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He couldn't believe that his poor, innocent Kagome had been taken. He slinked on the gowned, thinking of what he could do; a tear escaping his eye. 'What the hell is wrong with me?' he realized. 'I'm a half-demon; I can just sniff her out!'

"I'll kill whoever did this! They'll regret ever laying a finger on my Kagome!" he hollered out to the sky. With that, he jolted up and started to frantically find Kagome's scent.

Chapter 12:

Hostage Situation

Kagome looked around at her surroundings; her sight was still that of a drunk and clouded with drowsiness. She shook her head to clear it and looked around once more.

She was surprised to feel that her hands were tied behind her back and connected to her laced feet.

When she tried to wiggle to escape, she felt a sharp pain or her wrists from the thick rope; this was soon followed with the feel of her warm blood crawling down to the floor. She tried to scream for help, but was detained by a cloth tightly wrapped around her mouth.

Hearing someone coming closer beyond a door, Kagome quickly closed her eyes pretending to still be unconscious. The door opened with an eerie creak. Footsteps came close to her body and she could blindly feel a presence looming over her.

"Humph, what a pathetic wench!" an evilly smooth voice sounded. "I wonder why I kept the little slut alive for all these years."

Kagome stayed completely still out of a mix of both acting and strict fear. She knew that voice could only belong to one person; her father. She held fast, pretending to feign being a limp body; her only defense.

"You kept her for the jewel, father," said a cold feminine voice. "I'll search her for it," Kikyo stated. She stepped over to Kagome and ran her hands up and down her flaccid body, frisking for any sign of the gem.

When she reached her breast, she felt the little marble under the shirt. She carelessly reached under her shirt and tried pulling it off.

As soon as her hand came into contact with the jewel, a large lavender color shot up and almost took off her hand in its singing light. Kikyo quickly pulled back; her hand bleeding from contact with the protectively odd light.

The hand was not the only thing hurting from that radiation. It caused her to buckle down and slink; shaking uncontrollably as if in hypothermia, she clutched her hand against her heart. Kagome almost opened her eyes to view what was happening but remembered that she was 'unconscious'.

"Wench! What the hell did you do!" the father asked furiously.

"I… I don't know what happened…I just touched the stupid thing. It burned horribly and almost took my damn hand," she slurred out as she held out her blooded hand as proof.

Kagome felt something snap up against the top of her dress, almost cutting her chest. She felt that the top of her dress had been ripped down to the bottom of her torso, revealing the low glowing magenta jewel.

Her eyes were shut, but she could just imagine a sharp knife slicing through her clothing as if it were butter.

A sharp tentacle tried poking at the small jewel after it ripped through her clothes. The slimy appendage quickly retracted as soon as it felt the purifying burning sensation as it came into contact with the jewel. He yelled out loud as the painful burning sensation amplified.

"That damn thing is like fire!" he hollered out, focusing his anger towards Kikyo.

Kagome couldn't understand what they were talking about; she couldn't feel this so called heat and the jewel was pressed firmly against her skin. All she felt were blasts of air, along with a strong pulsating sensation she couldn't recall ever having felt before.

"Damn that bitch! She has some sort of a barrier placed around the jewel! She must be able, even asleep, to tap into its immense powers!" he said. He pulled back his tentacle back and formed it into his human hand.

"Father, why don't you just kill her? The barrier won't be active if she is dead," Kikyo stated with an eerie voice that sent shivers down Kagome spine.

'I don't want to die; I want to… I want to see InuYasha… all I want is my InuYasha right now…' She fought back the tears; she still needed to act out sleep or she would surely be caught and killed.

"Don't be so stupid; I can't simply kill her, idiot…I would have done that a long time if I had the chance. If I try and kill her, that little barrier will just expand to protect her; but only if she is on the brink of death…that is when the sensation to live is the strongest. Now come, we have to figure out who can take it off without being killed."

With that, the pair of footsteps was heard leaving the room. Kagome waited until the sound completely faded away. She sneaked a peek around the room to make sure no one had stayed behind to watch her; thankfully, she was completely alone now.

She opened both eyes and looked around once more to see if there was anything in the room to help her escape. The room was rather bland; it had a shelf with buckets on them and a window; the floorboards looked aged and raggedy. The walls were a simple shade of white with peeling paint. From the floor, random nails poked their rusted heads out. She saw that the only window here was broken and had glass fragments by its floor.

'Maybe I could cut the ropes with that' Kagome thought desperately. She scooted over to try and pick out a suitable piece to help her.

InuYasha was following the scent back to the town; he had left his car back at the public rest stop. He had been looking for what seemed to be going on hours now; her scent led him to the not-so-pretty side of town.

He had lost her scent here, due to the stench of so many other nasty things that blotted out her own subtle fragrance. The hanyou looked around to see several gangs hanging out at each street corner. He walked up to one, hoping that they might know where his Kagome was; his own safety not concerning him much.

"Excuse me," he began easily, his voice sounding rather confident. "Have you seen a young woman with black hair, brown eyes and wearing a purple dress?"

"Humph!" the apparent leader of the gang spoke out. InuYasha looked like a tough guy to bring down. Instead of engaging in a usual fight, he thought it best to just tell him; it was safer than getting mixed into a demon fight.

"Nah, nuttin' like dat passed by here," the gangster spat out. He looked InuYasha over with a sick and greedy smile. "But, I bet ya I could freshin' up ya mind…" he stated with foul suggestion, slyly reaching his hand out. InuYasha glared angrily at the man.

"Look bastard!" he yelled while slamming the man up against a brick wall. "If you don't know where the hell my girl is, then I won't waste any more damn time with you!" he yelled out in rage.

The man looked taken aback by InuYasha's actions. He soon regained his composure and swung a cheap uppercut in InuYasha's jaw. A small crack was heard as InuYasha was forced to let go of him. He held onto his jowl, feeling around to see if he was okay.

He spat out a bit of blood from his mouth. Aside from that, he was fine. He looked at the punk who dared to punch him. Pulling his hand back, InuYasha leaned into his own punch and sent the idiot straight through the wall.

The wall collapsed inwards as dust flared around them like fog. InuYasha put his hand over his sensitive nose to prevent the dust inhalation. The other gang members stared at the hole for a while before looking in the direction of InuYasha, as his form became clear from the dust.

They looked at him; too scared to move away from the hanyou.

"Now, does anyone remember where my woman went?" InuYasha breathed, his voice filled with ferocity.

"About-half-an-hour-ago-a-girl-like-that-passed-by," one of the gangsters stated quickly with some stutter. He shakily pointed down a mischievous looking road that seemed to lead to a dead end. With that, they all went to look and see if their leader was still alive and ran off in the opposite direction of the demon.

InuYasha took the route pointed out to him. Very quickly, Kagome's scent became clear enough for him to follow once the stench of this forsaken place had died down.

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