:: Chapter IV ::
Kagome awoke in a beautifully decorated room. She had no idea what or whose room it was, though. She tried to recall what had happened. She had started to undress to get into a spring and rinse all of the sweat from walking off of her. She stepped into the water…and fell. She remembered falling, but could not seem to remember how or why she did. She could not recall any pain at all, only drowsiness. She didn't understand it at all.
'Oh no!' she suddenly thought to herself. 'Inu Yasha won't be able to find or detect any of the Shikon Jewels without me there!' she had to find a way out! But…how? She looked around once again.
The room didn't look as though it was locked. So, she could just walk out. But, what if there were traps? It would be completely stupid to just walk out! That would only get Inu Yasha and her into even more of a fix than they already seemed to be in. It didn't look like the place she was in was even being watched over, though. She took a deep breath.
She began to stand up. But only began to, for once she did, she got immensely dizzy and could not help herself as she tried to get back to being level headed. Her legs failed her and she sank back into her bed.
'Great,' she thought to herself. 'This has to be Naraku! He's the only one that to my knowledge has the power to do something like this! What will I do..?'
Naraku watched as Kagome panicked about her kidnapping. It was all too simple to take her in, she had her mind completely open at the time. Women were too easy to manipulate. It didn't take a second for his miasma to get to her mind and take over her consciousness. He doubted that she even saw his invisible attack coming. He smirked silently to himself.
He had simply been standing in one of the entrances to the next room. He planned to keep this opening invisible to her at this time. She couldn't see the door, much less anything inside the room itself. All far too easy to set up. Now for Inu Yasha.