I do not, I repeat, DO NOT, own Inuyasha or any music featured in any of the chapters. I'm not sure this has been done already. I tend to skip song fics most of the time lol. Its just something that popped into my head when I was doing much of the same thing. un beta'd
Music Help
Chapter 1: Please Don't Stop The Music -Rihanna
Its is a dark and slightly stormy night in the feudal era. Currently the inu tachi are resting in a cave a couple of days walk from Keade's village. They decided to stop there for the day when the demons of the group sensed and smelled a storm headed their way. That's right demons, as in the think headed inuhanyou Inuyasha, the lovable kit Shippou, and the cute and sometimes ferocious fire neko Kirara. In addition to these three regulars the group are also graced with the presence of the cold and demon Lord of the Western Lands, the great Lord Sesshoumaru, as his toad demon retainer calls him; along with their two headed dragon beast of burden, Ah-Un, as the innocent human child Rin named it.
As previously stated the large group of shard hunters are resting in a cave that they decided to wait out the incoming storm in. It has rained most of the day and now in the late night and early morning hours the rain has slowed down to a gentle drizzle. All occupants of the cave are unaware of the weather change as they are all peacefully slumbering as they should be given the hour. Inuyasha is asleep griping his sword leaning against his shoulder as he leans against a small ledge at the mouth of the cave. Closer to the middle of the cave a small fire is sputtering and around it are the rest of the group. To the right lay Sango and Miroku on their bed rolls, though it is obvious that the mink has been slowly wiggling closer and closer to the young female demon exterminator. On the other side lay Rin and Shippou curled together with Ah-Un and Kirara on either side of them; Kirara closest to the fire to protect the children from the hot flames and Ah-Un closer to the wall to clock the cool draft from reaching them. And the beautiful but deadly demon lord sits at the back of the cave, relaxing against the wall, facing the entrance apparently asleep.
This just leaves the oddest member of the group, young Kagome Higurashi, miko from the future, She is found sitting close to the fire a few feet away from Sango and Miroku. She is seen sitting up, hunched over a book with a notebook next to it that she is frantically writing in.
'Man I've got to get this report written, It's due when I go back.' Kagome thinks sleepily to herself 'And I still have to type it!' she adds that last part in despair. She realized that she needed to get it done earlier in the day when it dawned on her what day it was. So as the group lazed the rainy day away with much complaint from Inuyasha, who was finally silenced after a few sits from Kagome. The other humans of the group took notice of how frantically Kagome was working so they kept the children occupied while she worked.
But now, late at night, all the relentless and continuous work is starting to take its toll on the young time traveler. Granted she still has a little bit of time still yet to get the rough draft done but with all the fighting, tracking and wandering one never knows when they will have enough time. So here she sits struggling to stay awake as her eyes strained in the fire light.
'At times like this I miss modern conveniences to use to help keep me awake.' Kagome says to herself with a yawn. She decides to take a small, couple of minutes break to stretch and give her tired, dry eyes a break. 'Wait a minute,' she thinks suddenly while trying to rub the sleep from her eyes. She quickly turns toward the cave wall behind her and crawls a few feet away to her bulging, dirty yellow bag and begins to frantically search though the various pockets looking for something.
After a few minutes of searching she pulls away victorious holding a small device in her hands. She then crawls back to her seat close to the fire and in her hands she clutches an ipod. "This might actually be useful." she softly mutters with a small laugh. Her friends in the modern era had given it to her the last time she had seen them at school. "With how sick you've been lately, you must get so bored with doing nothing but laying around in bed." they had said. So they gave her this ipod already preloaded with songs that they had chosen for her. 'I'm going to have to remember to thank them when I get back,' she makes note of to herself as she places the earphones in her ears and turns it on.
Already she knows that she is going to need something probably a little loud and definitely fast paced to help keep her awake to finish writing her report. She quickly scrolls though the options and finds a folder marked 'party music'. Deciding that that would probably do she hits play and as some familiar J-pop begins to play she picks up her pen and continues to write.
After an hour or so passes, as Kagome finishes the last few pages of her report her attention is drawn to what she is hearing.
Please don't stop the music
'Huh? English?' she questions in confusion.
Please don't stop the music
Now Kagome isn't fluent in English but thanks to the classes she has been taking in school and the foreign visitors that come to the shrine from time to time, she understands what she is hearing for the most part.
Its getting late, I'm making my over to my favorite place
I gotta get my body moving, shake the stress away
I wasn't looking for nobody when you looked my way
Possible candidate, yeah
After a quick mental debate she decides that she has earned herself a small break so she stretches out and listens more closely to the song. After one listen Kagome decides that with the beat and the lyrics, it's a catchy tune. After another listen she decides to get back to work since she is so close to being finished, she might actually get some sleep tonight! But after every time the song ends she immediately starts the song over again, each time turning the volume up a little more. As Kagome gets lost in the music, she becomes unaware that she is slightly 'dancing' in her seat ash she works or that she has drawn the attention of a certain golden gaze.
Even though the miko may believe it, Sesshoumaru isn't asleep, though he appears to be.
He is still aware of is surroundings, ever on the look out for danger. He is aware of the miko struggling to stay awake working on her schooling but doesn't giver her too much mind. Sesshoumaru does open his eyes though to watch the unaware miko as she moves around. He is curious, though he doesn't show it, about the strange, like everything else, object that she pulls out of her seemingly never ending bag, and even more so when he sees her put parts of it in her ears. After a few minutes Sesshoumaru is simply observing the miko but seeing nothing different really happening he shrugs it off as being nothing. He closes his eyes again and focuses his attention outside; guarding the group since the hanyou seems incapable of doing so.
Who knew that you'd be up here, lookin' like you do
You're making staying over here impossible
Baby, I must say, your aura is incredible
If you don't have to go, don't
Later his attention is again diverted when he begins to hear a strange thumping sound, accompanied by other strange sounds and what seems to be words of a language of some sort that sounds vaguely familiar. Now thanks to Kagome, whom let him borrow some foreign language books - ones he discovered on accident, Sesshoumaru begrudgingly thought, as the noise becomes louder with each pass, where with his demonic hearing he could begin to hear it as if he is listening to it himself, he could vaguely understand what was being said. He loses some stuff in translation due to the slang and modern termination but he is still able to grasp some things that cause a strange stirring to occur within him.
Do you know what you started? I just cam here to party
But now we're rockin' on the dance floor, actin' naughty
Your hands around my waist, just let the music play
We're hand in hand, chest to chest and now we're face to face
Sesshoumaru becomes more and more intrigued as he continues to watch Kagome as she loses more and more focus on her work and moves to what he guesses is supposed to be music gains her attention. Though the movement isn't much considering she is sitting down, his eyes are drawn to her all the same.
I wanna take you away, lets escape into the music
DJ, let it play. I just can't refuse it, like the way you do this
Keep on rockin' to it, please don't stop the
Please don't stop the music
Sesshoumaru is unaware of everything as he becomes lost in watching Kagome rock and sway where she is sitting. Part of his rational mind is berating him for wathing a human woman so, especially his brothers wench, though the other part, and his beast has to admit that she is a beautiful woman child …. But human as the other part pops ups again.
I wanna take you away, lets escape into the music
DJ, let it play. I just can't refuse it, like the way you do this
Keep on rockin' to it, please don't stop the
Please don't stop the , Please don't stop the music
It's kind of amazing how this song really does melt the stress away. Kagome can feel her exhaustion slowly slip away as energy gradually begins to spread through her, revitalizing her tired body. Maybe listening to this new music is giving Kagome her second wind. She is unaware of what she is, or isn't, doing as she loses herself to the music. Kagome can easily imagine herself dancing n the middle of a dance club, wearing a sexy little black number. She begins to blush as she realizes where her thoughts are heading.
Baby, are you ready 'cause its getting close?
Don't you feel the passion, ready to explode?
what goes on between us, no one has to know
This is a private show, oh
As her imagination starts o get away from her, Kagome slips into a daydream to her tired state; her report that she had been working so frantically on all day lay forgotten. Kagome sees herself standing in the middle of the dance floor when a tall, solid, well-built, warm body slips up behind her. A long, slim, pale arm with clawed tipped fingers wraps around her waist and pulls her to him as long, silver, moon-lit hair spills over his shoulder and over hers.
Do you know what you started? I just cam here to party
But now we're rockin' on the dance floor, actin' naughty
Your hands around my waist, just let the music play
We're hand in hand, chest to chest and now we're face to face
Kagome watches as her dream self turns in the demons arms and she wraps her arms the demons neck. She isn't sure why she thinks it's a demon but it just seems to fit. It feel right for her to be in the arms of a demon, in the arms of his demon in particular.
I wanna take you away, lets escape into the music
DJ, let it play. I just can't refuse it, like the way you do this
Keep on rockin' to it, please don't stop the
Please don't stop the, Please don't stop the music
As it continues to play out, Kagome watches as she is held tighter to the demon. As she watches the features of this male that is holding her begins to become more and more clear. The hands, she notices, have long, feminine fingers, but they still hold strength. A the wrist, megenta strips wind up and around the forearm to the elbows. The long, slender but muscular arms continue up to broad, strong shoulders. The moonlit hair hangs over to tease her flesh not covered by her little black dress.
Her heart begins to pound as she sees her dream self reach up to caress her lovers face, brushing his hair out of the way, revealing a magenta striped cheek and shadowed eyes due to his long bangs. She brings her other hand up to brush the bangs away, hooded, molten honey orbs and a royal blue crescent moon on his forehead. Kagome is confused at what she is seeing, confused as to why she is picturing herself dancing with Sesshoumaru. She gets a shock when she observes the dream her and Sesshoumaru lean into each other, their faces inching closer, as if to share a passionate kiss. Her eyes snap open to find herself looking at the real life Sesshoumaru who has a strange look on his face and an unusual glint in his eyes that she can't identify and name as he watches her.
Please don't stop the music
Please don't stop the music
Please don't stop the music
From what he has noticed, Kagome will make a good mate to the one who will eventually claims her. He feels that unfamiliar stirring from before acting up as he thinks of this. He has been keeping his eyes on her since the first time they first met in his fathers tomb and a bit more so now that they are traveling together. She has great maternal instincts he has noticed in his observations of her taking care of and interacting with the children; she will make a great mother. And she is quite strong despite what the hanyou says. Kagomes power is on par, possibly even surpassing Kikyo's, and that's saying something for her since she has had not formal training. If she is this powerful already, the power level can get down right scary once trained. With power like that her children will be powerful as well if they have the right sire.
I wanna take you away, lets escape into the music
DJ, let it play. I just can't refuse it, like the way you do this
Keep on rockin' to it, please don't stop the
Please don't stop the music
Sesshoumaru's eyes widen as the miko freezes her movements, staring at him with wide, doe like eyes. 'Hm, it seems she remembers where she is now.' he thinks somewhat disappointedly to himself. He feels his heart begin to slightly race as their eyes connect, and he watches as her beautiful and unique eyes, that despite the darkness, still sparkle. He continues to watch as a blush works it way across her cheeks and down until it disappears underneath her shirt . His eyes shoot up into hers again as she starts to chew on her luscious lower lip and she looks away in embarrassment.
I wanna take you away, lets escape into the music
DJ, let it play. I just can't refuse it, like the way you do this
Keep on rockin' to it, please don't stop the
Please don't stop the, Please don't stop the music
Kagome turns back to her report after a sheepish look at Sesshoumaru. She moves on to the next song and turns down the volume to a more reasonable level before continuing where she left off with an occasional look back up to Sesshoumaru. 'What a shame.' he thinks to himself with an unnoticeable sigh. 'If perhaps the circumstances were different this Sesshoumaru might have considered courting her to be his mate.' With that last thought he settles himself against the wall again and went back to his watch.
Please don't stop the music