Nearly Famous Chapter 3: Telephone Line, an inuyasha fanfic

Nearly Famous

Chapter 3

Hey! Here's the part of the story where we get a plot. Whee! Anyways, this is probably gonna be a long chapter, cuz I'm trying to put a lot of stuff in here. Hope it turns out good! If you read this, then review it. Even if all you say is that you read it and it was cool (or it sucked ass, either way, TELL ME!).

Don't worry, I'll put Lynyrd Skynyrd in a chapter later!

DISCLAIMER: For some odd reason, the gods have not smiled upon me, and I have yet to own Inuaysha. But hear me...I will have vengeance!

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After the celebrating (or rejoicing, even) of the night before, Inuyasha and Miroku were wiped out. When they woke up at 12:30 they realized that, even though it was a workday, Kagome hadn't called. She hadn't even come down and beaten them with a stick (which happened quite often). Inuyasha commented on his gratefulness.

"Feh. Stupid girl."

"Mwfjbwmmfd." Was Miroku's response, momentarily witholding his automatic interest in the word "girl".

Neither of them were awake, and so they hadn't noticed Kagome standing there with a stick.

"I was GOING to let you sleep, baka!" She yelled, and really HAD looked as if she was going to leave them alone.

"Mmf."

Inuyasha sat up like a zombie. He looked around and saw Kagome. For a minute they looked at each other with a remarkable compassion.

And Inuyasha was quite able to remark at it. It went something like this:

"Moron."

FWAP

"OW!!"

"Why did I ever hire you two?" She said in exasperation.

"What?" Miroku asked innocently.

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LATER IN STUDIO

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Some band, Heavy Metal Balloon or something, was recording. Kagome was staring at Inuyasha blankly.

"What are you looking at?"

''Err...nothing...I mean, making sure you don't mess anything up. You never can trust an incompetent baka, you know.''

"Nani?! Feh. If you're going to insult me, it's your studio..."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

Inuyasha turned some knobs, slid some sliders, and rearranged some cables. There was an odd noise from the studio, and the headphones Inuyasha had put down made a sound suspiciously like "meep!" and imploded.

The singer for the band screamed in an odd, off-tone, high voice. It never came back down. The rest of the band was so drugged up, they didn't notice.

Kagome stared in disbelief.

"Feh. That'll teach you."

Kagome looked at the band. She started to apologize and make up a lie about a mess-up in the studio equipment. They left, and, to make a long story short, Kagome yelled at Inuyasha until she couldn't talk, and then kicked him until he and Miroku left.

"And don't come back!"

"Feh. Why would I want to?"

FWAP

"Ow!"

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Kagome's house

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Hello

How are you?

Have you been alright?

"Really? That's great! When?" Kagome exclaimed over the phone.

All those lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely nights

That's what I'd say

I'll tell you everything

"Tomorrow!" An excited female voice said.

"That's great! See you then!"

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Inuyasha's House

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Hey

How you feeling?

"Really? That's great! When?" Inuyasha nearly exclaimed over the phone.

Are you still the same

Don't you realize

The things we did, we did

"Tomorrow!" An unintimidatingly small male voice said.

Were for real, not a dream

I just can't believe

They've never faded out of view

"That's great! See you then!"

Inuyasha was walking away when the phone rang again.

He wearily went to answer it.

"Hello, is there a Mr. Takagami th-"

Inuyasha hung up.

"Damn telemarketers."

Inuyasha walked outside.

Kagome walked outside

They both looked up at the sky, unaware at the same time.

I look into the sky

-The little things are finally coming true

And I wonder why

-The love you need ain't gonna see through

Inuyasha started to walk down the street. He supposed he was going to the car dealership to buy his new car (with his new money!). As he was walking, he was thinking (which is another rare thing for a musician to do). He was halfway there, and saw a phone booth. On impulse he found himself walking toward it...when he got there he picked the phone off the hook. And twenty seconds later, he heard a familiar voice. And ya know what it said? It said, "If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again. If hang up and then dial your operator." So, he hung up, and dialed the operator, because he realized, that for as long as he'd known Kagome, he didn't have her phone number. He talked with the operator (who was a total ass), and a few minutes later, he was calling Kagome, and he didn't know why.

"Hello?" She answered.

"Uhh..hi."

"Who is this?"

"Uhh...Inuyasha."

Oh, telephone line

"Hmph."

Give me some time

"No, don't hang up!"

"What is it?"

I'm living in twilight

"Err...I just wanted to say..."

"Well?"

"I guess...I'm sorry."

"Honto?"

"Yeah...uhh. I probably shouldn't have done that."

"Well...thanks. So, are you going to pay for it?"

"Heh, yeah. All you have to do, is take the cable out of channel 3 input on the 64 channel mixer, and put the cable from the preamp input into channel 4 of the analog mixer."

Kagome managed to make her silence sound confused.

"I'll fix it tomorrow." Inuyasha said and hung up.

Inuyasha kept on walking. 'Why did I do that?', he wondered.

When he got to the dealership, he had to stop again and try to remember why he was there. "Oh yeah!" He thought.

He walked up to the main desk.

"I'd like to buy a Civic." He said flatly.

"Well...would you like to test-drive it first?"

"No."

"Ok...then sign these papers, and go to the desk in the back."

"All right..."

He walked back to the other desk. He paid for the car in cash, all $100s, in packs of $10,000. Needless to say, he got a few strange looks and more than a few people slowly backing away.

He got the keys and drove out of the parking lot. As he was waiting to turn onto the road, at least three, if not five, birds promptly took a crap on his, hood, windshield, and roof, respectably.

"Dammit!"

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LATER-ISH

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Inuyasha picked up the phone.

"Hello?" He asked.

"Yes, I'm looking for a Mr. Takagami, is he home."

"Look, whatever you're selling, I don't want any."

And with that, he hung up. He was leaving, and then looked at the caller ID (Yes, he can barely afford it at $5 a month). It said the caller was from Rolling Stone. He ran to the phone and dialed the number.

The phone rang for a while.

Okay, so no one's answering

But can't you just let it ring a little longer

The phone rang a few more times.

I'll just sit tight

In shadows of the night

And let it ring for evermore

Finally, someone picked up.

"Hi, this is Rolling Stone-"

Inuyasha cut the receptionist off.

"This is Inuyasha Takagami. You just called?"

Hold on...Takagami...here. Ok, I'll put you on another line."

The voice that called him earlier answered.

"Is this Mr. Takagami?"

"Yes."

"This is Ben Fong-Torres."

"The editor of Rolling Stone Magazine??"

"No, the other Ben Fong-Torres."

"Heh. Good one. What does Rolling Stone Magazine want with me?"

"No, sir, I wasn't being sarcastic. I'm a manager of a large recording label, Rolling Stone Records. We want to produce your next album, and we also would like to arrange for you to go on tour."

Inuyasha was dumbfounded. Speechless.

"Uhh...Mr. Takagami?"

"Er, yes. All right.

"So, how is it for you if you started the tour...say, Wednesday?"

"Umm...today's Sunday...yeah, that's fine."

"Actually, it's Monday."

"How'd it get to be....Monday, huh. Okay."

"All right! I'll mail you a list of gigs and their dates overnight. If you can't do any, notify me personally on Wednesday."

"Ok, Mr. Fong-Torres."

"You have my number, call me when you get to each gig, and make sure you tell me if you can play it or not. It could cause lawyer hell if you don't play a gig and don't notify the owner."

"Got it."

"Think about it. A tour. Crazy."

"Crazy"

And with that Ben hung up and left Inuyasha standing there as if in a dream.

"Whoa. A tour. Crazy." He said. He was in so much shock that you could have stuck a pair of scissors through his squiddleyspooch and he wouldn't have noticed.

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NEXT DAY

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Kagome woke up, albeit against her will. She...well, I guess you could say smashed the alarm clock, but what she did was much more painful to it. It made Miroku's completely dead alarms look easily fixable.

"Bleh. I don't wanna work."

Then it dawned on her: yes, that's right. The sun came up.

"The sun? Mmf...too early."

And with that she went to sleep again, and woke up again three hours later.

"Bleh. I don't wanna work."

She then remembered she didn't have to. More so, she couldn't.

"Damned Inuyasha."

'He did say he was sorry' she thought.

"Feh." she said as if speaking to her thoughts.

She got up and went to make breakfast. Which meant cereal.

She heard a knock on her door. 'Who the hell is that?' she thought. When she went over and looked out the window, she yelled in excitement.

"Sango!"

"Yay! Now lemme in."

"Oh. right." Kagome opened the door, and Sango brought all her bags in, with fresh airline stickers on all of them.

"So, how've you been?" Kagome asked.

"Pretty good. I've been working as a journalist for a few magazines."

"Really? That's cool!"

"What've you been up to, Kagome?"

"Well, I've been running a recording studio. You wouldn't believe the two people I have to work with. I use the word "people" loosely here. They're so weird. Like, one of them always wears this glove and some kind of bead necklace on his hand, and the other, he has long silver hair and weird ears."

"So...why do you let them work for you? You own the place, you can just fire them."

"Well...they're really, I mean, VERY good at mixing and recording, and to tell you the truth, they're what keeps my studio at the highest position in the state. When they're not breaking it."

"What do you mean 'not breaking it'?"

"Inuyasha, the silver-haired one, decided to wreck my studio yesterday when I insulted him."

"That's horrible!"

"Yeah, well...he called today and told me how to fix it. And he apologized."

"He can't be that bad then, can he?"

"I just...don't know." Kagome answered uncertainly.

Just then there was another knock on the door. Kagome went to answer it. It was Inuyasha standing there.

Inuyasha looked once at her and quickly turned away, blushing.

"What?" Kagome asked.

She looked down at herself...and realized that all she was wearing was her lingerie. She hadn't put on a bathrobe even.

"Heh." Kagome laughed nervously, now blushing also.

"Hold on a minute."

She ran to her room and put on the most covering, heaviest robe she had and went back to the door.

"Yes?" She said politely.

"Uhh..." Two more people had appeared behind Inuyasha. One was Miroku, who seemed indecently interested, and the other was a relatively short, red-haired boy.

"We have to take out all of our sick days, and personal days, and vacation days, and any other days we might have."

"Why?" Kagome asked.

"Because we're going on tour!"

"NANI?! How did you get...where...why...who..." Kagome practically yelled.

"Rolling Stone Records called me yesterday, and mailed me this list of dates. I can make 'em all!"

"How do you expect me to stay in business?" Kagome asked, panicking.

"I dunno. That's not my problem."

"Fine. I hope you have a good time. You'll probably get electrocuted by a microphone or something."

"Is that possible?" A small voice asked, coming from the small redhead.

"Yes. I've seen it happen before...what's your name?"

"Shippo. Pleased to meet you." Shippo said as he held out a bouquet of roses that had just appeared.

"Well, thank you, Shippo." Kagome said and reached for the flowers. She took them, and as she was smelling them they disappeared.

"What?" She said.

"They were an illusion." Shippo said with a proud smile.

"Hmph."

Sango walked over and spoke.

"Can someone really be electrocuted by a microphone, Kagome?" She asked.

Miroku's jaw dropped half a foot. He shut it and appeared inside, behind Sango.

Kagome's hand was a blur.

FWAP

Miroku fell over.

"What did I do?" He asked

"Of course someone can get electrocuted by a microphone." Kagome continued as if nothing had happened.

"Well, we don't want that to happen to anyone, do we? I'll bet you know how to prevent stuff like that from happening!" Sango said, a little happier than before.

"Well...yeah. I've done some touring." Kagome mumbled.

"Really?" Sango asked, "When?"

"I managed a band before I went into recording."

"You could manage Inuyasha's band!" Sango suggested.

"No way!" Inuyasha said before Kagome could talk.

"Well...we don't know much about tour-"

"Shutup." Inuyasha interrupted Miroku. "There is no way she is managing our band. She's already our boss at work...I don't want her having any more control than necessary."

"Hmph." Kagome said. "I suppose you know how to keep from getting charged for the ice under the floorboards in Chicago Stadium? How to do a headlining tour? And I'm sure you know Bobbi Cowan, Lisa Robinson, Jim Ladd, and Frank Barcelona."

"Uhh..." An uneasy Inuyasha says.

Inuyasha, Miroku, and Shippo all look at each other nervously. They look back at Kagome.

"Well, that's that." Kagome says. "I hope you have a good time. See you when you get back."

She goes to shut the door on them; it's been open the whole time.

"Wait!" Shippo says.

"Yes? Kagome asks again.

Inuyasha looks at Shippo semi-angril, and then says:

"Well...we could use your help. I suppose."

"So what are you saying?" Kagome asks, knowing full well how he will answer.

"I guess...we want you to come with us. And...manage our band."

"What's the magic word?"

Inuyasha starts to get angry, then thinks about what she said, and how much he doesn't know about touring.

He grimaces and says:

"Please...?"

"I suppose I could. If you really want me to." Kagome says with false indecision.

"Why is Shippo coming with you?" She asks.

"He's our new drummer." Miroku answers. "We fired Ed."

"Okay then! When do we leave?"

"Tomorrow." Inuyasha says. "We bought a bus. It's at my house, so be there at 10:00 sharp."

"All right!" Kagome says happily.

Inuyasha and his comrades leave. Kagome and Sango could hear Miroku's old car nearly die as it left the driveway.

"Why did you do that?" Kagome asked Sango, almost angry.

"Well, you didn't seem too opposed to the idea...In fact, I'd say you wanted to go."

Kagome blushed.

"Well, you didn't mind too much when Miroku was...ahem." Kagome said.

Now it was Sango's turn to blush.

"Hmph." Was the best response she could come up with.

"Well, we'd better get packing." Kagome said.

"Yeah, if we're going to leave tomorrow."

Sango went to get her bags, and help Kagome find her travel bags. Kagome sat down, with her head in her hands, and thought. About the tour, about the fun, the music, the...Inuyasha? Yup, she thought about that too.

Blue days, black nights

I look into the sky

-The love you need ain't gonna see through

And I wonder why

-The little things are finally coming true

Oh, telephone line

Give me some time

I'm living in twilight

"Kagome?" Sango called from another room. "You coming?"

"Yeah...be right there."

"This'll be fun!"

"Yeah...it will, won't it?"

"Now, do you want the blue one or the yellow one?"

"Hey! Stop going through my clothes!"

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Miroku's (crappy) Car

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"Hey, what're we gonna pack?" Shippo asks.

"Umm...my guitar?" Miroku says.

"And my bass." Inuyasha puts in.

"Oh yeah! Can't forget the Ramen." Miroku adds.

"Uhh...what about clothes?" Shippo asks.

"Oh, yeah." Inuyasha and Miroku collectively mumble.

They fall silent, each in his own thoughts of the tour. Inuyasha looks out the window, and finds himself thinking of Kagome (Duh! Who else?).

He looks out the front windshield.

"HOLY SHIT!" He says and tackles Miroku as much as he can in a car. They just miss an 18-wheeler who was going well over the speed limit. Not that they were under it either, mind you.

"You almost killed us!" Inuyasha yelled.

"Ehh...no big loss." Miroku says calmly.

Inuyasha takes control, pulls over, and stops the car.

He kicks Miroku out and pulls away.

Miroku yells sarcastically at the receding car.

"Oh yeah! I'm not important! I'm only the fucking guitarist!!"

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Well, I thought that went much better than the last one. But my opinion doesn't count, soo......REVIEW THIS! Yes, I have ways of telling if you read this and review or not...eeevill ways, horrible, terrible ways. Ways that would make your skin crawl, and the hare on the back of your neck stand up and run away! Hell, you deserve it if you have a bunny on your neck. That's just plain weird. And besides, if you don't review, you will be cursed, and you will never be able to eat a Lithuanian dish in a Munster cheese sauce again! Muhuhahaha!