Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha, even though I wish I did.

(A/N: Ok peoples I've had a lot of people ask me what happen to Miroku, Shippo and Sango. So here you go a chapter just for them. Of Course our favorite couple will have a part in this chapter as well.)

Chapter 7: Dark Void and Finding a Friend

By Tainted InuShemeeko

A lump of clothing moaned as water began dripping down on to it. Moving ever so slightly, a dirt-smudged face of a young man could be seen through the tattered and torn robes. The young man moaned again as water continued to run down his face leaving a trail as it did. That's when the young man realized that there was something cold and wet on his forehead. Slowly he began to open his eyes revealing slate colored irises, his vision was blurry at first and every thing started to clear. The face of a young boy of seven or eight, with grass green eyes and orange hair, appeared in his line of vision.

"Oh Miroku, you're awake. I'm so glad I was starting to worry that you never were going to come to again."

Miroku blinked a few times before speaking to Shippo.

"Shippo what happened, how long was I asleep for?"

The young fox youkai frowned has he gave it some thought.

"I'm not that sure, a few days maybe. Then again you're always in and out of unconsciousness that is after those weird doctors poke and prod you with things."

Miroku winced as he tried to sit up, every single muscle screamed in pain as he did, causing him to wince in pain. Just what in the word had the done to him or more so what were they planning on doing to him. The not knowing unsettled him greatly he then remembered something else.

"Inuyasha, I do hope he is doing well."

A deep sadness crept into his grey eyes as he thought of his demon friend. That's when he noticed Shippo frown right before he smiled.

"I think Inuyasha is doing better then we are."

Miroku raised an eyebrow at his young friend. He winced once more as his head pounded in pain. He was very confused by what his little fox friend had just said. His confusion was not helping his aching head.

"I don't think I follow you Shippo. What do you mean when you say that Inuyasha is doing better then the two of us?"

Shippo just shook his head at his friend.

"Really Miroku, did you forget that I can take other forms as well. When they take you out of here for all those test the do. I turn myself into a mouse and pop through the hole by the door over there."

His little fingers waved wildly at the golf ball side hole in the wall. Miroku's grey eyes followed the child's frantic movements and spied the hole as well.

"So how exactly did you find him Shippo?"

This caused Shippo to giggle at him.

"I used my nose silly how else would I find him."

Seeing the young boy's happiness caused him to inquire about more details.

"Just what did you find when you found Inuyasha?"

Shippo tapped his finger on his chin as he gave it some thought.

"Inuyasha is in this huge forest like room, and the best thing is that he gets to share it with a pretty lady."

Miroku's eyes widened in surprise as he took in what the little kit had just told him. It was just too much; he just couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"So our dear friend Inuyasha is having a more enjoyable time then we are. Ah, to only be as lucky as he."

Shippo waved his little hands in front of Miroku, as he tried to bring him out of his own little daydream.

"Miroku, this is no time to space out on me. Besides, during the third day of being here Inuyasha was less then happy. I could hear his screams through the walls didn't you, or did those men scramble your brains too?"

Thinking back to the first three days they had entered this hellhole. Miroku nodded his head as a memory came to him.

"Now that you mention it Shippo, I do recall hearing a howl of pain coming from an animal. Are you sure it was Inuyasha we heard?"

Shippo smacked himself in the forehead after hearing Miroku's question.

'I don't believe it, and here I thought I was the kid here. Maybe they did do something to Miroku's brain.'

Taking a deep breath he then turned to face the young man who had become his friend.

"Come on Miroku, I used to spend every hour of the day trying to see how long it would take him to get angry at me. Trust me when I say that was Inuyasha we heard when we arrived."

He then began pulling on the sleeve of Miroku's robes.

"Come on Miroku, I'll use me fox magic to get us out of here before they get here and..."

The sound of foot steps outside their cell door was then followed by, a clicking sound. Not having enough time too try and shrink Miroku and him self like he had planned. Shippo quickly transformed it a pillow and threw himself in the corner.

A big tall man, who looked like he had spent his whole life at the gym, stood in the doorway. His dark eyes glared down at Miroku.

"Why lookie here, it looks like sleeping beauty is finally awake."

The gym buff then grabbed Miroku up by his collar and hauled him to his feet.

"Come on now, your late for your final doctor's appointment can't have you missing it now can we?"

Miroku managed one final glance behind him, as there was a popping sound as a sad green-eyed Shippo watched as his friend was dragged out the door. Three of the times they had taken Miroku, Shippo had bit and scratched at them. The only thing he had managed to do was to get thrown against the stone wall. After finding Shippo still unconscious when they had turned him to his room. Miroku had told him to just let them take him, even if he didn't like it.

Shippo continued to just stare at the metal door, when in a sad and whining voice he finished his words from earlier.

"and take you away again. I didn't want to be left all alone again."

Now what was he going to do? That's when he remembered what he always did, he pulled out a leaf and thought real hard about what he wanted to become. A few minutes later there was a pop and Shippo the fox demon, was now Shippo the little mouse.

"Now, all I have to do is try to follow his scent. Maybe I'll even get lucky and I'll run into Inuyasha.

Scurrying to the hole as quick as he could, he was the gone within a blink of an eye.

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Miroku felt useless; there was nothing he could do to fight back. He had seriously tried once and only succeeded in getting his butt kick.

'Now would be a good time for Inuyasha to come charging in here. However, something tells me I'm hoping for too much. I hope Shippo will be all right, it's strange really they don't seem to be concerned with him at all. So why did they take him?'

He was unable to finish his thought however, for the feeling of something cold and hard was being clasped to his right wrist. Miroku's slate colored eyes widened as five thin pieces of flexible wire, shot out from the top of the band. He had never seen anything like it before in his life, and then he noticed that each piece of metal had a ring attached to it.

Before Miroku had a chance to react each metal finger seemed to come alive as each one slipped its ring over each one of his digits. Once this was done Miroku found out that he no longer had control over his right hand. The realization over having no control over one of his limbs was even more freighting then all of the strange tests they had ran on him over the last couple of weeks.

"What is going on here? What is it that you plan on doing to me? I demand answers. I know you are here so show yourself."

Miroku was in complete silence now, as he waited for a responds however none ever came. Until a cold a scratchy voice spoke to him, where the voice was coming from and to whom it belonged to he was unsure, for he was being blinded by to many bright white lights.

"Why Miroku, I would have thought you would have remembered me. For you see I became quite good friends with your grandfather and father, before their untimely deaths."

He couldn't believe what he was hearing; he was now in the care of the man who was responsible for not only his father's disappearance, but his grandfather's as well. Miroku could only phantom what was in store for him as well. He soon found out that the strange voice was not finished speaking to him.

"As to what I plan on doing to you. Now that is a whole different matter, you my dear boy will be the success to the longest experiment I have ever worked on. The power of the gravitational pull of the one thing thought impossible the harnessing a single small vortex, in control of a mortal man's hand."

Miroku couldn't believe what he was hearing, he knew now that he truly was in the presence of a mad man. So much so that he didn't even fear to voice his own option.

"You've gone insane, you truly have gone mad. I'm not sure anything could save you now."

Harsh laughter seemed to come at him from all directions.

"Don't you know it boy every great scientist was mad and that is what truly made them great? You should thank me for including you in this break through in science."

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Shippo continued to run down the long hallway until a soft mewing caught in his ears. He then turned left to see what it was, a small cat with two tails, black boots on her feet, as well as a black diamond in the center of her head. Her bright red eyes seemed to be pleading with him, causing him to stop in his tracks.

"What is it girl you got a friend trapped in there?"

The small cat just meowed again as she scratched at the metal door. Looking up at the lock on the door, Shippo did and said something he didn't think of doing before.

"Fox Fire!"

First the lock turned a bright blue, right before it crumpled to the floor. He couldn't believe what he was seeing.

'You mean all I had to do was use my fox fire and Miroku, Inuyasha and I could have been out of here. They guarded the locks against everything but foxfire I wonder why.'

Pushing with all of his might, he managed to push the door open enough for the fire cat to squeeze through. That's when he heard the voice of a lady.

"Oh Kirara, I'm so glad your all right. How did you manage to get the door open?"

There was a mew from Kirara as she looked toward the door.

"Is someone there?"

After hearing the lady's kind voice speak again, Shippo poked his head in the door.

"Um...it was nice to meet you, but I really can't talk now. A friend of mine is in trouble and I have to find him."

The young woman then called out to him.

"Wait, what's your name?"

Shippo's head appeared once more in the doorway, as he smiled at the young woman.

"My name's Shippo. What's yours?"

Seeing his bright smile caused her to smile as well as she answered him.

"My name is Sango. It was nice meeting you and thank you."

As quickly as he appeared, he disappeared in seconds. Leaving Sango to look out into an empty hallway, she then turned to Kirara and asked,

"Kirara, do you think you can pick up his scent?"

The little fire cat mewed as she scampered out of the room.

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Shippo's little feet moved even faster as Inuyasha's scent suddenly started to become stronger. Inuyasha was his only hope he knew he couldn't get to Miroku in time, but with Inuyasha's help he was sure that he could stand a chance.

'I just hope I find him in time.'

The smell of pine and river water started to become stronger as Shippo reach the west side of the labs. He then noticed a large metal door; however he was too small to reach the door handle. Now he really didn't know how he was going to get Inuyasha's attention. Then the idea came to him; there was a small crack under the door. Shippo could see that the floor in the room on the other side was made out of dirt and not tile.

'I sure hope this works.'

Reaching into his pocket, Shippo pulled four tiny seeds out and flicked them under the door. Within a couple of minutes four crying red mushrooms popped out of the ground.

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Inuyasha's graciously shaped eyes, snapped open to reveal two stunning amber orbs. The two dog-ears on the top of his head twitched back and forth as the sound of someone crying came to his ears. Inuyasha soon found that the strange noise had also awakened Kagome.

"Inuyasha, what's making that noise?"

Turning to face Kagome completely, his golden eyes accenting with the two jagged stripes on his handsome face, Inuyasha replied to Kagome's question.

"I'm not sure it almost sounds like..."

Letting his words trail off Inuyasha took out toward the sound of the crying. After following the cries Inuyasha found himself standing in front of the metal door to his prison. There scattered on the ground in different places were four of Shippo's crying mushrooms.

"Shippo."

The little fox demon's name was barely a whisper on his lips. That's when he spoke it again; only this time desperation was laced in with it.

"Shippo! Shippo, where are you?"

Realizing that it was really Inuyasha saying his name, the young fox came to life.

"Inuyasha, Inuyasha is that really you? I didn't think I would ever find you."

Inuyasha couldn't believe it; Shippo was just out of his door. He was so close to him yet still so far away. Then the thought occurred to him, how did he manage to escape and just why could he sense the fear rolling off him in buckets?

"Shippo, tell me what's going on out there. I need to know how Miroku is doing."

A few seconds later Inuyasha regretted even asking. Words were flying from the little fox youkai's mouth a mile a minute.

"youseethesebadguyscame and theytookMirokuaway and now Ithinkhe'sgoingtodie."

Inuyasha shook his head as he tried to understand what Shippo had just said. His slivery strands fling from side to side.

"Whoa, whoa kid slow down, I couldn't understand a damn thing you just told me."

Kagome smiled as she walked over to Inuyasha.

"Here, let me try maybe if he could see us he would be more comfortable."

Closing her eyes as she and Inuyasha got down on their knees. Kagome started to imagine a small window at the bottom of the door.

"There that's much better."

Inuyasha looked over at her completely stunned.

"How did you do that?"

Kagome just winked at him as she smiled and then said.

"Well I'm not just a miko any more am I. They may have sealed my miko powers, but they forgot about me gaining a few youkai powers that aren't connected to my miko abilities."

Inuyasha smirked at her right before he turned back to Shippo.

"All right you little runt. Mind trying to tell us what you were saying earlier?"

Calming down a little now, that he knew Inuyasha was all right he starting explaining to him again of what had happened.

"You see these bad guys came and they took Miroku away and now I think he's going to die."

Inuyasha's amber orbs widened in horror at the new news he had just heard.

"What, no it can't be."

Shippo tried his best not to cry as he continued to talk.

"I wish it wasn't, but it is Miroku has been gone for about a half an hour they said something about doing some kind of weird experiment on him. I think I heard someone say something about unstoppable power."

A few minutes later the lights flickered off, before coming back on again. Inuyasha looked over at Kagome they knew what it meant.

"Onigumo just started up at new experiment and something tells me that Miroku's caught right in the middle of it."

Within seconds an agonizing screamed pierce the air through the entire compound. Inuyasha's demon aura began to burn a bright red as the scream of pain rang inside his ears. That bastard of a doctor was causing his friend pain and he was going to pay. Forgetting about the barrier on the door Inuyasha began to throw his weight against the metal door, a snarl escaping his lips with each hit.

'Hang in there Miroku I'll find a way to get you out of here.'

Inuyasha then whirled around in the room as if he was looking for something. He then began to yell into the air.

"You bastards, not only is he a human, he's a priest as well. How the hell can you do something like that, to your own kind. I don't care what you do to me, but you leave my friends alone. You're going to die Onigumo, if Miroku has one hair out of place I'll find a way out of here and this time I'll kill you."

Finding his target he leapt into the air and attacked.

"Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!"

TBC

(A/N: Tada! I finally got a chapter up for this chapter, god I hate writers block. Ok here's my plan this chapter of course as well as Ch. 8 will deal with what is going on with Miroku and the others. I decided to take a break from Inuyasha and Kagome for a bit, so until next time. Thanks AntarsStarChild for betaing this chapter.

Ja ne!

Tainted InuShemeeko)