I want to remember

"Kagome's lost all her memory!" InuYasha balked at the idea and looked over at the girl sitting peacefully away against the large trunk of a tree.
"I think so. It would explain her strange behavior and why she can't seem to remember us." Miroku was still thinking over the bruise on Kagome's forehead. "It must've happened when she hit her head."
InuYasha's face fell and his ears drooped.
"Then it's my fault," he whispered and the monk frowned.
"It was an accident, Kagome slipped. You had nothing to do with it." Miroku watched the crestfallen hanyou and sighed. "Don't beat yourself up about this, there might be a way for her to get her memory back."
"How?"
"I'm not sure how much it'll help if we just do things like normal. But if one of us stays in constant contact with her all the time, she'll have to start making some associations."
InuYasha nodded. He'd do anything to get Kagome to remember him. Miroku gave a thin smile.
"All right, I'll go tell Sango and Shippo about the situation and you go break it to Kagome."
"Well, what do I say to her?" InuYasha stared over at the girl again and couldn't help thinking that she looked like a stranger.
"Tell her about our quest for the Shikon shards, explain about how we’re all her friends…. That kind of stuff." Miroku got a gleam in his eye. "You could even talk about how you and her are lovers--"
InuYasha's eyes bugged out. "You perverted Monk!"
The monk laughed and clapped his friend on the back. "Get creative."
InuYasha swiped at the other man and growled low in his throat. Dodging the blow, Miroku only laughed harder.
"All right, time to get to it," Miroku said in a serious voice and InuYasha grumbled something about getting him in his sleep.
Kagome heard someone approach and turned. Her blue-gray eyes met a pair of amber ones and she felt flutters go through her chest. Though unexpected, she seemed to remember a time when it had happened before. Maybe I really do know this guy, she thought.
InuYasha sat down next to her and cleared his throat, searching for where to begin.
"Kagome I…we all really care about you," the hanyou swept his hand back to encompass the three other people sitting over by the fire. "And we're you're friends."
"What's your name…InuYasha is it?" Kagome asked.
She noticed a flit of pain across the man's face and realized it hurt him that she didn't remember who he was.
"Yes, and yours is Kagome. Miroku thinks that when you fell you must have hit your head just right and lost your memory. So we're going to try and get it back for you."
"Really?" Kagome smiled. "Already you sound like good friends, I must've been very lucky."
She looked to the trio at the fire and her smile grew. "Were we all really close?"
"Uh…." InuYasha thought about his daily fights with her, Miroku and Shippo and felt chagrined. "Yeah…. Mostly."
"I'm glad." Kagome leaned over and took his hand. InuYasha's face flamed red as her small fingers gave his palm a squeeze and before he could think about it, he squeezed back.
"You seem really nice," she said with another smile. "I'll try hard to remember you."
* * * * * * *
Night had settled in and Inu-Yasha walked up to the fire, preparing to bank it so it would last until morning. Though the sun had set below the horizon, he could still make out Miroku talking in hushed tones to Kagome a little ways away. The girl looked over at him and Inu-Yasha wondered what kind of things the monk was telling her.
Sango was already on her pallet for the night and Shippo lay curled up in Kagome's sleeping bag, snoozing peacefully. The hanyou was about to climb a tree and join them in slumber when Miroku walked up to him with a smug expression on his face.
"Kagome needs some help getting up, she can't stand on her own with her hurt ankle. I told her you'd be right over to give her a hand."
"If you were there why didn't you help her?" InuYasha asked, wondering what the human was up to.
"Remember how I said one of us would have to stay in constant contact with her for her memory to return?" Inu-Yasha nodded.
"Well you're that one." Miroku smiled. "And just now I was telling her a few things about you."
The monk looked extremely pleased with himself and InuYasha glared at him.
"What did you say?"
"Let's just say that after tonight you'll be thanking me." Giving a little wave, Miroku high-tailed it to his own pallet and left InuYasha to go get Kagome from her spot against the tree.
I swear, I'll kill that man if he told Kagome something about me being perverted like him, he thought angrily.
InuYasha could see the girl's form through the growing darkness and as he approached she gazed at him with an expression he couldn't quite identify.
"Uh… Miroku told me you needed some help?" He asked, unsure of what else to say.
"Yeah, just a little. It's cause of my ankle," Kagome sat against the tree, looking apologetic.
"Okay well, let me just give you a hand." InuYasha leaned down and put one arm around her back and the other under her. As he lifted her up off the ground he felt her hands slide behind his neck to hold on and InuYasha reddened slightly. Kagome felt light and vulnerable in his arms and the hanyou had a hard time telling himself to put her down.
"Here you go." Inu-Yasha set her feet on the ground but couldn't seem to move his hands from her waist. He hadn't ever held Kagome like this and he didn't want to have to let her go.
"Um…. Inu-Yasha?" Kagome let her arms fall from around his neck and he got the hint. InuYasha immediately let go of her and blushed in embarrassment.
"Sorry I don't know what came over m--"
"Actually I just wanted to say that Miroku told me everything," she smiled warmly. "You don't have to hide the truth for my benefit anymore."
"Eh?" Inu-Yasha tilted his head and Kagome giggled.
"You can stop the act, he told me about…. Us."
"Us?"
"Yeah," Kagome nodded. "You'll have to let me adjust though, okay. It's going to be a little weird for me at first. I mean, I could tell there was something you weren't telling me but I had no idea it was that we were in love."
"In love!" InuYasha's mouth dropped open and Kagome smiled again.
"It was so thoughtful of you to try and keep it from me. Miroku said you hadn't wanted to burden me with so much all at once," she rested her head against his chest and InuYasha stood speechless.
"Yes, that's InuYasha, always thinking about your welfare."
Miroku appeared through the darkness and strode over to the two of them.
"Monk…." InuYasha found his voice and narrowed his eyes at the human. "Why did you tell her this?"
"Because it's true, isn't it?" Miroku looked at the hanyou knowingly and InuYasha growled.
"And do you think that I would not have told her myself one day?"
"Perhaps, but she needs to hear it now. You must remain by her side at all times so that her memory will return." Miroku crossed his arms and smiled over at Kagome.
"You're right sir monk, he will try and deny it." The girl looked up at InuYasha and he saw gratitude plainly on her face. "You are so good to care so much for my wellbeing," she said softly, almost so he couldn't hear it.
"Well what are you two still doing up, it's time for bed." Miroku said lightheartedly.
"I could say the same for you," InuYasha hissed and the monk laughed.
"Had to make sure you two were on the same page." He winked at Kagome and InuYasha had the distinct feeling he wasn't even on the same *book* as them.
"All right, go and get some sleep," Miroku said and Kagome nodded.
"InuYasha, can I have some help getting on your back?"
"What?" The hanyou looked at the girl in confusion and missed the twinkle in Miroku's eye.
"Why?"
"Well so we can get up into this tree. I'm pretty tired and sleep sounds perfect right about now." Kagome yawned and rubbed her eyes to enunciate her point
"Since when have you slept in a tree?"
"Well, Miroku said we always sleep in a tree together." Kagome looked up at InuYasha and saw utter surprise on his face.
"Is something wrong?"
"Yeah, you bet there is!" InuYasha gave Miroku a death look.
Kagome caught the look and misread InuYasha' disgust towards the monk. She thought it was for her.
"Oh… I see," her face fell. "You don't want me to. I guess since I lost my memory I'm not the woman you loved anymore," she said, disheartened. "I-I understand…."
"No! That's not it! Of course I want you to…." InuYasha blushed. "I just don't know if you really want to sleep in a tree with me. I'm a stranger to you after all."
"But we're already getting to know each other and Miroku says that if we just do things like normal, than I'll begin to remember things."
Before InuYasha could think twice he had hoisted her to his shoulders.
"Well then, I guess we're going up."
He swallowed down a nervous lump in his throat and saw the monk turn to leave. Miroku waved goodbye to both of them and then walked back to the campsite, whistling to himself.
Digging his claws into the trunk InuYasha quickly scaled up through the tree's branches, trying not to think about the warm girl on his back or about where she was sleeping for the night. He stopped when he came to a sturdy branch that would hold both of them.
InuYasha set Kagome down and then sat next to her. Taking off the top of his red kimono he wrapped Kagome in it and before he could say another word, the girl had crawled into his lap. InuYasha's heart was racing as she leaned her head against his chest and rested her arms against his waist.
"Goodnight InuYasha," Kagome whispered.
"G-Goodnight."
He watched as she closed her eyes and soon her breath evened out. When InuYasha was sure she was asleep he wrapped his arms around her and rested his head atop hers. After a few minutes, his chest rose and fell with hers and their hearts beat at the same rhythm. As one.