Title – The Forgotten Cave

Summary – Kagome didn't how she came to be where she was. She didn't know why they were there. She didn't know how to get out. What she did know however, was that something was with them and she wanted nothing more than to find it, kill it and high tail herself out of wherever she was.

Anime – InuYasha

Main Couple – Kagome / Jakotsu Slight Kagome and playful Bankotsu on Bankotsu's part.

Genre – Romance / Horror / Adventure

Rated – M (Excessive Violence) (Medium Sexual Themes) (Excessive Language) (Excessive Blood and Gore)

Disclaimer – I do not own InuYasha. (T.T)don't make me hurt you!

The Forgotten Cave

Chapter One

Trapped

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Kagome's eye's fluttered open and she frowned when she couldn't feel anything or see anything. It was dark with but a few crack's from above indicating light from outside. The top of wherever she was had to be at least 70 feet or more from the ground. She glanced around as her eyes started to adjust to the semi lighting. She felt her bag on her back and the bump on the back of her head.

'Where...what happened?'

She closed her eyes and tried to think back to the night before.

'I was walking back from the onsen with Sango and...someone...or something...attacked us from behind. Then...I don't know, then everything went black and now I'm in a...place. I have an ache in the back of my neck that hurt's like hell too.'

"Sango...?"

She saw a couple outlines of bodies and called out to the one closest to her.

"Mmm, uh. Where are we?" Kagome heard her friend ask.

"Don't know. Hold on." She pulled her bag from her back and felt something wet on the back of it.

'Now that I think about it, it feels like I'm sitting on something wet too.'

She shook the thought away and opened her bag, feeling around until it hit a metal flashlight.

"Found it."

"What?"

Kagome pressed the button and watched as it lit up the room. She pointed the flashlight around and it showed three more limp figures.

"Is that...?"

"Bankotsu, Jakotsu and Renkotsu. This just got even screwier than it already was."

"Should we wake them up?" Sango asked as she moved closer to Kagome, tripping on something and landing on her arms on the ground.

"Ouch, be careful where you step Kagome. Root's are sticking up everywhere."

"..."

"Kagome?" Sango called out.

"S-Sango, those aren't roots." Sango closed her eyes as Kagome pointed the light on her. She slowly opened them and looked down, her eyes widening as she hastily stood up and moved over to her friend. All around them were bones and the metallic smell of the blood that covered the ground.

"Um, Sango, to answer your question...yes, I think we should wake them up." Kagome stepped around the broken bones and moved towards the still unconscious three on the ground.

"Which one do you think is the safer to wake up?" Kagome asked as she looked back to her friend.

"I honestly don't know. One hates woman with a passion. One has a...where is Bankotsu's sword?"

"Good question. I don't see it anywhere and it's not exactly easy to miss."

"Hm, Renkotsu's liable to try burning us alive. So...the winner is,"

"Bankotsu..." They said together as they turned to look at the sleeping leader of the Band of Seven.

Inching closer to the one with a long black braid, Kagome moved her hand to his shoulder and fell backwards when he suddenly snapped his eyes open and grasped her wrist.

"InuYasha's wench?" Bankotsu questioned as he stared into her steal blue eyes.

"I'm not his wench. Now get up. Wake your friends too." He glared at her and tossed her in the direction of Sango. Both falling at the contact.

"Renkotsu, Jakotsu, wake up!" He said calmly, pushing his 'brothers' hard enough so that they wake.

"Mmmah, Bankotsu-Nii, a few more minutes, nai." Kagome and Sango, despite their obvious discomfort in being thrown back into a puddle of blood and bones, couldn't help but smile at Jakotsu.

Renkotsu woke up easily enough and kicked Jakotsu in the side getting a moan of pain from the feminine male zombie.

"Ouch, Ren-Kun, that hurt. Huh, why is it so dark?" Kagome turned her flashlight on the boys after she stood up.

"Oh, that's better. WAHHH! It's that whore that hangs off of my Inu! That dreadful Slayer too!"

"Shut up Jakotsu. You three need to answer me honestly. Do either of you remember how you got in here or what happened last night?"

"Well, I was looking for Bankotsu with Renny while I tried thinking up a new name for our group since...well, you can't call a group the 'band of seven' if there are only three―"

"Jakotsu..."

"Huh? Oh, right. That's when I heard something from behind me and I told Renkotsu that I heard something from behind me and so we turned and then something shot out from the shadows and...and I don't remember."

"Same here." Renkotsu said.

"Hmm, something similar. I was sitting in a tree and I heard something from above me. When I turned I felt a pang in the back of my neck and I blanked out."

"So that's it. We don't even know what brought us here. Not that we know where here is either."

"I do remember...red eyes." Sango said softly.

"Red eyes could be any demon in a feral state or..."

"Naraku!"

"But I would have sensed him. He has a little less then half of the jewel shards and I would have sensed that." Kagome said as she interrupted The boys and Sango'srevelation.

"Maybe he hid them before chasing after us." Jakotsu supplied.

"I doubt it. The chances of Naraku leaving something so valuable hidden anywhere is slim."

Renkotsu nodded.

"What about a stray demon?"

"Again, I would have sensed it. I can sense demon and spiritual powers. Hell, I can even sense zombies."

"Then...if you couldn't sense it that means that whatever brought us here is no demon, miko, priest nor zombie."

"Leaving...non-spiritual human and..."

"...and something I'm not sure I want to meet." Kagome continued Sango's sentence as she picked up a stray hand and tossed it elsewhere with disgust clearly shown on her face. "Oh and Jakotsu..."

"Yeah, what do you want you dumb female?" He said in a pouty way.

"This dumb female merely wanted to point out that you have a 'finger' in your hair." She watched as he shook his head fiercely the finger flew out and landed somewhere along with his butterfly pin.

"Ah, where'd it go!?"

He asked in panic. Both boys next to him got up and started looking frantically for the pin, surprising Kagome and Sango slightly. Kagome helped them with her flashlight and looked over to a fanatical Jakotsu who looked like he would cry soon.

Kagome was staring wide eyed at what she knew was Jakotsu but what looked like a girl she'd never met before. His hair fell down past his shoulders and his charcoal eyes had a glassy look to them.

Something caught her eye and she stood up catching the attention of the others. She walked over to a puddle of the ever so common blood and picked up the blue and now red pin. She untied her red scarf and Jakotsu watched in confusion when she started cleaning the small item of the blood. She handed it back to him and placed her scarf into her bag.

"Alright guys, Sango. We need to find a way out of here. I luckily have five flashlights since I had brought one for everyone in our group so...here." She said as she started handing them out to the others.

"Well, it look's like that way might lead somewhere."

"This way too." Renkotsu said as his flashlight pointed opposite of Sango's.

"So which way? Should we split up?" Jakotsu asked.

"NO! Never split up. That is like rule number one in HORROR MOVIES 101."

"What is a horror movie?" Bankotsu asked Kagome.

"It's...complicated. Look, we'll take a vote, if you want to go right raise your hand." Kagome and Sango raised their hands.

"We go left then. Jakotsu, Renkotsu and Bankotsu decided left. Come on."

The four said nothing and followed her. Four what seemed like hours they continued walking until Kagome felt her foot step into a large pond of blood.

"Do we go through it?" Sango asked.

"Uh...no. This blood got here somehow and I'm not willing to wait and find out what being is lurking beneath that surface to pull us under and add our blood to its collection. Let's go back."

"Stop being so paranoid." Jakotsu said. He took a step forward and Kagome's eyes widened as a shadow neared the surface. She pulled Jakotsu's sash and he fell into her and they both fell against her but she stood firmly. He turned to yell at her when something grabbed his ankle. He looked down and saw what looked to be some kind of bloody imp with long black ears and razor sharp fang's.

"Ah, get off you disgusting creature."

Kagome pulled out a pocket knife from the side pouch of her bag and stabbed the creature in the hand causing it to shriek before she removed the blade. It seemed to glare at her before sinking back into his bloody home.

"Can we go back now?" Kagome asked in irritation.

"...humph." He slumped further away from the pull and into Bankotsu's arms.

"Onii-San..."

"I know, let's just head back to where we started and go from there."

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