She woke with a start. "Di-did I just pass out?" she whispered to herself. She looked at the clock. 1:47, I was out for a long time...she laid back on her bed and started wondering if she should tell her parents or not. She decided to tell them tomorrow. It's too late right now, she thought as she closed her eyes.
Suddenly, she heard her door squeak slowly open, followed by a sound coming from the foot of her bed. "Is-is someone there?" she asked. She heard nothing more. She got up and slowly crawled to the end of her bed. "Ahh-!" A hand shot up from the ground right when she leaned over and grabbed her mouth. She started clawing at it with her fingernails and another hand shot up and grabbed her hands too. She was forced to turn over and was flattened against her bed, with her hands held behind her and her mouth still covered. Kate started thrashing around hoping to get her mouth uncovered so she could scream for help.
"Stay still. I don't want to hurt you, but I will if I have to" a man's voice whispered. Kate continued moving around until she felt an arm across her back, holding her hands and the feel of cold metal on her neck. "I'd advise u not to move again." The man said. Kate froze. "That's better. Now, I'm going to uncover your mouth. If you so much as open it, I'll have to slit your throat, understand?" Kate nodded. Her mouth was now uncovered, but she kept it closed. "Good. Now you better stay that way." Kate felt the knife disappear from her neck and her hands were slowly released but soon grabbed up again. She now felt a rope winding its way around her wrists. She was forced to sit up and finally got a look at her attacker. He was a young man with black hair tied in a short ponytail and was totally dressed in purple and black, even his cloak! In one hand was held the knife, and with the other he pushed Kate's hair out of her face.
Kate spoke. "What do you want?"
"I told you not to speak. Do I have to bind your mouth too?" Kate shook her head. "I didn't think you'd want that. As to why I'm doing this, you'll soon see. Now, come with me." He picked her up in his arms and made a special effort to hold her butt. Kate turned quickly and glared at him. He immediately moved his hand. "Well then," he said uncomfortably. "Let's go!" He was facing the window, which Kate now noticed was open and the screen was knocked out.
"Th-through there?" she stammered.
The man laughed at her nervousness. "Yes, through there. Now!" The man leapt through the open window and into the cold night air. Kate gasped from the shock of the temperature change. It was December and all Kate had on was pajama pants and a big T-shirt. They landed safely on the ground below the window. "Are you cold?" asked the man. He seemed almost concerned. Kate nodded her head. "Here," he put her down and pulled off his cloak to wrap it around her.
"Th-thank you." Said Kate teeth chattering from the cold, as she pulled it tighter around herself, which was rather hard because of the tied hands. She was very confused about why this man who had threatened to kill her, was now trying to keep her warm. Maybe he wants a ransom? She wondered. But why would our average house be targeted?
 "Oh, let me get that for you..." said the man as he pulled out the knife and sliced the ropes binding her. "If you want those to stay off, you can't scratch or hit me anymore. Now, shall we continue?" He picked her up again and explained why at Kate's protesting. "You have no shoes on. Walking in this frost definitely won't be good for you." Then he started walking again, heading straight into the deep woods behind Kate's house.
"Why are we just going behind my house?" Kate asked.
"There are people back there who have been waiting to finally find you for many years."
"Many... years?"
"Yes. Now be quiet. We don't want to disturb the nature." They continued on in silence as he had requested. Kate was feeling very strange at being carried like this for so long and was shivering despite the heavy cloak, while the man was grateful that he was chosen to bring the girl and got to carry her. Lucky for him, she didn't weigh very much. After continuing on like this for a little over five minutes, they came to a thick and tall bunch of bushes. "Get ready." The man warned Kate. "These bushes are thick and easily scratch. I don't see why he made us make camp behind them..." Kate pulled the cloak over herself and, though she didn't know why, tried to cover the man too. He noticed and smiled down at her, which made her blush and want to pull the cloak away. But it was his cloak, and he had given it to her... Even though the only reason she had it was because he had kidnapped her. In the end, she let it stay protecting both of them.
They went straight through it mostly, but they were held up once when her mid- back length hair caught on a branch. Otherwise they made it through, both unharmed. Once they were on the other side, Kate immediately started looking for her other captors. All she saw was two girls and a little kid. Wait a second... she looked harder at the one she had thought was a little kid at first glance. He was the size her friends almost two year old brother, but he had a tail! It was a big fluffy one that reminded her of a fox's. His feet also looked like the paws of a fox. "What the-"
"The man saw her face and quickly found the source of her confusion. "Hey, Shippou!" he called. The little fox like one looked up.
"Hey! Miroku's back!" he yelled as he came running over. Kate shrank back against Miroku in fear, and he obviously enjoyed it.
"Miroku! You perv!" yelled one of the girls. The oldest one it looked like, and she was dressed in a reddish pink kimono. "Put her down right now!"
"But Sango! She has no shoes." He replied.
"You planned it that way didn't you!" She yelled back. "Took her away purposely without letting her think of getting shoes."
"Don't fight you two. There are more important things to do here." The other girl had walked up to intervene. She must have been freezing because she was wearing a short green skirt and a white short-sleeved top.
"That's right. Where is he anyway?" asked Miroku.
The other girl pointed. "He's in that tree."
Kate looked up. There in the tree was a boy. He was dressed in bright red and was obviously aggravated that the girl had told of his location. "What's your problem Kagome! I told you not to tell where I was until I was ready to come down!" He leapt down out of the tree and walked over to Miroku.