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(A/N: Hey there guys, I'm back hope you all enjoy this chapter. I got some inspiration for this story and decided to go with it.)
Chapter 5: Making a Choice, Pieces of a Lost Memory
By Tainted InuShemeeko
Inuyasha continued his steady pace away from Kagome and the others as he tried his best to get his thoughts together, not like he had that many thoughts to get together at this point.
'I've never kissed Kagome, I just don't understand. Why wouldn't I have she's breath taking.'
At first Inuyasha could believe some of the things he had slowly been learning about himself. The fact that he had been an arrogant fool, he found to be completely unbelievable. Then again like he had said earlier Kagome didn't seem like that kind of person that is the kind of person who would lie about who he really was.
"I just don't get it, if we've never kissed then why the hell do I feel like I have to protect her?"
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Kagome bit her lips as she continued on her way toward the bone-eater's well. She knew she shouldn't be upset, but she couldn't help it, it hurt too much not to.
"Oh, InuYasha why did all this have to happen, we were at an understanding with each other. Now I'm not sure where we stand."
She sighed as she continued on to her destination. It wasn't that she really wanted to go home it was just that she figured that Inuyasha needed some time to himself.
'I'll probably just keep confusing him so it'll just be better if I just go home for a little while. Hmmm, I wonder why it got dark all of a sudden.'
Kagome glanced over her shoulder to see what the cause of the shadow was. After she looked she wished that she hadn't.
"This can't be good; I don't even have my bow and arrows."
Something cold, wet and slimy shot out and wrapped itself around Kagome.
"Eww gross, Inuyasha!"
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Inuyasha's ears drooped as he enter Kaede's hut, causing Sango and Miroku to look over at him. Sango noticed the sad look on his face and spoke first.
"Inuyasha, what happened? You look pretty down."
At first it seemed that Inuyasha hadn't heard her.
"Uh, what, oh nothing, it's just that I kissed Kagome."
Sango's response was slow and gentle.
"Oh, I see and kissing her is what has you so upset. Kissing Kagome couldn't have been that bad, was it?"
Inuyasha shook his head no.
"It's not that it's just, that after we kissed she seemed upset and then we had an argument."
Sango moved to sit beside the hanyou, while Miroku pretended to be napping, and Shippo and Kirara snoozed.
"Do you want to talk about it Inuyasha? Tell me what happened."
Inuyasha sighed as he prepared to tell Sango what had happened between him and Kagome.
"After I kissed her she looked scared. So I asked her what I had did wrong, at first she said it was nothing. Then she told me that it was because I was still in love with Kikyo. How Sango, how can I still be in love with someone who is dead?"
A sad looked etched itself into Sango's eyes as she answered him.
"I wish I could tell you, but some things we have to figure out on our own; so that's just something you will have to answer for yourself, Inuyasha."
Inuyasha's ears seemed to droop even more once he heard this.
"I was afraid of that. Some help you've been Sango."
Sango smiled at the little bit of the Inuyasha, she knew came through. She was startled when Inuyasha's ear sat up suddenly, and twitched from every direction.
"Inuyasha, what is it?"
Inuyasha turned toward the door of the hut before he answered her.
"Kagome, she's in danger."
Hearing this Miroku's eyes snapped open, Sango's eyes widened in disbelief. She and Miroku stood to their feet; a strange low growl came from Inuyasha's direction.
"Whatever it is I don't like the smell of it, it smells like death. Hang on Kagome I'm coming."
In one quick flash Inuyasha was gone and out of any of his friends views.
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Kagome continued to struggle, however she learned that the harder she fought the tighter the ooze's hold her got.
'Ew, this is so gross, just what I always wanted to be killed by a glob of slime. What is it any way it's almost like it's trying to eat me?'
'Ew that's even grosser. Inuyasha where are you? Oh no Inuyasha still doesn't have his memory back, what if he does remember how to fight?'
She then went back to try and free herself only to find herself becoming weaker. Her lungs were becoming heavy as if someone had placed a huge rock on her chest.
'I can't...breathe.'
A wave of dizziness came over her as she tried to focus her blurring vision. It was then that she could have sworn she had seen a flash of red.
"Inu...yasha."
Just as she was able to utter his name, she slipped into a strange and deep darkness.
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Inuyasha's heart seemed to do a flip flop in his chest when he saw Kagome lose consciousness.
"Kagome!"
"You bastard, I don't you who you are, or even what you are. But I do know one thing you're going to pay for hurting Kagome."
There was a flash inside his head as memory of another time Kagome had been knocked unconscious. He had been locked in battle with a demon with the same colored hair and eyes as him. He had been injured by the elegant looking demon, that's when Kagome had fire one of her arrows.
The images in his mind blurred before they appeared once again. Only this time the demon had directed his attack towards Kagome and not him. Once seeing the image in his head he felt fear encircle his heart. He himself had jumped in front of her trying to shield her from the attack that had shot out from the sword the demon had been holding. He and Kagome flew through the air before they hit the ground.
The little fox demon known as Shippo had asked if they were hurt. Inuyasha then rubbed his head as he pulled himself up and then turned to Kagome.
"You alright, Kagome?
He had then lifted her head enough to cause her to moan, but she did not open her eyes. He had then spoken to the demon; he was sure he saw himself saying the demon's name. Yet inside his head it still remained muted.
"You'll regret that ..........She doesn't deserve it."
He then glanced at Miroku and Shippo as he spoke again.
"Take Kagome, and get out of here fast. Get as far away as you can."
"Are you sure?" the little fox had asked his eyes where wide with worry.
He then spoke again,
"Get Kagome out of here; guard her with your life."
End of memory
After that was spoken the memory ended in a flash of color. Inuyasha placed a hand to his head as he shook. A deep angry growl erupted from within him, as his hands balled into tight fist. Before anyone could stop him Inuyasha charged the slimy being, with his right hand on the hilt of the Tetsusegia.
"INUYASHA! Wait."
No matter how hard Miroku tried his words were unheard. Sango gasped as she noticed something.
"Miroku, Inuyasha, has drawn Tetsusegia."
The sword glowed with a bright yellow light as he swung it toward the black ooze.
"This is for hurting my Kagome."
Inuyasha was taken by surprise when the slimy glob of oozed shrieked in pain when the attack from Tetsusegia hit it. It then released Kagome right before in disappeared into a crack in the ground. Inuyasha however did not notice, his eyes where trained on the huge fang that he now held in his hand.
'Kagome was right Tetsusegia isn't just an old beat up sword."
That's when he remembered something else.
"Kagome."
He then quickly looked behind him to find her body lying on the ground unmoving. Inuyasha felt his heart tighten at the sight. She looked so pale, as she lay on the ground in the dirt, when one passing fear shot through his mind.
'No, she can't be. Then again she's not half-demon like I am.'
Shaking out of his thoughts he saw that Miroku, Sango and Shippo were gathered around her body. Tears were flying from Shippo's eyes. Inuyasha gripped his head as another memory flickered in the darkness of his mind.
Memory
They all were sitting around the campfire as Kagome told them more about her era. The flames seemed to dance across everyone's features.
"Now tell me again what this c-pre-r is again?"
Kagome shook her head at him.
"It's not c-pre-r Inuyasha, its CPR."
"Feh, whatever so what is it anyway."
Kagome thought about what she was going to say before she said it.
"Well, it's something you do for someone who's not breathing and their heart has stopped. You blow twice into their mouths to get air to fill their lungs."
She then placed to fingers above her sternum, as she continued to speak.
"You lace the fingers of your left hand through the fingers of your right hand, while you place the palm of your right hand here."
"As you apply pressure to this bone you count one and two, and three and four. You keep counting until the reach 15 and then you listen for air coming out of the mouth and if not you start all of again."
She then smiled at him.
"And that's how you do CPR Inuyasha."
"Feh, whatever."
End of memory
With all this now in mind he walked quickly over to his friends.
"Could you move...please I need room."
Now on his knees Inuyasha placed an ear to her chest there was no heart beat just like he had feared. He then placed his lips against hers' and blew; he then carefully placed the palm of his right hand and pressed just under her breast. He did this gently for he feared, if he did it any harder that he would break something.
'Please let this work I can't lose you, not now. Not after I've made my choice. Who I was won't mean a damn thing if your not here with me.'
(A/N: gasp Oh the horror, it's a cliffhanger, I know, I know. I finally get a chapter typed and I leave it like this. I will start chapter 6 as so as I finish Ch. 6 to Cry of the Heart, Ch. 12 to From Ice to Sunshine, and Ch. 2 of Shadows Fall there with probably be other stories in there too.
If you guys get a chance Check out Shadows Fall sometime will you it's an InuYasha AU fic. It's also rated R, but it's about my favorite creatures of the night, vampires.
Ja ne!
Tainted InuShemeeko)
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