Kagome awoke in a room with wooden floors and pastel painted walls. She sat up wincing at the pain in her side and she looked down. Blood in five spots had run together on her shirt. "Kagome, you're up. Welcome to your new home. Sorry about your side, I don't know my own strength. By the way this isn't a jewel shard, it's a stone that was lodged in my arm by some other demon. I figured your priestess power could release it from my body." Marunikotzu didn't sound sympathetic at all. "I have a small confession, Marunikotzu. I am already married, I can't marry you." Kagome explained finally setting eyes on his figure in the shadows.
Marunikotzu smiled grimly "I know. I only need your power. Once I'm free of this stone, you can go free, well maybe. I haven't decided yet." Kagome gasped as he moved lightning fast to her side and dug his nails into her skin like earlier. She grew weak and Marunikotzu stopped letting her drop tiredly to the floor. "Let me tell you a story about a young demon. He was born an offspring of two different demons. The father was a shape shifting demon and the mother was a coyote demon. They were hunted and killed by humans. The boy grew hating humans, but one day he was confronted by another demon. The demon stuck a dark stone in his skin in the middle of the fight that drained him of strength. In order to live he now has to absorb a great deal of power and sometimes a strong soul." he smirked. Kagome tried to move away, but he grabbed her arm draining her of any strength.
"Y-you won't be able to stop the others from finding me. I-Inuyasha is someone who cannot be stopped once he decides something." Kagome groaned. Marunikotzu snickered "We'll see, remember that the boy in the story came from two different demons." Kagome gasped "No, you wouldn't dare." He laughed "First I'll finish you and then your friends. To rely on humans isn't what I wish, but all of you even the half-breed have amazing power." Kagome used all the strength she had to take an arrow from thearrow holder on her back and stab him in the gut, but Marunikotzu didn't even wince. "You think that would hurt me now, how sad." he rolled his eyes. He threw her to the floor and she sheepishly lifted her face a half inch from the floor. She watched Marunikotzu walk away and his form change.
Then she heard a voice that brought her relief, but that relief was soon gone. She heard him say her name with surprise and relief coloring his tone. "Inuyasha, I was so scared. He was going to kill me." She heard her own voice say feebly, but it wasn't her talking. Marunikotzu had changed into her and Inuyasha didn't notice it at all. She began to crawl desperately toward the door, every movement harder than the last. She reached her hand out, finally touching the door and pushing it open a crack. She heard Sango gasp, "Inuyasha look, over there!"
