Chapter Five

Disclaimer: Go back to the last chapter.

QN: Same as the last chapter.

Kagome sighed as she leaned back against the long, dark wood. She looked towards the second cell to the right (NK: Tell me if that sounds farmilier, who ever guesses correct, well, just guess) , there, lay the the unmoving Yusuke, but that was not what she was looking at. She was looking at the animal-like cage that he was being kept in.

She looked away, not bearing to look at it any longer, memories started rushing back to her.

Ten years ago...

She was running, hurring to where the adult's where gathered. Her small little Kimono, wrinkling a bit as she ran. The Night Hunters had just gotten back and everything was silent. Everyone was already either sleepy or in the Hunter's party. It was just perfect to go out in the night in, since it was dark, no one would spot her, and even if a demon where to come, she was much to small a morsel for it to bother eating her. In her torso she clutched a small lamp that was as big as her palm, which was not very big mind you.

She stopped and looked around. 'Uh-oh', she thought,' Am I lost?' She started to panick. The one thing about the line of darkness was that it was so dark, she could easily get lost. Even worse, what if she got lost in a forest?

She started panicking like crazy and running around, when she suddenly saw smoke and a bright light around a small corner. The weight that was on her shoulders, suddenly seemed to evaporate. Her heart was beating like he--lelua, she found them! She peeked slowly over the corner, but to her upmost frustration it was blocked by a huge barrel about two times her size.

Wanting to get closer to see better and watch she slowly crawled over. That was the best about being a kid, she was small and can get to places adults can't and to top it off, if she got caught she could always make up an excuse like 'I wanted to pee-pee but got lost' or 'I lost my mommy!' and whine to make it simpel.

She smiled.

Oh-yeah, she got it all dooo--wn!

She slowly reached her destination and slowly peeked over the edge, ready to make up an excuse or withdraw her head if she was about to be spotted.

Kagome watched, as a demon with dog ears, yellow hair and golden eyes, was dragged into the middle of a big circle. He looked horrible, his hair was dragged and looked dull. His ears were barely up, his eyes were dark, tired Kagome supposed, and he was barely fighting back, it was hard to belive that he was a golden receiver. Kagome followed him into the circle, although since she was little, she went unnoticed by the adult hunters and huntresses.

This demon, had gone terroizing a village near by, or so they say.

Kagome watched, wide eyes as she saw the villagers burn the dogs flesh.

"U-U-G-H!" It yelped, as it tried to jump away, but failed due to the villagers tight hold on him.

It whimpered, but the villagers would have non of that, and burned him on the chest. They had ripped open his orange leather vest a little while ago. The dog demon whimpered, pitifully. Kagome watched as they burned him off again, and young Kagome had to endure his tourtous yelps, growls, and whimpers. The villagers finally stopped, and dragged him to the same cell that Yusuke was in now. His head banged onto the wall, hard as the villagers threw him non-to gently inside. Second Cell to the right. It was the most dangerous, probably the most tourtous way to treat anyone.

Inside the cell, there were wards that were put up hundreds of years ago, probably by the most powerful Miko to ever walk earth. Her name was Midoriko, and she was the most powerful Miko of her time. No, probably the most powerful Miko in all the history of Asia. The wards were supposed to make demons suffer, but not in physical tourture, but in mental. When a demon entered, no matter how powerful, or how frightened they were, they would suffer. No one could describe how tourtous it was, all they knew was that when demons, woke up, they actually begged to be realised.

Kagome, looked on, wondering if it was true, but then she saw something. The dog demon, was sweating, huffing, and it looked like he was muttering to himself, and not from the torture he got, it was because of the cell.

Suddenly, something tug her hair back as a hand covered her mouth. Her instinc to scream was block. "Hey-wow." The guy calmed her. She recognized the voice to be Shain and she stillied. He let go and smiled at her, his usual happy grin. "What are you doing here?" He asked. A thought suddenly came to Kagome, he WAS a guy, and all boys are required to watch.

He must have know what she was thinking and he took her to his side, and watched. Kagome had no need to worry, she knew he wouldn't tell anyone there. She raised her gaze. This was a cruel joke.

But in the end, a demon is a demon, and they always deserved it in the end.


10 years later...

'.... In the end, a demon is a demon, and they always deserved it in the end...'

Her gaze never wavered as she looked into the lights in the darkness. That saying, was all she ever lived by when hunting demons. '...A demon is a demon...' She shook her head.

Kagome looked on. Watching the same cell that caused the dog demon to kill himself, and watched Yusuke with cautious eyes. She was surprised he had not killed himself yet. Since she got to the age of thirteen, she was made to watch the prisoners suffer. The villagers thought it best if she knew the torment she was made to cause. But it was not torment. It was cruelty.

4 years ago...

Kagome peeked around the corner to get a better look at the new demon that was being dragged into the cell. A snake demon. It looked like she was still struggling with all the strength she still had left and Kagome saw why. Behind her, following about one feet behind her long tail, was her babys. Then she saw it. Sweat formed on his forhead, but he did not cry out. It surprised Kagome, but she soon recovered. Some was stubborn, but he would not last for long. No one did. At least not until they pulled their own hair out.

Back to reality...

Surely this demon would not last very long...

...would he?

Kagome's question rang in her head. She thought for a moment, then shook her head, making her terreses fall over her shoulders, and smiled. She'll think of this in the morning. Right now...

A yawn echoed through the pitch black room. Kagome lay down, and was out in a matter of seconds.

Inside Yusuke's head...

Yusuke whimpered and cried at the same time.

HIM! The great demon thief Yusuke, was crying from a bunch of low life's called Humans. Yusuke stole a quick glance over his shoulder as he kept trying to pump his legs to run faster. They were closing in on him, surrounding him with torches, spears, and arrows. He urged his legs to go faster, but for some reason, they kept on moving slower instead of faster.

Damn!

Was the only thought on his mind, he had to run faster or it will kill him.

He, hee, don't worry, you will die soon enough, don't fight it. Your time has come, just like all of us. A voice whispered in his head. Yusukes eyes widened as he stopped running with a sudden lurch. In front of him was the many demons humans, spirits he had killed in the past.

"Bu-but how?" He stammered a little. His eyes hardened, 'Oh, well, I killed them once havent I? This will be as easy as when they were alive.' Yusuke smirked arrogantly, but what his eyes spotted next, was enough to make his sweat.

Behind them, his partners were smirking at him and growled cockly at him.

His eyes widened at the farmilier whip that reached to him, and threw him over to the humans. He looked up to the towering demons and licked his pale cold lips.

"What... are you doing?" He asked. They growled at him.

"Do you really think that we would stay with a weakling lowlife such as yourself?! Not likely." They growled. Yusukes eyes widened as they handed him over to the humans, and talked something over with them, but it was all a bunch gibberish to him as he fell to a haze of black and purple swirl.

"YUSUKE!!" A sharp voice whispered out.

Reality...

"YUSUKE!!" The same voice whispered out harshly and shook Yusuke once more. Yusuke awoke with a lurch. He coughed a few times and held his chest. He looked up to see a shadow, two shadows in fact standing over him. Yusuke breathed. His partners.

In front of him stood in all his glory, a silver kitsune with long silver hair and tall well built body and right next to him stood a dark-ink haired bat demon also well built. They would look like normal humans, If they did not have wings, a tail, and ears that matched elfs and animals. That, was what Yusuke was describing them from memory at least. All he could see was two dark shadows in the night and some bits of silver, coming from the silver fox.

Yoko and Kurounue.

If it had not been for his pride, training and his reputation, he would have smiled up at them. After he awoke, he knew from the looks of things that all of his dreams, had been a illusion. He didn't know what kind of illusion, but an illusion no less. That was the reason why the demons that got captured, never came back, well, alive that is. How it was possible, he had no clue.

But one thing was for sure, he had to make a serious mental note to avoid it. He was sure he was going to remember, because usually a serious mental note, was he would actually REMEMBER it. The rest, he would forget in a minute, maybe even a half a minute.

"Come on! Hurry up and get up!" Kurounue whispered, careful not to wake the human that he smelt inside of the prison like shack. The other two nodded back. Yusuke then noticed that the prison door was open and a little hole was on the side of the prison. He briefly wondered if Yoko dug it and would consider doing it when stealing, but he did not dwell on the subject long and followed the other two demon thief's out.

They all stopped and froze at a murmur that reached their ears. 'That's right!!' Yusuke thought as he turned to face her. Yoko and Kurounue's eyes widened. "Yusuke, come back now!!" Yoko murmured harsly as Kurounue nodded hurriedly when Yusuke started to tip-toe to the human. Yusuke shook his head and kept tip-toeing to the sleeping demon huntress. "Stop! You'll get us all shot!" Kurounue whispered. Yoko glared at him, as Kurounue shrugged. "Its true!" Yoko glared daggers. "Shut it!"

"Stop, you fool!!" Yoko continued. Turning his attention back to the other member. That was most likely gonna get them all killed one day.
Yusuke ignored the warnings and continued advancing on Kagome. He took her by the waist, and slung her across his shoulders gently. She was light! But not much of a light sleeper.

Yoko and Kurounue growled softly, and kept on whispering something like 'what the hell are you doing, idiot!?' or 'put her down, dumbo!' Yusuke ignored their threats and escaped through the hole, before they could speak another word of it. It was no wonder they where upset, he is 'kidnapping' a demon hunter.

Even so, he always trusted his instincs when it was important, and now his gut was pointing to this girl. He didn't have a clue what he was doing and was disgusted by his actions, but choked down the pain of even touching this human and escaped into the pitch black warp.

They both groaned in misery. Unfortunatly for them, someone heard.

BAM!

Both the two turned to the open door, to find a girl, the same age as the other girl Yusuke took off with, standing in front. The girl took in the scene with wide eyes, then screamed. Before she could even start though, Kurounue rushed towards her, and knocked her out, repeating what Yusuke did earlier with the other girl. Yoko looked toward him with disgust.

"You too?" He spat with a totally disgusted look pointed towards the girl on Kurounues back.

He shrugged. "Guess its going around." He would have snickered at Yoko's look if he didn't hear shouting outside the hut. From Yoko's look, it seemed that he had heard it too.

They escaped without a sound as Sango and almost the rest of the village boys and men barged in. Empty as a barrel with no water. Sango looked around in panic. From the silence and emptiness of the hut, her fears were realized.

Her sisters, Fire and Water, were kidnapped.

QN: Bum, Bum, Bummmm. He hee, anyway, some of you have read Excuses Bind the Truth, correct? My first fiction, the one I'm not updating at the moment, right? Well I have some problems and need some fans to sort it out. Here's a poll that will decide what I'm going to do next in the fiction.

Poll:

Kagome is paired with Kurama.

Kagome is paired with Hiei.

It will be an alternate ending.

Kagome goes with Kurama at while Kagome goes with Hiei on (NK: Personally, I think this idea is one that I would like best.)

Okay, Lady Death asked if I could do that, and I think that might be a good idea, until next time, JA!

Nogitsune Krist