I Can Explain by SilentlyFuming

Taser

Sorry for throwing your word count limitations out the window, Breezy!  *^_^*

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"This is completely unnecessary. I mean really..." Walking past the street lamp, a young women with raven-dark hair muttered angrily under her breath. She moved in quick strides as she made her way home. The streets were pretty quiet, but walking around at this time of night still made her a bit jumpy. Kagome didn't really like being out this late, but for the past few days she has been pretty short on time.

Kagome's entire week has been rushed. She rushed at home, trying to keep everything tidy for when her company arrives this weekend. She rushed at work, hoping to finish everything assigned to her in order to get on her boss's good side for when she would plead for a raise (one which she quite desperately deserves). Now she was rushing for her grouchy apartment-complex-manager-guy, whose name always seems to escape her for some reason.

Whatever his name is, he was beginning to piss Kagome off. Ever since she moved in next door to him, he has given her hard time. That man was stricter on her than any other tenant in the entire building. He's always so quick to jump on her case about the smallest things. If it isn't one thing, it's another. This time it was about her dog, InuYasha.

Earlier that evening, right after she got home from work, he had pulled Kagome aside and told her that he had received numerous complaints about her dog and a report that he had even bit one of her neighbors. Kagome had to refrain from calling him out on the bullshit he was feeding her, since she knew quite well that everyone loved Yasha, and she assured the manager-guy that she kept a good eye on her dog and told him that he has never acted violently towards anyone ever. Which, of course, didn't fly by him.

So, that is why Kagome had to go back out and buy an shock collar or risk being tossed out on her ass along with her 'dangerous mutt.' Along the way, she read over the directions to her new dog collar carefully, so as to not accidentally electrify her poor pooch. She shook her head, blue eyes narrowed angrily at the object in her hands as she huffed to herself. "I have a taser gun at home that's more humane than this thing..."

Rounding a corner, Kagome was almost home free when she heard someone else nearby. Anger all but drained, she was suddenly on edge as her sleep deprived brain sent her little reminders of what happened to all of those innocent virgin girls when they stay out too late in those horror flicks her brother loves. Another noise made her jump, and she glanced frantically around but still didn't see anything. Then she heard someone approach her from behind!

"Excuse me, do you--"

Bzzt--Wham!

Mouth hanging open, it took Kagome a moment to process what had just happened. She had been so startled, she actually threw the shock collar at her persuer without looking and pressed down the green button on her tiny remote. As she turned to fully face the guy, she noticed that the shock he gave her sent him stumbling down to the ground and he hit his head on the curb. And now he wasn't moving.

Oh, god, he wasn't moving! Kagome strangled a horrified shriek as she quickly moved to the stranger's side. Once up close, she immediately noticed two things about him. Firstly, he was breathing, which meant he was only unconscious, and that made her nearly sob with relief. The other thing was he was a young man, a very good-looking young man with pale skin and gorgeous silver hair. As soon as that thought processed, Kagome fought back a blush and mentally scolded herself for drooling over the man she just attacked using an electric dog collar.

Well...what do I do with this guy now? Kneeling there on the sidewalk for a moment, time finally seemed to slow down for Kagome and one thing became certain in her mind.

There's no way I'm putting that thing on InuYasha.

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I just did some minor editing, nothin' new, but I'll try to have the next chapter up soon...