Concrete Angel

Chapter Three: Jail Break

Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha...why do you people make me relive that nightmare every time I update?? You are all so heartless! (I'm not talking to you reviews out there! You guys are cool! ! It's the mean nasty lawyers that I don't like!)

[a/n: Here is the third chapter! Sorry if it took so long, but if any of you bothered to read my profile there should be a message on there that claims that I was on vacation so I wasn't able to update!]

"You have got to be kidding me!" Kagome muttered to herself as she tossed under the fur covers.

Kouga and someone, Kagome didn't know who he was but guessed it was a leader from another pack, screaming and arguing about something. She was concitrating on sleeping more than listening. She tossed again as the unknown male voice spoke loudly, echoing off the stone walls.

'Well if I can't sleep I'll do the next best thing..." she turned so she was facing the ceiling and focused her mind on the conversation between Kouga and the unknown wolf demon.

"Kouga, I need you to understand-" he pleaded.

"I told you, we are not joining you in this battle. Last time you lead a bunch of my men to their death!" Kouga argued loudly.

"If you haven't forgotten, Kouga, we lost men too. Twice as many as you did." the stranger reminded the young wolf prince.

"We still aren't fighting. Not now!"

"Kouga, if we lose this battle they will come here next. You wish to protect the miko that is staying here with you, yes? They will come after her knowing she is your weak spot."

"Kagome..."she heard him say her name softly.

"You want to protect her then fight now! The Snake Clan are ruthless and we are short in both supplies and men. Please Kouga, if not for the sake of our packs then for the sake of the miko."

There was a few moments of silence before Kouga answered.

"Fine, when do you want us to leave?" he asked.

"At dawn." Informed the other demon.

"That's in a few hours, that doesn't give us much time to prepare."

"We didn't have much time to prepare either. My men will met you and your warriors at the edge of the forest."

"Where the river and the black tree are right?"

"Correct."

Kagome tuned out the rest of the conversation, finding it to be boring and pointless to listen to. She looked out the small window, a magic spell cast over it to keep the harsh winter winds out. She could see the light glow of the spell around the edges of the window. She got up and leaned against it, lightly putting the tips of her fingers against the center of the window. Little ripples formed around her fingers like water. She felt Kouga's familiar aura outside the door. Before he knocked she called for him to enter.

"You can come in Kouga." she called to him. He opened the wooden door carefully, as though making sure that it wasn't a trap.

"You shouldn't be up this late, you still aren't completely healed." he scolded her. Her lips twitched upward.

"Sorry Mother!" she replied. He came up behind her and looked out at the sky wit her. She moved over and gave him some room so he could lean on the windowsill with her. "So...was there a reason you came in here at this ungodly hour?" she asked.

"The leader from the Northern Tribe came. He asked us to fight with him against a snake demon clan." He looked at her before continuing, making sure she understood where this was going.

"I am guessing that you agreed to help them and you have to leave some time early this morning." she finished the story for him.

"Were you eavesdropping on the conversation between us?" he asked in shock.

"Nope, I just figured that out cause why else would you come in here at this time of night and tell me about it." She sighed and rested her chin on her folded arms and looked up at the stars. He followed her gaze and the couple shared a comfortable moments of silence as both were lost in their own thoughts.

"I'm going." Kagome stated, breaking the silence in the room.

"Excuse me?" exclaimed Kouga. He straightened up and looked at her firmly. "You're not going." Kagome straightened herself as well, but kept her eyes on the stars.

"I'm going with you, Kouga. You can't stop me." She kept her gaze on the sky, not wanting to look at him.

"It far too dangerous and you aren't completely healed. There is no way I will let you join us if you are in this condition."

"Would you let me fight if I was in a better condition?" she turned to him and looked him dead in the eye. "If I was completely healed would you let me fight?" she asked him again. He searched her eyes for second before answering.

"No, you would get hurt." He eyed her scars on her body. His ice blue eyes met with her stormy ones, now cold and hard like stone.

"In other words you don't trust my abilities do you? I've fought stronger and more deadly demons than you and InuYasha put together everyday for a year and won every time. I've told you before I've changed and I have become much stronger than I was." Kouga sighed heavily and reached for her arm. She swatted it away in anger.

"I know you are stronger I can smell in your scent, but I don't want you to get any more injures before this one is healed. If I could I would make sure that you didn't get anymore injures and let you fight."

"So until the winter was over you would keep me locked up in this," she looked around the stone room, past the fur covered bed to the dark vanity seat back to Kouga's eyes, "this prison?"

His temper getting the better of him, he crossed his arms over his chest and looked down at her with a smug look of authority on his tan face. "If I have to I will."

"I'd like to see you try." She challenged him. She too crossed her arms over her chest, her aura starting to flare out in anger.

"Don't push me Kagome, though I care for you I will not have you doing anything that could cause serious harm to you and if I have to lock you in this 'prison' then I will. You are to stay here Kagome! You are not to leave this room!" Her fist shook slightly as she controlled the urge to smack that smug look off his face.

"Get out!" Kagome said lowly then she turned around and refused to look at him. He huffed and walked towards the door.

"Fine I will!" he called as he reached the door.

"Good!" she called back to him. He slammed the door loudly making dust fall gently from the ceiling. "Damn bastard." She muttered under her breath as she looked out the window.

"I heard that!" Kouga screamed through the wall. Kagome, ignoring him, leaned closer to the window and looked down. A small smile played on her lips, maybe the door wasn't the only way out of this room...

Kouga stood high on a rock as he watched his men clad in their armor and holding weapons of all sorts march by. He looked around for all the captains of the groups in his army, all of them waving to him letting him know that everything was ready. He took one last at the waterfall were Kagome was staying in safe and sound and as far away from danger as possible or that's what he thought...

Kagome grabbed her coat before walking over to the window. She pressed her hand against the magic shield on the window, cause the shield to ripple violently. She focused hard on making her energy break the spell. She pushed harder and tiny sparks started to fly from where her hand and the invisible window met. With one last push the spell broke, sending in a giant gush of cold winter air.

"Oh snap Kouga, oh snap!" she muttered under breath as she hauled herself up and climbed out the window. She looked down to see how bad of a drop it was. She estimated that is was a twenty to twenty-five foot drop. She looked around and noticed the stables not to far ahead. She held onto the ledge of the window and made sure she had her feet on firm rocks before she scaled her way down.

Kagome carefully made her way to the stables, making sure to not be seen by the few guards that did not go to fight with the demon prince. She walked into almost empty barn, the smell of hay, oats, and horse manure. The few horses that were there snorted quietly as she walked deeper in the warm barn. A smile played on her face as she got closer to her horse. He stomped his feet and neighed loudly. She put her finger to her mouth and reached a hand through the metal bars that served as a window for him to see into the walk way to touch the giant black beast. His eyes closed lazily as she rubbed his forehead.

"If you want to get out of here as bad as I do then be quiet." She told him, knowing that there was little chance that he would understand her. She stepped back and looked around for her things. Her smile brightened in triumph as she spotted her saddle and other belongs next to the door. She kneeled down and carefully balanced the heavy saddle on her right thigh and flipped up the left side of it.

"I knew that wouldn't find you there!' she whispered as she pulled out her sword. She put the saddle down and pulled her sword of its case with grace. She turned it in front of her face, checking it for any damage. When she was satisfied that it was not harmed she put it back and attached it to her hip. She picked up her saddle and other tack and put it on her horse.

Flipping the reins over the stallion's head, she opened the heavy wooden door and lead him out. When they were a few feet away from the entrance she turned around to face him.

"Don't make any noise, okay?" she told him, praying that he would understand her or just have the common sense to be quiet. She carefully led him out of the stables and into the woods. She sighed in relief and threw the reins over his head and climbed on his back. The black steed moved up a few steps as she settled herself on him.

"'stay here' my ass!" she muttered as she kicked her stallion making go into a gallop in the direction of Kouga's aura and a bloody battle...

{a/n: oh! Look I left a little cliffy for you all! Aren't I sweet? Sorry it took so long, but I said before I was on vacation. Do you all know how hard it was for me to write this? Every time I sat down I had to do something. I was almost done and my dad dragged me to go by my equipment for field hockey. Man that was embarrassing! My dad was skateboarding around the store while I was trying on my cleats. He also knocked all the sample cleats on the wall of the shelves that were on! Oh it was horrible! So anyway...read and review!]