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Here's is chapter 6! Enjoy!
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Chapter 6-Don't Lie
Cameras flashed and thousands of voices crowded their minds.
Inuyasha grabbed Kagome and put her on his back. In turn she wrapped her arms around his neck. "Whatever you do, don't let go of me."
Kagome nodded and Inuyasha took off at a speed no human could run. People blurred past him and then he saw another demon blocking his way.
"Mr. Takahashi could you please tell me about the groups relationship with one another?"
Inuyasha skidded to a halt and felt Kagome's body fall against him. Inuyasha looked around until he found a path that he could break through. Then he heard Kagome scream.
"Let go! Let go!"
Inuyasha whirled around feeling the weight on his back lighten and saw a demon that looked like a lizard trying to take Kagome's purse away from her. Inuyasha, with little energy, punched the reporter in the face. The grip on Kagome's purse was loosened and Inuyasha turned around to face Kagome.
"Mr. Takahashi, are you and the band members closer than just being friends?"
Wait. Where is Kagome?
Inuyasha shoved the reporter out of the way and tried to smell Kagome's scent but with the large mass of people surrounding him, it was hard to pinpoint her location.
"Inuyasha!"
"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled and looked around, scanning the area for Kagome's raven locks.
Kagome was surrounded by millions of people all asking questions about her relationship with the half-demon. "Inuyasha help!"
"Get on." Kagome turned around to see Inuyasha. "Hurry up!" he shouted and turned his back to her. She grabbed his shoulders and jumped up onto him when she felt a slap.
Kagome's head whipped around to see the culprit who got a good feel of her butt.
"Hey you!" Kagome yelled, letting go of Inuyasha and turning to face the man that had slapped her. He was human with long reddish coloured hair and had green vibrant eyes. Without a second hesitation, Kagome lifted her purse into the air and swung it at the man's face.
Caught off guard, the man felt the blow and staggered backwards.
"Don't ever touch me again!" Kagome shouted. She was about to get back on Inuyasha but when she turned around, he was gone.
"I meant nothing by it!" she heard a man plead and saw that the same pervert that had slapped her was now backing away with his hand covering his nose. Briefly he took his hand off and Kagome could see blood pouring from it.
"Like hell you did!"
Inuyasha was walking towards the red haired man and Kagome knew it was Inuyasha's fists that caused the man to bleed. She ran up to Inuyasha and tugged on his t-shirt. "Come on! Forget him and let's go!"
Inuyasha's head sharply turned to her and she saw the glint of red tinge his eyes once more. "Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled again and Inuyasha blinked, the red now completely gone.
"Kagome?" he whispered.
"Excuse me sir. How is your relationship with Ms. Higurashi?"
"Ms. Higurashi how long have you two been secretly dating?"
"How far in dating have you gone?"
"Kagome, are you expecting a child in a couple months?"
Kagome looked at the woman who had just basically asked if she was pregnant with Inuyasha's child. Kagome's eyes rolled and her legs felt weak. She fell backwards down to the pavement where Inuyasha just barely caught her around the waist.
Pulling Kagome's body to his chest, he leapt in the air and landed directly towards their cars. Two cars were already gone from their spots and he realized that they were Sango's and Sesshomaru's.
"Inuyasha!" Miroku's voice yelled and Inuyasha saw him in Kagome's car at the driver seat.
"Miroku drive," Inuyasha shouted and pulling Kagome in his car with him letting her limp body rest on his as he started the engine and drove off, as he followed at a slight distance behind Miroku.
Inuyasha glanced at his built in clock and read the vibrant green letters that read 11:02. At least they weren't late. Inuyasha shifted his body so that Kagome's head rested on his collarbone, her arms curled in around her stomach. Her head was side ways, facing the driver's window and Inuyasha heard faint murmuring come from the woman.
"Inuyasha."
Inuyasha blushed slightly as she buried her head deeper into his t-shirt and wrapped her arms around his waist. Training his eyes on the road, Inuyasha dared answer her.
"Yes Kagome?"
"Why…do we fight so much? I don't like fighting."
Well, what a question to ask. Inuyasha sighed. He decided to answer her truthfully since she wouldn't remember it anyways. She was unconscious…at least he thought so.
"Because we're both stubborn, both have our own way of seeing things and…neither of us know much about the other to understand why we see it that way."
"Hmm," was all Kagome mumbled and she seemed to fall back into a deep sleep. Inuyasha was grateful for the fact that the subject could have lead on to more personal things that Inuyasha didn't want to touch base on.
"Come on Kagome. Lets go back home."
Kagome lay stunned as she let her head rest on his firm chest. She had been unconscious due to the words of the reporter but had stirred when Inuyasha was driving and now was fully awake when he had parked his car in the driveway. She had remembered everything. Every little detail of their conversation in the car rang clearly through her mind. She didn't remember how it started but she remembered his words.
He was right. They were both stubborn and they both had their own ways of seeing things. It was the final comment that made her more stunned than the previous two. They didn't know much about the other to truly understand how they felt about certain things. And here she thought Inuyasha was a stuck-up jerk that only thought of him self.
Inuyasha turned off the car and sat there silently debating his next move. Kagome was lying on top of him and professionally he should wake her up and tell her to go to the lounge to talk to the others. But Inuyasha was enjoying the moment's peace with Kagome. She had been right even in her sleep. They did fight a lot.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome's eyes fluttered open and she looked up to see Inuyasha's golden eyes.
"Good morning sleepyhead."
"I fainted remember?"
"Feh. That's the second time too," Inuyasha shrugged and smirked, looking down at Kagome as she tried to brush her hair back out of her face.
"So, do you get questions like that often?" Kagome asked. She had removed her arms from around Inuyasha's waist and sat up, though she didn't move from her spot on his lap.
"Questions about personal things? Yes, but questions about my non-existent girlfriend pregnant with my child? No that I assure you I have never gotten before in my life."
"At least I'm not alone," Kagome said smiling.
"Come on. The others are waiting for us in the lounge," Inuyasha said, shrugging his head towards the main doors of the mansion.
Kagome stood up and brushed herself off. Inuyasha waited patiently as she straightened her shirt and then together they entered the house in a comfortable silence.
"You finally got here," Sesshomaru said dryly as he took a sip from his newly made rye and coke and watched the two come in.
"What took you so long?" Rin asked, grabbing the bowl of chips one of the maids had put out and eating one.
"Paparazzi," was Inuyasha's short answer. He didn't feel like going into detail.
"Ah yes and Kagome," Sango said, a mischievous glint in her eyes, "Miroku told us all about the questions he heard while he was waiting. So how far in pregnancy are you?"
Kagome rolled her eyes and walked up to Rin, stealing a chip from the bowl. "Ha, ha, ha you guys. Very funny."
"Now that everyone's here, I would like to go over what Sesshomaru and I planned before we leave for the interviews," Miroku's voice was now in a business-like manner.
"The first interview," Miroku started, "is for a newspaper, which will be explaining the truth of the rumours and that we are now officially a team. The second interview is for a magazine. The editors are personal friends of mine so gossip shouldn't be a problem. We'll be with you on that interview. After the interviews are over, which will approximately finish around two-fifteen, we'll have a lunch break and then go straight to the meeting with the record company. They are personal friends of Sesshomaru and Inuyasha's. Then we will have dinner and then you will be expected to be at the Star Television building for your guest appearance on the Hakaru show at eight-thirty. Any questions?"
"Yeah I have one," Sango said, munching on one of the few chips left in the bowl. "Will we have to change again?"
Sesshomaru looked at Inuyasha who turned to the group. "For pretty much every show you do, you will have to wear different clothes that are 'nicer' but at the same time make a statement about your band. Your makeup will have to be dramatized again as well."
"Sounds fun," Rin said sarcastically.
"Yes. So go freshen up and redo your makeup. The interviewers might want some shots of you," Miroku told the girls.
"Doesn't that mean you have to too? Since your in the second interview and all."
"No," Inuyasha said, smirking somewhat. "We look good no matter what."
Kagome grabbed the pillow from the couch and threw it at Inuyasha's head playfully. "Yeah right buddy."
The first interview went by quickly after forty minutes of non-stop questions and another five minutes of photo taking for the newspaper.
The second interview, with Sesshomaru, Inuyasha and Miroku, was a little more gossipy than the first. It was more about the rumours and lucky Kirara, Miroku's close friend, easily agreed to straighten them out but she had to add the sentence "hopefully soon they will hook up" to make the readers happy.
Kirara wanted tons of photos of the band and the six of them. After the fifteenth photo was taken of just the band, Kagome swore that she would be a professional model by the end of the month with all the pictures of her being taken.
"Come on guys, now you come in too," Kirara said, waving the three guys over.
The cameraman that worked for Kirara wasn't like their previous one. He just took the shots but Kirara controlled what they looked like. "Girls in front, guys behind!" Kirara ordered and Miroku stood beside Kagome and Sango with Sesshomaru in the middle and then Rin and Inuyasha.
The cameraman took a couple shots but Kirara told him to stop after looking at the arrangement. "Sorry guys but the readers really want you guys in couples so, I want Inuyasha in between Kagome and Sango, Miroku in the middle between Sango and Rin and Sesshomaru beside Rin."
The order was switched around quite a few more times but other than being close to each other, only the girls were linking arms or doing other stuff. The guys didn't touch the girls until Kirara called one last shot.
"This is just a fun shot, I doubt it will go in the magazine though since it's not true. Sesshomaru I want you to be holding Rin bridal style. Miroku I want to the right of Sesshomaru and Rin -but stay close to them- with Sango. Sango have your back to him and Miroku I want you to have your arms around Sango's stomach with Sango's hands covering yours. Inuyasha your on both your knees on the floor in front of Sesshomaru. Kagome you will be like Sango only you'll be on the floor and have your arms around Inuyasha's neck and your looking up and him and he's looking at you."
Nobody moved to do what Kirara wished and she sighed in frustration.
"What's the point in taking that picture than if you won't put it in your magazine? I thought you were trying to help straighten the rumours?" Sesshomaru asked.
"Even I have to agree with Sesshomaru," Miroku agreed, nodding his head and looking at Kirara for an answer.
"Isn't it obvious? If you guys ever do date, I will be the first one with pictures of you guys and the magazine will sell fast and then we have more money to work with! That and the fact I only have one picture left."
"How about this?" Miroku suggested. "The last photo is just a whatever shot that we can have fun with and if anything does happen you'll be the first person to be able to take pictures of us."
Kirara sighed but nodded and then smiled. "Tell me when you're ready."
The group got into a huddle. Kagome and the girls were in the middle with Sango on the end beside Miroku and Rin on the end beside Sesshomaru who reluctantly joined in. Inuyasha though, didn't want his picture taken and sat outside of the group, far out of the camera's view.
"Come on Inuyasha! It's just for fun!" Miroku said, trying to get his friend to join the picture.
"I hate getting my picture taken and that's been done too much already," Inuyasha argued.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled and glared at him playfully. "Must I come over there and drag you into this picture or will you come before I get angry?"
Rolling his eyes, Inuyasha joined in at the end beside Sesshomaru but Kagome pulled him into the middle with her and slapped him lightly on the head.
"Ouch what was that for?" Inuyasha asked angrily. That was the third time that day.
"You tested me and I thought we wouldn't fight anymore."
Inuyasha looked at her funny. 'So she remembered the conversation in the car when she was "unconscious"?' he thought but shook his head and picked her up, putting her on his back. Kagome smiled and started to rub his ears much to his annoyance.
"Hey will you cut that out?" Inuyasha said looking up.
"Nope."
Slap"Pervert!" Sango screamed.
"Can you take the picture already?" Sesshomaru asked rolling his eyes.
"Give them a break," Rin said, turning around to scold Sesshomaru.
"Smile!" the cameraman said and took the shot quickly.
"Hey!" Rin yelled, "I wasn't even ready!"
"I know," said Kirara who smiled. "Nobody was and that's why we took it like that."
"We'll have two burger combos; both with large chocolate milkshakes, will have two cheeseburger combos; one with a strawberry milkshake the other with a coke, one nugget meal with a coke as well, and one bacon double cheeseburger meal with a vanilla shake. That will be all."
The cashier was inputting the orders into the computer quickly as the orders kept on coming and finally, with those four words "that will be all" the teen could relax. "Okay that will be fifty-two dollars and seventy-three cents. Please go to window one."
Kagome gathered all the tens each person gave to her and drove up to window one, reluctantly letting go of sixty dollars that could have been better spent on new notebooks for song lyrics. Oh well.
"Seven dollars and twenty-seven cents is your change please go to the next window."
Kagome gathered up the change and left the others to sort out who got what back. Driving up to the next window she gathered the bags of fast food and drove away back to the mansion.
"Why can't we eat already?" Inuyasha complained as Sango clutched onto the bags tightly so not to lose them into the hands of Inuyasha. "Because it's my convertible and I don't want a mess," Sango stated sharply and Inuyasha pouted.
"I want to eat though!" Inuyasha tried again but only gained a dangerous look from Sango. Remembering this morning events with Miroku and Sango in the dining hall, Inuyasha decided to clamp his mouth shut and look straight ahead, trying to ignore the strong scent of a bacon double cheeseburger, fries and a tasty vanilla milkshake.
"Calm down Inuyasha we're here already," Kagome said, pointing out the window to show the front gates.
"Feh."
The six jumped out of the car after it was parked and decided to eat in the music lounge. It became sort of like their hang out place since they had been in there everyday. They sat in the kitchen part of the lounge. Kagome and Sesshomaru eating burgers and large chocolate milkshakes, Miroku and Sango eating cheeseburgers -Miroku with the strawberry milkshake and Sango with the coke- Rin had the nuggets and the coke and Inuyasha –of course- had the biggest meal of all.
"Hey! How come you and Sesshy got a bigger size drink than us?" Inuyasha complained to Kagome as he finished chewing.
"Probably because I mentioned 'two large milkshakes' and just ordered 'milkshakes and cokes' for you guys. Nobody else wanted a large, oh, I forgot to ask you, sorry about that Inuyasha." Kagome didn't really sound apologetic and Inuyasha squinted at her giving her a dirty look. Was this her payback for what happened at Kirara's shoot?
"Don't give me that look you know I can give an even dirtier one," Kagome told Inuyasha. She grabbed her milkshake and took a long sip of it, Inuyasha still eyeing her. "What do you want? A sip of my milkshake to make you feel better or something?"
"Not yet."
"What do you mean not yet?"
"I mean not yet."
"But why not yet?"
"Because I want to finish my milkshake before I can steal yours."
"Well it wouldn't be stealing if I had offered."
"But you didn't offer," Inuyasha persisted.
"Yes I did!"
"No you didn't!"
"I did when I asked what you wanted from me!"
"I don't remember you offering any."
"Okay, okay guys," Miroku interrupted before Inuyasha and Kagome went into a full-blown argument. "It's just a milkshake, relax and Kagome, Inuyasha is sort of right, you didn't offer him any…just a sip of your milkshake."
Kagome turned beet red and Inuyasha laughed. "Shut up!" she yelled smacking Miroku on the head and walked over to Inuyasha to deliver punishment. Inuyasha gulped before backing away slowly.
Slap"That's the fourth time!"
"Hey Miroku," Rin said, trying to ease the tension in the room between Inuyasha and Kagome, "what are we going to do at the meeting with the record company?"
"You guys, pretty much nothing but me, reading a lot and negotiating some agreements. The most you will have to do is a bit of signing."
"What about performing? They don't even know how we sound and they're agreeing to produce a CD with us?" Sango looked at Miroku who looked at Sesshomaru.
"We recorded your performance for us. That will do fine."
Rin nodded and blushed when she remembered when Sesshomaru and Inuyasha had walked in on them while they were in the middle of "celebrating" and "boosting their confidence."
"Then why do we even have to be there the whole time?" Sango persisted. Sitting in a room with nothing to do but listen to negotiations for more than an hour did not appeal to Sango at all.
"Yes," Miroku finalized and Sango gave up with a heavy sigh.
"What do you think Kagome?" she asked. Looking towards Kagome she noticed that both Kagome and Inuyasha were…fighting. But this time it was physical.
Kagome punched towards Inuyasha's stomach but with the speed of a half-demon he stopped it. Inuyasha made a grab for Kagome's arms and grasped them. Kagome smirked as she jumped up slightly and kicked Inuyasha in a not so pleasant place.
Inuyasha immediately let go and sank to the floor.
"Oh God," Rin said, nodding towards the two, "Miroku be prepared, this fight might be a heated one."
"Aren't they all?" Sango questioned but was never answered.
Inuyasha was still on the floor, sunk on his knees towards the ground and a low growl admitted from his throat. Miroku stepped forward but when Kagome cried out, Miroku stopped to watch Kagome run to him and sink down beside him.
"I didn't mean to hit you there, I am so sorry!" Kagome started to play with his hair and Inuyasha looked up.
"You didn't have to hit so hard you know," he complained and looked back down again, wincing at the pain.
"Oh come on Inuyasha. I thought you were half-demon!"
Inuyasha's head didn't even bother to look up again as he answered. "Doesn't mean it doesn't hurt!"
"Okay well I'm sorry. I guess since I kind of broke the rules of our game you win the rest of my milkshake fair and square."
"Damn right I do," Inuyasha mumbled.
"But I get sips of it whenever I want because I did take you down first."
"Fine," Inuyasha nodded, still not moving from his spot.
"You mean it was a game?" Miroku asked incredulously.
Kagome looked at them like she had seen them for the first time that day. "Oh yeah. We were just roughhousing to see who would get the milkshake."
"At least they get along now," Sesshomaru remarked, smirking as he watched Kagome help Inuyasha up from the ground.
"For now you mean," Rin corrected. "Just for now."
"When can we go?" Sango hissed at Kagome who merely shrugged her shoulders. They had been in the same boring yellow room, in the same uncomfortable grey chairs, with the same arguing guys for an hour. Sango thought she would explode with boredom. Meetings were never her thing and never would they be.
When they first arrived at Thunder Brothers Music, they had been shown around the entire building, which contained nothing but empty rooms or offices that were so quiet you could hear a pin drop from the room across it. Then, they were taken to actually meet the brothers named Hiten and Montan. Other than being both demons, they barely resembled each other.
After a couple minutes of introducing from Inuyasha and Sesshomaru, the six were taken to a room where they now presently sat at. They didn't even know how far along they were and how far they had yet to go.
"Inuyasha," Kagome whispered barely audible to human ears. She saw Inuyasha's ears twitch in her direction and Kagome got the urge to giggle. Controlling her urges, she whispered, "how long?"
It took Inuyasha a couple minutes to reply since he was in the middle of debating but finally he put his hands behind his chair and opened and closed them twice.
Twenty minutes.
Rin looked towards Sango who was now red with frustration. Sango looked at Kagome, who seemed to be staring at the silver-haired businessman in front of her.
"Kagome?" Sango asked.
"Huh? Oh, yeah?"
"Can you do me a favour?"
"Sure, what do you want?" Kagome asked.
"Cover for me if I do something stupid."
Kagome raised her eyebrow sceptically at the crazed promise but Kagome nodded and turned her attention back to Inuyasha.
Silence once more filled the room other than the quiet murmurings of the five men. Finally, after five minutes, Miroku looked back at them. "Can you guys come here? We need you to sign papers and read over the deals we've made."
"Thank God! I thought I would die of boredom listening to nothing but arguments and deals. My God guys you need a source of entertainment in here! At least some music!" Sango burst out.
Kagome walked up behind Sango who was currently marching to the table. Lowering her head and patting her friend on the back she said, "Please excuse my friend here. Business never appealed to her."
"Some papers? How about thirty-two!" Rin yelled, slapping the empty leather seat beside her in Inuyasha's car.
"Miroku never said 'I need you to sign some papers' he said 'I need you to sign papers.' There is a big difference," Inuyasha said in Miroku's defence.
"Still that was a lot of signing," Kagome added and looked outside the car window.
Currently, Kagome and Rin were with Inuyasha as he drove them to the Star Television building downtown. They had already eaten but Rin still hadn't gotten over the fact that they had to sign thirty-two papers. Kagome sat beside Inuyasha in the front of the car and Rin in the back. Sesshomaru, Sango and Miroku were in front of them in Sesshomaru's car.
All of a sudden, a familiar funky tune filled the car and Kagome pulled out her cell phone. "Hello?"
Inuyasha winced at the high-pitched voice from the other end. He couldn't even make out the girl's words they were so fast.
"Oh my God, hey Eri!"
The name started Rin in a commotion of squeals and Kagome seemed equally happy.
"It's not true!" Kagome sounded like she was defending herself and since Inuyasha picked up his name up from the conversation he guessed it was about the rumours.
"Are you serious? You want us?"
"Just a minute, let me ask Inuyasha if we can." Kagome put the cell to her chest so the girl Eri on the other line wouldn't hear. "Inuyasha you know the famous club Kiss and Tell?"
Inuyasha thought for a moment before nodding. "Yeah, it's owned by three girls about six blocks from here. Why?"
"Well those three girls are our friends: Eri, Yuka and Ayumi. We met them in grade ten and they want us to sing a couple songs at their club tomorrow. It's their one-year celebration and they want us to kick it off and end it. Plus we can go clubbing," Kagome said, bribing Inuyasha with the fact of clubbing.
"Let me call Miroku." Kagome handed the phone to Rin so she could chat with Eri while Inuyasha talked to Miroku.
"What time does it start?" Inuyasha asked.
"Nine and it goes all night but they want us to end it. It's a surprise but the posters already said they have a surprise band going."
"Why did they know you would do it?" Inuyasha asked quizzically.
"No. They have a band but will only use them as a back up. I don't blame her really I hate that band."
"Okay then." Inuyasha went back to talking to Miroku and finally Inuyasha pressed the end button and nodded towards Kagome. "You just can't club in between or afterwards. You might get swarmed and hurt and we can't let that happen."
Squealing, she ripped the phone out of Rin's hands. "We can do it!"
Kagome held the phone away from her ear as the girl on the other end cheered. Kagome talked for a couple minutes longer about the times and finally they came to a decision.
Ending the call, Kagome told Inuyasha and Rin about the club. "We perform five songs. The first one we'll sing at nine to start the club off, then again at ten and eleven. At ten-to-twelve we'll sing our fourth song, which they want to be a slow song and then they want us to sing a hit song for twelve o'clock sharp. But why no clubbing?"
"Too dangerous. Don't worry you guys can come with us to the major clubs we get invited to. Make sure you tell Sango when you're getting ready for the show because we're here."
The girls waited patiently for the sound of their names. Sango smiled reassuringly at the other two. Sango wore blue jeans with a black wife beater with the word "stop" in big bold letters outlined in fake diamonds. Her hair was up in a ponytail and her makeup was like how it was at the photo shoot.
Kagome smirked as she heard Hakaru start to touch the subject of music and took a glance at Inuyasha, Miroku and Sesshomaru who were behind them, smiling as well. She wore a black tank top that said "love and hope" across the chest area with a butterfly on it. Over top of the tank top was a black fishnet shirt. She wore black cargo pants and had her hair down loose and like Sango, her makeup was similar to the photo shoots.
Rin felt the need to shriek but keep the urge under control as Hakaru started to talk about an "anonymous" band. She looked down to make sure her clothes were fine and saw that her pink t-shirt that read "this is what perfect looks like" and her white skirt that was cut on a slant starting from her mid-thigh down to her mid-calf.
"Kagome Higurashi, Sango Tajii and Rin Noto of Black Majik!" On cue the girls walked on stage, smiling and occasionally waving at the crazed crowd.
Hakaru stood up and hugged each girl before they all sat down in the leather seats on the stage. Finally the crowd quieted down enough so Hakaru could speak.
"Well hello girls!"
"Hey Hakaru!" they said in unison. That part was practiced but the rest was purely on the spot.
"How are you?"
Hakaru was a lady in her mid-thirties. She was a gossip woman but only used the gossip to find out the truth, not create more and she was always very giving when donating to the many charities that she sponsored.
Sango was the first to talk. "We're good! Thank you so much for inviting us on the show!"
Hakaru scoffed and waved her hand submissively at the act of kindness. "Girl, don't thank me! I am more than happy to have you here. So girls, why don't you each tell me about yourselves and when you decided to become a band."
"Well," Kagome started, "I met Sango and our agent Miroku Hoshi in grade six and then Rin in grade nine. We seemed to hit it off automatically I guess. It was in grade twelve that we actually considered becoming a band but we never did until it was mid-way into the summer. We got some gigs, sang and performed, wrote our own music and bought our own stuff. It was pretty straightforward," Kagome said, half-lying but Kagome wasn't willing to share her past with the world.
"Yes, you write your own music. Most bands don't do that anymore. How do you guys create your own songs? Are they made by past emotions or you opinions on something?" she probed.
Kagome looked at Rin and shrugged. Rin spoke up, "Sometimes. You know when you read poetry and sometimes there is one line that seems stronger than the others? Well if there is a line or verse or sentence that really, I don't know, affects us than that could be our inspiration. Sometimes it's a matter of just writing random ideas that comes to your head. But of course, the majority of songs we write involve some emotions or memories or dreams from our past."
"And you guys are only eighteen?"
"Yup."
"Wow. So recently you joined up with the Takahashi brothers. So do they complete your entourage or do you still need stylists and organizers and people like that?"
"Sesshomaru and Inuyasha Takahashi are our publicists. With them we have our agent Miroku but that's it. We handle all the styling, designing, party planning, makeup…we like to do things for ourselves and not pay others to do simple tasks like that for us." Sango looked to Kagome and Rin for any additional information but they smiled and Hakaru continued.
"So when are you guys coming out with a CD?"
"Well we just talked with the record company today but we already have all the songs completed with music and lyrics. I think we may add one more song but other than that it's mostly just recording and doing all the advertisement and the finishing touches on the CD," Kagome told Hakaru.
"Well these days now for music videos and lyrics, everything is based on sex because as we all know, sex sells. What do you think about this?"
Rin was the first one to speak since she had been asked the very same question when they had the interview with Kirara. "Sex is part of our everyday life. Face it, because honestly without it none of us would be here." A couple members of the audience laughed at Rin's tone of voice and Hakaru smiled waiting for Rin to carry on. "For music though I personally think it's pointless and I think I speak for the band when I say that. We have teens and kids as young as ten and maybe younger that listen to our music and though there is nothing wrong with sex, using it to make money and have younger children listen to it I think is fanatical."
"We have guys dancing with us but not to the point where it's like 'are they dancing or are they having a clothes-on version of sex?' We show skin but only if it feels comfortable," added Kagome knowing that with one or two songs that would possibly have a music video to it, they may have guys included in them.
"Speaking of guys, what is it like to have the three hottest men according to nine out of ten magazines and seventeen out of twenty surveyed teenagers, working with you?"
Kagome, Sango and Rin all laughed at this. The question was more than expected and Kagome was actually surprised it wasn't mentioned earlier. "I can tell you from experience that no matter how hot the guys is," Sango said, "the personality can really throw you off."
"Hey!" Miroku's voice was heard in the background and Sango looked behind her. "Shut it Miroku!" Sango yelled but smiled as she did so.
"I have to agree with Sango," Kagome continued. "Us three don't go for guys automatically for their looks. I rather date or marry a guy that will love and take care of me with not the best looks than have a rude, ignorant, jerk that would call me names or not care about my opinion or priorities and be stunningly hot, hot, hot! Though that would be a bonus."
"Now are their any relationships or 'too close to be friends' things going on between the six of you?" Hakaru smiled smugly and Kagome knew what was going to happen. She had to get out of the situation fast.
Unfortunately, before Kagome could make a joke to break it off topic, Rin answered. "No, there's nothing but either professional relationships or just being friends."
"What about that party on Monday that became the hottest gossip and news on Tuesday's magazines and newspapers?"
Kagome looked calm on the outside but on the inside tempers raged and emotions mingled. She had to get out of this position right away.
"We made the deal on a Monday and celebrated at a restaurant a close friend of Sesshomaru and Inuyasha's owns. It wasn't a party more like just dinner with old friends. Nothing happened other than talking about our lives and us. Music mostly," Sango added.
"That's not the only thing I heard," Hakaru started. "So Kagome, please clarify if there is any relationship or affection between you and Inuyasha."
"Nothing but being friends. It's okay ladies," Kagome said addressing the audience, "he's still single." A few of the girls hooted and cheered making Kagome laugh. She took a secret glance backstage and saw that Inuyasha looked irked. Whether it was about the questions or the cheering Kagome wasn't completely sure.
"Well on almost everything I read, there was talk about you and Inuyasha having some fun –if we no what I mean girls- in the bathroom."
"It was actually quite hysterical when we first read it. Nothing like that ever happened, it was purely rumour," Kagome answered.
"Then are you telling not only me but the rest of the world that what that lady in the bathroom saw was an illusion? Did she make it up? You guys were at the right place and the right time for it to happen. Or at the wrong place at the wrong time, depends on how you look at it but either way, are you saying that the woman lied?"
Backstage, Inuyasha was growling. "Get Kagome off the stage now," he ordered. The men around him shook their heads and tried to explain.
"We can't," one holding a clipboard said. "The show must continue."
Miroku stepped up to the plate. It was his best friend that was being interrogated and as the Black Majik's manager, he had to stop it. "Call off her interrogation. Put it on commercial. Hell, put us on but stop what Hakaru is asking. This could ruin everything!"
"Its not my position to do so. Just a minute, I'll see what I can do."
Inuyasha walked up to the man and picked him up by the collar. "It's not going to be fast enough! I'm going on!"
"Wait," Sesshomaru ordered, halting Inuyasha in place. "If you go on now you could create more issues. You rescuing Kagome from her position will seem too coincidental for others."
"Then what the hell do you suggest we do?" Inuyasha hissed.
"If Kagome can handle you Inuyasha, she can handle anybody."
Kagome remained looking peaceful and her blood boiled inside. How was she going to explain it? Its not like she was willing to share her past about her ex-boyfriend cheating on her. Plus, just telling the world that a drunk Inuyasha made her angry, that she poured Glava all over him, Inuyasha coming to her rescue when she was thinking about a part of her past she rather forget…it just wouldn't work. They hadn't kissed and the lady had just come at a bad time.
"When I read the magazine, she told the editor that we were making out. That is a lie. You see when we were celebrating I got a phone call from my mother telling me that my childhood dog had passed away of old age. That dog had been my best friend since I could remember and I excused myself to the bathroom without telling anyone. Inuyasha wanted to make sure I was okay after a while and when I told him I had hugged him because I was feeling very depressed. That was it."
Kagome looked to see Sango and Rin trying not to laugh at Kagome's sad excuse for rumour. Kagome could faintly hear Inuyasha exclaim "what!" in the background but Kagome forced her self to not laugh but to tear up. When she was young she found out she could force her self to cry, bawl if she wanted to, but Kagome only made her self tear and Hakaru bought the excuse.
"I'm very sorry Kagome. You know, when I was a little girl I had a dog named…"
"Your dog died?"
Inuyasha leaned on the doorframe of the dressing room Kagome currently occupied. She had finished changing into her normal clothes and was just finishing taking off the absurd amount of makeup off.
"Shut up! You try making up an excuse on the spot when you know she could corner you further if you said the wrong thing."
"Well at least that rumour is dismissed," Inuyasha muttered.
"Don't get your hopes up yet doggy," Kagome said winking at him when she grabbed her purse and walked up to Inuyasha. "Remember, tomorrow I could apparently be pregnant with your pups." Kagome looked down at her stomach and poked it as if to make sure what the lady asked was merely for gossip instead of fact.
Inuyasha looked at her horrified.
"Oh come on Inuyasha, am I really that bad that you would die if I had your pups?" Kagome saw Inuyasha turn serious and she remembered that dog-demons took stuff like courting, mating and having pups very seriously. They were known to be possessive. "I'm only joking. I didn't mean to offend you."
Inuyasha smirked and shook his head. "Don't be. For all you know you could be." He was smiling and Kagome whirled around to see his teasing glint in his amber eyes and she started to blush.
"Inuyasha!" She quickly walked up to him and slapped him on the cheek.
"The fifth time Kagome!" Inuyasha roared.
"You deserve it. Its eleven-thirty at night and you basically tell me we could have sex tonight. You're a pig."
"I was only getting you back! Like hell would I have kids with you," Inuyasha huffed.
Oh no…
"And why not? What's so bad about me?"
"Aw, come on Kagome we're not suppose to fight anymore!"
"To hell with no fighting I want to know and you will tell me NOW!"
Well that's the end of the chapter. Hope you liked it.
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