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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. I also don't own the lyrics of "The Reason" by Hoobastank that I threw in there. That song drives me crazy, but I just thought it fit in there. Yup!

Maybe Memories

The Real Villain

When Inuyasha finally caught up with Kagome he was panting slightly as he said hurriedly as she climbed onto the side of the well "Kagome! You don't understand; please just listen to me for a second!"

Kagome turned around to look at him while standing on the lip of the well "I don't understand? Hah! No, I think I can comprehend this situation perfectly fine. You lied to me when you said I could be your only one and then you went to that whore Kikyo to satisfy your 'needs'. You're just one big horn dog! Go at it Inuyasha, I'm sure Kikyo doesn't mind getting sloppy seconds!"

With that said she jumped into the well and into her time. Once on her side she ran up to her room and slammed the door, ignoring her mother's worried voice as she threw herself onto her bed.

A few minutes passed by before she heard a soft tapping on her door and her mother peeked her head in. She walked into the room and shut the door before she pulled up a chair beside her daughter "Honey, what's wrong?"

"I don't want to talk about it." She gasped this out and held back another sob when she felt her mother's hand rest on her shoulder. She averted her eyes from her mother.

"Ka…" she looked down at her daughter once more before she stood up and said quietly "If you need to talk, you know where to find me. I'll be downstairs cooking supper. I love you honey."

Lifting her head from her bed for a second Kagome watched as her mother left her room and quietly shut the door behind her. Kagome sat up on the bed and wiped her eyes with the back of her hand while grabbing for her remote. She turned on her television and lay down, gluing her eyes to the screen without really watching.

Soon she was crying again and she then fell asleep crying on her bed, curled up on top of the covers, her face drawn and sad. Her mother came up to check on her once more before shutting off her daughter's t-v and lights and closing the door again.

It took Inuyasha about an hour before he pulled himself together and looked at the well again, where just a little earlier he'd watched his love disappear through with the wrong ideas running through her head. He'd been fighting with himself for about an hour to keep the tears from seeping onto his cheeks. He wouldn't cry; because it was his fault all of this happened. It was he who had done the wrong.

His eyes stung with the unshed tears as he pulled himself to the side of the well and sat on it, looking over the edge a few minutes before he shoved himself over and let himself drift down into the well and to the other side.

Leaping out of the well he looked around Kagome's time, noting that it was already night time here. He stalked through the darkness and jumped to her window and pushed it open, silently climbing through.

His feet padded along and he stood beside her bed, looking down at the wreck of a girl upon it. Her raven hair was tangled around her pale face, deep circles under her puffy eyes. He imagined them open, the beautiful love of life that always shown in them being pushed back by the love she had for him.

"I'm such an idiot…" he whispered as he leaned down and kissed the sleeping girl on the cheek, tasting the salty tears she had shed. He watched as another tear crept from under her thick lashes and slipped down her cheek.

His voice came out a little shaky as he sang in a raspy voice, on the edge of tears:

I'm not a perfect person, there's many things I wish I didn't do, but I continue learning. I never meant to do those things to you, and so I have to say before I go that I just want you to know; I've found a reason for me to change who I used to be, a reason to start over new, and the reason is you.

I'm sorry that I hurt you, It's something I must live with everyday.
And all the pain I put you through, I wish that I could take it all away and be the one who catches all your tears. That's why I need you to hear
I've found a reason for me to change who I used to be, a reason to start over new and the reason is You.

He stood up over her and a single silver tear dropped from his eyes before he quickly flung his head to the side and concealed his face with his hair, wiping his face with his hand furiously. He grabbed one of her blankets and pulled it up over her before he jumped to her window sill, out into the night, and out of her time.

Kagome woke up when it was still dark and found herself covered with a blanket. She still shivered a bit and went to her window which had been opened for some reason and closed it promptly before she went back to her bed and settled down again. Sighing, she tossed and turned a bit, not being able to get back to sleep.

She turned her head a bit and gazed to her window and imagined Inuyasha jumping through it to come and see her. She missed him dearly, even if he had betrayed her. But how could she go back to somebody that had done so much wrong to her? That had torn her heart in two and then let it shatter into pieces?

As much as she hated it, she knew she couldn't just simply forgive him this time. She would have to stick it out a bit and be strong. This time Inuyasha would grovel at her feet if he truly wanted her back.

Flipping onto her back, she thought over the possibilities of that actually happening. Her eyes gazed up at her ceiling as she spoke aloud "What if he doesn't want me back? What if he just decides it'd just be easier to forget about me and go to Kikyo, instead of winning me back? What if he doesn't actually love me?"

Her head spun with all the possibilities as she fell back to sleep, a few stray tears leaking down her face once again before she pulled back up into the ball position.

He walked back towards the hut where Mai and Emiko were and sat down in a corner, waiting for them to wake back up. He'd bring them back to Kaede's village and then have a talk with Kaede about what he could do to fix it all.

About an hour later Emiko opened her eyes, sensing that somebody was watching her. She looked over to see Inuyasha replacing where Kagome had been when they'd all fallen asleep. Yawning a bit she inquired about Kagome "Where's Lady Kagome, Inuyasha?"

Shadowed golden eyes looked back at her "It… It's a long story. All I can say is that I messed up big this time."

The girl sat up and looked at him "Well, go ahead and tell me. We have, what, a couple hours before sunrise?" she paused when she saw his mouth open to interrupt her. She threw up her hand "And don't give me any crap about how you can't tell me. Whether you like it or not, we've got a lot in common, and I should be able to at least help a little."

A sigh of defeat emitted from his throat as he proceeded to telling her all that had transpired between Kikyo and him and then how Kagome came into his life, to finally end the story with how Kikyo had tricked him that night.

Sitting back a little, making sure not to wake Mai she thought out loud "Wait… Miko's don't have that sort of power… She had to have had help to do this."

With that she moved quickly towards him and then grabbed his hair which was still slightly damp and sniffed it "Whoa, whoa, whoa! What the hell do you think you're doing!" Inuyasha yelled out and tried to get his hair back.

She clapped a hand over his mouth to silence him, looked to Mai to make sure he was still asleep, and then back to Inuyasha. She sniffed his hair once more and coughed a bit, a bit of blood seeping from the edge of her mouth and a burn mark appearing on the corner of her mouth.

She sat back heavily and breathed heavily as if she was having a heart attack. Inuyasha moved to her side, worried about her as he rubbed her back and crouched beside her "What? What is it? Are you alright?" he paused and then took his hair and smelt it also.

Her head rose from where she was as she looked at him "You know what I smelt then, don't you?"

In turn he himself fell back onto his butt, his knees close to his chest as he draped his arms around them and let his head fall down a bit "B…But why would Kikyo join forces with her? And what made you do react like that?"

"I've heard enough about this Kikyo woman to figure that she's become a very vengeful soul. Maybe she expected you to refuse her; therefore she went to the fire demoness and made a deal with her." She waited for him to respond to her, but realized she hadn't explained the second part of his question "Oh and some more magic sensitive earth nymphs have sort of an… Allergy I guess to fire nymphs and demons. The more powerful, the harder it is for me to choke down a cough."

Inuyasha growled and shoved his way up, pacing around before he slammed his hand into the side of the room "So, Kikyo intentionally did that to make sure she'd split up Kagome and I. But how would that benefit Kyoko?"

"This is only a guess, but I'd say it was in her plan to split the two of you up from the beginning. It may seem ridiculous, but you two are far more powerful together. Apart, you two are merely only a half demon and a miko." She sat there and brooded, trying to piece the entire puzzle together.

He sat down again to think it over as well "This whole situation doesn't feel right. What is it that makes me feel uneasy? That this is only a demoness trying to extract revenge for the death of her mate?"

"Exactly… Fire demons don't usually get upset about losing their mates, because they just find new ones quickly. I… I have a feeling…"

"What is it? Spit it out already!" he yelled a bit again, about to rip out a board from the floor in his anxiety.

A thick voice came from the other side of the room as both mixed breeds looked towards Mai as he sat up "We both smell Naraku all over this. It reeks of him."

DUM DUM DUUUUUUUUUUuuuMM! Ok people, you all can't HONESTLY tell me you didn't expect this from the part in the story Kyoko said something about her master? Come on, I thought I was kind of hinting at it. Yup yup.

Oh, and I'm back to my usual demanding of a certain number of reviews. At least 5? Por favor?

x-miya-x: Uh… How am I supposed to respond to that? Haha… umm… WE ALL KNEW KIKYO WAS AN EVIL WHORE OUT TO GET BETWEEN INU AND KAGS! There. I said it. I feel better.

Terra34: What doya think, Ima insane weirdo? Haha, of course he'll explain it all to her, eventually. I'm getting there!

Pay Backs a Bitch: You are officially my favorite reviewer. OH, and I love your story Crazy made me laugh! I likey. Lapse of intelligence I tell you! Wow, and 43 reviews for 2 chapters! WOWZERS! How the heck did you do it?

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.