Naraku's mind games
Naraku's getting desperate for a date….
"Oh Gawd."
"Oh Gawd I damn hate this."
"This stupid things gonna drive me crazy…if it hasn't already…"
"Oh dear….."
Naraku shifted again for the millionth time that night. Those stupid annoyingly loud rats scratching against the walls of the hut/house were going to feel the wrath of miasma…….when he felt active enough to get up.
Scratch…scratch….oh crap.
"Shut up!" Naraku whispered fiercely.
"Oh great. Now I'm talking to mice. Or to myself." he put his head in his hands. "Maybe I do need some kind of medical attention…….this damn wound still isn't healing!"
A mouse snuck through a small hole.
"Stay away!" Naraku threatened to the mouse, holding up his shoe.
The mouse squeaked and stepped a few steps closer. Naraku shook the shoe threateningly.
The mouse put his hands on his hips as if to say 'I'd like to see you try!'
Naraku held his head in his face again. " GAWD! I talking to mice!" he threw the shoe at the mouse, but it didn't flinch as the shoe missed it by a universe.
"Why am I talking to mice? Why am I? oh great I'm talking to myself. I'd rather talk to a mouse then to myself…….it seems less demented anyways…." Naraku continued.
The mouse looked at him weirdly. 'What the hell happened to your mentality?'
Naraku stared back and held out his hand to the mouse. Well if you cant beat 'em join 'em……."Come on little buddy! I'm not going to hurt you. Lets talk." the mouse flashed him a huge toothed smile and climbed on Naraku's hand.
"You know what? You're going to be my pet. My favorite pet and companion for ever and ever." and with that, Naraku planted a gentle kiss on the mouse's tiny nudging head and nuzzling moist nose.
Naraku woke up with sweat trickling down his body, face, legs, everywhere. He jumped up in the bed, and looked at his hand. No mouse. He yelled with his morning-hoarse voice, " HELP! MEDIC! SOMEONE! MOMMY! I'M HAVING BAD DREAMS ABOUT KISSING MICE! "
Apparently Naraku wasn't healing as well as he had originally thought.
(a/n: hehe he……he…..KISSED A MOUSE! OH THE HUMANITY! OR THE MOUSEANITY……whatever……and (thud) damn. I fell over laughing…..again. Nice way to use a writers block….right?)
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"That's it. I'm going home!" Kagome announced and slammed her books on the table and stuffed them in her bag. The members of the group looked up.
"Bye guys! And Inuyasha, I don't want you within a mile of my room to call me back for at least a week, or I'll come when there's a swap!" "How are you going to? Royal frostbites the one that gonna be in your era!" Sango pointed. The nickname had caught on.
"Er…….didn't think that far yet…" Kagome trailed off.
" I guess I'll have to leave him some kind of clue…..otherwise…I'll come as soon I start to feel dizzy. Try to jump anyways." Kagome finished and waving goodbye, ran out with her backpack and Kilala on her shoulder.
She ran by the great hall and burst, without knocking, into Sesshomaru's so-called 'secret' study. He looked up.
There were a few other lords in the room with whom he was currently having a meeting with. Ignoring the surprised glances, she sprinted over to Sesshomaru and whispered in his ear, "If you need it, it's in the well." Sesshomaru's eyes sparkled in curiosity. What exactly was the miko referring to?
But before he could ask her dignifiedly, (not yelling in the hall), she was out the door shouting, "See ya everybody! don't worry, I will annoy you some more before we have to leave on another trip!" she sang/shouted in the great hall, gave a fleeting hug to Rin and Shippo and was out the gates and on Kilala as Sesshomaru watched form his window.
I wonder where she goes and comes back with all those convenient things of hers….
Kagome sat on Kilala's warm fur, her hair flying back. Between her thoughts of clouds and birds came a vague thoughts of why exactly had she bothered whispering the clue to Sesshomaru when she could have just sent it on a note or mentally messaged it to him. But then again, she always she did want to prove to him that she knew where his secret study was….and that she had enough guts to burst through the door without knocking…….hehe….
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Sorai was in her favorite thinking room, the 'yellow room'. but she didn't seem to be having any thoughts worth thinking intellectually. All she could think were going along the lines of 'Sesshomaru-Sesshomaru-Sesshomaru-food-Sesshomaru-Fluffy-food-Sesshomaru-" Not that this was much of a difference from her pervious routine but still. She had never thought about food since she was a toddler and had to cry so that she would be fed.
She gave a grunt as she tossed her head and stalked off in search of something to eat.
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500 YEARS LATER
"YAY! IM HOME!" Kagome yelled as she flung open the doors of the family shrine. Her mom greeted her from behind the door. " Oh hello there Kagome! Welcome back!"
After a quick hug and a promise of dinner, she went upstairs and flung herself on the bed. Somehow coming home doesn't feel as luxurious as it usually does….. Probably because there were baths and beds and Sesshomaru's castle…..
She got up and stretched her arms. While she was still stretching, and a blue blur attached itself to her torso. "Welcome home sis!"
She fell over from loss of balance.
"Hi Souta! I would appreciate it now if you get off me…."
He stood up and grinned sheepishly.
" Sorry. But you haven't been home in a long time ya now….."
Kagome sighed and bowed her head. " That means I have a lot of school to cover up…. Oh the humanity!"
Souta laughed. " so…where's Inuyasha?"
Kagome answered him with a determined tone in her voice. " You know I have better things to do, like catching up with school, to do the babysitting Inuyasha right now!"
" Uh….sis. Yeah… so you do know that you're friends have been trying to get to you all week, right?"
" They always do that! What's so special now?" Kagome asked.
"Yeah….. I'm not the one who should tell you…" I wouldn't be caught dead telling sis the news!
What news? Kagome narrowed her eyes suspiciously.
Souta backed out the door. Not good not good not good…..
She ran into the bathroom to take a bath with good hot water, still pondering over what havoc her friends had managed to wreck this time. Perhaps they would only tell in school…….Eri did have some kind of weird thing saying that her brother taped her phone……. Damn curiosity.
Eri, Ayumi and Yuki were baffled when Kagome showed up at school tomorrow. "Wow, Kagome! Your arthritis had awesome timing!" Eri exclaimed.
Kagome looked up. "Uh…yeah…. So what's up?"
The three huddled and cheered together, "SPRING FESTIVAL!"
Kagome groaned.
"Ok, spill it. What did you sign me up for THIS time?" she shook her head. Her friends didn't notice but the last festival she had attended had been a total disaster!
Her friends had signed her up for the dance, worse, with Hojo, and she didn't even know it! Goddamn it, a person should know when they have agreed to play 'Juliet' to a persistent 'Romeo'.
"Uh…don't worry. We didn't sign you up for the dance this time." Yuki assured.
"Somehow knowing you all that didn't really reduce the stress." Kagome muttered.
"oh cheer UP!" Ayumi yelled, her voice rising to a scream and ringing through the hallway they were standing in after class. Heads turned.
Kagome pouted. "Look. I want to catch up on my studies right now, not go around doing extracurricular things!"
Yuki narrowed her eyes at her. "You say it like you know when you're going to be sick….."
Kagome laughed nervously and lowered her head. Well, I do know that I'm going to be five hundred years ago in a week…….god, when did my life become so complicated?
"It alright, we'll help you do this!" Ayumi cheered. Kagome narrowed her eyes at her. She gulped. Kagome asked, "Sugar high?" she lowered her head as the other two nodded.
Eri said, "Kagome, your refusing and you don't even know what we signed you up for!"
She paused for effect but Kagome just gave her that 'you're-all-sugar-high-and-you-expect-me-to-listen-to-you?' look.
"Ok, then fine. Tell me, and hear me say no outright to that too!" Kagome crossed her arms. Her friends could be really annoying at times.
"Remember you use to be the singer of our classes' band when we were in middle school?"
Kagome frowned. " hmm…..what? The one we named, 'Damn you all to hell'?"
Eri laughed. "Yeah….the teacher changed the name remember? The official name was 'Freezing hell over'. And we used to do the who middle school cussing and pretend to be stylish rockstars…and the Halloween black theme?"
Kagome laughed. "Ahhh. Now I remember. So, what did you do?"
"Well, we're having a reunion and we signed you up for lead singer again! No one objected seeing how well you did last time…."
Kagome's jaw dropped. "I don't have time to be in a BAND!"
"Sure you do! Just like hojo is the back up male singer, some other guys are on guitars and flutes and stuff and the rest of them are audience!"
Kagome flashed a nervous smile. She had a right to be nervous. She had stage fright then too, and she did now! The only way she was able to go on stage was with someone from her friends with her, and it helped to be sugary (sugar high).
"One of you guys is with me……right?" she asked, her voice faltering, afraid of the answer.
"Yeah…. We'll be in the audience and Hojo'll be on stage with you." Eri explained.
Kagome turned around towards the wall she was currently leaning against, and began to hit her head with it slowly. "Ow…..Ow…..Ow…..Ow…"
The three of them shrugged as Hojo turned up behind them. "Ah….good to see she's back in health!" he exclaimed to Yuki. He looked over her shoulder.
"Uh…..is this a bad time?" he said, surveying a certain raven haired person currently trying to smash the wall with her head.
"Oh no she's fine!" Eri batted her eyelashes nervously, trying to cover up Kagome as much as she could.
Hojo raised his eyebrows.
"No, really. She is." Eri's voice turned stern as Hojo gulped.
I believe that when hell freezes over…..
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Kagome walked alongside her friends, pouting. This was soooo unfair. She was the lead singer of their classes' band, and she didn't even know until an hour ago.
Her friends kept on trying to tell her how great it would be, and how they were going to manage it all, and worse yet, how they were going to do awesome in the spring festival. Yes, that's right, the spring festival, the one that was coming up in LESS THEN THREE DAYS! She hadn't even done anything, they still had to manage themselves, practice, set their costumes and do another a million and one things in three days before their performance, and she was positive that she was going to have a heart attack, die, the band would break up in her memory, Sesshomaru would die when they tried to switch, and the jewel would probably stay incomplete 'cause no one else could sense the jewel like she could.
Now normally all the reasons would have been an incentive for Kagome to quit the band, screw trying to overload her self with stuff to do, and live a peaceful Sesshomaru free week in the future, but her friends were awfully ambitious (for her) and stubborn too.
There was no chance she would be able to get out of them alive! Either die of over work and have them guilty or have them kill her from trying to quit, and they wouldn't even care. It was a die-die situation, and Kagome chose the first one.
"SAY WHAT?" Kagome screeched at the first band practice at the band leader, her classmate.
He calmly repeated the answer. "The entire school will be watching at the first performance, at the spring festival."
She panicked.
"Ahh! I'm outta here! You all are off your rockers if you think I'm going to perform on stage with an audience that big!" she yelled as she made a leap for her bike and was just about to mount and get the hell away from the slightly retarded people surrounding her when her friends stood in her way.
"oh no you don't!" Yuki yelled and hauled Kagome off the bike.
Eri nodded. "You've been too sick for your own good, Kagome! You need to get into something!"
Kagome groaned. " You guys are sickingly supportive, you know that?"
She got Ayumi's sweetest smile. "Of course we know that Kagome!"
Ayumi reminded her of the devil with a smile sometimes. Damn.
She set her on the practice stage again. Kagome turned to the other members of the group. "We only have three days, and I am totally unprepared. How about getting some other lead singer?" she said hopefully.
Yuki intervened. "OF COURSE NOT! GO KAGOME! YEAH! YOU CAN DO IT!"
The band turned to stare at her. She whimpered and hid behind Eri, who quickly explained, " Uh….she IS right, even if she a bit sugar high…."
Jun rolled his eyes. Unlike his name, which meant 'obedient', he was nothing close to obedient. That how he got to be the leader of the band, he was very frankly, cool. He may not have a thing for girls, but his marks were good, he was an awesome guitarist, and his attitude put everyone in a good mood. Who cared if he got into fights and dressed like a gangster?
Kagome blushed as she realized that she was just wasting everyone's time and immediately turned business like. "Ok, I'll do it. But only one performance for now, and I'll decide if I can stay later."
Jun beamed through his teacher hated spikes. No matter how many times he had been warned, he simply would not cut his hair. He stroked his black gothic type chocker which matched perfectly with his clothes and said, "Great! Now we get rolling. We have to do ten songs on stage, and yes," he addressed her open jaw, "Kagome you do all have to sing all ten. Stop whining everybody!"
Everybody took their positions and started playing. Katsumi, a rather petite quiet girl as back up singer, Takeo and Takishi, the high spirted fighter twins on the drums (you can tell by the names, they both mean 'warrior'. hurray for research!),
And Gina on special instruments/effects.
Right now Gina was doing a slight solo flute part and they practiced about five songs to the perfection point before going out for coffee.
"Oh god…my head hurts!" Takeo complained. Takishi slapped his twin on the shoulder. " Why the hell are you always complaining?"
Hojo laughed. "Come on! Take it easy on the poor guy. I would be almost dead if I had you as a twin!"
"Why you little-"
Hojo laughed again. "I kid. I kid. Calm down man…."
Jun was lost deep in thought.
"What's wrong?" yuki asked.
" I am wondering…" he cast a look over the band members. "how we're going to be able to perform with the current state of members……goddamn it, the festival is in three days!"
Eri spoke in a reassuring voice. "its alright. Come one, we've already practiced five songs, half the work done! Cheer up! Look at them, they sure seem high spirited."
Jun looked over his shoulder to see Hojo asking Kagome out again, Takashi trying to pour coffee over Takeo's head, with Gina singing a bawdy song, acting drunk with Ayumi, and katsumi poking the hell out of whoever talked to her.
"Yeah.. They're acting plenty mature…" he muttered sarcastically.
"Get over it!" Gina threw a paper ball across the coffee shop, which was supposed to hit Jun to get him distracted, but got blown of course and hit Takeo in the face. He laughed and got up, faking anger, "Why you little- I'll kill you!" and proceeded to chase Gina all over the shop.
Gina screamed and ran in circles, randomly hiding behind things and people and laughing the entire while.
Kagome lowered her head. She had a headache , and had homework to do. Could life get any worse?
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The atmosphere sparked as the group climbed onto the stage. They all were dresses in 'traditional' freezing hell over costumes, anything with black and spikes.
Jun was dresses in normal manner, with the exception of a silver headband framing his spikes. Kagome had on a red and black short tight spaghetti strap dress, her head let down. Katsumi had her hair in a loose bun, bangs framing her face over a black detective coat like thing with pantyhose underneath and silver heels. Gina had tight blue jeans accompanied with a stretch black shirt. The look was completed by a dozen black bangles on each hand and her hair put in a half-tie.
Hojo had on a black vampire type cape with dress pants and a white shirt underneath, his hair swept back with gel.
And finally, the twins, Takeo and Takashi, were dressed identically in black silk haori's with their messy hairstyles as screwed up as ever.
Everyone had the custom black chocker on, and could feel the audience taking in their appearance as they got to their positions and counted under their breath, one two three…here we go!
Kagome scanned across the huge audience. Her stage freight was just starting to kick in when she noticed her friends cheering for her, almost right underneath her. Yuki signaled, 'Look at me!' Kagome nodded curtly and started on her cue.
The band, to their surprise, did not suck at all. By the time they had done ten songs and came off, the crowd was going wild! Kagome exhaled deeply and came running off stage. She had too reasons for doing so, one; she had stage fright, and two; she was as scared as hell that the swap would happen while she was onstage. Poor Sesshomaru would be totally lost, he wouldn't even know where he was, and probably screw things up for her….. But the thought was gone now. It didn't happen then, maybe the minion had to find them both……
Speak of the devil, as she was pondering over this very fact in the coffee shop where they all went later to cool off, when she felt a slight inkling of a gut feeling. Taking no chances, she stood up and ran home as fast as she could. Her friends alarmed shouts followed her as far as they could go, then on her mobile. " What happened Kagome? Why did you run away?" this was Jun talking.
Kagome crossed her fingers and lied, "I …uh…. wasn't feeling too good, tell everyone that. I have to go now. Bye, see ya!" she shut the phone off before her hard willed bandleader and class mate had a chance to object.
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I am very very sorry for the lack of humor in this chapter, but wait for it, please…..
Review and give me some ideas. I'm kinda running out here, and unless you want this story to stop someone better help me out! (puppy eyes) PLEASE!