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Huntress

Chapter eight ~ new places

The next time that Inu-Yasha awoke, he was not tried down to a cold, hard, bed, or in a plain white room. He wasn't sure where he was, but he was relived that he wasn't there. He was in some kind of room. It was made out of stone, it seemed, and it had no windows and only one door in the wall. On the opposite side of the room was a bed that was bolted to the wall.

That was where he woke up. He noticed that this one was not as cold as the other bed he had been lying on. It even had a sheet and pillow. It was a tiny sheet, but it was a sheet. The pillow was stained from who knows what, but it felt good to rest his head.

He kept waking up in these weird places. He was really beginning to miss sleeping next to Kagome. He missed his hands-and-sword-in-lap position. He missed hearing the soft sound of his comrades breathing before he, too, fell into sleep. Helk, he missed the sound of Miroku being slapped by Sango and Shippo's 'poof', But most of all he missed Kagome's voice.

It had only been a few days since he last saw her, probably only one or two, but if felt like ages. If only he had waited for her! Doing chores would have been better than this.

He moved from his spot where he was lying on the bed. He then noticed that he wasn't wearing his regular red kimono. He wore black pants that were a lot like his red ones, and his shirt was tighter than the red one, barely baggy. It had no sleeves, but it had a long neck that went to his chin. On his wrists were what seemed to be metal locks. The shirt had a weird mark on it, it was like a backwards c with an x through it. He would say that it would be the 'boss's' mark. A lot of people used them in blacksmiths and stuff back in his time to show who they belonged to or who they were made by.

This made Inu-Yasha mad, he didn't belong to anybody! He wasn't anybody's servant or slave! He didn't follow any rules, except his own. He sure as hell wasn't made by anyone either. He grew up by himself, no help from his parents or brother for that matter. If anything he made himself what he was, and maybe a little help from Kagome and the others . . .

Inu-Yasha growled and stood up. He looked at the door. He was going to get out of here and give the 'boss' a piece of his mind, and maybe a little bit of his claws. He would then find the Tetsusiaga that belonged at his waist.

He took a running start and rammed the door. It didn't budge. He rammed it again with no luck. He kept trying to no prevail. His shoulder started to hurt and he was starting to get discouraged. He stopped think that he had at least put a dent in the door. Next he went to the wall. He scratched his claws against it, trying to rip it apart. No scratch marks were made. He didn't know what was going on, but his plan backfired, there was no way he was getting out of here by force.

He sat on the bed and thought. He thought about how he could get out, to about his friends and family. He hadn't thought about his family in a long time. He never noticed how much he missed his mother and father. He missed her warm and gentle hud, and his father's strong hold on him.

Then they were gone, and he thought of Kikyo and Kagome. Kagome was Kikyo's reincarnation, but they were so different. Kikyo was cold to him, and wished for him to be dead, but Kagome wanted him to live and be happy. Kikyo thought that she died because of him. He knew it was all Naraku's doing, he still didn't understand what she had against him.

He sighed and laid on his back. Then there was Miroku, about the most unholy monk on this planet. Kagome believes that Miroku likes Sango and Sango like Miroku, but since Miroku's such a pervert, he's going to get killed by Sango before he can tell her he likes her.

Shippo lost all of his family because of the Thunder Brothers. Kouga has to lead his pack. And so on. He liked thinking like this. It calmed Inu- Yasha down just being able to think without fighting or the worry that he was going to die.

But then he might die, wouldn't he? He didn't know what was going to happen or if they just planned to use him once and then kill him. Either way, he wasn't going to die. He had to get back to Kagome. He didn't know how much time had passed while he had been thinking, but it had been a while.

He then heard the tiniest of noises and saw the door crack open. He jumped up to his feet and stared at the door. If anyone came in, he was going to attack and use this as his escape. Light streamed into the dark room and Inu-Yasha had to shield his eyes.

"Inu-Yasha." The person who opened the door for him called in. He knew that voice. He looked up and into the eyes of Midori. "You're first fight starts in a few minuets. The boss had you looked over so he could put you in the right category. You should do very well. Now come."

"Feh." He started over to the door, but stopped to where he was in her face. "I told you. I am not fighting for you."

"I am starting to sound like a broken record. You have no choice." She sighed. "Give me your hands."

"Why?"

"Just do it." Inu-Yasha refused to let giver his hands if that was what he wanted. So she grabbed his arm and pulled his wrist toward her. Inu- Yasha pulled back, but he wasn't as strong as he was moments ago. She pulled out a chain from her pocket. Inu-Yasha felt himself weakening every second the chain got closer. She locked one end of the chains to the metal band on his wrist and then the other side to the other one. Inu-Yasha felt weak with the chains on. He looked at them and saw a paper on them. No doubt a binding spell.

Midori grabbed the chain and pulled him along. Inu-Yasha struggled, but he was no match for Midori and a binding spell. She pulled him along with almost no effort at all. Inu-Yasha was mad that she could just pull him along so easily, but there was nothing that he could do about it.

She pulled him up to a room where she opened the door and walked inside. There were scientist ever where looking over different types of demon equiptment. Inu-Yasha easily picked out the Tetsusiaga. There was a man looking at it with a microscope.

"Kino." Midori called over to him and he looked up. "I need the sword now."

"Right. I can not find anything strange about that sword at all, though." Kino scratched his head.

"You can have it back, soon. Dog-boy, here, needs it for his fight." Midori pointed back at Inu-Yasha, who growled at being called dog-boy and that that guy had the Tetsusiaga. He also growled about how Midori said that Kino would get the sword back. The Tetsusiaga was to stay with him! He was not going to let them have it back. No matter how much of their magic they used on him. Inu-Yasha got so caught up in his thoughts that he was only waken out of them by the pull on the chains by Midori.

"Here's your sword." She tossed it to him and even though his hands were tied, he managed to attach the sword to his belt. He followed her down a few more hallways and into a room with an exceptionally large door.

Midori opened the door and Inu-Yasha looked in shock at what was in the room. It was like a huge dome, with a gigantic pit in the center. In the pit were two demon's fighting each other. There were people in stands watching the fight, all screaming and yelling at the fighting pair. Some crying curses, others yelling for joy.

It was so loud that Inu-Yasha pressed his ears against his head and wished for more protection from the sound. Midori noticed this and gave him two little cloth like things. He looked at them confused.

"Put them in your ears, they are ear plugs so that the sound won't hurt your ears so bad." He looked at her disbelieving. "Haven't you ever heard of ear plugs? Where are you from anyway? Who has not heard of ear plugs?"

Inu-Yasha put them in is ears carefully. He did hear the sound go down, but he could still make everything out with his demon hearing. The sound was just at a nice tone, now. He looked up to the pit. He saw that one of the demons had just riped the other's arm off. Inu-Yasha winced as he looked at him.

"You're next in there." Midori told him. That didn't make him feel any better.

End of Chapter eight

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