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The dark form placed the sleeping Kagome at his feet. He chuckled, and walked over to the other man with him. They chatted quietly for a while. One of them noted how cold it was, and how the girl was sure to wake up soon.
A cold blast whipped around Kagome. She opened her eyes and saw two hooded figures, standing around a fire, one was warming his hands. One of them had a glove with a string of prayer beads. The other seemed to be looking at something far away.
Kagome realized she was on a cliff. She could see the water, and she knew that was what the one guy was looking at.
"She's awake!" Miroku yelped. He pointed his gloved hand at her, and she shut her eyes, hoping the other didn't see she was awake. Too late. The stranger that had kidnapped her picked her up, and lifted her over his shoulder.
"Put me down!" Kagome cried. She started kicking her captor in the stomach, and started to pinch his back. He was unaffected.
"Quiet down, you!" Miroku growled in an unusual voice, quite unlike his own. He giggled under his hood. This was going to be fun.
"Get the rope!" Inuyasha ordered Miroku.
"What for, Inu…" The other man asked.
"Shut up fool!" He interrupted. "To tie her up." He pinched Kagome in the stomach. Kagome squeaked, and kicked him extra hard in the stomach.
"Here we are." Miroku held out the rope. Inuyasha put Kagome down and took the rope. He started to bind Kagome's hand behind her back with some difficulty. She started to complain, and yell.
"How dare you do this? What are you doing? Let me go!" Kagome yelled.
"I said quiet!" Miroku snarled. He just couldn't stop laughing though, and burst out in a fit of chuckles. Kagome gave him an odd look.
"Um…Is he ok?" Kagome asked.
"Umm… yeah, he should be fine." Inuyasha tied the last knot. "There!" He stood triumphantly. Inuyasha rolled Kagome onto her back. Her hands hurt since they were behind her back, and she let out a gasp. Inuyasha's hood began to slip, and he quickly pulled it back on his head.
"Hey, you! We should start the ceremony." Inuyasha growled.
"What? Yeah sure…" Miroku straightened up, tears in his eyes. He raised his staff above Kagome.
"Gods, we gather here to perform the ritual. We sacrifice this girl as our offering, but not without the proper ceremony." Miroku closed his eyes.
"Sacrifice?" Kagome squeaked. "I don't even know who you are! How do you know my name?"
"Uhhhh…" Miroku looked at Inuyasha. He just shrugged in reply. "The Gods told us." Miroku replied, eyes still closed. Inuyasha and Miroku started to do a sort of twisted, awkward dance around Kagome. Kagome couldn't help but laugh. Miroku began to chant. "Hmm, blah, yah, koo, loo, ra, men, yada, blada, goo, schmoo!" (A/N D14 if u doesn't like this chant life sucks for you cuz this is the way it's staying!)
Kagome grew more worried. She was going to be killed tonight. This can't be happening, she thought. I haven't experienced half the things I wanted to see in my life. I'm too young! I can't go. She shifted in her position. Her hand behind her back found a rock painfully. Kagome let out a cry. Why did she have to be on a cliff? Her hand stung painfully, but she smiled.
If she used the rock to cut her bonds, maybe she could escape. Kagome started to rub what she thought the rope was against the sharp edge she found. She could feel her bonds go slack. Perfect, she thought.
"Now, we shall perform the sacred reading. Then, the sacrifice!" Miroku announced.
"I don't think so!" Kagome sprung up. Inuyasha and Miroku looked at her, but wasted no time. They dove for her, and smashed into each other. The pair got up, and started walking towards her. Kagome began to back away slowly. Suddenly, there was no ground under her foot. She then remembered she was on a cliff with a hundred foot drop.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Kagome screamed as she could feel herself dropping through the air. She was going pretty fast, and any minute she knew she was going to smash into pointed rocks. Kagome closed her eyes, waiting for the impact. But she suddenly stopped.
Kagome swung violently in the air. She felt a tug on her kimono and looked up. Silver hair clouded her vision, but she knew.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome whimpered. She shivered. Spray from the water below was blasting her with cold water. Inuyasha had dug his sword into the rock, and he was hanging from it. He swung a bit, and smashed into the side of the rock face. A few drops of blood spattered onto Kagome's sleeve.
"Inuyasha? Are you ok?" Kagome threw a worried a glace at her rescuer.
"Yeah, I'm ok. I'm a hanyou, I can heal fast." Kagome blinked in surprise. Inuyasha was a hanyou? A half demon? Of course, she noticed, but it had never clicked in her mind.
"You are?" Was all Kagome could splutter out.
"Yeah." Inuyasha had a sad tinge to his voice.
"I didn't notice before." Kagome admitted.
"Really?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yeah, I guess I just couldn't get over your charming personality." Kagome laughed. She then noticed she and Inuyasha were hanging over sharp, pointy rocks, and all that was keeping them up was Inuyasha's sword. He had dug it into the rock, which was turned soft by the spray from the water below.
"Umm maybe we should go back up?" Kagome suggested.
"Huh? Oh yeah sure…" Inuyasha said, lost in thought.
Inuyasha grabbed onto a ledge, and pulled Kagome up. He instructed her to climb onto his back, and she did so. Inuyasha sheathed his sword, and started scaling the rocky wall. He climbed with ease. Kagome began to feel very warm, even though she was outside in freezing cold weather, with salty water splashing her. She also felt very drowsy. She must have gotten sick from hanging out (mind the pun) on the side of a cliff. Kagome sneezed.
Inuyasha reached the edge of the cliff, and hoisted himself up.
"Just look at that. The monk ran away." Inuyasha looked for signs of his friend and cousin, but there were none. He set Kagome down, and she tried to walk, but was too drowsy, and she fell to the ground.
"Are you ok?" Inuyasha asked.
"No, I think I'm sick." Kagome answered from her spot on the ground. Inuyasha lifted her into his arms.
"Inuyasha, what are you doing?" Kagome asked in a small voice.
"Well, you can't walk down yourself, so I'm going to carry you." Inuyasha replied. He began to walk down the very same slope Kagome had ventured down on her first day in the village. She smiled, remembering. Silence fell like a weight, and neither of them talked. Kagome finally broke the silence.
"No more pranks, ok Inuyasha?" Kagome said quietly.
"Ok, Kagome." Inuyasha agreed.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome said.
"Yes?" Inuyasha replied.
"You just called me by my name." Kagome smiled, and fell asleep. She was right though, Inuyasha admitted. He had called her by her real name. But as much as he hated to admit it, he wasn't ashamed.
Well that's the end of chapter 5? Yes chapter 5. Ok so new chapter up soon, till then R&R!
