Luna: I came up with this story whilst on vacation during Comic Con. And I loved the idea.

Veron: We've all seen countless stories of Kagome having amnesia and Inuyasha helps her, gets told to fix everything by Miroku and gets all romantic hero blah blah blah...

Luna: So I figured, what if instead of Inuyasha finding her, KIKYO did? What would Kikyo do after all? Since Kagome doesn't remember anything, she could both leave her there and take Inuyasha for herself, or try and right the bad vibes between them.

See "Kikyo & Kagome in a cave" episode. Although I KNOW it never happened in the manga...

Veron: And for once, this isn't alternate universe.

Luna: So enjoy!

Disclaimer: I own Inuyasha! Just messing with you. But this plot...it's MINE ALL MINE!

Chapter 1: The Forgetful Hime

Crowds lined the sides of the dirt paths that ran throughout the village. Tiny children were perched upon their parent's shoulders, clapping and laughing. The younger men cheered and celebrated and the women of the village smiled and all of the inhabitants bowed to the figure being carried through the streets.

The cries were thunderous as the figure pulled back the veil covering its features. They continuously screamed out the person's name, cheering and laughing and a few with tears of pride collecting in their eyes. Everyone visibly relieved that their royalties' family line was once again restored and their worries of the future unfounded as their eyes rested upon the beautiful creature that sat was being paraded through the streets. Its slender form clothed in the finest of silk kimonos and four sturdy young men carrying her upon a bed like throne.

"KORI-HIME-SAMA!"

A tall figure maneuvered through the throngs of rejoicing villagers, her pale features set in a stern expression as she arrived at the front of the crowd. Her long ebony tresses tied back with a simple piece of white linen, a bow and quiver slung over her shoulder as she gazed up at the figure who was being paraded through the streets.

And her gray eyes widened in shock at the person sitting upon the sedan chair.

Saltwater pearls were intricately woven through her thick raven hair and fresh fragile petals of Sakura trees decorated the crown of her head. Layers of Chinese silk kimonos clothed her slender body; the colors a vast range of delicate pastels. A pure white obi cinched the extravagant garments at her waist, accentuating her curves. Light blue paint danced upon her eyelids as sensuous red wax decorated the plump flesh of her mouth.

Looking down upon the adoring people below her, her innocent eyes, a mix of midnight blue and cloudy gray were wide with happiness as she smiled cordially to the throngs of bodies in the streets. Turning her head, she spotted a lone figure clothed in the familiar robes of a priestess. The bright red of the hakama cloth standing out among the dirtied clothing of the villagers. The white blouse curved around the woman's chest and her slender neck. Her gray eyes were wide with surprise and the royal tilted her head at her in wonder. Before smiling as if to rival the sun directly at the miko, hoping to bring the priestess out of her stupor.

Suddenly, the sedan chair made a turn and she was forced to look the other way as they journeyed down another path. The exquisite woman would have bit her lip if she her ladies in waiting had not scolded her so on such behavior that marred the wonderful curves of her lips. The woman, the miko had looked so surprised to see her there. But she had no chance to ponder further on the subject as flower petals were thrown by a group of tiny girls before her. Causing her attention to be diverted and her notions thrown into the wind.

Kikyo's eyes narrowed after the brief moment of surprise ceased, the stern gray orbs following the sedan chair's every movement as it disappeared from sight. Turning, she moved through the dispersing crowds, her face an emotionless mask. As she came into the deep thickets of the woods surrounding the village, she called her shikigami to her. The dead miko promptly fell to her knees and let the familiar cold scaly skin of the flying snakes' brush against her hands in an attempt to comfort her.

What she had just seen was not a play of the light or an image created by a mischievous kitsune. It was her reincarnation in the flesh, clothed in lavish kimonos that were not of her world. And when she had looked at her...her large stormy orbs that were always filled with a mix of emotions ranging from sympathy, strained respect, deep sadness, and a glimmer of hate. They recently had begun to hold merely a slight glow of trust and slight companionship ever since she had brought her back from the dead for a second time.

Those familiar eyes that were so like her own but filled with those pools of blue...

They held naught a sign of recognition as she smiled broadly at her. Something her reincarnation had never done or even considered of doing in her presence much less towards her. And the most jarring and unsettling part of the entire surreal situation was the fact that something no, someone was missing.

Inuyasha's aura was no where to be found.

Kaede sat up as she searched the room for a sign of the intruder, her aged face filled with apprehension and suspicion, the reed-flap door still blowing gently in the midnight breeze. A look of surprise replaced her current expression as a familiar pale hand lighted a candle. Gazing up at the figure, sadness briefly flitted across her weary features before she sat before her.

"What brings you here, Kikyo-Onee-Sama?"

The said woman looked down at her younger sibling, all those moments lost. Helping her powers grow, watching her develop into a bright young woman and slowly grow into age. She had lost that precious time with her only remaining family. For a moment a wave of guilt rode over the elder child, but she deemed to ignore it.

Her cold gray eyes softened for a moment at the clear worry in her sister's face and voice, the emotions that filtered through her one visible eye. Kikyo frowned mentally; the lost sight of Kaede's eye was her own fault as well. She had caused so much sorrow to her flesh and blood, so many problems and she had no way to undo them now. Never had she reflected upon her past or at such an inopportune time, but Kikyo firmly repressed her guilt and sorrow and gazed down at her sister.

"Kaede, where is Inuyasha?"

Kaede slowly led her sister to him; her face set in a grim state as she maneuvered through the familiar thickets surrounding the area. Sighing, she gestured to him and carefully watched her sister's expression as her eyes lay upon him.

Kikyo's eyes widened for but a moment before she grew angry. The lively hanyou boy's eyes were closed and his normally gruff features held a peaceful, almost childish look. His body was relaxed and his familiar red garments rustled with the cool breeze of the night.

And protruding from his chest was a newly carved arrow with pure white feathers embedded in the end.

Kikyo turned to her sister, her face set into an angered expression, her gray eyes livid as she glared down upon her. Her mouth pursed and jaw clenched as her shikigami swirled about her, trying to relieve the dark feelings from their mistress.

" Who did this?" She demanded, her words formed as fear inducing as a cobra's hiss. She took a step forward towards her younger sibling, causing Kaede to take a wary step back.

" Tell me, who sealed Inuyasha?!" Her voice reached to higher volumes now, anguish flitting at the edges of her voice.

Her body snapped around to look at the intruder that had broken a stick beneath their feet. There stood a kitsune. He looked perhaps five years old, but the lines upon his face dictated more wisdom for his soul then he should bear. The demon's aquamarine eyes glowed dangerously in the moonlight, distrust and suspicion laced in their depths.

"Kagome sealed him."

Kikyo's eyes widened and she stopped before slowly advancing towards the young kitsune. That's right, it was that young demon child that Kagome had taken under her wing. His name...it was Shippo. Kikyo's eyes hardened, her emotions swirling in those gray pools as she glared down at him.

" Kagome sealed him. And that is all we know." Shippo paused, his eyes turning sorrowful as he looked upon the silver haired man trapped upon the trunk of the Goshinboku. "Kagome sealed him, but Naraku did it."

Her eyes regained their fire as she grasped the kitsune's shoulder with a single hand, gripping it tightly with her slender fingers, warning him that if he spoke a lie her magic would run through him.

" It was the final battle of Naraku." Kaede continued, her eyes closing in harsh remembrance, knowing that her sister had released the boy and focused her attention upon her. "All we can predict, is that Naraku possessed Kagome in the last moments of his life. And it that moment opted to abuse her powers, which were at its peak from her utter hate and anger for him. He used her to seal Inuyasha and Kagome disappeared. Sango, Miroku and Shippo were too blinded with pain to see where she went."

Kikyo closed her eyes for a moment, when she felt something, a light feathery tickle at the back of her mind, which slowly grew stronger. It became more of a warm feeling that flooded her false body as she slowly looked over at the direction it came from. Her eyes widened, there imbedded in Inuyasha's chest, was half of the Shikon no Tama.

"Half of the jewel is inside Inuyasha's body."

Shippo gazed at the ground, tears brimming in his eyes as he remembered. He saw nearly everything that happened that day. It was good as any time now to finally come forward.

" When Naraku's spirit left his body, Kagome sensed something bad was going to happen. She ran up to Inuyasha and-"

Kagome's stormy eyes widened in horror as a sick feeling pooled and manifested deep in her stomach. A feeling of foreboding clouding her tired mind. Standing up, she gazed at the purified jewel in her hand, her friend's blood washed over it's smooth surface, dirt and muddied grime mauling it's pristine glow. Kagome ran over to the bruised and bleeding Inuyasha.

He looked up at her wearily; relief flooding his golden eyes seeing that she was well. Sitting down before him, she pulled out one of her last arrows from her quiver and made a clean cut in the jewel. Inuyasha blinked as she pulled the gem into two halves and shoved one into the gaping hole in his chest. The hanyou cried out in pain as the jewel began to heal his wounds.

The young miko looked down at her body and lifted up the hem of her shirt, revealing the milky scar from which the jewel first emerged. With the same arrow, she neatly cut across it, tears falling from her stormy eyes and washing away the blood that fell down her skin.

Shakily, she took the other half into her palm and placed it inside the scar, watching in agonized amazement as the scar slowly closed over and the waves of pain that racked her body lifted. Inuyasha gave her a look of complete confusion at her frightened look.

" Inuyasha..." She coughed up blood and he watched in shock as it slowly disappeared as the Shikon's glow engulfed them both.

"Something...bad is going to happen. I know it...so I have to tell you..." Kagome smiled up at him through misty eyes as their pain slowly disappeared with the jewel's help, their wounds holding the gem closing over. "That I...I..." Her eyes snapped open with a red color replacing the gray blue pools.

A voice that wasn't her own spoke from her bloodied lips as she pressed her hands against Inuyasha's chest, sending him flying into the trunk of the Goshinboku.

" That I hate you!" With that said, her bow tightened in her grasp and a bright light emitted from the arrow as it slammed into his heart.

The hanyou boy whispered her name sadly as he angrily watched Naraku's spirit flood out of her, causing her body to fall to the ground in a swirl of her tears and blood.

As he closed his eyes, his ears twitched for a moment as her calming scent disappeared and he fell into blackness.

Kikyo gave the boy a sorrowful look; he may be older then his years, but he was but a child. A demon child yes, but she could never relinquish the affection she held for innocents.

Tears fell from his large eyes as he relayed what he saw, his body shaking with his repressed sobs as his voice cracked with every other word he spoke. The kitsune fell to his knees and wrapped his arms about his body as he ended his horrific memory his cries becoming gut wrenching sobs that made his entire body wrack in convulsions, his deep sorrow making Kikyo almost weep herself. Kaede moved toward him and wrapped her aged arms around his body. The tiny boy welcomed the comfort and wept helplessly into her blouse.

" Kaede-Baa-Chan, I'm not strong enough to- to-..." Kaede rubbed reassuring circles on his back and shook her head.

" No Shippo, you are strong. How else would you have protected Inuyasha's prone body from demon's the long months?"

" Any suspicious demons...none have come for the jewel yet."

Kaede and Kikyo looked down at the boy in amazement, trying to decode his hiccuped words.

" They never cry out for the jewel, they just want Inuyasha's death."

Kikyo turned away from them both, her soul stealer's circling about her slender form and wrapping their bodies about her, creating an ethereal glow around her.

"Are the taijya and houshi not searching for Kagome?"

" Even Kouga did...and he even he can't smell her!" Shippo murmured, much needed sleep gently closing his eyelids.

"Shippo...protect the jewel and Inuyasha for me."

Shippo nodded and the woman disappeared. He glared at the spot she had just stood, his tiny hands fisting Kaede's blouse.

I'll protect the jewel for you. But I'm protecting Inuyasha for Kagome and only Kagome.

Kikyo stood before the palace walls in the village, her hair loose and flowing as she gazed up at the fortress. It's cherry wood doors closed and only small flickering of torches visible through the rice paper doors. Her eyes closed in sadness for a moment as she bowed her head, searching for some sort of peace of mind. Turning away, she walked back to the hut she resided at, her gray eyes worried.

If the jewel stayed in two parts for too long, surely the two would die. Or perhaps...Her eyes hardened in realization. She could not sense Kagome's aura either! Even the leader of the wolf pack could not smell her, if what the kitsune said was true. And the demons that attacked Inuyasha's forest were only out for their brethren's revenge not the jewel that was inside his body. If this was all true then...

She sat down upon the mat in her hut and gazed into the remaining embers of her cooking fire. If this was all true, then the jewel was protecting both of them. The jewel only protected who it thought was it's true mistress.

Meaning that Kagome's love for Inuyasha was having that half of the gem protect him from those attacks on upon him and Kagome's half protecting her from ever being found and attacked by greedy demons. But why was it masking her scent and aura...what was the jewel planning?

Kikyo sighed as she gazed through her window at the crescent moon. It was up to her now. She was the only one who knew where and who Kagome truly was. And if the rumors from the village were anything to go by, she had lost every memory in her mind. She did not know her name or age; even where she came from was a mystery to her.

Meaning Naraku had transported her here and stolen her memories. For what purpose, she couldn't fathom but merely brushed it off as a plan to leave one last hateful mark on the earth.

It's up to me. I must help Kagome regain her memories. I must bring the two halves of the Shikon no Tama together so I can truly banish it from this world. I must have her remember so Inuyasha may be unsealed. I must, so Inuyasha and I can finally die together. Like we were meant to all those years ago. I have to right everything again.

Kikyo breathed in deeply, the weight of the task making her posture slump as she wearily closed her eyes.

I must right all the wrongs. All the wrongs that were my fault. If it wasn't for my helping Onigumo none of this would have happened.

I have to fix everything.

No matter what it takes.

I promise I will make everything right again.

Even if it kills me.

Luna: End of Chapter 1!

Veron: We do hope you all enjoyed it.

Luna: Now be a dear and review!