Kagome's Memories
By: OtakuSailorV
Chapter 13: Remembering You
Kagome squirmed in her sleep.
Her head hurt, and she had felt exhausted for days since she had met and fought Kikyou.
Inuyasha watched her drearily, wondering what was keeping her up at night this time. Another dream of flesh-eating monsters? A dream of the Naraku she had met turning into the Naraku he had explained to her? Or was it something different this time? He scratched behind one of his fur- covered ears as he watched the girl, not daring to wake her, it was always better for nightmares to run through their entirety.
Kagome squirmed again and moaned a squeaking noise that sounded like she was in pain.
Finally, she gave a gasp-like scream and sat straight up, breathing heavily and sweating.
Her eyes peered around in the dark and she gave another gasp-like scream when Inuyasha landed next to her.
She hugged him and shut her eyes in fright. Inuyasha, used to this treatment from the youthful-minded girl, patted her head and waited for her to explain what she had seen in her nightmares this time.
"Kagome saw. . .was glowing. . .screams. . .blood. . .pain. . ." Words were lost as she started to cry, her body shook and her voice quavered. "Horrible. . ."
Inuyasha made a face and sat down on the ground, allowing the girl to cling to him as her frame shook violently and she held down choked sobs.
When she had appeared to have calmed down, he patted her head, a way of asking for her attention. She turned up to him, and he saw the tears in her eyes still.
"When did these nightmares start Kagome? You were fine one night, then the next, you're having nightmares. Did Naraku give them to you?"
Kagome shook her head and her grip tightened at the thought of the pain she had felt when Kikyou had tried to extract her soul through her side that had held the Shikon No Tama.
"Did someone else? Shippo telling you ghost stories late at night?" Inuyasha inquired, concerned for the trembling 'child'.
Kagome shook her head again. "Uh-uh." She said and sniffled, a choked hiccup coming out at the same time.
"Then who Kagome? It wasn't, er, isn't like you to have nightmares. Not in the all the time we've been here have you had ONE bad dream. What has happened that has caused them all of a sudden?" He turned the girl about so that she could stare into his eyes, this way, he could tell if she were hiding something or not.
"Who WAS it Kagome?" He pressed the matter as the girls eyes started to linger from his.
Kagome shook her head. "Miko woman. . .black hair. . .snakes. . .hurt. . ." Kagome mumbled and new tears started to form. "Terrified. . ."
Inuyasha's body jolted awake at the description. "K-Kikyou?" He whispered.
"Kikyou did this to you?" Kagome looked up at him questioningly as he gripped her shoulders tightly.
"Kagome, are you SURE it was Kikyou?" Kagome's head lowered.
"Kagome doesn't know. . .never got name of woman. . .black hair. . .snakes. . .looked like Kagome in mirror. . ." Kagome looked back up at him in question.
"Why. . .why did the lady look like Kagome?"
* * *
Inuyasha and Kagome were silent and melancholy for days. Kagome still had nightmares every night, and Inuyasha often carried her, as she slept most of the day.
Her brown eyes were always troubled, and his amber ones averted hers often.
Finally, Miroku, Sango, and Shippo stepped in.
"Alright, what are you two keeping from us?" Shippo demanded, poking his finger on Inuyasha's nose.
The hanyou looked up at him half-sorrowfully and averted his eyes back to the ground slowly.
"You two are acting so strangely! You're melancholy and soft spoken, which is DEFINITELY strange for Inuyasha!" Sango said.
"Has something conspired between the two of you when we were not looking?" Miroku asked.
Kagome and Inuyasha stood so close together that their shoulders were touching, but they might as well have been worlds apart from the way they averted each other's eyes.
"What IS it?!" Shippo grabbed the front of Inuyasha's shirt and pulled it, pressing his feet against the hanyou's chest.
Inuyasha sighed. "Kikyou. . ."
Shippo made a face. "Not HER!!! What in the HELL did you do?!"
Inuyasha let his eyes drift to the ground. "Kikyou. . ." He began again.
"Kikyou. . .tried to kill Kagome. . ."
The others looked at the melancholy, detached girl who's eyes were hidden by her bangs.
"Kagome?" Sango asked, taking a step closer.
"Inuyasha. . ." Kagome muttered.
Everybody looked up.
Shippo got down and peered upward to view the pained look on Kagome's face. Her hands came up and grabbed either side of her head, messing up her hair.
"Inuyasha. . ." She groaned, getting down on her knees.
"Kagome?!" Shippo gasped, backing up as her knees came down in front of him.
"Inuyasha. . .head hurt. . ." Kagome's memory fazed between images of the hanyou. A smile, an angered face as he pulled forth Tetsusaiga. A centipede monster crashed into her minds eye and disappeared before Kagome could trace it's origin.
'Kagome. . .let me protect you!!!' Images, words, everything came piling in like a tornado, pain, she was overwhelmed by the mass of information. Yet, she could trace nothing but a bunch of blurry images.
Her ears only lightly picked up the words that were said outside of her mind.
"Kagome's aura is distorted Inuyasha!!" Miroku's voice.
Kagome grabbed her ears, and her hair and twisted, trying to somehow block out the images and sounds.
Shippo had grabbed a vial of small sliver-like shards. An angry looking monster was holding her by the throat. She was dressed like the miko Kikyou, and was being chased by a woman with a comb in her hand. Her friends were pointing to a blushing boy and yelling at her. But. . .didn't her friends look older? She turned her mind to the picture but it blurred and disappeared.
Finally, she gasped and let go of her ears and hair. As soon as they had come, the images had disappeared again, leaving her sweating and confused. She gasped for breath, her fingers grabbing the mounds of dust and dirt below her in pain.
Lifting her eyes, she saw Inuyasha. "Kagome?"
* * *
Miroku had suggested going into the forest for a more tranquil setting that may calm Kagome's distressed mind.
Kagome slept soundly against a tree, Inuyasha next to her. She had refused to leave his side for the past few hours, like she was afraid.
But all Inuyasha could sense from her was a mass of confusion.
"Kagome. . ." He mumbled as he slowly closed his own eyes. "I'm. . .I'm sorry. . ."
"How sweet. A hanyou and his human wench. You are indeed pathetic Inuyasha."
Inuyasha opened one eye and stared blatantly at his elder brother.
"What do you want Sesshoumaru?" Inuyasha asked angrily, but so softly that it was barely audible.
Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow at his brother's behavior, but brushed it off as nothing.
"You know what I have come for Inuyasha, Tetsusaiga."
Inuyasha narrowed his eye, sighed and shut the eye all the way.
Sesshoumaru was irked slightly, his brother was. . .ignoring him?! What in all the hells was WRONG with the hanyou?!
He unsheathed Toukijin and pointed it at his brother's throat. "Defend yourself, Inuyasha."
Inuyasha ignored his brother further.
"Inuyasha, you are acting strangely." Sesshoumaru stated, hoping for an answer from his younger sibling.
Inuyasha sighed and stood up as he heard an felt Kagome stir next to him.
"If I fight you, will you shut the hell up and go away?"
Sesshoumaru felt red-hot anger rise in him at the way his brother spoke to him.
He opened his mouth to speak but Inuyasha glared angrily at him as soon as his mouth went ajar.
"You'll wake her up you idiot."
Inuyasha took a side step and headed out of the forest calmly.
Sesshoumaru stood by the tree, perplexed for a few moments before following his brother out of the forest in confusion.
* * *
Not much longer after that, a small girl in a kimono ran through the brush.
"Sesshoumaru-sama~!!!!"
There was no answer from any part of the forest until the toad youkai Jaken jumped through the bush and took a swing at Rin's head with his staff. "You stupid child!!"
Rin ducked and moved out of the way as Ah-Un, the two headed dragon, shifted his great bulk through the bushes.
Rin glanced through the clearing in disappointment. "Sesshoumaru- sama~!!!" She called again.
Jaken glared at her. "Shut up you stupid child, we're not to follow the Lord."
Rin ignored him and stepped further into the clearing. Ah-Un began to protest, but Rin pulled on his reins. "Jaken is just being a spoiled-sport Ah-Un."
The dragon stopped pulling on his reins and let the girl lead him from the cover of the forest into the small clearing.
There was a noise and a flash of movement by the tree though, and Rin stopped dead. Jaken hurried forward, protecting her, though he had always said that he had hated her. Ah-Un made a growl-like warning at the creature behind the tree.
Slowly, cautiously, Rin moved around the two creatures that stood in front other as protection from the foreign creature, and went forward, pacing around the tree.
She stopped when she saw the long black hair.
Was it. . .the black haired miko that had saved her from the castle of Naraku?
She moved further, despite the protests of the two youkai that followed close at her heels.
But they all stopped when they saw who was sleeping against the tree.
None other than Kagome!!
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Hey, sorry you all had to wait so long. I've been tremendously lazy the last few days, just not in a very good writing mood. =_= But, here you have it, yet another chapter. ^_^ Hope you all like it much. Thanks for all the reviews guys.
Ja.
Review!!
By: OtakuSailorV
Chapter 13: Remembering You
Kagome squirmed in her sleep.
Her head hurt, and she had felt exhausted for days since she had met and fought Kikyou.
Inuyasha watched her drearily, wondering what was keeping her up at night this time. Another dream of flesh-eating monsters? A dream of the Naraku she had met turning into the Naraku he had explained to her? Or was it something different this time? He scratched behind one of his fur- covered ears as he watched the girl, not daring to wake her, it was always better for nightmares to run through their entirety.
Kagome squirmed again and moaned a squeaking noise that sounded like she was in pain.
Finally, she gave a gasp-like scream and sat straight up, breathing heavily and sweating.
Her eyes peered around in the dark and she gave another gasp-like scream when Inuyasha landed next to her.
She hugged him and shut her eyes in fright. Inuyasha, used to this treatment from the youthful-minded girl, patted her head and waited for her to explain what she had seen in her nightmares this time.
"Kagome saw. . .was glowing. . .screams. . .blood. . .pain. . ." Words were lost as she started to cry, her body shook and her voice quavered. "Horrible. . ."
Inuyasha made a face and sat down on the ground, allowing the girl to cling to him as her frame shook violently and she held down choked sobs.
When she had appeared to have calmed down, he patted her head, a way of asking for her attention. She turned up to him, and he saw the tears in her eyes still.
"When did these nightmares start Kagome? You were fine one night, then the next, you're having nightmares. Did Naraku give them to you?"
Kagome shook her head and her grip tightened at the thought of the pain she had felt when Kikyou had tried to extract her soul through her side that had held the Shikon No Tama.
"Did someone else? Shippo telling you ghost stories late at night?" Inuyasha inquired, concerned for the trembling 'child'.
Kagome shook her head again. "Uh-uh." She said and sniffled, a choked hiccup coming out at the same time.
"Then who Kagome? It wasn't, er, isn't like you to have nightmares. Not in the all the time we've been here have you had ONE bad dream. What has happened that has caused them all of a sudden?" He turned the girl about so that she could stare into his eyes, this way, he could tell if she were hiding something or not.
"Who WAS it Kagome?" He pressed the matter as the girls eyes started to linger from his.
Kagome shook her head. "Miko woman. . .black hair. . .snakes. . .hurt. . ." Kagome mumbled and new tears started to form. "Terrified. . ."
Inuyasha's body jolted awake at the description. "K-Kikyou?" He whispered.
"Kikyou did this to you?" Kagome looked up at him questioningly as he gripped her shoulders tightly.
"Kagome, are you SURE it was Kikyou?" Kagome's head lowered.
"Kagome doesn't know. . .never got name of woman. . .black hair. . .snakes. . .looked like Kagome in mirror. . ." Kagome looked back up at him in question.
"Why. . .why did the lady look like Kagome?"
* * *
Inuyasha and Kagome were silent and melancholy for days. Kagome still had nightmares every night, and Inuyasha often carried her, as she slept most of the day.
Her brown eyes were always troubled, and his amber ones averted hers often.
Finally, Miroku, Sango, and Shippo stepped in.
"Alright, what are you two keeping from us?" Shippo demanded, poking his finger on Inuyasha's nose.
The hanyou looked up at him half-sorrowfully and averted his eyes back to the ground slowly.
"You two are acting so strangely! You're melancholy and soft spoken, which is DEFINITELY strange for Inuyasha!" Sango said.
"Has something conspired between the two of you when we were not looking?" Miroku asked.
Kagome and Inuyasha stood so close together that their shoulders were touching, but they might as well have been worlds apart from the way they averted each other's eyes.
"What IS it?!" Shippo grabbed the front of Inuyasha's shirt and pulled it, pressing his feet against the hanyou's chest.
Inuyasha sighed. "Kikyou. . ."
Shippo made a face. "Not HER!!! What in the HELL did you do?!"
Inuyasha let his eyes drift to the ground. "Kikyou. . ." He began again.
"Kikyou. . .tried to kill Kagome. . ."
The others looked at the melancholy, detached girl who's eyes were hidden by her bangs.
"Kagome?" Sango asked, taking a step closer.
"Inuyasha. . ." Kagome muttered.
Everybody looked up.
Shippo got down and peered upward to view the pained look on Kagome's face. Her hands came up and grabbed either side of her head, messing up her hair.
"Inuyasha. . ." She groaned, getting down on her knees.
"Kagome?!" Shippo gasped, backing up as her knees came down in front of him.
"Inuyasha. . .head hurt. . ." Kagome's memory fazed between images of the hanyou. A smile, an angered face as he pulled forth Tetsusaiga. A centipede monster crashed into her minds eye and disappeared before Kagome could trace it's origin.
'Kagome. . .let me protect you!!!' Images, words, everything came piling in like a tornado, pain, she was overwhelmed by the mass of information. Yet, she could trace nothing but a bunch of blurry images.
Her ears only lightly picked up the words that were said outside of her mind.
"Kagome's aura is distorted Inuyasha!!" Miroku's voice.
Kagome grabbed her ears, and her hair and twisted, trying to somehow block out the images and sounds.
Shippo had grabbed a vial of small sliver-like shards. An angry looking monster was holding her by the throat. She was dressed like the miko Kikyou, and was being chased by a woman with a comb in her hand. Her friends were pointing to a blushing boy and yelling at her. But. . .didn't her friends look older? She turned her mind to the picture but it blurred and disappeared.
Finally, she gasped and let go of her ears and hair. As soon as they had come, the images had disappeared again, leaving her sweating and confused. She gasped for breath, her fingers grabbing the mounds of dust and dirt below her in pain.
Lifting her eyes, she saw Inuyasha. "Kagome?"
* * *
Miroku had suggested going into the forest for a more tranquil setting that may calm Kagome's distressed mind.
Kagome slept soundly against a tree, Inuyasha next to her. She had refused to leave his side for the past few hours, like she was afraid.
But all Inuyasha could sense from her was a mass of confusion.
"Kagome. . ." He mumbled as he slowly closed his own eyes. "I'm. . .I'm sorry. . ."
"How sweet. A hanyou and his human wench. You are indeed pathetic Inuyasha."
Inuyasha opened one eye and stared blatantly at his elder brother.
"What do you want Sesshoumaru?" Inuyasha asked angrily, but so softly that it was barely audible.
Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow at his brother's behavior, but brushed it off as nothing.
"You know what I have come for Inuyasha, Tetsusaiga."
Inuyasha narrowed his eye, sighed and shut the eye all the way.
Sesshoumaru was irked slightly, his brother was. . .ignoring him?! What in all the hells was WRONG with the hanyou?!
He unsheathed Toukijin and pointed it at his brother's throat. "Defend yourself, Inuyasha."
Inuyasha ignored his brother further.
"Inuyasha, you are acting strangely." Sesshoumaru stated, hoping for an answer from his younger sibling.
Inuyasha sighed and stood up as he heard an felt Kagome stir next to him.
"If I fight you, will you shut the hell up and go away?"
Sesshoumaru felt red-hot anger rise in him at the way his brother spoke to him.
He opened his mouth to speak but Inuyasha glared angrily at him as soon as his mouth went ajar.
"You'll wake her up you idiot."
Inuyasha took a side step and headed out of the forest calmly.
Sesshoumaru stood by the tree, perplexed for a few moments before following his brother out of the forest in confusion.
* * *
Not much longer after that, a small girl in a kimono ran through the brush.
"Sesshoumaru-sama~!!!!"
There was no answer from any part of the forest until the toad youkai Jaken jumped through the bush and took a swing at Rin's head with his staff. "You stupid child!!"
Rin ducked and moved out of the way as Ah-Un, the two headed dragon, shifted his great bulk through the bushes.
Rin glanced through the clearing in disappointment. "Sesshoumaru- sama~!!!" She called again.
Jaken glared at her. "Shut up you stupid child, we're not to follow the Lord."
Rin ignored him and stepped further into the clearing. Ah-Un began to protest, but Rin pulled on his reins. "Jaken is just being a spoiled-sport Ah-Un."
The dragon stopped pulling on his reins and let the girl lead him from the cover of the forest into the small clearing.
There was a noise and a flash of movement by the tree though, and Rin stopped dead. Jaken hurried forward, protecting her, though he had always said that he had hated her. Ah-Un made a growl-like warning at the creature behind the tree.
Slowly, cautiously, Rin moved around the two creatures that stood in front other as protection from the foreign creature, and went forward, pacing around the tree.
She stopped when she saw the long black hair.
Was it. . .the black haired miko that had saved her from the castle of Naraku?
She moved further, despite the protests of the two youkai that followed close at her heels.
But they all stopped when they saw who was sleeping against the tree.
None other than Kagome!!
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Hey, sorry you all had to wait so long. I've been tremendously lazy the last few days, just not in a very good writing mood. =_= But, here you have it, yet another chapter. ^_^ Hope you all like it much. Thanks for all the reviews guys.
Ja.
Review!!
