Yes! I have finally managed to update at last! I know many of you have been practically dying with anticipation, so I decided to get a move on with writing this chapter. Lots of you have voted for A, so I shall go along with that. However, just to make it so that it will be only a couple of hours long, I will have to change the show somewhat. Sadly, Sess, Rin, and a few other well loved characters will not be in the play. The real Naraku does not go to the school, but I promise that he will eventually show up. If anyone does not like the idea and tries to flame me, I shall bash you over the head will my giant mallet that looks like a beaver. And just an FYI to one of my reviewers, yes, I agree, humans are slow, so I'm glad that I'm not human. *grins.* And, just incase some of you were wondering, yes, Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru are human, but only for the time being. Well, enough of my ranting. Let the games begin!!
College is Life & College is Hell
The weeks flew by steadily much to everyone's amazement. Hours in class turned to days, days turned to weeks, and the weeks slowly changed into two months. The event that was currently on some people's mind was the upcoming play. Though most people thought that the plot of the play was indeed very interesting, some people found that it was absolutely entrancing. These 'somebody's' included a large group of friends. They had been dumbfounded when they had learned of the history behind the performance.
"Attention everyone!" Ms. Krueger had said loudly, catching everyone's attention. "Arigatou. Today well will start working on the performance. I have looked up an old legend that I think will interest a great deal of you." She had reached over to the desk next to her and picked up a large book. Blowing some dust off of the cover and causing a few people to start sneezing, she opened it and flipped through its pages until she found what she was looking for. She licked her finger and placed it on the page, underlining what she was going to read with her finger. "There is a legend and history that many people speak of. It happened almost 500 years ago during a time and period that most people know of as the Warring States Era, or the Feudal Era. There are rumors that creatures known as demons wondered the earth, as well as the human beings. One demon in particular lived a life that can be told for years. His name was Inuyasha."
Inuyasha nearly fell out of his seat in shock, and many of his fellow classmates turned their eyes towards him before flitting back to the teacher. His friends and brother looked at him with shocked expressions. The teacher took no notice of this and continued
"Inuyasha was not just a regular demon though. In fact, he was only a half-demon, or hanyou. Because of this, he lived a long life filled with loneliness. Humans feared him for his strength, and the youkai pushed him away for his weaknesses. Hated by most, including his own brother, Sesshoumaru, who was a full youkai, Inuyasha turned away from the world and became cold and hard. But that would soon change, for a young priestess waved aside his differences and grew to accept him. Her name was Kikyou. After many months, Inuyasha and Kikyou fell in love with each other. Kikyou had a jewel in her protection, known as the Shikon no Tama. This jewel was wanted by almost every demon, including some humans, because it held great power, and even a single shard could increase ones power and strength greatly. Kikyou told Inuyasha that she could use this jewel to help him become all human, so that he could live with her. Inuyasha accepted, and waited for her to bring the jewel to him. However, the next day, Kikyou betrayed him. She tried to shoot him with her sacred arrows, and so he went to the shrine and took the sacred jewel so that he could become a full youkai instead. Just as he was about to escape the village, Kikyou caught up to him and shot him in the chest. He was pinned to a tree and he fell into an enchanted sleep, one of which he could never wake up from. Kikyou had also been wounded, and had soon died from her injuries. The jewel was burned along with her body, and Inuyasha slept on, waiting for the time when he would be released. Fifty years later, his moment came."
"A young girl from the future named Kagome had been pulled into a well by a giant centipede youkai. She had gotten away from its clutches, but when she climbed out of the well, she noticed that everything was different. There were no buildings or people around, but she recognized the tree that stood in front of the small shine that she lived at. However, when she reached the tree, she saw a boy pinned to it; Inuyasha. She was found by the villagers, who believed her to be the reincarnation of the priestess Kikyou. Kagome claimed that she wasn't her, but it was true that she was indeed the Miko's reincarnate. Kagome was found by the youkai that she had encountered in the well, and it pulled something out of her body. It was the Shikon no Tama. Her presence had also awakened Inuyasha, who told Kagome to release him so that he could kill the youkai. She pulled the arrow from his chest, and he defeated the centipede. Then he tried to kill Kagome, who was holding the jewel. She put a curse on him so that whenever she said the word 'Sit!' he would fall flat on his face. It was an appropriate word, considering that he was half dog-demon. The jewel was later taken by a crow youkai, and Kagome and Inuyasha tried to get it back. Kagome hit it with an arrow, and the youkai exploded. Unfortunately, so did the jewel. The hundreds of pieces landed all throughout Japan, and Kagome and Inuyasha were the ones to find all of the pieces. During their journey, they met a lot of people and youkai, friends and foes. They became friends with the ed monk Miroku, the demon exterminator Sango, and the Kitsune Shippou. They also met up with Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha's brother, Kouga the wolf demon, Yura of the Hair, Kikyou, who had been brought back from the dead, and a very wicked man name Naraku. Naraku was the group's main rival because he was trying to destroy them and collect all the shards for himself. He succeeded in collecting many of the shards, but was defeated much later by Inuyasha."
By the end of the tale, most of the class had just about had a heart attack. Why had so many people's names appeared in the story? Was it really just a legend? What had shocked them further was when Ms. Krueger had shown them pictures of the characters. The pictures looked exactly like them, other than the fact that their clothes were different, the Inuyasha had dog ears on his head, Sesshoumaru didn't have all the markings, and both of the boys' hair weren't quite so long. Everyone had left the class in a state of pure shock.
"How can my name have been the same as the guy in the book's name?" Inuyasha had wondered out loud.
"Am I really cursed to be Inuyasha's brother, even in stories?" Sesshoumaru muttered, causing Inuyasha to glare at him.
"It's probably all just a coincidence," Kagome had reasoned, although she was just as surprised as the rest of them, if not more. "We shouldn't make such a big deal out of it."
"Kagome's right," Sango had agreed. "I mean, it's not like our names are completely rare."
"I think you guys are lucky," Rin muttered. "My name was even mentioned."
Everyone had fallen silent after that, but their thoughts continued to think about that extraordinary 'coincidence' and that they would have to be performing it.
The next week had been tryouts, so that Ms. Krueger could decide who was going to play which part. Many characters had been cut out, such as Sesshoumaru, Shippou, and Yura. The real Sesshoumaru had stayed out of the tryouts, since he was the chosen director and he didn't like to perform. Kagome had begged Inuyasha non-stop to try out for the part of Inuyasha.
"Please Inuyasha," Kagome said for what felt that the millionth time. "You just have to go to the tryouts. I know you'll be perfect for the part, so please come with me!"
"Fine," Inuyasha finally said, "I'll go to the damn tryouts. Just stop bugging me about it." Kagome grinned widely at him and hugged him.
"Thanks Inuyasha. You don't know how much this means to me." Inuyasha blinked with surprise at her sudden display of affection, but after a minute her wrapped his arms around her and hugged her back. A few moments later she pulled away, blushing greatly. She mumbled a quick 'I need to talk to Sango,' before dashing away.
They had both gone to tryouts the next day. The auditorium that everyone was supposed to have gone to was huge. The walls and ceiling were painted black and the dome-like ceiling had a huge golden star painted in the middle of it. Lights littered the walls and the ceiling in front of the stage, and the whole room could seat around 500 or so people. The stage itself was fairly big as well. Nothing was on it at the moment, but you could tell that quite a few large props could be placed on it. The part of the class that wanted to try out for a part was each given a page with a part of the play written on it. They were to partner up with someone, technically as a boy-girl pair, and read a couple of lines from the page. Then the Ms. Krueger and Sesshoumaru, who was chosen to be the 'director', would decide which parts they would get, if they even got one. The people who didn't get a main part would either get to be a demon or villager, or they would help with the props, costumes, etc.
(A/N: ok, incase anyone is confused, let me explain some things. Only Inuyasha's class will be doing this play, the other classes will be doing another play that they picked out. There are like 20-40 people in each class, so they don't have to worry about there not being enough people. As for the play itself, as I said before, I will change the plot and things a little so that it will only last 2 hours or so. If anyone else has any questions after this chapter, then just ask. Thanks for listening.)
Inuyasha and Kagome paired up with each other while Miroku and Sango also worked with each other. Both pairs were given a sheet of paper and a number and then told to go sit (CRASH! Hehe, just kidding) down on the chairs in front of the stage and wait for their turn. Inu and Kag had the number 4 while Miroku and Sango had the number 11. Inu and Kag were playing Inuyasha and Kagome and Miroku and Sango were playing, well, Miroku and Sango. When number 4 was called, the two walked up the steps at the side of the stage and then stood in front of the class. Kagome felt nervous, but was trying not to show it. She always got like this when she got onto a stage, even if it was only the tryouts. Inuyasha, however, felt confident and didn't show any signs of being nervous. Kagome and Inuyasha then faced each other and began their lines.
"Yo, wench," Inuyasha called, putting as much cockiness into his voice as he could. "When did you change into those ugly clothes, not that it changes the way you look or anything."
"Excuse me?" Kagome replied, setting her hand on her hip. "Are you talking to me?"
"Duh," Inuyasha said, rolling his eyes while continuing to read from the script. "You've gotten much stupider since the last time I saw you Kikyou, and I thought you couldn't get any dumber."
"Listen buster," Kagome said, rage filling her voice. "I have no idea who this Kikyou person is, ok, so stop calling me that. My name isn't wench either, it's Kagome, Ka go me!" Inwardly, Kagome started to feel hurt. 'It's just a play Kagome,' the thought to herself. 'It's not like he actually means it. Why are you getting so worked up about it?' Even though she thought these things, she couldn't help but feel pain seeping into her heart at his cruel, spiteful words.
"Kikyou, Kagome, whatever," Inuyasha snapped. "The thing is I want you to pull this arrow out for me." Kagome looked up from the paper, eyebrow raised.
"Why should I?" she asked. "You don't really deserve to be freed with your attitude. Inuyasha also looked up, giving her a look.
"Look, if you don't get this damn arrow off of me then that demon is gonna squish you like a bug. I can kill it, 'cause I'm stronger than any weak human. So what do you say?" Kagome lowered her head, a thoughtful expression on her face as she pretended to think about it. After a few seconds, she looked back up at him.
"Alright, I'll do it."
The two finish and bowed to the applauding class. Most looked impressed at their performance. Inuyasha saw Ms. Krueger write something down on one of the sheets of paper that she had in front of her while Sesshoumaru typed something on his laptop.
"That was very well done; I'm impressed," Ms. Krueger stated, smiling at them. "You may sit back down now. Group 5 can come up now." The duo walked back off the stage, passing Hiten and Kagura. They both sat down next to Sango and Miroku. They both leaned over to talk to them.
"That was great you guys!" Sango exclaimed quietly as the next group started their lines. "I bet all my money that you guys will get those parts."
"Yeh, you two did better than anyone else," Miroku praised. "I didn't know you could act Inuyasha." Inuyasha feh'd, but it was obvious that his ego had grown due to the compliments.
"It was easy," Inuyasha said lightly. "I didn't even have to act. I was just myself." For some reason, this hit Kagome hard.
'Maybe he wasn't just reading the script,' Kagome thought sadly. 'Maybe he does think that I'm just a stupid wench.' She started when she heard her friends talking to her.
"You were great as well Kagome," Sango said. "You're really talented."
"Yeh," Inuyasha said, laughing. "Maybe you should study to become an actress instead of a doctor." Kagome smiled at him.
"Maybe," she replied. 'Well, maybe he didn't mean those things. One can never know.'
Miroku and Sango had been the second-to-last to perform. Their turn had ended with Miroku lying on the stage, swirly-eyed and with a watermelon size bump on his head and Sango storming off the stage, red-faced and looking dangerous. Miroku had finally snapped out of it after a few minute, running off the stage after her.
"But Sango, it was in the script, I swear it was!" Miroku cried. Sango turned around and faced him.
"Yeh, well maybe that was in the script well Miroku," she said sweetly, yet there was definitely venom in her tone. The class all sweatdropped, even the teacher. The rest of the gang, however, had just rolled their eyes, as this event wasn't necessarily new. They knew that the couple would make up eventually; they always did. The last group had then gone, Kikyou and Musou (he's one of Naraku's detachments in the series) and the class was dismissed for the day.
"The results will be posted on the announcement board on Monday next week," Ms. Krueger called to the class before she started preparing for her next class.
"You should have tried out Rin," Kagome said to her friend as they all walked down to their next class. "I bet you would have been really good." Rin gave her a small smile.
"Thanks, but acting's not really my thing. I always get stage fright if I go anywhere near a stage. Besides, I want to help out with the costumes if I can." Sesshoumaru, who was walking next to her, suddenly spoke up.
"I could tell Ms. Krueger that you wanted to help with the costumes. I'm sure she would be able to put you in charge of the wardrobe," he said, not looking at her, but looking straight ahead. Inuyasha thought he was going to die of a heart attack. Sesshoumaru was being nice? To a girl no less? Rin smiled widely at him.
"Thanks Sesshoumaru. I'd really appreciate that!" And then she did something that none of them thought she'd dare do. She hugged him. Everyone's jaw dropped open while Sesshoumaru looked at her with slightly widened eyes. She pulled away after a few moments and then started talking to Sango and Kagome, as if nothing unusual had happened. She completely ignored the shocked look on everyone's faces. Inuyasha and Miroku finally snapped out of it and walked over to Sesshoumaru, sly smirks plastered on their faces.
"So Sesshoumaru," Inuyasha started, giving him an innocent yet evil look, "should we start planning the wedding?" Sesshoumaru took his eyes off of Rin and gave Inuyasha the most deadly look he could.
"Shut up whelp," he muttered, trying to walk ahead of them. They just ran up to him.
"Well Sesshie-boy, you can't really blame us for getting that impression. You didn't push her away, and we know that you would have done that if it was anyone else. Don't even bother denying it," Miroku said, wanting to put his two cents in as well. Ok, maybe it was more like three cents. The point was, he was gonna run out of change very soon.
"Don't call me that," Sesshoumaru snarled, gritting his teeth in anger.
"If you don't like her then why didn't you shove her away?" Inuyasha asked; glad that he for once could make his brother explode.
"And if you don't like her, then why did you volunteer to ask Ms. Krueger for her?" Miroku added. He was really getting a kick out of this. Hopefully it didn't kick him back. That wouldn't be good.
"I just felt like cheering her up so she wouldn't start mopping if she didn't get to do that," Sesshoumaru grumbled.
"So you do like her!" Inuyasha and Miroku exclaimed triumphantly at the exact same time.
"Jinx, you guys both owe me sodas!" A young boy yelled at them from 10 feet away. They all made a mental note to throw rocks at him later. (No, that was not Shippou. He'll make an appearance sooner or later, but he doesn't go to college. Gomen all Shippou fans.)
"So Sess, are ya gonna ask her out?" Inuyasha asked him. Sesshoumaru just ignored him, slowly counting to ten in his head. Wait make that 159. He hadn't calmed down by the time he had gotten to ten.
"Maybe we should ask the girls if they could play and cupid for us," Miroku said enthusiastically.
"That'd be a good idea," Inuyasha agreed. "Maybe if we hook him up with Rin then old Fluffy here wouldn't be so cold."
That was basically the end of the conversation. The two were knocked out by a very off Sesshoumaru, and Kagome and Sango ended up having to drag them all the way to class while Rin ran ahead, trying to get Sesshoumaru to calm down. By the time the two boys regained consciousness, class was have over and the girls ended up having to explain everything that had happened to the two very sore boys.
The week slowly came to an end and the weekend flew by. On Monday morning, Kagome was the first one up.
"Come on you guys, I want to see who made what parts!" Kagome exclaimed, already dressed and trying to rouse her groggy friends. Sango was the first to sit up.
"Kagome, it's too early. Go back to sleep and wait until breakfast. Then we can look at the results," Sango mumbled, throwing a pillow at her while shoving her head under the second. Kagome dodged the pillow and pouted.
"I'm too anxious to wait," she said.
"Then go look at them yourself," Rin murmured sleepily. Kagome just gave them evil looks, until she got an idea. A clever idea. A very evil idea. Snickering, she walked over to Sango, grabbed her by the pajama top, and dragged her out of bed. She was glad that Sango didn't fight back due to how tired she was. Kagome dragged her friend to the bathroom, into the shower, and then turned on the cold water. Rin jolted from her sleep and fell out of her bed as soon as she heard Sango's cream and Kagome's insane laughter.
"KAGOME HIGURASHI I AM SOOO GONNA KILL YOU!!" Sango yelled, running after a still laughing Kagome, the torso and head totally drenched. Sango chased her around the room for a little bit, upsetting most of the furniture, before Kagome dashed out the front door, Sango hot on her tail. Kagome slammed the door in her face and started pounding on the door to the guy's room.
"Help me! Let me in! Sango's gonna murder me!" she screamed, hoping that Sango wouldn't catch her. Just as her friend swung open the door to their room, the door that Kagome was leaning on opened and a hand grabbed her arm and pulled her in. The door then swung shut before Sango could get to it, locking her out. Kagome looked up at Inuyasha, panting slightly, yet smiling widely. "Thanks Inuyasha. At least she can't kill me for the time being." Kagome was finally able to get a good look and Inuyasha and blushed scarlet. He was wearing nothing but some Big Dog boxers, and the worst thing about it was that Kagome actually liked what she saw. In fact, all she wanted to do was to stare at him nicely built chest. Inuyasha shrugged, completely unaware of the current situation.
"No problem," he said simply, turning around and walking back to his bed. He pulled out some baggy red pants and slid them on, acting as if having a young woman in the room while he was getting dressed was a normal occurrence. Kagome's blush brightened.
"I didn't mean to intrude while you were still getting dressed," she muttered, highly embarrassed. "Maybe I should leave." Inuyasha held up his hand to stop her.
"Don't bother. I was going to head down to breakfast anyways, as soon as I get Miroku's lazy ass out of bed. Maybe we could go down together." It took a few seconds for him to register in his head what he just told her, and he looked down, trying to hide his blush. He turned around again and walked over to another bed. A giant lump was laying on it, covered in sheets and pillows. "Miroku, get up," Inuyasha yelled at him, pushing him off the bed. Miroku gave a small grunt as he hit the floor and got up, rubbing his sore back.
"What was that for?" he asked, blinking the sleep from his eyes. He then looked over at Kagome and put on his ed grin. "Lady Kagome, how nice of you to drop by. If you need another bed to sleep on don't hesitate to use mi…." Miroku wasn't able to finish his sentence, as Inuyasha had knocked him to the ground.
"You , I can't believe you wanted to be a monk at one point in your life," Inuyasha snarled at him. Miroku twitched in response. "Get some pants on and meet us downstairs," Inuyasha said, throwing a pair of black jeans at him. Throwing on a white muscle shirt and a red sweatshirt that said 'Who's the Dog? I'm the Dog!' and walking over to Kagome. "Let's go." They both walked out the door, meeting Rin and a still fuming Sango.
"I swear Kagome, you are going down," Sango hissed at her. Kagome put on an innocent, chibi face.
"Now Sango, what ever did I do to deserve that?" she asked, making Sango even more .
"You are such a bitch," Sango muttered as they walked downstairs. Kagome grinned.
"Thanks, I try." Miroku finally caught up to them, and they all walked down to the main hall.
"By the way, where's Sesshoumaru?" Rin asked, ignoring all the knowing looks that the others were giving her.
"He had a meeting with Ms. Krueger, something about writing the script," Inuyasha explained.
"Glad I'm not him," Miroku stated. "I'd hate to have that many responsibilities." Inuyasha nodded in agreement, while the girls just rolled their eyes. They finally reached the announcement board and, after pushing and shoving some other people out of the way, they were able to see the results of the tryouts.
"Yes!" Kagome yelled, jumping up and down and earning many looks from her fellow classmates. "I get to be Kagome! And look Inuyasha, you get to be, well, Inuyasha!" True to her words, he was. The results of the tryouts looked like this.
Tryouts Results
Kagome Higurashi as Kagome
Inuyasha Tetsusaiga as Inuyasha
Sango Faita as Sango
Miroku Hitori as Miroku
Hiten Raiden as Naraku
Kikyou Seitai as Kikyou
Musou Hachimen as Spiderhead & Demon
Kagura Bunri as Female Thief
Kouga Ookami as The Wolf Demon & Demon
Sesshoumaru Tetsusaiga as Narrator
Travis Smith as Thief
Alison Kaina as Demon
Everyone else will be helping with the props and costumes.
Have a great day!
"Sesshoumaru's the narrator? But he didn't try out!" Inuyasha said. Kagome just shrugged.
"Maybe Ms. Krueger didn't think anyone else could do it. Don't get all worked up about it. Let's just go to breakfast," Kagome reasoned. Inuyasha huffed.
"Fine, I'm starving anyways," he said. Miroku laughed as they headed towards the cafeteria.
"You're always hungry."
There, I did it! I finished the chapter! Give me five and some cookies! *pats self on the back* I'm gonna change a lot of things to be able to fit everything into a play, so try not to flame me. If you don't like how I'm doing things then just leave. *points at the door, which is guarded by mutant sharks* I'll try to write the next chapter quicker, but I'm starting school soon *twitches* and I won't be able to update very often. Sorry. Well, that's about all. Give me lot's of reviews!