InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Long Lost Memory ❯ Mysteries ( Chapter 2 )

Nakamura continued following InuYasha for quite a ways until they came to a stream. Once the two had stopped, InuYasha paused for a moment, not sure of exactly where to begin. Nakamura seemed to know though. She looked at him a moment, then through her arms around him.

“I missed you” she said.

InuYasha stood stunned for a moment then his gaze softened and her put his arms around her.

“I missed you, too”

The two embraced for a moment when InuYasha pulled away and put his hands on her shoulders and looked her square in the eye. They were the same golden optics, still shimmering with the ghost of their mother, but something was different. He thought of asking, but decided he'd rather say something else, but what? Then it came to him.

“Promise me something” he said.

Nakamura looked up at him in question.

“Promise me you'll never leave me again”

Nakamura smiled and nodded and InuYasha could help but smile as well. He had missed her smile, and she still had the same smile she'd had as a little pup.

 

“What's taking them so long?” Shippou wondered allowed.

Kagome smiled at the young kit.

`They're catching up Shippou” she said “think about it, they haven't seen each other in over fifty years”

“Hey yeah, that's right, how do you think she's still that young?” Miroku said.

“Dunno, maybe she had something similar to InuYasha's deal with Kikyou”

“Or maybe it's one of Naraku's tricks” Sango suggested.

 

“So, what've you been doing all this time?” Nakamura asked InuYasha. “I mean, everyone and their uncle knows about your thing with Kikyou, but what happened afterwards?”

InuYasha went on to explain everything, Misstress Centipede, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, everything.

Nakamura nodded when he finished.
”So, what about you?” InuYasha asked.

Nakamura closed her eyes a minute. She sat down and let her feet dangle in the cool refreshing water and InuYasha sat next to her, legs Indian style.

“Well, after Naraku kidnapped me, I, somehow managed to escape. Then I was on my own, until he came back for me when I turned sixteen. The last thing I remember was him telling me when I came of age, he'd claim me, whether I liked I or not, and then he gave me this”

She rolled up the left sleeve of her kimono and InuYasha's eyes grew wide.

“What is THAT?” he asked.

“I'm not sure, it stings from time to time, but other than that, I'm not sure. All I know it after I got it, everything's blank until a few months ago, when I met…”

But she stopped.

“Nevermind…that's in the past now”

InuYasha sensed that it was some sort of pain that she didn't want to talk about understood immediately.

“And well, that's it, not quite as interesting as yours, but, that's it”

She rolled her sleeve back down, pulled her feet out of the water and stood.

“Shall we head back?” she asked.

InuYasha nodded and stood as well. He led her back to the others, who stared at the two for a moment. Kagome noticed how much Nakamura looked like InuYasha's mother besides the golden eyes and the ears, claws and fangs.

“So, now what?” Nakamura asked.