Inutori: For everyone's reading pleasure, I present chapter 4 of this story. I appreciate all of the positive feedback I have been receiving about my songs, and I hope that this next one won't make you think ill of me. I wrote it late at night on a road trip.
Inuyasha: You do almost everything late at night or when you're sick, so what's the difference?
Inutori: Oh, shut up already, Inuyasha. I'm sick a lot, otherwise I wouldn't have the time to write all that I do and dance five days a week, and be in all honors classes at school.
Kagome: At least when you're sick home from school, you aren't actually fighting demons in the past.
Inutori: Are you so sure of that?
Kagome: …
Inutori: Well, I don't own the Inuyasha cast, so don't sue me for using them.
Chapter 4
Whoops!
"Then this next song, I dedicate to the leader singer of Enchanted."
Sango appeared to be about to burst out in laughter as she handed her drumsticks to Ami and grabbed Kagome's earpiece to put in her own ear for the microphone.
"Give it up for Whoops!" Sango smiled brightly at the crowd and subtly stretched her arm muscles out as she flung her arms around for the crowd.
Ami hadn't played the drums for a good week or two, so was refreshing her memory silently as Sango egged the crowd on.
Kagome joined Ayame at the large microphone towards the side of the stage. Kagura stood on the opposite side holding her bass laxly, anticipating the song.
The lead singer of Sengotsu shared a knowing glance with her brunette friend beside her. They silently hummed their pitch, and then nodded four beats, singing the first lines in a graceful harmony.
Whoops!
I slipped up again!
Whoops!
Didn't mean to do that!
Kagura and Ami played a rock hard beat as they all watched Kagome in anticipation. They could make this song as long or as short as they wanted depending on her. So when Kagome joined in with her electric melody, they all knew what to do. The bass player pulled back to only playing a steady beat in the background and Ami tapped lightly on the cymbals. Kagome too, seemed to be playing just a harmony, and this was explained as soon as Sango came in with her tough voice.
Most people don't enjoy rap that much, but when Sango sung it, she actually made it sound good.
So I'm a clutz,
No puedo penzar
I have limited abilities
And when you open your eyes
All you see is me
I'm no Sailor Moon
No powers of Love
Only stay on my feet
When the going gets tough…
The three instruments picked up again, Kagome playing a melody that sounded like a toned down version of the verse Sango had just rapped. Kagome and Ayame harmonized again, smiling brightly, knowing that this couldn't get any better.
Whoops!
Was that really me?
Whoops!
Sango interrupted with her macho sounding voice for the next line.
Can I try again?
She went back into her 'rapping mode,' as Kagome so fondly called it, as the next lines came up after several measures of just instrumentals.
I've slipped too many times to care
So just get out of my hair
I don't need you to hold my hand
I can take care of myself
Don't treat me like a doll,
I'm not that fragile
The female version of a world wrestling champion
No natural grace of my own
So just leave me alone…
Sango had been dancing and jumping around the stage throughout the entire song, explaining why she would need to warm up her muscles. Her expressions and actions mimicked the mood of the song and she seemed to be really enjoying herself. All of Sengotsu joined in for the next few lines as each of their smiles grew to an unmatchable size.
Whoops!
Stay out of my way!
Whoops!
Sango spoke the next line harshly without the rest of the group of back up.
Was that your face?
You think I'm lucky to have you
Well you better think again
I'm not one to pass out affections,
No matter how desperate I am
I don't need your lovin'
And I don't need your carin'
Just back off and let me plow through,
Cuz' I'm on my way
Out of here.
Guitar and drums followed and then the entire group sang melodiously:
Whoops!
For the end, Sango sarcastically looked at the audience and raised her eyebrows.
Did I do that?
Cheers rang up through the crowd that anyone could have attested to the fact that they were louder than what Enchanted had received. This made the girls all smile in pride and hustle off stage so that the boy band could do their next number.
*
The rest of the concert went without flaw, but afterwards, Sengotsu could be found lounging on the couches backstage laughing about the faces of Enchanted after their opening song.
Their jaws had apparently been ripped from their sockets since they were hanging on the floor. And Ayame firmly holds to her claim that Miroku was drooling.
The conversation then floated to the bass player's perverted ways and him trying to grope Sango. (Who knows where that idea came from)
"Well, you know me, if he ever tries that, I'll-" Sango had been on her feet, swinging her fist, when it came in contact with the nose of none other than the subject of the conversation. "Oh, Houshi-sama, I'm so sorry! I didn't see you there!" Sango knelt down next to the fallen member of Enchanted with genuine worry etched on her face.
That is, worry was on her face until Miroku's hand reached up and grabbed her posterior, giving it a slight squeeze.
"Forget it, I'm not sorry." Sango slammed her fist into Miroku's face calmly and stood back up with a small huff. The other girls in the room took a moment to glance at the black-haired boy on the floor and see that he was out cold.
"Good thing the concert is over." Ami smiled slightly at Sango and motioned for her to sit back down. It would do no good to have Sango breaking Miroku's ribs with all of the kicking she was giving him.
The other two members of Enchanted soon entered the room, looking strangely at the crumpled form of their bass player as they stepped over him.
"Oi, wench, what in the world possessed you to write that wretched song, and then have the gall to put my face on it?" Inuyasha glared pointedly at Kagome, who was leaning against a wall on the opposite side of the room calmly.
"And while we're asking questions…the slut called. She said she was watching the concert from the hospital and wants to know why she wasn't informed of your breakup." Kagome didn't even look at Inuyasha as she worked on something in her hands.
"Keh. Why should I need to tell anyone about my personal life." Inuyasha folded his arms and resumed his usual pose as all five girls of Sengotsu sweat-dropped.
Ayame seemed to gain her voice back first after the stunned silence. "Um…Inuyasha, you do realize that the 'slut' Kagome-chan is referring to is Kikyou, ne?"
If one looked close enough, you could see the muscle just below Inuyasha's right eye twitch with the female youkai's comment. "Keh, like I care." He left the room again not wanting to be embarrassed further, apparently. That left only Kouga to torture.
Kouga backed towards the door nervously at all of the malicious smiles plastered on the girls' faces. All but Kagome were slowly approaching him slowly. Before he was able to bolt, Ami had slapped a large statue over his hand, slamming him into the floor.
"Well, Ayame, what shall we do to this victim?" Ami grabbed Kouga's ponytail and forced his head up.
The two brunettes laughed silently and pulled out some paints. "Well, my partner in crime, I say we make him look more like his attitude. What do you say?"
Ami, with her short hair pulled up into pigtails and her longer hair in the front pinned back with berets, raised her eyebrows. "Sounds good to me."
*
One could say that Kouga was not at all pleased with the result of the two girl's ministrations, but that the Sengotsu girls were fairly amused. They had painted his hair puke green, one of the worst colors ever invented according to Kagome, and his lips were painted red along with a large area around them. All in all, he ended up looking somewhat like a deranged clown.
They were back at the shrine trying to catch a few hours of sleep before their flight. Four of the five members of Sengotsu were at their own houses and not at the shrine, but the fifth lived there and so had no choice.
"Oi, wench, turn off the light." Inuyasha glared over at Kagome, who was lying in her bed, glaring right back at him.
"Why don't you? You're closer." Kagome was almost growling at him from her position and had to refrain from leaping at Inuyasha and ripping him limb from limb.
"Because I told you to."
"Why did you break up with the bimbo anyway?" Kagome turned her head so that she wasn't looking at Inuyasha anymore, obviously disturbed by the sight before her.
"Nani? Where did that come from?" Inuyasha's eyes had widened and he was staring openly at Kagome's profile.
"No where, just curious." Kagome sighed, tired from the night's activities, and gathered her energy to stand up and walk across the room to turn off the light. Inuyasha didn't make a single noise the entire time she was moving across the room and just watched her body out of the corner of his eye.
Once she was settled back in bed, Inuyasha decided to speak. "I just thought I'd try my hand at a real relationship for once."
"Oh really?" Kagome turned and looked at Inuyasha's silhouette created by the moonlight shining through the window. "Have a girl in mind?"
"Yes." Inuyasha's answer was quiet and Kagome barely caught it.
"Who?"
"Stop asking me questions, wench." Kagome saw his glowing eyes through the darkness, and realized that it looked quite intimidating. "I don't need you poking your nose into my personal affairs."
"Like Kikyou poking her nose into why you broke it off with your girlfriend, which just so happened to be her?"
"Keh."
Not a word more was spoken in the room and Kagome had drifted off to sleep. Inuyasha, however, remained awake and gazed at the girl's sleeping form. Ever since he had woken up in the bathroom with Kagome in his arms, he had begun to reconsider his relationship with women. It had only been for a second that he had been so content with the young girl in his arms, and the trance had been broken when Kagome woke up, but Inuyasha had realized that there was something that he was missing.
*
Ami met up with Ayame the next morning in front of Kagome's house and they hid their bags in the brush at the base of the shrine steps. They smiled and chatted of yesterday's events.
"Hey, Ayame. Did you see the look in Kagome's eyes at graduation yesterday?"
"Yeah. It totally looked like she was in love." Ayame's eyes glinted with mischievousness as the two trucked up the long stone steps.
"That's what I think too, but with who?" Ami fingered her skirt with her fingers, enjoying the soft feeling of the material.
Ayame shrugged and took a leap to land at the top of the stairs, having grown impatient with just walking up. The fox youkai followed suit and soon both were standing by Kagome's front door, ringing the bell.
"Well I personally want to find out, after all, Kagome's old enough to get married now."
"Not for another week, I'm not."
Ami sweat dropped and looked at the figure of Kagome standing at the door holding it open with a scowl on her face.
"Ohiyo to you to, Kagome-chan." Ayame glared lightly at Kagome, and ducked under the black-haired girl's arm to enter the house.
"Gomen nasai, Ayame-chan! I was just distracted by Ami-chan." Kagome left the door open for Ami to come in and ran to catch up to Ayame.
The three girls laughed a little and were soon seated in the living room, talking like chipmunks about the upcoming tour.
"I can't believe this is actually happening! You know, if you told me a month ago I'd be going around the world, I would have directed you to the nearest loony bin, but now!" Ami squealed with delight and popped into a smaller version of herself using her kitsune magic.
Kagome smiled brightly at the Ami-chibi and turned back to Ayame. "Hey, I just remembered, I wrote a song two nights ago when the bozos first arrived. Want to take a look at it?"
"Hai!" Both Ayame and Ami smiled back at Kagome, Ami having turned back to her normal self.
*
Inuyasha dashed away from the door, not wanting to get caught spying on the girls as they chatted. But that girl's smile, it was something else. Not really thinking, Inuyasha bounded up to Kagome's room where he could sit and think on his own.
Little did he realize that the bedroom was exactly where all of the girls were headed. It took a few minutes longer than normal, due to the fact that Sango had arrived, but they were up in Kagome's room nonetheless.
"Ugh, Kagome-chan, I feel so sorry for you." Sango looked down at the silver-haired hanyou in disgust.
"It's not so bad, I mean, all you have to do is ignore him!" Somewhere deep inside Inuyasha, he felt a crushing sensation with those words.
Ami looked down at Inuyasha's face, which was turned to the side, then back at Kagome. "That wasn't a very nice thing to say, Kagome-chan, and in front of Inuyasha-kun no less."
"Keh, like I care what that wench says." Inuyasha obviously had been listening to them, for were it not that way, he wouldn't have added his two cents to the conversation. His ear swiveled in their direction, but otherwise he didn't move.
Kagome seemed to agree because without another word, she pulled out a binder with several sheets of paper stuffed into it. From there she removed a couple pieces of paper, one with lyrics and the other with the melody.
"It's kinda more angst-y than our other ones, and I thought Kag would like it. What do you say we learn to play this and then perform it for her for her birthday next month?" Kagome looked at the members of the group.
Ayame smiled. "This would be the perfect opportunity for me to play on the bass for a main song."
"And I could play on the keyboard!" Ami just seemed a little too perky as she spoke; maybe having Lucky Charms for breakfast wasn't such a good idea…(Inuyasha could smell it on her breath)
"Sing it for us, Kagome, and we'll try to follow along, then maybe we could be able to tell if it'd be possible." Sango seemed to be the most hesitant of all of them to make a commitment just yet, but if he could hear her sing, then it'd be worth it.
"I guess I could." Kagome took in a breath, and sweetly sang out the melody that Inuyasha had heard for the first time just 36 hours before.
Halfway through the song, the other three girls began to lightly hum counter melodies that could possibly add to the feeling. And by the end of the song, they all seemed to have it worked out in their mind what they were going to do.
"Wow, Kagome-chan, you always write the best songs." Ami smiled again. They all seemed to be doing a lot of that. Well, as long as they didn't kick Inuyasha out of the room, he was happy.
"My favorite is still Whoops, though." Ayame looked behind her at the hanyou still in the room questioningly as she spoke.
"That's only your favorite because Kagome wrote that one with Sango after your breakup to make you feel better." Ami's eyebrow twitched slightly in annoyance at her sempai.
"Your point being?" Ayame cocked an eyebrow at Ami with a slight smile on her face.
Ami sighed and glanced at Inuyasha. "I think dog boy is getting annoyed with our conversation."
Sango followed Ami's gaze and left her eyes on the hanyou for only a second. "It's not like he's tied to the floor, he can leave." The black-haired girl rolled her eyes and went back to ignoring the lead singer of Enchanted's presence.
*
As the last member of Enchanted climbed onto the private jet, the doors closed and the plane began to roll down the runway. Apparently the pilots didn't care to give their passengers warning, because only the girls were seated when the plane took off and ascended into the atmosphere at a rather rapid rate.
Miroku had 'accidentally' fallen into Ayame's lap when they first began to fly, and he quickly found himself at the back of the plane sporting several new bruises thanks to Ayame and her friend seated beside her, which just so happened to be Sango.
Strange as the boys found it, Sango had brought a large something-or-other that resembled a giant boomerang. Its use became apparent when Miroku's head had been almost crushed in due to the impact between him and the bone-colored object.
She called it Hairakotsu, but due to the boys' lack of expertise in the Japanese language, all they knew was that kotsu meant bone. Probably translated to something along the lines of bone-crusher…at least, that's what Miroku said.
"Kagome, earth to Kagome." Kagome snapped out of her stupor and nearly jumped out of her skin as her eyes focused on Ami.
"Girl, you are a little too hyper for your own good." Kagome let her heart calm down as she took several deep breaths.
"Domo arigato, Kagome-sempai!" Ami cocked her head to the side angelically and smiled. Then she leaned in and whispered, "I just thought I'd bring you back to Earth before a certain someone started drooling."
Kagome flushed. "I was not going to drool!" Her voice was hushed, but Inuyasha's ear swiveled in their direction from across the plane signifying that he was all-ears.
"Not you, I'm talking about…" Ami swung her head back in the direction of Inuyasha.
"Nani yo?" Kagome glanced at Inuyasha from around Ami's small frame, there was a light pink tint to his cheeks, but that could have just been her imagination.
"No joke, he was staring at you." Ami mouth turned up with a conspirator's smile, obviously having had some grand idea pop into her head. "But you know, it doesn't look like you mind that much."
"What are you talking about? Ami-chan!" Kagome nearly yelled at the top of her lungs at she stood up from her seat and looked down at the sixteen-year-old kitsune.
*
An hour or two later, everything had settled down and only two people remained awake, one from Sengotsu and the other from Enchanted.
"Are you cold?" The member of Sengotsu stood up and approached the male figure from the famous American band.
"No."
"Then why are you shivering?"
"…"
"You could just turn off this fan, you know. If you did I'm sure you would be a lot more comfortable, baka."
~
Inutori: OK, I'll end it there, and you all better not complain too much about it. I'm making the chapters of this a lot longer than the chapters of any of my other stories.
Inuyasha: Just shut up wench, no one but you likes hearing your annoying voice.
Inutori: Same goes for your voice for the English dubbed version of the show.
Inuyasha: …
Inutori: OK, minna-san, take a guess at who the two people who were talking at the end there. It will be revealed in the next chapter! Ja ne!
