Chapter 5:

The next morning, Kagome woke to find Inuyasha already awake and in her face.

"INUYASHA?!" Kagome screamed in shock. "What are you doing out of the terrarium?!"

"Sota let me out." Inuyasha replied. "You're not leaving me here again today."

"Yes I am!" Kagome yelled.

"I'm not stay'n here and listen'n to Sota go on and on and on about those 'video game' things that I don't even understand in the first place!" Inuyasha yelled.

"Yes you are!" Kagome yelled. "I can't take you back to scho-"

"Kagome!" Mom yelled.

"What is it Mom?" Kagome asked. Then she started to worry when she saw the expression on her mother's face. "Mom! What's wrong?"

"It's Honda! He's in the hospital." Mom almost cried.

"What is it?! What happened to him!?" Kagome almost yelled.

"I don't know. But get into the car and we'll head to the hospital and find out." Mom said, then left Kagome to get dress.

"OK Inuyasha. Change of plans. You can come with me to visit Honda. But you'll have to behave." Kagome warned.

"No problem." Inuyasha replied.

Kagome quickly got dressed into the first thing she could find and put Inuyasha into the pocket of her leather jacket and ran out the door to meet her mom in the car.

At the hospital...

Kagome ran over to the desk where the nurse was.

"I'm here to see Honda Mizu." Kagome said, trying her best to sound calm.

"Honda is in room twelve on the second floor." The nurse replied.

"Thank you." Kagome replied, then ran to the elevator.

In Honda's room...

"Honda?!" Kagome called.

"Kagome?" Honda asked.

Kagome gasped at what she saw. Honda had a cast on his left leg and on his right arm. He also had a black eye and bruises all over his body.

"Honda? What happened to you?" Kagome asked, trying not to cry.

"On my way home from your house last night, some goons stopped me and beat me up." Honda replied. "Maybe I should have let your mom drive me home?"

"Don't worry. I'm here." Kagome said as she ran her hand through Honda's short hair.

Then Inuyasha climbed out of Kagome's pocket and climbed on top of Honda. "Hey! Who the hell did this to you?!" Inuyasha yelled.

"I don't know. It was dark and I couldn't see their faces." Honda replied.

"Danm!" Inuyasha cursed.

"What could you do about it Inuyasha? You're the size of my hand for two more weeks, remember?" Kagome asked.

"Plenty! Just 'cause I'm small, doesn't mean I can't do anything about it!" Inuyasha yelled.

"But what would you do?" Honda asked.

"I could set up booby traps for them in certain places. I'm small enough to do that." Inuyasha replied. Then Inuyasha noticed Honda's leg and walked over to it. "What the hell is this?! What happened to your leg?!" Inuyasha yelled as he jumped on the cast.

"OUCH!!!" Honda screamed in pain.

"INUYASHA!!!" Kagome yelled as she snatched Inuyasha up in her hand without touching the cast. "What is wrong with you?!"

"What the hell did I do now?!" Inuyasha yelled.

"Don't touch anything. Especially not that cast." Kagome warned in a voice that sent chills down Inuyasha's spine.

"Yes ma'am." Inuyasha replied, sounding a bit scared.

"But what are we gonna do about the festival?" Honda asked. "I can't play the guitar with my arm like this."

"I guess we won't play." Kagome replied.

"No!" Honda almost yelled. "You can NOT do that! Find a replacement. Or you can sing instead of me. Do anything, but DON'T quit. We can't let Chi-Chi have her way. What do you think school will be like if we do?"

Kagome thought about it for a minute. An image of Chi-Chi and boy's falling to her knees and her walking down the hall with her posse. Kagome snapped back to reality. "OK. I'll sing at the festival. But you have to go and at least watch us while we're there."

"Deal." Honda replied.

Later that day...

"Why did I volunteer to sing?" Kagome asked Eri and Yuka.

"You're doing it for Honda, who's in the hospital, remember?" Yuka replied.

"Yeah Kagome. Don't worry about it. You have a great voice." Ayumi added.

"OK." Kagome said.

Then Chi-Chi walked into the theatre. "I'm here and ready to practice for the festival!" She called.

"Sorry Chi-Chi." Yuka interrupted. "We have a replacement for Honda."

"Who?" Chi-Chi asked with a glare at Yuka.

"Kagome." Yuka replied with a smile.

"Whatever. You know I can do way better than Higurashi." Chi-Chi stated with a glare at Kagome.

"Oh yeah!" Kagome yelled. She dealt with demons on a daily basis. Why would she be afraid of this little miss bitch?

"Yeah!" Chi-Chi replied.

"Well why don't we have a little contest?" Kagome suggested. "At the festival, you and me sing and whoever the crowd likes the best wins."

"Winner gets bragging rights." Chi-Chi said.

"Fine!" Kagome said curtly, then whipped her head around so her black hair would hit Chi-Chi in the face, and it did.

Chi-Chi walked out in anger.

"Well, that takes care of that." Kagome said as she walked back to her friends. "Now who's ready for practice?"

Everyone stared at Kagome in shock.

"What did you think you were doing?!" Ayumi yelled.

"Yeah Kagome! What if you can't beat her!?" Yuka added.

"And she's the most popular girl at the school!" Eri added.

"I deal with demons on a daily basis in the feudal era. Why shouldn't I be able to take on little miss bitch?" Kagome replied. Then she walked over to her guitar. "Come-on guys. We'll have to practice if we're gonna beat her."

The girls nodded and went to their instruments. "Umm...Ayumi? I know you play violin, but didn't you take bass guitar lessons before?" Kagome asked.

"Yeah. Why?" Ayumi asked.

"Well, all the songs we do that don't have a guy singing don't use violin and use bass, drums, and a guitar." Kagome replied. "Do you think you could go back to bass until Honda gets back?"

"Hell yeah!" Ayumi replied. "Actually, I was hoping for Honda to let me use the bass instead of the violin at come point."

"Great!" Kagome said. "I have a bass set up for you right there."

"OK." Ayumi said, then she dropped the violin and grabbed the bass guitar.

"Alright! We'll start with Pretend to Be Nice." Kagome said. Then the group started playing music and was doing pretty well without Honda to their surprise.

Later that day...

"Mom! Where home!" Kagome yelled when she walked in.

It was now nighttime, and Kagome was beat. She was ready to go to bed.

"Hello honey! What took you so long?" Mom asked.

"I challenged Chi-Chi to a singing contest at the festival this Friday." Kagome replied.

"That's nice honey. Did you have something to eat?" Mom asked.

"Yeah. I stopped at the hospital to check on Honda before I came home and had dinner with him in the hospital." Kagome answered.

"OK." Mrs. Higurashi replied, then went back to the kitchen and cleaning her dishes.

Kagome started walking up the stairs to her room. "I'm going to bed Mom!" Kagome called.

"OK. Good night!" Mom yelled back.

Kagome went into her room and put Inuyasha into the terrarium.

"Hey! Kagome! Why do I have to be in here!?" Inuyasha yelled, but was ignored by Kagome since she was so tired.

Kagome just plopped down on her bed, she didn't even bother to change into her PJ's. Then she drifted into slumber very quickly, leaving Inuyasha up all night trying to get her awake by screaming at her from in the terrarium.

AN- Well, there's another day gone by. Poor Inuyasha. Guess he'll have to sleep in the terrarium tonight. Wonder what they'll do tomorrow. Hehehehehehehehehehehehehe!!!!