InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Remembering You ❯ 'Him' ( Chapter 5 )

Author Notes: I'm sorry for not updating in a long time, but my other fic needed some attention and I have a bunch of evil classes that love to kill their student with homework. I know this fic isn't doing very well popularity wise, but I hope to continue it. It would be greatly encouraging if you would leave me a review, because I don't know if anyone actually like this fic or not. The reviewers I have now, thank you so much. Although you are small in number, you are big on impact. I hope to you enjoy this chapter.

Disclaimer: Inuyasha & co. doesn't belong to me. . . but he is Japanese. . . like me. . . does that count? No? oh, ok. . . *cry*

". . ." dialogue

`. . .' thoughts

(. . .) author's useless commentary

`Him'

By Hoshi-ni-Onegai

#warning: cuss words come up here and there b/c that's Inuyasha's character and I tend to cuss in real life. . . sorry#

Inuyasha kept Kagome in the strong embrace for a long moment. Her sobs were racking through her body and he tried to calm her down by stroking his right hand through her hair.

"What's wrong Kagome? Did something happen?" Inuyasha was showing a side of him that was practically nonexistent five hundred years ago, he was showing compassion.

Kagome frantically shook her head, "It's stupid."

"It's not stupid if it makes you this upset." He pulled back from the hug, far enough so that he could brush away the tears from her face. "You know you can tell me anything."

Kagome hesitated, "You won't laugh?"

"I would never laugh at you." He cupped her cheek with both of his hands and his thumbs stroked her cheeks, wiping away the tears that had yet to completely cease.

"Liar." She pouted and looked the other way.

Inuyasha turned her face to lock eyes with her and said in a serious tone, "I would never lie to you either."

Kagome's eyes widened then they softened and a tear slipped down her right cheek. This time, instead of wiping it away with his thumb, Inuyasha leaned and kissed the tear away. `Kagome. . .' He pulled the surprised Kagome into his embrace once again and whispered into her ear, "Now tell me, what happened?"

She gave a light squeeze then moved away from him, turned around and picked up her bowl. She made her way wordlessly to the other side of the table to pick up Inuyasha's empty bowl. Setting them both in the sink she sighed, turned around, and walked toward him. She grasped his hand into hers and tugged him towards the living room.

"It's a long story, let's go sit down on your couch."

She padded her way into the living room, her bare feet touching the cold tile floor of the kitchen and the hardwood of the living room. Under the coffee table and couch was a lush gray carpet that protected the coldness of the floor to her feet. Inuyasha followed diligently behind, never falling out of step with her small ones. He glanced down at the two hands that were joined together as she pulled him to the black leather couch. `This is the way it's supposed to be. . . not far away, together.'

Kagome gently pushed him into one side of the long couch, letting go of his hand, and she sat at the other end. She brought her feet up off the floor and folded them in front of her, resting her arms to hug her knees to her chest. She looked straight ahead at the big screen TV that was situated in the room, as if watching something intently; even though, the TV wasn't even turned on.

"Kagome?" Inuyasha scooted a little closer to her, only a little, about two centimeters.

"It all started a year after you left Onii-chan, exactly a year after you left. . . Like I said before, I fell down the well on our family shrine and went into a coma, on my fifteenth birthday no less. I woke up two years later, the last thing I remembered was calling for Buyo in the well house. From what Souta tells me, I woke up in the hospital bed calling out `Inuyasha.' When Souta called my name to get my attention, I turned to him and I was crying. They say I was like that for forty-seven days. I would cry for no reason, tell people I didn't want to be a miko, and say I would give up everything to see `him.'"

Inuyasha took a sharp breath and stared at Kagome as she laid her chin on her knees. "W-who's `him.'"

Kagome tilted to her chin to glance at Inuyasha but soon faced the TV again, "I don't know. . . At first my mom thought that it might have been a boyfriend I had before I went into the coma, the thing is if there was a boyfriend I don't remember. The doctors concluded that the long period of not using my mind made it jumble some stuff up."

"Do you think that's what happened?"

"I guess so. . ." She paused as if she was contemplating something then continued, "Well, when I woke up I was 17, meaning I should have already finished my first year of high school. The thing was that I wasn't awake for two years so I was behind. My mom said that I should just repeat the years, but I didn't want to. And so I buried my self in books. I studied nonstop, I went to two jukus a day, I was doing four years of studying in two years. I ended up graduating at the top of my class and I passed the entrance exam for Tokyo University." (juku is like a cram school)

"The top of your class? Wow, even though you missed two years? I knew you liked your `tests' but I didn't know to what extent."

Kagome looked at Inuyasha quizzically, "I don't like tests, I don't think anyone does. I do them because I have to, not because I want to. You know that, you've been to school." She looked back toward the direction of the TV, "Anyways, I got into Tokyo University and that's where I met Hojo-kun again. We were in middle school and high school together, but since I was studying so much I didn't really get to know him. But when we got into college that was a different story. I was double majoring in business accounting and in English, while he was majoring in architecture. Because of our majors we both had a lot of our math classes together, and so we saw each other a lot. We ended up hanging out after class with our group of friends and I guess we just kind of clicked. He asked me out freshman year, saying that he's had a crush on me since middle school. I was hesitant at first but I said yes. . . Thinking about it now, maybe that was my mistake right there."

"Why do you say that?" Inuyasha was getting jealous but he tried to hide it.

"Because. . . I felt alone. After I woke up from the coma I felt like I lost a part of myself, that I was missing something. Sometimes I would be talking to someone then I would turn to make a comment to someone next to me, as if I was expecting someone there to be by my side. I kept on thinking that there should be someone standing there next to me, as my friend, protector, love. . . I thought maybe I just felt lonely because I was single, so I decided to go out with Hojo-kun. It got easier I guess, the empty feeling was still there, but I was distracted with school and Hojo-kun."

"You were afraid of being alone?"

"Maybe. . . but I think it wasn't more the fact of me being afraid to be alone, but being left without a certain person. Not just any guy, but someone specific. Even so, things went well with Hojo-kun. We went out on dates, talked on the phones, you know, the usual boyfriend-girlfriend stuff. There was one thing that I didn't do that most people my age did."

"What's that?"

"Sex." She answered it casually.

"What?!" Inuyasha was blushing like mad, he was never the one to speak so straight forward about it. On top of that, the topic was of sex and Kagome, a combination that made him blush even more.

"Don't laugh Onii-chan, but I'm still a virgin." Now Kagome was the one to blush and Inuyasha, although still blushing, had a smile upon his face.

"Why would I laugh at a thing like you being a virgin? It's okay if you're saving yourself until marriage. A lot of guys like that in their future wives."

Kagome peeked at Inuyasha as she still faced the TV, "Who said anything about saving myself? It just never felt right with Hojo-kun, and he took it as me just not being ready. That should have been my hint, but I was blind. During the Christmas of my senior year, he proposed. He said the four years of us dating made him see that he couldn't live without me. I didn't know how to respond to that, so I told him I'd think about it, again he understood. After contemplating it for a week, I gave my answer to Hojo-kun. I said yes."

Inuyasha gazed down at the floor with a broken-hearted expression, his eyes hidden behind his bangs. "Did you love him?"

She let a moment of silence fall but soon answered, "I thought I did. I thought that maybe Hojo-kun would be able to fill in that empty void, that I would no longer be alone. . . We made a mutual agreement to wait until we graduated to get married, so we were engaged for four months. We broke off the engagement in April, because that's when I found him cheating on me. What came more of a blow to me was that it was with my other guy friend, Jun."

"I'm sorry." Inuyasha was sorry about her emotional struggle, but happy that the Hojo guy he had felt threatened by happened to be gay.

"Yeah. . . I'm not mad at Hojo-kun or anything, I mean I'm mad he cheated on me but I guess if he favors a certain equipment that I don't have, I wish him all the best. But. . ."

"But?"

"I can't help but feel that I turned him gay." I tear rolled down her cheek, but was out of Inuyasha's view. Nevertheless, he could smell it with his keen senses.

"Why would you say something like that?" He scooted closer to her.

"He was my first boyfriend and I couldn't help but think the worst. Did I repulse him so much that he denied all females? Am I that unattractive? Was I not good enough?"

Inuyasha cupped her chin and made her face him, "No, you're not good enough."

She looked at him flatly with pain evident in her eyes, "Gee thanks, now that just confirms it."

"I think you're too good for him. There is someone out there, waiting for you. That's who you belong with, not Hobo."

Kagome gave a slight smile, "His name is Hojo."

"That doesn't matter. Move on and go find your someone. He's waiting for you." They stared into each other's gaze for long moment, neither of them looking away.

She let a smile come to her lips and brought her hand up to wipe the tear away, "You're right, I will find him." She stood up and made her way towards the door.

"Where are you going?" Inuyasha asked, not moving from his place on the couch.

"Home. I still have work tomorrow, as do you." She was slipping on her high heals when Inuyasha came up next to her and pulled on a pair of sneakers.

"I'll take you back to the office, you shouldn't be taking a cab so late at night."

"Why the office?"

"Isn't that where your car is?"

"No, I ride the train to work."

"Then I'll take you to your apartment."

She smiled as she pulled on the blazer that she had taken off upon arriving at Inuyasha's. "Thanks Onii-chan."

"No problem."

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They reached Kagome's apartment in short time. As they were pulling up she asked him, "It's 11:30 right now, Hojo-kun would still be up. Do you want to come up?"

"Sure." He parked his car in the guest parking lot at the front of the apartment and made his way up on the elevator with her. "So, even after the whole situation you guys were in, you live together?"

"Yeah, I know it's kind of weird but like I told you, we have this whole Will&Grace thing going. We're still really close friends, and we don't let our past effect our friendship."

The moment the elevator door opened Inuyasha felt and smelt it. Kagome's apartment was right across from the elevator and she started unlocking the door. As she swung the door open she froze. What she saw in their made her scream, but that was drowned out as Inuyasha quickly whirled her around and pulled her head into his chest to hide what was in front of them from her.

The walls were painted red with blood and body parts were carelessly tossed to all parts of the room. There was no sign of struggle, it seemed as if whatever had done it had taken time out to perfect the gruesome scene. The door immediately opened to the living room and the wall directly in front of the door was the blood-painted mural. The head had been decapitated, now it was forcefully nailed onto the wall. The ears, pulled back and spiked through; the jaw hanging open as a rusty thick nail was jammed through the back of the skull and into the wall. Above the head was written in blood: "Omae no kokoro wo itadaku." (translation: I will take your soul)

Kagome was crying, screaming, and beating on Inuyasha's chest. "HOJO-KUN!!!!!"

"Kagome!" Inuyasha tried getting her attention but she was still in her own horrifying world with the image of the living room imprinted in her mind.

That's when he sensed something was still in the room. At the last moment he tightly grasped Kagome and leaped out of the way of a razor sharp tentacle. Inuyasha whirled around, shielding Kagome from the strange youkai. "What do you want?!"

"Isn't it obvious? My master desire's her soul."

"What the hell does your master want with my Kagome's soul?!"

The disgusting creature that looked like a mix of a lizard and scorpion grinned, "She is not yours, I do not smell your connection. She is open market."

Inuyasha raised his claws ready to swipe down. "She is not an object!" His claws easily tour the youkai in half as it continued laughing until the last moment of its life.

He whirled around to check on Kagome. She sat there with her back against the wall, her eyes wide, lips moving but no sound coming out.

"Kagome?" He carefully made his way towards her.

When he rested his right hand on her right shoulder her eyes grew even wider and shown with white light. Inuyasha was in a state of shock on what to do. As quickly as her eyes shown the light soon faded and she fainted forward. Inuyasha diligently caught her before she fell into the blood that had pooled on the floor from Hojo and the youkai.

"Kagome?!" She didn't respond, but her body started convulsing. It looked like she was having a seizure. Inuyasha quickly scooped her up in his arms and ran toward the room that smelled the most like Kagome, just as he had thought it was her bedroom. He laid her down on her bed as she continued to spasm. "Oh God Kagome?! Wake up! Come on! Please! I don't want to lose you again!"

Abruptly the spasms ended, and Kagome now lay upon the bed as if she was in a peaceful sleep. Inuyasha checked to see if she still had a pulse, when he felt a strong one he relaxed. `What was that?'

Feeling the pressure of someone's hand against her neck Kagome stirred and her eyes slid slowly opened. Her vision was blurry, but when the objects in front of her went into focus the first thing she saw were amber eyes. They were looking into her own with worry. She noticed the white hair that framed the face of the person. She could not recognize him, she was searching through her brain for any possible identification. When her eyes slid up further to look atop the head of the person the area above him wavered. It was like a mirage was clearing and she could finally see the truth. A moment later she gasped. What she saw on top of the person's head were white triangular-shaped dog ears.

Kagome extended her hand to try and reach for the ears. "Inu?" (translation: dog)

Right when she was only a few millimeters away she pulled back her hand to grasp it at her head. She cradled her head in both of her hands, her mouth opening to give out a silent scream from the pain, and her eyes tightly shut. Inuyasha once again felt useless, he didn't know what to do. The person he had been willing to wait five hundred years for was in pain and there was nothing he could do. He started threatening the thing that was causing her pain by promising excruciating a death.

Then, suddenly, Kagome snapped her eyes open and panted. A thin layer of sweat was upon her brow and she took a few minutes to catch her breath. When she did, she looked up and saw `him.'

The `him' that she had been willing to give up anything to be with. The `him' that had comforted her in her dreams, but haunted her with his absence in the day. The `him' she had been looking for. The `him' that would get rid of the emptiness she felt. The `him' that she was destined to meet again and again. Her soul mate.

I single name fell from her lips as she gazed wide-eyed, "Inuyasha."

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A/N: Oh, about Hojo being gay. . . I just needed him to be gay cuz then there would be way to much conflict. PLEASE do not think I am homophobic or anything! I did not kill Hojo off because of that! One of my best friends is gay and I love him to death! (like a bro that is) and I don't hate Hojo, I think he's a moron and clueless sometimes but so is Inuyasha (when it comes to Kagome). Also I don't hate Kikyou either, but I feel like I might end up bashing her or something because I am a strong supporter of KagomeXInuyasha. As you can tell, Kikyou will not be making an appearance in the fic as a character (remember, she's a flower now). The only person I truly HATE in this series is Naraku. I'm the type that always falls in love with the protagonist and grows a deep hatred for the antagonist. It's amazing that I even like Seshoumaru, but then I saw his good side when he starts taking care of Rin, and I think Inuyasha as well, but indirectly. (now THAT was a run-on sentence)!

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