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Ch4

Kaoru and Yahiko landed on top of Kenshin and Sanosuke in a place they had never seen before. It looked like an endless void of darkness, and it was really scaring Kaoru. She stood behind Kenshin, and looked around nervously. Sanosuke was tensed, and ready for a fight, as was Kenshin. Yahiko was trying to look brave, but was having a hard time pulling it off.
"You look different than the last time I saw you." Said a man (Naraku....but they don't know that) as he walked out of the shadows, dramatically.
"Who are you?!" Kenshin's voice wasn't loud, but sounded forceful nonetheless.
"Me? I am Naraku." He smirked, "But I wasn't expecting to get more than just you," he pointed to Yahiko, "here. Oh well, the more the merrier."
"M-me?!" Yahiko stammered, and tripped over something. He looked to see that it was a black-haired girl.
She turned towards him in her sleep, whispering the word, "Souta." Then her eyes snapped open, "Souta!?!" She rubbed her eyes in disbelief, "You're not Souta....and you're not Naraku either. Who are you?"
"Y-Yahiko." he said, staring at her....more specifically, the ears on top of her head. (::clears throat:: in case you have forgotten, Kagome forced Inuyasha's soul out of her body ((first story, chapter 18)) thus making her have all of his demon senses, and those cute little ears...but she looks the same, just fuzzy ears, and claws.) "Are those real?" the amazement was clear in his voice.
Kagome's ears twitched a bit, as she smiled at him, "Yeah, they are. But, who are your friends," she looked at the new people, "and how did you all get here?"
Yahiko stood up, "Kenshin's the one with red hair, the other one is Sanosuke, and the real ugly girl is Kaoru."
Kaoru glared at Yahiko, "I am *not* ugly!"
Sanosuke cleared his throat, "As to the second part of your question, a dark thing came outta the ground, and grabbed us. Then we all fell out here."
Kagome shot Naraku an accusing glare, "This wouldn't happen to be *your* doing, would it, Naraku?!"
"Maybe." Naraku smirked, "I just wanted to do something nice."
"Feh, you nice?" Kagome rolled her eyes, "Like *that* would ever happen!"
Naraku faked a look of shock, "I'm hurt that you think so lowly of me!" he said, dramatically, before adding, "Besides, I just wanted the short one, the others being here was *not* intentional."
"Yeah right!"
Kenshin spoke, trying to calm the tension growing between the girl, and the man, "It's true what he said, that it is. The hand that came out of the ground was after Yahiko alone, but it ended up touching the rest of us by mistake."
Naraku smirked, "Told ya' so."
"A hand?" Kagome raised an eyebrow, "Are you telling me that he grabbed you with a giant hand?"
They all nodded and Naraku took this time to speak, "Well, technically, all of the things that we used at *any* point in time was stolen."
"Well," Kagome sighed, "I guess that explains the giant pile of socks that Naraku has in the corner."
Naraku grinned, "How else can you explain the disappearance of socks."
"So, *you're* the one who keeps messing up my pairs of socks! Do you know how useless one miss-matched sock is?!" Kagome lunged at him, but Kenshin had pushed Naraku out of the way, and was hit with her tackle. Kagome was now stratling a swirly-eyed Kenshin's hips. She blushed, "Sorry."
"Uhm...." Sanosuke stared at them for a second, "Maybe you should get *off* of Kenshin now."
"Huh? Oh, right." Kagome got off of him before glaring at Naraku, "So, why didn't you tell me that people are able to be brought here?"
"Would it really have mattered? It's not like you would have to bring here. Or would you have rather made the kit, Shippou, spend an eternity locked away, or maybe the other fox?" Naraku asked/said/whatever.
Kaoru cleared her throat, "How are we going to leave?"
She was met by blank stares (and the occasional blink) until Naraku spoke, "That's the hard part."
"What do you mean? We're stuck here?"
"Pretty much," Naraku said, "Yeah."
Kaoru twitched, "So, because of you, we're stuck in this place until we die?!"
"No."
Kaoru's face brightened, "Good, now how-"
She was cut off by Naraku, "You probebly won't die, so you'll be stuck here for eternity. Or at least a good part of it."
Kagome looked at Kenshin, who had yet to get up, and poked him in the arm, "Do you think he'll be alright?"
"That doesn't matter right now!" Kaoru seemed a tad bit agitated, "Now what the hell are we suppose to do for the rest of eternity stuck *here*?!"
The Kenshin group just stared at Kaoru, while Kagome continued to poke at Kenshin in an attempt to see if he was still alive. Naraku smiled evilly, "I think I know what we could do." he said, summoning a bottle of sake (sp?).

(I know that the chapter was short and stuff, but I'm still trying to figure out something for them to do. I was thinking about a truth-or-dare sort of thing, but those are only funny for the first couple of dares, then it just gets stupid.....not like this fic is the embodiment of intelligence...but at least I posted right? Anyways, I really have nothing else to ramble on about, so 'till next time, bah-bye)