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Chapter 3:

I-POV:

The following morning, I just couldn't help but feel sort of energized, and for the first time it wasn't because I had yet again conquered. No, this time it was simply because I had a good dream for once.

Usually I always dream of the same old hag, with her weak and shaky voice and equally shaky body. Don't forget. And behind her in that old forest, I would see a raven haired girl running behind her. Kagome! I would scream out her name, because for some reason I knew that was her name, she was the one I was living for. I would run after her, and though I was half human, my demon half was not enough to catch up to her. And finally, when I could almost feel the heat radiating from her skin, a burst of light would shoot out from my chest stopping me in my tracks as it would be both alarming and painful. When the light fades and my eyes adjust I see her jumping down this well, and as per usual I want to wake up at this point because what happens next hurts more than the light.

She disappears down the well. And somehow I know that if I can just get to the other side she will be there, and everything that I have lived for will be there as well, because deep down I know I love this woman. So I keep clawing and I keep digging, my hands bleed and though it's a dream, I swear I did this before and the pain I feel is graciously familiar. And finally I feel the bottom give and as though my heart is that very ground it bursts open, and disappointment and despair fill the well to the very top. And I let it drown me because I have failed.

This time though, I dreamt of the girl from yesterday, I wasn't tormented by the dreams of that raven-haired girl that could very well be dead. I might have missed her a lifetime ago. Or maybe she just wasn't real, I probably made that old hag up and that girl, just to keep me sane through all those ages of evil and darkness.

Once at the office Ayame, was the first to stop me. As always.

"Inuyasha!" she sang in her irritating child voice she always put on and quite frankly sometimes I just think it's natural.

"Yes Ayame?" I smiled.

"Oh!" she took a dramatic step back. "So the rumors are true!" she gasped out. I rolled my eyes.

"What are you talking about? What rumors?"

"Well, the people from downstairs said you actually smiled." I frowned at her words.

"They're mistaken it was a smirk."

"That's what I said, but you just smiled at me. So what, was the girl that good? Or was it a three way this time? Gross, but no that couldn't be it. Oh wait! Were they Twins?! You dog!" by the end I was growling so much I gave myself a headache, or maybe it was her damn voice.

"Shut. UP! AYAME!" I roared I looked around to find everyone staring. "My office! NOW!" I watched her eyes widen and she ended it with a glare and stomped off. "The rest of you, get back to work. I apologize for the... out burst." I turned on my heel and went to my office to have a talk with Ayame.

"Geez, what's wrong with you! It was just a joke." she sneered

"Look Ayame, the only reason you're here is because of your father, don't make me forget that."

"Oh Inu. Stop being such a drama queen. You're just as bad as Kouga!"

"Ayame" I said in warning.

"Right, 'Don't compare me to that animal'. Blah blah blah. Look I'm sorry, I was just joking. And I'll tell you what, I won't tell Kouga you yelled at me if you let it go?"

"Keh, as if he scares me but deal, I rather not have him puff his chest at me. And worst of all I rather not see you cry when I kick his teeth in." she rolled her eyes at that one.

"Why do you guys hate each other so much anyway?"

"We just do. Now, to keep you from asking anymore annoying questions, I'm just fucking happy. Is that too much to handle?"

"Sure." she said and left me alone for the rest of the day much to my surprise and gratification.

As I made my way downstairs to leave this place, the old man at the reception desk yelled out to me. "It's so good to see you this happy Master!" I always asked him not to call me master but he just never quit. This time I just smiled and waved I was in a hurry after-all. I was going to go see that girl again, though she resembled the girl from my dreams a little too much, she wasn't her, couldn't be her. According to my messed up dreams, the girl that disappears through the well is the love of my life, my heart would have told me if it was her. It had to. And though I don't know why I am going back, I don't want to sleep with her, if I did she would have already been in my bed last night, and besides she's just in high school. What was I doing? If it's not the girl of my dreams and I don't want to have sex with her why did I come back?

I looked up from my seat in the fast food restaurant, I had arrived earlier than I did yesterday in hopes to spend more time with her. Though the only reason I could think of why I was here, was because my gut was telling me this girl was my next step to finding Kagome.

"Kagome" I whispered to no one. That was the first time I ever said her name out loud, it left a small ache in my chest.

"Excuse me sir?" a small voice said lightly next to me, I looked up expecting to see one of her friends and instead was met with and employee.

"Yes?"

"Sorry to bother you but we have to start cleaning up soon, I'm going to have to ask you to leave."

I looked around one more time, and realized I had been here for hours, just waiting, no one else sat here except me. It was dark outside, and she never came. For some reason, this little fact angered me. I got up abruptly knocking the chair down and walked out. I slammed the door of my car a little too hard and drove home a little too fast as well. She never came. Did she not know I was looking for the love of my life, that for five-hundred years I have lived with this void of my love's touch, a touch I don't even know if I ever experienced, a warmth I don't know if I ever felt, and she didn't come. She was the key! I knew for a fact now that she was, my gut was never wrong.

The door to my apartment was slammed shut as well, I went to my cabinet and pulled out a bottle of liquor. The first swig brought comfort, the second brought heat, the third brought anger, the fourth brought sadness, the fifth brought silence until I slept.

My dream was once again different from the usual, I saw Kagome. I couldn't see her face because of all the steam in the room, she was naked, and I immediately put my fire rat robes around her, she had been in danger, and I was saving her from a demon that wanted her. I looked down at her and thought, "You idiot, I was so scared I was too late,"

I woke up groggily the following morning and groaned. What was that? That couldn't have been a dream, it felt like a memory almost, like it had happened once before. But why did I just now remember that? Why now?

At work a high school called asking f I could come down to check out the grounds for a new library they wanted built. I agreed and decided to drive down the same day to start drawing plans for them, as I drove I couldn't help but think; "Wouldn't it be something if this was that girl's high school?" I laughed at how funny that would actually be.

Once at the school the principle showed me around to the library and explained that if the library could just be expanded that would be great but if it needed to be rebuilt that would be fine as well, but it had to stay under budget as well. I rolled my eyes, I hated budgets, they never let me work comfortably, but agreeing I was left alone to measure and look around and decide on something. I sat at a table in the library and pulled out a blue-print to begin. I was so engrossed with drawing that I didn't notice a human approach me.

"I thought you didn't look like a student." I looked up to see the most beautiful brown eyes in the world.

"Huh?" I responded, then I realized I should be angry at her, so I glared. "What do you want? I'm busy. If it's an autograph, forget about it."

"Listen here, I just came over to say hey, no need to act tough. And I also came to apologize for yesterday, sorry I didn't show up, I had to go straight home after school." she said sounding a little agitated in the beginning and ended sounding apologetic.

"Yesterday? Oh that's right! You're the girl from the restaurant the other day. Keh, no worries I didn't even remember. As busy as I am of course." I smiled, play it cool inuyasha no need to reveal the disappointing day that yesterday was to this girl.

"Oh, well. Then that worked out." she looked down blushing. Crap!

"Well let's make up for it want to sit down?"

"Sure" she smiled.

We began to talk for a while about my work and what she wanted to be, though as unsure as she was, she knew what university she wanted to go to. Then the topic changed to my demon half, apparently she had questions, though usually the questions annoy me, as I'm the only half demon left, but her questions were of my past. I was reluctant to answer seeing as my past was what I wished to forget. Though she didn't press for answers I did tell her some things, like how it was to survive and the fact that I had a brother. That one shocked her. She knew about me through magazines she shyly admitted but never once did they mention my brother. I told her how now only she and I know the truth, though I didn't tell her that I was the one to kill Sesshomaru, just that he died many years ago.

"So are you ever going to give me your name? Or is it too much trouble?" I finally asked.

"fine, I guess giving you my name won't hurt. It's Kagome."

And at that moment when her soft pink lips formed the sound of her name, something inside me began to whisper in chorus to her name. This was her the girl the old woman had begged me not to forget. Five hundred years had passed since I've last seen her. And though my whole life had been leading up to this moment, I began to feel sick

"I have to go. Excuse me." And I ran.

I collected my stuff in a hurry, my heart was beating my head was yelling "Don't forget". And I couldn't get out fast enough.

"Wait! Inuyasha!" I heard her yell behind me as I got into my car.

I drove away, not looking back for fear of seeing her standing behind me.

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A/N: Ok! So yeah that's the end of chapter three. Let me know what you think. (: