I don't really have much to say or complain about-cept the 40 vocab words my teacher gave us to do over the break- well i guess i did complain but whatever.....HERES CHAPTER 11!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh! Now I remember there are a TON of song in this chapter so yeah...heads up. ENJOY=D
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of the songs.
Songs: Brighter, Stop this Song, My heart-Paramore(LOVE THEM!!!)
Punk Love
Chapter 11: VALENTINES!!!!
"But I don't want to perform tonight for the school dance." Rin complained as 'Kick Ass' made their way to their lockers at the beginning of the school day.
"Yeah Kagome, it Vantines and I kinda wanted to spend it with Kouga."
"She's right, Kags. Miroku was actually going to take me somewhere nice for once."
"Look I'm sorry. I wanted to spend tonight with Inuyasha since its been practiacaly a year since the break up, but Kaede asked and you know she's like a grandmother to me. I couldn't just ay no. Besides she only said we had to play for part of the night. It'll be painless."
"Fine, but no more than 4 songs. Four!"
"I promise Rin. Maybe even only do three."
"Hmmf," Rin scoffed as she started to her locker. "I'm surprised you're only doing four."
Kagome rolled her eyes as she broke off from the group and made her way to her locker. Leaning against hers and dark baggy jeans and a Midnight blue t-shirt was Inuyasha, fumbling with a tiny velvet box when Kagome approached smiling brightly at him.
It still took his breath away every time he recieved one of her rare bright smiles from her. It was painful for him to think of the past months when the only thing he could get to past her lips were a grimace or a smirk. It took him two out of the three weeks they've been back together for him to get the brightest of all her smiles to appear. The thought of loosing it again determined him to keep that smile on her face forever. Of course with Kagome's hard personality it wasn't all that easy.
"Good Morning," he greeted her before setting a peck on her lips.
"Good Morning to you too," Kagome replied beginning to quickly turn her lock.
"Well today is Vanlentines and all that, and I was wondering if-"
"About that. You see Kaede..."
Kagome's sentence was lost when she jerked her locker open and a waterfall of envelopes fell to her feet all addressed to her.
"What the-"
"Calm down Sesshy! Its not that big of a deal!"
Kagome looked down the hall to see the young drummer trying to calm a growling demon down. She had a pile of envelopes identical to Kagome's at her feet and one opened in her hand.
"They aren't really in love with me. Its just fan mail."
"On Valentines?" Sesshomaru asked rains one of his perfect eyebrows.
"You're not jealous are you?"
"...."
"Awww...thats so cute!" Rin announced wrapping her her thin arms around the slightly blushing but less angry Sesshoumaru. "But you shouldn't worry, nobodys replacing you."
Sesshomaru hessitantly wrapped his arms around Rin in return, not exactly used to the whole public display of affection.
"Inu youkais are extremely territorial and jealous." He murmred but Kagome still heard.
Kagome turned her attention back to the pile at her feet and was about to pick one up when suddenly the whole pile dissappeared. She looke up to see Inuyasha carrying the envelopes to the nearest trash can to durm them all.
"Oh come on Inuyasha! Not you too."
"You heard Sess. We are easily jealous." Inuyasha said over his shoulder continuing towards the trashcan.
"Can I at least read one?"
"Its not that big of a deal right? Just fan mail." Inuyasha asked over his shoulder with his hands outstretched over the bin ready to dump the love confessions meant for his girlfriend.
"Right, but people put a lot of work into that stuff."
"They can put these in your locker any day besides today." but i'll still trash them all. He added silently to himself.
"There's no need to be jealous." Kagome stated walking up beside Inuyasha trying to grab one letter off the top of the pile but Inuyasha quicky pulled it away. "I don't like the gushy love confession stuff anyways." She then wrapped her arm around his waist and secretly fingered him for her gift.
"Then that settles it," Inuyasha said as he let the letters fall gracefully into the bin, being careful to keep his gift from falling in with it. "No need for those."
"Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted playfully hitting his arm. "What part of hard work didn't y-"
She stopped short when he saw a box in Inuyasha's hand. "Is that for me?"
Inuyasha looked down into Kagome's excited eyes and smiled slightly.
"Well that depends."
"On..." Kagome prompted impatiently.
"If..." Inuyash got one knee and presented the velvet box still not opening it. "Kagome Higurashi...."
By now Kagome was in total shock. He couldn't be proposing, could he? They were only eighteen and by this time next year she would be on tour and they just got back together not even a month ago. Even with all of that she saying no was the farthest thing from her mind. Its not like they didn't know each other for long enough. It was only one misunderstanding that broke them up anyways. Besides she lost him once and even with Bankoutsu it wasn't the same. She wasn't going down that road again.
"Will you make me the happiest man alive by..."
Yes, yes, yes! She already had her answer, what was taking him so damn long?
"Accompaning me to the Dance?"
"Yes!"
Wait. Did she just hear what she thought she did? Dance? What the hell! No commitment, no big....something, not even dinner!
"Then the ring is all yours Inuyash said smiling wide popping open the box showing a stone resting on a silver band. The stone was translucent and circular. Completely plain.
To say Kaogme wasn't upset would be a lie. She wanted something a bit more....hmmm...lets say original. A round clear stone and a normal band wasn't exactly original.
"Thats all?"
Inuyasha noticed how Kaogme's face fell and was glad that it did so it will surprise her even more when she got a closer look.
"Don't get that look yet. You haven't seen it up close."
Inuyash then got off his knees and removed the ring from its firm place and slid it on the middle finger of Kagome's left hand. The stone instnatly turned from white(not much entusiasm) to an aqua color(surprised)
Kagome's eyes widened in shock at the quick change of colors and brought the ring closer to her face when she noticed the engravings on the band. There were leafy vines that intertwined with each other until it reached the middle of the band, located under her finger, where 'Forever' was engraved in neat decorative script.
"Its....its.....wow." Kagome breathed out still examining the ring. "Why does it change colors?"
"Its an actually working mood ring."
"Mood Ring?" Kagome asked looking up at INuyasha raising an eyebrow as her ring changed to mist blue(curious)
"Yeah, well I was listening to Relient K's Mood Rings and it gave me the idea to get you a mood ring so I'll know when you're about to flip out." Inuaysah stated with a smirk before continuing. "You know how Miroku's dad is always wlling mystical stuff that works, so I asked for a mood ring and he gave it to me along with th guide."
"I see....but isn't the song talking about emotinanal girls? How they're time bombs and stuff?" Kagome's mood ring was turning slightly yellow(irritated).
"Well you've changed colors four times in one minute. Thats pretty emotional if you ask me."
"Inuyasha!" Kagome raised her hand to hit him in the back of his head,her mood ring a mix of yellow and blue(happy) but he ducked out of the way and started running down the hall. and Kagome chased after him glad she wore her red coversce and ripped jeans today.
"Must be that time of the month." he yelled over his shoulder.
"INuyasha!"
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"You know, I think we should wear shorts under the skirts this time," Ayame commented as she looked down at her black tutu like layered skirt that ended at her mid thigh. "These flare out and I don't need Kouga in Jail for rearranging any guys face who looks up my skirt."
Kagome let the thought of Inuyasha going demon on some poor kid enter her mind and shuddered agreeing to wearing short black shorts under the skirts. He was already pissed from earlier when all these guys kept coming up to give her chocolates.
Now-as usual- time for the outfit descriptions of the night. Man this stuff takes FOREVER!
They all wore skirts similar to Ayame's except in their own colors, but Ayame kept with her red color but wanted to wear a black skirt. They also had their streaks, Kagome's color of the week was lavender and they wore thick eyeliner and mascara along with their own choice of eyeshaddow. THey wore their regular band tee's with 'Kick Ass' in black outlined in their own colors except for Rin and Sango's who's shirts were cut to stop below there belly buttons.
Rin wore dark blue and gray arm warmers on both arms and black fingeless gloves occupied her hands. She had two long necklaces tht had aqua charms hangirng from them. A studded belt overlapped the waistband of her skirt and she wore blue and black knee high socks with gray no heeled boots. Her reduced sized t-shirt showed off the tattoo she had gotten last month with the rest of the band that said 'Kick Ass',like everyone elses, in aqua above her hip.
Ayame wore her usual red band tee but her forest green tattoo on her right arm was still visible. he wore a red and black arm warmer on her right arm and a black fingerless glove with K.A written in red on the back of them on her left hand. She wore black and red socks that reached her thigh that were put with a pair of black converse. She wore tow necklaces, one with a simple birthstone on an emeral colored tie and the other a long chain with an emerald 'A' for Ayame.
Kagome wore a puple band tee and had her red tattoo on her upper left arm like Ayame's. She wore 4 necklaces, one black chocker, two medium ones with black and red charms and a long chainthat had a red 'K' for Kagome. She wore her signature fishnet glove on her left arm and black and purple bracelets on the other. A studdid belt like Rin's went over her skirt and knee legnth footless black and purple socks were paired with black flats. Her mood ring was still on the finger Inuyasha put on
Sango wore a shirt similar to Rin's with her tattoo that was written in purple in the same location as Rin's. She wore 3 necklaces one purple heart that was given to her by Miroku earlier that day. she had on black boots and thigh high dark pink and black socks. she wore a pink and black armwarmer on her left arm and a black fingerless glove on her right hand with a skull on the black.
"Okay, well now that thats settled lets get on stage and hurry up and finish this up. Sesshy is taking me out as soon as we finish."
"Lucky you," Kagome pouted as she made her way to the stage. "Inuyasha invited me to the dance. Seriously I'm not even getting a dinner!"
"Its not that bad, Kagome." Sango said as she picked up her guitar and followed Kagome towards the stage. "I mean, you guys are happy just to be together."
"True."
The talking stopped as the band reached the stage and took their positions for the first song. Kagome took the mike and looked out into the overly crowded gym. It was obvious word got out about the performance and people from other schools had smuggled their way into the dance.
"Y'all ready to kick some ass!?"
The crowd yelled back as usual.
"Okay then!"
Sango started the song off and then Rin and Ayame joined in getting a lively beat started for the song and Kagome gripped the mike and began to sing.
So this is how it goes, well I
I would have never known, and if it ends today,
Well I'll still say that you shine brighter than anyone
Kagome's ring changed to black(serious) with a hint of blue as she went into full performance mode putting all her emotion into the song as the chorus began.
Now I think we're taking this too far, don't you know
That it's not this hard, well it's not this hard
But you take what's yours and I take mine, must we go there
Please not this time, no not this time
This song was written during the earlier times of Kagome's and Inuyasha's relation when they were having a lot of complications but Kagome was posotive that she didn't want to break up. All relationships have problems and she was determined to endure it.
Well this is not your fault, but if I'm without you, then I will feel so small
And if you have to go, well always know that you shine brighter than anyone does
If either of them had to leave she still knew that he was the best of them all. Even with Bank who was great she knew that she wasn't going to get better than Inuyasha.
Now I think we're taking this too far, don't you know
That it's not this hard, well it's not this hard
But if you take what's yours and I take mine, must we go there
Please not this time, no not this time
Kagome began to bob to the beat and then gripped the mike on the stand tighter and sang directly into Inuyasha's eyes as she finally managed to find them in the mob of students and strangers to the school.
If you run away now, will you come back around
And if you ran away, I'd still wave goodbye watching you shine bright
Now I think we're taking this too far, don't you know
That it's not this hard, well it's not this hard
But you take what yours and I'll take mine, must we go there
Please not this time, no not this time
The rest of the band began to sing back up as the song wrapped up.
I'll wave goodbye watching you shine bright (you shine bright)
I'll wave goodbye tonight (you shine bright)
Kagome took a deep breath as she looked out into the wild crowd that were jumping and sipping on drinks then locked eyes with Inuyasha again who lifted his cup in a silent sign of he was proud of her and then he shot her a bright smile showing off his pearly fangs.
"Stop drooling, Kags!" Rin interupted leaning over her drums. "Hurry up! I wanna go on my date."
"Aren't you rude." Kagome mumbled under her breath so the audience wouldn't hear.
"But its Valentines. And Sesshy never shows his feelings a lot."
"Okay,okay, okay."
Kagome turned her attention back to the crowd and introduced the next song.
"This is for people who know they're in love but just are afraid to admit it." She looked straight into her freshman friend's eyes, Shippou who was in love with a girl Diem, but was afraid it would cause him nothing but trouble. Then just out of spite of herself she called him out, her ring turn violet(mischevious).
"That means you, Shippou!"
The fox demon turned bright red and looked away.
Rin counted them off, tapping her sticks together before the fast beat started immediately hyping the crowd before dying down a bit. Kagome grabbed the mike with both of her hands and looked up through her lashes tapping her foot as she sang with Ayame, Rin, and Sango singing backup.
You say the sweetest things and I
Can't keep my heart from singing along to the sound of your song
My stupid feet keep moving to this 4/4 beat, I'm in time with you
Whoa, to this 4/4 beat I would die for you (die for you)
Kagome knew that without a second thought she would die for Inuyasha. She wrote this song when she was getting over Bank and Inuyasha kept popping up in her head.
(Someone stop this)
I've gone too far to come back from here, but you don't have a clue
You don't know what you do to me
Kagome began to bob her head to the faster beat of the chorus
Won't someone stop this song, so I won't sing along
Someone stop this song, so I won't sing...
Kagome's body began to sway as she kept the mike close to her mouth.
I never let love in so I could keep my heart from hurting
The longer that I live with this idea, the more I sink into this 4/4 beat
I'm in time with you
Whoa, to this 4/4 beat I would die for you (stop this song)
Kagome leaned into the mike leaning the stand forward as she sang closer to the crowd.
I've gone too far to come back from here, but you don't have a clue
You don't know what you do to me
I've come too far to get over you, and you don't have a clue
You don't know what you do to me
Kagome took the mike off the stand and walked to the front of the stage shaking her head as she sang.
Can't someone stop this song, so I won't sing along
Someone stop this song, so I won't sing
Your lovesick melody is gonna get the best of me tonight
But you won't get to me if I don't sing
Kagome wallked to the front of the stage and bent over touching the hands of fans.
It creeps in like a spider
Can't be killed, although I try and try to
Well, don't you see I'm falling?
Don't wanna love you, but I do
Kagome walked back bobbing her head as the tempo of the song picked up before jumping in the air and beginnning the ending of the song with lots of energy as she worked the stage.
(Lovesick melody) Can someone stop this song, so I won't sing along?
(Lovesick melody) Can someone stop this song, so I won't sing?
Your lovesick melody is gonna get the best of me tonight
But you won't get to me, no
You won't get to me 'cause I won't sing
The crowd was loud and screaming and jumping.
"Time to wrap this up." Ayame said as she rollled her shoulders trying to relax her tense shoulders.
"I told you, I'd keep at three."
Rin rolled her eyes and bounced impatiently in her seat and Kagome smiled at her friend.
"Okay this will be the last song for the night. You should all grab your dates for this one."
Kagome watched as couples wrapped their arms around each other and how Kikyo made her way to her Inuyasha. Kagome could feel the green monster boiling in her stomach and she saw her mood ring turn green(PISSED!). Inuyasha noticed this from the crowd and shrugged Kikyo's hand off his shoulder and made his way to stand in front of the stage directly in front of Kagome who smiled down at him with her rare bright smile and her ring turned red(love).
Rin, Ayame, and Sango all joined in at once and Kagome put her mike back on the stand and then began to sing never letting her eyes leave Inuyasha's.
I am finding out that maybe I was wrong
That I've fallen down and I can't do this alone
Stay with me,
This is what I need,
Please.
Kagome barely noticed the couples moving around Inuyasha as she moved to sit at the edge of the stage, in front of Inuyasha and grabbed his hand singing only to him.
Sing us a song and we'll sing it back to you
We could sing our own but what would it be without you?
She had to restrain herself from hopping into his arms, considering she was still singing. Inuyasha lifted her left hand and kissed the ring shining bright red.
I am nothing now and it's been so long
Since I've heard the sound, the sound of my only hope
This time I will be listening.
Sing us a song and we'll sing it back to you
We could sing our own but what would it be without you
Kagome reluctantly let go of Inuyasha's hands and walked back to center stage, setting the mike on the stand. Kagome began to tap her foot and sway her head a bit, looking up through her lashes, to the slow but steady beat as she sang.
This heart, it beats, beats for only you
This heart, it beats, beats for only you
With the deep hoarse sound that Sango let out Kagome shook her head before the entire band went into a rythmic beat of bobbing their heads low on every fourth beat.
This heart, it beats, beats for only you
My heart is yours
This heart, it beats, beats for only you
My heart is yours
(My heart, it beats for you)
Kagome stopped bobbing her head and began bouncing on the balls of her toes looking straight into Inuyasha's eyes vaguely noticing the dispatched couples who were now banging their heads as Sango and Ayame began swinging their guitars and Rin banged on her drums harder while singing background since the other two were too crazy to sing into their mikes.
This heart, it beats, beats for only you (It beats, beats for only you)
My heart is yours (My heart is yours)
This heart, it beats, beats for only you (Please don't go now, please don't fade away)
My heart, my heart is yours (Please don't go now, please don't fade away)
(Please don't go now, please don't fade away) My heart is yours
(Please don't go now, please don't fade away) My heart is yours
(Please don't go, please don't fade away)
(Please don't go now, please don't fade away) My heart is...
The last note faded and the song came to an end with a loud applause. Rin though didn't stick around long for the praise as she hopped out of her seat and off the stage ramming through the crowd and shooting death glares at people approaching for an autogragh to get to Sesshoumaru. When she found him she gave her friends a quick wave over her shoulder and then left.
"Well since Kagome's going to be here longer than us I say she cleans up." Ayame announced packing away her guitar then hopping off the stage as well to meet Kouga.
"What!" Kagome yelled outraged. Her ring was now green and yellow. "Thats so unfair! It takes forever to get Rin's damn drums up!"
"You know I would help you," Sango started quickly throwing her own guitar into its case before Kagome could tell her off. "But, Miroku got reservations so..."
"Ugh! Go just...go."
"Thanks Kags!" Sango yelled as she hopped off the stage as the curtains were beginning to close. "I owe you!" she yelled just before the curtains closed completely.
"Damn friends and their dates off school grounds," Kagome mumbled under her breath as she flopped back on her back, staring up at the ceiling. "They suck."
"Who sucks?"
"Ahhhh!" Kagome sat up immediately and whipped her head around to come nose to nose with a smirking Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha!" she yelled as she pushed him away from her and he rolled on his back laughing.
"Shut up." she mumbled standing up to begin her job of packing up Rin's drums. Why the hell did she get stuck here? Oh, thats right her boyfriend decided a school dance was better than some alone time together. Then again they were backstage all alone...with the curtains closed....nobody here but the two of them. Benefits, Benefits.
Inuyasha got up and walked over to Kagome wrapping his arms around her waist and resting his chin on her shoulder and he kissed the crook of her neck.
"You ready to go?"
Kagome turned her head so she was facing Inuyasha and gave him a quizical look.
"Go where. We're at the dance, aren't we?"
"No. I meant that new club called the Dance. Why would we be here on Valentines, anyways?"
'I'm going to tell off every one of those damned friends. I actually had a real date and I'm stuck cleaning!'
"Oh, well no. I have to put up Rin's drums and stuff and get the wires and stuff."
"Wheres your irresponsible side?"
"I can't just leave the drums....."
Inuyasha let go of Kagome's waist and picked up a piece of paper and pen that were laying around from when rin was doodling before the show. He wrote:
Please clean up. Will pick up on Monday.
"See. Famous people can get away with anything."
"Are you sure..."
"Party or Clean?"
Kagome pretended to be think it over before giving Inuyasha a smile and taking his hand leading him off the stage. "Lets get going!!"
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"Mmmm..." Kagome tried to talk against Inuyasha lips that were mashed against hers as they stood outside ther front door to her house. She was pressed against a wall with her arms wrapped securely around Inuyasha's neck. They pulled apart for a breif moment and Kagome took the chance to talk.
"I got to go, Inuyasha."
"No...." He stopped kissing Kagome again."You don't." He breathed out into her neck huskily.
"Yes..." Kagome said as she was cut off by another one of Inuyasha's heated kisses. God knew she didn't want to go but she had to. "...I do. Practice tomorrow at Sango's. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Fine." INuyasha huffed out and pretended to pout.
"I'll see you tomorrow." Kagome promised as she pecked his lips once more before he hopped off her porch and she turned to open the door.
Kagome danced up to her room and when she reached her room she turned her stereo on and let Boys like Girls' Heels over Head play throughout her room. She had reached her favorite part, the bridge, when she noticed the rolled up piece of paper on her bed. She walke over to it and unraveled it, immediately recognizing it as one of the posters Kick Ass modeled for.
She was in the center, bent over with her chin resting on a guitar and Rin standing behind her with her elbows resting on her back and her sticks held loosely in her hands. On both sides Sango and Ayame were in the same position with their front legs outstretched and the others propped up with one arm resting on them. It was her favorite poster but she didn't own one.
Kagome looked at the bottom where a note was waiting to be read and her eyes almost popped out their sockets and her entire body began to tremble, her mood ring turning a dark brown(fear).
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You know I almost put what the note said in this chapter but i figure you guys can wait. Ooooh....I'm so cruel. But seriously this is the longest chapter i've ever written even with the three songs. I almost had five but I couldn't take it. But I updated,YEAH!!! and its more that 5,000 words. It took forever too b/c i looked up mood ring colors on google. Whatever just REVIEW!!!! Only 2 or 3 chapters left it depends...Do you want the entire dramatic scene next or two different parts? It also depends on what I think is most suspensful. I hate suspense but i use it a lot. Whatevs....REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!
