Chp3 A/N: Greetings fanfictionlings! I hope u enjoyed last chp. and sorry that the story is starting out slow, but there IS a battle like next chp! >evil grin> On second thought, I may not post it if I don't get any more reviews! Well, it probably has something to do with the rating- that will be changing soon.

Disclaimer: U know the drill, I don't own Inuyasha (if I did I wouldn't be writing this fanfic) and I don't keep his hot, sexy brother chained to my bed. >rattling chains heard from next room> You didn't hear that! ( >pours gasoline over disclaimer and throws match on top>) I will own Inuyasha! (one day...) I will be victorious! (now excuse me while they take me away)

Ch3: Stormy Night

Adrien stepped out of the shower and reached for her robe. After tying it securely she walked to the fogged window and wiped it down so she could see outside. 'Hmm… still raining out there.' A clap of thunder shook the house and she jumped along with it. She grumbled under her breath. Adrien loved storms but not when they woke her up in the early hours of the morning- not to mention the horrible nightmare she just had.

As she made her way back to her room she noticed that it was eerily quiet in the house. 'Its never been this quiet, even when there are people sleeping!' She suppressed a shiver and quickly made her way back to her room. After closing the door and making sure the windows were securely shut from the storm Adrien climbed back under the covers.

'Stop it! Nothing is wrong and your safe here in your room. It's just that it's storming really bad outside and with that creepy dream on top of it, it is kinda making you feel spaced out.' With that calming her down she got out of bed and walked the five feet to her stereo.

"Maybe if I play some music it might calm me down and help me get to sleep faster. Lets see what do I want to listen to?" she asked herself while flipping through her cd case. She had finally settled on one of her favorite rock bands and settled back into the covers with her music playing on low volume. Listening to the music and the beat of the rain, Adrien began to fall back to sleep only having to shift a little bit to straighten the tee-shirt she tossed on. The last thing she saw before falling asleep was her alarm clock reading 5 a.m. mentally thanking whatever god was listening that it was a Saturday and no school.

As the storm raged on outside her bedroom window, Adrien thrashed and twisted in her bed covers. She was once again fighting the nightmare that had been plaguing her ever since she had come to live with her father's family late that summer.

The Nightmare

She could feel her legs nearly give out under her from all the running she was doing. The weird thing was that she didn't know what she was running from, or to better put it , who she was running from. She closed her eyes and saw a flash of a tall, striking good looking man of at least twenty- one. She saw his long white hair fly behind him in the light breeze.

But what really caught her attention was his eyes. They were a color that she had never heard of a human having before- they were a color like an animal would have. They were gold! Well not so much as gold but of a mix between dark gold and a molten amber. They even held the non-emotion in them like a animal. 'A wild animal' she thought, 'and just like a wild animal they hold a look of violence and deadly strength.'

Perhaps he was the one she was running from, but why would she be running from him? 'What did I do to have him give chase after me?' The moonlight filtering through the forest rooftop gave off just enough light to make the forest path she was running seem like a romantic meeting place for lovers, but to Adrien it gave another dramatic scene to this death nightmare. She knew she couldn't out run him this way but if she took a detour off the murderous path she was running then maybe she would have a better chance surviving in the deep forest brush.

She took a quick glance behind her to see if the coast was clear for her to make the move she needed. It was. Summoning all the strength she had in her, she made the desperate leap off the beaten path into the trees. Adrien pulled her arms up over her face to protect it from the sticks and rocks hitting her as she rolled down the sloping hill. Finally hitting the base of the hill, Adrien stood up checking for injures that could have been inflicted upon her person. After seeing that she only held a few cuts and bruises Adrien decided to rest for a minute to let everything register in her head.

"Who is this guy? Why is he after me?" she whispered to herself. Adrien took a deep breath and stood up looking around her, "Well for what ever reason that he has to chase me, he is not going to catch me. So I guess I better be getting myself along then if I don't want him catching up to me."

As she was beginning to stand up, Adrien heard a noise behind her. She immediately froze where she was standing. 'I mustn't panic. I must remain calm and take this creep on- if I have to,' she thought to herself as she slowly turned behind her and met her chaser. What met her was not who she had suspected.

'Oh hell, I 'm going to die now!' was the only thought in Adrien's mind when she began running from the brown wolf behind her. It seemed to her that the faster she ran the more speed and friends the wolf chasing behind her picked up. It wasn't long until she had an entire pack of wolves behind her and gaining up speed while she on the other hand was loosing energy to even jog.

Adrien knew she was going to die; she could feel the icy breath of death beating her down and making her grow weak. 'No! I won't go out like this! I refuse to die this way!' she silently screamed, so she kept running until she couldn't run any longer. She tripped over an uprooted tree root and landed on her side; then she saw them! Their blood hungry jaws opening for her and ready to swallow her up. Adrien closed her eyes and slipped in the inky, silent blackness of death.

She really couldn't figure out what had actually happened back then because all she remembered was closing her eyes waiting for death- and sure enough it came- but then something else had happened that she hadn't at all expected to happen. She was brought back to life by the very same guy she accused of chasing her! The only thing she saw as she opened her eyes was those dangerous eyes of his.

Now she was standing on a cliff looking over at the sunset with a dagger in hand prepared to kill herself but she didn't know why. 'Why am I wanting to do this? I mean, a mysterious guy just saved my life, why would I want to do this unforgivable act and end it?' Adrien tried but couldn't stop the pull of her hand as it moved steadily upward leveled to her breast. 'No! No! I don't want to die! No!' her mind screamed as the cold metal sank into her beating heart, forever stilling it.

"No!", she screamed sitting straight up in bed so fast that the sudden change in head level made her dizzy. At first, Adrien didn't know where she was for the first couple of seconds but then flashes of that night came back to her and she begun to remember that night more vividly then her memories should allow. The small family of five had been in a terrible accident and only she had survived it. The faces of her parents and younger brothers drifted into her mind like a sweet dream drifts into a young child's while in a deep sleep. She remembered were she was at now, her aunt's house. It had been two months since she came to live in Japan.

'This room was once Kagome's when she had still lived at home. By looking at it you really can't tell it was hers with all the redecorating I did to it,' she thought and deeply sighed. She looked over to her clock to see the time but was surprised to see it wasn't on. "Power must have gotten knocked out during the storm," she murmured.

Adrien began to get out of her bed while stifling a yawn and going down stairs. 'Everybody must still be asleep. I don't blame them if they are,' she thought to herself while carefully making her way down the darkened stairs. She made it to the kitchen thinking if anyone was up they would be down there, but there wasn't anyone there but her and the soft ticking of her aunt's kitchen clock. Her aunt had always kept a backup battery in that clock just for cases like that. Adrien walked up to it and squinted to see it in between the lightning flashes. 'I think it says its almost 9:00 but Aunt Lisa always makes us get up at 8:30. I guess since it's raining and so dark outside that it looks almost night that there was no point in getting up,' she thought shrugging her shoulders and turning to go back to bed when something caught her eye on the table across from where she was standing.

Adrien walked over to the table and picked up what seemed to be a small piece of note paper. After reading it twice to make sure she got it right she threw it into the recycling bin and started to head back up stairs to her room. After she found her pack of batteries and put them into her stereo turning it on, she got back under the covers.

Afraid to fall back asleep for fear of having that same nightmare for a third time in a row that morning, Adrien just laid there trying to sort it out. 'What happened between that little time lapse after that guy saved me and me killing myself? I mean, it makes no sense that some one saves you then you turn around and kill yourself without knowing why. Why did I think he was the one chasing me in the first place? None of this makes sense!' she thought and when no answers came to her she snuggled deeper in the covers trying to get rid of the cold of late fall pre- winter.

'Ugh! Grandpa is to damn cheap to buy a generator for when the power goes out. It's just too damn cold! You think he would buy one since the shrine is so high up that when there is a storm the power always goes out. Maybe if I think about that guy I might warm up. I mean he was pretty damn hot but I never got to see his face.' Adrien closed her eyes and tried to resurface the image of the mysterious male in her nightmare. As the rain began to drift softly into the background the image of the silver haired man began to take hold of Adrien's mind.

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Seductively Yours,
Dream-Toxin