Backlash: The Story of the Island of Hell
By: Arthia Maxwell
Chapter Three: Torture
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha! ~.~' So please don't sue me or anything.
I have no money. Thank you! AN: I'd like to thank Bunny-sama for if she
didn't say what she did I would have never had such an inspiration for this
next chapter. So again the plot thickens!
Kagome relaxed under Inuyasha's touches, her body wanting him with each passing moment. Her soft moan floated across the room as Inuyasha suckled her throat, leaving a mark. Suddenly their door burst open and three people entered the room. Two were buff hairy (sorry I always wanted to use that description) and the third Kikyo. Inuyasha turned to the intruders growling deep in his chest, using his body to cover Kagome. "Take them both. Naraku wants to run joint experiments on them." Kikyo's cold voice ordered. Inuyasha fought against the hands that grabbed him. They were stronger then he had expected. All he could see was red. How dare they interrupt him and his mate, he thought sourly when suddenly something cool flooded his body and he went limp. Kikyo bent over Kagome who was clinching the sheet to her body. "You have show yourself, bitch." With that she grabbed a fist full of Kagome's hair and dragged her to her feet. "Don't fight and he will be harmed less, resist and he will suffer." Kikyo dragged her out of the room and past the room where she noticed Sango and Miroku sleeping in the same bed. Now, that's new, she commented to herself. Naraku waited till they had finished strapping down the now half- naked Inuyasha before entering the room. This should be interesting. He looked over the twisted face and waved for the guard in the room to wake him up. Inuyasha awoke to the feeling of numbness. He couldn't feel anything but a burning sensation brought him quickly back to reality. He growled as he remembered what had happen just hours before. The face that greeted him was not who he wanted to see. He strained against his bounds his claws working as if trying to reach out and rip Naraku's throat. "Kukuku." Naraku chuckled. "It seems as if you can't wait." At a wave of his hand cold steal cut across Inuyasha bare shoulder drawing a deep line of blood. Inuyasha just grunted in pain. Naraku stood watching as the scalpel cut lines across Inuyasha's body. A large grin covered Naraku's face as Inuyasha could no longer hold back the scream of pain as the blade bit deeper into his flesh.
Kagome looked around the room she was in. She was dressed in a thin paper gown and tied to a steel table. There was a large glass window in which she could see into another room and in that room Inuyasha lay. She tried to reach out to his mind but found that every time she tried her head would buzz. It must be that shot they gave me, he thought to herself. She glanced over at Kikyo again. She had not moved from her chair in the corner since she was brought into the room. "Don't worry your time is coming." Kikyo stated calmly rising and strolling over to the steel table beside Kagome and pushed another worker out of the way. She lifted what looked like a metal collar up so that Kagome could see it. "I know you know what this is. You will behave or it will be strapped to your horny little head. And you know what will happen if you or anyone else takes it off." Kikyo grinned at the pained expression that crossed her face. Kikyo suddenly turned her attention to the other room. Kagome's eyes widened as the blood from several wounds on Inuyasha body. "It seems your boyfriend is in some pain." Kikyo glanced back at Kagome. "What's wrong why don't you reach out for him. Comfort him." The malice in her voice daring Kagome to fight against the buzz and pain in her own mind. And that's just what Kagome did. She pushed through the buzzing haze and reached out for Inuyasha's mind. At the same time both their eyes rolled back into their heads. The woman monitoring the screens yelped uttering a curse. Kikyo rushed over to see what the woman was cursing about. The peaks on the screen read three times greater then the nights before.
Inuyasha woke to find no pain or ache of any kind. He looked around himself to find nothing but darkness. No not completely, there was a small light shining just to his left. "It's me, Inuyasha." The velvet voice resounded throughout his mind. The light turned into Kagome and she willing embraced the shaking man. He hung onto her for dear life. She was close and that took the pain and fear away from them both. "Where are we?" He asked burying his face in her hair. "In our minds, where they can't get us." She embraced him trying to offer him comfort. "Let me heal your wounds for you." That caused Inuyasha to pull back and look first at her then himself. Although they were wearing light, white robes he was covered in bleeding cuts and her robes, even her skin was smeared with it. At his startled look she smiled. "I'm fine. You, however, need to be healed. I have a feeling this isn't the end." She didn't know just how right she was. She wrapped her arms around his and lened him her physic powers to heal his body faster. "I'm in the room adjacent to yours, you were the first real friend I ever had." She smiled then began to fade from his mind. "They're forcing me out." She said as way of an explanation.
Naraku growled as the wounds across Inuyasha skin suddenly started to heal at a faster rate then normal. "What is going on?!" He demanded. "His physic waves are peaking. This shouldn't be happening, he should have no physic abilities." The man yelled. Naraku swung around to look into the other room. Kikyo gave him the signal he was dreading. He went to the intercom. "Put the damned collar on now!" He growled into it. Kikyo ran to the table and picked up the collar and began to place it on Kagome's head. She only had enough time to gasp as Kagome's eyes suddenly opened and she was thrown against the window separating the two rooms, creaking it. "Shit!" Naraku bellowed reaching for the emergency button to call in more help. The first to arrive in the room was Sesshoumaru. He growled. If just Sesshoumaru was there it meant that Rin was passed out somewhere from the emotional overload. He would have to get rid of them soon, then they wouldn't be able to stop him and his plans. Suddenly everything went calm and he looked over to the opposite room seeing that Kagome had the collar around her head now. He waved the extra help out. However, Sesshoumaru came to see him personally. "What was that?" Sesshoumaru asked coldly. "She overloaded." Naraku replied calmly. "Like hell she did." "This is not your experiment, it is Kikyo's, so get back to work." Naraku growled, then added with venom, "And pick up your trash from wherever she landed." Seeing the hatred in Sesshoumaru's eyes made the rest of the shity day feel better.
Miroku woke to a pounding on his head and at first he thought that Sango was beating him because his hand was firmly rooted to her breast, but he glimpsed a fluffy tail and knew it was the kitsune. Yawning, he sat up careful not to wake Sango. Shippo looked more fanatic then usual. "Damnit, Shippo, what is wrong?" Miroku asked crawling over Sango, who at that moment chose to wake up. For a moment they stared at each other before the heel of her hand shot out and caught him in the jaw throwing him off her and flung out on the floor. "Oh, Shippo, how are you?" She said scooping up the boy. "Kagome and Inuyasha are gone!" He wailed, rivers of tears streaming down his face. Sango looked shocked. Her eyes fell on Miroku who looked just as shocked as she was. He was up and out of the room in a flash. Running he skidded into first one room then the other. Both were gone. Horror rising in his heart he ran back into the room. Never had they taken one of them in the middle of the night like that. He entered the room and nodded his conformation to Sango. "How could we have missed this?" Sango muttered. "Well if you two weren't groping each other so hard then maybe you would have heard!" Shippo pointed out earning him a hard throw against the far wall. "What about you?" Miroku asked sitting at the far end of the bed, as far as he could get from Sango. "They were really big so I hid under the chair in the common room." Shippo whined from his new spot on the floor. "What are we going to do?" Sango asked worriedly. Miroku looked over at her. "There's nothing we can do but wait." He said running a hand over his eyes. Things were starting to get desperate.
Kikyo was enjoying her fun. She finally had a live subject to test her new poison on not that she didn't get live subject, they all just died to fast. She had thought of the most painful way to set her poison into the girl. She pushed another poison coated needle into Kagome's flesh. She grinned evilly as another scream was ripped from her throat. Not only did the collar around Kagome's head keep her from 'pathing or 'porting but keep her from using her abilities on herself. So plainly speaking she wasn't able to retreat into her mind to escape the pain. Kikyo rather like that idea. She jabbed another needle into Kagome's right shoulder. She then looked from the whimpering girl under her across the though the window at how Naraku was fairing, and by the looks of it rather good. Inuyasha's body was a bleeding mess. His body and mind screamed in pain. His wrist were bleeding from were he had trying to pull the restrains free. The only thing that penetrated his pain filled mind were Kagome's screams. Slowly as if he couldn't let himself believe it the pain ebbed away and was replaced with what seemed to peace. He opened his eyes to find himself still in the room. He could hear monitors beeping and Naraku cursing, and yelling orders. "Well then bring in the paddles!" Naraku screamed through the broken window. Inuyasha raised his head to look around. The room was in chaos. The scalpels were in the walls around the room, the window between the rooms was shattered and the worse noise anyone could hear, the flat line of a heart monitor. He watched them running around in the other room. "Damn you Kikyo! Why didn't you stop when she flat lined?" Naraku growled as he glared at the women in question. She held three of the removed pins in her hand. "She had come back before. Or did you not get time to read the report?" Her heated reply was followed by the shouted clear. She watched Kagome's body jerk with the surge of electricity. "This isn't my fault. But at least we know my poison works." Naraku turned on her and bellowed, "She's important to the corporation's plans!" Inuyasha not ever wanting his new friend to die without some kind of revenge given to her killer. He used all his strength and a grin lit his face as the metal restraints groaned in protest. With a final tug he was free and through the window in one bound. Kikyo didn't see what hit her until she was slammed against a wall and a clawed hand pressed into her throat. She looked into flashing red/gold eyes. "Bitch!" He growled tightening his grip. It seemed the whole room was frozen and didn't know to do. Soon the edges of Kikyo's vision turned black and her breath came and shallow gasps. A cold breeze blew past Inuyasha and a sweet familiar scent brushed his nose. "Inuyasha." A soft voice whispered into his ear causing a cold wind to touch his cheek. Kikyo's eyes widened at this. Did I just hear a voice? Kikyo stilled herself and watched Inuyasha's face closely. "Inuyasha." The voice repeated. On reflex Inuyasha tightened his hold on Kikyo's neck. "Inuyasha look." Inuyasha threw Kikyo to the side and turned toward Kagome's still body. Someone tried stopping him but he threw them out of the way. Looking down at Kagome's body Inuyasha never heard the orders shouted by Naraku. The moment he touched her check an earth shattering gasps for air sounded throughout the room. Her wide pale eyes stared up at him. "Inu?" Was all she could manage. Her whole body was numb, but, she thought, at least the pains gone. Her eyes traveled over him and tears threatened to spill at the sight of the cuts. However, before she could say anything his eyes rolled back into his head and he slumped forward, his head resting on her chest. Two men lifted him off her and held his limp body upward. "Take him to isolation." Naraku said his voice tight. He looked over at the coughing Kikyo and the woman who was trying to help her up. He then walked over to Kagome, looking down at her. "Take her back. Let them deal with her. Tell Sesshoumaru to monitor them closely." His sneer was the last thing Kagome saw.
When Kagome awoke again she was in her room and Sango was sitting over her a worry look on her face. She groaned as she tried to sit up and failed falling back into the pillow. She closed her eyes again as a wave of dizziness overcame her. "Where's Inuyasha?" She asked without opening her eyes. She felt Sango shift. "They still have him. We think they took him to isolation." Sango exhaled. "There's no telling when he'll be brought back, but in the mean time you need to rest." She sniffed looked toward the door seeing Shippo entering. He solemnly walked to her and jumped up onto the bed. He curled up next to Kagome watching her though silted eyes. "And Miroku?" Kagome groaned. Her hand curled up in Shippo's soft fur. "They took him this morning." Sango tried to hide her sniff but she didn't do so good. Kagome tugged Sango down onto the bed with her and Shippo. Sango curled up next to Kagome and she looked blankly out at the wall. Kagome held both her friends close. She wondered how much more pain and suffering they would all have to go through before they would be free. Freedom. It was a foreign feeling for any of them. Knowing she was free to use her powers but she also knew that she was being watched. She didn't care she had to try and reach her captive friends.
Miroku was starting to become board as they had him sitting in a room absorbing little purple bugs. He furrowed his brow when something invaded his mind, something soft. He quickly schooled his expression so that the people watching wouldn't know he was in contact with Kagome, although he suspected they would know. Miroku? Miroku how are you? Kagome-sama, its good to know you're awake. You should be resting. Save your strength. Inuyasha is in isolation. I can't leave him there alone. Then why are you wasting time with me? For Sango. She can't reach you. The room you're in must be slightly proofed the room against physic 'pathing. Then how are you able to. It doesn't take much energy, besides she's still asleep. She giggled into his mind causing him to grin. You better see to Inuyasha. He's never done good inside those sightless rooms. You know, the inu in him. He'll break down with the length of time this time. What do you mean? A little blond told me that they plan to keep him in there a month. No light, no sound, and according to her, no room. He felt her disapproval and her thankfulness. Thank you, Miroku. Oh! And Kagome? Yes? Tell Sango I'm fine and I'll be back to grope her soon. With that he felt her mind pull away from his. He felt a brief moment of sadness at the separation. He just hopped that she would be able to keep Inuyasha sane. He went back to sucking up the little bugs, only then did he start to feel odd.
Inuyasha had pushed himself tightly into the corner of the pitch- black room. He shivered at the nonexistent cold. He didn't like being stuck in the dark not being able to hear anything. He could smell the rancid food they had pushed though the door for him to eat. He pushed away his growing hunger. His body was healed but he felt filthy. There was no water for him to wash his body with. He felt his mind passed over with a familiar presence. It wrapped around his mind closing out all his senses to the outside world and opened the ones in his mind. Inuyasha? The velvet voice he recognized as Kagome. Her figured appeared before him, unlike before though the darkness around them turned into the wide meadow from outside. "Kagome?" He cried relieved running into her arms looking for her comforting touch. She willing wrapped her arms around him bring them down to sit upon a bench. "It's okay. I'm going to stay with you. I know you don't want to be alone so I'm not going to leave you alone. I'm here." She smiled as he looked up at her. "Is this real?" "Yes and no." He gave her a funny look. "Yes, because it's in our minds. We will feel everything that happens, but it is just our minds. When you wake up you'll still be in that dark room, alone. But I promise to return to you." She tightened her hold on him as she first felt his trembling then heard his whimper. "Do you have to go?" He asked fearfully. "Of course. You have to take care of yourself. Eat, sleep. You must take care of yourself so that you come back whole to us. They are trying to break you but I won't let them." He looked up at her. "How long are you going to stay?" His whimper vibrated in his chest. "Right now, until you sleep." Her voice was gentle and soothing. She reached up and lightly petted his ears before running her hands through his hair. He purred softly closing his eyes and falling into peaceful sleep. "Sleep now." She whispered for only him.
Sango sat sniffling beside the bed Kagome now laid in. Kagome had explained everything to Sango after her talk with Miroku, before she went to comfort Inuyasha. 'Don't let them take me. I won't wake up for a while, but whatever you do, don't let them take me.' Those were the instructions Kagome left her and she planned to keep them. "Don't worry Kagome I won't let them take you away." "Neither will I." Miroku said from the doorway his breathing raged as he leaned against the doorframe. He gave her a lopsided grin and shook his head when she stood to go and help support him. "And I'll keep her warm." Shippo grinned his eyes shining in the half dark. Sango nodded.
Sesshoumaru checked Kagome's monitor again. The waves were consent and peaked only sporadically. "She's gone into a physic coma then?" Rin asked from over his shoulder. At his nod she continued. "But the question is why. Why would she put herself into a coma in which she might not wake from?" "It's not for herself but for him." Sesshoumaru muttered his voice emotionless, but Rin knew how he felt for his brother and the others. Rin placed a hand on his shoulder. "Keeping his mind sane. Smart girl." Rin closed her eyes indicating that she was using her empath abilities. She gasped suddenly throwing herself back a few steps. "What is it, Rin?" Sesshoumaru asked worry inching its way into his voice. "Many emotions." She looked up at him. "She is protective, sad." "And Inuyasha?" He saw her blush slightly. "He's scared, weak; however, he feels hope. Something I might note that he hasn't felt in a long time." She looked slyly up at him, her stare daring him to argue with her. He just nodded showing that he understood her. "There's something else." She added quietly. "What?" He wrapped his arms around her. "There's a feeling that I cannot pinpoint who it belongs to." Her brow furrowed. "What do you mean? "It's a feeling of hiding, of waiting. The only problem is that I can't tell who it's coming from." He nodded. "Don't worry about it. We'll figure this out."
The strange woman made her way past several loud mouth workers on her way to Naraku's office. She slipped inside and keep herself in the shadows as he yelled mercilessly at Kikyo. She stood silently taking in all that was happening with emotionless eyes that seemed to look out sightlessly. "Damn you! If she would have died everything would have been ruined." He stood suddenly and slapped her. "You better pray she pulls out of this coma Sesshoumaru claims she's in." "She will pull out." "For your sake she better. Now leave my sight before I change my mind." He watched Kikyo leave before he turned to the woman. He glared at the shadow within the shadow.
The month inched by with each day walked like a tight rope. Naraku was unusually angry and anyone who got in his way would often suffer for it. It usually turned out to be Sesshoumaru or Kikyo. Inuyasha had only one visit and that was from Kikyo, who thinking he was just about broken, beat him. He endured the torment knowing he would get his revenge. Not only for himself but for Kagome as well. Everyday Kagome would visit Inuyasha's mind. Comforting and calming him. And every night she would sing his mind to sleep. She then would return to her own mind but she refused to wake up until he was back with them. The whole group worried for the two. They knew that they would be returned to them soon, but how soon was the questioned. And everyday as Inuyasha and Kagome learned something new about the other. They drew closer even thought their bodies were apart. No one suspected what was really happening, all but Sesshoumaru and Rin because of her ability. Inuyasha allowed himself the pleasure of a deep-throated sigh. His month was almost over and he still had his sanity, thanks to Kagome. He would have to thank her for that later; however, during the long months since she had first arrived he had grown to not only like her but love her. He rolled that over in his mind. Did he really feel love toward this girl. He nodded to himself. He had to admit he always looked forward the seeing and smelling her. He felt even closer to her now then he had a month ago. His mind knew hers so well that when they remembered her past he would cry both in his mind and his own body cried, a thing he thought impossible for the longest time. Soon he would be with her and be able to comfort her the why he wanted, with his body and mind not just mind.
Naraku stood alone in his office. He was not happy at all with the way things were going. Kagome had apparently found both her voice and physic powers, but she hadn't indicated which subject was her link. Without that Naraku couldn't move on. He wanted to create that super soldier soon, and he knew that she had to show her highest range before the board would approve him to clone her. But he wanted more then just physic abilities, he wanted strength as well. That's when an idea came to him, if he could cross her DNA with that of one of the other subjects then he might just be able to come up with the perfect clone. The only problem with that would be that after a while the subjects used would die. He scoffed at himself, their tissue could be saved, it wasn't like their lives where of any value, at least to him. He felt the migraine coming on and sat down heavily in his chair rubbing his temples. The shadows nearest him moved, or seemed to move. Blinking, for at first he thought he was seeing things because of his headache, he found that the shadows did indeed more and that something was there, watching. "Show yourself." He growled lifting a hand as if to grab her but came in contact with air. The shadow had moved and now stood against the far wall of the room. "I'm afraid that I cannot." She stated as emotionless as her gaze. "It is not yet time for me to reveal myself, to you, to anyone." "Why are you here?" He shot out at the shadow, his lips lifting off his teeth in a scowl. "To watch." She turned. "To watch."
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Well well? Did you like it? Is it good? As Inuyasha questions himself he's not the only one.Kagome does so as well. And who is this mysterious stranger and what does it want? Please R+R! Thanks(so in other words if you just read this chapter, write review and send)..Another note..I usually don't look over these until I feel a need to do so.
Kagome relaxed under Inuyasha's touches, her body wanting him with each passing moment. Her soft moan floated across the room as Inuyasha suckled her throat, leaving a mark. Suddenly their door burst open and three people entered the room. Two were buff hairy (sorry I always wanted to use that description) and the third Kikyo. Inuyasha turned to the intruders growling deep in his chest, using his body to cover Kagome. "Take them both. Naraku wants to run joint experiments on them." Kikyo's cold voice ordered. Inuyasha fought against the hands that grabbed him. They were stronger then he had expected. All he could see was red. How dare they interrupt him and his mate, he thought sourly when suddenly something cool flooded his body and he went limp. Kikyo bent over Kagome who was clinching the sheet to her body. "You have show yourself, bitch." With that she grabbed a fist full of Kagome's hair and dragged her to her feet. "Don't fight and he will be harmed less, resist and he will suffer." Kikyo dragged her out of the room and past the room where she noticed Sango and Miroku sleeping in the same bed. Now, that's new, she commented to herself. Naraku waited till they had finished strapping down the now half- naked Inuyasha before entering the room. This should be interesting. He looked over the twisted face and waved for the guard in the room to wake him up. Inuyasha awoke to the feeling of numbness. He couldn't feel anything but a burning sensation brought him quickly back to reality. He growled as he remembered what had happen just hours before. The face that greeted him was not who he wanted to see. He strained against his bounds his claws working as if trying to reach out and rip Naraku's throat. "Kukuku." Naraku chuckled. "It seems as if you can't wait." At a wave of his hand cold steal cut across Inuyasha bare shoulder drawing a deep line of blood. Inuyasha just grunted in pain. Naraku stood watching as the scalpel cut lines across Inuyasha's body. A large grin covered Naraku's face as Inuyasha could no longer hold back the scream of pain as the blade bit deeper into his flesh.
Kagome looked around the room she was in. She was dressed in a thin paper gown and tied to a steel table. There was a large glass window in which she could see into another room and in that room Inuyasha lay. She tried to reach out to his mind but found that every time she tried her head would buzz. It must be that shot they gave me, he thought to herself. She glanced over at Kikyo again. She had not moved from her chair in the corner since she was brought into the room. "Don't worry your time is coming." Kikyo stated calmly rising and strolling over to the steel table beside Kagome and pushed another worker out of the way. She lifted what looked like a metal collar up so that Kagome could see it. "I know you know what this is. You will behave or it will be strapped to your horny little head. And you know what will happen if you or anyone else takes it off." Kikyo grinned at the pained expression that crossed her face. Kikyo suddenly turned her attention to the other room. Kagome's eyes widened as the blood from several wounds on Inuyasha body. "It seems your boyfriend is in some pain." Kikyo glanced back at Kagome. "What's wrong why don't you reach out for him. Comfort him." The malice in her voice daring Kagome to fight against the buzz and pain in her own mind. And that's just what Kagome did. She pushed through the buzzing haze and reached out for Inuyasha's mind. At the same time both their eyes rolled back into their heads. The woman monitoring the screens yelped uttering a curse. Kikyo rushed over to see what the woman was cursing about. The peaks on the screen read three times greater then the nights before.
Inuyasha woke to find no pain or ache of any kind. He looked around himself to find nothing but darkness. No not completely, there was a small light shining just to his left. "It's me, Inuyasha." The velvet voice resounded throughout his mind. The light turned into Kagome and she willing embraced the shaking man. He hung onto her for dear life. She was close and that took the pain and fear away from them both. "Where are we?" He asked burying his face in her hair. "In our minds, where they can't get us." She embraced him trying to offer him comfort. "Let me heal your wounds for you." That caused Inuyasha to pull back and look first at her then himself. Although they were wearing light, white robes he was covered in bleeding cuts and her robes, even her skin was smeared with it. At his startled look she smiled. "I'm fine. You, however, need to be healed. I have a feeling this isn't the end." She didn't know just how right she was. She wrapped her arms around his and lened him her physic powers to heal his body faster. "I'm in the room adjacent to yours, you were the first real friend I ever had." She smiled then began to fade from his mind. "They're forcing me out." She said as way of an explanation.
Naraku growled as the wounds across Inuyasha skin suddenly started to heal at a faster rate then normal. "What is going on?!" He demanded. "His physic waves are peaking. This shouldn't be happening, he should have no physic abilities." The man yelled. Naraku swung around to look into the other room. Kikyo gave him the signal he was dreading. He went to the intercom. "Put the damned collar on now!" He growled into it. Kikyo ran to the table and picked up the collar and began to place it on Kagome's head. She only had enough time to gasp as Kagome's eyes suddenly opened and she was thrown against the window separating the two rooms, creaking it. "Shit!" Naraku bellowed reaching for the emergency button to call in more help. The first to arrive in the room was Sesshoumaru. He growled. If just Sesshoumaru was there it meant that Rin was passed out somewhere from the emotional overload. He would have to get rid of them soon, then they wouldn't be able to stop him and his plans. Suddenly everything went calm and he looked over to the opposite room seeing that Kagome had the collar around her head now. He waved the extra help out. However, Sesshoumaru came to see him personally. "What was that?" Sesshoumaru asked coldly. "She overloaded." Naraku replied calmly. "Like hell she did." "This is not your experiment, it is Kikyo's, so get back to work." Naraku growled, then added with venom, "And pick up your trash from wherever she landed." Seeing the hatred in Sesshoumaru's eyes made the rest of the shity day feel better.
Miroku woke to a pounding on his head and at first he thought that Sango was beating him because his hand was firmly rooted to her breast, but he glimpsed a fluffy tail and knew it was the kitsune. Yawning, he sat up careful not to wake Sango. Shippo looked more fanatic then usual. "Damnit, Shippo, what is wrong?" Miroku asked crawling over Sango, who at that moment chose to wake up. For a moment they stared at each other before the heel of her hand shot out and caught him in the jaw throwing him off her and flung out on the floor. "Oh, Shippo, how are you?" She said scooping up the boy. "Kagome and Inuyasha are gone!" He wailed, rivers of tears streaming down his face. Sango looked shocked. Her eyes fell on Miroku who looked just as shocked as she was. He was up and out of the room in a flash. Running he skidded into first one room then the other. Both were gone. Horror rising in his heart he ran back into the room. Never had they taken one of them in the middle of the night like that. He entered the room and nodded his conformation to Sango. "How could we have missed this?" Sango muttered. "Well if you two weren't groping each other so hard then maybe you would have heard!" Shippo pointed out earning him a hard throw against the far wall. "What about you?" Miroku asked sitting at the far end of the bed, as far as he could get from Sango. "They were really big so I hid under the chair in the common room." Shippo whined from his new spot on the floor. "What are we going to do?" Sango asked worriedly. Miroku looked over at her. "There's nothing we can do but wait." He said running a hand over his eyes. Things were starting to get desperate.
Kikyo was enjoying her fun. She finally had a live subject to test her new poison on not that she didn't get live subject, they all just died to fast. She had thought of the most painful way to set her poison into the girl. She pushed another poison coated needle into Kagome's flesh. She grinned evilly as another scream was ripped from her throat. Not only did the collar around Kagome's head keep her from 'pathing or 'porting but keep her from using her abilities on herself. So plainly speaking she wasn't able to retreat into her mind to escape the pain. Kikyo rather like that idea. She jabbed another needle into Kagome's right shoulder. She then looked from the whimpering girl under her across the though the window at how Naraku was fairing, and by the looks of it rather good. Inuyasha's body was a bleeding mess. His body and mind screamed in pain. His wrist were bleeding from were he had trying to pull the restrains free. The only thing that penetrated his pain filled mind were Kagome's screams. Slowly as if he couldn't let himself believe it the pain ebbed away and was replaced with what seemed to peace. He opened his eyes to find himself still in the room. He could hear monitors beeping and Naraku cursing, and yelling orders. "Well then bring in the paddles!" Naraku screamed through the broken window. Inuyasha raised his head to look around. The room was in chaos. The scalpels were in the walls around the room, the window between the rooms was shattered and the worse noise anyone could hear, the flat line of a heart monitor. He watched them running around in the other room. "Damn you Kikyo! Why didn't you stop when she flat lined?" Naraku growled as he glared at the women in question. She held three of the removed pins in her hand. "She had come back before. Or did you not get time to read the report?" Her heated reply was followed by the shouted clear. She watched Kagome's body jerk with the surge of electricity. "This isn't my fault. But at least we know my poison works." Naraku turned on her and bellowed, "She's important to the corporation's plans!" Inuyasha not ever wanting his new friend to die without some kind of revenge given to her killer. He used all his strength and a grin lit his face as the metal restraints groaned in protest. With a final tug he was free and through the window in one bound. Kikyo didn't see what hit her until she was slammed against a wall and a clawed hand pressed into her throat. She looked into flashing red/gold eyes. "Bitch!" He growled tightening his grip. It seemed the whole room was frozen and didn't know to do. Soon the edges of Kikyo's vision turned black and her breath came and shallow gasps. A cold breeze blew past Inuyasha and a sweet familiar scent brushed his nose. "Inuyasha." A soft voice whispered into his ear causing a cold wind to touch his cheek. Kikyo's eyes widened at this. Did I just hear a voice? Kikyo stilled herself and watched Inuyasha's face closely. "Inuyasha." The voice repeated. On reflex Inuyasha tightened his hold on Kikyo's neck. "Inuyasha look." Inuyasha threw Kikyo to the side and turned toward Kagome's still body. Someone tried stopping him but he threw them out of the way. Looking down at Kagome's body Inuyasha never heard the orders shouted by Naraku. The moment he touched her check an earth shattering gasps for air sounded throughout the room. Her wide pale eyes stared up at him. "Inu?" Was all she could manage. Her whole body was numb, but, she thought, at least the pains gone. Her eyes traveled over him and tears threatened to spill at the sight of the cuts. However, before she could say anything his eyes rolled back into his head and he slumped forward, his head resting on her chest. Two men lifted him off her and held his limp body upward. "Take him to isolation." Naraku said his voice tight. He looked over at the coughing Kikyo and the woman who was trying to help her up. He then walked over to Kagome, looking down at her. "Take her back. Let them deal with her. Tell Sesshoumaru to monitor them closely." His sneer was the last thing Kagome saw.
When Kagome awoke again she was in her room and Sango was sitting over her a worry look on her face. She groaned as she tried to sit up and failed falling back into the pillow. She closed her eyes again as a wave of dizziness overcame her. "Where's Inuyasha?" She asked without opening her eyes. She felt Sango shift. "They still have him. We think they took him to isolation." Sango exhaled. "There's no telling when he'll be brought back, but in the mean time you need to rest." She sniffed looked toward the door seeing Shippo entering. He solemnly walked to her and jumped up onto the bed. He curled up next to Kagome watching her though silted eyes. "And Miroku?" Kagome groaned. Her hand curled up in Shippo's soft fur. "They took him this morning." Sango tried to hide her sniff but she didn't do so good. Kagome tugged Sango down onto the bed with her and Shippo. Sango curled up next to Kagome and she looked blankly out at the wall. Kagome held both her friends close. She wondered how much more pain and suffering they would all have to go through before they would be free. Freedom. It was a foreign feeling for any of them. Knowing she was free to use her powers but she also knew that she was being watched. She didn't care she had to try and reach her captive friends.
Miroku was starting to become board as they had him sitting in a room absorbing little purple bugs. He furrowed his brow when something invaded his mind, something soft. He quickly schooled his expression so that the people watching wouldn't know he was in contact with Kagome, although he suspected they would know. Miroku? Miroku how are you? Kagome-sama, its good to know you're awake. You should be resting. Save your strength. Inuyasha is in isolation. I can't leave him there alone. Then why are you wasting time with me? For Sango. She can't reach you. The room you're in must be slightly proofed the room against physic 'pathing. Then how are you able to. It doesn't take much energy, besides she's still asleep. She giggled into his mind causing him to grin. You better see to Inuyasha. He's never done good inside those sightless rooms. You know, the inu in him. He'll break down with the length of time this time. What do you mean? A little blond told me that they plan to keep him in there a month. No light, no sound, and according to her, no room. He felt her disapproval and her thankfulness. Thank you, Miroku. Oh! And Kagome? Yes? Tell Sango I'm fine and I'll be back to grope her soon. With that he felt her mind pull away from his. He felt a brief moment of sadness at the separation. He just hopped that she would be able to keep Inuyasha sane. He went back to sucking up the little bugs, only then did he start to feel odd.
Inuyasha had pushed himself tightly into the corner of the pitch- black room. He shivered at the nonexistent cold. He didn't like being stuck in the dark not being able to hear anything. He could smell the rancid food they had pushed though the door for him to eat. He pushed away his growing hunger. His body was healed but he felt filthy. There was no water for him to wash his body with. He felt his mind passed over with a familiar presence. It wrapped around his mind closing out all his senses to the outside world and opened the ones in his mind. Inuyasha? The velvet voice he recognized as Kagome. Her figured appeared before him, unlike before though the darkness around them turned into the wide meadow from outside. "Kagome?" He cried relieved running into her arms looking for her comforting touch. She willing wrapped her arms around him bring them down to sit upon a bench. "It's okay. I'm going to stay with you. I know you don't want to be alone so I'm not going to leave you alone. I'm here." She smiled as he looked up at her. "Is this real?" "Yes and no." He gave her a funny look. "Yes, because it's in our minds. We will feel everything that happens, but it is just our minds. When you wake up you'll still be in that dark room, alone. But I promise to return to you." She tightened her hold on him as she first felt his trembling then heard his whimper. "Do you have to go?" He asked fearfully. "Of course. You have to take care of yourself. Eat, sleep. You must take care of yourself so that you come back whole to us. They are trying to break you but I won't let them." He looked up at her. "How long are you going to stay?" His whimper vibrated in his chest. "Right now, until you sleep." Her voice was gentle and soothing. She reached up and lightly petted his ears before running her hands through his hair. He purred softly closing his eyes and falling into peaceful sleep. "Sleep now." She whispered for only him.
Sango sat sniffling beside the bed Kagome now laid in. Kagome had explained everything to Sango after her talk with Miroku, before she went to comfort Inuyasha. 'Don't let them take me. I won't wake up for a while, but whatever you do, don't let them take me.' Those were the instructions Kagome left her and she planned to keep them. "Don't worry Kagome I won't let them take you away." "Neither will I." Miroku said from the doorway his breathing raged as he leaned against the doorframe. He gave her a lopsided grin and shook his head when she stood to go and help support him. "And I'll keep her warm." Shippo grinned his eyes shining in the half dark. Sango nodded.
Sesshoumaru checked Kagome's monitor again. The waves were consent and peaked only sporadically. "She's gone into a physic coma then?" Rin asked from over his shoulder. At his nod she continued. "But the question is why. Why would she put herself into a coma in which she might not wake from?" "It's not for herself but for him." Sesshoumaru muttered his voice emotionless, but Rin knew how he felt for his brother and the others. Rin placed a hand on his shoulder. "Keeping his mind sane. Smart girl." Rin closed her eyes indicating that she was using her empath abilities. She gasped suddenly throwing herself back a few steps. "What is it, Rin?" Sesshoumaru asked worry inching its way into his voice. "Many emotions." She looked up at him. "She is protective, sad." "And Inuyasha?" He saw her blush slightly. "He's scared, weak; however, he feels hope. Something I might note that he hasn't felt in a long time." She looked slyly up at him, her stare daring him to argue with her. He just nodded showing that he understood her. "There's something else." She added quietly. "What?" He wrapped his arms around her. "There's a feeling that I cannot pinpoint who it belongs to." Her brow furrowed. "What do you mean? "It's a feeling of hiding, of waiting. The only problem is that I can't tell who it's coming from." He nodded. "Don't worry about it. We'll figure this out."
The strange woman made her way past several loud mouth workers on her way to Naraku's office. She slipped inside and keep herself in the shadows as he yelled mercilessly at Kikyo. She stood silently taking in all that was happening with emotionless eyes that seemed to look out sightlessly. "Damn you! If she would have died everything would have been ruined." He stood suddenly and slapped her. "You better pray she pulls out of this coma Sesshoumaru claims she's in." "She will pull out." "For your sake she better. Now leave my sight before I change my mind." He watched Kikyo leave before he turned to the woman. He glared at the shadow within the shadow.
The month inched by with each day walked like a tight rope. Naraku was unusually angry and anyone who got in his way would often suffer for it. It usually turned out to be Sesshoumaru or Kikyo. Inuyasha had only one visit and that was from Kikyo, who thinking he was just about broken, beat him. He endured the torment knowing he would get his revenge. Not only for himself but for Kagome as well. Everyday Kagome would visit Inuyasha's mind. Comforting and calming him. And every night she would sing his mind to sleep. She then would return to her own mind but she refused to wake up until he was back with them. The whole group worried for the two. They knew that they would be returned to them soon, but how soon was the questioned. And everyday as Inuyasha and Kagome learned something new about the other. They drew closer even thought their bodies were apart. No one suspected what was really happening, all but Sesshoumaru and Rin because of her ability. Inuyasha allowed himself the pleasure of a deep-throated sigh. His month was almost over and he still had his sanity, thanks to Kagome. He would have to thank her for that later; however, during the long months since she had first arrived he had grown to not only like her but love her. He rolled that over in his mind. Did he really feel love toward this girl. He nodded to himself. He had to admit he always looked forward the seeing and smelling her. He felt even closer to her now then he had a month ago. His mind knew hers so well that when they remembered her past he would cry both in his mind and his own body cried, a thing he thought impossible for the longest time. Soon he would be with her and be able to comfort her the why he wanted, with his body and mind not just mind.
Naraku stood alone in his office. He was not happy at all with the way things were going. Kagome had apparently found both her voice and physic powers, but she hadn't indicated which subject was her link. Without that Naraku couldn't move on. He wanted to create that super soldier soon, and he knew that she had to show her highest range before the board would approve him to clone her. But he wanted more then just physic abilities, he wanted strength as well. That's when an idea came to him, if he could cross her DNA with that of one of the other subjects then he might just be able to come up with the perfect clone. The only problem with that would be that after a while the subjects used would die. He scoffed at himself, their tissue could be saved, it wasn't like their lives where of any value, at least to him. He felt the migraine coming on and sat down heavily in his chair rubbing his temples. The shadows nearest him moved, or seemed to move. Blinking, for at first he thought he was seeing things because of his headache, he found that the shadows did indeed more and that something was there, watching. "Show yourself." He growled lifting a hand as if to grab her but came in contact with air. The shadow had moved and now stood against the far wall of the room. "I'm afraid that I cannot." She stated as emotionless as her gaze. "It is not yet time for me to reveal myself, to you, to anyone." "Why are you here?" He shot out at the shadow, his lips lifting off his teeth in a scowl. "To watch." She turned. "To watch."
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Well well? Did you like it? Is it good? As Inuyasha questions himself he's not the only one.Kagome does so as well. And who is this mysterious stranger and what does it want? Please R+R! Thanks(so in other words if you just read this chapter, write review and send)..Another note..I usually don't look over these until I feel a need to do so.