Kagome, walked away from Inuyasha seething with anger. Stomping her feet, she walked into the kitchen to get a drink, when she got her bottled water, she closed the door and looked at all the pictures and knick knacks on the fridge. This one picture caught her eyes, out of about 20 different pictures, she felt that there was something different about this picture. The picture was black and white, and there was a younger Inuyasha and this other girl that looked like her, but the girl on the picture had straighter hair and her make-up was way too much, it looked like she didn't like the whole "natural look." Kagome scrutinized this picture until she can see it even if she closed her eyes, every crease and every detail, especially the smile on Inuyasha's face. It wasnt his usual smile, there was a glow around him and the smile reached his eyes, it was one of those smiles that only appear once in a while. It's not the fake smile everyone's capable of doing, and it's not a forced smile either.
Wondering what Kagome's doing, Inuyasha went inside and looked for her. He looked for her in the kitchen, and in the library, but she wasn't there. He looked in the bathroom in the room, beside the library and he found her there, straightening her hair. She didn't stop until it was as straight as a line, Inuyasha just stood there looking at her, an awful lot of memories rushing to him.
"Kikyo, where are you?" yelled Inuyasha to the empty sounding house.
"I'm up here, in the bathroom." replied Kikyo.
"Okay, I'm coming." announced Inuyasha.
Once there, he found her straightening her already straight hair. She was looking at herself disgustingly and looked at him.
"I hate my face, it's so ugly." she said.
"No its not, I can't imagine a girl having a prettier face than yours." Inuyasha said, walking over to put his arms around her waist.
Kagome caught a glimpse at Inuyasha on the mirror, he looked like he saw a ghost almost, he was just staring at her, not doing anything.
"Inuyasha, what are you doing over here?" shouted Kagome.
Inuyasha snapped out of his trance and once again looked at Kagome.
"Nothing, I was looking for you. I wanted to say, I wanted to say...I'm sorry. I didn't mean what I said earlier, I was just playing. I did not mean to hurt your feelings in any way." apologized Inuyasha.
"That's okay, I was just fixing my hair like the girl in the picture on the fridge." said Kagome, and instantly covered her mouth, realizing that she thought out loud.
"What picture, are you talking about?" asked Inuyasha.
"Nothing, just one of the pictures on the fridge, that's all." Kagome answered nervously.
Kagome walked out of the bathroom, holding her straightener on her left hand. Inuyasha followed her around like a stalker, again, not taking his eyes off of her. Kagome on the other hand just kept on fidgeting with her hair straightener, she didn't know what to do, or who was in the picture even. But she had a feeling that it had to do with Kikyo, Inu's ex-girlfriend, not just because of the facial resemblance that his niece had noticed, but because of the way he was looking at her, like he was reliving a moment in time when that, that Kikyo girl was still around.
Scared that she might blurt out the wrong things, Kagome kept her mouth shut and walked towards the pool, to ask Sango instead. She briskly walked towards the french doors, widely aware of Inuysha following her. Once she reached the pool side Inuyasha, thankfully, went Miroku's way, and she half-ran, half-walked towards Sango.
"Woah Kagome, what did you do to your hair, you look almost exactly like, Kik- I mean you look really nice." commented Sango.
"That's why I'm here, to ask you about a picture on the fridge. There was this girl in the picture who had this really really straight hair, and she was beside Yash, and they were smiling and Inuyasha looked like he was in heaven, in that picture." said Kagome.
"Uhm, which picture, there's like 50 pictures on that fridge. Why don't you just show me?" suggested Sango.
"Yeah, gladly, plus Inu's giving me a weird look." observed Kagome
The girls looked over at the guys, and Kagome was right, Inu was giving her a weird look. So they ran inside, and when they were inside they walked over to the fridge and Kagome pointed out the picture that she was talking about. Sango plucked it out from under other pictures and examined it.
"This was their last day together. I think they went to a carnival that day, and they were riding a ferris wheel when Inuyasha took this picture. And I think that was the day he told him about the secret, the one he told us in the truth game thing, remember?" asked Sango.
"Yeah, I remember, but that still doesn't explain why he was looking, no scratch that, he was staring at me when I was straightening my hair, in the bathroom." said Kagome.
"Dunno, maybe he was remembering a time when he used to look at Kikyo, and with your hair like that he's probably having some kind of deja vu, or something like that. Come to think of it you do look like Kikyo from certain angles." Sango admitted.