wooo I'm so tired right now. I had swim championships yesterday and swam the heck out of myself, and pulled a muscle while doing it. Lol, what can I say? I like to win.

Chapter 3 of Maybe Memories is now up. Thank you for the reviews telling me you wanted to hear more about Emiko and Mai! I hope you like what I thought up about their pasts, and don't think it's too corny! O and somebody brought up that Kirara wasn't in the first chapter…. Heh heh…. –blushes, embarrassed and ashamed that she forgot- umm lets say that she was out catching two-tail food and eating it?

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha blada blab la. I also don't own the title or the song "Maybe Memories", which lyrics are at the bottom. I ALSO don't own the lyrics from the song "Colors" by Crossfade that I put in towards the end of this chapter.

Well enjoy the chapter!

Maybe Memories

A Familiar past and a Bloody Tear

"Kagome… Please wake up." He was holding her un-burnt hand and felt a small squeeze on it and then heard her softly sigh in her sleep "Inuyasha…" That was all he needed to hear, and he smiled slightly before he rested his head on the side of her bed and slowly fell asleep still holding her hand.
During all of this, the group was still searching for the long since disappeared Inuyasha. They were all frustrated that they couldn't seem to find him anywhere, and that they couldn't check up on Kagome's condition. All they could do was hope and pray that their friends were alright.

"Let's just go back to Kaede's and wait for them. Inuyasha will have to return eventually, whether its with a better Kagome, or without." Said a discontented Sango. She waited until the whole group agreed until telling Kirara to return to Kaede's village.

Kagome was starting to stir out of her deep sleep, and didn't want to. Certain parts of her body burned with such intensity that she could barely take it, and it pained her to breath. But once she returned to the world of the wakeful, she couldn't return to her blissful state of sleep. Trying to sit up, she groaned in pain and began to cough and wheeze.

Flipping onto her side to try and get some relief from the discomfort of her burnt skin, she found no comfort at all. The small movement caused her to yelp, sending the throbbing that had been only on her arms and legs to spread quickly across her whole body.

Grey eyes closed tightly for a moment to clear the blurriness from her mind. Once the ache faded back to the normal unwavering pain, she opened her eyes up to take in her surroundings. She found herself in a small hut, and when she looked on she also found a slightly rousing Inuyasha, his head on the bed next to her stomach, and his hand in hers.

She tried to think of what happened, but was caught in a horrible headache and groaned even louder. She felt horrid, every part of her seemed to ache, and her wheezing grew louder. Squeezing her eyes tightly closed, a tear escaped. When she finally did reopen them, she was staring into the golden orbs of Inuyasha.

He looked worried as he ran his hand through her sweat streaked hair and got up, leaning out a door and calling for somebody. Kagome couldn't hear anything, just a dull ringing through her ears. Soon a girl in an olive green top and short fawn colored shorts walked into the room with a cup of something.

Kagome just then noticed how thirsty she was. She eagerly drank down all the liquids in the cup that was pressed to her chapped lips by Inuyasha, even if it did taste funny. Within minutes she found the room growing fuzzy, and herself slowly slipping into a drugged sleep.

Pacing around the room, Inuyasha looked at Kagome and back to Emiko "Will she be alright? She looks like she's uncomfortable… Is there anything we can do to help her any more?" He was slightly annoyed that there was still nothing he could do to keep that pained look off of the sleeping Kagome. It was his fault that he had left her unprotected to go off on a walk that night.

"Nothing more than we are doing right now." She smiled slightly at the worried look on the young hanyou's face as she continued to replace the old poultices and bandages. Her half smile faded as she asked silently "You really care for her, don't you?"

"Feh. I guess so." When he saw Emiko raise her eyebrows he looked down at the floor and bit out "Yah, a lot, ok?" He glared when he saw her smile. Here it came, the ever popular sneers and catty remarks about him falling for a human. Or would it be the lecture that she was too good for him, and that a human would never want a hanyou? He didn't care right now. Even if Kagome didn't want him, he now knew he'd always stay by her side.

"That's sweet. She likes you back too, you know." Moving back after placing a cold cloth on Kagome's forehead, she sighed heavily. "Don't ever let her out of your site. Love for both of you will come rare and far apart."

"How would you know?" He half snarled. He couldn't really get out a true angry reply to her remark, since it was one of the first times a human had been so open to his and Kagome's relationship so fast.

"Because it's the same for my kind, as it is for yours." How could he not know what she was? Wasn't it the most obvious scent there ever was to exist?

"You're kind? Ok, now you're gonna have to spit out the information, or else I'll slit your throat." Came a heated reply from Inuyasha. 'What is this girl getting at?'

"I'm an elemental you idiot. You know, the things that got killed off 14 or so years ago?" she paused and tightened her lips together. She felt so ashamed to be about to tell him this.

"No you stupid bitch. Tell me." (A/N: Yah, he didn't know about that since he had been pinned to a tree for the past 50 years… Poor Inu!)

Her eyes narrowed and the dark green of her eyes seemed to take on a hint of silver "Alright then, since you're obviously clueless for some reason. Ok, I was born half miko, half elemental. My father was an elemental, and you can just guess what my mother was. So when Naraku came to my village of elementals, my mother and father made me run away. Naraku wasn't strong enough then to realize I was part elemental, so he left me alone. For some reason, he had been out to kill any and all elementals."

Inuyasha grunted, and became interested. He now understood why she was so annoyed by him asking her. She was just like him, an outcast. "Go on, wench." He growled out, not letting his curiosity be noticed. He wanted her to think he just wanted the information to make sure she wasn't a danger to Kagome.

"I was only 3 when that happened. So I ran off in search of some place to hide until I could return home. I was attacked by many demons, being the "tasty" morsel of partial elemental I was, and was rescued by some unknowing human. His name was Lord Akio. Lord Akio was not a kind man." She growled out this part, her eyes flashing at the memory.

But she continued to tell her story "Lord Akio beat me, and told me how worthless I was. I labored under his whipping hand, and under the cruel words of the other children and villagers until I was 9 years old, when my familiar, Mai showed up. Mai disposed of the Lord, and took me away."

A slight smirk appeared across her face as she remembered Akio's angry screams "And so I returned to my old village. Nothing was left, but the abandoned tree houses. So I moved on, and the old woman of this village took me in. She soon regretted this, since my powers were becoming clearly evident, and I began to cause trouble in the village. I was sick of the ridicule the villagers gave me. The old woman made up excuses on my behalf, but she couldn't keep them up. Soon she moved with me, to this hut, and isolated me and my powers as she began to train me."

"So, you see, Inuyasha, I am trained to take care of the sick and the wounded. I would not hurt your Kagome for my life." She turned her eyes down to the floor, only to be met with the sympathetic look of Mai.

Inuyasha was shocked. This girl had gone through as much as he himself had been through. "I… I know what you've been through, and what you're going through. I thank you for taking care of Kagome."

Emiko smiled and pat Mai on the head as she stood up and stretched, handing him a small pendent "You heal quickly. She will too if you take some of your own blood, just a drop will do, and put it on the pendant and let it dry. Put it around her neck. It will quicken the healing process just a little." She watched him nod and then started to walk out of the room "I will be in forest collecting herbs if you need me."

With that the healer left the room, Inuyasha's eyes on her as she left. His eyes soon returned to Kagome's pale face, and then to the pendant. He could finally help her. Maybe she wouldn't have to deal with the horrid scars of the burns if he did this.

I know you feel alone, yeah, and no one else can figure you out,

But don't you ever turn away from the ones that help you down,

Well they'd love to save you, don't you know they love to see you smile?

But these colors that you've shined are surely not your style.

He sank his fangs into his forearm, making sure not to hit any arteries, and let his blood drip onto the necklace. He blew on it until it dried and then placed it over Kagome's head and around her neck. A small drop of blood dripped down onto her cheek, and mixed with a tear as Kagome's eyes slowly opened up.

And the scars remind us that the past is real.. I tear my heart open just to feeeeeeeeeeeeEEElll! –singing to Papa Roach. Looks up and smiles goofily- Yes, my stories are mostly written with music playing in the background of my mind. That's why a lot of songs just seem to… Well to POP up all of the sudden. What can I say? I have a love for music.

Asking for…. Drum roll please…. –drum roll- 8 reviews!

"I CANT HELP U FIX URSELF! BUT ATLEAST I CAN SAY I TRIED! IM SORRY BUT I GOTTA MOVE ON WITH MY OWN LIFE!" –head banging around the room-

Ok, here's the lyrics to Maybe Memories! Ta DAA!

And we trudge along through the mud, and we tried to call it home, but we weren't alright, not at all, not for one second.

Never have been one to write it down, Now I think I can, I know I'm stronger now, who is looking south? Not me I'm not looking back, I'm done denying the truth to anyone, cause I'm alive.

You showed me how, you seemed to find a hole, but I just laughed and smiled, begged and rolled my eyes, even cried and denied the truth to you, just like the truth to me, mostly lied.

I'm not going to look back

Write it out like glittering butterflies.

Thank you, thank you all for reading. I give you all a great big thumbs up tehe. –hyper- Xoxoxoxoxo- Enchanted Disaster