InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Forgotten Memories ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
Forgotten Memories
By. DemonGirl-Setsuna
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DemonGirl-Setsuna: Hi there! Setsuna here!
I think I got about 5 reviews within 24 hours of posting Chapters 1 & 2!
I’m so glad you readers like it so far!
And, sorry to the reader who got confused and couldn’t keep track of the new characters, two familiar faces are set to show up in this chapter!
So without delay!
Here is Chapter 3!
Please Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don’t own InuYasha or anyone belonging to Rumiko Takahashi.
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Ch. 3
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“Hmm?”, Sakura moans, as she stirs.
She sits up and looks around, “This is… That’s right, the cat knocked me into the well”, she recalls.
Sakura looks up only to see the sunlight streaming in, “Crap! I’ve been down here so long, it’s late afternoon! I’ve missed my karate class!”, she growls.
She climbs up the inside of the well, “When I get my hands on that cat, she’s going to…”, she reaches the lip of the well, “…regret…”, she trails off.
This isn’t the well-shrine! Where am I?’, she asks herself, looking around the forest clearing.
She wonders around confused, ‘I feel like I was here before’, she thinks, ‘But when?
She spots the top of a very tall tree, “Ah! That tree! Is it possible it’s the tree back home?”, she pushes through the bushes towards the tree.
Sakura stops ten feet from the base of the tree, “Huh?”, she sees a teenaged boy pinned to the tree by an arrow through the heart, “Is that a boy…?”
She climbs onto a raised root, and finds herself face to face with him.
“He has dog-ears, he can’t be human!”, she whispers, slowly reaching up to touch one of the ears.
Suddenly, an arrow strikes the tree an inch away from her hand.
Sakura slightly jumps.
“Don’t touch that boy! You might awaken him!”, the voice of an elderly woman warns.
Sakura slowly turns around and finds a mid-seventy year old woman dressed in the robes of a priestess, and had an eye-patch over her right-eye, with a bow drawn; pointed at Sakura.
“Identify yourself!”, the woman demands.
“My name is Sakura. Who might you be?”, she rudely says, narrowing her violet eyes.
“I’m Kaede, High Priestess of the nearby village”, the elderly woman replies.
“Then answer me this. Who is this boy? What is he? And, Why is he pinned to the tree?”, Sakura questions.
“His name is InuYasha. He is a dog-hanyou. He lost his mind and attacked his friends 16 years ago, a young priestess sealed him to the tree to stop his rampage”, Kaede answers, lowing her bow.
Just like the legend I studied in class today!’, Sakura thinks, “What was the priestess’s name?”
“If memory serves me right, her name was; Kagome”, the old priestess recalls, “Yeah, Kagome Higurashi”.
“What name did you just say?”, Sakura shrieks.
“Kagome Higurashi, why do you ask?”
“That’s my mother’s name!”
“You’re the daughter of Kagome?”
Sakura simply nods.
“Kagome… that wench…”, a voice deeply growls behind her.
Sakura quickly turns around, and finds herself staring into the gold eyes of an awake InuYasha.
“You are her daughter… I can smell her blood flowing in your veins”, InuYasha angrily growls.
Sakura takes a step back; forgetting that she was standing on a root, slipping as she stepped.
She falls backwards, and tries to grab the first thing she could grab; the arrow in InuYasha’s chest, but just as she wraps her fingers around the shaft of the arrow, a pink light emits from the arrow, and the arrow vanishes in a flash of light.
“The arrow’s gone! InuYasha is free!”, Kaede shouts.
Sakura lands flat on her butt, her jewel pendent becoming uncovered; as it bounced out from under the top of her shirt.
InuYasha lands on the ground, then slowly stands up, “I see that the guardianship of the Shikon jewel was passed on to you!”, he chuckles, “I can take my revenge for what your mother did to me and gain the jewel, just by killing you!”, he flexes his claws, smirking as he does.
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DemonGirl-Setsuna: Well? What did you think? Please review!
Uh-oh! It seems Sakura is in serious trouble!
Who or what will save her?
Find out in the next Chapter of ‘Forgotten Memories’!
Catch you readers in next chapter!