A/N: This is insane. I just posted chapter 11 like an hour ago, and I'm already starting 12... crazy...
This chapter is another songfic chapter, of a song by the band Stillwater (If you've seen Almost Famous, you know who I'm talking about, and if you haven't, you are a blasphemer and a heretic and must be strapped into a chair and forced to watch it 100 times. ^.^ Ish a very good movie... all of this coming from the guy who has the script -.-)
Oh, and sorry that I forgot the title block in the last chapter...
Disclaimer: Same as always...
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Kinetics:
Track 12: You Had To Be There
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One voice tryin' to be heard,
round pegs livin' in a square world,
we were strangers in a strange land,
always reachin' for the upper hand,
we were far too foolish then
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Kagome smiled softly to herself as she sat down on the comfy couch in Inuyasha's living room. Sighing warmly, she grabbed the remote, and checked the channel guide on the digital cable for and good movies. "Aww what the hell," Kagome said as she breezed through the listings, "five hundred channels nothing to watch."
She heard the door open behind her, and turned around to catch Inuyasha walking in with two bowls of steaming Ramen. She couldn't help but breathe deeply the scent of the delicious poor-man's delicacy.
"Anything good on?" Inuyasha asked, taking a seat next to Kagome on the sofa.
"Not really..." Kagome answered, flipping through the guide again. "Unless you wanna watch Night of the Living Dead, in which case I'll be in the kitchen."
"No, I'd rather not..." said Inuyasha, who also had a thing for sleeping.
"So... do you have anything on DVD or something?"
"Hmm... well, there is something..."
"What?"
"Almost Famous?"
"Never saw it, is it good?"
"Good? Why, it's only the greatest movie to grace the face of this earth to date," he answered matter-of-factly.
"Cool," she responded off-handedly. She wondered if it could really be that good...
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Well it was Juvenile,
it was somethin' wild,
part of every child,
Girl, you had to be,
Rough and tough,
it was Peace and Love,
all of the above,
yeah, you had to be there,
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'They are trying to buy respectability for a form that is gloriously and righteously dumb! And you're smart enough to know that. And the day it ceases be dumb is the day it ceases to be real. Right? And then it will just become an Industry of Cool.'
"Wow..." Kagome whispered softly, "this guy has a great way with words..."
"I know," came the answer she wasn't expecting, "he's right about everything, which is why he's my favourite movie character ever."
Kagome just nodded and turned her head back to the movie. This was turning to an interesting and informative night... 'So this is the kind of thing he likes...' she thought, taking a mental note.
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Outcast, misfit,
they're so full of it,
don't tell me it's
somethin' that you never did,
We were stangers in a strange land,
always reachin' for the upper hand,
you were hard to understand,
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(About 2 and a half hours later:)
'Aw, man. You made friends with them! See, friendship is the booze they feed you. They want you to get drunk on feeling like you belong.'
'Well, it was fun.'
'They make you feel cool. And hey, I met you. You are not "cool."'
'I know. Even when I thought I was, I knew I wasn't.'
'That's because we are uncool! And while women will always be a problem for guys like us, most of the great art in the world is about that very problem. Good-looking people have no spine! Their art never lasts! They get the girls, but we're smarter.'
"Ahh, the dialogue of my life," said Inuyasha ruefully, once again forgetting his company. Kagome looked down, shame showing one her face.
'I can really see that now.'
'Yeah, great art is about conflict and pain and guilt and longing and love disguised as sex, and sex disguised as love... and let's face it, you got a big head start.'
'I'm glad you were home'
'I'm always home! I'm uncool.'
'Me too...'
"Y'know... I'm really sorry about, y'know, the past few years. I know I haven't really been a great person in the past, but... I really want to get to know you now, you know... Yeah..." Kagome said, beginning strongly, but her voice trailing to a whisper as she goes on, "I guess I just never really considered how it felt to be you before..."
'The only true currency in this bankrupt world if what we share with someone else when we're uncool.'
"I guess it's alright..." said Inuyasha soft in response, after a brief pause. "After all, you're one of us now." Kagome fought hard against the tears welling up in her eyes as he settled back into the couch and turned back to the movie.
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It was juvenile,
it was somethin' wild,
part of every child,
yeah, you had to be there,
Rough and tough,
it was Peace and Love,
all of the above,
yeah, you had to be there,
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The last few chords of Tangerine fell on deaf ears as the movie came to it's close. Doris the Bus struggled up the final hill and into the sunrise, as the two teens slept in each others arms on the couch, mumbling, sighing and unconsciously snuggling closer as the ending credits rolled.
An hour later, Inuyasha was the first to stir. He slowly opened his eyes to find his face crushed into the softest black hair he had even seen. He took a deep breath, and was overwhelmed by the smell of cherries.
The motion had awoken Kagome, and she found her face snuggled into a red cotton T-shirt. Looking up, she found herself lost the most beautiful amber eyes she had ever seen. 'Why did it take me so long to notice... his eyes are beautiful...' but she couldn't help but notice the sadness half-hidden there in the bottomless honey pools.
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Yeah, it was Juvenile,
it was somethin' wild,
part of every child,
girl you had to be there,
Rough and tough,
it was peace and love,
all of the above,
yeah, you had to be there,
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Arrgh! That was way too short! Expect another immediate continuation from the next chapter, and even MORE senseless fluff, when Inuyasha and Kagome's story unfolds in "Amber."
Till then, ja!