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Chapter 16 Getting Out

Kagome glanced to her left and then her right. She found it funny that she hadn't seen one guard or even an animal. She couldn't seem to find an exit. She'd searched every corridor on the right so far and was now starting on the left.

She heard a small thump coming from up ahead and she felt her pulse quicken. Maybe it was Hojo looking for her. She didn't want to find out so she quickly turned around and ran the other way the sound of her shoes lightly pounding on the floor worrying her that he might hear her.

She took a left and gasped at what she saw. It was a giant! Okay so maybe she was over exaggerating it just a little bit but this guy was huge! Kagome silently backed up hoping she hadn't disturbed him.

She quickly turned and hit stubbed her toe on a small stool that she could have sworn wasn't there a minute ago. A soft cry escaped her and she mentally slapped herself. She glanced up when the giant shifted in his seat. Had he heard her?

Kagome glanced around but when she saw that he was leaning his head against the wall and she heard a small snore that had to have come from him she sighed with relief. She smiled to herself as if just winning the big game and walked around the giant.

She saw a small door just beyond him and walked towards it slowly. She took hold of the knob and when she twisted it it didn't turn. 'Damn!' she thought, it was locked. She looked up at the giant. He must have it. She moved closer to him and saw a three pronged key that appeared to be for the door.

She gave him a look and decided to she if he would wake easily. Kagome tapped him on the shoulder. "Hello?" she spoke softly afraid to wake him but wanting to see if he would.

She shrugged and then with little hesitation reached up for the key. As soon as she had it she sighed. She moved to the door and wondered why it had been so easy to get out of this place.

She placed the key in the hole and turned it. She lock clicked open and she left the key in the hole as she left. She had no use for it now. She closed the door and was suddenly lost in darkness.

She took a step in the dark and when her foot didn't hit bottom she thought it was like a drop off. 'That makes sense' she thought 'just when I think it's all easy I go and jinx myself.' She slapped her forehead 'Good job, idiot!'

She waited for her eyes to adjust to the light then realized that it wasn't a drop off but a sewer so if she were to take a step she would have landed in knee-high toilet water. 'Nasty' she thought as she moved to the side wall and pressed up against it then slowly moving down the dark sewer.

She sniffed the air and then coughed. She couldn't tell what smelled worse the water of the walls. She fumed as the rats passed over her shoe and into the water.

"Leave it to me to wind up having to walk through a sewer to get home." She placed her hands on the wall to steady herself as another rat darted over her shoe. Then she felt something move up her arm and when she glanced at her arm she had to do a double take.

It was a snake which totally freaked her out. Rats she was okay with but snakes that was a whole other story. She jerked her arm away from the wall and towards the black water and swung it around trying to get the snake off.

She gave her arm on last shake and the animal was flung off her arm and into the water. "Thank God." She wiped her brow and continued on, just a little shaky about what happened. She studied her options ahead.

There was a ladder and a stairwell. She didn't know which on would be safer. She stair well probably lead to a subway in which she could get run over by a subway car or a ladder which would lead to a road and instant freedom.

Well it was that hard of a choice.

She moved to the ladder and started climbing knowing freedom was only a few seconds away.

BACK W/SANGO AND MIROKU

Sango looked up at Miroku blushing furiously. She saw that he was doing every thing her could to keep from looking in her direction.

"Miroku?" She said causing him to look down at her.

"What Sango?" He noticed how close she was and he was almost tempted to pull her closer but he kept still waiting for her to make the first move.

"Umm…I'm…kinda suck here. She looked down at his belt and her hand her sleeve had gotten caught on his belt when she had buckled it.

"Oh!" He felt stupid to think she was interested in him when she hadn't moved away, to think she was going to make a move on him. He sighed inwardly but smiled all the same. He took her hand in his then pulled her sleeve from his belt.

"There you go." He said but he didn't release her hand. She glanced up at him and when a small strand of hair fell onto her face he reached up and tucked it behind her ear.

"Miroku?" She asked again unsure of what he was doing.

"Hmm?" He looked down at her and his expression said it all. He was in love. He moved towards her almost asking her permission and when she pulled closer filling the space between them he knew she felt the same.

She wrapped her arms around his neck as there lips met. It was a sweet gentle kiss that knocked Sango out of her mind. After a couple seconds Miroku found himself breaking off the kiss. Though he didn't want to he had to talk to her.

"Sango?" he smiled down at her. "Will you go out with me?"

She smiled and almost squealed with joy. "Yes." She said and he pulled her into another kiss. She was the one to break it this time they had to go save Kagome.

"We need to go." She said quickly so he wouldn't be mad.

"Of course." He took her hand and they walked out the door, to distracted to remember to lock the door.

They got into the car and headed to Inuyasha's house, by that time it was already five till eleven.

BACK TO INUYASHA! YIPPEE!

Inuyasha thought about what his brother had said. How did he know all of that stuff? Had dad found out about the whole jail thing? And did his father believe that one of his friends was responsible for the break in a couple of nights ago? He sighed to tired to think about his brother.

Why did he have to go and ruin his life by visiting him now of all times? He was already having enough problems the way it was. Inuyasha sat down on the curb and found himself thinking about Kagome.

I wonder what she's doing right now. He remembered what Hojo had said last night about calling her. Maybe she was with him. The thought made Inuyasha grow jealous. He still couldn't remember the events of that day.

He was just happy that it was Friday and he'd be able to stay up late and then sleep in the next morning. He pulled his cell phone out of his pocket and wished that he could just call Kagome, but he didn't have her number.

He placed his cell back into his pocket and looked up at the stars. He wasn't sure if he and Kikyo were still going out but he planned to break up with her tomorrow. He didn't know why but it just seemed like there relationship wasn't going anywhere and he couldn't stop thinking about Kagome.

He hadn't know her but two days and he already liked her. That was odd for him he had always found it hard to trust people he just met but with Kagome it was just different. How could you feel this way about someone after knowing them for only two days?

He watched a shooting star fly through the sky and closed his eyes to make a wish. 'I wish that Kagome was here right now.' When he opened his eyes he was surprised at what he had just wished for. His thoughts were broken though as he heard a loud bang coming from the parking lot.

He got up and walked towards the noise. He was shocked to see Kagome crawling out of the sewer drain and when she looked up at him she jumped back and held her hands up in defense.

"Holy shit! You scared the crap out of me!" She let her arms fall to her sides. "What are you doing here anyway?"

He looked at her in disbelief. "My wish came true." He muttered.

"What?" She asked not quite hearing what he said.

"Nothing. What are you doing here?" He said pointing at her.

She laughed nervously, "Uhhh…I was just…" she couldn't think of what to say, she couldn't just tell him that she had been captured by Naraku and she was just escaping.

"Continue…" He said allowing her to finish.

"Well…you see…you remember Naraku and Hojo right?" she asked she might as well tell him.

He nodded and looked at her patently waiting for her to finish.

"Well I guess you were right about the whole not trusting Hojo thing…because he kinda set me up."

"What? That bastard!" Inuyasha shouted. "Are you okay?" He moved to her but she just held up her hand.

"I'm fine except for a small cut, but I need to tell you about Naraku." She said "I think we might be in some serious trouble."

"Fine but let me check out your cut it could be bad." He took her hand and pulled her over to the curb. It was getting dark out but he could still see just fine. He gently lifted her sleeve to reveal a large gash across her upper arm.

"This is a small cut?" He asked looking at her skeptically.

"Yes it's a small cut and it's fine!" she said pulling away from him. "besides it doesn't even hurt!"

He poked it with his finger and she gasped in pain. She glared at him, "What was that for?"

He smirked. "It doesn't hurt does it?"

"Not when you leave it alone." She said allowing the annoyance to show in her voice.

He got up and walked away. Did she scare him away? She glanced back at him. "Inuyasha?" She looked sad; she didn't mean to make him mad.

"Don't whine I'm just going to get something to clean that out with." He looked back at her as he said it then turned and opened a car door and got under the seat.

He came back with a first aid kit and a smile on his face. He took a seat next to her and shuffled through the first aid kit to find the peroxide. He dabbed some on a cotton ball and pressed it to her 'small cut'.

Kagome hissed as the pain seared through her arm. "That hurts!" She resisted the urge to pull her arm from his grasp. He smirked up at her.

"What did you expect? For it to tickle?" He winked at her.

"Smart ass." She muttered under her breath but was cut off when he moved along her cut to allow more to be cleaned by the small dirt-eating enzymes. After a few more tiny threats form Kagome Inuyasha was wrapping her arm in gauze and they were silent again.

Neither one knew what to say.

"What did you mean when you said your wish came true earlier?" Kagome asked suddenly.

Inuyasha looked up at her in shock. He hadn't thought she'd heard him. "Uhhh…that was just a…a joke!" he quickly lied. 'Well that sounded intelligent.' He thought to himself.

"A joke?" Kagome looked at him suspiciously.

"Yeah, that what I said wasn't it?" he smiled to let him know he wasn't angry. "So are you going to tell me what happened to you and why you have this cut on your arm?" He looked at her as if willing her to tell him something, anything.

"Well I have no idea how I got that cut." she thought about it for a moment, "it was probably when that guy threw that chair at me." She said it as if it was nothing and continued on after she smirked at Inuyasha's shocked face.

She took the time to explain everything to Inuyasha, well at least everything she knew. She still didn't know why Naraku was out to get her. Maybe that was a set up too she thought. Maybe they didn't want me but Sango and Miroku.

"Oh no." she said as she began to realize what Naraku's plan was. He was going to use Sango and Miroku as bait so she and Inuyasha would do a task for him, but what?

"Kagome? What is it?" Inuyasha looked at her in concern.

"We have to go find Sango and Miroku." She said quickly rising from her seat. "What time is it?" She looked at him her expression a mix of worry and anger at being used, twice in one day.

"It's one oh three." He said simply it surprised him that is was that late.

"Damn." She paced and realized that she didn't have any way to get to Miroku and Sango. "Can you give me a ride?"

"Where too?" Inuyasha pulled out his keys his father would kill him but he'd have to wait till later.

"Well we need to get some things but then we need to go to your house." Inuyasha looked at her confused.

"Why my house?" He asked as if he had misheard her.

"Just trust me we have to go to your house." He studied her trying to read her mind. What was she hiding from him? And why did it involve his house?

"Okay let's go." He jumped into the driver's seat and they were off.

BACK WITH HOJO

Naraku was going to visit his favorite captive. He was opening the door when it was pushed forward by a force from the other side and knocked him in the face. Hojo stepped out and realized what he'd done.

"Ooops!" Hojo said and he kept moving around Naraku.

"What the hell is your problem? Where are you going?" Naraku called to him. Hojo stopped stunned into silence. Naraku just gave him a look before entering the room. Hojo went to the door and locked it from the outside.

His master didn't say a thing or even make a fuss so Hojo took that to mean he'd yet to figure out that Kagome wasn't there. Hojo raced down the corridor and turned left. He ran straight into the giant and sighed when he realized who it was.

"Forgot about you." He said aloud knowing the giant wouldn't wake. He went to the door and saw the key. Yep Kagome made it out okay. He just hoped she would listen to him while he tried to explain.

Hojo turned the key and opened the door but before he could get all the way out he heard the enraged yell coming from the end of the hall. 'Shit!' he jumped out and pulled the door shut behind him hoping Naraku wouldn't look for him here first.

He made his way down the tunnel and headed for his freedom. Maybe he could get away this time. For good.

AN: okay so this one was long...seven pages to be exact...lol! review and i'll update asap! thanks come again!