Okay, this is by far the worst thing could've happened to her. She had eluded InuYasha's wraths more times than she could count. If she could do that, then she can elude these tortures, inflicted by this damned man. Honestly, she could blame anybody but she knew she had nobody to blame but herself for getting into this mess.

Like any woman that dreamt of happy ending and a knight in shining armor to sweep her off her feet, she fell in love (thankfully, not madly as she once was with a certain dog-eared hanyou), with a gentleman that was almost like a knight in shining armor.

Oh, was she so wrong about him. As soon as he asked her to marry him and become his fiancé she agreed, he eventually lost his façade of a gentleman and became a cruel person she didn't know he'd be. He had fooled everyone, including her own overprotective younger brother, Souta.

She thought InuYasha's temper was bad, his was worst.

She sighed, winced as the small bruises on her nimble arms started to hurt once again. While her fiancé wasn't much of an abuser (fortunately for her), he still hurt her with his words. Something she thought she was immune to. She knew he would get worst if she married him. She needed a way out… Fast.

But how would one escape a man who had many connections? He was a ringleader of drug dealers, after all.

"Kagome, you wench! We need to go! Hurry up already!" A voice with a cruel ring to it, shouted at a flinching woman in front of her vanity mirror. She hesitantly obeyed as she rushed to applying simple makeup on her face and covered up any visible bruises.

She couldn't understand it. Why couldn't she fight back? Why couldn't her power work against him? After years of fighting demons in the past, she had learned to fight and became tougher than three strong men combined; yet she was as weak as a fragile babe.

Was there something about Rue she didn't know yet?

She was determined to find out.

"KAGOME!" She sat up and ran out of her room, obeying him. If this didn't work, she would always reveal his dealing with drugs. It was better to be shot to death than being beat to death anyway.

She ran out of the fancy hotel, which did not suit her tastes, and ran up to him as the man looked at her attires in approval. He nodded and pushed her out of the lobby room to outside and into the limo to attend the fundraising party hosted by the Wayne Foundation Building. They had arrived to Gotham City just a week ago so Rue could meet his 'friends' and to show her off.

She remained silent and looked away from her fiancé and paid close attention to the buildings and people as they passed by her window. Suddenly, the limo stopped as the sound of loud sirens appeared. She pressed a button to open the window and looked out and saw a person with a black, whispering cape and that looked almost like a bat sending somebody on the ground. She barely registered her fiancé's cursing and could only concentrate on that person.

Suddenly, that man in the bat uniform looked at her and she swore she saw him smiled at her. "Kagome, close that window! We are taking a longer route. This road was blocked anyway." Rue said irritably, somehow knowing she had a sudden interest in Batman. "Rue… Who is he?"

"Him? He's Batman. He's well known in this blasted city, you know, for saving it a lot of times or something. I would much prefer to have Gotham City burned to the ground. That time will soon come anyway."

She frowned, knowing he was up to something. But she couldn't do anything about it either way. This was one time she would actually want to be rescued from, as much she hated to admit it.

-SSITD-

He sighed as he took off his armor and put on his tuxedo. "Master Bruce, the party is starting." His family long-time butler, Alfred Pennyworth, told him as he helped his young master to put on his jacket. "Yes, yes, I know, Alfred." He sighed, the thought of that beautiful dark-haired, blue-eyed maiden still stuck in his mind.

"Alright then, Master Bruce. I shall ready the vehicle then." Alfred smiled, seeing him distant in his mind. It seemed as if he had someone in his mind. His butler left the bat cave and readied himself to be his chauffeur once again.

He sighed, and too left his bat cave and went into his home, said his greeting to his ward, Dick and ignored Barbara on the most part. While Barbara was a good friend and good sidekick to have, she had started to annoy him with her recent flirting and her biting comments to some of his "girlfriends/dates". It was just hormones going on, he decided, since he felt only friendliness with her, nothing went beyond that. He was hoping that that girl would get over her ridiculous "crush" on him soon.

He then glanced at the grandfather clock and quickly left, knowing he would be late… again.

His butler, once again, took a role as a chauffeur and drove him to his building, Wayne Foundation Building. He told Alfred he'd call him and waved goodbye to him and entered the building. He stepped up on the stage, apologized about his being tardy and told the attendees to help the children by giving the money to them, the hospital, and the families of poor. After that, he cracked some jokes about himself, which they laughed at, and told them to have some fun and stepped off the stage after they gave him a standing ovation.

He help himself to have a cup of red wine as the women and his acquaintances went after him, women trying to threw themselves at him and the acquaintances asked him some personal questions. He smiled and tried his best to elude it all by telling each woman that he wasn't interested and answered somequestions to get them to leave him alone.

Until a same woman he saw earlier walked past him. It was the same woman he had caught staring at him when he defeated one of Joker's henchmen. She was even more beautiful than he thought. He decided to tell them he wanted to talk to somebody and he'd be back as he followed that woman into the elevator.

Thankfully, the elevator was empty except for him and that appealing woman.

"So… How are you?" He tried to break the silence as the woman chose the button that went up to the rooftop. The woman smiled back, though nervously, "Fine. Just needed some fresh air is all." He quickly looked at her attires and mentally liked her choice of outfit.

She wore a short-sleeved dark blue dress that went right below her knees. Her black shiny leather boots, the stiletto heels at least three inches high, covered most parts of her lower legs, leaving barely any skin to be shown between her boots and her dress. She wore bangles of gold chain necklaces, giving her a modest semi u-cut, showing a bit of her cleavage. She had a pair of small dangling gold heart earrings that matched her necklaces.

She barely wore any makeup, only a pink lip-gloss on her lips and some mascara. She wore a simple outfit, a few jewelries, and some simple makeup. He liked girls that didn't show off.

And her long ebony hair was gorgeous. Her skin was pale sun-kissed color, a perfect color for her. She wasn't too skinny, like some girls were, and she wasn't too showy either.

She was… perfect.

"You know who I am right?" He smiled as she suddenly caught himself looking at her.

"Yes, Bruce Wayne."

"But I don't know your name. Can I?"

"Kagome Higarashi." He seemed confused at the moment but looking at her Asian features and listening to her accent thick of that different place, he realized that then, "Ah, then you're from somewhere in Japan?"

"That's right." She nodded as the elevator took the stop on the rooftop. She walked out, followed by him. After a while, their conversation soon grew comfortable and it came to the worst. "My fiancé… Keep this as secret, will you?"

"Yes. I will keep it to myself, of course." He smiled.

-SSITD-

She knew he was that Batman. It was really obvious, really, or at least for her. After these years spent by fighting demons, she found her talent to see though disguises. She decided to tell him, in hints, about her fiancé.

"My fiancé, Rue… He's a ringleader."

"Huh?" He didn't understand what she was talking about.

"And one day… Bang! I'll be gone, just like that." She smiled as the dawn of realization sunk into his head. "Oh! I should be getting back. Bye."

-SSITD-

"A woman like her-" He murmured to himself as she disappeared into the darkness of the elevator. "-doesn't deserve to die." He sipped his nearly empty drink, sincerely hoping she was lying. After all, she did confuse him and insulted him several times without any mean to piss him off during in their conversation.

He glanced up in the night sky and saw the bat signal. "Well, time for me to get to work then." He decided he'd look into this matter later.