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'Thinking'

"Talking"

Flashbacks and Dreams

The long awaited chapter seven will now commence!

Chapter Seven

An unusual bright light shone through the barred windows, casting an ugly, stripped shadow across the floor. Kagome stared at shadows, what used to be her blind fold sitting on the floor infront of her. She had managed to push it off with her hand, which were tied behind her back, but not without a great amount of difficulty.

Although the shadows reminded her of how much of a desperate situation she was in, being locked up like she was, it was much better then looking at any other part of the room. It was filled with grisly tools and barbaric apparatuses used to inflict the maximum amount of pain on any poor soul who ended up like she.

She didn't want to end up like the victim next to her, a skeleton with random pieces of flesh still hanging off of him, so she had used a sharp piece of her neighbor's bone to rub the ropes that tied her hands together on. It made her sick thinking she had to use a part of a person's body to do this, but saving Inuyasha from ending up like he did in her dream, and saving her own skin, was too important to let that stop her.

She succeeded in getting the ropes to shred after a few hours, and quickly cut the ropes that bound her feet. She got up slowly, her wounds hindering her attempt at a quick escape and made her way over to the steel bolted door.

"How am I going to get through this?" she asked herself quietly and pushed on the cold metal. Suddenly she was being pushed backwards; the door was opening. She backed up out of the way of the door but froze when she realized that she had been caught and there was no possible way for her to escape.

The door hit the wall behind it with a metallic thud and in the door stood Inuyasha with the rest of her friends behind him. New tears sprung into the sides of her eyes when she saw the hanyou. They were tears of relief and of worry.

"Inuyasha…" Kagome said, her voice coming out as a hoarse whisper. "You have to go and…save yourself…before they get you."

"Feh. What are you talking about Kagome? You're the one who's in danger, you idiot." Inuyasha said and picked her up, slinging her over his shoulder and walked back out the door.

"But…" she mumbled into his back, "How…how did you find me…?"

Sango ran up behind Inuyasha and pushed the matted black hair out of her friend's face. "Don't worry Kagome, we'll explain everything when we get back to the village, and get you healed up, okay?" she said, a mix of concern and happiness filled her voice.

Kagome nodded and relaxed. She was back with her friends, and it looked like the rest of her dreams weren't going to come true.

"So, you mean Naraku wasn't behind this, it was just a twisted group of bandits who Kikyou hired to capture me to get me out of the way so her and Inuyasha could be together?" Kagome said, her voice still scratchy and quiet.

They had arrived back at Kaede's village and were sitting around a fire inside the hut. Inuyasha, of course, was lying on the roof but listening in on the conversation all the same. Sango and Kaede bandaged Kagome up, applying the necessary herbs and potions to help with a quick recovery.

"Yes, basically." Sango agreed and took a sip of hot tea that she was holding.

"Wow you just summed up an hours worth of explaining in one sentence," Miroku said.

"So…what happened to Kikyou?" Kagome asked. She was suddenly regretted asking the question when her friends' faces grew solemn and they looked away. Nobody said anything for a few minutes, but Inuyasha broke the silence.

"I killed her."

Kagome gasped and looked at the others in horror. Sango and Miroku nodded silently. Kagome looked up the ceiling as if she was looking at Inuyasha. "Inuyasha…how co-"

"Don't make such a big deal out of it. What's done is done. Drop it, okay!" Inuyasha said angrily and hopped off the roof infront of the door that led inside. He gave one look at Kagome, a suspiciously devious look, and walked off into the forest that surrounded the village.

Kagome got up and rushed out the door after him but Inuyasha somehow was already far ahead of her. "Inuyasha!" she called, running to catch up with him. He started to run as well. Kagome followed.

I hope you don't mind the abrupt cut off of the whole Kagome being captured thing. The loose ends of that will probably be tied up within the next few chapters. Truth is, I'm getting bored with this story and just want to end it soon. Hopefully I'll be able to sum up this whole complicated thing in two or three chapters.

Review please!

(By the way, please excuse any spelling or grammar mistakes, I didn't have a lot of time to go over this.)

Ja ne.