She glared at her captor.
He did absolutely nothing, just continued to stare at blankly into the quivering depths of the dying fire. His tail twitched absent mindedly, the only sign of movement from the stoic youkai.
Kagome had woken up in a daze, glancing around in a drugged stupor at the rough brown walls of what appeared to be a small cave. Giving a small sigh she tried to move her hands from behind her back in another failed attempt.
Waking up and discovering you're bound and held hostage by a stranger just does wonders for your attitude. Yea right, she felt just peachy right about now.
The silver haired kitsune turned his head in her direction, finally acknowledging that she was there. "You are not going to escape so I suggest you stop that futile struggling and go back to sleep. We leave at dawn tomorrow."
"I'm not going anywhere. Inuyasha will be here to rescue me soon." She retorted. "Just you wait; he's going to kick your butt." She said with as much confidence as she could muster, but an edge of doubt still crept into her voice. Just great; how was this fox supposed to believe what she was saying if she herself didn't. Why was she questioning it, Inuyasha always came to rescue her.
"Suit yourself" Youko gave a substantial yawn. The young miko had to suppress a shiver of fear as the glowing embers illuminated wickedly sharp incisors. "You're still leaving tomorrow and I don't feel like listening to your irritating complaints all day. It might make me very upset." A loud pop echoed throughout the cave as the fire finally flickered out. Kagome didn't know what startled her more, the poorly veiled threat or the sudden ephemeral darkness that descended upon the two.
'Ohnoneofthisisright.Inuyasha,Sango,Miroku,Shippo;whereareyou?' A silent tear raced, unseen, down the girls cheek as she lay down to rest.
….
"Tell Inuyasha five more minutes will yea Sango?" Kagome felt something nudge her exposed shoulder.
"Get up wench."
Kagome bolted up at the familiar cold voice.
"I'm not going anywhere. I told you yesterday that Inuyasha would be here soon to rescue me." She crossed her arms and stuck one dainty nose in the air.
A low growl reverberated through his chest. "I told you not to test my patience this morning girl." He leaned over and threw her, not too gently across one bold shoulder. Obviously not a morning person.
"Put me down!" She hollered and began to pound petite fists upon his white clothed back.
"Will you stop screaming?" Youko winced, his ears folding over to the base of his skull.
"I'll scream if I want to!" Her fists started to glow with a light pink glimmer.
"You honestly think that's going to hurt me? I don't know if I should be offended or amused. I told you before that you weren't trained in spirit manipulation. How do you expect to do more than harm a few class youkai if you don't understand the basics?"
"What do you mean?" The pounding slowed and came to a halt. "Miroku and Kaede started training me."
"They have no idea what they're doing either. They just know how to move spirit energy around, sometimes there able to manifest it as something. Why do you think all the greater youkai like me are still walking around? You guys have no idea what you're doing or how you accomplish it, you just do. You are never going to improve and become stronger if you never understand the basic principles of what you are accomplishing."
She gave a small sigh of acknowledgment and tried to wrap her brain around the concept of what he was saying. It was true she didn't understand exactly what she was doing, but Miroku and Kaede couldn't explain it either. The priestess let loose a small groan and closed her eyes. She could already feel a headache coming on.
Meanwhile a watery sun struggled to push through the clouds with little success. A small kitsune kit gave a tentative sniff of the air.
"It's going to rain soon." Shippo murmured. Pulling another one of his screaming mushrooms from his coat pocket he tossed it aside near a sheltered bush. He may not like Inuyasha, and believe him to be totally inept, but he had a strong nose and cared about Kagome. Even if he was more concerned with Kikyo or jewel shards half the time. But he would lead the others until the scent trail faded and by that time they should have found his trail of mushrooms… hopefully.
Giving a heavy sigh, one that was far too weary for one his age, he continued on. Leaping over fallen trees and limbs and tossing a mushroom on occasion he ran through the dense foliage. There was no way he would stop, not until he had his Kagome back.
Sorry that it's a short chapter, I can't write anymore my hand is killing me. High school kids really shouldn't have to worry about carpal tunnel '-_-. Just wanted to say that I was really happy with how many people liked little Shippo to rescue and to say that yes Youko will change. Kagome seems to have that effect on people, just look at Kouga and Inuyasha. Please read and review, ja.