Chapter One
He was drunk as hell. As he mindlessly staggered to his car he had wonderful thoughts of nothing. He hopped into the car and drove. He didn't bother to put on his seat belt. As he passed a car with their head lights he mumbled angrily about how bright it was. He looked out the window, barely looking at the road. Everything was fuzzy and unfocused. It wasn't unusual for him by now. When he finally did look back at the road he found himself on the wrong side of the road. His eyes
bulged as he noticed the car coming straight for him. He swerved but it wasn't enough. He collided with the car opposing him. He flew through the wind shield, feeling the glass cut him as he made contact and then he was dead.
Not 2 weeks later was a funeral. Everyone showed up to mourn the passing of the young boy they knew as 'Zed'. No one even knew his real name or where he came from but that didn't stop them from coming. He was a beloved friend and a great musician. A guitarist in fact. They had taken his guitar and buried it with his body. It was hard for the band to loose him. He was great in so many levels. The remaining four band mates had a difficult problem to face. How could they just replace their friend? They had to find a replacement and fast. They had a
competition, battle of the bands, in 2 months.
One week after his death they began to look. They set up posters all around the city and had auditions. No one cut it. They were all lacking in some way. Some in soul some in talent. It didn't matter, they couldn't find someone.
They had finally given up and decided to go to a party to celebrate their last day as a band. There was a party with live music and everything. So the 4 band members got together and went to the party. It was such an awesome party. Everyone who was anyone was there. Finally the night was just about over when the host decided to play a joke on her friend.
"Alright everyone! Listen up! I have an amazing friend who really knows how to rock out and I want her to end the night! I would also like a clear way to the door as I will be beaten badly for doing this. Everyone please welcome Kagome!"
There were cheers as a red faced angry girl walked onto stage. As soon as the cheering died you could hear her say, "I'm gonna kill you." Under her breath. But she grabbed the guitar and sat on the stool.
The band watched expecting some sort of horrible singer to be up there. But as she began to play everyone was mesmerized. She was amazing.
"we need her." They whispered to each other.
She was finished her song and everyone was leaving. Well everyone except for the band. They waited around until everyone was gone and all who remained was the host and her friend Kagome.
"Excuse me, you have to leave."
"Can I talk to Kagome for a second first?" She nodded.
"Hello Kagome, my name is Inu-Yasha." The boy said to her. She didn't look up but grunted in reply. "We were wondering if you would join our band."
"No." she replied and when she looked up she met the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen. They were golden and warm. She felt herself lost in them. Slightly embarrassed she got up and walked away.
"Awe common!" he whined.
"No." she simply stated.
"Stupid wench."
"What did you call me?"
"Keh." Was all he said.
This was entertaining the band. They were both just as stubborn as each other. This could get interesting.
"Will you leave now?" Kagome snapped.
"No, not until you join our band." He crossed his arms and slumped onto the nearest couch.
She shot daggers at him. "Get out now."
"No."
She ran at him, grabbed him and attempted to get him off the couch but he seemed to be bolted down. "Common, leave already!" she fumed.
"Keh, now way in hell." He smirked at her reaction.
Her teeth were clenched and her hands stiffly at her side with closed fists. "Leave or I will call the cops."
"Fine, but I will be back." He replied and left.
The other band members looked at her. She shot daggers at them and immediately they left. They all looked frightened except for one who showed no emotions at all.
The next day Kagome was still angry with them. Mostly at the one called Inu-Yasha. She didn't know the other one's names. There was a pretty girl with black hair, a boy with black hair, and then the other boy who showed no emotion. They were a strange group.
Today was her first day of college. She had butterflies like you wouldn't believe but she was excited none the less. She schooled at an institute for artists. She loved art. She was a pretty good drawer to. She packed her things and went to her class.
Her teacher was an old woman. She looked like she could be strict but she looked like a nice person. She took a seat without looking who was next to her and contently watched the teacher, waiting for her to speak.
"My name Is Kaede." The teacher finally stated. "I am your art teacher. Would you please take out the following items from your supplies," She pointed at the list on the board. "While I take attendance."
With that all said and done they began their first assignment. They were to sketch the person that sat beside them. She looked over to her partner and nearly fainted. It was the boy called Inu-Yasha from last night. He was looking at her with a smirk on his face.
"Didn't notice it was me?" he chuckled as she shook her head 'no'.
She grabbed her stuff, trying not to look like this made any difference that it was him and began to draw. He did the same. She started with the shape of his face. She blushed a little when she realized how cute he was. She didn't notice last night. He had to be the best looking guy she had ever met. Once again she felt herself get lost in his eyes. She just stared at him.
"Are you going to draw me or just stare?" He laughed when she turned a slight pink colour.
When he began to draw he felt himself thinking along the same lines as she had just been thinking. ' Gods she beautiful.'
"So wanna be in my band?" He saw her tense at the question.
"I thought we established this last night."
"Common! Please." He gave her his most innocent smile.
"No."
Then he growled. She just looked in shock. ' why is he growling?'
His eyes bulged for a second and he stopped the growling and furiously began to draw. She had never seen someone so fast at drawing and not once did she see him look up at her. She was just starting his nose when he said, "I'm finished."
Her mouth hung open as she looked at her own. All she had on it was the shape of his head, the outline of his eyes and part of his nose.
' It can't be all that great then.' "Can I see it?"
He nodded and turned it to her face. It was almost identical to her. It was amazing. Every detail was perfect. The shading was beautiful and so detailed.
"wow, Inu-Yasha. This is amazing. How did you draw it so fast?" and then she realized that he hadn't even looked at her once after he began drawing. "And how did you do it without looking at me?"
He shrugged, "Good memory I guess." Then he paused and decided to try his luck again as she looked in awe at his picture. "Wanna be in my band?"
"Sure whatever." She mumbled, still looking at the picture. He mentally praised himself. When she realized what she had just agreed to she exclaimed, "CRAP! I mean no."
"To late now, you said yes." He chuckled at her expression. It was between anger, self pity, and confusion.
She mentally kicked herself but went back to her drawing, admitting defeat. "Can you please look at me? I don't have photographic memory like you do." So he turned to her with a bored expression and stared at her. She felt his gaze upon her and began to blush but kept drawing. She only looked at him when she had to.
He began to hum a song that she recognized. It was the song she had sung last night. ' He's doing this on purpose.'
"Can you stop humming that?"
"Cant. It's stuck in my head." And he continued to hum. She was beginning to become irritated.
She was finally done with only 5 minutes of class to spare. She looked at her drawing. She was pleased with herself but it was no where as nice as Inu-Yasha's drawing of her.
"Okay, I'm done."
"Lemme see then." He took the paper from her and studied it for a second or so. "It looks nothing like me."
Then he handed it back to a fuming girl. Her eyes looked as if they were on fire.
"I was just kidding!! Good job, seriously."
"Don't you ever say that again!" she 'humped' and turned to the front of the room, crossing her arms.
"Oh, I almost forgot." He handed her a paper. "See you tonight at 7."
Then the bell rang and he was gone. She unfolded the very crumply paper in her hand. ' 1423 Goshinkiboku Street. 7 o'clock.'
She groaned. "You have to be kidding me!" he lived on the same street as her.
She stuffed it into her pocket and went to her locker. She stuffed the stuff she no longer needed in and took some other things out. Next was painting class. She slammed it shut and relocked it.
Painting Class
She entered the room. She looked for an empty seat and there was only one left. Guess who she had to sit next to! It was Inu-Yasha himself. She sighed and rolled her eyes as she sat down next to him. He was just about to say hello when the teacher passed them each a canvas. She took her seat at the front of the class.
"Alright class. Today will be easy. Paint something that interests you. You will have tomorrow class to do it as well so don't rush yourself but they will be token in for marks at the end of tomorrow class. Begin."
Immediately the classroom was filled with the noise of people rummaging through their backpacks for their supplies.
Kagome didn't know what to draw. She looked over to Inu-Yasha who was already drawing furiously on the canvas. ' He sure is enthusiastic.' She thought.
Then she remembered the dream she had last night. It was about some sort of white dog. She couldn't think of anything else so she began to draw what she could remember of her dream. By the time Kagome was done making the basic shapes of her painting, Inu-Yasha was already painting it. She couldn't see what he was drawing though because his arm was around it as if someone might steal it. She mentally laughed and began to draw the details of her picture. By the end of class she was ready to paint but would have to wait for next class to begin painting. Inu-Yasha was done. She still hadn't seen his picture. He had handed it in the second he was done. She still wondered how he could draw anything so fast and do a good job. It seemed impossible.
As soon as class ended she darted out of class before he would talk to her. She didn't know why she wanted to avoid him. It was a strange feeling. ' Don't tell me that I like him!' she scolded herself for even considering that. The rest of the day, all she could think about was Inu-Yasha. He would not leave her mind, it was like he drilled himself into her head.
There! That's my first chapter. What do you think? Please review. I won't continue if you don't!! MUAHAHAHAHA I feel so powerful. :P So yeah, review. PLEASE! This is the first of my stories that I ever posted!!