Chapter 1: New Girl
Friday
Inuyasha sat on his front porch of his apartment building, strumming his guitar. Miroku, lying on his stomach in the grass tapped out a beat on a stack of old books. Kouga sighed looked out across the nearly abandon street. They watched a black convertible pull into the drive and Kikyo stepped out.
"Inuyasha" Kikyo said in a stern voice
"Hmm?" Inuyasha replied not looking up still fingering chords on his guitar.
"I want to talk to you about something," she paused. "are you guys going to audition for the battle of the bands?"
"Uh yah we are, you sure that's what you want to talk about?" he asked hershe looked at Kouga and Miroku and someone in the car honked the horn. "Later"
"Kay" Inuyasha sighed finally looking up at her she sounded mad. Inuyasha hated it when she was mad.
Kikyo looked over at Miroku, who was staring at her in his signature "I-see-a-hot-girl-and-I-want-to-touch-her-butt" look, turned muttered something under her breath got in her car and tore out the drive.
Why dose Inuyasha hang out with idiots like them? It bothered Kikyo that she was the most popular girl in school yet her boyfriend hung out with the un-cool freaks in town.
Inuyasha began to strum the opening to Savin' me by Nickleback one of his favorite songs. He then began to sing.
Prison gates won't open up for me
On these hand and knees I'm crawling on
I reach for you
Well I terrified of these four walls
These iron bars can't hold my soul
And all I need is you
Kouga joined in on the "come please" part as always
(Come please I'm callin')
And all I scream for you
(Hurry I'm fallin' im fallin')
Miroku joined in completing their three part harmony
Show me what it's like (Inuyasha held for 7 beats)
(To be the last one standing)
Teach me wrong from write (he held again)
(And I'll show you what I can be)
And say it for me says it to…
The song was cut off by the sound of the front door slamming. A shadow covered Inuyasha and a voice called out
"Nickleback? Seriously Inuyasha? " Sesshomaru, Inuyasha older brother stepped out and sat down next to Inuyasha. He held in his hand a stack of papers and a picture of Rin his daughter.
"Well I hope we don't have to do that for auditions" he laughed "here check this out, I just wrote it." He passed a sheet of paper out to each of the boys, his band the Hell Raisers. The band was all he had left other than Rin.
"Hmm, kind of depressing, what's your inspiration this time?" Sesshomaru always wrote songs about what was happening in his life so Inuyasha always knew what was up.
"Rin" Sesshomaru answered was simple but Inuyasha knew he was having trouble. When Sesshomaru was 16 he met a girl and fell in love with her. When he found out she was pregnant he took full responsibility for everything. They had it all planed out after the child was born they would get married and Sesshomaru would get a job. But when Rin was born the mom just dropped her on Seshomaru's doorstep and ran off. He was left to raise the girl by himself with what little help he could get from his younger brother. Inuyasha had bought the apartment across the hall from Sesshomaru a year later, both brothers where music enthusiasts and so was there neighbors Miroku (down the hall to the right room 200) and Kouga (downstairs room 107) so the four of them spent the knights in either Kouga or Inuyasha apartments jamming. Rin's mother was trying to get her back so Sesshomaru was writing a lot of good songs about it.
"Let's try this out" Miroku said dusting himself off and walking past Inuyasha and Sesshomaru to Kouga apartment. The rest fallowed taking their places in a semi-circle in kogas living room. The song started out soft with a light beet. Inuyasha was first to sing.
You left me alone
With no one to hold
And a burden I could never bare
That looks in your eyes
The stars in the sky
A sight I can no longer bare
The whole in my Heart
The rain has now started
Falling down on me
I look to the skies
Only to relies
It's good that you left me
(The beat picks up and Sesshomaru takes over the song Kouga adds a base riff playing against Inuyasha guitar)
Now she's my everything
Leave my bleeding heart alone
Don't take away everything
I've rebuilt my whole like on
Yah she's my everything
My whole world my heart and soul
Don't take it away
I want it to stay
The way it is right now
(Kouga takes over after a slight pause)
You left me alone
Got nowhere to go
The sky is fallin down on me
I said I could change
Then you went away
I'll never be want you want me to be
The times flown by
That look in her eyes
Is what keeps me movin' on
Now I've relied
I still have my pride
And I am so glad that you're gone
(Sesshomaru repeats chorus with Inuyasha doing background)
(Long instrumental guitar solo by Inuyasha)
(All but Miroku, who can't sing, repeat chorus then fade out)
She's my everything
At the end of the song the boys noticed the young girl standing in the doorway head tilted to the side listening to the music. Her small white dog ears sticking out of her silver/white hair perked up. She wandered in the room to where Sesshomaru was standing and tugged on his pant leg
"Daddy," she said in her soft voice "there are people here looking for you, this way," she grabbed his out stretched hand and drug him out the room. Inuyasha Miroku and Kouga fallowed them out back onto the porch where they saw for girls getting out of an old mustang. Four really hot girls. Miroku Kouga and Inuyasha turned to each other to assess each other's aberrance. Inuyasha was shirtless wherein a pair of tattered dark jeans and a baseball cap, Miroku wore an AC/DC tee shirt and jeans his right hand wrapped in purple cloth and prayer beads and Kouga the most helpless of them all wore his tee shirt inside out and had holes in his jeans a mile long. Damn so much for impressing the new girls.
The girls went straight to Sesshomaru who happened to be the landlord as well as many other things who apparently had met them before as he called them by name. When the girls turned back to the car to get the bags piled in the back Sesshomaru stopped them then dragged Inuyasha Miroku and Kouga out to help the girls.
The four girls had each rented an apartment in the building and they were fairly spared out. The first girl who introduced herself as Sango was on the second floor in room 201 she had long black hair tied back in a ponytail and whore a short skirt on top of black leggings and a red top. She was strong and obviously able to handle herself and was surprised when Miroku offered to carry her bag. The next girl Ayame was immediately taken care of by Kouga who took her bag and flung it onto is shoulder to show off how strong he was she giggled and fallowed him into the hall. Sesshomaru had begun to help the girl named Kagura who by the looks of it was a demon. Inuyasha turned to the last girl and groaned. She looked almost exactly like Kikyo except she looked kinder. What did she say her name was Kagome? Eh whatever it didn't matters he grabbed her bag and asked what room are you in? He was trying to sound as kind as possible.
"208" she replied he turned to look at her only then realizing how cute she was. Wow, he thought she's right across the hall from me.