Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha but I shall take over the world one day, so I'll just wait.

Kagome's Wish

Chapter Eight-Just A Rainy Day

By: inuyashasgirl789

There's nothing worse than a mind-splitting headache unless it's accompanied with blinding light trying to sneak its way into you when you just want to keep on sleeping.

What can be worse than that?

Well, try when someone is screaming at you causing your head to ache and pound even more and the person shakes whatever energy is left in you straight through the roof. Then when you try to scream the living daylights out of the person, to your horror, you find that your throat is as dry as the Sahara Desert.

Now that you feel like someone had just popped the shit outta you, this is the time to lock your hands together and pray to god, 'letmedieletmedieletmedie.'

Nice mantra huh?

Anyways, this was exactly what was happening to Kagome and let me tell you, it wasn't the least bit fun.

Grudgingly, Kagome opened her eyes to slits and saw the familiar face of Sango.

So Sango was the one who was shaking her to death, huh?

She shall not get any christmas presents this year. Hmph.

Kagome opened her mouth to say "stop" but instead, she started coughing vigorously and her head only pounded more. It felt like someone had just stuck cotton balls in her ears and head and everything was blocked out as she tried to clear the mess.

"Are you okay!?" Sango looked at her friend with a concerned look and gestured Miroku in as she saw him standing right outside the slightly open door, looking in at the two girls.

Kagome finally cleared the mess in her head and looked around confusedly as Miroku tip toed in. "Where am I?" Kagome inquired as she looked around the room before resting her eyes on a bunch of gifts and flowers at the corner of the room. "And what are those for?"

Sango smiled a bit at seeing her friend awake and conscious. "You're at the hospital, Kagome."

"Hospital...why am I at the hospital?" Kagome eyed Sango with a confused look and looked over at Miroku. "Why is he here?"

Inuyasha, who was right outside the still slightly open door, just stood outside and listened, not daring to go inside because he was the reason she had gotten injured.

Sango looked at Kagome and said, "You're at the hospital because of what happened at Medieval Times. The presents are from all those admirers of yours. Miroku's just...here."

Kagome blinked at her best friend with a bewildered look on her face. "Medieval Times? We go there on Tuesday." Kagome rubbed her temples slightly and continued to glance at Sango with a curious look.

Sango started sweating as she intertwined her hands together. "Todays Thursday...you've been in the hospital for two days. You were injured at Medieval Times." At the confused look from Kagome, Sango turned her attention to Miroku and gave him a look which clearly stated, 'HELP!'

"I'll go get the doctors," Miroku quickly grumbled and slipped out of the room, grabbing Inuyasha with him.

"But...I don't remember!" Kagome's eyes went wide with realization and she looked at Sango pathetically. "I can't remember ever going there! What happened there!? What happened to me!?" Kagome squealed in horror and drew her knees up to her chest, hugging herself to try to calm the panic rising from within her.

Sango could do nothing but sit on the side of Kagome's bed and lay a comforting hand on Kagome's knee. "Everything will be okay. The doctors will find out what's wrong."

Kagome whimpered as a response and hugged herself tighter.

Sango looked at her friend with pity.

'She can't remember that day...that means...she won't remember what happened between her and Inuyasha...'

*~*~*

Sango, Miroku and Inuyasha were all outside the room with gloomy looks while they were all plopped on the bench. Inuyasha looked at the two teens next to him and then sighed and went back to staring at the ceiling.

"Whatever you want to ask, just ask," Miroku whispered as he sensed that Inuyasha was worried about something.

Inuyasha gave Miroku a slightly surprised look before training his eyes obediently to the ceiling again. "Its Kagome...it looks like...she can't remember. I think...she just can't remember what happened yesterday, but everything before that..."

"She can remember," Sango finished for Inuyasha before looking at the two guys. "Its seems like the bump to her head was more serious than we thought."

"Hey Inuyasha...?" Miroku began.

"What!?"

"What happened in that room?"

"..."

'Aaah...so something DID happen between those two.'

"Nothing happened!"

'Heh...something DID!'

*~*~*

Kagome was back home after the doctors had checked up on her and confirmed that the hit to the head had erased all memories of what happened on Tuesday. It was considered amnesia except she only lost the memories of a day and could remember everything before that. She was currently stable and the doctors said that she might regain memory of that day later on. Her family had come to pick her up (although with all those gifts, it was hard to fit Kagome's mom, Kagome's grandpa and Kagome herself in one car) and took her home where Souta immediently jumped his sister to ask if she was alright. This got a grunt in return and some shouting from Kagome as her head still pounded a little from the action.

Kagome stood at the window, both hands on the sill as she watched the clouds roll in from the far off sky. Watching night slowly wind its way through the landscape, she continued to stare off as the wind blew in and played with her hair.

To one looking at her from outside, it would have looked like she was enjoying the company of the tiny twinkling stars appearing one after another in the sky. But really, Kagome was thinking back to who she saw at the hospital. It surprised her greatly to see him there actually...

Inuyasha.

Argh. That name gave off a sour taste to her tongue, but something was wrong. When her family had ushered her out of the hospital room while Sango was still chattering and asking her if she was alright, she had seen him.

He was just standing there, down the corridor, staring at her. This would have greatly disgusted her that he was looking at her, but what really bothered her was not that he was there, but the look he was giving her.

He was staring at her with a hurt look on his face, as if someone he loved had just left him in the dust and eloped with some handsome, sweet guy.

What could have possibly happened between them that he would give her such a face instead of his usual cocky one?

It must have been something very important.

Kagome twirled a strand of hair around her finger as she gazed off into the distance. Sango had told her that something HAD happened to them at the castle, but the one person who could actually tell her the truth, was Inuyasha himself.

Oh heck naw was she going to go up to him and ask what happened.

The girl watched the gray clouds cover up the moon and stars as gentle drops of rain fell down upon her roof. Shutting the window swiftly, she continued to look out the window one more time, enjoying the pattering of the rain against her window, before letting her fatigue take over.

Yawning and stretching, she found her way lazily to her big, fluffy bed and fell asleep as soon as her face met the pillows.

Unknowingly, she fell asleep against a cute kitty plush next to her...

*~*~*

"ARGH! I'm late!" Kagome screamed as she fled down the stairs, one hand trying to brush her hair and the other pulling on a sock. Hopping on one foot to the kitchen, she grabbed a piece of toast from the hand that had finished putting on her sock, and stuffed the toast in her mouth.

"Kagome dear! Sango's here!" Kagome's mom stated near the front door and Kagome screamed again.

Pulling on her white snow bunny-like jacket on, she grabbed her backpack, pulled down her frumpled skirt and raced out the open door, one hand up to protect herself from the still steady pouring rain.

"Kagome! Your um---" Mrs. Higurashi began but the door had already slammed shut. "--brella..."

"Hurry Kag!!!" Sango shouted from the car and opened the side door for her friend.

Kagome practically dove through the door in true base-stealing style. "Oh my head..." Kagome mumbled as she sat up in an upright position and held her spinning head. "It hurts..."

"Well it should after that feat," Sango scoffed and looked out the window at some guy running down the side walk on the opposite side of the street.

"Hey. Isn't that Inuyasha?" Sango inquired and pointed at the running guy.

Kagome hissed like a cat and growled. This only caused Sango to sweat drop seeing Kagome giving the same treatment she gave Inuyasha before Medieval Times.

"Is that your friend Sango?" Sango's mom asked and before Sango could answer, "that poor boy is going to catch a cold. I'll give him a ride." Sango's mom spun across the street with a loud, long screech of the tires while Kagome held onto the seat in front of her like a lifeline with eyes the size of pancakes.

Inuyasha who had stopped and watched the very familiar car of Sango's drive and turn like a maniac across a narrow street, just lifted an eyebrow when the car stopped in front of him.

"Honey. Do you need a ride?" Sango's mom said, opening the windows slightly which caused rain to patter in.

Sango held a hand over Kagome's mouth when the latter had recovered from her shock and was about to comment about letting a "vile beast" be in the same car as her.

Inuyasha spotted Kagome struggling to say "HELL NO! NEVER!" and sighed. "No than---" he was about to finish when Sango swung the back side door open and grabbed him in with her free hand. (the other one was still over Kagome's mouth)

"Mom! STEP ON THE GAS!!" Sango screamed when she eyed the clock and noticed that they only had five minutes to get to school.

Sango's mom indeed "stepped on the gas" and they were speeding down the road like a racing car, complete with the screech of the wheels and the scream of the passengers.

"Slow down! SLOW DOWN!!!" Kagome shrieked like a lunatic when Sango's mom missed a car by an inch and nearly spun out of control. "AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!" she screamed when they swerved to one side and nearly hit a truck. Clutching to the seat in front of her till it was ready to pop, she prayed to god that she had been a very good girl and didn't deserve to die such a young and painful death.

Inuyasha was just holding onto the door like a leech that hadn't seen blood for his whole lifetime and began to regret ever letting these lunatics give him a ride. He would have much rather ran his way to school, in the rain, and be tardy.

Sango and Sango's mom seemed to be the only two people who were calm and as if narrowly missing a few trucks and cars on the way to school was very normal.

In a matter of only four minutes, (which seemed like endless hours of torture to Kagome and Inuyasha) they had arrived at the school, with a humoungous screech from the tires when they stopped. Kagome's forehead hit the seat she had being holding onto and she shouted out some few colorful words from the pain and the pounding of her headache.

She laid back in the seat with twirly and swirly eyes to try to relax, but her moment of relaxation was gone when Sango grabbed both her and Inuyasha out of the car and dragged them to their first period class.

Inuyasha was still currently frozen in the position he was in the car but when the cold water from the rain ran into his mouth, he sputtered it out and wondered why the world seemed to be passing at a fast motion.

The first person he eyed was a pissed off Kagome, with her arms folded across her chest and a frosty glare directed at him. Her hair was dripping wet and the fluffy hem of her jacket was not so fluffy anymore.

The next thing he noticed was that he was practically flying half way through the air but then noticed that he wasn't actually levitating but a girl with long black and dripping wet hair was dragging both him and his lovely companion next to him. Did he say lovely? *coughcough*

'But she is pretty..." he debated in his head and he peeked at her from the side of his eyes to watch her perfect form since her clothes practically clung to her body.

Oh god...he was turning into another Miroku!

Coughing to hide his embarrassment, Kagome peeked at Inuyasha and gave him another glare when she saw the red tinting his cheeks, before turning to look the other way.

"We're here!" Sango screamed in happiness and dragged the two people along behind her into the room, dumping Inuyasha in his chair near his little fanclub and dragging Kagome with her to their usual seat at the other side of the room.

This got a few gasps from the fanclub, a few wide eyes from Kagome and Sango admirers and a few raised eyebrows from everyone else.

Did KAGOME and INUYASHA (and Sango...) just enter the room TOGETHER?! Without killing each other!?

*RINGGGG!!!*

The bell rang just as Kagome and Sango took their seats, oblivious to the glaring or wondrous eyeing of their fellow classmates.

Kagome's expressions soured when she was rinsing the water from her hair. She was soaked to the bone and being in a room where you had to sit down for an hour, listening to the teacher ramble nuisance was not going to stop you from catching a cold.

Now if Kagome had been looking around the room, she would have noticed the extremely frosty glare from Kikyo, who was not at all pleased that Inuyasha and Kagome weren't fighting when they came into the room.

She'll have to fix that...

Giggling evilly to herself, she looked at Inuyasha and smiled sweetly. The guy didn't even smile back as Kikyo noticed he wasn't even looking at her, but at Kagome.

Heh...so he has fallen for that wench huh? Oh she'll put Kagome in her place...one way or another...

Sango picked up the nasty smile of Kikyo directed to Kagome from the side of her eyes and shuddered. Kikyo was up to something and she could bet Kirara that that evil girl would do something to Kagome.

She'll have to stay by Kagome for the while...

*~*~*

It was lunch and Kagome groaned that they had to stay indoors thanks to the rapidly pouring rain outside. It wasn't going to stop was it?

Kagome glanced up at the sky and it was covered with gray thick clouds. Nope...it wouldn't stop for a while.

"What the heck. It's nearly the end of October...sheesh...weather people are never right. Stupid unpredictable weather." Kagome turned around, ready to go find Sango when she bumped into someone.

"KAGOME!" the person screamed and Kagome started shuddering for some reason when she recognized the voice.

"Ko-Kouga?!" she squeaked and slowly moved backwards.

Kagome looked up to see Kouga's beaming face and squeaked in horror. Looking around for an escape, she realized that she was stuck in the spider's web, with the spider coming in for the kill.

Problem was...why couldn't she figure why she was scared of Kouga?

"Kagome..." Kouga looked at the girl, probably oblivious to the scared expressions in her features. "I'm sorry that I didn't protect you from that Inuyasha at Medieval..."

"Liar!" Kagome screamed before she even thought about what she was saying.

All she knew...was that he was lying...

A sudden electricity bolt ran through her mind and her vision flashed black as she remembered three words.

***

"I'll protect you..."

***

Clutching the sill she had backed up into, she looked at Kouga angrily. "Don't talk lies with me Kouga...go away..."

Kouga staggered back, hurt. He had only been trying to help Kagome when that evil Inuyasha was molesting her! Well...he ended up hurting her too...but that was an accident! But he had heard that she couldn't remember anything, so she wouldn't remember him ever hurting her right?

"But Kagome-chan...I was only..."

"Quiet!"

Kouga was really hurt now as he turned around, his back facing Kagome. "Kagome...I love you..." Twisting around, by what means, ready to prove to her that he loved her, he had his arms wide open when he noticed---

Kagome wasn't there.

Looking down the corridor, he spotted her rounding the corner at 200 miles per hour, nearly smashing into some innocent bystander.

Kouga sniffed and took his hand up to wipe away imaginary tears. "She LOVES me too!"

*~*~*

"Where were you?!"

"Where were YOU!?"

Kagome and Sango stared at each other and gave deadpan looks.

"Did something happen to you!?" Sango practically screamed in Kagome's face, worry etched on her expressions as she remembered the evil look from Kikyo.

"YES!"

Sango gulped as she had her worst fears come true. "What happened?"

"kouga was practically harassing me in the middle of the corridor...confessing his 'love' for me and I think he was going to hug me!!" Kagome screamed and shook her best friend by the shoulders. "It was scary!"

Sango let out a sigh of relief as she realized she had jumped to a conclusion. It was just Kouga...no harm...???

Kagome saw the look of relief cross Sango's face and gave an evil look to her. "You aren't scared for me!?"

"Oh...yes I am! Yes I am!" Sango nodded her head with wide eyes to show her support but what she was REALLY concerned about was not Kouga...Kagome had kicked his butt the last time. Kagome could have done it again. What she was concerned about was Kikyou...

That girl was more dangerous than she looked.

*~*~*

Kikyo was right now, in the girl's bathroom, reapplying her mascara as she took out a cell phone that perfectly matched her outfit that day.

Putting the mascara back in her purse and taking out her eyeshadow, she flipped open the cell and dialed some numbers.

"Who do ya want!?" a rough voice across the line answered and Kikyo smirked as she applied the eyeshadow carefully.

"Get me Naraku."