InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Forgotten Memories ❯ Chapter 24 ( Chapter 24 )

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Forgotten Memories
By. DemonGirl-Setsuna

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DemonGirl-Setsuna: Hi there! Setsuna here!

I got bored and typed up this Chapter to stable off the boredom!
I was so bored, I’ve listened to the full-version of the song; ‘Numa Numa’ at least ten times today! (I have a play-list, and ‘Numa Numa’ is one out of 25 different songs!)

Last Time; Sakura chased off Kikyo!
And Sakura developed the power of healing!
What will happen next?
Find out in this Chapter of ‘Forgotten Memories’!

Here is Chapter 24!

Please Enjoy!


Disclaimer: I don’t own InuYasha or anything belonging to Rumiko Takahashi.

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Ch. 24

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Sakura had somewhat gotten over her shock and carried InuYasha into the hut, laying him onto the bed of straw she had been occupying before the incident happened.

She takes a clean rag and cleans the dried blood from his chest, the scratch his injury had become from the golden aura around Sakura’s hand, still hadn’t healed.

The purifying energy from Kikyo’s arrow is probably interfering with his natural-hanyou healing’, she thinks, cleaning up the scratch, ‘At least whatever that aura-thing I did was, took away the fatality of his injury’, she adds inside her head, with a soft smile on her lips.

“Nnh…”, InuYasha painfully groans, sweat starting to drench his face.

“He’s still in pain”, she whispers, dabbing the sweat from his brow with her handkerchief.

“Ka…go…me…”, he moans.

He’s dreaming about my mother again!’, she gasps in her head.

“Ki…kyo…”, he groans.

And that bitch too!’, she mentally growls.



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-InuYash a’s Dream-


(A/N: The lines are from the English-version of episodes 147 and 148! Unless stated otherwise!)

(Where am I?), he asks, feeling his body running and sees himself running through a forest at sunset.

I have to hurry! Because tonight’s the night!’, his voice rang out in his head.

Suddenly, an explosion of pink light erupts ahead of him, causing him to stop.

“What? It reeks of blood!”, he whispers, covering his nose with his sleeve.

As he nears a clearing, he leaps onto a tree-branch, watching the woman dressed in the robes of a priestess try to catch her breath, after she had killed at least ten demons.

The priestess glances over her shoulder, towards the tree he hid in, as if sensing his presence, as night descended.

A human? Is that really a woman?’, he ponders, looking at her.

Suddenly a pulse-beat travels through his body causing him to silently gasp.

Oh no! It’s starting!’, he panics, as his claws shrink and dull into human nails, then his silvery-white hair darkens to mid-night black, his fangs retract into his jaw until they were human-length, his dog-ears lose their silvery-white fur and start morphing into round human ears as they travel from the top of his head to the side of his head, and his gold amber-colored eyes darken, turning to a dark violet color, with his pupils remaining silted like a cat’s; the only thing to stay the same from when he is a hanyou.

“How long do you intend to hide from me up there?”, the woman questions, she turns towards the tree as a bolt of lightening flashes, “Are you after the Sacred jewel too?”, she asks, as rain begins to fall.

(The Sacred jewel!)

“The Sacred jewel? Never heard of it!”, he replies, still hiding in the tree.

“If you don’t know about it, then never mind”, she says, “If you value your life at all, I warn you to stay away from me”, she advises, and turns, heading out of the clearing, then she suddenly collapses from exhaustion.

“Huh…?”, he gasps, seeing her collapse, then leaps down and runs to her side.

The rain washes the dirt from her face.

“She’s some priestess…”, he mutters, looking her over as rain starts to soak him from head to toe.

“Lady Kikyo!”, a little girl’s voice calls out.

“Uh…”, he gasps, worriedly glancing in the direction the voice came from and sees lit torches approaching.

Villagers call out for the woman and InuYasha hurries from the clearing, not wanting to be seen by humans.

(What the…?)

InuYasha sits on a tree-branch lounging with his eyes close, the rain had stopped falling, when he over-heard someone or something muttering to it’s-self.

“It’s around here! I knew it! The Sacred jewel is nearby! I must find it and increase my demonic-power! Before my body fails me!”, the female demon says, flying over the tree InuYasha rested in.

“I get it now! So that’s what it’s about!”, he says to himself, opening his eyes and smirks, “The Sacred jewel, huh? It’s worth looking into!”, he chuckles, then recalls the unconscious priestess, “That priestess’s name was Kikyo…”.




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A Few Day Later…


(A/N: I replace the word ‘half-demon’ with ‘hanyou’.)

“Hey, Kikyo!”, he shouts out, menacingly.

“Huh?”, Kikyo gasps, turning towards the voice.

“I hear this so-called jewel is a mysterious crystal that increases the power of a demon”, he states.

“I remember, you were the one hiding in the shadows the other night”, she says.

“Shut up! Just hand over that Sacred jewel!”, he shouts, charging at her.

Only to realize two arrows flying at him, piercing him through the top-part of his arms and pinning him to a tree.

“I understand, I thought I sensed a different aura from you”, she says, still posed from firing the arrows, “So you are a mere hanyou”.

(That bitch!)

InuYasha growls in annoyance and tries to struggle free.

“With the Sacred jewel, you can become a full-blooded demon. Would you go that far as to find your place in the world, hanyou? Do you believe that is true power?”, she mocks.

“I told you to shut up!” he snarls, “I’ll become the strongest demon around. I’ve already made up my mind! And when I do become a full-fledge demon, I’m going to put you out of your misery!”

“Take my word for it, that’s never going to happen. Not as long as I purify and protect it”, she lightly laughs, walking away.

“Don’t make me laugh! You totally reek with the stench of demon-blood!”, he yells, “What’s the matter? Did I touch a nerve? Huh, Kikyo?”, he mocks.

She stops walking and glares over her shoulder at him, “You better stay away from me if you don’t want to be killed! There will be no third chance!”

“Feh! I’m not giving up that easily! Go ahead and run, you won’t get away from me! With that bloody demon smell on you, you’ll by easy enough to find!”, he threatens.




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The Next Day…




“Kikyo, hand over the sacred jewel…”, he threatens, revealing his fangs as he smirks and cracks his knuckles as he flexes his claws.

(A/N: I just had a ‘Deja-vu’ moment from Chapter 4 of this story!)

“I warned you to stay away from me!”, she states.

“And I told you I wasn’t going to give up so easily!”, he shouts, “We are going to settle this today! Now get that kid out of the way!”

“Kaede, go take cover in the trees”, Kikyo tells the child.

(Kaede? That’s the old woman?)

“Alright Kikyo”, the child nods, before running for safety.

A priestess walking a path tainted with blood’, he thinks.

InuYasha raises his hands, claws ready to defend himself and Kikyo loads her bow.

“There is something I wish to ask you: why didn’t you kill that night? It would have been easy enough, given my condition”.

“I don’t play dirty, that’s why”.

“I see”, she chuckles.

“What’s so funny?”, he growls.

“Let me ask you one more thing: hanyou, what name do you go by? You must have a name, even though you’re just a hanyou”.

“Hey! Listen! Quit calling me a hanyou! Would ya!”, he snaps.

“Then tell me your name, and I’ll never call you hanyou again!”

“It’s InuYasha…”, he hesitantly says.

“InuYasha you says? I’ll remember that”.

“Prepare to die, Kikyo!”, InuYasha shouts, charging at her, only to find himself again pinned to another tree by five arrows.

Kikyo still stands there with a sixth arrow notched on the bow-string, prepared to fire, causing a tiny bit of fear show on InuYasha’s face as he gulps.

Suddenly she lowers her bow and unloads it as she turns to walk away.

“Will you stop it! Why do you never finish me off?”, he yells.

“Stop coming after the jewel! I have no wish to wash more arrows…”, she scorns, turning slightly to face him.



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< b>Months Later…
Near Sunset…


InuYasha and Kikyo sit on a river-bank.

“Me? Become a human?”, InuYasha asks.

“It’s possible. It’s true that you are half-demon, but you are also half-human”, Kikyo says, “If the Shikon no Tama fell into the hands of a demon, their power would undoubtedly increase”.

“Hmm…”, he sighs, patiently listening to her.

“However, if it were used to turn you into a human, it would be purified. The Shikon no Tama would probably cease to exist”.

“And then what? What would happen to you?”, he questions.

“My duty is to protect the jewel. Without it, I could live the life of an ordinary woman”, she replies.

They ride a boat down-river to a pier, where Kikyo trips while climbing up out of the boat, and InuYasha catches her as she stumbles.

Kikyo looks up at him, then he embraces her in his arms.

(I’m hugging her!)

“Kikyo. Kikyo, I will become a human!”, he says.

She pulls back a little.

“I swear I’m not just saying this. I will become a human…”

“InuYasha…”, she whispers.

“So you can become a normal human too, and be my…”, he begins to say.

“Enough”, she says, cutting him off as she pulls away, “Stop. That’s all I need to hear”.

“Kikyo, I truly am in…”

She cuts off his sentence by pressing her lips to his.

It takes him a moment to get over his shock and kisses back.

The day has turned to night as they walk back to the village.

“InuYasha? Are you sure about this?”

“About what?”

“About me. Are you sure?”

“Feh. Do you have to ask?”

“Tomorrow at noon”.

“Hmm?”

“In front of the Sacred tree, in the western forest. Wait for me there. I’ll bring the Sacred jewel”.

“I’ll be there”, he replies.




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The Next Day…




InuYasha stands in front of the Sacred tree.

“Kikyo? She’s not here yet”, he says.

“So you’ve come, hanyou!”, she laughs.

He turns to see Kikyo standing there at the edge of the forest, pointing a loaded bow at him.

“Wh..what did you just say, Kikyo?”, he stutters.

“I said, ‘hanyou’. Can’t those ugly dog-ears of yours hear what I say?”, she spat.

“Ugly dog?”, he whispers.

“I can’t let a hanyou like you have the Sacred jewel. I will destroy you here and now!”, she lets her arrow fly, “Die, InuYasha!”

He leaps away, dodging the arrow.

“Be gone hanyou!”

“Damn it!”, he curses, escaping to the tree-tops.

Damn! You mean all this time, you were just using me?’, he growls in his head, as he rushes towards the village, remembering when Kikyo promised to never call him a hanyou again, ‘That’s what you said, and yet…why now?

He charges into the villager and crashes through the roof of the shrine where the Shikon no Tama was being kept, and grabs the jewel off it’s pedestal as a few villagers armed with spears, swing open the shrine-doors and throws then at him, knocking the torches over, causing the shrine to explode as InuYasha escapes through the roof.

“Heh, so there! Finally, a way for me to become all-demon at last…”, he chuckles, as he bolts for the safety of the forest with the jewel in his hand, “Ha, I won’t let anyone call me a hanyou again!”

“InuYasha!”, Kikyo angrily shouts, drawing her arrow back.

He glances over his shoulder at her.

I never doubted you, not for a minute! Yet, you deceived me!’, he scornfully thinks, before turning his head back in the direction her was running in.

"InuYasha!", she shouts again, releasing her arrow.

He could feel the extreme-pain of Kikyo's arrow as it pierces through his chest and forces him backwards against a tree, and the arrow continues through his chest and into the tree, pinning him to the tree. The Shikon no Tama flies from his hand and lands ten feet away on the ground.

"Ki...Kikyo...How could...I thought...", he stammers, reaching out to the priestess.

Kikyo stumbles towards the jewel and collapses to one knee as her younger sister; Kaede, runs to her side.

"Sister Kikyo! You're hurt really bad!", the child says.

Kikyo picks up the jewel.

'Am I going to die like this?', InuYasha thinks, 'I guess that's okay... Kikyo, even though it ended like this, I still love...', he mentally says, as he feels his heartbeats slow down; till it was almost not beating and he slips into the blackness that overcame him, he falls limp on the arrow.



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DemonGirl-Setsuna: Well? What did you think? Please review!

This Chapter was pretty long!
I hope this will keep you readers happy till my next update!
Which might be 6 months from now...!
PLEASE, Don't Kill Me!

Now to get back on subject!

InuYasha is regaining more of his memories!
But, I hate the memories he just gained!
What memories will he regain, now that the memories involving Kikyo are over?
Find out in the next Chapter of 'Forgotten Memories'!

Catch you readers next time!