Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha…I just worship it. I also do not own this song, it is owned by Josh Groban "Remember."

Chapter 7: Remember

Kagome's still form lay in the quiet room of the small hut. Kagome's finger twitched, and then her whole body began to stir. She blinked her eyes open and let her irises adjust. She blinked her eyes and stared at the celing. She felt uncomfortable. Kagome brought a hand up to her head to wipe the sweat from her face. She felt cold to touch, she rubbed her hands together to try and generate some heat into her body. Kagome lowered her hands and turned her head to the side searching her surroundings for something familiar. She didn't recognize this room. The last thing she remembered was faling asleep in InuYasha's embrace and then...floating.

"Wh...Where am I?" Kagome sat up slowly, wincing at the sudden pain in her chest. She brought a shaking hand up to her chest and fingered the bandage that was there. She clasped her hand in a fist and laid back down. It hurt to move so she just decided to wait and see if someone would come. Kagome looked around the ceiling trying to match it up with something from her mind, when it clicked. She was back in Kaede's hut. She slowly closed her eyes knowing that she was safe.

"Kagome!"

Kagome opened her eyes. She sat up and looked around, wincing at the pain again but not caring at the moment. She wanted to know where that voice came from. It sounded so familiar.

"Who's there?" Kagome felt herself getting drowsy. 'Probably from all of the blood loss...'

"Kagome!"

"That voice..." She laid back down and closed her eyes. Kagome had fallen back to sleep. InuYasha and Kaede had been outside the door listening silently as Kagome's gentle voice floated through the shoji door.

"What was she talking about?" InuYasha looked to Kaede. She shrugged her shoulders, slid the shoji to the side and entered the small room. She walked over to Kagome's sleeping form and sat down, slowly applying a wet cloth doused in spring water. She pulled out the herbs she had in a basket and set to work on mixing them together in a small dish. InuYasha watched Kagome sleep. So many thoughts had taken over his mind, he just couldn't sort them all out. It was beginning to frustrate him to no end.

"InuYasha, something troubles ye mind, please tell me." InuYasha glanced up at Kaede with a skeptical look.

"Keh, as if you would understand."

"Try me." Kaede looked up from the herbs and smiled at InuYasha. InuYasha was a bit taken aback by Kaede's forwardness. He crossed his arms and turned away from her. His face softened as he looked outside the window at the tree's swaying in a gentle breeze.

"What does it...feel like to be...in love?" Kaede's hands stilled, she stared at InuYasha with a gentle knowingness. Kaede went back to mixing the herbs before giving InuYasha her reply.

"When you are in love, you feel as if you could fly, sort to speak. You feel devoted to the person you love, you never want to leave their side, and you want to protect them from any harm. When you stare into their eyes you want to drown in them forever, and you know that they are the person you want to spend the rest of your life with. At least that's my take on it, I was in love, once." Kaede glanced at InuYasha from the corner of her eye. He was staring off into space. InuYasha got up and left the room.

"InuYasha, you have to figure it out for yourself." Kaede smiled as she rebandaged Kagome's injuries.

With InuYasha

InuYasha trudged through the village, not really paying any mind to where he was walking. He looked up and saw that he walked to the bone eaters well.

"Go figure." InuYasha sat down and leaned against the old wood of the ancient well. The well that had given him Kagome. That well had started so many things, it was all because of the well.

"Naraku, I still can't believe that bastard's dead. I can't believe that Kikyo really did make an alliance with him...and she loved him?" InuYasha scratched his head. "The funny thing is...I...I feel nothing. No remorse, no regret, no pity. Maybe she was just an infatuation? Kaede did explain to me what love feels like, and I felt none of those things for her, just companionship. I guess it was because we were both so alike that we found comfort in each other, and now that I think about it we never said that we loved one another, it was always silent companionship, a conversation here and there, and a kiss or two. Kikyo wanted me to use the Shikon No Tama to become full human. Whereas Kagome told me that she liked me the way I was and would never change me."

Flashback

"InuYasha?" Kagome looked up at him. He was resting in a tree just above the campsite. They had just turned in for the night after eating their diner of fish and ramen. Sango, Miroku, Shippo, and Kilala were all sleeping silently. Miroku was sleeping fairly close to Sango, in groping range to be exact. Shippo and Kilala were curled up near Kagome's sleeping bag snoring gently.

"What?" InuYasha stared down at her. Kagome laid down and folded her arms behind her head, gazing up at the stars through the canopy of tree's.

"Are you still going to become full demon once we complete the Shikon No Tama?" Kagome asked thoughtfully.

"I...don't know." InuYasha shifted on the tree branch irked by her question. He didn't know what he wanted anymore now that he thought about it. Kagome turned her head to the dying fire. The light cast shadows across her face in the faint glow.

"Well, personally, I like you the way you are. I wouldn't change you, given the chance." InuYasha stared at her, the smallest of smiles graced his lips.

"Better get some sleep Kagome, we have a long day ahead of us." Kagome snuggled into her sleeping bag before bidding InuYasha goodnight.

"Night InuYasha, sweet dreams." InuYasha leaned his head back and let a light sleep overcome him as well.

"Night Kagome."

'Sweet dreams...'

End Flashback

"I love Kagome" InuYasha said slowly. He stood up, and walked out of the clearing. It felt good to say those three words, it was like a weight was lifted from his chest. He headed back to the hut to await Kagome's recovery, to wait and look into her eye's and finally tell her those three little words.

With Sango & Miroku

Sango was polishing her weapon on a rock near the cliffside. Miroku watched in silence behind the bushes, thinking about the weeks current events.

"Miroku?" Miroku looked up and smiled at the Tajiya. It seemed that she had spotted him through the brush.

"Yes, Sango?" Sango stopped polishing the boomerang and set it to the side. She glanced over at Miroku.

"Have you checked your Kazzana? I was amazed that it wasn't the first thing you would do when we got back to the village." Miroku looked down at his clothed hand. He slowly removed the prayer beads, cautious in case it was still there. He looked down to see a normal hand. Miroku smiled and dropped the cloth from his hands. Sango smiled at him, happy that his curse was lifted. Suddenly Sango frowned. Miroku looked at her questioningly.

"What is it Sango?" Sango shook her head and her expression became grave.

"I just realized, what happened to Kagura, Kanna, and Kohaku?" Miroku's smile disappeared from his face.

"So the story hasn't ended yet."

With Kagome

'That voice...' Kagome awoke to find herself in darkness. She couldn't see anything around her. Man this is getting old she thought dejectedly.

"Kagome…" Kagome's face brightened as she realized who it was talking to her.

"Father!" Kagome looked around frantically trying to find him inside the void. She rubbed her eyes trying to cast away the darkness.

"Kagome, it is not your time, leave this place." Kagome frowned and tried harder to find him.

"Where am I?" a huge gust of wind pushed Kagome out of the darkness into a blinding light. She could see it, but she couldn't see her Father anywhere.

"You're in the In Between World, between life and death, people on the verge of death linger here until it's their time. But like I said it is not yet your time. Goodbye Kagome, I love you"

"I can't even see, How do I leave? Father? I can't see you!" Kagome tried to run toward the fading voice of her father, a voice she hadn't heard in so long.

"Remember me Kagome, I will always be with you."

"Father, please come back! If you're here can't you be pushed back into life as well?" Kagome whirrled around looking franticly.

"Kagome, I came here to push you back, you must be strong, you still have so much to live for. You cannot linger here any longer, now go!" Kagome felt a phantom hand push her. She felt as if she was falling forever, until she hit something soft and warm.

"Kagome?"

Someone was calling her name. Kagome reached out her aura and felt around, trying to identify the owner of the voice. She reached out her hand when her power refused to work. Kagome felt a scratchy fabric graze her fingers. She brought her shaking fingers up and felt the contours of a face that seemed oddly familiar. She finally felt two fuzzy ears at the top of the head. She knew those ears from anywhere.

"InuYasha?" she asked faintly. Warmth enveloped her and she melted into InuYasha's arms. It was comforting, something that she never wanted to leave. Kagome felt as though she could rest like this forever, to just be held in InuYasha's embrace without any objections.

'I love you, InuYasha, forever.' Kagome felt her mind become hazy and drift into a sea of warmth that threatened to consume her entire being.

"Kagome...Kagome!" Kagome opened her eyes slowly to see Kaede over her tapping her cheek. She sat up slowly and looked around the hut, the pain in her chest no more.

"You were talking in your sleep child." Kagome looked at Kaede.

'It felt so real though…'

"Kagome!" InuYasha walked in, the flap fluttered behind him as he dashed to Kagome's side.

"How are you feeling?" InuYasha sat down next to Kagome and pushed the bangs out of her eyes. It felt natural to him to provide such a sincere act towards her.

"Much better, thank you." Kaede got up and dusted her hakama pants off. She turned around and smiled at the pair.

"I'll leave now, I have some other things to attend to. Please take care of Kagome while I am away InuYasha, and Kagome try not to move too much." She left the room abruptly, leaving InuYasha and Kagome to their thoughts. InuYasha looked at Kagome with an unrecognizable look.

"Kagome...there is something...I want to tell you."

A/n: Stay Tuned!