InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Forgotten Memories ❯ Chapter 26 ( Chapter 26 )

Forgotten Memories

By. DemonGirl-Setsuna

 

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DemonGirl-Setsuna: Hi there! Setsuna here!

 

To My Reader's on Media-Miner: It has been at least a month since my last update, it only took so long because I had to write the Chapter first.

 

To My Reader's on Fan-Fiction: It has only been a few minutes/hours since I posted Chapter 25, and I'm posting 26! Well, my computer in class refuses to let me go onto the site and post, so I'm posting while I'm at home. And, I only go home every 6-months!

 

In other news: I found a link to the lullaby Sakura's father sang to her in that dream/flashback back in Ch. 21! Here it is; http://67.139.134.253/440b2972/k/kotoworld-15.mp3 , just copy and paste!

 

Last Time;

InuYasha regained almost all his memories of Kagome, but for the life of him, doesn't know why she sealed him.

What will happen next?

Find out in this Chapter of `Forgotten Memories'!

 

Here is Chapter 26!

 

Please Enjoy!

 

 

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

(When will I ever learn to just copy and paste my disclaimer? But no, I stupidly type it out every-time! Ignore my ranting, I was sick Sunday with a fever of `102.1°F' and I still haven't recovered!)

 

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Ch. 26

 

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“InuYasha?”, Sakura asks, dabbing the sweat from his face.

 

“Uh…”, he moans, blinking open his gold-amber eyes.

 

His eyes take a moment to focus onto the face above his own; Sakura had a concerned look on her face with worry in her violet eyes.

 

“Sa…ku…ra…”, he mutters.

 

“How are you feeling?”

 

“…light-headed… and like… my heart… had been impaled…”, he replies.

 

“That's because you were impaled… by a sacred arrow”, she dryly laughs.

 

“Kikyo!”, he growls, quickly sitting up, “Where is that bi…”, he holds his head and starts to waver.

 

“InuYasha!”, she worriedly exclaims, as she braces him before her toppled over sideways, “You shouldn't try to get up, you've lost a lot of blood”, she explains.

 

“Wha…what happened to Kikyo…?”, he pants, as Sakura gently helps him lie back down onto the bed.

 

“She ran off”, she replies, covering him with a blanket.

 

“How long have…I been out for…?”

 

“About half a day”.

 

InuYasha's teeth start to chatter.

 

“What is wrong?”, she asks.

 

“C…c…cold…”, he replies, through chattering teeth.

 

“Huh?”, she gasps, putting her hand onto his forehead, “You're burning up…”.

 

Suddenly, he starts coughing harshly for a whole five minutes.

 

“Kikyo's purifying arrow must have messed up his immunity to sicknesses, and not just his ability to heal…”, she whispers to herself.

 

“My nose is dry…”, he pants, after another fit of hoarse coughs.

 

“Huh?”

“My nose goes dry when I catch a cold…”, he replies, then breaks into another fit of coughs.

 

The teen rolls her eyes and ties her hair up into a loose-bun, puts some dry wood into the fire-pit and pokes the hot embers until they ignite the wood, and burns in a small fire.

 

She puts the pot of cold-relieving tea over the fire to heat it up.

 

Inuyasha stares at the ceiling, trying to decipher the memories he just regained.

 

`I loved Kikyo, but was sealed by her from lack of trust', he thinks, holding his hand to his chest, recalling the pain it had caused that day, `Then, I had fallen in love with Kagome; as she did as well, we even trusted each-other. But… why did she seal me too? What could have happened during those 15-16 months before Kagome sealed me? I wish I could remember…', he holds his head, giving himself a headache as he tries to force the memories during that void to return, only to gain nothing from his attempt, `Why can't I remember?'

 

(It is still too early for you to remember it…), the woman's voice; from the memories of the night Kagome first found out about his secret weakness, echoes inside his head.

 

`Who are you?'

 

(Someone friendly from your past… Protecting your memories…), the woman's voice says, fading away.

 

`Wait! She's gone again…', he thinks, `Did we kill Naraku or is he still around?', he thinks to himself, `Also… both Kikyo and Kagome sealed me… Will I befall the same fate again at the hands of Sakura…?'

 

“InuYasha?”, Sakura asks, as she stirs the tea in the pot.

 

“What…is it…?”, he weakly questions.

 

“When I was sick two days ago with my cold, why didn't you take the jewel while I was passed out”, she says, “You could've taken the jewel and I wouldn't have been able to stop you. Why didn't you take advantage of that opportunity?'

 

“I won't go back on my word… we have a deal and to cheat on our deal, would go against my honor-code…”, he replies, “Besides, I don't like to cheat out women on deals or hit them either…”, he adds, trying to conceal his blush; which wasn't hard to do with his cheeks fever-flushed.

 

“Honor-code, huh?”, she mutters, “Taught to you by your mother, right?”, she asks, glancing at him over her shoulder.

 

“Yeah…”.

 

“Do you think you could slowly…um…prop yourself up-right?”, she asks, choosing her words carefully as she ladles some tea into a cup, `It would be a disaster if I said `sit' with him in this condition', she mentally says.

 

InuYasha shakingly sits up slowly, his face becoming flushed in his strain, even clutching the wound on his chest.

 

“Your injury, does it still hurt?”, she says, carefully handing the cup to him.

 

“Quite painfully…”, he mutters, taking the cup into his trembling hands.

 

He simply grimaces as he sips the tea as he forces his hands to keep the cup steady.

 

“Sakura…?”, he asks, staring blankly into his cup.

 

“Yes?”

 

“Have you ever fallen in love with somebody?”

 

Sakura falls over in shock, “Why are you a…asking me a question like that…?”, she stutters, lightly blushing, “Where the hell did that come from?”

 

“I had loved Kikyo, but she betrayed me and sealed me because of our lack of trust in each-other,” he replies, “I fell in love with your mother; trusted her completely as did she, but I don't know what happened between us, to cause her to seal me to that tree…”.

 

`He remembers “almost” everything he and my mother went through…', she thinks, “Yes… I have fallen in love… with a guy at my school…”, she answers.

 

He looks at her and listens in silence.

 

“After we had encountered Koga; you were right, Setsuko and I are fighting over a boy at school”, she replies, blushing, “But I don't think he has any feelings for me…”.

 

`She's just like me, when I did not knowing if Kagome's feelings were the same as mine for her!', he thinks, finishing the tea.

 

 

 

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

 

InuYasha admitted he had `loved'; past-tense, Kikyo.

That he fell in `love'; not past-tense, with Kagome.

And, Sakura admitted her feelings about a boy at school.

What will happen next time?

Find out in the next Chapter `Forgotten Memories'!

 

Catch you readers next time!