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Hidden Memories

AN: Here it is, chapter nine. This took a little longer to come out. I was kind of having a hard time trying to figure out what to write for the chapter. Seeing that I'm just writing this story as I go. And I had a culminating task to finish and my math teacher decided to give out a ridiculous amount of work to us. Sucks. But hey, it's here now! ^-^ Well go read and enjoy! Oh and thank you for the reviews. Appreciated it.

Chapter Nine: Dreams and Plans

Inuyasha walked down the midnight streets of a familiar neighborhood. It had been years since he had last been here, walking the same sidewalk that led to the house of a good friend. The only friend he had left.

A two story house appeared into view. Inuyasha smiled at its appearance. His friend was the president of the most successful business in Japan, and yet he kept living in his house small. Unlike those other multimillionaires, who had houses five times the size of his friend.

Inuyasha walked down the path that led to the house's doorstep. Being so rich, his friend should also have security guards, guarding him and his property. Inuyasha remembered a time when a report on a magazine said something about his friends house being a robber's dream. No guards, no alarm system, nothing to protect millions of cash or thousands of dollars worth of valuables. But Inuyasha knew better. His friend could protect himself better than any human guard could, and just because there was no sign of an alarm system, didn't mean that his friend didn't have something up his sleeve to serve as an alarm. A much better alarm.

Inuyasha chuckled at the thought of a time where there was a burglar that thought he could get millions by robbing his friend blind. But the unprotected house he thought, wasn't so defenseless. Inuyasha remembered arriving at the house with his friend, to just come face to face with the robber who was stuck on the wall, kept up by some sort of webbing. Acorns in his mouth. After that, there weren't much robbers coming to his friends place. Though a few did come, like once a year. To be in the similar situation as the first burglar who came to rob his friends house.

Inuyasha came face to face with a mahogany door, and with a clawed finger, he pressed on the doorbell. He could have easily broken the door down and just went straight to the room that his friend had told him he could stay in. But he really didn't want to piss off the young youkai. He did want to sleep in a cozy bed, sleeping in the woods and stinky motel rooms didn't really appeal to him right then.

The door open and Inuyasha gave a lopsided smile to the man that stood before him who looked like he was ready to tear his head off. Maybe he should have called first. " Hello."

" What the hell are you doing here?" Came the reply of the sleepy man in front of him.

Inuyasha brushed pass him as he entered the house. It was just as he remembered, nothing had changed for the past two years he was gone. " Things didn't change."

The sound of the door being shut and locked fell into his sensitive ears. " Hn… you're back so soon." his friend said as he walked into the living room following him. " You are empty handed still I see."

Inuyasha kept silent as he sat down on the couch, his friend sitting on the couch opposite to him. Images of an angry raven head appeared in his mind and he frowned.

" Just give up Inuyasha," his orange haired friend said. " For all the centuries you have gone looking for her, you always came back em--"

" I found her." Inuyasha said in a monotonous voice.

" What?" His friend asked, leaning over towards him.

" Shippou I found her." Inuyasha said, golden eyes meeting with emerald ones. " I found Kagome."

The sleep in his friends eyes quickly disappeared as he heard the news. Shippou edged out of his seat. " You found Kagome?"

Inuyasha nodded in response.

" Well?" Shippou looked at him. " How is she? Is she alright? Is she the same as before? Did she ask about me?"

Inuyasha sunk deeper into the comfort of the fluffy cushions of the cream colored couch. He was fighting off the pain that he felt moments ago, at the remembrance of the meeting of Kagome, earlier. He had to remember that she was just this way due to the fresh memory of their argument. To her it could have just been a few months ago.

The first few months of that long ago argument, he was still feeling the anger and pain. It may still be the same with Kagome. He just needs to give her sometime, then he could face her again. He could ask for her forgiveness and they could work out through the problem and talk about what happened, like what they used to do, then they could be together again.

Inuyasha sighed. He hoped he would be forgiven. He can't stand having Kagome still angry with him.

"--where does she live?" Inuyasha was shaken from his thoughts by Shippou's questions. He watched as the younger demon jumped out of his seat, acting and looking like a little kid again. " I want to go see her!"

" You can't," Inuyasha said.

" Why can't I?" Shippou whined.

" She's not in a good mood." Inuyasha answered, sinking back in the couch. " Besides its late."

" What did you do to her you idiot?" Shippou asked angry.

Why do people always accuse him? Inuyasha scratched that thought away, it was his fault. " You know the argument."

Shippou narrowed his eyes, remembering the day of the last argument between Inuyasha and Kagome. " The last time you guys were together?"

" Yea," Inuyasha answered. He knew the young demon knew about the argument, and he knew that Shippou was angry with it still, but not as angry as before. Shippou was there when the argument happened. Well at least the end of it anyway. " Seems like that day to her is still fresh. I think it has just been a short time since she was finally sent back to her own time for good."

Shippou sat back down on the couch, glaring at him. " You are an ass, you know that?"

Inuyasha just kept quiet, agreeing with the grown up Shippou, in front of him.

" Why did you guys argue anyway?" Shippou asked. " The little bit I heard of the beginning of your conversation was pretty nice, what happened?"

Inuyasha really didn't want to think about how the argument started. He didn't want to remind himself, how much of an asshole he could be. " I don't wanna talk about it."

" Good idea, you don't want to start another argument," Shippou looked at the older man, that sat in front of him.

" Just what are you implying?" Inuyasha looked at him suspiciously.

Shippou kept quiet, just looking at Inuyasha with a knowing gaze.

" Look I didn't start it," Inuyasha lied.

" Right…" Shippou said leaning back on the couch.

" She was the one who had to bring the guy up! And she knows how much I don't like that Hobo guy." Inuyasha said. " But she said it, she was practically asking for an argument."

" You know that's not true." Shippou said.

Inuyasha glared at the younger demon. " Feh."

" It's your fault and you know it," Shippou said as he stood up from the couch stretching. " If you weren't so damn temperamental, and jealous, you would have heard the whole entire thing Kagome said."

" I heard her well," Inuyasha glared at Shippou when he snorted at his comment. " Anyways, she should have known that about me. Being jealous and temperamental. But no, she forgot about that and said all those things--" Inuyasha felt the little sting of the hurtful words that were said by Kagome, centuries ago. "--to me."

" Because you said Kikyou," Shippou said. He watched as his friend lowered his head down. " And you knew what that does to her. So it was--is--your fault."

Inuyasha really didn't want to talk about it anymore. It was his fault and he knew it. No need to rub it in some more. " I know!"

" I expect you to apologize to her, she--" Shippou was cut off when Inuyasha growled as he stood up from his seat.

" What do you think my reason is for searching for her? It's to apologize you little brat!" Inuyasha ran a hand threw his long white tresses. " But the argument--to her--is still fresh, so I gotta wait for a while." Inuyasha growled in frustration. " Why did I have to open my mouth?"

" Because you're an idiot." Shippou said standing up and laying a reassuring hand on his friend's shoulder. " But she doesn't keep grudges long… Just make sure you are the one to apologize this time. It is your fault."

Inuyasha sighed and gave a tiny smile to Shippou, agreeing with him. He could trust Shippou when he says that Kagome would forgive him. She was always forgiving and understanding, she even said sorry to him for the countless of times that he let her down or argued with her. But this time, he was going to be the one to say sorry first, not the other way around. She deserved it. So he can't have her waiting for him for long. He didn't want her to start thinking it was her fault.

" Well, you better get some shut eye," Shippou said, pulling Inuyasha out of his thoughts. " You don't look so good."

" Feh." Inuyasha shrugged off the hand that was still on his shoulder and strolled out of the living room. He really did need some sleep.

*~*

Kagome tossed and turned in her bed, as dreams of a strange land came into mind, with strange creatures and people wearing foreign attire, who she frighteningly knew was real, and have met before.

" Will you bear my child?" A man in robes asked her, holding her hands. Blue eyes gazing into hers. Kagome knew this man. But the name… what was it?

The scenes changed once again, it was dark and a giant, monster was standing in front of her. The man in robes showed up once again and was holding up his right hand. The rosary beads that was wrapped around it was taken off and something weird happened.

" Kazaana!" the man said as the monster was starting to be sucked into his hand. Yes his hand.

" Miroku you are the best!" She heard herself saying. Miroku? That was his name?

The scene around her changed once again and she was now standing atop a cliff. She was accompanied with a little boy with green eyes, orange hair and pointy ears and a--tail? Little boys didn't have tails. Kagome's eyes shifted towards his feet, they caught her attention somehow, and she knew the reason why. They were not normal feet. What was this kid? Some sort of half human half fox?

" Shippou!" Kagome saw herself pick up the little boy. " Get help!" She shouted as she flung the little boy off the cliff and into mid air. She was shocked at what she did, how could she just throw a boy off a cliff. She was committing mur--

She stopped her thoughts as the boy in front of her transformed into a pink balloon and was flying away. " Kagome! I'll be back!" the balloon, once boy, shouted.

The scene changed again and she found herself surrounded with trees, and--Kagome shivered in fear--monsters. Ugly ones. Movement beside her caught her eye and she came face to face with a girl in some sort of a ninja suit, carrying a very big boomerang, with a cat beside her. A very, very big cat with fire coming from its feet.

" Look out!" the girl screamed as she threw her boomerang. It flew out of her hands and went around them, splitting all the demons--which got in its way--in half. The girl captured it with ease. The girl looked at her and its eyes widened in shock. " Kagome!"

A growl was heard from behind her and Kagome turned around. She would have been killed by the monster that seemed to have escaped the boomerangs wrath, but the big cat that was once beside the girl, had body slammed the monster away. Kagome looked up at the eyes of the giant cat.

" Kirara!" she turned around and looked at the girl running towards her. " Kagome are you alright?"

" I'm alright Sango, thank you." Kagome heard herself say. The girl, who she now knew as Sango, smiled at her.

" That's good."

Once again Kagome's surroundings melted away. She looked around her and she was now in a rocky place, surrounded by men, with--barbaric like clothing. She looked at each male in the place and noticed they all had tails. Fangs too, she thought as she noticed some smiling faces.

She felt an arm wrap around her. She trailed her gaze up the arm, the shoulder, the neck, and then was looking face to face with a quite good looking man. Though she felt a little uneasy, having his arm around her. Like it was wrong. She tried to shrug out of his hold when she felt something furry brush her arm, she looked down and noticed it was a tail too. What was with people and physical abnormalities?

" Your name is Kagome right?" Kagome looked up at the man. He smirked at her and pulled her closer. " You are my woman now."

Kagome knew she was blushing, and they were due to both embarrassment and anger. How dare this guy just claim her like that? She brought up a hand to slap the brown--fluffy and soft--tailed man. Before her hand could connect with his cheek and do some damage, the scenes changed again. But this time the change was non stop. It changed after scene after scene, giving her only glimpses of people, some human and some--not.

The scene though finally stopped, giving some time for Kagome to regain some stability, both body and mind, for the speeding flashes of images was just a little too fast for her to keep up. Chills ran up her spine as time went on in the darkness she was consumed in. A malicious laugh erupted around her and Kagome froze in her spot. She turned around and was met face to face with the a human. She shouldn't have been scared facing a human, seeing that the speeding images she was shown earlier were much scarier than him. But being in the same presence with the fur clothed man that was making her uneasy… scared even. Then she knew why.

The fur that covered the man slipped off, and a hideous sight was revealed to her. The creature in front of her may have held a head of a human, but everything else was everything but that. His body was not normal at all. It was like a mixture of creatures body parts strewn together to make a whole. And that creature was coming towards her.

Once Kagome felt the slimy, something, wrap around her, and she was starting to be pulled in towards the man--or whatever he was. She screamed.

And that's how she woke up. She woke up screaming and shaking with fear. She clutched her blanket closer to her as she looked around her room.

Just a dream. She thought as she tried to stop shivering in fear. She knew who to blame with the horrible, and strange dream. Her grandfather. He was the one who put all those demons and half demons in her mind and that's what she was dreaming about. What other name can you call what she had just seen in her dream?

Kagome laid her head back down on the pillow. She knew it was just a dream, built up due to the talk of demons and half demons and other world, with her grandpa, but… What she just saw then. It didn't feel like a dream. It was like some sort of memory.

Kagome looked up at the closed window of her room, the moon was shinning through the slight parting of the curtains. She knew that just right out of her window, she would see a shrine, that held a well. A well that her grandfather, well actually her whole family, had proposed to have some sort of passage through time, that had sent her back in time where demons existed.

Could it be true? Did I go back in time? Kagome looked at the slit of the curtains, where the moonlight was able to shine through to her room. How else could she feel like she met those demons. And she knew she met them. She shivered. How else could it feel so real, when those slimy arm like thing, wrap around her. That was no ordinary dream. It was more like a memory.

Kagome noticed her trail of thought, and she glared at herself. She a noise and flipped over on her bed. " I'm going crazy! Starting to believe grandpa!" Kagome shut her eyes tight. " That was just a dream! A dream!" But…

Kagome slowly opened her eyes and gazed at the picture frame that was face down on her nightstand. She knew for certain, deep down in her gut, that it was no dream.

*~*

Shippou watched as the half demon walked out of the living room and walked up the stairs to get some rest. Inuyasha had been looking for Kagome for centuries, and finally he has found her.

Kagome.

A wide smile appeared on the handsome demon's face. Kagome. The girl that he had adopted as his sister has finally been found. He had joined searching with Inuyasha a few years back. But when he always came out empty handed, he had to give up. Not liking the thought that he may never find her again. Never being able to see her.

Shippou walked out of the living room, a little hop in his step. But now that Kagome has been found by the half demon, he was going to pay a little visit. After all, it has been a long, long time since he had last seen Kagome. He wants to get acquainted again. And--

Shippou strolled down the hallway and walked into his room. He needed to get Kagome and Inuyasha together. He would have liked to have gotten them together back then, when they were still having their adventure, but he was a kid then and didn't really make a good cupid. Now, though, he was grown up, and he knew how the matchmaking business worked, so he would get them together. Their silence was starting to annoy him. That's why tomorrow he would go meet with Kagome.

Shippou smiled at the thought of meeting Kagome again, as he laid down on his comfy bed. Dreaming of the day to come, when he would meet Kagome once more.

*~*

AN: Yup… Shippou has arrived. I wasn't planning on putting him in the story, but I needed him in it. So there he is. So how do you like it? I made it a little longer than usual. I guess my way of making up for taking my sweet time on updating. Well anyway, review!