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Light at the End of the Tunnel

Rin sat quietly where she had found the driest place within the damp cave. Her heart was slowly starting to beat faster with each moment as she heard more and more snarls coming from the distance. Snarls and growls she had never heard before. Whatever had taken her were a totally different species then what she was used to within her own land. Her brown eyes squinted as she strained to look out into the darkness, trying to get her eyes used to the lack of light within the place she was taken, with not much success. The strong smell of mold and moss came to her as a gust of light wind came her way, the snarls getting louder. Whatever it was, it was coming closer. The weird thing was it sounded stressed, as if it were fighting or having an argument with some other sort of creature that understood its tongue.

The snarls got more vicious, and the more that Rin listened, the more she heard other sounds that were muffled by the growls and snarling. She heard a sound that sounded like a weapon sailing through the air, and sounds of flesh being struck. She drew her knees into her chest as she waited to see the mini battle going on in the shadows. She knew that they were headed her way, why, she wasn't sure. All she knew is if she didn't get out of the way soon she very well may be caught up in the violence and be seriously injured. She looked all around her, looking for a space in the cave's walls that she could nudge herself in between as a way of shelter but the walls were smoother than she expected and didn't see any place to hide successfully. There was a column of rock that was by the place she heard the commotion and crawled over to it, slipping onto her face and skidding her hands and arms as she fell onto her stomach. She lifted herself up with struggling arms as she continued to make her way towards the column of stone and pressed her small body against it, her kimono filthy and wet from her sliding across the floor. Who knew exactly was on the fabric now…

Her thoughts about her kimono, the kimono that Lord Sesshomaru had given her, was interrupted as the vicious snarls were right next to her, and she muffled a scream when the thing flew into the spot she would have been sitting, laying lump against the ground in an awkward fashion, its white skin glowing in the darkness from an unseen light that reflected off of its many scales as its face distorted into a permanent snarl as its soul left the creatures body. Rin stared at it frightened as she saw the thing go completely limp, hearing another growl beside her column where she hid. A wolf? She paled as she pressed her back firmly against the rock.

"Can you smell her yet?" A female's low voice spoke softly.

"I can't smell anything, damn it. The place reeks of those fuckin' creatures. How do you expect me to find something as mundane as a human's scent in a place like this?" A male voice replied, the sound of something hitting the rock she pressed up against.

"Why must you speak in that manner? I expect Inuyasha to do it but not you," The female's soft voice said, the sound fading as she spoke.

The male growled as the voice followed the females "Don't compare me to that damn mutt," was all he said before the room grew quiet.

"Inuyasha..?" Rin whispered. Lady Kagome's Inuyasha? Why would strangers speak of such a horrid person? The person that hated her Lord Sesshomaru? Did they know her also? Did they know Lady Kagome and Lord Sesshomaru? As she thought she stood up as carefully as she could, looking around the column into the darkness that seemed to continue forever. She followed the wall as she slowly escaped the room, holding her hands out to try to find something to help guide her as she walked. She felt something slimy and hard against her right hand. Figuring it was the cave she continued to walk down the darkened tunnel, her heart beating wildly. She had to figure a way out of here, and quick. Those creatures that kidnapped her… are so different compared to her Lord Sesshomaru or Inuyasha. They… they weren't like a human… they were pure animal.

She continued to walk when the ground underneath her seemed to crumble, forcing a blood curdling scream to escape from her lips as she reached forward to try to grab onto something before she fell to her death, whatever it was that waited for her fallen body bellow her feet. Her hands found a root or something that seemed to be coming from the ledge and held on tight. Her hands started to slip as she closed her eyes tightly and screamed once again.

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Outside of a huge gigantic hole within a mountain, Kouga watched a waterfall flow down the side of it. He sat on the ground, one leg bent and lay sideways on the ground while the other one was bent to his chest, his hand propped up against the knee as he nibbled on some deer demon meat as he stared up at the falls. The woman beside him in her traditional priestess kimono leaned against a tree, her bow and arrows lay besides her.

"I can't believe you sought me out to go find some human brat that was supposedly in that mountain when there was nothing in there but a bunch of Devil Dragons." Kouga mumbled as he tore another piece of deer demon into his mouth.

Kikyo let out an irritated sigh.

"The demon I found and killed told me she was in there," She said as she watched the wolf demon nibble on his food. The reason why she sought him out was even a mystery to her. The little girl had gone missing from Inuyasha's brother's empire a few days ago, she was hoping to return the little girl to the demon lord to ask for a favor. She had ran into a very odd looking lizard demon around the village she had originally came from and had over-heard it speaking to a tree it seemed about Rin. She had shook her head when she saw it speaking to the tree as if it could understand the lizard demon but after watching it nod its silvery head she blinked when the tree simply vanished. She had followed the lizard that crawled away back into the forest catching it off guard with a sacred arrow. The lizard was stunned.

"What is it you want?" It had said.

"Tell me about the little girl." Kikyo said, knocking another arrow and pulling it back, aiming it right at the creatures head.

The thing quickly spoke. Telling her about the plan to kidnap the little Rin that had powers to Control Sesshomaru. Apparently the main target was the Demon lord, why? She didn't care but she did care that the little girl had been kidnapped. Rin had reminded her of her little sister all those years ago, and though she had been brought back by clay and grave soil, she still had a part of her soul and heart, and felt love towards children. She started to walk away from the dead creature but realized she wouldn't be able to find her that easily without help. She needed a demon to help her. One that could smell. Inuyasha was out of the question. He had left her after her last encounter with her reincarnation and finally gave up trying to chase after him. Besides, she hated him. And the girl. Even though she knew that Rin belonged to Sesshomaru who had taken in Kagome as well. No matter where she went the woman seemed to follow along with it. She sighed as she thought about it.

"Kikyo," Kouga said urgently.

The woman looked up at him with cold brown eyes.

"What is it?"

"I think I heard a scream. It sounded like a child's." He said, quickly jumping to his feet and before she knew it, he had disappeared, running into the darkness with high speed. She watched quietly as this happened.

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He heard her, he swore he heard her. He ran as fast as he could dodging walls and stalagmites and such as he made his way quickly to where the scream came from. He had witnessed this little girl being mauled by his wolves once. He knew her scent. The scent of her blood was on his wolves' jowls for a long time before they had licked the remaining bit off. Kouga normally wouldn't have joined Kikyo in her quest to find the young one, especially since it was that dog demon's little brat, who was dog breath's brother. He did it because he loved Kagome. The woman he planned to make his, Kikyo's double… was the one that also loved the girl. Man what a difference between those two! Kagome, the love of his life was cheerful, so full of life, while the woman that still waited outside for him, was so cold… hate had taken over her. He shook his head as he stopped to smell the air. He wondered what exactly happened to her for her to be so… spiteful.

The little girl's scent caught him. He quickly darted to the right, leaping over a rock using his ability to see in the dark, his natural animal gift as he did so, he came to a large hole in the ground, looking down to see a little girl dangling for dear life by a dry root. As he reached down the girl lost the remainder of her strength and fell to her death to the natural spikes that grew beneath her body.

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Kagome stayed as close to Sesshomaru as possible. Once again she sat at the table with her friends with one eye-sore joining them: Inuyasha. He was watching her and Sesshomaru intently, his arms crossed defiantly in front of his chest as Sesshomaru sat straight up on his matt glaring at Inuyasha Dangerously. She looked over at Sango and Miroku. There was a large distance between the two for some reason. A dark aura seemed to come off of Sango as she gracefully brought her tea cup to her lips and sipped the tea within it. Miroku was in fact closer to herself, staring with the corner of his eyes at Sango. Shippo wasn't even in sight. She looked around and saw in the garden the little kitsune was hiding behind the tree watching them all very intently from its bark. Kagome blinked. Did she miss something?

"Give back Kagome, she doesn't like it here," Inuyasha suddenly said out of the blue. His voice was soft, but anger was in it. And something else… Kagome couldn't quite put her finger on what it was.

Sesshomaru grinned as he slid an arm around Kagome's waist. She naturally fitted into his side unconsciously. A look came to his golden eyes as he looked into Inuyasha's own. Possessiveness? Inuyasha gaped at how easily Kagome mended into him without a fight. Didn't he try killing her and himself not that long ago? What the fuck?

Inuyasha's upper lip twitched with irritance.

"Don't force her to do anything with you!!" Inuyasha yelled.

The tension suddenly got very thick within the room.

"She's not being forced, moron," came the soft, calm voice of Sango as she continued to sip her tea. Miroku scooted further away. Kagome watched the two curiously.

Inuyasha turned his attention to the mad woman to his left and gaped at her. The memory of his bloodied nose and black eye came to his mind as his ears flattened to his head silently as he looked at the table top submissively.

Sesshomaru chuckled under his breath, his body wracked from them next to Kagome. The only hint that he was amused at all. Kagome looked up at him to see the humor in his golden eyes, wanting to catch a glimpse of this before he hid it away behind his mask once more. And he did. As if on cue, his eyes hardened once more and the grip around her tightened. She honestly didn't mind.

Sango put her tea cup down as she stared at Inuyasha with cold, un-amused eyes. He looked back at her and before he knew it, the table was in the air, heading right at him in a blink of an eye and smacked him right in the face, smashing the cartilage from his nose into his skull and fell against the wall, going completely still. Everyone was seated except Sango as she heaved; her eyes seemed to be flaming with fire as she stared at the table with Inuyasha hidden within the large heavy wood. Sesshomaru laughed out-loud this time and Kagome looked at them all shocked.

The table flew off of Inuyasha as he stood furious to his feet and stormed over to Sango and growled at her.

"WHAT THE FLYING FUCK WAS THAT FOR YOU PSYCHOTIC BITCH!!!" He screamed.

"FOR BEING THE COMPLETE IDIOT THAT YOU ARE!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'D WANT TO TAKE KAGOME BACK INTO THE STUPID WORLD YOU TRIED TO FORCE HER TO LIVE THEN DARE ACCUSE SESSHOMARU OF FORCING HER TO STAY HERE! YOU KNOW HOW STRONG WILLED SHE IS HOW DARE YOU INSULT ALL OF US FOR THINKING THAT SHE DOESN'T WANT TO BE HERE! PLUS, ON TOP OF THAT YOU IGNORANT LITTLE BRAT, THE GIRL HAS NO WAY TO GET BACK HOME THANKS TO YOUR COMPLETE IDIOCY! IF SHE DID I VERY WELL DOUBT SHE'D STAY HERE AND DEAL WITH SUCH NONSENSE!!" Sango screamed back.

Kagome went completely still. She had been so wrapped up in her heart ache about Inuyasha and the things that happened between them that she had forgotten about her home in modern day Tokyo. How… strange. It was almost as if she had forgotten completely about it until she was reminded of it. Tears came to her eyes. Souta, her mother and grandfather… she'd never see them again. She looked down at her lap as she thought quietly of this.

"I WASN'T THINKING ABOUT IT!" Inuyasha barked.

"WELL NO FREAKING DUH!" Sango retorted.

The two continued on and on as Kagome slowly began to tune them out. Her way home will probably never be found. Nothing of the sort would happen once again, thanks to Inuyasha. Thanks to his… arrogance…

Kagome suddenly stood. Sesshomaru was well prepared to grab onto her before she took off like a small tornado and destroyed more of his home again as he watched her carefully. She walked over to the bickering people and stepped between Sango and Inuyasha just when Inuyasha decided to throw a fist out and punch Sango, who was prepared for it, but both were neither prepared or paying attention to see the small Kagome slide in between them who had gotten the fist to her face. She flew back against Sango, who flew back into the shoji door that went out into the garden, both girls lay on top of the broken door on the grass.

Sesshomaru watching this whole thing leapt to Inuyasha, grabbed him onto his hair and threw him down onto the ground, beating his head into the bamboo floor beneath them over and over again until Inuyasha stopped moving. Snarling viciously, Sesshomaru dug his claws into his brother's neck deeply and lifted him up effortlessly, blood running down the boy's chest from his nose as he hung limply.

"I believe that worthless trash has gotten enough beating, Lord Sesshomaru," A female voice said with a low voice, reaching forward to place a smooth hand upon Sesshomaru's. Albino scales reflected into the sunlight. He turned to see the blind lizardess beside him in a Greek toga, a small smile upon her face.

"Ah you returned, Hitomi." Sesshomaru muttered, trying to calm down.

No movement came from Kagome's direction as Hitomi's hand was suddenly taken by another.

"Miss, I would love to ask you to bare my children…" Miroku suddenly said smoothly, kneeling down looking at the blind folded woman's face. There was a sudden loud thud and a cry out of pain as Miroku let go of her hand and looked up to see a black winged man dressed a little oddly, a cold collar hung down onto his bare chest, long black hair hung loosely upon his shoulders, gold eyes glared down at the lecherous monk before him.

"Touch milady again, I will cut off that hand of yours." Raven growled.

Sesshomaru, still having a bloodied half-breed dangling off of his claws began to walk away, carrying the limp boy away with him.

"Lord Sesshomaru, there is still business to be taken care of," Hitomi said, feeling him walk away.

"I know, I'm just taking out the trash." Was all he said.