Chase Throughout Time by Kylwyn

Found her

Chapter 1

Kagome lay on her bed clutching her pillow in its yellow pillow case thinking: 'What the heck just happened?'

She had been walking back from work when he had grabbed her purse. Running after him she had followed him into an ally where he had apparently already learned that her wallet was on her person not in her purse. He had attacked her, throwing her against the brick wall. That had been when she had gotten angry and kicked him in his side with the 5-inch heel of the boots she wore for her job. Going onto his hands and knees he feigned extreme pain.

When she had approached to retrieve her purse he had seized her foot dragging her onto the ground underneath him then grabbing her neck he had tried to strangle her. She hadn't yelled, in fact she hadn't made a sound she had simply glared death at him unmoving. Suddenly he had let go of her neck as though burned. Then holding her shoulders so she couldn't squirm away he had shoved his face toward her neck and breathed in deeply pulling, back he looked as though he had seen his own death.

"A-accept m-m-my apology m-my lady please I h-had no idea who you were." He then launched himself up dropped her purse and ran as fast as he could into the dark of the ally. Kagome had walked the rest of the way home very confused.

'What the heck happened it doesn't make any sense!' With that thought her alarm clock went off indicating it was time to get up. Kagome stretched lazily as though she had been asleep the whole time and got up to go for her morning run along the beach at Kitsilano park. Having left at quarter to seven she came back in an hour later throwing the paper from her blueberry muffin in the trash.

Heading into the bathroom to shower she came out ten minutes later her dyed red hair sopping wet and dark blue eyes unseeing as she still tried to make sense of the previous night's events. Walking into her room it took a grand total of four minutes to decide what to wear she ended up with her favorite pair of faded black jeans, a sky blue tank top and a matching hair bandana that covered her ears. Then she made the march across the hall into her roommate's room.

Looking in she saw both her cousin Kikyo and Kagome's friend and ex-boyfriend Inuyasha curled up in each other's arms sound asleep, she hated to wake them but if they didn't get up soon they would be late for their classes. Creeping into the room Kagome came up to Inuyasha's side of the bed and yelled "Osuwari!" Inuyasha sat up like a rocket waking up Kikyo in the process. Glaring at Kagome he began mumbling "Should never..." mumble. " told..." mumble mumble. " 'Bout nightmare."

Kagome smiled sweetly, "How could you have not told me? I was there while you were screaming my name and going: please don't... I'll do anything... just... please don't... Ahhhhhh" Kagome mimicked him and Kikyo sat up with a frown. "Good morning Kikyo your green tea will be on the kitchen table when you decide to get up." Kikyo nodded groggily and smiling Kagome left a grumpy Inuyasha and sleepy Kikyo to get ready for the day. Shuffling around the kitchen she got Kikyo her tea and set bacon and eggs cooking on the stove.

When Kikyo stumbled out of her room fully dressed Kagome slipped on her sneakers, grabbed her book bag and was on her way to the University to meet with Jakotsu, Sango and by Sango being there Miroku too.

Pulling her Volkswagen bug into the Vancouver University parking lot Kagome looked around for her friends. As almost every morning Jakotsu and Sango were waiting near the coffee cart cradling their caffeine like it was their life source, though today Sango was looking around anxiously.

Grabbing her book bag from the back seat she checked all the doors were locked before going to them. "What's wrong Sango?" Kagome asked her concerned though it was Jakotsu that answered "We haven't seen Miroku yet today, and she has the crazy thought in her head that if she sees him before he gets close that she can stop him before he-"

"Ahhhhhhh!"

"Good morning." Miroku greeted stroking the angry red print on his face with a big smile.

"Good morning Miroku." Kagome answered shaking her head and rubbing the left side of her neck. "Well seeing as it is such a beautiful morning lets take a walk before our classes. Is something wrong Kagome?" Kagome looked up and blushed with embarrassment. "Arigato Miroku no. My birth mark is just...itchy." Itchy! The two puncture like marks were tingling so much all of a sudden she would go crazy if it kept up!

Miroku shrugged giving Sango his arm like a gentlemen, which Sango took hesitantly. As they walked Jakotsu leaned over and whispered so only Kagome could hear. "I don't know why she complains about it so much. If I had Miroku grab my ass every morning I'd be in heaven!" Kagome tried to stifle her giggle but wasn't quite fast enough as Sango shot an evil look back at them.

~*~*~*At the same time*~*~*~

The intercom on his desk beeped and his secretary Annabelle's voice rang clearly through the dark room. "Mr. Haruki there is someone here to see you." Turning his chair from the window behind his desk, he reached a long clawed hand out to press the button to respond. Speaking in a voice as smooth as silk he asked, "And why would I wish to see them?" There was a pause and he knew that Annabelle was interrogating the man as sweetly as possible. "Because he says you'll want to know what he has to say as soon as possible and that he has already spoken with Mr. Jaken and Mr. Jaken sent him straight up." "Then send him in."

Sesshomaru Haruki waited as Annabelle knocked carefully then opened the door to emit their 'guest'. As soon as the door closed behind him the man fell to his knees and bowed his head touching the floor. " My lord Sesshomaru I came today to apologize for my actions last night only to find from this imp Jaken that I was wrong, only I can't be, its impossible that I am and now that I am kneeling before you I only believe it more." "Explain." Sesshomaru's voice let none of the curiosity and confusion he felt known as he spoke.

He would have dismissed this man as a bumbling fool though something about this man had caught his attention. "I am a thief my lord, I do it to survive and last night I stole a purse from a young woman. She followed me into an ally where we fought." The man grimaced and touched his side in memory. "I'd smelt something funny on her earlier and finally figured out what it was." The man paused for dramatics and Sesshomaru lifted one of his elegant eyebrows. "It was you my lord. I checked her neck and sure as day was your mark! Though it looked old real old."

Sesshomaru sat in silence and was still watching the low-level lizard demon when Jaken came bursting in 20 minutes later. "I found her! I found her my lord! Her name is Kagome Higurashi!"