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Revolution

"Kagome..."

She scrunched her eyes trying to keep the sleep from escaping.

"Kagome!"

She mumbled something then put her head back down.

"Oi! Wench!"

Why you...!

She froze. That wasn't a little boy's voice or the angry rasp!

"Inuyasha...?"

"Yeah..."

"Inuyasha!"

"Yeah, I heard you the first time."

"Inuyasha!!" She flung herself in his arms and held him for all he was worth. "It's you! It's really you!!"

"Are you possessed?"

"No, you got hit...on the head. You forgot...a lot of things."

"So...that's how I got here?"

"Yeah..."

"Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why did you bring me here?"

"Because this is where the medicine was."

"Keh! Haven't you learned yet?! I'm a dog demon. I heal quickly. You wasted two days for nothin'."

She stared at him.

"It's been longer than that Inuyasha."

"Are you trying to fool me?"

"No. It has been two months since we returned."

"Two...?! What the heck did I do?!"

"Well...you helped mom with the cooking, cleaning, washing, played soccer with Souta, talked to Jii-chan about swords, learned to play video games..."

"Oy! You made a house-wife of me?"

"What?! No!"

"And where the heck is Tessaiga?!"

"Under the bed."

"What's it doing there?"

"Well..."

"You're not telling me something. I can smell it!"

Kagome made a face.

"It's…well...you just woke up...I don't want you to have a shock or anything." She tried to steer him off. "You want ramen? I can go make ramen. Just gimme one second and I'll make..."
"Freeze!" His eyes bore into the back of her skull.

"What happened?"

"Nothing..."

"Kagome!"

"It really wasn't anything..."

"I knew it! I knew it! I hurt you didn't I?"

"Wh-a-a-at?! No! You..."

"I hurt you!" 'My body must have been trying to heal, I turned full demon and I hurt you! I knew it! Stupid wench! You shouldn't of brought me home! Did I hurt anyone else? Miroku? Sango? Your family? Oh...gods...please don't tell me I killed again!'

She saw helplessly as he crumbled into his own fears.

"Blood...I can't smell blood...did you wash it off? Show me where I hurt you!!"

"Inuyasha!" She grabbed his arms tightly and forced him to look at her. "You didn't hurt me. At all. Or anyone else."

"I...didn't?"

"No. You lost your memory that was all."

"What do you mean...lost...my ?

"Exactly what it sounds like. You got hit on the head, the shock must have jolted your brain, caused some sort of damage which eventually got healed, and in the meantime, you forgot...things."

"Things like what?" He didn't sound convinced.

"Like...how to use Tessaiga."

"You're kidding! You have to be kidding!" He thought he was going to collapse from shame.

Kagome shook her head.

"I was worried Inuyasha. I didn't know how much you would remember...or if you would even remember at all."

"Was that all I forgot?"

She looked away.

"Kagome!"

"You forgot a bit more..."

"How much more?" His voice trembled slightly.

"Everything...the Jewel...Naraku...our friends...everything."

"Not you..."

Kagome nodded.

"How?! How?!"

"I told you how."

"So I forgot everything? I forgot who I was? I forgot where I was meant to be? Was that why you used me as a house-wife?!"

"Wh-at?!"

"You said I did all that crap! I don't even know how to play them bii-di-oh gee-mus! You...you wanted me to change after all! You wanted me to be like one of them poncy boys you have here in your time!!"

She could only stare in shock.

"Didn't think I'd catch on, didja?!"

Neither of them saw the slap coming, but in an instant Inuyasha's cheek began to throb.

"You...you were a child!"

"What?!"

"You were a child! Ok? That's what happened. You thought your mother's death was less than a year ago."

"You're lying!" The words were ground out.

"I am not! You...didn't know about the Jewel. You told me about the villagers...about how they hurt you."

"Lies! No one can hurt me! I'm strong!"

"You told me! How Sesshomaru saved you from drowning...how you wanted to be like him...how..." Her voice caught. "...how you missed your mother."

"No. You can't know about that! Only...Sesshomaru...he told you! That's how you know! All this crap about me losing my memory and that...it's all lies!"

"You told me why you don't like turning human."

He shook his head more and more fervently.

"And that...your mother cried for you when the villagers wouldn't let you play ."

"Shut up! Shut up! I didn't...I couldn't...I..."

"Inuyasha...it's okay...it's okay..."

"Shut up! My mother...my mother...she...I...you know don't you?! You know! You know I'm a monster...just how much of a monster I am...don't you?! Don't you?!"

The soft pressure against his cheek made him pause.

"You are not a monster."

"I killed my mother."

Her hands moved up his face, cradling it, bringing it closer to her own.

"Your mother was stabbed. You walked in on her as she died. She told you to run."

"They killed her because of me!" The rawness in his voice made her throat almost close. She kissed his cheek softly.

"They killed her because they were angry and ignorant and stupid. That is not, and never will be, your fault."

He turned his face away but she gently guided him back.

"Look at me. You told me. It's done. You are not a monster. Please, Inuyasha, your younger self trusted me...please, please trust me too."

"Kagome..."

"Please..."

"Now...you know...everything..."

"More or less."

"Damn it!" His fist smacked against the blanket. "You didn't...you shouldn't...I didn't want you to know!!"

"Why?"

"Because I knew you'd do this! You'd...cry for me...you'd feel for me...you'd do all those things that Kagome does that make me feel useless."

"Useless? You're not useless...and I was glad to help."

"Right..."

"I was! You were such a sweet child." She cooed. "And you've been through so much...and you weren't useless at all...you helped out and everything. You even helped me study." She giggled remembering his attempt at English. "You were very sweet."

"Keh!"

"Inuyasha, listen to me, I don't care what happened in the past; or what you think happened. Inuyasha is Inuyasha, and that is enough for me."

"Kagome." He contented himself with resting his head on top of hers.

After a few moments he suddenly bristled.

"Kagome...!"

"Yes, Inuyasha."

"I...slept with...we...together...same..."

Kagome smiled.

"You were a child, whose mother had just died, and you had nightmares."

"Look at me!" He gesticulated wildly. "Do I look like a child?!"

"You were a child trapped in an adult's body."

"But..."

"No 'buts'. You needed someone. I was there. End of story."

"Kagome..."

He hid his reddening face in her hair again.

"I'm gonna stand by you, like I promised."

"Kagome..." He nuzzled her hair lightly.

"As long as you want."

Her heart was dying with each word.

Author's Note: Thank you all so very much for your continuous support. I'm doing my best to finish this story, and I apologise if I haven't been able to reply to you individually. Thank you once again and I hope you all enjoy this chapter. :D