Hello folks! Another chapter is up, and just in time for my "one per week" uploading. I think, at least...

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha (except my made up characters Aoi Kirei, Ha Jinsoku, Hebi Otoko and Hebi Hisu). If I did, I wouldn't have to go to school. InuYasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.

He felt like a caged animal, spacing back and forth in the tiny area that was his prison. From time to time he would jump and hit at the sturdy iron bars. But, without any bigger surprise, these reptiles knew their handiwork. That didn't stop him from trying to get out.

"You bastards, are you so scared of me that you're planning to kill me in here?" he screamed. Gritting his teeth InuYasha tock a good grip around two of the bars and tried to bulge them. He used all his hanyou strength, and had it been normal bars they would have bended a long time ago. These didn't even rattle in their attachments. "Get down here and fight with me! I know you can hear me!"

He gave the bars another hard push before turning his back to it and sliding down, his back resting against the damn things. When his beast had taken the control from him and had attempted to kill the little girl, InuYasha had done whatever he could to take back his body. He wasn't really sure what; just that he had imagined himself attacking his demon side with all he had. Apparently it had worked and he had exhausted himself to the point of unconsciousness, or that green snake had done something to him in that state. Then he had woken up in this gloomy place; pale moonlight shining through the ridiculously small window, showing him the rough stone walls on two sides. Nothing except an old chain collar in the corner and himself filled the tiny space.

A door opening somewhere close made his ears perk and he turned slightly so that he could glance at the intruder. Soft footsteps came closer and closer before the door to his cell opened. InuYasha tensed, instinctively reaching for his Tetsusaiga before remembering it was gone. 'Damn bastards' he swore silently.

"Good evening, InuYasha. How are you feeling for the moment? No thoughts of turning back into that beast, are you?"

"Ha Jinsoku," the hanyou growled, still not turning to glare at the snake.

"Oh? You remember my name? I'm flattered. But as you can see, I cannot shake your hand. My hands are quite full for the moment."

InuYasha had yet to turn around, but as a small gust of wind tickled his nose's inside he flinched, jumping straight up and slamming into the iron bars in the process. Now he was staring at the snake who walked by the name of Ha Jinsoku, and in the demon's arms where Kagome.

"You BASTARD! Leave her out of this!" He hit with all his force against the bars, knowing fully well it was no use.

"Hush, InuYasha. You're making such a ruckus," Ha Jinsoku scolded lightly, shifting his burden. The girl's body were limp, only the demons arms and hands holding her under her back and under her knees. The hanyou only snarled in response before throwing against the bars again.

"I ought to tell you that those bars are youkai drawing? It takes the demon's, or in your case, the hanyou's strength and makes it its own. Clever, isn't it?" Ha Jinsoku smiled. "Of course, it only works on the demon inside the cell, not out here."

"Figures," InuYasha muttered, panting slightly. "What do you want?"

Ha Jinsoku walked to one of the fair walls with the miko still in his arms before gently laying her on the cold ground. "Me? No, I don't want anything with you lot. This is merely my masters orders." InuYasha watched in disgust as the snake demon took one of Kagome's raven tress and take a deep breath of her scent. "However, I'm not too displeased with this rare capture though."

"Don't touch her."

Ha Jinsoku only smiled. It was such a smile that left a sad expression on those who saw it, but InuYasha were too busy snarling and cursing to pay any higher concern about it.

"Don't fret, hanyou," the man said while he put a strange sort of (handklovar) on Kagome's wrists; they had a red and a white stone on each, and they seemed to shine more as they closed. "I'm not going to hurt your miko. I'm only making it more comfortable for us. Well, she may feel a bit faint when she wakes up, but she will not come to any harm." Stroking her cheek once, Ha Jinsoku rose and strolled across the room.

"How do you know? Isn't it your 'master' that's pulling the strings?" InuYasha spat, his eyes painted with pale pink and barely visible streaks on his cheeks.

Ha Jinsoku stopped and walked casually over to InuYasha's cell, leaning in to whisper:

"Because she's more valuable alive."

When Kagome came to, she was staring up into a dark roof. With closer inspection she saw that it was rough stone; looking like it had been cut out and then left alone in its rough shape. Turning her head slightly to inspect the room it didn't surprise her that almost everything were made out of stone, dirt and iron. A cell. Almost like in those pirate movies.

She winced as she slowly rose so she could sit against the wall. With some difficulty though, since someone had put strange bracelets on her wrists. Tugging a little on them she discovered that they were far from pretty bracelets – a chain held her hands some inches apart, almost like handcuffs, with another chain imbedded in the wall to keep her from fleeing.

Scrutinizing the "bracelets" more closely she saw a pretty red on her left, and a pure white on her right. What use they made on a pair of "handcuffs" she couldn't make out. But whatever the use was for, it couldn't be good for her.

Kagome sighed and leaned her head onto the cold stone. Her head were spinning and she felt so weak. She didn't even feel like this when fighting Naraku! When she got injured she felt like crap, but then she always knew why. Now however…

"Kagome!" a voice from her left said excitedly, before a banging sound erupted. "Damn it! Kagome!"

She stiffened at the familiar voice and peered through the darkness until she found the source; a pair of amber eyes calling out to her, with soft white hair spilling around them.

"InuYasha…" she croaked. Coughing, she silently wondered how long she had been out of it.