Over the Rainbow

Chapter 9: Dark, Damp Dungeons

Kagome continued running down random halls, turning whichever way she thought was correct. All the halls were empty and had spider webs hanging from the ceiling.

Finally she came to stairs that when down into semi-darkness. Kagome decided that this must be the way to get off the cliff and out of the castle. She started running down the stares even though the hard stone jarred her knees and caused them to ache.

After about three hundred stairs Kagome started to give up hope that she would ever come to the end of the stairs. After what felt like another hour she came to a heavy wooden door with a metal bolt on the inside of the door.

She grabbed the bolt and pulled but it did not move at all. She tried again but this time she put her whole body into pushing it open. Slowly the bolt started to slide open and Kagome pushed even harder. The bolt suddenly slid open causing the sound to echo in the room behind the door.

Kagome opened the door slowly and found nothing but darkness beyond it. She thought that this must be for sure the way out of the castle. She stepped carefully forward, feeling along the stone floor with her feet.

After a few meters she was blinded by the room being flooded by light. She covered her eyes to keep them from burning in the overly bright room. The door slammed shut and she lifted her hands. Kagome saw Naraku standing with his back to the door and a huge grin on his face. How did he catch up so fast?

"W-what?" She stuttered in surprise.

"Kukukukukukukuku! You are perhaps wondering how I go down here so fast."

Kagome nodded and messaged her temples. She could feel a headache coming.

"Kukukukukukukuku! You took the stairs! Kukukukkukukuku! I took....the elevator!"

Kagome stared at Naraku as he proudly displayed the elevator doors. She tried to contain her anger at having to run down all those stairs for nothing. She could feel her kneecaps disintegrating.

Naraku grabbed her by the arm and dragged her into the elevator. Two flying monkeys were waiting inside and one of them pressed a black button with a white capital 'D' on it. Kagome wondered what 'D' stood for exactly.

The elevator dinged cheerily and the doors open to reveal a dark, damp dungeon full of dust and cobwebs. Naraku kept his hold on Kagome and pushed her into a cell. She sat in the middle of the cell and watched in a mixture of amusement and horror as Naraku broke out in more laughter.

"Kukukukukukukukuk! I am such a genius!" He said.

'Well he certainly has high self-esteem.' Kagome thought.

"Now give me that jewel....and the shoes!"

He reached forward to close his hand around the jewel in Kagome's hand. A bright light flashed and Naraku shrank away screaming in horror .

"You fool! You cannot touch the jewel until she gives it to you willingly or she is dead. Don't you know anything?" A cool voice said.

Kagome looked up and saw a vague outline of someone who resembled Inuyasha, but was not. The figure got back in the elevator and disappeared.

Naraku came back to stand in front of Kagome.

"You have three hours to decide what you will do. Kukuku. Death or give me the jewel." He said in a voice that sent shivers up and down Kagome's spine.

"How about I give you my shoes and then you let me go. You don't need this worthless jewel." Kagome tried to reason.

Naraku looked tempted for about five seconds.

"No. Sesshomaru will pay me for the jewel and then I can buy all the shoes I want! Kukukukukukukukukuku!"

He pranced around the dungeon gleefully just thinking about the very thought.

"You have three hours.."

He pulled out a pink egg timer and started to wind.

"Damn. It only goes to one hour..." He muttered then raised his voice. "You have one hour. Make your choice well."

He set the egg timer down on the stone floor and skipped into the elevator. He disappeared when the doors closed. Kagome sweat dropped and stepped out of her cell that Naraku had forgotten to lock.

She went to the elevator and pressed the button with the arrow pointing up. She sat down and several minutes later the doors opened. Kagome stepped forward and saw with horror the figure from before. He had long silver hair and strange red stripes on his face. She was pretty sure he was carrying a fluffy white boa on his shoulders.

He muttered bitterly about useless help and the loss of short term memory as he locked Kagome in her cell.

Kagome was back to sitting on the floor and hoping that the others hurried up and figure out a way to rescue her.

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sorry for not writing for so long. I truthfully have no excuse except laziness. sorry! ^_^

thanks: lindy*girl, Mandypanchan (sorry for being lazy ^_^) and Lirael for reviewing.