"Hellloooooooooo. Anyone in here?" Kagome yelled into the cave. Her question echoed in the empty space and silence responded back. It was beckoning to her. At first glance, she saw that the cave was inhabited, but she had to make sure.
Slowly, she entered. Her footsteps gave a little padding sound as she stepped. Looking down, the young miko found that the ground path ahead of her was dry. Taking that as a good sign, she continued deeper into the cave. She smiled as she imagined Inuyasha having a hard time finding her.
"Oh, this is going to be great," Kagome muttered to no one in particular. She was trying to convince herself that this was a good choice.
But suddenly she froze. She thought she had heard something in front of her. Looking above her, she frowned when she caught glimpse of a single water droplet, hanging from a little bent of rock in the cave ceiling. She gasped when it dropped; and a sudden trickle was heard echoing.
'I have to be careful. My movements can be easily heard.' Kagome continued as she warned herself. She stepped over the little puddle and stared ahead. Why was she so tense? It was just a simple game of Hide and Seek. There was no reason to be acting so paranoid.
But then she looked at her hands and frowned once again.
'That's right…I still need to find a prize for Inuyasha. I hope he won't be mad..'
Taking a deep breath, she continued her way into the cave, hoping that the darkness wouldn't swallow the daylight behind her completely.
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"Damn it, where is she?!" A frustrated hanyou asked himself. He sniffed the area around him and glared.
'Kagome shouldn't be this hard to find! But I can't track her scent anywhere…'
As his thoughts went on, Inuyasha soon slowed into a walking pace through the woods. He looked to his left and felt a breeze. But he ignored it as his thoughts went deeper and deeper.
'What if she's in danger? Maybe something happened to her? She shouldn't be THIS far into the forest. I should turn around.'
Another breeze went past him and this time, Inuyasha couldn't ignore it. At pure coincidence after that thought, the breeze had hit its way through his nose and into his brain. It had Kagome's scent. The half demon rose one of his eyebrows in curiosity and quickly followed the direction the breeze had came from. For unknown reasons, he felt worried.
'I need to find her. Quick.'
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Kagome had finally settled deep within the cave. She was finally confident when she could no longer see the cave's entrance. Though it might of seemed foolish, Kagome had found it amusing when the cave still reflected light from the outside. Once she had reached the center of the small cave, she sat waiting on a rock and out of pure boredom, she looked up. She hadn't expected to cry out in amazement.
She found that the reason the cozy cave still contained light was purely because there was a gap in the cave's ceiling, where sunlight flowed in.
"Wow!" Kagome couldn't help but fascinate over the natural gaping hole over her head.
To her mistake, her exclamation echoed and she mentally smacked herself for nearly forgetting her position in the game. She sat up and placed her elbows on her knees, trying to relax. With her hands cupping her face, she smiled to herself, continually repeating that she was taking this game far too seriously.
"Oh Kagome, you silly girl. Think. Need to think. What prize would Inuyasha like?" Kagome asked herself, mentally answering herself in the process too.
'He'd like all the food I gave the others already, jewel shards, killing Naraku and Sesshomaru, and …Kikyo.'
Kagome sighed as she thought of the last two choices. She certainly couldn't give those to Inuyasha. So what else could she give? As her thoughts began to turn to daydreams, the young miko lost focus of her place and couldn't hear the rough paced footsteps entering the cave's entrance.