Chapter 6: "Dreadful Reunion"
It had been nearly an hour since Kagome had last seen Inuyasha. Not only was she feeling impatient about his whereabouts, but she was also starting to worry as well for some odd reason. 'What's taking him so long?' She mentally questioned, feeling frustrated as she continued pacing back and forth within her small cell. 'It shouldn't take THIS long to think of a plan! Jeez!' She stopped pacing and then leaned her back up against the cold metal cell door, sighing loudly in annoyance.
All of a sudden, the main doors to the holding cell area were violently pushed open and loudly banged against the inner walls. The sounds of struggling and someone yelling loudly could be heard making there way down the hallway.
Startled, Kagome gasped in surprise and then quickly whirled around to peer out through the barred window to see what all of the commotion was about. When she looked out, she saw Kouga and Manten practically dragging Inuyasha—who was cursing and yelling loudly—right past her cell and down towards one of the other empty cells. 'Oh no! They must've found out about us trying to escape!' She thought with panic as she watched on in shock at the scene taking place in the hallway.
"LET GO OF ME YOU BASTARDS!" Inuyasha furiously yelled as he continued to desperately wrestle out of the older Demon's grasps.
"Shut your mouth you filthy half-breed!" Manten spat back as he tightened his hold on the young half-Demon's arms.
During all of the struggling, Kouga had somehow managed to open an empty cell's door that was at the very end of the hallway. Without wasting another minute, he and Manten quickly shoved Inuyasha into the small cell and then quickly closed and locked the door.
Inuyasha landed roughly onto the cold and dirty ground, but then immediately scrambled up and ran to the door. "LET ME OUTTA HERE!" He growled out loudly as he started to violently punch and kick at the metal door.
"I'm sorry Inuyasha," Kouga stated in an orderly tone. "But this is Sesshoumaru's orders."
For a brief moment, Inuyasha could've sworn that he saw a look of sympathy and a hint of anger in Kouga's eyes as he made that statement.
Manten snorted. "Why the hell do we have to lock him up? I want to kill him right now!" He angrily complained as he glared murderously at Inuyasha—who was growling and baring his fangs as he glared right back at him.
Kouga slightly turned to face Manten. "Shut up!" He ordered smartly with a glare upon his face as he walked past the larger Demon and went over towards Kagome's cell door. When he finally approached the cell, he said nothing as he used his security pass card to unlock the door.
"STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM HER!" Inuyasha angrily threatened as he peered out through the cell door's barred window, noticing that the two older Demons were entering Kagome's cell. He knew that there was nothing he could do at that moment to help her and that only fueled his anger even more. All he could do was pray to whatever God was out there that those bastards wouldn't harm her.
Kagome instantly backed far away from the door upon seeing the two Demons approaching her. She glared and immediately started growling. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" She smartly demanded as she got into a fighting stance. "And why did you lock Inuyasha up?"
"Sesshoumaru has requested to see you." Kouga plainly stated as he cautiously made his way towards the half-Demon girl. "I'm sorry Kagome, but I'm only following my orders."
Behind Kouga, Manten was closely following along and smirking seductively at Kagome.
At that moment, Kagome didn't know what to do. Her instincts were telling her to fight or make a run for it, but the rational part of her brain was telling her to keep it cool, even though she noticed that Manten was still looking at her with that sick look upon his face.
"Please cooperate, Kagome. I don't want to have to use force this time." Kouga calmly requested, noticing that the half-Demon girl still held her defiant look and fighting stance.
"Look, I'll only cooperate under one condition," Kagome coldly replied as she quickly pointed over at Manten's form. "Make sure that disgusting tub of lard stays the hell away from me! Got it?" There was no way in hell that she'd ever let that twisted sicko near her ever again!
Kouga suddenly halted and quickly turned around to face Manten. "Get out!" He smartly ordered as he nudged his head in the direction of the cell door. "I don't feel like dealing with another hostile person today, so just do as I say and don't even look at the girl, got it?"
Manten just ignorantly snorted but followed Kouga's orders anyway and immediately stomped out of the cell and waited out in the hallway.
Kouga then turned back around to face Kagome again while taking out a pair of thick, heavy-duty metal wrist shackles from off of the back side of his belt.
"Um… Are those really necessary?" Kagome hesitantly asked as she eyed the weird looking handcuffs. She sighed and then stubbornly held out both of her arms. "I said I'd cooperate, remember?"
Kouga frowned. "I apologize for this, but I'm not taking any risks." He calmly replied as he firmly clasped the shackles around both of Kagome's wrists. "Well, let's get moving. Sesshoumaru's a very impatient person when it comes to waiting around…" He sarcastically remarked as he gestured towards the opened cell door with his left hand.
Kagome rolled her eyes and just ignored Kouga's comment as the two of them proceeded to exit the cell. Once they got out into the hallway, Kagome quickly glanced over to her right and noticed that Manten—who was standing several feet away—was glaring at her. On instinct, she emitted a low growl as a double warning for the older Demon to keep his distance as Kouga continued to usher her towards the double doors that were at the end of the hallway.
Seeing that Kagome was being led closer towards the exit, Inuyasha couldn't help the feeling of dread that was building up within his gut. "KOUGA, LET HER GO DAMN IT!" He hollered out in a desperate tone.
Kouga quickly glanced back at Inuyasha with an unreadable expression upon his face and said nothing as he just kept on walking towards the exit.
Inuyasha growled. "YOU KNOW WHAT SESSHOUMARU'S UP TO, DON'T YOU?" He yelled out in an accusing tone. "KAGOME DOESN'T DESERVE ANY OF THIS SHIT, SO WHY ARE YOU HELPING THAT BASTARD?" When he received no response from Kouga, he continued his protest. "HE'LL EVENTUALLY KILL YOU TOO AND YOU KNOW IT!"
"SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH YOU FILTHY MUTT!" Manten suddenly yelled, getting fed up with the teenage half-Demon's protests. "I'M TIRED OF HEARING YOUR GODDAMN VOICE!"
"WHY DON'T YOU COME BACK HERE AND MAKE ME SHUT UP, YOU LITTLE BITCH!" Inuyasha angrily shouted out in a taunting tone as he noticed Manten suddenly halt and turn around to face him with an angry red face.
"WHY YOU—" Manten started to say, but was suddenly cut off in mid-sentence.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP, BOTH OF YOU!" Kouga suddenly shouted without looking back at the arguing pair as he ushered Kagome and himself out of the holding cell area and into the main adjoining hallway.
Manten loudly growled and cursed under his breath as he quickly turned around and stomped out of the holding cell area, slamming the double doors shut behind him.
"DAMN IT!" Inuyasha furiously yelled out loud as he angrily punched the metal door to his cell with all his might. 'I have to get out of here and save Kagome!' He thought to himself as he continued to desperately thrash against the cell door to no avail.
Somewhere within the Onigumo Mansion…
As Kagome was being led throughout many of the large Mansion's corridors, she continued to remain quiet and kept all thoughts to herself as she surveyed her surroundings within the eerie Mansion.
Each hallway that Kagome had traveled down was elaborately decorated with fine china collectable plates, various antiques and other old-fashioned looking knick-knacks situated on expensive wooden stands and tables. Hand-painted oil paintings of various landscapes and ancestral family members lined the badly cracked walls. In some spots, old and faded tan wallpaper strips were either missing or loosely hanging down the sides. There were also some antique brass electrical candle lights that adorned the walls as well, which provided limited light due to their dimness and the fact that some of the bulbs were either broken or missing. The overall lighting effect seemed to create eerie shadows in some spots.
'I feel like I'm in some sort of horror movie…' Kagome thought to herself as she involuntary shivered slightly. 'This Mansion is way too creepy for me!'
Kagome also noticed that every piece of furniture and objects were all heavily coated with inches of dust, due from the neglect of not being polished and cleaned in several years. Even the carpeted floors were dusty and dirty! So every time she took a step, dust would kick up into the air, which caused her to sneeze a few times.
After what seemed like an hour of walking, Kouga had finally stopped in front of a large wooden door. He unlocked it with a small silver key and then proceeded to open the creaky sounding door that led… outdoors?
Kagome blinked in bewildered. "I thought you were taking me to see Sesshoumaru?" She asked in a confused tone as Kouga gently tugged her right arm and started leading her outside into the pouring down rain.
"I am." Kouga plainly responded as he kept leading Kagome along the wilted garden's gray cobblestone path.
Looking around at the surrounding dead garden area, Kagome couldn't help the familiar feeling that was building up within her gut. 'I think I've seen this place before… but where?' She thought to herself in confusion as she passed a large stone water fountain that had dead ivy leaves wrapped around its base.
Suddenly, Kagome realized something about the garden; the rain, the wilted and dead plants, the cobblestone pathway… 'THIS WAS IN MY DREAM!' She mentally exclaimed as she started thinking back to everything that she had seen in her dream that she was now seeing right before her eyes in reality. The only thing that was missing so far was the sad woman. 'What does this all mean?' She mentally questioned herself as the feeling of dread started building within her gut.
After a few more minutes of walking, Kouga, Kagome and Manten finally came to a large clearing that had a very large, round stone fountain with a weird looking serpent statue situated at the base of the fountain. Kouga signaled for the other two to stay as he approached the serpent statue and took out a small round silver medallion that was engraved with the Shikon Corporation symbol and then placed it into an exact fitted hole that was at the base of the statue. After the medallion had been properly placed, the ground suddenly started shaking slightly as the statue started to slowly descend into the cemented ground while the murky water from with inside the fountain started rapidly draining away to somewhere unknown.
Kagome's eyes widened with shock as she continued to watch the scene taking place before her. 'What the hell…?' She mentally questioned herself as she watched the serpent statue finally disappear into the ground. After all of the water had finally been drained, she found that there was a short set of metal stairs within the fountain that led down to a small elevator lift.
Kouga then proceeded to usher Kagome and himself through the opening where the statue had once been and then down the slick metal steps to the elevator lift, with Manten slowly following along behind them. When the three of them finally situated themselves onto the lift, Kouga pressed a large red button that was off to the side of the elevator and suddenly the lift started to slowly descend down into the deep, unknown darkness below.
Within a matter of minutes, the elevator lift made a sudden stop when it finally reached the solid ground below, which was hundreds of feet below the above-ground's surface. Manten was the first to exit the lift and then Kouga, who then ushered Kagome out as well. The three of them then made their way over to a solid steel door that was across from the elevator lift and then proceeded through the door.
After entering through the door, Kagome found herself standing in a small lobby, but before she could even take a look around, she was quickly ushered through another set of doors and then found herself standing in a brightly lit hospital-like hallway. The flooring was made up of a black & white tiled surface, which revealed a couple of scattered black scuffmarks and other unknown stains. The paneled walls were a plain eggshell white color that had a few post boards here and there with various flyers and memos posted with different colored thumbtacks. There were also several closed doors off to the left and the right sides of the hallway that were all numbered with different numbers at the very top of the doorways.
'It's so quiet and cold down here…' Kagome thought to herself as she shivered slightly, causing Goosebumps to form on both of her arms. Kouga then gently tugged on her right arm again and proceeded to lead her down the hallway with Manten trailing once again behind them.
After several minutes of walking down many different hallways, the three of them finally came to a stop in front of a metallic sliding door that was marked "Observation Room" at the very top of the doorway. Without saying a word, Manten pressed a little gray button that was off to the right side of the door and in an instant, the door quickly slid open with a soft hiss-like sound. The three of them then entered the small room, which looked like some kind of office. There were several different data charts posted amongst the walls, a metal office desk that had a computer and scattered documents & other papers strewn upon its surface. There was also a metallic work-station table that had a couple of unknown medical-looking instruments and devices that were all neatly situated on the tabletop's surface. Across the room from the entrance was another door, which was just a plain metal door with a simple doorknob. Next to that door was a large, thick-glassed observation window that allowed you to view what was inside the adjoing room, but at the moment, the room inside was pitch black.
Lastly, standing in the very center of the office room was a very tall man that had his back towards the three. He had long white hair that was neatly pulled back into a low ponytail at the base of his neck and he was wearing a dark blue combat uniform, which appeared almost similar to what Kouga and Manten were wearing at the moment. The man was also wearing a basic pair of black combat boots as well.
'That guy must be Sesshoumaru…' Kagome mentally concluded as she continued to stand in silence, waiting for the older Demon to speak.
As if reading Kagome's thoughts, Sesshoumaru slowly turned around and eyed the teenage half-Demon girl that was standing a couple of feet in front of him. "Ah, I see that you've finally arrived, Miss Higurashi." He coolly stated with a grin upon his face. "My name is Sesshoumaru, but you've probably already figured that out haven't you?"
Kagome snorted in an ignorant manner. "Yeah." She smartly replied as she glared at the older, intimidating Demon. "Anyway, I want to know what the hell is going on here and why you people have kidnapped me and made me a prisoner against my will!"
Sesshoumaru lightly chuckled. "Simple. You were trespassing on private property… The signs posted clearly stated that if you were caught trespassing, we had every right to detain you without questioning." He stated in a playful sounding tone. "And to answer the other part to your question—it's nothing that you need to know about."
"First of all, I NEVER saw any of your stupid signs posted ANYWHERE and secondly, what the hell do you mean "it's nothing that I need to know about"? Some crazy-ass guy in YOUR forest on YOUR property ATTACKED ME for cripes sake! I believe I have every damn right to know what's going on!" Kagome demanded loudly in a frustrated tone as she continued to angrily glare at Sesshoumaru.
Ignoring the teenage half-Demon's outburst, Sesshoumaru just glared in annoyance at her with his golden yellow eyes. "Let me ask you a question… Kagome." He casually said as he kept his steady glare upon her. "Why exactly were you in the forest anyway? If I'm correct—which I always am—residents from the city were strictly forbidden from going into the Arklay Mountains."
"I uh…" Kagome stammered awkwardly as she tried to quickly think of a good excuse to use. "…Just felt like going for a walk in the woods."
Sesshoumaru just simply smirked. "You're lying to me." He plainly stated.
Kagome nervously bit her bottom lip and said nothing. Instead, she just kept glaring coldly at Sesshoumaru, even though she didn't feel all that bold anymore.
"You were searching for the Shikon Corporation Headquarters to find your mother were you not?" Sesshoumaru asked in a mocking tone as he continued smirking. When he received no response from the teenager, he continued on. "I know that she contacted you over the phone… And that's the reason why you're here, isn't it?"
Kagome growled. "Where is she?" She demanded angrily through gritted teeth.
"She caused me a lot of trouble when I found out what she was up to." Sesshoumaru replied, once again ignoring Kagome's questions. "Just like your father did when I found out about what he and my father were up to; plotting to go against the Shikon Corporation."
Kagome blinked in confusion, but remained silent.
Sesshoumaru chuckled. "I exposed their little secret to Naraku, the founder of the Shikon Corporation. I knew that if I got those two out of the picture, Naraku would put me in charge of running the facilities here in Raccoon… and he did." He stated in a sadistic sounding tone as he continued to glare coldly at Kagome. "But I want it all! I want to rule the entire corporation! I want to make every single disgusting human in this world suffer!"
"But why? What the hell did humans ever do to you?" Kagome angrily argued back.
Sesshoumaru growled. "Humans are a disgrace to all mankind! They're stupid, weak and they all deserve to DIE!" He loudly proclaimed. "Inuyasha's whore of a mother—a damn human—had been replaced over my mother! SHE RUINED MY LIFE!"
Kagome snorted. "Oh, I get it!" She replied in a smart, sarcastic manner. "You're just a spoiled momma's boy that got pissed off 'cause his daddy married a human woman and now that spoiled brat wants revenge on everyone 'cause he's a little pissant!"
(SMACK!)
Quicker than the blink of an eye, the back of Sesshoumaru's hand forcefully met with the left side of Kagome's cheek, causing her to cry out in pain. The force from the slap had almost sent her to the floor, but Sesshoumaru had quickly reached out and grabbed her by the back of her ponytail and then angrily yanked her up to a standing position once again.
"Do you want to know what really happened to your father, you little bitch?" Sesshoumaru angrily hissed through clenched teeth as he pulled back harder on Kagome's hair so that she was now directly face to face with him, staring fearfully into his hatred-filled eyes. "It wasn't some 'car accident' that killed him… I KILLED HIM!"
Kagome tried to turn her head to look away, but Sesshoumaru roughly grabbed a hold of her jaw with his other hand to prevent her from doing so. She was so scared at the moment that tears were starting to well up within her eyes. "You bastard!" She whispered harshly as she started to struggle out of the Demon's grasp.
Sesshoumaru suddenly smirked evilly. "I have a surprise for you!" He smartly announced with enthusiasm as he roughly pulled Kagome over towards the large viewing window and then flipped on a light switch that was off to the side of the window. When the lights in the other room came on, Kagome gasped in horror at what she saw displayed inside.
Bound to the farthermost wall by electronic metal clasps was Kagome's mother. Her white over coat was torn in some places and stained with dried blood, as well as the front of her blouse and long skirt. Mrs. Higurashi's head was drooped down, making it impossible to see her due to the messy locks of raven black hair that hung down in front of her face.
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO MY MOTHER?" Kagome loudly shouted out in a horrified tone as Sesshoumaru proceeded to drag her over to the plain metal door that led into to the other room where her mother was.
Sesshoumaru smirked wickedly as he opened the door. "You'll see!" He smartly replied as he quickly unlatched Kagome's wrist shackles and then roughly shoved her into the room. He then slammed the door closed and then retrieved a small silver key out from within his right pants pocket and locked the door.
Kagome stumbled into the small, foul-smelling room and caught herself just before she landed onto the hard, dirty white tiled floor. Without hesitating, she quickly rushed over to her mother's still form that was bound to the cemented wall. "Mom! MOM! Are you all right? Say something!" She quickly asked in a panicked tone as she reached up and gently tilted her mother's chin up… and then almost screamed out in pure terror.
Mrs. Higurashi's face was a deathly white pale color and peeling with rotten flesh in some places. Her eyes were opened and displayed nothing but a glassed-over whiteness to them instead of her once beautiful brown color. Her still, cold body showed no signs of life whatsoever anymore.
Sensing the nearby presence of the living, the zombified Mrs. Higurashi suddenly started to moan in an eerie, desperate-like manner as she started to slowly lift her head up by her own will.
Kagome gasped and took a few shaky steps backwards as tears started flowing freely down both of her cheeks. "W-what did you do to her?" She demanded in a choked voice as she watched as her undead mother started snarling and struggling to break free out of her bindings.
Suddenly, Sesshoumaru's voice broke out over a loud speaker that was installed in the top left corner of the room. "I did absolutely nothing. It was all the work from the virus that turned her into what she is now." He stated in a simple, uncaring tone.
"YOU LIAR!" Kagome angrily shouted, her voice sounding full of rage.
Sesshoumaru just laughed. "Let's have a little fun now shall we?" He exclaimed with enthusiasm as he pressed a switch somewhere within the observation room.
All of a sudden, the metal clasps that were holding Mrs. Higurashi into place against the wall clicked open, therefore instantly releasing the zombified woman onto the floor below. Mrs. Higurashi then slowly started to pick herself up off of the floor while hungrily moaning.
Still in shock, all Kagome did was just stand there and watch as her undead mother started to slowly shuffle her way over towards her with outstretched arms. 'This can't be happening! I can't believe she's… she's…' She thought with horror, not wanting to accept with what she was seeing right before her very eyes.
Sesshoumaru on the other hand was simply enjoying the 'heart-wrenching' scene the mother and daughter that was taking place in the opposite room. All he kept doing was smirking and chuckling to himself, as well as Manten too.
Kouga on the other hand couldn't stand it. 'Damn that heartless bastard!' He angrily thought to himself as he quickly turned his head away, no longer able to watch the scene taking place in the other room anymore. 'I have to do something! I can't just stand here and not do anything!'
As Mrs. Higurashi kept advancing closer towards her daughter, all Kagome kept doing was backing away from her as much as possible, not knowing what else to do. 'I can't just keep this up!' She thought with frustration. 'But I don't know what else to do!'
Suddenly, Kagome accidentally tripped over her own feet and ended up falling onto the floor, landing right on her backside. In a quick instant, the zombified Mrs. Higurashi snarled and quickly lunged down at her daughter, trying to bite at her flesh. But Kagome was quick to react to the situation and therefore grabbed a tight hold of her mother's neck and right shoulder, keeping a somewhat safe distance from being bitten. 'I have to end this… but I can't! I just can't do it!' She thought with frustration as she continued to wrestle her snarling mother away from her.
For a moment, Kagome looked straight up into her mother's eyes—her dead, lifeless eyes. Her mother was no longer the person she was before. In fact, she was actually dead… Only her body continued to move with the primal instinct for the need to feed—on living flesh that is. As hard as it was to accept it, Kagome knew what she had to do next… and she knew that somewhere within the spiritual realm, her mother would agree with her decision as well. 'This can't go on any longer. I have to put mama out of her misery… Even though she's not alive anymore… I have to do it!' With that last thought, Kagome tightly shut her eyes closed and started to cry out loud, preparing herself for what she was about to do. She hesitantly positioned her hands around her mother's neck and face and then in one quick motion, sharply snapped her mother's neck.
Mrs. Higurashi's body instantly went limp and then slumped down onto the floor directly beside her daughter. Shaken and horrified at what she had just done, Kagome quickly sat upright and then turned over to gather her mother's lifeless body into her arms, crying her shattered and torn heart out. "I love you so much, mama!" She cried out in a choked voice, not caring if anyone was watching her or not as she continued to cry upon her mother's limp shoulder.
In the opposite room, Sesshoumaru smirked and Manten continued to chuckle in amusement while Kouga stared angrily down at the floor, tightly clenching his hands into fists at his sides.
Somewhere on Basement Level 3…
The sound of Kagura's high-heeled hurried footsteps echoed loudly throughout the long, empty hallway in which she was currently traveling down. She was on one of the lower maintenance basement levels of the lab's facilities, quickly heading towards the Main Power Supply Room.
'If anyone finds out that I'm down here…' Kagura thought with worry, but then quickly shook her head to get rid of those negative thoughts. 'No one knows what I'm up to—not even Yura!' She mentally reassured herself as she took one last quick puff of her cigarette before carelessly flicking it onto the cemented ground. Sweat was already starting to form upon her determined face, due from her nerves and feeling paranoid about the entire situation which was about to take place.
Finally, Kagura approached a solid steel locked door that was at the end of the hallway. She quickly fumbled with the small ring of keys that she had been holding and found the required key labeled, "B-3 C. Room" (Basement-3 Control Room) and then quickly unlocked the door. Once the door had been unlocked, she then quickly stepped inside the small room and flipped on the nearby light switch that was off to the right side of the door. The only objects within the room were just a plain metal locker and a metal desk that had various unimportant papers scattered about its surface. There was also another door that led to another room. Kagura made her way over to the locker and used another small from the key ring to unlock the padlock. After opening the locker door, she found a folded-up blueprint of the entire lab facilities, a large industrial-sized flashlight, a 9mm handgun and a small unopened box of 9mm bullets.
'I'll definitely need the map and the flashlight once I shut off all the power.' Kagura mentally concluded. 'And I guess I should take the gun with me as well.' She then hastily grabbed all of the items within the locker, making sure to load the gun with the bullets first before situating the gun—with the safety on—into the back of her skirt. Afterwards, she then proceeded over to the other door and entered the next room.
The room in which Kagura had just entered was a very large maintenance/control room. There were various levers, buttons and other technical equipment placed throughout the entire room that allowed you to activate or deactivate anything and everything within the Mansion and the lab facilities. In the very center of the room was a very large complicated-looking metal structure, which was the main reactor—the essential device for activating an emergency self-destruct countdown system. Lastly, off to the side of the reactor was a small control panel that required a special card key to activate the self-destruct system.
After quickly glancing around the room, Kagura then proceeded over to the left side of the room where the master control switch was located. 'I'll teach that bastard Sesshoumaru that I'm not a person to mess with!' She angrily thought with a grin. 'I'm going to destroy this damn evil company once and for all! Then… YOU'RE NEXT, FATHER!' With that last thought, the angry Demon woman slammed her fist down onto the master control switch, destroying the panel, which permanently disabled everything from the electricity to the security systems from ever being activated again.
"That was a very entertaining show, Kagome." Sesshoumaru's voice suddenly announced over the loud speaker. "What a better way to torture someone then by having them kill one of their loved ones. It's simply priceless."
Kagome slowly looked up at the large glass mirrored window and glared hatefully at Sesshoumaru—even though she couldn't see him at the moment. "YOU BASTARD!" She yelled venomously as she started to growl. "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO MY MOTHER!"
Sesshoumaru started laughing like a madman. "Do you honestly think that YOU, a mere HALF-BREED can defeat ME? You're out of your mind, bitch!" He smartly declared out loud.
All of a sudden, the lights within both rooms suddenly went out, momentarily surprising everyone. A second later, the back-up emergency lights came on, but they were very dim and didn't give off a whole lot of lighting.
"What the hell?" Manten proclaimed out loud to no one in particular. "What happened to all the lights?"
Then suddenly, the three Demons that were standing in the observation room all heard the electronic door behind them unlock all by itself.
Sesshoumaru growled. 'This must be Kagura's doing!' He angrily thought to himself as he abruptly turned around and faced Kouga and Manten. "You two; go and check the control room and find out what happened!" He then commanded smartly.
Manten just nodded and quickly left the room, while Kouga just stood in his place and glared at Sesshoumaru.
"Are you deaf or something, idiot? Sesshoumaru smartly asked in an impatient tone as he glared back at the younger Demon. "I gave you an order! Now MOVE!"
'I can't defeat him… He'll kill me before I can even make a strike!' Kouga mentally declared to himself as he unnoticeably growled lowly. Without saying a word, he then quickly left the room to go and check the problem out.
After a moment of just standing there in silence, Sesshoumaru then glanced back into the opposite room and noticed that Kagome was still crying and holding onto her dead mother. 'The door's manually locked, so there's no way she'll be able to escape.' He mentally reassured himself as he started walking out of the room and into the dimly lit hallway. 'Inuyasha's probably escaped his cell by now… He'll be heading here, no doubt.' With that last thought, the older Demon then started heading for the emergency exit, in pursuit of his little brother.