Two Step Chapter 3: Que Sera Sera, an inuyasha fanfic

Author's Note: Thanks again to all who read and reviewed! I'm posting three and four (which were previous chapters) and five will follow soon after (YAY, that will be new stuff!). Keep in mind I also have to update my other story, so give me a bit of time. I working as fast as I can : )

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Chapter 3, Que sera sera

'What ever happens, happens'

What
Huh
Huh, huh, huh, my turn
oh, oh, oh-woah
huh, c'mon
oh, oh, oh-woah

The techno rich beat reverberated off the floor. Rin could feel the slight sweat break out across her forehead as the lights dimmed. She gripped her baton more firmly and bent her head at a 30° angle. She was suddenly aware of every girl around her. The one next to her was breathing unevenly and the one in back of her kept shifting on one foot to another.

They were nervous.

This time for real
Tired of playing it safe
Inside I feel
I've got what it takes

To prove, show the world who I really can be
I know for sure
There's no stopping me

However, Rin was ready.

All at once the girl moved into formation. Rin's head snapped back in mock ecstasy, and then she dipped into a crouch. The other girls had done the same. They were doing a superb job of moving as one. It was especially important that they do an amazing considering the burning eyes of Kaede sitting in the front. Limbs and heads moved in smooth unison, all provocative steps, as if each girl was feeding herself to the audience. These were girls from across the nation. There was no way that they were going to give up an easier than her.

"But I will win," Rin thought with vigor. "I've worked so hard to get here."

No time to wait on the side
Watching it all pass me by
I'm gonna be in the game
Watch me play it
I'm coming with it ya know
Let's get to starting the show
Turn up the lights, hit the stage
No more waiting

Rin's movements became more fluid and snake-like. She was next row up from being in the front row. It was time to really to showing her stuff. From the corner of her eye she kept a close eye on Mayu. The girl moved with perfect grace and fluidity. Her baton was kept twirling in her hands as her gyrated to the beat of the music, identical to the routine, but with her own personal twist. She easily made the other girls in her row look like petty fools. She also noticed how Kaede's eyes lingered on Mayu.

"So she likes to play dirty," Rin thought, smirking. "Well I can play dirtier."

It's my turn now
And ya know that I'm ready

It's my turn now
Yeah, I'm strong and steady
Break down the walls gonna go for it all
It's my time
Gonna shine
Show you how
Because its my turn now

Suddenly those beams of light were directly on her and for a moment everything went white. It felt as though there was dead silence for a moment. Then all at once the music beat into Rin's body. She knew what she had to do.

Dance like the wholeworld was watching.

Oh-woah
What
Oh-woah

She kept the baton twirling in her right hand but switched between the two by spinning it around her body and catching it off her stomach. All the while her lower half grinded into her invisible partner as the baton made it through her legs. She tossed it over her shoulder only to catch it on her ankle. The side monitor panned through the dancers and she saw it land on her.

She merely grinned sweetly into the monitor. The crowd went crazy.

Hook, Line, and Sinker.

I'm in my groove
Now I'm having some fun
I know what to do and how to get it done
Do my thing
And there's no holding back
Make it good, make it right
Here the crowd react

As 'Freestyle' panned across the monitor, she was ready for anything. Tossing the baton high into the air, Rin launched into a front hang spring and fluidly landed into in standing position, only to bend back into bridge and kick back her legs to reach the ground. Now facing away from the crowd, she lifted her arm straight up…and caught the baton still twirling it. Noting the screens were panned on her form, she snapped her head back towards the crowd and delivered her signature peace sign.

The buzzer sounded for the girls in the row behind her to come up and take their turn, but Rin just came to slow stop and walked around with her head held high. She saw out of the corner of her eye that some of the girls waiting to go were looking at her with their mouths dropped open. She simply smiled.

Good luck suckers.

Its my turn now
and ya know that I'm ready
its my turn now
yeah, I'm strong and steady
break down the walls gonna go for it all
its my time
gonna shine
show you how
because its my turn now
its my turn now
in my heart I'm believing
that I can see how
I can live what I'm dreaming
I understand, now I know who I am
it's my chance, gonna dance
play it loud
because its my turn now

Rin was sweating. She felt like she was panting like a dog, yet she had never felt so complete in her entire life. It was like the feeling of doing your best and loving every minute of it. She turned to her side when she felt someone's eyes on her.

Mayu…

She had long hair. At least, it looked long because she let it hang over her shoulder in long black waves. But she had extremely pretty eyes, ones that were opposite of Kagome's, but just as shocking. They were small and hazel green that stood out even in the darkened corridor of the girl's locker room.

"You did good…"

"Rin," she supplied to her. There were gasps from behind her. It was obvious that this girl didn't complement people often.

"You've almost got as much talent as me Rin," Mayu stated airily while sipping water from her bottle. "Thank god we've got some talent in this god forsaken school." Mayu walked away from her toward her friends to go watch some of the other girls make fools of themselves.

Rin chose not to respond and tensed in anger. Who the hell was that girl to bring herself above everyone else? In a way she was a hypocrite, but that was beside the point. There was big difference between working hard to win and shooting everybody else down with lame comments.

"Just ignore her. It works for me every time." Rin turned to find a girl about her height with short black hair, like a bob cut and a red head band. She sat down beside her and smiled brightly. "My names Michigo. I saw you perform before, you were amazing."

"Thanks," Rin happily replied. "The name's Rin. Put 'er there." Michigo giggled as they shook hands.

"I've kinda learned how to get around Mayu san. Just because she's the one who's more developed upstairs than the rest of us, she thinks she owns it all. I've heard Kohaku and her slept together freshman year."

Rin turned questioning eyes on her. "Who Kohaku?"

Michigo clasped her hands together and looked up dreamy eyed. "Only the sweetest, hottest, and sexiest sophomore of all Rin chan! You'll get to see him during the final selection for varsity. He always makes vasity, even before coming here." Michigo sighed happily and giggled. Rin was slightly disgusted with the way she could be so happy given the circumstances.

"Well," Rin taunted. "He can't be all that great considering he slept with a green-eyed cow."

Both of them spurted off laughing at that one.

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"Oh god, my feet hurt," Rin wined making her way to the elevator. The doors chimed open and she padded her way in. The day was just way too long. There would be a short intermission before the juniors had to go. Rin was more than excited for Kagome's performance, but right now she needed a freaking break!

"We need to stop meeting like this."

Rin turned wide eyes to her right to see Inuyasha standing in the corner of the elevator pressing the hold button. His raven colored hair was tied back but his bangs slightly hindered the sight of his eyes. Gods, he was so fucking fine…

"You were absolutely amazing Rin," Inuyasha praised while letting the elevator doors close. He sidled closer to her. "I'm certain that Kaede had her eyes on you almost the whole time. And believe me that is a record."

Rin blushed hotly at his full complement. "I wasn't really that great…" Inuyasha laughed at her cuteness.

"Don't go all shy on me! You gave the other girls a run for their money, I'm positive about it."

Rin waved her hand in protest. "Yea, yea, but I'm sure I'm much worse than you and Kagome chan. My god, I can't really wait to see how that's going to turn out. You guys are going to make us all look like fools."

Rin was so busy talking excitedly about the tryouts she missed the look of sorrow that flashed across Inuyasha's face. He sank further against the wall and quietly listened.

Rin immediately noticed the change in his demeanor. "Is something the matter?"

Inuyasha flashed a bright completely fake smile her way. "Nothing at all. I'm really happy that I got to be an intern and get to know you better is all."

Something was very fishy with his stance. She knew that he was faking it; he really was very bad at hiding something that upset him, that much was certain. But it wasn't just that. Whenever she seemed to bring up a certain someone…

Rin cracked a smile. "So do you talk to Kagome chan often, Inuyasha?"

Immediately she got her answer. His whole body tensed up at the mention on her name and his back when stiff and erect as if someone had just tried to take a shot at him. She could see the sleek muscles of his long arms bunch as if to spring at any moment.

So it was Kagome.

"No," he rasped and quickly coughed to maintain his original vocals "No, not really."

Rin's brows furrowed as she watched him closely. He seemed to be all over the place. His foot was tapping; he kept running a hand through his bangs and the other fiddled with something in his pocket. His faced was more than flushed and his honey brown eyes kept darting on every thing in the elevator but her. He didn't look any less sexy, quite of the contrary, it made him look irresistible.

She wondered idly how two people like Inuyasha and Kagome got their ultra beautiful looks and personality to become the next Barbie and Ken for the Japanese consumers.

Heh, well just luck of the gene pool I guess.

The elevator door chimed and she stepped out. Inuyasha was in the floor above. But suddenly, a wicked thought occurred to Rin. "What if," she thought idly as she saw the door start to close, "What if I took this one chance?" Inuyasha is a guy who is sweet and gentle, he was so unlike any other boy she had encountered.

Only one way to find out.

"Wait," she cried stopping the elevator door right before it closed. The door bounced back open and Inuyasha turned his sparkling brown eyes on her.

"What is it Rin?"

"Would you…" she fidgeted with her costume, suddenly aware of the fact that it clung to her thin form a little too tightly. "Would you like to go out sometime…for tea…with me?" She could feel the burning behind her cheeks and she did her best to keep it at bay. She had wanted to come off as secure and confident, but instead it fell flat and transformed into a school-girl like invitation.

Inuyasha eyes switched from utterly surprised to a true smile of happiness. And this time, both of them knew he wasn't faking it. Keeping a hand over the elevator door to keep it from closing he leaned over to her as if to kiss her. With his lips a few inches from hers, his warm breath brushed across her slightly parted mouth,

"I'd love to."

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Kohaku ripped off his tank top, and shed his pants and boxers and stepped into the shower. The warm water beat on the aching muscles of his back and shoulders and he welcomed the feeling. Quickly soaping himself down, he rinsed under the warm spray and got out. His tryout had run as smoothly as ever. There was very little doubt in his mind as to if he had gotten varsity or not. There was just the question of who he would be partnered up with.

He stepped out of the shower and dried himself off with the blood red towel given by the hotel. Wrapping it securely around his waist he made to move into his bedroom. Shippo was rooming with him. While he was more on the neat side, Shippo's room looked as if a tornado had passed through it. And that was considered more of a neat day than what you would normally expect with Shippo.

The towel fell to the floor as he slipped on a pair of silk boxers and baggy shorts. On his shoulder in fine black ink was the tattoo of his father's kanji symbol. The crow. "What would dad say now if he saw me shaking what I got with a bunch of girls beside me," he thought sarcastically as he made his bed. The bright red of the comforter reminded him of the girl that had danced after Mayu.

"Rin, I think her name was," he mulled over as he took a swig of his water bottle. He hadn't gotten a really good look at her, but from the way she busted her moves he could tell she was an amazing dancer. The pig tails were surprising though. He knew no girls of his age that still wore pig tails, but the way they looked on her was rather good…very good…extremely good.

"Stop," he chided himself and walked out into the main room. "You don't even know her yet and you're already starting to fantasize." Truthfully he was a bit afraid. He never turned his head towards any other girl. Some of his friend even claimed he was gay until he was partnered with Mayu. But Rin was very pretty, he could tell just by having a glimps of her skills and the way she moved. There was no doubt that she was very good. She could probably surpass Mayu, but the fact was if she could surpass him or not.

"I don't know," he answered truthfully into the quiet of the room. "I guess I'll have to see into it."

"You don't have to do that," a sultry voice answered for him and walked out from behind a wall. "I'd rather just come to you instead Kohaku." Her green eyes batted slowly and devoured him from head to toe. They seemed to drink in the sight of him shirtless and sporting some lose pair of shorts.

Kohaku backed up a bit in shock.

"Mayu…" he breathed.

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"TAAAAAA DAAAAAAAAA!!!"

Rin blinked blankly as a huge vanilla frosted cake was presented neatly in her line of sight. The writing was done in red lettering and little tiny hearts decorated the outlines of the cake. However it was rather sloppily put together. Rin drew her eyes up from the cake to come face to face with her roommate, Kagome. She was now sporting a pretty-in-pink halter dress that touched her calves and twirled when she did. Her hair was half up half down and her bangs fell over her bright blue eyes.

Rin sighed inwardly. She was so pretty, and she had no idea.

"I saw your spectacular performance Rin," she gushed twirling with the cake in her hand and moving into the kitchen. Rin followed after her smiling slightly. "Thanks."

"God, I never knew you had such talent," she continued so happily, "Rin you are really going to give Kaede the time of her life. I don't think I even danced like that during my tryouts!"

Rin plopped down in a stool by the island. "Wait, you already had your tryout? I was getting so psyched to see you perform!" Rin pouted rather cutely turned big eyes on Kagome.

Kagome smiled apologetically. "I'm sorry, the alumni dance off finalist have the choice of doing their tryouts sooner to get them out of the way. It's a very tedious process so I just decided to get it done as soon as possible. I already know I got varsity placement because they tell us at the end of the audition. There were only ten of us."

Rin grinned happily and said her congratulations to which Kagome only laughed pinched her nose. The cake was placed in front of her with a separate plate and fork. "Inuyasha was there?"

Kagome sat across from her and smiled as she took a piece of cake for herself. "Yes, he was there too."

"MMmmmhmmm," was Rin's intelligent answer as she dug into her slice of cake and swallowed a mouth full. "This is really good! You made this?"

Kagome laughed and took a small bite of her creation. "Yes, it doesn't look very good, but I love the taste. I had a good amount of time, so I wanted to make you something special in congratulations." She looked up from her piece of cake and made Rin meet her eyes. "I'm really proud of you."

Rin grinned through a mouthful of cake. "Thanky." After swallowing the cake down with some milk she decided it was time to stop beating around the bush. "You know I met Inuyasha in the elevator coming back up."

The cake stopped half way to Kagome's mouth as she turned curious eyes on her. "Oh really?" Kagome could tell by the turn of Rin's voice that this wasn't going to be good.

Rin took a delicate bite of the cake from her fork and dropped the bomb. "I asked him out for a date. He said yes," Rin added to solidify the proposition and forced back her smiled.

"Oh r-really," Kagome stuttered and inwardly cursed. "I knew it," she thought glumly, "I knew Rin liked him so this shouldn't be hurting the way it does!"

"Yea," Rin went on, oblivious to the inward shock that Kagome was suffering. "I mean, he sooooo sweet, sexy, and funny. I was so surprised when he said yes! It was like a dream come true!"

Kagome had long forgotten the half eaten cake and pushed it away from herself. Suddenly she felt much more sick than hungry. Inuyasha going out with another girl was one thing, but he going out with her roommate was just depressing.

He barely even looks my way anymore. Kagome's blue eyes lost their luster.

"Anyway," Rin busted out, still unaware of the tense moment, "I'm going to change. He should be here any minute. Thank you so much for the cake Kag chan! And congrats on varsity of course!" She quickly kissed Kagome's cheek and ran to her bedroom. Kagome smiled slightly and stored the cake.

Then the knock at the door sounded.

Kagome made her way to the door while calling out to Rin to hurry. She tried to be as calm as possible, but now knowing that Inuyasha could possibly be dating Rin made her stomach turn upside down. Her heart was beating out of her chest. It shouldn't have been this nerve racking, they were the best of friends freshman year, but then lost touch sophomore year. Kagome's finger's trembled as she reached for the door and unlocked it. She turned the knob and the door swung open.

"Hello," Inuyasha greeted softly. Somehow he knew it would be Kagome to answer the door. She looked so gorgeous in her pink fluttering halter dress and cute hair style.

She always wore dresses. For as long as Inuyasha remembered she wore a dress for everything. She hated clingy pants and tube tops. But it worked for her. She had beautiful long legs and a thin bodice. Her chest was filled out but not huge, but that did nothing to hinder her beauty. That's what he loved about her. She never tried to stay with stupid trends or tedious tight ass clothes. She always wore dresses that fit just right to her wonderful body. Her hair was grown out now, so it reached three or four inches past her shoulders.

But what always caught his attention were her eyes. From the moment she looked at him with those eyes, all was lost to him. He had such a hard time speaking to her when that had first been paired up because of her natural beauty. The depth of her eyes made him so weak he could feel from the tips of his toes up to his chest.

"You look handsome." The white lie rolled off her tongue so easily she almost surprised herself. The truth was, he was much, much, much more than handsome. He was divine, of the Gods. He had the good grace to dress up in a button down white shirt and black cacky pants. The shirt was unbuttoned to down to the fourth one down, giving anyone a gracious view of the bold, smooth planes of his chest. He was graced with slightly tanned skin, making him look all the more sexy. He was at least a head or two taller than Kagome, so much so that she had to tilt her head a touch to look at him.

Her blue eyes drank in the wondrous sight of this defined face and bright brown eyes. He let his hair shiny black hair lay free and it spilled over his shoulders like ink on a canvas. He has always been a work of art to her, and never had she seen a more beautiful man in her entire life.

"Thank you," he answered back as his eyes caressed her body. He didn't even try to hide that he was openly looking at her. He couldn't stop himself even if he tried. "This must have been unexpected for you. Rin and I are just going out for some tea."

"No not at all," Kagome smiled tightly and her blue eyes darkened slightly. "I have to do something," Kagome thought with vigor. "I'm usually the one to be open with everything, so why is it so hard now," she glanced at Inuyasha. One look at him and that was all the answer she needed.

She took a step closer. "Inuyasha…I…"

He stepped closer as their eyes locked together. He could most definitely drown in the volume of her stare. His eyes drew down towards her pretty pink lips that matched the color of her dress. What would it be like to be with her? To be the only one to have permission to love those lips, to show her the ultimate devotion to one person? And those beautiful, innocent, blue eyes…

"…Yes, Kagome?"

Kagome knew she was lost then. Her eyes drew to his lips, looking so tender and soft. He had the most kissable lips. Her face drew nearer to his. She didn't want to think about it. Only now, in this moment, she wanted to kiss this man.

"Inuyasha!!!"

And just like that the moment was shattered. Kagome and Inuyasha drew back as if they had been burned by one another. Rin skipped down towards them and hugged Inuyasha around his middle.

Inuyasha came out of his haze and smiled and patted Rin's head. It wasn't her fault. She didn't have any idea about what was going on. "You look great."

"So do you," Rin returned. And he did look good. He pushed a bouquet of flowers into her hand and she squealed and smelt the sweet fragrance.

"Kagome, can you put these in some water?" Kagome nodded slightly and took the assorted arrangement of flowers.

"Bye," Inuyasha whispered, he eyes held a clear sadness as Rin waved back and steered his down the elevator.

"Have a good time," Kagome called her voice almost breaking. When she was sure they had left she shut the door and slip down the back of it clutching the flowers to her chest. She didn't even realize the tears were coming until they were slipping down her face too fast for her to catch.

"I'm such an idiot."

TADAA!!! I hope you all enjoyed : )