InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Forgotten Memories ❯ Chapter 25 ( Chapter 25 )

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Forgotten Memories

By. DemonGirl-Setsuna

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DemonGirl-Setsuna: Hi there! Setsuna here!

To my readers on `Media-Miner': It has been a few weeks since my last update, and you're blessed to be having this Chapter for your reading pleasure!

To my readers on `Fanfiction': Sorry for the six-month delay on updating, but my computer in class won't let me onto the site to post, so I had to post this while I was at home! And, I only go home every six-months!

Last time; InuYasha regained his memories of Kikyo.

What memories will he regain next?

Find out in this Chapter of `Forgotten Memories'!

Here is Chapter 25!

Please Enjoy!

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

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Ch. 25

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“InuYasha!”, Sakura screams, shaking his shoulder when she realizes his breathing had become so shallow, that he was barely even breathing.

She presses her ear to his chest and closes her eyes as she blocks out all the other sounds around herself, to focus on trying to hear his heartbeats.

His heartbeats were slow yet steady, a comforting sign for the teen as she sighs in relief.

`That must be one heck of a dream if his breathing and heartbeats are being affected', she thinks, brushing a stray hair from his face.

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-InuYasha's Dream-

(A/N: The lines are from the English episodes and movie!)

(Darkness…? I'm beginning to hate this darkness!)

“Someone, help me!”, a woman's voice rang out, shattering the silence of the darkness.

(Who's that?)

Awareness of his body returns to him in the inky-blackness, and his limp hand tenses; his claws ready to tear something apart, he lifts his hand up in front of himself.

“I smell it… the blood of the woman who killed me!”, he growls with predatory satisfaction, as he opens his eyes, “And it's coming closer…”, he smirks, as he reaches for the arrow embedded in his chest, “Ugh!”, he winces in pain as a pink aura surrounds the arrow before he could even touch it.

Suddenly, a woman resembling Kikyo and wearing the strangest looking kimono he ever saw, skids on the ground in front of him on her stomach.

“Hello Kikyo… Playin' with bugs now, are we?”, he mockingly says.

“Huh?”, the woman gasps, as she looks up at him, “So you're alive?”, she asks, raising to her knees.

“Why're you takin' so long to kill it? Just do her like you did me”, he continues to mock, “You look pretty dumb there, Kikyo… The Kikyo I know wouldn't waste her time”, he adds, when the woman doesn't react to his mocking.

“That does it!”, the woman shouts, leaping to her feet, “Kikyo! Kikyo! Whoever she is, she's not me, `cause my name is…”.

“She's here…”, he simply says, looking up at the centipede demon above him in the tree.

Just as he spoke the demon drops down and attempts to grab her, as the woman screams and falls back onto the ground, but before the demon could attack again, several spears connected to ropes land into the demon's side.

“Good! Now pull!”, a villager shouts to the other villagers, and the demon is yanked away from the woman.

“So I was saved…”, the woman sighs in relief.

“You're pathetic Kikyo!”, InuYasha taunts.

“I'm not Kikyo!”, she shouts, leaping to her feet again, “Look, I'm telling you! I'm not her! Whoever her is!”, she yells, stomping towards him till she was two feet from him.

“An' I'm saying you gotta be her `cause if you're not, there's no way that you could smell so…”, he begins, then takes in her scent as he sniffs the air, “You're not her…”.

“I know! My name is `Kagome'! Ka-go-me!”, she shouts.

“You're right; Kikyo was cuter… Much cuter…”, he mutters.

Before the woman named Kagome, could say anything else, she is suddenly grabbed from behind by the centipede demon and Kagome grabs fro something to hold onto, unfortunately it was InuYasha's forelocks.

“Leggo'a me!”, she screams at the demon.

“Oww! Oww! Oww! You let go!”, he shouts at Kagome.

“Give me the Sacred jewel!”, the demon hisses.

`Sacred jewel!', InuYasha thinks.

The demon opens her mouth, revealing it's fangs.

“Stop it!”, Kagome screams, releasing one of his forelocks to attempt to push the demon away.

A pink light erupts from her hand, repealing the demon and the light cuts off the demon's five arms; it's sixth arm was already missing, and Kagome lands on the ground in a heap.

“Hey… I did that before too… in the well…”, she mutters, sitting up and looking at her hand, “But, how'd I do it, though…?”,she looks at her side, “What's happening now?”

Before his brain could register what happened, Kagome is laying on the ground with an injury to her left-side and the Shikon no Tama was on the ground in front of her.

“Gimme the jewel, quick!”, he states.

“Wha..?”, Kagome gasps.

“Hurry!”, he says.

But before she could move to do what he requested, the centipede demon's body has pinned her against him.

“Ha! Ha! Ha! I've heard some hanyou spawn was after the sacred jewel… It's you isn't it…?”, the centipede taunts.

InuYasha narrows his eyes as he glares at the demon; visibly pissed and annoyed.

“Half's all I need to kick your scaly hide. Anymore than that'd be a waste of my time”, he retorts.

“Listen”, Kagome pipes up, looking up at him, “You talk big, but can you back it up?”

“Hmm?”, he blinks at her.

“Can you or not?”

“What can he do, pinned there like that? Or you for that matter?”, the demon mocks, “You're powerless to stop me! You're helpless, the both of you”, the demon swallows the jewel.

“Don't you dare!”, InuYasha curses.

“Look: it's rearming…”, Kagome whispers in fear, as her hand grips his haori and the demon's five arms reattach.

The demon sheds it's human-looking skin for that of bluish-gray, with red eyes and yellow fangs. Then it wraps it's body tighter around the tree, causing Kagome to gasp in pain.

“It's crushing me!”, she painfully yells.

“Hey. Can you pull out this arrow?”, he simply asks her.

“Huh?”, she questions, her eyes focusing onto the arrow embedded firmly in his chest.

“Look, can you pull out this arrow or not?”, he shouts.

“I…I don't know…!”, she says, reaching for the arrow.

“Nay child! Once the arrow is removed, then InuYasha will be free to destroy us all!”, an elderly woman shouts.

(It's Kaede!)

“Don't be stupid, you old hag! At least with me you've got a chance, whereas that thing's gonna eat you!”, he yells at the woman, then says the Kagome, “And what about you, are you ready to die yet?”

“I choose to…”, she strains to say as she grips the arrow and pulls, “…live!”

The arrow vanishes in a burst of pink light, and InuYasha's whole body pulsates in-time with his heartbeats as the arrow's spell fades from his body.

“Um, ah… InuYasha…?”, Kagome questions.

InuYasha begins laughing in pure joy at his newfound freedom.

He just blows the demon's body apart with only his aura, and summersaults in the air a dozen times, then effortlessly lands on the ground in a crouch.

“Wicked child!”, the demon hisses.

“Nasty hag!”, he retorts, turning quickly his claws giving off a golden-yellow aura from their tips.

The demon charges at him.

(A/N: I used the original Japanese name for InuYasha's attack!)

“Sankon Tesso!”, he shouts out, as his claws tear through the demon and rips it apart.

He sees the old woman crouch down and removes the jewel from the demon's corpse, and places it into Kagome's hands.

“Huh? But…?”

“Only ye may possess the jewel”, Kaede says.

“But how'd it get inside my body? Why would I have a jewel wanted by demons?”

“Exactly…”, InuYasha remarks, crushing the demon's bones under his foot, “Humans can't use it, so why bother to keep it?”, he flexes his claws, “If you hand the jewel over right now, I won't have to start sharpening my claws on you”.

“Pay no heed to InuYasha, child”, the old woman advises.

“I hate havin' to wait… An' I hate the smell of you…”, she says, before charging at the elderly woman and Kagome.

Kagome starts running from him, and he leaps over the old woman towards Kagome. But she suddenly trips on the demon's bones and falls to the ground, his claws swiping the air where her head had been; slicing a few strands of her hair from her head.

He skids to a stop, “Want me to scratch your back?”, he mocks, holding up his claws.

“You really tried to hit me just now, didn't you?”, she questions.

“Prepare yourself!”, InuYasha shouts, leaping from tree to tree chasing after Kagome.

“Prepare? For what?”, she yells, glancing over her shoulder to only realize he was dropping down on her.

He swipes his claws at her; golden aura streaks off the tips, the force of the impact knocks Kagome off her feet, and she lands face-down on the ground; the jewel becoming free from her hand.

She pushes herself into a sitting position, turning around at the same time, and finds three slash-like craters, where she had been running.

InuYasha bounces off of a tree towards the jewel, “Heh, now it's mine!'

Suddenly, what appeared to be glowing beads, gather and encircle his neck, and stops glowing when he lands on a rock near the jewel, “What the heck are these?', he questions, tugging on the prayer-beads around his neck.

(The prayer-beads…!)

“Quickly child: the word of subjugation!”, Kaede shouts.

“Huh? What word?”, Kagome asks, grabbing the jewel and resumes running.

“It matters not! Your word has power to hold his spirit!”

Kagome continues to run, only to come to a dead-end; a cliff, but the edge suddenly crumbles, causing her to fall, the jewel once again becoming loose from her hand and starts rolling across a rope and wood bridge.

InuYasha jumps out of the tree-tops, “Hah! How can you overpower me, when you can't sit up?”, he mocks.

The jewel continues rolling.

“A word to hold his spirit… but how will I know which one?”, she asks herself, raising to her feet.

InuYasha lands ahead of the jewel and bends over to pick it up as it rolls towards his hand.

“Uhh…umm…”, Kagome mutters, trying to think of a word and his ears perk up, hearing her muttering.

(A/N: Bad move InuYasha! By perking your ears up, she thought dog and came up with Sit/Osuwari as the spell word!)

“Sit, boy!”, she suddenly shouts out.

The prayer-beads light-up with a pink light and he suddenly finds himself pulled face-first to the wood of the bridge, with a soundly, “THUD!”

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The Next Day…

Inside Kaede's Hut…

“Kikyo didn't worry either… Kikyo died…”, Kaede says, “It was on the same day she shot ye with the arrow”.

“Gee, sorry to hear it. Not that I care or nothing”, he retorts, he lays down on his side, “It's one less thing for to worry about”.

“I wouldn't let my guard down just yet, InuYasha… I now know, that Kagome is the reincarnation of my sister”, Kaede advises.

(Kagome is what…?)

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The Day After…

By a River…

A crow-demon flies through the sky, transformed after swallowing the Shikon no Tama.

Kagome loads a bow and aims it at the demon.

“My butt she's gonna hit it…”, he mutters, then notices the crow's foot tied to the arrow, “I get it! She's shooting the foot!”

The arrow strikes the crow and it explodes in a burst of pink light, then the light flashes and explodes.

“Yeah!”, Kagome cheers.

“She hit it!”, he gasps.

Then the ball of light bursts into streaks of light, going every which way.

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Sunset…

“Are you sure it fell around here?”, he asks.

“Well yeah… I mean… kinda”, she replies, “Though I'm still kinda worried about that light…”.

Suddenly, the crow's head flies down at Kagome.

InuYasha rushes in front of Kagome, “I don't think so!”, he shouts, shredding the demon with his claws.

A small pink shard bounces onto the ground.

“I hope that's not what I think it…”

“Whadda you think it is?”, he asks.

Kagome picks up the shard.

“I think it's a shard from the… jewel”, she says.

“Wha… what did you says!”

(The…jewel…was…broken…into…shards&# 8230;)

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A Week Later…

“You're not crying are you…?”, InuYasha asks, the untransformed Tetsusaiga in his hand.

She only cries harder.

“No crying!”

“What…? Should I laugh?”, she shouts.

“No, you should shut up! And, let me protect you!”, he yells back.

(That's right… I did say that to her…)

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A Few Weeks Later…

By the Bone-Eaters Well…

InuYasha sits leaning against the side of the well with Kagome standing in front of him.

“Kagome… I haven't asked how you're feeling…you're hurt too”, he says.

“Huh?”, she gasps, then touches the side of her head, “It's just a little lump on the head… I'm sorry InuYasha… You told me to stay away from Sesshomaru, but I didn't listen and only made things worst… If I had run away like you told me to, you wouldn't have been so seriously injured”.

“No… In the end, it was you who saved me with your arrow… I'm grateful, Kagome…”, he replies.

She kneels in front of him, “You're acting totally weird now”, she says, putting a hand to his forehead, “Do you have a fever?”

“You heard the story, about how Naraku deceived me fifty-years ago. He's the one pulling the strings behind Sesshomaru”, he states.

Kagome stares at him, wide-eyed.

“I've made a decision…”.

“Huh?”, Kagome gasps.

“Things are getting more dangerous by the day…”.

“Yeah, you're probably right”.

“Huh? What's that mean? Aren't you scared? We're in serious danger! This time we were lucky, but who knows about next time?”

“Well, I'm not afraid! Naraku's a terrible demon! We've got to do what we can to stop him!”

Suddenly, InuYasha grabs Kagome by the wrist and pulls her into an embrace.

“InuYasha… What are you doing?”, she whispers.

“I was afraid…”, he mutters.

“Huh?”, she gasps.

“I thought I was going to lose you… I was terrified…”.

He hugs her for a moment longer, then pushes her to the side, letting her fall face-first onto the ground.

She looks up at him, as he raises a fist with the large shard of the sacred jewel they had collected clasped in it.

“I'll hang on to the jewel…”, he simply says.

“Huh… What do you think you're doing?”, she asks, standing up, “Huh?”

He tucks the jewel into his hakama.

“Kagome… Go back to your own era!”, he shouts, and before she can say anything, he pushes her into the well.

“InuYasha… What have you done?”, a young man with black hair pulled back into a low-ponytail and blue eyes asks.

(Miroku…), the man's name coming back to him.

“Kagome is gome…”, Miroku mutters, “What have you done?”, he angrily asks.

“I sent her back home… on the other side of the well…”, InuYasha simply replies, staring blankly into the well.

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That Night…

InuYasha is laying down on a bed of straw, on his side.

“InuYasha… you awake?”, a little red-headed fox demon asks him.

(Shippo…)

“Huh… why?”

“I was thinking about Kagome and wondering if she's missing up”.

“You woke me up for that? Forget about Kagome! She's a thing of the past… I mean, the future…”, he retorts, `As long as she is alive and well, that's all I hope for. I can't bear to see another woman died', he thinks.

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A Few Days Later…

By the Well…

InuYasha lands in front of the well as Kagome climbs out of it with the young fox-demon beside her.

“InuYasha…”, she says.

“What are you doing here? I told you to stay away!”, he says, “Huh?”, he gasps, as she runs towards him with her arms out-stretched.

“InuYasha!”, she exclaims, embracing him.

A blush quickly forms on his cheeks.

“I was sure you died of your injuries, cause you didn't come back for me this time”, she says.

“You should have listened… I told you never to return!”

“I know, but I had to come back. I needed to see you again!”

`She needed to see me? Kagome…', he thinks in shock.

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Three Months Later…

“I've been thinking. There's nothing wrong with staying the way you are. I mean, why not stay a hanyou…”, Kagome says, while sitting next to him by a fire on a riverbank, “To be honest, I like you just the way you are!”

(She likes me the way I am…?)

“That's ridiculous!”, he scoffs, looking off to the side with a slight blush on his cheeks.

“What's so ridiculous? Can't you be a little serious?”, she shouts, grabbing his shoulder and makes him look at her, “Huh?”

“What is it now?”

“InuYasha… you just…”.

“Come on, spit it out!”

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Later that Same Night…

At Kaguya's Castle…

InuYasha has been separated from the Tetsusaiga and has been impaled through the abdomen.

“Take a good look, InuYasha”, Kaguya says, turning her gold-edged mirror towards him, “Behold the dark spirit that lurks in your heart”.

The image in the mirror was his full-demon berserker form.

(M…my… full-demon… form…), he stutters.

“What are you rambling on about?”

“This is the true form you desire to achieve, and I am going to grant your wish”.

The mirror pulsates, causing his body to do the same as his body freezes up and won't move, as Kaguya begins chanting.

“InuYasha!”, Kagome yells, “InuYasha!”

His mind slips into blackness as his demon-blood overpowers his body.

Suddenly, a light pierces through the darkness, and he could see Kagome running towards him, running out from the darkness.

“InuYasha! InuYasha!”, she calls out.

He charges at her, ready to tear her to shreds with his claws.

(No… Kagome, get out of here!)

“I love you… I love you as a hanyou…”, she says, smiling and surrounded by falling cherry-blossom petals.

His body stops charging as his cobalt-pupils constrict; vanishing into the sea of red the whites of his eyes had become.

(I… stopped… I… I must… love her…)

Suddenly, he could feel someone press their lips to his, and he could feel control over his body slowly return to his mind.

`Kagome…', he thinks, returning her kiss.

“InuYasha… Are you going to be okay now?”, she asks, after they break their kiss.

“Kagome…”, he says, embracing her in his arms.

“Are you nuts? I could've really hurt you”, he tightens his hold on her, “I'll stay a hanyou a little longer, just for you”, he whispers.

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One Year and Seven Months (Nine-teen Months) Later…

Under the Sacred Tree…

Kagome loads her bow and aims the arrow at his heart.

“I'm sorry, InuYasha”, she says, tears streaming down her cheeks, “I love you…”.

She releases her arrow and it pierces his chest and heart, and he slips into the darkness of a spell-bound sleep.

(Kagome… she sealed me… but why…? Why did she…? She loved me…!)

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

Just for the record; 15-16 months ago from this incident he doesn't remember what happened!

InuYasha remembers his love for Kagome!

But is confused by why did she seal him for?

Next chapter, InuYasha will awaken!

What will happen?

Find out in the next Chapter of `Forgotten Memories'!

Catch you readers next time!