AN: I do not own Inuyasha or co. There may be a oocness of the characters, but I'll try to avoid that. The difficult one will be Kagome. The rating may go up later, not sure.
Chapter One
I opened my eyes to see a dark room, blinked, and then yawned. Sitting up I glanced around and realized I was still at the music studio my group currently worked at, blank music sheets were before me and I sighed. I had been dreaming and there was a song, there was always a song in my dreams and the ones I managed to remember had been big hits. This particular dream and song had been haunting me for a month, ever since they set a deadline for my group's next album to be done. My group, Fading Glory, consisted of five people; Sango, Kouga, Miroku, Ayame, and I, Kagome Higarashi. It was a strange group, considering two of our members were wolf demons, one's ancestors were demon-slayers, and another came from a line of monks.
Neither Kouga nor Ayame would say their age, saying it really didn't matter for demons and humans really shouldn't be concerned about such a trifling matter where demons were concerned. Ayame fancied Kouga; Kouga fancied me. Sango, the descendant of demon-slayers, secretly fancied Miroku and I was the only one who knew about it. Unfortunately, Miroku fancied any beautiful woman and when he did show Sango attention he usually ended up groping her, which ended up with him having a red hand mark across his face. Kouga played the drums, Ayame played the keyboard, Miroku played bass, Sango and I played guitar and switched between who sang depending on the songs and our voice ranges. I was alto and she was more of a soprano, but there were almost always moments during the song when our voices synchronized and made the songs more perfect, if that were possible.
I turned on a light and stared at the music sheets once again, trying to think. I knew the song in my dreams was the one that would be perfect to tie off our album, but I just couldn't remember. All I remembered was that it was different from our usual material. It was sad, so sad I often woke up crying. I couldn't tell much, except that it was about a broken heart and in my dream the setting was sometime in the Feudal Ages.
I groaned and rubbed my forehead. Just one week left before I had to have this song done. I didn't always write the music, but this time it was my turn, and they all wanted me to write our last song. As sad as it was, this was definitely our last album. Many fans protested, but we all explained we had too much going on that we couldn't give as much attention to the group as we used to, we were all moving on as much as we hated it. Some of my fondest memories were with the group, really there weren't many outside of it.
Once the group broke up I was going to have a contract with a big music industry, but for the first few months I had to have music to present to them. I'd probably go back to the family shrine until I could really have a set plan. Besides, I'm sure my family missed me. It was hard to believe my little brother was in High School. My grandpa was getting old, but he still insisted on taking care of the shrine and my mom was as sweet as ever.
When I noticed the room was starting to lighten I looked towards the clock and realized it was already 6:30. Great, that was one day less that I had to work. Kouga and Sango kept telling me I was working too hard, but I had to get this song down. Maybe if I slept all day and had the song repeat over and over and over and over I would finally remember it when I woke up. Ha, yeah right. I tried already and it did not work.
Turning off the light I stood and went to the break room and to the fridge. I grabbed the half-gallon of milk before shutting the fridge and I then got a bowl, spoon, and a box of cheerios. Once I finished fixing my breakfast I sat down at the table and ate, wondering what time the others would get in today. It was Monday, I hadn't left since Friday, so they probably would arrive somewhere around noon. Hardly anyone ever used the studio on the weekends, but I was becoming desperate to get this song down. I'd probably go out somewhere that night to relax even if the only place I went to was a restaurant.
I heard the door open and blinked. Perhaps they were coming in early? I looked over and watched as Kouga stepped over to where there was more light. He didn't really seem that surprised that I was there and grunted quietly, "You didn't sleep much this weekend." I cringed inwardly; you couldn't hide a whole lot from a demon who wanted to date you. Really, it just equaled up to him knowing my personality and habits. "Hopefully you didn't forget about our appointment tonight at that club."
Oh no…. I had completely forgotten. The door opened again and the rest of the group walked in, though they paused at my guilty expression. They didn't ask because everything was fairly self-explanatory. Putting on a semi-cheery face I said, "Right so one, maybe two hours of practice and we're good to go for tonight!" They stared at me for a moment, before agreeing quietly. I couldn't accurately tell what they were thinking, but I'm sure it was somewhere along the lines of how stressed I was. I heard it that time in my voice so I sighed and sat down as they ate breakfast.
Later we practiced the songs for an hour and a half, everyone was making certain we could still play in accord. Despite not practicing for a week, I found I was still able to actually keep up and I hadn't forgotten anything either. When we finished I listened to the others talk for a while and then decided that maybe I just needed to get away from the city in general. There was a forest just outside the city; maybe going there would help. I told them where I was going, grabbed some blank sheets of music, a pencil, and left. Thirty minutes later I was walking through the forest, my car left in the parking lot of a building near the edge of the forest.
It was so much quieter in the forest. It was so much more… peaceful. Of course, not having to listen to the others nag at each other and me was kind of a relief too, even if I had been alone all weekend. I didn't realize I was singing softly to myself until I heard a twig snap somewhere to my right that seemed to break me out of my reverie. It was somewhat dark, so I had traveled farther than I had intended and on a subconscious level, I knew I had been going to a specific place, but I really didn't know where. Another twig snapped to my left and I looked in that direction. I saw a flash of red and a sliver of silver.
Blinking I shook my head and then kept walking forward, undaunted, unlike many others I knew. I began to actually think about what I had been singing softly and realized it was the song from my dreams. I focused on the words as I walked and I looked up when I noticed I was singing again. My eyes didn't meet the forest I had been expecting. For a moment my brown eyes connected with amber eyes and then they were gone. It seemed so familiar…. I recognized those eyes from my dreams that went along with the song. But a story in my history class sprang to mind too. It couldn't be….