Title: Forgetting you
Author: Moi!
Pairing: Not telling! Hehe.
Rating: Most likely K+. Might, might change later.
Summary: When Kagome finally has had enough of InuYasha sneaking off for Kikyou, she runs back to her time with barely concealed tears. She throws herself at her bed, crying for her and InuYasha's non-existent relationship. Kagome keeps saying to herself that she never met him; never loved him. Ever heard of the saying "Be careful what you wish for?" Kagome is finally able to live her life without the weight of loving someone who will never love her back. Is this a new chance for InuYasha to start over with Kagome I smell? Or will he leave Kagome forever for Kikyou?

A/n: I've had this idea stuck in my head for a while now. Hopefully this doesn't seem like the typical, "InuYasha's seen with Kikyou; Kagome runs off and cries like a baby" story. I just needed to get it out…

Chapter One: Never

Miroku, Sango, and Kagome set up camp, drunk with happiness. They had just gotten back from collecting five jewel shards. Five! It had been an extremely tough monster, which in turn was an extremely hard fight. But after all that fighting they had made it! None of them were injured badly – Kagome just had a broken arm that was in a makeshift sling, and Miroku had a big bruise on his shoulder. Kagome, after they celebrated of course, would go back to her time to get a real cast for her arm, and Miroku would heal in a little time. So, they were all beyond happy.

Except for InuYasha that is.

'He's just being his normal Stomp-any-fun self,' Kagome thought with a frown. She turned from where she was setting up her sleeping bag –'With ONE arm!' – and looked up at the tree InuYasha was in. He was looking off into the distance again, golden eyes far away. Her angry glare turned into a cheerless one as she realized who he must be thinking of. Kikyou.

InuYasha turned slowly towards her, and seemed to come back to reality with a jump. Kagome kept staring at her, her expression turning to anger again. Forgetting about the cheerful victory that they had just earned, her glare turned heated with each thought she had.

'He's been sneaking off again… I know it. Every night for the past week it's been happening. He thinks no one sees him when he goes, but we all do. I hate those pitying looks that Sango and Miroku give me; I get envious of them. They don't know the pain I'm going through… both of them have love promised to each other in their future. But still, I give them the most "I'm ok, I'm fine," smile I can muster, and pretend to fall asleep. I hear them whispering about me, thinking I'm asleep. They do pity me. They try to think of ways to comfort me, but I'm pretty sure I'm fine. Pretty sure. The only thing I'm afraid of is rejection. Which is funny, because I think that's what InuYasha's afraid of. But I could never reject him. Never. But I think InuYasha could reject me. And he probably will if he gets a chance with Kikyou.'

The only response she got from him was a glare equal to her own heated one. Kagome sighed lightly, turning back to her sleeping bag. It took her a bit more time than usual, considering that she could only move one arm, but after finishing with that, she went over to help Miroku and Sango with the fire and dinner. She chuckled as she saw them "flirting." This consisted of Miroku being a pervert, with Sango beating him afterwards with every wrong comment and every wrong gesture he made.

Kagome, herself, thought it was cute. It was more than InuYasha and her would ever have.

Miroku stopped as he saw Kagome's crestfallen look. He was reaching for Sango's bottom when he noticed it. She had this lopsided smile that she put on to try and convince the others she was "happy" when she was hurting inside. She was kind of just sitting there, staring in space with that pained smile on her face. Miroku pulled his hand back and frowned, while Sango hit him, surprised at his withdrawal.

"Oww." Miroku said absentmindedly as he narrowed his eyes in concentration. Sango, not knowing what to think, thought he needed to go to the bathroom with his scrunched up face, and his concentrated expression.

Sango was about to tell him to let it out in the woods, instead of standing there looking constipated, when Miroku spoke up proving her theory wrong.

"Aha! Got it!" This gained the attention of the three other individuals in the camp; one angry, one vacant, and one scared with a hint of anger. Miroku backed away from the tree InuYasha was resting in, not liking the look the hanyou was giving him. It was… murderous. Which brought him to the conclusion that he was either asleep or deep in thought.

Miroku chuckled nervously, muttering sorry quietly, scratching the back of his head in discomfort and looking at the ground. Kagome went back to staring blankly at the stars while InuYasha gave one last glare headed in his direction before slowly closing his eyes. After awhile he slouched back to his normal position. It was then that he turned his eyes towards Sango. Which brought up another theory in Sango's mind.

'Shoot… he was probably thinking up a lecherous plan! He better not come near me or he's getting both his hands cut off…' Sango thought dangerously.

Miroku was a little unnerved at the venomous glare he was being given by Sango, but he advanced towards her in determination. After all, this wasn't for him.

"Miroku, you better not be planning anything or I swear to Buddha I will-" she started out in a low whisper, only to have Miroku cut her off.

"Sango." He pleaded in a serious voice that took away her suspicions. He got closer, and smiled a little when her over-sized boomerang didn't hit him like he thought, but instead he got warning glances. Sango raised her boomerang a little upon seeing his smile, but lowered it as she, once again, heard the seriousness in his voice.

"It's about… Kagome." Miroku whispered.

Sango immediately put down the boomerang, trusting he wouldn't do anything lecherous. She then looked to her friend worriedly and was surprised at her expression. Guilt overwhelmed her as she told herself she should've noticed that Kagome wasn't joining in their "celebrating".

She looked back towards Miroku with concerned eyes as he started to speak.

"Sango, I'm sure you're just as worried about her as I am." He paused and she shook her head, telling him to go on and agreeing that she was indeed concerned. "We both know who it probably is." With this they both looked at the sleeping hanyou. "I think she needs cheering up. But I myself am at a loss for ideas. Do you have any suggestions?"

Sango thought for a moment, and that little light bulb that she saw over everyone else's head in her mind's eye appeared over hers.

"I got it!" she whispered excitedly. "We need to get her mind off of InuYasha and

and… her." Sango said "her" maliciously, thinking of how the dead shell had hurt one of her best friend countless times.

"And… how do you suppose we go about doing that?"

Miroku's question brought her out of her reverie as she sorted through the ideas that were twirling in her mind. She grasped one, and seemed to think it a good one.

"We are by Kaede's village, are we not?"

Miroku, not expecting another question but a suggestion, nodded his head. They were indeed by the village. They were close to the bone-eaters well to be exact. They were all very, very tired from their fight, so they decided to camp near the village instead of walking the couple of blocks to it.

"And there is a lake nearby, isn't there?"

Not knowing where she was going, Miroku leaned against a nearby tree and nodded his head slowly.

"How about we go for a swim! InuYasha may or may not come, and if he doesn't, then we can include her and make her feel loved! Then she can forget all about the baka." She made sure to keep her voice low, lest risk the baka overhearing their – her – foolproof plan.

Miroku seemed in thought, contemplating on if it would work, and what could go wrong. He slowly nodded his head once again, approving of Sango's plan.

'The worst thing that can happen,' Miroku thought. 'Is that InuYasha's gone by the time we get back with Kikyou. In that case, we can distract her, and in no time she will fall asleep.

"That's a good idea, Sango-chan." Sango flinched a bit at his suffix to her name, but never-the-less let him continue. "We all know how much Kagome likes to swim."

Sango smiled at his compliment to her plan, and went to tell Kagome of their plans. As she wan leaning over to wake Kagome from her "daydream", she felt something on her butt. Sango straightened and stiffened, and still felt whatever it was attached to her backside. She turned around, and her suspicions came true.

"Miroku…" she growled warningly, self consciously reaching for her weapon.

"Sorry, sorry dear Sango-chan. Won't happen again."

"Yeah, yeah, sure it won't." she said sarcastically, disbelieving.

"Really." Miroku answered back playfully.

"Whatever," Sango muttered, rolling her eyes at the monk. "Just…" she started, eyeing him warily. "Back away so I can tell Kagome. Please?"

"Whatever you say, Sango my dear." Miroku then looked up at the sky.

'Ah. Swimming under the stars and the moon. Is that not romantic?'

He watched Sango as she sat down across from Kagome, waiting for Kagome to notice her presence. When Kagome just sat there not doing anything, he saw Sango reach out and gentle put her hand on Kagome's shoulder. Miroku saw this, and wished for one time, one time only, she could be that gentle with him. He didn't think that was too much to ask.

Kagome was startled when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She awakened form her thoughts, and looked dazedly at the person across from her. 'Is that InuYasha?' she asked herself, starting to panic. Then the figure came into focus, and she could see that it was only Sango.

Kagome glanced at InuYasha's tree swiftly, trying not to draw attention to herself looking at him. She sighed softly as she saw him, apparently asleep, his chest rising up and down with each breath. She looked back at Sango, sighing, and cursed inwardly at Sango's worried expression.

She must have seen her look at InuYasha…

Kagome put on a smile, half fake and half genuine. She was glad to see her friend, and glad to see she was worried about her. But, Kagome kept telling herself that their looks only made it harder to forget about her love for InuYasha.

"Yes, Sango-chan?"

"Kagome-chan, would you like to go swimming?" Sango said to her, smiling softly. She saw Sango look over her shoulder at Miroku, and see him nod. Where they up to something? She doubted it was something lecherous, as Sango was involved. Kagome decided to give them the benefit of the doubt; to think that they wanted to celebrate with her of their victory. So, even though Kagome was not in the mood to celebrate, she wanted to go. She could get in a happy mood, and maybe even forget about InuYasha, however temporary it may be.

"Swimming? At night?" Kagome despite her depressed mood, started to feel her spirits lift a bit. She loved swimming! And, how awesome would it be to go swimming at night with her caring and wonderful friends? Albeit one was lecherous… Kagome decided then that she would go with them, and have fun.

Miroku came over by Sango, and sat by them. With a serious face he said, "Yeah. It sounds like much fun. But… we've decided… it would be best not to bring… InuYasha."

Kagome nodded her head slowly, much like Miroku had done, and stood up. Miroku and Sango watched her as she went to her yellow backpack, and pulled out what looked to be undergarments. Miroku's eyes lit up.

"Kagome-sama!" he whispered happily, "Is that what you are wearing to our outing?"

Kagome swore she saw a vein pop out of Sango's forehead before she shut her eyes in her annoyed expression and punched his arm. She would've slapped him, but Miroku and Sango both were trying their best to not wake up the hanyou.

"Oww… my dear Sango… why did you find the need to hurt the innocent? I was simply asking a question."

"Innocent my butt." Sango said scoffing.

"And what a nice butt you have, Sango."

Which only earned him yet another punch in the arm. Which probably led to another bruise, along with the one on his shoulder.

Kagome chuckled amusingly, drawing the attention to her. She looked at Miroku, then to Sango, then back again.

"Miroku…" Kagome started, "This is a swimsuit. It's what we wear in the future when we go swimming."

Miroku started to mutter something that suspiciously sounded like "I'm going to sneak to your time one of these days…" but stopped when he saw Sango's hand awfully close to his now bruising arm.

"Mercy… mercy!" he whispered loudly, scooting away from Sango.

Sango smiled triumphantly, as she asked them, "So, then, are we ready to go?"

"Yes…" Kagome answered. She gathered a cover-up – which happened to just be a big shirt – and started to walk behind her two older friends.

"You know, Sango." Kagome started amusingly. "I have another swimsuit in my bag…"

At this Miroku visibly straightened and turned to Sango with bright eyes.

Sango was less than eager as she turned to him and malevolently glared at him.

"Don't even think about it monk."

Which then. He went back to his slumped state.

'At least Kagome has her sense of humor back.' Sango thought, glad that her plan was already affecting her friend.

She reflexively hit Miroku on the head with her boomerang that she wouldn't leave behind (for obvious reasons, along with the fact that demons were lurking) as he made a grab for her bottom.

"Serves you right," she grumbled, and moved towards her giggling friend as they all started towards the lake.

A/n: I really hope this isn't that short... and jeez... I just had to start another story. Am I an idiot or am I an idiot? -sigh- Stupid stories get stuck in my head...

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