InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Love Nearly Forgotten ❯ Whispers from the Past ( Chapter 1 )

This is my very first attempt at a fan fiction. Please tell me what you think.

AN: Before anyone says anything, this is not an alternate pairing.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. That is all that needs to be said.

Summary: Everyone knows that Inuyasha has a slight problem with women. A dead one, and one from the future who just so happens to be the dead one's reincarnation…but what if there was another?

Rating: R for language and adult situations (not a lemon)

A Love Nearly Forgotten

Ch 1: Whispers from the past

It had been nearly two days since Kagome left for her own time, and Inuyasha was becoming impatient. It had taken nearly an hour of arguing and twenty or so `oswaris' before he had let her go to take her `tests' or whatever it was she said she needed to do, and now she was late. "Why can't she EVER be on time?" Inuyasha yelled as he was about to jump in the well and get her.

"Oswari!" A voice snapped from the bottom of the well.

"Ack! Shit!" Inuyasha yelled as he found himself forced into the ground.

"You'd think that I would be able to go home for just TWO days without your wining and complaining! Geez I'm only a few hours late, its not like I stayed an extra week!" Kagome said, obviously irritated, as she reached the rim of the well and hopped off with a puff. "Really Inuyasha, I don't see why you always make such a big deal out of it. I always come back, I'm your trusty shard detector remember?"

"Feh, and that's about ALL you're good for too!" Inuyasha yelled back, still trying to pry himself from the ground.

"Oswari!" Kagome hissed again.

Inuyasha's elbows buckled as he was pulled down again by the rosary's spell. "Damn it wench! What was that for?" he shouted.

Kagome only ignored the fuming hanyou. "I'll be in the village whenever you decide to get up." She leisurely said with a slight smirk on her face as she quickly turned on her heels toward the village. `Why can't he ever be nice? A friendly `Hi Kagome!' would be nice for once, but instead Inuyasha just has to be Inuyasha and yell at me every time I go home,' she thought to herself.

"Kagome! You're back!" Shippou came running up the hill toward his favorite human. "I've missed you soooo much! And so has everyone else, I think even Inuyasha missed you. Hey, where is Inuyasha anyway?"

"Umm, I think Inuyasha is still…uh... at the well. He'll be back, and I don't believe for one minute that he missed me." Kagome giggled, the kit snuggling close in her arms.

"I'm hungry Kagome; did you bring back something to eat?" Shippou asked, trying to put on his cutest face.

"Oh Shippou, you know I did. Now come on, let's go to Kaede's hut and heat up some of the ramen I brought, ok?"

"Yay!" The kit squeaked as he leaped from Kagome's arms and made his way into the village. "Hey everyone Kagome's back, and she's gonna make us ramen!"

`That Shippou, he's just like Inuyasha, always thinking about his stomach.' Kagome thought as she continued toward the village, but she soon felt that she was not alone. An earsplitting crash in the trees to her right her made her jump. `That didn't sound good… a shard… I sense a jewel shard!' And with that thought she turned back towards the well to find Inuyasha.

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"Damn that Kagome, why did she have to go and get so mad?" Inuyasha said to himself as he pushed himself up from the ground. He didn't know why the girl made him say some of the things he said, but for some reason when he thought of her or was around her stupid things just seemed to fly from his mouth. `If I'd just keep my mouth shut after the first `oswari' it wouldn't be so bad… and when did I start acting like a complete idiot?' The hanyou thought as he positioned himself in a more comfortable posture. Of course he knew the answer, it was sometime after Kagome came along wasn't it? The last time he remembered acting like this around a female was… "No, I don't want to think about that," he said quietly to himself.

"Inuyasha! A shard! I sense a shard and it's coming fast!" Kagome yelled huffing and puffing as she came running towards him.

"Where? Where is it?" Inuyasha asked almost excitedly as he pulled the Tetsusaiga from its sheath. He quickly made his way to Kagome's side, ready to protect her if needed. A rustle in the trees and a flash of movement caught his eye. Then it attacked, fast and hard. It only took Inuyasha a moment to gather what was happening and who was attacking him. It was a shadow shifter… only… it was much larger and bolder than any other he had encountered, of course he had only seen another of its kind once… a long time ago… `Damn it why are you thinking of this now, it's not the same one so kill the thing!' he thought. It only took one swipe of the Tetsusaiga to bring the demon down, droping in a heap of dark matter. `That was easy… way too easy… to think that… back then… Damn it!' he mentally cursed.

"Inuyasha? Are you ok? What was that thing?" Kagome asked with concern. She was staring at him with a worried expression, holding the jewel shard that the demon had in her hand. He didn't move. He was staring at the crumpled heap at his feet with a look of horror and disgust on his face. "Inuyasha?" she asked again.

"It was a shadow shifter, they usually stay hidden during the day and attack at night, and they never attack head on… " Inuyasha said lowly. A look of sorrow washed over his face as he said this and turned toward Kagome. "Come on, lets go we have the shard so we shouldn't worry about this stupid thing anymore," he said as he began walking back toward the village, "The others will worry if we are gone too long, so hurry up wench," he continued.

"What did you say?" Kagome yelled as she hurried after him.

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Inuyasha and the rest of the group were now on the road again, following a rumor Sango had overheard two travelers talking about. The rumor had them traveling southwest, and for some reason this seemed to bother Inuyasha. He had been unusually quiet, and the others had begun to worry about him. Miroku had offered the idea that perhaps the direction in which they were headed led them dangerously close to Sesshomaru's lands. That, of course, was enough to make anyone nervous, but Kagome was getting the feeling that it wasn't just his brother that was bothering him.

"Inuyasha?" Kagome asked quietly.

"What do you want wench?" Inuyasha said gruffly, quickening his pace.

"What's gotten in to you lately? You've been too quiet." He was avoiding her, she knew it, but why? When he offered no answer she started to worry, so she did the only thing she knew to do. "Oswari!"

"Damn it!" Inuyasha shouted as he slammed into the ground. "What in the HELL was that for!?!" He screamed.

"THAT, was for being so weird!" Kagome snapped back, stomping her foot for effect.

"Huh? I don't know what you're talking about bitch! You didn't have to `sit' me!"

"You have so been acting weird! Ever since that shadow thing attacked you've been weird! You haven't said a word in almost three days! And YES I did have to `s' you because it was the only way I could get you to say ANYTHING!"

"Feh, stupid wench… AND what in the hell are you laughing at?!?" The now very angry hanyou screamed at Miroku, who had been nearly reduced to tears from amusement. The sight of Inuyasha slammed into the ground was always funny, but the fact that this time he had gotten sat because he HADN'T said anything was more than he could bear.

"Nothing Inuyasha!" Miroku waved his hands in defense as he darted back behind Sango and Shippou, not forgetting to take advantage of his position there and placing a hand on the demon exterminator's backside. A beating from the girl was his only reward as Sango's fist came down hard on his head.

"It's getting late, and there is a spring nearby, why don't we all camp here for the night?" Sango offered to the group, while still rubbing her fist. "Geez Miroku, you have a hard skull."

"That sounds good! Kagome, will you make us ramen for dinner?" The fox kit squeaked, who was now attempting to extract the packets of ramen from the girl's bag.

"Of course Shippou, we have to get a fire started first though." And with that, everyone began to make camp.

"Feh, whatever." Inuyasha huffed as he placed himself in the nearest tree. "Just tell me when the food is ready."

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After dinner, and several lively conversations that resulted in quite a few `oswaris' and a few more beatings from Sango, the group had finally settled down to sleep. Miroku, his face still twitching in his sleep from the slap he had gotten from Sango, had placed himself at the base of a tree at a safe distance from the demon exterminator across the way. Kagome had placed herself and Shippou next to Sango and Kirara, and Inuyasha was of course up in a nearby tree, and as always not far from Kagome.

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He was running, swiftly through the dark forest chasing something… but what? That he did not know, and more confusing still was why he was still chasing it? A scent caught his nose and a rustle in the brush near him snapped him to attention as the prey he had been chasing leapt from the foliage in front of him. In an instant, Inuyasha felt himself jump into the air to intercept the creature, catching it in mid air and slamming it into the ground beneath him. He looked down at what he had just caught, his now red glowing eyes coming into contact with two green ones staring at him… but not in fear. He now realized that the figure below him was a female. Was she demon, or perhaps human? That he did not know, but he knew her. His lips curled back in a snarl as he took her by the neck and tilted it to the side, revealing the mark on the curve of her neck… his mark.

Inuyasha woke with a start. It had only been a dream… a dream he knew only too well. It had not come to him in some time… he remembered now, the dream that had plagued him for so many years, but back then he had welcomed it. Now he was only glad he had woken, he now remembered how the dream finished and he had no desire to see it to its end.

"Inuyasha, are you ok?" A small voice asked from below. It was Kagome, awakened by strange sounds coming from her friend and was now looking up at him, concern in her eyes.

"Feh, go back to sleep. I'm fine!" Inuyasha growled as he turned and leapt from his perch into the forest. He needed time to think, alone.

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