Chapter 10

"SHHH! shhh, you'll wake him up."

"I still don't think you should do this." Kagome whispered back.

"Nah, used to all the time." replied Rin.

She took one more triumphant scribble and threw her hands up, then clapped them together. "Art, pure art."

Kagome was so close to loosing it, it wasn't even funny. She was holding her face and pinching her lips just to keep from laughing.

She calmed and walked up to where Rin stood. She looked at her work.

"Oh my god.... he's gonna flip. You better run. ..Wait! What if he thinks I did it?"

She picked the marker and wrote, 'By Rin.' "There." then she left.

Kagome didn't know what to do. She had woken up early and when she came back from her shower she found Rin with a marker in her room. 'Should I wake him up?'

Nope, too late. He was awake now. "hey." he softly smiled.

"Hi.." she struggled not to laugh. She was going to blow it so she ran up stairs. "I'm going to get something to eat."

He droggily got up from bed, stretched and walked to the bathroom. On the way he passed Sess.

For one second Sess's eyebrows lowered but then he corrected his face and pretended nothing was wrong. He was used to seeing this. "Mourning Yash."

Inu-Yasha waved and kept going. He made it to the bathroom and grabbed a hairbrush. Wanting to check if his illusion was still on he looked into the mirror and looked away. No, wait, then looked back.

"RRIIINNNNNNNNNN!!!!!"

She had done it to him again. He didn't know how she did it without waking him up. She coloured his nose completely black and put black circles around his eyes. His lips were black and she gave him eyelashes. In the middle of his forehead was a star and 2 flowers on his cheeks. Then printed clearly on his chin was 'By Rin.'

"Yes Inny?" she smiled innocently, "Like what you've done with your face. Suits you."

He stared at her for a couple seconds. Then lunged. "Stupid wench! I'm gonna get you!" before he could even start running she was out of the room.

When he found her she was hiding behind Sess. He knew what would happen if he hurt Rin in front of Sess or even attempted it. He would get his ass kicked and then Kagome would see and find out what he was. He couldn't fight like a human. The martial arts/demonic style was just to cool.

So he admitted defeat and walked to the bathroom to attempt to remove the ink. He hoped it would come off. It was Monday and he had school. How would that look if he showed up like this?

"Inu-Yasha? Let me help." Kagome had looked for him. She grabbed a cloth, put some soap and water on, and approached. "Sit." she didn't know why but she knew he would obey to that command no matter what.

"Sorry, she told me that she did it to you often and you wouldn't get mad. Guess she lied."

"She does do it to me a lot but I always get mad."

15 minutes later all the marker was off. She was quite surprised. She didn't think any of it would come off.

"Common, time for school." she said.

She had stopped arguing about going onto the motorcycle now. She actually liked it now. Maybe it was just because she got to cuddle with Inu-Yasha, either way she would never admit to him that she actually liked it. He had even bought her a helmet with 'Kagome' written on it in black letters on a silver background.

School had been fairly easy seeing as there was no homework or anything because it was art class. As long as you were good you could finish in class. If it was possible Inu-Yasha was even faster at doing everything.

That gave them a lot of talking time. While everyone else continued to focus they were goofing off. The teachers even started letting them leave when they finished because they 'disturbed the class.' So they got to leave and had about a hour to do whatever they wanted. They would roam around the school, play cards in the commons, discuss music and battle of the bands.

"So what's up for you when you're done school?" she had asked,

"I was thinking of looking into getting a record contract for the band. If all goes well at the battle we might even get spotted out there."

She had never thought about the band much. Not in that way anyways. It seemed really cool that Inu-Yasha was looking out for them like that. It would be like a dream come true.

"So what's next for you?"

"Hell, if u get us a record deal I'm not leaving! Other than that I was thinking being a painter maybe. That's what the classes are for." She looked up at him, "Inu-Yasha... there's a flea or something on your neck."

His eyes almost flew out of there sockets. "I'll be right back." He practically flew from the room and to the bathroom.

"Myouga! What are you doing here?"

"Sorry lord Inu-Yasha. I was just checking up."

"Yeah, didn't you run away when we were supposed to go look into a possible demon in the neighborhood killing people?"

"Euh, duty calls."

"What duty! You were hired by my father to take care of us. You can't even take care of yourself!"

"Yeah... I was needed."

"Like hell you were." He pinched Myouga and he fell down to the ground slowly as if he was a piece of paper.

'That was close.' He thought.

Meanwhile

'Maybe he's afraid of bugs...' she thought.

With four days left until the battle all the extra preparations were being made. Shining the instruments, fixing the broken parts, etc.

( I don't know if they even have this next part but I saw it in school of rock and it looked cool so yeah...)

They had a video made for the giant screen behind them with light cues. Apparently some guy named totosai helped with it. It would be Kagome's first time seeing it.

"Before I show it to you guys you have to know that I filmed all of our practices and put some parts on the film. I didn't tell you so that you would look natural."

So they crowded around the computer to watch.

Computer Screen

Words The Demons in red letters and black background for about 5 seconds

The band setting up for 5 seconds

Giant cat with flames on its feet flying around in the sky for 10 seconds

Giant white dog with crescent moon on its forehead for 10 seconds

Band practice

Cat again

Band with Miroku getting smacked by Sango

Some weird backgrounds

Dog

Inu-Yasha with a giant sword, swings it, destroys a lot of things(wind scar)

some other things

the demons again

End

"Woah, that was awesome!" Kagome exclaimed. "Where did you get all of those things for graphics?"

Inu-Yasha knew he shouldn't have showed her the video. It had a lot of things in it that could expose a lot of things.

"Just ... well... Totosai is really good with these things." It was lame but it's all he had.

Kagura's

Kagura was having a battle with herself . She didn't know what to do. On one hand she could do the wrong thing and kill Kagome and Inu-Yasha and please Naraku, freeing her sister. On the other hand she could do the write thing by saving Kagome and Inu-Yasha but then getting beat by Naraku and her sister would be forever slaved.

If Naraku told her the truth than that would mean she would be saving more than innocent humans. She would be saving practically an army of fighters and demons. They could help her get free. All she had to go was save them first. How she didn't know and if she would she wasn't sure. It would be hard to do and risky. She would be risking Kanna and her own life. Would she want to take the risk of her baby sister being killed along with her?

In her frustration she didn't realize that her demonic parts were taking control and her room was full of whistling wind coming from the window. Paper blew everywhere until she had a mini tornado in the middle as she sat on the bed with her eyes closed.

"Kagura stop that!" her mother yelled from behind the door.

She opened her eyes just to see the little tornado vanish and the papers fall to the ground. She didn't like when she got caught up in her thinking like that. It was almost dangerous. She had gotten that trait from her father. He was also a wind demon. Kanna was different. Her mother was a demon of fire but could control herself so you would never know. But somehow Kanna got the ability to steal souls in her mirrors, that's why she refuses to leave the house or anywhere without one. (Yeah,yeah, so I changed It a bit)

Sometimes Kagura wondered if her sister even had a soul to begin with. She thinks that working for Naraku had driven the life out of her not to mention the loss of her father. Kagura still believed that Naraku killed him though she was never able to get the truth. She had tried to trick him into admitting It but he never had. All she was sure was that he was killed by a demon even if the authorities couldn't see it. She could sense it and see it. The wounds could be made from no natural weapon that a human made. It had to be a body part of a demon. She knew what Naraku really was. He was a huge spider which was gross and she was glad he keeps a human form. She also knew about how he had a different name in high school, Onigumo. Not many knew this, it was more of a secret.

So how to decide who's side to take. She silently sat there going over her options. Then she heard a noise. It was a guitar. Kanna was playing it for fun!

As quiet as possible she crept to Kanna's room and peered in. She was sitting in her white pajama's playing her white guitar while her white hair flailed on her shoulders. She looked like an innocent angel. Then Kanna did something she hadn't seen for 4 years, she smiled. Kanna actually smiled. And it was because she was having fun like a normal kid should. It wasn't a big smile or a very noticeable smile but when you look at the same vacant stare everyday you will notice when it changes.

She then knew what she must do. She had to save Kagome. She was the only person who was gifted enough to make Kanna happy and with Naraku out of the picture she would be even happier.

So slowly she crept back to her room and grabbed a scattered paper off the floor. She jotted down, 'how to get rid of Naraku' on her paper. She began to write her idea's down. When she was finished she would have to finally tell Kanna what she had to do and who the target was. Or should I say the new target.

This calls for an evil laugh! MUAHAHAHAhAHAHAHAHAHA! I know, evil huh? Just blows your mind eh?

Inu-Yasha's house

Kagome was just to excited you would think she was a preppy stupid cheerleader (Sorry if this offends anybody! I was a cheerleader to you know.) She had sung a song for an hour. "2 more days! 2 more days! Dun dun duhuun. 2 more days!"

It annoyed the hell out of Inu-Yasha so she stopped. Inu-Yasha wasn't excited... he was nervous. His stomach felt like it was churning inside and like a million stupid butterfly's made their way into the mess.

When Kagome finally came back to earth after about 6 hours of prancing around she noticed Inu-Yasha's mood. She had never seen him like that. He sat stiffly in a chair, not slouched much. He stared off into nowhere at all and barely blinked.

She felt bad that he was so nervous. She had spent the whole day all bubbly and happy when she should have been helping Inu-Yasha calm down.

His mind was a swirl of mixed emotions. Part of him wanted to join Kagome in her happy dances but a bigger part of him didn't want to stand at the risk he threw up. It was true, he did feel like throwing up. He wanted to hide in a corner until this whole thing blew over. That's when he felt something on his shoulders, not something, hands.

Kagome was giving him a back massage. He was sitting so stiffly that she thought it must hurt by now. He almost began to purr but stopped himself. 'I can tell you in 2 days.' That made his spirits lift. Not to mention that he was becoming lost in Kagome's touch. He found it hard to focus on anything. She just had that affect on him. Not to mention that he was part dog.

Once again he was battling himself to keep his illusion up. He started to worry less and less by the second. The next thing he knew, Kagome was sitting in his lap while he kissed her uncontrollably. He was full of animal passion just waiting to be released. He was so into the mood that he didn't even feel his illusion disappear to show his real self.

Sesshomaru was having a bad day. He had spilt grape koolade all over himself and on his white clothes too! He grabbed a housecoat, threw it over himself and walked downstairs to do his laundry. What he saw would have made him go right back upstairs if it had not been for the 2 little ears atop Inu-Yasha's head. He knew for a fact that Inu-Yasha hadn't told Kagome about his secret. He did the first thing he could think of. He took the shirt he was holding, quietly walked up to the couple and wrapped the shirt around Inu-Yasha's head.

"Dear brother, may I speak to you?" as fast as he had appeared he had pulled Inu-Yasha away from Kagome who fell onto the floor.

"What the fuck was that for!?" he yelled.

Sess, who had brought Yash to a bathroom pointed his brother's face to the mirror. "Oh..." he suddenly felt scared, "What.. what if she saw."

"She didn't, trust me, she had her eyes closed and besides, she would have said something."

"Wha- what should I do?"

"For a start redo your illusion, apologize to Kagome and tell her that I needed to speak to you about the battle, and call it a night."

He shrugged. He didn't want to call it a night but Sess was right. He had to stop loosing control like that. He had to last just 2 more days, well now about 1 more day. He wasn't going to blow it, he had worked so hard not to be exposed for what he really was. He had it all planned out, how he would do it, where, and when. To have to do it early would just throw him off.

So he took Sess's advice and went to bed.

Okkk, that's 10.Yes, yes I know! You guys think I should have introduced that Hanyou issue a long time ago. But I had the perfect idea for what to happen so I couldn't because it was just too perfect!

I would like to put out a special thanks to mlink! The best reviewer I ever had. You brightened my day when you sent me those reviews. It was truly the best one I ever got. Thank you mlink and don't stop playing trombone! AHAHA.