AN: Hum…. Well, this chapter is a little short, I meant to make it a lot longer, but I just haven't been feeling very well lately and my writing is suffering. I'm writing lots of depressing poetry; god I hate when I'm sick. This keeps up this might turn into an angst fic. Really though, I have the perfect ending if it were, maybe I should do it that way. If you want angst, tell me and I will make it one, if you don't, I have no objections to making this a fuzzy bunny ending story. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I own a cold now, isn't my life peachy? If I said I owned Inuyasha would you sue me and take my cold away? Please?

Love Isn't Just a Memory

Chapter Six: Headaches and Theories

By: Nimerin

"Kagome!" Souta yelled as he clambered out of his chair and towards her bed. The attendants tried to maneuver around the boy so they could get the bed in position, but they were failing miserably.

"Kid, you can talk to your sister as soon as we get her bed back where it belongs, but you are blocking our way right now."

"Gomen nasai." He blushed but nothing could wipe the grin that was plastered on his face away. The attendants finally had Kagome hooked back up to the machines; which she loathed. She felt fine, what was the need then? Souta couldn't wait any longer and rushed to her side before anyone could even give the okay. The attendants shook their heads slightly while a small smile played at their lips. It was always good to see a patient recover and get to be with their loved ones. Kagome's mother and Jii-chan moved close to the bed and were smiling at her. Relief was plainly written on everyone's faces.

Kagome smiled and relayed her info. "The doctor said he will be in here to speak with us in a few minutes. Before you ask, I don't remember what happened that night, but I do remember everything else about myself. I feel great, minus a small headache, but that's cause I am a klutz. Hopefully, I can leave soon."

"We are so glad you are awake. We have been so worried about you." Kagome's mother smoothed away her daughter's bangs and placed a small kiss on her forehead. Her eyes glistened with the tears that threatened to spill.

Kagome had a peaceful expression on her face. "I love you all." She responded quietly to the gesture.

"I'm not surprised you recovered so well. I have been chanting several good health spells at the temple for you. I knew they would work." Jii-chan was serious as everyone gave him patronizing looks.

"Hai, they worked very well. Arigato."

A small knock disrupted their reunion as Kagome's doctor passed through the doorway. "Hello. How was your trip Kagome?"
"Uneventful."

"Good. Well, I took a look at your chart and it seems there really is no reason for us to keep you here." She brightened immediately and was ready to run out he door if given the word. "However," Kagome's grin faded and was replaced by tired acceptance. "I would like to keep you here for a couple more days for observation just to make sure everything is really okay. Is that alright with everyone?"

"Hai." Mrs. Higurashi and Jii-chan responded simultaneously; Souta, however, was crestfallen as he glanced at his sister.

"What about you?" The doctor inquired as he looked at her face.

She shrugged. "It doesn't matter. Although, is my family allowed to smuggle in some fast food? I don't like hospital chow."

The doctor laughed at the apparent disgust written on her face and in her tone. "Well, I don't think it would do much harm; but, don't let too many of the other patients know what you are up too. I don't need a mutiny in the cafeteria."

"Okay. Thank you doctor."

"Well, if you don't have anymore questions for me, I am off to do my rounds."

"I think we are up to speed Doctor. Arigato." Mrs. H shook his hand before he turned to leave.

"I'll be in to check on you in a few hours." He warned.

"Alright." Kagome smiled as she turned to her family; anxious to tell her all that she had missed.

~A Few Hours Later~

"Did you dream anything while you were in a coma nee-chan?" Souta was determined to learn if the theories about coma patients dreaming was accurate.

Kagome chewed her lower lip as she searched her subconscious. It seemed as though there was something that she had dreamed, but she couldn't remember. "I don't know, gomen."

Souta looked briefly upset, but the fact that his sister was finally awake to answer his questions won over his disappointment. "So when are you going back through the well?"

Kagome felt her head grow heavy. "What do you mean Souta?:"

"Well, I know you might want a break since you were injured and all; but, I thought you would want to go back soon."

"Why would I want to go to the well?" She asked genuinely perplexed.

Her family was shocked but her mother was first to recover. "Dear, don't you want to see Inuyasha and your other friends?"

Kagome's vision went gray along the edges. "Who? Mama, what are you talking about?"

A large gulp echoed through the room. "You travel through the well to Sengoku Jidai to restore the Shikon no Tama with Inuyasha and your other friends."

Kagome was thoroughly confused as her head grew marginally heavier with each spoken word. "What are you talking about? Are you sure you guys are feeling well? I mean you sound like you're the one with the concussion or something. You are kidding right?"

"No, it is the truth."

"It just can't be possible. It is too strange. I mean wouldn't I remember something like that?"

"I don't know why you it is that you don't; but that doesn't make it any less true."

"Mama," Souta interjected, "Don't you think it strange that he hasn't even come to get her. I mean usually she runs off every three days or he comes to see her. He hasn't been here for at least nine days now."

Mrs. H. turned to her youngest child. "That's true. Do you suppose something happened to her friends in the past to make Kagome forget?"

Jii-chan puzzled this, "That would seem a little odd. I mean, I think that she would still have her memories; things may have changed that past, but that doesn't mean they would change her past."

"Kind of like a paradox right?" Souta asked.

"Well," Jii-chan was pensive as he tried to explain, "There are three theories to time travel. One is that everything already happened, so no matter if you go back and try to change things, nothing will work; because in theory you were already there and already tried. Think of it as a huge loop. Another theory is that if you change the past then you are really creating a divergent reality. The future for that past may be different, but yours will stay the same; since essentially you just created a parallel dimension. Lastly there is the theory that you can change the past and it changes the future, no other dimension, just simple and clean cut. In the case of the first two, changing the past would have absolutely nothing to do with Kagome's past; it would have already occurred since she lives in the future, or she simply wouldn't notice. In the third case it is a possibility, but if Kagome forgot what it is she did, then how come the rest of us haven't. No, I think whatever happened is exclusive to her."

Everyone was dazed as they stared at Jii-chan trying to comprehend everything that he had just said. Kagome was especially confused considering as how she couldn't even remember going into the past. "Mama, I think that little headache I had just got about a billion times bigger."

Her mother mutely nodded, unable to make an intelligent response after being officially boggled.

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AN: Um… okay, I'm sorry if the time travel paradox confused you. I tried to explain every theory about it I had come across in an easy way, but you know how confusing these things are. If you need further explanation, just say so and I will do my best to comply. Truthfully, if I look at it for too long my eyes cross and I pass out in confusion, it works better if I just accept the facts without analyzing it. Please review! Thanks!