Hi ya! I was intensely pleased to see that you all reviewed like crazy, some more than others. Cough*anime123* cough…lol. I loved your enthusiasm! It was a blast reading your reviews. However, one did kinda make me slightly perturbed. My sis worked real hard writing an interesting story for you all, and she said she didn't mind peeps liking her work so much that they used parts of it, but you know….we don't bite. You guys could tell us your going to use it, or ask to borrow it. I don't mean to sound like a bitch or anything but we really worked hard, particularly on the lemony scenes. We try our best to write something that you guys can almost feel. We like when you write to us and tell us our wording sent shivers down your spines, or you almost thought you were there. That's all. As fellow writers I'd hope you can understand. Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm not pissed you borrowed it, in fact I'm thrilled, but I'd like to know. Even if it's just to check it out and see how you played it into your story. Sorry for taking up your time, I'll let you all get to what you have been waiting for, and I know it wasn't me…*pout*.

Hehe…I just found this funny, but apparently, the teacher I randomly made up in the last chapter, Mr. Collins, is strangely similar to a the real teacher of Sakurasrain. I thought it was extremely funny that I had pegged a real teach when I was going for a fictional teach.

Oh! Yea, thanks for all your reviews! Loved them!

Warning!!! Graphic gory scenes to ensue, please avoid reading this fic if you are not of a suitable age, or do not have parent consent! You have been warned!

I do not owe either the InuYasha characters or those of YuYu Hakusho

Bitter Memories

Chapter sixteen : Behind Lavender Eyes

The warm breath of some one very near me stirred me from the cocoon of darkness that veiled me from the out side world. Memories swirled over my stressed brain, images of things that have come to pass.

Cracking my eyes was a chore. If I left the cocoon that I had buried myself in than I could find myself in a place or situation I didn't want to be in. At first my vision was blurry and faded, like waking up with a pair of glasses on that were way to high a prescription. Slowly the dark ceiling above me came into view, the popcorn ceiling glittering with the light streaming lazily from what I guessed to be the hallway. Where I was, I had no clue. All thoughts were erased as movement at my side registered in my brain at that moment. Turning my head wearily to the side I glanced at the person at my side then turned back to the ceiling. A moment later, my head snapped back to the side, my mouth hanging open slightly.

Stunning, swirling depths of lavender and plum with molten gold flecks held me captive. My heart seemed to give up in my chest as I flew into a sitting position, knowing my own eyes were wide open in shock.

"Kagome?" The voice was gruff but caring, and mostly worried. I knew that voice, I had been dreaming about it ever since he died. I couldn't help but let my eyes wander greedily over his figure. I needed the reassurance that this, also, wasn't another dream. He hadn't changed. Same broad, wide, muscular shoulders. Same apprehensive stance; same raven dark hair. I was frozen in place, my emotions running wild. I wanted to scream, laugh, cry, and even beat the living shit out of him. He was the same guy as before, and at the present, he was just as shocked to see me, as I was to see him.

'If this is a dream, GODS! I feel sorry for the person who dares to wake me up!' My lungs were burning with the lack of oxygen that I had deprived myself of in my shock. Taking a much needed deep breath, my nose was invaded with his scent. When I managed to breath, he had scooted closer to me, like he was afraid I would disappear.

His hand reached toward me, shaking madly. Had he not been so damn stubborn, he would have given up and let it fall back to his side, but instead he continued to reach toward me with the slowest of pace. He smelled like a thunderstorm, and the woods at night, mingled with the scent of Ax. The scent was strong, powerful and masculine, just like him.

Swallowing the lump in my throat, I shook as his hand finally descended on my cheek, his thumb stroking and wiping at the tears his action had released. Broken sobs I didn't know I had been holding rushed forward and shattered the quite that had surrounded us like a warm blanket. My shoulders shook with all the pain and happiness my heart was exploding with. His warm arms scooped me off the cot I had been lying on and into his awaiting lap. His heat and presence assuring me it wasn't just a dream.

My sobs quieted, and finally slowed. My breath hitched in my throat keeping me from saying the words I had been choking on for the last few minutes. Suppressing my tears, and forcing my shaking under control I gazed up at him, our eyes locking. Before I lost my nerve I gasped out the one word that would conform, or deny this as a dream.

"In….INUYASHA?!?!"

(Bravo to all you who guessed correctly! You did great, or perhaps I'm just very predictable…hummmm)

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He was a blur of black on the carefully planned landscape of the school. His thoughts, like his movements were a whirlwind.

Not even two minutes ago Kagome had sent out a distress single, only to be mimicked by Kurama ten minutes later. Kagome's had been a flash of pain, surprise, and shock before it disappeared completely. Kurama's had been much more in-depth.

~'Hiei! Kagome fainted in class! The demon we were looking for took her to the clinic! The teacher wouldn't allow me to go, saying I didn't know where it was and that it didn't take the entire class to escort one fainted girl to the clinic. I can't leave the class to see if she's okay or it would be really suspicious and blow our cover! You have to find her!'~ Kurama was pissed, flustered and unsure. Three things he normally wasn't. It didn't take more than that tidbit of information for Hiei to take off.

His mind was locked onto that of Kagome's. After he broke in to Kagome's mind the first time, he had left a sort of tracking device inside. First, it allowed him to know where she was when even he needed to find her. And second, it made it a whole lot easier to get inside her head. He still couldn't read her thoughts at any given moment, but if he had to get in, it wouldn't nearly kill him to do it.

Following her mind, he found himself on the bottom floor of the school, standing outside a window. Without hesitation, he burst into the room. Despite his entrance, he hadn't made a noise. The room smelled of medicine, Kagome and what he suspected was the demon. Growling softly, he entered further into the dark, unfamiliar clinic of the school. As he came around a corner, he froze.

Kagome was laid out on a cot; her body shaking in what he guessed was a bad dream. The demon was sat next to her, her tiny hand closed in his own large one. At the time the boy was leaning close to the unconscious figure, his breathing ruffling the locks of hair framing her face.

The demon looked normal enough. The boy was about eighteen in appearance. He had long dark hair, and vibrant, demonic purple eyes. At the present time those eyes were locked on Kagome's face.

As Hiei stood stock still in the dark, the boy unclenched his balled up fist and brought it up to brush a stray dark, silky strand of hair from Kagome's brow. Not only did the motion bother Hiei, but the way the guy had done it got to him as well. The boy had stroked the pad of his thumb over her soft, angelic face tenderly, much as Hiei himself would have done. Anger surged through him, the small flame that had nearly been extinguished at the site of Kagome so small and frail lying on the bed flared up inside him. He took a threatening step forward, his intention to pulverize the insolent whelp in front of him, but instead, he stopped in his tracks, as did the boy.

On the cot, Kagome stirred. Her amazing blue eyes flittering open to take in the dark of the room around her. Both males took in deep, relieved breaths. Hiei broke eye contact with Kagome's face to glare daggers at the boy. Strangely, Hiei couldn't enter the boy's head no matter what he tried. The boy was a complete blank to him.

Just then Kagome glanced over at the boy, only to look away. But she quickly snapped her head back toward him. Hiei heard her take in a deep breath and seen her fly into a sitting position. And after taking one of his own he smelt the unmistakable scent of tears. One look at the boy told him it wasn't coming from the demon. Since all Hiei could see of Kagome was her back he watched her closely. Her shoulders began to shake in small tremors. The boy reached out a hand to her, his face contorted in pain.

"Kagome?" She stiffened at his touch, and suddenly the soft sobs filled the room. Pain filled the demon's eyes, and reaching out the boy's arms pulled Kagome into his lap surrounding her in a fierce hug. She, on her part buried her face into his chest her sobbing quieting, being muffled by his body.

Confusion and sorrow filled Hiei. His heart wrenching at the harrowed sound, and his jaw clenching at the contact. 'How dose that demon know her? What the hell is going on?!?' He was past shock, now he was just completely frozen in confusion.

A shaky, breath caught his attention. His eyes riveted to the back of the girl in front of him. The room seemed to stop; all of time slowing, as it was obvious Kagome was trying to speak.

"In….INUYASHA?!?!" Her voice betrayed her and cracked on the last part of his name, her body slumped away from him so she could peer into his eyes. The demon's eyes widened and softened, the fear no one had noticed disappearing to be replaced with relief and joy. Hiei's eyes widened, he felt his chest tighten in fear. The sudden wave of terror in that single word was more than he had ever felt in his entire life. His body began to shake slightly; his trembling arm gripped the wall for support as he observed the two demons in front of him.

Like a scene in pause, Kagome and the demon identified as InuYasha sat staring at each other. With a strangled sob, Kagome launched herself back into InuYasha's awaiting arms. Hiei's heart nearly stopped. InuYasha, tears flowing from his eyes, allowed Kagome to slip from his grasp, but kept his arms locked around her waist. She slowly pulled away from him, although her position on his lap refused her to go far. She seemed to have completely controlled her sobs.

Hiei watched as though it was someone else, not he girl he was in love with. He seen her pull away and tilt her raven head back to stare into InuYasha's amethyst eyes. Hiei's heart audibly broke as InuYasha leaned in and pressed a feverish kiss to Kagome's eager lips. Keeping himself from crying out in anguish, he turned and ran from the room. She had unconsciously broken his heart twice, and yet she didn't even know she held it.

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OMG! AWWWWWW! The inhumanity of it all! Hiei has fled! Kagome's kissing Inu! Inu-kun is alive! What is Kagome going to do now? How are they all going to react? What about Yasha? Does he even remember it all? I guess you will just have to find out! And to do that I'll accept payment in the form of reviews! Thanks!

~Lil' blackheart

(Oh…yea…sorry it's so short, but unlike my sister I like to leave things right as they get interesting. You'll start to notice it a lot, hehe…I wasn't lying about loving drama and how else but to get my life threatened than by stopping short on the chapters? *Laughs diabolically* MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!)