Chapter 2

Kagome, still a little mad about being tricked into joining a band, stomped home. 'He's so arrogant and annoying and stubborn!!' part of her mind kept saying but the other part was arguing with this ' but he is really cute.' then she would scold herself for even thinking such a thing. She ran up the stairs and darted to her bedroom. "I hate him." she kept repeating under her breath. 'If you hate him then why are you taking so long to pick something to wear?' she paused when she thought that. "Fine then, i'll wear something for me, not him." she picked out a baggy pair of black pants with chains attached and a black tank top. She looked at the clock. '5:22'. She sighed, wishing 7 would come faster. Once again she mentally kicked herself. She decided to fish her guitar out of her closet. Her guitar was black with an arrow where the strings were. She called it 'Hamaya' which in translation means purity arrow. She didn't know why but this specific guitar called out to her. She started playing just so she could buy that guitar. It was her pride and joy. When she was feeling down she would play to her mood. She lovingly gazed at it as if it where her child. It was her best friend.

"Supper!" her mom called. So she set down her guitar and raced downstairs, she was starving. She basically inhaled her food. It was so good. Just as fast as she had eaten her food she darted back up to her room. It was now 6:30. She put her guitar into her case and sat down. She had 20 minutes left now. She had no idea what to do with herself. Her room didn't need cleaning. She had no homework. So she just sat there and hummed a song. When she realized that she was singing the song that had annoyed her when Inu-Yasha has sung it she stopped. Stupid boy wasn't gonna let her get him out of her mind. Seemed that way anyways. Now she had 10 minutes left.

"That's it, I don't care, I'm going." so she got up and left the house. She began to look for Inu-Yasha's house. Then she realized something. He lived right next door. How had she not noticed him before? He was hard not to see with his shimmering white hair. She shrugged it off and walked up the sidewalk. Their yard was a strange place to be. She felt a strange presence. The yard was well kept but at the same time it had an eerie atmosphere like something wasn't quite right. Then something bit her. She slapped it off her face, it was a bug but she could of sworn she heard it say something along the lines of 'ow'. She didn't stop walking though. A little hesitantly she rang the doorbell. She was a bit surprised to see that the emotionless boy from the band answered the door.

"Hi." she said.

He didn't reply but instead turned around and walked away from the door so she followed. The house was amazing. It was decorated like olden day Japan houses. Also she saw swords hung up on the wall's every once in a while and strange looking furs. Finally the boy stopped. He pointed for her to go into the room that they had stopped in front of so she did. Inside there was clothes everywhere and posters of bands on the walls. Then the door closed.

"Hi."

She almost jumped out of her skin. She didn't see him, she was to preoccupied with the disaster zone she just entered.

She waved at him. Then she remembered the boy. "Who is that boy who answered the door?"

He laughed. "That is my half brother Sesshomaru and our base guitarist."

Now that she thought about it, they did look a lot the same. They had the same white hair and golden eyes. "Alright." she replied.

"Common, lets go to the studio." he stood up and left so she followed like a lost puppy dog. Soon she found herself in the basement. The basement was a lot cooler looking. The walls were red and there was blow up furniture.

"Your basement is awesome!" she exclaimed.

"Thanks, I decorated it myself." he proudly replied.

The basement was huge. It just kept going. Kagome was starting to think that his basement was bigger than her whole house. Finally they reached the end. He led her into a room. The walls were black and there were instruments all around. It was amazing. Her mouth hung open as she marveled the coolness of the room. Then she saw a glass window and on the other side of the window it looked like a recording place.

"Ah!" She exclaimed when Sesshomaru seemed to just pop out of nowhere. "Don't do that again!"

The boy still looked unfazed. Then not moments later a boy and girl walked in.

"Hi." they both said as one.

"Hi." she responded. She waited several moments when the girl seemed to snap out of it.

"Oh sorry! My name is Sango and this is Miroku." It looked like Miroku was about to speak but Sango hushed him, "Don't say it!"

He nodded and said nothing. Everyone laughed except for Sesshomaru and Kagome but for different reasons. Kagome didn't get it.

"Shall we begin then?" Inu-Yasha said after catching his breath from laughing so hard. They all said yes and went to their positions. Kagome had expected that Inu-Yasha would grab a guitar but he went to the microphone. 'There is no way that he can sing.' she thought.

"Oh yeah, here's your music." he handed her the paper. She nodded and quickly looked it over. Then she looked at everyone else. Miroku was stationed at the trap set, Sango was at the keyboard, Sesshomaru had a guitar, and Inu-Yasha was still at his microphone. She was waiting still for him to grab a guitar but he never did.

"Ok, one, two, three." And they began. Inu-Yasha swayed to the beat but did not sing yet. She just looked at him every chance she could waiting for him to open his mouth. Finally he began to sing. She was totally not ready for what she heard. His voice was angelic to her ears. It was the most beautiful thing she ever heard. He was fantastic. When the chorus started she heard Sango sing backup from behind.

"Stop for a second." Inu-Yasha said. "Kagome, come here." she got up and joined him. "When we get to the chorus I want you to sing with me. Can you do that?" she nodded.

"Alright, one two three." And the music was up again. When the chorus came up she joined him just like she said she would. It was like music to their ears. They had found the missing link to the band. Inu-Yasha and Kagome's voices together sounded heavenly. Inu-Yasha was enjoying every second of it. They were sharing one microphone and so when she sang with him she had to put her head right up against his. The song was done.

"Kagome that was great." Sango praised. They all agreed. Even Sesshomaru said something to her. Everyone left and all who remained was Inu-Yasha and Kagome. She stayed behind to put away some of the instruments.

"Kagome, I want this song to reflect you as well. I want you to change up your part a bit to make it your own. Change the guitar solo here," he pointed at part of her music," and make it your solo."

She looked like a kid in a candy store. "Seriously?" he nodded. "Are you sure because the guitarist who made this might be mad."

"We made it. Its our song. We all made up our own parts and put them together. Do what you want with it." She looked at the paper. At the top it said ' Lyrics written By Inu-Yasha. Keyboarding written by Sango. Bass guitar written by Sesshomaru. Percussion written by Miroku. Lead guitar written by Zed.'

"Who is Zed?" she asked.

"Our old guitarist. He died not to long ago."

"I'm so sorry." When she finally put her guitar back into its case she said, "Thank you."

"For what?"

"For tricking me into joining your band. It's really fun. And thank you for letting me change it a bit."

"Keh." He replied.

She was walking out the door when he asked, "Do you want me to walk you home? Its dangerous at night." He blushed a bit.

"Umm ok." So he followed her.

They left the house and Kagome walked about 10 feet when she said, "I'll see you then."

He looked at her confused. She giggled, "I live here." She pointed at her house.

"Really..." he felt stupid for walking her home but he was glad he knew where she lived now.

"Yeah, well ill see you at school then." Then ran up to her house.

Inu-Yasha had a weird feeling in the pit of his stomach. He didn't know what it was. Every time he saw Kagome it would come back. Then he felt something he recognized. His illusion was wearing off. "Better get inside." So he raced back into his house.

Kagome felt like she was floating. Inu-Yasha's voice still lingered in her brain. She couldn't deny it anymore. She had a huge crush on him. Everything about him was cute or sexy. But she couldn't understand how he was related to Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru seemed... well emotionless. He was creepy in everyway. He was a good base played but that didn't stop him from being creepy.

Since their next practice was tomorrow Kagome started to rewrite the music. She changed certain things like the note or the rhythm. She tried to keep some of its original owners stuff but only kept the chorus the same. Actually, it wasn't really the same either. It had more complicated notes. It still kept the same melody though. She figured it would be hard for the rest of the band to play it if it was all of the sudden so different. She gave it a more solemn feel. More depressing actually. It was how she played.

After about an hour and a half of playing and practicing she finally went to bed. She was exhausted. She could of sworn she fell asleep the second her head hit the pillow.

BEEP BEEP BEEP

"Nooooo, I don't wanna get up." She hit her alarm and shakily slumped out of bed. More like she rolled out of bed. She landed on her hands and knees and then got up, grabbed some clothes and hit the shower.

She couldn't find the soap. She looked everywhere but it was nowhere to be seen. "Argh!" she threw her clothes to the ground, "If Souta took it I am gonna rip his little fricken head off!"

She looked again just to make sure and then yelled, "SOUTA!"

Souta, who was downstairs eating breakfast, spilt his cereal all the way down his shirt from shock. He knew his big sis was grumpy in the mourning but if she thought he did something he was dead. He gave a scared look to his mother and followed the sounds of crashing things. It led him to the bathroom. He knocked.

"Kagome?" his voice screamed ' scared little boy'.

"Get in here you little brat."

Souta rolled his eyes. He wasn't a little kid anymore!! He was tired of telling her. He was taller than her. He was 16 for heavens sake. He dared not tell her that today.

She was red with fury. "Where did you put the soap you little shit?"

He looked at her in shock and armament, "We ran out. Get a new bar." Then he silently left, but laughed when the door was closed.

She just stood there. She had never felt so stupid. It was like being hit in the face. "Stupid cocky shit." She muttered then continued with her shower.

She had spent so much time looking for the soap that she had only 10 minutes to get dressed, grab her stuff, and eat something. So at top speed she threw some clothes on, stuffed her supplies into her bag and grabbed some toast that her mom had made for breakfast. Then she was gone. She jumped into her car and blasted her favourite music. It was mostly rock and punk rock like Metallica, Rob Zombie, and Sum 41. "Living dead girl." She sang. She pulled up to school just in time to see a black and red motorcycle zoom in. When she saw the head of silver she knew exactly who it was so she followed him to park next to him.

"Hey!" She greeted.

He looked at her in shock. She had never been so nice to him. "Hi.." he jumped off the bike just as she got out of her car.

She was just about to ask him how he was when she tripped. She had barely even fallen when she felt 2 strong arms around her. She looked up to see those beautiful golden eyes gazing down at her. She blushed and stood herself up.

"Be more careful next time alright? I cant be there every time." He smiled.

' How did he catch me so fast?' she really wanted to ask but was to embarrass to ask so a simple, "Thanks." Was all she said.

They had just walked into the school when a handsome young boy was greeting her. "Hello beautiful. My name is Koga."

She just stared in shock. "Uhhh..Kagome." she answered back.

He was about to speak when he saw who she was accompanied by. A growling boy. "Oh hey mutt face."

"Back off Koga. Get the fuck away from her before I tear you face off."

Kagome just stared at him. She was afraid of what might happen next. To her relief, Koga just walked away. "Bastard." Inu-Yasha mumbled.

"What was that about?" She asked as she unlocked her locker.

"Koga, the bastard goes after every girl that I'm with just to make me mad. He did it my girlfriend in high school."

She nodded, not knowing how to respond to that. "Ok, well lets go to drawing class, shall we?" he said.

She was amazed at Inu-Yasha. He could go from being straight pissed off to a gentlemen in less than 10 seconds. She wondered if that would be what guys were like if they has PMS.

Drawing Class

Kagome groaned. They were assigned to draw themselves by memory as best as they could. If they were caught with a mirror of anything they would get a zero.

Once again Inu-Yasha was sketching like mad. She kinda of laughed as she started. It was really hard. She didn't even look at herself in a mirror really today. She didn't have time.

Not to her surprise Inu-Yasha dropped his pencil and book and the desk stating that he was done. Not 5 minutes later she was also done. It was a lot easier in a way to draw herself because she grew up obviously looking at herself everyday.

"Be honest and tell me if this looks like me." She handed him the paper. He held it up to her.

"The eyes are a little off and some spots in your hair but other than that it's pretty much the same." He handed it back.

"Can I see yours?" She asked. He shrugged and handed her the paper. Once again she was looking at a picture that looked exactly like himself. It was the most amazing thing.

"Your such a good drawer. Its not fair." She frowned. He laughed.

"Keh, took a lot of practice. I had a lot of time on my hands when I was little and didn't have much friends so I stayed inside and sang and drew and played my guitar."

"I didn't know you played guitar, I thought you just sang. To tell you the truth I was expecting you to pick up the guitar yesterday."

"I taught my brother to play. In the end we needed a singer and so I sang. For some of our songs I played to. "

' He is so multitalented!" she was in awe. She seemed to like him more with every second she was with him.

"Can you teach me to draw better?" he just looked at her with a confused face.

"Uhhh." But he didn't get to answer because the bell rang. He got up and hurried to his locker and grabbed his stuff for painting class.

Painting Class

She had beaten Inu-Yasha to class. She went up to the spot she was in yesterday. She didn't know why but she put her stuff on Inu-Yasha's chair just to make sure that no body took his spot.

He finally arrived. He talked to the teacher before taking his seat. She couldn't make out what he was saying though. Not 2 minutes later he was seated next to her.

The class was directed to grab their paintings so they did. All except for Inu-Yasha of course. When she sat back next to him she saw him with a bag of chips and a diskman. His eyes were closed and he seemed to be mouthing something. Not speaking or at least if he was she couldn't hear it. She began to paint. All of the sudden she had a weird feeling. It was that she was missing something. She had the urge to draw to swords. One was sleek and the other was big with grayish fur on the handle. They were in the sky. She was just adding the finishing touches to her painting. She was very proud of herself. It was one of her best.

Inu-Yasha stuffed a chip into his mouth and looked at her picture.

cough cough he was choking.

" Inu-Yasha? Are you alright?"

He nodded as the coughing subsided.

"What's wrong?"

"N-nothing. Never Mind." He turned his diskman back on and closed his eyes. But she noticed he wasn't as concentrated as he usually was and slightly paler.

School was finally over. It seemed to drag on forever but only because she couldn't wait for practice. She was actually really nervous of what the band would think about it.

She found herself devoting every spare minute she had to practicing. By the time she had to leave for practicing she could play it by memory.

Today she was 15 minutes early. So was so eager to get there. She happily knocked on the door and was once again greeted by Sesshomaru. She gasped in shock. He was all bloody and cut in several spots.

"Wha- what happened?" she was turning paler by the second. Some of his injuries where really gross.

He looked like nothing was wrong, he looked in no pain at all. "Just a sword fight with Inu-Yasha. He's cleaning up in the bathroom. He will be down in a second." Then he walked away.

'That was strange.'

That's my second chapter. How do you like it? Please review. This is so fun!! Lol. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA don't mind me....I'm just insane.. Nothing to worry about. This chapter was 6 pages!!!! AHHHHHHH I think that last one was like 5 or something like that. Thanks for the one review ive got so far lol. It made me happy though. im so stupid today!