~*~*~*~*~*~*~July 5th, 2005~*~*~*~*~*~*~
~*~*~*~*~*~*~Kagome~*~*~*~*~*~*~
As I walked through the darkness of the night, I felt someone watching me. I stopped and looked
around. I couldn't find a soul on the ground, so I looked up and into the trees behind me. Someone
was there.

I started to scream when the person jumped out of the tree and put their hand over my mouth,
keeping me from making a sound I looked at the person and saw that it was a hanyuo. I struggled
to get away from the demon, but I couldn't. They were just too strong.

Their grip on me tightened, and I wasn't able to get away. I stood, tiredly in the demon's
arms and felt them lift me up.

Running, they carried me away, where to I didn't know, they kept my eyes covered, so I couldn't
see what was happening. When the demon dropped me onto the floor of a room, a room with a small
cot, where I was to sleep, and in the cornor was a table.

I stood and went over to the table slowly, there was a plate, and a spoon, easier to keep me
from somehow getting out is to limit my weapon choices. Also on the table was a small journal, I
at first thought that it was the person's who stayed here last, but then I saw that it had my name
on the cover, in a delicate script, one that had been taken in the utmost care to look lovely, and
it did.

The journal was made of a smooth paper, one that felt soft under my skin. The binding to
hold it together was a delicate black ribbon. On the table was a pen, with more to come if I
behaved I assumed. As I looked at the journal I saw that the date had been made out for the day
I had been captured, today.

I turned to look at the demon, and saw he was gone, he had moved behind a door that had a
barred window that was covered at the moment. As I walked closer to the door I could hear sounds.
People talking. I heard a male voice, deep and calm, and a female voice, telling him to shut up.

"Inuyasha! Shut up, I don't want her to know that we caught her to kill her. Although she
probably already assumes that." the female voice shouted to the demon who caught me and had brought
me to this prison.

"Kaede. I know, but doesn't it startle you in the least that she looks exactly like Kikyo?!"
Inuyasha said.

"No, now shut up. Keep guard on the door, she will be killed in a few days." I heard Kaede
said. I heard the sounds of footsteps and then the slamming of a door. I jumped as the window
opened on my door. I stood staring into the face of my capturer.

"W-why are you doing this to me?" I asked, feeling for the pendant of my necklace, it wasn't
there.

"I'm a bounty hunter, I do what I am told to do for money. What ARE you looking for?" he asked
me as I started searching the room for the necklace I had been wearing when I had been captured.

"My necklace...no...where is it...No!...Oh no. That necklace was given to me by my great aunt,
Kikyo." I said.

"WHO?!" Inuyasha shouted scaring me into the cornor.

"My great aunt, Kikyo. She gave it to me on her death bed, she said to protect it from someone
named...Inuyasha...YOU! Get away from me..." I said, tears streaming down my cheeks.

"Listen to me, you wench. I'm not going to come in there except to bring you food...So shut
up and go to sleep." Inuyasha yelled at me turning off the light in my cell.

I felt my way towards the cot on the other side of the room where I layed down staring at
the ceiling. Feeling something crawling in my bed I jumped up and screamed. I jumped to the
other side of the cell and pressed against the wall screaming at the thing that was crawling in
my cot.

The light in my cell was turned on as soon as the door was opened. On the cot lay a rattlesnake,
I pressed myself against the wall and saw Inuyasha grab the snake by the head and throw it out the
door. I was crying in the cornor, my head in my hands, just crying. I felt the hand on my shoulder
before it was even connected with my skin.

I jerked away from Inuyasha and slammed myself onto the table in my way to get away from him.
I started for the door when he grabbed me and threw me onto my cot. He came over and held me
still as I thrashed trying to get away from him. He grabbed my arms pinning them to the cot and
tried to keep me from thrashing my feet at him he sat on my legs.

"Calm down! I'm not going to hurt you...not yet anyways...QUIT moving wench!" he shouted
as he smacked me across the face.

Inuyasha had hit me so hard that the skin broke where he had smacked me. I whimpered as he
pulled his hand back. He looked at the blood on my face and then the blood at his hand. I turned
my head away and felt him pull away and heard him go towards the door. The door was slammed shut
and I jumped. As the lock was slid back into place I heard a sound of a growl.

After a while of laying on the cot I stood up and went to the table where I slid my hand
under the table feeling for something, anything. What my fingers found was a key. I pulled the
key out from under the table and I examined it. The key looked like it could be used on the cell
door.

I went to the cell and slid the key into the keyhole and turned it. I heard the lock slide
out of the lock position and I started to open the door. I stopped when I saw Inuyasha standing
in front of the door smirking. I started to come up with an excuse as to how I got out when he
shook his head.

I looked at him, startled, trying to figure out why he wasn't yelling at me. Inuyasha took
my shoulder and started to push me into the cell again. He directed me to the cot and then left,
not saying a word. He turned the light on in my cell and said I had an hour to write in the
journal if I wished to.

I went to the table, sat down, and opened the journal to the last page where a ribbon was
as a book mark. The last page had some writing on it, I was startled to see that the name on the
bottom was Inuyasha's.

"Kagome, this is your journal, for the time being. If you ever want to write in it, feel
free to do so. Just make sure that you keep it out of view of Kaede. I believe in last rights,
some times, but she doesn't. And make sure that you don't write anything about Kikyo, if you
know who she is, was. Inuyasha." I read from the last page. I looked towards the door and
felt a smile form on my lips. I opened the journal to the first page and started writing
what had happened from when I was captured.