A Stranger With No Name

Kagome went to her room to get ready to go on her nightly run. Plus she promised Sango she would drop by before they closed. She put her hair in a ponytail, tied her shoes, checked on Sota one more time, grabbed her keys and she was off.

She sighed as she reached the bottom of her building and stepped out into the frosty air. She did a few stretches and stuffed her keys in her pocket, zipped her jacket and ran. These moments were moments that she cherished, the still of the night as the crisp cold set in surrounding her. This was her time to think as she ran the street of New York. Though the area she lived in was not exactly a place she should have been taking a nightly job. she thought There were drug dealers, druggies, and drunks all over the sidewalks, some were passed out with needles still in their arms or hands, or beer cans in the hands of a few.

She was only a few blocks from Sango's when a hand reached out and grabbed her pulling her into an ally. Placing one hand over her mouth and a knife to her throat, pinning her to the wall. "If you scream I'll kill you." The man was tall and bald, and looked kind of drunk, high, or maybe he was both. Kagome nodded her head with wide eyes and heavy breaths. The only thing that ran through her mind was Sota. "Do you have any money?" He asked. Kagome shook her head. "Then I guess you will have to pay me another way." He grinned.

Kagome took in a deep breath and closed her eyes as tight as she could. Her breathing and heart rate speeding up, She felt his hand slid from her mouth to her jacket zipper. She didn't dare open her eyes or scream. She contemplated the position she was in and how she would get out of it, but if she was unsuccessful and she died Sota had no one left. Her thoughts were interrupted when the man reached under her shirt gripping her breast and kissing her neck. Kagome tensed up to keep from making any noise from the pain of his nails digging into her soft skin. His icy hands fondled with her breast sending chills over her body causing her nipples to harden. "Oh so you like that" His breath washed over her reeking of alcohol and cigarette smoke and with that moment of hot breath came a moment of resolution. He was distracted and she was going to make her move because there was no way she would go out like this. Just as she reached for the knife at her throat another voice distracted her.

"Let her go."

The man stopped and turned from Kagome to the owner of the voice. "And why would I do that?" He sized up the new stranger and had apparently decided he could take him. "I found her first, get your own." He snarled.

'Found? I am not a thing!' Kagome fumed to herself.

"I do not care, it doesn't look to me like she wants to be with you."

"Why you-" Before he was able to make a move the intruder had him against the brick wall of the ally.

"If I ever see your face again, I'll shred it to pieces." His voice settled on the night's air, making the cold seem like a spring times breeze. The bald man lifted him self from the ground with fear in his eyes and did what any sensible person would, ran. Kagome was giving heart, blood pressure, and breathing slow to a normal pace when the intruder turned to her."A young women such as your self should stay home at night, you were asking for that." Kagome looked at the man that had just saved her life. His silver hair cascaded down his back, and his eyes, that's what got her. Her heart started to beat fast again, and not because her innocents was almost taken. It was him, no it was his eye. They shone with the light of a thousand suns, but still more memorizing. Her mouth dropped as she tried to slow her breathing once more. "You should fix your self."

"Huh?" Kagome looked at her shirt that was pulled half way up. She began to blush as she pulled it back down zipped her zipper. When she looked back up he was leaving. "Wait!" She reached out and grabbed the arm of his jacket. She gasped when he turned to her. Her heart was ready to explode out of her chest. "Um, what's your name?" She asked.

"That is of no concern to you."

"But I wanted to thank you." She hesitated.

" I do not want your thanks."

"But you just saved me the least I could do is-" He turned to leave.

"I did not do it to save you, he caught me on a bad night."

"Not much of a talker I guess." She sighed as she watched him leave. Taking a moment to look at her watch Kagome decided she could still make it to Sango's job if she hurried. The longer she jogged the foggier it became so when she ran past the man who saved her she didn't even notice. She knew the way to Sango's store by heart and put her self on auto pilot. He however noticed her. He couldn't help but think of how stupid she was. After what just happened and she still persisted on running, what was her aim? He stayed across the street as he watched her walk into a corner store that was obviously closed. He watched her talk with the other girl as if nothing had happened.

"Hey Kagome it's about time!" Sango laughed as she let her enter the store.

"Yeah, yeah, I know!" Kagome laughed brushing the winter moisture from her body.

"So hey, I got an invitation to a New Years party, wanna come?" Sango asked.

"Oh, I would but I can't. My brother-"

"My mother." Sango smiled at her quick thinking solution.

"I couldn't just dump him on Kaede like that." Kagome frowned.

"Oh she wouldn't mind, besides, thinks you're an angel." Sango quoted with her fingers.

"Shut up." Kagome laughed.

"So, what do you say?" She nudged Kagome.

"Yeah, I could use a break any way." She smiled.

"That's the spirit!" Sango cheered.

"Well I should get going. I have stayed out too late already."

"You live on your own and you still have a curfew?" Sango sighed.

"Bye!" Kagome laughed.

"Later!" Sango called. With that Kagome went home to the warm safety of her bed. Sleep however, did not come easy. She tossed and turned from the left over jitters that the whole ally incident left behind. Though she had spent an extra ten minutes in the shower trying to scrub his touch of her skin and the stench of his breath from her hair the whole thing still had her shaken up. Sleep eventually came and was welcomed.