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On the last chapter of 'Who am I?' :
"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."
Chapter three: The misunderstanding and the start of the Journey
"Tell me, where in the world am I supposed to go?" Inuyasha asked her, slightly impatiently.
Kaede got up, and while Inuyasha waited, when slowly as she was elderly, to a storage, speaking as she searched through the mass of papers.
"Inuyasha, can you read?"
"No." (I don't know if he does or not, I'm pretending he doesn't.)
Kaede sighed. "Well, I don't know how to explain it to ye then. From, last knowledge, the oracles were found, Ah here it is." Kaede pulled out a piece of paper, yellow and slightly torn from old age. Inuyasha stared at it.
"Even though this may look like--"
"A piece of crap?"
Kaede sighed. "Yes Inuyasha, what ye said. It is very useful. Take this to help ye find the place ye need to find to assist Kagome." Kaede pointed to a dot. "This Inuyasha, is where the remains of Maier (I made that up) was last found. It is not found on any other map. Do not loose this. This," She pointed to another dot. "Is where we are. That should be enough." She furled the piece of paper up again and held it out to Inuyasha.
Inuyasha snatched it and tucked it away under his kimono. He looked softly at Kagome who was sleeping peacefully.
Several miles away, something pulsated under the branches of a tree. Almost instantly, the leaves melted and drooped to the ground. The flowers, that were just beginning to bloom, turned to dust, and scattered in the wind. Then, all that was left was a dead tree, and sitting contently in it's dead branches, was a hooded figure playing with a small pink stone in her hands. With another pulse, cracks formed under the tree and birds and fleeing animals who tried to scatter collapsed and its flesh rotted from its bones like time had had been pushed forward.
From under her hood, she smiled a sinister grin. "So they have found me out, eh? It seems that the old woman will have to die. Nonetheless, lets see if they can even find the Blood Angel's Children." But that strong of hypnotic strength must prove that Syfence was greatly angered.
Night gave way to dawn and morning arose. Kagome slowly opened her eyes. Something she saw made her close them again. She opened one eye and saw a demon. The demon that had kidnapped her. He was dosing in the corner, with his sword tucked in his folded arms. Kagome's breath quickened. The demon's ear twitched. Kagome clapped a hand over her mouth. The demon did not appear to have noticed. Kagome calmed down and thought of what to do. Next to him, a wooden plank laid innocently against the wall. Kagome slowly got out of the mat and tiptoed over.
Kaede was giving advice to a villager when a loud, pissed off, and concerned, "KAEDE!" made her jump. She hurried over and ran to her place, followed by Shippo. Kagome, with tears in her eyes, had in her hands a wooden plank in her hands. But it was broken clean in half.
Shippo saw this, and pretended to have a coughing fit, then, with tears in HIS eyes, went away, to laugh his head off. Kaede stared first at Kagome, then at the wooden plank, then at the area that it connected with to make it snap in half, Inuyasha's head.
Kaede sighed (she's been sighing a lot lately) and went to tend to Inuyasha's bruise. Kagome stared at her. "How can you help him, he was the one who kidnapped me, Kaede. And I'm pretty sure that he is not on our side."
Inuyasha looked at her, hurt. Kaede did not react, she had seen this coming. "Inuyasha is not the enemy here Kagome." Kaede said calmly, laying a cool washcloth over a nasty red bump on his forehead. "He is trusted in this village and with ye."
"But I don't remember anything about this demon." Kagome protested. "The only thing that I am positive of is that he hurt me, but I don't even know how and why he hurt me."
"I've talked to Inuyasha, and he says that that he did nothing to harm ye in any way."
"He lies!"
"Listen to me Kagome," Kaede said softly, holding the panicking Kagome's face still. "Ye memory has been erased. We know not why, or by who. What we do know is that yonder demon, Inuyasha, rescued you. He cares deeply for ye, ye understand that."
Kagome held still while Kaede spoke. And when she spoke of Inuyasha in such a defensive and convincing way, tears welled up and poured down her cheeks. "If that's true, why does it hurt so much?" Kagome whispered, breaking down and sobbing into Kaede's arms.
Inuyasha had heard enough. While Kagome cried, Inuyasha got up and left the hut, walking with his head bowed towards the direction of the rising sun, where Kaede said the Oracles were.
Inuyasha felt so useless. There was nothing that he could do. Kagome had gotten hurt on his account. It was his fault that this had happened. He wasn't there to protect her. This was no longer about Kikyo. He threw that memory to the side. It was forgotten. That wasn't the reason anymore. He wasn't protecting her like he promised. Now that she was injured mentally, he felt like the most pathetic thing in the world. He clenched his fists and vowed that he would find the Oracles, that he would save Kagome's memories, and that he would be a better friend in the future.
As he ran off into the woods, he was too determined to notice a small character hidden by the shadows, following him.
Inuyasha had run about 5 miles. He pulled out the map that Kaede had given him. "Ok, so it felt like I ran about 5,6 miles." Inuyasha said out loud to himself, tracing were he went with a claw. "So... I should be... here." He said, pointing to a mountain pass. He looked around. He was surrounded in vegetation and it was humid. There wasn't a chance in hell that this was a mountain pass. "Oh, dammit!" He shouted in anger. A squabble was heard in the mass of vegetation and trees. Inuyasha quieted down. Someone was definitely following him.
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Who
could it be? Miroku, Sango, Shippo... maybe even Kouga! But who? Who!
(This is where you clutch the monitor, shaking it, screaming "WHO!")
Yeah... stick around, I'll still be writing, you should still reading. Hopefully this story will have some success. Those who have questions with the plot, don't hestitate to e-mail me. And those who wish to comment, don't hesitate to review. Oh, and forgive any and all typos. Including that in any other stories.
Good day to you,
Alena Rio