Author's Notes: Hehe, I'm back again! Sorry if these couple of chapters are going to be a little rushed. I have chapter 4 planned out too, but I promise once they start traveling it'll get way more interesting! Anyhow, thanks for the reviews, I appreciate it a lot!

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters, though I do own the plot of this fanfic!

Previous Chapter: Though after she fell asleep, two men came into the room and fixed their selves' a bed, then, they too fell asleep soon after.

One of the men had one thought that ran through his head even though he was asleep.

'Maybe this is worth it since there are so many slave girls,' he thought with a grin pasted on his face.

Pervert.

In the Shadows

Chapter 3: Him

---=Kagome=---

The next morning...

Kagome woke up to the sound of someone very familiar yelling. There was also a man's voice that she didn't recognize.

She opened one eye to find that the sky was still pretty dark. Not the time when she usually woke up and if you haven't already guessed. Kagome isn't a morning person and if she didn't get enough sleep, you'll be hearing her spaz all day long.

She groaned loudly. "Sango! What are you doing yelling so early in the morning!?"

Kagome wait for a reply. It never came except, "HENTAI!" and then a very loud bam and a slap. Kagome knew that wasn't aimed at her, so the only explanation would be that Sango hadn't heard her.

Kagome sighed, knowing she had to get up to see what the commotion was about. When she finally sat up, got her head off the pillow, and waiting a moment before her eyes were focusing, what she saw was nothing what she had expected.

In front of her was the silvered hair hanyou staring at her, Sango's face was red with fury staring at something on the ground, and when Kagome looked at what she was staring. She saw a young man about 18 on the ground unconscious with a red hand print on the face and a big bump on his head.

She knew Sango was strong, but she would never do anything to harm anyone without a reason.

So she asked, "Alright, Sango, what's going on?"

Sango suddenly spun around and looked at Kagome, noticing her for the first time.

"Oh...good morning Kagome?" Sango said and then she starting laughing nervously.

"Ok, if you tell me why," she pointed to the hanyou with the silver hair who was still staring at her and the unconscious guy on the ground, "I won't start spazzing," Kagome said.

"Well, the guy on the floor came up to my bed this morning and groped my behind. Other than that, I have absolutely no idea why they are here. Though I think it might be Naraku's orders."

Kagome gasped, "He groped you?!"

"Yea--"

Kagome heard Sango gasp.

"What?" asked Kagome while looking around trying to find out what made Sango gasp.

Sango pointed in front of Kagome. She followed the finger and saw the hanyou with the silver hair.

"What about him?" Kagome asked.

Sango replied, "H-He's the Inu Youkai P-P-Prince," she stuttered out.

The 'Inu-Youkai-Prince' looked surprised.

"What!?" Kagome all but yelled.

Suddenly, Kagome realized how loud they have been. She looked around the room. Surprisingly, no one other than them was awake. She let out a sigh of relief, but her attention soon traveled back to the hanyou.

But when she looked at him this time, the now conscious man from the ground stood beside him.

'Oh great, now what?' Kagome thought

The man that was on the ground wore purple clothes. He was the one who spoke first.

"Yes, he is the Inu Youkai prince, and his name is Inuyasha, but he's not that interesting to know about, now is he? I'm sure I'm more interesting! My name is Miroku and-"

The poor man never got to finish his sentence as 'Inuyasha' hit him and he fell back into unconscious yet again.

Inuyasha sighed and closed his eyes, "He never gives up, does he?"

Kagome and Sango stood staring at him. Then suddenly, as if he saw us staring, he opened his eyes and stared at us.

It was like a staring contest, except Kagome got tired and asked him what he was doing here.

He sighed and answered, "I was trying to find out what his evil plans were, I let my guard down for a second and his men knocked me unconscious. We were brought in the castle and he made us become his 'slaves'," Kagome watched as he rolled his eyes.

"But, that's pretty useless, because I'm a hanyou and I can break free of here whenever," he continued.

Kagome was about to ask another question when suddenly Miroku appeared beside her and took her hands into his and asked, "Will you bear my child?" with a strange glint in his eyes.

She stared at him and took his hands off of hers and smiled innocently.

"Why, as a matter of fact...NO!" With that, Kagome slap him across his face as hard as she could and glared at him.

Miroku sighed and said, "It was worth a try though."

Kagome looked at his face and saw a red handprint.

She smiled and said, "Don't you like his new face?" turning his face to Sango and Inuyasha.

Sango gave her thumbs up while Inuyasha gave her a weird look.

Kagome sighed, "I wanna go back to sleep, but since I'm awake, why don't the oh-so-mighty Inuyasha show us how to get out of this place, ne? Naraku went out last night; he probably won't be back until another week or so. Gives us time to get away, yay!"

Somewhere while Kagome said this, Miroku came back to life.

Inuyasha gave her an annoyed look and then said, "What do you mean we?"

"I mean Sango, you, Miroku, and I!" she replied

"Who said that we're going with you?" he snapped.

I looked at him with a deadly glint in my eye, "Says me because if you don't I'm going to tell Naraku that you're a prince!"

He gritted his teeth, showing me just how cute his fangs looks like, and said, "He already knows!"

"Then...I'll tell all the slaves that you're a prince!" she retorted.

"You wouldn't dare," he said.

"Yes I would!"

"Feh," was his reply.

"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked.

"Whatever, wench," he said.

Kagome felt her anger rise throughout her body.

"Look, my name-

Kagome was going to correct him when it struck her. He didn't know her name!

She was still irritated though, so she used a soft voice that had a deadly tone to it.

"Ok, Inuyasha, I'm Kagome, and my friend beside me is Sango..." Kagome turned to Sango, but found that she was in a battle with Miroku, who was trying to pretend he couldn't control his hands.

Kagome sighed, this was getting nowhere.

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In the end, they finally got Inuyasha to go and try to 'break' out of the castle, but Sango and Kagome forgot about the barrier that surrounded the castle from letting anyone go outside.

Before Inuyasha could even touch the front gate, the barrier reacted and it threw him back.

Kagome and Sango gasped.

"Sorry, Inuyasha! I forgot that there was a barrier around the castle on the inside! Are you alright?" Kagome said.

Inuyasha just got up and threw them a look that said 'could-have-told-me-earlier!'

"Feh, it takes more than that to defeat me. Remember? I'm a hanyou, if it were a human, you would have gotten burnt! If I had Tetsusaiga here, I could break this barrier in no time!"

"What's Tetsusaiga?" asked, Sango.

"It's my sword," replied Inuyasha simply.

"Oh," both Kagome and Sango said in unison.

A moment of silence passed before Kagome suddenly had a mischief smile on her face.

Inuyasha noticed this and said, "What are you smiling about, wench?"

"I told you my name is Kagome, Ka-Go-Me!" She said still smiling that smile of hers.

"I asked you, what are you smiling about?"

"If you can't break the barrier that means you can't get out." Kagome answered.

"And?" asked Inuyasha, getting very impatient; it showed on his face.

"That means....you have to do slave work!" said Kagome proudly with a huge smile on her face.

Both Inuyasha and Miroku gasped at that while Sango laughed.

'Oh, shit!' They both thought.

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A/N: Bwhahaha! Like it? It took me two hours to write it! It's really short, but the conversations were long....throughout the fic, there's going to be long chapters and short ones, okay?

Is it really true that Inuyasha is ending in September? I don't want it to end, but at the same time I want to know the ending. Although it's not certain, Inuyasha may end on episode 167 and it's already 161!!!!

Dragon-tears – Thanx a lot for your reviews!! Yeah...it was a little weird that Kagome found the book and the key....if I think of a way to clear it up, I'll put up a little Q&A thing!

Cya! The next update will come soon....and when I reach exciting parts, I'll make a really long chapter!

purity=starz----July 28, 04---Redone August 7, 04