Sheepishly smiles and ducks her head, walking back into the little fanfiction network So… blush, prepared to be killed by everyone and anyone reading her story before I'm back up and running on this one? I'm SOOOO SOOOO sorry I just kind of dropped the ball on all my stories… I kinda hit a rough spot in my life for a couple months and I'm now back and out of it. I will REALLY try my best to keep it up again until I leave for 3 weeks, then I'll get back into it. SORRY SORRY!

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of the characters and I never will. I also don't own the title of the whole story "Maybe Memories" by The Used. The lyrics will be at the end of the chapter, as always.

Maybe Memories

Green Eyes Return

Inuyasha once again woke up to a pair of green eyes, but not the ones he'd seen on his mate the night before. They were the curious ones of somebody very familiar and soon he knew who it was when he opened his eyes a little bit more.

Emiko smiled happily when she saw his eyes open up and heard his growl emit from his throat. She leaned back a little and said loudly "'Ey! Kagome! He's finally come around!" she looked down at the confused and worried hanyou "Don't worry Inuyasha, Kagome came to about a day before you. She's fine, though we had a little trouble getting off the binding jewelry and the 'shock' collar."

A laugh came from the other side of the room as Kagome made her way over to Inuyasha to silence his growling "Quiet, my mate. I am ok, see? The scars have even faded and it's only been a day or so!"

He tried to sit down but was forced back down to his back by Emiko as she grabbed his arm and started to re-bandage his wounds. He groaned and rolled his head to the side before he heard a husky male voice sounding like a growl.

A growl emitted from his throat as well before he saw the panther demon looking man enter the room. Mai sat down beside Inuyasha "So, what did you get into? A fire elemental?"

To this Kagome chirped in "A very promiscuous demoness… I believe the fire demoness. Yuck! Was she ever GROSS!"

"Really? I saw her once. Thought she had a mate of her own though, don't know why she'd be a horn dog now…" Mai said, hearing the phrase from Kagome earlier and having tried to pick up on it.

Stifling a laugh, Kagome ducked her head before she straightened it out "Oh, Kikyo killed her mate. For what reason, I don't know. But she thinks it was me that did it."

Emiko cleared her throat, trying to keep from laughing at how absurd that statement had sounded coming from Mai. She sat down beside Inuyasha "Well, I thought I'd wait and tell you both what is going on with Kagome, so I waited until you woke."

This got Inuyasha's attention and he tried to sit up but before he could, he felt his mate sit on his stomach where she knew it wasn't burnt. He grunted a bit and growled at her, trying to decide whether she was disobeying him or not…

"No, I'm not Inuyasha. Now just shut up and listen. I want to know what's up with me." Kagome sat on top of him to keep him from sitting up and hurting himself, rapt attention towards Emiko and her partner.

"Well, you remember how I said that she'd grow powerful enough to be accepted by her mate? Well, it seems Kagome believed that being a half demon would make her powerful enough." Emiko leaned back on her stool, to lean against Mai who was standing behind her.

"Wait, Kagome! You don't have to be strong! I lo…. Like you the way you are!" almost slipped in front of other people and bit his lip, trying to put on a heated look. Didn't want anybody else thinking he was going soft.

"You… You mean I'm stuck like this? Not that I mind… But everything is just so sharp… My senses, they're screaming at me! It's bound to drive me crazy, being able to hear every bug skittering across a leaf within a mile!" Kagome stated this, on the verge of tears.

Sighing, Emiko stood up and paced around a bit "Well, it seems not all of you believed you had to be half demon to have him accept you... So I think you should be in a state where if you learn to control it, you can switch back and forth as you like."

"Phew… That's good! I'm sure I look totally ridiculous like this anyways!" she stated shortly before she heard let out a scoff and say something like "Damn right you do!" But after that there was little time before Kagome had said the word he dreaded most.

"So, I wondered if we could accompany your group to go and destroy Naraku… I'd very much like to kill him off, be rid of living constantly in fear of him." Her Celtic voice wavered for a moment before she stoned her face.

Lean, muscular arms wrapped around her shoulders as Mai tried to comfort her in his awkward way. He rubbed his cheek up against hers and purred a bit, thinking the rumbling noise would help relax her for the answer to come.

"OF COURSE! What a great idea! We need somebody to heal people after battles anyways!" Kagome was off the grouching Inuyasha and jumping around the room, soon dragging Emiko up with her as well.

"HEY! WENCH! Lay the hell down before you get hurt even worse! Why are you allowed to bounce around like a fucking rabbit while I'm pinned here to a bed like I'm disabled!" voiced a very agitated Inuyasha. It wasn't that her happiness bothered him, it was just he felt really worried about her.

"Oh, oi! Inuyasha I'm FINE! We don't know why, we think it may be the priestess in me, but I healed VERY fast. FASTER THAN YOU! Oh! OH! What now! Beat that!" chirped an energetic girl as she finally bounced up and down.

Realization struck him suddenly as Inuyasha finally succeeded in sitting up "Wait… Where the hell are we anyways? I didn't remember any villages being close to where I fell!"

"Don't worry Inuyasha. We are in the village next to the one that Lady Kaede and your friends reside in. Kagome actually fetched me, since she could smell that I was so near… Good thing I was headed this way! But after that, Mai and I switched on and off carrying the two of you." She stretched and yawned, finally draining of her energy even if she was half nymph.

"Why'd you have to switch on carrying us?" asked a slightly confused Inuyasha as he propped himself up on the bed and kept on looking around the hut.

"Because you're a lot heavier than Kagome. It was actually energy conserving whenever we carried her." Stated a very blunt Mai. He hadn't learned all the customs shared by civilized society yet, even if he had watched over Emiko for years and watched her visitors.

"I'm not fat!" veins were popping out in his neck as he growled deeply, taking offense to things easily when Mai said them. He could still remember the way Kagome had looked over him and it enraged him.

A smack against his head caught him off balance and he feel back onto the bed "He didn't say you were! If you were as light as me, you'd either look like a woman or like a starved weakling! Would you like either, Inuyasha!"

"Feh! Whatever wench! Why the hell'd you have to smack me that hard! Fuck, you need to learn control."

"I can't believe this! We're married and mated, yet you don't remember my name! It's Kagome. Ka-go-me! Got it bud?"

"I can call you anything I wish to bitch!"

"I'm not a bitch!"

"Yes you are! You're a FEMALE DOG! And the other sort of bitch right now too!"

"Well that's the last time I'm going to haul your sorry ass anywhere, or go and get help!"

"Good! I didn't need your help!"

And this continued on and on while Mai and Emiko left the hut to them for a while. The two stepped out into the woods for a slightly paling Emiko to slowly regain her color.

Mai took her chin between his fingers as he leaned forward and looked into the pale green eyes as they started to regain their dark nature "My love, you mustn't stay away from the forest that long. You know what it does to you."

"Yes, I know. But I had to help those two… They're bound for great things. They will save us all." Her hands shook a little as she took one of his into her own.

"You forget! The prophecy also stated that you did also! Have you forgotten so much? If you let your health slip now, you may not be able to aid them in the future." His eyes grew dark as he grabbed her chin again and kissed her heatedly and whispered, his eyes shining a bit with fear "And you may not be able to stay by my side."

Sighing, the half nymph finally regained all her strength and was back to looking normal. She gripped his hand tightly and said quietly as they walked back towards the hut, hand in hand "I will never leave your side."

Meanwhile, Inuyasha and Kagome were still fighting, but this time over a different subject.

"Because of you being superstitious, you got fucking kidnapped and hurt! Made me come ALL the way there to get you and made me get hurt too!"

"Well, did I ask you to come rescue me! No, I didn't Inuyasha!" Kagome was beginning to cry a little, feeling he hadn't wanted to come and get her, but felt he was forced to.

"Well, I HAD to! I fucking love you, you idiot!" He said as he grabbed her and wrapped her up in his arms, ignoring the slight stinging it caused the burn/lash marks upon his back.

A sniffle and a reply came next "I'm sorry Inuyasha, to worry you so. I love you too."

"Good, then it's settled. You owe me!"

"Hey! What ever happened to rescuing the damsel in distress WITHOUT a fee?"

"Well, it changed whenever I became your mate, Kags. Now, behave." He said fiercely, sick of fighting with her so he captured her lips with his.

It had meant to be an innocent show of love and way of shutting her up when it had began. But soon the two were all over each other, starting to grip the others clothes.

She had a grip on his shirt as he had on her own and they both took the others off as they continued to kiss and let their hands roam the others body.

A distinct clearing of a throat came into the hut twice before the two eager-beavers realized they weren't alone anymore. Emiko was hiding her face behind Mai and he was standing in the door way, smirking.

"So, I thought you two weren't involved like that yet… Finally, you realized how stupid you were being!" Mai laughed out as he sat down on a chair and watched the two scrambling about. He hugged Emiko and still continued to laugh a bit.

Soon Kagome had her shirt back on and watched as Inuyasha growled and stormed out of the hut without his on. She looked to the two other people in the room and smiled sheepishly, blushing a bright red.

"Umm… So who's hungry?" asked a still rather embarrassed Kagome as she tried to break the awkwardness of the situation.

I again apologize for the long wait people! These are for whoever still loves me enough and forgives me and continues to read my story! Again, Lo Siento LO SIENTO! Hah, well here they are:

Lodke: Sorry I haven't been on it. School and life crisis.

Cherised18: Yes, all on their wedding day if you ever read this lol

Inuyashas only Miko: I hope it still gets better now…

Inukagfreak1674: Thanks! You must like it a lot. I hope you didn't give up on me.. haha

Animegirl2005: Oh, and you'll learn all that in later chapters.

Pretty Pink: No, she didn't get raped. Remember Kyoko got thrown against the wall before she could by Kagome's powers?

Pay Backs a Bitch: Thanks. Yes, and I know what you mean about computers. Mine died a while ago and I've been on my dads for the past couple weeks.

Ok, here are 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.