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Lost an found
She didn't know how long she'd been wandering around aimlessly, but the gray afternoon had turned into a clanking clear November's night,
and suddenly , in the middle of some street , the realization had
hit her with full force.
She was homeless.
That thought had been slowly dripping in her mind since she left her flat , but just now , the consequences of it had dawned on her. She had nowhere to go.
She was exhausted, exhausted to the core. The night was biting cold. She wore a light-gray miniskirt, a dark-gray pair of tights, a green longsleeved shirt and a much too thin jacket. She tried to pull her clothes tighter around herself. It didn't help much. She had to find a shelter somewhere.
And just when she thought it couldn't come worse ,
the first raindrop plopped on her head. The air picked up to a slight breeze as the rain began to fall harder.
She muttered a curse under her breath and pulled her jacket over her head as she began running. The problem was, she had no idea where to run.
She ran down the sidewalks , passing people with umbrellas instead of heads. She turned right after her favorite park and came to stop in front of a familiar building.
Her school.
She hadn't even thought about coming here till now! At that moment , that building, which she hated with every fibre of her being , seemed to her like the most beautiful place on earth.
Kagome jumped up the stairs to the door in one leap and pressed her ear against the damp wood. Nothing. Not even the tiniest noise. Her heartbeat quickened happily. She HAD somewhere to go! Somehow...
She hopped down on the wet lawn of the school garden and the grass rustled treacherously as she made her way to the backside of the building. She shot a nervous glance in all directions and bent down to a small, barely visible window, which was well covered by vines and old leaves.
She slid her fingers in a small hole on the lower left side of the window and pulled with mild force. A victorious smile spread across her face as the window cracked open with a little 'krk'. She lifted it up and glided through the cramped opening.
Kagome hit the floor with a small thud and looked around in the dim and dusty room. She only knew this place too well. How often had she used this particular chamber when some idiots from her school wanted to beat her up. It wasn't much , but it was something, wasn't it? Tired from walking around in the cold all day, she crawled up in a dusty corner, trying to keep as much body warmth to herself as possible, and fell asleep immediately.
Inuyasha trotted down the empty and barely light corridor , thinking about how he hated meetings like that. He simply didn't understand why he had to be here. The smug smirk his father gave him when he demanded him to stand in for him ''to represent the interests of the Tahiko-corporation'', still lay heavy on his stomach. This time he hadn't been able to talk himself out of it, so he came here with the definite intention to make fun of those stupid business-men who had gathered in the school's banqueting hall.
But so far , the meeting hadn't been any fun at all. When it had become too boring for him to bear it any longer, he had excused himself and escaped into the school's labyrinth of corridors. He had followed the instructions of his grumbling stomach and had begun to look for the kitchen. With his excellent demon senses, he'd easily found his way and was now walking the last few meters to his destination.
Suddenly, he stopped dead in his tracks. His hunger was like blown away. From one second to another ,his nerves were stretched to breaking-point and his senses seemed to work sharper than before. He had heard a noise. It had been tremendously faint, a knock or a rustle , but it didn't belong to the normal noise backdrop of a deserted school. The rustle repeated itself, this time a bit louder and of suspicion became certainty.
Somebody was here.
He sniffed the air carefully .
A delicious smell he'd never smelled before lingered in the air. And it was coming from the kitchen. He slowly moved towards the kitchen door, trying not to make any noise. Breathlessly, he crouched beside the door-frame and considered his next actions. With his demon strength and his quick reactions, the person on the other side had no chance of winning if it came to a fight - at least as long as the person was human.
Taking the risk, he left his hideout and stepped into the kitchen, ready to throw himself into battle.
But it never came to that. He just stood there, somewhere between door and angle, and could do nothing but stare at the angelic figure in front of him.
He'd found the source of the smell.
It was a girl, rummaging through the fridgerator, obviously looking for something to eat. She mumbled incoherent sentences and curses and threw things out of the fridgerator over here shoulder – there was already a small pile on the floor.
As she bend down, her almost waist-long midnight black hair floated over her shoulders like liquid silver, and the moonlight falling through the windows surrounded her silhouette with an elfish glint.
Dumbfounded, he gasped for air. Bad idea.
Abruptly, she straightened up and spun around to face him. Her deep, gray-blue eyes widened in shock as she met his glance.
'What are you doing here?', she asked in a surprised, completely innocent tone.
She looked a bit worn out, and a bit dirty too, but still, he'd never seen anything with the beauty of her.
He just stood there for a few minutes and gawked at her like an idiot. Confused, he looked up into her eyes and, all of a sudden, the world stopped turning.
The moment was ruined when a cup of Ramen slipped out of her grip and fell to the ground. The both lowered their heads in slow-motion to look at the cup. A thought flashed through his head.
She likes Ramen.
Then, he fortunately found back to his normal self and responded demandingly:
'What are YOU doing here?'
'I...I..', she stuttered utterly confused, and at this moment, she seemed so terribly vulnerable, that he felt the sudden urge to protect her, although he didn't even know her.
Out of nowhere, a loud voice echoed throughout the building: 'Inuyasha!!!'
Inuyasha cringed at the sound and looked back at the door. Nobody there... but the evil would arrive soon... He shrugged and turned back to look at the girl again.
She was gone.
The window was wide open, the rain clattered at the place she'd been standing seconds before, leaving a small puddle, and he could still smell the trace of her scent. He pitied, most of all, that he would probably never smell it again.
'Inuyasha!!!! Finally!!', an annoyed cry rang from the door. 'What are you doing here?'
Inuyasha turned to look at the cause of the noise. As usual , Sango, his secretary.
'Uhh...nothing' he muttered guiltily.
Sango eyed him suspiciously, but then came to the conclusion that he probably couldn't have done anything bad in this kitchen, like causing the third world-war or killing the pope. 'Then , come already, your business partners are waiting for you', she demanded, nervously bobbing up and down with her foot. Then, she swiped around and walked out of the room and down the corridor, her high-heels clattering on the stone.
Inuyasha looked at the window one last time, almost with a hint of regret in his eyes.
'Feh.'
He turned around and followed his secretary, forgetting about the mysterious girl.
Kagome pressed against the cold brick wall of the school, still paralyzed with terror, her thoughts whizzing through her head like cars on a highway.
What does somebody like him do in a temporary closed school anyway?!
He'd scared her half to death!
She took a deep breath to calm herself, and as the cold air, which was humid from the pouring rain, ran down into her lungs, her mind began to clear itself.
She should have known that it was a stupid idea to break into her school.Stupid.stupid.stupid.
Why did she have to become hungry?? Stupid human basic-needs!
It had begun so wonderful! She'd been starving, so she'd crept out of her broom-closet and gone to the kitchen in search of something to eat...
She'd tip-toed to the fridgerator, opened it and it had been filled to the brim with everything you could ever wish for!! She just would have had to stretch out her arm to get all that yummy stuff...But NOOOO !!! Instead, she'd suffered the worst shock of her entire life!!!
She'd stood there, desperately searching for Ramen and suddenly, he'd literally appeared out of nowhere! She had been frozen to the spot, she wanted to run away, do something, anything!!! But what had she done? She did the most stupid thing somebody in her position could possibly do: She asked :'What are you doing here?' How idiotic can somebody be???
She'd done EVERYTHING wrong! First mistake: Looking up!
She'd heard a noise and looked up – straight into his eyes! No matter how hard she'd tried, she hadn't been able to pull away from his golden orbs. She didn't know how long they'd been standing there, looking into each other's eyes, but her legs had felt like jelly and her heart had started to pound like an out-of-control hammer plant, and slowly, she'd felt like she would drown in a sea of golden honey.
All of a sudden, an impatient voice had echoed through the room, and Kagome had felt as if she would be punched back into reality through a sheet of glass from one second to an other.
Of course, the silver-haired guy had turned around to look for the voice's owner.
She had remained there a few moments, staring at his suit-covered back. Then, she'd luckily regained her common sense and jumped out of the window. She'd dashed around the corner of the building like a mad chicken, And there she stood now, still out of breath, looking at the falling rain in front of her.
Wrong. It wasn't just falling. It seemed like a solid water wall would fall from the sky.
Kagome was afraid to step out under the gutter. But she had to. What if the boy with the amber eyes would search for her?
She sighed in defeat, "Why me???" and ran off into the darkness.
Damn Sango. Why did he have to hire such a forgetful secretary??
Inuyasha leaned back in the leather seat of his Mercedes Benz, impatiently tapping his fingers on the wheel.
'Oops!.. Sorry Inuyasha! I've forgotten my brief-case back at the school, would you mind if I quickly go back and get it?' he whined, perfectly imitating his secretary's voice.
Not even waiting for an answer, she'd put up her umbrella, stepped out of the car and stomped off through the rain.
And now, he sat here in his 300.000 Dollar-car, left alone and feeling like a forgotten puppy. To make it even better, the car was parked only a few blocks away from his apartment. Inuyasha was tired, hungry and all he wanted to do was go home. But he couldn't drive off, leaving Sango in the middle of nowhere, could he? She was already gone for fifteen minutes and Inuyasha began to get worried.
By now, the pitter-patter of the raindrops falling on the car roof had grown into an almost regular loud buzzing, which hurt his sensitive ears.
To ease the pain, he brought the window down and tried to make out something behind the veil of rain. No chance.
The hanyou made a face and closed the window. But just before it was entirely shut, a scream tore the night apart. A girl's scream.
Inuyasha panted horrified, "Sango!" Yanking the door open, he made a headlong dive out of the car.
Her limbs had grown numb with cold. The water on the streets was centimeters deep and she was sure that the temperature had dropped for at least 30 degrees during the last hour.
Freezing and soaked to the bone, Kagome staggered forward, her head bowed. She'd given up running a long time ago – The rain clattered down from the sky with such might, that she already had problems to stay on her feet.
Tip, tap
Her head jerked up- She'd heard the sound of feet behind her.
She swiped around, a cold shudder running down her spine, and tore her hands over her head to protect her face. She peered through the threads of drops, but wasn't able to see anything clearly. In the rain, all movements seemed distorted and wrong, all outlines strange and aggressive-
there it was again!
Tip, tap
Suddenly, a figure stepped out under the rain curtain.
Kagome's eyes widened in shock.
The man shot her a greedy, toothless grin "Oh- look what've got here... hello, birdie!"
The girl screamed as loud as she could.
"You can scream as much as you want – nobody will hear you.."
She could actually physically feel how the blood and all the colour left her face. She felt a heavy dizziness take possession of her, and her knees went soft. When he took a step forward, she got pulled back into reality. She turned around and ran. The man only laughed amusedly and chased after her. She could feel him catch up – if she didn't run faster, he would –
She fell flat on her face, hard, swallowed icy water and brought her head up, coughing and painfully gasping for air. At the first moment, she was almost blind, water ran into her eyes and the pain let colourful circles and lightnings explode in front of her sight.
She turned around to face the danger and tried to struggle to her feet, only to get pinned down by a bigger, heavier body.
The man held her to the ground and brought his face close to hers "Got ya." He kneed her in the guts.
Kagome cried in pain and squeezed her eyes shut in disgust as he covered her with his bad breath. She tried to get away, but he was simply to strong. Panting in excitement, he ripped her skirt and her shirt off and touched her breasts with his horny hands.
Silent tears were streaming down her cheeks. She closed her eyes and pushed her head to the side, she didn't want to have to look at him. She felt his hands glide up her thighs and her back, causing her to grow stiff - he fiddled about with her bra and she let go an other desperate cry.
Suddenly, she felt the weight being pulled off her, and she heard a deep, rough voice growl in anger and a noise as if somebody was thrown against a wall. "GET YOUR HANDS OFF HER, YOU DIRTY BASTARD!!!"
She doubled up with pain, and then everything went black.
Inuyasha ran like he'd never run before. The rain bit in his face like sharp needles, but he didn't care.
Every time the girl screamed , he felt as if somebody would rip his heart out . He had soon realized that the girl wasn't Sango. He had smelled it-
he would never forget the scent of that girl. It was the girl he'd seen in the kitchen, just an hour ago,
and it was probably his fault that she was getting hurt right now-
he'd practically chased her out of the safe building. He would never be able to forgive himself if something would happen to her.
He turned the corner and there she was- Helplessly lying on the ground, in the middle of the street , a man on her, trying to rape her.
Inuyasha felt his blood boil with hatred.
He dashed forward, grabbed him by his coat and smashed him into a parked car.
"GET YOUR HANDS OFF HER, YOU DIRTY BASTARD!!"
He sprinted right after him, and banged his head against the metal once more, satisfied when he heard his skull break. The man slid down against the car door and fell to the left. Inuyasha kicked him into the side, causing ribs to crack. The hanyou snarled and pulled the unconscious man up by his collar. Disgusted, he quickly searched through his pockets and pulled out his passport with a disparaging gesture.
He dropped the men and hissed through his gritted teeth, "You'll pay for what you did tonight until you die."
He turned his back to the man and walked over to the girl. She lay there, curled up into a ball, and the raindrops hit the surface of the puddles around her with small explosions. Wet strands of her long, black hair stuck to her face and she shivered terribly.
He took off his leather jacket and wrapped it around her fragile form, trying not to cause her any additional pain. He slid his arms under her feet and picked her up. A small whimper escaped her lips when he lifted her up, and she snuggled deeper into his chest. His eyes went soft when he looked at her face "Let's go home" ,he stated and started walking.
A/N: Okay , that was a really looong chapter, but I couldn't bring myself
to make two chapters out of it... Well, that's all I have to say, except for...
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