Chapter 2 Grand Theft Java

Disclaimer: I AM Rumiko Takahashi. I own Inuyasha. Psyche! Author's Notes: Special thanks to Draconic Ban-sidhea and Tomo223 for reviewing. I just posted this yesterday! Enjoy!

"Um, all right," Kagome said quietly, trying to figure out what was so familiar about him. "What makes you think you're going insane?" She tried to focus. Maybe he would say something that would help her remember.
"Well, I mostly dream of..." He hesitated, eyeing her curiously, and continued. "...Killing." Kagome looked at the floor thoughtfully, and then motioned with her hand for him to continue. He took a breath. "Like," he paused, and sighed, "Massacres. Brutal, bloody warfare. Heartless murders." He looked at Kagome for an answer, and was almost shocked out of his seat when he saw her studying him. Her face was so familiar...
"So, these are recurring dreams?" she asked after a while. He nodded. She thought about it, but something about him kept nagging at her. She couldn't stay focused. This was all too familiar, not just him, but the dreams he was describing. She'd been dreaming similar dreams lately, and they kept her awake. Could she be going crazy? No, impossible. She was a psychiatrist; that was absurd. She shook her head and returned her attention to Inuyasha, who was now studying her. "Do you know who was doing the killing?" she asked. He nodded, but didn't answer right away. "Who was it?" she pressed.
"It was me," he said slowly. She closed her eyes, and as if on cue, a wave of recognition washed over her, but she couldn't follow it. "But," said Inuyasha, "It wasn't only me." Kagome opened her eyes. "There was someone else..."
"Who?" she asked. Inuyasha thought hard, and then shook his head.
"I don't know," he said. He lifted Kagome's coffee cup to his lips and took a long draw from it, glaring at her all the while. Kagome avoided his intense gaze.
"Um," she said, swallowing to soothe her uncomfortably dry throat. "Do you dream of anything else?" Inuyasha's glare softened into a look of sadness.
"She... she shot me with her arrow," he said. "She... betrayed me... I couldn't move..."
"Who?" asked Kagome.
"The guardian of the evil gem," he replied bitterly. "I took it after she betrayed me, and then... she killed me." Kagome studied his face, and realized he was recalling his dream as if it were a memory. They were silent for a while, until he spoke again. "Then, there was a girl." He looked directly at her. "She looked just like the one who betrayed me. She was in trouble, but I hated her, because she looked like the traitor. But then she freed me, so I saved her." Kagome's eyes widened as the memory played like a movie in her head. She was running from a monster, she fell, he was there. Kagome sat in a daze as she tried to remember what he had called her.
"What did you call me?" she asked.
"Eh?" he said.
"Nothing," she replied. He eyed her skeptically, got up, picked up the coffee, and walked to the door. "Where are you going?" she asked. He paused at the door, and turned to look at her.
"To work," he said. He walked out.
"Wait, that's my-"
SLAM! The door was shut in her face.
"Coffee," she finished to herself.