InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Lost Memories ❯ Forget-Me-Not ( Chapter 8 )

Okay, you people, last chapter. Hey, you get the last three chapters in one day. It's a miracle! Not really, but yeah. Well, I'm sorry, for making an eight chapter story to be update so slowly, but guess what. You didn't have to wait till next year to receive the ending. Only about a month, right? Can't remember when I first posted this up, but then that's what the published date is for, ne? Well, here's the ending of this story, but not the final. That's not until the end of the trilogy, if I ever start typing that up. Last time, Ikuyo!

Disclaimer: This was applied to all chapters of Lost Memories. Inuyasha and company do not belong to this author. They belong to Rumiko Takahashi, no matter how much this author hates it. Inuyasha has and never will belong to me, you, or anyone else who is not Rumiko Takahashi. Inuyasha never did belong to BlueAngel326, not even in all of those chapters in which she was acting hyper, drunk, and/or doped up. So there.

"Inu Yasha?" Kagome queried.

Inu Yasha looked sadly back at Kagome. "Kagome…"

She walked up to him. "What's the matter, Inu Yasha?"

He turned away from her. "Kagome…I…I'm…"

Kagome sat down next to Inu Yasha, but he still looked away. "Inu Yasha?" She placed a hand on his shoulder, but he nudged her away. "Inu Yasha!"

"What?!" He snapped at her. He looked at her and saw the worry in her eyes.

"Tell me what's wrong."

"None, of your damn business." Inu Yasha turned away.

"But…"

"Just go away!"

Kagome looked at him and back at the ground. She pulled the kimono from around her and tried to give it back to Inu Yasha, "Here."

"Keep it," He bluntly stated.

Kagome looked as if she was about to say something but changed her mind. She pulled his kimono around her shoulders. She grasped it tightly as she spoke. "Thank you…for saving me."

"Saving you? I almost killed you," Inu Yasha said looking back at her.

"No, you didn't. Don't say that. It wasn't your fault. You couldn't control yourself."

"No, it's true. If you hadn't said anything, you would've been hurt or worse. I could have…"

Kagome placed her finger on his lips. She then brought the side of his head to her chest. "Tell, me, what do you here?"

Inu Yasha was confused at first but listened closely. He heard the smooth, steady beat of her heart. "You're heart?" He asked.

Kagome nodded. "Yes, and do you know what that means? It means that I'm alive. As long as it's still beating, I'm alive. Inu Yasha, from what you and the others have told me, you're always protecting me and always will. I know you would never deliberately try to hurt or kill me. You know that as well." While she spoke, she was lightly stroking and rubbing his ears. It seemed to calm him as he made a small, soft sound in his throat quietly. She released him as he sat up some.

"I know, but that doesn't change the fact that I almost killed you." He brought his hand up to her cheek and lightly touched the small cut she received earlier.

Kagome took Inu Yasha's hand into hers and said, "Stop saying that. You're hung up over what might have happened when you're not considering what's going on now. The point is that I'm alive and not hurt. Don't worry about me so much. I'll be okay. I always will. Now, come on." Kagome stood up and tried to pull Inu Yasha up as well.

Inu Yasha stood too and held her hands between his. "You're right, Kagome. Thank you." He pulled her into his arms and hugged her tightly.

She hugged him back and said, "I just didn't want you to be so worried over me, is all." She smiled up to him.

"Thank you, anyway. I don't know what I would have done without you."

"Neither would I. You've helped me so much. I understand more and am close to regaining my memory.

"While I was asleep," Kagome continued, "I was lost in the darkness, confused, cold, and alone. Then I fell to what felt like oblivion, forgetting things; you, me, everything. I landed somewhere but couldn't get up. That's when four shadows walked up to me and asked if I remembered who I was or who they were. I couldn't remember anything, and one of them walked up to me. It asked if I remembered it. Its voice was so familiar to me, but I couldn't remember. I looked closer at it and, slowly, the name came naturally to me." She looked up at Inu Yasha as he listened to her tale and smiled lightly at him. "It was you, Inu Yasha. The shadows were you, Shippo, Miroku, and Sango. I remembered myself, and you all helped me up. That's when I realized that my friends will always help me. The same goes for you, Inu Yasha. I will always be there for you."

He nodded, acknowledging that what she said was true. "I know. And I will be there for you. Always." Inu Yasha was glad to have his Kagome back. Even if she couldn't remember fully or never would, he didn't care. As long as he had Kagome with him, it wouldn't matter. He looked at Kagome's big brown eyes that watched him dip his head and gently press his lips against hers. They soon closed after widening in surprise, and he closed his as well.

Kagome was taken by surprise by Inu Yasha at first but relaxed into his embrace. The kiss had felt so good and warm, like she felt like this once before. As it intensified, more memories and visions of past events came blasting at her in her mind. She moaned slightly as all her memories flashed through her mind: the day she met Inu Yasha; the day she shattered the jewel; the night he first said her name; the days they met Shippo, Miroku, and Sango; the night he was human and said she smelled nice; the day Kikyou was resurrected; the day he pushed her down the well; the day they first met Naraku; the night Kikyou kissed him; the night he first kissed her. All of them came flooding back to her, and she remembered. She understood everything about her.

The kiss only lasted a few more moments as Kagome pulled away and looked at Inu Yasha. Her face was flushed as her cheeks were tinted a light pink. "Inu Yasha, I remember! I understand everything now!" Kagome threw herself into Inu Yasha's arms.

It took Inu Yasha to process what she said. "Really? You got your memory back?!"

Kagome looked up at him with a big smile on her face. "Yes! I remember everything! You, me, my time, this time, everything!"

He hugged her back and said, "That's great, Kagome. You remember everything now. Things will be back to normal again."

"I'm sorry I wandered off that evening. Camp was just so bustling, and I wanted to think things through. I mean, the night before had seemed so surreal, I…oh, no!" Kagome had just remembered something about that night. She pushed out of Inu Yasha's arms and turned around.

"Kagome, what's wrong?" asked Inu Yasha confused. Kagome didn't say anything, and Inu Yasha could smell the scent of tears. "Kagome?" He placed his hands on her shoulders. "Why are you crying?"

Kagome was breathing hard through the tears. "I… (hiccup)…I forgot and… the promise. How… forgive me?" Kagome choked on most of the words as she tried to apologize.

Inu Yasha turned her around and saw her tears gushing down her cheeks. "What promise are you talking about?"

She tried to speak more clearly, but it didn't work. "I promised (hiccup) to not forget and… forgot b'cause… wandered off and…" The rest she indistinctly mumbled, and even Inu Yasha couldn't understand.

She became weak in the knees and fell to the ground. He caught and brought her into his arms to cradle her. He softly whispered sweet innocence in her ear to calm her. She eventually stopped crying and only sniffled.

"You're crying over a little promise? You get hit in the head and forget everything and when you remember, you get upset over a broken promise that you didn't mean to break. Doesn't that tell you something?"

"But it's my fault that all of this happened. If I hadn't wandered off, then none of this would have happened. I…"

"Listen to yourself. You act like I care that much about a silly little promise that I would be mad and disappointed with you. Sure, I was a little upset about you losing your memory but only because I was worried that I had lost my Kagome that I knew. You got your memory back, and that's all that I care about. As long as you're happy then I couldn't care less about a silly, old promise."

"Yes, but I broke my promise to you, a promise that I meant with all my heart to keep. I just feel so guilty that I did something like that. It makes me doubt myself into thinking if I'm ready to be with you yet."

Inu Yasha brought her closer to him. "Don't talk like that, Kagome. Did you not hear a word I just said to you? Don't you remember what you said a few minutes ago to me? I doubted myself earlier if it was safe for you to be around me because I might transform and try to kill you. I couldn't control what I did before, so I was so sure of myself. But then you brought me to my senses, saying that it wasn't my fault; that you alive is all that matters. It's not your fault, either, that you forgot. A promise is just a promise, nothing more. Some promises are broken, but people forgive and forget. I forgive you, so don't doubt yourself, because if you're sad, then I'm said as well."

"Or mad," Kagome added.

He laughed some. "Right, mad at myself for making you sad."

"Thank you, Inu Yasha. You made me feel much better. I can't thank you enough for all that you've done for me."

"A kiss would do it. I've missed you for so long," Inu Yasha smirked.

"Why certainly." Kagome wrapped her arms around his neck and brought him closer to her until their lips met. When they stopped, Kagome sat next to him as they watched the sunrise.

Shippo, Miroku, and Sango stood at the top of the hill watching the couple. Then, Miroku asked, "Hey, Sango, how come you and I can't be like Kagome and Inu Yasha?"

"Because you two are too immature," Shippo stated before jumping off of Sango's shoulder and running to give Kagome a hug for getting her memory back.

"Simple Miroku; you're too much of a lecher and you keep groping my ass, like now for instance!" Sango said as she slapped the monk who had his hand feeling on her bottom. She then ran down to congratulate her friend.

Miroku sighed as he too walked down to the four. "Women, so hard to please and understand."

Yay! The end. Okay, kind of a cheesy way of Kagome getting her memory back, but hey, if you're a girl and you lost your memory but recovered it from your first and true love, wouldn't you be kind of happy? Of course! It's your second daggon kiss from the guy you love, adore, admire, swoon over, drool over, dream about…

Ah-ny-wa-hay, end of LM but there's room for a sequel and maybe enough to squeeze a trilogy, right. Sequel's called Say Goodbyeand it continues with a prologue about probably six months after this and at the end of the epilogue Kagome's a little over 19