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Chapter 10: Loosing Memories

"Kagome!" Inu-Yasha ran into his hut looking for his mate, but she wasn't there, nor was any of his children. "Ketsuzen! Kagome! Where is everyone?" Inu-Yasha walked back outside and began to head for Sango's hut when he heard laughter coming from the river. "Kagome?" Inu-Yasha turned and began to walk down to the river. "Kagome?" Inu-Yasha said as he approached her from behind.

"Inu-Yasha!" Kikyou threw herself into his arms when she saw him.

"Kikyou? Where's Kagome? What are you doing here?" he asked her as he pushed her away from him.

"Who is Kagome?" Kikyou asked him with a confused look on her face.

"Kagome, you know Kagome. She's your reincarnation. Where is she and why are you here?" he asked her again.

"My reincarnation? I do not have a reincarnation." Kikyou laughed at him.

"Yes you do. She came here fifty years after your death." Inu-Yasha explained.

"My death? I am not dead." Kikyou laughed again.

"You were killed by Naraku, don't you remember?" he asked.

"Who is Naraku?" Kikyou asked him.

"I get it, she doesn't remember anything." Inu-Yasha said to himself.

"Mama! Papa!" a small child with long, black hair and brown eyes came running up to Kikyou and Inu-Yasha.

"Iyasu, what are you doing here? I thought you were with Kaede picking herbs." Kikyou picked up the small child and began to carry her back to the hut. Inu-Yasha peered into the river and was shocked by his reflection.

"I'm not a demon!" Inu-Yasha screamed.

"What are ye yelling about, Inu-Yasha?" a young woman, about eighteen, asked when she walked up to Inu-Yasha.

"What happened to my ears?" he asked her.

"What do ye mean?"

"My dog ears! What happened?"

"Ye do not have them any more. Ye used the Shikon no Tama to turn into a human." she told him.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"Ye do not remember me?" she asked as she began to head back towards the village. "I am Kaede." she answered him.

"You? You're not an old hag!" Inu-Yasha exclaimed.

"An old hag? Why would I be an old hag?" she asked him as they reached the edge of the village.

"Papa, are you coming with us?" Iyasu yelled to Inu-Yasha.

"Papa?" Inu-Yasha was confused.

"Inu-Yasha, ye daughter is yelling for you. Are ye going to answer?" Kaede asked him.

"My daughter?"

"Yes. Ye and sister Kikyou's daughter." she answered him.

"Mine and Kikyou's daughter?" Inu-Yasha couldn't believe it. Was what this girl saying true?

"Daddy?" Iyasu walked up and took his hand.

"Iyasu... Where else have I heard that name?" Inu-Yasha asked himself. He was beginning to forget about Kagome and the others.

"Inu-Yasha, what's wrong?" Kikyou asked him as he walked up to their hut.

"I don't know. Something seems wrong." he told her. Kikyou wrapped her arms around him and hugged him tightly.

"Nothing is wrong." Kikyou's face grew an evil look as she spoke.

A few days past and Inu-Yasha was happy to be with Kikyou and Iyasu. This was what he always wanted. Inu-Yasha lay next to Kikyou as they lay on the bank of the river. "Kikyou..." Inu-Yasha stared up at the stars as he spoke.

"Yes, Inu-Yasha?"

"When did you give up being a priestess?" he asked. Kikyou sat up and looked away.

"What is it?" Inu-Yasha sat up and put his arms around her.

"I gave up being a priestess a long time ago, so I could be with you." she answered him.

"What happened to us? I can't remember anything." he told her.

"You met me in the field and I gave you the Shikon No Tama so you could be human. After that I was no longer a priestess. A few months later we had Iyasu." she answered her. Inu-Yasha tried to remember, but all he could remember was when Kikyou told him that she would bring him the Shikon No Tama. "What's wrong Inu-Yasha?" she asked him.

"I can't remember anything. What happened to me? Why can't I remember anything?" Inu-Yasha tried to remember, but he couldn't.

"Don't try to remember anything. Maybe you aren't met to remember." Kikyou told him. Inu-Yasha tried hard, and finally a face began to appear in his mind.

"Who is this person?" Inu-Yasha asked himself, as the face began clear. "She looks like Kikyou, but she's different."

"What's wrong?" Kikyou asked him.

"I can see this other woman, but I don't know who she is. She looks like you, but she different somehow." he told her.

"Forget about her. She's no one." Kikyou told him as she stood up and headed back to the village.

But Inu-Yasha couldn't forget about her. He knew she was important and that he needed to find her, but he didn't know how. The face appeared in his mind every time he closed his eyes, and it was driving him crazy. "Who is she? I know her name, but I can't say it. What is it?" Inu-Yasha asked himself as he lay on his back, looking up at the stars. Slowly he began to fall asleep. His mind drifted as his dreams took him to another place and time.

"Inu-Yasha... what are you doing!" she yelled at him.

"It's her! The girl I've been seeing." Inu-Yasha thought as she walked up to him with her arms crossed.

"Inu-Yasha! I can't believe you think I like Kouga! There's nothing going on between me and Kouga!" she yelled at him.

"Wow, Kagome's really mad at him this time." a man said to another young woman.

"This is really getting old, Miroku." the young woman said as she turned and began to walk away.

"I think I'll come with you, Sango." Miroku said.

"Inu-Yasha, aren't you even going to say anything?" Kagome asked him.

"Like what?"

"You make me so mad some times!" she yelled as she turned and began to walk away.

"Wait! Ka... Kagome!" Inu-Yasha reached out for her, but his hand just went threw her as she began to vanish. "Where'd she go?" he looked around for her, but she was gone.

"Inu-Yasha... here's our daughter." Kagome was sitting down on a mat behind him.

"Ka... Kagome?" Inu-Yasha bent down next to her and looked down at the child.

"It's our child, Inu-Yasha. I love you so much for giving her to me." Kagome said as she kissed him on the cheek.

"Our child?"

"Iyasu." Kagome smiled at the baby girl.

"Iyasu? My daughter and you are my mate?" Inu-Yasha asked Kagome.

"Of course. I love you Inu-Yasha."

"But... what about Kikyou?"

"Kikyou... Kikyou's dead now. We destroyed her clay body and her soul was returned to its eternal rest." Kagome told him.

"Kikyou's dead?" Inu-Yasha mind began to race as all these images flew past his eyes. Just as an image of Kagome, Iyasu and Ketsuzen appeared in his mind, he woke up. "Kikyou is dead. This is all just an illusion." Inu-Yasha said as he stood up.

"Inu-Yasha, where have you been?" Kikyou asked him as he walked up to her.

"You're not real. You're dead, and I have to get back to Kagome and my family, they need my help." Inu-Yasha told her.

"What are you talking about? Inu-Yasha, I'm not dead, I'm right here." Kikyou told him.

"It's all a lie." Inu-Yasha closed his eyes and imaged Kagome's face. When he opened his eyes, he could see that he was inside a dark, damp cell. "Where am I?" he asked.

"Inu-Yasha! You're alive! I thought that you were dead." Miroku was on the other side of the cell, chained to the wall.

"Miroku... what's going on?" he asked.

"Naraku is back and he has a new incarnation." Miroku told him. "She's a shape-shifter and she has taken my form to trick the girls. We have to get out of here and help them." Miroku said to Inu-Yasha.

"I can't smell Naraku so he's not here anymore." Inu-Yasha said.

"Kaminari, where have you been?" Naraku asked her when she walked into his castle.

"I was looking for jewel shards." she lied.

"Kanna, come forward and show Kaminari what you showed me." Naraku told her. Kanna stepped for and revealed, in her mirror, an image of Kaminari talking to Sango and Kagome. "You were spying on me?!" Kaminari asked.

"Understand this, you belong to me, and you will obey me." Naraku told her.

"I will never belong to you!" Kaminari said as she turned to leave.

"If you disobey me again your little brother's soul will be lost forever in Kanna's mirror." Naraku told her. Kaminari turned and looked into Kanna's mirror and saw her little brother.

"Naraku, if it's the last thing I do, I will make you pay." Kaminari said as she turned and left the castle.

"Kanna, keep an eye on her. She will not follow orders from me for much longer." Naraku told her. Kanna nodded, and then left Naraku alone in the room.

"Naraku is losing all control and he is becoming more suspicious of everyone around him." Kanna said as she sat on a high tree branch.

"So Kaminari is no longer listening to Naraku? I knew she went to see Kagome and Sango, but I didn't know if it was a trap being set up by Naraku." Kagura told her sister.

"Yes. She does not seem to have many feelings for brother any more." Kanna said.

"Maybe it has something to do with her blue jewel. Isn't that where her powers come from?" Kagura asked as she jumped up to the branch next to her sister.

"The Blue Jewel of the Sea. Naraku used the jewel to give Kaminari the power to change her shape and create illusions. In return for giving Kaminari these powers, he took her little brother's soul, which is now in my mirror." Kanna told her.

"Why did Kaminari want powers anyway?"

"Kaminari is the daughter of a village leader in a village by the sea. Her village was attacked and her whole family, except for her brother, were killed. Kaminari wanted revenge and she needed Naraku's help. She told him that she did not care what the terms were and after he had given her the powers of the blue Jewel, he took her brother's soul." Kanna explained.

"Why did Naraku want her brother's soul?"

"So that he could control Kaminari." Kanna said as she looked into her mirror.

"Why are you helping him? Why don't you free Kaminari's brother's soul back so she can fight Naraku?" Kagura asked her little sister.

"I do not wish to be free. I was created to follow Naraku's orders." Kanna said as she stared into her mirror.

"Kanna, I think you soul is lost in that mirror somewhere." Kagura said as she flew away on her feather, leaving Kanna to think about what she had said.