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Summary: While battling Naraku, Inuyasha gets cursed and turns into a………WHAT!? Can Kagome get him back to normal? Or will fate say no to love?
Pairings: Inu/Kag Mir/San Sess/Rin
AN: I surely hope that everyone's enjoying this fic and that I can get over 200 reviews! T-T That would be REALLY great!!!
Chapter 9
It was morning, and the everyone set off towards Nagori's nest by Sesshomaru's lead. Rin was still a bit weak, but she was still able to walk, so that was a good sign.
It was bright and sunny out, so according to Miroku, that was a good omen. He periodically asked Inuyasha if he remembered anything, but the answer was always no.
Then, they walked past the battlefield where Inuyasha had nearly strangled Kagome, if she were not saved by Sango.
"What's that?" asked Inuyasha, looking curiously at the cracked trees and disturbed soil.
"Uh…well…" Miroku didn't know how to explain it. It wouldn't really be right to keep it a secret from his friend, but it would be pretty hard to say that he nearly killed Kagome.
Suddenly, Inuyasha dropped to his knees, holding his head.
"Inuyasha, what's wrong?" Kagome asked, rushing over to him.
Inuyasha's head filled with small parts of what happened earlier. A kid…could it be him? Kagome nearly being strangled, a boomerang colliding with his head. And that demon…Naraku. He was there, too. Along with some other people whom he didn't recognize.
Inuyasha's head throbbed. It felt like it was going to explode from all the unfinished flashbacks. Then they all suddenly stopped. When he tried to remember what happened in one, he would forget.
"Inuyasha, are you all right?" Kagome asked again.
"Huh?" Inuyasha was jerked away from his mind by Kagome's voice. "Um…what?"
"I asked you if you were all right," Kagome said.
"Uh…yeah, I think so," Inuyasha replied. He stood up and continued, "I think I felt some of my memory come back, but I can't remember what happened in any of it."
"That's too bad," Sango said.
"Yeah," Shippo agreed. "I think I liked the old Inuyasha better than this one. I actually miss the stupid oaf-" Shippo suddenly realized what he said, and covered his mouth. When he did, a fist suddenly collided with his head.
That fist belonged to Inuyasha, who was staring with confusion at what he just did.
Inuyasha took his fist off and stared. "Um…why'd I do that?" he wondered.
"You could at least say sorry!" Shippo shouted, holding a large bump on his head.
"Oh, sorry Shippo," Inuyasha said. 'I wonder what came over me. One second I'm listening to Shippo, the next I feel so angry that I hit him. Weird…if this is what I acted like with my memories, then I don't want to return to normal…'
"Instant reflexes," Miroku murmured just loud enough for Kagome and Sango to hear (AN: They're right next to him). "That must mean that somewhere deep inside, our old Inuyasha's still there!"
"That's a relief!" Kagome replied.
"That means that our old Inuyasha will come back sooner or later," Sango added.
"What do you mean?" asked Miroku.
"I mean that if our old Inuyasha keeps popping up, like him hitting Shippo for instance, then he'll start remembering and eventually he'll come back for good!" Sango tried to explain.
"I have almost know idea what you just meant, but I got the part of Inuyasha coming back for good!" Kagome said. Sango glared at Kagome for a second before walking away. "SANGO! I WAS JOKING!" Kagome shouted. Sango ignored Kagome and kept on walking.
"What were you talking about?" Kouga asked, walking up with Sesshomaru, Rin, and Jaken.
"Oh, nothing special!" Miroku reassured them. Kouga looked at Miroku suspiciously for a moment before leaving with Sesshomaru.
"Man! The nerve of that guy! Hitting me and then claiming that he didn't know what he was doing!" Shippo's voice sounded by Sango and Sesshomaru.
"We'd better hurry up if we don't wanna get left behind!" Miroku said.
"Right," Kagome agreed, and the two ran up behind the group.
"I already told you I'm sorry!" Inuyasha said, with Shippo on his shoulder.
"Yeah…I'm sure you mean it!" Shippo said sarcastically.
"Feh," Inuyasha muttered.
"Well, at least some things never change," Kagome muttered to Miroku.
Miroku nodded in agreement.
"Let's camp here for tonight," Sesshomaru said, walking into a clearing. It was almost dark now, and they were just reaching the center of the forest. "If we get up early tomorrow, we might be able to get to Nagori's nest by the afternoon."
"Lord Sesshomaru is always so nice!" Rin told Sango.
"Uh, right," Sango replied a bit hesitantly. 'She wouldn't be saying that if she knew half the things he tried to do to Inuyasha…' she thought as she walked over to Miroku.
"So, what ARE you?" Inuyasha asked Jaken. "Are you some kind of toad or wart or something?"
"I am a demon, and-" Jaken was cut off by Inuyasha squishing him into the ground.
"You're a toad, I can smell it on you," Inuyasha said, "Don't even try to lie to me."
"If you knew, then why did you ask!?" Jaken shouted.
"Um…I dunno…" Inuyasha said suddenly. "One minute I didn't know, the next I did…talk about strange…" Inuyasha then started walking towards Kagome.
'Er…if those wretched companions of his weren't around, I'd be burning that half-breed to a crisp by now!' Jaken thought. 'But then again, why would Sesshomaru even be helping his brother? Is it to repay them? I sure hope so.'
"So, mutt, have you remembered anything yet?" Kouga asked.
"Would you quit calling me a mutt, Kouga!?" Inuyasha asked, half politely, half angrily.
Kouga stared. "I take that as a no," he said before jumping into a tree to sleep in.
"Tch," Inuyasha glared at Kouga, before hopping into a different tree to sleep in.
"Maybe Inuyasha will come back sooner than we thought," Sango said, staring from Kouga, to Inuyasha, to Kouga again.
"Yeah, but if we get him to that dragon, Nagori, then he'll remember everything, and that would be better," Kagome said, setting up a fire to make some ramen.
"Still, it feels kind of disturbing to have a polite Inuyasha here," Miroku said, walking over with some firewood.
Kagome chuckled a bit, picturing Inuyasha being polite to Kouga and Sesshomaru all the time. She then pictured him speaking politely to Naraku, and that made her start laughing.
Deep in the forests, a large dragon was roaming around. His scales a deep emerald green, with bright red eyes. Huge, leathery black wings hung lazily at his shoulders, and his tail swooshed a couple times, knocking over a few bushes that were in its path.
The dragon walked over to a large nest with many eggs. Along with a black orb. Another dragon appeared, this time, entirely black. She had dull red eyes, and two horns on her head. The two dragons nuzzled each other and stared down at their nest as the 5 large eggs began to crack and hatch into 2 green draclings, and 3 black ones.
Suddenly, out of the bushes, a figure appeared. It was none other than Naraku.
"Nagori, it appears that you now have young to care for," Naraku said. "I'm so happy for you." there was a nasty sarcasm in his voice, which made the black dragon, now confirmed as Nagori, narrow her eyes in anger.
"Who are you?" she asked. "And what business do you have here?"
"I've come to put an end to your life," Naraku replied.
"I don't think so," Nagori's mate said, walking between Nagori and Naraku.
"So, you are this dragon's mate, are you?" Naraku said, chuckling maliciously after saying so. "You shall be first to fall. But I must know the name of my first victim."
"Hatashi," the dragon said, anger clearly showing in his response.
"Hatashi, eh? Then I shall take great pleasure in killing you," Naraku said.
With that, the two lunged at each other.
Inuyasha was sitting by the fire, slurping down the noodles of his ramen.
"This…is REALLY good, Kagome!" Inuyasha exclaimed, swallowing a mouthful of ramen.
"Well, at least your cravings for ramen haven't changed!" Kagome said.
"What an idiot," Kouga murmured, eating some potato chips.
"You're the idiot," Inuyasha muttered.
"Tch."
"Feh."
"…" the two glared at each other for a few moments before continuing to eat their food.
'Some things REALLY never change,' Kagome thought.
'Why must my brother be a fool, even WITHOUT his memories?' wondered Sesshomaru. 'Whatever. Once I lead them to Nagori, my debt will be done, and I will take my leave, and Inuyasha will never know that I ever came.'
Miroku was sitting by a tree with Sango, eating some of the lunch boxes Kagome brought, and drinking cans of soda.
"You know, maybe it wouldn't be so bad to have Inuyasha stay the way he was," he said, taking a couple sips of pop.
"What do you mean?" Sango asked.
"You know that the orb is the only way to get Inuyasha to actually remember everything, right?" Miroku stated. "I mean, if he doesn't, then he'll just get small flashbacks that he won't be able to remember, right?"
"Well, yeah, I guess so," Sango replied.
"Well, if he stayed as he is now, then he wouldn't have to remember some of the hardships he had," Miroku continued. "He wouldn't remember Kikyo, his family dying, or anything else. He wouldn't remember his brother despising him, Kagura, Naraku turning him against us, etc. Also, we could make him a better life, teach him how to be polite, and lots of other things!"
"But it wouldn't be right, Miroku!" Sango said, taking a bite out of a sandwich. "He needs to remember! We befriended the old Inuyasha! And all the hardships and memories he had made him that way! We can't change what already happened, you know that!"
"I know, but I'm just saying that we could make Inuyasha's life better." Miroku said. He sighed, and let the conversation end at that.
'Maybe Miroku's right…' Sango thought. 'I mean, Inuyasha did have a lot of hardship in his life. Maybe it would be better for him to not remember any of it. That way he could live with Kagome and not have to worry about Kikyo or anything else. We could teach him to have manners and do lots of other stuff. But then again…that would be taking away who he really is. Oh, I don't know…'
Sango decided to stop worrying about it, but through the entire time, the conversation with Miroku still lingered in her head.
Before she went to sleep that night, she wondered…
'Inuyasha. What would you do? Would you want to regain you memory or have a better life? What would you do?'
TO BE CONTINUED……
Summary: While battling Naraku, Inuyasha gets cursed and turns into a………WHAT!? Can Kagome get him back to normal? Or will fate say no to love?
Pairings: Inu/Kag Mir/San Sess/Rin
AN: I surely hope that everyone's enjoying this fic and that I can get over 200 reviews! T-T That would be REALLY great!!!
Chapter 9
It was morning, and the everyone set off towards Nagori's nest by Sesshomaru's lead. Rin was still a bit weak, but she was still able to walk, so that was a good sign.
It was bright and sunny out, so according to Miroku, that was a good omen. He periodically asked Inuyasha if he remembered anything, but the answer was always no.
Then, they walked past the battlefield where Inuyasha had nearly strangled Kagome, if she were not saved by Sango.
"What's that?" asked Inuyasha, looking curiously at the cracked trees and disturbed soil.
"Uh…well…" Miroku didn't know how to explain it. It wouldn't really be right to keep it a secret from his friend, but it would be pretty hard to say that he nearly killed Kagome.
Suddenly, Inuyasha dropped to his knees, holding his head.
"Inuyasha, what's wrong?" Kagome asked, rushing over to him.
Inuyasha's head filled with small parts of what happened earlier. A kid…could it be him? Kagome nearly being strangled, a boomerang colliding with his head. And that demon…Naraku. He was there, too. Along with some other people whom he didn't recognize.
Inuyasha's head throbbed. It felt like it was going to explode from all the unfinished flashbacks. Then they all suddenly stopped. When he tried to remember what happened in one, he would forget.
"Inuyasha, are you all right?" Kagome asked again.
"Huh?" Inuyasha was jerked away from his mind by Kagome's voice. "Um…what?"
"I asked you if you were all right," Kagome said.
"Uh…yeah, I think so," Inuyasha replied. He stood up and continued, "I think I felt some of my memory come back, but I can't remember what happened in any of it."
"That's too bad," Sango said.
"Yeah," Shippo agreed. "I think I liked the old Inuyasha better than this one. I actually miss the stupid oaf-" Shippo suddenly realized what he said, and covered his mouth. When he did, a fist suddenly collided with his head.
That fist belonged to Inuyasha, who was staring with confusion at what he just did.
Inuyasha took his fist off and stared. "Um…why'd I do that?" he wondered.
"You could at least say sorry!" Shippo shouted, holding a large bump on his head.
"Oh, sorry Shippo," Inuyasha said. 'I wonder what came over me. One second I'm listening to Shippo, the next I feel so angry that I hit him. Weird…if this is what I acted like with my memories, then I don't want to return to normal…'
"Instant reflexes," Miroku murmured just loud enough for Kagome and Sango to hear (AN: They're right next to him). "That must mean that somewhere deep inside, our old Inuyasha's still there!"
"That's a relief!" Kagome replied.
"That means that our old Inuyasha will come back sooner or later," Sango added.
"What do you mean?" asked Miroku.
"I mean that if our old Inuyasha keeps popping up, like him hitting Shippo for instance, then he'll start remembering and eventually he'll come back for good!" Sango tried to explain.
"I have almost know idea what you just meant, but I got the part of Inuyasha coming back for good!" Kagome said. Sango glared at Kagome for a second before walking away. "SANGO! I WAS JOKING!" Kagome shouted. Sango ignored Kagome and kept on walking.
"What were you talking about?" Kouga asked, walking up with Sesshomaru, Rin, and Jaken.
"Oh, nothing special!" Miroku reassured them. Kouga looked at Miroku suspiciously for a moment before leaving with Sesshomaru.
"Man! The nerve of that guy! Hitting me and then claiming that he didn't know what he was doing!" Shippo's voice sounded by Sango and Sesshomaru.
"We'd better hurry up if we don't wanna get left behind!" Miroku said.
"Right," Kagome agreed, and the two ran up behind the group.
"I already told you I'm sorry!" Inuyasha said, with Shippo on his shoulder.
"Yeah…I'm sure you mean it!" Shippo said sarcastically.
"Feh," Inuyasha muttered.
"Well, at least some things never change," Kagome muttered to Miroku.
Miroku nodded in agreement.
"Let's camp here for tonight," Sesshomaru said, walking into a clearing. It was almost dark now, and they were just reaching the center of the forest. "If we get up early tomorrow, we might be able to get to Nagori's nest by the afternoon."
"Lord Sesshomaru is always so nice!" Rin told Sango.
"Uh, right," Sango replied a bit hesitantly. 'She wouldn't be saying that if she knew half the things he tried to do to Inuyasha…' she thought as she walked over to Miroku.
"So, what ARE you?" Inuyasha asked Jaken. "Are you some kind of toad or wart or something?"
"I am a demon, and-" Jaken was cut off by Inuyasha squishing him into the ground.
"You're a toad, I can smell it on you," Inuyasha said, "Don't even try to lie to me."
"If you knew, then why did you ask!?" Jaken shouted.
"Um…I dunno…" Inuyasha said suddenly. "One minute I didn't know, the next I did…talk about strange…" Inuyasha then started walking towards Kagome.
'Er…if those wretched companions of his weren't around, I'd be burning that half-breed to a crisp by now!' Jaken thought. 'But then again, why would Sesshomaru even be helping his brother? Is it to repay them? I sure hope so.'
"So, mutt, have you remembered anything yet?" Kouga asked.
"Would you quit calling me a mutt, Kouga!?" Inuyasha asked, half politely, half angrily.
Kouga stared. "I take that as a no," he said before jumping into a tree to sleep in.
"Tch," Inuyasha glared at Kouga, before hopping into a different tree to sleep in.
"Maybe Inuyasha will come back sooner than we thought," Sango said, staring from Kouga, to Inuyasha, to Kouga again.
"Yeah, but if we get him to that dragon, Nagori, then he'll remember everything, and that would be better," Kagome said, setting up a fire to make some ramen.
"Still, it feels kind of disturbing to have a polite Inuyasha here," Miroku said, walking over with some firewood.
Kagome chuckled a bit, picturing Inuyasha being polite to Kouga and Sesshomaru all the time. She then pictured him speaking politely to Naraku, and that made her start laughing.
Deep in the forests, a large dragon was roaming around. His scales a deep emerald green, with bright red eyes. Huge, leathery black wings hung lazily at his shoulders, and his tail swooshed a couple times, knocking over a few bushes that were in its path.
The dragon walked over to a large nest with many eggs. Along with a black orb. Another dragon appeared, this time, entirely black. She had dull red eyes, and two horns on her head. The two dragons nuzzled each other and stared down at their nest as the 5 large eggs began to crack and hatch into 2 green draclings, and 3 black ones.
Suddenly, out of the bushes, a figure appeared. It was none other than Naraku.
"Nagori, it appears that you now have young to care for," Naraku said. "I'm so happy for you." there was a nasty sarcasm in his voice, which made the black dragon, now confirmed as Nagori, narrow her eyes in anger.
"Who are you?" she asked. "And what business do you have here?"
"I've come to put an end to your life," Naraku replied.
"I don't think so," Nagori's mate said, walking between Nagori and Naraku.
"So, you are this dragon's mate, are you?" Naraku said, chuckling maliciously after saying so. "You shall be first to fall. But I must know the name of my first victim."
"Hatashi," the dragon said, anger clearly showing in his response.
"Hatashi, eh? Then I shall take great pleasure in killing you," Naraku said.
With that, the two lunged at each other.
Inuyasha was sitting by the fire, slurping down the noodles of his ramen.
"This…is REALLY good, Kagome!" Inuyasha exclaimed, swallowing a mouthful of ramen.
"Well, at least your cravings for ramen haven't changed!" Kagome said.
"What an idiot," Kouga murmured, eating some potato chips.
"You're the idiot," Inuyasha muttered.
"Tch."
"Feh."
"…" the two glared at each other for a few moments before continuing to eat their food.
'Some things REALLY never change,' Kagome thought.
'Why must my brother be a fool, even WITHOUT his memories?' wondered Sesshomaru. 'Whatever. Once I lead them to Nagori, my debt will be done, and I will take my leave, and Inuyasha will never know that I ever came.'
Miroku was sitting by a tree with Sango, eating some of the lunch boxes Kagome brought, and drinking cans of soda.
"You know, maybe it wouldn't be so bad to have Inuyasha stay the way he was," he said, taking a couple sips of pop.
"What do you mean?" Sango asked.
"You know that the orb is the only way to get Inuyasha to actually remember everything, right?" Miroku stated. "I mean, if he doesn't, then he'll just get small flashbacks that he won't be able to remember, right?"
"Well, yeah, I guess so," Sango replied.
"Well, if he stayed as he is now, then he wouldn't have to remember some of the hardships he had," Miroku continued. "He wouldn't remember Kikyo, his family dying, or anything else. He wouldn't remember his brother despising him, Kagura, Naraku turning him against us, etc. Also, we could make him a better life, teach him how to be polite, and lots of other things!"
"But it wouldn't be right, Miroku!" Sango said, taking a bite out of a sandwich. "He needs to remember! We befriended the old Inuyasha! And all the hardships and memories he had made him that way! We can't change what already happened, you know that!"
"I know, but I'm just saying that we could make Inuyasha's life better." Miroku said. He sighed, and let the conversation end at that.
'Maybe Miroku's right…' Sango thought. 'I mean, Inuyasha did have a lot of hardship in his life. Maybe it would be better for him to not remember any of it. That way he could live with Kagome and not have to worry about Kikyo or anything else. We could teach him to have manners and do lots of other stuff. But then again…that would be taking away who he really is. Oh, I don't know…'
Sango decided to stop worrying about it, but through the entire time, the conversation with Miroku still lingered in her head.
Before she went to sleep that night, she wondered…
'Inuyasha. What would you do? Would you want to regain you memory or have a better life? What would you do?'
TO BE CONTINUED……