-Walks into room. Sits down, and looks around. Completely and utterly bored so she begins to type-
Hehe! This is what I did since I was bored! I wanted to start and new fanfic, so this is what happened! Hope you like it!
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of the characters and I never will. I also don't claim rights to the song "Downfall" by Matchbox Twenty's album 'More than you think you are'. I also don't claim the title of my story "Maybe Memories" by The Used! The song lyrics are at the end! (yah I know I borrowed a lot of songs. But I just love music as much as anime and Inuyasha! Tehe)
Thanks for reading!
Maybe Memories:
Crawling on Embers
It was past midnight and Inuyasha was taking a long walk through the forests surrounding the village they were staying at. He let the warm summer night air calm him down as he breathed deeply, placing his hands behind his head and stretching out his shoulder muscles. The group had been going nonstop trying to find Naraku since they had collected the remainder of the shards.
'Thank goodness Kagome decided to stay with us even if she did finish collecting the shards. I still need her, but not for the shards…' he paused a moment in his thought to look around at the surrounding forest.
Something wasn't right. There was a stifling absence of any wind and the air around him was so thick it felt like his lungs were being stuffed full of the bad air. He looked back towards the way the village was and squinted his eyes. What was that, further darkening the sky?
'Is it clouds? No, No that couldn't be it. It seems to be moving to fast… What else causes something like that?' and instantly the wind seemed to pick back up again and the scent reached his nose within seconds.
He paused "Wait! That's smoke and it's coming from the village we stopped in!" He yelled out and was instantly running towards the village, dodging trees along the way.
"KAGOME!" could be heard being yelled from the young hanyou's mouth. Little did he know how much trouble Kagome was in. He sped up and reached the village, and peculiarly there was no other huts burning.
Just the mansion Miroku had weaseled his way into. What was so odd about it was that usually when places were set on fire, the whole village would soon catch on fire too.
He soon reached the mansion and sped towards the part he knew the group was sleeping. He yelled out for them "KAGOME! Miroku! Sango! Shippou!" His yelling was all in vain. No answer came from the burning section of the building.
Without hesitating he ran into the fire and towards Kagome's room. Reaching them he found Miroku and Sango, yanking on a tightly closed door.
Lacking a proper thought in his head Inuyasha went to the door and started pounding on the solidly built door "Fuck. KAGOME! There's a FUCKING fire out here! GET OUT! This is NO time for you to try to get privacy!"
Miroku yanked Inuyasha back from the door and glared at him, coughing as he did "Inuyasha! She's not conscious! She can't hear you! Make yourself of use and knock down the door!"
Inuyasha snarled a moment and then turned to the door immediately and started slamming into it with all his power. This didn't work one bit so he took Tetsuiga out and started trying to slash the door to shreds. To no use.
"Shit! What the hell are these fuckin doors made out of!" Inuyasha cursed, slamming and cutting at the same time, his knuckles splitting open and gushing as he did this.
A weak voice came from through the door "Inuyasha… I can't unlock the door… It won't open. No matter what I do." The whole group grew quiet once they heard this, other than the slamming of the door Inuyasha continued to do.
Sango gasped and sighed in half relief. She had thought Kagome would already be dead "Kagome, cover your mouth so you don't inhale as much smoke. We need you to try and stay conscious, ok? Try and open the door again."
"But there's a chain on it!" Came a sob from behind the door "Chains I didn't even put on it!" Sweat rolled down her in gallons, along with a few rationally shed tears.
Inuyasha's nose caught the scent of her tears and he began to crash into the door with even more force. The bones in his body started to creak with the constant beating they were getting as he thought 'Please don't let her die! I can't do anything! I can't save her! The door won't go down!'
Sango's eyes began to water as she started to silently cry. Kagome was trapped in there and they couldn't get to her! But she had to try and reassure the girl "Shhh, Kagome calm down. Do you have a hair pin? Maybe you could try and pick the lock?"
"No! I don't! O god where is Inuyasha! Is he ok? Where's Inuyasha?" There was a distinct gasping from being the door, of Kagome hyperventilating. She was losing her calm, and fast. Panic started to set in.
Miroku scowled and grabbed Inuyasha for a moment when he noticed the hanyou wasn't replying to Kagome's plea and whispered harshly "Inuyasha! Answer her! She'll die quicker if we can't get her breathing back down to normal!"
Inuyasha's eyes flashed when he heard the word die. Die meant dead, and dead meant no more Kagome. And he couldn't live with that.
He leaned against the door, panting from his exertions "Kagome, shhh. It'll be alright. I'm right here, ok? Don't worry we'll get you out of there. Just calm down, and stay awake. Can you do that for me?" He resumed to ram the door and slash at it.
Kagome on the other side, at the sound of his voice began to calm down again, taking the small breaths again. She leaned against the slightly warm door "Ye-Yes. I think I can."
Shippou was bawling his eyes out, but heard all this. He had been mostly silent the whole time and finally spoke up "I-Inuyasha. I think I have something that will open the door. It's never worked for me though." He dug through his little pockets and produced a small, slightly bent up needle.
Sango grabbed it from him and patted him on his head "Kagome… We have something and we're gonna slide it under the door. Take it and see if you can't pick the lock open." She carefully slid the needle all the way under the door.
Kagome tried to no avail, and whimpered. She finally closed her eyes, a fat tear sliding down her cheek "It won't work. You guys, leave me. I don't want you to die before your times."
Miroku wrapped his arms around a now bawling Sango as he looked at Inuyasha. Inuyasha turned to the three and said flatly "Miroku. Sango. Shippou. You three go. I'll get her out, don't worry. The smoke affects you humans more than it does me." He frowned as Miroku picked Shippou up and dragged Sango along with him and out of his view.
(A/N: ok, for a while it's going to switch from one side of the door to the other.)
The fire was growing rapidly and he could hear Kagome's heart beat speed up and then slow down to a sickeningly slow pace "Kagome. I'm still here. Don't fuckin die on me!" he yelled out harshly before calming his breathing back down again "Don't die. I need you more than you think."
He began to sing lightly, Downfall by Matchbox Twenty (A/N: Don't ask why Inu knows them lol. Maybe Kagome gave him a cd player and some cds on xmas or something? Hehe I was just listening to his song and HAD to put some of the lines in!)
"Only love can save us now
Love save me now
Lay it down
I've always been with you
Here and now
With all that's within you
Be my savior
And I'll be your downfall"
Kagome's eyes snapped back open. She had been almost about to slip into unconsciousness when she heard Inuyasha's voice. "Inuyasha?"
"Yeah Kagome? What is it?"
"If I die… Will you cry?"
"Shit. I'm already crying like a baby. And if you die, I die with you."
"B-but Kikyo. Aren't you going to hell with her?"
"No. I decided not to, cuz I wanted to stay with you. Though I'm going to hell if I die now anyways."
"Why do you say that?"
"I'm half demon. If the demon part wasn't enough to do it, the abomination of me just being born half and half would be enough to do me in." He slid down the door, his back resting against the door. He could almost feel Kagome's back against his.
"You're going to heaven." She said simply.
"Feh. Doubt it. Since that's where you're going, I sure hope so."
A few minutes passed by without a response to his statement. He thought he would have heard something. Didn't she want him to follow her to heaven?
After a few moments of considering this, he began to grow sick with worry. Why wasn't she saying anything or making any noise? He could barely hear her breath.
"Kagome?" A few more moments passed "Kagome!" An edge of panic slid into his voice as he slid up from his slouched position and turned to face the door "Kagome! Kagome! Wake up!" He leapt up and crashed into the door over and over again, cracking his ribs and shoulder in the process at the force of it.
He slid to the ground and started to cry, holding his head in his hands. 'She's dying in there and all I can do is cry! I'm such a fucking weakling!' he dug his nails into his skull 'If only I was a full demon! I could save her then!' a second voice in his head now piped in "But you'd end up killing her once you got to her if you were a full demon. She likes you just as you are."
He got up and started plowing into the door again, over and over again until he heard a slight humming coming from behind the door. Soon a bright blue-violet color exploded from under the door of the room and the door was flung open.
And there was his Kagome. Collapsed on the floor with a light emitting from her and her throat. The room sizzled a moment or two, like a glass of water had just been poured on it, and the fire went out.
He scooped the badly burned Kagome into his arms bridal style and resumed to running out and away from the burning structure until he reached the group. He slowly laid her down on the cool grass and looked her over. She was barely covered by her burnt clothes, and her face was very pale. He covered her with his fire rat harato.
It looked like only her arms and her legs had been burnt. That was good. But none of the group was sure if she still lived. 'Was that her life force being let out and sucked into the jewel back there?' he asked himself as he leaned his head towards her chest to listen for a heart beat, and put a hand up to her nose and mouth to see if she was still breathing.
! Yay! I love starting fanfictions! It's keeping up with them that's hard! Well I hope you like this one!
And I will ask… For… Drum roll please –drum roll- …. 4 reviews for this chapter! Thank you!
Here are the song lyrics:
And we trudge along through the mud, And we tried to call it home, but we weren't alright, not at all, not for one second.
Never have been one to write it down, Now I think I can, I know I'm stronger now, who is looking south? Not me I'm not looking back, I'm done denying the truth to anyone, cause I'm alive.
You showed me how, you seemed to find a hole, but I just laughed and smiled, begged and rolled my eyes, even cried and denied the truth to you, just like the truth to me, mostly lied.
I'm not going to look back
Write it out like glittering butterflies.
I dunno, I picture that being one of Inuyasha and Kagome's theme songs.