Alleyway

"Hey Kagome, want to and come over to my house? No one's home and my bro's out at work, we could get comfy together." Inu Yasha placed his arms around Kagome, the new girl at school who showed up wearing a white tank and blue jeans. They didn't get much fresh meat up at their school, so, as part of the inauguration process, he was hitting on her, but so far, his wily ways weren't working.

She glared at him for a moment, shoved his hands off her shoulders and walked off quickly in the opposite direction.

"Hey, didn't you hear me? I asked if you wanted to come over to my place." She continued to ignore him, and with her nose stuck up in the air, a surge of anger rushed through him.

"Hey, do you think you're better than me, just because you're from some nice family? I've been watching you the whole day and you know what you are? Nothing but a snobby-"

Slap

It was so unexpected that all he could do was watch as the black haired girl started to yell.

"What is wrong with you, and what's this about me being snobby? You don't even know me and you're already spewing all this nonsense?" Inu Yasha for once, was speechless. "And you can just dream on buster, because I would rather jump into a mud-hole then go to your house, pig." She left the scene in a huff and the numerous people around them on the street started laughing and hooting.

He cursed; she made a fool out of him, in broad daylight, in front of his friends! He swore revenge, that new girl; Kagome probably didn't know that he was the ringleader of the largest gang at school.

"Hey man, I saw what the new girl did to you, and man, did she look angry." A familiar face popped out from the crowd and slapped him on the back.

He didn't need to turn around to know who it was, "Jerk off Miroku, I should be the angry one here, I mean, who slaps people for no reason at all?"

A smile tugged at his lips, Miroku expected this to come from his best friend; Inu Yasha was often insensitive and said things without thinking. So, of course, he wouldn't know when he offended somebody, much less a girl. "Weren't you the one who insulted her?"

"How did you know? You weren't even here, or were you stalking us?" Inu Yasha eyed him suspiciously.

"I don't know what you're talking about, I never stalk people (snort) ok, fine, maybe there was this one girl, or two, but you were loud enough for everybody down the street to hear. Aren't you even worried that someone will tell Kikyo that you've been hitting on the newcomer?"

"Screw her man; she gets jealous for no reason, s'not my fault she's like that. Let's just get out of here, I hate being in the city, everything smells like... dog shit."

"Are you sure it's not you?" Miroku teased lightly, an argument usually got his friend out of a funk, and he could tell that Inu Yasha's pride was a little hurt from that slap. Even Kikyo, in all her tantrums had ever hit him. Miroku felt sorry for the new girl, she was going to be so screwed messing with the idiot.

'I cannot believe such an asshole existed. I knew transferring to a new school was a bad idea, even worse; I have to walk home by myself. I miss my car.'

Such were the fleeting thoughts of a 15 year old teenager, namely, Kagome Higurashi. Just as Kagome passed by the once beautiful neighborhood where she lived in and saw that her old house had a 'Sold' sign on embedded in the lawn. 'So it's taken already' Her dad had only put the house up for sale a week ago when he went bankrupt, and then they sold the property for nearly half the price they got it for and made do with it living in an apartment complex on the other side of town.

'Wonder who lives there now, hope they won't ruin the birdbath me and dad made.' She thought wistfully.

"Excuse Me," said an elderly person behind her. She didn't even notice that she had been standing in front of her old home blocking the sidewalk for the past few minutes.

"I'm sorry" She mumbled, and moved over to let the old woman pass and resumed walking home.

On the bus, she got funny stares from some the funny smelling men. She unconsciously wrapped her arms around herself and wished the bus would go faster, she hated this, and she hated how people would look at her, it wasn't as if she were an alien, although she certainly felt like one right now.

Suddenly a hand reached around her shoulders and a fat greasy man smiled at her. She was about to tell him off when she suddenly felt the sharp object against her back.

"Get off the bus." The man whispered softly to her, his rancid breath almost gagging her.

"Now" He emphasized by pressing the knife against her back.

She got up with the person behind her but no one noticed what he was doing, she wanted to scream out but she knew that he would plunge the knife if she so much as uttered a word.

Her eyes pleaded for someone to notice, to do something, but she was met with turned backs and silent stares.

Thus, she got off the bus with another asshole in unfamiliar territory, home to Strip bars and ironically, the homeless.

He yanked her arm and dragged her deeper into the alleyway. She struggled and tried yelling for help but then the man clamped her mouth shut with his dirty hand.

In response, she bit him.

"You bitch!" He yelled slapping her with his other hand. She fell onto the floor tasting the blood in her mouth. She had no time to worry, everything counted on speed, and luck, Kagome prayed to every god she knew for a successful escape. Adrenaline ran its full course throughout her body, and her slim legs sprinted toward the mouth of the alleyway…

"Aw, shit." She mumbled as the bullet penetrated her otherwise white tank top.

All she could feel now was numbing pain coming from the right side of her body, 'and I was so close too.' It was only a few more feet, she could make it, but her disobedient legs were like jelly, and somewhere behind her echoed the triumphant guffaw of her captor. Maybe she could run later and kick him now, run-run or kick-kick? Kagome finally made up her mind, but unfortunately, she could no longer make sense of the world, and only incoherent words and images blurred her mind as she finally collapsed...into the pair of strong arms that caught her fall.