Music From My Heart
Summary: Kagome finished the jewel and is trying to start her life over. She transferred schools in her freshman year, now in sophomore, and is living with Sesshomaru who adopted her after her family moved to London with the man Kagome's mom remarried. Kagome not wanting to leave stayed, the other reason being because she hated her new 'father.' Kagome heard Lili's voice and ended up in the contest, the problem is Kagome gave up music when her father died; her mother hated hearing music because her late husband was a famous musician and taught Kagome how to play various types of music styles and how to play different instruments. After a while Kagome's mother forbid Kagome to play music and had their last name changed so she wouldn't have to be bothered by people looking for any relatives of the famous musician that died. But will Kagome participate in the contests and follow her passion in music, or will she reject it and follow her mother's wishes and never play music again
Crossover: Inuyasha/La Corda d 'Oro
Pairing: Kagome/?
Rating: M
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Chapter Three
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Kagome sat in class, not even paying attention to the teacher. Her mind wandered back to what happened earlier that day. She was wondering if it was some kind of mistake.
'It has got to be some kind of mistake of something...Otherwise I wouldn't have been chosen. No one at school knows about my past...There's got to be a teacher who's in charge of the competition. I guess I have to go to the teacher and figure out what to do...' Kagome thought to herself.
"The competition?"
"Yes I'd like to know which teacher to speak to," Kagome asked one of the teachers that were in the teachers lounge.
"Oh right...I think it's...Kanazawa." the teacher told her, rubbing the back of his head in thought.
"Who?" Kagome questioned, curious look on her face. She could swear she has heard that name somewhere.
"Yeah. He's a music teacher." the male teacher stated," ! There's a student here who wants to talk about the competition!" he called across the room.
"The competition?" Mr. Kanazawa inquired, turning towards Kagome. His eyes narrowing at the sight of her.
Kagome walked over to where was. "I'm sorry to impose myself like this. My name is Kagome Higurashi, I'm a second year."
"Higurashi?..." He asked putting a cigarette into his mouth and lighting it. He looked at Kagome for a second, then turned his back to her." Oh.. You're the contestant?"
"Actually...about that...I think it's some kind of mistake that I've been selected. Haven't you mistaken me for someone else?:" Kagome questioned, hoping he would say yes it was a mistake, but she knew it wasn't.
"Nope you're definitely the one." he muttered, turning around to face her. He could see the shadow of an old friend overlapping hers. 'She looks alot like him. I wonder...'
"No ...I really don't think so." Kagome protested fidgeting with the end of her skirt as she down casted her eyes.
"There's nothing I can do, really. I'm not the one who picked you..." told her. " I mean really. Why am I stuck with this competition?"
Kagome tried to maintain her smile. 'He really doesn't care...'
"And besides the fact that you've been selected means you saw it, right?...I feel sorry for you. Just do your best, I guess. Well...I would go directly to it for any complaints or questions you have." he told her looking at her with a sigh.
"What do you mean by it...?" Kagome questioned, not following what he was saying. What 'it' was he talking about.
" The fairy..." he provided, breathing out the smoke from his cigarette.
"Oh...that's what Lili meant by it being fabulous that I could see him.." Kagome muttered to herself.
"You're supposed to go to the practice wing of the Music school after school. I think you can find it there." Mr. Kanazawa supplied to her, and paused before asking her a question that has been on his mind since she walked into the room, " I have a question before you leave...Does the name Wataru Sunzaki mean anything to you?"
Kagome froze and looked at the teacher in shock. " W-why.?" The name did mean something but she wasn't going to say that out loud to a person she didn't know.
"Ahh...So it does. Then that must mean you're his daughter..." The music teacher gave her a small smile before continuing, "…I was a friend of your fathers, don't worry I won't go spreading it around." He finished reassured her or trying to but failing.
"KANA-YAAAAN!"
'What's that supposed to mean...'Kagome thought, tuning around to wear the voice came from.
"Crap..." Kanazawa mumbled.
"We've been picked for the competition!" Hihara called out, a friendly smile on his face as he practically skipped into the room.
"We heard that you were in charge." Yunoki finished for his friend, but at a slower and more graceful pace than his happy carefree friend.
"Crap...you people keep on coming...this sucks..."
"Keep coming?" Yunoki asks, confused.
"Are you the one from the Gen Ed?" Asked Hihara, his attention zoning in on her as his eyes lit up with excitement, " Nice to meet you! I'm Kazuki Hihara. I'm a third year concentrating on the trumpet! I'm so excited that there's a participants from Gen Ed! I hope it'll be a fun competition." He introduced himself, and shook her hands frantically.
"Hey Kazuki. You can't just bombard her like that." Yunoki lightly scolded him, taking his hands of hers and stopping him from shaking her hands over and over again.
"I'm sorry. I'm Azuma Yunoki. My concentration is the Flute. Ummmm, Miss Kagome Higurashi right? What do you play?" Yunoki inquired, curiously.
"That's right! What do you play? The piano?" Hihara asked, eyes a light. Kagome thought all he needed was a pair of ears and a tail to add to his puppy like personality.
"I hope it's not the flute. You'd be my competition." Yunoki put in smile on his face.
"Ummmm...I got to go.." Kagome bowed and ran out of the room as fast as she could. She didn't want to be there any longer than she had to be.
"Is it something I said?" Hihara pouted, confused. Yunoki just looked in the direction she ran, he was also confused.
After school
Kagome found herself in the practice room after school, she had to talk to that fairy, and figure out what was going on.
Ohhhhhh?
Thanks for coming Kagome Higurashi! I've got something important to tell you!
"Tell me why! Why did you pick me!" Kagome yelled, mad. She didn't want to go back to music, not after everything it took away. That and the promise she made. She couldn't break it.
Listen to my explanation first, it will explain why.
My name is Lili...I'm a fata.
"Fa-ta?" She questioned, confusion clear in her voice as she looked at the little creature in front of her.
That's right. Humans sometimes call us music fairies. We fata have a duty to pursue happiness for all beings through music. Fata's know that all beings can be happy, and because music is something that can universally lead all beings to love...
"Uh...Wait a second. I don't understand."
We think that all beings of this world can find happiness through music...that music is the source of happiness. That's why we work to spread music around the world, so that it can be filled with happiness! I normally use magic to make me invisible...but actually these past few days I've relaxed the magic.
"Why?" Kagome asked, becoming engrossed in the history she was learning.
To find those who can see me meaning...those who are compatible with fata's. Before, there were a lot of people who were able to see me when I relaxed my magic. But people these days can't feel my presence anymore. Times have changed. But...you're different. That's why I chose you as a participant.
"What about the other participants?"
They can see me. Because I undo my spell in front of them. But the only one who can see me when my magic isn't completely undone is...you!
"That's no reason to enter me into this competition! Find someone from the music school. I want nothing to do with music!' Kagome yelled at Lili.
...In Japanese isn't music written with the characters for 'sound' and 'enjoy'? It's exactly right. Music can ne enjoyed by anybody and the competition doesn't belong to the music school. I need you to understand that...I want you to feel closer to music. An amateur from the General Education school? It doesn't matter/ You're one of few who're on the same wavelength as me. Being on the dame wavelength means that you have some kind of musical potential...
"Lili, I know what you're getting at, but...I gave up music." Kagome looked at Lili, trying to get him to understand.
...Gave..up music...why?
"I promised..."Kagome told him, pain evident in her eyes. She had no choice but to give it up…she just had to.
Why make a promise like that, when you obviously love music...You're in pain, I can tell...Your heat is crying out...
Kagome looked at Lily in surprise. "I hate music, my heart isn't crying out!" Kagome cried out at him, but it was hard to be convincing, when she knew it wasn't true.
Then why are you crying?
"Huh?" Kagome brought a hand to her cheek and felt the tears that were running down her face. "I'm crying out of anger!" She yelled, falling to the floor on her knees, tears still running down her face.
Or is it out of sadness.
"My father was a famous musician. He taught me how to play a variety of instruments, and music styles, but when I was nine years old he died...he died on his way to his next performance... After his death my mother couldn't stand to hear music, and anything related to it. She made me quite playing and made me promise I wouldn't play again, and I wouldn't have anything to do with it either...I gave her that promise, and if I don't I'll break her heart...that's why I can't participate...please don't push it...please..." Kagome explained to Lili, crying through the whole thing. She wanted to play, she really did, but if she did her mother would never forgive her....never.
Kagome...
Kagome looked up at the fairy, not knowing what he was going to say. She watched as a bright light filled the room, and started to form a violin.
I give this to you, I know deep down you want to play again. So I give this violin to you, you can choose to play it or not...but I hope you decide to play it.
She felt Lily softly touch her cheek and give a small smile, and disappeared out of her room leaving a violin case in his wake.
Kagome got up from the floor, violin in hand and wiped her tears away. She looked at the violin, debating on whether or not she should keep it.
"It's up to me..." Kagome whispered. Propping the violin on her shoulder, she positioned her fingers on the neck of the violin, and brought the bow down across the strings gently. She closed her eyes, playing the piece her father always played for her by heart. She could hear the mistakes she was making while playing, she knew she should have expected it. She hasn't played in almost seven years. Opening her eyes she brought the violin down off her shoulder, not even noticing someone had walked into the practice room and heard her play.
"Hey, What's a Gen Ed student doing here? I've reserved this practice room for the whole day." A voice behind her asked. Kagome turned around and saw the blue haired boy she met that morning.
"Oh, I'm sorry..." She said, putting her violin away in its case.
"Do you mind leaving? I don't want to lose my precious practice time," he told her, walking past her and further into the room. "You're not the one who's competing from the Gen Ed School are you? And you play the violin"
"Why?" Kagome asked, not really sure how to answer. She wasn't even positive herself.
"Len Tsukimori. I play the violin like you." He said introducing himself. " I thought you would be pretty talented if you were selected from the Gen Ed, but...If what I heard earlier was the extent to which you can play...You're in way over your head...You're just going to get in the way of the other contestants, so it's be nice if you just withdrew."
Kagome's eyes narrowed. 'Who does he think he is...'She inwardly growled.
"Well I'm sorry I haven't played in years, It's going to be kind of a given that I'm going to be a little rusty. And I'm sooo sorry I'm not up to your standard you jerk!" Kagome snapped at him, picking up her things and leaving the practice room, not even looking to see a surprised Len that she left behind.
Roof top at School
Kagome sighed as she sat down. Opening the violin case she stated at it.
"Can I really play you..." She asked. Kagome looked up at the sky, looking back down at the violin she picked it up along with the bow and stood up.
" I already broke my promise...so I guess it won't hurt to play...She's not here, so..." Kagome whispered, and put the violin on her shoulder and hands on the right place on the neck of the violin. Pulling the bow across the strings, for the second time that day she played, but this tune was soft and sad as if she was pouring her feelings into the violin and it was telling her story through music notes.
The sad melody drifted across the school for everyone to hear, but the only ones who heard, were the contestant for the competition, and a certain soccer player, she meet earlier that day, and .
Brovo! Brovo!
Kagome turned around to see a clapping and smiling Lili.
That was wonderful!
"Thank you...and I guess you were right...I do love music...You know I used to play all day just for the fun of it. I can remember the look on my Dad's face. He was happy I was playing, and how much I loved music..." Kagome said to Lili thinking of her past.
Does that mean you'll participate?
Kagome gave a soft smile, and looked down at the violin in her hands, " I guess that does, Lili...I guess that does."