Chapter 4. Rave

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***KAG P.O.V***

A few pebbles were hurled at my bay bedroom window, signaling that it was time. I sighed, set down the magazine I was reading about...myself and started worrying on my lower lip. I was already nervous about sneaking out in the middle of the night and going to a night club. But the thought of Naraku finding out made me want to pee my pants. Unfortunatly for me Kikyo and Sango insisted.

I hopped down from my bed and ran over to my window. I lifted open one of the window's quietly and peered down in the darkness. Kikyo and Sango were standing by the slippery deck of the pool, the underwater lights made water shimmer and reflect on their faces.

"Let us in!" Sango yelled in a hushed tone.

"How?" I hushed, yelled back.

She threw her hands up into the crisp night air. "I don't know! Let us in the back door or something…"

I looked around frantically as if a step ladder or a magical teleporter would some how appear in my room. Finally deciding on a plan, I looked back out my window."Ok. Meet me by the back door in ten…"

Kikyo nodded and Sango said "gotcha," and then they were gone.

I ran to my door, opened it and looked both ways down the two long hallways that made up the 'east wing' of my home and saw that no one was coming. I tiptoed out of my room, past a guest bedroom and walked down the large winding staircase that led into the living room.

I snuck down past our large living room and past the dark kitchen and tiptoed to the back door where my friends were waiting. Sango waved like a dork, as if I didn't already see her, and I unlocked the door and let them both in.

Kikyo grumbled and rubbed her forearms as she breezed past me. "God could you have been any slower? I was freezing my ass off out there!"

I immediately brought a finger up to my lips and silenced her. I then motioned my finger upstairs to signal them of my mother. 'Don't let her hear us.' I mouthed silently.

I led both Sango and Kikyo silently upstairs and looked both ways down the hallways again before closing my door.

Kikyo skipped over to my bed and flopped down onto my pillows. "I love your bed!" She squealed.

I giggled at her care free attitude and walked over to my closet. "On a more important note, I have to ask you guys..." My sentence trailed off as I glanced over at my friends. Kikyo was now reading the magazine id discarded and Sango was looking through her bag of stuff, probably looking for an outfit to wear, "how are we even going to get in the club? Were underage." I finally muttered.

Kikyo suddenly threw the magazine across my room so she could sit up and give me a are-you-really-asking-me-that? look. "Kagome," she sighed as though the notion of my question was ridiculously stupid and that I was exhausting," I bought us fake I.D's."

My mouth opened and the rational portion of my brain was asking "But what if we get caught?" But the far less rational, and far more fun, part of my brain was screaming "Who cares? You're Kagome Higurashi! Whats the worst thing they could possibly do to you? Badger you until you give them your autograph? Or maybe beg you to take a picture with them? Ohhh scary..."

I opened my mouth to retort but instead my lips flapped uselessly like a fish out of water. Kikyo snorted at me and reclined backward onto my pillows and closed her eyes, showing off the vibrant eyeshadow she was wearing.

I sighed, ran a hand over my face and walked toward my gigantic closet. "What do you guys think I should wear tonight?" I asked over my shoulder.

Sango sat down by Kikyo's feet on my bed and started rummaging through one of the bags she brought. "I don't know. But whatever it is it has to match this…" I turned around just as Sango pulled out a small, black mask that would cover half of someones face. The mask itself was a laser-cut metal, Venetian- style mask with intricate designs. It was beautiful.

My eyebrows came together. "What is that for?"

Kikyo suddenly sat up and beamed. "Were going to wear masks tonight!"

I made a face. "Why?"

"Because we want to go out to a public place and not be worried about people ambushing us because of your 'famous' status." Kikyo said with a roll of her chocolaty brown eyes.

"But I could just wear a wig or something…" I said, suddenly thinking of the blonde wig that was hidden deep in my closet. After I had come home from the restaurant I had hidden it in my closet for safe keeping.

Kikyo clapped her hands together. "Ohhhh perfect!"

Sango gave me a knowing glance from behind Kikyo's back and I gave a her a shut up look. I turned and walked toward my closet, trying to decide what I could possibly wear.

Because after all, what does one wear when sneaking out to a night club when they are an undercover popstar?

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The mask covering half of my face made it a little hard to see, but not so much that I couldn't see Kikyo shimmying her way down the drain pipe of my house, wearing a sparkly silver dress that fell down to her pale knee's. Her manicured nails clanked on the meal pipe as she moved downward.

My friends couldn't be serious could they? Did they really expect me to climb all the way down the side of my house, without falling? I felt the feeling of bile creeping its way up the back of my throat but I swallowed it down.

"I cain't do this." I muttered halfway to myself. Behind me Sango fidgeted with her golden mask that only covered one side of her face.

"You're fine. Its only a two story drop…"

I gulped. Gee thanks Sango. My room was only on the second floor but the ground looked awfully far away.

"You can thank your mom for watching Tv in the living room for this…" She muttered dryly.

I nodded mutely in agreement. My mother almost never watched Tv unless it was to hear of new celebrity gossip of something. Unfortunatly she just happened to be watching Tv right in front of the front door and right across from the back door.

I gulped again as Kikyo made it far enough down the side of the house and dropped the rest of the way down onto the ground. She looked back up to where we were watching her silently and she motioned us to follow.

Sango pushed on my back and urged me forward. I whimpered quietly an swallowed hard as I grabbed onto the metal drain pipe. The cool metal feeling of the pipe in-between my finger's made my heart race. I stepped one bare foot out the window and started to climb down like a monkey.

"Just hang on tight Kaggs." Kikyo said some fifteen feet below me.

I closed my eyes and continued to move downward. Oh yeah ill just keep hanging on. What the hell else am I supposed to do? My hands tightened as my grip started to slip. My palms were becoming sweaty. Don't fall. Don't fall. Don't fall. Please don't fall. I mentally chanted in my head. I kept moving down until the first floor windows were in my view. I finally hopped down and let my feet settle into the cool, plush grass of our lawn. I grinned triumphantly as I looked up and saw Sango climbing down after me. I had actually done it and I hadn't broken any bones or anything! I did a mental happy dance.

I looked around and found my black high heeled shoes lying on the grass and I hopped around and as I put them on my feet and finally completed my outfit. I was dressed in a slinky black dress that hugged my curves nicely. It had a a sweat-heart neckline with strap's that flowed over my shoulder's and accentuated my 'bazoomba's', as Sango so eloquently put it, tastefully. It had been made for a video shoot that I never got to wear. And it was perfect. I was also wearing black slinky heels with an open toe that showed off my vibrant, manicured, red toenail's. The underside of my shoes were a startling red that matched my toes. So whenever I lifted one of my feet, anyone who happened to be looking at me would see a flash of red.

I thought I looked pretty good. But I still felt a bit self conscious.

Once Sango had made her way down the side of my house she put her shoes on and we all giggled at how we were actually getting away with sneaking out. I looked over at Kikyo who picked up her hand-held mask and held it up to her face and struck a silly pose. We all laughed loudly and I suddenly remember we were trying to be sneaky. Again, I put a finger up to my lips to get my two loud friends to shut up. They both tried to quite down, but somehow, trying to suppress their laughter was funny. They started giggling again. I groaned and grabbed both of their arms and practically dragged their laughing asses over to the garage. I pressed the six digit code into the side of the garage door opener and the garage opened with a loud shutter that made me wince.

Please don't let mama hear me. Please don't let mama hear me. Please don't let mama hear…..

Once the door had opened fully all three of us rushed in and I pressed the unlock button on my car keys as I approached my black nineteen-seventy Ford mustang convertible. I grabbed the protective cover that fell on the top of my car and pulled it off with as much dramatic effect that I could muster.

Kikyo stopped moving and stood with her mouth hanging open obnoxiously, her eyes wide. Sango mimicked her. "This... is your...car?!"

I smirked and gave them a wink. "It was a promotional stunt the car dealership was having." I sighed dramatically and swept a hand over my beautiful baby. "It was free.." I hid another smirk at their sputtering and mumbling. Even though the car dealership had given me the car to drive around in, mama rarely let me drive it. It just sat in the garage collecting dust. Thought they didn't need to know that.

I rolled down the convertibles top and jumped into the drivers seat. Once Sango and Kikyo were both buckled in, I turned the keys into the inanition, revved up the engine and pulled back out of the driveway as slowly and as quietly as physically possible. I turned the car around the small roundabout with the fountain in front of my house and drove down the road, with my two friends screaming and giggling with their hands thrown in the crisp night air.

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***NARAKU POV***

"You know what to do, don't you?" I asked the tall, tanned man clad in all black, standing in front of my desk. "Yes?" I asked.

Bankotsu nodded and gave me a mischievous smirk which showed of his surprisingly white and pointy teeth. "Yes sir."

My demonic ear's picked up the almost silent giggles coming from the garage. A I heard Kagome's car start up, I glanced over at Bank. "Be sure to follow them. Especially Kagome. Do not bring her home as soon as you find her; follow her. See where she goes. I know she's meeting a boy." I growled out. "I could smell him on her the last time she came home. I also know he's a demon. Whatever she's doing, she's getting herself into deep shit and I want her caught. Now." My eyes narrowed on Bakotsu and I gave a firm, authoritative nod. "Go."

Bankotsu nodded and gave a smug smile. He knew he was good. He knew I knew that he was good. He was good at what he did which is precisely why I hired him. "Yes sir." He turned on his heel and walked out of my private office, his long braided hair flowing behind him as he walked.

I reclined back and swiveled my chair to look out my office window's just in time to see the taillights of Kagome's car disappear into the dead of night. I let out a deep, low chuckle that echoed in the silent room around me. I leaned forward on my large mahogany desk and clasped my hands together. Kagome was my cash flow. I couldn't let her mind wander. I couldn't let her get caught up in love. If she fell in love and she quit singing, I would be broke. And I couldn't have that happening now could I?

I leaned forward on my hands and sneered. "Your time is up, Kagome."

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***INU POV***

"Inuyasha you dumb fuck, get up! Its party with the hoe's time!"

I rolled over and grumbled into my pillow. My best friend, Miroku, was more like a brother then a best friend to me. And I would mess anyone up who tried to hurt him.

But sometimes he was a complete and utter perverted, jackass.

"No." I mumbled. "Im fucking tired. I just finished a double shift and I'm exausted. Find someone else to go whore hunting with you."

I could practically see the disappointment settle into Miroku's features even though my eyes were clamped shut. If he had been born a dog, his tail would have drooped down to his side and his ears would have pinned themselves down onto his head pathetically.

"Awh come on Inuyasha. You're like my bro. If you don't come with me then Im not going."

"Then I guess your not going…" I smirked into my pillow as I heard him groan.

"Pleeeeeeeeeeaseeee?" He whined as he shook my limp body. "Pretty please with naked girl's on top?"

I whipped my blankets of my warm body and sat up so I could give him a look. He was wearing a nice purple button up shirt with black pants and matching shoes. His hair was in his usual small pony tale at the nape of his neck. I called it a rat's tail. I also noticed that he had a very small golden loop earring in his left ear. He also wore a perverted grin on his face.

I shook my head. "Fuck you're disgusting. Cain't you go a day without thinking, talking or grabbing the ass of good looking girl?" I rubbed my hands over my face trying to erase my exhaustion.

Miroku chuckled but didn't answer my question. "Get up. The club is going to be packed as it is and I don't want to stand in line for a long time." He marched over to my closet and started rummaging through my clothes.

I glanced up at him and glared. I didn't even know where the hell we were going or what he was talking about. "What? What are you up to?"

He whirled around and gave me a cheesy grin. "Rave!"

I stared at him a second longer, contemplating how many times he had been dropped on his head as a pup. Now he had truly lost me. "Pardon?"

He sighed and rolled his eyes. "I want to go to a club downtown. Its called Rave and it supposed to be the coolest club with the hottest women." He gave me a lecherous smirk which wrinkled his nose. "And you're coming with me."

I stood up and put some pants on over my boxer's. "And why would I do that? How are we even going to get in? Were under age"

His bottom lip stuck out in a pout. "Because I want you to? I want my bestest best friend Inuyasha to come with me. And we can use our fake I.D's. "

I sighed and shook my head at his pathetic begging and his antics. Looking up at him one more time, he clasped his hands together and silently said 'please, please, please, please, please….' I finally threw my hands up in surrender and growled slightly. "Fine! Ill go with you. Ill write Mom a note and say that Im going over to your place to study or some shit."

Miroku started hopping up and down, clapping his hands together like a mentally challenged seal. "Yay! Thank you."

"Whatever," I muttered as I threw on a white, long sleeved shirt and a black vest on top. "Lets just get this over with."

I grabbed my wallet, my fake I.D, my house keys and started walking out of my room when I realized Miroku wasn't following. I turned back to him and saw that he was still pouting. "What? Come on lets go."

"Well, cain't you be a little more excited about it?"

I thought it over. Would I? I really wasn't going to enjoy being hit on by some whorish girls at a dance club. I wasn't looking forward to all the drunk idiots and horny men. And I sure as hell wasn't looking forward to Miroku hitting on anything with a pulse and a skirt.

I sighed dramatically, then started to give Miroku a small smile. Seeing his eyes light up suddenly, I immediately frowned. "No." I turned back around and headed downstairs and Miroku finally followed me.

We fell into a somewhat comfortable silence before Miroku asked, "well hey, at least you get to get out tonight, right?"

I snorted. "Joy..."

Miroku gave my ass a firm slap and laughed when I gave him a warning growl. "Thats the spirit!"

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***KAG POV***

"Name?"

A small short guy, who wanted to enter, trembled before the large butch-like bouncer at the door of the club, Rave. The smaller man gulped under the piercing gaze of the bouncer. "Uhhh….um…Jonson?"

I sighed and looked away as the bouncer shook his head as he checked over the list of names on a clip bored he was holding. The bouncer then physically grabbed the smaller man by the scruff of his neck and dragged him back to the end of the line. I gulped. The sounds and intoxication of the club poured out onto the street and sidewalk we were standing on like a river of noise, people and excitement.

A girl laughed loudly, a little too loudly, behind us and I heard the sloshing of her beer she was holding, splat onto the side walk as she tried to steady her drunken body.

Sango groaned. "How much longer do we have to stand out here?" She stomped her heeled foot onto the cement for emphasis.

I shifted uncomfortably and kept my hands pinned down at my sides. I really hadn't been out in public without body guards in what seemed like forever, and being around a bunch of people crowding around me and pushing into me made me feel very claustrophobic.

I shifted from one foot to my other and crossed my arm's, trying to keep my body heat inside my body. It was freezing outside.

My body stiffened considerably as I felt a hand sneak its way up my thigh and grab my ass. "What a beauty.." I heard someone murmur, close enough to my ear that I felt their hot breath on my cheek.

Squeaking, I whipped around to glare that whomever grabbed my backside. "Hey!" I grabbed onto the back of my dress and held it down so he couldn't see my underwear.

A guy, not much older then myself, stood sheepishly with a hand behind his head rubbing his neck. He had dark brown hair and big brown eyes. His hair was tied at the nape of his neck and he wore a purple shirt."Excuse me. It was just, your beauty is so overpowering that I couldn't help myself. Or my wandering, cursed hand."

Sango and Kikyo, who had turned around at the sudden sound of my squeaking, scoffed. "Keep your paws off my friend you disgusting, perverted creep!" Sango all but growled, taking a step forward and blocking me from the guy's view.

His eyes widened and he gave a caring smile to Sango, as if he hadn't just groped my ass. "Your friend is beautiful its true, but you are quite stunning yourself." He sighed and suddenly got down on one knee and took one of Sango's hands into his own. "Would you perhaps, bear my child?"

Sango's face distorted into disgust and she recoiled her hand back as if the guy had just slobbered all over her. "Hell no!"

The guy's face fell and he stood so he could look down at Sango. "Why not?" His eyes scanned down to Sango's legs and slowly traveled up her body. "You have wonderful child bearing hips."

Sango's face grew red. "Stop looking at my hips you weirdo!"

"Miroku, what the hell are you doing? I leave you alone for five seconds to park the fucking car and you're already hitting on girls? You're pathetic…"

My heart skipped a beat and I stiffened all the way down to my toes. I already knew I wouldn't need to see the guy's face to know who had just spoken. I had heard that voice before. Like I could ever forget that face. I blinked rapidly and slowly looked over my shoulder to see Inuyasha jogging to catch up with his friend. His friend that just happened to grab my ass. What a coincidence.

Inuyasha's jog quickly slowed to a walk as his eyes scanned Miroku and suddenly focused solely on me. "Ping?" He asked, obviously confused as to why I was there.

I looked down at the cemented sidewalk and tucked a stray blond hair behind my ear. He remembered my name. He actually remembered me. "Hey Inuyasha..."

Sango and Kikyo identically gasped and looked at me. Kikyo mouthed 'Inuyasha?' While Sango simultainusly mouthed 'Ping?' I tired to nod unsuspiciously at both of them. Their eyes flicked back over to Inuyasha so they could assess him like the good best friend they were. I rolled my eyes at them and glanced back at Inuyasha who was now assessing me. I gulped under his gaze and I saw his Addam's apple bob up and down visibly as he did the same.

"Wow Ping, yuh-you you um... you look great." He finally stuttered out.

I looked down at my dress and shoes, as if I didn't already know what I was wearing and gazed back up at Inuyasha. "Thanks," I said with a blush. I looked over his open vest and white shirt that was rolled up, showing off his impressive arm muscles. "You look good to."

I swear I visibly saw his pride swell as he shoved both of his hands into his back pockets and shrugged as if it was nothing, but a light blush tainted his cheeks. "Keh. Its just clothes..." I stared at him as his metallic eyes fluttered to my own, "but thanks." He added quietly.

Sango smirked knowingly at me and then returned her attention back to the club's bouncer and her eyes narrowed. "Im sick and tired of waiting for this line to move..." She muttered before she pushed her forward. A few people tired to stop her from budging but Sango stood her ground and barreled her way to the front like a deranged bull.

Kikyo snuck her way up to my side, leaned her face close to my ear a whispered, "so thats the Inuyasha guy, huh? He's sooooooooooo hawt. Totally drop dead fuckable."

I scoffed out a laugh before I glanced of my shoulder to look at Inuyasha. And just as expected, he had overheard what Kikyo had said. His face was beat red but he was smirking smugly.

I stifled a laugh and whispered back, "Kikyo, Inuyasha is a half demon. He can hear you, even when you whisper."

Kikyo's eyes widened comically and her gaze snapped over to Inuyasha who shrugged. "Its true. I have pretty powerful hearing."

"I...Im..I mean I didn't...you...Im sorry." Kikyo stuttered, her face as red as a firetruck.

Inuyasha smirked smugly and winked cheekily. "It's no big deal. I will actually take that as a compliment. I like being called 'drop dead fuckable.'" Inuyasha's smirk widened as he slowly stalked up to Kikyo and grinned mischievously down at her with a hungry look in his eye that I didn't much care for. "Because its true."

Kikyo's smiled, her eyes sparkling, her breath coming out in labored white puffs of crisp air as her gaze roamed over Inuyasha's chiseled muscles. "What's true?"

Inuyasha shrugged his shoulder's unevenly and swallowed a chuckle. "That Im drop dead fuckable. Its true. Im a fucking stud muffin."

I mentally groaned. Great. Now his ego is gonna be insufferable...

Kikyo laughed in her high pitched, over used flirting laugh that I knew all to well and playfully pushed Inuyasha's arm and he joined in with her laughter. Head thrown back, gut laughing. Miroku rolled his eyes and scoffed at both of them and slapped Inuyasha's shoulder. "Get a room you two..."

I had to agree. Inuyasha and Kikyo were acting disgusting. And Im normally not a jealous person. Really I'm not. But when Kikyo playfully played with Inuyasha and seeing him laugh at her with a twinkle in his eye, made me want to gouge Kikyo's eyes out and use them as baseballs.

I mimed shoving a fork down my throat and choking on it. Luckily Inuyasha and Kikyo didn't see me. They were to busy giggling and whispering with each other to notice. But Miroku did...He gave me a suspicious look before looking away from me as Sango came bounding back over at us with a huge grin on her face.

"Hey guys, I got us in!" She beamed.

My dark eyebrow's furrowed. "How?"

Sango turned to fully face me a gave me a smile that I can only describe as a Grinch smile. She looked like a cheshire cat, her smile wide and devious. "I asked the bouncer for a dance...and other things." She added quietly as she cast her eyes downward with a giggle and a blush that dusted over her cheeks.

Miroku's interest suddenly spiked and his head snapped over to let his widened eyes meet Sango. "What!?

I waved her statement- and Miroku- off. "Well, whatever you did to get in, I won't question you. Im just excited to get out of this cold weather. Im freezing." I muttered glumly before pushing my way past a questioning look Sango threw my way, a knowing glance Miroku gave me and past the the two lovebirds that were probably whispering sweet nothing's into each other's ear's. I glared at Kikyo as she giggled at whatever tripe Inuyasha was spilling, before I pushed my way into the dark entrance of the intoxicating club, letting the fast beat of the heart racing music fill my ears, letting the dimly lit building cloak my scantily clad body like a cloak.

I let a smile grace my ruby red lips as I blocked out all of my fears and let my inner inhibitions come forth. Tonight I wasn't Kagome Higurashi the famous rock star and singing sensation. No. I was Ping. The anonymous girl that was a mystery to anyone who asked for my name. I could be anyone I wanted. I only had to cross my arms, wiggle my nose and make it so.

Hearing Kikyo and Inuyasha enter the club right on my heels made me roll my eyes and cross my arms.

"You wanna dance?" Inuyasha shouted over the loud, pulsating music.

"Id love to!" Kikyo screamed back. They pushed their way past me, knocking me into a man who clearly had way to many beer's just by the smell that was lingering on his skin, and made me almost fall over. After apologizing to the stinky man for practically ramming into him I scanned the club looking for the bar.

I needed a drink.


Ohhhh. Kikyo's putting the moves on Inuyasha. I wonder how Kagome is going to handle it...