AN HI GUYS!!! SORRY FOR THE LATE UPDATE IN MY STORIES BUT I LOST MY MUSE AND WAS REALLY BUSY WITH A LOT OF STUFF! BUT HERE IS MY NEW ADDITION- BTW I'M DELETING MY STORY CONFUSING HEART BECAUSE IT'S GOING NO WHERE!!! LOL ANYWAYS HAVE FUN WITH THIS- I'M MAKING IT A CONTINUOUS STORY AND I'M JUST TAKING IT WHERE MY MIND FLOWS TO… THANKS!!!

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS

CHAPTER ONE

She could only hear her breath laboring in her ears. She can feel her arms' pumping as if they would propel her to go faster than she all ready was. Her only thoughts were Run.

The alleyways that she was running through were unfamiliar, but the twists and turns that they had seemed to go on forever. She didn't dare to turn her head to see the faceless man that was in pursuit of her because she knew if she did that it was game over.

Every time a garbage can came within arm's reach she would grab it and push it behind her thinking that it would slow her pursuer down. She would grab anything at all and throw it in his direction as any form of defense.

Her lungs started to rasp as she just kept going on, taking every turn in the dark, dank, and dirty alley randomly in hopes of escape.

Her breath hitched when she saw that her thoughtless turns placed her at a dead end, making her only route of escape not even an option. Turning around a bright light flashed into her eyes as she raised her arm to block the rays. That light showed the figure of her pursuer standing there blocking her only exit.

"I have you now… Kagome."


"No!" breathing heavily from the panic, Kagome looked around and saw that she was in her room. She placed her hand against her throat as she tried to calm down. Gasping she slowly lowered her head to her knees.

"It was only a dream… calm down…" she didn't get these dreams often, but when she did they were realistic and scared her for days afterwards. Whenever she awoke from them she would all ways try to remember happy things like her brother Souta and her camping in their backyard making smores or she would think of puppies or whatever happy thoughts that she can grasp onto.

When she felt that she was put together again, Kagome looked up at the time. Sighing she slowly removed her body from bed when she noticed that it was 5 in the morning, which was the start for her day.

Going into her bathroom in her apartment she quickly turned the knobs for her shower, after a little groaning from the pipes the water began to rush out of the shower head. Kagome then quickly undressed and jumped into the little stall.

Trying to not think about her dream, she instead focused on all the things she had to do that day while scrubbing at her skin and washing her hair. She had to be at her first job in an hour, then her second job after that, then she had to get something for Souta's birthday…

Her lips turned down instantly when she thought of her little brother because she thought of her mother as well…

Turning her shower knobs again to turn the water off Kagome quickly erased the thought from her mind because she didn't want to depressed herself. This wasn't the time after all.

When she was done changing into a simple pair of jeans and a tshirt and getting the necessities done, she quickly went out the door. Turning around she then locked her apartment and quickly fled down the stairs to get to her workplace.


Walking through the door caused a nice little ding to shutter through the small building alerting everyone of her prescence.

"Kagome is that you?"

Kagome smiled at the elderly woman's voice, "Yea, it's just me Kaede!" Kagome walked to a little cubby area behind the counter to place her purse there for safe keepings.

She worked at an antique store that stored some older things. It was supposed to be a place that soled historical artifacts, but it came to a point where just anyone's random object could be sold there. Kagome has heard past customers walking out of the door saying that the antique store should be called the junk store; which Kagome vehemently disagreed.

When she was walking down the street that lead to this store and saw the help wanted sign, she was instantly intrigued not just because she was in desperate need of a job but because she saw the store as a hidden jewel from the rest of the world and the elder woman who owned the store only made it that much better.

Kaede came from the back of the store with her back hunched over walking slowly. When Kagome saw that she was holding a box she instantly went over to take it off of the woman's hands. Kaede smiled and waved the girl off, "It's all right child, even an old woman like me can handle this meager little thing."

Kagome gave a bright smile at that, "You don't look a day over thirty to me Kaede."

"Such lies." But that didn't stop Kaede from patting Kagome's cheek as she waddled to the center of the room to place the box there. She then waddled back to where she came from.

Kagome then proceeded to do all the usual things that her job entitled. She took care to carefully dust each and every object that she could get within her reach. This is what she loved.

She didn't necessarily love the cleaning, although she didn't mind it, but she loved to be surrounded by beautiful historical artifacts. Although they were not as precious to anyone enough to buy them out right, they seemed precious to Kagome because she knew that these held very important and sacred memories to the previous owners of any little knit-knack in the store. She felt, almost, like a guardian to all things carelessly tossed out. It was probably because she knew how it felt to be the object tossed out…

This thought made her falter on the latter as she was trying to reach for a little jewelry box that was too high for her reach. She didn't want to go back to that previous thought so she merely tried to reach for the box again. It got to the point where she had to stand on her tip toes in order to get her finger tips to even touch it.

When she finally felt victory with in her grasp, Kaede's voice calling to her immediately brought her hand back.

"I'm sorry, Kaede, I didn't hear you."

"It's all right chiled," Kaede's eye that wasn't covered by her patch crinkled with affection before she continued, "I merely was asking if you wanted to get us some coffee and tea, I do believe that we are in need of a break."

Perking up instantly Kagome went to get her purse, "Sure! That's not a problem at all." And so, after taking Kaede's order she turned around and ran out the door to the nearest coffee shop she could find.


She walked with a light spring in her step as she passed numerous people by on her way to her destination. She smiled happily to ever person that passed her by and even held a door open for a fellow customer on their way into the coffee shop.

It wasn't long till she was walking out the door and down the street back to Kaede's shop.

People were shoving her slightly because of the crowded pathway, so Kagome walked closer to the wall so that the drinks wouldn't spill. This continued on until someone suddenly grabbed her arm and tossed her into the alley way. Things were blurring quickly when panic spread throughout her body, and when she finally figured out how to work her vocal cords again and hand clamped down on her mouth.

Kagome tossed and turned in the man's arms as she tried to figure out a way to get out. Tears leaked from her eyes as she felt the man enclose his other hand around her neck and squeezed harshly.

"Where is it?!" the man had dragged her far enough into the alley way that people would immediately see them as they passed by, "where is it!?"

His hand was loose enough around her mouth that she could answer, but it could clamp again if she were to scream, "I…" she tried to swallow her fear but his hand was blocking her progress in doing so, "I don't… Know what you are… talking about." She cringed at her own voice for it sounded far weaker than she really was.

She heard him snarl and felt his hand on her neck tighten even more with his rage, "Don't play dumb with me bitch!" Kagome felt his spit spray her ear as she whimpered in pain, "No tell me," he squeezed so tightly that she saw dark spots flash before her eyes.

"I would drop her If I were you Manten."

Before all went black, Kagome saw a figure at the mouth of the alley way with his body shadowed just like in her dreams.

TO BE CONTINUED

I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT IF ANYONE COULD GIVE ME MORE IDEAS!!