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Summary: Kagome and Inuyasha get into a fight, which leaves Inuyasha hurt and angry, and Kagome feeling guilty. But before she has the chance to apologize, Inuyasha gets killed in a fight while trying to protect her. Grief-stricken, Kagome returns to her own time, vowing to never return to the feudal era. But only two years later, someone looking exactly like the human Inuyasha shows up at her school. Could it actually be him?

AN: I was having trouble getting this chapter written out, so the update was a lot longer then I want it to be. So sorry! A couple of the reviewers remarked how Kagome was acting kind of stupid for expecting Inuyasha to remember everything. In this chapter, Kagome's thoughts will be more rational, though I can hardly say anything about her actions! This chapter will be divided into two parts. The first part will be in Kagome's POV, and the second half will be in Katashi's POV. Where the POV's change is completely obvious. You also get to find out more about Katashi and who he is as a civilian. WARNING: This chapter will be rather slow.

Thank you for the all the reviews guys! I hope you enjoy this chapter!

Italics - Kagome's Thoughts

Chapter Six.

Kagome sat on her bed, fingering a cap as she looked out of her window. The full moon was shining bright, leaving her with enough light to clearly see the cap she was holding. The cap Inuyasha used to wear.

Inuyasha. He was alive. Two years he had been thought dead, and now he was alive.

Kagome frowned down at the cap. As much as she didn't want to admit it, it didn't make any sense. Inuyasha had been killed. She had seen him get stabbed. She had seen him get buried by the Great Tree where she first met Inuyasha.

Then why was he suddenly alive? Was he a reincarnation? That would explain why he couldn't remember who she was. She certainly didn't know who he was when she first met him, and he and Kikyo had nearly gotten married!

Kagome sighed, and flopped back, resting her head on her pillow.

She was feeling confused and overwhelmed with this sudden turn of events. She had spent the last two years trying to rid herself of the pain Inuyasha's death caused her. She had willed herself to forget about Miroku, Sango, and Shippo. And now the entire world she had created for herself had just come crashing down around her.

It had been nine days since she met the new Inuyasha. Ever since the uncomfortable confrontation between the two of them, Katashi had been insistently avoiding her. When they did happen to run into each other, or were forced to sit beside one another, they always exchanged awkward glances, before Katashi looked away, embarrassed, and Kagome bent her head, sad.

Kagome would often silently study Katashi, watching his every move, comparing his small quirks to Inuyasha's, memorizing the odd little habits he had, and diving into her memories to see if Inuyasha had done something similar.

It had been nine days since she met him and she was convinced that Katashi had to be Inuyasha, or at least a reincarnation. There was no other possibility. The similarity between the two was mind-baffling.

Kagome admitted to herself that she had become totally infatuated with him. Following Katashi all over school, and ducking out of sight when he turned around. But to just watch him seemed to fill up the empty gap in her heart.

She often caught herself staring at him. Within her mind, the dull and boring classroom walls faded away, and she created vivid images of the gorgeous meadows that she and Inuyasha used to wander together. She would be so caught up in her daydream, that when Inuyasha turned to her with that old and familiar quirked eyebrow, it took her awhile to realize that Katashi was starting to shift nervously in his seat. Blushing profusely, she always immediately turned her attention away from the flustered boy.

Mere moments later, her eyes would trickle back to Katashi's face. Kagome practically drank him in, from his easy-going strolling gait to the sharp hand movements he made when he talked to his new-found friends.

Needless to say, her friends noticed Kagome's rather unhealthy interest in the new kid. Worried with her obsession over him, Yuka and Eri frequently tried to get her to notice some other guys, and Ayumi actually ended up trying to get Katashi interested in one of their classmates in hope that if Katashi was taken, Kagome would forget about him.

It didn't work. Katashi became friends with the girl, but didn't go out with her. Kagome continued to follow him.

So now she lay on her bed, staring up at the ceiling, feeling absolutely miserable. Over the past nine days she had been acting like those crazy stalkers she heard about on the news. Kagome was starting to become nervous, fearing that she might do something stupid in desperation to get Katashi to notice her.

Kagome tried to understand this drastic change she had undergone. Never before had she dreamed she would be reduced to this, a love-struck girl following a guy who took no interest in her. But after two years of hidden pain, the joy at seeing an Inuyasha-like person had gone to her head, and she had started acting like someone else. She had completely flipped out in her conversation with Katashi, and that led to a very strange relationship between the two.

Luckily, he had yet to notice he had a girl shadowing him. At least, that was what she hoped was true. Kagome groaned as she rolled over and buried her face in her pillow. She had acted like an idiot, and she knew that. He probably thinks I'm a freak, thought Kagome, lifting her face slightly from her pillow so she wasn't suffocated. I mean, if someone jumped me and started rattling off names of people I had never heard of and claimed I was a long-lost friend of theirs, I would probably call of the mental hospital and request an ambulance.

Kagome frowned and sat up suddenly. She would have to stop acting like a silly school-girl and start behaving like Kagome Higurashi, miko and time-traveler. She would get to the bottom of this, and discover the truth behind Katashi. No matter what.

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Katashi Fukuda was a naturally friendly person. He accepted odd people, and respected people's strange views, no matter how different they were. He wasn't easily startled, and liked making friends. His biggest flaw was that he had a short temper. Many of his old friends used to say he was a time bomb. Say the right thing and BOOM!... he explodes.

He never really liked school that much. He was a normal kid who hated homework, disobeyed his parents, and quarreled with his older brother and younger sister constantly. He was handsome, and he knew it. He wasn't the flirt that his older brother was, but he had his own charming personality.

His younger sister Chikako was overly annoying, and frequently got on his nerves. His brother, Shinji, was as much of a pest of Chikako was. The difference between them was he could pick Chikako up and carry her - kicking and screaming - out of his room and drop her ungracefully on the floor. With Shinji, these brawls consisted of flying fists, painful punches, and usually ended with one of them getting knocked out and the other one getting grounded for a week.

Katashi had looked forward to going to a new school, and had thought his classes seemed very interesting. He had met new people and even made a couple of friends.

He had been leaving the school when Kagome Higurashi, the girl he sat behind in class, suddenly pounced on him, going off into a rant about how happy she was to see him and rattling off names he had never heard.

They were strange names, Katashi remembered. She called him Inuyasha, and it was obvious she cared about this unknown person, whoever he was. But honestly, did they look so alike that she would resort to shadowing him all around school?

He had noticed Kagome's unnerving actions. It appeared that the girl was obsessed with him, and the feeling this knowledge gave Katashi was not a comfortable one. He wondered who this Inuyasha person was, and how he was so important to Kagome.

He hated to admit it, but Katashi felt pretty guilty at crushing Kagome that way. The pure happiness that had bounced off of her when she saw him, and the sudden coldness surrounding her when he refused her was obvious. And pretty frightening as well.

For a few minutes, Katashi would wonder if he really was this Inuyasha Kagome had told him he was. After all, he did often have nightmares of fights, and swords, and strange creatures attacking him. Perhaps there was a possibilty that he was...

No! Shaking his head, Katashi reminded himself that he had lived his entire life with his mother, father, and siblings, and he wasn't Inuyasha.

But still there was doubt eating away at the edges of his mind.

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Good news everybody! The real plot line of this story is starting to come into action next chapter! Another warning is that my update will probably take awhile. I'm really sorry, but I've been abandoning some of my other stories, and I really have to get them updated.

I know this chapter was pretty slow, but please tell me what you thought! Please review!