Author's Notes:
Hey everybody! This is my first fanfic, so um, yay go me lol.Time to steal my sister's Halloween candy... Shh, don't tell!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters that rightfully belong to, low and behold, the great Rumiko Takahashi. She's got some mad skills yo.
Melody Mayhem
Chapter 1
"Welcome to the Shikon no Tama Beauty Salon, can I help you?" Kagome Higurashi asked a customer from behind the service desk.
It was a woman with dark black hair and bright red eyes. Hopefully they were just her contacts because if not, then that would be a bit scary.
The woman stared straight into Kagome's blue eyes and began to talk.
"Yes, as a matter of fact you can," the woman said in a mysterious voice, "I'm here for my hair appointment."
"Name please?"
"Kagura Onigumo," the woman responded.
"Okay, right this way," Kagome said as she walked out and around the desk.
Kagome beckoned for Kagura to follow, and lead her into an empty seat with hair scattered all over the place.
Realizing that the previous hairdresser (most likely Sango) didn't do a very good job of cleaning up, Kagome picked up a broom and quickly swept the area clean.
Kagura just glared at her in surprise.
"Please excuse the mess," Kagome apologized, "Someone will be with you shortly."
Kagome walked back over to the service desk and began to take calls and schedule appointments. After a while, she got bored and turned on the radio and tuned it to her favorite station. Music filled the whole salon with the best upbeat tunes, and soon everyone was jamming to it. A slow song eventually came on and Kagome hummed the tune.
Her voice was very beautiful and angelic, and she could carry a tune very well. Not a lot of people knew that she had a talent for singing. But then again, Kagome didn't sing a lot in front of people. It was something that she kept to herself privately. Besides, she didn't want to put up with the extra attention.
The song ended, and then switched over to some commercials. Kagome blocked them out and continued with her work until a fuming Sango stormed in from outside and stood right across from her.
"He did it again," Sango burst out in anger.
'Oh boy', Kagome thought, 'not Miroku again'.
"Jeeze, what did he do this time?" Kagome asked non-too curiously.
"That stupid, ignorant lecher, had the nerve to come up to me and shamefully grope my ass. Who does he think he is?"
Kagome had to giggle at this. Miroku was practically in love with Sango, but she always prevented herself from giving him the time of day. Every once in a while, he would do something drastic to catch her attention. Apparently he went too far this time by grabbing her butt.
Sango gave Kagome a nasty glare. Kagome noticed this and stopped giggling almost immediately, mentally slapping herself at the same time.
"Well if you wouldn't keep ignoring the poor guy, maybe he would stop doing things like that to you," Kagome suggested.
"But he's such a pervert!" Sango cried out.
"Then tell him you're not interested."
Sango shut her mouth after that comment for some odd reason. The expression on her face was unreadable. And then she folded her arms and gave an annoyed 'humph' before turning around and walking away to where Kagura was sitting patiently to get her hair done.
Apparently, she was interested.
'Poor Sango', Kagome thought, 'if only she would concentrate less on how important her job was and stop turning down the attention from the guys, then she wouldn't be as high-strung.'
Sango was only 17 years old (a year older than Kagome), but she appeared to be older than that. It was the way she held herself. She had big brown eyes and long black hair that was always put up in a pony tail. Ever since she started high school, she never once left it down. Even when Kagome would sometimes beg her, Sango would always refuse. Kagome never new the real reason why.
The phone rang abruptly, shaking Kagome out of her thoughts.
Reaching for it, she put it up to her ears and routinely asked, "Hello, Shikon no Tama's Beauty Salon, how may I help you?"
A deep and husky voice filled the other end of the receiver.
"I'd like to set an appointment for Inuyasha Takahashi," the voice responded.
For some reason, Kagome got butterflies.
"What kind of appointment would you like it to be?" she asked.
"A regular haircut." he replied.
"Okay Mr. Takahashi, I believe that the only time available would be for next Wednesday at 3 pm. Is that alright?"
"Is there any possible way that I can get in tonight?" the man suggested.
Kagome told him to hold on while she searched through her planner. When she noticed that there actually was an available time for tonight at 7, she picked up the phone and told him that he could come in then.
"Thank you very much Miss, er, what is your name?" he asked.
"Kagome. Kagome Higurashi." she said shyly and blushed.
"Right. Goodbye."
Click.
Kagome hung up the phone and took a swig of her bottled water. Then she glanced at the clock on the wall and decided that it was time to take her break. The salon wasn't busy at the moment, and it seemed like a good idea since it was only an hour before she could go home.
Grabbing her bag full of homework, she sat down at a couch in the back and went to work.
On the paper, there was a list of questions regarding The Crucible, a book that her class was required to read. By far it was one of her favorite stories. If only everyone else would give it a chance, then they wouldn't think that it wasn't interesting enough for their taste.
After ten minutes of completing the worksheet, she got up, put everything away, and went back behind the service desk to continue her shift.
Right then, a handsome young man with long white hair and golden eyes strolled in and stood by the desk where Kagome was working at.
All Kagome could do was gape stupidly at him, and at his wonderfully built physique.
"Hi, Inuyasha Takahashi. I scheduled an appointment none too long ago about a haircut," he said casually.
Kagome was at loss of words. She didn't know what to say back, especially since he was absolutely gorgeous. He didn't look familiar, maybe he was new in the city? Or maybe he just decided to switch to a different salon. Either way, it didn't matter because he was here right now, waiting.
"Uh... er... um... yeah, right this way Mr. Takahashi," Kagome stuttered.
Kagome lead him into a chair next to where Kagura sat while managing to stumble on her own two feet. Sango stopped cutting Kagura's hair to look over, only to find Kagome on the floor sprawled out like a hamster. This was a beautiful picture.
Sango, along with Kagura and Inuyasha, all laughed at her, which embarrassed Kagome even more than she already was.
"Sango here will, uh, be right with you," she mumbled from beneath the floor.
Inuyasha held out a hand for Kagome. "Here," he said, "let me help you up."
Kagome gladly gripped his hand tightly, and he pulled her up effortlessly.
'Man', she thought, 'he's strong'.
She thanked him, and waddled over to her rightful place at the desk. Yes, waddled.
Sango couldn't help but scamper over and laugh in Kagome's face.
"What was that?" she asked in a low whisper.
Kagome just replied by saying, "Nerves," while trying to avoid all eye contact.
"He's cute, and looks like he's around your age. I'm thinking around... 17-ish?" Sango said while trying to strike up a quick conversation.
"Don't think that I'll ask him out," Kagome stressed, "I don't even know him, and he probably thinks that I'm a major klutzes after pulling that."
"Whatever," was all that Sango could say before finishing up with Kagura.
When Sango finished with Kagura's hair, which looked amazing, she then went to work with Inuyasha's. His beautiful silky locks shimmered in the light. Yeah, sounds corny, but Kagome couldn't stop staring at it. She also couldn't help but sneak quick glances at that guy. At one point he seemed to notice and stared at her with a smirk on his face. Kagome blushed, and looked away embarrassed.
There was no way to concentrate on her work. It also didn't help that he kept giving her looks while she was pretending to mark down appointments or cleaned up a bit around the salon. It was useless.
Finally when the clock hit 8, it was the end of Kagome's shift. She organized her stuff for a final time, grabbed her stuff, and headed out the door, but not before bumping right into Inuyasha and falling to the ground.
"Watch where you're going, you clumsy wench."
Whoa, back up.
"Excuse me?" she asked startled.
"You heard me, watch it," he said while walking out to his silver convertible car.
"Don't tell me to 'watch it,' you were the one that bumped into me first!" Kagome angrily shouted.
"Keh, whatever," was his reply.
He drove away before Kagome could say another word regarding their little incident.
"The nerve of that jerk!"
Wasn't he just nice and courteous an hour ago when they met? What the hell just happened? She just couldn't figure it out.
Confused, Kagome walked home in the dark of night until she came to a small one-story house with blue shutters. Not too far back, there was a shrine with lamps lit all around.
"Hey Kagome dear, how was work?" Mrs. Higurashi asked when Kagome walked inside and into the kitchen.
"Boring as usual," Kagome said dully.
"Sounds like fun."
"Yeah."
"How was Sango tonight?" her mom asked.
"Had some Miroku problems again tonight, but she's over it. I don't get why she just goes on a date with him. You never know, he could be a really sweet boy." Kagome said while taking her coat off and walking over to the refrigerator.
"Sango's a beautiful young girl, why would she not be interested in him?"
Kagome opened the refrigerator and searched for some leftovers. Apparently there wasn't any, and she locked her gaze with the gallon of milk in the back.
"Apparently her job is more important to her than some "petty dating game" as she would put it. She keeps telling me that she should be worrying about saving money up for college instead."
"Smart girl."
"Yeah well, that's Sango for you. Always thinking of what's best for herself."
Kagome took out the gallon of milk and took a huge gulp before placing it back inside and closing the handle.
Right then, her little brother Souta came into the kitchen.
"Hey sis, can you help me?" he begged.
"Sure Souta, what do you need help with?"
"Well, it's not really help... It's more like advice."
"Oh?"
"Well, there's this girl..."
"Yeah?"
"That I like a lot, maybe even love..."
"Uh huh..."
"And I was wondering..."
"Go on..."
"Man is she pretty..."
"My God Souta, spit it out already."
"How do I tell her how I feel?"
Kagome had to ponder this for a bit before answering him. "That's easy," she said, "ask her if she would like to go somewhere privately to talk. Then, when you have her alone with you, just tell her how you feel."
Souta gave her a confused look. "Just like that?" he asked, not too sure of her answer.
"Well, somewhere along those lines. You should buy her flowers, girls love flowers."
Souta thought about it before speaking again. "Do you like flowers?"
"No."
"Then how will I know if she'll like them?"
"I don't know, find out."
"What if she's allergic?"
"Then buy her fake flowers, they'll last longer."
"Er, I think I'll pass."
"Look, it's not up to me whether you do it or not. If you're really head-over-heals in love with this girl, then it wouldn't be too much trouble telling her how you feel. If you don't think that flowers will work, then don't give them too her."
"Are you sure?"
"Positive."
"Okay, I'll see if it works. Thanks sis."
"Anytime slugger."
Souta walked out of the kitchen and headed back to his room where Kagome could hear him playing his video games like usual.
"Ah, Kagome can you do me a favor?" Grandpa asked when he walked in.
Oh boy, it's never ever something small when grandpa asks for favors. Normally they were something like cleaning the house, or working at the shrine for a day or so. Whatever it was, she wasn't up for it.
"Anything for you Grandpa."
She lied.
"Good. Can you possibly help me out at the shrine this weekend? I reckon it's due for a good cleaning spree."
"Sure thing Grandpa."
Great, a day where she would spend all of her free time to clean the shrine when she could be out hanging with Sango at the mall. There goes her plans.
And with that she headed up to her room to finish the remaining homework her teachers gave her.
She turned on the television. The daily forecast was on, and supposedly there was going to be a chance of rain tomorrow. It wasn't such a big deal, Kagome loved the rain.
After a million clicks on the remote, the Discovery channel came up with, what do you know, two cheetahs getting it on. What a wonderful sight. She continued to click away until there was nothing interesting on.
Click.
And the screen went blank.
Kagome then resorted to turning on her radio. Music blasted her room, and she sang and danced to it. And then a new song came on called, "Never Alone."
"...I waited for you... today. But you didn't show, oh no..."
Kagome sang the next line.
"... I needed you. Today. So where, did you go..."
The song continued.
"... You told me to call, said you'd be there. And though I haven't seen you, are you still there..."
"...I cried out with no reply and, I can't feel you by my side so, I looked down to what I know..."
"... You're here..."
She continued to sing the last line.
"...And I'm never alone..."
She jammed out on her bed when the music got intense. The springs on her bed squeaked every time she moved. 'Need new springs' she thought. From downstairs, she could here her mom yell to 'be quiet up there.' Kagome stopped jumping on her bed and went over to turn the radio off before she got in trouble again.
Kagome finished up her homework and went to bed at 9, which was earlier than her normal bedtime. Usually she didn't get into bed until midnight (at the earliest). But tonight was an exception... Work was a complete drag, and tomorrow wasn't going to be any better, especially with all of the homework that her teachers keep loading her up with every night.
She took off her clothes and got dressed, turned off her lights, slipped under her warm pink covers, and let sleep take over until tomorrow morning.
"Feel the wrath of your opponent!" a crazy Sesshomaru yelled at Inuyasha when he walked in.
Oh yes, just what Inuyasha needed at the moment.
Sesshomaru was Inuyasha's older half brother, half meaning that his father had two wives, each giving birth separately to Sesshomaru first, and then to Inuyasha. Ever since his father died a couple of months ago due to a car crash, they had to live together. Sesshomaru was responsible enough to help Inuyasha carry out the rest of his high school career until he was old enough to move out.
Inuyasha looked over at Sesshomaru's fighter stance and at the way he looked overall. He wasn't a amused one bit.
Sesshomaru's long silver hair came down to his feet and he was dressed in a big white fluffy coat with jeans. He looked like a big fur ball with a tail.
Yawning, Inuyasha lazily said, "Not tonight Sesshomaru, I'm wiped. Plus, I have my first day of school tomorrow."
"You're scared." Sesshomaru concluded.
Why didn't his brother stop picking on him all of the time?
"No, tomorrow's my first day in a new school. What would they think when my appearance is shattered by a few bruises all over my body?"
"Excuses, excuses."
"You're unbelievable," Inuyasha said annoyed.
"You're a little whimpering dog running away with his tail between his legs."
"Yeah, well you're a bas-"
Inuyasha was cut off when Sesshomaru threw a punch in his face.
"Gah, you bastard!"
Inuyasha threw a punch in Sesshomaru's direction, but missed. The older brother easily dodged every attempt at fighting that Inuyasha could throw at him. And then, surprising Inuyasha, Sesshomaru took his leg and kick dropped Inuyasha flat on his face. Finally, with only final and swift move, Sesshomaru held up Inuyasha with his arms, and placed him limply on a hook on the wall by his underwear.
"Let me down you bastard!"
Sesshomaru yawned. "Hmm, let me think about it... No."
"You're so unfair! I can't go to school tomorrow with a bruised ass crack and walk to my classes like I have a stick up my ass."
"Wow, that's too bad. Goodnight little brother."
"Sesshomaru, let me down!"
Sesshomaru walked away laughing evilly at what he just did to Inuyasha, he never even saw it coming.
"Ass hole."
It took Inuyasha at least an hour of slowly getting out of the hook that held him up by his underwear. His butt was really sore, but he didn't care because he was already planning ways to get his older brother back.
He walked to his room and kicked at his unpacked boxes. They were filled to the brim with all of his belongings, and he didn't even care to put away all of his stuff. But then he looked down at one in particular, which held a sheet of Christmas music.
"Os Justi," he murmured the title of one song.
The whole piece was written in Latin. He was the star soloist in his old school, but due to certain moving situations, his title was quickly snatched away from him. His rival Kouga took it away from him, that sniveling jerk. Anything and everything that belonged to Inuyasha was always taken away somehow by Kouga.
But now, Inuyasha was in a new neighborhood and enrolled at a new school. It was the perfect opportunity to create a name for himself. He could join the football team; he was the star quarterback at his old school. He could even join the basketball team, the baseball team, or the soccer team and become the top dog again.
Starting from scratch was the hardest part in any situation like this, but he could manage it. After all, he had the talent.
Singing was especially his talent, but that was kept secret. He would be called a pansy if anyone but his instructor found out, even his brother. Oh boy, would he ever get picked on like crazy. Keeping it a secret was best.
Inuyasha slipped into bed without changing his clothes, and tried to fall asleep. It was no use. He tossed and turned, and still couldn't fall asleep. The stress of starting out at a new school bothered him more than ever.
And it was like that all night long until three in the morning. Too bad that he had to wake up in three more hours to get ready for his first day of school.
Author's Notes: Yippee, I'm done! Now I can finish up my stupid physics homework, ick.
Kikyo, Hojo, and Naraku will be introduced in chapter 2 for the first time. Kouga will be in it too, and we'll learn more about him from Inuyasha's old school. When I'll get around to writing it I have no idea, it all depends on my "busy schedule."
I hope everyone enjoyed the first chapter because let me tell ya... it took me a long time to write and perfect it. It's not easy (well at least for me anyways).
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Now that Halloween is over, Gertrude Hawk will be having a huge candy sale. I will most likely be there all weekend long chowing down on all of their peanut butter smidgens, so BEWARE!
xox,
Kaitlin Amara
