On the last chapter:
Kagome lost her footing and tumbled down, scratching her face and arms in the passing branches. Inuyasha clung to the tree as he too was close to falling and watched Kagome fall helplessly down into the ditch. He threw himself down and slid on his feet.
Kagome lay there and the bottom, stunned. Her throat and mouth were burning from the running and the scratches from the bushes and branches stung and itched.
Inuyasha ran up to her and held her to his kimono. She tried to push him away but was too weak. "Kagome, what the hell is going on?" He asked.
"Who ARE you?" She cried out through her pain.
Chapter two: Forgotten love
Inuyasha's heart stopped. He held her up and looked at her. "Yo- You don't know who I am...?" He asked her slowly, hoping with everything he had that she was kidding.
"No!" Kagome cried, tears streaming down her face. "I have never seen you before! Who are you? What are you going to do with me!"
"O-o-ok, Kagome. You can stop joking now. It isn't funny." Inuyasha said. But the way she said it was a little too serious.
"I'm NOT JOKING!" Kagome screamed. But her injuries refused to let her voice go any higher then normal talking.
"Ok, something is really wrong with you, Kagome." Inuyasha said, more gently then he had ever spoken to her. He picked her up and ran as fast as he could towards Priestess Kaede's village.
As he ran off, he didn't sense or smell a cloaked figure hidden in the darkness behind him. She sensed his heart stop when she didn't recognize him. His sadness when she attempted to push him away. She smiled faintly under her cloak. She lifted out her hand and gently whistled a melodious and happy tune. A joyous bird sprang onto her outstretched finger and as soon as the poor creature put it's feet on her finger, then it melted onto her palm.
She pulled the ashes to her and stroked the feather filled dust. "That one named Inuyasha is cute. I believe I will have him in my hands soon enough." Syfence smiled again and dumped the ashes onto the ground. The dust scattered in the wind before it could hit the ground.
Inuyasha
ran as fast as he could. He didn't care what tore at his flesh,
ripped at his kimono, or threatened his existence. For the moment,
his life didn't matter. Something was wrong with his Kagome. She was
injured, not to mention some evil demonic creature had captured her
mind and run off with her memories. His Kagome. 'Why her?' He
thought.
'He is the enemy' Kagome thought. 'Why am I letting him
carry me? Who knows what he might do to me?'
Unknown to her, but she subconsciously trusted him. She could have had the strength to push him away and run before collapsing, but she didn't. Syfence may have erased all her love for him in her mind, but there was one thing she had no power over. The mind in the heart.
Syfence could have killed Kagome on her own will, but she still could not erase the fact that Kagome loved Inuyasha. The only problem was, Kagome didn't have a clue who the heck the one who was carrying her. Inuyasha would have to etch his memory in her cleared mind all over again.
Inuyasha neared a ditch and jumped to a tree, leaping from branch to branch. Kagome rested her troubled mind by falling asleep.
A few minutes later, Inuyasha got to Kaede's hut.
"Inuyasha, ye are early. What ails ye?" Kaede asked, walking towards them with a bow like a walking stick.
"It ain't me. Kagome won't recognize me. Wha- what happened?" Inuyasha told Kaede, blinking back tears that flowed out without his control. Kaede took no notice to Inuyasha's sensitivity to the situation, she jogged over to where Kagome was put, when Inuyasha laid her gently in a sleeping mat.
Kaede felt her forehead and gingerly lifted Kagome's eyelid to see what was wrong with her. Nothing seemed to be wrong with her. She had no fever, she seemed perfectly fine. However...
"Inuyasha, do ye see that?" Kaede said, pointing to Kagome's pupil.
"See what? I don't see anything." Inuyasha said, squinting, but not really noticing anything different.
"Look yonder. Ye are half demon, at least act like ye are one." Kaede said, pointing her finger slightly closer to Kagome's pupil.
"What? Ya mean the scratch in the pupil? How do you know that's not apart of the eye?"
"Because! Oh, Inuyasha, ye..." Kaede said, getting very frustrated at him. "Because, that scratch is too straight and peculiarly placed to be apart of the eye. That is no ordinary scratch. There is no other possible way to mark the eye that way."
"Ok, then old hag, what is that mark that is, 'too straight and peculiarly placed to be apart of the eye'? Inuyasha asked, slightly mocking the old woman.
"Inuyasha!" Kaede said sharply, "Ye wish to know what is wrong with Kagome, yet ye still choose to mock me."
"Ok, I'm sorry hag, what's wrong with Kagome?" Inuyasha said, more sincere this time.
Kaede sighed. "Kagome has been bewitched. Not by a demon either, but a human, a hypnotist."
Inuyasha gaped at her.
"Ye are that clueless aye? Very well. A hypnotist is a person who has the power of mind control. He or she can have the power to make his victim do whatever he wants them to do."
"So, I fail to see what this has to do with Kagome." Inuyasha snapped.
"Kagome apparently has fallen into that trap. The hypnotist has clearly erased her memory."
Inuyasha's jaw dropped. "Y-y-you mean, she doesn't remember anything about me?"
Kaede nodded. "But the confusing thing about all of this is that Kagome couldn't just fall under that trap so easily. Something must've happened for her to have attracted him to her. What did you do Inuyasha?"
"How the heck should I know? I didn't do anything." Inuyasha said.
"Are you sure? It could have been something small, anything. Did you do anything to hurt her feelings?"
"No. I didn't do anything..." Inuyasha protested, but in his head, he rewound to everything that had happened.
'Kikyo, I want to ask something.' Inuyasha said.
Kikyo turned, 'What could I possibly do to help you. You love someone else, I can't possibly do anything that can ease your pain.'
'It's not like that. I just want to know something. Back 50 years ago. What happened between us? What did I do?'
"How can you ask that? You know precisely what happened. That claw to my shoulder. The blood.' Kikyo's hands shook as she looked at them. 'Then you come back to ask what you did to me.'
Then Kikyo broke down to tears. Inuyasha caught her and hugged her, holding her tightly. A sound was heard in the bushes, but he paid no attention to it.
"I still don't remember doing anything." Inuyasha stated firmly. Kaede shrugged.
"Fine then, child. There is only one way to stop this menace from permanently draining ye from all her memories." Kaede said, placing her hand on Kagome's cheek. Kagome was still resting peacefully. She felt safe for some reason unknown to her.
"Ok, give it to me old hag." Inuyasha said.
"Ye still haven't changed, Inuyasha." Kaede said dully. "Ok, ye must find an oracle. Only they have the power to reverse a hypnotist's power."
"Great. We don't have anything like that here." Inuyasha replied, with a you-idiot expression on his face.
"Listen ye foolish hanyou. There has been a legend of two oracles that wed a hundred and fifteen years ago."
"Right, well, we're looking for PRESENT day oracles, not ancient history."
"Listen to me for once Inuyasha." Kaede said, really not amused at Inuyasha's smart ass comments. "One of the oracles had the power of telekineses. The other, had the power of foresight. Three years after their marriage, they had a babe. Not one, but two. They were twins. They, like their parents, were oracles. Twelve years later, a fierce dragon struck their village. The mother and father single-handedly fought the dragon, for the dragon had slaughtered all the villagers, leaving only them. The father, the one who had the power of foresight, fell first. The mother, outraged, did a final power that ended up killing her. The dragon's last move was to send an attack that smashed the land and sent hell flying out. But soon, the dragon died and all that was left was ruins."
"Right. And as much as I hate history, I don't get it." Inuyasha said, sitting down on the floor, listening to her sermon.
"Well, legend has it that their children never died. And that before the hell reached them, their oracle magic created a barrier that sealed them to a tree in a magic-induced slumber. Much like ye Inuyasha. No one could release them because of the barrier. And they were stuck there for a hundred years."
"And if there were no survivors from the dragons attacks, how did YOU hear it?" Said Inuyasha, slightly awed.
"A fallen soldier that was returning home saw the destruction and saw a blinding light after he saw the dragon's attack. He escaped the chaos and reported what he saw to the next village. Now what we need for you to do, is for YOU to break the spell, release the oracles, and save Kagome's lost memories."
Ooh, a new journey for Inuyasha. How will he break the barrier however? If you want to find out, stay tuned. (wow, I sound like a TV special.)
See ya next chapter!
Alena Rio