Hello good readers and happy (?) Monday. I currently have a cold, so I cannot breath or speak properly meaning I'm a moderately depressed child. But on the bright side I watched the Avengers yesterday so that was awefum...but yeah onto the story. And huge, ginormous AIZEN EGO SIZED THANKS GOES TO OTODOG WHO HAS BEEN BETA-ING THIS STORY! MY APPRECIATION KNOWS NO BOUNDS!-sneezees- ...-.-" Anyways:

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"Common Tongue"

"Elvish"

thoughts

Japanese

MEMORIES OF THE PAST: Chapter the 12th

Night had fallen, and the moon was already high in the sky. However, Déohild was wide awake lying on her back, staring up at the stars. Why does that elf act that way? Why did it seem so familiar to see him fall like that? Why do I remember things that I shouldn't? She thought, shifting restlessly on the blankets that she used as a make-shift futon. Déohild blinked in confusion. Futon? Where did that come from? She bit her lip. It wasn't something that she had heard of while growing up in the village…but she knew that that was the name of what she had tried to create with the blankets. She closed her eyes and sighed in frustration. Sleep. That's was she needed. Get a good rest, and everything would make sense in the morning. Maybe.

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"NO! NOO! HOUSHI-SAMA! MIROKU!"

"Sango! Sango,no! He'll suck you in with the rest of the youkai! Sango, please, you can't!"

"MIROKU! MIROKU!"

"Run! Run!"

"NOOOO!"

"You can't do anything for him! Do you want to waste his sacrifice to save you? Do you? HE wanted you to live. HE wanted you to rescue your brother. WHY CAN'T YOU SEE THAT DAMNIT!"

"SHUT UP! How DARE you! How dare you pull me away! You couldn't understand! You CAN'T understand! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M GOING THROUGH!"

"THE HELL I DO! How do you thing I felt when I watched her die! Did you have to see it THINKING that it was your fault? HUH? Did you have to watch him die right in front of you TWICE? I don't give a DAMN about what you're saying to me now, because I know that you're not in your right mind, but don't YOU ever dare say that we wouldn't be able to understand you! GOT IT?"

"…"

"Come on guys, this is no time to fight. We have to go, we have got to run."

"Fine. Kirara?"

"Let's move."

"…"

"Sayonara…Miroku…no koto ga suki."

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Déohild's eyes snapped open, wincing against the brightness of the rising sun. She rubbed her temples, recalling the strange dream that she had had. No. Nothing made anymore sense…except…one of the voices. In her dream. It belonged to the elf. The elf called Líndal…

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Inuyasha seethed quietly as he watched Éowyn talk to Aragorn. At first he didn't understand why she intrigued him so much. Now he knew. She was a human. She was a princess. She was Kagome. And she had no clue who he was, why he was there or what she had meant to him. And on top of that, even though she didn't remember any of it,she refused to take the necklace off! She didn't believe it when he had said that there was a charm on it that forced him into submission, (pfft, more like force him to break his kami damned face) noooo she blamed it on his clumsiness. WHAT THE HELL WAS THIS? He was reincarnated into and elf, damn it! Elves. Aren't. Clumsy.

"Why do you look like you're going to murder something? More specifically a certain ranger from the North."

Inuyasha looked sideways as the human girl, who was carrying the large boomerang made of wood. "Why do you care?"

"Because. You don't seem like the type to get jealous over something as stupid as a crush. At least, you didn't seem like it." Déohild smirked at his indignant face.

Inuyasha scowled at her. "And what exactly makes you think that I'm jealous over something? More specifically," Inuyasha added in a slightly mocking tone, "something that involves 'a certain ranger from the North.'"

Déohild laughed. "The way that you look at them. Like you're trying not to, but you do anyways. To make sure that they don't look to, you know." She ended vaguely.

Inuyasha shook his head, and grunted. Why, oh why did this feel quite very-what did Kagome call it?-deja vu like? Oh wait a second, he's talking to Sango. About Kagome. Kami, someone must hate him up there…

"I knew you. Before. Didn't I?" She asked quitetly. Inuyasha snapped his head towards her in surprise, but she didn't meet his eyes, instead, stared at the ground a few feet in front of her. "I've been having…these dreams. Where I see a man in strange robes dying, getting sucked into a whirl wind. And I see a girl. With strange clothes that are white and green. And…I see another man. He's wearing red clothing and has dog ears. And…" She looks up at him with piercing eyes. "He has your voice. And your eyes are the same…"

Inuyasha grit his teeth. Was he supposed to tell her? Was he supposed to know that she knew that he knew who she was in a past life? What if she just had memories of being Sango? What if the past didn't mean anything? Inuyasha wanted to smash his face against something. Hard. Kirara nickered and tossed her head, sensing Inuyasha's uneasiness. "Gomen. Kirara."

"Why are you apoligizing to your horse?" Déohild demanded, finally snapping in her frustration. Then her eyes widened as she looked at the animal. "Kirara?" She breathed, recognition appearing on her face.

"Wargs! We're under attack!"

Inuyasha and Déohild looked up to see Aragron sprinting back towards them, as fear and confusion began spreading throughout the people walking.

"Kuso." Inuyasha grunted, turning and jumping onto Kirara's back.

"Wait! You still owe me some answers!" Déohild snapped, grabbing onto Kirara's bridle, barring their path.

Inuyasha growled in frustration."Later!" He yanked the reins, forcing Déohild to let go.

"Swear it!"

"Fine! On Kami, I swear that I will give you answers, but not now!" Inuyasha barked, drawing Tetsusaiga and spurring Kirara onwards. She gave him one last glare but stepped back. "Kazeyonoi jikko, Kirara!" he shouted, riding off to join the fight.

Riding over the ridge, Inuyasha bared his teeth instinctively as he saw the wolf like animals and their riders running towards them. "Bring it, yarou!"He shouted as the two lines clashed together, and chaos ensued. Slicing through an orc's neck, Inuyasha turned and socked another one who had came up behind him in the eye, before stabbing him. Being perfectly honest, Inuyasha didn't remember much about what had happened. He saw Gimli get crushed underneath two wargs and an orc, which he had to admit, was mildly amusing, and Legolas just had to show off and be all 'look at my awesome shiny elf dude-ness (trademark Morganbanner)', and he was pretty sure he spotted Aragorn riding on a warg at one point as well. A pretty decent battle if you asked him. Speaking of the bastard…

"Aragorn?" Inuyasha shouted glancing around the battlefield. His brow furrowed as he noted that the ranger couldn't be seen anywhere.

Jogging over to where Legolas was standing, he froze when he heard a raspy laughing coming from one of the orcs dying on the ground. Walking up to him he watched as Gimli held his axe up to his face threateningly.

"Tell me what happened and I will ease your passing." He growled dangerously.

The orc coughed once and snickered up at them. "He's dead." He spat up a little blood as he continued laughing. "Took a little tumble off the cliff." He added mockingly.

Legolas swooped down on him and grabbed the front of his armor. "You lie." He snarled. The orc laughed a couple more times before freezing.

Inuyasha bent down, noticing something shiny clutched in the orc's hand. "Oi. Bastards." He muttered, prying the object out of its hand. Holding it up, the three of them looked with horror building in their chest. It was the necklace that Arwen had given Aragorn.

Legolas was the first to snap out of it, standing and walking briskly up to the cliff side, looking down only to see the dark rapids, with no sign of a body. Théoden standing there as well. The king took a deep breath and turned around.

"Get the wounded on horses. The wolves of Isengard will return." He looked back down at the ravine. "Leave the dead." He added. Legolas turned and glared at the man angrily. Inuyasha snarled involuntarily. Théoden spared one last look down the gorge and left with a swish of his cloak.

Inuyasha walked up to where his foster brother was standing. "Relax. The teme is too stupid to die anyways." He said, wrapping an arm around Legolas's shoulder and forcefully turning him away. Looking back his scowl disappeared. "He'd better."

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"At last!"
"Helm's Deep."
"There it is, Helm's Deep."
"We're safe!"
Éowyn watched the people around her suge forwards as they saw the great fortress that they had been journeying towards. The princess sighed, relief flooding through her at the sight of safety. Good and safe now. And he's definitely not here so it won't be a repeat of Mount Hakurei. Éowyn flinched as darkness flashed in front of her eyes, with a single spark of pale pink light emitting from the centre of it. What?

"We're safe, my lady." Déohild said softly, walking up beside her. Éowyn turned and smiled at the other woman weakly, and they continued walking onwards.

Finally making it to the wooden doors that led into the fortress, Éowyn gazed around in wonder at the large amount of civillians that had already taken refuge there. Turning to the other girl, Éowyn watched as she froze, and dropped her strange weapon to the ground.

"Nee-san, what's wrong?" Éothain asked, walking up to his older sister. Freda followed Déohild's gaze and shrieked with joy, sprinting towards whatever she had spotted, closely followed by her brother and sister.

"Mama!" Freda cried, sprinting to a woman who was running towards them as well.

"Éothain! Freda! Déohild!" The woman cried, wrapping her children into her arms all four of them collapsing to the ground in relief. Éowyn watched, bittersweetness flooding in her. Almost as if she could feel her gaze, Déohild looked up at the woman.

"Thank you." She mouthed. The woman just smiled and walked away, leaving the family to reunite in peace.

Seeing people trying to orginize the provisions that they had, Éowyn rolled up her sleeves and bent down to help them the best that she could. Shifting and keeping a mental count of all the food that they had brought, the shieldmaiden sighed and stretched, her arms sore from moving the heavy creates for over an hour. As she tried to move an exceptionally heavy sack of potatoes she tumbled under its weight.

Suddenly, the weight vanished from her arms as someone picked it up out of her arms. "Need a hand?" Déohild smiled as she carried it over to its correct place.

Éowyn smiled in gratitude, then turned to the old man who was in charge of all the provisions. "Where is the rest?" She asked.

The old man shook his head sadly, "This was all we could save, my lady."

Éowyn bit the inside of her cheek. If they were to stay in Helm's Deep for an extended period of time, there wouldn't be enough… "Take it to the Caves." She finally said.

Déohild walked up to her, "Anything you need help with-!"

"Make way for the king." A voice from somewhere in the fortress shouted.

The shieldmaiden's eyes widened and she ran towards the courtyard where she knew the horses and their riders would head towards. Walking up to her uncle's horse she watched as he dismounted. "So few. So few of you have returned."

Théoden looked at his niece, then away, giving the reigns of his horse to another soldier. "Our people are safe. We have paid for it with many lives." He said as he helped another man off his horse.

"My lady."

Éowyn turned to see Gimli walking up to her, his helmet under his arm. By then, Déohild had also come to the courtyard, the people who had been orginizing the food not needing any other help. Looking between the Dwarf and the princess, Déohild immediately knew that something was wrong, judging by the look on the Dwarf's face.

Éowyn could feel it too, and subconsciously, she stepped towards the other woman. "Lord Aragorn…where is he?" She asked hesitantly.

The Dwarf took in a shaky breath, and Éowyn suddenly wished that she hadn't asked. "He fell."

Dun dun, dun...eh, eveyone knows that the main characters have at least three back up lives...or ya know I could go totally off canon and kill him off for no reason, I mean, ARE LOVED!

INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY: The guy who voices Jiryia from Naruto is the same guy who dubs Aragron in the Japanese...mind has been f-ed...

-moony