-cowers in fear- DON'T HURT ME! –stares at army of mad readers with Elizabeth at the front- Oh crap… -holds up umbrella in defense- Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry!Over half of thischapter has beendone FOREVER.Too many reasons for me not updating…they're not excuses…just rather unbelievable reasons (One being that my dad murdered my hardrive T.T). Well, let's just forget the little forever long lack-of-updating, ok? Okies.
NOTE: I will not be updating another chapter until chapter one is redone. I hate it with every last inch of my being.
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Inevitable
Chapter 10
To Remember and Forget
A young woman could be seen walking along the river bank. She tossed a rock attempting to make it skip –it didn't- and then turned to sit on the ground by a warm, sunny rock.
"What a beautiful day!" she cried. And indeed it was. She laid down and lightly smiled as she gazed at the few passing clouds.
A couple of minutes later, she was about to fall asleep when suddenly she heard her name being called.
"Kagome!" A short pause. "Kagome?"
Kagome slipped on a playful smirk on her face before bounding off into the trees to evade her pursuer. A black dog ear twitched from within her raven locks.
Clip clop. Clip clop. Clip clop clip
The footsteps were getting closer. Listening closely, she could hear some mumbled profanities as well. She smiled a fang-y grin as she began to mentally count the seconds until her little follower would arrive below her.
'Seven...six...five...four...three,' here she crouched down in a predatory manner, ready to pounce upon her unknowing "guest". '...two...ONE...No-...!'
"Oh there you are Kagome! I was afraid I'd lost you...again." said the voice of Kagome's pounce-ee (A/N: Work with me here. Pretend it's a word).
Kagome pouted as she jumped down to . "Oh geez! You ruin all the fun, Sango."
(A/N: Bet you thought it was Inuyasha, eh? Well...you probably didn't. Only my cousin was dumb enough to think that. -.-;)
Sango smirked and rolled her eyes at that. "Kagome, what have you been doing out here anyway? You were supposed to be getting firewood for the village...remember?"
'Oops...heh heh. Guess I forgot...' Kagome thought nervously as she sweatdropped.
Sango closed her eyes and placed the palm of her hand onto her forehead and shook her head in a disbelieving manner. "Oi, Kagome. Can't you ever remember anything?"
Kagome suddenly found her feet quite fascinating as a sorrowful looked crossed her features. Sango's question still unanswered, her usually alert, erect puppy ears drooped with sadness. "G-gomen nasai..." the hanyou girl whispered quietly. Sango, hearing this, removed her hand from her head and opened her eyes to glance at the suddenly quiet girl. She saw the expression on her friend's face and wondered what was wrong. Before she could voice her thoughts however, she remembered her words toward the girl and her eyes widened. She shook her head frantically as she tried to get the girl's attention.
"Oh, Kagome! I-...I'm sorry! I didn't mean it like that! I only meant-..."
Kagome cut her off. "No, no. Don't worry it's ok." She could see that Sango still felt bad for bringing it up, she plastered a fake smile onto her face. "Really, Sango! I know you didn't mean it! I doesn't bother me. I'm fine!" she tried to reassure the distraught girl.
"But Kagome.." Sango started. Kagome just waved it off.
"No big deal. Why don't you head back to the village? I'll be there with the firewood in a snap. You could help get the meal prepared or something until I get back."
Sango glared at Kagome and muttered a nearly inaudible, "Fine" Kagome laughed at this, knowing about the elder girl's dislike of cooking. Starting to head back towards the village she paused and looked over her should at Kagome. "You sure you don't want to come?" she asked her.
"Yeah," she sighed. "Besides I'm supposed to be one of your so-called evil demonic 'pets'. And I'm 'dangerous' " she rolled her eyes as she replayed what the villagers had said and asked about her. She laughed lightly, but it seemed hollow.
Sango sighed and muttered an "Oh, yeah..." before continuing on her trek towards the village.
Kagome waited until her friend left. Her fake smile slipped away and her sorrowful expression returned once more. Jumping up into a tree, she sat on a sturdy branch and reclined against its trunk. She never knew why she liked being up in trees. She figured it had something to do with her childhood. That thought seemed to depress her even more she grew more sullen. She knew nothing of her earlier childhood. She'd lost most of her memory, seeming to only remember only her name.
It had been Sango that had found her laying halfway in a river and halfway on its bank. Sango had been the one to tell her this, for she'd been unconscious at the time. Her life had pretty much started over when she had awakened.
/o0o0o0Flashback0o0o0o
"Hmm...I don't know what possessed me do this. I'm going to be a demon slayer. Not a demon saver." The owner of the voice shook their head and sighed. "She couldn't be all that bad. She looks to be even younger than I! Then again...she's a demon. Demon's don't age nearly as fast as we do...oh well." The voice's owner tore off another piece of cloth as she began to sloppily wrap the young injured demon's arm, leg, and head. Suddenly the demon began to stir and the elder girl jumped back.
"Hn?"
"Where am I? I feel like I was crushed with a boulder. My head…"
'She must not have noticed me yet.'
As if on cue, the demon girl whipped her head towards the human, ears twitching madly, as she became more alert of her surroundings. The human girl, not knowing what to do, called out for her father. "Father! She's awake! Come quickly!" After but a moment, the girl's father came into the hut. "What is it, Sango?"
"The demon girl--she's awake!"
The father looked over at the said child that had now pressed herself into a corner of the hut, obviously nervous. He then shook his head and sighed. "I still don't see how you managed to get me to save her. She's a demon and demons are—"
"Yes, yes, father. Demons are very dangerous and never to be trusted. It's just that this girl seems different. She doesn't look all that dangerous or even all that powerful! She can't be much younger than me. You said yourself that she was but a child! So we have to heal her."
The father looked at her, baffled at how his daughter, who had yet to even reach adolescence, had managed to get what she wanted yet again. He sighed. She had him wrapped around her finger and they both knew it.
"Excuse me…" a small voice brought them both father and daughter back to the matter at hand. They both turned to look at her. "Could one of you tell me where I am o-or why I'm bandaged up?"
Before her father could answer, the girl, now known as Sango, went up to her. "You're the demon exterminator's village and in my hut. We found you in the river unconscious and you were pretty beat up, so I got father to take you back here so that we could help you."
Now her father spoke. "As for how you got hurt in the first place, we were hoping that you could tell us. Do you remember?"
The girl scrunched up her nose as she tried to remember. Her look then became on of confusion and she glanced back up at the two pairs of staring eyes. "I…don't know. I think I remember a demon. And something gold? But that's all…" Her face changed once again, this time taking on the form of sadness. The other girl in the room, feeling sorry for her lightly touched her shoulder—so that she wouldn't causer her any more harm than necessary—and said to her "Don't worry, we'll find a way to help you remember. But for now…oh! I almost forgot! My name's Sango. What's yours?"
This time the girl could answer without thinking. "Kagome. My name is Kagome."
/o0o0o0End Flashback0o0o0o
Kagome smiled slightly. She was glad that she had met Sango. She was pretty sure that she would've died out there unprotected had Sango and her father not found her. One thing about the memory that bothered her however was the 'something gold' she had said that she had remembered. Over the years the 'something' had taken the form of a pair of beautiful golden eyes. Who or what they belonged Kagome wasn't sure, but she knew that they belonged to something dear to her. Thinking about it always gave her mixed feelings.
Shaking her head slightly and glancing over at the sun's descending position, she jumped down from her perch. "Sango won't get too mad at me if I stay out a little longer to bathe. I hope she can keep from strangling those 'gabbering hens' as she puts it." She laughed softly as she headed toward a hot spring not too far away.
I KNOW it's not anywhere NEAR enough for the long time I made you all wait, but the next chapter is much too fun. I wanted to take more time to write it and just write it as a separate chapter rather than deprive you guys of a chapter any longer. Sorry again! It'll be up as soon as I revise the first chapter.
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