InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Forgotten Memories ❯ Chapter 12 ( Chapter 12 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
Forgotten Memories
By. DemonGirl-Setsuna
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DemonGirl-Setsuna: Hi there! Setsuna here!
Sorry I haven’t updated in 11 days, but ‘Ritalin-Writer’ held my computer hostage, I had Driver’s Ed, and it was Labor Day Monday; no classes, so I couldn’t update!
Now where was I?
Oh yeah!
Last Chapter; InuYasha had a nightmare of killing Sakura, and Sakura dreamed of her father, who she doesn’t know what he looks like!
And they spoke of the fathers’ they never knew!
What will they encounter next?
Find out in this Chapter of ‘Forgotten Memories’!
Here is Chapter 12!
Please Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don’t own InuYasha or anything belonging to Rumiko Takahashi.
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Ch 12
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One Week Later…
Sakura stands in front of a fruit-vendor’s stand; looking at the fruits on display, a sack of food taken from the mansion at her feet.
“What do you want, miss?”, the vendor asks.
“12 oranges, please”, she replies.
“That will be 20 kaneko”, the vendor says, putting the oranges into a cloth bag.
(A/N: Kaneko is the currency, ex. Money!)
Sakura fishes inside her kimono sleeve and pulls out a small sack full of coins; also taken from the mansion, and pays the vendor.
“Here are your oranges, miss”.
“Thank you, sir”, she says, taking the bag of oranges.
She puts the bag of oranges into the sack of food, and picks up the sack and heads to where InuYasha stood.
InuYasha leans against the side of the house, worriedly glancing at the horizon.
“What’s wrong?”, she asks.
“It’s nothing”, he says, pushing off from the wall, “Let’s go”, he orders, walking towards the edge of the village.
“You travelers shouldn’t leave the village so close to night fall”, a villager warns.
“Why is that?”, Sakura asks.
“A female spider demon stocks the forest beyond the village, looking for humans foolish enough to stray from the village at night”, the villager replies.
“InuYasha, why don’t we stay the night here?”, she questions, turning to the hanyou.
“I’ll pretend you’re joking!”, he snorts, “We’re going, Sakura. I don’t want to stay in a mortal’s village any longer than I have to!”, he yells, storming from the village.
“Whatever, you heartless jerk!”, she growls, following him.
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Near Dusk…
“Hey, InuYasha!”, Sakura calls.
“What?”, he growls.
“Let’s rest inside that temple for the night”, she points to a building up ahead.
“Sure, whatever!”
“Thanks!”, she cheers, running up ahead.
The sun has almost set. I mustn’t let her find out my secret’, he thinks, looking at the horizon.
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Five Minutes Later…
InuYasha sits in the doorway of the temple, watching the sky, while Sakura checks the map Kaede gave her by candle-light.
“Hey InuYasha, if we keep following the path we’re on over two more mountains, we should reach the village we’re heading to”, Sakura says, “It should take two to three weeks to reach it”, she rolls up the map and returns it back into her bag.
InuYasha doesn’t respond.
“Are you listening to me?”
Not even a twitch from his ear.
“Hey!”, she shouts, throwing a small rock at his head; hitting him between the ears.
“What?”, he yells, rubbing the spot where he got hit.
“I was talking to you, but you’ve been zoning out on me”, she replies, “What is with you? You’ve normally not so quiet!”
“It’s none of your business!”, he retorts.
What is with him? He’s been acting strange all day! And, his aura is off too!’, she thinks, puzzled at his behavior and aura, “InuYasha…”.
“Ha… ha… ha… Who would’ve thought that the keeper of the Shikon jewel, would willingly walk into my den with the jewel”, a woman’s silky voice chuckles.
Both Sakura and InuYasha turn towards the voice to find a woman with long silver hair, red eyes, and wearing a kimono that seemed to be made out of webs.
“Who are you?”, Sakura asks.
“They call me Onna-guma; Queen of the spider demons”, the woman bows, “And I’m quite hungry”, she adds, opening her mouth to show her fangs.
“We got to run!”, InuYasha exclaims, grabbing Sakura by the wrist and pulls her from the temple.
“Wha…? InuYasha!”, she gasps, snagging their sack of food in the same instant he grabbed her.
“Move it Sakura!”, he orders, running faster.
What’s the matter with him? He’d usually attack the demon without a second thought’, she thinks, even more puzzled than before, ‘He is gripping my wrist so tightly, it’s surprising his claws aren’t digging into my skin. Wait a minute! Why aren’t his claws piercing my flesh!’, she wonders, looking down at the hand holding her wrist.
InuYasha’s normally long, lethally sharp claws, were short, dull human nails.
“What the…?”, she gasps, “InuYasha, your hand…!”
Damn it! My transformation is starting! Talk about bad timing!’, he curses in his head.
“InuYasha, what is going on with you?”
“I told you it is none of your business!”, he retorts, feeling his fangs shorten to a human length.
Sakura stops running, yanking InuYasha to a stop.
“I want an answer now!”, she demands.
“We don’t have time for this, we’ve got to continue running!”, he growls, his hair turning mid-night black, his eyes changing violet and his ears transforming into human ones on the sides of his head.
“I’m not running, till I get an answer”, she retorts, “What is happening to you?”
He just angrily glares at her.
“Wait, how could I forget!”, she mentally-slaps herself, “Hanyous have a time of the month when they turn completely human, am I right?”
(A/N: She recalled it from the legend she learned in school!)
“Correct, now let’s keep running…”, he grumbles, starting to run again.
“I was right”, she smiles, running along side the hanyou-turned-human.
“Now not a word to anybody else about my secret”, he threatens, “If the demons after the jewel found out, it would be certain death for us… Wha…!”, he is cut off in his sentence.
“InuYasha!”, Sakura screams, turning to find her companion lying on the ground, struggling to get untangled from the spider-web that was shot from the direction they were running from, “InuYasha!”, she cries out, kneeling beside him, trying to help him get untangled.
Suddenly, the web-rope begins to drag InuYasha back towards the temple.
“Forget about me Sakura, just save yourself”, he says, struggling.
“No way! I will never abandon my friends!”, she retorts, pulling on his hand; in a tug-of-war against the rope of webs.
An image of a young woman with mid-back length raven-black hair and brown eyes, standing with another young woman with waist-length dark brown hair and brown eyes, and a young man with short black hair; that was long enough to pull into a low ponytail, and dark blue eyes, flashes in his mind. He starts to feel light-headed again, this time his vision going black as he passes out.
“InuYasha!”, she screams in horror, as his hand slips from her grip and he is dragged out of sight, causing her to fall on her butt.
Sakura quickly gets back onto her feet.
“Ha…ha…ha…what a catch!”, the spider’s voice echoes through the forest, “He looks good enough to eat”.
“Give him back, demon!”, Sakura shouts.
“Bring the Shikon jewel to the temple, and I might consider returning your companion”, the spider laughs, her voice fading.
“I’ll just have to save him, without giving up the jewel”, she whispers, pulling out her daggers from her bag, ‘Why do I have to keep saving his sorry-ass?’, she thinks, heading back to the temple.
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DemonGirl-Setsuna: Well? What did you think? Please review!
InuYasha sure seems to find himself in trouble, and is being saved by a human girl; the daughter of Kagome, Sakura.
Will she be able to save him from becoming spider-chow?
Or will she lose her live in the process?
Find out in the next Chapter of ‘Forgotten Memories’!
Catch you readers in the next Chapter!