Chapter 1: Awakening

AN: All righty, here's the official start of this! ... I don't read a ton of Inuyasha fics, and I saw in a summary once something about there being way too many memory loss fics. I've personally never seen a ton, and if I have I forgot about it, so to me this is originalish! I know some running things (like the high school stories) are intended to be like that, but to me I made this whole thing up! I'm sure you'll easily figure out what's going on, also, because due to the style I'll be using, I'm not really going to come out and say it. I know you're not idiots. You try writing a story like this! Wait, don't, you'll show me up! Oh well, at least this isn't a mystery like "The Fugitive" is supposed to be. I do have a few little surprises in this, though, so it won't be annoying, okay?

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The girl awoke in a small room. She looked around to see if anything within was something that she would recognize. However, it appeared to merely be a small guest room in which many medicinal herbs and fresh linens lay. She was wearing a white robe, and could feel that many places of her body had bandages on them.

She sat up and tried to remember how she had gotten here. Her head was pounding, as though she had received a heavy wound to the back of it recently. She frantically searched through her mind to figure out what was going on but realized that not only did she not know how she had gotten to this place, she had absolutely no idea of who she was or what had happened to her throughout her entire life.

"Who... What... Where am I?" she finally said to herself.

"Oh, so you're awake," she heard an older man say. "I was wondering when you would come to."

He entered the room, and was indeed and elderly gentleman. He was slightly balding with white hair, and was wearing the usual clothing of a male villager in a green and blue fabric. "How are you feeling?" he asked.

"I... I don't know," she answered. "My head really hurts and I don't know where am I. Do I know you?"

"No, I'm afraid we've never been properly introduced," he replied, going over to a basin of water and ladling out some into a glass for her. "I was walking through the woods a few days ago and I found you lying there unconscious. You were in really bad shape. I took you back here to the village and took care of your wounds for you, but you've been asleep for five days."

"I have?" she said quietly. "Did I have anything with me?"

"You had a few strange things," he answered, handing her the glass and letting her drink for a moment. "I put them all in a small building on the edge of town so they would be safe until you got better."

She put the glass on the floor. "All right."

"Oh, I'm sorry!" the old man suddenly said, taking the cup. "I haven't even told you my name yet! I'm Tatsuya. What's your name?"

She sighed sadly. "I don't know," she murmured, looking around the room again to see if something jarred her memory.

Tatsuya looked slightly worried. "Oh. Well, maybe if you get some more rest, you'll remember once you're feeling better."

"I sure hope so," she replied, lying back down.

"Don't worry, young lady," Tatsuya said with a smile. "I'm sure you'll be fine. Everyone in the village will help you in any way they can."

"Thank you," she answered, still examining the area.

"Well, I'll come back to check on you later,' he said, walking out. "I know you've slept for a while, but I'm sure resting will do you some good."

He left the room, leaving her alone again. She finished looking at everything around her and finally closed her eyes, a tear running down her cheek.

"What's going on?" she whispered as she let herself drift back into sleep.

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AN: Yeah, I know that was REALLY short, but it's going to start getting longer and more interesting as the chapters go on, I promise!!! I'll get chapter 2 up ASAP, so please review to let me know if I should even bother!!!