(Attempt to escape)

One. A single piece of a dust bunny fell from the dark ceiling.

Two. Another piece of a dust bunny fell onto her lap.

Three. Another piece of the dust bunny fell onto her bag and Sakura brushed it away; and she had to admit now that after counting the dust bunnies that fell and losing track of them was getting quite annoying and boring.

"I guess he wasn't kidding when he said he wouldn't give me food..." Sakura muttered tiredly to herself as the sunlight moved its way out from a bit where it had left off. It was getting really painful now; and the small room smelled like crap.

She reviewed of what had happened to her since yesterday. She had been resting her legs for awhile when Manten had come along and kidnapped her. Then she was referred as 'wretch' by Manten and 'bitch' by Hiten. Not that either one was worse, but still...

One side of her thought that Hiten was pretty cute for a demon, but then she would remember that he wanted to rape her, then eat her, then give her leftovers to Manten for his hair potion; and she would hate him all over again. But still...

She was thankful that he didn't eat her or rape her, because that gave her the time to think to herself. Well, that is, if neither of them knew how to read people's minds, that was. That would have been horrifying.

"That bitch..." Hiten grumbled to himself and made sure that Manten heard. "She should be banging on the door by now; we didn't give her three meals since last night!"

"Aye, an-chan." Manten replied as he gazed at his brother polishing the Raigekijin to its usual perfection. "That lass sure is a stubborn one, most women would have begged you for mercy by now."

"Manten..."

"Yes?"

"Don't you think it's getting too quiet in there?" Hiten suggested.

Manten scratched his head and shrugged. "No, I don't really think so. Maybe the girl is sleeping or something, an-chan." He said. "Maybe we should check it out."

Setting down the thunder pike aside with the rag on the wooden table, Hiten stood up first and beckoned Manten to come with him. He clenched his fists so tight that Manten could see the faint outlines of the veins that throbbed. Stopping himself from speaking another word, Manten followed suit.

The sunlight was almost all gone from the dingy room, leaving Sakura in semi-darkness sleeping on the mangy straw mattress that was the only piece of furniture that was given to her. Her bag was half opened, and now the only items that remained in it were the sword and her clothes.

She woke up with a sudden jerk as she heard the heavy lock opening, creaking by its hinges as it did so. Not at all surprised to see the devastating duo standing by the doorway, Sakura laid her head back down. And of course, to Hiten this was yet another sign of ignorance.

"Having fun?" he said sarcastically.

"Of course, other than not receiving any food." She said. "I'm fine. Leave me to starve."

Hiten bounded across the room in a single step and signaled Manten to go away as Sakura didn't budge from her current spot. He jerked her into a sitting position as her eyes showed no fear.

"I don't understand you." He simply said.

"Well, I don't understand you either." The young girl said back. "Why won't you kill me and get it over with?"

This served as an interesting turn of tables for the thunder brother. Cocking an eyebrow, he explained to her in his deadly but masculine voice. "I just figured that it would make it interesting if you were driven to insanity before I kill you, woman. Killing you off wouldn't be exciting, now would it?"

"You try me." Sakura shot back at him and this, once again, drove Hiten to his irritation again. To her, it was just one of those temper tantrums that a young child would throw; not a good enough excuse for a fully grown teenage demon who was upset that a girl was talking back to him.

"Now listen to me carefully, you bitch." Hiten said, slamming her next to no gently into the wall. It was then he saw-heard a shikon shard fling out of the girl's chest pocket due to such force. His face turned from a surge of anger to an amused expression in a nanosecond.

"Well, now what's this?" he said. "One of those Shikon jewel shards, is it not?"

Sakura's blood drained from her face as she saw Hiten reaching out for it. Not aware of the consequences, she slapped his hand down flat to the ground.

"It's mine." She hissed.

"So?" Hiten hissed back at her.

"I said it's mine..."

"Mine now." he said, shoving her away and taking the shard from her. "So you do prove yourself as being useful, bitch. I won't be killing you for awhile."

Sakura grit her teeth, but there was nothing she could do at the moment. So instead, she called Hiten again as she got a good idea for her escape plan.

"Hey..."

"What now?" A pissed thunder demon huffed impatiently. He obviously wanted to try his shikon jewel shard out as fast as he could, and the person that he took it from was on the least of his mind.

"Can I have a bucket of water?" Sakura begged. "Please?"

Her hands turned an ugly shade of brown as she worked on the wall silently throughout the night. Dipping her hand into the bucket of water that Hiten had gotten her as quickly as he could, she rubbed her wet hand onto the paper embalmed wall and it certainly was showing progress.

A faint layer of the mud wall peeped out from beneath and now her hands were getting dirty, but she didn't care.

Sakura took out her sword and plunged it deep into the mud wall. After a few wriggling, the sword worked its way through the barrier and she knew that it had made its way to the other open side.

A rustling made her twitch nervously, and holding her breath Sakura begged to the heavens that it wasn't Hiten or Manten.

Oh, if they found out...

Never mind Manten, Hiten would be pure livid at her for sure. He had already tried to rape her for his own satisfaction; Manten said that they would have eaten her. But then Sakura rearranged her thoughts.

If she stayed, she'd get eaten/raped/whatever.

If she left, she'd get tortured/eaten/raped/or all of the above.

But still she would have a good chance of escaping, right?

As soon as she had dug a hole only big enough for her small frame, she reached out for her bag to carry alongside herself. Just then she heard quick footsteps coming down the corridor. Even before she could react the sliding door busted open, revealing an aloof thunder demon.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Hiten said quietly; so quietly, that it was almost scary.

Before I uploaded this chapter I had quite a writer's block...I just didn't remember what to write for the next chapter! Turns out that it was good I forgot, 'cuz I plotted a whole different...erm, plot...and it turns out that I like this one better.

So what if I don't get a lot of reviews? I just want people to enjoy it even if they don't review. I mean, that's the whole point of fanfiction, right? But it wouldn't hurt to reivew, people...I have no idea whether you guys are enjoying this story or not...

To those who are enjoying it though, I'll keep writing!