The Last One Standing.
Prelude: She stood in the middle of the battlefield, her friends spread about her, dead. She looked up from the dog-eared boy in front of her holding back the tears. She bent down and gently closed his eyes; they're marriage promises burning in the back of her mind. As she stood back up she saw the cause of all her misery and torment standing before her. He smiled at her cockily crimson eyes flashing, and then… it all went dark.
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Kagome eyes slowly opened. She was chained to the wall in a dark prison cell. A bowl of food and a glass of water where set out in front of her, she wouldn't dare touch it. She closed her eyes, all the faces of her friends and allies flashed before her eyes. Every one she had ever taken comfort in, Koga, Sesshomaru, Kikyo and Kaede, Totosai and Myoga, Rin and Shippo, and InuYasha, everyone was dead. Only she and Naraku had been left standing when the dust settled. She wanted to cry. But she knew he was watching, and she wasn't going to give him the pleasure of seeing her pain. She would not fall to him. All her friends' hopes for a peaceful life rested on her now. She was going to get out of here, she was going to kill that bastard, and then she was going to go home, seal the well, and try to pick up the pieces to her life again. Yeah … easier said than done.
'Alright, one step at a time Kagome.' she thought pushing herself off the floor. She began to examine the chains. Ancient things. Huge, heavy cuffs and chains, and the stranger thing was, the chains seemed to be growing out of the wall, 'Ok, this might be harder than I thought.'
"Ah, so you're finally awake," A voice behind her said. She turned slowly to face him, her hatred clearly written on her face. Naraku stood before her same as before, and with the same overly cocky smile.
"What do you want?"
"Why what else? The jewel shards."
"Go to hell."
"Such words don't belong in a miko's mouth." He said hooking his finger under her chin, "What? Not talking now? That's fine. I hope you fine your accommodations to your liking. You're going to be here for a long time." With that he let her chin drop and walked out of her cell, and Kagome was left to her own thoughts.
"This might be harder than I origanaly thought, oh well. Game on Naraku."