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Oh, oi and you guys didn't understand my challenge. Well, none of you except for Pay Backs a Bitch. But let me give you a hint to the answer of the question Patrick Verona and Kat Stratford are out of a movie that has "10" and "Hate" in the title. Patrick is played by Heath Ledger and Kat is played by Julia Stiles (I think) Now give it a go!

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha & crew or "duck and run" by 3 doors down. I also don't claim Patrick and Kat.

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Duck & Run

Escape

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A warm trickle across her mouth seeped through her lips and awoke her with a coppery taste in her mouth. It was a familiar taste to her, and the smell was even more familiar and she wondered when she had gone back home.

She groaned lightly, her head throbbing harshly with every breath she pulled in and she tried to bring her hands up to her head, only to find them tied. Then she noticed the dark world moving and bumping, as if she were riding something… And then she shook her head once more to clear it of her temporary blindness to see herself in the back of an old junky van, tied up by what looked like bungee chords.

A husky voice startled her "Sorry bout the head ache and bloody nose. Had to knock you out when you kept screaming and fighting."

The vehicle pulled to a stop for a second and three heads turned around to look at her. A screech and the sounds of another car hauling ass towards them made them all jerk back to their seats and look out the rear view mirror. Kouga cursed and then stepped on the gas, running the red light he'd stopped at.

Kagome was sliding around in the back of the van and she finally got to a sitting position and scooted to the back windows of the van, trying to get a look out. Her eyes quickly looked towards the front of the van before she started to work at the ties on her hands. Frustration seeped into her before she thought to loop her arms around her legs and take the ties up in front of her.

From there she fervently worked at the knot, biting and ripping until the very occasional quick turn would send her flying into the other side of the van where she would then pick up her work again. Once the ties on her hands were off she quickly undid the ones that bound her feet and crawled to the back window.

Kneeling on her knees she could just barely make out the red beat up car following behind and knew immediately that it was Inuyasha. She breathed out in relief and then gasped again in surprise as she saw more and more cars gathering behind his… She could only guess who they were, possibly the band members.

Slowly, but surely, the blinking lights came up behind the line of cars, and then more and more. So the chase was truly on, with these pizza boys leading it, the police and the band trailing behind. Her hands gripped the door handle and she began to open it, the force of their speed ripping the back door open completely and she felt herself being sucked out of the van towards all the cars and the harsh road.

Before she could fly out and most likely become just like another bug on the windshield of a car, big strong arms wrapped around her waist and she was dragged back into the car. The owner of the arms was breathing heavily as he shoved her behind him "Damn! What the hell is wrong with you? You could have been killed!" It was her captor and he wasn't all too happy with her decision of suicidal escape.

She glared at him and then peered to the front of the car to see who was driving now. It was too rather ungainly teenage guys, neither was near as attractive as their friend who'd hauled her into this situation. Her attention returned to her original captor as he slammed the back doors closed and stumbled until he sat down next to her and glared.

The glare, in turn, was returned right back at him as she sneered "So, you have to kidnap your dates? You'd better pull over and let me out NOW… Or… Or…"

"Or what? You're little boyfriend is going to come after and beat me up? Hah! Unlikely. And kidnap? I thought I was doing you a favor and getting you away from the dog-breath." His voice was cool and calm, arrogant beyond her liking, and in a way mocking. As if the fact that she were even in Inuyasha's company made her lower than scum.

"He's not my boyfriend. And yes, he will come and…" the sentence dropped out as she reconsidered her sentence. Would he continue to come for her, or would he just give up? Had it even been his idea to come and save her? Why would any of them want to? Her breath evened out a little as she calmed and looked out towards the back window and steeled her resolve "He's a good guy. Better than anything you are, kidnapping me AND knocking me out!"

"That wasn't me! That was my gang, Ginta and Hakkaku." He smiled in their direction "And they did a damn good job, with all your struggling."

"Yah Kouga! She's a fighter alright! Like a wild thing! Gave me this!" Ginta turned his head since he wasn't driving and pointed out his black eye and fat lip. Upon seeing the damage she had done she smiled slightly and then felt a twinge of regret. She didn't like to hurt people… But she'd had to try, hadn't she? Yes she had.

Warmth against her own hand alerted her to see that Kouga was holding it and looking straight into her eyes. She tried to pull it back but he quickly gave it a kiss and declared loudly and confidently "You are my mate!"

She felt a little bile rise in her throat before she was laughing, shaking her head nervously "Aren't mates what animals have to breed with? Haha! That's funny. You're a pretty funny guy. Now can you let me out?"

"You're mine! I love you!" this declaration sent another burst of laughter through Kagome as she continued to try and jerk her hand out of his.

"Do you even know my name, Mr. Pompous?" a grin came to her as she realized she had caught him. Her hand finally came away from his and she just kept grinning as she scooted further from him. She wasn't afraid of him or anything, it was just she didn't want to deal with getting his hands off her again.

The sirens behind them trailed off and she crouched as she walked to the window. She looked out and all the cars were gone, off their trail and she cursed hard and long. That meant that Inuyasha had gotten caught by the police too. A heavy breath escaped her throat and she sat down with a hard thud and crossed her arms, her mouth held in a tense line of anger and worry. She knew she'd been in worse situations before, but this one was unique.

Something about these people taking her away was different. Her voice came out in a tremor of controlled rage and frustration "Give me something to wash my face with." The simple order which she gave, she did not expect to be followed.

But unexpectedly Kouga spoke up "Ginta, pour a little water on a towel and give it to the lady." A second surprise came to her as the young man followed his orders and gave her a moist towel.

No thanks were uttered from her lips as she simply held the towel to her face and scrubbed the blood from her bloody nose away and then cleaned whatever dirt and sweat remained. She threw the towel to the side and looked anywhere but at the other occupants in the van.

Soon the van stopped completely and the other two got out of the van and opened up the back doors. Upon the opening of the doors she leapt up and tried to make her get away but was caught up by Kouga, with whom she threw a hell of a fight up against. Teeth, nails, fists, feet, elbows, knees…. Anything that was on her at the moment was used as a weapon which she used in expertise against him.

If only she'd had her knife with her at the moment. He'd have been done for by now, stuck like a pig on a stick. Snarls occasionally rose from her throat through the hand that tried to silence them. The palm was flat against her mouth but soon she found a little section of skin that wasn't as tight against the hand and she bit into it, tasting a strange tangy blood in her mouth.

Curses spewed themselves from his mouth as he struggled to hold her down. After about an hour of fighting he had her in the house and locked in a room where Hakkaku stood guard. He smiled at her as he nursed his hand "Whenever you calm down, we can go on our date! Ok? Ok!"

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Inuyasha watched as his other band mates were pulled over and trapped by the police. He kept zooming on, attempting to sniff of the wolf-shit that abducted Kagome. He wasn't sure at the moment as to why it would piss him off so much, but it did. The thought of what might be happening to her at the moment made him speed up another 5 mph.

As he continued to follow the faint trail he looked momentarily down at his speed dial and was surprised that his piece-of-shit car could go 85 mph. Not super fast, but he sure as hell was going faster than anybody else had tried to go on these curvy roads. He was practically hill jumping some of the curvy hills, but he didn't pay any mind to that. He had one goal he had to reach, and reach soon. And that goal was to go reclaim what was justly his.

The trail grew too faint for him to follow now and he pulled over in a gravel driveway in front of a field of corn. He got out and leaned against his car, running his hands through his hair in frustration and hitting his car a good few times, some of the times leaving softball sized dents in its already beaten up sides.

"Where the hell can she be? Where'd they take her? DAMNIT!" he was pacing up and down the gravel road, kicking rocks as hard as he liked, in every direction, not paying care to avoid his car. Anger seemed to jam his throat up so that he could barely breath. Pants of madness breathed their way out his throat and accompanied the rest of the reckless noises he was making on the silent road.

A familiar tune reached his ears and he realized he'd left his cell phone in the car. He dove into the car and rummaged through the junk on the passengers side to find the cell and he answered it "Hello?"

Obviously his irritation was conveyed to the caller and the male voice spoke through "Calm down Yash. If anybodies got to be angry, it's either us because we got caught by the cops, or Kags." Patrick prepared for an earful from his friend but received just a little less than that.

"What the fuck do you want?" Inuyasha controlled his anger and prayed for Patrick's sake that it wasn't just another one of his retarded calls about nothing.

"Well, I want my pizza for one…" Patrick cleared his throat after receiving a few minutes of dead silence from Inuyasha, picking up that his friend didn't find this near as humorous than he did "Umm… Well, got us all out of jail and found some information for you. The guy that kidnapped is Kouga, leader of some wolf demon tribe. Him and his gang live somewhere in that little scum neighborhood, Ligget, or something. But I guess it's just really full of him and his crew, so if I were you I'd wait until we came to…"

He was cut off promptly by the dial tone because Inuyasha had hung up on him and was starting up his phone and speeding towards Ligget, which was just a few miles from where he was now. He would get there and reclaim her. Save her because he finally could.

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Kagome was pacing the strange room she was in, which slightly resembled a bedroom, through all the clothes and other crap. Was that lump in the middle a bed? She waded through all the mess and reached the big heaping lump and shoved a few things off of whatever it was. Yup, it was a bed.

She sat down on the edge, cringing a little in disgust since she'd had to touch things to actually sit down. Everything in the room was gross, all unclean and moldy. She sniffed briefly to realize that somebody had attempted to disguise the stench in the room with heady cologne.

Now that she had checked out the entirety of the room her eyes re-skimmed the walls for outlets other than the door she had come into. Her eyes passed over something resembling a window and shot back to it immediately. She dove passionately toward it, practically swimming in the dump that was somebody's room to get to the window.

Upon reaching the window she checked all the latches and soon set the tugging at them since they'd obviously not been opened in a while. The rusty latches gave way slowly to her wrenching and she started to pry it open, setting her body at an angle beneath it so she could shove up with her whole body.

The window crashed open the last push of it and made a clammering noise and she gave no second thought to leaping out of the window and running through the yard in the dark, hearing yelling coming from the house. She dove behind a large dumpster and fostered her bleeding hands from the struggle with the window. For a second she held her breath and let it go, thinking she was in the clear.

But soon dogs began barking and she looked out from behind the dumpster to see first the house where her captors were light up and then slowly each other house in the slummish neighborhood alight. She bit her lip to hold back a curse as she watched people exit their houses and start hunt through their yards.

Now the people that owned the yard she was in came out and she realized they were wolf demons too… She grasped that they could already smell her and then the revelation hit her that the barks were not from dogs, but from wolves.

Under her breath she uttered a curse "Fuck, now I have a hungry pack of wolves on me… Literally." With that she picked herself up and began to run through the darkest part of the yards, the space between their yards and the woods. She considered going into the woods, but figured that the noise and the time it would take her to navigate them wouldn't be worth it.

Soon she had to leave the security of the wooded areas to cross a small creek, splashing through it as quietly as possible only to forge her way through thickets and brambles to the road. She looked back at the neighborhood and saw movements and figures in the closest yard and then sensed eyes upon her.

Her eyes returned to the gravel road ahead of her and she broke into a sprint, staying on the road for the moment since it would be quickest and the people were already onto her. The rocks bit through her thin converse to her feet, bruising them and swelling them up.

Crisp autumn air, the air that she'd always loved so dearly, bit through her throat to make her fight to breath even harder. Cars were starting up in the neighborhood and she heard them screeching up behind her. One car in particular swerved down into the steep grass ledges on the road side only to come flying up in front of her.

She recognized Kouga's van immediately and dove down the side of the road and rolled until she hit the bottom of the hill, ducked in between the fence boards, and picked up a run through the tall stalks of corn in no direction in particular. Yells were heard behind her and she knew her steps were beginning to falter.

A flicker of fright lighted her run anew but soon that even was disappearing and she heard a whirr of wind beside her then the figure stopped in front of her and crossed his eyes, smiling smartly at her. She could see his face perfectly in the light of the full moon and glared at the cruel Kouga.

He wouldn't let her go home… Wait, since when has she considered Inuyasha's home? The moment of her distraction allowed Kouga the time to swoop forward and grab her in his arms "Cunning little thing, aren't you my mate?"

She spat in his face and struggled, not bothering to make any more noise since she knew nobody who heard her would come to her rescue. But a humming in the distance beseeched her to look one last time at the road before she knew her purities demise would come. A red crappy-car with a broken light or two screeched to a halt behind the van Kouga had parked, which she could only see since both were on the hilly part of the road that rose above the field of corn.

She heard a car door slam and then a familiar voice yell out her name and she took her last chance and returned the favor in feverish excitement "INUYASHA! INUYASHAAA! IN THE FIELD! HELP! INUYA—!" she prayed that he would hear her and come and find her in the field because she knew Kouga would no longer allow her a chance to scream out like that.

Even if she knew Kouga wasn't a truly bad guy, the fact that he'd kidnapped her scared her to death. What was he possible of doing like this? She heard a few screams that didn't belong to Inuyasha and then heard crashing through the stalks, and saw a large path being made through them.

Kouga cursed out and picked her up, slinging her over his shoulder as he picked up a run through the field, in the opposite direction that Inuyasha was. He was faster than Inuyasha and she knew that for sure for some reason and he laughed out "Stupid dog-breath, what the hell is he doing here? He's gonna get himself killed."

"Then why are you running from him?" came her tart retort as she continued to plot at what she was going to do to slow him down so Inuyasha could catch up to them and beat the shit out of the guy.

A second passed by before she comprehended that her mouth was free of hand or gag and she screamed out once again "HURRY UP INUYASHA! HELP!" she'd never been able to scream for help like she did now since usually she knew nobody would hear her. But now there was Inuyasha and she trusted in him. She trusted that he would come and save her, protect her… And maybe even something else that she couldn't quite figure out yet.

"KAGOME! KOUGA YOU PIECE OF WOLF SHIT WHEN I GET MY CLAWS ON YOU I'M GONNA RIP YOUR FACE OFF!" Inuyasha roared across the field at the figure that was quickly making its get away with his wom… His friend.

Kouga growled lightly and yelled back mockingly "SORRY, SHE'S MY WOMAN! SO LEAVE HER ALONE DOG-BREATH!"

Kagome was sick of waiting around to let these two decide her future and so she put her plan into action. She snaked her head around and whispered in Kouga's ear seductively "I want you…"

His reaction was exactly as she'd expected as he faltered in his step and slowed down, distracted enough for her slip over his back and tuck and roll onto the ground to bounce back to her feet. She then finished her sentence "To leave me alone!" she winked slyly at him and then picked up a run in the direction she heard Inuyasha coming from.

She was hit heavily in the back by his body as he tackled to her the ground, holding her down beneath him as he panted and growled "My tricky little mate…"

"Your tricky little WHAT?" yelled out an enraged Inuyasha as he cut down a little clearing around the three of them and stood there, panting out of rage. He locked and loaded right on Kouga.

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Done with chapter 8. Yup, you should all start to forgive me now! Hahaha.

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8 reviews por favor?

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TopazChick08: Patrick IS a loveable character!

TurtleHugs: Thanks for the dramatic music!

Pay Backs a Bitch: Good guess… Hahaha I don't think I explained the thing quite right, since you were the only one that SORT of got it. But, haha, sorry for all the character introductions in the last chapter. I would have had to read it over too…

Tinkies: Oh you know he will!

Crystiana: Thank you! I'm glad you do!

BlackParade: Hehehe! Thankyu! I'm honored! Oh, oi, and I just realized this but, does your name BlackParade stand for the new My Chemical Romance song?

GettoRockanimeinu-bitch: …. uhh

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To this world I'm unimportant Just because I have nothing to give. So you call this your free country, Tell me why it cost so much to live, Tell me why. This world can turn me down But I won't turn away, oh no I won't turn around. All my work and endless measures. Never seem to get me very far, Walk a mile just to move an inch Now even though I'm trying so damn hard I'm trying so hard. This world can turn me down but I Won't turn away, And I won't duck and run, cause I'm not built that way. When everything is gone there is Nothing there to fear. This world cannot bring me down, No cause I'm already here, oh no! I am already here, Down on my knees, I am already here, on no, I am Already here. I must have told you a thousand times, I am not running away. I won't duck and run I won't duck and run I won't duck and run No pass away. This world can turn me down but I Won't turn away And I won't duck and run, cause I'm not built that way. When everything is gone There is nothing there to fear. This world cannot bring me down No cause I'm already here. This world can turn me down. But I won't turn away, And I won't duck away Cause I'm not built that way. When everything is gone there Is nothing there to fear. This world cannot bring me down, No cause I'm already here.