. If her family wanted to lie to her, why couldn't they be like any other lying family out there, and just tell her that what she saw was just her imagination and that she had just misheard Souta. It would have been better, and more believable.

Kagome reached over to the photo and set it face down on the nightstand, she didn't really want to see it. It would remind her that her family was lying to her and hiding something from her. Or worse--

Her family was going crazy, seeing that they held so much sincerity about the ridiculous things they said.

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AN: There it is… Chapter 8 is done. Did you like it? Review!