Kagome moaned and turned onto her back from her side. Realizing she was in complete darkness, she bolted up. She looked around, but saw nothing. She sighed. And this was what she got for running away.
She felt around her current surrounding. Her bag was with her still, surprisingly, and a plate of food next to her. She ruffled through her bag, her only sense was touch, trying to find a match and candles. She found her package of matches and one candle and quickly lit it. It lit the place up almost completely, but at least it was something.
She was, in short, in a dungeon. Chains hung from the ceiling and walls. Moss covered the floor and the smell of rot was strongly smelt. Kagome looked around a bit more. A steel door, five to ten stairs leading up to it. A hole was in the door, probably for air. So, they wanted her to live, hum?
Kagome looked at the plate next to her. Stale bread, cup of who-knows-what on a stone plate. No way she was eating that! Only for a last resort, of course.
She pulled out a blanket from her bag. It was too cold to not have some sort of covering in that damp place. Kagome wrapped the blanket around her and leaned against the wall. Closing her eyes, she decided on rest. By the time she had awoken, Inuyasha would already be fighting the guy who kidnapped her, and she would hug and thank Inuyasha, they would go to Kaeda's, recuperate, and then go out for the Jewel Shards. She sighed and smiled. This guy wouldn't live another day...
Kagome smiled as she awoke. But only to darkness. Her eyes went wide. Where was the fight scene? Where was Inuyasha? Where was the blood and gore rushing from the kidnapper's body?
The squeak of hinges was heard and Kagome shielded her eyes as she looked at the steel door. Inuyasha had come!
"Look away, woman!" A voice boomed, not Inuyasha's. The person, hidden perfectly by shadows, hurried down the stairs to slap Kagome across the face. She gasped as pain registered in her cheek. "Understand now? Look away, or you'll be hurt. Learnt your lesson?"
Kagome nodded and turned to look at him, hoping his back was turned. But, it wasn't, and she received another painful slap across the face. The person dropped the tray, her food tumbling onto the dirty floor.
"I come to feed you, and this is how you act," the guy snorted, leaving Kagome. As the door closed again, Kagome was left in the darkness, with an extremely sore cheek. She sighed and lit another match, lighting the candle again. She looked through her backpack for actually sterilized food and found bags of potato chips. Good enough!
She ripped open the bag and took a chip, munching it slowly. She had to save her food. Who knew how long it was going to be before Inuyasha came to rescue her?
Once she ate a few chips, she rolled the top up and placed it silently into her bag, zipping it up. She would keep her food secret, as much as possible, from this person.
She tugged the blanket tightly around her and closed her eyes. Perhaps another nap would be needed before Inuyasha came... She could only hope.
But Inuyasha didn't come the next day, or the one afterwards, as much as Kagome could tell. Kagome began to slowly lose hope. She had a daily schedule. She would sleep, awaken as the kidnapper came in to feed her, look away, take bits of some chips as a meal, sleep. It was the only way to pass the time, without hoping and praying for Inuyasha to come. It was the only productive thing for her. If she was rested enough, when Inuyasha did come, she could help! She would want her piece of them.
But, one day, her schedule change. She awoke to the door opening, and was turned away, when the kidnapper chastised her.
"No, no. I want you to see this," he boomed and Kagome looked up at the light, it almost blinding her. Once again, the kidnapper was shielded perfectly from identification, but Kagome could see he was carrying something. Something with silver hair. Kagome gasped and turned away. How could Inuyasha get himself captured? He was supposed to save her!
The luggage was thrown down, hitting each stair as it descended. The door slammed shut as the dungeon was, once again, deathly black. Kagome lit a match and moved to the body sharing her place. And gasped. It was not Inuyasha at all. But of close relation to him.
It was the Lord of the Western Land, Sesshomaru.