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Chapter Eighteen
After watching Naraku's castle disintegrate in to dust, the group walked back to Kaede's village to formulate a plan. Kagome hung her head, and although she wasn't crying, she looked very sad, with goods reason.
"They're not dead. We can still save them before Naraku kills them…if that's what he's going to do anyway." Inuyasha said, trying to cheer Kagome up.
"Yeah, I guess," Kagome muttered back.
They arrived back at the village and went straight to Kaede's hut to tell her what had happened. The sun was just setting by the time they had told the story, so they decided to stay in the village for the night and set out again in the morning.
Akane opened her eyes drowsily, then, after noticing the throbbing pain in her head, moved her hand to touch the sore spot. That was when she discovered that her hands were, once again, tied behind her back. She groaned and looked around at her surroundings. She was in a room like before, dark and musty. Then, she noticed, sitting across from her unconscious, was Ranma.
"Ranma? Ranma!" She called him but he didn't wake up. "Ranma, wake up!" she yelled at him, but he still didn't rouse from his sleep. Akane soon realized it was useless and stopped trying to wake him up. She sighed, exasperated, and moved her hands to try to get them in a more comfortable position. It didn't work.
"I wish that I never followed Kagome. I wish I'd never jumped down that stupid well," she muttered angrily.
She shifted, and wrestled with her ropes again. This time they loosened a bit. Noticing this, Akane worked on them a little more and they loosened again. 'This might be my chance to escape!' Akane thought excitedly. She struggling against the ropes again, twisting and writing under the itchy brown threads. A while later, the ropes slid off of her sore, raw wrists.
She quickly untied her feet, which were tied up as well, jumped up, and ran over to Ranma. She shook him violently but his eyes never opened. "Oh shoot. C'mon Ranma, snap out of it!" she urged. She shook him once more, then, after giving up on trying to wake him up once again, picked him up and slung him over her shoulder.
She left the room quietly, trying to make as little noise as possible so as not to alert her captors of her escape. 'Yes! I can't believe that they would leave us unguarded like that!' Akane thought as she looked cautiously around the corner. After seeing that there was nobody there she ran down the hallway, lugging Ranma on her back. Soon she reached a door that lead to the outside. 'Yes! I'm almost free!' she thought, and took one last look back to make sure nobody was there before opening the door and stepping outside.
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