Disclaimer: I own nothing other than the kooky plot I came up with for this story. I own, however, Franky the radar. And Dango the compass. Oh, and the Un-Shrinker too. And I'm not making a profit of this story either. So you lawyers better stay away from me! -takes out her anti-lawyer shield-

Warning: The rating for this story may or may not go up, depends on how I feel. I'm open to hear everybody's opinion though. What do you think? I'll shut up now.

Chapter 2

(because I'm not creative enough to come up with a title for the chapters)

Kaoru woke up slowly, feeling warm. She also smelled something funny, like something animal-ish combined with a burning smell. She got up and opened her eyes. She was covered in what looked like animal fur.

'So this is what was giving off that animal smell…but where is the burning smell coming from? I know I didn't leave anything on the stove…' thought Kaoru and finally started looking at her surroundings. It looked like she was in a cave with an opening a few meters away. The burning smell was coming from a little fire which was a few feet away. Her briefcase was laid down near her. Wait, briefcase? Animal fur?? Cave?? Suddenly, it hit Kaoru like no other. She was not home. She was not camping by her new research project. In fact, she didn't even know where she was. Kaoru hugged herself, looking around, scared.

'What was I doing before?' thought Kaoru, trying to remember everything. 'I remember packing my stuff, talking with Misao, and going to go see the meteor…I was talking to Sano, Megumi, and Yahiko too…and then I went to see the meteor…then what happened?' Kaoru frowned, thinking hard.

'I remember seeing the meteor and then…oh!' Kaoru gasped out loud as her memories rushed in. She suddenly felt more scared than ever. She threw off the animal skin she was covered in, took her briefcase, and hugged it to herself, very confused and alarmed.

'Am I dreaming? Did someone knock me out and kidnap me and force some drug into me? Is this all a part of a hallucination? Am I part of some science experiment? Am I in a coma?' thought Kaoru, panicking. She pinched herself and yelped in pain. She then proceeded to slap herself a couple of times on her face, trying to wake herself up. She closed her eyes and opened them again, to find she was still in the cave. She started panicking even more.

"Damn, I need to stop watching all those movies! Get a grip on yourself, Kaoru! First of all, why the hell would someone want to kidnap YOU? There's NOTHING special about you, you're average!" said Kaoru out loud. She jumped a little since it echoed a little in the cave. She looked to see the cave was deeper than she originally thought and it was leading to somewhere else. Curiosity got the better of her again, and she took a piece of wood with fire on it from the little fire nearby and proceeded to go into the cave more. She held her briefcase tightly in one hand and held the fire high above her, looking around. Some parts of the cave shimmered in the light in different colours.

'Wow…either they are precious stones or just your average granite…' thought Kaoru, going in more. She then came across something odd.

Kaoru saw a little painting in black on the wall and went to it to get a closer look. It wasn't best the painting in the world, but she could make out that it was a headshot of a woman. She had long, dark hair (though a little messy) coming down and it framed her face nicely. She also had dark eyes and a hint of a smile on her face. It seemed as though the artist took his or her time drawing her, trying to get as much detail in as possible even if his or her skills are very rough. Then something caught Kaoru's attention from the ground right below the painting and she crouched down to see what it was. She saw some animal skin folded nicely with a necklace on it. The gigantic tooth on the necklace was shimmering a little in the light. Kaoru picked it up to have a closer look.

Suddenly, she heard a crunch. She whirled around to find the same man she saw before she fainted. She stood there in shock, not knowing what to do. The man started coming close to her and she flinched and closed her eyes, thinking he was going to hurt her. The necklace was being tugged from her hand. She opened her eyes, to see that man looking at her and tugging at the necklace. She immediately let go of it and moved away from him as quickly as she could. The man bent down and put the necklace down gently on the animal skin on the ground and turned to look at Kaoru.

They stood there for a long while, looking at each other, analyzing each other. Kaoru got a better look at him. The man was well-covered in animal skin, leaving out only half of his legs so he could run. He still had a couple of sharp weapons at his hip. He also seemed bare-footed. Kaoru looked up to see his face, and their eyes met. For a man, even a caveman, he had odd-coloured eyes. They were purple with hints of amber in them, and had a beastly glow about them.

'I really shouldn't be surprised with the beastly glow in his eyes…he IS a caveman…wow, for a researcher, my terminology is very…normal-like. Nice Kaoru, way to go off topic…' thought Kaoru sarcastically. She rolled her eyes and went back to stare at the man. But the man wasn't there anymore. Slightly alarmed, Kaoru traced her way back to the front of the cave and found the man roasting what looked like two rabbits. The fur had already been skinned off, judging by the little pile of fur nearby the fire. She slowly walked back to the fire and sat across him, making sure not to do any sudden movements.

Kaoru could do nothing but stare at the man in front of her while he was roasting the rabbits. He didn't seem to notice or care that she was staring at him and kept rolling the stick around so that all parts of the rabbits were roasted.

'Ha, he probably knows I'm staring at him…I mean, after all, he has his beastly instincts, so he's more aware of everything than I am. I wonder though…should I…talk to him? Would he understand me? Wait, what the heck am I thinking? He can't understand me, they didn't have any language back then, duh…but maybe I should try at least? After all, some sort of communication is better than none, right? Well-'

But her thoughts were interrupted by the man. He broke the stick in half and gave one of them to Kaoru, which had one of the rabbits on it. Kaoru simply stared like an idiot and he extended his offer closer to her, which got her out of her reverie and she took the rabbit.

"Thank you!" she exclaimed, smiling at him. He just gave her a confused look and started eating his rabbit. Kaoru was going to take a bite when she realized what she was doing and stopped.

"Crap, I can't eat it like this!" she said. "Hmm…maybe I'll add some spices on it or something?" She grabbed her briefcase, opened it, and took out the Un-Shrinker and a couple of tiny bags. She opened one of those tiny bags, took out what looked like tiny little pieces of paper and closed that bag and put it back in her briefcase. She un-shrunk the said little pieces of paper, only they weren't paper at all. They were actually little caches of salt and pepper. She opened both of them and put them on her rabbit.

"I'm sorry, little rabbit, but I have to eat you! Don't hold it against me and haunt me!" she said, grinning, and then finally bit into her meal. "Mmm…you're so tasty, little rabbit!" She giggled and bit into it more. She was hungry, after all.

She looked up from her food and found the man gaping at her like she sprouted another head. She stopped eating and gave him a sheepish smile.

"Haha, you think I'm odd, don't you?" she said. All she got was more gaping from him. She sighed and she ripped a piece off of her rabbit and gave it to him. "Here. All I did was put salt and pepper on it to make it taste better. Take it and taste it!"

He stared at her and then at her offer back and forth for a couple of times and finally took it from her cautiously. He smelled it, frowned, and then finally put it into his mouth. He chewed on it a bit and gasped. Kaoru just smiled at him.

"I'm guessing you like it? Would you like a bit more then?" asked Kaoru, offering her rabbit. He just shrunk back a little from her. "Hmm…I guess you need time to decide, huh? Well, let me know if you want some salt and pepper on it or any other spice, and I'll put it on your food for ya, okay?" She smiled encouragingly at him. He simply stared at her and then went back to eating his meal.

Both of them finished their meals and put their sticks back in the fire. Kaoru un-shrunk the other bag she had and it turned out to be a bag of chips. Again, she offered one of the chips to the man when she opened it. He took it, ate it, gasped and gaped, and got up to go set his bed while Kaoru sat there watching him, eating the rest of the chips. When she finally finished them, she put the bag in the fire too.

"Hey…um, person? Do you have any water?" asked Kaoru, but only got a confused stare in return. "You know, water? W-A-T-E-R?? Glug glug glug?" He still didn't seem to understand her, so she sighed.

"Alright, I'll go find the water then, okay? See ya in a bit!" said Kaoru and she walked out of the cave and gasped at the sight. She was in a forest. A very very thick forest. She shivered at the thought of seeing more "fun" animals and then quickly composed herself and started walking.

'Guess I'll just have to explore, don't I? I can't depend on that man all the time…I shouldn't stay with him either, I have to go back home…but how? That damn meteor brought me here in the first place…what am I supposed to do? I want to go back home…' thought Kaoru, feeling miserable. She kept on walking and heard loud gushing. She followed the sound and when she finally reached the place, she whooped in joy. It was a gigantic river gushing merrily, surrounded by thick forestation. There was also a slope going down to the river and it had mud and rocks of all sizes and shapes.

"Yaaaaay, I found water! I should bring a water-bottle or something next time!" said Kaoru enthusiastically. She slowly started walking down the slope, careful not to slip or trip. Her initial enthusiasm slowly started to go away when she realized just how slippery it was to get to the river. But unfortunately, her foot sunk into the mud, which made her lose her balance and she fell forward and jammed her knee quite hard into a rock. She cried out as she felt numbing pain shoot up her leg and as her hands made contact with small but sharp rocks painfully.

"Owww…..shoot, what the hell am I supposed to do?" Kaoru muttered angrily. She tried to get up, but her leg couldn't take the pressure and she gritted her teeth and bit down her pain and sat back down as gently as possible. Tears started pouring out of her eyes.

"Hello?? Can someone help me?? Help! HELP!!" screamed Kaoru. "Somebody…help…" She started sobbing, feeling completely hopeless.

'Is there no one to help me? Will that man not come and help me again? I want to go home…I hate this…I HATE not being able to do anything…why me?' She bent her other leg and hugged it to herself, sobbing uncontrollably. The sun was slowly starting to set and all the creatures were coming back to their homes, preparing for the night. All except Kaoru.

Whoooaaa…it's been forever since I started this chapter, but I just never could get myself to finish it…sorry people! I still don't know if anyone's even interested in this story. cries I got a hundred and something hits and only FIVE reviews…that's no fair! You people love tormenting me, don't you? But anyway, does anyone even WANT me to finish this story? Not many people seem to take much interest in it…should I give this up and just stick to finishing my other story? Oh, and also, my inspiration for this story is NOT 10,000 BC, though I really liked that movie…but anyway, no, I've had this plot in my head for a very very long time, ask my beta, she'll tell you all about me discussing this plot with her. Anywho, I need input, people! Please, PLEASE, review! Even if it is to tell me to stop writing this story, at least it's a review!! Wow, that sounded really pathetic…