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Kagome struggled under the youkai's strong grasp. The hand around squeezed harder around her mouth when she tried to scream with one last effort. Her voice was once again muffled and she soon felt lightheaded from the lack of air reaching her lungs.
Zuri released his arm around Kagome's stomach but held her close to his body as he searched around for the perfect spot to put her. The youkai began stroking Kagome's head and laughed when she started to squirm under his grasp.
"Now, now Kagome you mustn't move. Do you wish to injure both of us? Hush now."
The miko bit hard down on the palm of Zuri's hand. He pulled it away with a painful yelp and scanned the delicate skin in the dark, but not before he reached out and grabbed Kagome as she tried to run.
"Come back here." He pulled Kagome right up to him so that their faces were almost touching. Kagome couldn't see him but she knew where he was. "Now listen Kagome you're going to obey me or you'll never live AGAIN." He shook the miko back and forth.
"Why'd you do this Zuri? I accepted you as a friend then you go and trap me in this god awful cave."
Zuri started running his fingers through Kagome's hair. He looked at Kagome's confused face and pressed his face against hers.
"Come on Kagome I thought you'd like this." He leaned closer and went to kiss her but Kagome slapped him across the face and pushed away from him as much as she could.
"Stay away from me!"
The miko departed from the youkai and started to run away again.
Zuri grabbed her wrist violently, cutting it in the process of doing so. He threw her to the ground and held down her arms as she struggled to get up.
"Stay still and quit trying to run. It's absolutely useless." Zuri picked the miko up and placed her under his arm and began walking. "Now once I find a good spot to stay you will behave or you will suffer tremendously."
"But you couldn't hurt me Zuri," Kagome said. "I know you wouldn't dream of it."
The youkai went silent and felt utterly stupid for a moment.
"Silence!"
"You know you won't get away with this."
"Oh really? I will and when I'm done you won't even go near that stupid ignorant half breed, you'll be mine."
"Inuyasha!" Kagome gasped. "What did you do to him? Answer me!"
Zuri laughed. "Him? Oh I took care of him don't worry."
"You bastard! Put me down I have to find Inuyasha!"
"Don't waste your breath over him. You're in my hands now and I'll take oh so much better care of you Kagome."
The miko started kicking and waving her arms around frantically. One of her shoes caught the youkai in the ribs. His anger rose and he couldn't take Kagome's fidgeting anymore. Why wouldn't she just give up?
Zuri took Kagome and threw her against the wall. He quickly started a fire after that.
"Well this will have to do for now, won't it?"
Kagome moaned in pain. Her head had been smashed against the hard rock and had almost knocked her out. She raised a hand and felt around until she found the sore. The miko yelped as she touched it and remembered not to do that again. Then Kagome looked up to see the youkai standing over her and just staring.
"W-what do you want?" Kagome asked, as everything seemed to become louder. 'Must be the bump on my head'. She thought.
"Come here."
Kagome shook her head and crossed her arms.
"We'll have to do this the hard way now won't we?"
The miko's eyes widened when the youkai bent down and picked her up. He put his mouth to her neck and prepared to bite it.
"Get away!"
"If you'd behave it won't hurt!"
"What won't hurt?" Kagome snapped.
Zuri lowered his head again and tried to bite her but Kagome thought fast and ran to the side. She saw this as her chance and dashed to a place where she could keep the weird youkai at bay.
'There's a light up ahead, that must be the entrance,' Kagome thought. She picked up her pace and darted towards the light. The miko was almost there when something stood in the entrance.
"Eeep." Was all Kagome could manage to say as Zuri picked her up and brought her back to the previous spot where she had been.
Zuri made the fire bigger as he kept a close eye on the girl that he was going to make regret ever befriending.
Kagome stared back with an angry expression on her face. She didn't want to be here. She wanted to be outside and make sure that Inuyasha was okay. But she couldn't because she was stuck in this cave with a weird youkai who was trying to bite her neck.
"Get your eyes off me."
Zuri stopped making the fire once it was done and went over to Kagome. The youkai sat down beside her and put a warm smile on his face. It melted away when the miko turned her head and moved from him.
"Look at me Kagome."
"No."
"Look at me."
"I told you no so lay off."
"Look at me dammit!"
Zuri grabbed Kagome by the shoulder and swung her violently around. He looked in her eyes and expected to see fear but saw none whatsoever. Why wasn't she afraid?
"Get your hands off me and leave me alone or if you don't Inuyasha will be very angry."
"Inuyasha is dead now. So all you have is me and if I were you I'd except the help."
"You're lying."
Kagome tried to pull away but Zuri held his grip. Then he dipped his head down before the miko could react and bit her sensitive skin with his fangs.
All Kagome could feel was every limb in her body going numb as poison rushed through her blood stream. She slowly moved her eyes to the side to find Zuri looking at her. She opened here mouth to speak but it felt so heavy and impossible to open and close.
"Stay here while I go get everything I need for this. I'm guessing that you can't move now right? Well you won't be able to for about an hour or so," Zuri smiled wickedly and walked away, leaving Kagome stranded, feeling helpless and dumb for not being able to see Zuri trying to bite her.
'That creep is going to pay. If I can get away I'll be able to find Inuyasha, I hope he's alright. I'll have to get my backpack and take it to wherever he is and…. What's this?"
Kagome could feel the terrible numbness subsiding and all heaviness in her face went away too. A soft pink glow vibrated off of her body and lit up the dark cave. Kagome looked down at her hands.
"My miko powers? They pushed the poison away."
She looked around and couldn't see any sign of the youkai. Kagome then stepped forward and felt the numbness in her legs shatter. She shook them a bit then moved on.
"Okay now it's time to get to the entrance."
"I think not!"
Kagome turned around and saw Zuri standing there. When will this guy ever give up?
"So you posses spiritual powers, no? Well those aren't going to stop this!"
Giant vines sprouted out of the ground and wrapped themselves over Kagome's body. They lifted her into the air until they were at Zuri's height.
"Now Kagome, why don't we have some fun?"
"You wish," Kagome spat.
The grip of the vines tightened. Kagome struggled to get out but tiny thorns pricked her skin. Her eyes opened wide when a blue aura surrounded her. Small sparks were being produced and she guessed it was some sort of barrier to keep both her and her miko powers under control.
"Kagome?"
She didn't answer.
"Kagome?"
Still no answer.
"Listen bitch I'm talking to you!"
Zuri raised a clawed hand and slapped Kagome across the face. She didn't do anything except glare at him stubbornly.
"Now I want you to listen to me and obey my every command, do you understand?"
"Hmph." Kagome blew her bangs to the side and stuck her head up high. "And why should I?"
"Don't be foolish."
"I won't do anything for you, ever!"
Zuri hissed. He cracked his knuckles and looked at Kagome until he found an appropriate time to talk.
"Do you remember my eyes?" he asked.
Kagome shook her head.
"Then perhaps you shall remember this." Zuri reached inside his robes and produced a small purple jar. He laughed when fear filled Kagome's eyes.
"You see I am the one who poisoned you. I did it Kagome and I can do it again."
The miko began to shudder at the thought of going through the pain and agony of hurting Inuyasha.
"Looks like things will go my way," the youkai cackled.
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Immense weight was all he could feel crushing down on his body. Darkness was completely surrounding him, consuming him into its deadly vortex.
Inuyasha was confused. He was riding on the rivers of unconsciousness that had whispered to him to jump in, but he refused to. His left arm was injured badly from the force of the boulders smashing into his body. Any youkai would be damaged from the weight and not to mention the shock that the body went into shortly after.
He tried to open his eyes but dust and pebbles fell into the delicate amber orbs. The hanyou closed them tightly and cursed Zuri for doing this to him. He tried to move his uninjured arm and it worked. Next Inuyasha tried to move his mouth without much dust flowing into his throat.
"That asshole is going to pay as soon as I get out of this stupid mess."
Inuyasha shifted around in his crammed position and growled when a rock fell down from the top of the pile and landed directly on his head. A small sore appeared shortly after.
"Oh damn it all to hell."
The hanyou flexed his legs and felt some of the rocks move. All he had to do now was figure out how to shift his weight at the perfect time and he'd be out in no time.
"Zuri. When I get out you are going to die slowly and painfully."
There was still blood under his claws from scratching the snake youkai. He could feel a slight burning sensation arise in his stomach where Zuri had struck him and sent him flying into the rock wall without even letting Inuyasha get back up to continue their battle.
"What a cowardly way to fight," the hanyou spat.
The image of the way Zuri had looked at Kagome flashed briefly in his mind. He wouldn't let that bastard even have a chance to escape if he put one hand on Kagome.
Inuyasha was grinding his teeth together roughly. Cold sweat gathered on his head and a dangerous growl erupted from his throat at the thought of what Zuri may have done to Kagome.
He had to protect her, but he couldn't. She was totally defenseless because he remembered seeing her drop all of her stuff outside of the cave. And he had to be stuck here because of some pathetic incarnation of Naraku.
"Just hang on Kagome."
Inuyasha's eyebrows and ears twitched as he began to push all his weight on the rocks. They began to move and rattle madly and more clouds of dust, thicker and dryer, fell down on the hanyou, but it didn't stop him one bit as he continued to finish what he had just started.
The rocks all moved at once as Inuyasha suddenly burst out of the boulders. He soared through the sky for a moment, savoring the fresh night air, then landed in front of the pile that he had been covered under.
"That bastard."
Inuyasha turned around and headed towards the cave entrance. He looked over the area and found Kagome's bow and arrows. The hanyou grabbed them and walked towards the opening.
He stopped briefly and smelt the air.
"That's funny……."
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Still shaking violently in fear of having to be poisoned again, Kagome was still wrapped in the crushing vines with the lightning barrier around her.
Zuri was still staring at her with a sly, yet cruel smile plastered on his face. He began to pace back and forth trying to formulate a new way to put Kagome into an even further state of fear. Then the fun would begin.
To Kagome's advantage the youkai could not come up with anything at all. With his anger rising quickly he decided to take it out on the miko. He took his fist and brought it down directly into her stomach.
Kagome forgot all the fear that was swelling up inside her. The impact had driven anything and everything out. She narrowed her eyes and glared at the youkai.
"That hurt you creep!"
Zuri laughed. He was cut short when he noticed that she was no longer in a state of fear what so ever.
"What did you do, bitch?"
"I did nothing at all," Kagome spat, sending a big wad of spit hurling directly towards the youkai's face. She laughed when he got angry.
"That's enough! It's time to begin, no more hassles!"
Zuri moved over to Kagome and slipped one of the sleeves of her school uniform off.
Kagome began to shriek frantically.
"Inuyasha!"
She gasped when she heard a voice that was music to her ears.
"Get your hands off her," a low growling noise came from behind Zuri. "You're going to pay for this you son of a bitch!"
The youkai turned around with a sly smile on his face.
"Ah, if it isn't the pathetic Inuyasha? Oh what's this? Why had your hair changed color? Oh how could I forget, you're a half demon! Ah ha ha ha!"
"Oh no," Kagome said from her position.
Inuyasha looked down at his hands. He had to save Kagome but couldn't use the Tetsusaiga, so he would have to use his claws before they completely disappeared. He leapt towards Kagome and aimed at the bottom of the vines.
"Iron Reaver!"
Inuyasha broke through them and caught Kagome. He handed her the bow and arrows. Then he rolled up his sleeves of his haori and walked towards Zuri.
"You filthy snake. You are going to die for what you've done."
"No. Inuyasha wait!" Kagome called.
Zuri used this as his advantage. A vortex of wind surrounded his body and the youkai turned into his true form. He stuck out his tail and grabbed Inuyasha and held him in front of his face.
"Ssso Inuyasha we meet again."
Kagome notched an arrow and aimed at Zuri.
"You let him go!" She pulled back on the arrow and let it go.
"The purify arrow," the youkai hissed.
It ripped threw his tail and Inuyasha fell to the ground. Kagome immediately ran in front of him and notched another arrow to protect Inuyasha from Zuri.
"Don't even think about it!"
Zuri chuckled. Knowing that he was in a desperate situation the youkai blew up a strong gust of wind.
Kagome and Inuyasha ran after him until they reached the cave entrance. They both stopped and were completely silent until Inuyasha finally spoke.
"Damn. He's escaped."
A gently breeze ruffled the leaves on the trees as the new moon shone brightly onto the land.
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