Woot woot! About halfway done with this story... or more? Anyway, I really want to have a complete story. But I'm really enjoying writing this! Anyway, I haven't edited my chapter four yet, but I decided to update instead!

So...

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Remember Me Always

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Summary: Three little words he spoke to another broke her heart in ways he would never know. It's painful for her to remember him. She wants desperately to forget. And with the completed shikon no tama in her hands... she can. InuKag

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters from the series.

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Last Chapter

Then she turned around and looked right at him.

But Inuyasha had the strangest feeling that her unfocused eyes were reaching something beyond him.

"Buyo!" she said softly, getting up and walking past Inuyasha to pet her cat.

Inuyasha frowned.

Something was definitely wrong.

"What is wrong with you, Kagome?" he said loudly, throwing his hands into the air. "Stop ignoring me!"

With that, he placed a hand forcefully on Kagome's shoulder, turning her around to face him.

Her dark brown eyes didn't seem to see him at all.

Inuyasha stayed in her room until very late that night, talking to her. Pouring out his heart.

End

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.:Chapter Five:.

Darkness had invaded at last. An enthusiasm-lacking sliver of a moon paled pathetically in the sky, barely bright enough to attract the notice of any stars.

A frisky autumn wind tangled itself mid-frolic, in the warmth of waves of black satin curtains, escaping in mere wisps at a time.

A girl clothed in thin cotton pajamas, ornamented with prints of sleepy cats, shivered impulsively in her small compact bed. Eyes still closed, and brows furrowed, she reluctantly reached a hand out into the bitter air to pull the pink blankets closer around her. With another shiver, her brows loosened, and her breathing shallowed once more, proclaiming her dead to the world in her soundful sleep.

A pair of moonlit orbs glinted vibrantly from across the girl's sleeping form. The intense golden stare seemed to penetrate the girl's frail, petite form, and gaze right into the depths of her soul.

A length of silvery-white hair cascaded down the watcher's face, waving back and forth to irritate his anxious, taut skin. Without once averting his gaze, the boy shook his hair back into place, the rest of his body remaining still as a statue.

'Why can't you see me…?'

Strangely enough, he felt an intense ache tightening his chest. And it wasn't the first time he was feeling this either. No.

This annoying pain seemed to strike at him every time Kagome left, disappearing into the well. Inuyasha wasn't willing to dismiss it as fear – the fear that possibly, just one day, when Kagome traveled through the well she would never return again – but he was also reluctant to address what else it could be.

Inuyasha raised a clawed hand, frozen from disuse and tenseness, and pressed his chest forcefully, willing the pain away. He gasped in agony, the bloody throbbing of his heart tearing at the pure gold tint of his strained eyes. It felt like his heart was bleeding. Like there was a sharp thorn, poison dripping from its tip, grazing the surface of his heart.

And every time he breathed or moved the tiny spear would thrash into his heart, spilling blood and sucking life inside of him, refusing to let him forget the pain and be content…

Inuyasha suddenly dashed eagerly to the side of Kagome's bed.

If he could find it… If he could, he knew he could save Kagome from whatever amnesic dilemma she was in.

One wish. That was all it would take.

Inuyasha grazed the tip of Kagome's chin lightly with his claws, gently prying away the blankets she had secured so closely around her.

With careful fingers and savoring (though he would never admit to it) every tingle that contact with her skin brought, Inuyasha tactfully searched for it… the glistening purple jewel that he had wasted a total of seven years on recovering.

The Shikon no Tama.

It wasn't there. Inuyasha half-heartedly sat down on Kagome's small pink bed, and contemplated this problem.

He refused to give up. Some way or other, he would return Kagome to normal. How she suddenly wasn't able to see him couldn't be anything less of serious.

Inuyasha's hands curled up into a clawed fist.

Kaede would know what to do.

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Inuyasha tucked Kagome carefully in his arms, shifting her weight systematically. Although he was starting to feel the consequences of so many sleepless nights, he found that he didn't mind carrying Kagome.

Somehow carrying her made him feel secure.

Inuyasha mentally kicked himself. Where were these thoughts coming from?

Pacedly, he walked away from the well, treading the air lightly as he traveled in the old way, except this time, Kagome wasn't asleep on his back – she was asleep in his arms.

The night breezes attacked him ruthlessly, clawing at his red haori hungrily.

Unaffected, Inuyasha took extra time to land somewhat gently, as he glared at the girl in his grip almost with annoyance, irritated that he had to go extra lengths to keep her asleep.

Kicking open the flimsy straw-bound door, Inuyasha stumbled into Kaede's hut, to find that Shippo, Miroku, and Sango were still there.

"Eh!" he grunted, still somewhat bad-tempered about how they had so easily dumped the job of finding Kagome on him. He refused to think about the fact that he was the only one out of them that could travel through the well.

The three turned their heads curiously at him, and Inuyasha smirked as he saw the now 'signature' red handprint staining the monk's face.

Inuyasha dumped Kagome almost roughly on the straw mattress laid out on the ground.

"What happened to her?" Sango inquired immediately, crouching down to check her friend's pulse worriedly.

"She's ignoring me." Inuyasha muttered lowly, before retiring to sleep.

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Kagome blinked.

Once.

Twice.

It didn't disappear.

Who were these strangers hovering above her? Muttering in incoherent voices, overlapping multiple times over?

Had she been kidnapped?

Tears at once began to prick saltily at her eyes.

Immediately, the girl with the brown ponytail frowned, muttering while a man clothed in the robes of a monk bent down and rubbed her rear.

Kagome screamed and got up so fast that her vision was black for a moment.

"HELP! KIDNAPPING! RAPE!" Kagome screeched loudly, closing her eyes as if willing everything to go away.

Sango and Miroku each grabbed one side of Kagome's shoulders and steadied her, serious expressions dawning on their faces as they locked glances.

But Kagome wouldn't stop screaming. Tears streamed down her face nonstop, her eyes squinted in horror.

Finally, Sango snatched a dusty cloth lying on the nearby table and stuffed it into Kagome's wide-open mouth.

"I'm sorry, but we'll have to keep you tied up until we figure out what's happened to you," Miroku said solemnly, before carefully coiling a length of rope around the girl's shaking form.

Cooperating with Sango, he carefully set Kagome down in a sitting position against the wall.

Once the task was complete, the two stood back up.

Kagome's confused eyes flitted from one person to the other as the two spoke seriously.

"Where's Kaede?" Sango asked, frowning.

"She's out getting some herbs for a medicinal paste," Miroku replied in an equally monotone voice.

Sango turned and opened the door, stepping outside, followed closely by Miroku.

At that moment, Inuyasha came out from another door of the compact house, looking very irritated.

Rubbing his eyes furiously, the hanyou prepared himself to cuss very loudly at the person who had inconsiderately disturbed his much needed sleep.

Until he released the pressure on his tired golden orbs long enough to see the bound up girl lying pitifully in the corner of the hut, her eyes wide and shining from tears.

"They tied you up?" Inuyasha stated the obvious, confusion clear in his tone.

In one bound he was crouching in front of the frightened girl, and the first thing he did was retrieve the soggy cloth gagging her. Upon contact, the hanyou dropped the wet fabric immediately, looking at it in disgust as it emitted a squelch before falling limp on the floor.

Looking back at Kagome, he was shocked to find that the girl was gnawing uselessly on the rough rope binding her arms and legs, tearing at it with her teeth like a wild animal.

When Inuyasha placed a hand on the girl's shoulder, he screeched pitifully as she sunk her teeth into his arm, drawing blood.

The hanyou snatched back his hand, wiping the blood away carelessly with his other hand.

Inuyasha backed away momentarily, shocked that Kagome had actually bit him. When he tried to approach her again, the girl screamed.

"Get away from me! Do you know what the punishment is for kidnapping? When my mom finds out I'm gone, you'll be in jail for a while!"

That stopped Inuyasha in his tracks.

"Wait a minute," he calmed himself long enough to mutter. "You think I kidnapped you?"

This shocked Kagome quite a bit, and it was enough to end her tears when the boy in front of her suddenly started laughing, a scornful smirk visible on his face.

Inuyasha tried to approach Kagome again, and he was impressed with his progress when she didn't even attempt to bite him.

One look at her confused, wide eyes and he knew that she was his now.

Inuyasha opened his mouth to shout at the girl before him, shake her into reality, make her remember everything. But looking into her tearstained eyes and bewildered appearance, he realized something. And it came as an unexpected shock to him.

Kagome could see him again.

But this didn't make sense.

Inuyasha closed his eyes for a moment and strained to keep calm.

What was going on?

Kagome couldn't see him on the other side of the well, and now she could. But she didn't remember him?

And obviously not Miroku or Sango either, seeing as how they had bound her up and gagged her.

If he told Kagome about everything he'd planned to tell her, then all he'd get was probably a very confused look and perhaps another bite.

And definitely more tears. He'd had enough of that.

"This is a dream," he finally said wearily.

Kagome stared back at him disbelievingly.

"D'you expect me to be that gullible?" she said scornfully, narrowing her eyes.

Inuyasha sighed and stood up.

"Do people in real life have ears like mine?" Inuyasha pointed at his furry ears dully. "And silver hair?"

Kagome shook her head briefly.

"But it doesn't feel like a dream…" she muttered.

The hanyou before her shot her a compelling look.

Then something fell into place in her mind. Recognition flashed across her face.

Silver hair. Furry ears. Sharp claws. Golden eyes.

He was the boy she'd met in her previous dream…?

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An old woman with a stern gray bun and one steely eye walked leisurely in the busy market streets, dust rising all around her, flapping around her traditional miko robes. In one hand, she held a small cloth bag, weighed down with an assortment of dried leaves and stems. With the other she fixed the black eyepatch covering the other side of her face.

At the sound of a distant shouting from behind her, the old woman turned around.

Two youths were running up hastily towards her, shouting occasional "Kaede-sama!"'s.

When the pair finally reached the old woman, they were out of breath from relentless running.

"Kaede-sama," Miroku panted, not quite having caught his breath.

"Help," Sango continued.

"Back at the"

"Hut."

"Kagome."

"Inuyasha."

"Screaming."

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"What's your name?" Kagome finally asked, looking at Inuyasha from the corner of her eye.

The hanyou grunted his response. "Keh."

"Okay, Keh," Kagome said with annoyance, "my name's Kagome. So you can stop calling me wench."

"Why? Suits you better."

Kagome's face flamed red. "You better be grateful there are ropes tying me up, or you'd be dead right about now."

Inuyasha turned his gaze to meet the girl's.

He just smirked, much to the irritation of Kagome.

"Can you untie me now?" the girl whined.

"No," Inuyasha replied immediately. "You'll try to escape. If Sango and Miroku tied you up, they probably had a reason to."

"That was because I was screaming," Kagome said, annoyed. "But I promise I won't scream anymore," she added sweetly, blinking innocently at the hanyou.

Right then, the door opened, and Kaede marched into the room, followed by Sango and Miroku.

Kaede kept on going until she was in front of Kagome.

"Where's the jewel?" she inquired immediately.

Kagome shot Inuyasha a curious look.

"Searched already," the hanyou replied. "It's not there."

Kaede looked serious. "I see, then. That's why."

"Why what?" Inuyasha prodded on, Sango, Miroku, and Kagome watching intently.

"She made a wish."

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