Chapter 2: Identity Revealed
Inuyasha knew what he had to do, he had to go see Kikyou the village priestess, maybe she could help him. Kikyou's hut had once belonged to Kaede who was the previous village priestess but she had passed away and Kikyou had unexpectedly taken her place. Inuyasha would rather have avoided her because she had changed so much but she was the only one who could help him so he had too.
"Hello Inuyasha," Kikyou said in her indifferent voice, "why have you come here?"
"Well to tell you the truth I really don't know, I just thought you might be able to help me with this little problem I have." And he proceeded to tell her about his dreams.
"And the girl in the dreams looks a little like you but she's different somehow." He finished.
"I see," she said and after a long moment of thought replied, "the girl you are describing sounds like my reincarnation Kagome, and, I'm assuming the one whom you really love."
"What are you talking about Kikyou? Reincarnation? How's that possible?"
"Calm down Inuyasha, it seems that you are finally starting to remember. Kagome is the girl from the future who came here with the sacred jewel and then broke it apart. A part of her soul was used to resurrect me but I still had my hatred of you and when the jewel was complete she wished for you to be happy with me but for that to happen she had to be out of the picture. I never have recovered from dying with my hatred of you and that's why we can't be together Inuyasha."
They sat there silently for a moment then Inuyasha got up and left. Kagome, he thought, that's what Kikyou said her name was, Kagome. It just seems right.
All of his questions hadn't been answered though so he decided to go to a more reliable source. He had to walk up the long steps to get to the shrine where Miroku lived with Sango. Not surprisingly the monk and the demon exterminator had hooked up recently. Come to think of it, it seemed to be around the same time when Inuyasha had this mysterious loss of memory and he also couldn't remember why they hooked up, the monk was always groping the demon exterminator and she ended up knocking him out cold all the time.
Finally he reached the place and there was Miroku, apparently meditating though he could have been just sitting there very still for no reason.
"Hey monk! What are you doing? Do you know anything about a girl named Kagome?"
"Ah yes Kagome. I see that you remember her now. Well lets see, I know that she is the time traveling reincarnation of the priestess Kikyou, that she helped to gather all the jewel shards and that she was in love with you. But other than that no I know nothing of this Kagome whom you speak of. Why do you ask Inuyasha?"
"Wait a second. Time travelling reincarnation? Jewel shards? In love with me?!" Inuyasha yelled, "What are you guys talking about?! And who is Kagome?"
"Perhaps Inuyasha," replied Miroku, "all your questions may be answered when you jump into the dry well."
"The dry well huh? Well if that's all I gotta do then why didn't you say so in the first place!" And he stomped off to the dry well in search of the answers.