A/N: Hiya! Kiwi is back - again! Hi all! Thank you for waiting
patientlykay? Now, my updating is unpredictablekay. I'll do it when I feel
like! Regardless of schoolwork, sleeping, and/or eating. I just can't stay
away! I'll try and make this story worth while, but I think I'll end it
sooner than I expectedkay? I'll try and think of a plot. I just wanna start
my new fic idea really soon, but I want to satisfy you guys, too! Sadly, no
one got the riddle, so no one gets a Miroku cookie complete with staff and
pervertedness . . .
Lavie-chan - Keep hangin' in there.
Ks - Uhhh, what quote?
SilverTailz - You almost got it! Thanx, I liked my disclaimer, too! ^.^
Elven Mischief - lol. The pervertedness just comes with it. Oh, and yes, Kikyo = evil.
Kyki - Yay! New reviewer! Welcomes all around! Thanx yoose! ^_^
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Answer to last chapter's riddle: A riddle.
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Disclaimer: (Kiwi gives deadpan look with noodles stuck halfway in her mouth)
Alternate Universe
Chapter 7 -
Forgotten Memories
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"Kikyo, no!"
Inuyasha caught the arrow inches from Kagome's chest; the string on Kikyo's bow was still vibrating. Kagome let out a sigh of relief as her knees failed to support her weight anymore. Sango took on a fighting stance and Miroku had a hold on the prayer beads about his wrist. Inuyasha cracked the arrow in two and threw it to the ground.
"Kikyo, why did you do that?"
"Because I never liked her . . . AND Naraku told me to do it." Inuyasha looked totally heartbroken. She curled her lips into a malicious smirk and narrowed her eyes. "You don't get it do you, Inuyasha? I don't love you anymore."
"No! You don't mean that! Naraku is controlling you! Can't you see that Kikyo?"
"I do Naraku's bidding and nothing more. And, speaking of which, I came here to retrieve the Shikon Jewel." Her smirk worsened. "Kill them." And with that simple command the hundreds of demons around her began to attack them.
"Kirara, protect Kagome!" Sango yelled while slinging her massive boomerang."Hiraikotsu!"
Kirara stood before Kagome tearing apart any demons that came their way. In-between throwing her boomerang, Sango was slicing demons in two with a sword and getting drenched in their blood. Kagome huddled behind Kirara as she felt a strong wind blowing from Miroku's direction. She stared in awe as she saw that he was standing sucking demons into his right hand.
'Naraku cursed his family years ago with a wind tunnel in their right hands. It sucks in anything that it can pull in, but it will eventually suck him in, too if he doesn't kill Naraku.'
'That's right.' Kagome thought, Sango's words coming back to her. Kirara's growling and snarling brought her back to the present. Her hold on the Shikon Jewel grew tighter as she held it to her chest. A mantis demon slipped past Kirara and was now upon an unwary Kagome.
Sango turned her head to make sure of her sister's safety. "Kagome!" she yelled seeing the demon. Said girl twisted to Sango's words and saw the demon above her. She screamed while it raised its giant blade-like arms to slice Kagome in two, until Sango's Hiraikotsu plowed through it pushing it aside.
"Kagome, move!" Miroku was turning towards them about to suck the mantis demon in. They all moved out of the way and it was soon gone.
"Ahhh!"
Kagome swiftly turned her head toward Inuyasha's voice. He was flat on his back plastered to the ground, his blood all around him. He was straining to get back up, limping toward - Kikyo.
"Kikyo, please." He grunted out.
She sighed as if getting agitated."Inuyasha just give up and die."
More demons came and attacked him and he was once again flung to the ground with a crushing sound. Kagome held her breath waiting for him to get back up, but he didn't.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome ripped herself from Sango, forgetting she was in danger by doing so, and ran toward Inuyasha. A frown appeared on Kikyo's face and she strung another arrow.
"Stop right there." Kikyo ground out slowly. Kagome stopped only a foot away from Inuyasha's bloody and lifeless form. "If you take one more step, I'll kill you."
"Weren't you planning on killing me anyway?"
Kikyo's frown reversed."You're right." She released her hold on the arrow. Kagome's eyes grew wide and slammed closed as she waited for the pain that was to sear through her frail body.
It never came. She opened her eyes. Instead, a pink light surrounded her and halted the arrow. Kagome looked down at her hand; she forgot she still had the Shikon Jewel. The light grew brighter and she felt another migraine come on. The pink light was growing so bright, Kagome closed her eyes again and shielded them.
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"So Inuyasha, whacha doin' today?" Kagome asked standing at his front door.
He gave her a quizzical look."Why?"
"Well," she was teetering on the heels of her feet."I thought we could catch a movie, that is if you don't have anything else better to do."
"Riiiiight. I guess I could. Let me get dressed. Come on in."
Kagome walked in closing the door behind her. A familiar emotionless face caught her eye coming up the hallway and the waved. "Hi Sesshomaru!"
He stooped walking for a second, coffee I hand, and arched and eyebrow."Hi . . . " he said slowly and continued down the hallway to enter a different room.
Inuyasha came back a few minutes later to find Kagome gawking at family photos. He cleared his throat and she quickly turned around.
"Heh, pictures, they're nice."
"Uh-huh."
"Ready?"
He nodded. "Then, let's go!"
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"Sango, where are Momma and Poppa? And Souta, and Kohaku?" Kagome asked, worried.
A weeping Sango bent down and hugged her sister."They're gone Kagome. They're gone."
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"You will pay for what you've done Naraku! I'll kill you!" Kagome said releasing her hold on her arrow to send it flying towards a chuckling Naraku. A little white-haired girl holding a mirror stepped in front of Naraku and held her mirror out. The arrow entered the mirror only to come out headed straight for Kagome.
"Hiraikotsu!"
Sango's boomerang came from no where and smashed the arrow to bits. Kagome turned to see her sister running up to her catching her weapon.
"Kagome, don't you ever go up against Naraku alone again! I don't want to lose ALL of my family to him!"
"I'm sorry, Sango." A twang of guilt reverberated inside Kagome.
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"HENTAI!" Sango once again smacked Miroku across his face for touching her inappropriately. He fell into the fountain with a big splash. "You deserve it! Do you ever quit?"
"Not so long as you have my heart dear Sango." Miroku said climbing out of the fountain soaking wet, just to have Sango push him back in, Inuyasha and Kagome laughing at the scene.
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"Kagome, do not let go of the Shikon Jewel!" Miroku yelled out to her fending off a demon with very large fangs.
It seems just as he said this that a demon came out surprising her and it flew into the air and disappeared - again.
"Oh, no. Not again!" Inuyasha groaned punching another demon in the face.
"Sorry." Kagome said deflated."At this rate, we'll never get the jewel . . . "
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Kagome's eyes were blank as her hand tilted and the Shikon Jewel slid out of her palm. It hit the ground with a 'tink' and bounced up, it hit the ground with a second 'tink' and bounced up a second time, and where it was supposed to 'tink' a third time, it never did, for it vanished.
The pink aura around Kagome disappeared and her eyes became focused again. She blinked at the many demons around her that seemed to disappear with her evil lookalike in a thick cloud of violet smoke. Sango ran up to her sister and shook her.
"Kagome! Are you all right? What happened?"
Kagome opened her mouth to speak, but closed it again. Then she remembered Inuyasha. She gasped and looked at Inuyasha being held up by Miroku.
"Do not worry, Kagome, he'll be fine. He is half demon, remember? He will heal quickly enough." Miroku said holding Inuyasha's dead weight. Kagome nodded numbly and cast her gaze to the ground. Sango gave Miroku a worried look, and he sent her back an 'I don't know' look. Sango put her arms around Kagome's shoulders and started leading her towards the steps up to the shrine.
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Kagome sat on her bed recalling the events that took place that day. She never experienced anything like this in her old life. Or so she thought. Kagome started having doubts that her other life was indeed real at all. Was this really her real life? Or was all of this a part of a bad dream? She couldn't tell anymore.
She glanced at her unbroken alarm clock. It was two in the morning. She couldn't go to sleep. Everytime she tried, the images of demons, blood, and forgotten memories flooded into her mind. How could she remember something she never experienced anyway? 'Is this where I'm supposed to be? Do I really have some kind amnesia where I thought I lived another life? If it is, why do I remember everything so clearly?' She drew her knees up and leaned her forehead against them. 'Well, if this is going to be my life from now on, I need to start living it. Naraku killed my parents and Souta, has Kohaku, Kikyo, and who knows who else under is control, killed Shippo's and Inuyasha's parents, and cursed Miroku's family with a weird wind tunnel thing . . . Oh, yeah, he's got to die.'
She lifted her forehead and leaned back to flop on her pillow. She stared at the ceiling, not really looking at it. 'All right, I now know how to sense the Shikon Jewel when it's near, so I just have to get to it first . . . Then what? Sango said to bring it here, I guess so Naraku can't get to it.' She turned towards the wall. 'I gotta learn to keep my hands on the jewel as well . . . '
Someone knocked light at her door. "Come in." Kagome said sitting up.
Sango opened the door and stuck her head in."You're supposed to be asleep you know." She said with a smile as she sat next to Kagome.
"Yeah, I know. Sango, I'm sorry about what I said earlier. I'm just so confused. I don't know if - "
"It's all right Kagome. No major harm done. I just want you to know that I'm here for you always. I want you to know you can trust me with anything Kagome."
Kagome smiled."You're the best sister ever, Sango, and I'm not just saying that cause you're the only sister I've ever had." They laughed. "Sango,"
"Hmm?"
"When I was - was - standing with the Shikon Jewel in my hand, I had some memories or something come back to me."
Sango's face lit up."Really? Like what?"
"Well, all of it was kind of pieces of memories jumbled together. I saw me shooting an arrow at Naraku saying I was going to kill him, and you told me not to go up against him alone again, you slapping Miroku into a fountain and pushing him in again, me asking where Mom and Dad were, and a whole lot of other things . . . "
"Well, that's a good thing Kagome. I'm glad you're getting your memory back."
"That's the thing Sango," she hesitated. "You remember when I told you I was from another world?" Sango nodded. "I'm not sure I believe myself anymore . . . It's like, umm," Sango tilted her head and arched an eyebrow."Well, imagine this Sango, you're living you're life, right, and suddenly you're plopped in this other life you've never seen before. You know it isn't your life, but you start having memories of things you don't even remember! And you start doubting that your other life existed in the first place!"
Sango stared incredulously at Kagome."Uh-huh . . . " she said slowly nodding her head.
Kagome sighed knowing Sango had no idea what she was talking about. "Well, that's how I feel right now . . . " Kagome looked down sadly. Sango enveloped her in a big hug.
"Well, this is the only way I know how to deal with it." Kagome laughed and hugged Sango back.
"Thanks, Sango."
Sango broke the embrace and stood up."Now,"she said heading for the door."You have to get to sleep. You've got classes tomorrow."
"Classes?" Kagome asked confused.
"Yeah, you're in your second year at college Kagome."
"What?"
"Hmm," Sango rubbed her chin thoughtfully."I don't think Inuyasha has any classes tomorrow, so I'll ask him to show you around. He's in his third year, I forgot what his major was, but he should be able to help you." She smiled and closed the door, leaving a very stunned Kagome.
'No, not school, not here, too!'
Kagome flopped back on her pillow."Aww, man . . . "
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A/N: Wow, this is the first, completely non-cliffie end-of-the-day chapterkay! Go me! Keep reviewingkay! Kiwi is so outie! (her toes and fingers are frozen - the compie room is so coldkay!) See you on the flip side of things!
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Riddle of the week: What starts with "T", end with "T", and had "T" in it?
Winner gets a Kagome cookie!
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If that one is too hard, answer this and win a Kagome's backpack cookie! :
What comes up when the rain comes down?
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Lavie-chan - Keep hangin' in there.
Ks - Uhhh, what quote?
SilverTailz - You almost got it! Thanx, I liked my disclaimer, too! ^.^
Elven Mischief - lol. The pervertedness just comes with it. Oh, and yes, Kikyo = evil.
Kyki - Yay! New reviewer! Welcomes all around! Thanx yoose! ^_^
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Answer to last chapter's riddle: A riddle.
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Disclaimer: (Kiwi gives deadpan look with noodles stuck halfway in her mouth)
Alternate Universe
Chapter 7 -
Forgotten Memories
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"Kikyo, no!"
Inuyasha caught the arrow inches from Kagome's chest; the string on Kikyo's bow was still vibrating. Kagome let out a sigh of relief as her knees failed to support her weight anymore. Sango took on a fighting stance and Miroku had a hold on the prayer beads about his wrist. Inuyasha cracked the arrow in two and threw it to the ground.
"Kikyo, why did you do that?"
"Because I never liked her . . . AND Naraku told me to do it." Inuyasha looked totally heartbroken. She curled her lips into a malicious smirk and narrowed her eyes. "You don't get it do you, Inuyasha? I don't love you anymore."
"No! You don't mean that! Naraku is controlling you! Can't you see that Kikyo?"
"I do Naraku's bidding and nothing more. And, speaking of which, I came here to retrieve the Shikon Jewel." Her smirk worsened. "Kill them." And with that simple command the hundreds of demons around her began to attack them.
"Kirara, protect Kagome!" Sango yelled while slinging her massive boomerang."Hiraikotsu!"
Kirara stood before Kagome tearing apart any demons that came their way. In-between throwing her boomerang, Sango was slicing demons in two with a sword and getting drenched in their blood. Kagome huddled behind Kirara as she felt a strong wind blowing from Miroku's direction. She stared in awe as she saw that he was standing sucking demons into his right hand.
'Naraku cursed his family years ago with a wind tunnel in their right hands. It sucks in anything that it can pull in, but it will eventually suck him in, too if he doesn't kill Naraku.'
'That's right.' Kagome thought, Sango's words coming back to her. Kirara's growling and snarling brought her back to the present. Her hold on the Shikon Jewel grew tighter as she held it to her chest. A mantis demon slipped past Kirara and was now upon an unwary Kagome.
Sango turned her head to make sure of her sister's safety. "Kagome!" she yelled seeing the demon. Said girl twisted to Sango's words and saw the demon above her. She screamed while it raised its giant blade-like arms to slice Kagome in two, until Sango's Hiraikotsu plowed through it pushing it aside.
"Kagome, move!" Miroku was turning towards them about to suck the mantis demon in. They all moved out of the way and it was soon gone.
"Ahhh!"
Kagome swiftly turned her head toward Inuyasha's voice. He was flat on his back plastered to the ground, his blood all around him. He was straining to get back up, limping toward - Kikyo.
"Kikyo, please." He grunted out.
She sighed as if getting agitated."Inuyasha just give up and die."
More demons came and attacked him and he was once again flung to the ground with a crushing sound. Kagome held her breath waiting for him to get back up, but he didn't.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome ripped herself from Sango, forgetting she was in danger by doing so, and ran toward Inuyasha. A frown appeared on Kikyo's face and she strung another arrow.
"Stop right there." Kikyo ground out slowly. Kagome stopped only a foot away from Inuyasha's bloody and lifeless form. "If you take one more step, I'll kill you."
"Weren't you planning on killing me anyway?"
Kikyo's frown reversed."You're right." She released her hold on the arrow. Kagome's eyes grew wide and slammed closed as she waited for the pain that was to sear through her frail body.
It never came. She opened her eyes. Instead, a pink light surrounded her and halted the arrow. Kagome looked down at her hand; she forgot she still had the Shikon Jewel. The light grew brighter and she felt another migraine come on. The pink light was growing so bright, Kagome closed her eyes again and shielded them.
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"So Inuyasha, whacha doin' today?" Kagome asked standing at his front door.
He gave her a quizzical look."Why?"
"Well," she was teetering on the heels of her feet."I thought we could catch a movie, that is if you don't have anything else better to do."
"Riiiiight. I guess I could. Let me get dressed. Come on in."
Kagome walked in closing the door behind her. A familiar emotionless face caught her eye coming up the hallway and the waved. "Hi Sesshomaru!"
He stooped walking for a second, coffee I hand, and arched and eyebrow."Hi . . . " he said slowly and continued down the hallway to enter a different room.
Inuyasha came back a few minutes later to find Kagome gawking at family photos. He cleared his throat and she quickly turned around.
"Heh, pictures, they're nice."
"Uh-huh."
"Ready?"
He nodded. "Then, let's go!"
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"Sango, where are Momma and Poppa? And Souta, and Kohaku?" Kagome asked, worried.
A weeping Sango bent down and hugged her sister."They're gone Kagome. They're gone."
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"You will pay for what you've done Naraku! I'll kill you!" Kagome said releasing her hold on her arrow to send it flying towards a chuckling Naraku. A little white-haired girl holding a mirror stepped in front of Naraku and held her mirror out. The arrow entered the mirror only to come out headed straight for Kagome.
"Hiraikotsu!"
Sango's boomerang came from no where and smashed the arrow to bits. Kagome turned to see her sister running up to her catching her weapon.
"Kagome, don't you ever go up against Naraku alone again! I don't want to lose ALL of my family to him!"
"I'm sorry, Sango." A twang of guilt reverberated inside Kagome.
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"HENTAI!" Sango once again smacked Miroku across his face for touching her inappropriately. He fell into the fountain with a big splash. "You deserve it! Do you ever quit?"
"Not so long as you have my heart dear Sango." Miroku said climbing out of the fountain soaking wet, just to have Sango push him back in, Inuyasha and Kagome laughing at the scene.
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"Kagome, do not let go of the Shikon Jewel!" Miroku yelled out to her fending off a demon with very large fangs.
It seems just as he said this that a demon came out surprising her and it flew into the air and disappeared - again.
"Oh, no. Not again!" Inuyasha groaned punching another demon in the face.
"Sorry." Kagome said deflated."At this rate, we'll never get the jewel . . . "
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Kagome's eyes were blank as her hand tilted and the Shikon Jewel slid out of her palm. It hit the ground with a 'tink' and bounced up, it hit the ground with a second 'tink' and bounced up a second time, and where it was supposed to 'tink' a third time, it never did, for it vanished.
The pink aura around Kagome disappeared and her eyes became focused again. She blinked at the many demons around her that seemed to disappear with her evil lookalike in a thick cloud of violet smoke. Sango ran up to her sister and shook her.
"Kagome! Are you all right? What happened?"
Kagome opened her mouth to speak, but closed it again. Then she remembered Inuyasha. She gasped and looked at Inuyasha being held up by Miroku.
"Do not worry, Kagome, he'll be fine. He is half demon, remember? He will heal quickly enough." Miroku said holding Inuyasha's dead weight. Kagome nodded numbly and cast her gaze to the ground. Sango gave Miroku a worried look, and he sent her back an 'I don't know' look. Sango put her arms around Kagome's shoulders and started leading her towards the steps up to the shrine.
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Kagome sat on her bed recalling the events that took place that day. She never experienced anything like this in her old life. Or so she thought. Kagome started having doubts that her other life was indeed real at all. Was this really her real life? Or was all of this a part of a bad dream? She couldn't tell anymore.
She glanced at her unbroken alarm clock. It was two in the morning. She couldn't go to sleep. Everytime she tried, the images of demons, blood, and forgotten memories flooded into her mind. How could she remember something she never experienced anyway? 'Is this where I'm supposed to be? Do I really have some kind amnesia where I thought I lived another life? If it is, why do I remember everything so clearly?' She drew her knees up and leaned her forehead against them. 'Well, if this is going to be my life from now on, I need to start living it. Naraku killed my parents and Souta, has Kohaku, Kikyo, and who knows who else under is control, killed Shippo's and Inuyasha's parents, and cursed Miroku's family with a weird wind tunnel thing . . . Oh, yeah, he's got to die.'
She lifted her forehead and leaned back to flop on her pillow. She stared at the ceiling, not really looking at it. 'All right, I now know how to sense the Shikon Jewel when it's near, so I just have to get to it first . . . Then what? Sango said to bring it here, I guess so Naraku can't get to it.' She turned towards the wall. 'I gotta learn to keep my hands on the jewel as well . . . '
Someone knocked light at her door. "Come in." Kagome said sitting up.
Sango opened the door and stuck her head in."You're supposed to be asleep you know." She said with a smile as she sat next to Kagome.
"Yeah, I know. Sango, I'm sorry about what I said earlier. I'm just so confused. I don't know if - "
"It's all right Kagome. No major harm done. I just want you to know that I'm here for you always. I want you to know you can trust me with anything Kagome."
Kagome smiled."You're the best sister ever, Sango, and I'm not just saying that cause you're the only sister I've ever had." They laughed. "Sango,"
"Hmm?"
"When I was - was - standing with the Shikon Jewel in my hand, I had some memories or something come back to me."
Sango's face lit up."Really? Like what?"
"Well, all of it was kind of pieces of memories jumbled together. I saw me shooting an arrow at Naraku saying I was going to kill him, and you told me not to go up against him alone again, you slapping Miroku into a fountain and pushing him in again, me asking where Mom and Dad were, and a whole lot of other things . . . "
"Well, that's a good thing Kagome. I'm glad you're getting your memory back."
"That's the thing Sango," she hesitated. "You remember when I told you I was from another world?" Sango nodded. "I'm not sure I believe myself anymore . . . It's like, umm," Sango tilted her head and arched an eyebrow."Well, imagine this Sango, you're living you're life, right, and suddenly you're plopped in this other life you've never seen before. You know it isn't your life, but you start having memories of things you don't even remember! And you start doubting that your other life existed in the first place!"
Sango stared incredulously at Kagome."Uh-huh . . . " she said slowly nodding her head.
Kagome sighed knowing Sango had no idea what she was talking about. "Well, that's how I feel right now . . . " Kagome looked down sadly. Sango enveloped her in a big hug.
"Well, this is the only way I know how to deal with it." Kagome laughed and hugged Sango back.
"Thanks, Sango."
Sango broke the embrace and stood up."Now,"she said heading for the door."You have to get to sleep. You've got classes tomorrow."
"Classes?" Kagome asked confused.
"Yeah, you're in your second year at college Kagome."
"What?"
"Hmm," Sango rubbed her chin thoughtfully."I don't think Inuyasha has any classes tomorrow, so I'll ask him to show you around. He's in his third year, I forgot what his major was, but he should be able to help you." She smiled and closed the door, leaving a very stunned Kagome.
'No, not school, not here, too!'
Kagome flopped back on her pillow."Aww, man . . . "
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A/N: Wow, this is the first, completely non-cliffie end-of-the-day chapterkay! Go me! Keep reviewingkay! Kiwi is so outie! (her toes and fingers are frozen - the compie room is so coldkay!) See you on the flip side of things!
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Riddle of the week: What starts with "T", end with "T", and had "T" in it?
Winner gets a Kagome cookie!
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If that one is too hard, answer this and win a Kagome's backpack cookie! :
What comes up when the rain comes down?
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