Title: Forget Me Not

Prompt Name/Prompt List/Ficlet #: The Wizard Of Oz – July - #4

Author: kagome313

Rating: T

Genre: Admin's Genre- Thriller/Horror

Universe: A/U

Word Count: 697

Summary: As Inuyasha comes to aid Kagome; she finds herself hallucinating.

Warnings: None

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"There wasn't really a need for you to come down here detective," A stout man declared, wiping his brow with the back of his hand, a gloomy expressing casting a veil over his visage.

Ignoring the cop, the dark haired male walked passed him, his jacket flapping behind him as he rushed towards the lone female who sat huddled up against the wall in the far corner, her form shaking like a leaf caught up in a storm.

"Kags…" He whispered, gingerly touching her arms, but drew back quickly when she flinched away from him.

"She… She just…" Her eyes shone with such an unspoken fear as tears trickled down her visage as she rocked back and forth stiffly. "…She …. She…" Her voice broke as another sob shook her even more before hugging herself even closer, the jacket she wore long forgotten a few feet away from her.

"It's okay… shhh," He whispered, scooting closer to her but refraining from touching her. "It's going to be okay…" As he wet his lips slowly, his violet orbs drifted over to the covered body parts, his throat suddenly itching him.

"She said she was lonely," Kagome whispered, looking up into violet spheres with hurt and regret. "…How could you do that to her; today of all days?"

Not having a response to that, and feeling even more like shit simply because knowing that Kikyou basically killed herself over the breakup that he initiated made him bow his head in shame.

"Inuyasha?" Kagome called softly, tears falling even more from her ocean depths. "…It's because of –…"

"Not now Kagome," He crooked out, sighing loudly before looking up into her eyes. "Not now."

Sighing she nodded her head in silent agreement, looking down at her clenched fist before lifting her gaze towards the cleaning crew as well as officers around and about.

When she looked over to the covered body part, she saw an image of Kikyou's face rushing towards her, her smiling expression taunting her as it neared her. Kagome scooted backwards in fear, but the wall behind her prevented her from moving forward.

As that image swirled towards her, the giggle growing more malicious and eerily, the bubbling up of a scream erupted from her throat, and she could do nothing but hold her head low, grasping her hair in her tight fist as I know repeated ominously about her.

"She knew… She knew!" Kagome screamed until her shouts turned into murmurs as the face slowly faded, though the taunting voice, that taunting laughter, the taunting expression – the taunting everything.

"Calm down Kagome," She heard Inuyasha's voice whispered soothingly, a hand of his easing around her quivering frame.

She flinched out of his touch, shaking her head constantly as her murmurs became a stream of incoherence.

"Detective, is she going to be alright?"

As Inuyasha looked around at the worried faces surrounded him, he nodded stiffly in dismissal. "She was her best friend." He forced out softly, his eyes catching a glimpse of a limp before shifting uncomfortably. "And…" Sighing as his throat contracted painfully, he blinked rapidly to halt the tsunami. "Someone… dear to me…"

Said man bowed deeply, his face crinkling into pity and sorrow. "My condolences," With one final nod, he departed.

Turning to the still shaking Kagome, Inuyasha touched his palm to hers. "Let me take you home."

Pulling slowly from his hold, she nodded once with a loud sniffle. "She said she knows." Opening her eyes very slowly, Kagome looked up to Inuyasha but froze suddenly.

"Kik…Kikyou?" She gasped, her eyes narrowing as if unsure of who or what she was looking at. "Is… Is that you?"

All she could see was a head, as Inuyasha's body was blocking everything else. It made it look like Inuyasha had a second head against his shoulders. Her friend's teasing smile made her blood run cold, but the coldness in her eyes was what froze her to her spot. And then those words…

They drifted off of her lips like rolling ice, clashing against Kagome's form with delight. The last thing Kagome remembered hearing was the last words Kikyou spoke before her death.

I know.