I woke up after yet another bad dream. I was sweating again but this time my sheets didn't manage to stay on the bed and were now on the floor.
"Just a dream." I told myself getting out of bed. Yesterday I hadn't gone to school, but instead went in to dad's office and spent the day with him and Inutashio, it was actually pretty fun. We slid around the office on chairs for a bit and played some cards. I only stayed for an hour though cause I knew I was a serious distraction.
I shuffled into the kitchen and was greeted by Kamako and Kagome. Miroku looked like me, half asleep. I just grunted in reply and got a cup of coffee.
"You feeling alright today?" Kagome asked, I nodded, still half asleep.
"Well you and Miroku better hurry, or you're going to be late." Kagome said grabbing her bag from next to her feet. I then noticed the she was dresses and ready and Miroku and I were still in our pajamas... and it was 5 minutes until school started.
"Crap." Miroku and I said at the same time running up stairs. I rushed to get changed then did my make-up and grabbed my bag. I ran into Miroku in the hall way and we both ran down stairs and into the garage.
"Come on!" Miroku yelled throwing me a helmet, I caught it and jumped on his bike whilst putting on the helmet.
I unwrapped one of my hands from Miroku's waist and looked at my watch. 8:06.
"Hurry! We're already late! Neither of us can afford another tardy!" I yelled over the noise of the bike. Miroku sped up even more and we were soon at the school car park. We both flew off the bike and up the steps.
'Lucky bastard...he only has to go to 18-B... I have to go all the way up to freakin' 25-C... The teacher better be late again...'
Luckily for me he was. I burst into the room just as Tenshi-sensai entered the room through the other door.
"Higurashi! You're late!" He yelled, I just gave him a dead pan look.
"But I beat you here so it doesn't matter. Sorry." I said taking my usual seat in between Kouga and Sesshomaru. The teacher just grumbled and sat down at his desk, and started calling out every ones names.
"Nice entrance." Sesshomaru whispered from next to me.
"I try."
We both ended up getting detention for talking.
"So Miroku did you make it in time?" I asked taking a seat next to him in Study hall.
"Nope, but the teacher didn't notice me sneaking into my seat so I got away with it fine. You?" As he said this his hand slowly slid towards Sango, who was sitting behind him.
"PERVERT!" Sango screamed slapping him and moving to go sit next to Kouga.
"Yep, but then I got a detention for talking."
"Guess we're going to be spending some quality time together this afternoon then." Inuyasha said, "Kags and I got a detention as well."
I raised an eyebrow at Kagome when Inuyasha said this, she just shrugged. Her and Inuyasha still fought all the time but were like best friends, at least now they didn't get kicked out of places anymore.
The day went by slowly, eventually it was music. I loved music, mainly cause I loved to sing but also because all of my friends were in this class.
"Ok everyone! I have some news!" Jasuna-sensai said, once we had all settled.
'Sounds like something a teacher says before an assignment...'
"There's going to be an assignment!" The class groaned, but she didn't care. "I know I sense the excitement. For the assignment you have to find a song and perform it in front of the class. The best ones will be chosen to perform at the schools festival!"
"If you make it past the auditions you will have automatically received full marks so make sure you try hard. The auditions will be held in the school auditorium, bands are allowed and if I allow it you may play an instrument instead of sing, but every band member must chose a song."
'Sounds alright... the guys are in a band so I could ask them if I can sing...'
"OK, I know everyone will be able to figure it out. The auditions will be next week so everyone better get started. Off you go." The room immediately erupted with noise as people either complained about the assignment or talked about what songs they were going to do.
"So do you guys have any idea what you're going to do?" I asked. We had turned in our chairs and were sort of in a circle now.
"I'm just gunna do one of our songs, means I don't have to learn something new..."
By the time the lesson ended I still had no idea what I was going to sing. The school festival was suppose to be next week on Friday, our auditions were on Wednesday. Family was expected to come to the festival as well, there was suppose to be plays put on by the drama classes and everyone cause there was about 20 people in every home room and about 10 home rooms per year, all of them were suppose to come up with a store. My class was suppose to do a ramen shop, I was put on counter after Kouga told everyone about the time I nearly burnt down the kitchen making toast and Sesshomaru told everyone that I could even manage to burn water. Which may be true but still!
It was demon gym today so we started of doing our laps as usual. When Miroku and Inuyasha went at their full speeds they were as fast as me, apparently Miroku was so fast because of something to do with his father and him being a monk, but he couldn't go for as far as I could. The coach decided that I had to run at human speed, so I didn't have an advantage.
Once we were finished Inuyasha and I got paired together for training. Basically we had a mock fight until one of us made it impossible for the other to counter-attack. We were so use to being paired together so we gave each other tips for fighting and stuff. It was during our 3rd round that the bell went. My happiness lasted about a second until I remembered that I had detention.
"Stupid detention..." I grumbled.
"Don't worry, we got some quality family time ahead of us. My bet is that they're gunna make us clean classrooms. So fun..."
Sure enough Sesshomaru, Kagome, Inuyasha and I were sent to clean the 9/10 (freshman/Sophmore) study hall. When we got there though I definitely didn't feel lucky. There was paper everywhere, food packaging and what looked like a few pairs of shoes hanging from the ceiling.
"Well this is just dandy..." Inuyasha said, looking around.
"We better get started. We'll start picking up rubbish then get the shoes off the roof." Kagome said, she always was the organised one...
We never really got round to cleaning... They had given us sponges and all sorts of cleaning stuff, so we wet the sponges tied the to our feet and slid down the hallways... I know, we're pretty mature like that.
"OK, GO!" I yelled, and Kagome and I slid off down the hallway, we had decided to race each other to decided who would have to go back to cleaning. I ended up winning against Kagome and Sess won against Yash so me and Sesshomaru watched as Inuyasha and Kagome went back to clean.
"We should do this more often..." I said as I untied the sponges off my feet.
"I know something even more fun..." Sesshomaru said, soon I was pressed up against the wall kissing Sesshomaru, basically I was in heaven.
"Get a room." We pulled apart and saw Kagome and Inuyasha both standing there with about 4 bags of rubbish each.
"So mature little brother." Sesshomaru said in a taunting voice, Inuyasha just did his usual 'feh' and walked off, Kagome following behind him.
Unfortunately about 3 minutes late I noticed that they had left behind a bag of rubbish.
"Come on, we better go put this in the bin." I said grabbing the bag. When we did get to the bins, we ended up finding something rather unexpected.
The bins were out the back of school, where nobody could see them. We walked around the corner and ended up finding Inuyasha and Kagome kissing as if it would be the last time they would ever get to.
"So..."
"...No."
Sesshomaru and I were in his room, I don't know about him but I was still rather confused about what I had just caught Inuyasha and Kagome doing.
"Do you know..."
"No..."
Our conversations had been like this for a bit, before we could start another Inuyasha and Kagome came in.
"Hey. Where did you guys end up disappearing to?" Inuyasha asked. Niether of us answered and there was a rather awkward silence.
"Me sand Sess have got to go." I said jumping up and racing out of the room, dragging Sesshomaru with me.
"What are we going to do?" I asked, once we got down stairs.
"What do you mean?"
"Well Inuyasha is going out with Kikyou. So they're never going to be able to be together properly." I knew Sesshomaru and Inuyasha didn't really get along all the time, but he was the only one that could help me.
"Um... Talk to them?" He seemed a bit lost (an emotion he only showed when it was just us two).
"That's brilliant! You talk to Inuyasha I'll talk to Kagome!" With that I gave his a quick kiss on the cheek and left, leaving behind a very confused demon.
'So how do I ask Kagome about her secret boyfriend?' I thought, I had left Sesshomaru's ages ago, but still had no idea about how to ask Kagome about Inuyasha.
There was a knock at my door and Kagome's head appeared around the side.
"Hey, can I talk to you?" She asked, she looked kind of hesitant about something...
"Yeah sure, come in. you know you don't have to ask to talk to me." I said, moving over so she had some room to sit next to me on my couch.
"I know... but I'm not really sure how to talk to you about this. I mean I haven't told anyone and I don't want you to think I'm a slut or something." She definitely had my curiosity now. I sat up straighter and turned to I was facing her completely.
"What's going on?"
"OK... I'm just going to say it." She paused and took a deep breath. I nodded my head in encouragement.
"I'mcompletelyinlovewithInuyashaandhavebeenseeinghimbehindeveryonesbacks!" And I was back to confused...
"Um, come again?"
"I'm in love with Inuyasha. And I've been seeing him behind everyones backs. But I don'y know what to do! I feel so guilty about it, I mean Kikyou's my cousin! Not that I really like her but it's still horrible!" Kagome burst into tears I pulled her into a hug and she ended up crying on my lap for a while.
"Wh-why doesn't h-he lo-ve me?" She managed to get out between sobs.
"I'm sure he does. Maybe he just doesn't want to hurt Kikyou?" I was trying hard to stop Kagome from crying but was failing miserably.
"I'm su-ch a ho-horrible per-son"
"Kagome don't say that. Look at yourself! What's happened to the strong beautiful Kagome that I know? Where's my sister?"
"I don't know what's happened to her lately..." She said, at least she had stopped crying.
"Well it's time she came back. Look, just talk to Inuyasha, find out how he feels about all of this. But remember if he is just using you I will have to kill him." I said cheerfully, Kagome laughed. We spent the rest of the night gossiping. Miroku even joined in a little bit later, which certainly made things interesting.
"So Miroku, when are you going to tell Sango that you got the hots for her?" I asked, causing Miroku to choke on the chocolate that the maids had brought up for us before.
"Excuse me?" He asked when he finally got his breath back.
"Oh come on, we know there's more to you feeling her up." Kagome said, Miroku going tomato red.
"And the fact that you hardly ever do it to other girls now days and only her makes things a bit sus."
"Is it that obvious?" He asked, shyly.
"Only to those who are conscious. But I don't think Sango knows, which means you're going to have to tell her." Instead of red he went pale.
"But what if she doesn't like me back?"
"Only one way to find out. That goes for you to Kagome." I said, we had told Miroku about Inuyasha and Kagome (he had offered to beat Inuyasha up if he hurt her).
We ended up falling asleep on my floor, surrounded in chocolate and lolly wrappers. The next morning when we woke up we actually had time to get ready for school properly, and for once we arrived on time.
The next couple of days passed by normally, and we spent most of the weekend working on our songs for music. The guys had said it was alright for me to sing and them to play their instruments. Ayame was doing the same, but Sango was playing guitar and singing by herself and Kagome was playing piano and singing herself. Before I knew it, I was in the school auditorium getting ready for my audition.
"Good luck guys!" I said, as they got ready on stage. Kagome, Ayame, Sango and I all got front row seats, the auditorium actually had quite a few people in it. Apparentely auditions were a huge draw.
As soon as the guys walked out onstage I realised why there were so many people. Inuyasha went and got his bass ready, Kouga went ans sat behind his drums and Sesshomaru and Miroku got their guitars ready.
"OK, all of our songs we've written ourselves, this is Inuyasha's song. It's called Move Along." Miroku said into the mike, he was the singer.
Go ahead as you waste your days with thinking
When you fall everyone sins
Another day and you've had your fill of sinking
With the life held in your
Hands are shaking cold
These hands are meant to hold
Speak to me, when all you got to keep is strong So a day when you've lost yourself completely Speak to me, when all you got to keep is strong When everything is wrong we move along When all you got to keep is strong
Move along, move along like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through
Move along
Move along
Could be a night when your life ends
Such a heart that will lead you to deceiving
All the pain held in your
Hands are shaking cold
Your hands are mine to hold
Move along, move along like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through
Move along
(Go on, go on, go on, go on)
(Go on, go on, go on, go on)
When everything is wrong, we move along
Along, along, along
Move along, move along like I know you do
And even when your hope is gone
Move along, move along just to make it through
(Move along)
(Go on, go on, go on, go on)
Right back what is wrong
We move along
They got quite a few cheers, once they were done and I wasn't surprised. They were amazing.
"This is Sesshomaru's song, it's called Dirty Little Secret."
Let me know that I've done wrong,
When I've known this all along,
I go around a time or two,
Just to waste my time with you.
Tell me all that you've thrown away, I'll keep you my dirty little secret, When we live such fragile lives, Tell me all that you've thrown away, I'll keep you my dirty little secret, Who has to know? I'll keep you my dirty little secret, I'll keep you my dirty little secret,
Find out games you don't wanna play,
You are the only one that needs to know--
(Dirty little secret)
Don't tell anyone or you`ll be just another regret,
(Just another regret, hope that you can keep it)
My dirty little secret,
Who has to know?
It's the best way we survive,
I go around a time or two,
Just to waste my time with you,
find out games you don't wanna play,
you are the only one that needs to know---
(Dirty little secret)
Don't tell anyone or you'll be just another regret,
(Just another regret, hope that you can keep it)
My dirty little secret.
The way she feels inside (inside!)
Those thoughts I can't deny (can't deny!)
These sleeping thoughts won't lie (won't lie!)
And now I try to lie
It's eating me apart
Trace this life back!
(Dirty little secret)
Don't tell anyone or you'll be just another regret.
(Just another regret)
Don't tell anyone or you'll be just another regret,
(Just another regret, hope that you can keep it)
My dirty little secret,
Dirty little secret,
Dirty little secret.
Who has to know?
Who has to know?
"Kouga's song is called One More Sad Song."
One boy, one girl, two hearts, their world
Time goes by, secrets rise
One more, sad song, tears shed, she's gone
She'd take it back, if she only could
All the perfect words they seem so wrong, Alone with you, alone with me Best friend, worst thing, she's been, cheating All the perfect words they seem so wrong, Alone with you, alone with me
She's gone
You wish that you could learn to see,
The door is closed and yo wish you could be
What can I do, I can not breath
My heart is torn, for all to see
Alone with you, alone with me.
Friend deceives, she leaves
Last date. she cries, whispers, goodbye
She walks once more, out that door
She's gone
You wish that you could learn to see,
The door is closed and you wish you could be
What can I do, I can not breath
My heart is torn, for all to see
Alone with you, alone with me.
Please stay, don't go away
The hardest thing is letting go of you
Stay, don't go away
The hardest thing is letting go of you
what can I do?
The hardest thing is letting go of you
what can I do?
Alone with you, alone with me, what can I do
I can not see, alone with, alone with...
"This is my song. It's called Meant To Live."
Fumbling his confidence
And wondering why the world has passed him by
Hoping that he's meant for more than arguments
And failed attempts to fly, fly
We were meant to live for so much more Dreaming about providence We were meant to live for so much more We want more than this world's got to offer
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
Somewhere we live inside
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
And whether mice or men have second tries
Maybe we've been livin with our eyes half open
Maybe we're bent and broken, broken
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
Somewhere we live inside
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than the wars of our fathers
And everything inside screams for second life
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live
We were meant to live
Everyone started clapping and all that stuff once the guys were done. I could tell that the teacher was quite surprised, I guess she had reason to be. All the guys did in music class was muck around. I walked over to the stage and Sesshomaru picked me up so I was standing on stage with them.
"OK, I'm going to be singing my song, that I wrote, with these guys playing. My song's called Born For This."
(Rin and Miroku singing)
Oh no I just keep on falling
(Back to the same old…)
Where's hope when misery comes crawling?
(oh my way-ay)
With your faith you'll trigger a landslide
(victory)
To kill off this common sense of mine
It takes acquired minds to taste, to taste, to taste this wine (We want the airways back, we want the airways back) Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing Right now you're the only reason It takes acquired minds to taste, to taste, to taste this wine (We want the airways back, we want the airways) Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing Alright, so you think you're ready? We were born for Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing
You can't down it with your eyes
So we don't need the headlines
We don't need the headlines
We just want…
Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pressure now?
Everybody live like it's the last day you will ever see
Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pressure now?
(I'm not letting go, oh…)
and im out if everyone's worth pleasing
(wa ah)
You'll trigger a landslide
(Victory)
to kill off their finite state of mind
You can't down it with your eyes
So we don't need the headlines
No, we don't want your headlines
We just want…
Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pressure now?
Everybody live like it's the last day you will ever see
Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pressure now?
Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing
Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pressure?
Ok, then you say this with me
Go!
We were born for this
(We were born for this)
Alright, so you think you're ready?
OK, then you say this with me
Go!
We were born for this
(We were born for this)
We were born for this
(We were born for this)
We were born for
Tell me, tell me, can you feel the pressure?
Everybody live like it's the last day you will ever see
Tell me, tell me, can you feel the pressure now?
Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing
Tell me, tell me, can you feel the pressure?
Tell me, tell me, can you feel the pressure?
We were born for this
We were born for this
We were born for this
The teacher looked surprised when I had finished as well, I just hoped it was a good kind of surprise. I got off the stage and Ayame came up, she was singing a song called Wishes. Kagome played Breathing on piano and Sango played Stand In The Rain on guitar.
Once everyone was done the teacher got up on stage to announce who was going to perform on Friday at the festival.
"OK, some of you were very good, definitely surprised me. Some of you were a little questionable but that's to be expected. OK the people chosen to sing are;
Higurashi Miroku, and his band. they will be playing 4 songs.
Higurashi Rin,
Hirgurashi Kagome,
Orahimo Ayame,
Kuwashima Sango,"
She continued reading names and all up there were about fifteen people who had been chosen.
"Wow can't believe we all got chosen..."
After school Kagome, Miroku and I all decided to go get coffee, Sesshomaru and Kouga were going to meet us there later, but Ayame and Sango said they were going to Ayame's for some girl time. Inuyasha just disappeared.
"So what happened?" I asked Kagome, after we got our coffees.
"I asked him what was going on."
"And?" Miroku and I both said at the same time.
"He said he loves me and doesn't want to be with her anymore, but doesn't know how to tell her. But he said he was going to break up with her soon and was going to avoid her so hopefully she would get the hint."
Miroku and I high fived and I felt a lot happier then I had about 5 minutes ago. Kouga and Sesshomaru joined us a little later.
"So how come you guys aren't at Ayame's house for girl time?" Kouga asked, as the waitress set down his and Sesshomaru's coffees.
"We were having girl time with Miroku." I said, Sesshomaru and Kouga both turned to Miroku with their eyebrows raised.
"Wow way to make me sound manly..."
"Don't worry Sango's not here." We all started laughing and Miroku just grumbled something and took a sip of his coffee. The above the door chimed again and I looked up to see Inuyasha walk in.
"Hey I didn't know Yash was coming." Everyone looked around confused and I guess they didn't know either. But then Kikyou walked in after him and grabbed his hand. But worst of all Inuyasha didn't seem to mind, in fact he seemed happy. He lead her over to a table and even pulled out her chair. Just when I thought it couldn't get worse he lent over and gave her a passionate kiss right on the lips.
I looked over at Kagome and saw that she had tears running down her face.
"Kagome..." I heard Miroku whisper, he reached over to grab her hand but she pulled it away and looked down at her lap.
"It's OK, he's allowed to see whoever he wants." she quickly stood up but ended up running straight into a waitress. The waitress dropped her tray and both her and Kagome fell over. Everyone looked over at them and I saw Inuyasha rise out of his chair. He hurried over and helped Kagome up.
"Are you alright, Kagome?" He asked once she was back up.
"Don't touch me." Kagome said in the most deadly voice I had ever heard her use. "You don't think I didn't see you? You say you love me then go kiss her?"
Inuyasha dropped his arms.
"No Kagome, please let me explain." He sounded so desperate that I would have felt sorry for him if he hadn't just made out with Kikyou.
"Don't bother." With that she walked out.
"Kagome wait!" He called after her and even tried to follow her but Miroku and I both stopped him.
"Stay away from her."
We found Kagome in her room back home. We knocked on her door and asked to come in but she just told us to go away."I'll try again later. You guys can go if you want, it's going to be a long night." Miroku ended up staying with me.
When Kamako and Dad got home they both tried to talk to her but she didn't wan to talk to anyone. She just told us all to go away. No one really talked at dinner (a maid had brought some up for Kagome).
"So...what's wrong with her?" Dad said, after about 10 minutes of total silence.
"Boy stuff." Miroku and I both said at the same time. Dad just nodded and it went back to silent. After dinner I tried to talk to her again, this time she unlocked the door and let me in. her eyes were red from crying and she hadn't eaten her dinner judging from the untouched plate of food.
"You wanna talk about it?" I asked timidly, not wanting to make her cry again. I didn't succeed at all, as soon as I said it she burst out crying again, she ended up crying on my lap again and soon fell asleep there. Eventually dad came in and we put Kagome in her bed, not wanting to wake her (she was in her pajamas anyway).
The next morning was not what I would call fun. Kagome walked into the kitchen looking like she hadn't slept at all but was pretending nothing had ever happened. When Kamako asked if she was alright Kagome just ignored her.
When we got to school Kagome walked off leaving Miroku and I behind. We were soon joined by the others (except for Inuyasha).
"How's she doing?" Sango asked, I had called her and Ayame last night to tell them what had happened, they had offered to come round but I had told them not to bother.
"Well, she's doing better then she was last night..." Miroku said, but I wasn't sure how true it was. Sure she'd stopped crying but now she was being all robot like.
"What did Inuyasha say?" I asked turning to Sesshomaru.
"He was pretty desperate. He explained to me what happened."
"What he fell on her lips or something?" I said sarcastically. I know Inuyasha is one of my best friends but Kagome was my sister and I was feeling protective.
"You don't even understand. You're just jumping straight to conclusions." I was getting really angry at Sesshomaru now, I mean Inuyasha was making out with her for crying out loud!
"How could I not jump to conclusions! He was making out with her right in front of us!" I yelled, we were attracting quite a few stares now, Sango, Miroku, Ayame and Kouga had backed away from us slightly.
"You didn't even hear his point of view!"
"She's my sister! He said he loved her then went and made out with another girl!" Sesshomaru and I glared at each other for a bit but the bell went before we could have another yelling match.
"I thought you at least would understand..." He said, then walked off. I stormed off towards the other entrance, when I got to home room I sat on the other side of the room as far away as I could get from him. I did the same in the rest of my classes and when it was lunch time I went and sat with Kagome outside.
'I miss him so much...'
Sesshomaru's POV
'How can she not understand! She didn't even hear the whole story! I know it looked bad but she still shouldn't jump to conclusions...' I saw Rin walk into home room and take the seat furthest away from mine.
'Fine, she wants to be that way, then so be it...'
'Far out I miss her...' It was study hall and I was already sick of the silence between Rin and I.
"Hey Sess, what's going on with you and Rin?" Inuyasha asked coming over and taking a seat next to me. The girls were sitting at their own table across the room, and Kouga, Miroku, Inuyasha and I were sitting at a table by ourselves.
"Nothing." I said coldly, not even looking up from my work. Inuyasha had sorted everything out between Miroku and Kouga before so they were all good. But none of the girls were talking to him and apparently were barely looking at him.
"You really need to talk to Kagome, Yash. Sango and Rin won't talk to me now cause I'm supposedly on 'your side'" Miroku said, I felt kind of bad for him. He was stuck right in the middle, Kagome was his sister but Inuyasha was his longest and best friend.
"Well it's not my fault. I mean Kikyou was freaking threatening me! I didn't really have much choice when I went with her to the cafe!"
"What was she threatening you with exactly?" Kouga asked, I looked up at this. I knew I was the only one who Inuyasha had told and I was seriously wondering if he would tell anyone else.
"OK, but you can't tell anyone. Kikyou said she would tell everyone that Kagome was a complete slut and that she had slept with all the guys on the basket ball team. Which actually include us. And I know none of the other guys on the team would have denied having sex with her, I mean they would jump at the opportunity to get in any hot girls pants!"
"So you were trying to protect Kagome?" Miroku said, I could see he was feeling slightly better about the situation now.
"Well duh. I don't care what the bitch says about me but I can' let her hurt Kagome..."
"Well, you're going to have to make it up to her now." Kouga said, pointing out the obvious.
"Gee thanks for pointing that out, any chance you know how I can do that?"
"I actually do."
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