Opening her eyes, Kagome knew immediately that something was horribly wrong. Something was up. She could taste it in the air. Or maybe it was just that poor rabbit that she ate yesterday. Sighing, she pulled herself from the cold, unforgiving ground. How was she supposed to do anything? She had not a clue to go on as she limped around, crossing water and dense briars.

"Is that the same…? Yup, it's that same damn tree… again." She sighed, lifting her bow and arrows up again, sighing as she fell harshly to the ground. She was going to die. She had never had a dance, a real date, a boyfriend, a stinking kiss… Life sucked anyway. Who wanted to live when all you do is get old, get gray, get decrepit. Forget that. This was a big favor in a way. Now she didn't have to worry for the years that she would have had lived about dying. Just freaking perfect.

"Ok… maybe if I just stop moving, maybe find a nice cave and settle down, then maybe I'll be able to have it so that Inuyasha or Shippo or someone will find me. Hopefully I can find some flora so I don't have to kill any more fauna. "

The only food she had in her bag were granola bars, protein shake mix, a can of fish and a handful of rancid chocolate. There was no way she would eat anything but the granola. She hated this. She groaned to herself.

"My legs hurt, my back is sore. I want to go home. Darn it Inuyasha! Where are you?" She cried to the heavens, breaking down finally, her sore body and bruised ego were getting to her.

"He won't be coming. The corpse has all but made him useless. And quite unentertaining." A voice called from the trees. Kagome made a wondrous spectical of herself as she turned to and fro in an attempt to spot the intruder, her cheeks pink at the fact that she had been caught breaking down.

"Who's there? I've got arrows and I know how to use them!" She called out loudly, her voice cracking.

"Please, onna. You and I know that those things are about as useful as being unarmed." Called Sesshomaru as he leapt from the tree he was standing in. This woman was hilarious. Such a jest, as if he would ever fall for it.

"S-Sesshomaru! Stay away from me, I mean it!" Kagome screamed, waving her arms frantically, looking much like a chicken with its head cut clean off. It was nearly impossible to keep the chuckle in, but Sesshomaru managed.

"Woman, you are embarrassing yourself. And your screeching is giving me a headache." He said, looking briefly to the heavens, "Humans, such contemptible creatures. I do not understand my lines' fascination with them"

Glaring, Kagome hissed at him, looking delightfully feline as she did so. And poor Sesshomaru looked at her sternly, fighting to chase her like the dog that he was. Oh, how he did love the chase.

"Onna. Run." Sesshomaru said harshly, his eyes bleeding red. He felt his face begin to elongate, but fought it back. "Now."

She didn't need to be told twice. She took off, her feet pounding against the ground, feeling his breath on her neck, his smirk crawling across her skin as he growled into her ear:

"Faster onna. I would hate to play the cat and you the mouse"

And faster she did go, grasping her bow desperately, begging the kami's to allow her to live.

"I'm sorry! Please…"

But that seemed to only spur him on faster, his form dancing around her, a sadistic smirk playing on his face as she fled him and felt hot, angry tears flow down her face as she ran.

"Damn it! I knew I should have taken gym!" She screamed as she dodged the trees that sprouted around her suddenly, realizing that she ran into a dense forest. She gasped for breath as she vaulted over tree roots and ducked under branches.

He was taunting her. He was going to play with his food before he ate it. Kagome felt sick to her stomach, swiping at her puffy eyes angrily. She refused to stare at death with tears streaming down her face, whimpering like a coward.

Kagome ran for all that she was worth, but she ran out of energy. She ran for almost an hour, wondering if Sesshomaru would wrap his hand around her throat or tear out her still beating heart at the next turn. Finally, she stopped, her legs locking from exhaustion. She fell to her knees, her head bowed as she accepted her fate. Suddenly, she was jerked around by a red eyed Sesshomaru, forced roughly to the ground and she gasped as she grasped his arm, trying to force him off of her throat at the least. She wanted to die like a warrior, not a pathetic woman, strangled to death by some creeper. Suddenly, his arms were at the sides of her head, trapping her further. She attempted to push his massive weight off of her, but it was useless. His red eyes stared into her brown ones, staring into her soul. Into her essence.

And he leaned in and kissed her, lost in the passion of the chase, in the lust for blood.