-Chapter 8
"School? We don't have school till tomorrow. This is a bad idea." Inuyasha complained looking back at his friends.
"No. Inuyasha, it's a good idea" Sango responded stepping to Miroku's side, " we can take a look around and find where we're supposed to go before class starts."
They walked around finding their classes, Inuyasha complaining all the way.
Kagome was separated from the group when she saw the archery field. "I'm taking archery" she said aloud to herself, hope in her tone, as she looked at the field before her. She wandered over and let her fingers run across the bows and arrows that were laid out on the table. She had always wanted to take archery, but her mother had forbade it. She never gave a reason why.
As her hands washed over the bows she felt a surge of energy inside her that she assumed was excitement. She fingered the arrows and felt as if the energy was leaving her, she felt calm and suddenly noticed the arrow was bathed in a soft pink light.
"What the…" she dropped the arrow and took a step back. She stared at the arrow and cocked her head. It lay there with all the other arrows looking no different. "But I just saw…" she looked around her as if expecting someone to be standing there watching her. She giggled nervously and walked away; making sure not to turn back around.
She walked through the empty school until she came to the auditorium. She peeked into the dark and decided to explore. She walked in and noticed sunlight breaking in in small beams of light through planks on the ceiling above the stage. As she got closer she realized the stage was also damaged. She walked onto the stage and looked above her; a huge chunk of the ceiling was gone and was covered by temporary planks and boards. The same with the floor in front of her. It was missing half the floor, and it was blocked off.
She looked across the stage and suddenly a picture flashed in her mind. A boy, a boy in a strange costume, he was an actor, he called her…Escargot Pudding?… she walked to where he had been standing when he had flickered in her mind. She stared at the ground a look of deep concentration on her face. She stopped and turned on the spot.
"HOJO!" she screamed. "I…I was in a play! I had a friend named Hojo!" she laughed in excitement. "Maybe I enjoyed acting. I must have done plays back at my old high school" she thought excitedly.
A memory. A real memory. Perhaps the only actual memory she had. She smiled at the emptiness around her. "Hojo" she repeated, "I had a friend named Hojo."
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"Where did that stupid girl go?" Inuyasha yelled to no one in particular.
"I'm sure she's around, just looking for her classroom or…" Miroku was cut off by a loud cry from the building next to them.
"It's Kagome!" Sango started, making as if she was about to run then stopped, "did…did she just say… Hojo?" she asked the boys.
Inuyasha's eyes were flashing with jealously as he muttered "yeah" and quickly pushed past her. They followed him into a dark empty building.
"What is this place?" Miroku whispered as he slid in.
"It's an audi- a - torum. Weren't you paying attention at all?" Sango hissed at him.
They stood and stared at Kagome who was standing alone on stage.
"Hojo. I had a friend named Hojo!" she exclaimed.
They looked at each other and Inuyasha growled low in his throat.
"Inuyasha, remember your temper" Miroku warned cautiously watching the top of the boys head.
Kagome heard what sounded like a growl and peered into the darkness. "Hello?" she asked timidly.
Sango looked up at Inuyasha who, even in his human form, looked like he would rip apart the next boy that so much looked at Kagome.
"Kagome! Did you remember something?" Sango suddenly screeched running to her friend, as she covered for Inuyasha.
"Oh, Sango!" Kagome sighed as she released the breath she had been holding. "I remembered something! I had a friend named Hojo and I was in a play I played Escargot Pudding!" she practically screamed at her friend, excitement in her eyes.
Sango hugged her friend and looked over Kagome's shoulder at the boys that had now made their way to the stage. Inuyasha solemnly nodded at Sango. Sango almost had tears in her eyes as she kissed Kagome's cheek and hugged her tighter.
"It's so strange…since I've been here I feel like my dreams are more vivid. Like I could remember my memories…or more of them" she smiled as she looked around at her friends.
"Let's go celebrate!" Sango insisted suddenly, "lunch?" She looked at Kagome with a huge grin on her face. "Our treat. Your first real memory!"
The guys agreed as guys never turn down food. They walked out of the auditorium, while Sango chatting excitedly about Kagome and her memories.
"But this isn't my first memory." Kagome thought as she stared at the ground, "I 'remember' that campfire and that dog…are those memories I'm just dismissing?" she wondered as Inuyasha called her name for the third time.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha shook her shoulders breaking her daze. She looked up at him a worried expression on her face. "I'm fine…what did you want?" she asked coming back to the conversation at hand.
"Where do you want to eat my dear Kagome?" Miroku asked rubbing her back comfortingly.
"Home." she said suddenly feeling guilty for leaving her friends out of the loop.
"But Kagome…" Sango started giggling.
"She wants to go home, Sango" Miroku cut her laughter short sensing the sadness in Kagome's voice. They piled into the car and silently rode home.
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A/N: poor Inu must be pissed, the first guy or person she remembers is Hojo? Geez, hate to be him.
Inuyasha: Exactly. So erase that chapter and start over with her remembering me first!
Miko: No, boy. It's my story I'll twist it the way I want it. Now get back to cleaning my room, or better yet…that might take to long…just get Miroku, tell him just to suck it all up it's mostly trash anyway…
Inuyasha: Feh, YOU do it.
Miko: Do you want her to remember you at ALL? Then go! It's mostly empty ramen containers and I don't eat THAT much ramen!
Inuyasha: Look you stup-
Miko: KAGOME!
Inuyasha: OK! OK! I just don't want to get sat-
Kagome: Inu are you making messes AGAIN! And being rude! Sit Boy!
(Inu pummels to the ramen cup filled floor)
Miko: Thanks Kags.
Kagome: Anytime, besides the empty ramen containers are starting to get a bit annoying, maybe we should just get Miroku, cuz I think that trash can outside is becoming too filled with um…