Disclaimer: You know, the PTB's make us write this just to get us depressed, I swear it...I don't own him or anything associated with him. Which sucks.
A/N: at the bottom
CHAPTER EIGHT: (Cher and Share alike:)
Inuyasha sighed in fusturation. "I don't get it." he grumbled.
Jack sighed. "It's very simple. Okay, let's start again. You just watch this time."
Thrilled to not have to be 'dancing' anymore, Inuyasha gratefully plopped himself down on the floor next to the five men.
Usually the Higurashi living room was cluttered in a cozy way, but in order to dance, all the couches, coffee tables, bookstands and picture frames had been pushed to the sides of the room.
"Music please." commanded Jack. As the stereo was obligingly turned on, Jack shook out his muscles. Notes filled the air and Jack spoke in a cadenced voice along with the rhythm.
"And! A one, a two, a one two three- SNAP! and throw the left side of your hip out!" Jack struck a Fosse stance and tilted up his chin. "annnd- snap! Throw right shoulder down and pow! Toss your head back- slowly, remember that everything is sexier when its slow!"
Inuyasha sunk down in his crouch, red with embarrassment as only a teenage male could be after that comment.
"And then, wait for it, hear the beat and here-it-comes- Pelvic Thrust! Uh, Uh, Uh!!!" Jack began to thrust his way around the room, grunting as his hips worked.
The group on floor watched in silence, five thrilled and one horrified.
"He's fabulous, isn't he?" gushed Carson sincerely.
Inuyasha stared at Carson blankly. Was everyone in this room insane but him?
"And now" announced a breathless Jack, "If the dance is really going well, bend your partner over, pull him real close and smack that booty up!"
Him?!?
"Whack whack whack!" shouted Jack energetically, enthusiastically hitting an imaginary butt.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" shouted Inuyasha. "I don't want to spank anyone!"
Jack paused and posed, tossing Inuyasha a look of seduction over his shoulder. "Not even the luscious lady Kagome?" he asked in a salacious tone.
"No, I do not want to smack Kagome!" shouted a red Inuyasha.
"No? No 'smack her little booty up/scream help/ play my game/ get my reins-"
"WHAT?!?"
"I want to li,li,lick you-" sang Jack.
Inuyasha blanched and scuttled for the door. "There is something wrong with you. Really wrong with you." Inuyasha stated as he stomped to the door.
"Ludicrous isn't your type of singer? I think the song-while yes, a bit blunt- has a lot of good things about it. I mean, it does have a message and how many songs can we say that about today?" Jack was still galloping around the Higurashi living room but managed to make his way to block the exit.
"Stop that!"
"Stop what?"
"That 'Uh, Uh, Uh!' thing! It's disgusting!" Inuyasha spat out.
Jack slowly pelvic thrusted to a stop and pouted sadly to Inuyasha. "....You don't like my dancing?"
"No, I don't like your dancing!" snapped Inuyasha.
"Well! Now I'm hurt." Jack sniffed dramatically. "Right here." He thumped his chest. "In my heart...I'm wounded..."he whispered with a pouted lower lip and an extra sniff for flair.
Inuyasha snorted. "Your heart is on the other side of your chest, Jack."
Jack grimaced. "Damn, I always forget that!" He clenched his fists in annoyance and stamped his foot.
Ted pursed his lips and asked cautiously, "But, uh, Jack, aren't you a nurse?"
Jack looked at Ted then pointedly ignored him.
"Your dances are stupid and weird. Normal people don't dance like that." Inuyasha continued.
"That's not true! Everyone in America dances like that!" protested Jack. "I'll show you!" The flamboyant gay stormed to a corner of the living room.
"Keh. You're all trying to just pull my leg and make me look like an idiot," muttered Inuyasha.
"Oh, that's not what I want to pull..." purred Carson from behind the hanyou.
"Carson, you can't handle pulling anything more then my leg." Inuyasha shot back.
Five shocked and delighted gasps from five shocked and delighted men.
"Oh my god!! You made a comeback!" shouted Kyan.
"Good job with the sexual innuendo! Look how far you've come!" cheered Jai.
"I'm, no, we are all so proud of you!" said Thom, patting Inuyasha on the head.
Carson put his hands on his hips and smiled. "I did not know you had it in you...I am impressed."
Inuyasha glanced around at his admiring posse and blushed. "Well, I'm full of surprises..." muttered the hanyou teenager. Man, it isn't that big of a deal....
From the corner of the living room, Jack shouted in triumph. "Ha! I found it!"
Confused, everyone turned to see what Jack had gotten so excited over. Jack had dragged the TV to the forefront of the mass of furniture and flicked it on. Flipping through the channels for the past few minutes had finally paid off.
"I knew, I just knew, that if America exported anything here, it would be MTV!" He sat back, pleased with himself. The magic box slowly turned colors to Inuyasha's amazed eyes and, as the picture gained resolution, Inuyasha's mouth slowly sagged open.
What the hell were they DOING??!?!?!?
There were women wearing the least amount of clothing Inuyasha had ever seen on the female body. Next to the women there were men...talking? Singing? They were definitely moving with the women in ways Inuyasha knew was not...not...it was...n...o....t....
Inuyasha's brain stopped working as the music video 'Freek-A-Leet' overcame his pathetic mental defenses. The gyrating ladies did the work they were paid to do as they captivated the straight man watching.
The dancing! The women! The pounding beat! The bikinis! The lights! The women! The bikinis!
There was one woman in really tiny pieces of fabric connected by strings shaking her rump in Inuyashas direction in a truly beguiling fashion (Being an inuyoukai, this was particularly attractive to Inuyasha's mind). She was sitting on something that had a lot of buttons and mouthing 'how you like it daddy?' and rubbing herself on the buttons. Inuyasha absentmindedly wiped away the drool that was trailing down his chin. Buttons and women...it really didn't get any better to Inuyasha's way of thinking.
Thom poked Ted and mumbled, "Gee, I wonder what he's looking at."
Kyan sighed. "I keep waiting for a gay rapper to put out an album."
"Album shmalbum. I want a gay rap video." snorted Carson.
Jai sighed dreamily. "Nothing sells sex like rap....imagine what a gay rapper would do with his video......"
"Speedos and Calvin Klein underwear models!" Jack grinned.
Inuyasha ignored all this and watched one particular woman in a swimsuit three sizes too small run her hands up and down her body and lick her lips, while she was staring directly at him!! Some man with flashing teeth was talking and moving his hands but Inuyasha's attention was held by the woman in short shorts crawling onto the mans lap.
She was backing up into his lap, doing that 'uh-uh-uh' thing just like Jack had but she did it a lot better....a whole lot better.
Slowly, the magic box went black as the video ended. Jack shut the TV off totally and looked at Inuyasha's dumb founded face.
"What was that called?" Inuyasha asked in wonder, his mind all a-buzz with the images he had seen.
"A rap video," replied the amused Kyan.
Silence reigned as Inyuasha continued to stare at the blank screen. Slowly turning to the group of homosexuals behind him, Inuyasha thought for a moment and asked, "Miroku doesn't know about these videos, does he?"
"Who?"
"Nothing, never mind."
"So, you liked the dancing?" asked Jack with a smug smile.
Inuyasha shifted and blushed. "Yeaaahhh...." he admitted, turning even more red.
"So we can assume its a good thing you're wearing those baggy pants?" joked Carson.
Inuyasha groaned in embarrassment and sunk his head into the neck of his shirt.
"Would you stop it, Carson?" Exasperated, Jai waved the laughing Carson away and crouched by Inuyasha.
"We have a surprise for you!" He said with an excited smile.
Inuyasha poked his head out of his shirt to glare. "The last surprise you gave me made Kagome leave."
Jai cleared his throat and stood up. "We've been over that. Besides, she'll like this surprise."
Sniffing, Inuyasha confirmed that Jai believed that he was telling the truth. "What is it?" He asked, still suspicious.
"You'll see!" Pulling on his arm, Jai shoved Inuyahsa into the bathroom. "Here, you put these on," Jai said and handed him a bundle of clothing, "and you give us your clothes."
"What are you going to do with them?"
"Us?" Jai laughed nervously. "Oh, nothing! Nothing at all...heh heh...." He plastered a fake smile on and nervously waited while Inuyasha took the modern clothes into the bathroom. After a few minutes, Inuyasha thrust a hand out and gave Jai his robes. Jai waited breathlessly as the bathroom door closed again.
The second the lock snapped shut, he threw the red robes to Kyan, who tossed it to Carson who hurled them to Thom who gave them to Ted who promptly dropped the robes into a fire crackling merrily in the Higurashi's barbecue. The five watched in delight as the flames eagerly licked at the robes.
Carson smiled with a tear in his eye. "If we do nothing else," he said in a choked voice, taking Ted's hand, "what we just did now was enough. It was enough." Pursing his lips, Carson went to make a martini to calm himself down.
It was Thom who realized that someone was missing. "Uh, does anyone know where Jack went?"
"HENTAI!!!" A roaring howl came from bathroom.
"I think he's with Inuyasha," answered Ted as the five scrambled to where a shrieking Jack was about to be mauled by the enraged half demon.
"Stop him!!" wailed Jack.
"Don't even try!" snarled Inuyasha, approaching the shivering Jack with his fists clenched and at the ready.
"Jai, do something!" shouted Kyan from the safety of the hallway.
"ME? Why not you?" Jai shouted back, not at all wanting to get into a room with a guy who could throw people thirty feet when he was pissed.
"Because you're the diplomat in the group!" hissed Ted.
"Yeah! Go do your stuff!" urged Carson with a swirl of his martini.
"No!" protested Jai. "I don't want to!"
"Job sacrifices!" answered Thom promptly.
"To hell with all of you! No way!" Jai said stoutly.
"Ja-ow!" Kyan swatted at Jack who had dove into the group huddling by the stairs.
"What were you doing there anyway?" asked Ted asked the quivering Jack.
"I was peeping, hello?!" said Jack with a look of disgust at Ted naiveté.
"Why were you doing that?" Ted began to ask but he held up his hand. "No, scratch that. What made you think you'd get away with it?"
Jack glared and snapped, "Where I come from, if you don't lock the door, its because you want company."
"Then everyone's crazy where you come from!!" shouted Inuyasha from in front of the human shield, Jai.
Carson marched over and shook his head. "Inuyasha..." he sighed and shook his head reprovingly. "You have to zipper your fly."
"No he doesn't." piped up Jack.
Ignoring Jack's comment and Inuyasha's resulting raised fist, Carson continued. "And tags always go in the back." He showed the clueless teenager what a tag was.
Inuyasha shrugged and tried to take off the shirt. Unfortunately, the black tee was tight and getting out required some contortions on Inuyasha's part, much to the delight of everyone watching. He finally got it off but it had turned it inside out. Scowling, Inuyasha wrestled with the tee, first getting one arm right side out but then turning it inside out again when he tried to fix the other sleeve. Inuyasha glared down at the shirt, ignorant of the stares he was receiving.
With no shoes on, Inuyasha was shirtless, his abdomen stretching and flexing with his movements. His hair swung loose to his waist and his arms bulged delicately with corded muscles. The only thing he was really wearing was the pair of dark denim pants that he had forgotten to zip up. The lines leading to his pelvis were clearly visible and the pants hung dangerously low on his hips, threatening to show far more then Inuyasha would have wanted. With his hatred for the tightly constricting underwear Carson had provided, a thing white line of hair was clearly visible as it trailed down to his.....
"Why were you peeping?" Jack snidely intoned in a high falsetto.
"Oh, shut up." muttered Ted.
Inuyasha looked up. Why is everyone staring? He thought for a moment and realized that he did not want to know. Shrugging, he ignored the group of salivating men and put the tee back on and zippered his fly, much to Jack's disappointment.
"So...What are we doing now?" asked Inuyasha, shoving his hands into the pants pockets.
"We could practice dancing." suggested Jai.
"How about not," said Inuyasha with a very disinterested snort.
"Well, I think we should try to cook." announced Ted.
Inuyasha jerked around, more then a little shocked. "You were serious about that?!?" "Um, yeah." Ted replied, nodding his head once or twice for emphasis.
Inuyasha looked at the normal looking Ted and then at Jack who had started 'uh-uh-uh'ing again. No real choices there, Inuyash thought grumpily to himself. "Let's go" he announced wearily and stormed off to the kitchen.
"Good luck Ted, " whispered Thom 'encouragingly'. Ted had made fun of Thom's experience with the hanyou and Thom was fully expecting payback to be a bitch.
In the Kitchen
"So, I noticed that you like Ramen." Ted said hesitatingly to the petulant boy slouching by the table.
"Really?" drawled Inuyasha, propping his head on the table with one hand. "How'd you come to that conclusion?" Sarcasm dripped out of every word Inuyasha uttered and Thom smiled happily from the living room.
"Maybe it was when you were smearing Ramen in your hair..." mumbled Ted, still peeved over that episode.
Inuyahsa rolled his eyes and heaved a great sigh. "Yes," he said grudgingly. "I like Ramen."
Ted nodded. What he did next made Inuyasha fall over from shock.
He pulled out at least seven bags of Ramen. Seven large bags of Ramen.
That's more Ramen then I've ever seen! Inuyasha thought in wonder. A huge smile broke out on the grumpy hanyous face and he reached eagerly for the delectable noodles.
Whack
Inuyasha's snatched his aching hand back and stuck it in his mouth. Pouting around it, he mumbled to Ted, "What'd you do that for?"
Ted held up his spatula threateningly. "This is dinner for Kagome. Ka. Go-"
"Yeah yeah yeah, I know. Ka. Go. Me. I've heard that damn line so many times, you could kill yourself." Inuyasha interrupted rudely.
"As I was saying, you are going to prepare a meal for Kagome and-"
"What? Keh!" Inuyasha snorted in amusement. "I'm not some damn woman. I'm not cookin' nothin' for no one." He shook his head, amused by the very thought.
"Um, yeah, you are," said Ted with a tight smile.
"Um, no, I'm not," Inuyasha answered back, the same tight smile on his face.
"Listen buddy. Do you want a girlfriend or not?" Ted asked bluntly.
Inuyasha looked at him incredulously. "But men don't cook!" He looked around for some support but only saw Ted's exasperated face. "Men do not cook." Inuyasha earnestly tried to explain.
"I'm a man. I cook," challenged Ted.
"Yeah, but you're not a real man," Inuyasha said with a chuckle.
By the shocked and enraged expression on Ted's face, Inuyasha had a feeling he had said something wrong... but what? (A/N: ::sssssssiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggghhhhhhhhh::)
"That was the worst thing anyone has ever said to me." Ted said quietly. "I cannot believe you had the gall to say that after all that we've done for you, you ungrateful brat." He threw down his spatula with a clang and began taking off his apron with short furious motions.
"Wha, wha? What did I say?" asked Inuyasha, completely at a loss.
"Oh, don't play the innocent with me!" snapped Ted. "Just because I'm gay doesn't mean that I'm not a man!"
Oh....! Shit! Think quick think quick! Inuyasha could have slapped himself. Of course he would get insulted over someone deriding his masculinity! What to do? Inuyash racked his brain frantically but only one thing presented itself. He rejected it forcefully but it really was the only way...
Shit, I hate doing this! Inuyahs cursed mentally.
"But you cook!" Inuyasha winced inside but kept up his facade of idiotic little boy firmly in place.
"We've been over that!" Ted hissed.
"Exactly! So you can't be a real man!" Inuyasha tried to 'explain.'
Please let this work!
"What are you talking about?" Ted shouted.
"You are a man but you cook. Men don't cook but you're a man anyway. Only women cook, its what they do! But you cook! But you say that you're not a woman at all but that you're a man! So the only explanation for cooking if you're a man is that you're not a real man because real men don't cook, only real women cook! Right?"
Inuyasha stopped to breathe and prepare himself. It was time to pull out the most potent of his personal weapons. Greater then Tessuiga, more powerful then the Blades of Blood, the most subtle of all the inuyoukai martial arts-
The Puppy Face!
No one could resist Inuyasha's puppy face. Years ago, he had perfected it and The Face had saved him innumerable times.
Inuyasha opened his eye wide and made them seem as innocent as possible. They were golden pools of sweet childishness and the smile that accompanied that look was half hidden and uncertain but yet still hopeful. Inuyasha ducked his head slightly, looked up through his eyelashes and batted his eyes with a small smiling pout, an almost guarantee of pulled heartstrings. He twitched his ears for good effect and gloated to see Ted's defenses begin to fall. Oh, I still have it, Inuyasha thought with a smirk. He didn't have a chance.
Ted looked very suspicious and a tad confused. "So you're saying that I'm not a real man because.....I cook and only women are suppose to cook? It's not because I'm gay?"
How the hell would I know? I have no idea what the hell I just said! Just fall into the puppy face, you idiot! Inuyasha thought in annoyance. "Um, yeah, I guess."
"So you're chauvinistic, not homophobic?" Ted asked slowly.
Inuyasha stared at him blankly, having absolutely no idea what those big words meant. However, the man who could cook the Ramen might leave if he didn't agree with him. "Um, yeah. I guess." hedged Inuyasha.
"I suppose I can deal with chauvinists," muttered Ted. With a sigh, he put back on his apron and picked up his spatula.
As Ted turned back to the Ramen bags, Inuyasha relaxed and sighed a quiet but heavy sigh. That was way too close! What if Ted had left and there had been no one left to make Ramen? Inuyasha shuddered at the thought. Thank goodness he had put on his 'puppy' face.
"Well, real men can cook." Ted said, waving his spatula for emphasis. "You yourself are going to cook today and tomorrow when Kagome comes home."
"Kagome's coming back?!??!" Inuyahsa jumped out of his crouch and grabbed Ted by his apron front. "Are you sure??" His eyes were so hopeful and excited that Ted gave up the last of his resentment.
"Yes," he chuckled at the ecstatic hanyou. "I'm sure. In fact, we have a whole plan for tomorrow when she comes home."
"Plan?"
"Yes. Now, shut up and let me tell you what to do to make Crunchy Fried Peanut Ramen."
Inuyasha stared at Ted. "That sounds completely disgusting," Inuyasha stated with his usual tact.
"It's good!" snapped Ted. "Now what you need is...."
Meanwhile Outside
"I don't understand. We lit the fire, we threw in the bathrobe, we watched it go up in flames- WHY THE HELL ISN'T IT BURNT???" Carson shouted in frustration. Kyan shook his head.
"No idea but its weird." He stated, poking the red robes on the barbecue with a glaze brush.
"We have to do something before he realizes what we're trying to do," Carson whispered in desperation. "We cannot allow him to put these....pantaloons back on." Carson scrunched his nose and turned up his head. "As the fashion coordinator, I cannot allow it."
"Breathe Carson. We'll figure something out." Kyan patted his friends arm comfortingly. Jai came back out to the backyard with a bottle in hand. "I got it!" he called out and scurried over to the relieved Carson.
"Oh thank god!!" gushed Carson.
"Calm down," said Jai with a raised eyebrow. Carson gingerly took the lighter fluid and sprayed a little bit on top of the offending garment.
"There," he announced in satisfaction. "Lit it up Kyan!!" Rolling his eyes at Carson's typical melodrama, Kyan opened up his lighter and jumped back as the flames rushed over the barbecue grate.
For a few moments, the hakama and pants seemed to ignite but it was soon evident that nothing was happening.
"WHAT?" Carson shouted, almost pulling out his hair in frustration. "What are these things, zombie pants??"
Ignoring their frantic friend, Kyan and Jai considered their options. "We could always just pour more lighter fluid on," suggested Jai.
"Nah, I don't think that'll work..." Kyan mused. "What if we just bury it?"
"Night of the Living Pantaloons!!!" shrieked Carson, still in his zombie pants mode.
"Too casual for Carson," Jai answered. "Maybe we should just give them back to him. They are his fathers and smell like they might be antique clothing."
"NEVER!" hissed Carson. He grabbed the lighter fluid and poured some more onto the still burning fire. With a small boom, the flames grew.
"HA! It's working!" cheered Carson.
"Uh, Carson...don't you think that's a tad dangerous?" asked Jai hesitantly.
"Nonsense," Carson said with a dismissive shake of his blond hair. "It's decisive action."
Kyan glanced at Jai. "No," Kyan told Carson sternly, "It's reckless."
"The greatest fashion moments were considered reckless." Carson answered blithely and he dribbled a little more fluid onto the foot high flames. He stopped as he realized that the clothing was still unharmed. A slightly red color entered his usually baby blue eyes.
"Oh shit, he's going berserk again!" whimpered Jai in horror. (The last time this had happened was when Calvin Klein became a publicly traded company. It had taken them six months to pay the bills for the insane shopping spree Carson had gone on.)
"Ooookaaay...someone's had a little too much smoke inhalation..." muttered Kyan. Stepping close, he and Jai surrounded the slightly hysterical Carson.
"Just give us the lighter fluid, Carson. Everything's going to be fine," wheedled Jai.
"It's not burning...Why?" whispered Carson.
"We'll figure that out together. Just give us the lighter fluid," urged Kyan in a calming voice.
"Why? Why won't it burn?!?!" screamed Carson. he looked down at the lighter fluid in his hands and turned back to the barbecue.
"No!" shouted Kyan and Jai but it was too late. The bottle was already flying out of Carson's hands, through the air and landing with a hiss on the fires.
"Oh dear...that wasn't the smartest thing to do, was it?" questioned Carson meekly as the plastic bottle began to bend in and melt.
Jai and Kyan looked at each other and shouted at the same time, "DUCK!!!!!"
Kitchen
"Okay, do you remember what to do?" asked Ted.
"I think so..."
"What are our ingredients?"
"Peanut butter, ramen, oil, hot pepper, and...and....cooked vegetables...?"
"Very good!" applauded Ted. "Now, we have a skillet. What do we do with it?"
"You put the oil and the Ramen noodles in over the flame until the noodles turn colors."
"Okay, until they turn brown. I guess that turning colors, right, yes. Go on..."
"Then you add everything else and mix!" Inuyasha finished proudly.
Ted gave him a look. "No Inuyasha. You put in the peanut butter, hot pepper and the flavor packet, mix that and then you put the mixture on vegetables and rice."
Inuyasha groaned. "Can't we just throw it all in at once? This takes too long..." he whined.
"Too long? This is a five minute recipe, you mor-"
"DUCK!!!!!" came a scream from outside.
Inuyasha and Ted both looked out the kitchen window to see a small bonfire lit up in Kagome's backyard. With the hysterical screams of Kyan, Jai and Carson ringing in their ears, the two rushed to the backyard.
Inuyasha and Ted stopped, aghast at the damage the three had inflicted upon poor Higurashi shrine.
There were scorch marks around, above and below the barbecue. Tiny little grassfires were sprouting here and there in the surrounding property. Jai, Kyan and Carson were not looking too great either. All had singed hair, clothes and every visible bit of skin was blackened from the smoke. Carson was bemoaning the ruin of his John Galliano blazer, Kyan was cursing a storm looking at his now uneven hair ends and Jai sat there, trying not to lose his temper at Carson's stupidity.
"What were you doing?" asked Ted in horror. "You can't light things on fire here! This isn't our apartment!"
"It had to burn," Carson said firmly. "Such an abomination could not be allowed to exist."
"Did you mean my fire rat hakama?" Inuyasha asked, picking up his coat, pants and shirt from the smoldering, broken barbecue. He examined it briefly and slung it over his shoulder once he was sure it was fine. He never saw Carson approaching.
"No! This, this, this isn't possible!" wailed Carson in pain. "I saw it die!! Why is it still whole???"
"It really is a zombie outfit," Jai said in surprise to Kyan.
Inuyasha snorted. "It's gonna take more then a little fire to destroy my clothes."
"What will it take?!?" Carson grabbed Inuyasha by the front of his shirt and shook him roughly. "How can we kill it?? How? I must know!!" He breathed heavily and his eyes were crazed.
Carson's breathing was the only thing echoing in the silence that fell after his demand. The silence stretched out and out until it was broken by something wonderful and scary at the same time.
No matter how hard I try
You keep pushing me aside
And I can't break through
There's no talking to you
Inuyasha instinctively closed up his ears, not sure what was singing but positive that he didn't like it. Apparently, he was the only one. All the gay men surrounding him began to almost glow.
Magic. Only magic could do this, Inuyasha decided, looking at the thrilled gay men. Jack giggled and waved to Inuyasha. Or Jack.
Every one of the gay men laughed, smiled and started to dance in the backyard, singing along with the mysterious voice. Carson swung his hips and Kyan danced with him. Ted was moving to the music with Thom and Jai was swinging his arms and hip simultaneously. Jack sidled up to Inuyasha and asked him for a dance.
"No way," Inuyasha answered.
"Oh, please Inu-chan??" Jack begged.
"INU-CHAN?!?!!" gasped Inuyasha in horror.
"Please, my Inu-chan?"
"I am not your -chan anything!" Inuyasha snarled.
Jack sniffed and put on big sad eyes.
Squirming, Inuyasha knew how it felt to be on the receiving end of the Puppy Face.
It's so sad that you're leavin'
It takes time to believe it
But after all is said and done
You're gonna be the lonely one
The entire gay contingent of the group sang out, "OH-HO!!
Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough now
Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough now
The fab five were singing and laughing hysterically as all their problems melted away to the dulcet tones of Cher.
"Who?"
"CHER! Please tell me you've heard of Cher!" Jack asked, his eyes wide and planting his hand over his heart (the right side this time).
"No. Why would I have heard of Cher?" Inuyasha asked dumbfounded.
"Beeecaaaause its CHER!" exclaimed Jack. "You know Cher!" He sucked his cheeks in and stretched his forehead taut with three fingers. "Fee? Feer!!" he said, his voice a little muffled by his facial contortions.
"I have never heard of this person," Inuyasha admitted. Before Jack could 'enlighten' him, Jai grabbed Inuyashas hands and began to prance around with the very reluctant boy.
"Let go!" snapped Inuyasha.
"Nope! Lighten up! Dance a little!" Jai called back.
What am I suppose to do
Sit around and wait for you
Well I can't do that
And there's no turnin' back
I need time to move on
I need love to feel strong
'Cos I've had time to think it through
'N maybe I'm too good for you
This time when everyone sang, a harassed Inuyasha sang along too: "OH-HO!!" (Though in Inuyasha's case it was more along the lines of "Oh for gods sake.....")
Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough now
Do you believe in life after love?
I can feel something inside me say
I really don't think you're strong enough now
Inuyasha, with a pained sigh, began to move his hips as everyone else cheered him on. Blushing furiously, Inuyasha got a little more into the movements and his hair tossed in the air with some verbal encouragement.
"Move that booty!" whistled Thom.
"You move yours first!" Inuyasha tossed back.
"Dissed!" laughed Ted.
The group danced almost as one now, everyone moving with the other in harmony. They laughed, joked and sweated to Cher and, for just a moment, Inuyasha forgot to be freaked out by these weirdo's and had a good time. When the last lines came again, he was singing along with everyone else, just as loud and just as off tune.
Well I know that I'll get through this
'Cos I know that I am strong
I don't need you anymore
I don't need you anymore
No I don't need you anymore
I don't need you any-
"Inu, Inu....Inuyasha?!??!" came a shout from the house. "What is going on here??!?!"
The music cut off abruptly as Inuyasha turned to see he had a horrified audience. His gaze swept past the ugly slippers, past the white frilly apron, past the lime green cardigan to a pair of dark brown eyes that were wide and disbelieving.
"Oh.....hi Mrs. Higurashi...," Inuyasha said weakly.
A/N: well, there it is. This is gonna be really quick b/c sabbath is in five minutes SO:
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