Authors Corner: I'm so sorry! I was up at my Grandma's house and they don't have internet. So I couldn't update. But now you will have two extra long chapters… How does that sound?

Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha, Kagome, Sesshomaru, or any of the other characters. But oh how I wish I did…

Warning: Some cliffies in here. And I'll be adding a new character… I made her myself and she won't change the story too much. So she won't be to major.

Enjoy! Oh and thank you all for the wonderful reviews. Keep them up!

Chapter 7-

Kagome looked at the small window where a shaft of light was showing through the bars. The light seemed to blast with wonderful life. Even birds songs were coming in with it. It seemed to be a normal day, yet with the window barred and the door locked. Kagome was a prisoner, to every sense of the word. Dust moths flitting in the seeming as carefree with life. Not Kagome, she would be prisoner here forever.

A splash echoed from behind her, obscuring the melodic birds songs and breaking her from her trance, bringing her back to the real world. The girl turned her head around quickly looking and hoping that he would stay by her this time and talk. She hadn't talked to him since 4 weeks ago. Right before he had gotten that change.

Kagome's eyes looked into the deep chasm of water, shivering from its depths yet still looking for any trace of Sesshomaru… How she wished he was here! While looking in the water Kagome caught a glimpse of herself, seeing that the girl she had once been was gone. Never to return.

Her hair that had once been the most glorious black that anyone had ever seen was now a complete blue. Making her look like a blueberry. Her once happy eyes were dull and weary looking. Even though the hazel they had once been had been turned into a seducible color of midnight blue. Her nails had grown, but she didn't really care.

What she cared about was Sesshomaru and having him come and talk to her. She was so bored! She finally realized that he had just been playing his stupid game of come-find-Kagome-and-check-up-on-her-then-when-she-hears-you-run-away. It got so old.

Her hope of maybe, just maybe, he was not going to ignore her, and maybe he would lean on her had disappeared after the first couple of weeks. Yet she couldn't stop herself from looking ever time he did it.

But for the past month he had lived like a hermit. Not talking, not caring, not anything.

For a moment Kagome thought she saw a sparkle of silver of black but she knew it couldn't be since he was at the very depths of the pool.

When they had first been put in this prison they both had tried to find an escape hole down in the pool, they had never reached the bottom. It was so deep that they both had to come up for breath (well now Sesshomaru didn't since he seemed to have gills). Kagome blushed remembering well how she had pulled his silver/black hair and brought his head into hers.

He had been knocked out for a couple of days.

Her forlorn sigh filled the room, echoing her sadness and hopelessness.

'Please Sesshomaru! Please talk to me! I can't stand it.' Kagome put her flushed forehead on the cool cement while looking down into the water that swirled in blues and indigos. Since Naraku had left the cage open she had taken the opportune moments to stay out of the water. As long as she could.

But for some reason, many times she would feel her legs staying stiff, her being unable to move them at all. Like they just wouldn't obey her commands.

'What's happening to me?' And Kagome broke down into tears.

Break

Sango glanced around the hallway to where Miroku stayed, moving restlessly where she sat. She had been told by Naraku to go make sure Miroku was alright. When she had tried to argue she had gotten one snap from Naraku and his guards had begun to punish her for her insolence.

With long metal pipes they beat her, and beat her, until her breath was short and the tears were coming down with none of her help. She couldn't hide them anymore. When Naraku was finally done with his show of punishment he grasped her hair, pulling her in the process up off the floor and spat in her face.

'If I ever hear you speaking back to me like that I will have your ass kicked into one of the nearest rooms and begin some tests on you. Do I make myself clear? Do I?' Sango heard in her head his response again and again. She could remember clearly how she had shook her head with agreement. Not even thinking how she had reacted afterward.

But to see Miroku, already! She didn't know if she had the courage or not. Oh, she wanted to see Miroku badly! So very badly! She wanted to have him hold her and maybe even be his perverted self. Of course after she would have to hit him in the face… probably hard. But they hadn't spoken in ages, since the moment when he had… Sango gulped another wave of fishy air into her lungs. Her trembling began to increase.

"Why did he have to hit me?" Sango stated fingering her new scars on her face. Her mind betrayed her going back to when she had left him.

Past

"I'm sorry Miroku. I should have been better or knew that you would hate me. Please know that I will always think of you as a…"

"…You Monster!"

Sango flinched and buried her head into her willing hands.

She began to recall all she head done to her friends. All her friends. Sango huffed sadly, "Not anymore, not after what I did… I'm such an idiot!"

(A/N Hehe… guess who!)

"Well I could've told you that…"

Sango turned with a ready assault to the vile creature. "How dare you! How dare you contradict me on such things when you can't get it through your head that you are an egoistic, son-of-a-bitch known to take advantage of women (any kind of woman!) to help with your DAMN lusts!" Sango brought in a quick breath and poked him in the stomach. "I should blow your head OUT OF THE WINDOW! NOW!"

InuYasha only laughed at her exchange of barbs. And shrugged it off with a casual smirk. "I really don't enjoy hearing your empty threats Sango, dear." He was suddenly in front of her grabbing her over long hair.

'Why does everyone think to go for the hair?'

Sango's eyes began to tear and she struggled against him with an inner strength.

"Let me go you complete Bastard! When I'm let go I'm going to pull your teeth out one by one!" Sango Screamed in frustration when he began to tug her over to a door in the hallway.

At first Sango didn't know what door he was taking her to and then she realized what he was planning. Her eyes widened in horror and her struggles became stronger.

"Why are you taking me there… why don't you let me go? InuYasha please, I…I d-d-don't w-wa-want him to se-e-e me this way."

Her cry rang around us when InuYasha pulled her hair again. His face came into her line of vision and she flinched away as if she had been stung by a bee. This time she hoped she could get out of his grip even if she lost some of her hair. But he was too strong.

"Tell me where Kagome is…" InuYasha started coldly. Sango began to shake her head no, but his hand caught her against the cheek sending a slapping sound around them. Sango Pressed her face against the door behind her and tried to stifle her tears.

"Tell me now and I may let you leave without dealing with Miroku… hmmm… is it a deal?" He smiled down at her and she shivered violently but to her surprise found herself nodding.

'What are you doing Sango? You're giving him a chance to hurt Kagome again… What am I? Why am I doing this?'

InuYasha laughed and leaned down near her to hear her small voice. "You go down this hall and up some flight of stairs, not to far away. The room is at… at the… the…" Sango's voice stopped and she began to sweat. InuYasha tsked and slammed her against the door again. Hard.

"You better tell me now or you may as well begin to beg. Miroku may kill you… you never know."

But for some reason Sango couldn't rat on her old friend. Her best friends. Sango grinned up at him and brought her hands behind her feeling for the door knob.

"Well InuYasha… I guess you won't be seeing me anymore. You can do your own dirty searching yourself!"

InuYasha's smile became a snarl and he hit her one last time. "You'll regret that answer! Let's go visit the freak!" HE grabbed hold of the door, unlocking it in the process. Sango felt her nerves come back again and she felt the tears of sacredness start again.

'Oh please lord! Please don't have him hate me!'

And then all thought process stopped, all of her senses fell with her body. Her ears straining to hear the animalistic sounds coming from the dark room.

As if in slow motion the door slammed behind her, she turned to try and get out. Banging on the door to what seemed like hours had passed. Finally she slid down the door and quivered in on herself.

That's when she heard it.

A sound that didn't come from around her but inside her brain. A sound that she thought she would never hear again. His sound. His voice.

Sango?

A pain filled emotion filled her head brining more tears to her eyes, her fear gone for the moment making her think that this was a whole nightmare not anything else. She had fallen asleep at work and Miroku had come to wake her up and then he would be his pervert self and she would have to smack him.

Until she heard it. Until she heard the growl. She turned around hoping beyond hope that he would be his human self. Be able to speak to her still in the human language.

But when she finally turned around it was not what she had hoped. Not by a long shot.

"Dear god…"

The scream tore through the room.

Break

When people thought water was fun they must be on crack because this wasn't fun. Far from it actually. Sesshomaru could think of many things that could be funnier then this.

Hey continued to look around the desolate huge pool and continued counting, "hmmm… 500 bubbles… 501 bubbles… 502 bubbles… Kagome's legs… 503 bubbles… 504 bubbles, wait Kagome's legs?'

Sesshomaru jerked his gaze back over to where he had seen her legs to see that they were missing. He blew out of his mouth some air and managed to make ten more bubbles.

Over the long, torturous weeks he had hid from Kagome not wanting her to see his monstrous form, and in his secret conscience not wanting her to be afraid, he had, had nothing to do. Zip, nothing. All he did all day was either count bubbles, watch her, or look at his new changes. His long black/ silver tail was long and muscular and had the air of a shark to it. Although he didn't really want to admit it, he felt more at home in this form then he did in his human form.

A splash sounded from above him and he glanced up to see Kagome's face looking down at him with a humongous smile on it.

"GAH!" Sesshomaru scrambled under the water wondering how she could always scare him when no one else could.

Sesshomaru opened his mouth, his brain used to talking back at her and edging her on. Sesshomaru remembered how she had looked at him after the transformation and didn't want her running away from him. So he closed his mouth, not saying anything and in his mind saying that he couldn't like her, since this Sesshomaru didn't like anyone.

'You just want her for yourself… and you love her so much you can't stand to see her afraid. Of you most of all!' A small voice in his head muttered joyfully at Sesshomaru and he growled softly in its direction.

'I do not love her you idiot! This Sesshomaru has no feelings for anyone. And she is somebody.'

A tug on his hair brought his gaze back to Kagome and against all his resistance and common sense he smiled his now sharp and toothy grin.

Her own smile seemed to fade for a moment but returned full force with a giggle coming out of her mouth and making more bubbles tickle his face.

Her pulling became more insistent and he knew she was running out of air. He also knew that she wouldn't go up for air until she got him to come up too. Sesshomaru began to float upwards towards her luscious mouth, thinking of a way to tell himself that this was wrong and he should stay away from her at all costs. But it was like he was in a trance, trying to get closer to her. Closer to her lips.

Kagome's eyes fluttered down when he got close enough to blow on her face. Her lips trembled as if they remembered a feeling that both he and Kagome had forgotten.

His mouth had almost made it to her lips. Just a few more millimeters and they would have meet in the tempting caress. But she was pulled from him. Literally pulled out of the water and dangling over the cement.

Sesshomaru finally came out of the watery, dark, depths to come face to face with Naraku again. Sesshomaru growled low and feral making it known to all that he was dangerous and to let Kagome go before everyone got killed.

"Let her go! You damn idiotic bastard from hell!" And with that Sesshomaru broke his promise of silence. Naraku looked down at him in confusion but then dropped Kagome on the cement making her cry out when her hands and knees scraped the floor.

"It's a good thing you came up since I need to check up on how you are doing." Naraku chuckled lightly. "Well actually… I'm going to sit back and watch as one of my servants (don't be afraid when you see her, when she was younger she got into some of the serum for land animals and changed dramatically.) does all the work."

Sesshomaru went over to where Kagome lay and began whispering to her with comfort in mind. But to the human ears of Naraku, it sounded like small clicking noises.

A pouncing figure came into the doorway, laughing with a young man. But as they got closer Sesshomaru could tell they were different from humans. They had transformed into cat-humans. Maybe even demons.

The girl stopped one foot away from Kagome, smiling a toothy grin, shaking her glossy curls. While the young man stood just behind her staying as solemn as possible.

The girl looked to be about 17 years old with emerald fire eyes slashed in the middle with cat like eyes. Her hair was a flame red in spots where the light hit the most, but the rest was a maroon color. Making her look quite Irish yet you could tell she wasn't. Peculiar aspect of her was that her teeth were far sharper then Sesshomaru's own and her nails flashed dangerously red. Yet the most peculiar thing about her was her ears and tail… yes, a tail.

'I just keep loving this place more and more with each passing day. Next time there's going to be an elephant man coming in.' Sesshomaru thought.

The cat ears were pointed and seemed to belong to a bangle tiger, full of different oranges and browns. Making them stand out even more on her bright red hair. Her tail, the exact same color would twitch from time to time as if agitated. Yet her clothes seemed otherwise.

She was clothed in some dark blue jeans and a dark green tunic shirt that hung down past her waist, having bright green sequins sewn on it. Sesshomaru dismissed her and glanced to the other one.

The demon behind her was of tall statue. Very lean and muscled, yet not too much that he would seem fat. His face held a strain of patient wisdom, and his eyes shifted with curiosity to the people in front of him.

His eyes were the color of mud and sparked in some areas of amber. His hair cut short where it could barely brush where his human ears would be. The color: a dark chestnut that in other places seemed auburn.

As with the female, this one had cat ears and a tail, but with him the color was a dark brown with black spots. He seemed almost jaguar like.

Sesshomaru felt an emotion rise in him that he had never felt before. It seemed to tell him to rip the male's head off and to literally tear him apart.

'Why am I feeling like this? He hasn't done anything to me.'

Sesshomaru glanced over to Kagome who seemed to be sizing the two up as well. Yet when her eyes fell on the boy he felt the feeling rise again. 'Is this feeling… possessiveness…?' He scoffed at the thought. 'Why would I be possessive about Kagome? I must find out more about this feeling.'

A quick shake of the head and he was done, thinking once more: 'Impossible.' Yet it was the only idea he could bring up. So he pushed the feelings away and thoughts down into the depths of his mind to be forgotten.

Naraku watching it all seemed to be enjoying the quiet tension coming from all of the 'Freaks' in the room. His chuckle filled the whole quiet space and the occupants shivered with the sound of it.

"Sesshomaru, Kagome… Let me introduce my two first experiments and loyal servants hi-"But he was interrupted by the red-head girl.

"Thank you Naraku-Saku, but Riku and I can tell them ourselves…" Saying this the red- haired wonder patted Naraku's frowning face and pushed him to the ground. Not aware of the gaping figures around her.

Sesshomaru himself was in amazement of what she was doing and had to hold back the urge to laugh.

'I cannot believe this… Naraku obeyed someone.'

The girl brought her attention back to them and clearing her throat stepped forward.

"My name is Hikari and behind me is my most trusted friend Riku. We both will be looking at your changes Sesshomaru and writing down our observations." She flicked her gaze over to him and in her eyes he could see a teasing light. "And I'll try to keep Riku away from Kagome…Now…Lets…PARTY!"

The sound was so noisy that Sesshomaru groaned covering his ears and sinking under the water, but Hikari saw this and grabbed his hair and pulling him up to slam on the dry cement. His tail flipped about in the water slightly.

"What are you doing pipsqueak! I am the monster here, I'll make you pay! I'll grind your bones to make my bread and squish your head!" His voice trailed off at Kagome's look of frustration and pure anger. He could tell he would pay for this later. Sesshomaru glanced back at Hikari and bowed his head. 'I can't believe I'm doing this…'

"I'm sorry… I am acting like a child." He muttered with a pout to his lips. But when he glanced at Kagome he was rewarded by her bright smile.

Hikari herself nodded some muttering some nonsense to herself as she went, finally turning to Riku.

"Riku, go get my supplies. And I could use some tape…" She said in her sing-song way.

Sesshomaru's face contorted to a look of cold anger and jerked her down by the ears. "You didn't listen to me, did you?"

Hikari scratched her head, tilting it at an odd angle. "What?" Sesshomaru fell back down grumbling to himself about females and how infuriating they could be.

"Sesshomaru! Be quiet before I crush you!" He turned to the one who threatened him and grimaced. Kagome's eyes were the most angry he had ever seen in the whole while he had known her, making him shiver slightly.

'Idiot female…'

Riku returned and he began sitting up the utensils making Hikari look over his shoulder in approval.

Hikari came back over to Sesshomaru and brought her hands up to his ears. He bared his teeth at her in warning, but she didn't heed it.

She grabbed his ears and pulled. Hard, she pulled so hard that his ears began to pop. She did this once more making small clucking noises to herself. Sesshomaru was about to grab her neck and ring it when a scream was heard outside of the room.

A scream that echoed form the other rooms. A scream that sounded oddly enough like Sango…

"Sango!" Kagome said quietly.

Sesshomaru turned to her and watched tears leak silently out of her eyes.

Sango was in trouble.