Disclaimer: NO I do not own Inuyasha. That awesome privilege belongs to Romiko Takahashi. Thank you!

For no particular reason at all I want to mention that Jakostu has to be the best bad guy of all time! He's evil and powerful and yet so flipping funny! I do adore him lol.

Chapter 8: Solitary

The first thing he became aware of was the pain in his skull. It felt like someone was taking a dull ax to his head. He moaned in pain.

"He's waking up."

"Hey, man, are you alright?"

He graoned and forced his eyes opened. It was dark, wherever he was.

"You're in the cells, Yash."

"Kouga hasn't woken up yet. I guess he had it worse 'cause he's a full demon."

The guys talking to him were friends of his, not like Miroku and the others but they were still friends.

"What happened?" he asked his throat dry.

"Helga throw the mothballs from hell, you and Kouga went out like lights."

Another guy nodded. "Then they took us down here. Only problem is they seperated everyone."

"Hey, Miroku! He's up!"

"Inuyasha?"

He stood up and looked across to the opposite cell. Miroku was there with three other guys while Inuyasha's cell had four besides himself.

"What's going on?" He asked his friend who was standing at the bars.

"Well, after they took you and Kouga out they started taking the rest of us as well. When I left they were destroying the radio." he said as Inuyasha made his way to his own bars.

"Man, do you know how long it took to collect those CD's?" Some guy a few cells down yelled. "They were snapping them in half when I got taken out."

"Where is everyone?" Inuyasha asked.

"Most of us are here." Miroku said. "But Sango had another black out and started fighting so hard they..." He paused to take a breath. "Man, they put her in solitary."

"Solitary?" Inuyasha repeated.

Hell had nine levels just like the real Hell. Solitary was level eight. Kids had even died in solitary though the school passed their deaths off as accidents.

"Don't wrooy, Miroku. Sango's strong, she can handle it."

Miroku nodded but he still looked unsure.

"What about Kagome and Ayame? What happened to them?"

Still looking worried, Miroku answered, "I don't know. They could be in the next cell block over but I heard the guards saying that some people were being put in the cages. They could be there. But Kagome...Well she's new and you know how they treat the newbies and she was struggling thw hole way. She could be in solitary as well."

"Miroku calm down." Inuyasha said firmly. Already his demon blood was curing the headache that was splitting his skull open. "We don't know anything yet. We'll find out when they let us out of here."

"But I know where they took Sango!" Miroku cried as fear filled his eyes. "What if she doesn't return!"

"She will! Now pull yourself together!" Inuyasha said back without hesitation. He wanted nothing more than to rip the bars off the door and escape but he couldn't. It wasn't that they were too strong for him to pull apart, the problem was that they were far too brittle. Were he to move them at all they would shatter under his claws and that would be very bad. They were hollow, all the bars in this place were, but inside them was a very noxious, posionous gas. Were he to let it out all them could die including himself. It wouldn't be worth it.

Miroku shut his eyes and took a deep breath and began performing Sango's breathing exercises. They calmed her down, they might work for him.

"Inuyasha, Kouga's waking up."

He turned at the sound of the other men's voices.

"Kouga. Wake up, man."

Kouga coughed and opened his eyes. "Kami, I feel like my head is going to explode."

"Join the club." Inuyasha said offering a hand to help him up.

Kouga took it and staggered to his feet. "What happened? The last thing I remember is...Ayame! What happened to her? Is she alright?"

"I don't know. We don't know where she is exactly."

"Dman!" Kouga punched the wall in his frustraition. "How did they find out about the party?"


"What do you mean you weren't focusing?" a kid asked Ayame. She was being held in the other cell block with a guy and two girls.

"I was carving me and Kouga's initials into the wood." She admitted shamefully.

Lookout duty was held ont he fourth floor. The floor had burned down a few years ago so no one stayed there. But everynight a lookout went up there and watched for the guards. It had been Ayame's turn but she had seen a beam that hadn't been charcoaled too badly and decided to carve their initails into it. Unfortunately that's when the guards had made their way down to the dorm.

"You're the most terrible lookout since the guy who lit the dorm on fire." they said putting their heads in their hands.

"Sorry." she smiled sheepishly.


Kagome screached and yelled with the others that had been jammed into the cages. It sounded like a zoo with animals on the rampage. The different demons and half were screaching and roaring and hissing and howling and the humans were mimicking them or just plain old yelling and everyone was rattling the bars. The cages and solitary were the only places that the bars were made of a demon resistant metal, even demons couldn't bend them.

So Kagome screached and hollared and raised a ruckus and the guards' yells of "Silence!" were lost in the cacophony of sounds. And for some strange reason she couldn't describe, she was having...fun.

Hollering as loud as possible and puntuating the roars with hisses or snarls like her demon friends was entertaining. Maybe she had just been in Hell too long but, somehow, she was enjoying herself.


Friday morning everyone was let out to attend class. Though, in a special address, Satan announced, a little too happily, that guards would now be patroling the halls of the dorm 24 hours a day.

Kagome walked into the auditorium freezing cold, thought the cages had been warmer thanks to everyones cimbined body heat.

Inuyasha and Miroku were waiting for her and both smiled with relief when they saw her.

"Kagome, you're okay." Miroku said happily.

"A little cold, but otherwise, yeah. Wait...Is that..."

"Shh, don't inturrupt. Ayame's in heaven right now." Inuyasha smirked.

Behind them Kouga had pulled Ayame into his arms, his face drawn with worry. Ayame looked like every Christmas she had ever had was coming back around so she could celebrate them all over again.

Kagome giggled.

"Sango!" Miroku suddenly yelled.

Kagome and Inuyasha turned and Kagome couldn't stop herself from gasping.

Sango looked like she hadn't bathed in months though she was prestine when she was taken. Her face was set in a grimace, her brown hair was black with grime. There were tiny bite marks all over her body like she had been nibbled on by tiny teeth. Her hands were bloody and shredded and one hand was holding her right arm which was bleeding more than her hands.

"Sango!" All three of them ran forward and she collapsed into Miroku's arms.

"What happened?" Kagome asked as Miroku took off his shirt to wipe her face clean.

"They put her solitary." Inuyasha growled.