Young and Hopeless

A young man walked to his house. He lived with the rest of his band. He was the greatest guitarist to them. He was late again because of school. He had detention again. They were going to be pretty upset again. His black hair waved as a breeze passed by, blue eyes looking straight ahead.

Then there was a click and a voice said, "Don't move…" he did as he was told. He didn't know what was going on, he usually never got into fights. "What do you-" he didn't get to finish there was a bang that echoed in the night and he fell to the ground. The man snickered and walked away.

The funeral was the next night. The band had there heads down, when they all left they said a few words, "Um…….Zack, was……no…..is a great guitarist……he may not be alive……but he's still here………we just can't see him……he was really innocent……wouldn't hurt a fly………you stupid bastard……why couldn't you have asked for a ride………" he said, holding back tears. His voice was still steady and yet he was crying. Any demon could smell. His older half brother did.

Later that day, they heard about a party so they thought they would go. They saw a young girl there, she was talking with two black haired girls'. One was wearing a green uniform, the other a black one and the last one was wearing all black. She was the only one that changed out of her uniform.

The youngest was the one that changed, she was probably about 13 and she had blonde hair with black and red streaks and green eyes. The other girl was about 17 and had short black hair with brown eyes. The last girl looked the oldest about 18 and she had black hair that went into a pony-tail.

They then noticed that the youngest had a guitar case on her back. She put it down nicely and continued to talk a-mile-a-minute. They could easily hear them talking and the older ones whispering to each other.

"All we have to do is get her real hyper and then she'll play," the oldest said.

"Yeah, it's a great set-up. Power to the sugar." The other said.

"Whatcha talkin' about, huh? Huh? Huh? Are we going somewhere, can we do something, I'm bored, are you bored, I think I'm hyper, what do you think? What's the time?" she said as fast as humanily possible.

"Hey you want to play a game?" asked the oldest.

She nodded so fast, someone would have thought she was about to jump. They took her guitar and her. They threw her on stage and she talked real fast into the microphone, "I'm ganna play a song ok!" she said and with that she started real slow singing a song and then she got louder and continued to sing.

"She's good," one of the band members said.

"Yeah, what do you think Sesshomaru?" one of them asked the one that had a emotionless face on.

"We have to have her, Inuyasha." One of them said to a half-demon boy, with silver hair and golden eyes. He nodded and she finally ended the song and ran off the stag, saying "Thanks!" to the crowd. Everyone clapped, except the non-emotion-masked one, known as Sesshomaru.

Finally the part was over and the girl was done with her hyper active mode so she was at a table writing. They went up to her and tapped her shoulder. She gave a growl and kept writing. Inuyasha tapped again, she suddenly stood up and turned to face them she had a glare on her face.

"WHAT CAN YOU POSSIBLY WANT!" She hollered so loudly it echoed through out the place.

"Um….hi….I'm Inuyasha…" Inuyasha introduced himself. She only glared.

"Nice to meet ya, I'll tell you when I give a flying whoop. Right now, byebye!" she sat back down and grumbled stuff about people bothering her when trying to do homework.

"Listen…" he started she got up again, "NO! YOU LISTEN! I HAVE STUPID MATH HOMEWORK TO DO AND UNLESS YOU CAN HELP ME FIGURE OUT MY HOMEWORK PROBLEM THEN GO AWAY!" she hollered and continued to do homework. The other two band members looked over her shoulder.

"The answer is 25." He said, he then explained it to her and she nodded and then did for the last three problems and jumped out of her chair and hugged the guy.

"I love you!" she said and she put her homework in her bag and started for the door.

"Hey, wait!" Inuyasha hollered.

"What?"

"Would you like to join our band?" he asked innocently

"Well….."

"Go for it!" said the oldest, "sorry, I'm Sango and this is Kagome." She said. Kagome gave a wave.

"I would but what about sensei," she said. "You're right," Kagome noticed and started thinking.

"Who's your sensei?" The one that helped her asked.

"The owner of the orphanage," she said. She then looked shocked. "Crap! I'm ganna be late!" she ran out her homework and guitar in hand.

"Well, that's Rika for ya." Kagome said, "OK you guys gotta get out, we have to clean before the next party." Kagome said and grabbed a mop and Sango grabbed a rag and Windex. They left silently and walked home.

---at home---

"That's her!" Koga, the one that helped her with her homework, practically yelled. They were in the basement, where they practiced their music.

"But how are we going to get her in the band?" Miroku, the one that wide-eyed at her features and even more than that, Inuyasha slapped him though.

"Maybe we could adopt her……" Sesshomaru was also thinking about it. That was why there was a surprised silence. "What?" he growled they all responded with a "nothing" and continued to think about any other way. Turns out the only way they could probably see her was adopting her.

---Orphanage---

Rika ran to the orphanage and entered. Her sensei was no where in sight so she thought she was safe. She quitley made her way to her bedroom. She entered the last purple door on the top floor. Her guitar and electric piano out, she turned to her room mates bed to see it perfectely made and all her things gone. Her heart skipped a beat, from joy and sadness. She ran to the note, it was in a hand writing was a little to neat but it was sloppy a little to. It said:

Dear Rika,

I've been adopted.

I don't know where you are though,

So I couldn't say good bye.

I think you went to that party you told me about at school.

But anyways,

I really am going to miss you.

I hope I see you real soon,

I'll see you tomorrow for sure,

My "parents" said I'd be going to the same school.

OK,

There's nothing more I can say, except:

XXXXXXXXX

And:

Don't be unhappy,

You'll be adopted soon to!

Your bestest friend,

Hanajima

Rika sat on her bed. She was a little happy for her and a little sad for herself. She would miss her closest friend, some one would soon come in and be the next to take her room. With nothing else to do, she pulled off her shoes and pulled off her shirt so there was only her bra and pants on. She turned off the light and got in the covers and soon fell into a deep sleep. The cool air coming through a window, where you could see the moon and stars sparkling happily.