A/N: Sorry, I took a while on this chapter. I've been busy.
Well, we're here with an interview with Miroku on the last chapter:
Babykitsune: So, how what did you think about the last chapter?
Miroku: No comment.
Babykitsune: You're no fun. C'mon, where's the lively Miroku we all know and love?
Miroku: *looks up* Will you consider bearing my-
Babykitsune: *hits the stupid monk on head with trusty skillet* WHY YOU LITTLE!
Ahem, well, I think this interview is over seeing as though our interviewee is unconscious. Sorry for the disappointed!
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Sango's POV
I woke up in my bed, and saw that Kagome had already gotten up. She was rushing around, stuffing her huge backpack. That's right. Today was our hiking trip.
I slowly got out of bed. I felt the carpet underneath my feet. It felt like it was wet. It was then that the memories of last night came back to me.
Miroku saved me. He saved my life. I remember seeing him right before I went underneath the water, then waking to his face, well actually his chest. His eyes held a worried look. Warm...kind eyes.
I looked to the right and noticed that on the table was my clothes from last night, and next to them lay Miroku's gray, Quicksilver hoodie jacket. I walked over and picked it up. It was dry, and so were my clothes.
"I blow dried them." Kagome's voice said from behind me. I turned and she was still hustling around the room, not even looking at me. I sighed and went to get ready myself, placing the jacket down on the table once more.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~In the dining hall~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Kagome and I spotted Inuyasha and Miroku on our usual table.
Kagome and I sat down across from them, and Kagome blushed. Ooh, something must've happened last night, not including my incident.
I kept my head down during the meal so that I didn't have to face Miroku, but I knew that I would have too soon. After all, he is one of my best friends, besides, I had his jacket. Also, tonight was the dance.
I could see Miroku watching me out of the corner of my eye. I was beginning to get very uncomfortable when I noticed that Mr. Ken decided to go up on the stage yet again. Has anyone ever told him that pink is SO NOT his color?
~*~*~*~*~Kagome's POV~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
" I am sad to say that today's hike has been canceled." WHAT? All that packing for NOTHING?!?!? "However, your group leaders will be taking your group to different activities. According to the camp rules and regulations we are allowed to take you on different activities excluding hiking when it is raining like this." I looked outside. Hey, it's raining well, you learn something new every day. Mr. Ken stepped down from the stage.
"Why are you guys so quiet?" Sesshoumaru asked me, he was sitting next to me.
"Nothing." I squeaked nervously.
"Oh really?" He asked. I nodded.
"It's just that" I never got to finish because someone sitting across from me spoke up.
"Sesshoumaru, you better not be harassing her." Inuyasha growled. And as fast as you could say...hmm....I don't know, I've never been good at those things, so I'll just say in a blink of an eye the two brothers were locked in a glaring contest.
Actually it was more of a grunt glare, open mouth to say something, then close it like a stupid fish, then grunt again, then growl contest. Wow, what skill! To glare and do all those things at the same time!
Honestly though, to hate your brother because he's half Japanese!?!? That's just silly. I'm full Japanese and you don't see me running around glaring at myself. It's so annoying!
The rest of the table and I watched with bored expressions as the two "brothers" engaged in a full out glare, grunt, growl contest.
When breakfast was FINALLY over, we walked over to our cabins where we were supposed too meet, all getting drenched in the process from the hard rain. Goodness, it's like nature forgot that it was SUMMER, honestly, freezing lakes, cold winds, rain, what next snow?
I looked up to the sky, as if I was expecting to see white drifting down, but of course, the weather wouldn't be that bizarre.
"Er...Kagome?" I turned around. There was Inuyasha.
"Yes?" I asked, trying hard not to look into those eyes of his.
"I was wondering if we were still on for the dance tonight?" He asked. To my delight, there was a slight ingredient of hope in his voice.
"Y-yea. O-of course." I stumbled out. What's wrong with me? Stuttering like that, I sure am dumb! It's just a GUY right?
Right.
Yes, just a guy.
Just a guy.
Nothing special...
Just a guy.
Inuyasha looked at me for a moment, then smiled. As soon as he smiled like that, I melted.
Aw shit.
He's NOT just a guy.
He just HAD to smile didn't he? GRRRRRR
I blushed at my thoughts, and quickly turned away from him.
Oh man, I probably look like a cherry.
"Kagome?" He asked. "You okay?" Grr... I shook my head furiously and who to come to my rescue but our counselor. Thank God.
"Hello, my name is Motoko. I will be your group's leader." She smiled. I looked at her. She looked normal, which is more than I can say for a certain man who's a little too intact with his feminine side. "Now, can you tell me your names please?" She asked. Motoko was not very old at all. She looked to be only a few years older than us, and had long black hair, which was tied at the end in a ponytail much like Sango's always was. She was a little taller than me, but then again, almost everyone is taller than me.
"I'm Kagome." I said.
"Sango."
"Miroku."
"Inuyasha."
"Sesshoumaru."
"Koga."
"Ayame."
"Rin." (A/N: Let's just say that she's the same age okie dokies?)
"Well, it's nice too meet you everyone. As I said before, I'm Motoko Hanakata and I'm Mr. Ken's fiancée." She smiled.
I almost choked. Did a pretty woman like that REALLY have to settle for a gay guy? Well, okay, so he's most likely not gay, but what I said about her being normal, well, I take it back now.
"Anyway, I hope you like archery because today we will be working on different kinds of archery activities."
I jumped for glee. ARCHERY! ARCHERY!
No, really, I did.
"ARHERY! ARCHERY! ARCHERY!" I skipped around the group, who all had BBIIIGGG sweat drops on their heads.
Immediately, my bow and arrow popped out of nowhere, and I began shooting. The only problem was that I was having so much fun, I wasn't exactly opening my eyes, skipping around pulling back the arrows, then letting those suckers fly!
"ARCHERY! ARCHERY! ARCHERY!" I shrieked happily, almost falling into the lake.
"BWAAAAHHHHH!" I heard Inuyasha yell, there were a few shrieks from the girls, and I stopped to open my eyes.
Inuyasha was on the ground with an arrow right next to his head. Miroku was underneath a nearby tree, cowering underneath an arrow that was stuck in the tree an inch over his head.
"Uhh...heh heh heh..."
"Umm...okay then, the first thing we will work on is...well, aiming." Motoko said looking at me.
"Heh...heh...heh."
"Well, since Kagome already has her bow and arrows, you can go ahead an start, and I'll go get some equipment for the rest of you." Motoko said, she walked off to a nearby shed. "Kagome, please shoot at the targets over there." She added, halfway to the shed.
The others looked at me warningly. I smiled nervously, and took aim.
I pulled back the arrow, feeling the softness of the light feather. I shot.
Zoom.
Bulls eye.
I smiled. You see, over the years, I've always practiced archery, mostly because gramps said that it was the "miko" thing to do. I've never told anyone about my miko powers, not even Sango. I know I could trust her, but I didn't want to surprise her by telling her that her best friend is a powerful Miko with magical powers. Meaning that if I wanted to stay with my friends, I would have to control my powers.
When I do archery, it feels like all of my troubles fly away with that arrow. All my worries just shoot away. And for those seconds that I'm aiming the arrow, and letting it fly, I'm free, flying with that arrow. That's why I love archery, and that's why I keep my bow and arrow with me at all times. Because nothing makes me feel that way. I know it sounds really corny, but that's how I feel, so shoot me.
After lunch, which was a great dish of good food. Ok, it wasn't great or, good, and I highly doubt that it was even food, we got to go swimming, apparently Motoko gave up on Koga's archery skills, and told us to go to the pool instead.
"Well, that means that I get to spend more time with my woman!" Koga said happily, he stepped next to me, and I nearly gagged as his arm slipped around my shoulders.
"Oh! Look! There's the pool, c'mon Sango." I said eagerly, edging away from that wolf.
Sango thankfully got the hint, and we both hurried away from the rest of the group, jumping and breaking the surface of the cool water.
When we surfaced, the rest of them were already in the pool, and lo and behold, look who was wading by us now. Oh the irony!
It's a good thing that I'm a strong swimmer, or I would've have to stay there longer, by...that!
Unfortunately, I swam right by a certain pervert. And, well, you know the rest, so why bother to tell you?
"PERVERT!"
BAM!
I swam angrily stomped, well actually, swam away from my handy work, and found myself near Sango once more.
"He just doesn't learn does he?" I said, sighing. She nodded, sighing as well.
"Kagome, are you going to the dance with anyone?" She asked quietly.
I looked at her serious face. I was about to say no, but that's when I remembered. With the crisis from last night, I almost forgot, even with the reminder from Inuyasha this morning. I nodded, "Inuyasha."
Sango looked at me for a moment, then smiled. "I knew it!" She said happily. "Inuyasha and Kagome sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" She started to sing in a naïve little voice.
The rest of the pool time consisting of two shrieking girls, one raging, one singing, swimming around the pool, one running, one chasing, until one of the girls caught up and there was more shrieking, on panting from fighting, one still singing.
When we were back in the cabin, Sango's hair was sticking in various directions, and I was still glaring at her.
"Awww....Chlorine make my hair stick." Sango whined to me, brushing the hair that I so carefully messed up. I slipped into my outfit, and laughed.
"Well, if you hadn't joined the one girl choir, this never would have happened." I said, watching as she finally got her hair down to a semi- normal state.
I was wearing a black spaghetti strap tank top and a white skirt, Sango was wearing a white spaghetti strap with a black skirt. Yes, we looked like idiots standing next to each other, but hey, we weren't complaining. I was going to wear pink, but a certain counselor ruined that one for me.
I smiled at her, and she growled back, as she gave her hair one last brush.
It was then that the Doorway to Hell opened, and in stepped two boys.
I looked over at Sango. FINALLY! After how many years of Miroku crooning love songs to her below her room window, and her throwing things like frying pans down at him.
"Umm...hi Kagome." Inuyasha was stading in front of me, fidgeting with a loose string on his cargo pants.
"Oh...um...hi." I said, nervously.
"Hi."
"Hi."
Silence.
"Hi."
"Hi."
Silence.
More silence.
Oh I hate silences
Silence.
...
...
Silence.
Sango's POV
When we were finally at the Dining Hall, the dance was set up, and everyone was there already. (Kagome and Inuyasha just stood there, staring at each other for about half an hour.)
I was talking to Ayame, while Miroku was somewhere, trying the food.
"Why aren't there any adults here?" I asked her.
Ayame looked around. "I don't know, I didn't notice. A bit strange isn't it?" The only person even close to an adult was the DJ, but even he looked about our age. Ayame shrugged and changed the subject.
"Do you think Koga will ever....like me?" She asked all of a sudden. It was a well known fact that she liked Koga...a lot, but it was another known fact that Koga, well, you know.
"Ayame, I don't really-" I was cut off when someone tapped me on the shoulder. I spun around and there was Miroku.
"You're a life saver." I sighed, as he led me to the dance floor, after saying goodbye quickly to Ayame. I remembered last night and blushed thinking about the irony of that sentence. He smiled at me, and wrapped his arms around my waist.
I was surprised for a bit, then remembered he was my 'date'. We were just friends...right? I mean, he could never think of me as more than that. Right? I hesitantly put my arms around his neck, hoping he wouldn't do anything to live up to his hentai reputation.
He didn't.
~*~Narrative~*~
Koga looked as if he were about to murder someone, namely Inuyasha. He was watching the couple dance, surely only incurring his rage.
"Kagome, why are you dancing with, with that?" He yeled, walking, well, stomping to the two.
Kagome looked stunned for a moment, then glared daggers at the boy in front of her, no, not Inuyasha you incompetent fools, Koga. (A/N: I like that Incompetent fool! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *authoress gets dragged off to madhouse*) She watched as Koga looked back at her, clearly afraid that she was glaring at him. This was the last song of the dance, and Kagome didn't want to miss it.
"Gee, maybe because I want to?!" She said sarcastically, then she closed her eyes and turned her head from him, only to rest it against Inuyasha, making the boy blush.
Koga looked at Kagome, then at the red Inuyasha, fire soon appeared in his eyes.
"Get away from my woman!" He growled menacingly.
"Who said she was your woman?" Inuyasha growled back, he glared at Koga, but still swayed Kagome back and forth to the music.
"Why...you...sunnava..." Koga brought back his fist, and punched Inuyasha, sending him hurdling over the fruit punch table, giving the table a whole new meaning. Kagome fell, but Koga grabbed her before she could hit the floor.
Inuyasha slowly got up, oblivious to the screaming girls around him and the calls of "fight, fight, fight!". He got up, and charged at Koga, he brought his fist back, and using the force he had got from running, slammed into the teenager, causing Kagome to once again fall, and once again be caught, this time by Inuyasha.
Koga slid back across part of the wooden floor. He winced a bit, and got up, Inuyasha paid no attention to him.
"Kagome, I'm sorry, are you okay? That freak didn't hurt you did he?" He asked, setting her back steadily on her feet. She smiled at him and nodded, then, he saw her eyes widen.
"Inuyasha!"
Shatter
Kagome screamed, "Inuyasha!". As she watched him fall in front of her, she shielded herself from the shards of glass, flying in all directions, and winced as some of the glass pierced her skin.
Inuyasha fell, and in front of her now, was Koga, standing there with a broken top of a glass Ginger ale bottle. He had brought down the bottle on Inuyasha's head.
"Koga!" Kagome screamed in anger, terrified at what had just happened.
Sango and Miroku came, pushing through the crowd that had gathered around them.
"You bastard!" Kagome screamed at Koga.
"But, Kagome, now we can be together."
"Why...you..." Kagome stood up and stepped closer to Koga. She slapped Koga across the face with all the power she could possibly muster. " Kono Aitsu Achi Ike Yo!" (A/N: means Get lost you creep.)
Koga stood there, his hand resting on his right cheek, eyes as wide as big as two tennis balls. The hall went quiet, as the "Fight! Fight! Fight!"s stopped. Kagome stood there, her hand still on in the position it was after smacking him.
Koga turned on his heel, and ran out of the hall, and out into the night.
Kagome felt bad for a while, but then heard a moan from below her, and looked down. She forgot about the creep and kneeled down next to Inuyasha, who was slowly regaining consciousness.
"Inuyasha...Sango, Miroku, help me." Kagome said, looking around, and deciding to get Inuyasha out of there before someone called the counselors to the mysteriously un chaperoned dance. (A/N: I think I spelled that wrong, so sue me.)
Sango and Miroku nodded, and Miroku grabbed one of Inuyasha's arms, and Kagome the other. Sango began to tell the crowd off, and got Ayame and some other girls to help her clean up.
When they were by the cabins, Miroku spoke up, breaking the silence, "Kagome, you can handle this right?" He asked, letting go of Inuyasha, leaving his weight entirely on Kagome. She looked at him for a while, then nodded. Miroku smiled, and ran to help the others clean up. Kagome watched, a little startled, she figured he just wanted to get to Sango, not knowing that he really wanted to give the two some 'alone time'.
She shifted Inuyasha and proceeded to help him up the stairs to the balcony. He was conscious, but a little, no, very shaky on his feet. She slid open the screen door to his room and stepped inside.
Kagome's POV
I was relieved when I sat Inuyasha down on the couch. He smiled at me, and leaned against it. I ran to my room through the room connecting door and ran to the mini fridge in our room. I tore off part of one of my shirts that I wear only to sleep anyway, and placed some ice into it. I tied it securely and raced back to the boy's room.
"Here." I said, sitting down next to him. His eyes were closing slowly, then flickering back open. "Don't go to sleep okay." I asked, concerned, we learned in first aid class that if you ever get hit on the head hard, Do. Not. Go. To. Sleep. No matter what.
"Yeah." He said weakly, his eyes closed again, then opened.
I dabbed the back on the side of his head where he was hit with the ice. He winced, and I looked at the ice pack. The fabric of my once whit shirt was now tinted in red blood.
I parted his hair carefully, and saw the wound, it was bleeding, but not too much. "Is this okay?" I asked, once again dabbing but more carefully this time.
He nodded.
"Kagome." He asked after a while. I stopped dabbing and looked at him.
"Yah?"
"What about you....aren't you hurt?" He asked. I thought about what he had said and soon realized the stinging on my bare arms and parts of my face. I looked at my arms, and saw cuts dripping blood from where the glass shards flew at me.
"I'm fine." I said, his wound was much more serious, and I was worried, what if something happened?
"Good." He said, he then looked down.
"Inuyasha..." praying he wasn't sleeping, I lowered my head, to look at him. His head however propped up at the exact moment, and somehow, our faces were about two inches apart from each other.
I didn't want to, but I had no choice, and I gazed into those two golden orbs once more.
I felt like I was floating on air, as if my thoughts were all cleared, and all I knew was Inuyasha. He leaned closer to me, and I to him.
Closer
Closer.
I closed my eyes.
I waited, but felt nothing, I opened my eyes and gasped.
I wasn't in the same place.
I was...at my old school.
It was raining hard, and water was cascading down my face. But it wasn't only water, it was warm, and my eyes were burning.
I was....crying.
I looked around and looked at the ground, I was much lower than I usually am, despite the fact that I'm short anyway.
It was then that I saw someone in front of me.
"Inu...Yasha?" He was Inuyasha, but he looked younger. Much younger. I gasped. I hadn't spoken. I had no voice.
"Here, I got this for you." I heard myself speak, but my voice was higher, younger. I felt my arms move up and I placed something around his neck.
I looked what I had just placed, and there it was, the rosary I had just saw, right before I was here.
"Arigato Goasimasu." He said. I sighed, and decided there was nothing I could do, I had no voice, I had no control over my body. I might as well just sit here in this dream.
"Here. Turn around." He said, and now, I couldn't just sit here, I looked at what he was holding, and there was the pendant I had never taken off...I don't know why, but I'm not sure where I had gotten it. Was this dream....not a dream? Was this reality, something that really happened? Wouldn't I remember something like this?
"I love it thanks." My voice said. I felt like crying this was so sweet, but was it truly real?
I felt my arms go around the little boy, and hold him tightly.
"Bye." My voice whispered as we parted. I felt my legs move, and then stop. I turned around, and started to run, straight back into the boy's embrace.
"I'll never forget you."
I watched as he stepped away and into a car.
I stood there, watching as the car disappeared.
My vision began to blur, until it was completely black.
When my vision slowly began to come into focus once more, I saw that I was in a dimly lighted dark room.
I looked around, very confused.
"Where am I?" I asked out loud. I looked around, all I saw was black.
"I've been waiting for you to come." I spun around, startled by a voice.
I gasped.
A/N: Hah! Don't worry, it's not a cliffhanger, I just wanted to scare you. Muahahahahahaha! *Get's hit by flying frying pans.* Okay, Okay, back to the story.
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This girl standing in front of me, looked just like me.
She stood there, staring at me, but she didn't look just like me, not totally, just the way I looked....in fourth grade.
"Who...are you?" I asked.
She smiled at me. "I'm...you!" She said happily.
"I....what? How?"
She sighed, and sat down on the floor.
I raised an eyebrow as she got up a little and went into a head stand.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"Nothing. Look, I'm you. The part that you left behind." She said, as if that were something you went around saying every day.
"What are you talking about?" I asked, getting a little annoyed at her behavior at a time like this.
"You don't remember anything do you?"
"About..." I realized that was a stupid thing to say.
She rolled her eyes. "Honestly, I grew up to be this dense, about what I just showed you!"
"Doing a headstand?" I asked.
"Grrrr...." She said, then seemed to taked a deep breath, and said "About Inuyasha, and what you just saw about you on that day."
"I don't know what you're-"
"I know you just saw it, what happened when you said goodbye to Inuyasha."
I gasped.
"Inuyasha..." So that was him.
"Yes, you see after he left.....how do I put this, you told Sango that you wanted to forget him." She said, continuing to take deep breaths. "She didn't take you seriously at first, and just thought you were just depressed, which you were. Well, I mean...we were, you revealed to Sango what you were, with your Miko powers and everything, and told her that you could make you forget."
"I..what?"
She sighed once more, and closed her eyes. "You used your powers to forget about Inuyasha. You wanted both of you too forget everything so that you wouldn't have to go through the pain that you had felt. Sango was forced to sit and watch as you revealed to her your powers, and used them to cast me here."
"What are you talking about? Just who are you anyway?" I asked, slowly trying hard to take this all in.
"Look, I know this is hard to understand, but I am you. The part that you sent away. Your memories. I'm...you, a part of you. You see, when you cast your memories away, your knowledge of being a miko was still very small. You didn't have enough spiritual power to fully get rid of me. You didn't destroy me, only sent me here. You only sent me to a deep part of your heart. So that you just got rid of me, but didn't completely get rid of me."
My head hurt. This was confusing. I didn't understand. So, I'm in my heart right now? Interesting.
"Ummm..."
She sighed, and got out of her headstand. "I've had so long to prepare what I would say when the time came to tell you. I forgot about how hard it would be to understand."
I sighed too, and sat down next to her.
"I don't know what is going on." I said quietly. "But I just need to know, exactly what happened?"
She looked at me. "I...when you used your powers, you sent a part of you away. You cared deeply for Inuyasha, so deep, that he became a part of you. That's why I'm here, I'm the part that you sent away. I'm you, just...departed. You know when you had that yard sale?"
I nodded.
"You felt something, when your mom asked you if she could sell your dog toy, and you said now, but didn't know why?"
I thought back, and remembered. "Yea."
"That was me. Something deep inside of you told you that you couldn't sell that toy. And why you never took that necklace of yours off. Because somehow, you knew of my presence, you remembered in the back of your mind, that that was from your first and last love."
I remembered. "Yes, I only knew someone special gave that to me."
She nodded. "Yea, I could tell you that much. But I couldn't reach you. The spell you used was too strong."
"So...why now?" I asked. "What is it that I can come here?"
She smiled at me. "Because part of what you said was that you didn't want to remember unless you met him again. You didn't think that would happen though."
"Kagome? Kagome!?" I heard a voice. It was...Innuyasha's, coming from all directions.
The girl looked around, then smiled. "Look Kagome, he's calling you. You kind of passed out, so now before you go back, you must make a decision."
"What is it?" I asked. This was getting too weird, but hey, might as well finish it.
"Do you want me back? Do you want to remember everything that happened, and for Inuyasha to remember it too? Do you want to undo that spell you used? If not, you'll forget everything that happened here."
I thought for a second. "So...you're like, Inuyasha too?" I asked.
She looked at me. "Kind of, I'm mostly the result from your spell, now do you want to remember or not? If you say yes, you'll remember everything, but you won't remember our meeting here. So do you?"
I nodded. "Yes."
She smiled, and reached out a hand to me. "Take my hand."
I looked at her, and reached out. The moment one of my fingers touched each other, we were engulfed by a pink light. It was blinding, and everything started to spin.
It was then that something strange happened.
It was if I was blind and had just seen light for the first time.
Memories came to me, and flashed before my eyes.
Inuyasha...
I knew him since I was really young, and he left after fourth grade.
I had loved him so much.
I had loved nothing more in my life.
That's why I could never take my pendant off.
Why I refused to sell my stuffed dog at the yard sale we had three years ago.
That's why....because somewhere deep in my heart, I had remembered him.
I opened my eyes, and there he was.
A/N: Hahahahaha. That was confusing wasn't it? Yes, I was confusing myself typing it! I'm pathetic I know.
Anyway to clear it up, Kagome won't remember meeting "herself" all she remembers is her past.
No worries, Inuyasha will too. He went through the same meeting with little Kagome, but won't remember it, so he won't remember that she has powers.
Hee hee. Yes, very confusing. Muahahahahahahaha! Please review! PPPPLLLLLEEEAAASSSEEEE! *smiles sweetly*
Well, we're here with an interview with Miroku on the last chapter:
Babykitsune: So, how what did you think about the last chapter?
Miroku: No comment.
Babykitsune: You're no fun. C'mon, where's the lively Miroku we all know and love?
Miroku: *looks up* Will you consider bearing my-
Babykitsune: *hits the stupid monk on head with trusty skillet* WHY YOU LITTLE!
Ahem, well, I think this interview is over seeing as though our interviewee is unconscious. Sorry for the disappointed!
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Sango's POV
I woke up in my bed, and saw that Kagome had already gotten up. She was rushing around, stuffing her huge backpack. That's right. Today was our hiking trip.
I slowly got out of bed. I felt the carpet underneath my feet. It felt like it was wet. It was then that the memories of last night came back to me.
Miroku saved me. He saved my life. I remember seeing him right before I went underneath the water, then waking to his face, well actually his chest. His eyes held a worried look. Warm...kind eyes.
I looked to the right and noticed that on the table was my clothes from last night, and next to them lay Miroku's gray, Quicksilver hoodie jacket. I walked over and picked it up. It was dry, and so were my clothes.
"I blow dried them." Kagome's voice said from behind me. I turned and she was still hustling around the room, not even looking at me. I sighed and went to get ready myself, placing the jacket down on the table once more.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~In the dining hall~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Kagome and I spotted Inuyasha and Miroku on our usual table.
Kagome and I sat down across from them, and Kagome blushed. Ooh, something must've happened last night, not including my incident.
I kept my head down during the meal so that I didn't have to face Miroku, but I knew that I would have too soon. After all, he is one of my best friends, besides, I had his jacket. Also, tonight was the dance.
I could see Miroku watching me out of the corner of my eye. I was beginning to get very uncomfortable when I noticed that Mr. Ken decided to go up on the stage yet again. Has anyone ever told him that pink is SO NOT his color?
~*~*~*~*~Kagome's POV~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
" I am sad to say that today's hike has been canceled." WHAT? All that packing for NOTHING?!?!? "However, your group leaders will be taking your group to different activities. According to the camp rules and regulations we are allowed to take you on different activities excluding hiking when it is raining like this." I looked outside. Hey, it's raining well, you learn something new every day. Mr. Ken stepped down from the stage.
"Why are you guys so quiet?" Sesshoumaru asked me, he was sitting next to me.
"Nothing." I squeaked nervously.
"Oh really?" He asked. I nodded.
"It's just that" I never got to finish because someone sitting across from me spoke up.
"Sesshoumaru, you better not be harassing her." Inuyasha growled. And as fast as you could say...hmm....I don't know, I've never been good at those things, so I'll just say in a blink of an eye the two brothers were locked in a glaring contest.
Actually it was more of a grunt glare, open mouth to say something, then close it like a stupid fish, then grunt again, then growl contest. Wow, what skill! To glare and do all those things at the same time!
Honestly though, to hate your brother because he's half Japanese!?!? That's just silly. I'm full Japanese and you don't see me running around glaring at myself. It's so annoying!
The rest of the table and I watched with bored expressions as the two "brothers" engaged in a full out glare, grunt, growl contest.
When breakfast was FINALLY over, we walked over to our cabins where we were supposed too meet, all getting drenched in the process from the hard rain. Goodness, it's like nature forgot that it was SUMMER, honestly, freezing lakes, cold winds, rain, what next snow?
I looked up to the sky, as if I was expecting to see white drifting down, but of course, the weather wouldn't be that bizarre.
"Er...Kagome?" I turned around. There was Inuyasha.
"Yes?" I asked, trying hard not to look into those eyes of his.
"I was wondering if we were still on for the dance tonight?" He asked. To my delight, there was a slight ingredient of hope in his voice.
"Y-yea. O-of course." I stumbled out. What's wrong with me? Stuttering like that, I sure am dumb! It's just a GUY right?
Right.
Yes, just a guy.
Just a guy.
Nothing special...
Just a guy.
Inuyasha looked at me for a moment, then smiled. As soon as he smiled like that, I melted.
Aw shit.
He's NOT just a guy.
He just HAD to smile didn't he? GRRRRRR
I blushed at my thoughts, and quickly turned away from him.
Oh man, I probably look like a cherry.
"Kagome?" He asked. "You okay?" Grr... I shook my head furiously and who to come to my rescue but our counselor. Thank God.
"Hello, my name is Motoko. I will be your group's leader." She smiled. I looked at her. She looked normal, which is more than I can say for a certain man who's a little too intact with his feminine side. "Now, can you tell me your names please?" She asked. Motoko was not very old at all. She looked to be only a few years older than us, and had long black hair, which was tied at the end in a ponytail much like Sango's always was. She was a little taller than me, but then again, almost everyone is taller than me.
"I'm Kagome." I said.
"Sango."
"Miroku."
"Inuyasha."
"Sesshoumaru."
"Koga."
"Ayame."
"Rin." (A/N: Let's just say that she's the same age okie dokies?)
"Well, it's nice too meet you everyone. As I said before, I'm Motoko Hanakata and I'm Mr. Ken's fiancée." She smiled.
I almost choked. Did a pretty woman like that REALLY have to settle for a gay guy? Well, okay, so he's most likely not gay, but what I said about her being normal, well, I take it back now.
"Anyway, I hope you like archery because today we will be working on different kinds of archery activities."
I jumped for glee. ARCHERY! ARCHERY!
No, really, I did.
"ARHERY! ARCHERY! ARCHERY!" I skipped around the group, who all had BBIIIGGG sweat drops on their heads.
Immediately, my bow and arrow popped out of nowhere, and I began shooting. The only problem was that I was having so much fun, I wasn't exactly opening my eyes, skipping around pulling back the arrows, then letting those suckers fly!
"ARCHERY! ARCHERY! ARCHERY!" I shrieked happily, almost falling into the lake.
"BWAAAAHHHHH!" I heard Inuyasha yell, there were a few shrieks from the girls, and I stopped to open my eyes.
Inuyasha was on the ground with an arrow right next to his head. Miroku was underneath a nearby tree, cowering underneath an arrow that was stuck in the tree an inch over his head.
"Uhh...heh heh heh..."
"Umm...okay then, the first thing we will work on is...well, aiming." Motoko said looking at me.
"Heh...heh...heh."
"Well, since Kagome already has her bow and arrows, you can go ahead an start, and I'll go get some equipment for the rest of you." Motoko said, she walked off to a nearby shed. "Kagome, please shoot at the targets over there." She added, halfway to the shed.
The others looked at me warningly. I smiled nervously, and took aim.
I pulled back the arrow, feeling the softness of the light feather. I shot.
Zoom.
Bulls eye.
I smiled. You see, over the years, I've always practiced archery, mostly because gramps said that it was the "miko" thing to do. I've never told anyone about my miko powers, not even Sango. I know I could trust her, but I didn't want to surprise her by telling her that her best friend is a powerful Miko with magical powers. Meaning that if I wanted to stay with my friends, I would have to control my powers.
When I do archery, it feels like all of my troubles fly away with that arrow. All my worries just shoot away. And for those seconds that I'm aiming the arrow, and letting it fly, I'm free, flying with that arrow. That's why I love archery, and that's why I keep my bow and arrow with me at all times. Because nothing makes me feel that way. I know it sounds really corny, but that's how I feel, so shoot me.
After lunch, which was a great dish of good food. Ok, it wasn't great or, good, and I highly doubt that it was even food, we got to go swimming, apparently Motoko gave up on Koga's archery skills, and told us to go to the pool instead.
"Well, that means that I get to spend more time with my woman!" Koga said happily, he stepped next to me, and I nearly gagged as his arm slipped around my shoulders.
"Oh! Look! There's the pool, c'mon Sango." I said eagerly, edging away from that wolf.
Sango thankfully got the hint, and we both hurried away from the rest of the group, jumping and breaking the surface of the cool water.
When we surfaced, the rest of them were already in the pool, and lo and behold, look who was wading by us now. Oh the irony!
It's a good thing that I'm a strong swimmer, or I would've have to stay there longer, by...that!
Unfortunately, I swam right by a certain pervert. And, well, you know the rest, so why bother to tell you?
"PERVERT!"
BAM!
I swam angrily stomped, well actually, swam away from my handy work, and found myself near Sango once more.
"He just doesn't learn does he?" I said, sighing. She nodded, sighing as well.
"Kagome, are you going to the dance with anyone?" She asked quietly.
I looked at her serious face. I was about to say no, but that's when I remembered. With the crisis from last night, I almost forgot, even with the reminder from Inuyasha this morning. I nodded, "Inuyasha."
Sango looked at me for a moment, then smiled. "I knew it!" She said happily. "Inuyasha and Kagome sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" She started to sing in a naïve little voice.
The rest of the pool time consisting of two shrieking girls, one raging, one singing, swimming around the pool, one running, one chasing, until one of the girls caught up and there was more shrieking, on panting from fighting, one still singing.
When we were back in the cabin, Sango's hair was sticking in various directions, and I was still glaring at her.
"Awww....Chlorine make my hair stick." Sango whined to me, brushing the hair that I so carefully messed up. I slipped into my outfit, and laughed.
"Well, if you hadn't joined the one girl choir, this never would have happened." I said, watching as she finally got her hair down to a semi- normal state.
I was wearing a black spaghetti strap tank top and a white skirt, Sango was wearing a white spaghetti strap with a black skirt. Yes, we looked like idiots standing next to each other, but hey, we weren't complaining. I was going to wear pink, but a certain counselor ruined that one for me.
I smiled at her, and she growled back, as she gave her hair one last brush.
It was then that the Doorway to Hell opened, and in stepped two boys.
I looked over at Sango. FINALLY! After how many years of Miroku crooning love songs to her below her room window, and her throwing things like frying pans down at him.
"Umm...hi Kagome." Inuyasha was stading in front of me, fidgeting with a loose string on his cargo pants.
"Oh...um...hi." I said, nervously.
"Hi."
"Hi."
Silence.
"Hi."
"Hi."
Silence.
More silence.
Oh I hate silences
Silence.
...
...
Silence.
Sango's POV
When we were finally at the Dining Hall, the dance was set up, and everyone was there already. (Kagome and Inuyasha just stood there, staring at each other for about half an hour.)
I was talking to Ayame, while Miroku was somewhere, trying the food.
"Why aren't there any adults here?" I asked her.
Ayame looked around. "I don't know, I didn't notice. A bit strange isn't it?" The only person even close to an adult was the DJ, but even he looked about our age. Ayame shrugged and changed the subject.
"Do you think Koga will ever....like me?" She asked all of a sudden. It was a well known fact that she liked Koga...a lot, but it was another known fact that Koga, well, you know.
"Ayame, I don't really-" I was cut off when someone tapped me on the shoulder. I spun around and there was Miroku.
"You're a life saver." I sighed, as he led me to the dance floor, after saying goodbye quickly to Ayame. I remembered last night and blushed thinking about the irony of that sentence. He smiled at me, and wrapped his arms around my waist.
I was surprised for a bit, then remembered he was my 'date'. We were just friends...right? I mean, he could never think of me as more than that. Right? I hesitantly put my arms around his neck, hoping he wouldn't do anything to live up to his hentai reputation.
He didn't.
~*~Narrative~*~
Koga looked as if he were about to murder someone, namely Inuyasha. He was watching the couple dance, surely only incurring his rage.
"Kagome, why are you dancing with, with that?" He yeled, walking, well, stomping to the two.
Kagome looked stunned for a moment, then glared daggers at the boy in front of her, no, not Inuyasha you incompetent fools, Koga. (A/N: I like that Incompetent fool! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *authoress gets dragged off to madhouse*) She watched as Koga looked back at her, clearly afraid that she was glaring at him. This was the last song of the dance, and Kagome didn't want to miss it.
"Gee, maybe because I want to?!" She said sarcastically, then she closed her eyes and turned her head from him, only to rest it against Inuyasha, making the boy blush.
Koga looked at Kagome, then at the red Inuyasha, fire soon appeared in his eyes.
"Get away from my woman!" He growled menacingly.
"Who said she was your woman?" Inuyasha growled back, he glared at Koga, but still swayed Kagome back and forth to the music.
"Why...you...sunnava..." Koga brought back his fist, and punched Inuyasha, sending him hurdling over the fruit punch table, giving the table a whole new meaning. Kagome fell, but Koga grabbed her before she could hit the floor.
Inuyasha slowly got up, oblivious to the screaming girls around him and the calls of "fight, fight, fight!". He got up, and charged at Koga, he brought his fist back, and using the force he had got from running, slammed into the teenager, causing Kagome to once again fall, and once again be caught, this time by Inuyasha.
Koga slid back across part of the wooden floor. He winced a bit, and got up, Inuyasha paid no attention to him.
"Kagome, I'm sorry, are you okay? That freak didn't hurt you did he?" He asked, setting her back steadily on her feet. She smiled at him and nodded, then, he saw her eyes widen.
"Inuyasha!"
Shatter
Kagome screamed, "Inuyasha!". As she watched him fall in front of her, she shielded herself from the shards of glass, flying in all directions, and winced as some of the glass pierced her skin.
Inuyasha fell, and in front of her now, was Koga, standing there with a broken top of a glass Ginger ale bottle. He had brought down the bottle on Inuyasha's head.
"Koga!" Kagome screamed in anger, terrified at what had just happened.
Sango and Miroku came, pushing through the crowd that had gathered around them.
"You bastard!" Kagome screamed at Koga.
"But, Kagome, now we can be together."
"Why...you..." Kagome stood up and stepped closer to Koga. She slapped Koga across the face with all the power she could possibly muster. " Kono Aitsu Achi Ike Yo!" (A/N: means Get lost you creep.)
Koga stood there, his hand resting on his right cheek, eyes as wide as big as two tennis balls. The hall went quiet, as the "Fight! Fight! Fight!"s stopped. Kagome stood there, her hand still on in the position it was after smacking him.
Koga turned on his heel, and ran out of the hall, and out into the night.
Kagome felt bad for a while, but then heard a moan from below her, and looked down. She forgot about the creep and kneeled down next to Inuyasha, who was slowly regaining consciousness.
"Inuyasha...Sango, Miroku, help me." Kagome said, looking around, and deciding to get Inuyasha out of there before someone called the counselors to the mysteriously un chaperoned dance. (A/N: I think I spelled that wrong, so sue me.)
Sango and Miroku nodded, and Miroku grabbed one of Inuyasha's arms, and Kagome the other. Sango began to tell the crowd off, and got Ayame and some other girls to help her clean up.
When they were by the cabins, Miroku spoke up, breaking the silence, "Kagome, you can handle this right?" He asked, letting go of Inuyasha, leaving his weight entirely on Kagome. She looked at him for a while, then nodded. Miroku smiled, and ran to help the others clean up. Kagome watched, a little startled, she figured he just wanted to get to Sango, not knowing that he really wanted to give the two some 'alone time'.
She shifted Inuyasha and proceeded to help him up the stairs to the balcony. He was conscious, but a little, no, very shaky on his feet. She slid open the screen door to his room and stepped inside.
Kagome's POV
I was relieved when I sat Inuyasha down on the couch. He smiled at me, and leaned against it. I ran to my room through the room connecting door and ran to the mini fridge in our room. I tore off part of one of my shirts that I wear only to sleep anyway, and placed some ice into it. I tied it securely and raced back to the boy's room.
"Here." I said, sitting down next to him. His eyes were closing slowly, then flickering back open. "Don't go to sleep okay." I asked, concerned, we learned in first aid class that if you ever get hit on the head hard, Do. Not. Go. To. Sleep. No matter what.
"Yeah." He said weakly, his eyes closed again, then opened.
I dabbed the back on the side of his head where he was hit with the ice. He winced, and I looked at the ice pack. The fabric of my once whit shirt was now tinted in red blood.
I parted his hair carefully, and saw the wound, it was bleeding, but not too much. "Is this okay?" I asked, once again dabbing but more carefully this time.
He nodded.
"Kagome." He asked after a while. I stopped dabbing and looked at him.
"Yah?"
"What about you....aren't you hurt?" He asked. I thought about what he had said and soon realized the stinging on my bare arms and parts of my face. I looked at my arms, and saw cuts dripping blood from where the glass shards flew at me.
"I'm fine." I said, his wound was much more serious, and I was worried, what if something happened?
"Good." He said, he then looked down.
"Inuyasha..." praying he wasn't sleeping, I lowered my head, to look at him. His head however propped up at the exact moment, and somehow, our faces were about two inches apart from each other.
I didn't want to, but I had no choice, and I gazed into those two golden orbs once more.
I felt like I was floating on air, as if my thoughts were all cleared, and all I knew was Inuyasha. He leaned closer to me, and I to him.
Closer
Closer.
I closed my eyes.
I waited, but felt nothing, I opened my eyes and gasped.
I wasn't in the same place.
I was...at my old school.
It was raining hard, and water was cascading down my face. But it wasn't only water, it was warm, and my eyes were burning.
I was....crying.
I looked around and looked at the ground, I was much lower than I usually am, despite the fact that I'm short anyway.
It was then that I saw someone in front of me.
"Inu...Yasha?" He was Inuyasha, but he looked younger. Much younger. I gasped. I hadn't spoken. I had no voice.
"Here, I got this for you." I heard myself speak, but my voice was higher, younger. I felt my arms move up and I placed something around his neck.
I looked what I had just placed, and there it was, the rosary I had just saw, right before I was here.
"Arigato Goasimasu." He said. I sighed, and decided there was nothing I could do, I had no voice, I had no control over my body. I might as well just sit here in this dream.
"Here. Turn around." He said, and now, I couldn't just sit here, I looked at what he was holding, and there was the pendant I had never taken off...I don't know why, but I'm not sure where I had gotten it. Was this dream....not a dream? Was this reality, something that really happened? Wouldn't I remember something like this?
"I love it thanks." My voice said. I felt like crying this was so sweet, but was it truly real?
I felt my arms go around the little boy, and hold him tightly.
"Bye." My voice whispered as we parted. I felt my legs move, and then stop. I turned around, and started to run, straight back into the boy's embrace.
"I'll never forget you."
I watched as he stepped away and into a car.
I stood there, watching as the car disappeared.
My vision began to blur, until it was completely black.
When my vision slowly began to come into focus once more, I saw that I was in a dimly lighted dark room.
I looked around, very confused.
"Where am I?" I asked out loud. I looked around, all I saw was black.
"I've been waiting for you to come." I spun around, startled by a voice.
I gasped.
A/N: Hah! Don't worry, it's not a cliffhanger, I just wanted to scare you. Muahahahahahaha! *Get's hit by flying frying pans.* Okay, Okay, back to the story.
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This girl standing in front of me, looked just like me.
She stood there, staring at me, but she didn't look just like me, not totally, just the way I looked....in fourth grade.
"Who...are you?" I asked.
She smiled at me. "I'm...you!" She said happily.
"I....what? How?"
She sighed, and sat down on the floor.
I raised an eyebrow as she got up a little and went into a head stand.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"Nothing. Look, I'm you. The part that you left behind." She said, as if that were something you went around saying every day.
"What are you talking about?" I asked, getting a little annoyed at her behavior at a time like this.
"You don't remember anything do you?"
"About..." I realized that was a stupid thing to say.
She rolled her eyes. "Honestly, I grew up to be this dense, about what I just showed you!"
"Doing a headstand?" I asked.
"Grrrr...." She said, then seemed to taked a deep breath, and said "About Inuyasha, and what you just saw about you on that day."
"I don't know what you're-"
"I know you just saw it, what happened when you said goodbye to Inuyasha."
I gasped.
"Inuyasha..." So that was him.
"Yes, you see after he left.....how do I put this, you told Sango that you wanted to forget him." She said, continuing to take deep breaths. "She didn't take you seriously at first, and just thought you were just depressed, which you were. Well, I mean...we were, you revealed to Sango what you were, with your Miko powers and everything, and told her that you could make you forget."
"I..what?"
She sighed once more, and closed her eyes. "You used your powers to forget about Inuyasha. You wanted both of you too forget everything so that you wouldn't have to go through the pain that you had felt. Sango was forced to sit and watch as you revealed to her your powers, and used them to cast me here."
"What are you talking about? Just who are you anyway?" I asked, slowly trying hard to take this all in.
"Look, I know this is hard to understand, but I am you. The part that you sent away. Your memories. I'm...you, a part of you. You see, when you cast your memories away, your knowledge of being a miko was still very small. You didn't have enough spiritual power to fully get rid of me. You didn't destroy me, only sent me here. You only sent me to a deep part of your heart. So that you just got rid of me, but didn't completely get rid of me."
My head hurt. This was confusing. I didn't understand. So, I'm in my heart right now? Interesting.
"Ummm..."
She sighed, and got out of her headstand. "I've had so long to prepare what I would say when the time came to tell you. I forgot about how hard it would be to understand."
I sighed too, and sat down next to her.
"I don't know what is going on." I said quietly. "But I just need to know, exactly what happened?"
She looked at me. "I...when you used your powers, you sent a part of you away. You cared deeply for Inuyasha, so deep, that he became a part of you. That's why I'm here, I'm the part that you sent away. I'm you, just...departed. You know when you had that yard sale?"
I nodded.
"You felt something, when your mom asked you if she could sell your dog toy, and you said now, but didn't know why?"
I thought back, and remembered. "Yea."
"That was me. Something deep inside of you told you that you couldn't sell that toy. And why you never took that necklace of yours off. Because somehow, you knew of my presence, you remembered in the back of your mind, that that was from your first and last love."
I remembered. "Yes, I only knew someone special gave that to me."
She nodded. "Yea, I could tell you that much. But I couldn't reach you. The spell you used was too strong."
"So...why now?" I asked. "What is it that I can come here?"
She smiled at me. "Because part of what you said was that you didn't want to remember unless you met him again. You didn't think that would happen though."
"Kagome? Kagome!?" I heard a voice. It was...Innuyasha's, coming from all directions.
The girl looked around, then smiled. "Look Kagome, he's calling you. You kind of passed out, so now before you go back, you must make a decision."
"What is it?" I asked. This was getting too weird, but hey, might as well finish it.
"Do you want me back? Do you want to remember everything that happened, and for Inuyasha to remember it too? Do you want to undo that spell you used? If not, you'll forget everything that happened here."
I thought for a second. "So...you're like, Inuyasha too?" I asked.
She looked at me. "Kind of, I'm mostly the result from your spell, now do you want to remember or not? If you say yes, you'll remember everything, but you won't remember our meeting here. So do you?"
I nodded. "Yes."
She smiled, and reached out a hand to me. "Take my hand."
I looked at her, and reached out. The moment one of my fingers touched each other, we were engulfed by a pink light. It was blinding, and everything started to spin.
It was then that something strange happened.
It was if I was blind and had just seen light for the first time.
Memories came to me, and flashed before my eyes.
Inuyasha...
I knew him since I was really young, and he left after fourth grade.
I had loved him so much.
I had loved nothing more in my life.
That's why I could never take my pendant off.
Why I refused to sell my stuffed dog at the yard sale we had three years ago.
That's why....because somewhere deep in my heart, I had remembered him.
I opened my eyes, and there he was.
A/N: Hahahahaha. That was confusing wasn't it? Yes, I was confusing myself typing it! I'm pathetic I know.
Anyway to clear it up, Kagome won't remember meeting "herself" all she remembers is her past.
No worries, Inuyasha will too. He went through the same meeting with little Kagome, but won't remember it, so he won't remember that she has powers.
Hee hee. Yes, very confusing. Muahahahahahahaha! Please review! PPPPLLLLLEEEAAASSSEEEE! *smiles sweetly*