Kagome blinked.

The harsh lights above her burned her eyes, and almost as soon as she had opened them Kagome once again spanned her eyes closed.

Beep. Beep. Beep.

She groaned and tried to move, only to find her whole body was sore. Too sore to move. Her head was pounding, and everything seemed sort of fuzzy.

"Kagome?"

She rolled her head to the side and rappildly blinked. The bright white light all around her still hurt her eyes, but she was able to squint through and see her mother. "Mom?"

Mrs. Higurashi smiled, as tears started to well up in her eyes. "Oh, Kagome, honey. You really scared us."

"What happened?" Her throat was dry and scratchy, making her voice portray how crappy she felt.

"I'm afraid none of us know. I came in to your room and found you like this, a total mess. We rushed you down here to the hospital. No one knows what happened, but the doctors say that you should be good to go in a while. You may suffer a little bit of memory loss..."

Kagome flexed her hands under the tight sheets, testing all of her limbs. Next came her feet, than her arms, legs, neck, and after that she slowly sat up. She was sore all over, like she had been running for three days strait and gotten beaten up. Why couldn't she remember what happened? "How long have I been in here?"

"Almost a month now. We were being to think you wouldn't wake up."

Why did she feel so empty, like she was missing half of herself? "Oh... Can we go home?"

A doctor suddenly came into the room, smiling as he wrote something down on a clipboard. "In a day you'll be free to go, Miss Kagome. We're sorry we can't figure out what happened. It looks like you may have had some sort of seizure... you may experience a bit of amnesia, and the symptoms that go with it. We'll prescribe you some medication to help with that. I just want to check over a few things, and then you'll be free to go."

Kagome nodded. "Okay."

Who was she missing?

The door opened again as the doctor left, and in came Gramps and Sota. "Oh, Kagome! You're alright. I knew those suatras would work! They've been passed down through generations-"

"Wow, Kagome! You're alive! Are you coming back home now sis?"

Everything was as it should be. Here was her family, she was alright. What was gone? Why was she so empty? So... sorrowful?

Two hours later four of her friends came to see her. Ayumi, Yuka, Eri, and Hojo all came smiling and bearing presents. They eat ice cream and watched a movie while they all hung out in her hospital room. They where her friends, she remembered all of them.

Someone was missing. In fact, it felt like a couple people where missing. Mostly though there was just this one person missing... She couldn't recall a face or a name. Not anything. Just the absence of this person.

"Who's not here?" She finally asked.

"Huh? What do you mean Kagome? We're all here."

"It just... feels like someone else is supposed to be here..."

"Well, I don't know who that could be. It must be the amnesia, making you feel like your forgetting someone. But your not, so don't worry."

"I guess your right..." She knew there was something absent, someone who was meant to be there.

"Well, we'll see you in a couple days Kagome, when your back in school. You sure have a lot of makeup work to do."

"Yeah..."

"Bye!"

Kagome tried for a while longer to recall what it was she wished to remember, and grew frustrated when she couldn't. An hour passed and she just sat there, angry with herself for not being able to recollect what it was she had lost. She finally fell asleep, at one point, exhausted.

That was the first night she dreamed of him. And she knew it wouldn't be the last.

A beautiful boy, with hair long and silver as star light stood before her. He was wearing old clothes, red robes, and small triangle ears sat on top of his head.

Dog ears.

A sword rested at his hip as he lay back on the ground. They where in a small meadow like clearing, which at the center held a huge tree. It looked just like the tree at her family's shrine, but instead of being surrounded by pavement as it usually was it was in the center of grass and flowers. Other trees grew up out of the ground all around her, like they where in the woods.

The boy- or really a man- opened his eyes suddenly, and she gasped.

They where the most captivating shade of gold, full of emotion, sharp, and fierce. They where the most amazing eyes she had ever seen.

He smiled and flashed long pointed canines at her.

Fangs.

"Hey." His voice wasn't too terribly deep, and kind of rough. She loved it. "Where are you going?"

She stood up, and then realized she had no control over her own body- "Home." -or her mouth.

"You can't leave yet." He stood up and came towards her. "We aren't done yet."

Suddenly she could speak again. "Who are you?"

He suddenly gasped, and grabbed onto his chest. An arrow was protruding from it. "How could you betray me?"

"I-I didn't!"

"You left me. You promised you would never leave me." He backed up to the tree, Goshingbuko, and along the roots until he stood with his back against the bare scar on the tree. The arrow glowed, and suddenly he was pinned to the tree, just hanging there. "Why did you leave me?"

"I didn't! I don't know who you are!"

"You left me."

"What? What do you-"

"You left all of us."

At the base of the tree she could suddenly see others; a man in purple robes, a women in tight black and pink material, a small boy with a fox tail, and a huge cat like beast.

She looked back up at the man with the beautiful golden eyes. "I don't know who you are. I'm sorry."

"You broke your promise. You left me." He closed his eyes, and then was still.

Kagome sat up in bed, gasping for air. The sun was coming up, filling the room with a soft golden glow.

"It was just a dream." She whispered to herself. "Just a dream."

Yet she couldn't banish those haunting gold eyes from her mind.

"You left me."