**A/N: So here is the next chapter! Hopefully the chapters aren't too short XP. Please feel free to let me know if they are though. I am trying to make them longer, I promise!

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She had to stop and rest. She couldn't go on any longer. Man, I need to work out more or something. Sheesh. She plopped down at the base of a tree in an alley and tried to catch her breath. Her body ached all over. Especially her leg. Speaking of her leg…

She pulled herself up straighter and gazed down to her right leg. It had stopped bleeding a while ago, but some of the shards from the window still remained. It amazed her that it hadn't bother her sooner. It must've been the adrenaline pumping through her veins. Sighing, she reached down and grabbed a hold of a shard, wincing and flinching from the pain. God damn!

She held her breath and quickly, but carefully, pulled out each shard until her leg was once again a bloodied mess. All the bloodied shards were laying on the ground next to her in a pile. Staring at them for a moment, she wondered again how she ran for as long as she did. After burying them in the dirt, she sat there for a minute. Thoughts of home, Naruto, her nice comfortable bed and a hot shower ran through her head.

Sighing once again and pushing those thoughts aside, she stood up and headed off, anxious to finally be able to go home after so long. She didn't have anything with her to wrap around her leg, but she was hoping that she would find some help here soon. So far the very little people she talked to were either complete dick-wads or they didn't have a cellphone. She refused to get discouraged, though. She missed her friends and she would be damned if she wasn't going to find some way to get back home. She would walk there if she had to.

She walked along the sidewalk just thinking about how a nice hot shower sounded at the moment, when she suddenly heard a car and saw her shadow before her. Turning her head, her eyes widened as she saw the Monte Carlo coming toward her. She stood there for a couple of seconds, shocked at how he could've found her so easily. Adrenaline once again pumped through her veins as she took off running again as fast as her legs could take her. What has her pumping her legs as hard as she can wasn't that she was just standing there like a deer caught in the headlights. No, it was the gun Kye had leveled at her. When he got a gun, she wasn't sure, but she sure as hell wasn't about to stop and ask him.

Ahead of her was another alley, so she followed the wooden fence up to the opening. Just as she was rounding the corner, a gunshot sliced through the air and a sudden sharp pain in her upper thigh made her cry out in pain and fall to the ground. She reached her hand back and lightly touched the area, and when she pulled her hand back to her face it glistened with her blood. She whimpered at the pain, but pushed herself to her feet when she heard the car approaching. No way was she going back after getting this far.

She limped away as quick as she could, pain shooting through her with every step. She just pushed on. She'd rather die from blood loss than go back with him.

It was really quiet. It made sense though. It was almost five o clock in the morning after all. There were only a very few people out this early, him not included. Some were clad in slacks and others were either still in their pajamas or dressed casually. He sighed, feeling the morning air relax his tense muscles. Everything was peaceful...until a sudden gun shot rang through the air. Without a second thought, he launched himself towards the sound, hoping like hell that it was just an old car backfiring and not someone actually being shot.

After the many failed attempts to use a cellphone, Mina gave up. How could every person she asked not have a cell phone? That was just fishy.

What if everyone here knows Kye and supports his habits? Maybe this is his home town...

That voice in her head has whispered nonsense like that for twenty minutes now. She was starting to believe it though. It couldn't just be some coincidence that everyone she asked didn't have a cell phone. Who in their right mind didn't have a cell phone now-a-days? Seriously.

After the man she just asked told her she couldn't use his cell phone, she decided to just keep limping passed the remaining people out and about. She made sure to keep her head tilted so that her hair cast her face in shadow, just in case that voice in her head turned out to be right. Every time she heard a car coming she hid behind something, fearing that it was Kye. It kept being someone else though. They were most likely going into work or something. She wasn't dumb though. She knew that Kye was still looking for her. So until she got somewhere else—anywhere other than where she was now—she was going to continue hiding.

A car could be heard coming up the street and Mina quickly scurried into the nearest alley and crouched down behind a garbage can. Turns out her paranoia paid off. It was Kye in the Monte Carlo. The drivers window was down and he was hanging out of it, scanning the alleys and streets for her. She kept quiet from her spot, peeking around the trash can to watch him. He crept along almost leisurely, almost as if he was out for an early morning ride. He wasn't even going 15 mph, for Pete's sake. Her body tensed as the car stopped in front of the alley and she stopped breathing, fearing he would hear her shaky breaths sawing in and out of her lungs.

After a couple of minutes he rolled on. When she could barely hear the car anymore she cautiously limped back out the sidewalk. He was down to the end of the street at the stoplight by now and was just disappearing around the corner. There was a sign by the stoplight that read '21st St'. Kye had turned left on twenty-first street, so she decided she would go right. She chuckled a little sadistically to herself.

Good luck finding me that way, you prick

There were a few cars waiting at the red light as she walked closer, but it seemed looked like most of the people who were out earlier disappeared. They all must've gotten to where they were going. Sighing, she followed the sidewalk around the corner...

Only to run into something hard and warm.


**A/N: So there it is! I will try to get the next chapter uploaded before I have to go to work :]

I would like to thank DrPepperMonsterKitty and an anonymous reader for their reviews! I'm glad you're enjoying this story so far.

Until next chapter!

Au revoir!

~XAngelicWallflowerX